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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Editorial

James Buckley tackles the highs and lows of Montecito’s topography by casting Les Firestein’s idea of installing “Swiss nets” – flexible landslide barriers

6 Miscellany

Rebecca Brand’s show; Mollie’s new eatery; Making It Home tour; The Red Violin; Tina Alexis Allen; Oprah with Doria Ragland; UCSB Arts & Lectures; flower power; MAW awards; and goodbye to Peter Stringfellow

8 Letters to the Editor

A collection of communiqués from MJ readers comprising the Coast Village Association, Rachel Cooper, Dan Seibert, Patrick, Sofia Collin, and J.W. Burk

10 This Week

MBAR meeting; Knit N Needle; Spanish group; MBAR; Reptile Family; Spanish group; fishermen’s market; Rubber Duck Regatta; kids movies; Beverlye Hyman Fead; author Steven Hicks; and Live Dive

Tide Guide 11 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz focuses on Carisa Carroll and Dance for Montecito; Peter Asher with Albert Lee; SB Summer Solstice; and online endeavors

12 Village Beat Photography by iheartmygroom

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Board of Supervisors approves new FEMA map; traffic measures on Coast Village Road; and Santa Barbara Shoe Repair opens on Haley Street

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner covers the Feria Andalusia Art Show & Garden Fair; Courthouse Legacy Foundation; and Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation ceremony

18 Our Town

Joanne Calitri covers the graduation ceremony for Crane Country Day School’s eight graders, whose commencement was June 15

22 Spirituality Matters

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23 MAW 2018

The Music Academy of the West’s 71st season and transatlantic union with London Symphony Orchestra fills the air; plus MAW’s upcoming slate

29 Brilliant Thoughts

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32 Wine Country Notes

Antonio Gardella reminisces about Les Amis du Vin group, Au Bon Climat, Ojai Vineyard, SB’s AIWF Chapter meetings, and the Grape Harvest Festival

35 Far Flung Travel

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Editorial

by James Buckley

“Swiss Nets” to the Rescue

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n an exquisitely crafted 2006 article about debris flows written for Canyon Voices and specifically about the nature of Rattlesnake Canyon, Karen Telleen Lawton wrote: “Barely a thousand years ago – a second on a geologist’s watch – a rainwater and boulder slurry called a debris flow surged through [Rattlesnake Canyon], strewing its 10 million cubic yards of rocky bilge into what is now the city of Santa Barbara.” Illustrating Ms Lawton’s historical point is a map outlining the perimeter of the flow that stretches out in a delta centered upon what is now Skofield Park and encompassing today’s Botanic Gardens, Mission Canyon, and Rocky Nook Park. Years before, other debris flows and landslides helped to create what is now Santa Barbara.

Karen quotes a Santa Barbara News-Press article, whose author, Dr. Edward Keller, described what occurred at Rattlesnake Canyon a millennia ago as “a flood of boulders roaring downstream at speeds up to fifty miles per hour.”

Sound familiar?

“Debris flows,” Ms Lawton wrote (12 years ago), “are a threat following the periodic wildfires of Southern California, but this event was about a thousand times the norm.”

So, mud-and-debris flows are and have been common occurrences in this area over the years. When I first began publishing Montecito Journal in 1995, Maria Herold and David Myrick were Montecito’s resident historians. Maria often entertained me with stories of how Montecito’s various “creeks” had changed course during heavy rainy seasons, pointing out in particular the flow that runs from Montecito Peak down through Riven Rock, alongside Parra Grande, and continuing down Hot Springs to Olive Mill Road turning at Casa Dorinda, before depositing its flotsam on Butterfly Beach and heading out to sea. Maria or Mr. Myrick would point to what looked like a berm up near, say, Ashley Road, and suggest it had been the border of San Ysidro Creek. Long ago, I imagined, but was told that over the relatively short span of 100 years or so, the creek’s course had changed half a dozen times.

As it has again, most recently.

Our forebears carved a village out of an extravagantly attractive corner of the California coastline situated between an unusual east-to-west section of 4,000ft mountains to the north and the blue Pacific Ocean to the south. It’s called Montecito (“Little Mountain”), and it’s that mountain and its proximity to the ocean that gives us one of the most pleasant year-round climates on this planet. Unfortunately, that mountain has also been the proximate cause of recent disasters, including the tragedy of January 9 that took the lives of 22 friends and neighbors and destroyed or damaged nearly 10 percent of all the homes in Montecito.

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As a result of the Thomas Fire, Montecito doesn’t even have to think about fire danger for the next 20 years, certainly 15 at a minimum. Within three to five years – once vegetation returns in abundance – we’ll also be safe from a possible debris flow. That leaves us with three to five rainy seasons during which we’ll worry about a heavy rain. Insurance coverage will continue to be a problem for the short term.

But, we can change all that. Last week, we discussed the possibility of installing “Swiss nets” (flexible shallow landslide barriers) in our backcountry.

The more we think about it, the more we realize it is the only thing we can do immediately. These reinforced, lightweight steel devices are prefabricated and, according to the manufacturer (Geobrugg North America’s plant is in Algodones, New Mexico) “can be flown in by helicopter to even the most inaccessible sites.” The company also boasts that “Installation requires no heavy construction machinery,” that “anchoring requires just a lightweight drilling carriage and weight-saving tie rods,” and that “no large-scale earthwork or access roads are required.” The installation, we are told, blends into the landscape and is “hardly visible from a distance.”

These devices are used extensively in Switzerland, where receding glaciers have exposed villages and towns to mountain debris. They are also in use in Scotland, Sicily, the state of Washington, and closer to home, in Camarillo. They have proven effective in controlling and preventing large-scale debris flows.

Since it is thanks to Montecito resident Les Firestein, who first alerted us to this product, our suggestion is to put him in charge of the effort to get a series of such nets installed before the beginning of this year’s rainy season. Which means, of course, that he and we have to get on it now.

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Rebecca, who six years ago began a small business hosting dinner parties and teaching French impressionist oil painting at her home, got an idea to create a reality show, Dinner Party Art Class, with her single students hooking up and dating over a series of 10 half-hour episodes.

So, with borrowed Mac computers, she hired an editor and with the help of four others, she created the show, which aired on the ABC-TV affiliate, KEYT, with sponsorship from Guy DeMangeon, the Berryman, and uber winegrower Bill Foley.

Rebecca, who lives at Hendry’s Beach, then hit all the big TV conferences, including MIPTV in Cannes, and NATPE, garnering reams of press, including a handsome write-up in Variety.

“But, despite all the hoopla, there were no further TV contracts,” she laments. “It was a big goose egg, with $200,000 invested in a show no-one wanted to buy.”

However, while in France a YouTube channel manager suggested creating cooking videos, which led to the making of 40 videos and the instant success of her channel, which has had 27 million views since its launch in 2012, and 110,000 subscribers.

Turner Broadcasting’s comedy channel Adult Swim then asked Rebecca, who has three grown children, to produce more comedy after seeing a viral video where she cooked fish tacos with an iron at Santa Barbara harbor.

She was then hired for 35 subsequent

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episodes that aired as Iron Cook and she has now been contracted to host the network’s first-ever game show – a remake of the 1950’s show Dialing for Dollars that starts airing out of the Cartoon Network’s Burbank studios late next month, which is Channel 54 locally on Cox. Two years ago, entrepreneurial Rebecca hopped on another lucrative trend when YouTube began hiring “influencers” to incorporate their products into their videos, signing with multiples advertising agencies, including Famebit, owned by Google/ YouTube.

“I’m told I’m now the most hired ‘influencer’ for product placement in the world,” she says proudly. “Most of my videos are now laced with products paying me for my talents weaving in the products to my lifestyle content.”

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he Montecito Motor Classic is by all accounts a tremendous success. The California Central Coast has long had a love affair with classic cars. The show’s home is on Coast Village Road, drawing fans from up and down the coast to ogle the fabulous array of assiduously maintained classic autos. The Motor Classic also raises considerable funds for PAL – the Police Activity League’s programs for youth in the Santa Barbara area. Heading into its 7th year this September, organizer Dolores Johnson normally would be wildly enthusiastic.

Instead, she was nervous. This year was different.

The biggest wildfire in California’s history broke out on the feast day of Saint Barbara on December 4, 2017, and burned everything in its path. By the time the Thomas Fire hit Montecito and hovered precipitously above the village for several days, it had destroyed hundreds of homes, covered the area in poisonous smoke, and reduced business activity to a trickle.

January saw the fire turn north, away from populated areas and into the backcountry. But a massive rainstorm hit in the early-morning hours of January 9, producing catastrophic mudflow that sheared homes off their foundations, knocked out the area’s major freeway, and cost 22 people their lives.

The major shopping district of Coast Village Road was heavily impacted, forced to close during the fire and the mudflow. Many businesses had taken seven straight weeks of loss at this point. The Motor Classic would force the road to close yet again, causing more business loss.

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don’t think this is the year to do it,” she said. “Those merchants have been through so much.”

Johnson got in touch with Sharon Byrne, executive director of the Coast Village Association, a merchant-community organization. Having navigated the Coast Village community of merchants through the disaster and two subsequent evacuations for rain events, Byrne was intimately familiar with the resistance to any further road closures.

However, as the two women talked, they recognized kindred souls in the other and felt they could find a way to make this a win for the community.

Byrne reflected, “In the face of disaster, you have to turn towards it; you have to pull your community together and say, ‘We will get through this. We will not only survive, but we’ll find a way to thrive.’ Part of thriving is seizing opportunities, from wherever they arise, and making the most of them.”

The Montecito Motor Classic represents a return to a normal that existed before the fire and debris flow.

But Coast Village merchants resented closing the street for the show because they lost business. Byrne felt revisioning the Classic might make it palatable to the merchants. In the era of retail collapse and disaster recovery, the need was to encourage visitors to shop local, to eat at establishments in the neighborhood, and ensure that small local businesses survive.

“There’s an opportunity here to take a vibrant event with a big draw and leverage it to spread economic vitality to merchants who’ve struggled mightily. Visitors to the Motor Classic will find a lot of wonderful boutiques and delectable eateries. We can create something where both the community

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(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 21 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: an ADU on Picacho Lane; an addition on El Bosque Road; a new cabana and covered porch on Penny Lane; and a new home on Edge Cliff Lane, among other items.

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 meet-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

Living Long, Well Montecito mudslide survivor Beverlye Hyman Fead is an author, artist, and photographer living with cancer who will speak at Impact Hub Santa Barbara. She will share secrets about living long and well. Hyman Fead speaks and blogs about how to live, love, and have fun with laughter and passion while aging. Aging in High Heels is the title of her online magazine filled with inspirational content about aging with acceptance, humor, and style. Aging in High Heels is also the title of one of her three awardwinning books. She was diagnosed with metastasized Stage IV Uteral Stromal Sarcoma in 2002 and given two months to live. Since then, she wrote her other two books, I Can Do This: Living with Cancer and Nana, What’s Cancer? She also produced an award-winning short documentary, Stage IV, Living with Cancer.

Admission to the event is $20, with half the proceeds going to the Montecito Center for Preparedness, Recovery, and Rebuilding.

When: 6 pm Where: 1117 State Street

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.

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Rubber Duck Regatta The Montecito Rotary Club and the Montecito YMCA will co-host the first Montecito Rubber Duck Regatta to raise funds for the YMCA, local scholarships, and other Rotarian service projects.

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

When: 10 am Where: Montecito YMCA, 591 Santa Rosa Lane

Book Signing at Chaucer’s Steven J. Hicks will sign his new book, Ambition & Fate. Set against a southern California backdrop stretching from sacred burial grounds on an island off the Santa Barbara coast to the sprawling San Fernando Valley, Ambition & Fate is a highly charged tale of greed, honor, and hubris. Based on actual events in the author’s young years, it is a novel that reads like a memoir – rooted in truth.

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When: 11 am Where: Sea Center – Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, 211 Stearns Wharf SATURDAY, JUNE 30 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 Book Signing at Tecolote Nicole Sault and Helen Drachkovitch will sign Celebramos/ We Celebrate, Six Traditions from Mexico. Everyone loves piñatas, but where did they come from? And what about Mariachis, Day of the Dead, and Posadas? In this book, explore six Mexican traditions to discover how they came about.

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anta Barbara native Carisa Carroll began her dance training with Montecito School of Ballet at the age of 7. She started her professional career with American Dance & Music’s Carrie Diamond, and trained with State Street Ballet, performing in every work in the company’s repertoire during the 2012-13 season, including tours, and appearing in the original cast of William Soleau’s striking American Tango. In 2015, Carroll performed with Santa Barbara Dance Theater, collaborating in the original production of Common Ground

by Edgar Zendejas, and dancing Joshua Beamish’s new work Salt, then trained at UCSB with former Alvin Ailey dancer Christina Sanchez. Her choreographic work has been performed at SBCC’s Dance Collective 2015 and 2016, Nebula HH11 Dance Festival 2016/2017, and Voices of L.A.

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Seeking greater exposure and more opportunity, Carroll decamped for Los Angeles early last year, where she created the collaborative company Palm

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Dance Collective to find opportunities to more consistently choreograph and perform. She was already planning to move back to town, though, when the Thomas Fire and Montecito debris flow hit and made her miss her community even more.

“There were lots of good choreographic opportunities and I still have those connections, but I’m not a fan of the cement city,” she said earlier this week. “I just really didn’t like L.A. I wanted to come back home.”

Back in Santa Barbara, Carroll wanted to join the scores of other artists and musicians striving to do something to

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asa del Herrero staged another Feria Andalusia Art Show and Garden Fair this year to honor the Casa’s Spanish architectural heritage while celebrating the connection they share as a community. The 18-featured artists offered a variety of work from paintings to fine art photography and sculpture. These were all showcased on a perfect Santa Barbara day in the Casa’s gardens. Guitars strummed, the sun shown, flowers bloomed, and wine and food flowed.

The sell-out crowd embraced it all.

The artists mixing and mingling were Meredith Abbott, Whitney Abbott, Bela Bacsi, Lynn Brown, Nancy Davidson, William Dewey, Henry Fechtman, Priscilla Fossek, Rick Garcia, Daniel Gibbings, Wyllis Heaton, Ann Sanders, Richard Schloss, Frank Serrano, Garrett Speirs, Robert Stivers, Thomas Van Stein, and Ralph Waterhouse.

If you’ve never been to Casa del Herrero, you’re in for a treat.

Carrie and George Steedman built this house in the 1920s; it is now a National Historic Landmark. George

Photographer Robert Stivers at the Casa art show and garden party

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Artist Thomas Van Stein with his paintings at Feria Andalusia

Washington Smith was the architect.

This “Andalusian farmhouse” is still filled with all their furniture and treasures they purchased in Spain.

They were shopping the same time as William Randolph Hearst. I lived in Andalusia for seven years, so it’s always nostalgic; though my house was much smaller, it did have a red tile roof.

Family members still serve on the board. George Bass, who is one of the grandsons and was responsible for getting a conditional use permit for the Casa, flew from back east to attend the art show. He also came during the fire worried about the house. George

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and the show patrons benefit,” suggested Byrne.

Johnson was eager to help make it happen. So, the two cooked up a way forward to where a classic car show can deliver economic uplift to a community hit hard by disaster.

The Montecito Motor Classic is going to encourage patrons to visit Coast Village businesses during the car show, especially for food. The Coast Village Association is encouraging merchants to create “Classic” specials during the car show to stimulate purchases by show patrons. “Coast Village merchants know how to throw a warm welcome,” Byrne said. “Classic patrons can find unique goods at our local businesses, and enjoy some of the best food in the Central Coast region on Coast Village.”

“This is a major car show that’s drawn a huge crowd to this street for seven years and raised funds for a good cause,” said Johnson. “To keep it going, we have to do everything we can for these merchants, to make sure they get something out of classic car fans visiting their street. We’re ready to promote to all our patrons, some of whom come from way up in Northern California, that we all have to do our part to help the merchants, to shop local, to keep these unique ‘mom-andpop’ businesses going.”

“We’re all in this together,” said Johnson. “We have to help each other.

It’s the humanitarian thing to do.”

Come and visit us from 9 am to 3 am on Coast Village Road during the upcoming Montecito Motor Classic on Sunday, September 23.

Coast Village Association Montecito (Editor’s note: There was plenty of trepidation to go around during a discussion among a group of supporters and organizers when the subject of closing Coast Village Road was contemplated after the

events of earlier this winter. Fortunately, by the end of the get-together, everyone agreed that holding the Montecito Motor Classic was an important element in the recovery and rejuvenation of Coast Village Road. Congratulations are in order for the Coast Village Association and its board of directors for helping make this happen once again. – J.B.)

Phoenix Arising

I was leaving the debris field on East Valley Lane recently and saw this sunflower growing out of a pile of dirt.

Also notice wild mustard, nasturtium, and other blooming plants. Life is returning.

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What Would Jesus Do?

You missed out on a golden opportunity to help last week’s letter writer (“A Liberal Found”, MJ #24/24) discern whether Jesus was a liberal or conservative when He said, “And if someone takes your cloak, do not withhold your tunic as well.”

The spirit of the passage is the emptying of oneself, and of personal surrender. The parenthetical emphasis Jesus says is, “If someone takes your coat, then you give them your tunic as well.”

Throughout the gospels, Jesus preaches to our individual, not collective response.

This follows the conservative mantra of personal responsibility and initiative.

Note that Jesus did not say “make sure there is a government program to also provide for a tunic by taxing the rich of their tunics, so that everyone will be equally attired.”

And to that point of personal response and initiative, note that conservatives give substantially more than liberals, even when controlling for demographic variables and even when taking out churches and religious institutions. (See Arthur Brooks; also The Chronicle of Philanthropy and columnist George Will, who reports conservatives also donate more time and give more blood.)

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Missing Teeth

I’m a Montecito native who lost everything in the Thomas Fire. I got an emergency evacuation order at 4 am and ran with only the clothes on my back. The main problem is that I was so panicked, I left my dentures behind. I know it sounds funny, right? Well, I’m 67 years old and just have Social Security to live on.

I can’t afford to get a new set of dentures, and I can’t get help from anyone, it seems.

I was wondering if there is some organization out there that might help me. I know people lost a lot more than I have, including their lives. I know my situation is small potatoes compared to everything else, but it’s a disaster to me. You can contact me at (805) 636-8181.

Patrick Montecito (Editor’s note: My guess is you’ll be contacted by someone who should be able to help you. Please get back to us in a couple weeks if you don’t. – J.B.)

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but the pathway is not. I am boldly committed to following that path wherever it may lead, in the name of goodness, honor, and the future that will unite us in peace.

Sofia Collin Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We enjoyed an extremely pleasant half-hour conversation with you in the middle of your run for State

I would like to sincerely thank you for your exceedingly generous words in the Montecito Journal (Coming & Going, #24/21). I am profoundly grateful to be someone you would trust and believe could support our community and state.

Although I am not moving forward toward this elected office, I do feel I am moving forward in a direction that would allow me to wholeheartedly serve the public. The destination from which this will take place is unclear,

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Assembly; we wish you luck in your future endeavors. – J.B.)

Real Cultural Appropriation

China is pushing multinational companies, like United Airlines, to eliminate the democratic nation of Taiwan from the map, literally, and to not even mention them, fly there, or do business there. China has already invaded Tibet, persecuted its leaders and monks, and kicked out their spiritual head, the Dalai Lama.

This is what real cultural appropriation looks like; it is not wearing an Asian dress or building a tepee.

Someone should explain this to the faculty at our universities and colleges. Alarm bells should be going off on campus and across our country that democratic ideals and values are being threatened by a bullying China, a country that uses the latest technology to invade the private spaces of those it governs and uses economic intimidation on those who do not kowtow to its totalitarian world view. It controls the press and media, imprisons its own Nobel Prize winners along with acclaimed artists. It pollutes the air, then creates a beautiful facade for the Olympics.

We all need to step back and realize it is not government but free women and men who create great things when they own their own lives. Professor, you say you choose a Democratic Republic over a coercive Communist state – well then, fight for it on campus, for the young minds you influence.

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The 2018 Crane Country Day School graduation ceremony with headmaster Joel Weiss

he Crane Country Day School (CCDS) 2018 eighth-grade graduation was held June 15 in the school center courtyard. Headmaster Joel Weiss welcomed the guests, honored the grandparents and parents.

In this, the 90th year of the school, his speech poignantly and succinctly pointed out the key facets of an education at CCDS, among which include growth.

“While we think of growth in terms of academic achievement, it is also accomplished in times of need and facing situations that challenge us, which the students, parents, and faculty faced with the winter events that occurred in Montecito,” said Weiss.

“We thank you for your continuing support of your children, each other, and of Crane Country Day School.

For those that are leaving, we will miss you; you will remain a part of the school family. Congratulations to an extraordinary group of eighthgrade students! Go out there, do great things, and make us proud!”

He then presented five awards in addition to the 16 awards already presented at the Special Assembly prior, with the top Headmaster’s Award presented to student Charlotte James Weis. As a graduation surprise, former CCDS English teacher Cathy Rose was there to present the award named in her honor, The Rose Bowl.

She quipped, “I’m from Pasadena and with my last name Rose, they had to name it the Rose Bowl Award!” She went on to eloquently recite excerpts from her top-shelf authors and novels, from Shakespeare to War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy, and concluding with 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez – all books Rose said she hoped would be part of everyone’s reading.

Following singing of the “Crane Song” by Norman Gimbel, the students received their diplomas and pins, while their teachers read a vignette about them. Following a standing ovation, a reception was held in the courtyard after the ceremony.

The Crane Country Day School graduates are: Cooper Adams, Evan Aitcheson, Audrey Biles, Will Bouma, Juliette Calderon, Quinton Cohen, William Dunaway, Nico Gaggero, Elise Guerrand-Hermès, Parker Gumins, Alexander Haddock, Ian Harvey, Myles Hazen, Jack Hirsch, Ella Jones, Jason Lemere, Zoe Lozano, Luke Marlow, Kai Morphy, Jada Olayemi, Camilla Petote, Mikey Reyes, Whitt “Boo” Ridge, Ben Rodgers, Sofia Schuster, Kate Sheldon, Foster Smith, Jaeda Spence, Boz Stephens, Diego Velazquez, Ami Wallmark, Charlotte Weis, Dorothy Yaqub, and Rhys Zemeckis.

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always blames his grandmother for the 80,000 chickens he later owned (for their eggs). She made him feed hers when he came to visit the Casa.

Those responsible for this enchanting afternoon were co-chairs Karen Clark and Carolyn Williams and their committee Heather Biles, Bryan Goligoski, John Hall, Susan Jackson, Emily Jones, Jennifer Kelly, Fran Morrow, Meghan Stoll, Caroline Thompson, and Cheryl Ziegler.

You can have a 90-minute docentled tour of the house and gardens by calling (805) 565-5653. It’s located near the upper village on East Valley Road.

Also, Casa del Herrero has a memorable Christmas party that sells out. I’m a longtime docent. See you there!

Courthouse Legacy Foundation

Our Courthouse is a City, State, and National landmark. There are only four National Historic landmarks in Santa Barbara: the Courthouse, the Mission, Casa del Herrero, and the Rafael Gonzalez adobe. Yet, surprisingly there are no funds in the budget to maintain and or restore the Courthouse. If it weren’t for the

Architect Robert Ooley with CLF vice president Rodney Baker

Courthouse Legacy Foundation (CLF), the building would literally be crumbling around us. Damage includes crumbling sandstone, cracking tiles, defaced murals, and fading paint.

This stalwart group keeps raising funds, now around $1 million, which paid for the restoration of the Spirit of the Ocean sculpture at the entrance, the clockwork in the tower that wasn’t working, the heraldic paintings on the Grand Arch ceiling that were flaking away, and the beautiful restoration from smoke damage of the Mural Room that now has its ceiling lighted for the first time. More funds are needed for additional work on the Grand Arch. They have raised about $100,000 but need $200,000 more.

Recently, the CLF had a fund-raising party in the Courthouse – or as Rodney Baker said, “A friend-raiser.” CLF president Jan Ferrell greeted guests, who then had the privilege of a docent-led tour. My group’s guide,

Kathy McColm, certainly knew her stuff after seven years volunteering. Others were Glen Dorman, Sue Mellor, Bob Dickey, and Maryanna Gray. Following were wine tastings and a bar stocked with all the necessities. The Santa Barbara Catering Company did an outstanding job, especially with the best-ever, baconwrapped shrimp and freshly carved prime rib sandwiches.

Historically, this Courthouse sits on the exact location of the old Greek Revival Courthouse, which was destroyed by the 1925 earthquake. It was designed by father and son architects William Mooser II and III. The Spanish-Moorish style was completed in 1929 and is considered one of the most beautiful governmental buildings in America.

You can have a one-hour docent led tour Monday through Friday at 10:30 am and 2 pm or on the weekend at 2 pm. Or if you’d like to help preserve this special place, become a friend of the Courthouse with a $40 membership or a family membership for $75.

You can check them out at www.sbclf. org.

A Day to Remember

Lieutenant John Blankenship at the Memorial Day service he organized

Hazel Blankenship and chief helper Cynthia Burt at the Memorial Day luncheon at Hazel and John Blankenship’s home

“To be killed in war is not the worst. To be lost in war is not the worst. To be forgotten is the worst.” – Pierre Claeyssens The Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation (PCVF) is all about remembering our men and women who have done so much for all of us. Navy lieutenant (retired) John Blankenship, co-founder of the

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The recent Memorial Day ceremony at the Santa Barbara Cemetery is one example. It has grown from a few hundred to more than 1,000 attendees and growing. The cemetery is dressed for the occasion with large American flags bordering the roads and small ones on all the veterans’ graves. A stunning sight!

The program is only one hour but tugs at your heartstrings with a bagpiper, drum corps, and the Santa Barbara Choral Society. JoAnne Wasserman has been conducting the group for 25 of the 70 years they have been a part of our community. Their medley of all the armed forces songs is my favorite part.

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Wreaths for the fallen on Memorial Day

Max Peck, Marine Corps (former) and Lieutenant Colonel Patricia Rumpza, USAF (retired) Colonel Conran served 30 years in the Air Force, earning the second-highest award for valor. He currently serves as board chair of the PCVF. Sergeant Peck has received a Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for performance in combat and more. Since leaving the military, he has been helping fellow veterans at UCSB in various ways. Lieutenant Colonel Rumpza served five years as a nurse.

She told us of visiting the Wall in Washington, D.C., and being recognized by a veteran she had helped who was so grateful for her words of kindness some years before.

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“Taps” played by Howard Hudson and Bob Burtness.

Following was a special soldout fundraiser luncheon at the Blankenship’s home complete with a silent auction of military memorabilia. John has a wing of their home as a military museum. The foundation receives no outside funds, only your donations.

Veterans Day weekend will be the next big event, with four different occasions to participate. There’s a marathon, and a military ball that began with 100 and now is attended by 700. The parade is the next day along with a free concert. To learn about all PCVF does, call (805) 2594394 or check out wwwpcvf.org and don’t stop remembering.

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Spirituality Matters

offering a Long Protector Puja from 5:30 to 9 pm on Friday, June 29, at its 508 Brinkerhoff Avenue location. The extensive sadhana – ritual prayers for spiritual attainments – is called Kangso in Tibetan, which means “fulfilling and restoring ritual.” The ritual is usually performed once a month in dharma centers and is used for fulfilling the heart commitment to practice Lamrim, Lojong, and Mahamudra, for restoring any degenerate or broken commitments, and to rely on the Dharma protector Dorje Shugden, regarding him as inseparable from our Spiritual Guide and Buddha. All chanted prayers are free, and everyone is welcome to attend. Prayer booklets in English are provided for use during the puja. Call 563-6000 or visit www. meditationinsantabarbara.org.

As always, the format includes a check-in; “empathy exchange;” a teaching piece, Q&A, game, or exercise; and extra time for individual empathy practice. All are welcome, including friends, partners, and family, and are open to all levels of experience. Suggested donation is $15 to $20 for the facilitators, Lesley Weinstock and Catherine Cooley, but the donations are anonymous, and no one is turned away for lack of funds.

The new webinar practice group gets underway at 6 pm on Monday, June 25, with advance registration at zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__ eLzP3kHScC11ykG1QaJ1Q. Contact Weinstock at (805) 212-0052 or lesley weinstock@yahoo.com and Cooley at (805) 252-6406 or catherine.d.cooley@ gmail.com.

Elsewhere in the local Buddhist community, the seekers who joined Bodhi Path Buddhist Center of Santa Barbara resident teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips on the 30-day, around-theworld pilgrimage to the “7 chakras of our planet” have returned to town.

Phillips led the teaching June 14 but has since returned to the road to attend the Bodhi Path Annual Gathering in Virginia. On Thursday, June 21, at 7 pm, the “pilgrims” will share their experiences, adventures, and the lessons they learned on the trip, while next Thursday, June 28, sangha members will lead four distinct 20-minute meditation sessions to help others apply Dawa’s and recent visitor Khaydroup’s teachings on meditation.

Admission by donation. The center is located at 102 W Mission St. Call 2842704 or visit www.bodhipath.org/sb.

In addition to its regular schedule, Mahakankala Buddhist Center is

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Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 TUESDAYS Story Time at the Library When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

THURSDAYS Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

WEDNESDAYS Yoga on Coast Village Yoga is back on Coast Village Road at Simpatico Pilates! Stretch, strengthen, breathe, and rejuvenate, with Vinyassa flow classes taught

by Leanna Doyle. All levels are welcome.

When: 8:30 am Where: Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road, suite I Info/Reservations: 895-1368

Carpinteria Creative Arts Ongoing weekly arts and crafts show with many different vendors and mediums.

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

Where: at the Intersection of Linden and 8th streets Information: Sharon at (805) 291-1957 •MJ

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

Rare Tibetan Buddhism Empowerment in Santa Barbara

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is Holiness Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa – the reincarnation of HH Dudjom Jigdral Yeshe Dorje, the supreme head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism – is coming to town this week for a special presentation. His Holiness will give an empowerment and transmission of the Dechen Namrol Rigdzin Düpa known as The Display of Great Exaltation, a treasure of his previous two incarnations, Dudjom Rinpoche and Dudjom Lingpa. The sadhana is widely practiced in Pemaköd but has not previously been given in the United States. So, the event that takes place from 6 to 9 pm on Monday, June 25, at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort is a rare opportunity to receive this empowerment from the source of the Dudjom lineage blessings and to connect with a powerful and authentic great master.

The event is sponsored by Odiyana Institute, under the guidance of Tulku Orgyen P’huntsok Rinpoche, the Santa Barbara organization where people come to learn the Buddhist teachings of wisdom and compassion. The Dudjom Tersar is the vehicle that is most emphasized on this journey and includes ritual, study, and meditation practices. Admission to HH Dudjom Sangye Pema Shepa’s presentation is by donation. To register and donate

online, visit www.odiyanainstitute. org, or call (805) 776-8018. The Hilton is located at 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd. (By his Holiness’s request, please do not share this event by social media. You may forward this email, but please do not post or share on Facebook, Twitter, or any other social media site.)

BodhiPath and Beyond

Santa Barbara’s Nonviolent or Compassionate Communication Practice Group has been meeting in person twice a month for the better part of a year to discuss and employ the work of Marshall Rosenberg – who was a regular visitor to SBCC’s Adult Ed program during his lifetime – about learning to communicate using language that honors and values everyone’s needs. But now, those gatherings will be split between actual and virtual meetings, one in person and the other conducted online as a webinar practice. In either format, the work is about replacing habits of shame, blame, and domination with a process of empathy, compassion, and honesty, with the aim of experiencing the pleasure of contributing to one another’s well-being.

Ragan and Alex Thomson’s next event, a Bring-a-Friend Potluck gathering at 6 pm on Wednesday, June 27, actually takes place back at their Montecito sanctuary at 1954 East Valley Road rather than the recently opened Hub in La Cumbre Plaza. The event is an opportunity to meet others in the community to come together in conscious enjoyment, loving connection, and celebration of summer. Bring a dish to share if you wish, and any friends who might be interested in learning more about the transformational work taking place at the Hub, including the ongoing seminars from Dale Halaway, whose next weekend seminar slated for September 21-23 is titled “Being Called to Change”. Call (805) 699-5308 or visit https://healinghubsantabarbara.com.

•MJ

THIS WEEK (Continued from page 10) Where: 410 Palm Avenue A, Carpinteria Info: (805) 452-7739 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.

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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

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Music Academy of the West Music Academy Season 71

by Steven Libowitz

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ow do you top a 70th anniversary season that featured the culmination of a four-year partnership with the venerable New York Philharmonic featuring music director Alan Gilbert leading the orchestra for the final time in a monumental concert at La Playa Stadium, in what was Santa Barbara biggest single classical musical event in its history?

If you’re the Music Academy of the West (MAW), you look across the pond to the equally exalted London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) which, though it was founded 62 years after the N.Y. Phil, still has a 114-year history of its own and a reputation as a top-five or 10 orchestra in the world.

The transatlantic partnership was the big news when MAW announced its 71st season this spring, what with confirmation that Michael Tilson Thomas, the LSO’s conductor laureate, will be in residence in Santa Barbara each summer during the festival for the four-year deal, alongside principal players from various sections of the symphony, who will teach, coach, and perform with and/ or for the 120-something young artists known as Fellows at MAW. Upping the ante by two from the deal with the N.Y. Phil, 12 of the Academy’s instrumental Fellows will audition process for the prize of going to London for 10 days of intensive training and performances with the LSO and music director Sir Simon Rattle. In addition, the winners of MAW’s Marilyn Horne Song Competition and second-year Solo Piano Competition will also head to England to perform recital at LSO St Luke’s, with a program boasting the European premiere of a work specially composed for the winners as part of the Academy’s Composer-inResidence program.

The London ensemble wasn’t a random choice, said Patrick Posey, MAW’s vice president for Artistic Planning and Educational Programs.

“The LSO is a top-tier, world-class orchestra, but they’re also very committed to education,” he explained, noting that all of their musicians have teaching appointments, with the affiliations actually listed on the orchestra roster. “They have incredible community programs in developing audiences and using a choral program to create bonds, which is very special.

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being served this summer for Season 71, which got underway earlier this week and continues through August 11. This year’s big community concert is once again the final event of the year and sees MAW returning to the Santa Barbara Bowl with Gustavo Dudamel, the fiery music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic who is also serving as one of four Mosher Guest Artists this summer, leading the fellow-fueled Academy Festival Orchestra (AFO) – not one of the big professional ensembles – and the returning Los Angeles Master Chorale in Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection.”

MAW had actually planned to perform Mahler’s first symphony, but “following the disasters in December and January, what could be more appropriate for this community at this time than ‘Resurrection’?,” said Posey, noting that the 90-minute opus had been performed for CBS by the N.Y. Phil with conductor Leonard Bernstein after President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, and again by the same ensemble with Gilbert at the helm to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11. “It has become a piece that has been used in times of sorrow and distress, and when communities are in need.”

While our fire and flood might seem somewhat smaller in stature outside of Santa Barbara County, Posey said the deaths and destruction caused by the debris flow had affected MAW affiliates around the world. “So many people of our extended families were affected or certainly concerned,” he said. “Alan Gilbert called from Italy to check in, and the LSO wanted to make sure we were okay. People everywhere saw the images of Coast Village Road and the other horrific scenes, which made it into something of an international disaster.” (As before, virtually all of the 4,000-plus seats will be available at $10, free for those ages 7-17.)

The AFO will also present a full complement of four concerts at the Granada Theatre in downtown Santa Barbara, three of which showcase new works in the Composers-in-Residence program. MAW’s perennial season-opening maestro Larry Rachleff is back to conduct the first two programs, a Saturday, June 30, performance that combines Berlioz and de Falla with Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony, and the second pairing Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony with the West Coast premiere of “Lo”, a new violin concerto by Caroline Shaw,

Gustavo Dudamel, music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, returns to the Santa Barbara Bowl later this summer

with the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer herself returning to serve as soloist for the July 7 show. (Shaw also curates and performs with the Fellows for a recital of her music at Hahn Hall on July 9).

Also in the series are Brussels Philharmonic music director and the incoming leader of the St. Louis Symphony Stéphane Denève, who will, naturally, lead a Frenchthemed Bastille Day program that links Debussy’s La mer, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and Bernstein’s Overture to Candide with the American premiere of Les Trois Cités de Lovecraft by Composer-in-Residence Guillaume Connesson on July 14.

Finally, on July 21, LSO guest conductor Elim Chan takes up the baton to musically boast about works that were originally premiered by the LSO,

including Holst’s “The Planets” and Vaughan Williams’s “Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis”, plus the West Coast premiere of “Sleep and Unremembrance” by Composer-inResidence Elizabeth Ogonek, which the LSO not only premiered but also commissioned just two years ago.

The programming “worked backwards from” the Mahler 2, which Posey noted was a “departure point in the symphonic form, where he was moving into the symphony as a full evening’s entertainment, with differing styles and emotions,” plus soloists as in a concerto. “We’re working with a season that’s meant to expose the Fellows to a balance between standard and non-standard repertoire, so it makes sense to have some kind of progression and represent different time periods and approaches.”

Meanwhile, speaking of Bernstein, the birthday boy is getting an additional nod during his centennial year as part of another new twist this summer at MAW. Rather than simply showcasing semi-staged scenes from operas, this year’s OperaFest – which performs Saturday, June 30, and Monday, July 2 – is giving over the post-intermission performance to the American composer’s jazz-infused one-act opera, Trouble in Tahiti, performed in its entirety in Hahn Hall. If

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FEMA Recovery Maps Now Available County, Federal Officials Introduce Critical Flood Recovery Maps I wish to thank everyone who attended a community meeting last week to learn more about the FEMA Interim Advisory Flood Recovery Map. As communities recover from the devastating effects of recent events, it is important to recognize valuable lessons learned. Mapping hazards is vital for safe disaster recovery; it provides data necessary for new construction and creates an awareness of risk.

Santa Barbara County plans to use the FEMA updated flood elevation information to rebuild stronger, safer and with reduced vulnerability to future flood and water inundation events. Note that mapping debris flow hazards is a separate process currently underway.

The recovery maps were adopted by the County Board of Supervisors this week, which can be accessed at the County’s recovery web site at www.readySBC.org/maps. The FEMA recovery map is a major milestone for the rebuilding effort. With the arrival of this map, our residents now have this critical tool to help guide key decisions about how to move forward.

The interim FEMA Flood Recovery Map reflects topography changes and new hazard areas that resulted from the 1/9 Debris Flow. The maps give Montecito homeowners the necessary information to rebuild destroyed or heavily damaged homes. It’s important to note that the FEMA recovery maps account for flood levels and water infiltration, not debris flows that are highly unpredictable. This map also does not affect current insurance considerations. According to FEMA, the existing federal flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs) will be used for insurance purposes until new, permanent maps are created in the future.

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

Many property owners have assembled architects, contractors and other professionals to discuss the implications of the FEMA flood recovery maps with County staff. Most rebuilding decisions will be unique to each property.

A second community meeting is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Wednesday July 11 at Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road.

Representatives from FEMA will present their development of the map, plans for updating the Flood Insurance Rate Map and take questions. I hope to see you there.

To find your case manager, call (805) 568-2090,

email to pad@co.santa-barbara.ca.us or visit the Planning and Development

Zoning Counter at 123 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara 93101

The County’s Planning and Development Department has assigned impacted property owners with skilled case managers to be a single point of contact through the rebuilding process. I encourage residents whose homes were damaged or destroyed to meet individually with their assigned case managers to better understand the recovery map, how to lessen risk when rebuilding, property-specific flood elevations, options for rebuilding and a detailed layout of the permitting process.

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FEMA MAPS What is the FEMA Interim Advisory Flood Recovery Mapping?

Will the FEMA maps require homeowners to elevate homes when rebuilding?

Following the Thomas Fire and 1/9 Debris Flow, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) developed Recovery Mapping for Santa Barbara County to determine “areas of special flood hazard” and for development and rebuilding in Montecito and unincorporated areas of Carpinteria until the permanent Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) can be completed in the next four to five years. View the maps at www.readysbc.org/maps/. NOTE: The Recovery Mapping is separate from the current FIRM, Debris Flow Hazard map and potential evacuations.

The County has adopted floodplain management standards to protect new development and rebuilding of destroyed structures that are in alignment with federal requirements. Typically, minimum finish floor elevation of new structures within the special flood hazard area is required to be two-feet above the 100-year flood plain as defined

by FEMA. For assistance, please consult your P&D case manager.

Who is the “Floodplain Administrator?”

The Floodplain Administrator is the Flood Control Director or his/her designated agent. The Flood Control Director for Santa Barbara County is Tom Fayram, Deputy Director for Water Resources. As a participant in the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP), the County has adopted floodplain management standards to protect new development and rebuilding of destroyed structures in conformance with federal requirements.

How do I apply the map before submitting an applicationto rebuild?

The County’s Planning and Development Department has assigned impacted property owners with skilled case managers to be a single point of contact through the rebuilding process. Property owners are encouraged to meet individually with their case manager to better understand the recovery map and learn how to lessen risk when rebuilding. To find your case manager, call (805) 568-2090, email pad@co.santa-barbara.ca.us, or visit the Planning and Development Zoning Counter at 123 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara 93101

Numbers shown indicate advisory flood elevations; the yellow lines show limits of water inundation and High Hazard Areas; blue indicates depth; and pink is the water surface elevation contours in feet. 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 boundary.

What is the new base flood elevation, and what is the change/elevation difference now and before January 9, 2018?

The new base elevations vary site by site. There is no one single elevation that applies to everyone. For assistance, please consult your P&D case manager.

How do we find out what the elevation of our property is post debris flow?

The FEMA Recovery Mapping will inform you of the ground surface as of January 16, but it doesn’t account for any changes made since that date due to mud removal. For assistance interpreting the map, layers, legend and implications, please contact your case manager.

Why are some areas that were badly damaged or destroyed in the debris flow not listed as hazard areas?

This is a flood (water) map, not a debris flow map.

Limitations of Mapping

Will this new map impact my flood insurance rates?

The updated flood advisory recovery maps do not affect insurance considerations. The current FEMA flood insurance rate maps (FIRMs) will be used for insurance purposes until new, permanent maps are developed in the next four to five years. Property owners should consult with County staff from Planning & Development and Flood Control to fully understand how this new data can be used to support rebuilding efforts. The Recovery Map does not impact rating for flood Insurance.

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Where can I find the map legend? What do the colors and numbers represent?

The Recovery Maps for Santa Barbara County have the benefit of using the latest modeling technology and topographic data available and can provide valuable insight into what would happen during a large rain event. The modeling and analyses also provide a basis for future mapping that may be used to update the FIRM for Santa Barbara County. However, due to the complex nature of debris flow events and the unknown degree of uncertainty of the assumptions made, actual areas of future inundation depend on conditions that may be different from what is shown in the mapping tool. The Recovery Maps should only be used to guide rebuilding along with information from the FEMA FIRM and County guidance.

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Up in arms: Dance for Montecito steps into Center Stage on Sunday, June 24

help the healing in her hometown.

Thus was born Dance for Montecito, which takes place Sunday afternoon at 6 pm at Center Stage Theater. “I wanted to give back to the community in the best way I knew how, and that would be a dance show.”

So, the black box space will host performances by more than a dozen companies from Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, plus one from Tennessee (Lilit Hogtanian), among them local faves SBCC Dance, and many others rarely if ever seen in town before, such as Nicholas Shopoff/The Unaffiliated and DagDag Dance.

“Many of them are friends, and others are just dance colleagues who I didn’t even know, because I held an open forum for those who were interested in coming here to dance. The more the better,” Carroll explained.

“I just picked the ones I loved. But honestly, the art is really great. There are some amazing performers who are coming. I’m super-excited to see it myself.”

Indeed, four of the pieces were created by Carroll, including the modern portion “kənfôrmədē” that opens the show, and a contemporary balletic piece “One Accord” that serves as the closing number. Both will be danced

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by students who are in a summer intensive workshop with Carroll this week. The young dancers will also join Lauren Titus for a new work by Carroll called “Haze”, while Carroll herself will perform a revision of her two-year-old duet “Sticks and Stones” with one of the Palm Dance Collective dancers from L.A. Tickets cost $20 and, as sponsors have handled the theater rental and program costs, all of the proceeds will be donated to Habitat for Humanity’s relief project to support the families who were displaced by the Montecito mudslide. The nonprofit will also have a booth on the patio outside the theater and give a talk before the show updating the progress of the recovery effort, Carroll said. Call 963-0408 or visit www.CenterStageTheater.org.

As for Carroll’s future, she employed a metaphor for the fluid state of her plans. “I’m going where the river takes me. Lots of doors are opening for teaching, helping out local schools, and getting the company going with dancers who recently graduated from UCSB. And I will still do collaborations with my L.A. dancers. We’re working on an evening-length piece.”

Asher Alley

Already a child actor, Peter Asher’s music career began in 1964, the year he turned 20, with the duo Peter & Gordon, who amassed nine Top 20 records beginning with the smash debut “A World Without Love”, the song given to them by Paul McCartney, who was then dating Asher’s 18-yearold sister, Jane. Four years later, Asher became head of A&R for the Beatles newly formed label, Apple Records, where he discovered, signed, and produced James Taylor and worked with The Beatles on their individual projects. (He also founded the book shop and art gallery Indica, where John and Yoko met).

Among the artists he has produced

or otherwise worked with are Linda Ronstadt (whom he managed and produced a dozen albums, including Heart Like a Wheel and Prisoner in Disguise), Bonnie Raitt, 10,000 Maniacs (In My Tribe), Cher, Diana Ross, Neil Diamond, Olivia Newton-John, Julia Fordham, Kenny Loggins, Sarah Brightman, Wilson Phillips, Morrissey, and most recently, Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers. The two-time Grammy winner also produced dozens of movie soundtracks and Broadway recordings, and even served, via early photos, as an inspiration for Mike Meyers’s Austin Powers character.

Through it all, though, Asher, who turns 74 on Friday, has never stopped singing and performing, and he still tours frequently. The current trip finds him collaborating with fellow septuagenarian Albert Lee, the “egoless” finger-picking English guitarist whose licks have graced recordings and/or concerts by everyone from Eric Clapton to Eddie Harris to Earl Scruggs to the Everly Brothers. The pair appears at 7:30 pm Saturday, June 23, at SOhO before heading overseas for dates in Tokyo and London. Miss it at your own peril.

Taylor-Made Music

The appealing Atascadero singer-songwriter Dulcie Taylor has been making the rounds of folk-friendly venues around Santa Barbara and the South Coast for several months, dating back to a March show at the Cambridge Drive Concert Series, plus appearances at Rideau Vineyard in Solvang also in March, and the Carr Winery Barrel Room in May. Hot on the heels of a new CD, Better Part of Me, and an intriguing first single titled “Halfway to Jesus”, Taylor now travels to Oreana Winery in the Funk Zone this weekend. Unfortunately, her show takes place at 3 pm on June 23, smack in the middle of Solstice Saturday, barely post-parade. The good news: it’s free, and chances are it won’t be too crowded. Info at www. oreanawinery.com.

We Could be Heroes

Time was the Santa Barbara Summer Solstice celebration was just a one-day affair, the people-powered parade followed by a few hours’ long festival at Alameda Park. But several years ago, it turned into a three-day extravaganza, with festival fun, food, and frolicking at the downtown park starting Friday night and continuing straight on until Sunday evening.

Among the main stage entertainers this year are DJ Lin Aubachon, the Super Stoked Band, Johnny Cashtribute group No Simple Highway, Soul Machine, One Two Tree, and Cornerstone, plus Area 51, who

There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party. – Pippa Middleton

always get the prime-time spot at 4 pm on Saturday, an hour or so after the final float finishes up its journey.

But to purists, it’s still the parade that provokes and delights, as artists and amateurs proudly prance up State Street showing off their wildly creative masks, costumes, and floats, largely constructed from recycled or donated materials at the official workshop, and all devoid of signage, motors, or animals.

In keeping with the area’s recovery from the fire and flood with a focus on the positive, the theme this year is “Heroes”, which can be interpreted any way the artists desire. Show time starts at noon at State and Cota streets.

Details online at www.solsticeparade. com. For many of us, it’s the best day of the year!

Summer Solstice Showcase

Nicola Gordon’s ongoing songwriting seminar participants perform this Thursday, June 21, at MichaelKate, the furniture store and gallery that was an early adopter in the gentrification of the Funk Zone. Show time is 5:30 to 7:30 pm, just before sunset on the longest day of the year, which means the shortest night, which is when songwriters usually find their muse. So, celebrate or commiserate with colleagues or just come for the tunes. Free. Bring snacks to join in the mid- and post-party.

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The 2018 Downtown LIVE Art & Wine Tour made its revival on May 24, focusing on shops and such south of Carrillo Street with a Final Party at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

The good news is there won’t be another hiatus before the once-popular event returns, as the 2019 affair has already been scheduled for Thursday, May 23, 2019, balancing things out with venues north of Carrillo Street.

But first, there’s a little more business to attend to from this year’s bash: finding new owners for the unsold auction items. No problem if you were too busy dancing, drinking, or dining to dash off a bid at the event – the Downtown Organization of Santa Barbara staff has “deconstructed” the remaining silent auction packages to create items to “fit all budgets,” including gift cards to local restaurants and businesses, certificates for professional and personal services, museum memberships, gift baskets, and several interactive experiences. And you don’t even have to leave home to shop, as the auction is now online at www.biddingowl. com/Auction/home.cfm?auctionID=15200, with final bids due Sunday evening, though you’ll need to stop by the DO offices if you win.

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Brilliant Thoughts

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

Yield!

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here are many ways to acknowledge defeat. Besides simply putting your hands in the air, probably the most universally recognized symbol is the white flag – which can also indicate a desire to parlay.

You may remember a true episode in the movie Battleground, in which a representative from the Germans comes, under a white flag of truce, to demand that the Americans besieged in the Belgian town of Bastogne surrender.

He is sent back, under the same protecting flag, with a one-word reply from the American general: “NUTS.” That wasn’t quite the word the besiegers were hoping to hear. Other words, in various languages, have been more clearly indicative of submission. One was the Germans’ own surrender-word, “KAMERAD,” (meaning “friend”). But, to American ears, the clearest way of saying that you give up has long been to cry “UNCLE” – although the origin of that expression remains uncertain.

At sea, the crucial act of lowering your flag (“striking the colors”) has been the traditional means of indicating your wish to surrender. Hence, we hear about defiant captains who have ordered that the flag be “nailed to the mast” – indicating a determination never to surrender.

In chess, you can acknowledge defeat by knocking your own King over, indicating that you “resign.”

In boxing, you “throw in the towel.”

In cricket – at least in big matches between England and Australia – the losing side forfeits a mythical prize called “The Ashes.” This tradition goes back to 1882, when, after a major Australian victory, an English journalist wrote a mock obituary reporting that English cricket had died, and that “The body will be cremated, and the ashes taken to Australia.”

There has also been the gentlemanly gesture, usually between opposing generals, of handing over your sword.

Unfortunately, and despite an appealing legend, though Lee wore his sword when surrendering at Appomattox, he never offered it to Grant, so Grant never had a chance to refuse it. But it was Grant – the conveniently initialed Ulysses S. Grant – who, through his stern termination of some previous engagements in the War, had already become known as “Unconditional Surrender Grant.”

But what about cultures, such as the Japanese, in which the whole 21 – 28 June 2018

idea of surrender has been considered a disgrace? In World War II, U.S. experts on psychological warfare were called in to deal with this problem. They first tried printing special “permits,” which, with texts in both Japanese and English, said, “I Surrender” and promised humane treatment. But this widely distributed offer had few takers. Then they realized that the very word “surrender” in Japanese carried deep shame. The wording was therefore changed to say “I cease resistance” – and we’re told that this brought a much better response.

Even after capitulation has taken place, however, we must acknowledge that there are sometimes sore losers. A classic example of this occurred in 1919 – the year after World War I officially ended – in a sheltered body of water known as Scapa Flow, in the Orkney Islands, off the north coast of Scotland. Under the terms of the Armistice, the whole German surface fleet – some 74 ships, a magnificent prize of war – had been sailed, with skeleton crews, to Scapa Flow, where they were “interned,” pending a final decision on their fate. It was unlikely that any of those ships would ever be returned to Germany.

On July 21, 1919, on the command of their own senior officers, the entire fleet was scuttled – i.e., deliberately sunk. (Actually, this was just partly successful, and only 52 of the ships completely sank.) But what a gesture!

Sore losers indeed!

But Adolf Hitler, who’d been a German soldier in that war, had his own way of settling scores. The 1918 Armistice had been signed in a railway car near the French town of Compiégne. That car had been preserved as a kind of victory trophy and lodged in a museum. But when war came again, and the Germans quickly rolled over northern France in 1940, Hitler sealed his own triumph by having that same car moved back to the same spot where that humiliating peace had been signed, and making the French representatives sign their own surrender there.

That war went on for another five years. If the Allies hadn’t insisted on “Unconditional surrender,” (which was actually Roosevelt’s idea, remembering Grant), it might not have lasted so long. Why didn’t they realize this would only stiffen the enemies’ resistance? Don’t ask me – I give up. •MJ • The Voice of the Village •

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In Business

When the store opened, Alan Howard wore his infant son, Taylor, on his back while working. Taylor is now 25, an employee of the store, and goes to UCSB for environmental studies. Alan’s daughter, Shari, graduated UCSB and works in Goleta.

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Antique Alley: A Place of Childhood Dreams

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any people possess an obvious and specific identity at a young age. One kid may be heavily into science or auto-mechanics, while another may feel they were put on the planet to play the drums or surf 40-foot waves after every major storm. And when the child reaches adulthood with the identity still in active existence – maybe even materialized into a career – many people refer to this accomplishment as “fulfilling a childhood dream.”

For lifetime Santa Barbaran Alan Howard, his proud and accomplished “childhood dream” rests on the lower half of State Street, just north of Ortega, where a lone green canopy shadows two large windows on the righthand side of the town’s main artery. One window holds classic neon signs; both display a slew of antiques and rare collectibles – some dating back to the 1920s—the type of rarities only found in Santa Barbara gems such as Antique Alley.

Just follow the racks of Hawaiian shirts that lead one into the store, where the rustic brick walls hold antique pictures, signs, paintings, clocks, anything rare and exciting.

Where guitars, bicycles, more neon signs, and affordable treasures hang from the rafter and pipe-tangled ceiling. With aisles and nooks of ancient lamps and statues, pictures and mirrors and vases, vintage jewelry and clothing, typewriters, books, baseball cards, boots, shoes, stuffed animals, mugs, sheet music, comic books, VHS movies, vinyl records, stereos, the strange instruments, and sunglasses.

“The store has something for everyone. It’s a cross between Pawn Stars and American Pickers,” says Antique Alley’s owner, a local resident born in Goleta. “The other places just don’t have this array of stuff.”

Whether a person buys or appreciates, Antique Alley is the type of store the passersby stumble upon, says Alan. He stands at the register, behind a case of modern and antique jewelry, while people wander in and out of the store continuously – many of them lifelong residents and longtime friends just stopping by to say hello, often discussing current events and life in general. Or like most, reminiscing on antique artifacts evoked from childhood.

But a typical day brings people from Los Angeles, San Francisco, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands – people from around the globe. Alan says visitors from China are Antique Alley’s best out-of-town customers. Either way, many of the same tourists return year after year; some bring their friends and family on this no-pressure treasure hunt in Alan’s childhood dream haven at 706 State Street.

His irrefutable love and intrigue for dealing antiquated artifacts manifested when visiting his Uncle Sam’s house during childhood. Alan was “awestruck” at his Uncle Sam’s treasure. Alan has been dealing antiques since age 16; he bought a truck and loaded it with surfboards and bikes, and headed to the Santa Barbara swap meet and got his start. Then in the 1980s, Alan rented a warehouse in the Funk Zone, just half a block from the beach, until the early 1990s when he

seized the opportunity to “bring the swap meet to State Street.”

Alan says the jewelry is his number-one seller. The selection is endless: turquoise necklaces, bracelets, earrings; the novel collections of gold, white gold, silver, unusual stones, chains, rings, jewelry people wear for decades. (A lady stopped in during my interview to thank Alan for the ring she still wears, the same one her late husband bought 20 years ago when the store was still new).

But it’s not only the jewelry that sells at a remarkable rate. Alan says the vintage clothing remains popular among college kids, and when the local residents, students, and tourists discover the demise of the downtown

Macy’s department store, some know to cross over State Street to Antique Alley, where the search for the jacket they need or the hat or pair of boots they want often comes to a satisfying and unexpected conclusion.

“Plus, it’s the greenest store imaginable because everything is being recycled.”

And the traffic goes in and out; some buy and some don’t, but the experience one has – the communication that ignites day after day – is what Alan Howard cherishes the most. Other than the continual flow of various merchandise, Alan enjoys meeting an endless procession of new faces. “It’s like always being on vacation.”

•MJ

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ack in the late 1970s, Bob Lindquist of Qupé Winery was the leader of the local Les Amis du Vin group. He organized wine-tasting lunches with guest winemakers at the University Club of Santa Barbara or Mattei’s Tavern. Bob invited me to help him bottle his first vintage. We worked with an early bottling truck, and my reward was a case of Qupé wines!

Jim Clendenen and Adam Tolmach invited me to pick Chardonnay grapes with them back in 1983-’85. Their Au Bon Climat label was in its infancy. They made their wine in a small building on Mary Vigoroso’s vineyard property. It was so much fun picking grapes with clippers, making sure not to cut myself, not to get any leaves, and enjoying talking to the person picking on the opposite side of the trellis.

Evening harvest parties were legendary, with Jim leading the initiation with the Burgundian “Igloo, Igloo, Igloo” song as initiates guzzled down a full glass of wine while standing before the group. Everyone joined in the merriment that lasted well past midnight.

In 1985, Adam’s Ojai Vineyard was ready to harvest. He invited me and a few of my friends to help pick.

Not only did I get to pick Zinfandel grapes, but I also was able to get into the fermentation tank and foot-stomp the grapes. At day’s end, Adam said the tanks were full and suggested we go out and pick grapes for ourselves to make wine. We picked enough fruit to make a barrel of wine, took them home, foot stomped, and made our first barrel of homemade wine. We named our wine Compañeros, meaning “buddies” in Spanish. After 33 years of home winemaking, we are the best of friends.

I heard that Julia Child, Robert

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Roger Marcus as Bacchus at the Grape Harvest Festival

Mondavi, and Dick Graff were launching the American Institute of Wine and Food. They held an initial meeting at El Encanto Hotel. I attended and so wanted to be part of the group but did not know how. I asked the appointed Santa Barbara Chapter secretary, Charles Fairbanks, if he would let me take minutes of their chapter meetings for him. He agreed, so I got to sit in monthly Santa Barbara AIWF meetings, take the minutes and present the typed minutes to the board.

They liked what I did so much, they officially made me secretary. At a meeting, I spoke up about my joy of grape harvest. They suggested I lead a hands-on event at a winery, giving guests the opportunity to harvest and learn winemaking.

The AIWF Grape Harvest Festival took place in 1986, ‘87, and ‘88 at J. Carey Cellars, Gainey Vineyard, and Zaca Mesa Winery. Twenty of the best local restaurants and caterers cooked a grand meal to celebrate after winemakers led small groups picking, tasting out of barrels, foot-stomping, tasting free-run juice, identifying grape varietals by taste and ampelography (study of grape leaves), going up over the vineyard in a hot-air balloon, and toasting all the winemakers and chefs at the closing ceremony.

I got to know chefs and winemakers from Santa Barbara. What a treat to have local wine country just over the coastal mountains; we are so fortunate. When I started in the wine world, there were fewer than 10 local wineries. Now, there more than 250 and the number keeps growing with no end in sight, as more and more people become enraptured with the wonders of the wine grape!

•MJ 21 – 28 June 2018

MUSIC ACADEMY (Continued from page 23)

that work sounds familiar, maybe it’s because Opera Santa Barbara also presented the piece at Center Stage this spring. But rather than seeing the duplicate contribution as a problem, Posey suggested that MAW’s offering – which admittedly will be accompanied by small instrumental ensemble conducted by KitchenerWaterloo Symphony music director Edwin Outwater, rather than OSB’s single pianist – is indicative of the robust classical music scene in Santa Barbara. “It’s great to have such a vibrant opera scene here in town,” he said.

But the even more out-of-the-box OperaFest offering comes in the first half, when scenes from four other operas will be performed in different rooms around MAW’s Main House, with the audience moving to each new location. Three of the pieces were composed this century, and – perhaps in a nod to the #MeToo movement – three were composed by women, including Missy Mazzoli’s “Breaking the Waves”, which premiered just two years ago. “There will be some surprise spaces, outside the normal rooms,” Posey promised.

OperaFest will be curated by the adventurous James Darrah, who also returns to stage direct the annual operatic centerpiece, a new production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro,

with the AFO being led by James Conlon, the Grammy Award-winning music director of Los Angeles Opera who will be making his festival debut with the fully staged and costumed production at the Granada on August 3 & 5.

Other highlights include new MAW Mosher guest artists David Fray, the French pianist and British baritone Simon Keenlyside, will both give Hahn Hall recitals (July 25 and August 6) and public masterclasses, as well as interacting privately with Academy Fellows. Meanwhile the Composers-in-Residence will have longer stays, Posey said, to have “more impactful residencies and time with the Fellows,” including working with them on performances including, for the first time, premieres at Picnic Concerts. “We’re getting a chance to get fully immersed in these composer’s worlds,” he said. “It’s like a mini-festival every week.”

Get the complete schedule, including all performances and masterclasses, plus program information, tickets, and other details online at www.musi cacademy.org.

This Week at the Music Academy of the West

Friday, June 22: The second annual Classical Evolution/Revolution

Conference continues to set up MAW as a “pioneer of thought leadership in music and the arts,” as the one-day gathering draws artists, business, and organization CEOs, media leaders, and more to address such topics as the increased pressures created by today’s political climate, unconventional career paths, cultural activism, broadening access to the arts in underserved communities, and overhauling the outdated gender dynamics. An impressive roster of panelists and speakers includes Chad Smith, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s COO and the incoming artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival, and Margo Drakos, the former cellist and tech entrepreneur who went on to found ArtistYear, which helps develop citizen-artists (Hahn Hall; five separate 90-minute sessions, beginning at 9 am; $10).

Saturday, June 23: PercussionFest I (yes, there are two this year) is the standard affair (if a percussion concert can be considered standard), with the five Fellows featured on works by modern composers Koshinski, Akiho, Skidmore, and Psathas, plus pieces by the faculty members Joseph Pereira and Michael Werner, the latter a world premiere. (Hahn Hall; 4 & 7:30 pm; $40)

Monday, June 25: PianoFest is the fancy title for the premiere performances by the eight solo piano Fellows, a festival fave for lovers of keyboards (Hahn Hall; 3:15 pm; $40).

Tuesday, June 26: The Music Academy Festival Artists Series (a.k.a. MAFAS) is a chamber music treasure and all season long at the Lobero every Tuesday. The initial offering finds trumpeters Barbara Butler and Charles Geyer, horn player Julie Landsman, trombonist Mark H. Lawrence, and a tuba Fellow playing Brian Balmages’s Music for Five Brass followed by a pairing of violist Richard O’Neill and Cynthia Phelps on Bridge’s Lament and violinist Glenn Dicterow, cellist Alan Stepansky, and pianist Jerome Lowenthal taking on Beethoven’s masterful and marvelous “Archduke” Trio (7:30 pm; $46).

Wednesday, June 27: A special Faculty Recital features Jonathan Feldman, Jorja Fleezanis, Conor Hanick, Natasha Kislenko, Margaret McDonald, and Stepansky faculty playing works by Ives, Mike Mower, and Rachmaninoff back on campus at Hahn Hall. How this differs from MAFAS other than locale, we’re not sure. (7:30 pm; $35). •MJ

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 12)

and a more useful tool than what we have.”

County Water Resources deputy director Tom Fayram presented the map and associated findings to the Board, strongly urging approval of the map. “This is by far a superior product than anything we’ve ever had. It utilizes techniques and data that is far superior, and I strongly urge you to approve this map – it’s the best thing we can do for our community.”

The map shows high-hazard flood areas within yellow borderlines; properties that are within the yellow borders that are not in the blue 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 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. In order to adhere to local Flood Control ordinances, homeowners will be required to rebuild their finished floor 2 feet above the base flood elevation indicated on their property.

Fayram explained that while the map is not used for insurance purposes, it will be used in conjunction with the existing FIRMs (Flood Insurance Rate Maps) to adequately protect new development and impose building requirements on higher risk parcels.

“We would use this hazard map along with the existing FIRM and whichever elevation is higher would govern,” he explained, adding that new development would be more resilient for flooding and potentially for future debris flow. “If you don’t approve this now, you will delay people rebuilding.”

Many members of the community wrote letters to the board, asking that they delay the approval of the map to address several issues that have come to light in the last week. Local architect and civil engineer Tom Bollay addressed the board and explained that he had carefully analyzed the map in relation to another map showing damage from the January 9 debris flow. Focusing on the Randall Road area above East Valley Road, where seven homes were destroyed and there were three fatalities, the parcels where the homes were lost are shown in a lower risk portion of the new map, showing a risk of fewer than 6 inches of likely flooding. He added that expanding his analysis above East Valley Road, he looked at an area where 147 homes were damaged or destroyed; only seven of those homes are shown to be at risk in the new flood map. “I think this map is not accurate enough,” he said.

“The dynamics of the debris flow are different than a 100-year flood on a burned water shed,” Fayram said, adding that our community is more

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likely to suffer a debris-filled flood versus a debris flow, which we saw in January.

Other issues brought up by members of the public: the map is based on LIDAR data that was taken in mid-January, before tons of mud and debris had been removed and debris basins had been cleared following the debris flow, and there are many topographic errors that residents have found shown on their property.

Fayram and County counsel Michael Ghizzoni explained that property owners have two recourse options to address anomalies on the map, including a variance process and a revision process through Flood Control. “There are relief valves for property owners who do not feel like their property is adequately described,” Ghizzoni said. Fayram added that FEMA, which is already starting the studies for a revised FIRM map that will be released in three to five years, does not have the budget to revise the interim maps in the next several weeks or months, but said that if multiple significant issues are found and that a revision is necessary, it’s likely Flood Control could compel FEMA to make a revision.

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Traffic Issues on Coast Village Road

The Coast Village Association’s (CVA) Traffic & Safety Committee met last Wednesday to discuss multiple traffic situations that are currently in the works, which impact Coast Village Road and surrounding streets. “We are doing lots of great things and are part of big conversations that have significant impacts on the Coast Village area,” said Bob Ludwick, president of the board of the CVA and a member of the Traffic & Safety Committee, which is co-chaired by board members Thorn Robertson and Trey Pinner.

The most time-sensitive project being discussed is the barrier replacement project on Olive Mill Road, which was scheduled to begin in May but was delayed when it was realized a sewer project for the Rosewood Miramar and the Amgen Bike Tour of California were also slated for the same timeframe. Now, the barrier work is set to begin July 23, and will take about four months to complete.

The project includes reinforcing the bridge to accommodate newer, heavier guardrails, eliminating the east sidewalk, and widening the sidewalk on the west side of the bridge. The first week of the project will include overnight highway closures, and the following week daytime detours and traffic control will begin. “We are still on board with accelerating the work, in an effort to get in and out of your

Coast Village Association, visit www. coastvillageroad.com.

In Business: Santa Barbara Shoe Repair

Temporary k-rail on the overpass at Olive Mill Road will be replaced during a four-month project set to begin in July

community as quickly as possible,” said Caltrans Construction engineer Jason Kline. Crews will be on site for 12-hour shifts Monday through Friday and 10-hour shifts on Saturdays. There will be detours to accommodate one lane of travel over the bridge; drivers coming from Butterfly Beach attempting to access Coast Village Road will be directed to turn onto Danielson to S. Jameson, across the San Ysidro Road bridge and left on N. Jameson.

Later this week, several stakeholders, including property owners, City and County leaders, and members of the CVA Traffic & Safety Committee will meet with Caltrans to discuss how to limit the disruption to Coast Village Road and surrounding areas.

The Committee is also working with the City to make the newly installed temporary stop signs on both ends of Coast Village Road at Coast Village Circle permanent. Surveying crews have been on site counting traffic to make necessary findings to have the signs made permanent. Additional traffic mitigation measures, including orange barriers at the entrance to parking aisles, may also be made permanent (or semi-permanent), as the committee is working on ways to make the barriers functional and more aesthetically pleasing, with the help of the CVA’s Beautification Committee.

It’s likely more barriers will be added to deter drivers from using the parking lanes to circumvent traffic; Caltrans has also agreed to put reader boards back on the freeway during the summer months, informing drivers to stay on the freeway instead of exiting at Hot Springs and traversing Coast Village Road.

There are also potholes to contend with, delivery trucks blocking traffic and parking for multiple hours, valet parking issues, and crosswalk issues, according to the committee. Coast Village Road is also slated to be part of a City-wide paid parking program; it’s expected that within the next few years, parking along Coast Village Road will no longer be free, and that business owners and employees will need permits to park along Coast Village Circle.

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Santa Barbara Shoe Repair owner Bachir Ramadam has opened a new location after losing everything in a fire at his former store

After losing hundreds of shoes and multiple pieces of expensive shoe repair equipment in a structure fire at his former location, Santa Barbara Shoe Repair – formerly De La Vina Shoe Repair – owner Bachir Ramadam has set up shop at a spacious location on Haley Street near Anacapa Street. “I’m happy that I have a new space to welcome my customers,” Ramadam told us during a visit to the store last week.

Ramadam began repairing shoes and leather as a small child in Durango, Mexico, where he worked in his brother’s shop cleaning shoes and cutting leather; he has been in Santa Barbara almost 20 years and opened De La Vina Shoe Repair in 2015. After losing everything in the September 2017 fire at Bubbles & Beans, where the shop was located, he knew he wanted to reopen as soon as possible; his Haley Street location opened in December, just as the Thomas Fire was bearing down on our community.

With the help of his wife, Elizabeth, and another shoe repair specialist, Marco, the store – which is the closest of its kind to Montecito – has been welcomed with open arms. The clean and industrial style interior was designed and constructed by Ramadam, who built the counter, shelving, and workspace himself.

The shop specializes in all shoe repairs, including leather repair, re-soling, stretching, insoles, shoe shining, and more. The team can replace more than 700 different kinds of soles, including ones from specialty designer shoes. They also fix leather goods, including belts, luggage, handbags, and more. A retail section of the store offers insoles, shoe cream, arch supports, heel pads, shoe stretchers, and more, as well as a selection of handmade leather purses and wallets.

The shop is located at 102 East Haley Street and is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 7 pm, and 9 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. Call (805) 4530799 for more information.

•MJ 21 – 28 June 2018

Far Flung Travel

by Chuck Graham

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ll it took was a western snowy plover to get my mind right for a hike in the Guadalupe – Nipomo Sand Dunes National Wildlife Refuge, located in Santa Barbara’s North County.

The tiny shorebirds don’t migrate, so these hardy little plovers endure a lot of northwest winds throughout the year, especially in the spring when the dunes are at their sandblasting best. But that’s what makes the dunes such works of art and keeps them ever-changing in the harsh conditions.

The refuge is one of the last bastions on the entire West Coast of the U.S. for western snowy plovers. Huge, broad beaches with an endless flotsam of dead and drying kelp and splintered driftwood, which characterizes this rugged shoreline. Their nests are concealed well above the wrack line left by the most recent high tides, giving the western snowy plovers all they need to survive as they chase beach

hoppers (their preferred food) and rear their tiny chicks.

So, when I was eating sand in 25 mph northwesterly winds in steep, 500-foot-tall waves of sand and looked over my shoulder and saw a western snowy plover hunkering down behind a gnarled ball of giant bladder kelp strewn across the windswept beach, I reminded myself, “if that little shorebird can do it, I better be able to too.”

Spring time is a dual-edged sword on the dunes. Despite just a small amount of rain this past winter, the wildflowers were quite good in the upper reaches of the refuge, out toward Paradise Beach and beyond to Point Sal. So, I shed my trail shoes, dealt with sand in every crevice, and enjoyed the color on the largest coastal dune complex on the entire West Coast.

Seeing coreopsis blooming this late in the spring was unusual. They nor-

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mally bloom in early spring – say, late February into March – but there could be blooms extending into June from the looks of things this year. I also found Indian paintbrush, purple sand verbena, morning glory (the first wildflower to colonize the dunes), and bushels of silver lupine, wildflowers that can all withstand the relentless northwest winds funneling down the Central California Coast.

Beyond the dunes, I descended the last steep dune north of Paradise Beach. A rope was tied off for those who need a hand on the return hike.

It’s definitely steep, a good little leg-burning workout with a 30-pound camera pack on my back.

A year-round spring divides the dunes and Paradise Beach. I crossed it and followed the trail down to the beach. Fortunately, I had trousers on, so while setting up my tripod I began to pick and count the ticks on the lower half of my body. Good thing I wore those pants. I stopped counting after 19 ticks; even so, I was still finding them on me by the end of the day.

They were thriving in the spring, in the reeds that reached no taller than my knees, but some were on my upper torso.

After firing off a few frames, I made my way back, the northwest winds reaching gale-force conditions as they commonly do on this stretch of coast.

There were more ticks to pick off and knee-deep sand for 500-feet of vertical to contend with before cresting the tallest dunes. It’s one of the best coastal scenes on the West Coast, so it’s way

worth dealing with all the sand. Like I said earlier, “if the western snowy plover can do it, so can I.” I was the only one on the beach, still a couple miles away from my truck. Along the slog I was blown away by the amount of shorebirds hiding behind anything working like a windbreak. Western snowy plovers are more solitary than other shorebirds, so it was western sandpipers and sanderlings that were congregating and huddling behind balled up kelp and semi-buried driftwood.

By the time I reached my truck, there were two maintenance workers from California State Parks. Their job was to keep the parking lot free of sand. One was in a little miniature bulldozer, the other poor sap was using a wheel barrel, push broom, and shovel. It seemed futile until I almost didn’t make it past the crossing sign for western snowy plovers.

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From cooking, she has branched out to home and garden, travel, fitness, beauty, fashion, and entertaining, with her videos being picked up by Roku, Apple, and Amazon TV, Android, and 20 other digital platforms, boosting her viewing statistics by 200,000 a month.

From her video product placement, Rebecca has this year launched another company with her three full-time videographers-editors also creating Amazon and Website videos with actors and actresses signed up by her casting company.

“I found that lots of brands wanted to see young millennials using their products and decided to fill the void.”

Next year, Rebecca, a UCLA graduate, will be hosting yet another new show – Travel With Me! French Impressions! – where she invites 40 friends on an 11-day tour of France,

with a VIP trip to Paris, Provence, Cannes, and Monte Carlo.

You go, girl.

Good Golly, Ms Mollie Major social gridlock took place when Montecito dynamic duo Mollie Ahlstrand and her son, Ali, opened their new Italian hotspot Mollie’s, the State Street eatery just a tiara’s toss from the venerable Granada.

The tony twosome have long run their popular nosheteria Trattoria Mollie, on Coast Village Road, whose lease is up in the New Year and have done a great job renovating the 2,950-sq.-ft. former Tupelo Junction space, which has a seating capacity of 100, including outdoor eating.

“This all came about very quickly, when I happened to be walking by

Among the Mollie’s patrons are Kaern Gifford, Nina Phillips, Corinna Gordon, Jim Buckley, Michael Hartfeld, Gretchen Lieff, Laurie Bolt, Brendan Twigden, Erin Graffy, Rebecca Brand, Diana Starr Langley, host Ali Ahlstrand, Helene Schneider, Carol Marsch, Jim Garcia, Tammy Hughes, Pedro Rivera, and Helen Buckley (photo by Priscilla)

MISCELLANY Page 404 Mollie being welcomed and surprised by her son, Ali Ahlstrand, to Mollie’s on downtown State Street, with her seeing it for the first time (photo by Priscilla)

Ready to order their beverages from mixologist Pedro Rivera are Mollie guests Arlene Montesano, host Ali Ahlstrand, Sheila Herman, Pat and Ursula Nesbitt (photo by Priscilla)

Totally delighted at the opening are Alexander Dill, host and owner Ali Ahlstrand, Mollie and Eileen Dill, Mollie’s restaurant designer (photo by Priscilla)

The ladies at the open gourmet buffet are Chelsea Valenzuela, Joanna de Bezce, Helene Schneider, and Anne Towbes (photo by Priscilla)

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Westmont Takes Int’l Trade to Singapore

island of Kinmen, which is about 100 miles away from the main island of Taiwan but is still under Taiwanese jurisdiction. The island, which has a population of about 120,000, has a long military history. “My responsibilities including leading English classes to elementary students at a local school and helping design activities and curriculum,” he says. “I’ll also engage in community activities and

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eventeen Westmont students are studying in Singapore for two months as part of Westmont’s new Mayterm in Singapore. “It’s a remarkably fascinating time to be studying international trade and finance and going to Asia in the middle of a looming trade war,” says Paul Bradford, adjunct professor of economics and business, who will teach classes with president Gayle D. Beebe.

The group will study international trade, finance, and consider what it means to think biblically about corporate responsibility and ethical sourcing in the third largest global financial center. Students will also visit Cambodia, Hong Kong, Manila, and Vietnam to tour cultural and religious sites and various industries.

Before heading to Singapore, the class spent two weeks on campus meeting with the executive teams at Patagonia and Deckers Brands to learn how these companies implement their corporate responsibility programs on a global basis. Students heard from a wide variety of guest speakers, including Tom Nguyen, Westmont trustee and managing director of U.S. sales for China International Capital Corp., and former Congressman David Dreier, chairman of the AnnenbergDreier Commission at Sunnylands.

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an internship with the Development Bank of Singapore (the de facto state bank).

“In some respects, our students could not be going to Asia at a better time to discuss the intersection of geopolitics, international trade, and tariff policies,” Bradford says. The new Mayterm learning experience reflects Westmont’s rapidly growing global connections and partnerships.

Young Alums Earn Fulbrights, Fellowship

Two recent Westmont graduates have received prestigious Fulbright scholarships to teach overseas for nearly a year, and another young alumna has earned a foreign affairs fellowship. Hugh Grant-Chapman ’18, a political science graduate, will teach in Taiwan, while biology graduate Alexa Mogck ’18 will work in Malaysia.

Both are part of programs that place grantees in schools overseas to supplement local English language instruction and to provide a native speaker in classrooms. Alumna Sophia Meulenberg ’15, who earned a degree in political science and won the Faculty Scholarship Award for the highest cumulative GPA, is one of 30 selected as a Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow.

Grant-Chapman will live on the

Hugh Grant-Chapman

may do some independent research on my own.” He will be in Taiwan from August 1 through July 2019.

“I’m most excited about simply being in another town and country again,” he says. “Other than my two semesters studying abroad through Westmont, I’ve lived in Santa Barbara my whole life. I’m excited to immerse myself in a culture and community different than that of Santa Barbara, California, and the U.S. “The island I will live on is small and close-knit, and communities are apparently strong. I look forward to improving my Mandarin-speaking abilities and getting to use them on an everyday basis. Additionally, Kinmen’s military history and proximity to the mainland Chinese city of

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Xiamen will afford many opportunities to explore my surroundings.”

Mogck will teach English in Malaysia, running some extra-curricular camps and/or clubs, and getting involved with the local community in whatever way she can. Her 10-month program begins January 1, 2019. “I’m definitely most excited about starting my professional career in one of the most diverse regions of the world, where there is vast human and biological diversity,” she says. “I’m excited to be a part of the community, getting to know the students, the local organisms, and the rich history surrounding me.

“As a biology major and anthropology minor, I am incredibly stoked to learn, grow, and experience completely new things while also drawing on the tools that Westmont has given me.”

Meulenberg will receive two years of financial support for graduate school, as well as mentoring and professional development to prepare for a career in the foreign service. She will complete a domestic internship at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., and an overseas internship at a U.S. embassy before working for the State Department upon graduation. Sophia will attend Georgetown University in the fall to complete her master’s degree in foreign service.

She served with the Peace Corps in Senegal for the past two years.

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and saw it was available,” says Ali. “It all happened in about two months and I couldn’t be happier. It is a great location.”

Among the mob of masticators turning out for the bustling boffo bash were Nina Terzian, Bill Brown, former mayor Helene Schneider, Bob and Marlene Veloz, Tom Parker, Diana Starr Langley, Gretchen Lieff, Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, David Sigman, Charles Ward, Mara Abboud, Sandi Nicholson, Corinna Gordon, Anne Towbes, Michael Smith, Eric Phillips, Carlos Lopes, Barry and Jelinda DeVorzon, Arlene Montesano, Allen and Anne Sides, John Palminteri, and Ron MacLeod.

Righteous Path PATH – People Assisting the Homeless – hit a definite home run with its second Making It Home tour, a sell-out event with 260 supporters taking a tour in eight trolleys – two more than last year – of four of our rarefied enclave’s toniest properties and raising around $75,000 for the nonprofit formed three years ago when Casa Esperanza, started in 1998, joined the 34-year-old Los Angeles-based charity as PATH Santa Barbara.

“It continues to have great success,” says Jennifer Hark-Dietz, executive director of PATH, which, since 2015, has helped more than 2,000 individuals find shelter, housing for more than

300 and employment for 400.

The three-hour tour, which started at the First Presbyterian Church and had food and wine stations along the route, allowed guests access to a 7-bedroom, Mediterranean-style villa on Sycamore Canyon, owned by artist Simon and writer Diana Raab, the rustic Mission Canyon home of symphony supporters Denny and Bitsy Bacon, the Balinese-style Hot Springs oasis of Kim and Soren Kieler, and the Riviera home of Johnny and Jodi Goldberg.

The Goldbergs also showed their home, Shangri-La, last year, but it was sadly destroyed in the January mudslides. Their charming new residence was the site of the event’s closing reception

Red Rocks Supporters of the Santa Barbara Symphony were definitely seeing red for the final program of its current season at the Granada.

The performance of Francois Girardi’s 1998 Oscar-winning film The Red Violin, postponed from January because of the mudslides, had guest conductor Carolyn Kuan taking the helm with acclaimed Canadian violinist Lara St. John, playing a 1779 Guadagnini instrument in sync with the film, which stars Samuel L. Jackson and Greta Scacchi.

The movie follows the violin’s history from Italy in the 17th century to a Montreal, Canada, auction house, with stops in China during the Cultural Revolution, Vienna and (from left) Jodi Goldberg, Tessa Madden Storms (regional director, PATH), Nancy Fiore (PATH Santa Barbara Advisory Board), Jennifer Hark-Dietz (PATH deputy CEO and executive director) (photo by Ashly Othic – Livin’ The Dream Photography)

Oxford.

Although it was the 47-year-old’s third time playing with the film, it was her debut in our Eden by the Beach and it was an extraordinary performance to wrap up the symphony season.

Hide in Plain Sight Author Tina Alexis Allen’s latest book Hiding Out: A Memoir of Drugs, Deception and Double Lives, is quite a page turner.

(from left) Simon Raab, Claire Orr (PATH founder), Joel John Roberts (PATH CEO), and Diana Raab (photo

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Tina Alexis Allen writes revelatory tome

Barbecue was part of segregation and helped defeat it. – Bobby Seale

The 275-page book by Allen, who is also an actress, producer, and scriptwriter, recounts her life as the youngest child of 13 in a devout Catholic family near Washington, D.C., and the extraordinary father/daughter relationship that occurred when both admitted to being gay.

Her next book is a work on the Vatican, she told me at a bijou book bash at Tecolote, the bustling bibliophile bastion in the upper village.

How appropriate...

Motherly Love TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey has just revealed all about her sixhour meeting at her Montecito estate with Doria Ragland, the Los Angelesbased mother of Prince Harry’s new bride, Meghan Markle.

The encounter at her East Valley Road spread, just three weeks before the globally televised nuptials at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor, prompted rumors that Oprah might be interviewing her for a segment on the CBS show 60 Minutes or even her OWN TV channel.

But nothing could be further from the truth, she tells Entertainment Tonight. The afternoon was spent bonding, practicing yoga, and eating kumquats.

“The story was that Meghan’s mom had come to my house and left laden with gifts,” says the 64-year-old broadcaster. “You know what the gifts were? First of all, she’s great at yoga, so I said, ‘Bring your yoga mat and your sneaks in case we just want to do yoga on the lawn.’ So, one of the bags was a yoga mat and the other was lunch.”

And Oprah’s appearance at the Royal Wedding in a Stella McCartney pink creation accompanied by a Phillip Treacy hat prompted speculation that Ragland was giving a tell-all interview. She says that is not the case, and no interview is in the future.

Sundown Celebration UCSB’s popular Arts & Lectures program is celebrating its 60th anniversary with an eclectic program of 65 events, including 16 premieres and debuts.

To launch the new season, which begins September 29 with music great Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at the Granada, Celesta Billeci, Miller McCune executive director, hosted a sunset soirée for 300 supporters at the Coral Casino at which the new season was revealed.

Included are cellist Yo-Yo Ma, author Pico Iyer, the Joffrey Ballet, and debut performances by Alan Cumming and Jeff Goldblum.

Among the guests checking out the 1963 Studebaker Avanti and 1955 Ford Thunderbird paired outside the La Pacifica Terrace’s gates were Lynda 21 – 28 June 2018

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A&L Leadership Circle members Susan and Bruce Worster (photo by Grace Kathryn)

Weinman, Bruce Heavin, Christopher and Lisa Lloyd, Richard and Annette Caleel, Dana and Andrea Newquist, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Richard Sanford, Tom and Heather Sturgess, Henry and Dilling Yang, Robert Weinman, Anne Towbes, Sherry Villanueva, George Isaac, Gretchen Lieff, Merryl Brown, Virginia Castagnola-Hunter, Karna Hughes, and Marilyn McMahon.

In Bloom In lieu of the Dream Foundation’s annual Flower Empower lunch, the popular nonprofit hosted a bouquet-making event on the front lawn of the Hospice of Santa Barbara.

Last year more than 8,300 bouquets

were delivered, using donated flowers, to hospices, cancer centers, and personal residences.

The event, which raised $25,000, also honored program sponsors Tim and Diana Brown, George and Lisa Hagerman, Roger and Robin Himowitz, Bob Fuladi and Nissan Mahmoud, Paul and Shelley Schultz, and growers Harry and Eric Wingerden of Myriad Flowers, volunteer Jennifer Duffy, and youth volunteers Paige Maho and Clare Kelly.

A blooming nice time.

awards provide a new incentive for our alumni to be entrepreneurial. We aim to inspire them to create projects that break the mold for what 21st-century musicians can accomplish.”

Rest in Peace On a personal note, I mark the passing of the irrepressible King of Clubs, Peter Stringfellow, who has died in London aged 77.

I first met Stringfellow, who had venues in Paris, Miami, and Los Angeles, when he opened his first U.S. venture near my Gramercy Park home in Manhattan in 1986, with other guests including the late Superman actor Christopher Reeve, future James Bond Pierce Brosnan and his late wife, Cassandra, and the Marquess of Worcester, now Duke of Beaufort.

I would also visit his London club in Covent Garden on my annual visits home for Royal Ascot, which takes place this week with Queen Elizabeth, who owns the venue near Windsor Castle, riding down the course with other members of the Royal Family in an open landau with bewigged retainers in red and gold uniforms.

Lifelong lothario Stringfellow had an extraordinary career, claiming he had bed 2,000 women in his lifetime.

A delightful man who grew old disgracefully.

Honorable Mentions The Music Academy of the West, which launches its popular summer festival later this month, has announced the winners of its inaugural Alumnae Enterprise Awards.

Open to all alumni of the festival, the awards program was announced last year to fund original classical music projects with significant community impact.

A total cash prize of $90,000 is shared among the six winning alumni – tenor Benjamin Bliss, violist Molly Carr, pianists Anna Petrova, Evan Shinners, and Theresa Kim, and mezzo-soprano Brenda Patterson.

Their projects were chosen from more than 50 applicants.

President Scott Reed says: “The

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THURSDAY, JUNE 21 It’s Miller Time – Glenn Miller perished back in 1944 during WWII when his transport plane to Paris to coordinate performances for the troops disappeared without a trace. But the Swing Era band’s music has never gone out of style, and today the Glenn Miller Orchestra is perhaps the most popular big band in the land for both concert and swing dance engagements.

The present ensemble was formed in 1956 and has been touring consistently since, playing an average of 300 live dates a year all around the world. The current orchestra is led

by Nick Hilscher, who also serves as the male singer, with George Reinert III as lead trombonist and Hannah Truckenbrod taking on the female vocalist role, delivering the great classics Miller made famous: “Moonlight Serenade”, “Little Brown Jug”, “A String of Pearls”, “Chattanooga Choo-Choo”, “Pennsylvania 6-5000”, “In The Mood”, and many more. Swing it at the Luke. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High, 721 East Cota St. COST: $25 to $39 INFO: (321) 441-9135 ext. 2 or www.brownpapertickets.com/ event/3361825 Folk Orchestra’s Fiesta – Folk Orchestra of Santa Barbara founder Adam Phillips has sung with Quire of Voyces, Opera Santa Barbara, the Adelfos Ensemble, and as a cantor at Old Santa Barbara Mission. He has taught or led theater programs at Montessori Center School and Stage Left Theatre Company, and served as worship leader at El Montecito

Presbyterian Church’s Tapestry and elsewhere and spent three years as the music director for the beloved Santa Barbara Revels. But the musician has really found his niche – or perhaps discovered one that was missing in Santa Barbara – since creating the Folk Orchestra barely more than a year ago, as the 32-piece string and acoustic instrument ensemble – which features flute, whistles, Scottish smallpipes, harp, banjo, mandolin, mandocello and guitars alongside violins, cellos, and string basses – combines classical and folk music in culture clash concerts that have consistently sold out the Presidio Chapel. Phillips selects the material and fashions the fascinating arrangements that have previously covered Scottish, Irish, and other British Isles music. Now, as Old Spanish Days approaches, he turns his attention to “Americana/ Mexicana”, with a program featuring “Wayfaring Stranger”, “Shenandoah”, “Cielito Lindo”, “House the the Rising Sun”, “El Rey”, music from the movie Coco and much more. Viva la Folk!

WHEN: 7:30 tonight; 4 pm Sunday WHERE: The Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $35 INFO: http://folkorchestrasb.com FRIDAY, JUNE 22 Reggae and Riches – You can take your shot at easy money by sidling up to a slot machine or buckling down at a blackjack table, or settle for soothing and sensuous sounds from Ziggy Marley. The eldest son of reggae icon Bob Marley – who got his start at age 10 on stage with his famous father and younger siblings and who,

THURSDAY, JUNE 21 Old Spanish Days at Stow House – It’s just five days after the Summer Solstice Parade, but that’s none too soon to kickoff Santa Barbara’s even longer-standing massive traditional celebration, Fiesta. Actually, Fiesta Ranchera, which represents a collaboration with Goleta Valley Historical Society, follows by a month a smaller gathering at the Carriage Museum downtown and carries a similar Western theme as it occupies the historical Rancho la Patera Gardens for an evening of food, music, dancing, and fun under the stars. Local restaurants serve samples of pulled pork, nachos, sliders, and other specialties as diners travel around a horseshoe-shaped area in front of the Stow House to gather platefuls, before the action shifts over to the grassy tree-ringed lawn, where performances from the 2018 Spirit and Junior Spirits of Fiesta are followed by two sets of dance music by Area 51, the funk-rock party band that is a Santa Barbara institution unto itself. WHEN: 5 to 10 pm WHERE: 304 N. Los Carneros Road, Goleta COST: $70, includes beer and wine ($45 designated drivers) INFO: 962-8101/www. oldspanishdays-fiesta.org or 681-7216/www.goletahistory.org

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THURSDAY, JUNE 21 Bea-t it with Darla – Seemingly ubiquitous Santa Barbara DJ Darla Bea – who spun the tunes at the grand reopening of Ty Lounge at the Biltmore three weeks ago, delivers the dance music at two more famed Santa Barbara nightspots, at opposite ends of the glitterati spectrum. Move and groove tonight at a “Party on the Rooftop” to celebrate the first day of summer at the Kimpton Canary Hotel high above the city (well, as high as Santa Barbara allows, save for the Granada building), where you can grab a drink from the openair cocktail bar and mix and mingle in the emerging moonlight. On Saturday, Bea, winner of the Independent’s “Best Event DJ in Santa Barbara” award two years running, heads a couple of blocks south to the down-and-dirty Wildcat Lounge (which has a rhyming nickname we can’t print here) to provide the back beat for the postparade Summer Solstice magic, featuring La Boheme Professional Dance Group in full costume outside on the patio, while The Bomb plays live old school and funk music inside. WHEN: 6 to 9 tonight; 5 to 8 pm Saturday WHERE: Canary, 31 W Carrillo St, tonight; Wildcat, 15 West Ortega St., Saturday COST: $10 tonight; free on Saturday INFO: www.NightOut.com (photo by Nik Blaskovich)

yikes!, turns 50 in October – released Rebellion Rises, his seventh solo studio album apart from the Melody Makers, just last May, and it features the sorely needed single “Circle Of Peace” as its centerpiece. The eight-time Grammy Award winner (which is seven more that his dad, whose legacy created the category and who posthumously earned a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award) has certainly transcended his childhood in Trench Town, Jamaica, but as an activist and humanitarian has never forgotten one of Kingston’s poorest neighborhoods. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $45 to $65 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (2486274) or www.chumashcasino.com Studio Showcase – It’s not entirely clear why The Dance Network’s fifth annual show is called Series 7, but there’s no doubt that the dancers will be going for broke to bring a night of high-energy, diverse, and entertaining performances. On tap are pieces from the studio classes, The Dance Network’s professional performance companies, and representatives of the classic repertoire from the famous tap company The Copasetics. The styles range from tap, hip hop, and jazz to contemporary, break dancing, and more, while the dancers are even more diverse, ranging in age from 2 to almost 80. This year’s choreographers include Meredith Cabaniss, Kelli Forman, Karyn Laver, Daniel Rojo, Grace Salsido, Bethany Sutherland, and Kyle Ybarra. WHEN: 7 pm today & tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $22 general, $13

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CenterStageTheater.org SATURDAY, JUNE 23 Muñoz Music for Mental Wellness – Costa Rica-born Luis Muñoz, who has lived in Santa Barbara for decades, is not only a composer, producer, arranger, and percussionist who released nine CDs over the course of his career, including several recent ones that have earned multiple accolades and awards from around the world. He’s also the leader of what might be Santa Barbara’s finest jazz quartet, featuring guitarist Daniel Zimmerman (who just released his own debut solo CD as a leader featuring the same musicians) and string bassist Brendan Statom, plus trumpeter Jonathan Dane.

Muñoz’s latest recording, The Dead Man, named “Best Record of the Year” in Jazziz Magazine, is a personal response to our current political climate.

Tonight, the group, which has played everywhere from SOhO to the Mercury Lounge to a recent sold-out show at the Lobero, heads to northern Goleta for one of the Song Tree series’s periodic shows at The Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation. The profits from the concert will be donated to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Southern Santa Barbara County (NAMI SSBCO) and the Santa Barbara Mental Wellness Center, organizations devoted to providing emotional support, educational resources, and advocacy for individuals and families affected by mental illness, and fighting the negative stigma associated with mental illness in our community. WHEN: 7:30 pm 21 – 28 June 2018

MONDAY, JUNE 25 Standards at SOhO – Jazz chanteuse Nicole Lvoff and her band of Santa Barbara stalwart musicians settle into SOhO for sets of jazz standards and other beautiful melodies of the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s. Pianist Woody DeMarco, bassist Randy Tico, drummer Tom Lackner, and trumpeter-flutist-clarinetist-saxophonist Jon Crosse are joined by special guest Joe Woodard, the Santa Barbara singer-songwriter-guitarist (and arts scribe) who works with Lvoff in a separate alt-country/Americana project known as Lucinda Lane. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $10 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

WHERE: 820 North Fairview Avenue COST: $15 suggested donation INFO: 403-2639 TUESDAY, JUNE 26 Eat, Think, and Be Merry – That’s the sub-text theme for the latest edition of Café KITP, which brings brainiacs from UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics to downtown watering holes for discourse and discussions on deep topics. Tonight’s entry focuses on the brain itself, as “How the Brain Got Its Wrinkles: On the Amazing SelfOrganization of ‘Mini Brains’ in the Lab” examines the human brain as a remarkable computing machine. Like transistors on a microchip, the brain’s billion cells have a unique arrangement.

The talk takes a look at how the organ accommodates so many cells while maintaining its architecture, as the answer hides in its folds. Over dinner and drinks, KITP Post Doctoral scholar Eyal Karzbrun will share how recent advances allow scientists to grow “minibrains” in the lab and use them as a tool to better understand the human brain.

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Groovin’ in the Goodland – We got the date wrong in last week’s issue as the Goodland Concert Series gets going tonight 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 •MJ

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27 Book Signings – Chaucer’s corrals a number of authors, both local and visiting, to talk about their latest works and sign copies of their new books in separate events this week. Happy LaShelle’s debut young adult novel, According to Audrey, has as its heroine the cautious and introverted 17-year-old Dove, who spends most of her free time pursuing painting as she daydreams about finding an Audrey Hepburn-film kind of romance, before finding that dating a hotshot jock is more complex than the average silver-screen classic.

(Thursday, June 21).... The target audience is even younger for Wendy Wahman’s Nanny Paws, about two adorable young African-American twins who are looked after by an attentive pink-and white poodle.

The former Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper artist whose editorial illustrations have appeared in The New York Times, has written and illustrated several children’s books since 2010. (2 pm Sunday, June 24).... Ambition & Fate, the new novel from half-centuryplus Santa Barbara resident Steven Hicks, is a highly charged tale of greed, honor, and hubris that is based on actual events in the author’s own young years. (Wednesday, June 27).... Goleta native Gregory Crouch’s The Bonanza King: John MacKay and the Battle Over the Greatest Riches in the American West is the rags-to-riches tale of the Irish immigrant who outwitted, outworked, and outmaneuvered many rivals to take control of Nevada’s Comstock Lode, the rich body of gold and silver so valuable it changed the destiny of the United States. (Thursday, June 28). WHEN: All events at 7 pm (except Wahman’s) WHERE: Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. in Loreto Plaza Shopping Center COST: free INFO: 682-6787 or http://www.chaucersbooks.com/

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

dry room for convenience. There are 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms downstairs, and the entire top floor is devoted to an ocean-view master suite with veranda and a walk-in closet.

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ith sales in Montecito seeming to be back on track when compared with last year, (for the past six weeks anyway), with summer crowds making their way into Santa Barbara, and the re-opening of the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel, it’s prime home shopping season again. Open houses are more frequent as the weather improves, sales are picking up, more homes are hitting the market, and there seems to be a wave of optimism in the area’s real estate market.

This is terrific news, following the slow home sales months this past winter, during the fires in December and water and debris flow in January. This time of late spring into early summer in Montecito is ordinarily a busy time for home sales; it’s peak season. This is most likely due to the clearing weather, higher number of visitors, and those looking to buy a home and make the move in summer, before the next school year begins.

With solid sales in May (yet down about 20% from 2017), and June (June 1-15) starting off strong, we have seen nine closed home sales in Montecito, at prices ranging between $1,385,000 and $5,240,000. During the same period last year, we saw eight sales in roughly the same price ranges. All information is according to the Multiple Listing Service (MLS).

Because there are so many excellent properties available right now, I thought I’d do a little comparison shopping between homes at the same price point and those with different tastes but in the same price range. Two homes featured fall into the entry-level Montecito home category: a 2,000+ sq-ft home on a goodsized lot. The other two homes are in what I consider the entry-level estate category, on the market at just less than $6,000,000.

369 Paso Robles Drive: $2,195,000

This is an opportunity to own a home with 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms in this price range, not to mention the location on a relatively low-traffic street, just a block to Cold Spring School.

The home sits on a third of an acre (+/-) and includes air conditioning, outdoor speakers, and entertainment decks.

There is a downstairs bedroom with bath, plus office, reading room, and hidden space that works as a wine cellar. Wood floors, manicured landscaping, fireplaces, and skylights add to the value of the home.

This French country estate on just over 1.5 acres of land on a cul de sac is in the Montecito Union School District. The backyard, patios, pool, pool house, and mountain views create an impressive setting. Inside you will find almost 5,500 sq ft of living space offering soaring ceilings, great room, chef’s kitchen, family room, and French doors leading to outdoor entertaining areas.

The master is situated on the first floor, and the other 3 bedroom suites occupy the second floor. The pool house contains a full kitchen, bath, and loft. This property also comes with a new well and a 10,000-gallon storage tank.

3091 Hidden Valley Lane: $5,995,000

434 Nicholas Lane: $2,195,000

This listing offers a 4-bedroom home on a larger lot in the Cold Spring School District.

It is set on an .84acre gently sloping lot surrounded by lush landscaping and citrus trees.

Expansive lawns, garden areas, and outdoor entertainment decks enhance the Santa Barbara indoor/ outdoor lifestyle.

There is an open cook’s kitchen with a walk-in pantry, center island, and breakfast area that opens to the lawn. Just off the kitchen is an office and laun-

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This nearly 7,000-sq-ft home on more than 2 acres is located on the crest of a hill, at the end of a country lane in the eastern edge of Montecito and offers ocean, mountain, and harbor views. The gated compound includes a Tuscaninspired main home, ‘’Villa Vista Bella’’, that is complemented by a 2-bedroom guesthouse.

The estate also features a motor court, walking paths, water features, and privacy. Outside the main home there is an ocean view, infinity-edge pool, and nearby spa, surrounded by tropical landscaping. Extensive use of stone and terra-cotta tile, hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, and an abundance of windows and French doors help create the indoor-outdoor connection.

Please contact me regarding your Real Estate needs, or to schedule a showing with the listing agent of any property mentioned here: Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text (805) 698-2174. Or, please visit my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

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ew people know about this quiet and private enclave of homes tucked away on the eastern edge of Montecito. This stunning, cheerful, and bright property is situated well out of the areas affected by recent disasters and privately situated from neighbors. The panoramic ocean views will welcome you home to this updated craftsman home with open floor plan and great natural light. It is the perfect home for those scaling down or those impacted by the recent mudslides who are in the process of rebuilding.

It has been recently remodeled with European oak floors and professionally-designed custom chef ’s kitchen sparing no details: the highest quality Italian cabinetry, magnificent multi-use island with sink and beverage refrigerator, large galley sink with pass through window for entertaining, highest quality quartz countertops, and the highest quality handcrafted (for over 300 years) Gaggenau appliances, which are renowned for innovative design coupled with functionality. The “NanaWall” sliding doors and windows transform the space, inviting the outdoors in, which is perfect for entertaining; you and your guests can sit and enjoy tranquil views overlooking the Pacific whether inside or out. It is a dream home for anyone who enjoys sophisticated yet comfortable living and entertaining.

The 2700-sq-ft home, which also includes an oversized two-car garage and two dedicated off-street parking spaces, is the perfect respite, boasting an ideal functional open floor plan with multiple living spaces. There are three spacious bedrooms, two-and-a-half bathrooms, formal and casual living areas, a spacious dining room adjacent to the expansive kitchen, and a lofted den.

Don’t miss this opportunity; this is currently the only property available in this coveted and close-knit neighborhood, which enjoys beautiful landscaping, plentiful open space, and close proximity to the Lower Village of Montecito, the quaint downtown of Summerland, and the beach.

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Santa Barbara, CA 93101 NMLS #1938 – Licensed by the DBO under the CA Residential Mortgage Lending Act. | C-294 | Equal Housing Opportunity

840 Deerpath Road

Barbara, CA 93108 Cell 805Santa 455-2333

Lic.# 440878

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MONTECITO JOURNAL

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$5,900,000 | 1147 Glenview Rd, Montecito Lower | 4BD/5½BA

$12,995,000 | 1664 E Valley Rd, Montecito Upper | 7BD/12BA

Ken Switzer | 805.680.4622 | Lic # 01245644

Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233 | Lic # 01209514

$7,500,000 | 3429 Sea Ledge Ln, Santa Barbara | 3BD/3½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

$6,785,000 | 150 La Vereda Rd, Montecito Lower | 3BD/3½BA + GH McGowan Partners | 805.563.4000 Lic # 00893030/02041055

$6,650,000 | 3077 Hidden Valley Ln, Montecito | 4BD/6BA MK Properties | 805.565.4014 Lic # 01426886/01930309

$5,995,000 | 745 Fuera Ln, Montecito Upper | 4BD/3½BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233 Lic # 01209514

$5,450,000 | 2085 Birnam Wood Dr, Montecito Upper | 3BD/3½BA Cristal Clarke | 805.886.9378 Lic # 00968247

$4,195,000 | 1520 Las Canoas Rd, El Cielito/Las Canoas | 4BD/4½BA MK Properties | 805.565.4014 Lic # 01426886/01930309

$3,795,000 | 4691 Via Roblada, Hope Ranch | 4BD/4½BA MK Properties | 805.565.4014 Lic # 01426886/01930309

$3,395,000 | 2239 Featherhill Rd, Montecito | 4BD/2½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

$3,295,000 | 1383 School House Rd, Montecito | 4BD/3BA Cristal Clarke | 805.886.9378 Lic # 00968247

$3,095,000 | 2121 Summerland Heights Ln, Montecito | 3BD/2½BA Kelly Mahan Herrick | 805.208.1451 Lic # 01974836

$2,695,000 | 861 Oak Grove Ct, Ojai | 5BD/5½BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233 Lic # 01209514

$1,695,000 | 422 Orilla Del Mar, Santa Barbara | 2BD/2½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

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