Native Son

HISTORY IN THE MAKING 23 - 30 July 2020 Vol 26 Issue 30

SERVING MONTECITO AND SUMMERLAND

St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church is up for landmark status, p. 8

NATIVE SUN

WE CHAT WITH MONTECITO’S OWN MAX BARBAKOW, WHOSE FUNNY, HEART-WRENCHING PALM SPRINGS IS PROVING TO BE THE RIGHT FILM AT THE RIGHT TIME (P.6)

SMOOTH SAILING Gracefully navigating the choppy waters of our current times, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum celebrates 20 years while charting a course for a bright future. With new initiatives, programs, and plans, this local treasure has something for everybody.

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Inside This Issue 5 Editor’s Letter

Gwyn Lurie has a conversation with a reader about Blackface 6 On Entertainment Max Barbakow’s directorial debut screens on Hulu; more film talk; Personal Stories moves online; new podcast from SB Library 8 The Way It Was A look at the history of Santa Barbara’s St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church 10 Voices An essay by Mackenzie Boss on returning to the trails she walked as a child

Tide Guide 11 On the Record

Nick Schou continues his Carpinteria cannabis coverage 12 Village Beat Mesa Burger opens doors; debris flow rebuilding updates; Montecito Firefighters donate two AED machines to Girls Inc.; Rosewood Miramar welcomes The Webster 14 Letters to the Editor A collection of communications from readers Jeff Giordano, W Naylor, Lanny Sherwin, James Buckley, Sandy Nargi, and Des O’Neill; and a correction from a past issue 16 Dear Montecito Northeastern animation student Beatrice Tolan reflects on her first three years of college 18 Seen Around Town Part two of Lynda Millner’s Courthouse tour 20 Real Estate

Four homes on the market in the $4-5 million range 22 SBCC Foundation Geoff Green and the SBCC Foundation create emergency grant for students affected by the pandemic 23 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant learns the art of being a villain 24 Summerland Buzz Guy Hamilton offers his thoughts on how Summerland has changed over the years 26 Perspectives by Rinaldo S. Brutoco A Life Worth Living: Understanding your life, living in a time of extreme uncertainty

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Bison return to UK; Middle Fork Nooksack River dam removed 28 Your Westmont New director of institutional resilience works to protect the college from COVID-19; online exhibition examines ‘Matter + Spirit’ of Chinese art; ethnic studies minor revitalized 31 Carte Blanche Mitchell Kriegman’s life and career attest to the wisdom of being eclectic, and now UCSB is putting all that wisdom on display in a comprehensive archive 42 Nosh Town

Shalhoob family shares BBQ tips and secret recipes 44 SBMM Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum looks to a storied past while charting a bright future 46 Classified Advertising Our own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory

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Editor’s Letter

by Gwyn Lurie CEO and Executive Editor of the Montecito Journal Media Group

Pride and Prejudice

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hese days discussions about race are like a knot where the more you work on it, the tighter it gets. I do not recall a more racially charged time and I have been through several of them.

To give just a brief summary of the last few days: the entertainer Nick Cannon made some comments about Whites and Jews having melanin deficiency and thereby being inferior, or, to use Cannon’s own words, “closer to savages.” As a result, Cannon was partially “cancelled,” dropped from a lucrative deal with CBS/Viacom, then defended by some members of his own echo chamber. Cannon’s defenders then turned on him when he apologized to the Jewish community. Then Charles Barkley castigated Cannon’s defenders for adding fuel to the Cannon fire. And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo, as the song goes by Sly & the Family Stone.

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This very same week, the African American sportscaster Stephen A. Smith has been construed (accused) to have worn whiteface on social media which was actually a white mask from the hip hop dance group Jabbawockeez – not dissimilar to the goalie mask Jason wears in Friday the 13th movies. Or, for that matter, the masks that hockey goalies themselves wear.

In the 1980s the top goalie in the NHL was Grant Fuhr who is mixed race and wore a white hockey mask. I never thought of him as “in whiteface.” As recently as today, Megyn Kelly has called out Robert Downey Jr. for a 2008 movie where he appeared in blackface. Which was four years after the Wayans Brothers appeared in whiteface in their 2004 comedy White Girls.

Just last month, several – actually, many – TV shows pulled blackface episodes from their syndication packages including 30 Rock, Community, The Office, Scrubs, and Golden Girls. Up until that announcement, I had no idea blackface was still so prevalent in our culture.

This was especially woeful, coming at a time when Blacks are underrepresented on TV. Today there are so many whiteface and blackface aspersions being cast back and forth, along with so many other accusations of racial insensitivity from all segments of the melanin spectrum, I felt fortunate to have sidestepped the whole unseemly, distasteful mess.

Which was true until this past weekend when the Journal received a charge of racial insensitivity all its own. Friday, I received a thoughtful and passionate“WTF” letter (the letter actually said “WTF”) from a reader of this newspaper’s twice weekly internet newsletter, the “Morning MoJo.” Last week in the MoJo we referred to an article in the Montecito Journal about

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On Entertainment

by Steven Libowitz

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“Have no fear of perfection. You’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali

school buddies from their time at AFI Conservatory. If the director’s name sounds familiar, that’s because he’s the Montecito-raised film-soaked son of former Santa Barbara International Film Festival president (and MGM studio head) Jeff Barbakow. Max’s clever autobiographical documentary about being adopted, Mommy, I’m a Bastard, played at SBIFF a few years ago, as have all of his short films made at AFI which hinted at his incisive voice. But the Crane School-educated Barbakow hits his stride right out of the box with this first fiction film, which set a sales record at Sundance in January.

Max took nearly an hour earlier this week to talk about the film and his Montecito days.

Q. How do you think growing up here influenced you as a filmmaker?

A. My family is everything to me and everybody in my family loves film and is very creative in their own way. As the youngest child, I was very much encouraged to pursue whatever my passion was. The way that evolved was that growing up in Montecito is so idyllic and I was so comfortable just in terms of being able to read, and indulge my curiosities and be close to nature that by the time I got to high school I wanted to explore the world, have life experiences, get into a little bit of trouble here and there, and expand my consciousness. That’s why I studied abroad in Bolivia, went to

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The Way It Was

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St. Paul’s has been nominated to become a Santa Barbara City historic landmark and is working toward State and National recognition as well. Organized by architect Robert Ooley, F.A.I.A., a group of volunteers has been gathering historic information about the church to support the nominations; I was lucky enough to be among them.

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he African Methodist Episcopal Church was formed in the Northeastern states in the late 1700s because black parishioners were being excluded from full participation in Methodist Episcopal churches. The A.M.E. denomination, which became independent from the Methodist Episcopal church, reached the Pacific Coast in the early 1850s, and, after the Civil War, reached out to former slaves in the South to bring many of them into the fold. Consequently, by 1880 A.M.E. membership in the United States had reached 400,000.

Grace Methodist Episcopal Church was established in Santa Barbara in 1868. It may have been denominationally separate from its African counterpart, but it clearly supported the advancement of the race held so long in bondage. In 1904, the church hosted the glee club from Claflin University in South Carolina, which had opened its doors in 1869. From its genesis down to the present, the school has provided quality higher education to men and women regardless of race, complexion or religion.

At the Los Angeles district A.M.E. Church of Zion conference in 1903, the Reverend Martin W. Bynum had been honored for his untiring efforts to build up the district and make it strong. In November 1905, Rev. Bynum came to Santa Barbara to officially organize the African Methodist Episcopal Church of Zion. With a growing population of African Americans in Santa Barbara, the establishment of a church had become desirable. The Morning Press reported that it was Bynum’s intent, and that of his flock, “… to maintain a close watch on the social welfare of the negroes in this city, and co-operate

“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.” – Samuel Goldwyn

Ms Beresford is a local historian who has written two Noticias for the Santa Barbara Historical Museum as well as authored two books. One, The Way It Was: Santa Barbara Comes of Age, is a collection of articles written for the Montecito Journal. The other, Celebrating CAMA’s Centennial, is the fascinating story of Santa Barbara’s Community Arts Music Association.

heartily in all worthy efforts for the betterment of their condition.”

By the end of November, an ad in the newspaper read, “A.M.E. Zion Church. Channel City hall. M.W. Bynum pastor. Services at 11 am and 7:30 pm. All invited.” (Channel City Hall once stood at the southeast corner of Carrillo and Chapala streets.)

The A.M.E. Church of Zion was actually a different sect than the A.M.E.; the former having been founded earlier in New York and the latter in Philadelphia.

For some unknown reason, the church in Santa Barbara quickly became affiliated with the A.M.E. rather than A.M.E.Z. Bynum had planned to remain in Santa Barbara, but it was not to be. By February 1906, a new pastor was in charge, Rev. Silas L. Wright, and services were held in a new venue, the former Grace M.E. church building on the corner of Alisos and Yanonali streets. The search for a permanent home, however, continued.

By March of 1906, the A.M.E. church had purchased a lot on the corner of Haley and Canal (Olive) streets, as

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Voices

by Mackenzie Boss

Mackenzie Boss, who grew up in Santa Barbara, is currently a third-year medical student at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Walking Through It

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hen I was younger, I dreaded my parents’ weekend declaration of an impending family walk. I would plead to ride my bike alongside them; to run, skip, cartwheel, anything but walk. We would (slowly) stroll along the dirt path at the nearby Ennisbrook trail and my eyes would meander towards trees that needed climbing, streams that needed stomping, rocks that needed skipping.

But this spring, 20 years later, I found myself on the same path. Since those earlier years, I have not only learned to find solace in a good walk, but I also have grown up and moved far from Santa Barbara. I have begun my third year of medical school on the East Coast and had returned to study for my medical boards with my family in early February. What began as an eight-week intensive study experience to start the new year dramatically changed. With testing centers closed and limited personal protective equipment for the medical community, my two-month visit stretched to over four, and I found myself in the same wobbly limbo that everyone in Montecito (and far beyond) now resides.

While at home this spring, I spent every bit of my day studying the minutia of the body’s cells – the innerworkings of biochemical pathways, and endless pharmaceutical interactions. But since the coronavirus pandemic violently swept through our routines and pushed pause on many of our lives, I made the effort to close my laptop every evening to go on a walk.

I often walk Ennisbrook trail and am consistently taken aback by how different it appears. The trail is not only different because of the many years between myself and the girl who would dread family walks. The trail is different because of the 2018 mudslides, the wreckage the creek caused and the strong hands that put it back together. This space that at one time was the epicenter of disaster is now my refuge. Should I be allowed to enjoy it, to find comfort in it? The trail does not look the way it once did, and we as a neighborhood had no say in DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION 50 + YEARS EXPERIENCE - LOCAL 35+ YEARS

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when it changed, how it changed, or why it changed. And as I walk this trail in 2020, I once again feel like I have no way to contextualize the big and scary things that confront us today.

On this trail I see a gaping creek bed with only a modest stream of water winding its way towards the ocean. I see the fragile evening light break through the trees and I see new colorful vegetation that grows confident, youthful, and completely unaware of what came before it. I see houses still splattered in mud, and I see new houses lacquered in fresh, crisp paint. I hear families laughing and setting up for dinner. In these few frames, I see what is new and what is lost.

The mudslide taught me to hold these two opposing realities in a single breath. It taught me that it is okay to hold gratitude and heartache. It is okay to feel the overwhelming devastation of others while acknowledging that small ripples have made their way to your shore. Pain is not a competition and gratitude is not finite.

The mudslide taught me to hold these two opposing realities in a single breath. It taught me that it is okay to hold gratitude and heartache. It is okay to feel the overwhelming devastation of others while acknowledging that small ripples have made their way to your shore.

This is not a poetic story of metamorphous – how something awful can turn beautiful. I think it is important to look at, to see, to acknowledge the awful.

What is awful is still awful and some wounds will not mend without scars and disfigurement. I do believe, however, that this unbelievable time and space we once again find ourselves in reminds us, as it did in 2018, of how people help in the worst of circumstances and how we, as a greater community, endure.

Walking this trail, this time in a handmade mask, introduces two catastrophic and implausible disasters to one another and allows them to occupy the same place in my heart. It reminds me to acknowledge the unknown, the heartbreak, the mourning. It reminds me to take comfort in the strong and compassionate hands of helpers – the hands that bag our groceries, deliver cross-country notes, cook our food, take our temperatures, and rebuild our town. I believe it is important to see both – to see the new blooms of early growth and feel a longing for old oaks washed away. We must be kind to ourselves when holding both extremes in our hearts, because it is hard.

In our neighborhood, we listen to the rain on our roofs with a new and more cautious ear. Just as we may turn the volume up during the weather report on the local news, we will also come away from this pandemic changed. We will wash our hands with new vigor. We will feel a strange urgency when lingering at the grocery store. But I hope too, that we will hug our loved ones with a new sense of gratitude and sincerity. We will squeeze tighter. I hope that we will reach out to and for one another, like we did in 2018, after the camera crews pack up. And, personally, I hope Ennisbrook trail always remains a well-trodden path for many future family walks.

•MJ

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ON THE RECORD

by Nicholas Schou

Nicholas Schou is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of several books, including Orange Sunshine and Kill the Messenger. If you have tips or stories about Montecito, please email him at newseditor@montecitojournal.net

Cannabis Under Fire, Part Three

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ver since the Santa Barbara Grand Jury issued its damning report last month on the explosion of cannabis cultivation in Santa Barbara County, a widening ripple of reaction has circled around Carpinteria, Goleta, and Buellton, where residents hope the controversy will aid their efforts to curtail the industry. As the Montecito Journal reported last week, Carpinteria residents didn’t even wait for the Grand Jury report to come out to take their complaints directly to the Federal government.

A letter signed by more than 100 residents and several neighborhood and business groups and addressed to U.S. Attorney Nicola Hanna went out to the Justice Department’s Los Angeles office in March, and while the agency refused to make any official comment on the status of any investigation, Carpinteria residents who were interviewed by the Grand Jury confirmed to the Journal that the letter has already led to follow-up communication from Federal investigators.

“Oh, they’re investigating, alright,” asserted one resident who asked not to be identified by name, who added that investigators were particularly interested in the report’s allegation that the county had failed to turn over all the documents it asked for.

Barney Melekian, an assistant CEO with the county, who is on vacation, was unavailable to respond to an interview request; he previously told the Journal that his office couldn’t comment on any of the Grand Jury’s allegations until it finishes its official response to the Grand Jury’s report, which is expected to be completed within 90 days.

Meanwhile, official complaints about the county’s cannabis policy from the towns most affected by it continue to mount. On June 24, five days before the report became public, Carpinteria Mayor Wade Nomura sent a letter to supervisors (along with an attached resolution signed by all five city council members) complaining of ongoing “crime and nuisances” associated with cannabis farms operating around the city. “The County’s investment in enforcement must be increased to match the amount and sophistication of illegal activity currently being experienced both within the City and greater Carpinteria Valley,” Nomura wrote.

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lowed up with closure orders where necessary, the closure of all “non-conforming” cannabis businesses that have illegally expanded their operations, and finally, the implementation of a robust Conditional Use Permit (CUP) process that would more adequately address the cannabis industry’s impact on the health and safety of local residents.

Three days after the Grand Jury report’s release, on July 2, Goleta Mayor Paula Perotte sent an official complaint to Supervisors, outlining the city’s concern about cannabis farms “of direct adjacency to residences” that are “materially and negatively impacting Goleta residents and our community.” Backed

by Goleta’s city council, Perotte wrote that the CUPs currently in place for farms located next door to residents were effectively forcing residents to act as an around-the-clock neighborhood watch. Hapless townspeople, she complained, are being forced to “remain constantly vigilant and monitor County permit applications into the future in order to ensure cannabis cultivation does not impact them. Aside from demanding farms be set back further away from residences, Perotte also bemoaned the fact that the County’s cannabis plan for Goleta included “no odor abatement plan,” which had led to a plethora of problems far beyond just those of homeowners but extending to “local hotels/motels, retail, restaurants, etc.”

On July 15, Buellton Mayor Holly Sierra joined the chorus of complaints about the County’s cannabis policy and in particular, its impacts on her city. “The most noticeable of these impacts is the pervasive odor which emanates from the cultivation operations,” Sierra told supervisors. “Given the prevailing wind patterns and the locations of a number of cultivation operations in proximity to the City, our residents, businesses and visitors are exposed to this odor, which can be quite strong, particularly in the later afternoon. This odor leads to concerns of adverse impacts to the City’s business community, tourism industry, property values and the overall quality of life for our residents.”

The day before Sierra sent that letter, Supervisors voted 4-1 to update its cannabis policy by having new cannabis farms submit to a CUP process,

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Letters to the Editor

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

Our County… Our Black Hole

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o, Bari Weiss (NYT Op-ed writer/editor) recently resigned.

What I found sad about her departure was her self-described truth: “Twitter is not on the masthead of the NYT… but it has become its ultimate editor.” This unfortunate reality is even more acute in Santa Barbara where the flames of legitimate debate need as much media-oxygen as possible. Allow me to explain: In a County of 420,000 residents, no single daily publication (digital or otherwise) reaches more than approximately 20,000 readers. With $5B in traditional advertising disappearing from local news outlets we have fallen victim – as more than 1,300 other communities have – to the loss of even the most rudimentary investigative journalism. Couple this with the need for unruffled political access and the result is an investigative desert. Remember, there can be no investigative journalism without seasoned (and costly) investigative journalists!

In our County, “safetyism” not only trumps free speech, it stifles basic inquiry, as well. SBC is the poster child for the idea that “intellectual curiosity … is now a [journalistic] liability.”

Frankly, much of Weiss’s resignation letter channeled a PEN America report that spoke to the death of local journalism: “A vibrant, responsive democracy requires enlightened citizens and without forceful local investigative reporting they are kept

in the dark.” Our County’s darkness suffocates us like a black hole!

A recent case-in-point was the release of a 26-page citizen (Did you expect otherwise?) Grand Jury report (READ IT) that was less about Cannabis and more about the deeply systemic issues that make our County a twisted backwater. Anywhere else on earth, this report would have garnered FOIA requests and media-oxygen for months. Not in SB where digital outlets placed it “below the fold” and print outlets buried it on left-handed pages or in their Saturday rather than Sunday editions. There was one lone exception – the Montecito Journal. The story was on the cover, balanced, and gave an opportunity for our justifiably embattled Supervisor to try and explain the unexplainable i.e. MJ told the story, asked the questions and embraced the controversy, Brava!

While some in the Twittersphere were quick to pounce on Weiss’s resignation (“the NYT should just name itself ‘Teen Vogue’ and be done with it”), the sad truth is that intellectual confrontation is imperative, even if it ruffles feathers. As I reminded my Gen Z kids, an important bit of these freedoms arose “thanks to” neo-Nazis in a place called Skokie. Yes, our freedoms are often tested by those who least deserve them.

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Be vigilant, be involved and stay healthy!

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Death & Taxes

I am at a loss trying to understand why you publish “Perspectives” which perpetuate misinformation and posture as virtuous, while insulting anyone who might hold different views. This is a time when we really need to come together, listen to each other, and find our shared values. Tolerance and responsibility are required.

Of course, I am referring to “Death and Taxes” by Rinaldo Brutoco (MJ July 16-13 page 20).

1) How does the author know that “no one seriously complained about taxes during Roosevelt’s New Deal.”

Was he there? I recall many of my parents’ and their parents’ generation complaining, and the total tax burden (federal, state, and local) averaged only 15% of GNP in the six years 1933-1938. For comparison, it has averaged 28% over the past six years.

2) “The coronavirus death numbers conclusively prove the necessity for the US to have a better public health system.” A better system is always a good idea, but deaths from CCV19 are about the same other flus and less than for many other health conditions.

3) “Did anyone complain about taxes during the Eisenhower years?”

Yes, Rinaldo, they did. And do you really think anyone paid the maximum marginal rate of 70%, or did they use the many tax avoidance loop-holds which existed then, and were largely removed in the O’NeillReagan tax reforms of the 1980s?

4) “Reagan ran primarily supported by individuals who wanted to share less of their … wealth with the rest of society in a headlong pursuit of plutocracy.” Oh, those deplorables! Almost 44 million voters supported Reagan to 35.5 million for Carter. How many of the 44 million were plutocrats? By the way, the electoral college vote was 489 to 49; the support for Reagan was as broad as it was deep.

5) “The US has a lower tax burden than other modern western democracies.” No, Rinaldo, our total burden (averaging the past six years) has been 28% (double the level in Roosevelt’s years) while the OECD average is 34%. We provide many services through non-profit organizations that other nations provide through government. Hence, the difference.

6) “We need a federally funded and managed program to end the pandemic.” OK, thanks for the opinion. Would you provide details? If

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the governments have performed so badly so far, why do you believe that such a program would be effective?

I would be grateful if the authors and editors of MJ would fact check and at the same time avoid inflammatory, as well as erroneous statements, that will divide us. We need to acknowledge shared values and learn from each other. Allowing your pundits to insult and mislead your readership is not helpful.

W Naylor

No Response Needed

James Buckley STILL responding to Letters to the Editor by writing his own “Letter?!” STILL undermines the credibility of the paper and stifles people from expressing their thoughts without concern for being “reprimanded.” Correct if I’m wrong, but isn’t that the whole purpose of Letters!? Jeez.

Remember, James, when you did a survey of your readers a few years ago about your letter responses, and the results were 2/3 AGAINST you doing that? I’m guessing a tad more than that now are against it. Love all the changes to the MJ, but this is one I’m STILL looking forward to!

Lanny Sherwin

Purely Pathetic

In last week’s Letters to the Editor you featured a missive from Bob Handy, in which he describes me as a Pro-Trump “True Believer,” before going on to mislead readers about the contents of President Trump’s speech announcing his presidential run. Mr. Handy apparently sees and hears what other can’t or don’t. “[Mr. Trump] declared that he is racist, misogynist, and anti-immigrant,” Handy writes. Hmm. I remember that speech and, though Mr. Trump did point out that “The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems…” and that “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best… They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”

Okay, he is opposed to illegal and uncontrolled immigration, but he is not “anti-immigrant.” And where are the statements announcing that he is a “racist” or “misogynist?” He never mentioned “race” in his speech and certainly never said anything that could even vaguely be called “misogynist.”

So, why do folks such as Mr. Handy make this stuff up?

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Dear Montecito

by Stella Pierce

Montecito Alumni Write Letters from Life’s Front

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his week’s letter comes from a person who recently made their professional debut doing the 3D VFX work for the 2019 blockbuster Little Women. Animation student Beatrice Tolan is a rising senior at Northeastern University in Boston where she is pursuing her BA with a minor in theatre. This, of course, is no surprise to anyone who knows Bea and knows that describing her as “talented” would be a massive understatement.

The last memory I have of Bea before she graduated from Laguna Blanca was a performance she gave on the ukulele, singing a song she’d written about a bee leaving its patch of flowers. The fact is, this song was not only a charming metaphor for Ms Tolan (at least, that’s my interpretation) but also a song I would’ve gladly taken over the chronically prescribed “Pomp and Circumstance.” Knowing this, it was a treat to learn some of Bea’s artistic context, having started with animation when she was “only a

bairn” (as we say in Scotland), and to catch up on her ambitions since high school graduation.

Dear Montecito,

I spent the majority of my childhood, regrettably, staring at a screen.

My computer screen, the television, my phone. Looking back, I wasn’t disinterested in the world around me, but fascinated with all sorts of digital media – digital art, animation, cartoons, video games. In 7th grade, I asked my parents for a drawing tablet and began exploring digital painting.

I gravitated towards an artistic field and found myself drawn to Boston; my school, Northeastern, has a program dedicated to helping students secure internships during their college career. So, with all my art supplies and clothes packed, I headed for Boston at the end of the summer of 2016.

I remember the first week of college not by the people I met, or the places I saw, but how viscerally afraid I was.

My chest felt heavy; my mouth tasted

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You’re told to feel excited, charged, and ready for these incredible stories older people tell you, but all you feel is uneasiness, nostalgia, and doubt.

Is this really where I’m meant to be?

Even when you become familiar with your surroundings – after a few days, and for some, a few months or years – you don’t forget that shock.

Entering your early 20s can be an extremely turbulent time compared to the routine, familiar teen years you leave behind. You’re meeting new people who teach and show you new things, for better or for worse. I often felt I was the only one struggling with the new pace of my life, like I had to sprint in order to “enjoy” what everyone totes as the best years of your life. I’d judge myself for spending less time on my hobbies and more time socializing or studying, trying to keep up. Throughout my years as an underclassman, I occupied my time thinking of ways to make people like me more.

It wasn’t until my third year I finally felt grounded. I’d immersed myself completely into the animation program and made great friends just hanging around the computer lab.

All that time I’d spent – my first two years – worrying about where I stood in others’ eyes seemed pointless when I finally felt a part of something productive and positive. Try your hardest not to compare your life – your accomplishments, aspirations, hobbies – to your peers and don’t beat yourself up for the mistakes you make socially or academically. I’m at the end of the finish line now and looking back, it’s wasted time to worry that you’re not living out some idealistic fantasy of what you should be acting like, how you should be spending your time on the weekend, or what you should be studying.

So I’m near the end. I came back to Montecito during quarantine to get away from Boston, one of the hotspots for the virus. There is a serenity in Montecito I haven’t found in any other place. It could be the perfect weather and the occasional light breeze that dampens the sun’s intensity. Don’t get me wrong, East Coast seasons keep it interesting, but stepping off a curb in a blizzard and having your entire

Beatrice Tolan is a rising senior at Northeastern University in Boston

calf submerged in slushy city drainage explains some of the judgmental looks I receive when I tell people I wanted to leave California. But leaving Montecito’s lush environment for Boston’s, a cold, windy concrete city, has made me appreciate the variety of life’s offerings and taught me how to overcome the anxiety of unfamiliarity and change.

That’s paying off particularly now.

The current events of the world have changed my perception of the future.

I’m trying to take each day, each month as it comes and find opportunities to be grateful and happy where I can. The horizon of my college career, where beyond jobs and bills and insurance awaits, is quickly approaching. I’ve broadened my interests past just animating; I love to paint and compose songs. I’ve made fantastic friends and professional connections.

I’ve found new ways to appreciate the art of everyday life, too, and continue to find flavor in exploring new forms of art and hobbies.

When I see the future... Ideally, I’ll be working at a job I enjoy, with people I enjoy, in a place I enjoy. That’s all we can ask for, really. (Once you get too specific, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.) The move from Montecito to Boston, one of extreme change and challenges, has helped me process this time and feel grateful for what Montecito is: a luxurious oasis that cannot be replicated or forgotten.

Yours, Bea •MJ

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Santa Barbara Courthouse: Part II

The Sunken Garden with the jail in the background

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s my docent Courthouse tour continues, we have exited the Mural Room and walked into the Lobby just outside the door on the second floor. We see the nineby-twelve-foot painting of the landing of Juan Cabrillo which Dan Groesbeck had painted in 1924 for

County National Bank. It was influential in his being chosen to paint the Mural Room.

In the Lobby hangs the largest lantern in the Courthouse. Visitors love it and so do the birds. They can fly in and out of this area and build their nests. There’s one there now. Back

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The tiles on the wainscot are from the Chemla factory in Tunisia. The National Historic Landmark, the Montecito estate Casa del Herrero, also has tiles from the same family factory. As you look across the way you’ll see a small balcony called a hoard. It would usually be on the outside of a castle and used to keep the “hoards” away by pouring boiling oil on the enemy. The architect put ours on the inside for visual interest (and there are no hoards).

The small narrow window is called a lancet and is for an archer to rest his arm on the slant and shoot his bow and arrow. Again put on the inside instead of out.

Next to that wall you see a large painting of Dwight Murphy on his

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elegant palomino horse. He was a “man about town,” el presidente of Fiesta and breeder of the palomino horse.

If you take a few steps back and look up you’ll see the asymmetric arches. The Moors liked everything to be asymmetric, not symmetric which is visually more interesting.

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Real Estate

by Mark Ashton Hunt

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

Homes in the $4 to $5 Million Range

Below are four properties currently on the market (as I type anyway) in that $3,000,000 to $6,000,000 range for you to consider. I’ve selected two homes with identical price tags at two price points here for your comparison. One is located here, another there, one is single story, another is two story… but all are within our coveted Montecito, 93108.

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he months of May and June, and now into July 2020, are proving to be the most active real estate months that many can remember in Montecito during the past 15+/- years. Whether it be Boomers flexing their buying muscle and finally committing to a place in Montecito, perhaps Ellen’s celebrity friends, the Bay Area tech success stories and of course, the COVID refugees from LA, NY, and elsewhere… Whatever the reason or whoever they are staking claim here in Montecito, sales are brisk across all price ranges.

As I type this, there are 43+/- homes under contract and pending in escrow in Montecito. This is a huge number (considering the average at any given time in recent years is more like 25-30ish homes in escrow at one time).

From condos to starter homes under $1,500,000 to oceanfront homes on Miramar Beach near and over $10,000,000, all price ranges are represented in Montecito’s current pending properties list, according to the Santa Barbara Multiple Listing Service, MLS. Yes, it is summer, when sales are usually higher, but this is something else.

Even sellers who were off the market or hesitating to list are now saying, bring me a buyer, here’s my price. It is important to note though, that while some “done” and unique opportunity homes are going into escrow quickly once on market (or selling privately off market) and can fetch near asking price, many properties are selling under asking price, and some have lowered in price over time and now are finally selling.

As usually reflected, about half of the properties in escrow right now are under $3,000,000. This sector of the market is made up mostly of smaller homes, fixer opportunities on larger lots, and condos for the most part. Surprisingly, a price range showing movement in sales is the $3,000,000 to $6,000,000 market, which has seen significant recent activity.

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SBCC Foundation Helps Hundreds of Students With Financial Burden

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by Valerie van den Broek

hese days, Geoff Green’s bed is more than just a place to sleep.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s now his office.

Since he also sleeps there, he spends about 20 hours a day in his bedroom, exiting the cave only to eat or spend time with his family.

His life is consumed by not only surviving the pandemic but by helping others to do the same – mainly, the students at Santa Barbara City College.

As hundreds of students lost jobs and struggled to pay rent and bills due to COVID, the SBCC Foundation created the largest emergency grant in its history to help students affected by the pandemic. A little over $2 million was distributed.

“What can we do to bridge the gap?” Green said. “What can we do in that one-month period?”

Santa Barbara City College Superintendent President Utpal Goswami announced on March 13, 2020 that all classes would be moved online to prevent the spread of COVID-19, which, for many students, was not only a rapid but a consequential change.

According to The Hope Center, due to the pandemic, 44 percent of students at two-year colleges reported food insecurity, 11 percent experienced homelessness and 50 percent of students reported having moderate anxiety and struggled to concentrate on their education.

received roughly 900 requests for an emergency grant.

“We asked simple questions,” Green said. “We just wanted them to tell us what they needed.”

The foundation received over 2,300 requests in little less than a month.

As one of the biggest college foundations in the nation, they provided students with up to $1,000 to help with living costs – rent, groceries, or anything to help tide them over during these hard times and was distributed via checks, direct deposit, and occasionally Venmo and PayPal.

“[The pandemic] changes how you interact with people,” Green said. “We are figuring it out.”

Geoff Green (Courtesy of the SBCC Foundation)

The Foundation began brainstorming ways to assist students who are in need after the pandemic began.

“We jumped on it and we formed it from scratch,” said SBCC Promise assistant Wendy Aguilera. “We started to receive applications in English and Spanish.”

About two weeks after the pandemic hit Santa Barbara, the Foundation made sure the grant was accessible while figuring out what else students would need.

From housing to childcare to technology to help with online education, the grant was created to ease any financial burdens.

Within 24 hours, the foundation

However, there are limits.

“Budget problems were created by the pandemic,” Green said. “We had to make cuts in next year’s budget.”

The operating deficit is roughly just under $475,000.

The main purpose of the emergency grant was for students to be able to stay enrolled and finish strong as they struggle through the pandemic.

“A lot of students come in with a lot of layers,” said SBCC Promise manager Sergio A. Lagunas. “Some need to drop out because of family or they lose their job.”

The SBCC Promise was created by the Foundation to help local incoming students for two uninterrupted years after they complete high school, GED, or the equivalent. The Promise covers tuition, books, course materials, and

other mandatory fees.

But due to the pandemic, many students may need to drop out for a while to help out their families and themselves, which can lead to loss of their Promise grant.

“We understand if students need to step away,” Lagunas said. “We review through an appeal process and review their circumstances, there’s a big chance they will get back.”

If City College will open up again, classes are planned to be smaller than they were in the past, said Superintendent President Goswami during the online SBCC Foundation COVID conversations.

The emergency grants come at a time when colleges and universities are struggling to hold on to their students, who in March were upended by the pandemic. Many students are fearful of remote learning and are looking to take time off from school until the pandemic passes and people can return to the classroom.

For Santa Barbara City College, the situation is even more dire. The college has traditionally attracted students from around the world, but now international enrollment is down and the college is trying to figure out a way to boost enrollment, while also dealing with its own budget challenges.

“We are still thinking that we will be somewhere around where we thought we would be in terms of resident students,” Goswami said.

“For nonresident students, we have predicted a roughly 20 to 30 percent decline, especially for international students.”

Despite the projected enrollment decline and budget deficits, Green and the SBCC Foundation are working hard to keep ties intact. All from home and the same room in which Green sleeps. Which these days, is not enough.

•MJ

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LETTERS (Continued from page 14)

as she attached herself to one of the most successful politicians of all time (her husband). Whatever other experience she gained on her own and on government-sponsored tethers was just basic institutional crap.

“As a secretary of state,” Mr. Handy marvels, “[Ms Clinton] was effective and approachable by employees and foreign governments.”

Wo w : “Effective,” “Approachable.”

What a woman!

Her governmental effectiveness as U.S. Secretary of State led her to promote and approve the murder of Libyan strongman Muammar Kaddafi, the man who abandoned his nuclear ambitions at the behest of the U.S. Fortunately, Libya then became a free and democratic nation upon Mr. Kaddafi’s ouster, right?

Oh, wait, that besotted country is now ruled by various warlords and gangs. Never mind. No reason to bring up Ms Clinton’s pathetic non-response when it came time to defend U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who, along with members of his staff died in an attack on the grounds of the U.S. Mission in Benghazi.

Back to Mr. Trump’s presidential announcement speech, his closing words were: “Sadly, the American dream is dead. But if I get elected president, I will bring it back bigger and better and stronger than ever before, and we will make America great again.”

Many of the promises and hopes President Trump laid out in that initial speech have come to fruition, despite the enormous government-wide attempts to stymie his efforts. Which is why I’ll be voting for his re-election come this November.

As a footnote: at the end of Mr. Handy’s Pro-Hillary, anti-Trump (and anti-Buckley?) screed, he calls me out as “sexist” and a “dinosaur!”

Every man probably has a little “sexism” under his nails; so, admit-

tedly, we have work to do, but a “dinosaur?” The only thing I can say about that is that the Age of the Giant Reptiles lasted 200 million years, give or take.

Not a bad run.

James Buckley

Keep it Coming

As a member of Concerned Carpinterians, it was a great pleasure to read the well written article

by Nicholas Schou in his “On the Record” column in your newspaper regarding the cannabis mess created

by Das Williams, Steve Lavagnino and the rest of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors. It is so refreshing to finally see the truth coming out. We are grateful to the Grand Jury for their report and their findings, and we are grateful for the excellent reporting from your newspaper.

Thank you Montecito Journal.

Sandy Nargi

Mask Mayhem

It is evident that the coming November election will be contested not as Trump v. Biden, Conservatives v. Liberals, Republicans v. Democrats, but simply on the one issue of No Masks v. Wear Masks.

Des O’Neill

Corrections, Omissions and Apologies In MJ’s July 2nd edition’s Fitness Front article on acupuncture, “Needles Stress Away,” incorrectly listed one person, Laura Schlieske, as the founder of Downtown Community Acupuncture. It was actually founded by Laura and co-founder, Jennifer Potthast, also a licensed acupuncturist and herbalist.

The two have been co-owners and practitioners since the beginning of the clinic, over 10 years ago.

•MJ

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guy in the Soviet Union calls up the electric company and says he’s got a problem with his power and the power in his apartment. After days he finally gets through to someone. And the guy says, “I’ve set up an appointment for you. It’s two and a half years from now on February 3.” “Morning or afternoon?”, the guy says. And the guy at the power company says, “What difference does it make?”

“Well, because the plumber is coming in the morning.”

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Brilliant Thoughts

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 since 1973. No children.

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How to be a Villain

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his story begins with a confession: I didn’t know how to be a villain – and never got over it. When I was eleven years old, my Hebrew school was bringing out a magazine, and needed contributions. I somehow volunteered to write on a topic someone had suggested – “How to Be a Villain.”

No doubt, it was supposed to be a humorous piece. But the ghastly fact is that I didn’t even know what a villain was. I couldn’t think of anything to say, and was deeply troubled. I actually lost sleep over it. My mother could see how unhappy I was, and she tried to help me, making light of my predicament.

She suggested that I could start with something about taking candy from a baby – but I was too young to savor such villainy.

Ironically, the media to which I was then mostly exposed – the movies, radio, and especially comic books – were full of villains. One, who was featured battling my favorite hero, “Captain Marvel,” was called “Mr. Mind.” He was an evil genius, threatening to control the entire world. But readers never actually saw him – only “heard” his malignant voice – until the final episode, in which he turned out to be an intelligent worm, with a little microphone hanging around his neck!

Incidentally, Captain Marvel soon disappeared. He was almost literally killed by Superman, whose publishers successfully sued, claiming the characters were too much alike.

This made Superman a villain in my eyes.

But I must sadly reveal that the writing assignment I’d been given was never fulfilled. I don’t know what excuse I used, but somehow, I backed out of the commitment. In my memory, that entire incident is tinged with shame.

Of course, I eventually learned the meaning of villainy – though I’m glad to say that in my personal life, I’ve never known anyone I’d call villainous. But I’m naturally familiar with the classic villains of our culture, from Nero and Lady Macbeth to Iago and Guy Fawkes.

The failure of the latter to blow up Parliament, in 1605, is still celebrated annually in Britain with fireworks and garish rituals involving the burning of stuffed dummies known as “Guys.”

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Being (by origin) both British and Jewish, I feel qualified to tell you not only about Guy Fawkes, but also about a villain commemorated in Judaic culture on the annual feast of Purim, which derives from the Biblical story of Esther. In this case, the setting is ancient Persia, and the villain – a high official named Haman – has a plot to destroy all the Jews in the Empire. He’s defeated by one of those very Jews, a young woman named Esther, who happens to have become Queen. And Haman is hanged on the very gallows he had prepared for Esther ’s foster-father Mordecai.

Jews celebrate Purim by recounting this story in synagogues all over the world, in a narrative called the “Megillah” (which has given us a word for any lengthy screed).

And whenever the name of Haman occurs, loud noises are made, especially by the children, who’ve been waiting impatiently, with special rattles, for that name to come up. And you can eat Haman, in the form of a pastry, called Haman’s Hat. But our culture also has Jewish villains, of whom perhaps the most notorious is Shakespeare’s Shylock, forever abhorred for his insistence on receiving his “pound of flesh” – since then, an enduring metaphor for something one may be legally entitled to, but which it would be cruel to exact. Then, later, came Dickens’ nasty Fagin, who in Oliver Twist runs a school for young thieves.

But conscience obliges me to conclude this piece with an even more painful admission than began it. I professed then to have little knowledge of villainy. But the sad truth is that there has been one person in whose life I myself often played the role of a villain. That person was my wife Dorothy. Although we were together for 51 years, our values were in many ways so different that, in her eyes, my behavior was sometimes unforgiveable. In particular, she disliked controversy – and my very public campaigns, as against smoking and leaf-blowers, could, to her, be acutely embarrassing. But also, she was a hoarder, and, more than once, our conflicting ideas about order at home brought us to the brink of separation. Happily, in her later years, as she became more dependent on me, I became less evil.

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Summerland Buzz

by Leslie A. Westbrook

A third-generation Californian, Leslie, currently resides in Carpinteria but called Summerland home for 30 years. The award-winning writer assists clients sell fine art, antiques and collectibles at auction houses around the globe. She can be reached at LeslieAWestbrook@gmail.com or www.auctionliaison.com

Gentrified or Not? A Chat with a Summerland Gentleman and Some Food for Thought

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uy Hamilton and his wife, author Cynthia Hamilton, have lived in Summerland for 33 years. He wouldn’t live anywhere else. Guy recently reached out reminding me that he owned Chanticleer (now the site of Lucky’s) back in the late 1970s-early ‘80s and suggested he could offer a “little different perspective on things.”

“Wouldn’t it nice today to roll back the clock for some of that period of time?” he asked, referring to his “past life” in Montecito at the Chanticleer.

Perhaps.

Hamilton left a lifelong career in the restaurant business and made a complete switch into the mortgage business.

“I’m not retired,” Hamilton said, “I retired once, when I sold

Chanticleer, but a two-year break from Santa Barbara was just a huge recharge of my batteries to decide what the next chapter would look like. Retiring for me would be expiring, and I’m blessed with a large client base that still calls me for their mortgage needs.”

Hamilton said as long as he can take his daily beach walks with his wife and ride his horse three to four days a week with friends on the Montecito Trails, he could work forever. The avid horseman has been boarding his horses in Summerland’s “back country” for a quarter of a century.

Then, over a series of emails, we got into a discussion about the definition of “gentrification” when I asked him about changes in Summerland over the decades.

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He sent this: Gentrification often shifts a neighborhood’s racial/ethnic composition and average household income by developing new, more expensive housing, businesses and renewed resources… in addition to these potential benefits, gentrification can lead to population migration and displacement.

“The traditional definition of gentrification really doesn’t apply to Summerland as no one, like in Seattle, San Francisco or even downtown Santa Barbara, has been displaced or uprooted,” he replied, “The improvements to the commercial area of Summerland have simply, or hopefully, enhanced the economic health of our small little beach town.”

But I have to wonder if a grocery store or more eating establishments – like say a Mexican restaurant – might be more important than a high-end boutique? And I must remind the man who wanted to “roll back the clock” that a house in Summerland that cost $100,000 in the early 1980s can now cost nine times that amount.

“I think of gentrification as most often displacing someone or some business for another. So many commercial upgrades in Summerland were a result of filling and improving vacant or rundown buildings,” Hamilton noted.

Have any renters or homeowners or businesses been displaced due to rising costs? Maybe not yet, but the writing could be on the wall.

Perhaps you, dear readers, can ring in, so we don’t have to rely on tea leaves.

“There have been waves of commercial upgrades in Summerland over the years and some only rendered new vacancies, but it appears the current wave of commercial improvements may have read the tea leaves more accurately and/or the customers need has been matched,” Hamilton continued, “Only time will tell.”

I asked Guy what the tea leaves, a perfect metaphor for the town founded by spiritualists who connected with those on the “other side,” might say?

“I think the tea leaves say different things to different people. New business concepts often approach an opportunity based on what they think a community needs. I’ve heard this for 40-plus years and some of the ideas I’ve heard I would love to (see happen)… like… Gladstone’s or Lure (seafood restaurants) to fill The Big Yellow House. But the question is, can you make money Tuesday through Thursday? And can being sold out on Saturday be enough to carry you through the entire week?”

As a mortgage banker for the past 35 years, Hamilton did admit that the demographics of the buyer/home-

“Folks, I don’t trust children. They’re here to replace us.” – Stephen Colbert

Guy Hamilton astride Lupita on the dusty, er, sandy Summerland trail, muses: “Having lived here for 33 years I wouldn’t live anywhere else.

Call it Poor Man’s Malibu or the place that gets passed by on the way to 93108, I’ll take it any day.

And how do we cope with COVID-19?”

owner in the area has changed dramatically over those years.

Both he and his wife are working from home during COVID and he proudly told me that Cynthia just struck a new deal with a publisher specializing in mystery-detective-suspense fiction. Her mystery series set in Santa Barbara includes five books she has already written, plus three more books in the series, and at least three books in a new series that she’s developing that will be set in New Orleans.

I mentioned to Guy Hamilton that Porch would be moving into Summerland from Carpinteria, opening September 1, and will bringing their tarot card reader with them, who might be able to add some insight into all kinds of predictions, big and small.

“Perhaps the Porch tarot reader can provide insight for all of us,” concluded Hamilton, “Call it Poor Man’s Malibu or the place that gets passed by on the way to 93108, I’ll take it any day.”

Perhaps Cynthia can help us solve the mystery of changing Summerland.

Time will tell.

Final Note

Speaking of seafood, you might not find it in Summerland, but Little Dom’s Seafood restaurant and Little Dom’s Pizza-to-go were scheduled to open in the former Sly’s in Carpinteria, well, soon. I pressed my masked nose up against the window the other day and saw a menu on the wall listing oysters, among other fresh seafood delights and lots of masked people inside training and prepping for the highly anticipated new dining spot, even in the time of COVID-19.

But with Governor Newsom’s governmental indoor dining regulations yo-yoing like they have been, I doubt not even Madame Rosinka could predict the future of this one.

•MJ 23 – 30 July 2020

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Perspectives

by Rinaldo S. Brutoco Rinaldo S. Brutoco is the Founding President and CEO of the Santa Barbara-based World Business Academy and a co-founder of JUST Capital.

He’s a serial entrepreneur, executive, author, radio host, and futurist who’s published on the role of business in relation to pressing moral, environmental, and social concerns for over 35 years

A Life Worth Living

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OW! It’s yet another week of rising COVID numbers as the country lurches forward and backward without any Federal leadership. This limbo period feels like it may never end. Well, in the dynamic context of conflicting realities of life and death, of abundance and growing homelessness, I’m writing today about living a meaningful life.

Possibly because of COVID-19, or because we are experiencing the passage of time, many of us are thinking about our lives, of our personal journey on this planet, and want to be remembered by those we leave behind. Many younger people are also stopping to reflect on how meaningful their lives are at this stage.

You may have heard the Socratic observation, “An unexamined life is not worth living.” We all know Socrates chose death over exile from his students and denying his passionate quest for the truth. That approach was too risky for the Athenians so they sentenced him to die by drinking hemlock. In modern times the “unexamined life” sentiment raises a host of related meanings.

For me, the phrase conveys a sense of living in an unconscious or routinized state of mind. It describes the choice between accepting, without question, the rules, the stereotypes, and the traditions handed down from your parents, your elders, and your culture; or, instead, asking if those same values are truly independently valid beliefs for you! Here’s an idea, what if you sought to create a life of meaning based on your inner values and principles? What would you think? What would you be free to do? What would you become untethered from historical convention and steered, like the rudder of a ship, by only what you personally discovered to be true for you? One of the definitions I like to share is: “Integrity is when you live the truth you know, not the truth I know, but the truth you know.” Living an “examined” life will provide us greater clarity for ourselves concerning what we did come to find as true, and to commit to leave that wisdom behind for future generations.

It’s never too early or too late to begin creating the life we want by crafting our own unique story.

All lives are worth living – some are just more conscious and self-aware than others. Fortunately, it’s never too late to start living that life. It’s never too early or too late to begin creating the life we want by crafting our own unique story.

Wisdom tells us it is better to intend the future we want by reflecting on the past with the wisdom of our years, and recording those reflections while we can. Then, whether we transition off this planet shortly thereafter, or “live to be 100,” we will have begun to create our lives by having “examined” it in the crucible of our own experience.

Last week on Solutions News, the World Business Academy’s weekly podcast, I had the honor of interviewing local filmmaker Kate Carter about Life Chronicles, the nonprofit she founded in 1998. Her work over the past 22 years has help thousands of families cope with impending loss by recording life stories, or “chronicles” that capture the essence and being of the person who facing illness or an end of life situation. Even if the illness is conquered, and the person lives for many more decades, the process of reflecting on what’s most important has tremendous positive effects for all participants in the filming sessions. This is the magic of Kate Carter’s work.

There is an old axiom that “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

So, no matter your current health condition, age, degree of infirmity, or relationships, we can all benefit from taking a moment to contemplate our own life chronicle. I know I have personally contrasted the question of what I “wanted” (which is always a distracting question) with what I heard from my quiet, still, inner voice telling me what I was called to do by asking this simple question: How Can I Serve? I learned many years ago that keeping that question foremost in my mind allows me to seek greater self-awareness and greater commitment to my personal path of meaning.

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Comeback: Wild bison set to return to UK for first time in 6,000 years

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he steppe bison is thought to have roamed the UK until about 6,000 years ago when hunting and changes in habitat led to its global extinction. Now, thanks to a fantastic new initiative, the steppe bison’s closest relative, the European bison, will be introduced to the landscape of the UK. The £1m project will, in part, help secure the future of an endangered species, but it will also naturally regenerate a former pine wood plantation in the town of Kent by killing off trees. This will help to create a healthy mix of woodland, scrub, and glades, boosting insect, bird, and plant life.

The bison will come from the Netherlands or Poland, where releases have been successful and safe. Once the bison are settled, the public will be able to visit the area with rangers and watch the animals from viewing platforms. In the Netherlands, where bison projects have been running for 15 years, people walk through the areas without incident.

Why the removal of this dam is a big win for local tribes and wildlife

For decades, Native American tribes as well as environmentalists have pushed to remove a dam in Washington that sits on the Middle Fork Nooksack River. Construction crews finally descended upon the dam to carefully detonate explosives that will break open the dam. The animals nearby may not love the loud bangs now, but it marks the return of vital habitat for many nearby species.

Over the next couple of weeks, crews will remove the 125-foot-wide, 25-foot-tall dam, allowing the Middle Fork Nooksack to run free for the first time in 60 years. With the dam’s removal, 16 miles of river and tributary habitat will open up to help boost populations of three threatened Puget Sound fish species: Chinook salmon, steelhead, and bull trout.

Two local tribes, the Nooksack and Lummi Nation have been behind the effort to help restore fish passage and the river’s ecological integrity. “Our natural resources are our cultural resources,” says Trevor Delgado, the Nooksack tribal historic preservation officer. “With this removal, we get a little piece of our home back – a place where our people have visited for hundreds of generations.” The project is expected to increase the resilience of the municipal water supply of nearby Bellingham.

•MJ Living unconsciously from day to day leaves us at the end of our lives having experienced many sunrises and sunsets, but never having experienced the rebirth inherent in each of those sunrises, nor the wisdom of the night from each sunset. Living consciously means more than just having goals. It means picking the goals carefully and choosing those that are most aligned with the unique experience that is you, at this unique time in history, at this particular juncture on the space time continuum. Pursuing your unique goals gives direction to your life. And the goals you pick uniquely informs you of who you really are and what really matters most to you. You arise above merely living from day to day. One of life’s greatest tragedies is when someone is on their death bed and is crying out for a little more time. No one has ever been heard on their deathbed begging for just a few more days to work in the office. Yet most everyone does yearn for more time with their loved ones at that particularly vulnerable point of our human journey.

That, to me, is the most important concept behind wanting to make your life meaningful: it’s the knowledge that we can feel “complete” with the story we lived so the story we share at the end of our days will inspire as well as inform, and leave us feeling “complete” as we exit.

At this time of coronavirus, when we feel like we’re victimized by what we cannot do and all the ways we cannot interact, it’s easy to forget that we’re still breathing, we’re still alive, and we’re still capable of making a difference. If we choose to make that difference, the difference we’ve made is what we will then reflect back in the latter chapters of our lives with gratitude and joy. Personally, I want to do more than just “sleepwalk” through this life and actually leave a legacy of the meaning we created for ourselves. And, if we record our lives with Life Chronicles in our “Golden Years,” the “meaning” that our reflections contain may be able to assist others to create their own meaningful lives. Because, one way or another, you will be remembered, so why not live a life worthy of the opportunity?

•MJ

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be no closer than 50 feet to property boundaries and require all cannabis oil processing facilities to be housed inside an enclosed space utilizing enhanced odor mitigation technology. However, the changes only affect inland county areas, not Carpinteria, much to the chagrin of residents there.

“This isn’t even about whether cannabis should be legal,” said one longtime resident who asked to remain anonymous and who voted in favor of a recent county ballot measure to tax recreational cannabis. “I was like, pot: Big deal, who cares?” the person said.

“I did not realize they were planning to turn the whole county into the cannabis mecca of the whole world.”

“When you tell people you are from Santa Barbara, everybody all over the world knows where it is and what it represents,” said another Carpinteria resident. “Santa Barbara’s brand is beautiful beaches, amazing mountain views, wonderful food and wine, and a prosperous lifestyle attracting all kinds of creative people from Hollywood as well as artists, writers, and thinkers. With all that, why are we turning Santa Barbara into a place that will be known only as the land of marijuana?”

To Smell or Not to Smell

Last January, following up on complaints about the stench of cannabis –a phenomenon I couldn’t help but notice for three hours straight while attending my son’s Santa Barbara High School tennis team’s match against Carpinteria High School that month – I toured the city of Carpinteria with Peter Dugre, spokesman of CARP Growers, which represents licensed cannabis growers in the area. Driving

around town and down roads lined with greenhouses full of marijuana back then, I noticed the occasional smell of cannabis, but nothing as powerful as the dank stench that permeated the high school campus during my afternoon there.

On July 20, along with numerous other recipients, I received from Dugre a press release he sent on behalf of CARP Growers advertising the fact that the group had just donated $25,000 worth of community grants to local organizations. “Cannabis farmers in Carpinteria are supporting youth-serving organizations in an effort intended to make safe childcare available and affordable,” the release states, adding that the donations included “$21,000 for scholarships at Carpinteria Children’s Project and Girls Inc. of Carpinteria” as well as “$3,800 in support of extra expenses (including end-of-school posters and leis for graduating seniors) incurred at this year’s Carpinteria High School Graduation.”

Speaking of cannabis and Carpinteria High School, this week, I took a brief tour of the town with Russell Ruiz, a longtime Carpinteria resident and outspoken cannabis activist who’d sent me a lengthy and angry letter regarding my ongoing coverage of his town. “Neither the County nor the Courts are going to put property owners in Carpinteria who have made the vast investments in their farms, out of business,” Ruiz wrote me. “If the greenhouses went out of business, Carpinteria agricultural land would become some of the most sought after properties for residential development in Southern California. We cannot let that happen. I do not care if local farmers grow flowers for decoration or can-

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nabis for consumption (and) I know that non-farmers trying to tell farmers how to do their business is bound to failure.”

After lunch at Teddy’s by the Sea (during which I smelled burgers and ocean breeze but not cannabis), Ruiz and I caravanned around town. Just as he’d promised, while some odor was still noticeable in certain isolated areas along Craven and Foothill roads, it was generally absent, and nowhere was its absence more obvious to me

According to Carrillo, Assistant County CEO Melekian initially had told her that a parcel now being used as a parking lot for the CVS pharmacy on Coast Village Road was available for consideration. But when she followed up, Carrillo says a County staffer told her that the parcel was actually located within Santa Barbara city limits, and thus not within the area affected by Montecito’s community plan. Because the issue of Montecito not being included on the

“When you tell people you are from Santa Barbara, everybody all over the world knows where it is and what it represents,” said another Carpinteria resident. “Santa Barbara’s brand is beautiful beaches, amazing mountain views, wonderful food and wine, and a prosperous lifestyle attracting all kinds of creative people from Hollywood as well as artists, writers, and thinkers. With all that, why are we turning Santa Barbara into a place that will be known only as the land of marijuana?”

– especially given my last experience there – than at the high school. So, for the record – and in anticipation of any further letters from folks who don’t happen to live across the street from a marijuana farm – the Journal can confirm that at least to a casual tourist on a random visit, Carpinteria and particularly its high school seem to smell just fine.

Montecito’s Missing Dispensary

As the Journal reported last week, Montecito is noticeably not on the list of communities that are being considered for new storefront cannabis dispensaries by County planners.

Controversy over the town’s absence on this list has been building for months, ever since supervisors first announced that any area with its own community plan would be asked to participate in discussions over where new dispensaries would be located.

Anna Carrillo, a Carpinteria resident who has been following the debate in her city, says she first brought up the question about why Montecito was being excluded from consideration during the public comment session of County Supervisor meetings as early as late last year. “I brought it up in December and again in January,” she said, adding that Lisa Plowman, the County’s Director of Planning and Development, had also raised the issue with the Board but that nobody had acted on it.

“Since they were considering one for Summerland and Toro Canyon, I wondered why they weren’t also including Montecito,” Carrillo said.

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list of communities eligible for dispensaries kept coming up at neighborhood meetings in Carpinteria and Goleta, among others, Carrillo followed up with a July 15 email to Plowman asking for an explanation as to whether the CVS location was or was not eligible.

Plowman responded to Carrillo that same day, saying that the lot was in fact zoned in such a way that made it eligible, despite rumors to the contrary. “The lot is currently used for parking,” she said. “I did raise this information at the Board and they chose not to include [in] the Montecito Plan area. I will ensure the staff is aware of this parcel and its zoning designation.” The Journal followed up with Supervisor Das Williams, asking him if he could clarify why Montecito wasn’t being considered for a dispensary. “According to Planning & Development staff,” he answered via a text message, “no site in the limited amount of commercial, outside the school buffer, has the correct zoning.”

It will still be several weeks before Supervisors decide where to place additional cannabis dispensaries.

That’s when Melekian will present his findings to the board. While Carpinteria residents are hoping that any dispensary serving their area will be located as far away as possible in Summerland, they’ve given up hope that Montecito might have been included in the contest. “I consider the whole Montecito question a dead horse,” Carrillo concluded. “Of course, everybody becomes interested in cannabis once it’s in their backyard.

If it’s away from everybody, nobody would have any concerns.”

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Your Westmont

by Scott Craig (photography by Brad Elliott) Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

New Director Focused to Reduce Risk

J

ason Tavarez joined the Westmont community as director of institutional resilience in February 2020 and almost immediately began working to protect the college from the dangers of COVID-19.

“My biggest concern has been keeping the coronavirus off our campus and doing everything we can, as a community, to keep our remaining students and employees safe and COVID-19 free,” he says.

“My main course of action has been leading our Situation Readiness and Response Team and providing updates to prepare for the return of students to campus. Governor Newsom’s six-part plan to re-open California has provided a glimmer of hope, but as we gear up for the fall, we’re taking into account that the virus may still be threatening us all.”

“Jason jumped into the role,” says Doug Jones, Westmont vice president for finance. “Important conversations with the Global Travel

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gency management department; it’s acknowledged nationally as a gold standard for colleges and universities,” Tavarez says. “The development of this program, the support of Westmont’s leaders, and the ability to create a team made this position enticing.”

‘Matter + Spirit’ Explores Chinese Art Scene

Jason Tavarez is the new director of institutional resilience

Advisory Group about current and upcoming international trips, coordination of the annual property and liability insurance renewal process, and a weekend in Ensenada with the Potter ’s Clay core team are just a few of the important things that filled his first few weeks.”

When Tavarez arrived, he began updating the college’s pandemic plan and preparing for the fast-spreading coronavirus. “I also sent out travel surveys for students and employees as well as additional safety information for COVID-19,” he says.

During Potter ’s Clay, Westmont’s annual service trip to Mexico, he researched the virus spread daily while in Ensenada, reviewing survey results and seeing how other schools were responding to the pandemic. “By midweek, I was able to participate on a call with the executive team and discuss what Westmont could do. They decided to move to remote learning and get students off campus,” he says.

Tavarez has been coordinating Westmont’s COVID-19 response with Santa Barbara County’s “Stronger Together – Safely Apart” campaign.

Previously, he served as risk manager at Azusa Pacific University. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin before moving to California to earn a law degree from the University of La Verne College of Law. Tavarez takes over for Troy Harris ’74, who worked at Westmont for 23 years before retiring. “Troy has created an amazing risk and emer-

The Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum, which remains closed to in-person visits due to COVID-19, offers an online exhibition, “Matter + Spirit: A Chinese/American Exhibition,” which reflects on the perennial tensions between the material and the spiritual in human life and in society, through August 15 at westmont.edu/museum/mat ter-spirit. The exhibition is a product of a gathering in China of North American art professors with their Chinese counterparts in June 2018.

The works in “Matter + Spirit” represent this encounter, its conversations and what was summoned by the artists’ interactions – with China, with the arts scene there and with each other.

“Though we are sad we cannot have ‘Matter + Spirit’ physically in the museum, we are excited for visitors to get to experience this exhibition virtually,” says Judy R. Larson, R. Anthony Askew professor of art history and museum director. “The dialogue and interaction between these artists connects their cultures and religion to a commentary on how materiality and spirituality are both intertwined yet separate.”

The exhibition includes several photos, artifacts and a video, “Digging a Hole to China” by Meagan Stirling, Westmont assistant professor of art. “We all followed Meagan as she performed her artwork,” Larson says, “so it is great to see how her project came together and to experience it in context.”

Chinese contemporary art has swept onto the international art scene and is, without question, a leading cultural force. As late as 1990 there were no private art galleries in Beijing. But 20 years later, there were 300 galleries in the capital, energized by the social space that opened up in Chinese society between the state and the market. These forerunners focused on the effects of rapid social change and cultural globalization in China, laying the foundation for the vital and rapidly evolving cultural landscape we see today.

This project is the third of its kind; two prior projects were undertaken in Indonesia in 2008 and in South Africa in 2013. The ensuing exhibits, “Charis: Boundary Crossings (2009-

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Leah Samuelson’s “Real Dragon 1,” wire, plaster, stone and wood mosaic, sea spines (2018)

2013)” and “Between the Shadow & the Light (2014-2018)” drew a total of 25,000 visitors as they traveled to more than 30 venues across North America.

The Nagel Institute, the Lilly Fellows Program, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities and Taylor University cosponsor the exhibition.

Revitalizing the Ethnic Studies Minor

Westmont’s ethnic studies minor, which enables students to examine the cultural, historical, political, and social dimensions of a variety of racial and ethnic groups, has been revitalized. During the past academic year, several professors reviewed the former curriculum and developed a new portfolio of courses to be launched in fall 2020. A new introductory seminar will be part of the revised program.

The minor equips students to engage and lead faithfully in our diverse world. It explores issues of race, equity, and ethnicity within the context of Christian understandings of human flourishing. “I’m very pleased this has been such a collaborative endeavor by faculty from many departments,” says Provost Mark Sargent. “Reshaping the minor has been a joint effort by some of our veteran faculty and several of our younger scholars. I believe the minor will appeal to many students who are interested in probing questions of race, history, culture, and justice.”

Westmont’s Academic Senate approved the minor after working with a faculty task force on the final refinements to the proposal. The curriculum draws on classes in anthropology, education, English, history, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and theatre. Other departments – such as political science and biology – are considering contributing courses to the elective options. •MJ 23 – 30 July 2020

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us is a large rose window resembling those found in European churches.

This sounds like quite a hodge podge of various art and religions all mixed together and yet somehow it is totally pleasing to the eye.

Now we walk into the Loggia which is an indoor, outdoor walkway often seen in castles. That’s how the birds enter. The walls are very thick and appear strong. In reality they are hollow and held together with lathe and plaster. Reminding one of a movie set – just a façade.

The Loggia looks over the Santa Ynez Mountains which go up to 4,000 feet. We had snow on them once this winter. In front of us is the old jail wing. When the Courthouse was built there was room for 140 inmates.

The first floor was for the sheriff’s offices (and still is). The second was for the jailor and his family. The third floor housed women. The fourth was for men and the fifth for exercise. At the very top is a tower with two cells for solitary confinement. The cells resemble those at Alcatraz having been built at the same time. In 1971 a new jail facility was built in Goleta and this one closed. Now it is mostly used for storage. The architecture of the outer jail wall is a study in asymmetry. There are four different roof lines on the wing and many types of windows spaced all over the place.

Below us is the Sunken Garden, Santa Barbara’s outdoor auditorium.

As many of you know all kinds of events are held here. Especially weddings. The steps are used for a stage during Fiesta in August and filled with Flamenco dancing and mariachis. Summer finds folks sitting on the lawn watching movies. There are concerts with most of the events free.

As we walk on we come to the Rotunda with its circular indoor, outdoor stairway. The 16 columns supporting the stairway are decorated with a design of acanthus leaves which mean immortality and done

by Smeraldi. At the base of the stairway is a bronze medallion given by the Native Sons of the Golden West. The brown bear (a California symbol) is encircled by the dedication date of August 14, 1929. The

Native Sons mixed sand and gravel from various counties representing natural resources of California with cement mix from various factories, representing industry and water from some of the 21 missions representing tradition. If one stands on the medallion, it is said you touch many parts of the Golden State.

The two original courtrooms are on this floor. Now there are six and a total of 13 in the neighborhood. In this wing hang five Theodore Van Cina paintings (a sixth smaller one hangs on the first floor portraying Fiesta in front of the Courthouse).

The first is The Burial of Governor Jose Figueroa, governor of California during the Mexican period. He is buried at the Santa Barbara Mission church. The next is another landing of Cabrillo in 1542. Third is the placing of the cross at the Presidio when Santa Barbara was founded on April 21, 1782. Presidio means fort in Spanish. To protect the citizens there were four in California: San Diego, Santa Barbara, Monterey, and San Francisco.

Midway down the Loggia we have the great doors. If you were a prominent Spaniard you would have large doors. The richer the larger. There was room for horses and coaches to enter. In case you just needed to go out for a simple errand there was the wicket doors (a door within a door).

Across the hall is the Law Library which holds 30,000 books. Judge Canfield donated them to start the law library in 1891 for the old courthouse. The Gothic ceiling is beautiful done by Smeraldi.

The fourth Van Cina is the Pirate Bouchard Pillaging the Rancho Refugio west of Town in 1818. The fifth painting may be the favorite, The Fandango.

It portrays the three-day wedding reception for Presidio Commandante Jose de la Guerra’s daughter Anita (age 15) to Alfred Robinson (age 29). We know all the details because a writer and sailor Richard Henry Dana was invited off a visiting ship and later wrote Two Years Before the Mast. This tome chronicled life in that era.

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The copper doors to the Hall of Records

back we pass the corner stone of the 1872 courthouse. Then you’ll see a tall gate that looks like metal but is really wood. Imposing for a castle but wouldn’t keep anyone out for long. It has a wicket door as well. Nearby is the entrance to the underground garage where the judges park. It was a big deal in its day when underground parking was rare.

Carved into the arch is an inscription in Latin, “Learn Justice From This Warning.” That’s for the benefit of the prisoners who pass from the jail to the courtrooms. They cross the Bridge of Sighs, copied from the larger one in Venice, Italy that crosses over a canal.

While looking up notice the turret at the corner of the tower. It was meant to look like a castle watchtower but there is no access – only for the birds. At the base is a knight’s head.

We don’t know whether he’s laughing or screaming.

Now we walk across the grass to the Hall of Records. The landscaping was designed by Ralph Stevens.

Pearl Chase (a mover and shaker for Santa Barbara) had five redwoods planted to honor the five members of the Board of Supervisors. In the 1940s Henry Bauernschmidt loved palms and introduced about 35 dif-

ferent species of them. There are over 70 species of plants on the grounds.

The Hall of Records has an impressive entrance with its 8-by-13-foot high doors. The design on 30 copper plates is done in repousse where they hammer the back side. There is a restored 45-foot skylight. It was a big issue on how to heat and cool a National Historic Landmark.

They installed a geothermal system to regulate interior water-based heat pumps. In 2003 the front lawn had 32 holes, 5 and 1/4 inches in diameter, 18 feet apart bored to a depth of 400 feet where the earth has a constant temperature of 69 to 70 degrees.

Circulating water in pipes is heated or cooled to that constant temperature. The water is then pumped up into an area in the basement where it can be heated up to 75 degrees or cooled down. Even if you don’t need a birth certificate or a marriage license, it’s worth a look. You’ll see a basket hanging down from the balcony on a rope. In the days before computers the clerks had to run up to copy the paperwork and down to return it. Voila! A rope and a basket solved that problem.

We’ll end our tour in my next column talking about the historical fountain and the clock tower.

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tor, Michael O’Donoghue. Kriegman’s career snowballed into writing and performing the first digital videos featured on SNL. He then went to the Comedy Channel, pre-Comedy Central, before landing at Nickelodeon for Clarissa.

His resumé reads like a novella with a diverse and impressive list of commercial art, including Saturday Night Live, two Emmys and a Director’s Guild Award for Bear in a Big Blue House, and an Emmy for The Book of Pooh to name a few. Though his video art took off, his love of writing remained and after submitting 21 stories to The New Yorker to no response, they finally published number 22.

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UCSB Gives Mitchell Kriegman’s Film Archive a Home

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wonder if this is the right size for the twerp,” Clarissa Darling says, unfolding a longsleeved garment with ties at the cuff.

“This straight jacket… Ferguson, that little booger, is going to pay the price for ultimate humiliation.”

These lines are from the first episode of Clarissa Explains It All, the iconic Nickelodeon kids show running from 1991-1994. The main character, Clarissa, played by Melissa Joan Hart, became a role model for many Millennials born in the early eighties, a “Shero” created by Mitchell Kriegman. (Millennials may know his other work, such as the cartoons Ren & Stimpy Show, Rugrats, Doug, Rocko’s Modern Life, and Disney Channel hits such as Bear in the Big Blue House, The Book of Pooh, Life with Derek, and PBS’s It’s a Big, Big World.)

In that scene, Clarissa is plotting to use the jacket – outfitted with helium balloons – on her brother, Ferguson, in an attempt to be rid of him permanently.

That same straight jacket is a personal item of Mitchell’s, used in a video art performance 20 years earlier. In the video, a couple is arguing while the man wears the jacket with gaffer tape over his mouth, not able to respond as she complains. While years, characters, and context separate these projects, they connect through a recurring comedic intent to take a metaphorically dark and serious object or idea and turn it into comedy.

His first video and audio performances were made in a small studio in NYC and eventually displayed in the Whitney Museum of American Art and Kriegman would go on to great success, but like many artists, his first attempts at expression began with the familiar sting of rejection.

If at First, You Don’t Succeed

Born in Virginia, Kriegman attended Bennington College in Vermont in the first class of boys to attend, “which was fun,” he says with a laugh during our phone interview.

While in college, one of Kriegman’s professors, the Pulitzer and National Book Award winner Bernard Malamud, told him that he was such a terrible writer that his niece in nursery school could write better. Later, 23 – 30 July 2020

Mitchell’s second novel, a follow-up story to his ‘90s Nickelodeon hit, Clarissa Explains it All

nature, impassive performance evokes existential thoughts while making the corners of your lips curl up into a smile. Though comical, the video also acts as a time capsule, giving viewers an insight of the artist living in Soho, New York in the ‘70s.

Kriegman’s videos were eventually picked up for late-night programming and included in a controversial show called Mr. Mike’s Mondo Video created

by Saturday Night Live head writer and National Lampoon Magazine contribu-

Back to the Future

Circling back to Clarissa, how did a grown man learn to write an Emmy award-winning show for a 14-yearold girl? He learned from the best. At the time, Kriegman was married to an editor at Seventeen magazine and was busy writing “sensitive male” feature stories for Glamour and Harper’s Bazaar. He also credits celebrity talent booker Claire Connors and Clarissa costume designer Lisa Lederer.

“Lisa became a muse for Clarissa.

She just taught me so much about

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Video and performance artist, Mitchell Kriegman at a reading for his first novel, Being Audrey Hepburn

best-selling author Steven Becker chimed in, saying Kriegman had “no natural talent for writing.”

On the phone, silence lingers for a moment before Mitchell recounts how friends and family also discouraged his writing. He admits taking these criticisms to heart. But instead of giving up, he bought a Portapak camera and taught himself to shoot, write, and perform on film.

“I showed the performances to people, and they laughed at me, which was way better (than rejection),” Mitchell says. “So, that became the basis of a lot of my comedy.”

These one-man performances are amusingly deadpan.

Take, for example, The Reckless Sleepwalker (A Palindrome), wherein a narrator describes the inner thoughts of a man sleepwalking through breakfast and his commute to work. In the first scene, the man sits down for breakfast and mechanically smacks a full spoon to his mouth, leaving milk and cereal dripping down his chin.

The next scene flashes to the man now dressed, then walking down the street.

We follow him back to his studio, now in his pajamas, before laying on the couch surrounded by books while the narrator concludes the description of his hum-drum life.

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understanding women and clothing,” Mitchell says admiringly. “And once you sort of understand, the other aspects of the characters unfold for you.”

Kriegman also sought fashion advice from Lisa for his first novel, Being Audrey Hepburn, and used her as inspiration for his second novel, Things I Can’t Explain, the follow-up story of Clarissa in her twenties.

As you’d imagine, Melissa Joan Hart, the star of the show, was also a guiding light. “She imbued the character,” Mitchell says. “I knew that if I got in the ballpark of writing a good girl character, it would be fine because Melissa would perform it.”

In a field that often seems to reward, even demand, specialization, Kriegman’s path of pursuing writing, then jumping into video and audio performance art, and then making the leap to commercial work seems ridiculously inconsistent.

Others might say such creative curiosity is ridiculously important. The latter would include UCSB, where the Art, Design & Architecture Museum holds part of Mitchell’s legacy – an archive of video, performance art, and commercial work – while the Special Collections Library keeps the rest.

Kriegman says it’s a relief to see

Before his big break: Kriegman as a performance artist living in Soho, NYC

his entire career come together as a cohesive story. “I didn’t understand why (UCSB) wanted it in the beginning. I didn’t know that video art had endured, and I had forgotten about that stage of my life and my career,” he says. “I hadn’t realized how YouTube really is like video art.

(When I started), it was the beginning of the digital video world that we live in now, and (UCSB) realized there is a historical value to the work.”

David Seubert, Curator for the Performing Arts Collection at UCSB Library, is one of the experts who searched through Kriegman’s archives.

“One of the interesting things about television and entertainment collections is that a company almost always owns the content,” says Seubert, explaining that most archives are kept in corporate vaults and are less accessible to the public. “Mitchell happens to own his productions, which meant he kept his own archives.”

Kriegman’s “vault” was a potato barn in East Hampton, New York,

Mitchell on set with the star of Clarissa, Melissa Joan Hart

where, for half a day, researchers opened boxes to review various materials, like tapes and scripts. The entire collection was brought back to UCSB in November of 2019, and then fine-tooth combed to determine what would be in the archive.

“The principle goal is to preserve this historically interesting material and make it accessible to graduate students interested in the television of this period,” says Seubert. “It’s a perfect opportunity to write a thesis using materials that nobody’s had access to before. What makes graduate school exciting for people is data, to look into material that is brand new.”

Seubert believes Kriegman’s work could become incorporated into the curriculum as an example of the development of modern media, including outtakes and director’s cuts that aren’t found on YouTube.

Currently, Kriegman has projects in development with Hulu and Disney

and Montecito Journal readers are familiar with his contributions to this paper.

Kriegman sums up his career as, “the pursuit of perfection, never achieving it, but trying to create in all the forms, commercial or avant-garde.” The other thread, he says, is that variety is good. “Be willing to change and adapt your creative vision to other forms and be willing to take chances in different mediums.”

Early in his career, when Kriegman was directing, writing, and doing comedy, people would ask, “When are you going to decide what to do with your life?”

Turns out he had the answer all along. “What’s happened is that we all have to be eclectic,” he says. “We all have to take more roles in our work, which is essentially a paradigm change from the old days.” www.mitchellkriegman.com

•MJ

Puppeteers behind-thescenes of another hit show, The Book of Pooh

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“You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” – Steven Wright

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grounds in this very private setting that is just a few driveways up from Ladera Lane with direct access to shopping and dining on East Valley Road or into Summerland and the beaches down Toro Canyon Road.

The single-level main residence was recently renovated and features custom details and finishes. Vaulted open-beam ceilings, floors of terra cotta and wood, and an abundance of space and light are just some of the features this home offers.

The terrace hosts a pergola, pool, barbecue area and built-in fire pit, while the grounds provide a wealth of drought-tolerant landscaping, fruit trees, citrus orchards, raised planters and an array of beautiful flowers. Additionally, the versatile accessory structure (once the property’s original home) has its own driveway.

2049 Boundary Drive - $5,950,000 Guard Gated, Birnam Wood

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ompleted in 2019, this single-level French Country-style home is Birnam Wood’s newest showcase property. Designed by Michael L. Hurst, the residence represents the level of luxury and comfort for which Birnam Wood is renowned.

There are open-beam cathedral ceilings, wide-plank oak floors, and spacious bedrooms, each with spa-like baths en-suite. Many rooms of the home frame the 12th green of the community’s award-winning golf course. A dramatic great room opens to a veranda, just steps from the golf course, and serves as the perfect place for entertaining. Nearby, the spacious custom chef’s kitchen opens to the rear gardens.

The home rests on approximately 0.91-acres of majestic oaks and landscaping and homes within Birnam Wood are located within the Montecito Union School District.

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ositioned along San Ysidro Lane, between the Upper Village and the San Ysidro Ranch, this estate offers privacy and an A+ location, surrounded by other equally and more expensive homes. The open shaped lot (also .91 acres in size as is Boundary Drive), has been used well, accommodating the substantial main home, pool, driveways and yard areas.

The floor plan pairs dramatic volume with intimate spaces and en-suite bedrooms, while the kitchen/family room opens to a central courtyard and poolside terrace beyond. The main bedroom suite offers inspiring mountain views out over the private yard, and provides a peaceful oasis to begin and end your days.

Outside, a guest suite is perfect for visitors or as a home office. Additionally, this home is located within the Montecito Union School District.

For information on any of these listings or to have me arrange a showing with one of the listing agents, please contact me directly, Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text 805-698-2174. Please view my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

•MJ

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Palm Springs debuted on Hulu on July 10

Yale back East, lived in New York for a while and traveled Southeast Asia for six months – always with a camera in hand learning what it meant to distill life experience into filmmaking.

How have your short films led to Palm Springs?

It’s the most personal film I’ve made where all those shorts led up to because we were working on it and incubating it for a while. Everything I’ve made comes from a place of trying to do something that I could sink my teeth into emotionally, mess with form, subvert expectations of what a movie might be and surprise myself in the making of it. I want to entertain people but also make them feel something.

Making this movie was about digging deep and doing some personal inventory. And then engaging in a process that feels safe and creative where you’re not overthinking or turning on that critical voice. My process with Andy (Siara) started five years ago with a weekend trip to Palm Springs right after we graduated and then we sat in a room together trying to entertain each other and make each other laugh. It was about rediscovering my instincts after overthinking the craft for so long at film school,

Max Barbakow directs Andy Samberg during filming of Palm Springs

and not waiting for permission to make a movie as easily as it had been at school.

The way you handled the time loop was very smart in basically assuming that by now your audience knows how that works.

But I understand there were a lot of shifts in focus along the way.

The original version was a Jungian journey out in the desert on a weird dark version of a safari where he’d meet all these different characters along the way toward self-actualization. Just learning to be at peace with his pain and whatever kind of existential suffering that was. It was very abstract. Eventually he became a commitment phobe as his personal hell, so having to live the same day over and over again at a wedding was a perfect place to start... But almost everything in the movie has roots in those first passes we came up with.

What’s also a lot of fun are the way movies that influenced you as a filmmaker show up on the screen in Palm Springs.

Can you share some of those?

Andy and I first bonded in film school over Eastbound and Down and the way that show can kind of switch from moment to moment and within scenes from being very funny to

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heart-wrenching and tragic, very moving and laughing in the same breath. We wanted our characters to use their toxicity as a self-defense mechanism against their own vulnerability in a way that you can still care for them. With our time loop structure, it became about kind of creating these little short vignettes that leaned into different genres that we love.

So we had our Saving Private Ryan moment with the beer cans shooting through the pool and a Zero Dark Thirty moment where Roy is torturing Nyles… Then there’s Punch Drunk Love and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, great offbeat love stories. But mostly it’s just about our friendship and the writing of it and trying to make each other laugh and feel stuff together.

Andy Samberg is just great. How did he influence the movie?

Once we met with him it was obvious that he was the perfect guy for the role, maybe the only actor who could do it. I think one of the reasons he wanted to play Nyles – and he doesn’t say yes to a lot of offers – is that he knew he was capable of it. I truly think he’s a special performer who can do so much more than what you’ve seen in his comedies. He saw the movie the same way we did, and having him as a producer and actor, he was able to protect that throughout.

The film has a singular tone that you are able to maintain even when subthemes enter such as existential questions, nihilism, magical realism, and more. That seems like quite an accomplishment to cram all those things in there in a way that’s really fun.

I’m glad you feel that. I think that it comes from the fondness that I have

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’” – Sydney J. Harris

for those characters. It was always about creating a grounded human story where we can journey with them throughout their predicament. Even with all their contradictions and messiness, they are the engine of the film through all the craziness that they navigate. It’s awesome that you got that.

Not to offer spoilers (and please stop reading if you haven’t seen the film yet) but there’s something of a less-than-idyllic ending in terms of they’re still doing the same thing even though they’re out of the loop. And, um, dinosaurs?

We shot a lot of different endings because the goal was always to create something that was ambiguous so that people would be able to see it different ways. It holds a mirror up to what an audience member is bringing, whether they’re cynical or hopeful, and how they feel about their relationships. We also wanted to button up the three main flavors of the movie – the romance, the nihilism and the sci-fi – and have them feel complete… Everybody who worked on it thinks different things about the ending, although there are (clues) that will point you in the right direction. But there’s no question about the dinosaurs – they are definitely real. Andy and I are both big Jurassic Park fans, but it was even more about wanting to visualize and symbolize what love feels like, which is something totally transcendent and impossible for those two characters. But it becomes possible, which is what the dinosaurs are.

The film has received strong reviews everywhere, and registered a hard-toachieve “universal acclaim” at Metacritic.

I’m imagining that’s been rewarding.

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fied by the response. I love that people are engaging with it in a sincere and fun way and getting all the things out of it that we put into it. Obviously we would have loved to play theaters, but I think we’ve still been able to make a cultural ripple on Hulu. And I could argue that being available for streaming during this moment that’s so surreal when our minds seemingly resonate with it might actually have helped.

Palm Springs hit Hulu during this stage of the pandemic where we’re back on near-lockdown, which almost feels like a real-life time loop, maybe reflecting the line from the movie about “Yesterday, today, and tomorrow” all being the same.

Yeah, the movie was born out of a similar confusing moment in 2016, where the world shifted seismically with (the election) of Trump. So maybe it was always destined to validate another strange moment. But in another sense, the movie gods were on our side and maybe, in a similar way, they’re thinking about now by giving us this kind of framework to bring the movie out into the world with them… The whole thing started from a very personal place and was about having the courage of our own peculiarities. So it’s gratifying to be able to take that approach and have it pay off as people identify with it.

It makes me feel less alone. And I think it’s made other people feel less alone, too.

SBIFF Film Talk

The Riviera Theatre is once again closed due to concerns about the spread of COVID-19, and online screenings of new arts films have also come to a close, or at least hasn’t ramped up again as the new closures aren’t in effect nationwide. So turning even more local, SBIFF has segued into a new online series of screenings and discussions between SBIFF programmers and filmmakers.

The series will focus at first on short films made by local directors and writers, with each weekly session featuring an online screening followed by a live virtual conversation with the filmmaker. Think of it as a localized twist of SBIFF’s wildly popular and influential Cinema Society screenings, which preview important upcoming films followed by Q&A sessions with directors, producers, writers and actors. SBIFF’s first installment of Film Talk takes place at 6 pm Thursday, July 23, with a discussion with Casey McGarry about his short documentary Grasshopper for Grandpa, which tells the story of the beloved restaurant and bar Jimmy’s Oriental Gardens and, through the tales of the popular watering hole, the history of Santa Barbara’s Chinatown. Visit https:// 23 – 30 July 2020

sbiff.org/filmtalk for the screening link and the registration page for the Zoom chat.

‘Night’-time in Iran

In other SBIFF-related news, psychological thriller The Night has received a license for theatrical release in Iran, serving as a historic benchmark for the country’s filmmaking community as it is the first U.S.-produced film to receive such permission since the revolution more than 40 years ago.

Why that matters in our little berg is that The Night – which marks Kourosh Ahari’s feature directorial debut – made its world premiere at Santa Barbara International Film Festival in January. RogerEbert.com’s review said the movie “managed to unnerve me with its remarkable evocation of Kubrickian horror, an aesthetic that has eluded countless imitators.”

The movie was shot stateside but employed a diverse cast and crew made up of predominantly Iranian immigrants who are legal citizens or green card holders, or U.S.-born Iranian-Americans. All of the department heads were also Iranian or of Iranian descent.

The thriller stars Shahab Hosseini (Cannes 2016 Best Actor winner for The Salesman) and Niousha Jafarian (Here and Now) as an Iranian couple who find themselves locked inside an old hotel with their one-year-old daughter. As they try to cope with the creepy facility, an outside force pushes them to share the secrets they’ve hidden from each other. Whether they are able to leave depends on how carefully they question everything and anyone that comes across their path, perhaps echoing our strange times.

Although The Night has earned a 7.2/10 rating on IMDB.com, there’s still no U.S. distribution, but as cinemas in Iran are beginning to open despite increasing problems with the coronavirus pandemic, the film is looking to debut theatrically over there, perhaps bridging challenging political relations between the two countries.

Let’s See Two!

A baseball-themed double-header screens next in the UCSB Arts & Lectures free Summer Cinema series dubbed “Game On! Grit, Grace & Glory – Movies Under the Stars in Your Cars,” on Wednesday, July 29, at the West Wind Drive-In. At 8:30 pm, you can slide on down in your car’s front seat or folding chair to watch 42, the biopic about Jackie Robinson, who broke baseball’s racial barrier to become the first African-American Major League player in 1947. The film – titled after the star’s uniform number, which is the only one that has been retired across all teams – follows Robinson’s trials and tribulations as he

joins the Brooklyn Dodgers under legendary team manager Branch Rickey, played by Harrison Ford. Race relations in the sport have come under fire again during the current post-George Floyd situation, making Robinson, portrayed here by Chadwick Boseman, an even more pivotal character.

Then, if your coping-with-COVID plans allow for late nights, stick around for the 10:45 pm screening of arguably the best baseball movie of all-time, the tear-evoking Field of Dreams, starring Kevin Costner as Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella, who builds a baseball field on his spread, drawing the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. If you screen it, they will come.

The drive-in’s socially-distanced parking rules allow room to put chairs in front of your car, although filmgoers should wear masks and maintain a distance of six feet from others when outside of their own space.

The series comes to a close with Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, the doc about the then-13-year-old Bethany Hamilton, who lost her left arm to a 15-foot tiger shark but returned to the competitive circuit just a year later, which screens on August 5. Visit https://artsandlectures.ucsb.edu.

Personal Stories Perpetuates in Cyberspace

Despite complications from COVID19, Personal Stories, Center Stage Theater’s popular series that features local authors and actors performing true first-person stories drawn from their own lives never actually went on hiatus. Sure, the PS performances were put on hold, but auditions and coaching continued in hopes that the theater would soon be reopening post-pandemic. Now that the virus’ increasing spread has pushed things back, Personal Stories has, like so many other entertainment endeavors, moved online.

There are, so far, five video offerings, each comprising four or five stories – with topics as up to date as online dating in the pandemic – performed by actors on stage at the black box theater, filmed COVID-safely without an audience. They can be viewed at will through August 31 over Vimeo, with the link and password provided for a minimum $10 contribution to help the theater survive going dark for, so far, more than four months. Three are already viewable, while Installment No. 4 is set to debut on July 27, and features nonfiction stories by Peter Fox, Laurie Lindop, Meredith McMinn, Marylove Thralls, and Susan Keller, the Montecito resident who is the founder/artistic director of Santa Barbara Revels. August 3 brings Group 5, with true tales from Lisa

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Gates, Leslie Paxton, Linda StewartOaten, and Jonathan Young.

CST is also planning videos of other events due later August and September, including live dance and theater performances that will also be filmed at the theater sans audiences and following the Film/Video/ Music production guidelines. They’ll also be viewable via pay-per-view through the website. Visit www.

CenterStageTheater.org.

Pandemic Precipitates New Podcast

Speaking of stories, the Santa Barbara Public Library is launching its own virtual archive of aural adventures via a new podcast called Cover to Cover. Hosted by Norma Cervantes and Jace Turner – a library administrator and its Community Relations Librarian, respectively – the podcast is set to explore the spirit of Santa Barbara through the voices, stories, and personalities of the greater community.

The premiere episode features Jason Harris, Santa Barbara’s first Economic Development Manager, who talks about his early impressions of Santa Barbara, the vitality of the closed-totraffic State Street during the pandemic, spending weekends on the Westside, and which books reside by his bedside.

Listen on Spotify or iTunes.

•MJ

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Opening in the midst of a pandemic has been far from easy, with recent restrictions calling for the closure of all interior dining. For now, Chiarappa and his team will make do with tables on the patio, sidewalk, and in the parklet, which features a bar-style seating arrangement. We’ll have more about the opening, as well as the Cora’s culinary contributions, in next week’s edition.

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1/9 Debris Flow Rebuilding Updates

Construction concluded last week on a long-awaited repair following the 1/9 debris flow: a temporary bridge at the Cold Spring Trailhead

Dargel reported that 12% of impacted property owners have had no contact with the County, with Case Managers attempting multiple times to get in touch. There has not been a timeframe set for requiring owners to repair their properties. “Our primary focus has been on recovery,” said MPC secretary Jeff Wilson.

Seven properties are currently pending sale, but Dargel, when asked, said it’s unclear if those properties are the seven remaining properties on Randall Road, which are being bought by the County in order to build a debris basin.

The County gives a quarterly presentation to the Montecito Planning Commission regarding the rebuilding process. For more information, visit www.countyofsb.org.

Montecito Firefighters Donate AEDs More signs of recovery: a like-for-like rebuild on Hot Springs Road across from Casa Dorinda has story poles showing the height and volume of the proposed 3,200-sq-ft home, a detached garage, and a new second-story accessory dwelling. The currently vacant one-acre property, which was destroyed in the 1/9 debris flow, was sold in November 2019 for $700,000.

that connects East Mountain Drive.

Construction began in June to replace the bridge, and was paid for by settlement funds from Southern California Edison. The bridge will remain in place for approximately three years

A temporary bridge on East Mountain Drive at the Cold Spring Trailhead has just been completed, adding a valuable connector for emergency vehicles, residents, and bicyclists

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until a permanent bridge can be built.

The bridge project was part of a larger repair project on areas affected by the Thomas Fire and 1/9 debris flow, including 28 miles of road on portions of Montecito streets including East Mountain Drive, Brooktree Road, Irvine Lane, Riven Rock Road, Ashley Road, San Ysidro Road, Hot Springs Road, Bella Vista Drive, Romero Canyon Road, Lilac Drive, Alisos Drive, Veloz Drive, Piedras Drive, Oak Grove Drive, and Park Lane. Nearly $6 million in Southern California Edison Settlement Funds is paying for the road repair ($5.7 million) and bridge replacement ($230,000).

The bridge is considered a key connector for both emergency personnel, nearby residents, and bicyclists.

In other rebuilding news, a progress report on the residential rebuilding following the 1/9 debris flow was given to the Montecito Planning Commission at a hearing last week.

Supervising planner Joe Dargel reported that of the 631 dwelling structures impacted by the devastating mudflow, only 73 – broken down into 39 dwelling structures, 20 accessory structures, and 14 commercial structures – remain “red-tagged” and uninhabitable. There have been 66 “like-for-like” permit exemptions submitted, with 47 of those approved.

Additionally, 182 “over-the-counter” permits have been approved.

There have 112 larger building permits applied for, with 102 of those approved. The remaining 10 are still in the permitting process.

“The world is a globe. The farther you sail, the closer to home you are.” – Terry Pratchett

The Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundation (MFCF) has donated two Automated External Defibrillator (AED) machines and response kits to Girls Inc. of Carpinteria.

AED machines are portable, life-saving devices designed to treat people experiencing sudden cardiac arrest.

According to the FDA, the combination of CPR and early defibrillation is effective in saving lives when used in the first few minutes following collapse from sudden cardiac arrest.

“With so many lives entrusted on our campus daily, we are dedicated to ensuring all the necessary tools and equipment are available, if ever needed,” said Jamie Collins, executive director of Girls Inc. of Carpinteria.

“We are grateful to the Montecito

Montecito firefighters Shawn Whilt and Aaron Briner pose for a photo with one of two new AED machines at Girls Inc. Carpinteria

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The Webster, a luxury multi-brand retailer, has opened at the Rosewood Miramar Resort

Firefighters Charitable Foundation for outfitting our campus with these two machines and additional equipment that can be utilized as a lifesaving resource for our community.”

The donated equipment from MFCF includes two Defibtech Lifeline AED machines, two alarmed wall-mounted boxes to house the equipment, two sets of pediatric defibrillation pads, two Curaplex Red Response kits, and two Curaplex Stop the Bleed basic kits. The Montecito Firefighters Charitable Foundation provides relief to underprivileged, disaster victims, and those facing emergency hardship situations, specifically as related to children, firefighters and their families, and burn victims and their families.

Girls Inc. of Carpinteria serves more than 1,100 youth between the ages of 4 to 18 annually. During the school year, the nonprofit’s facility is also home to The Howard School during the day. To learn more about Girls Inc. of Carpinteria, please visit www.girlsinc-carp.org.

The Webster Opens at Rosewood Miramar

Last week, the Rosewood Miramar Beach welcomed a new retailer to its grounds: The Webster, a luxury multi-brand retailer opened its first permanent boutique within a hotel property. The store was designed by the creative director of The Webster Home, Stéphane Parmentier.

The 500-sq-ft storefront has elements of both “femininity and brutalist design,” with clothing that is displayed as if it is levitating around a large onyx meteorite at the center of the store. The Webster offers ready-to-wear attire, fine jewelry and watches, accessories and resort wear from designers Alanui, AG Tricots, Azlee, ATP, Bottega Veneta, Celine, Chanel, Chloé, Christian 23 – 30 July 2020

Dior, CVC Stones, Elder Statesman, Eva Fehren, Fendi, Galvan, Khaite, LHD, Lisa Marie Fernandez, Loewe, Nina Runsdorf, Proenza Schouler, Rosie Assoulin, Rosa De La Cruz, and Shay.

“I am beyond excited for this new departure for The Webster. Opening at Miramar is such a perfect pairing for our brand because of our aligned approach to offer our clients destinations where time stops and acts as a luxurious escape,” said Laure Heriard Dubreuil, The Webster’s Founder and Creative Director. “I started The Webster to create the ultimate retail experience in a lifestyle setting, so to venturing into having a boutique in a hotel is a natural extension for us. It is quite a feeling of kismet, as The Webster’s namesake stems from The Webster Hotel, a historical 1930s art deco building that is the original first location in South Beach.”

The Webster joins other retail outlets at the Resort a first-of-its-kind goop Sundries Shop as well as a new California-inspired concept store curated by designer James Perse.

“We are excited to welcome The Webster as the natural next step of our commitment to offering our guests the finest in luxury retail, tailored to suit their needs,” said Rosewood Miramar Beach owner Rick Caruso.

“We have become known for innovation in the shopping and hospitality space, and are looking forward to seamlessly integrating retail into the resort experience. We have found the perfect partner in Laure and The Webster – there is no one better to understand the needs and aesthetic desired by the local community and visitors alike.”

The Webster at Rosewood Miramar joins locations in South Beach, Bal Harbour, Houston, Costa Mesa, New York, and Los Angeles.

For more information, visit www. thewebster.us.

•MJ

the health dangers of tanning, and because we try to keep the MoJo light and breezy and lively, an editor chose to illustrate the “dangers of tanning” story with a photo of the bizarre internet meme known as “Tan Mom,” an habituée of the carnival sideshow that has become the center ring of our mass culture.

Tan Mom is a person who has the same importance and gravitas of, say, the Tiger King.

Tan Mom (real name Patricia Krentcil) earned her place in our meme-ory simply by over-tanning to an absurd extent; her initial burst of publicity came from not just her bizarro tanning addiction, but apparently taking her five-yearold to a tanning bed in New Jersey. At one point, Anderson Cooper did a story about Tan Mom and “what it all means” and the takeaway was, pretty much, nothing. Tan Mom made Anderson laugh, he wondered if he himself was “too white,” just some chuckles, and that was that. But that was 2012.

Fast forward to 2020, I was stunned that Tan Mom seemed to have somehow taken on racial meaning, at least for one reader who looked at the meme and saw it as “blackface.” Or at least blackface-adjacent. And I could tell by the tone of our reader’s email that she found it hurtful and shocking – just as I recoiled at her charges of racial insensitivity against the Journal that I did not feel were warranted.

Frankly, I was horrified but also a little incensed. Being the daughter of a holocaust survivor I’m certainly sensitive to the horrors of religious and racial insensitivities; and having been active in many social justice groups including Santa Barbara’s Human Rights Watch chapter, and, at UCLA, having organized one of the nation’s largest anti-Apartheid rallies, I had reason to believe I was an active antiracist. I grew up being outraged by the famous and oft relayed incident in my family of how my dark-skinned father (though white), while on his honeymoon in Miami Beach, Florida with my mom in 1957, had been refused service at a mostly empty coffeeshop. “We don’t serve your kind here,” he was told.

My husband joked that the incident went more like this: “You can’t come in, you’re Black.” Dad: “Actually I’m Jewish.” “Oh, then you really can’t come in.”

The letter I received upset me, so I reached out to a few trusted friends of color who find themselves at the center of this conversation to find out… did I somehow… miss it? Had I somehow, even inadvertently, been insensitive?

Circling back to blackface, my friend who teaches Black Studies at a major California university said this: “Blackface is done to imitate a Black person, usually to mimic so-called Black behavior to ridicule it. Extreme tanning is done to imitate dark skin color, without being seen or read as a Black person or person of color. In this case, the people end up in an in-betweenness, a disturbing middle ground where they are neither Black nor White but alien presence. They’re like an overly tinted windshield that once cited by the police has to be chucked. Both blackface and extreme tanning could be categorized under the title, The Psychopathology of Whiteness. Just to be clear, appearing in what is today called ‘whiteface,’ is not exactly the same as appearing in ‘blackface,’ since the latter has the history of sustained humiliation of Black people – Black actors had to don blackface in the late 19th century in order to perform on vaudeville stages as Black people! – that so-called ‘whiteface’ does not.”

Still, obviously, in this racially charged time, in the eight years since Tan Mom crash landed on our cultural landscape, our racial atmosphere has changed significantly. And, as we all know, sensitivities are running high. So, despite feeling rankled, I arranged a time to talk with the reader who had taken the time to write to me. I told her I never saw a connection between Tan Mom and blackface – though today I can see how that image could be a trigger for someone.

Like when I see a Hindu swastika that looks almost identical to a Nazi swastika (the Nazi symbol is tilted and the Hindu swastika has four dots inside).

As it turns out, the MoJo reader and I were able to have a productive conversation. She gave me the opportunity to speak my piece and vice versa. We talked instead of shouted. I think we both brought openness to our dialog rather than vitriol. Over the course of our conversation I learned about some of the hurtful experiences she has had as a person of color in Montecito. And it occurred to me as we were talking that it’s easy for me to say, “That’s ridiculous, you’re being overly sensitive.” Because as a white person living here, (or anywhere) I’ve never lived such hurtful, humiliating, perspective-altering experiences. I certainly feel more enlightened having talked with her. I’ve learned the only time it makes sense to fight fire with fire is if you want a lot of fire.

She and I will wind up having a Martini cocktail rather than Molotov cocktails.

The truth is times change. Tan Mom was an acceptable meme in 2012, but through the prism of our country’s racial fractures today, Tan Mom probably IS too close to blackface. Regardless of intention. The innocent, silly meme didn’t change but the zeitgeist did. Looking back, I wish we had chosen a more recognizable ludicrously tan person to illustrate our story on the dangers of tanning. Like John Boehner. Or George Hamilton. Maybe even our Tanner-In-Chief.

•MJ

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Notice Inviting Bids

PUBLIC NOTICE City of Santa Barbara NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara will receive a staff update on Tuesday, August 4, 2020, during the afternoon session of the meeting which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara and will be held via teleconference. The staff will update the Council on the status of the proposed amendments to the Historic Resources Ordinance.

BID NO. 5856 MANHOLE REHABILITATION PROJECT AT EL ESTERO WATER RESOURCE CENTER 1.

The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept electronic bids for its MANHOLE REHABILITATION PROJECT AT EL ESTERO WATER RESOURCE CENTER (“Project”), by or before TUESDAY AUGUST 18, 2020, at 3:00p.m. through its PlanetBids portal. Bidders must be registered on the City of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids™ portal in order to submit a Bid Proposal and to receive addendum notifications. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that their Bid Proposal is actually submitted/uploaded with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Large files may take more time to be submitted/uploaded to PlanetBids so plan accordingly. The receiving time at on PlanetBids’ server will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

There will be no Council action on this item as this is an informational item only.

You are invited to attend this public hearing and address your verbal comments to the City Council. Written comments are also welcome up to the time of the hearing, and should be addressed to the City Council via the City Clerk’s Office by sending them electronically to Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

In order to promote social distancing and prioritize the public’s health and well-being, the city council currently holds all meetings electronically. As a public health and safety precaution, the council chambers will not be open to the general public. Councilmembers and the public may participate electronically.

If any Addendum issued by the City is not acknowledged online by the Bidder, the PlanetBids System will prevent the Bidder from submitting a Bid Proposal. Bidders are responsible for obtaining all addenda from the City’s PlanetBids portal.

Bid results and awards will be available on PlanetBids.

2.

2.2 Time for Completion. The Project must be completed within 84 calendar days from the start date set forth in the Notice to Proceed from City Project Manager. City anticipates that the Work will begin on or about early September 2020, but the anticipated start date is provided solely for convenience and is neither certain nor binding.

2.3 Estimate. The estimate for this Project is $144,000.00

(SEAL)

2.4 Bidders’ Conference. A MANDATORY bidders’ conference will be held on Tuesday August 4, 2020 at 1:30 p.m., at the following location: El Estero Water Resource Center Conference Room, 520 E Yanonali St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. Bids will not be accepted or considered from parties that did not attend the mandatory pre-bid meeting. Bidders are responsible for bringing and wearing a face mask and following social distancing guidelines on-site.

3.

Published July 22, 2020 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Lightscapes by Spark Creative Group, 75 Robin Hill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. LBPS Events INC., 75 Robin Hill Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 15, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0001721. Published July 22, 29, August 5, 12, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Lucky Group, 2441 Calle Galicia, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Noel Lucky, 2441 Calle Galicia, Santa Barbara, CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 9, 2020.

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

FBN No. 2020-0001675. Published July 15, 22, 29, August 5, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Social Superstars, 827 State St., Suite 21, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Derren G Ohanian, 701 Grandview Ave, Ojai, CA 93023. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 30, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0001616.

Published July 8, 15, 22, 29, 2020.

ORDER TION

FOR OF

PUBLICASUMMONS:

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at El Estero Water Resource Center, 520 E Yanonali St, Santa Barbara, and is described as follows: Rehabilitation of four (4) corroded concrete manholes with polymer concrete inserts. Two manholes are within the El Ester Water Resource Center property and two are in the Collection system at the intersection of Oliver Road and El Camino De La Luz. Also included is the replacement of a water valve vault and appurtenances.

On Thursday, July 30, 2020, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, August 4, 2020, including the staff presentation to Council, will be available online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CAP. The Agenda includes instructions for participation in the meeting. If you wish to participate in the public hearing, please follow the instructions on the posted Agenda.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, MMC City Clerk Services Manager July 21, 2020

Bid Submission.

License and Registration Requirements.

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

CASE No. 20CV01391. Notice to Defendants: Samuel Choe, Jiale Zhu, and Does 1-20: You have been sued by Plaintiff: City of Santa Barbara. You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a response at the court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center, your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, as the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements, you may want to contact an attorney right away. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services. You can locate these non-profit groups online at www.lawhelpcalifornia.org, or by contacting your local court or county bar association. Name and address of the court: Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93121-1107. Filed March 11, 2020, by Elizabeth Spann, Deputy Clerk. Published July 1, 8, 15, 22.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bahama Bob’s Spa Service, 3620 Santa Maria Ln, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Melinda J Gerow, 3620 Santa Maria Ln, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 24, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0001558.

Published July 1, 8, 15, 22, 2020.

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3.2 DIR Registration. City may not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder is registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code § 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions 4.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=29959

5.

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

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

6.1 General. Pursuant to California Labor Code § 1720 et seq., this Project is subject to the prevailing wage requirements applicable to the locality in which the Work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of worker needed to perform the Work, including employer payments for health and welfare, pension, vacation, apprenticeship and similar purposes.

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project.

The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

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

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide separate performance and payment bonds for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount, as further specified in the Contract Documents.

8.

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

9.

Subcontractor List. Each subcontractor must be registered with the DIR to perform work on public projects. Each bidder must submit a complete Subcontractor List WITH ITS Bid Proposal through the PlanetBids portal. Failure to do will result in rejection of your bid. The Subcontractors List shall include the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price.

10.

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

11.

Retention Percentage. The percentage of retention that will be withheld from progress payments is five (5) percent.

By: _______________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

Date: ________________

Publication Date: 7/22/2020 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Limitless Services, 214 Reef Ct., Santa Barbara, CA 93109. Elizabeth L Smith, 214 Reef Ct., Santa Barbara, CA

93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 15, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0001481.

Published July 1, 8, 15, 22, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The fol-

lowing person(s) is/are doing business as: Good Neighbor Productions, 5008 Yaple Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Saulius E Urbonas, 5008 Yaple Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93111.

This statement was filed with the

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NOTICE OF PENDING ACTION BY DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO AMEND A CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT DATE OF THIS NOTICE: July 22, 2020 CASE NUMBER: 20AMD-00000-00004

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Average Unit-size Density Incentive Program

PROJECT NAME: Westmont College Conditions of Approval Amendment PROJECT APPLICANT: Westmont College PROJECT ADDRESS: 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108 ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NUMBER: APNs 013-080-007, 005, -004, 013-090-004, -041, 013-050-018, 013-060-004, 005, and -006 ZONE: 1-E-1 and 2-E-1 APPLICATION FILED: May 19, 2020 DATE OF PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR ACTION: On or after August 4, 2020 the Director of the Planning and Development Department intends to approve this Amendment to a Conditional Use Permit for the development described below, based upon the ability to make all of the required findings and subject to the attached terms and conditions.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The proposed project is for approval of an Amendment to a previously approved Conditional Use Permit (CUP), Case No. 90-CP-086 (as most recently revised by 14RVP-00000-00091), in compliance with Section 35.474.040.D (Changes to an Approved Project) of the Montecito Land Use and Development Code. The applicant is requesting to amend the approved CUP to permit a temporary increase in the maximum enrollment from 1,235 to 1,305 students studying at the Montecito campus for the 2020-2021 academic year to accommodate students that cannot be on off-campus programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The additional students can be accommodated in on-campus housing and permitted to live off-campus in accordance with the conditions of the approved CUP. No adjustment of the maximum cumulative average enrollment of 1,200 students, as conditioned in the approved CUP, is requested.

PUBLIC COMMENT: A public hearing will not be held on this matter. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to submit written testimony in support or opposition to the proposed project, 20AMD-00000-00004. All letters should be addressed to Planning and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, or droney@countyofsb.org, Attention: Delaney Roney, for Travis Seawards, Deputy Director, Planning and Development. Letters should be received in the office of the Planning and Development Department 24 hours prior to the date of Planning and Development Director Action identified above. For further information please contact Delaney Roney at 805-568-2033 or droney@countyofsb.org.

MATERIAL REVIEW: Staff analysis of the proposal may be reviewed at the Planning and Development Department a week prior to the date of Planning and Development Director Action identified above. Please contact Delaney Roney at 805-568-2033 or droney@countyofsb.org for access to this information.

APPEAL PERIOD ENDS: August 14, 2020 The final approval may be appealed to the Montecito Planning Commission by the applicant, owner, or any aggrieved person adversely affected by such decision. The appeal must be filed in writing and submitted with the appropriate appeal fees to the Planning and Development Department either at 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, prior to 5:00 p.m. on August 3, 2020.

CHALLENGES: If you challenge the project 20AMD-0000000004 in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised in written correspondence to the Planning and Development Department.

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County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 9, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0001421.

Published July 1, 8, 15, 22, 2020.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Regina’s Treatery, 545

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Toro Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Valley Heart Ranch, 545 Toro Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on June 19, 2020. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN No. 2020-0001528.

Published July 1, 8, 15, 22, 2020.

City Council Tuesday, July 28, 2:00 p.m.

The City Council of the City of Santa Barbara has set a public hearing for July 28, 2020, beginning at 2:00 p.m. to consider introduction and subsequent adoption of an ordinance for amendments to the Average Unit-Size Density Incentive Program Focused on the Central Business District. The proposed General Plan and Zoning Ordinance amendments include: amendments to increase maximum housing density in portions of the Central Business District; and changes to development standards for multi-unit residential development, including: building height, open yard, parking, and the program trial period.

By 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 23, 2020, an Agenda for the City Council hearing will be available online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilMeetings. For information, please email Jessica Metzger, AICP,

Project Planner, at JMetzger@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

City Council will receive and consider public comment and discuss the proposed General Plan and Zoning Ordinance amendments at this hearing. This hearing will be conducted electronically via the GoToWebinar platform, as described in more detail below.

IN ORDER TO PROMOTE SOCIAL DISTANCING AND PRIORITIZE THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ISSUED EXECUTIVE ORDER N29-20, WHICH ALLOWS THE CITY TO HOLD MEETINGS VIA TELECONFERENCES OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEETING FORMAT WHILE STILL MEETING THE STATE’S OPEN AND PUBLIC MEETING REQUIREMENTS. AS A PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY PRECAUTION, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WILL NOT BE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. COUNCIL MEMBERS MAY PARTICIPATE ELECTRONICALLY. THE CITY STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND WELCOMES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION DURING THIS TIME. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS: TELEVISION COVERAGE: This meeting will be broadcast live on City TV-Channel 18 and online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/citytv.

ELECTRONIC PARTICIPATION: Join the meeting electronically by clicking on the meeting link which will be found on the meeting agenda. You will be connected to audio using your computer’s microphone and speakers (VoIP). A headset is recommended. You can also select the option to use your telephone, but you must use the GoToWebinar software to interact with the meeting. Select “Use Telephone” after joining the webinar and call in using the numbers listed on the agenda that will be posted online.

Oral comments during a meeting may be made by electronic participation only.

PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDIZED ITEMS: Members of the public wishing to speak on this matter must “raise their hand” in the GoToWebinar platform by selecting the virtual hand icon during the presentation of that item. The “raise hand” icon is generally located on most devices in the upper right hand corner of the screen. When persons are called on to speak, their microphone will be activated and they will be notified to begin speaking. Each speaker will be given a total of 2 minutes to address the Council. Pooling of time is not permitted during meetings conducted electronically.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: If you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator's Office at (805) 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

INTERPRETACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL: Si necesita una interpretación del español al inglés, para sus

comunicaciones al Consejo, comuníquese con la Oficina del Secretario Municipal al 564-5309, o por correo electrónico a Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov. Si es posible, la notificación de al menos 48 horas

generalmente permitirá a la Ciudad hacer los arreglos.

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WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 26) The landmark nomination crew meets with Pastor Jeffery Clark in the sanctuary

Booker T. Washington) President Ednah Rich of the State Normal School invited Washington to come to Santa Barbara when she visited Tuskegee the previous year

Over time St. Paul A.M.E. expanded to include a parsonage, meeting hall and new sanctuary as seen on the Sanborn Fire Insurance map of 1929

well as building stones to be used in the structure. The contract for the work was let to Nathaniel F. Hill, an African American born in Georgia about 1853. Hill had brought his family to Santa Barbara sometime after 1900, and they became founding and lifelong members of the church.

Money needed to be raised to complete the edifice, however, and the members advertised an entertainment of music and recitations after which, stated the news article of August 1906, “A bounteous feast will be spread.

There will be chicken and lots of good things to eat.”

Unfortunately, several weeks later, Rev. S.L. Wright became ill and the bishop sent the Reverend Robert E. Arrington to replace him to complete the construction of the church. A native of Meridien, Mississippi, Arrington had obtained his religious training at the A.M.E. school in Ohio and had served at various towns throughout California for the previous 10 years.

Fundraising Dinners

More money was needed, but Arrington didn’t want to ask people to contribute outright to the cause. His plan was to offer an Old Fashioned Southern Dinner given by the women of the A.M.E. in a vacant store at 430 State Street in October. Once the newspaper published the menu, it’s doubtful anyone would have stayed away.

Arrington told the press, “A southern dinner is the sort of thing the fine colored cooks used to prepare for the great mansions on the southern plantations before the war. This particular dinner is to consist of chicken gumbo, baked chicken pie, ham and cabbage, sweet potato and squash pies, barbecued pork, baked sweet potatoes, and salad, – all for twenty-five cents, with

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Bishop Henry Blanton Park would dedicate the new church in 1916

Members of the A.M.E. church pose outside the Spanish style parsonage fronting Olive Street in 1926. Pearl Chase stands third from right on the porch. (Courtesy UCSB Library Special Research Collections)

St. Paul’s parishioners circa 2003 in the beautiful sanctuary with its angel mural (Courtesy St. Paul A.M.E.)

ice-cream and cake a little extra. The idea is to catch the palate of the white folks.”

The idea was an excellent one, for they came to the dinner in droves!

Santa Barbarans were no strangers to chicken dinners. In fact, starting in 1889, chicken dinners were the go-to Sunday meal, possibly because pious housewives insisted on keeping the Sabbath. Every restaurant in town offered Sunday chicken dinners.

Even French chef Lucien Abadie at his Delmonico Restaurant on State Street offered the choice of a French Chicken dinner (with velouté sauce) or a plain Chicken Dinner. At the Chriss Grill, one had a choice of roast chicken, fricassee chicken or stewed Spanish chicken. Both the Clairmont and Alhambra restaurants offered chicken dinners with all the fixin’s for 25 cents; and on Easter Sunday, Thayer’s restaurant added ice cream for an extra ten cents. Sundays were fairly clucking!

Throughout town, the churches used chicken dinners to raise funds. By 1898, the members of the Congregational church had become famous for their chicken pie dinners.

In 1902, the ladies of the Presbyterian church offered chicken pie, giblet sauce, mashed potatoes, baked beans,

cabbage salad, spiced oranges, and cake for 35 cents. Proceeds were applied to the pipe organ fund. And in 1914, the Lutheran ladies made a fine chicken dinner “just like mother used to make” for 35 cents. Dessert was included and featured old fashioned, juicy pies.

The fundraiser for the AME had been so successful, that the ladies of the church decided to hold another one in February 1907. The advertisement in the paper stated, “We hope the good people will not eat at home, and come and eat some of our southern dinner, cooked like mamma used to cook it.”

By now, the women of the A.M.E. had become savvy to the general perception that French cuisine was superior to any other. Feeling up to the job, since she worked as a cook for the Sawyer family in Montecito, Sidney DeBose’s bill of fare included “chicken gumbo soup à la New Orleans; salad; potato à la Mississippi; New England dinner à la Boston; old fashioned chicken pie à la Alabama; spare ribs of pork; sweet potatoes; corn bread à

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas A. Edison

la Georgia; hot biscuits; dessert, lemon pie (ice cream and cake 10 cents extra); coffee and creme à la Texas.”

Moving On

Having achieved success for Santa Barbara’s A.M.E. church, Rev. Arrington was called to another post for 1908, and the Rev. Thomas Benjamin Bynum presided in Santa Barbara for that year. Though the new church had been recently completed, it already needed repairs, so Mrs. Martha Thomas hosted a fundraiser at her home on Crandall Street (today’s Gray). This time the women of the church offered a bazaar selling “fancy work” made by the members of the church. The Morning Press reported, “Music floated in the air above the chatter of voices of the throng which filled the house. Gaily colored lanterns burned on the lawn in front of the house, lighting up the prettily decorated booths on the front porch.”

Between 1910 and 1915, there was little mention of the A.M.E. in the local papers, perhaps because a sec23 – 30 July 2020

Dorothy’s senior photo in the Olive and Gold yearbook.

Santa Barbara’s public schools and their organizations were not segregated.

Front elevation sketch by Robert Ooley, F.A.I.A., who coordinated the effort and wrote the nomination for St. Paul A.M.E.

ond church for African Americans had opened, Mount Olive Baptist Church on Gutierrez Street.

In 1914, Booker T. Washington came to town to speak at the newly built State Normal School. Located on the Riviera, this school would eventually become UCSB. In July the presiding elder of the A.M.E. church for the district came to Santa Barbara for the quarterly Concert held at the church.

In November, the church hosted a Thanksgiving concert with song, recitation, scripture reading, and instrumental duets.

Then, at the end of 1915, the church launched a building campaign. The congregation was not satisfied with its current building and wanted to erect one that would be “a greater credit to itself.” Their last event of the year in the old building was a whopper. The public was invited to Watch Night services on December 31st and to the 53rd anniversary celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1.

It was an extensive program, worthy of listing below because it demonstrates the passion, intelligence, talent, and sincerity of this group of African Americans who were forbidden from living in certain parts of town, forbidden by law from marrying outside their race (as were whites and Chinese), often denied an education, and limited in job opportunities. Some had been enslaved, most had parents who had been held in bondage. The program was as follows: Opening Chorus, “America” Invocation Song, “Lead Kindly Light” Emancipation Proclamation, L. C. Smith Solo, “The Holy City,” Mrs. Bessie Alexander Lincoln’s Speech at Gettysburg, Master Carl Echols Chorus, “Battle Hymn of the 23 – 30 July 2020

Republic” (1) “Progress of the Negro Race in 53 Years of Freedom,” Charles B. Dolton, D.D. pastor Grace M.E. church. (2) “Religious Advancement,” Wm. Green.

(3) “Intellectual Advancement,” Byron Conway (4) “Financial Advancement,” Thomas

Kinard.

Instrumental, “Nearer My God to Thee.” Transcription Brilliante,

by Mrs. Pearl Buckner and Masters Norris Hester and J.E. Cooper (grandson of G.E. Forney) The Negro Woman as a Factor in the advancement of her race, Mrs. L.C. Smith Quartet, L.C. Smith, Charles Echols, J.K. Payne, Thomas Kinard Closing remarks by Rev. J.A. Duncan.

The membership also passed a resolution endorsing Rev. J. Arthur Duncan’s plans for the erection of a new and modern church building and planned to appeal to the general public for help in this undertaking.

(Sources: Pastor Jeffery Clark of

St. Paul A.M.E. church, contemporary newspaper articles; https:// www.ame-church.com/our-church/ our-history/; letter from Anna L. (King) Gonzalez to Jessica Schley and transcribed by Roxanne Lapidus, Lilia Tuckerman’s granddaughters, plus author’s email communication with Anna. Scrapbook articles and notes belonging to Lilia Tuckerman and passed along by Roxanne; Deceased membership list from St. Paul A.M.E.; ancestry.com resources of censuses, slave schedules, voter registration lists, city directories, etc.; online historic newspaper resources; AME district website; Sanborn and other maps; Santa Barbara News-Press, 1992; Santa Barbara Magazine, Fall 1994, p 132; Dedication Service program, St. Paul African M.E. Church, January 20th, 1938) •MJ

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Planning Commission Hearing Thursday, August 6, 1:00 p.m.

The Planning Commission of the City of Santa Barbara will consider creation of a Mobilehome Park Overlay Zone on August 6, 2020, beginning at 1:00 p.m., which would limit the allowed uses in existing mobilehome parks to: mobilehomes, permanent recreational vehicles, and accessory uses, reducing the potential for loss of affordable housing in existing mobilehome parks.

By 5:00 p.m. on Thursday, July 30, 2020, an Agenda for the Planning Commission hearing will be available online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/PC. For information, please email Jessica Metzger, AICP, Project Planner, at JMetzger@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

Planning Commission will receive and consider public comment and discuss the proposed Zoning Ordinance amendments at this hearing. This hearing will be conducted electronically via the GoToWebinar platform, as described in more detail below.

IN ORDER TO PROMOTE SOCIAL DISTANCING AND PRIORITIZE THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ISSUED EXECUTIVE ORDER N29-20, WHICH ALLOWS THE CITY TO HOLD MEETINGS VIA TELECONFERENCES OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEETING FORMAT WHILE STILL MEETING THE STATE’S OPEN AND PUBLIC MEETING REQUIREMENTS. AS A PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY PRECAUTION, CITY MEETING ROOMS WILL NOT BE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. COMMISSION MEMBERS MAY PARTICIPATE ELECTRONICALLY. THE CITY STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND WELCOMES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION DURING THIS TIME. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS: TELEVISION COVERAGE: This meeting will be broadcast live on City TV-Channel 18 and online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/citytv.

ELECTRONIC PARTICIPATION: Join the meeting electronically by clicking on the meeting link which will be found on the meeting agenda. You will be connected to audio using your computer’s microphone and speakers (VoIP). A headset is recommended. You can also select the option to use your telephone, but you must use the GoToWebinar software to interact with the meeting. Select “Use Telephone” after joining the webinar and call in using the numbers listed on the agenda that will be posted online.

Oral comments during a meeting may be made by electronic participation only.

PUBLIC COMMENT ON AGENDIZED ITEMS: Members of the public wishing to speak on this matter must “raise their hand” in the GoToWebinar platform by selecting the virtual hand icon during the presentation of that item. The “raise hand” icon is generally located on most devices in the upper right hand corner of the screen. When persons are called on to speak, their microphone will be activated and they will be notified to begin speaking. Each speaker will be given a total of 2 minutes to address the Council. Pooling of time is not permitted during meetings conducted electronically.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: If you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator's Office at (805) 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

INTERPRETACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL: Si necesita una interpretación del español al inglés, para sus comunicaciones al Consejo, comuníquese con la Oficina del Secretario Municipal al 564-5309, o por correo electrónico a Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov. Si es posible, la notificación de al menos 48 horas generalmente permitirá a la Ciudad hacer los arreglos.

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NOSH TOWN SUMMER’S SAVORY MEATS & TASTY CRAFT BREWS

by Claudia Schou

THE SHALHOOBS’ SECRETS FOR SMOKIN’ SUMMER BARBECUES

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or some folks in the neighborhood around Shalhoob’s Funk Zone Patio, the aroma of burning white oak has the same tantalizing effect as a chuck wagon dinner bell.

If you love Santa Maria-style barbecue then you’ve come to the right place. Shalhoob’s hip outdoor barbecue joint is famous for its tasty ribs and sausage, served with a well-curated selection of home-style side dishes and easy-drinking I.P.A.s.

On a recent sunny day Shalhoob’s staff, equipped with face masks and gloves, busily assembled combo plates for carryout and delivered trays of smoked meats to meticulously spaced diners on the outdoor patio. Diners are content waiting, sometimes long periods, for a table. And there is no shortage of savory meat. Third-generation Santa Barbara siblings Leeandra (AKA Lily P) and LJ Shalhoob helm the popular restaurant, a family business. In recent years the duo have grown the family business to include an offsite catering outlet and a small-batch brew company.

Leeandra runs the butcher shop, LJ oversees the restaurant, and their father John operates its wholesale division. Grandfather Jerry Shalhoob, 77, retired a few years ago and took up windsurfing; he’s the restaurant’s landlord.

LJ Shalhoob honed his culinary chops in the cutting room and kitchen at Shalhoob Meat Company, founded by his grandfather as a butcher shop nearly a half century ago. He’s a rebel butcher and meat smoker who bucks conventional methods in favor of regional styles.

He credits his passion for meat smoking to years working alongside his dad and learning the nuances of flavor.

Shalhoob’s smoker is a sight to behold. It holds 250 pounds of meat; all the spareribs, pork shoulder, tri-tip, poultry and spicy beef hotlinks served at the restaurant start here and come out smoked to delicious perfection – fork tender and each bite peppery and bathed in savory drippings.

We checked in with LJ recently to discuss the secrets to his savory barbecue.

Q. What’s your take on Santa Maria-style barbecue?

A. I grew up eating regional Southern California barbecue with a Mexican influence. Our version of Santa Maria-style barbecue is more grill-oriented than traditional pits. First we smoke our meats using white oak wood then we grill them to get that crispy texture we all love in our barbecue. The meat rub is coarse and has a rustic texture. Our approach to meat rubs is unrefined granulated garlic, freshly ground pepper and turbinado natural brown sugar.

The result is tender meat texture and cooked-from-scratch flavor.

Which cuts do best on the grill?

Tenderloin, New York strip steak, ribeye, and porterhouse are great choices for juicy steaks.

A marinade tenderizes and infuses flavor into tougher cuts like tri-tip (my favorite), hanger steak, flank, flat iron, and skirt. These meats can be tender if sliced across the grain. Burgers, steaks, and kebabs should be grilled at a higher heat – 375 to 400 degrees [Fahrenheit] – and more rapidly. Ribs, brisket, and pork butt are cooked at a lower temperature – 225 to 250 degrees – for longer periods, up to five hours, to achieve the best flavor and texture.

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What’s your go-to summer marinade?

I always go simple and fresh for summer with salt, chili flakes, roasted garlic, lemon juice, olive oil, and – my secret ingredient – a dash of fish sauce.

Should barbecue be brined?

We brine our turkey breast and pork chops for 24 hours to keep them moist and delicious.

It’s as simple as it gets: 1 cup salt, 1 cup sugar, 1 gallon water, just enough to enhance the flavor. You can buy meat and brine it for a few days and have an amazing meal.

Any favorite summer sides?

Corn prepared elote style. At home we eat it on the cob, grilled and smothered in mayonnaise, lime juice, parmesan and Tajin. It doesn’t get any better. My sister Lily will always bring her delicious oven-baked mac and cheese. I can’t tell you how it’s made, she won’t give up the recipe – it’s her secret. [Editor’s Note: We twisted Lily’s arm, see her recipe below.]

Name your desert island grilling tool?

The meat fork, not sure there is even a second or third place after that.

Can you steer us to a tasty pairing with Shalhoob’s new craft beer selection?

Our tri-tip is seasoned, tenderized, and grilled in a salty, buttery marinade, and pairs well with our Mexican-style lager. We also offer IPA, blonde, and pilsner on tap or sold canned, on-site or at local retail stores.

Care to share the soundtrack to your grilling?

Zapp & Rodger LJ’S BBQ RUB: YIELDS 6 CUPS Ingredients: 2 cups brown sugar 2 cups salt 1 cup hot smoked paprika 3 tbs. garlic granules 3 1/2 tbs. onion granules 3 tbs. cayenne pepper

3 tbs. cumin seed (toasted and ground) 5 tbs. black peppercorns (toasted and ground) 5 tsps. celery salt

Directions: 1. Mix everything together in a bowl.

2. Store in an air-tight container in your pantry. Stays fresh for up to one month.

LILY’S MAC & CHEESE: SERVES 4-6 Ingredients: 1 egg 3 oz. cream cheese (softened) 4 oz. sour cream 1/3 cup heavy whipping cream 1 tbs. salt 1 tbs. olive oil

1 1/4 pound bag large elbow macaroni 3 oz. edam (shredded) 3 oz. gouda (shredded) 5 oz. sharp cheddar (shredded) 5 oz. colby jack (shredded) 5 oz. havarti (shredded)

Directions: 1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. In a large bowl mix the egg, cream cheese, sour cream, and heavy whipping cream and mix well with a whisk. Set aside.

3. Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat and add the salt and olive oil. Boil the pasta for six to seven minutes until al dente (just tender) and strain.

4. Place the boiled pasta in a Dutch oven over medium heat.

5. Add the egg mixture and stir constantly until warm.

6. Add the shredded cheeses, stirring continually, until all the cheese has melted.

7. Transfer the mixture to a large baking dish and bake in the oven for 45 minutes, rotating the dish halfway through the cooking process until top and corners are golden brown. If needed, bake for an additional 10 minutes.

8. Remove and let sit for 15 to 20 minutes before serving.

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Twenty Years Behind the Mast

Santa Barbara Maritime Museum celebrates a milestone and sails into the future

by Greg Gorga Greg Gorga is the Executive Director of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum

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ack in 1994, a small group of divers, fishermen, and sailors began meeting at the Santa Barbara Yacht Club and the Breakwater Restaurant to start planning a museum that would “present and interpret the rich and diverse maritime history of the Santa Barbara Channel.” Then, on October 3, 1994, the five founding directors – Clyde E. Kirkpatrick, Robert B. Kieding, Frederick Rice, Leon A. Fleischer, and John S. Poucher – signed the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (SBMM) incorporation charter in the State of California.

These original directors, along with others chosen to head up various committees – John Cahill, Thomas Fuller, Miriam Polne-Fuller, and Leslie Leaney – put together a plan and set about finding the artifacts and support for what Marinalife Magazine would come to name one of the top 10 maritime museums in the United States. Rumor has it that those earliest plans were even written on the back of Santa Barbara Yacht Club cocktail napkins!

In those earliest years, before the museum had even opened, the focus was on the need to raise money, create exhibits, build programs based on the mission statement and raise more money! With the help of some key donors – most notably Charles and Nancy Munger, Ed & Helen Wilson, Tamara DiCaprio, and Barry and Jean Schuyler – SBMM began to grow and build, finally opening its doors in the Harbor’s historic Waterfront Center (formerly the Naval Reserve Building) on July 29, 2000. The event was attended by 2,500 people and a visiting tall ship! Even then, the classic wooden yacht Ranger had been refurbished and tied up at the dock in front of the museum, and the incomparable Dwight Brooks working ship models graced the interior.

Over the next 10 years, the museum continued to grow, adding some of its best-known exhibits and celebrating exciting events like the first Chumash tomol (plank-built boats used by the area’s Chumash and Tongva tribes) crossing in 150 years.

In that historic first year, the Honda Disaster exhibit opened and The Ocean Institute’s tall ship Spirit of Dana Point paid its first of 19 annual visits to SBMM, enabling children to experience the life of a 19th century sailor after reading R.H. Dana’s 1840 classic, Two Years Before the Mast. In

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Point Conception Lighthouse First Order Fresnel Lens lit blue for essential workers

Dwight Brooks and friend with the Atlantic

Students in SBMM’s Marine Science Program – with Stardust / Coral Sea Crew

the following years a favorite sportfishing exhibit and a Titanic exhibit were mounted, SBMM’s unforgettable Kardboard Kayak races began and the 4th floor Outdoor Visitor’s Center was opened – providing visitors with the best view in Santa Barbara!

Over the past ten years, the museum has continued to grow and expand its reach while staying true to its mission.

In 2011, building on the museum’s collection of historic diving equipment and Santa Barbara’s role in the

development of commercial diving, SBMM received the world’s first lockout diving bell, Purisima, which is now installed on the museum’s patio.

Another priority during the past decade has been an effort to stabilize the museum’s administration and finances. To that end, in 2013, SBMM and its supporters were able to partially “buy-out” its building lease, saving thousands of dollars each month while raising more than $400,000 to dismantle, move,

“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!” – Tom Lehrer

refurbish, and rebuild the impressive 157-year-old First Order Fresnel Point Conception Lighthouse lens.

••• From its inception, SBMM has been a resource and active partner with schools throughout the county serving students and teachers with activities at the Museum, in the Harbor, on the Channel and in the classroom. Many of the students attend Title I schools and are welcomed at a reduced rate or at no charge. In fact, “No Child Left Ashore” has become SBMM’s mantra.

Accordingly, the museum opened an interactive Children’s Gallery and developed a variety of exciting educational programs – ranging from volunteers visiting school Science Nights to teach children about navigation, sailing, and lighthouses and leading tailored school tours, to developing the unique Marine Science program, which takes children out on boats – often for the first time – to catch and study fish and other marine life.

Educating adults has also been considered an important element of the museum’s mission and has led to SBMM’s monthly lecture series, Navigator’s Circle presentations and events, including the History of Oil in the Santa Barbara Channel exhibit and the Alternative Uses of Oil Platforms Expo, all to enable informed discussions on issues of concern in and around the Santa Barbara Channel.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum has continued to find ways to serve the community and its mission. The museum has hosted the SCAPE Art Show & Sale, Sea Glass Festival pop-ups, chil23 – 30 July 2020

dren’s cooking contests and was being named Nonprofit of the Year by the Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce.

It has also refurbished its collections facility and renamed it in founder Robert Kieding’s honor, while applying for national accreditation with the American Alliance of Museums.

Among the most exciting efforts is the new SBMM Maritime on the Move (MotM), which began in February 2020, bringing maritime education to more children in their own schools and neighborhoods. According to Education Committee member and co-developer Holly Lohuis, “With the growing body of evidence showing that direct exposure to nature is essential for a child’s healthy physical and emotional development, the educational team at SBMM has expanded our programs to include opportunities for local students to investigate and learn about the natural environment close to their homes and schools.”

Thanks to its supporters, SBMM has been able to keep staff “onboard,” many working at home, while mounting new exhibits, developing new programs, and improving online communications with the community during the COVID-19 crisis. And like so many others, the staff has learned to use more technology for presentations, fundraising, and transforming the museum’s programs and educational offerings.

Beginning with a redesign of its website, SBMM has added new pages, most notably “SBMM at Home” (https://sbmm.org/at-home/), which features games, projects, articles, videos, virtual guided “tours” of the museum for all ages, allowing users to access museum resources from their own homes. In addition, the Museum has moved its monthly lecture series, film showings and events to online formats, such as Zoom Webinars and Facebook Live, and made all previous and recent lectures available as easily accessible videos (https://sbmm. org/santa-barbara-lectures/). Thanks to grants from the Santa Barbara Foundation and the Santa Barbara County Office of Arts & Culture, staff is being trained to create the videos for virtual tours, online exhibits, and more educational material.

As is the case with other museums, without the normal revenue streams from admissions, rentals, and its gift shop, SBMM has turned to online fundraisers and auctions, emails, and social media to spread its messages. Work has also begun on an online gift shop.

Another new effort is SBMM’s first online collection featuring the Brooks Models – 32 large-scale, fully operational model ships and boats. Members of the community and researchers will be able to see photographs, model specs and stories about these models.

Also upcoming are the SCAPE Virtual 23 – 30 July 2020

Art Show & Sale (July 25-August 7) featuring 150+ paintings from local artists (https://sbmm.org/20scape/), an online birthday celebration including a virtual cake recipe contest that kicks off July 29, a kids’ cooking contest, and much more… and this is just the beginning as SBMM sails into its next 20 years!

Members of the public are invited to join us on our voyage by becoming a member, sharing memories and birthday wishes, or making a donation. •MJ

Chumash Tomol Crossing

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Accessory Dwelling Unit Ordinance Amendments Planning Commission Thursday August 6, 2020, 1:00 p.m.

The Planning Commission will consider a recommendation to City Council on Title 30 Inland Zoning Ordinance and Title 28 Coastal Zoning Ordinance amendments to regulations for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and Junior Accessory Dwelling Units (JADUs) for compliance with state law. The proposed Zoning Ordinance amendments are in response to new state legislation effective January 1, 2020 and include allowing an ADU and JADU on a lot with an existing or proposed single unit or multiple ADUs on lots with multi-unit housing, allowing JADUs in any room of a proposed or existing single unit, and many other new provisions in compliance with state law. Additional information about this work effort and state law for ADUs can be found at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ADU. The agenda, staff report, and draft ordinance amendments will be available by the end of day, Thursday July 30, 2020 online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/PC. Written comments are welcome up to the time of the hearing, by email at PCsecretary@SantaBarbaraCA.Gov. For more information, please email Rosie Dyste, Project Planner, at RDyste@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

The Planning Commission will receive and consider public comment and discuss the proposed Zoning Ordinance amendments at this hearing. This hearing will be conducted electronically via the GoToWebinar platform, as described in more detail below.

IN ORDER TO PROMOTE SOCIAL DISTANCING AND PRIORITIZE THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH AND WELL-BEING, THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA ISSUED EXECUTIVE ORDER N29-20, WHICH ALLOWS THE CITY TO HOLD MEETINGS VIA TELECONFERENCES OR OTHER ELECTRONIC MEETING FORMAT WHILE STILL MEETING THE STATE’S OPEN AND PUBLIC MEETING REQUIREMENTS. AS A PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY PRECAUTION, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS WILL NOT BE OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. PLANNING COMMISSION MEMBERS MAY PARTICIPATE ELECTRONICALLY. THE CITY STRONGLY ENCOURAGES AND WELCOMES PUBLIC PARTICIPATION DURING THIS TIME. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS AVAILABLE THROUGH THE FOLLOWING OPTIONS: TELEVISION COVERAGE: This meeting will be broadcast live on City TV-Channel 18 and online at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/citytv.

ELECTRONIC PARTICIPATION: Join the meeting electronically by clicking on the meeting link which will be found on the meeting agenda. You will be connected to audio using your computer’s microphone and speakers (VoIP). A headset is recommended. You can also select the option to use your telephone, but you must use the GoToWebinar software to interact with the meeting. Select “Use Telephone” after joining the webinar and call in using the numbers listed on the agenda that will be posted online.

Oral comments during a meeting may be made by electronic participation only.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: If you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator's Office at (805) 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

INTERPRETACIÓN EN ESPAÑOL: Si necesita una interpretación del español al inglés, para sus comunicaciones al Consejo, comuníquese con la Oficina del Secretario Municipal al 564-5309, o por correo electrónico a Clerk@SantaBarbaraCA.gov. Si es posible, la notificación de al menos 48 horas generalmente permitirá a la Ciudad hacer los arreglos.

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