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5 On the Water Front Bob Hazard wades in about the lingering drought while unveiling a handful of myths about desal plants and Montecito’s water – and what the future holds 6 Montecito Miscellany Nipper’s revival; Gene Montesano gets married; Michael Douglas goes glutenfree; Harper Lee turns down Oprah; State Street Ballet returns from China; Don Bellisario enjoys 80th birthday; ailing teen visits Disneyland; Gulfstream Pacific Coast Open kicks off at Gauthier; Fiesta Finale at El Paseo; Center Stage celebrates 25th; Oklahoma! at the Granada Theatre; Granada Premier Patrons concert; and Steven Spielberg yacht for sale 8 Letters to the Editor Steve Traxler delves into water; Steve Ruggles for the record; trash talk from John Seymour; Dale Lowdermilk takes Hillary Clinton to task; Matt McLaughlin for the birds; Heidi August gets political; discourse between Ernie Salomon and Helen Schneider; Larry Bond on the Patriot Post; and John McIntyre toasts late economist Milton Friedman 10 This Week Vacation rental ordinance workshop; SB Maritime Museum lecture with Ian Williams; French speaking; Montecito Union orientation; Brazilian rhythms; Pacific Sound Chorus at New Vic; S.Y. Kitchen and wines; MBAR meeting; MUS Board meeting; first day of MUS; community workshop at Covenant Church; professor SELLING THE

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Enda Duffy discusses William Butler Yeats; The New Yorker discussion; Champagne & Sparkling Wine tasting; Zoofari Ball; art classes; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Locals Night; Adventuresome Aging; prayer at library; Story Time; Italian talk; artisans and farmers market; Cars & Coffee Tide Guide Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat Chevron remodel nears completion; Montecito Sanitary District continues pipe maintenance; and the latest news from Montecito Fire Protection District 14 Seen Around Town Lynda Millner has India on her mind, thanks to Lotusland Celebrates; John E. Profant Foundation’s Fiesta Finale; Union Bank and Old Spanish Days Fiesta 18 On Entertainment George Clinton sounds off prior to his Chumash show Thursday, August 27, chatting with Steven Libowitz; T-Sisters coming to SOhO; Brad Carroll, director of Peter and the Starcatcher; and that’s a wrap on upcoming theater productions 34 Legal Advertising 44 Your Westmont President emeritus David K. Winter, who died at the age of 84, will be remembered August 29 46 Calendar of Events UCSB curtain falls on Cabaret; Pat closes Chumash comedy season; The Rhythmic Arts Project; Venice in Santa Barbara at SOhO; Blue Horizons at Pollock Theater; Lotusland’s Music in the Garden; annual Mesa Fest; Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton; guitarist Joe Bonamassa; author Sue Grafton at Chaucer’s; and musical moves in Carpinteria 48 Real Estate Mark Hunt opens the door to four more homes on the market, inviting buyers to check out properties ranging from $1.495 million to more than $6 million Open House Directory 50 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 51 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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ON THE WATER FRONT

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t’s the end of August 2015. The latest hope for a wetter winter comes from a promised “Godzilla” El Niño, loaded with moisture, which could alleviate much of the effects of the worst four-year drought in recent history. Despite that, however, major water policy shifts in Sacramento, the repetitive drought cycle of voluntary conservation, mandatory rationing, penalty fines, and emergency water surcharges will continue into the future.

The mission of the Montecito Water District (MWD) is to “provide an adequate and reliable supply of high quality water to the residents of Montecito and Summerland at the most reasonable cost.” To achieve that mission, Montecito needs to divorce itself from old assumptions and embrace new and sometimes painful realities.

Myth #1

Regulatory agencies will respond enthusiastically and positively to Montecito’s request to work with the City of Santa Barbara.

Montecito’s best long-term option is to partner with the City of Santa Barbara for joint use of the reactivated Charles E. Meyer desalination facility. To initiate discussions, the City has requested that MWD obtain rapid, written commitments from the California Coastal Commission and the South Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board to allow the City of Santa Barbara to negotiate a shared regional use under its existing permits for up to 10,000 acre-feet of desalinated water.

Unfortunately, the words rapid and commitment are seldom part of the water lexicon for regulatory agencies in California. Unless MWD receives prompt regulatory agency permission to proceed with the City, it needs to develop its own professionally supported 30-percent engineering design and estimated cost for an alternative stand-alone desalination plant as a credible, but expensive, backup to a potential partnership with the City of Santa Barbara.

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The best strategy for Montecito is to keep conserving and wait for rain.

MWD cannot successfully conserve its way to water security. El Niño may bring massive rain this winter, but keep in mind that since 1900 California has experienced nine major droughts in 1917-21, 1922-26, 1928-37, 1943-51, 1959-62, 1976-77, 1987-92, 2007-09, and 2012-15. Do you really believe drought won’t happen again? Montecito needs a reliable insurance policy that protects it from the next drought, and the one after that, and the drought after that.

Myth #3

Rationing works. The less water MWD sells, the better off we will be.

The Montecito community has discovered the unpleasant reality of mandatory rationing as an artificial distortion of the free marketplace. Mandatory allocations based solely on landscaping allotments per acre negatively impact the character of Montecito, favor those with old wells, encourage new and deeper wells, and cost ratepayers substantially more money for little benefit.

MWD has discovered that the less water it sells, the less revenue it receives to cover fixed costs. The shortfall in cash flow needs to be made up by increasing rates, increasing emergency surcharges and imposing stiff rationing penalties.

Because of mandatory rationing, MWD water sales have fallen to 3,300 acre-feet per year (AFY), the lowest usage in recent history. Individual ratepayers are using half as much water, but paying up to three times as much money for half the use. Unfortunately, MWD cannot reduce its expenses to offset lower sales, so it has no recourse except to increase rates.

The ultimate irony is that massive El Niño rains this winter could drop customer sales below 3,300 AFY. In order to compensate for even lower water sales, the phase-out of rationing penalties, and the elimination of emergency surcharges, additional new increases in rates would be needed to offset larger operating losses and the further depletion of capital reserves. Unfortunately, the solution for small water districts such as MWD is either to increase sales, consolidate with larger districts, or merge with ones with greater groundwater reserves.

Myth #4

Conserving water prevents depletion in supplies.

Saving water is not like saving oil. Water, unlike oil, is renewable. When you use it, you don’t lose it. The water you drink today, or use for irrigation, is the

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The club hotspot, owned by Santa Barbara News-Press co-publisher Arthur von Wiesenberger and Dallas businessman Horatio LonsdaleHands, was founded in 1982, with an offshoot in Beverly Hills.

The nitery, located on the site of Los Arroyos restaurant on Coast Village Road, closed its doors in 1988 after becoming the biggest consumer of champagne in the U.S. with a cork popping every 60 seconds and a clientele that included Andy Warhol, Billy Wilder, Michael Douglas, Steve Martin, and celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck.

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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 D, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to jim@montecitojournal.net

Will more water storage allow additional growth? Lawsuits and environmental delays challenge any project, but dozens of water bureaucracies make removal of silt a financial and administrative approval nightmare. – B.H.)

on the sidewalk.

John Seymour Montecito (Editor’s note: Editor-at-large Kelly Mahan is on the case; we should have some details in next week’s issue. – J.B.)

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hank you to the Journal and Bob Hazard for helping this community with drought information. You continue to put this emergency in perspective.

I’m not entirely certain that the shared desal situation is best for Montecito, but if done properly we could be the poster child for the way to get this thing done right. My question would be: are we going to be an investor in Santa Barbara’s plant – or a partner – with something to say?

Another thought: we have heard for years that Jameson and Gibraltar are seriously full of silt. Bob mentioned it in his editorial. What I’d like to know is whether these empty reservoirs now being cleaned of all silt by the water districts in hopes of an El Niño winter? And if not, why not?

Steve Traxler Montecito (Bob Hazard responds: Negotiations for regional use of the Santa Barbara desalination facility have not yet begun

for the amount of water produced, the cost of water to users, or the structure of a deal between Montecito Water District (MWD) and the City of Santa Barbara as investors or partners.

The prerequisite first step is for MWD to obtain in writing approval from the California Coastal Commission and the Regional Water Quality Control Board in San Luis Obispo, for MWD and the City to discuss joint use of the desal facility under existing City permits that allow for up to 10,000 AFY of desalinated water.

Watch carefully whether or not regulatory bureaucracies allow negotiations to move forward.

Your second suggestion – to dredge Jameson and Gibraltar to store possible El Niño rains – makes sense, but ignores environmental opposition to dredging the reservoirs or raising the height of the dams. Environmentalists question what to do with removed silt. Does it contain mercury or other toxins? Would dredging traumatize the fish? Could silt be relocated on the site it came from, or would it have to be trucked to landfills?

People are asking when I moved to Santa Ynez, as reported in the letters to the editor last week (“Watch For Bikers” MJ #21/32). I love Santa Ynez, but I I’m still a resident here in Montecito. Are you trying to suggest I be put out to pasture?

Steve Ruggles Montecito (Editor’s note: Ouch! I thought you’d moved to the valley as did your longtime friend, Richard Doolittle, and since you hadn’t included your domicile information – “Name and Town, Name and Town” – I guessed wrongly. Sorry about that, but now that I think about it, putting you out to pasture may not be such a bad idea. – J.B.)

Broken & Abandoned

What’s with the broken, neglected, and misplaced trash can in the grassy median in front of 1187 Coast Village Road, which has been there for several weeks? Any chance you could get the City on this? I’m pretty sure it belongs

Can candidate Hillary Clinton claim, under oath, that she did not have textual relations with “that server?” Isn’t this déjà vu... all over again?

With her vast accumulation of travel miles, dodging bullets on the tarmac, a resounding success as secretary of state and a first husband with eight years’ “experience” lurking down the hall eager to help, what could possibly go wrong?

Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: As we’ve often stated in these pages, how a major political party could choose such a candidate for the highest office in the land is a mystery. – J.B.)

Another Stink

The Bird Refuge is bad (“Kill The Stench” MJ #21/32), but going over Ortega Hill ain’t much better.

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Thinking Twice

I was amazed to see that very partisan and offensive letter about Hillary Clinton from Ralph T. Iannelli, which you published in the latest edition.

Your paper is not a political rag, but you have turned it into one by printing such politically inspired rubbish.

Does printing his letter at this early point in the political campaign mean that we can look forward to more of this? If so, it would make me think twice about picking it up again.

Heidi August Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: You probably can “look forward to more of this,” as upon re-reading of Mr. Iannelli’s missive, we could not find anything we disagreed with. Then again, we’ve run many such letters and opinions over the 20 years of the Journal’s existence and expect we will continue to do so. – J.B.)

State-approved Sickness

Mr. Riuteel is 100 percent on the money (“Make Way For Urban Blight” MJ #21/32), but the effects on the health of the tenants is even more of an issue. People are sure to open the freeway-facing windows to get some of what they believe to be fresh air flowing into their homes, when actually the air will be full of toxic parti-

cles and car exhaust. Developing children will be adversely affected much faster. These homes are in reality gas chambers. These homes could not be placed in a more dangerous position for being unhealthful.

These units are not near the freeway; they are on the freeway.

Several scientific studies by both government and private researchers have concluded that the closer people live to high-traffic streets, i.e. freeways, the more likely those residents will suffer from upper respiratory illnesses including asthma, lung cancer, and heart disease.

This is even more dangerous for children and teens because of their developmental stages. I would not live in one of these homes if it were free. They are a health hazard and should not be allowed there. Mayor Schneider, the City Council, and City staff who approved these dangerous dwellings should be forced to live in these homes and breathe deeply.

Ernie Salomon Santa Barbara (Mayor Schneider responds: Check your facts. The City has no jurisdiction over this project. It’s run/approved by the state as a mobile home park. I don’t believe anyone at City Hall would approve this, as these units go completely against our

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 22

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, AUGUST 20 Short-Term Vacation Rental Ordinance Workshop The County of Santa Barbara has begun a project to clarify zoning ordinance provisions related to short-term rentals (fewer than 30 days). Although never allowed in residential neighborhoods, the county stopped enforcing zoning provisions that preclude this use after counsel determined that existing ordinance provisions lacked necessary clarity. Today, a second public workshop will be held in Montecito; members of the public are invited to share their thoughts on how and where the use may or may not be permitted. You may also provide comments to project manager Jessica Metzger at jmetzger@countyofsb.org.

When: 6 to 8 pm Where: Westmont College in the Page Hall Multipurpose Room, 955 La Paz Road Info: www.montecitoassociation.org Lecture at SBMM “Life on San Miguel Island” is the topic of this month’s lecture at Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. In addition to hearing from San Miguel Island ranger Ian Williams, there will be a sneak preview of the Sam Tyler film West of the West: Tales From California’s Channel Islands, which features Betsy Lester Roberti. This film will premiere at the Arlington Theatre on Saturday, March 5, 2016. Williams and ex-resident Roberti will trace the island’s history from when the ranch ended with the U.S.N. military occupation to its current status as a National Park. While much of the ranching period is well-known thanks to the Lester family, the military era is not welldocumented and there are few things we know of this time period.

The story of San Miguel Island becoming part of the National Park system has a lot more material to draw upon. Although owned by the U.S. Navy, San Miguel opened to the public under the auspices of Channel Islands National Monument and became part of Channel Islands National Park in 1980. The military era is significant both for the fact that it ended ranching on the island and that bombing and missile testing on the island led to the public closure that has been in effect since

April 2014.

When: 7 pm; members-only reception at 6:15 pm Where: 113 Harbor Way Cost: free for members; $10 for non-members Registration: www.sbmm.org

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 French Conversation Group The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System hosts a French conversation group for those who would like to practice their language conversation skills and meet others in the community who speak French. Both native speakers and those who learned French as a second or foreign language will participate, and new members are always welcome.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Montecito Union Preps for New School Year Montecito Union welcomes new families; class lists are posted; picnic to reconnect and get ready for school to start.

When: 4 pm orientation; 4:45 pm class lists; 5 to 7 pm, Mustang Roundup Family Picnic Where: 385 San Ysidro Road An Evening of Brazilian Rhythms Téka and NewBossa Trio, featuring Téka on vocals and guitar, Chris Judge on guitar, and Randy Tico on bass, and As Três Meninas (The Three Girls), featuring Fabiana Passoni on vocals, Stephanie Ozer on piano, and Ami Molinelli on percussion.

When: 7 pm Where: Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 820 North Fairview Avenue in Goleta Cost: $!5 Info & Tickets: www.browpapertickets. com/event/1869951

SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 Paul Lato Winemaker Dinner Wine + Beer and Santa Barbara Public Market are pleased to continue their winemaker dinner series with chef Luca

Pacific Sound Chorus The 30-voice, all-male barbershop harmony chorus comes to the New Vic with special guests Ready Willing and Mabel, a mixed-voice foursome from the Los Angeles area, a local women’s chorus called Carpe Diem, and The FourTune Seekers, a local barbershop quartet that will also have a featured spot on the show. When: 2 pm and 7:30 pm Where: 33 W. Victoria Tickets: $25 Info: (800) 353-1632 Crestanelli, executive chef and co-owner of S.Y. Kitchen, and Paul Lato of Paul Lato Wines For this exclusive dinner, Chef Luca will prepare an elegant feast, inspired by his Italian roots paired with an all-star lineup of Lato’s most excellent wines. This is an intimate event, with only 32 seats available. Reservations are required.

When: 6 pm Where: 38 W. Victoria Street Cost: $95 Information: 770-7702

MONDAY, AUGUST 24 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

When: 2 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

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Where: 385 San Ysidro Road

THURSDAY, AUGUST 27 Community Workshop The Alliance for Living & Dying Well recommends using the Five Wishes process developed by Aging with Dignity to lead your conversation and help formulate the decisions you put into your Advanced Care Directive. To get this conversation started, The Alliance offers free workshops for members of our community to attend and

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Poetry Presentation UCSB literature professor Enda Duffy speaks on the life of William Butler Yeats, the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. The presentation will mark the 150th anniversary of Yeats’s birth in 1865.

When: 7:30 pm Where: Santa Barbara Club, 1105 Chapala Street Cost: $30 Info: 965-2022 or AIHSfrank@aol.com Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker.

When: 7:30 to 9:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

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Montecito Union School Board Meeting When: 4 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249

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Champagne & Sparkling Wine Tasting Stop by and join Mike The Wine Guy at Pierre Lafond Montecito Market for a tasting of five sparkling wines and champagnes, along with a selection of cheeses and tapenades, happening in the newly revamped wine department. They’ve added new wines, craft beers, and a small book section. (A 10-percent discount will be applied to all wines purchased that evening.)

When: 5 to 6 pm Where: 516 San Ysidro Road Cost: $10

SATURDAY, AUGUST 29 Carpinteria Sea Glass Festival The beachside community of Carpinteria hosts its first Annual Sea Glass Festival today and tomorrow. Celebrating sea glass collectors from around the country, the festival will have all the best of local and national sea glass jewelers and craftspeople. In addition, live music and food trucks will be featured in the outdoor area for all to enjoy. The community of Carpinteria is enthusiastic about this upcoming event, and local businesses are supporting the festival in myriad ways.

When: today from 9 am to 5 pm; and Sunday, August 30, from 10 am to 5 pm Where: 700 Linden Avenue Cost: festival admission is $5, benefiting the Junior Carpinterian of the Year Scholarship Fund and the Carpinteria Arts Center Info: www.facebook.com/ carpinteriaseaglassfestival Zoofari Ball This year’s 30th annual Zoofari Ball

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promises to be sweeter than a sugartopped beignet and has more surprises than a King Cake. Call it NOLA or the Big Easy, revelers at the New Orleans-themed fundraiser will “laissez les bons temps rouler” (let the good times roll)! All event proceeds benefit the animals at the zoo.

Costumes or safari attire is encouraged; this event is expected to sell out.

When: 5:30 to 11 pm Where: 500 Niños Drive Cost: $350 per ticket Info: www.sbzoo.org/zoofari

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

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS Live Entertainment Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road When: 7 to 10 pm Info: 969-8500 MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memoryenhancement exercises in a friendly environment When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 Locals Night at the Public Market Every Monday, take advantage of onenight-only merchant specials, games, prizes, and fun for locals. Corazon Cocina (opening soon at the Montecito Country Mart) will pop up for dinner in The Kitchen! Famous for his tacos and ceviche, Chef Ramon is serving up all new dishes and a changing menu each week.

Beer, wine, and other beverages will be available for purchase, too.

Come play Cards Against Humanity, Dominos, Boggle, Yahtzee, Connect Four, and giant Jenga while enjoying “locals only” food and drink specials from participating merchants.

There is also live music each week.

When: 5 pm Where: 38 West Victoria Info: 770-7702 TUESDAYS Adventuresome Aging Program Community outings, socialization, and

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WEDNESDAYS Prayer Circle at Montecito Library A prayer circle for Ecological Peace and Human Enlightenment, held every Wednesday at three times; each circle starts promptly and lasts for 20 minutes.

All are welcome.

When: 5:30 pm, 6:15 pm, and 7 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5683 THURSDAYS Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063

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Chevron Remodel Nears Completion The Coast Village Road Chevron remodel is nearly complete; the station will be closed for four days next week before reopening in the new building on Friday, August 28

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The family-owned Chevron, which Uellner has owned since 2002, went under remodel back in November 2014; a temporary building was erected to house a small mini-mart, as well as electronic equipment to run the gas pumps, Uellner told us earlier this week. Next week that building will be removed, and the area where it stood will be paved. The property has been remodeled to include a larger retail store in place of the former service bays, with the addition of a tunnel car wash. The car wash will not be up and running for at least another month, Uellner said.

The project was approved in March 2012, when the Santa Barbara City

Planning Commission unanimously approved the demolition of 344 square feet of retail floor area, construction of 607 square feet of retail floor area, construction of a 1,667-square-foot car wash tunnel, and the revision of two driveways on the site. The existing gas pumps and canopy have remained the same, while the new building is in a Spanish Colonial style, complete with blue and white tiles along the façade.

The property will also be landscaped with native and subtropical plants in the coming months.

Uellner, who also co-owns the 76 Station on the other end of Coast Village Road, and is the former owner of the Shell Station that was once located on the corner of Hot Springs Road and Coast Village, says he is thankful for his customers and the nearby business owners who have shown patience during the construction period.

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Seen Around Town

by Lynda Millner

Passage to India Indian dancers in the Lotusland garden

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id you know that lotus flowers seeds that have lain dormant for a thousand years have germinated and grown? Or did you know that the lotus family is one of the earliest groups of flowering plants on Earth?” Those tiny tidbits were published in the Lotusland newsletter. For those of you who have never been to Lotusland, it is a oneof-a-kind garden in the whole world right here in Montecito. As executive director Gwen Stauffer says, “I am never at a loss for words to describe the gardens, yet words always prove to be inadequate.” Madame Ganna Walska dedicated the last 40 years of her life to creating Lotusland.

The Lotusland Celebrates annual gala is also hard to do justice through words, so I’ll help it along with pictures as well. It’s always “over the top,” and this year’s “Passage to India” theme was no exception.

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Lotusland executive director Gwen Stauffer with Lotus Ganesha during the gala

on the path through the gardens to the house, there is always a fanciful surprise around every corner. The first was a statue of an Indian god called the Lotus Ganesha, which is an antique and on the market for $120,000. It is one of only four castings before the mold was broken. Next was a stunning display of flower petals arranged in a design in the middle of the path. I’m told it took several ladies all morning to arrange them.

I remember something similar in the hotel lobby on my first trip to India.

Joui Turandot by the flower-strewn path at Lotusland

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Along the way were singing bowls and chanting ladies dressed in saris.

There was a Tree of Wisdom, sort of like a Chinese fortune cookie, only dangling from ribbons on a tree. The couple dancing by the lotus pond had everyone spellbound. It took tri-chairs to head up this magical event: Jennie Grube, Caroline Thompson, and Yasmine Zodeh and a committee of 20.

Cocktails, Indian tidbits, and conversation were on the main lawn, which was also set for a sumptuous seated dinner of Indian spiced braised lamb. Some of the Lotusland trustees attending were William Daugherty, Michael Thomas, Marc Appleton, Susanne Tobey, Peggy Wiley, Suzanne Mathews, Belle Cohen, Eileen Rasmussen, Ian Fisher, Crystal

Wyatt, Andy Chou, Debby Longo, and board president Connie Pearcy.

Guest auctioneer Eliza Osborne offered six unique items including a ten-day trip for six to the Gardens of India, an Indian feast for 10 at Lotusland and yogiland at Lotusland — a private one-day out of body retreat for 12 including a decadent breakfast and lunch.

The proceeds from Lotusland Celebrates funds many programs besides maintaining and preserving Madame Ganna Walska’s gift to our community. The gardens are open for docent-led tours. The next special event will be Saturday, August 22 with “Music in the Garden.” For information call 969-9990.

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Fiesta Finale

The last strum of a guitar, the last twirl of fringe and flamenco, and the last cascarone smashed during Fiesta has to be the Fiesta Finale put on by the John E. Profant Foundation for the Arts in historic El Paseo Restaurant.

This year, the Fiesta theme was “Romantica” and it truly was.

The Profant Foundation began in 1950 when a young woman and her sister heard the Courthouse docent describe fiesta as a romantic time during the full moon of August, celebrated with parties and parades. When they went to El Paseo, there was a tall

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On Entertainment George Clinton at the Chumash

by Steven Libowitz

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eorge Clinton and ParliamentFunkadelic fairly revolutionized R&B back in the 1970s, taking the soul music of his predecessors and making it into something funkier in a style that mashed up both Sly Stone and Frank Zappa, with a dollop of psychedelic rock and large swatch of freaky costumes and massive stage show popular in the era.

Clinton scored several platinum albums and something on the order of 40 R&B hit singles. including chart toppers such as “Flash Light”, “One Nation Under a Groove”, and “Give Up the Funk”. He amassed huge touring outfits sometimes totaling more than 50 musicians, dwarfing even today’s over-the-top concerts.

Although he’s been largely distracted by legal problems, including a bloody copyright fight, Clinton is still on the road at 74, and the latest generation of Parliament-Funkadelic joins him at the Chumash Casino next Thursday, August 27. He talked about the crazy days and today over the phone from his tour bus in an interview set up by one of his step-daughters.

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A. The reason is, I was fighting the lawsuit about the copyrights. And I couldn’t win that if I didn’t clean myself up and write the book. So I got rid of my drug habit, so I could tell the story and be heard and get somewhere in the courtroom. But people also wanted to hear stories about my life. And we made the album at the same time, Shake the Gate. It was just one big project. The whole thing we’re doing right now is brand-new.

What was it like to go back and revisit your life and career?

Oh, that was fun, just going through all of it. I knew I had a plan of what I was doing. It’s been fun and it’s still being fun. We got a record out next week with Kendrick Lamar on my

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

album. We’re also on his. It’s my first album in years. It’s some fresh stuff.

What’s new and different?

We’ve got brand-new mixtures of sound that you haven’t heard in years.

We know that it works because we were on tour in Europe. l sold out all the festivals and they loved the songs from Shake the Gate. It’s really hot. Get on YouTube and see all those songs.

It’s really exciting.

So when you were writing the book, what stood out for you, both good and bad?

Most of it I had already written down, all the stupid stuff. And I knew they were stupid when they happened. Or pretty much. So I made sure I didn’t forget all the dumb stuff.

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We’d get f’d up and have a party. All of that was part of what we was doing back in those days. I knew that even through the drugs. But you have to do what you’re gonna do. I didn’t know then I was going to write a book and tell it all.

What keeps you going at 74?

I never pictured stopping. That’s never been an issue. In the morning when I wake up sore, it’s a bit tougher.

But then it’s just “Let’s go do this.” I feel lucky and blessed and all of that.

Funk is its own reward.

You were doing pretty straightforward doo-wop with the Parliaments in the ‘50s and ‘60s in Newark, and then suddenly it was Parliament Funkadelic with all the crazy characters and the outrageous outfits by the ‘70s. How did that come about?

Pretty much organically. We were clowns even during the doo-wop days. There was something about the Coasters, the theatrics of the whole showbiz thing. They had comedy and skits in their show that they would do.

The new generation then was like the English groups who weren’t suited up, but more individuals. When we got out of that, we were able to be funky for real. But it was cheaper and funnier.

(George Clinton’s August 27 concert at the Chumash Casino is sold out.)

I have to ask about landing the Mothership in Times Square in ‘75.

Yeah, it was much bigger than me even then. It’s in the Smithsonian now. It was spectacular. Right after Close Encounters [of the Third Kind], one of the guys that worked with the film came over and took all the cameramen and brought ‘em to New York, and we filmed it at five in the morning. No permit, no license. And we even got a few cops to help us out. That same morning, we went down and played in front of the UN building, too, right as the sun came up in front of all the flags. We played Cosmic Slop on a flatbed truck. The cops thought we had a permit, so they let us go. We were playing full volume. Got away with it for a while. We were just renegades at that time.

How did you end up in a diaper onstage?

Just being outrageous. We were playing with the Stooges and MC5 around the same time. They were doing crazy things too, and it just something I wanted to do. Can’t get no funkier than a giant baby diaper, okay?

The more recent generation of hip-hop artists have sampled a lot of your music.

Do you like that?

Yeah, sure. It’s the number-one music in the world, and the music of P-Funk is a part of that foundation. So I’m very proud. It’s all commingled with each other, the whole concept of music going in a direction we were doing a long time ago. The whole thing about uptown funk is coming back like I thought it was going to do. And I’m still here to be doing it. We got brand-new mixtures of sound that you haven’t heard in years.

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The T-Sisters are an Oakland-based trio who, just as their name implies, are sisters whose last name begins with the letter T. Erika, Rachel, and Chloe Tietjen have that close harmony thing that it seems only siblings share, so naturally they’ve heard a lot of comparisons to everyone from the Andrews Sisters to the Pointer Sisters.

That’s just fine with the Tietjens, even any other antecedents you can come up with.

But the T-Sisters’s sound seems to emanate from a place even more organic than those pop favorites. It’s a vocal tradition that echoes sitting around the front porch playing with the family, or jamming around a campfire in the summertime. Folk music has its sibling heroes, too, such as the Carter Family, who turned those hardto-explain harmonies into some sort of other-worldly offering.

“We get it. Our voices blend very well,” Chloe said over the phone from the road last week. “They say you have similar or identical vocal chords with siblings. It may or may not be the reason, but it sure helps.

But the main thing is we’ve been around each other so much, and really listened to each other. Singing harmony is about listening and blending, and that just seems to come naturally for sisters – or at least for us. So it’s both genetics and growing up together.”

The Tietjens do come from a musical family. Their dad plays guitar and piano and sings and write songs, while their mom had eclectic taste.

Music was always in the air.

“We were just always singing at the dinner table, and all around the house,” Chloe said. “My dad’s music was the soundtrack to us growing up.

Sometimes we’d sing with him on this group of Taoist study group who would have spiritual conversations, and then we’d sing with him and he’d give us silver dollars. It was our first paid gig.”

But it wasn’t one continuous thread to being a professional band. Even before they hit double digits, the girls attended performing arts and musical theater camps, but as Chloe explained, “sports got in the way” for a little while. “We’d still do some guitar and music on our own. But it wasn’t in the forefront.”

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The sisters came back together after college, when Chloe and Rachel, who are twins born 18 months after Erika, graduated from separate colleges. The impetus was a musical theater piece they’d written together the previous summer, which became Rachel’s senior thesis at art school. They produced the show a year later in San Francisco, and then started doing open mics with some of the songs from the show.

“People asked us for more, so we started writing other things separately and it became much more of a band thing,” Chloe explained.

The harmonies have been refined over the time the siblings have spent together as the T-Sisters, she said.

“We’re all pretty adept and hearing a melody and hearing the chords behind it, whether or not they’re being played. So we start with what our ears go to naturally. Then we play with that depending on what key the song is in, and do some trial and error on those to figure out what sounds the best.

It’s not theory-driven, it’s more about what sounds good – the phrasing of the chord. We try to be creative, do what feels right.”

But if the close harmonies are what connects them to all the earlier sister acts, it’s their diversity that sets them apart. The sisters display a sassy mix of genres covering folk, bluegrass, blues, gospel, old-time swing, and boogie-woogie rock ‘n’ roll.

“Yeah, we have different tastes,” Chloe explained. “We grew up with R&B and folk and soul, but we had our own take on the different influences. We grew up together, but we learned a lot of different stuff in our college years. Erika studied some jazz, so she likes to play around with the chords. Rachel takes a blues stance.

And mine is more folk-y country. The genres bend and blend a lot through our styles.”

Just as the siblings seamlessly blend their voices, so too do the seemingly disparate styles come together.

“The songwriting usually starts separately, then we bring song to the three of us and see if we all like it,” Chloe said. “Maybe we’ll get some suggestions of chords or changing some words. There’s the toning and refining in that phase. We build the harmonies together. We’re always finding harmony in the relationship.”

Which is good, because the sisters not only work together but also share a living space in a warehouse in Oakland that also houses their theatrical company. The place is run as a commune, she said.

“We share everything. We like the same food, and clean the house the same way. There are always challenges to roommates, but we’re pretty good at dealing with conflict. We’re used

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same water that dinosaurs drank. It sustains life before it evaporates. It rains, it snows, and it filters through the ground. When not stored in humans, trees, animals, and gardens, it runs downstream seeking the sea, only to return as rain or snow somewhere else. A wise man once said, “All water has a perfect memory and is simply trying to get back to where it was.”

The Pacific Ocean holds one-third of all the water on Earth. It is a giant, inexhaustible reservoir, rain or no rain. Desalination, like cloud seeding, is simply one method of shortening the water’s journey for the benefit of mankind.

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The high cost of desalination in California is manmade and government policy driven. There are 14,000 desalination plants in the world, but only California offers a punitive and frustrating 14-year regulatory and permitting process, expensive environmental requirements, higher labor and benefit costs, more lawsuits, and higher energy costs.

The $55-million, Santa Barbara reactivated desalination facility at a 3,125 acre feet per year production capacity is projected to cost Santa Barbara ratepayers an affordable $2,366 per acre-foot, or $5.43 per HCF (hundred cubic feet) billing unit. Increasing the production capacity to 7,500 acre-feet per year for an additional $25 million to accommodate Montecito as a partner, drops the cost by 37 percent to a projected $1,453 per acre-foot, or $3.31 per HCF billing unit.

The Carlsbad, California, desalination facility – set to open in October – is the largest desalination plant in North America. It is being built at a cost of $1 billion and will produce 50 million gallons of water per day for San Diego County water districts at a price of between $2,014 and $2,257 per acre foot, or $4.62 to $5.18 per HCF billing unit.

Compare this projected cost to Israel’s Sorek seawater desalination plant, built at a cost of $500 million, located 10 miles south of Tel Aviv, and opened in 2013. Sorek is the largest and most efficient desalination plant in the world, with a production capacity of 160 million gallons a day. In 2014, the giant Israeli desalination plants at Ashdod, Hadera, and Sorek, were desalinating water at a cost of $493 per acre-foot: highly affordable at $0.92 per HCF billing unit.

Israel’s Sorek desalination plant produces three times as much water as the U.S.-based Carlsbad facility, yet cost half as much to build, despite the fact that both the Sorek and Carlsbad facilities were designed and built by the same company: Israel Desalination Technologies (IDE).

Imagine how low the desalination cost could go if governor Jerry Brown and Sacramento embraced desalination as the preferred solution for all 15 California counties bordering the Pacific Ocean with 70 percent of the state’s population, and encouraged all coastal counties to turn over their entire current state water allocations and associated transport costs to thirsty inland agricultural users. Major policy changes in environmental and energy outcomes would save coastal ratepayers millions of dollars in capital and operating costs, and end the California water crisis with or without future rainfall.

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T-Sisters has been a full-time act for barely 18 months, but they’ve already put out a well-received CD that was

produced by Bay Area singer-fiddler Laurie Lewis. And while next Thursday’s gig at SOhO will be their first headlining appearance in Santa Barbara, they’ve already played the club as opening act for ALO and also performed at last April’s Lucidity Festival at Live Oak Camp.

“It’s really different just since we were there last,” Chloe said. “We’ve grown a lot as songwriters and as a band, and the harmonies are much more intricate. We’re really opening up our sound.”

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Short Cuts: Santa Barbara-born band Gardens & Villa have a brandnew album, Music For Dogs, due out this Friday, but the indie rock outfit formed by Chris Lynch, Adam Rasmussen, and Levi Hayden and now based in Los Angeles has yet to announced a gig in their old hometown on the roll-out tour that begins September 15. The dates span three months and go cross-country and back from Phoenix to as far east as Cambridge, Massachusetts, and back to San Francisco and Los Angeles.

Maybe a sneak preview is in the works?

Starcatching Carroll in Control

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It would be smart to let potential renters know about the severe upper-respiratory health threat of these freeway-polluted units. This, City Hall can do. For a governor and state government so outspoken against pollution ill-health effects of any kind, Jerry Brown and his environmental staff should be forced to live in these homes. – Ernie Salomon)

Marginally Libelous?

The Patriot Post reported recently that the Center For Medical Progress (CMP) released a fifth undercover video of Planned Parenthood (PP).

It begins with PP president Cecile Richards insisting that, “Planned Parenthood makes zero profit on any fetal tissue donations.”

But Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, explains that harvesting provides a good “revenue stream” for PP, which “contributes so much to our bottom line.” She notes, “If we alter our process, and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, we can make it part of the budget that any dissections are ‘this,’ and splitting the specimens into different shipments is ‘this.’ It’s all just a matter of line items.”

In fact, she admitted, “[W]e deviate from our standard in order to” obtain intact specimens. Furthermore, “Some of our doctors in the past have projects and they’re collecting the specimens, so they do it in a way that they get the best specimens, so I know it can happen.”

Doesn’t sound like mere expense reimbursement, does it?

Members of PP alluded to the fact that (presumably my previous letter) was “inflammatory and marginally libelous” (“Planned Parenthood Programs” MJ #21/31). I’m still quaking in my boots over that, because according to CMP, “The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2). Federal law also requires that no alteration in the timing or method of abortion be done for the purposes of fetal tissue collection (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).”

It certainly seems clear from the video evidence that Planned Parenthood and other companies are engaged in illegal harvesting.

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is all about “women’s health,” but the truth is plain to see.

Finally, the video turns to the lab, where the undercover reporters ask for “fresh specimens” to determine their quality. A lab worker laughs, and says, “We had a really long day, and they’re all mixed up together in a bag.” She does manage to produce one of a set of 20-week-old twins (pulled from the freezer), and the technicians sort through lungs, intestines and limbs, while talking about how “organs come out really, really well — almost intact.”

If you aren’t appalled, you aren’t paying attention.

CMP’s project lead David Daleiden elaborates on the significance: “This is now the fifth member of Planned Parenthood leadership discussing payments for aborted baby parts without any connection to actual costs of so-called tissue ‘donation.’ Planned Parenthood’s system-wide conspiracy to evade the law and make money from aborted fetal tissue is now undeniable.” Daleiden continues, “Anyone who watches these videos knows that Planned Parenthood is engaged in barbaric practices and human rights abuses that must end. There is no reason for an organization that uses illegal abortion methods to sell baby parts and commit such atrocities against humanity to still receive over $500 million each year from taxpayers.”

Somebody correct me if I’m wrong about this, but we the taxpayers give $500,000,000 to PP, which then doles it out to its favorite left-wing politician, such as Hillary Clinton et al, who then in turn vote to give PP more of our money.

WOW, such a deal!

No matter how PP tries to sugarcoat it with their euphemisms, fewer and fewer people are buying into it. The release of these videos is creating a tsunami of revulsion that is sweeping across the country that will hopefully put an end to what is nothing less than a diabolical American baby chop shop.

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A Lucky Man My congratulations to Lucky’s co-owner, Gene Montesano, who plighted his troth to girlfriend, Erika Kloumann, at his Montecito estate at the weekend.

After a rehearsal dinner at Joe’s Cafe, another one of Gene’s eateries, the night before, more than 170 guests, including mall magnate Herb Simon, Barry and Jelinda DeVorzon, Robert and Robin Fell, Ivan and Genevieve Reitman, and Ed and Lin Snider. converged on the Merryl Brown-designed nuptials to see Gene and Erika, a member of the Santa Barbara Dance Theater and UCSB Dance Company, tie the knot.

Montecito florists Hogue and Company provided the lavish blooms and bouquets, with photographer Jose Villa and local videographer Isaac Hernandez catching the occasion with Erika’s father, Robert, and mother, Cassandra, and the couple’s son, Lucca, for posterity, while

Actor Michael Douglas goes gluten-free (photo by Georges Biard)

Gene Montesano and Erika Kloumann have lavish nuptials

Lindsay Parton officiated. Other guests included Bob and Marlene Veloz, Bill and Sandi Nicholson, and actor Christopher Lloyd.

The tony twosome spent their wedding night at the Biltmore.

Gluten for Punishment After a career spanning four decades and a battle with throat cancer, Michael Douglas is looking in great shape – something he has put down to a new diet.

The 70-year-old Oscar winner has gone gluten-free, he revealed on a British TV show.

“I’m great, five years clean and trying these new diets, something called gluten-free, and I must give it high recommendations for you out there,” said the former Montecito resident, whose father, Kirk, still has a home here.

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is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery. The nineteenth century and early twentieth century in the Western world stand out as striking exceptions to the general trend of historical development. Political freedom in this instance clearly came along with the free market and the development of capitalist institutions.

So also did political freedom in the golden age of Greece and in the early days of the Roman era.”

18) “It is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both.

If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promised a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not.

Then it really is an impossible thing.”

17) “So that the record of history is absolutely crystal clear. That there is no alternative way, so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by a free enterprise system.”

16) “When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction…”

15) “The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly – whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition at home and free trade throughout the world. The consumer is protected from being exploited by one seller by the existence of another seller from whom he can buy and who is eager to sell to him. Alternative sources of supply protect the consumer far more effectively than all the Ralph Naders of the world.”

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14) “Two major arguments are offered for introducing socialized medicine in the United States: first, that medical costs are beyond the means of most Americans; second, that socialization will somehow reduce costs. The second can be dismissed out of hand – at least until someone can find some example of an activity that is conducted more economically by the government than private enterprise. As to the first, the people of the country must pay the costs one way or the other; the only question is whether they pay them directly on their own behalf, or indirectly through the mediation of government bureaucrats who will subtract a substantial slice for their own salaries and expenses.”

13) “Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.”

12) “The supporters of tariffs treat it as self-evident that the creation of jobs is a desirable end, in and of itself, regardless of what the persons employed do. That is clearly wrong.

If all we want are jobs, we can create any number: for example, have people dig holes and then fill them up again, or perform other useless tasks. Work is sometimes its own reward. Mostly, however, it is the price we pay to get the things we want. Our real objective is not just jobs but productive jobs, jobs that will mean more goods and services to consume.”

11) “I am in favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it’s possible.”

10) “There is all the difference in the world, however, between two kinds of assistance through government that seem superficially similar: first, 90 percent of us agreeing to impose taxes on ourselves in order to help the bottom 10 percent, and second, 80 percent voting to impose taxes on the top 10 percent to help the bottom 10 percent – William Graham Sumner’s famous example of B and C decided what D shall do for A. The first may be wise or unwise, an effec-

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tive or ineffective way to help the disadvantaged, but it is consistent with belief in both equality of opportunity and liberty. The second seeks equality of outcome and is entirely antithetical to liberty.”

9) “When the United States was formed in 1776, it took 19 people on the farm to produce enough food for 20 people. So most of the people had to spend their time and efforts on growing food. Today, it’s down to 1% or 2% to produce that food.

Now just consider the vast amount of supposed unemployment that was produced by that. But there wasn’t really any unemployment produced.

What happened was that people who had formerly been tied up working in agriculture were freed by technological developments and improvements to do something else. That enabled us to have a better standard of living and a more extensive range of products.”

8) “I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tentacles and get bad results elsewhere.”

7) “We economists don’t know much, but we do know how to create a shortage. If you want to create a shortage of tomatoes, for example, just pass a law that retailers can’t sell tomatoes for more than two cents per pound. Instantly you’ll have a tomato shortage. It’s the same with oil or gas.”

6) “The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another.”

5) “Workers paying taxes today can derive no assurance from trust funds that they will receive benefits from when they retire. Any assurance

derives solely from the willingness of future taxpayers to impose taxes on themselves to pay for benefits that present taxpayers are promising themselves. This one-sided ‘compact between the generations,’ foisted on generations that cannot give their consent, is a very different thing from a ‘trust fund.’ It is more like a chain letter.”

4) “There are four ways in which you can spend money: You can spend your own money on yourself. When you do that, why then you really watch out what you’re doing, and you try to get the most for your money.

Then you can spend your own money on somebody else. For example, I buy a birthday present for someone. Well, then I’m not so careful about the content of the present, but I’m very careful about the cost.

Then, I can spend somebody else’s money on myself. And if I spend somebody else’s money on myself, then I’m sure going to have a good lunch.

Finally, I can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else. And if I spend somebody else’s money on somebody else, I’m not concerned about how much it is, and I’m not concerned about what I get. And that’s government. And that’s close to 40% of our national income.”

3) “Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want.

Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

2) “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”

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Montecito Sanitary District operations manager Alex Alonzo and intern Gio Goggia

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EL NIÑO WATCH 2015-2016 CONDITIONS LOOK GOOD THIS YEAR Climate Forecasters say that the current atmospheric and oceanic features are developing a significant and strengthening El Niño. There is a high likelihood that it will bring rains that will begin in late fall/early winter and continue into early spring 2016.

BUT NOTHING IS GUARANTEED If El Niño brings above-average precipitation to Southern California this winter, it would NOT BE ENOUGH to eradicate the State’s four years of drought. It’s possible Southern California might get a lot of flooding with most of the rain draining into the ocean, and Northern California could still get below-normal rainfall and snowpack.

NOT A DROUGHT BUSTER YET A really big El Niño can soak the entire State. Right now there’s only an equal chance of a wetter-than-average rainy season north of San Francisco. It needs to be powerful enough to affect Northern California—where much of the State’s water supply is collected and stored in giant reservoirs—with both rain and snow. Slowly melting snow from the mountains is essential to recharging our reservoirs when the skies turn dry later in the spring.

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Montecito Sanitary District Continues Pipe Maintenance Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) crews are back on neighborhood streets this week, continuing a major rehabilitation project on district pipelines. The undertaking, which was developed in 2014, gives 50 to 80 years of life to the district’s 80 miles of pipelines, according to general manager Diane Gabriel and operations manager Alex Alonzo, who sat down with us earlier this week to discuss the endeavor.

“This is original piping from the 1960s that we are talking about,” Gabriel explained, adding that the rehab project extends the life of the pipes to prevent the district from having to dig up and repair them.

“These pipes are at least seven feet underground, so digging them up is an inconvenient disturbance to residents,” Alonzo added.

The rehabilitation project, which is about halfway completed, includes two teams of crews. The first inspects and cleans the pipeline, making sure it is a good candidate for the rehabilitation. The second crew, which is contracted out by the District, performs the “re-lining,” which is called “no-dig,” Insituform technology.

Crews insert a liner from one manhole to another manhole, expand it to conform to the shape of the pipe, and then cure it in place in just a few hours. Remotely operated cutters are then used to open up all of the lateral connections to the pipe, restoring sewer service to surrounding homes in about a day. The District then inspects the work, to make sure the pipes are re-lined properly.

Although neighbors are made aware of the pipe rehabilitation before it takes place, Gabriel told us they are often surprised by both the steam and strong resin odor that is emitted

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during the curing process. County reps and the Montecito Fire Protection District are made aware of each of the project sites, as well as the Santa Barbara Air Pollution Control District, which places strict regulations on such work.

This week, crews are in the area of La Vuelta Road near Crane Country Day School. In the coming weeks, projects will take place on Sheffield Drive, Camphor Place, and near Casa Dorinda. A more impactful location, at the corner of San Ysidro Road and East Valley Road, will be worked on in late September. “We will try to do that one at night, to keep the impact to the community as minimal as possible,” Gabriel said. The project is expected to continue for the next six weeks; Montecito Water District has also been working on local streets, performing pipe replacement.

For more information about the pipe rehabilitation, visit www.montsan. org.

Also happening at MSD, Montecitoraised Gio Goggia has again been hired as the District’s intern for the summer, returning home to Montecito before starting his junior year at UC San Diego. The son of Steve and Adele Goggia, Gio attended El Montecito Early School, Cold Spring Elementary School, Santa Barbara Junior High, and Santa Barbara High School. This is the third summer in a row he has been employed with the District as its paid intern.

The Sanitary District collects, treats, and disposes of the wastewater from 3,100 properties in Montecito.

Gio, an environmental engineering major, spends much of his time in the District’s testing laboratory, which analyses the wastewater before it is pumped into the ocean. “At other facilities, interns are typically put to work doing the dishes or cleaning up the lab, but I have had the opportunity to work on the fun parts of the job,” Goggia told us. “I get to run different tests on the wastewater, study the engineering and layout of the treatment plant, and learn about all the microorganisms that assist in the treat-

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ly helps your memory and your energy, so I highly recommend it.”

The actor is due to celebrate his 15th wedding anniversary to Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, 45, in November.

To Kill a Conversation TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey has managed to snag on-air interviews with some of the world’s biggest stars, from President Obama to Michael Jackson.

But the 61-year-old media mogul has revealed she was unable to persuade her literary idol, Harper Lee, whose hotly anticipated second novel, Go Set A Watchman, was released last month, to appear on her eponymous chat show.

At a lunch date with Lee at the Four Seasons in New York during the 1990s, the author compared herself to the reclusive, introverted character of Boo Radley – therefore appearing on TV would be a complete no-no.

Oprah recalls that despite becoming “instant girlfriends” with Lee, the Alabama-native was “not going to be convinced at all.”

The notoriously private author apparently already struggled with the personal attention her original 1960 bestseller, To Kill A Mockingbird, had attracted and didn’t wish for any more fame.

It even took Oprah more than two years to negotiate a private meeting with Lee, thanks to incessant calls between her staff and the writer’s agent.

But, respecting Lee’s privacy, she didn’t record audio during the meal and, instead, just sat back and enjoyed the rare encounter.

“Lee said she had said everything she needed to say. She said ‘No,’ and I knew that meant no.

“Sometimes no means ‘Hmm, let us see what else I have to say.’ But when Harper Lee said no, I knew that was the end of it. I just enjoyed the lunch.”

Oprah says she read Lee’s first book in eighth or ninth grade, and it had a profound impact on her life as she struggled with race and class growing up as a southern woman in Tennessee.

Oprah, who once described Mockingbird as ‘our national novel,’ says she has no future plans to interview Lee and is glad the writer has managed to retain some sense of anonymity.

Welcome Back, Ballet State Street Ballet, which is currently celebrating its 20th anniversary, has just arrived back in our Eden by the Beach after a 66-day trip to China which saw the talented troupe of 18 dancing 34 performances in 27 different cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, and Inner Mongolia.

“It really was the trip of a lifetime,” says Leila Drake, associate director.

“The audiences were very enthusiastic and excited. Lots of children danced in the aisles at intermission, and we took hundreds of photos with audience members.

“The theaters we performed in were spectacular, with amazing architecture and state-of-the-art technical abilities. We traveled by plane, trains, and buses.

“It took quite a few months of hard work to co-ordinate, negotiate, and organize the tour.”

Leila says the opportunity came up in January after an invitation from the Chinese government.

“There was a lot of energy and effort into making the tour happen.

Normally, we book tours years ahead of time, especially one of this magnitude. But it was such an amazing

Dancers, soloist, and troupe in Shenyang (photo

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opportunity that all the extra work was completely worth it.”

Company founder Rodney Gustafson concurs.

“We worked feverishly over seven months after receiving the invitation to perform to secure working visas and wade through a slew of logistical nightmares. We never really knew if everything was in order until the week before the tour. We were performing at the Granada on May 9 and left for China on May 15,” Rodney tells me from Geneva.

When State Street hosts it annual gala at the Biltmore on September 27, honoring philanthropist Sara Miller McCune, they’ll clearly have a lot to discuss.

That Takes the Cake It was no surprise when Don Bellisario, the creator or co-creator of such TV hits as Magnum, P.I., JAG, Quantum Leap, Airwolf, and NCIS, celebrated his 80th birthday at his newly built Montecito estate, just a tiara’s toss or two from the San Ysidro Ranch,

that it would be quite a production.

The 1940s-themed Magnolia Events – designed bash for 175 guests, including his Australian wife, Vivienne’s, sister, Jenny, and brother-in-law, Harold, who jetted in specially from the antipodes, featured World War II armored cars from Santa Barbaran Rob Gordon’s extensive collection and even the valets from Blue Star Parking garbed in specially tailored khaki uniforms.

Invitations, in keeping the theme, were sent by telegram and the boffo bash started with a USO garden party on the magnificent home’s upper terrace with a selection of luxury artisan cocktails from the Grand Bevy, including pink gin fizz, and aviation and champagne cocktails.

The guests, many dressed in military uniforms of the era, including a few Rosie the Riveters and one Joe DiMaggio, then adjourned to the Supper Club set on the lower tier featuring a 17-piece orchestra and Andrews Sisters and Frank Sinatra look-alikes who got us “in the mood,”

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dining on chilled prawn and avocado cocktail, grilled rosemary lamb chops, and chicken scaloppini from the Bellisario Birthday Rations menu.

Don, who received his star on the Hollywood Hall of Fame in 2004 and retired three years later, was dressed as Sam Snead, the legendary golfer who won 82 PGA Tour events, including seven majors.

“I love playing golf, so I thought this the perfect occasion,” said Don, nattily dressed in plus fours and a cashmere Argyle sweater.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Riviera Creative Group, 409 San Domingo Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Chris Placencia, 321 10th Avenue #2003, San Diego, CA 92101; Saul Plasencia, 5121 Rhoads Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 23, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Jan Morales. FBN No. 20150002278. Published August 19, 26, September 2, 9, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road Suite I, Montecito, CA 93108. Melinda S. Horwitz, INC., 1235 Coast Village Road Suite I, Montecito, CA 93108.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 28, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Teresa Ann Iqbal. FBN No. 20150002313. Published August 19, 26, September 2, 9, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: The Control Lab, 5860 Hollister Ave, Suite C, Goleta, CA 93117.

Jorge Diaz, 249 Verano Drive #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 20, 2015. 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)

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV02227. To all interested parties: Petitioners Sushant Mathur and Aditi Roop Jopat filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Abeer Mathur to Abir Mathur.

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed August 3, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: September 16, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept.

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Published 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/9 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV02047. To all interested parties: Petitioner Nida Sakina Stationwala filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Helena Evelyn Harlow. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed August 3, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: September 30, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept.

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Published 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/9 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV01849. To all interested parties: Petitioner Danielle Tokai Moller Martinez filed a petition with

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ORDINANCE NO. 5714

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AUTHORIZING THE APPROVAL AND EXECUTION BY THE PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR OF A PROPOSITION 84 INTEGRATED REGIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT SUBGRANT AGREEMENT WITH THE SANTA BARBARA COUNTY WATER AGENCY, AND ANY AMENDMENTS THERETO, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL AS TO FORM BY THE CITY ATTORNEY, REGARDING GRANT FUNDING AWARD FOR THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA RECYCLED WATER ENHANCEMENT (OR REPLACEMENT) PROJECT

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE AIRPORT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A TWENTY-YEAR LEASE AGREEMENT, WITH TWO FIVE-YEAR OPTIONS FOR 167,713 SQUARE FEET OF LAND AT 6210 HOLLISTER AVENUE, AT THE SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT, WITH D&G LIN, LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, AT A MONTHLY RENTAL OF $20,000 EXCLUSIVE OF UTILITIES, EFFECTIVE UPON ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY BY THE CITY.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

August 11, 2015.

August 11, 2015.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.

California.

(Seal)

(Seal)

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5714

ORDINANCE NO. 5715 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on August 4, 2015, and was adopted by the

was introduced on August 4, 2015, and was adopted by the

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

August 11, 2015, by the following roll call vote:

August 11, 2015, by the following roll call vote:

AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Mayor Helene Schneider

AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Gregg Hart, Frank Hotchkiss, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

Councilmember Bendy White

ABSENT:

Councilmember Bendy White

ABSTENTIONS:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on August 12, 2015.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on August 12, 2015.

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(Seal) /s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

August 12, 2015.

August 12, 2015. /s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published August 19, 2015 Montecito Journal

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Tokai Nordegaard. The Court orders

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor Published August 19, 2015 Montecito Journal

that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any,

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why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described about

must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to

20 – 27 August 2015

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 5403 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5403 for the Sanitary Sewer Main Cleaning FY16 will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, August 27, 2015, to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “Sanitary Sewer Main Cleaning FY16, Bid No. 5403".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: perform cleaning of approximately 21 miles of sanitary sewer main per the specifications. The Engineer’s estimate is $145,000.

Each bidder must have a Class A license, or the appropriate class of license applicable to the work, to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

The specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Specification sets can be obtained from CyberCopy (located at 504 N Milpas St, cross street Haley) by contacting Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The City’s contact for this project is Mary Jornales, Project Engineer I, (805) 564-5370.

In order to be placed on the plan holder’s list, the Contractor can register as a document holder for this Project on Ebidboard. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations.

In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Per California Civil Code Section 9550, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashier’s check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work.

Effective March 1, 2015, Senate Bill 854 requires the City to only use contractors and subcontractors on public projects that have been registered with the State of California Department of Industrial Relations.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: August 12 and 19, 2015 Montecito Journal

be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed August 3, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date:

20 – 27 August 2015

September 16, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 8/19, 8/26, 9/2, 9/9 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV02078. To all

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5405 DUE DATE & TIME: September 10, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Island, Median and Parkway Landscape Maintenance A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on September 2, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., at the Parks Conference Room, located at 402 E. Ortega St., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. This meeting will include site visits, which may go until 3:30 pm.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977.

There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C-27 Landscaping Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess one of the above mentioned licenses at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

If there is a difference between the prevailing wage and living wage rates, bidder shall pay not less than the higher wage rate.

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

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

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

interested parties: Petitioner Edubiges Gonzalez filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Jessica Godinez Gonzalez to Jessica Godinez.

The Court orders that all

Published: August 19, 2015 Montecito Journal

persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5404 DUE DATE & TIME: September 9, 2015 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Vegetation Road Clearance Project for FY16 Scope of Work includes reducing the amount of flammable vegetation along roadways, enhance evacuation during a wild land fire and decrease emergency response times within the City Foothill and Extreme Foothill High Fire Hazard Areas through the removal of vegetation.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977.

There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C61 Limited Specialty/D49 Tree Service or a C27 Landscaping Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess either of the above-mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed to be qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages.

If there is a difference between the prevailing wage and living wage rates, bidder shall pay not less than the higher wage rate.

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

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

____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed,

Published: August 19, 2015 Montecito Journal

the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed July 30, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: September 30, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept.

1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 8/12, 8/19, 8/26, 9/2

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worthy cause.

More than 40 percent of the wishes granted by Make-A-Wish involve Disney.

Nattily attired are Chelsea and Scott Bakula of Bellisario’s Quantum Leap with greetings from cocktail hostess (photo by Priscilla)

Make-A-Wish recipient Christopher Felipe and family, with KEYT weather gal Meredith Garofalo upon being told they’re going to Disneyland

Enjoying the birthday celebration are Alan Levi, filmmaker, with Sharon and Dr. David Bradford (photo by Priscilla)

his 13th season on the hit CBS show, having shot to fame as Russian secret agent lllya Kuryakin with Robert Vaughn on the ‘60s TV series The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Montecito resident Michael Hammer’s son, Armie, by coincidence, is playing the same role in Guy Ritchie’s just released film version of U.N.C.L.E. with Superman actor Henry Cavill in the part of Napoleon Solo.

The sensational soirée also featured a five-tier birthday cake by the Newport Beach bakery, Sweet & Saucy, with old mail packages, a side of a plane with a pin-up drawing of Don’s wife, and pearls and gardenias.

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Magical Kingdom Teenager Christopher Felipe Havas is off to Disneyland with his family.

The 13-year-old, who lives in Santa Barbara and suffers with leukemia, heard that his vacation request from the 30-year-old Make-A-Wish TriCounties had been granted over dinner at his favorite eatery, The Habit on Milpas Street last week.

KEYT meteorologist Meredith Garofalo has met many recipients of the organization, as well as raising many thousands of dollars for the

Going Gauthier Social gridlock reigned at the State Street bling emporium, Gauthier, when owners Scott, Coco, and Michelle Gauthier, threw a bustling bash to launch the first Gulfstream Pacific Coast Open at the Santa Barbara Polo Club.

Senior executives from the jet company flew in from Savannah, Georgia, as well as as Dallas, Seattle, Boise, and Newport Beach.

“This is the first time Gulfstream has become involved with North American polo, and we couldn’t ask At the party kicking off the Gulfstream Pacific Coast Open Polo Tournament are Gulfstream representatives Brent Monroe, Eric Conrad, Shannon Meeks, Richard Milling, Carol Marsch, and Scott Gauthier, owner and designer of Gauthier Jewelry (photo by Priscilla)

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for a more luxurious brand than the leading jet company in the world,” says Charles Ward, who handles the Carpinteria club’s sponsor program.

Among the guests were club president John Muse, Chris and Mindy Denson, Pat and Ursula Nesbitt, Henry and Erin Walker, Joel and Doreen Ladin, Daniel and Ariana Nobel, and Brent Monroe.

Ending on a High Note The John E.Profant Foundation for the Arts hosted a colorful Fiesta Finale gala at the historic El Paseo restaurant.

Tenor Eduardo Villa was the star attraction, along with Argentinian tango artists Yulia Maluta and John Linares, Gil Rosas, on piano and eight-year-old Joseph Malvanni on guitar.

Flamenco dancers Ricardo Chavez and company went through their paces accompanied by Jose Tanaka on guitar and vocalist Jesus Montoya.

Costume contest winners, judged by my Journal colleague Lynda Millner, were James Diego Garcia, husband of Erin Graffy, and Kathy McClintock, dentist wife of Presidente Cas Stimson. while Julia McLeod won the VIVA! award, and Michael Wilkie the Michelangelo award.

Among the crowd at the energized fiesta fest were Hiroko Benko, Silvio DiLoreto, Stan and Betty Hatch, Madison Richardson, Toni Simon, Mary Collier, Sigrid Toye, Pat Hinds, Judy Hill, sheriff Bill Brown, Bonnie Henricks, and Lyn, Musette, Marie, Michele, and Mignonne Profant.

Front and Center Center Stage Theater celebrated its

25th anniversary at Paseo Nuevo at the weekend with a boffo bash and special performances by the Santa Barbara Silver Follies, the Proboscis Theater Company, and Alma de Mexico, which was expected to raise around $25,000 for capital improvements.

The bijou gem, which sits opposite the Museum of Contemporary Arts, was spearheaded by quite a tony group, including Rod Lathim, Tom Hinshaw, Eric Larson, John Kelly, and Beth Burleson.

The 130-seat black box theater has grown considerably since its early days with more productions than ever, with some bookings a year ahead.

As they say, from small acorns.

Six Decades Later It was certainly a beautiful evening when the Granada Theatre inaugurated its Rodgers & Hammerstein film series with the 1955 re-mastered gem Oklahoma!, starring Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae, Eddie Albert, and Rod Steiger, which this year celebrates its 60th anniversary.

Adding to the occasion was the presence of Rodgers’s grandson, Summerland resident Peter Melnick, a 57-year-old composer in his own right, who had only seen 1965’s The Sound of Music on the big screen.

“I’ve seen all the musicals on stage, but I’m looking forward to seeing the rest of the films,” he told me at a small reception in the theater’s McCune Founders Room with guests including Mara Abboud, Mary Dorra, Geoffrey and Joan Rutkowski, Pat Gregory,

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the musical version of Lend Me a Tenor among many freelance directorial gigs across the globe.

He’s been back at PCPA for barely a year, and aside from once again enjoying the stability of a full-time job, has a different perspective this time around.

“It’s a deeper well. I have more stuff to call on for both teaching and directing,” he explained over the phone recently. “There’s something about getting older and having the experience that makes it easier. You realize it’s already in you. You don’t always have to go search for it. And I’ve got more stories to tell. It’s great to be able to share that.”

The same might be said for the play that represents Carroll’s first turn back at the helm at PCPA directing Peter, which opened the indoor season in Santa Maria back in winter and closes the outdoor one in Solvang. Having a different take on the famous tale of Peter Pan from a more adult point of view is one of the things that inspired the creators of the 2011 piece, which is based on the 2004 novel by humorist Dave Barry and suspense writer Ridley Pearson. And they definitely has some stories to spin.

“My favorite thing about the piece is that it grew out of the author’s daughter asking how Peter Pan met Captain Hook,” Carroll said. “Luckily (for her and us), her father was an award-winning novelist who set out to answer that question for her.”

The result was the highly inventive novel that serves as a grownup’s prequel to Peter Pan about 13-yearold apprentice “starcatcher” Molly and a nameless orphan boy she takes to the high seas along with a trunk full of magic “starstuff” while being pursued by a boat-load of pirates including Black Stache, the future Capt. Hook. The theater version Peter and the Starcatcher was adapted

by Rick Elice (Jersey Boys, Addams Family) who resonated with the idea that Peter Pan doesn’t become the boy who will never grow up until Molly leaves him behind so that she can. “James Barrie found his character (Peter Pan) by embracing the notion of never growing up,” the playwright noted. “I found mine by realizing I had.”

“In many ways, it’s the opposite of Peter Pan,” Carroll said. “At first, he’s just an orphan who is undergoing all these dangers. He wonders why can’t I just be a boy and not have to deal with all this stuff. The moral being ‘Be careful what you wish for.’ So it’s kind of a cautionary tale, too.”

But mostly Starcatcher, which was a hit on Broadway and nominated for five Tony Awards (winning three) is a lot of fun, which comes on two levels, he said.

“All the way through, they plant little seeds about what we know is going to happen in the next story, so the audience can pick up on those.

But there’s so much going on. It’s part 19th-century romance, and part Bugs Bunny cartoon, embracing the extremes of both of genres. There’s the part about a young girl in a completely male dominated world of Victorian England. Moments are beautifully touching about growing up, reaching out to say goodbye. And then there’s wacky old vaudeville routines. This piece is so full of surprises, you can’t ever relax into what you thought you knew about what happens. And the energy is constantly shifting.”

Indeed, Carroll said, how the story gets told is a big part of the magic.

There are very few set pieces, as much of the props are left up to the audience’s imagination.

“It’s not driven by current theater technology. It’s really old 19th-century storytelling theater. A piece of

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rope can be 16 other things. It doesn’t revolve around helicopters and falling chandeliers, those things we’ve relied on for the last 25 years to make people go ‘Ooh’ and ‘Aah.’” While Starcatcher had a strong run in Santa Maria, Carroll is looking forward to its revival in Solvang, not in the least because the Festival Theater has no roof.

“There’s something really special about that theater, and even more so for this show. It’s this moment in the play when the stars are revealed. And we’ll actually have stars in the sky!”

(PCPA Theaterfest production of Peter and the Starcatcher plays August 21 September 13. Tickets cost $38.50-$49.50 with discounts for seniors, students, and children. Call 922-8313 or visit www. pcpa.org.)

Elsewhere in Theater

So Called Productions presents Pvt. Wars, James McLure’s meditation on Vietnam War veterans, which began as a one-act in 1979 and was expanded into a full play 10 years later. The play, which focuses on the inner turmoil of three patients in a VA hospital who use small talk

to hide their pain, stars local actors George Coe, Sean Jackson, and Sean O’Shea, with Bill Egan directing. Pvt. Wars opens Friday night and plays through September 5 at Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall. General admission tickets cost $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Call 963-0408 or visit www.

CenterStageTheater.org.

War is also the theme of The Garden of Eaton, a new work by local playwright Naneki Elliott based on the author’s take on recent war crimes.

The play pivots on two Iraq War veterans who, in their struggle to re-enter civilian life, create a foundation that grows seeds for overseas farmers. But each holds a secret that blocks them from healing the wounds of war. Chris’s impending marriage soon cracks open a door to reveal Ben’s even deeper secret which brings both their lives into jeopardy.

Jeff Mills directs a staged reading of The Garden of Eaton featuring Joe Caldwell, Sage Parker, Erica Flor, Tom Hinshaw, and other local actors, on Sunday afternoon (4-6 pm) at The Piano Kitchen, 430 Rose Ave. A talk with light refreshments follows the reading. $10 suggested donation at the door.

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ment of wastewater,” he said. Gio has also participated in the current no-dig rehabilitation project. “Whether I end up in a career in wastewater or not, the wide variety of jobs that I’ve been able to explore has taught me way more than an average person my age,” he said.

Montecito Water District has been serving Montecito since 1947. The District is governed by a five-member board of directors, including Warner Owens, Judy Ishkanian, Tom Kern, Bob Williams, and Jeff Kerns. The District Is currently offering a rebate program for the rehabilitation of private sewer laterals. This program refunds 50 percent of the cost to correct defects to the sewer lateral, up to $2,000.

The District also provides tours of the facilities for individuals or groups.

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With record-breaking heat and low humidity this week and last, Montecito Fire Protection District (MFPD) has increased staffing levels in the District with one Type 6 Brush engine and one Patrol, and is utilizing the local Citizens Emergency Response Team (MERRAG) to provide staffing at critical sites and fill support roles. “We are being proactive due to the local impacts from fires all over the state,” said District spokesperson Geri Ventura.

Ventura went on to say that Montecito residents are urged to evaluate their preparedness levels and should create defensible space around their homes, avoid the operation of spark or flame producing machinery in hazardous grass or brush areas, prepare their families with an evacuation plan, and evacuate immediately if a fire occurs. In the event of a major incident in Montecito, go to www. montecitofire.com, or tune in to AM 1610 for additional information and situational updates.

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mation before they traverse the trails.

This past weekend, hikers were alerted to fire danger and the danger of heat exhaustion. MFPD provided iced water for hikers, while MERRAG volunteers asked hikers to plot the route they would take if a fire occurred while they were on the trails. “Although it’s a sweatbox up there, this is a good program,” said MERRAG president Cate Wilkins, explaining that the goal is to keep hikers safe and reduce the need for rescue.

MFPD reps were also present at an event last week at the Transition House in downtown Santa Barbara.

The nonprofit provides emergency shelter, transitional, and permanent housing to Santa Barbara area homeless families via three locations downtown. Last week, Sit ‘n Sleep, Southern California’s largest mattress retailer, and Tempur-Pedic, donated 35 new mattresses to the center, thanks to a recommendation from Montecito Fire Department.

The donation will benefit local homeless families that are receiving support services in Transition House’s three-stage housing program. The mattress donation will replace the facility’s worn-out beds, some of which are more than a decade old. “Everyone deserves the opportunity to sleep with dignity, and these new mattresses will comfort families as they work toward a promising future,” said Transition House executive director Kathleen Baushke.

Division chief of operations Kevin Taylor, who joined MFPD earlier this year, said the District has been a longtime supporter of the Transition House, which relies on community support and donations from local businesses and organizations. It was nearly two years ago Sit ‘n Sleep and Tempur-Pedic donated new mattresses to the Montecito Fire Department as well, replacing their old, worn-out beds at both stations.

After the 35 beds were carried into the facility by volunteers, Baushke, Chief Taylor, and Sit ‘n Sleep CEO Larry Miller spoke about the donation and the important work of the Transition House. Members of the media were then invited on a tour of the facility.

For more information, visit www. transitionhouse.com.

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SEEN (Continued from page 17) The Profants: Mignonne, Musette, Lyn, Michele, and Marie at their gala

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handsome man who ask the young woman to dance. He was a trained Jose Monero dancer and she a ballerina.

Marriage followed and four daughters.

Of course, the man was John Profant, his wife, Lyn, and Michele, Marie, Musette, and Mignonne.

At the party, we sat with Gil Rosas and his wife who told me that their meeting and romance began in El Paseo. Also attending was El Presidente Cas Stimson and his wife, Kathy McClintock, DDS who met during Fiesta 1989 and just renewed their vows at the Mission after 25 years. Cas declared Romantica the theme for his reign.

The evening began with wine tasting at the four adjoining wineries: Au Bon Climat, Grassini, Margerum Wine Company, and Happy Canyon Vineyard, Each guest could vote for their favorite. I couldn’t choose just one, they were so good. Grassini did win the first Fiesta Finale Wine Competition.

Then it was into the restaurant for cocktails, tapas, and music by the Martinez Brothers. The costume judges, Jill Nida, and myself were busy browsing the festive crowd for the best.

That title went to Kathy McClintock and Jim Garcia. The Foundation also gave its second VIVA! Award to a surprised Julie McLeod. Erin Graffy announced and explained, “A VIVA is a person who shares our commitment to the development of mature artists and who works tirelessly to bring out the talents of artists, who may or may not aspire to professional careers but are inspired, energized, and even healed by creative pursuits.”

The first recipient was Rod Lathim.

The Michelangelo Award for significant contributions to the community went to Michael Wilkie.

After a grande dinner of steak and shrimp, it was time for the fabulous floorshow. There was tenor Eduardo Villa, a regular guest at the Met with his thrilling singing of Granada; Yulia Maluta and John Linares doing the Argentine tango; eight-year-old Joseph Malvinni on guitar; Fiestas Remembered by Gil Rosas on the piano, and flamenco by Ricardo Chavez and company with vocals by Jesus Montoya and guitar by Jose Tanaka.

The evening benefited the Profant Foundation, which assists artists of all ages locally, through scholarships, exhibits, and performances. Viva la ultima fiesta until 2016!

Old Spanish Days Fiesta

What better place to have an Old Spanish Days Fiesta than in an old Spanish adobe. That would be Union Bank’s celebration in the Hill Carrillo adobe at 15 E. Carrillo Street. It was built in 1825 by architect Daniel Hill from Massachusettes for his bride Rafaela L. Ortega y Olivera, granddaughter of Jose Francisco Ortega, founder and first commandante of the Royal Presidio of Santa Barbara.

In 1986, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is also a California Historic Landmark. The bank loans the adobe, now called the Community Partners Center, to the many nonprofits for events.

There was quite a crowd both inside and in the charming courtyard enjoying margaritas, wine, and excellent authentic Mexican cuisine by Los Arroyos. Besides the yummy tacos and taquitos, there were churros for dessert. It brought back memories of our market in Spain where there

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would be a giant barrel of grease out in the street spewing out churros and handed to us in paper cones – a special Saturday treat for the kids.

Some of those fiesteros were Lynda Tanner, Heidi Holly, Michael Cook and Sally Irving, Sal Cisneros, Cindy Burton, Patty Enger, Rich Block, Dennis Rickard, Sylvana Kelly, Barbara Tellefson, and Zohar Zio. Also, there were Marc Martinez and Donna with his collection of Fiesta memorabilia, including nearly all the pins from Fiesta’s past. This year’s was added, taking its place in history.

Union bank regional manager Vince Caballero reminded us of the many nonprofits they sponsor throughout the year. El Presidente Cas Stimson proudly announced, “This is the largest fiesta in thirty years.” He thinks it’s because Santa Barbara was represented in the Rose Parade in January. The theme is “Romantica.” Father Larry Gosselin from the Mission expressed that “Fiesta is all about the spirit of love.” And since El Presidente met his wife during Fiesta 25 years ago, love and romance is the perfect theme.

Viva!

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 37) Santa Barbara Strings students Aidan Woodruff, cello and piano, meeting with celebrated classical violinist Niv Ashkenazi, and student Henry Woodruff, violin and piano (photo by Priscilla)

Guests Gary and Susan Gulbransen with Craig Springer, Chrisman executive director (photo by Priscilla)

Open Wide It’s one of the most famous lines in film history.

And now, 40 years after the late Roy Scheider exclaimed, “We’re going to need a bigger boat!” in Jaws, it seems the film’s director, Steven Spielberg, has taken the sentiment firmly to heart.

The 68-year-old tycoon, a founder of the DreamWorks movie studio, is selling his $200-million 282-foot mega-yacht, The Seven Seas, because it is too small.

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Others in the series, sponsored by Roger and Sarah Chrisman, include 1956’s The King and I on September 28; Carousel, composed in the same year, on November 23; and 1958’s South Pacific on February 8.

An Act of Violins Six days later, it was time for the Granada Premier Patrons to shine with an intimate concert Upstairs at the G with Los Angeles-based classical violinist Niv Ashkenazi accompanied by Russian pianist Valeria Morgovskaya.

Ashkenazi, who I first encountered four years ago when he was a fellow at the Music Academy of the West’s summer festival and played at the Granada as part of the festival orchestra, studied at The Juilliard School in New York, where he was a student of Itzhak Perlman and Glenn Dicterow, making several Carnegie Hall appearances.

Despite being confined to a wheelchair, he has extraordinary mobility,

Meg and Dan Burnham, Santa Barbara Center for the Performing Arts Board chair (photo by Priscilla)

some observers to question if Spielberg needs a new boat at all.

The Seven Seas, which charters for a hefty $1.2 million a week, has an infinity pool, seven suites for up to 12 guests, a helicopter landing pad, and a 23-strong crew.

Two years ago, Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, 61, and their seven children took the yacht on a 30,000-mile world cruise, stopping at some of his most notable film locations, including Shanghai, where he shot Empire of the Sun, and Hawaii, where he filmed Jurassic Park.

Sightings: Actress Chloë Sevigny relaxing by the pool at the Coral Casino...Former basketball star Michael Jordan checking out the links at the Rancho San Marcos golf course... Oscar winner Jeff Bridges noshing at Pierre Lafond’s Wine Bistro Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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Winter served as president of Westmont from 1976-2001 and returned as interim president and chancellor in 2006-07. Under his leadership, Westmont became a nationally ranked liberal arts college. He helped strengthen the quality of the faculty and students, facilities on campus, student life, and outreach programs, the endowment, and off-campus study opportunities.

“Westmont continues to benefit from Dave’s contribution during his long and distinguished service,” says president Gayle D. Beebe. “The college and our local community are fundamentally different and better because of his vision and the work he accomplished. The Kingdom of God is also richer and better for the many ways Westmont graduates serve throughout the world.”

Winter articulated a compelling case for liberal arts education, which develops essential skills such as communication and critical thinking. He described it as the best possible preparation for leadership careers. A man of deep and sincere faith, he enhanced spiritual life programs and opportunities for student ministry. Actively involved in national higher education organizations and accrediting agencies, he championed faith-based institutions. He promoted student life programs and sought to create a strong campus community for students to help educate the whole person. In

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1986, Bowling Green State University released a study of higher education officials and scholars who named Winter as one of the 100 most effective college leaders in the United States.

Winter served in the U.S. Navy for four years as an air intelligence officer and earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from UCLA, and a doctorate in anthropology and sociology from Michigan State University (MSU). Under a Ford Foundation grant, he conducted anthropological field work in Lahore, Pakistan, for 18 months. He taught at Wheaton College in Illinois, Calvin College in Michigan, and earned tenure as a professor at MSU. In 1970, he became the academic vice president at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington, rising to executive vice president in three years. In July 1976, he returned to his native Southern California to serve as president of Westmont, succeeding Lyle C. Hillegas (1972-75).

Three days after he arrived at Westmont, President Winter spoke before the county planning commission, which approved Westmont’s request to increase enrollment to 1,200 students. The board of supervisors later upheld this decision. Winter went door to door to meet the college’s neighbors and hear their concerns.

After the devastating Sycamore Fire in 1977, he encouraged 500 students to volunteer to help local residents who lost their homes in the blaze. Winter continued reaching out to the neighborhood and the community, strengthening relationships. He led efforts to gain permission to average enrollment at 1,200 and to build 41 homes in Las Barrancas for faculty families. He also started the work of updating the college’s approved master plan.

In 1998, Winter suddenly lost 80

David Winter with president Gayle D. Beebe and former president Stan Gaede at Beebe’s inauguration in 2008

percent of his eyesight due to restricted blood flow to the optic nerves. He quickly adapted to this condition and continued to lead the college, relying on his excellent memory when speaking and leading meetings. He retired in 2001 but returned for a year in 2006 while the college sought to replace Stan Gaede, Winter’s successor who had stepped down to resume the life of a scholar. Beebe became Westmont’s eighth president in July 2007.

After his second retirement, Winter served as headmaster of Providence, a college-preparatory Christian high school in Santa Barbara, from 2008-11.

Winter served on numerous boards, including Cottage Health System, the United Way Campaign, the Mosher Foundation, Santa Barbara Chamber of Commerce, Montecito Association, Montecito Rotary Club, Santa Barbara Industry Education Council, Cottage Hospital, Oaks Christian High School, Providence High School, Independent Colleges of Southern California, Christian College Coalition, Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities, Santa Barbara Rescue Mission, Braille Institute, Young Life, Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, Habitat for Humanity, Senior Commission of the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, and the Council on Higher Education in Washington, D.C.

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A longtime community volunteer, he received the Santa Barbara NewsPress Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. The Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse named him one of their Twelve Men of Distinction. In 1999, the John Templeton Foundation selected Winter as one of 50 college presidents who have exercised leadership in character development.

In 2013, he earned the Foundation Fighting Blindness’ Visionary Award.

On May 5, 2011, President Beebe honored Winter and former president Gaede at the dedication of David K. Winter Hall for Science and Mathematics. A bronze statue outside the building depicts Winter walking with wife, Helene. For the past 14 years, 10 Westmont students receive the David K. Winter Character Through Servant Leadership Award for exemplary leadership through service at the college and in the community. The building and award pay tribute to Winter’s commitment to the liberal arts, his strong faith and his servant’s heart.

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

ENDING THIS WEEK It’s Pat – Drew’s Comedy Club, the Friday night series at the Chumash Casino, comes to a close, at least for now, with a final dinner-show featuring a funny woman named Pat. But unlike the character on the classic Saturday Night Live sketch (and movie) that starred Julia Sweeney, “Ms. Pat” is actually named Pat – it’s Patricia Williams, who has worked in standup comedy since 2003, a profession she arrived at via a very unusual route. Rather than studying the greats as a stand-up comedy fan, Ms. Pat found her way to an open mic at the urging of people who heard her tell her humorous stories – surrounding having had two children and being addicted to drugs by the age of 19 – at the welfare office. Her brutally honest storytelling has reminded some of Richard Pryor. WHEN: Dinner 7:30 pm, show starts at 9, on August 21 WHERE: Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $50 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-6274) or www.chumashcasino. com FRIDAY, AUGUST 21 It’s a TRAP – The summer benefit concert for The Rhythmic Arts Project once again draws an enviable line-up of regional artists who are coming together to support Eddie Tuduri’s nonprofit that offers innovative educational programs serving the special-needs community. Joining the Los Angeles all-star band Pockets with Táta Vega and Carl Graves will be Bill & Tamara Champlin (of Chicago and Sons of Champlin fame), Luis Conte, Airto Moreira,

Jim Pugh, Diana Purim, Krishna Booker, and others. KTYD’s Lin Aubuchon hosts the afternoon of music. WHEN: 4-7 pm WHERE: The Hill-Adobe, 15 East Carrillo COST: call INFO: 680-4219 or www. traponline.com Venice in Santa Barbara – The folk-rock band fronted by two pairs of younger brothers of The Lennon Sisters offer achingly sweet four-part harmonies on quintessential Southern California original songs that has won them favor with Jackson Browne and David Crosby, among many others.

But a visit from Venice to SOhO is not rare at all – the band has played a December holiday show every year for more than a decade, and almost always adds a summertime gig, too. But because this is another in the club’s series of self-benefiting concerts, the band is doing something special beyond their normal show. The Lennons and Co. will also appear as the Pine Mountain Logs, Venice’s insidious alter-ego that performs cover songs with energy and attitude, often taking clever little left turns and thematic side roads. For example, The Police’s “Message in a Bottle” might morph into the theme from Gilligan’s Island, while the chorus to David Bowie’s “Fame” could transition into the chorus from Irene Cara’s 1980s anthem from the movie of the same name. The Logs’s repertoire of high-energy classics range from Led Zeppelin to the Jackson Five, Tom Petty, TLC, Aerosmith, Outkast, Steely Dan, Janet Jackson, Doobie Brothers, REM, and Earth Wind & Fire, all reinterpreted with that special Venice touch. We’re told this is the first time the band has appeared under both

ENDING THIS WEEK Cabaret Closes Film Series – The Sunken Gardens at the County Courthouse was alive with the sound of musicals all summer long on Friday nights (including The Sound of Music just last Friday). The “Over the Rainbow: Great American Movie Musicals” series comes to a close on August 21 with Cabaret. The big and brash and eventually tragic musical initially says willkommen, bienvenue, and welcome to the Kit Kat Club of 1931 Berlin, where starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and an impish emcee engage in decadent fun as the Nazi regime builds strength. The movie was a big hit at the box office in 1972, and dominated the Academy Awards the following year with Oscar wins for stars Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey, as well as director Bob Fosse. Don’t forget your blankets, lawn chairs, and picnics for one final free film frolic. WHEN: 8:30 pm WHERE: 100 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 Pining for Paris – Meg Waite Clayton, The New York Times bestselling author of The Wednesday Sisters, returns with her fourth book, Race for Paris, a moving and powerfully dynamic World War II novel about two American journalists and an Englishman, who together race the Allies to Occupied Paris for the scoop of their lives. Clayton’s first three original novels came out four years apart, beginning with 2003’s The Language of Light followed by Sister in 2007, and The Four Ms. Bradwells, making Race for Paris right on time. As with her earlier writing – including a non-fiction article titled “After the Debate” for Forbes online that was praised by the Columbia Journalism Review as “the absolute best story about women’s issues stemming from the second Presidential debate” – Race has women as its central characters. Jane, a reporter for the Nashville Banner, and Liv, an Associated Press photographer, have endured enormous danger and frustrating obstacles including strict military regulations limiting what women correspondents can, and the two decide to go AWOL to fulfill their ambitions. Clayton signs copies of her new book at Chaucer’s this evening.

WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 3321 State Street COST: free INFO: 682-6787 or www. chaucersbooks.com

guises in the same night. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $35-$75 INFO: 962-7776 or www. sohosb.com Blue Horizons – This annual exhibition of short student films that communicate vital issues surrounding the environment and global ocean features four films this year, covering such current topics as the drought’s impact on local food and the Santa Barbara water supply, big oil, and the up-to-date status of California sea lions. A reception with the filmmakers and others from UCSB’s Environmental Media Initiative’s Blue Horizons Program follows the screening. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: free (reservations recommended) INFO: 893-5903 or www.carseywolf. ucsb.edu/pollock/events/2015-bluehorizons-student-film-premiere SATURDAY, AUGUST 22 Lotusland’s Music in the Garden – The verdant main lawn at the lush garden retreat and preserve deep in Montecito becomes center stage for an exclusive performance by the New West Guitar Group, the trio of ax-men comprised of Perry Smith, John Storie, and Will Brahm. The group that has become one of the premier guitar ensembles in the world, performing classic pop covers, jazz standards, and exciting originals, will be joined by special guest vocalist Sara Gazarek, a jazz and pop

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singer who possesses a gorgeous, translucent voice and a supple sense of time. Guests are invited to bring a low-back beach chair or blanket to enjoy the music, and to pre-order a picnic from Whole Foods, which will deliver it to Lotusland. The cash bar features wine, beer, and specialty cocktails. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: 695 Ashley Road COST: $75 ($65 for Lotusland members) INFO: 969-3767 or www.lotusland.org Mesa Fest – The annual free festival by, for, and celebrating residents of the seaside neighborhood of Santa Barbara, takes place as always at La Mesa Park and features live music and entertainment, food vendors, a beer garden, art displays and sales, craft booths, and fun for the whole family.

Among the groups appearing this year are the teenage singer-songwriterguitarist Jamey Geston and the Mesa Jazz Ensemble, featuring 82-year old drummer Bones Howe, a Mesa resident who produced some of greatest rock records of all time (The Association, Fifth Dimension, and Tom Waits). WHEN: 11 am – 7 pm WHERE: 295 Meigs Road COST: free INFO: www.sbmesafest.com WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26 Music in Film – The Plaza Theater in Carpinteria does a double-dose of musical movies from half a century ago this weekend, beginning Friday with a return screening of The T.A.M.I. Show. The movie – which was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 20 – 27 August 2015

TUESDAY, AUGUST 25 Three Kings – Rock and blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa celebrates his 25th year as a professional musician by paying tribute to the blues legend who first put him on stage. Bonamassa’s first public appearance was opening for B.B. King in 1989, when the budding guitarist was only 12 years old. Today, he is hailed worldwide as one of the greatest guitar players of his generation with 16 solo albums to his credit, including a 2013 Grammy nomination.

But Bonamassa’s current tour pays musical homage to all the Kings of blues: B.B., Albert and Freddie, featuring blues covers from the Three Kings performed by the blistering Bonamassa and his stellar band of blues musicians including Anton Fig (drums), Michael Rhodes (bass), Reese Wynans (piano, Hammond organ), Lee Thornburg (trumpet, horn arrangements), Paulie Cerra (saxophone), and Nick Lane (trombone). The classics from the Kings will be highlighted in a celebration of blues heritage as part of Keeping The Blues Alive’s tribute concert series; a portion of the proceeds will go to the KTBA foundation, a nonprofit Bonamassa founded in 2011 that oversees to promote the heritage of the blues to the next generation, fund music scholarships, and supplement the loss of music education in public schools. The guitarist, who also returned B.B. King’s early favor by having a young guitarist join him onstage at the Lobero when Bonamassa headlined the Note for Notes benefit a couple of years ago, has scored 13 No. 1 Billboard Blues Album over the years, including 2014’s new studio record Different Shades Of Blue, which also debuted at No. 8 on Billboard’s Top 200. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 1122 North Milpas St. COST: $88.50-$134.50 INFO: 962-7411 or www.sbbowl.com

and intended as a live concert-to-tapeto-film event back in 1964 – featured just about every great R&B and rock and roll act of the era, from Chuck Berry, The Beach Boys, and The Supremes to James Brown, Marvin Gaye, and the Rolling Stones. Future famed actress Teri Garr and future pop singer Toni Basil were among the go-go dancers performed in the background or beside the performers, while the film was shot by director Steve Binder and his crew from The Steve Allen Show, using a precursor to HD television called “Electronovision” that pre-saged the era of music videos. Binder will once again be on hand to talk about the concert and the film following the

screening on Friday night.... The one band that had just made it big around the same that wasn’t at the concert?

The Beatles. However, the Fab Four are the stars of the 1965 film Help!, already their second movie, which screens in a special 50th anniversary celebration the following night. Local journalist Ivor Davis, a Brit who covered The Beatles’s first American tour from start to finish back in 1964, will hold a Q&A session one hour before the Saturday screening.

WHEN: 8 pm Friday (T.A.M.I. Show) and Saturday (Help!) WHERE: Plaza Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria COST: $20 each night INFO: 684-6380 or www. plazatheatercarpinteria.com •MJ

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X Marks the Spot – Well, actually, Chaucer’s Bookstore is the spot that’s hosting Montecito author Sue Grafton, who will drop by the bookstore to sign X, the newest Kinsey Millhone caper in her famed “alphabet series” of mystery novels. The 24th book in the series has a title that parallels the mystery of the writing – does it refer to the number 10? An unknown, possibly mathematical quantity? A mistake? A cross? A kiss? Described as perhaps the darkest and most chilling novel in Grafton’s catalog, X features a remorseless serial killer who leaves no trace of his crimes. Once again breaking the typical rules of the genre, the author wastes little time identifying this sociopath, as the drama concerns whether Kinsey can prove her case against him before she becomes his next victim. Grafton’s series about the female hard-boiled private investigator Millhone, who operates out of the fictional town of Santa Teresa (a thinly veiled Santa Barbara), began back in 1982, but has just two more installments. The book has already drawn a rave from NPR’s Maureen Corrigan, who said “Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters.” WHEN: 5 pm WHERE: 3321 State Street COST: free INFO: 682-6787 or www.chaucersbooks.com

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Real Estate

by Mark Hunt 1050 Cima Linda Lane: $4,195,000 (from $4,495,000)

Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. They live in Montecito with their daughter, Sareena, a student at SBHS. 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.

Recently Reduced (and Ready to Sell)

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ummer is winding down, but the selling season is in full swing. Prices are still up, but sales and inventory are down a bit over last year, so it seems a good time to focus specifically on a few homes that have had recent price reductions.

As has been the case in recent years, our inventory of available houses for sale in Montecito is still down, considerably. There was no big spike in new listings this June or July, as would be expected, but there were many new listings, and a number of anticipated and surprising sales. The following are four properties that have been recently reduced in price, and all of which offer something special, to go along with the reduced cost.

23 Chase Drive: $1,495,000 (from $1,675,000)

This remodeled home (1,972 sq ft as advertised) offers three bedrooms and two bathrooms on one level, a two-car detached garage and a bonus room on the lower level that can be accessed from the driveway. The home delivers ocean views and is nestled in the foothills of west Montecito in the Cleveland-Santa Barbara School District. The home has recently undergone a complete remodel, and features all new plumbing, electric, heating ducts, insulation, roof, kitchen, baths, windows, exterior stucco, stainless-steel Wolf stove, Subzero fridge, tile floor, granite countertop, and more. It is rare to find a remodeled ocean-view home in this area for less than $1,500,000.

424 Pimiento Lane: $2,999,500 (from $3,495,000) This four-bedroom, three-bath single-level home is on a fenced half-acre, on a quiet lane, just one block from Montecito Union School, and close to the upper village, backing up to upper Manning Park. The property includes a one-bedroom guesthouse and a large two-room studio.

This 3,400 sq-ft, single-level home is also located in the western part of the 93108 ZIP code, and is in the ClevelandSanta Barbara school district.

The main house features limestone floors throughout and has an open floor plan. The kitchen opens to the dining and living room. There is air conditioning, a sound system, citrus trees, gated access, and other amenities.

There are three bedrooms and five bathrooms in the main home, a private backyard, pool, and spectacular mountain-view backdrop. The bonus here is a separate, two-bedroom, ocean-view guesthouse. Additionally, there is a threecar garage and gated access.

420 Toro Canyon Road: $6,295,000 (from $6,800,000)

This 6,300 sq-ft six-bedroom, 6.5-bath Tuscan villa comes with ocean, island, and mountain views and an additional two-bedroom, two-bath guesthouse.

The main residence includes an impressive entry, open living spaces, cook’s kitchen, library, family room, large outdoor loggia with fireplace, pool, spa, and four-car garage. The entry to this estate features a circular motor court with hand-cut stone walls, splashing fountain, olive trees, and mature drought-tolerant landscaping.

The living room opens to an outdoor covered loggia overlooking the pool and expansive lawn toward the ocean. The loggia is accented with multiple arches, columns, a wood ceiling, and a wood-burning stone fireplace.

Additional features include an outdoor barbecue, large master suite, library, billiard room, wine cellar, and privacy on 1.84 acres in the SummerlandCarpinteria school district.

If you are interested in any of these homes, please contact me directly at Mark@Villagesite or call/text (805) 698-2174 and I can make arrangements with the listing agents. To see more best buy picks, visit my website, www.

MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

•MJ

93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

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2796 Bella Vista Road 923 Buena Vista Drive 1709 Overlook Lane 36 Hammond Drive 185 Middle Road 705 Park Lane 2355 East Valley Road 1356 & 1358 Plaza Pacifica 1373 School House Road 1775 Glen Oaks Drive 709 Park Lane 352 East Mountain Drive 211 Rametto Road 815 Ashley Road 298 East Mountain Drive 1512 Mimosa Lane 1211 East Valley Road 1641 East Valley Road 455 Nicholas Lane 120 Tiburon Bay Lane 1561 San Leandro Lane 1526 East Valley Road 12 West Mountain Drive 1889 Eucalyptus Hill Road 1220 Coast Village Road #110 1936 North Jameson Lane #C 62 Olive Mill Road

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We will figure out how much you owe and either call or FAX you back with the amount. You can also e-mail your ad: christine@montecitojournal.net and we will do the same as your FAX).

ESTATE SALE

Six family estate sale of furniture, designer clothes, lighting, linens and decorative accessories on Saturday and Sunday, August 22-23.

Civilized hours of 9-5.

Organic fruits and vegetables, music, tools, model ships, sports equipment, toys and many signed first edition, collector books.

540 El Bosque Road, Montecito.

ITEM WANTED

I am looking for a recumbent exercise bicycle of good quality and excellent working condition.

Call 969-4550 HOUSE/PET SITTING SERVICES

HOUSE & PET SITTING SERVICE -Client references. Responsible. Great with all pets. 805-451-6200 CAREGIVING SERVICES

CAREGIVER AVAILABLE Excellent references, hard working, MA from Pepperdine University, went to nursing school, excellent cook. 20 years experience, call star @684-0146 POSITION WANTED

Experienced, Professional Home/ Estate Manager available. Oversaw large home and garden for LA producer for 10+ years; Live in Santa Barbara, but willing to live on premises (if needed).

Website lists services and testimonies www.SantaBarbaraEMS.com Contact Renée at: RNewell226@gmail. com or 805-450-8508.

DIVORCE Thinking about divorce? Want a fair resolution without conflict?

Tired of the legal hassle?

I can help. I can work with you or both of you to get it done quickly and ensure your privacy.

I am a retired Family Law Judge pro-tem and a Family law Attorney with over 30 years experience.

Mediation or Representation RICHARD DOLWIG Attorney at Law for brochure call: 637-7993

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Dog walking, pet/house sitting, pool maintenance, errands & more…

Experienced estate caretaker/ manager available.

Excellent Local references. Member of Cars & Coffee, also Montecito Beautification Committee. Short/long term assignments accepted. Contact Mike 805 680-0239.

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PHYSICAL THERAPY Improve the Way You Move-Improve the Quality of Your Life. Private sessions with Josette Fast, PT- 35 years experience.

805-722-8035 PR SERVICES

Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event. Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs, podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and press releases.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

Money to lend. $1,000,000 to lend for five years, second trust deed on residential or commercial local properties, 50% loan to value maximum.

969-5757 lee SPECIAL/PERSONAL SERVICES

Personal Assistant/House sitter/Dog sitter. Willing to be insured & bonded.

Years of experience.

Kyle 805 910-6887.

Family Historian available to help you create a written account of your life that will preserve your past and become a cherished legacy for future generations.

There is no time like the present to give the gift of a lifetime! Lisa O’Reilly, Member Association of Personal Historians 684-6514 or www.yourstorieswritten.com COMPUTER/VIDEO SERVICES

VIDEOS TO DVD TRANSFERS Hurry, before your tapes fade away.

Now doing records & cassettes to CD. Only $10 each 969-6500 Scott.

PHYSICAL TRAINING/COACHING

Fit for Life Customized workouts & nutritional guidance for any lifestyle.

Individual/group sessions in ideal setting. House calls available.

Victoria Frost, CPT,FNS,MMA. 805 895-9227.

$8 minimum

Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@gmail.com

REAL ESTATE SERVICES

Professional male seeking: studio, guesthouse, cottage, or 1BR in Santa Barbara/Montecito. 600+ sqft wanted. $1600-$2100/mo. Self-employed business owner, work downtown.

Excellent income, credit, references.

Please call 310-745-9215 Landlords Look No More! Emmynominated professional woman w/ excellent local references, perfect credit, seeking her long-term, unfurnished place called home in Montecito/SB. Need quiet, light, bright, one floor, newish, 2 BR cottage, leafy apt. or condo, with W/D in unit, parking.

No stairs, please, or busy streets. N/P, N/S, N/D. Suzanne: mybestaddress8@ gmail.com. 805-845-6318.

Professional seeking guesthouse with small yard on gated large property or estate. Great References! Have 2 well-trained dogs. Interested in feeding & caring for your horses in exchange for rent or possible rent reduction.

Thanks!

310-953-1783 SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL

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Nancy Hussey Realtor ® 805-452-3052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#0138377 “With her keen eye for design, her superior knowledge of the Santa Barbara real estate market, and her relentless work ethic, our home sold immediately and for top dollar.”

-Norman and Iya Falcone Brown, Former Santa Barbara City Councilwoman NEIGHBORHOOD SEARCHES montecitohouses.info mesahouses.info rivierahouses.info goletahouses.info Call Berni Bernstein, Coastal Properties, BRE #00870443, 7

For rent: 2 room studio with bath, downstairs in private home in lovely Montecito Location, garage.

805-895-8015/845-9937.

CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway. Charming, private studio.

Beautiful garden patio.

Walk to beach and town. $110/night.

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RIVIERA VIEW HOME $1,750,000 www.RivieraViewHome.info To show: call Berni Bernstein, Coastal Properties, BRE #00870443, 705-4867

ESTATE/MOVING SALE SERVICES

COTTAGE/APT/ROOM WANTED

Looking for an apartment/cottage/ room w/bath in Montecito/SB. 1bd, unfurnished. Excellent credit & refs.

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STEVEN BROOKS JEWELERS Custom Design Estate Jewelry Jewelry Restoration Watches I will take in trade or purchase your gold and platinum jewelry, watches and silver items.

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Psychotherapist

Loving Pet Care in my Home $25 for play day $40 for overnight Carole (805) 452-7400 carolebennett@cox.net

1187 Coast Village Road Suite 10-G Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (805) 845-4960 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 50105 Santa Barbara, CA 93150 LIC#: 43829

When you need experienced care at home…

HOME C are PLUS NON-MEDICAL IN HOME CARE

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Estate Moving Sale ServiceEfficient-30yrs experience.

Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030.

TUTORING SERVICES

PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are long standing members of the Music Teachers’ Assoc. of Calif.

Studios conveniently located at the Music Academy of the West. Now offering lessons in your home for children and adults.

Call us at 684-4626.

HALLS OF I. V. Spanish lessons by translator of TO DIE IN THE U.S.A. (novel set in Isla Vista by UCSB’s Victor Fuentes).

Call Gavin Hyde (805) 679-3665.

GREYWATER SYSTEMS

Laundry Machine Greywater System. Irrigate with reused water you already paid for. Code-approved!. See video: edulisgardens.com/greywater 452-7473; eric@edulisgardens.com 20 – 27 August 2015

HANDYMAN SERVICES

Repairs and replacements of all types including painting and drywall. 35 years of experience. References Chuck: 805-636-7943 WOODWORKING/CARPENTRY Finish Custom Carpentry.

Furniture, cabinets, restoration, doors, windows.. Ca Lic#911243.

(805)696-8507. Cristian.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Old Mission Santa Barbara is looking for interested and dedicated men and women of all faiths to join our docent program. Our training class will be held every Monday 9:3012:00 October 5 - November 10.

Applications at Mission website:www. santabarbaramission.org/docents.

For additional information, call Laura Foss at (805) 682-4713 or email at museumtours@sboldmission.org.

K-PALS need volunteers to be foster parents for our dogs while they are waiting for their forever homes. For

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Eva Van Prooyen, MFT

more information info@k-9pals.org or 805-570-0415.

ARTIST REQUEST Used Nespresso Pods Wanted For Local Artist Do you drink Nespresso Coffee? I want your used coffee pods.

805.426.0990

24 Hour & Live-In Care Experts www.HomeCarePlusLLC.com

I’m a local artist and I use these colorful pods in my creations. Save them for me and I will pick them up from Carp. to Goleta area. Creative purposeful recycling (up-cycling) at its best!

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1098 Golf Rd $5,995,000 Jason Streatfeild 805.280.9797 WATCH THE VIDEO ONLINE www.1098GolfRoad.com. George Washington Smith Spanish Colonial Revival Masterpiece!

5BD/4BA + den, 4,500+ SF (assr), 1+ acre (assr), walking distance to Montecito County Club. MUS.

871 Oak Grove Dr $5,950,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Montecito Stone Farmhouse. 4BD/3½BA, terraces, spa, outdoor kitchen - Luxurious living!

1987 Birnam Wood Dr $5,590,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Elegant 5BD/5½BA home in Birnam Wood golf club, Montecito, on a private double lot!

1473 Bonnymede Dr $4,000,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Sea Meadow in Montecito, 3BD/3BA, SW sun exposure, gated. www.1473.MontecitoProperties.com

1775 Glen Oaks Dr $3,995,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 Stylish Mid-Century compound, 2BD/2BA + 3BD/2BA, pool, lawns, 1+ac (assr). www.1775GlenOaks.com

1389 Oak Creek Canyon Rd $3,250,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 6± acs (assr) in A+ Montecito location. Ocean & mountian views.

Water meter in-ready to build!

1512 Mimosa Ln $2,995,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 Rare 1930 European Hedgerow in a storybook garden setting.

3BD/3BA. www.1512MimosaLane.com

875 Knollwood Dr $14,900,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 5BD/10BA French Country Estate on 2.76 acres (assr) with Ocean & Mountain Views, Pool & Spa.

843 Park Hill Ln $9,495,000 Tim Dahl 805.886.2211 Gated 4BD/5BA Don Nulty designed Hilltop Villa with ocean views situated on 4+ acres (assr).

1530 Mimosa Ln $7,995,000 Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 1924 Classic Spanish architectural gem on 1.85 acres (assr). 6BD/6BA. www.1530MimosaLane.com

1567 E Valley Rd $5,950,000 Daniel Encell 805.565.4896 Private European estate in the heart of Upper Village. 6BD/5BA + well, & 5 FPL. DanEncell.com

549 Hot Springs Rd $5,295,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 Irreplaceable Montecito Compound! 3BD/3BA home, 2 detached buildings, 2BD Pool House, Pool/Spa.

2355 E Valley Rd $4,500,000 Mermis/St. Clair 805.886.6741 Magnificent 5BD/9BA 11000 SF on 4 acs (assr). Pool, & guest area. www.StallaggioRanchEstate.com

309 Avila Way $2,895,000 Randy Glick 805.563.4066 Beautifully designed & built single level 5BD/3BA home on a corner lot in the Upper Hedgerow of Montecito. Near Montecito Union & Upper Village. Large usable .80 Acre of beautiful oaks. www.309AvilaWay.com

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