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Now then: documentarian Larry Nimmer creates sequel to Carpinteria at 50, P. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P.10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P.50 • OPEN HOUSES, P.52

ONCE IN A DECADE Perhaps only once every two decades, a property as significant as this comes up for sale in Montecito; the sealed-bid private auction for Seamair Farm is set to take place at 5 pm on Wednesday, November 18 (story begins on p.20)

The Casa Grows

Village Beat

Crane’s Country Fair

Casa Dorinda is set to expand, adding 19 new cottages; after three years of discussion, 28 different neighbors give their approval, p.5

City Council denies Montecito Association’s appeal of the removal of two specimen pine trees on Coast Village Road, p.19

Get ready for some good ol’ fashioned family fun at this Sunday’s Country Fair at Crane Country Day School, p.13

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22 Seniority

5 Bob Hazard

Steven Libowitz surveys the smooth MOVES of the New York City Ballet and chats with Jean Pierre Frohlich; singer Agatha Carubia’s new CD and book; Joss Jaffee and company; focus on film with UCSB; Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour; and a hodge-podge of much more

Bob Hazard provides pertinent details about Casa Dorinda’s foundation, history, relevance, and explains its upgrade and addition of 36 residents

6 Montecito Miscellany

Larry Nimmer’s sequel; Oprah overcomes odds; Katy Perry rocks Puerto Rico; Michael Hammer commendation; Christopher Madsen and Rowdy; CAMA Masterseries; Sokoloves host Foodbank; HTO’s Evening with Elvis; City College Foundation; Showdown at SB Polo Club; Girls Inc. honors Lynda Weinman; SB Symphony; and Festival of Flavors

8 Letters to the Editor

Joel Maloney on ugliness; Robert Collector favors Jen Christensen; Gretchen Lieff in praise of Richard Mineards; Michael Edwards on the roads; John and Mabel de la Torre read all about it; Christina Allison goes mute; G. Herbt on tunnels; P. Olson talks politics; and Rooster Bradford heats up about global warming

10 This Week

Community workshop; Stephanie Dalley lecture; The New Yorker discussion; Boo at the Zoo; Spooky Sushi Art; Howl-O-Ween party; SB Music Club; Crane’s Country Fair; Best Wedding Showcase; 12-Step retreat; luncheon and lecture; MBAR meeting; Independent School Info Night; Summerland yoga; Monster Mash; Bead Elements and Design; MUS Dads Pancake Breakfast; Ghost Village Road; grieving support group; art classes; Adventuresome Aging; Cava entertainment; brain fitness; Locals Night; Story Time; Italian conversation; farmers and artisans 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

Crane School breaks ground on new classroom project and gets ready for Country Fair; City Council makes decision on Coast Village Road pine trees; and Victoria Urquhart launches Bloom Floral & Foliage

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner lives up to her column’s title while attending the Gold Ribbon Luncheon, celebrates with CALM’s Cecilia Rodriguez at Deckers’, and rocks around the Bayou with SB Rescue Mission

20 Real Estate Update

James Buckley opens the doors to Seamair Farm – in the heart of Montecito and bordered

by Oprah’s estate – and its 23-plus acres up for grabs on Santa Rosa Lane

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Patti Teel reads between the lines at the Tecolote book signing with Santa Barbara author Ken Berris; she also chronicles Rona Barrett and Golden Inn and Village

24 On Entertainment

25 Ernie’s World

Ernie Witham continues traversing the islands of Hawaii, where he chronicles everything from pineapples and sacred temples with lengthy names to turtles

26 On Health

Eva Van Prooyen gets the latest medical news from Sansum Clinic’s Jonathan Andrews about a new cancer center with cutting-edge technology

30 Our Town

Joanne Calitri spends time with Our Lady of Mount Carmel principal Karen Regan and USS Gridley commanding officer Marc Crawford at the school

35 Your Westmont

Scott Craig goes behind the curtain as the college produces a pair of plays written by an alumna

36 Montecito Sportsman

John and Sue Burk take flight north of the border – well north – to go fishing in Central South Alaska and the Tsiu River

38 On Charity

Julia Rodgers skims through the pages of Storyteller Children’s Center and its promthemed fundraising gala at Page Youth Center

46 Legal Advertising 47 Movie Guide 50 Calendar of Events

MOMIX returns with Alchemia; dancer Dana Lawton on Center Stage; UCSB’s Paul Berkowitz; Poor Man’s Whiskey at SOhO; Brew Up & Hoedown at SB Carriage Museum; Simrit at Center Stage; Edward Valinsky at SB Music Club; Jasz n Jive BASSH; Home Free at the Lobero; climber Mike Libecki; and Sharon Jones at Campbell Hall

52 Open House Directory 54 Classified Advertising

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

55 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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Bob Hazard

Building

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Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

Mind

Entrance to Casa Dorinda, whose upgrade will accommodate 36 more residents

Casa Dorinda

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asa Dorinda was designed and built in 1919 as the estate of Mrs. Anna Dorinda Bliss. Known for the last 40 years as Casa Dorinda, or more affectionately “the Casa,” this handsome home of extraordinary architectural substance is being upgraded to include housing for an additional 36 residents; currently, some 321 seniors call Casa Dorinda home.

Montecito’s premier retirement community faces Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) approval this week for what are called “badly needed upgrades.” Along with campus improvements, 19 new independent cottages will be added, along with six memory-care and six personal-care apartments.

All will be situated in the center of the property, which boasts 48 acres of wooded oak groves with walking pathways and sumptuous gardens.

Upgrades will include a subsurface parking garage, a resident grill, kitchen improvements, exterior remodels of existing residences (built in the 1970s), remodel of the auditorium to include theater seats, an updated medical clinic, and a more structurally sound and elegant stone bridge to enter and exit from Hot Springs Road.

Neighbor Concerns

Proposed changes to the Casa Dorinda campus have raised concerns among nearby residents. Neighborhood issues include landscaping, water availability, habitat preservation, lighting, and noise. Casa Dorinda officials scheduled a series of workshops and individual sessions over a three-year period to solicit neighborhood opinion and have made changes, all of which are outlined in a unique written memorandum of understanding signed by 28 neighbors and Casa administrators.

Included among the changes were the relocation of cottages to ensure neighbor privacy, elimination of one cottage, movement of trash and recycling, expansion of the restricted open space from 18 to 21.73 acres and the undergrounding of a maintenance facility. This is in addition to woodland restoration plans and rededication of existing hiking trails. Over the last few years, Casa has reduced its water use dramatically in response to the drought and additional plumbing upgrades are included in the campus plans.

The Montecito Association, in an unusual move, voted unanimously to voice its written support for the project and the directors’ appreciation for the open dialogue process between neighbors and the Casa. Casa’s residents and staff also earned the public endorsements of the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara Symphony, American Heart Association, and the Boys and Girls Club for their campus improvements.

Historical Significance

Designed for Mrs. Bliss by a young and then relatively unknown architect named Carleton Winslow, Casa Dorinda was situated at the geographic center of Montecito: the intersection of Olive Mill and Hot Springs roads.

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Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News.

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mmy-nominated documentarian Larry Nimmer, who 15 years ago made the film Carpinteria Then and Now, which told the story of the oceanside community from Chumash times to the present day, has now made a sequel.

Larry, a video producer for more than 40 years, got a grant of $7,000 from the city and spent seven months making Carpinteria at 50, a 90-minute update on his 2000 work.

“It seemed to me that it would be valuable for newcomers to the area to know its recent history,” he says.

“Also, the stories in the documentary are relevant to other small towns with similar issues.”

Larry, who has made a number of documentaries during his career, including Michael Jackson: The Untold Story of Neverland, which was entered into the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2009 after he had worked for the singer’s defense team during his 2005 child molestation trial, which gave him unprecedented access to the sprawling Los Olivos estate.

“It has been an interesting arc. I worked at KPIX in San Francisco producing public affairs programs and then went on to religious documentaries, including In The Footsteps of Peter and Paul, the History of Christian Rome.

“Then I worked with the actor Ed Asner with a Jewish holidays video guide and also music videos, many seen on MTV.” Currently, Larry produces a variety of videos for corporate and non-profit clients with his Carpinteria-based

Carpinteria director Larry Nimmer

company, Nimmer Pictures.

Lately, he has partnered with Tara O’Reilly, Carpinteria librarian and the Friends of the Carpinteria Library, to make a Library Stories series.

From Porch to Penthouse Decades before she became the queen of daytime TV, a media mogul and an Oscar-nominated producer, a young Oprah Winfrey was forced to sleep on a porch because her mother’s light-skinned roommate didn’t like the child’s dark complexion.

The 61-year founder of the Oprah Winfrey Network currently has a net worth of $3 billion, but she has never forgotten her hardscrabble childhood marked by crushing poverty, physical abuse, rape at age nine, and an early pregnancy.

Oprah, Montecito’s most famous resident, spent the first years of her life in rural Mississippi with her grandmother, Hattie Mae Lee, who taught her how to read before the age of three

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TO THE EDITOR

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’d like to add my two cents (or hundred bucks, actually) to the ongoing debate over the Slum-in-Waiting housing project being constructed along Punta Gorda and the Freeway. I say Slum-in-Waiting because it’s obvious to even the most casual observer that anyone who is forced to cram into 600 square feet built on top of a freeway while paying exorbitant rent is going to eventually come to resent their surroundings. I doubt you’ll see much pride of ownership in those units abutting and towering above the sound wall on the mountain side of U.S. Highway 101. You’ll see them just as you near downtown Santa Barbara. Hope I’m wrong, but that’s my assumption.

There are so many things wrong with this project from a Santa Barbara architectural and a coastal esthetic perspective that I can’t begin to enumerate them all. Neither do I have enough ink in my newly purchased cartridge to put them down on paper, nor do I possess the mathematical skills to add such a big number in my head.

But let me state the most obvious: we live in a community with no water and in which obtaining a construction permit is tantamount to winning the lottery. (Having been in the mortgage business for the past 34 years, I’ve watched clients be eviscerated by the city over hedge height, deck railings, and three-foot, one-inch walls). Yet this project slides in unscathed with no — or very little — public input.

Amazing! The state bureaucrat who signed off on this should be removed from his/her position immediately, their pension stripped and, I think for good measure, forced to live in one of the units hovering over the freeway.

Okay, enough negativity… almost.

If everyone is going to pass the buck and blame the mindless bureaucrats in Sacramento then, where were our state Legislators to at least fight for an esthetically pleasing project? Where were the Eastside advocacy groups?

And, I hate to say it, where was the voice from the surrounding neighbors who clearly understand there will be untold congestion in the area and limited parking for all inhabitants?

(Rightly or wrongly, I hold them the least culpable as most are renters and therefore probably don’t truly feel fully vested in the neighborhood).

I hate being so negative, I really do, but I see those steepled roofs every day as I drive by and – like a deep thorn in my side – the wound festers.

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Having said that, I realize it is at this point a sad fait accompli and we’ve been duped. The buildings are here to stay. It isn’t too late, though, for the city and the community to force the developer to landscape the atrocity appropriately. According to your recent article, the developer plans to put up a few palm trees to soften the project. That’s a good start – for the parking area. Along the freeway, we should mandate that they plant very thick, bushy trees similar to every other house built close to a sound wall from here to San Diego. In this case, the trees need to be tall and, like I said, bushy. Within a year or two, we won’t even see the rooftops and the festering sore will begin to heal. (Of course, if I’m right, the problems will then be on the Punta Gorda corridor and surrounding neighborhoods. But that’s a different story).

If the community needs volunteers or if the developer needs money for the planting of these trees, I’d be happy to put together a committee to coordinate the project. And, I will even donate the first hundred dollars.

Joel A. Maloney Summerland (Editor’s note: Joel is a senior residential loan specialist-broker with Priority Financial in Santa Barbara. He is also a fine novelist and sports a low single-digit golf handicap index. As for those ugly little boxes along the highway, anyone who has a problem with the Chumash and their ability to avoid building restrictions on tribal land should look to what our state and federal overseers are able to do without any oversight. We at least have a chance to reason with the Chumash, but there is no reasoning with the state or the federal government. They can do what they please. – J.B.)

Three Cheers for Jen

Something terrific happened for Montecito recently. Jennifer Christensen announced she’s running for the 1st District supervisor’s seat against Das Williams. I bet most of you are thinking: Who’s Jennifer Christensen? Right. She’s doesn’t have the professional politician “brand awareness,” which – if I’m not wrong – the public is growingly bipolar about, as in: “Yeah, I’ve heard of him/her,” versus “Yeah, I’ve heard of him/her, but is my life better because of this awareness?”

Life is not better. Not anywhere, as we’re learning, and particularly not

Jennifer Christensen wants to be your next 1st District Supervisor

in Santa Barbara. Jen Christensen is the real deal: she’s the county’s chief investment officer: a professional, not a professional politician. A graduate of UCLA, an attorney and an MBA from USC, she could be working at Goldman Sachs. Instead she chose public service, and for the last 15 years has worked for Santa Barbara County developing a diverse body of experience in property tax, land use, budget, public safety, and environmental issues. She now serves as the County Investment officer, managing a billion-dollar portfolio for our employees, public schools, and special districts. She also serves as

chair of the Santa Barbara County Employees’ Retirement System, making her uniquely qualified to address the critical issue of pension sustainability.

Okay. She didn’t say she lived in a van like the other guy (cue the weepy soundtrack); instead – for real – she’s willing to take a $50,000 pay cut to be our supervisor, because she stands on principle, because, as a longtime first district resident, as a longtime public servant, she can no longer execute machine-driven public policy she knows is financially unsustainable.

Because she values Montecito as the platinum standard for local land use control (meaning she pledges support for the Montecito Association), and absolutely supports the Montecito Planning Commission and Montecito Board of Architectural Review.

Translation: she won’t sell MPC and MBAR seats to the highest bidder.

Additionally, Jen Christensen is a terrific person, married to a career retired county sheriff.

Do yourself a favor. Do the county a favor. Do Montecito a giant favor: simply get to know Jen. You can start by going on her website: www.

JenniferChristensen.org.

Robert Collector Montecito

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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 Crane’s Annual Country Fair The annual fair features music, barbecue, games, face painting, a bake-off, and more. Everyone is welcome, admission is free!

When: 10 am to 3 pm Where: Crane Country Day School, 1795 San Leandro Lane Info: 969-7732

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 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 gain knowledge on end-of-life care!

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by Kelly Mahan

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Crane School Breaks Ground

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ust days before Crane Country Day School’s largest annual event, the Country Fair, campus officials invited parents, students, and members of the media to a groundbreaking event on October 20, to mark the beginning of construction on the Oak Quad project. “It’s the largest project we’ve ever undertaken,” said head of school Joel Weiss, adding that $10 million to fund the project had been raised from Crane families over a two-year period. (The project cost is estimated at $4.5 million, with other monies earmarked for endowments and other uses.)

The endeavor has been in the works for about four years and includes 9,646 square-feet of new construction (this includes 3,537 square-feet of outdoor, functional deck space), comprising new Upper School classrooms (serving grades 6 through 8), administrative offices and bathrooms, covered outdoor spaces outside of the classrooms, sitting areas, an amphitheater space, garden areas, and a large space dubbed

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The Design Center can be used as a workshop space, or delineated into three separate classroom areas. The project, which also includes a new chain-link fence for enhanced security, has been revised multiple times over the last two years, and has been before the Montecito Board of Architectural several times for design review and revision. In August, the Design Center’s original loft area was removed, which lowered the roofline of the building down to 22 feet, in an effort to appear less intrusive to neighbors.

Weiss, in a presentation to parents at the school’s State of the School, which took place before the groundbreaking, explained that the institute’s current priority was to improve the facilities for the upper school campus; he showed pictures of current classrooms, many of which are significantly smaller than lower school classrooms. He also explained that the new Design Center would be rooted

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Country Fair chairs Susan Monaghan, Erin Eberhardt Spence, and Tasha Marlow are getting ready for the annual event, which takes place this Sunday, October 25

in new curriculum with new teachers, in a collaboration that began this fall with Dos Pueblos High School’s Engineering Academy (DPEA). Weiss said the collaboration allows each school to benefit from the other’s strengths: the Engineering Academy will utilize Crane School’s personnel resources and will have the opportunity to expose younger students to the merits of a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math) education, while Crane School will draw on the expertise of the DPEA to expand on their 88-year tradition of innovative curriculum. The partnership was recently formalized, after months of discussion between Weiss, Tom Kenny, Crane board president, Amir Abo-Shaeer, DPEA director, and Gary Simpson, DPEA Operations manager.

“I’ve visited a lot of high schools and DP’s Engineering Academy is absolutely amazing,” Weiss said. “They are a leader in project-based learning and their emphasis on problem solving, decision-making, investigative skills, and reflection ties in beautifully with Crane’s balance of academic rigor and creative expression. I have no doubt that this effort will unlock many doors for both schools.”

In preparation for the new building and curriculum, Crane hired two experienced educators in September: director of engineering, Joe Donahue, and engineering teacher Sabina Funk, who are training for a full year at

the DPEA, then bringing their knowledge and expertise to Crane when the school opens the Oak Tree Quad facility in Fall 2016. The newly hired Crane faculty will help DPEA teachers for a portion of their time in order to free up DPEA resources to help Crane develop curriculum and design and equip the new Crane facility. “The partnership has so many positive attributes,” says Kenny, Crane board president. “Educators from both school communities are working together to create an unparalleled, high-quality program that can potentially benefit more students in the community.”

The Oak Quad project, which is expected to be finished by next fall, is part of the school’s Master Plan update, which included a new kindergarten in 2011 and a new parking lot and drop-off loop, which was completed in 2014. The building of the Oak Quad is the next step in preparing for the demolition of two of the school’s older buildings (one built in 1928 and one in the 1950s), to eventually make way for an expanded Cate Hall (the school’s theater and auditorium). The project is to match the campus Magnolia Quad and Olive Quad, which are set farther back on the 11-acre parcel.

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Last year, TBCF provided services (financial and emotional) to 649 individuals in our Tri-Counties.

There were 250 supporters gathered for a cocktail hour and to meet some of the day’s honorees. Among them was 16-year-old Paloma Angel, who raised $1,000 from bake sales in a year and gave it to TBCF. She was inspired because of a 3-year-old family friend, Lexi, who didn’t survive. As she was being given her award, Earl Minnis said he wanted to add to it. Everyone gasped when he said $100,000.

Luncheon was held in the air-conditioned Coral Casino, which was a good alternative to the originally planned lawn party. Shirin Rajaee emceeded the program for her last event. She will be moving to Sacramento to be a CBS anchor, and she will be missed.

Shirin informed us, “There are 170 kids in our tri-counties that Teddy Bear nurtures right now.” There will be 700 this year.

The “Heart of Gold Award” went to Dennis Miller, famous comedian and actor who said, “The way the kids react, it humbles me. Remission is a lyric poem. I say prayers every night.”

He has been dedicated to TBCF for a decade.

The “Humanitarian Award” went to Wells Hughes and the “Helping Hand Award to Sheela Hunt. The Mireles family received the “Pay It Forward” Award. Isa was diagnosed with leukemia at age two. She is now

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Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation Little Heroes (they have had cancer) Maddy Gonzalez and Isa Mireles

a 10-year-old. In between, her family has been providing comfort and support to other families who have children in treatment. Isa’s brother Nino is an artist and started a project called “Murals of Hope”, wherein he painted beautifully themed murals in TBCF kids’ bedrooms to cheer them up during chemo treatments. And the inspirational list goes on.

Auctioneer extraordinaire Geoff Green raised many more thousands with the live auction, including a backyard concert by Kenny Loggins.

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Cecelia’s husband, Bob Stanley, with honoree Cecelia Rodriguez and Arlene and Barrie Bergman at the retirement celebration

The $1,000 bake sale girl Tracy Angel with her mom, Paloma

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About 250 friends of Cecilia Rodriguez’s gathered in Deckers’ rotunda to honor her as she steps down from being CEO of Child Abuse Listening & Mediation (CALM) this last seven years. She began in 1984 as a volunteer. In the past 31 years, she has served in many capacities, from receptionist to volunteer speaker. She has also been a forensic interviewer

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for Santa Barbara County encouraging children to speak with her about their most traumatic and painful experiences. She has heard thousands of stories from kids who need to be healed.

In Cecilia’s honor, CALM is establishing the Cecilia Rodriguez Child Abuse Treatment Fund. It will be used to treat children who have suffered abuse, but have no source of payment.

CALM hopes to raise $350,000 and have $140,000 so far. If you’d like to contribute, contact Lori Goodman at 965-2376. Mary Hanson was event chair and managed every detail of the retirement celebration.

Ken Saxon reminded the group, “When you talk to Cecelia, she says why sit when you can walk and so we do.” She’s small but mighty. Board member Ed McKinley told us, “The staff has doubled from seven years ago when Cecelia took over – especially in North County. Our endowment has doubled, and we now own our headquarters.”

Cecelia responded, “ When I was twelve, I wanted to be a grown-up that listens to kids.” And so she is.

She’s retiring, so she can spend time with her two grandchildren who don’t live here. How lucky are they to have a grandma like her.

Rock Around the Bayou

The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission (SBRM) held its 14th annual benefit

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at the Rancho Dos Pueblos north of town, this one themed “Rock Around the Bayou.” They are celebrating their 50th anniversary, hence the blast from the past into the 1950s. It’s sad when one’s decade becomes a costume party! But no one was a “party pooper” as we used to say, and they found ‘50s threads to wear.

Upon arrival in my antique outfit, I was wishing for my turquoise 1956 Thunderbird to go with it. Lo and behold, there was one. Also a 1956 MG, which I used to own. There was jitterbug and jive dancing to rock and roll music. “Elvis,” a.k.a. James Kruk, was there in all his glory. In the background was a silver air stream trailer. Waiters passed the old favorite deviled eggs. Miniature ‘50s Chevy cardboard cars filled with Twinkies were on all the tables, along with centerpieces replicating an ice cream soda but made of flowers.

The early supper was nostalgic comfort food – a salad wedge, pot roast, and mac and cheese served family style. The tables were set among one of the most spectacular stand of Moreton Bay Fig trees in the world.

Emcee Catherine Remak thanked Henry and Dundie Schulte for the use again of their fabulous property that is a working ranch. She welcomed around 300 folks to the party. Peter MacDougall presented president/

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At age six, Oprah was separated from her tough but encouraging grandmother and sent to live with her mother, Vernita Lee, in Wisconsin.

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Vernita, who had Oprah as an unwed teenager, was working as a housemaid in Milwaukee and sharing a house with another woman.

“I remember the first night entering into that house and being told I wouldn’t be able to sleep with my mother, and I wouldn’t be able to sleep inside the house,” says Oprah.

“There was a little foyer-porch before you actually got inside the house. I was put outside to sleep there.”

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I could tell instantly when I walked into the room that she didn’t like me. It was because of the color of my skin.”

Oprah also evoked the porch episode in professor Henry Louis Gates Jr.’s 2007 biography Finding Oprah’s Roots, revealing her mother’s housemate loved her light-skinned half-sister, Patricia, but didn’t like her because “I was a nappy-headed colored child,” she was quoted in the book as saying of herself.

As she slept outside, Oprah, who as a toddler got the nickname The Preacher for her uncanny ability to recite Bible verses, said she was comforted by her faith.

“I remember praying on my knees the very first night I had been removed from my grandmother,” she says. “I don’t remember ever shedding a tear about it because I knew that God was my father. Jesus was my brother, and they were with me.”

Oprah’s network is now airing a seven-part documentary series titled Belief that explores the origins of various faiths around the world.

Roar No More After completing a mammoth 151-concert world tour, Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has been preparing to wind down.

And though the former Dos Pueblos High student was on the home straight of her Prismatic World Tour, she was determined to go out with a bang.

The 30-year-old singer proved her worth and exactly how she managed to sell out date after date in all corners of the world when she gave a memorable performance in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the other day.

It was no surprise the “Roar” hit-maker was keen to give fans a show they’d never forget as her previous date in Bogotá, Columbia, saw her struggle with 8,000-plus feet altitude.

She was forced to wear an oxygen mask following her concert at Parque Deportivo 222 and shared an obligatory selfie on Twitter.

The former wife of British comedian Russell Brand was on the South American leg, the sixth, of her world tour, that finished in Costa Rica on October 18.

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“The Country Fair offers family fun for the whole community,” said Erin Eberhardt Spence, who has chaired the event alongside Crane moms Tasha Marlow and Susan Monaghan for the last two years.

This year’s fair features two dozen event booths, including the cakewalk, where a decorated cake is given away nearly every 15 minutes, the dunk tank, bounce houses, putting green, and many more activities. The bigger kids, ages six and older, will be able to participate in the haunted house, while the preschool set gets their own play area with a petting zoo and Wahoo stuffed animals they can ride.

The event will feature plenty of food, including Big Daddy’s BBQ serving burgers, hot dogs, tri-tip, and chicken; Healthy Hut offering salads and pizza from Locally Grown Kids; snow cones, popcorn, cotton candy, Here’s the Scoop ice-cream, and more. In addition, the Crane Country Kitchen will sell homemade sweets and savories to eat on the spot or take home. The Country Fair is open to the community, and for many it’s their first introduction to the school.

The fair takes place on Sunday, October 25, from 10 am to 3 pm at Crane School, 1795 San Leandro Lane.

Booth tickets will be sold on site, as

well as raffle tickets for a chance to win a variety of prizes, including Sonos Play:5 Smart Speakers, an overnight at Montecito Inn, and a Double Dolphin Cruise.

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wind and new sun patterns, which will make the problem worse,” he said.

“We do not want Coast Village Road to become another strip mall, with little potted trees everywhere,”

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At its hearing on Tuesday, October 20, the Santa Barbara City Council denied the Montecito Association’s (MA) appeal of the Santa Barbara Parks & Recreation Commission’s approval to remove two specimen pine trees in the setback of the property located at 1187 Coast Village Road.

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The manicured paddock and display area of Seamair Farm at 380 Santa Rosa Lane

roperties such as Seamair Farm don’t come up very often.

Once in a decade, perhaps.

The only recent equivalent, for example, is Oprah Winfrey’s purchase of her 42-acre-plus property, formerly known as the Bacon Estate. Oprah bought the house and land from Bob and Marlene Veloz after spending some time in the guest house. Before the Velozes, the ocean-and-mountainview estate had been in the Bacon family since the 1920s. The sale went through around the turn of the 21st century at the then unheard of price of $50 million.

The 23.26 acres at 380 Santa Rosa Lane (on two separate parcels) were purchased by John and Mary Dell Pritzlaff in 1977, who turned it into Seamair Farm. The couple were famous for raising champion Hackney ponies, among which was national champion stallion Carnations King; they raised champion mares as well, and bred and trained gaited horses and long-tail ponies.

John was ambassador to Malta during the Nixon Administration. He died in 2005 and Mary Dell passed away in July of this year. Their home base had been in Arizona; this was their second home.

John Pritzlaff was not only a dedicated horseman, he was also a conservationist and an avid gardener, whose five-acre organic avocado grove and expansive fruit orchards come with the property, along with the manicured paddock, riding ring, stables, irrigated pastures, and tack rooms, all just down the hill from the main residence, a Cliff May-designed 4,750-sqft ranch home. The home features four bedrooms, four-and-a-half baths, and

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four wood-burning fireplaces, including one in the 24.7x19.6-foot master bedroom and another in the 29x20foot living room. There is a private swimming pool, wine storage room, an additional manager’s cottage, a separate horse trainer’s quarters, two private wells, and two Montecito Water District water meters. While the new buyers may want to convert the space into a two-story Mediterranean, one could easily simply live in the relaxed comfort of the relatively modern and modest house as is.

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Seamair is bordered on the north

by Oprah’s estate, on the east by a 44-acre dedicated open space in Ennisbrook; to the west is another road, making the entire parcel nearly neighbor-less. It is situated, however, in the heart of Montecito and is within walking distance from virtually everything, including the beach, the lower and upper villages and hiking trails beyond. Putting a price on this one-ofa-kind property has proved difficult.

“It’s probably the largest usable property in central Montecito,” suggests Dan Encell, whose over $1 billion in sales puts him in the highest echelon of real estate agents in the U.S., if not the world. Comparing it to Oprah’s nearby estate, he says the difference is that “Seamair is flat and open,” whereas Ms Winfrey’s place, spectacular as it is, is a more hilly enclave.

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Patti Teel is the community representative for Senior Helpers, providers of care and comfort at a moment’s notice. She is also host of the Senior Helpers online video show. www.santabar baraseniors.com. E-mail: patti@pattiteel.com.

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Berris Hits Home Run with First Novel Author Ken Berris signs copies of his new book, Wild Cards, at Tecolote

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ong-time Santa Barbara resident Ken Berris had a well-attended book signing for his new book, Wild Cards, at Tecolote Book Shop.

Wild Cards is an action-packed novel that investigates the mysteries of faith, spirituality, fatherhood, re-incarnation, and a belief that baseball plays a hand in our destinies. The main characters – Hope Hughes and her son, Griffin – are on the run, eluding a homicidal gang of thugs who are after a box of old baseball cards. The cards

are the only things that Griffin’s dad left for him before he died tragically.

As Hope and Griffin run out of options, they begin receiving assistance from unexpected sources.

Baseball legends – Ty Cobb, Lou Gehrig, Roberto Clemente, Babe Ruth, Christy Mathewson, Jim Thorpe, Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, Ted Williams, and Jackie Robinson – mysteriously appear through their old cards and are somehow compelled to help them.

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ine that these and other legends of the past are alive again, re-created through baseball cards, and are yearning for a game with the current major league stars. Whatever the cause or reason, these 10 men address Hope and Griffin’s dangerous predicament, the state of the game, their pasts, their new chances at “life,” and baseball while dealing with the unfamiliarity of the 21st century. The implausible becomes possible – and a lot of fun – as an event of epic proportions and potentially dire consequences plays out in front of the world at Yankee Stadium.

It’s the “Game for the Ages” against modern-day stars such as Miguel Cabrera, Clayton Kershaw, Mike Trout, and Madison Bumgarner. And the stakes – the lives of innocent people, the soul of the game, and the desire for a departed father to return to his family – couldn’t be higher.

Wild Cards is receiving critical acclaim. “Legends come to life in this baseball fantasy tale. A new, imaginative take on how fans connect with their baseball heroes.” (Johnny Bench, Hall of Fame catcher) “Wild Cards is Harry Potter meets Field of Dreams. It’s an emotional home run with the bases loaded.” (Cyrus Yavney, producer of the Hit TV show, 24) “Best baseball book since Moneyball.”

(Jim Helin, Los Angeles Times) Berris is the husband of writer and editor Lauren Lund Berris, and the father of two grown children: Emmynominated actor, Blake Berris; and theater director, teacher, and actress, Riley Berris, who heads the program at San Marcos High School. He is also an award-winning director and screenwriter well-known for The Manor, Blown Away, Spycraft, Eraser Turnabout, and Prickly Rose.

Ken is also a top creative branding consultant who has won Clio Awards and New York One Show Gold Awards for his commercial work on many brand names, and the Invision Award, the Oscar of interactive media.

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Rona Barrett was an extremely successful and determined entertainment reporter who interviewed the who’s who of Hollywood for over 30 years.

• The Voice of the Village •

These days, she uses that tenacity to help seniors.

While it has not been easy, Rona’s dream of providing affordable senior living is becoming a reality. She vividly remembers the night the idea was born. Rona’s mother had passed away, and her father was living with her.

One day, her father had an odd look on his face and Rona asked him what was wrong.

“Who are you?” asked Rona’s father.

“Daddy, it’s your daughter, Rona.”

She tried to soothe him with a hug, but he pushed her away and said, “I don’t have a daughter named Rona.”

That night, Rona went to bed with a yellow notepad and she wrote, “Golden Inn & Cottages.” She thought of her father and what he would like as she began to make plans for a senior village. Rona knew her father would enjoy comfort, attention, friends, and affordability. She continued to cultivate her dream and eventually purchased a property at the intersection of Refugio and Highway 246 in Santa Ynez Valley. The seller, who liked the idea of a village for seniors, gave her generous terms.

Still, it was a leap of faith for the determined Barrett, who had not yet figured out how she would pay for the property.

Through persistent fundraising, she was able to come up with the money to pay off the property, and things began to fall into place. The Rona Barrett Foundation joined forces with the housing authority of the County of Santa Barbara and Surf Development and in 2014, received $23 million in tax credits. Fred Lamont, the housing authority’s executive director, explained the scope of the announcement.

“This award means that for every $1 a supporter donates to the campaign for the GIV, it is estimated that $23 million will be returned in community dividends in the form of local jobs, local salaries, and local expenditures for equipment, transportation, and supplies,” he said.

Rona worked closely with Detty Peikert of Peikert Group Architects to design a comfortable place to live that more closely resembles a village than a retirement facility. Last April, the Golden Inn & Village broke ground, and it will be the first senior housing project in Santa Barbara County and California to provide affordable, aging-in place senior care. It will have independent living, assisted living, memory care and an adult day program. There will also be 27 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments for employees and their families. In the center, there will be a large community center.

The first people will be moving in around August or September 2016.

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Rona Barrett displays Peikert Group Architects’ design for the Golden Inn & Village

The new center will be located at Refugio and Highway 246 in Santa Ynez Valley

approximately 200 people living there.

Rona describes it as a village within a village. It’s close to markets, churches, and schools.

Rona is passionate about helping “orphaned seniors” – those who have no one left in life to look after and care for them. She is appalled when seniors who have served our country and worked throughout their lives end up living in deplorable conditions and she said, “Everyone should have some dignity.”

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The Rona Barrett Foundation is now seeking help from the community to complete the Golden Inn & Village with its “Golden Stars” campaign.

This drive provides donors with the opportunity to “name a space” within the Golden Inn & Village and will remind the residents that they are not forgotten.

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

by Steven Libowitz Smooth MOVES: New York City Ballet Returns

that it relates to human nature, the human side of people. It’s very theatrical, but at the same time it doesn’t seem like a performance. He created a mood on stage, and the audience couldn’t help to gravitate to it. The dancers are really relating to each other, and you feel like you’re a fly on the wall watching something happen.

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NYCB MOVES, a touring version of New York City Ballet, steps backs into the Granada

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Q. You’ve been with New York City Ballet since 1972. That’s a long time. Why have you stayed for so long?

A. Actually it goes back even further. I was going as a child, even before I was 10, because my sister was a student at American Ballet Theater, and she was in the original production of Rites of Spring... I almost left at one point to be an actor, which I was very interested in. But when I started to work with Jerome Robbins as an assistant, I really enjoyed being close with him, and what he had to say. He had choreographed ballets on me when I was younger, so I knew him pretty well, but I wanted to get into his mind and how he put things together – the interaction of theater, dance, and movement. It was fascinating. I’m very glad I stayed. It gave me a sense of structure in my life. I enjoy working with dancers and helping on the ballets after I stopped dancing. And I didn’t want to leave New York, so I was very fortunate to get that offer.

How do you try to bring forward that work with Robbins?

I grew up listening to West Side Story on LP. I lived 10 blocks from where they made the movie. My office in Lincoln Center is where the playground was. I knew about gangs and switchblades. To go from listening to those records to working with him – being one of his instruments for him to choreograph on, and then as his assistant and now part of the trust to be a custodian for his work, it’s quite an honor. I never would have imagined that this would happen when I was a kid.

What makes his work so special is

After 43 years, is it a challenge to always keep things fresh?

I choreograph also, and I keep myself busy with other projects. I did a short dance narrative film recently. I travel to set (Robbins’s) pieces on other ballet companies. Working with different dancers keeps my interest – I can find new things in the pieces I stage. And I like to make sure that I’m not stale, that the dancers get something new. I need to be passionate about it so that they are, too. You (as a dancer) only reflect the person who is in the front of the room. You can tell by rehearsals who is running the room. The dancers start to emulate that person.

Carubia’s Heart-Based Singing Leads to Grace Most of the time you hear something about Agatha Carubia, it’s usually in the context of Katy Perry. The pop superstar studied voice and music with Carubia at the studios on the campus of the Music Academy of the West back when the future rocker, the daughter of Santa Barbara ministers, was still following the Christian music path. Perry has credited Carubia with helping her improve her vocal technique, and is paying it forward with her “Make Roar Happen” music education campaign, so Carubia’s name has popped up in the press.

Or maybe Carubia showed up in an item about the bass-baritone Evan Hughes, her son who literally grew up on the Miraflores campus as his father was head of facilities. Hughes has become something of a star himself after winning the Marilyn Horne vocal competition back in 2006; he’s since gone on to appear at the Met in New York and has an upcoming role Leporello in DonGiovanni at Komische Oper in Berlin and Figaro in the Marriage of Figaro at the Dresden Semper Oper.

But now Carubia is stepping out into the public eye in a big way herself.

Carubia, who was something of a sensation herself when she first arrived in Montecito in the early 1980s

• The Voice of the Village •

to study with Martial Singher at the Music Academy’s summer festival before earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Juilliard, has spent most of the last few decades as a music teacher and vocal coach to local young aspiring singers. Many of her students have gone on to study at prestigious programs at universities, though Carubia acknowledges that her teaching picked up in the wake of Perry’s and Hughes’s successes.

Now, Carubia said, it’s time to take all that knowledge and experience gleaned through the decades of refining her approach and methods and share it with the larger world. She’s written a book, Heart-Based Singing, and recorded a CD, Grace, both of which will be officially released and celebrated in a special event on Saturday afternoon at MAW’s Singher Studio.

The book explains Carubia’s methods and techniques formed through her practices in yoga and meditation and is meant to serve as a guide to understanding, refining and developing the singing voice safely and comfortably through practical exercises, tools and solutions for immediate improvement.

“Heart-based singing is about looking at the energy center in the body and viewing the vocal instrument from an energetic perspective,” she explained. “It employs three vocal points on the body to accomplish freedom in singing. The pelvic floor is focal point for breath and support.

Heart is focal point of expression and where the truth of it comes from.

The third eye is the focal point for resonance and communication with others.”

The book covers such standard areas as breathing, handling vowels, facing fatigue, interpreting text and mastering rhythm, but with her unique perspective.

“I do give my students regular classical vocal exercises,” she said.

“But it comes from an energetic perspective to see where they’re locked up. And then we can very easily free them up.”

Grace, the new CD, comes from a similar perspective. It features ancient Sanskrit chants that Carubia had learned through her studies in Blue Throat Yoga with Paul Muller-Ortega.

“We learned all the chants in the advanced meditation practice retreats.

I sang them a lot every day. Before I knew it, I realized I wanted to set them to music, embellish them, and see how they wanted to be created.”

Carubia composed and arranged the chants harmonically, and recorded them in her music studio at MAW with one of her students, Myles Pedroso, an electronic dance music artist, at the

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Ernie’s World

by Ernie Witham

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A Working Vacation

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e spent the morning at Mauna Kea beach floating effortlessly in beautifully clear warm water. Earlier, we had seen a turtle laying on the beach at Anaeho’omalu Bay – commonly referred to as A Bay by people who don’t want to try to pronounce that many vowels. Then I watched all these tourists grunt as they tried to figure out how to set up their combo beach chair/umbrella/snorkel, fin, mask bag/organic smoothie maker.

We were onto the next leg of our adventure on the northwest part of Kona on the big island of Hawaii, learning what native Hawaiians did for fun in earlier times...

“Here.”

“Oomph!”

“Again.”

“Oomph!

“One more.”

“You’ve been saying one more, Kanua’a, for months.”

Ka’ernie looked to his left and right.

There were buff grunting men as far

as his bloodshot eyes could see in both directions. None of them smelled all that great.

“One more.”

“What in the blue Pacific is Kamehameha going to do with all these rocks?”

“He’s building a temple.”

“So? What? The king never heard of wood?”

“Shh! I think it unwise to question King Kamehameha. This temple? It’s for making sacrifices.”

“Like putting less sugar on our pineapple surprise?”

“More like ending up wearing your heart on your sleeve, if you catch my drift.”

“Oh! Hey, keep them rocks coming huh?”

I felt a sharp pain in my side. “I’m working as fast as I can! Really!”

“You’re daydreaming again,” my wife whispered. “And grunting a lot.”

After taking 400 photos of the sunbathing turtle, we had driven up the road a piece to the Pu’ukohola Heiau

National Historic Site. A national park ranger was explaining that this was where King Kamehameha, also known as Kamehameha the Great, or by his full Hawaiian name: Kalani Paiʻea Wohi o Kaleikini Kealiʻikui Kamehameha o ʻIolani i Kaiwikapu kauʻi Ka Liholiho Kūnuiākea – which was too long to fit on a driver’s license, so it’s a good thing cars hadn’t been invented yet – built the most important temple in Hawaiian history.

“Because the temple was sacred, the rocks had to be collected from a certain beach where the water had turned lava into smooth, round rocks.

The beach was located 20 miles away.

So the king gathered 10,000 men, and they formed a human chain from origin of rocks to temple and they worked for a full year, passing rocks.

Also because the temple was sacred, no rock could touch the ground. If it did, it had to be returned to the place of origin.”

“Wonder how upset the other guys would be if I, er, someone dropped a rock or two?”

“I’m guessing there would then be 9,999 men passing rocks.”

“Hope they at least had pine tar rosin bags or something?”

The ranger told us that they believe that Kamehameha was born at the same time Haley’s Comet was cruising by, so current chiefs thought this a

sign of a new chief coming to conquer them all and tried to find Baby K to eliminate this prospect, but he was hidden away.

Years later, a second part of the prophesy was the king who could unite all of Hawaii would have to be someone who could lift the Naha stone, which would have been as big as a Buick if Buicks had been invented. Kamehameha apparently not only lifted it but flipped it over. So, his final step was to convince his cousin, Kīwalaʻō, king of the southern part of the island, to visit the temple. It was Kīwalaʻō’s first and last visit.

“It is considered a temple of peace,” the ranger told us. “Because Kamehameha then went on to conquer most of the Hawaiian Islands -- with the help of 10,000 really buff guys – formally establishing the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1810.”

I thought the temple had a great view and had to wonder why the king didn’t turn it into a nice summer place for him and his 20 or so wives.

“All Hawaiian temples are built for just one purpose, so when the purpose had been fulfilled, the temple was abandoned.”

We walked around the temple with all the smooth rocks, which made my lower back sore just looking at them.

Then we went home and I took a nap.

History can be quite tiring.

•MJ

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New Cancer Center Coming

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he earlier we can find it, the better we can treat it,” says Jonathan Andrews, new associate vice president for Diagnostic Imaging and Ancillary Services at Sansum Clinic.

“I’m most proud of two new services we recently brought in. These brand-new, cutting-edge technologies include 3-D mammography to detect early signs of breast cancer, as well as low dose CAT scan (LDCT) to detect early signs of lung cancer.

Both of which are new, that can help with early detection and help doctors treat more effectively,” says Jonathan adding, “Since implementation, we have already detected and successfully treated multiple patients found to have cancer. Early detection is critical.

These are incredible tools.”

Born in the town of Sanford in North Carolina, Jonathan reports he moved to Massachusetts around the age of three with his mother and older brother to live with his English grandmother. “My grandmother served in England’s Women’s Land Army and met my grandfather when he was stationed in England with the U.S. Army during WWII. My mom worked three jobs, my older brother went to school, and I stayed home with my grandmother. She taught me the importance of family, respecting and engaging others, and that no one is ever better than anyone else,” says Jonathan. “I also learned how to make a mean cup of tea, and that the best medicine for any illness is a tea with a spot of whiskey in it… she called it ‘sour tea.’

For the record, sour tea is not common medicine I refer my clients to, and it is not on any of Sansum Clinic’s current treatment plans.”

Jonathan says when his mother remarried, they moved just outside of Rochester, New York, where he went through grade school and high school, and from there he joined the United States Marine Corps, serving as a presidential guard during Desert Storm in the early 1990s.

“When I left the Marine Corps, I took a position in New York as a hospital security guard, which is actually where I started my career in healthcare. I had an opportunity to train as an emergency-room tech, and this is where I fell in love with medicine.

It felt really good to help take care of people,” says Jonathan, explaining while working there he completed his associate’s degree in Athletic Training at Finger Lakes Community College.

“I got really close with the medical staff; they inspired me to pursue a

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District and City Moving Forward with Desalination Talks

The District is pleased to report that the City of Santa Barbara is moving forward with formal negotiations with Montecito on the use of its desalination facility. This is great news, since regional use of the City’s desalination facility is the environmentally superior alternative, and provides an economic and financial benefit to both City and District customers compared to MWD building a second costly, independent facility.

More good news: secured water supplies through spring 2017. The District is fortunate to have successfully purchased large amounts of supplemental water. This supply, along with the continuing conservation by customers should allow MWD to meet current water demands through spring 2017. Desalinated water is expected to be available by then.

The District is also evaluating the potential for obtaining a new water supply from a proposed ultra-deep well.

We will keep you informed as we make progress.

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Jonathan Andrews boasts about Sansum Clinic’s vision for its new Cancer Center

career in the field, so I applied for and was accepted into the Nuclear Medicine program at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT),” says Jonathan, reporting he graduated with a bachelor of science in nuclear medicine technology.

From there, Jonathan got hired at Duke University Medical Center, where he specialized in nuclear cardiology. He “did a year at Duke,” and was then hired on at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as a nuclear medicine tech in cardiology.

While working full-time at Mass General, Jonathan reports he completed his master’s degree in healthcare administration at Suffolk University in Boston, on nights and weekends.

“My next professional stop was a three-year stint with Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore as the operations manager for Imaging Services,” says Jonathan. “While I was there, I realized I needed California sun and settled on Sonoma County, where I met my wife, Aleta.

An opportunity came up in Santa Rosa with the Redwood Regional Medical Group, and I served as the administrator for Imagining Services.”

Jonathan explains around that time many private practice medical groups were being absorbed by hospital groups, so he sought employment with a larger medical institution and found an opportunity with Kaiser Permanente NW, based in Portland, Oregon, were he took on the roll of NW regional director for Imaging Services and worked with 450 tech employees and 50 radiologists.

“My wife and I were in Portland, we had our son, Jack (now 21 months), and found it tough being

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said Montecito Association president Cindy Feinberg, speaking of behalf of the Association, the sole appellant in the case. “These are two of the major trees that add character to the street, and thus our community,” Feinberg said. MA executive director Victoria Greene added: “Their removal would be detrimental to the character of the street, and we believe that not enough attention has been given to alternatives to removal.” Greene and Feinberg asked that the council recommend that the split-trunk tree be saved through cabling, which would add to its stability.

“We value trees, too,” said Heidi Jones, agent for the developers of the project. “Leaving the trees leaves a level of liability, and the project is not necessarily driving the tree removal,” she said, adding that the needles dropped by the trees creates a public safety hazard on the steep driveway.

She said the development to the building will be a much-needed refresh, with the addition of decks and outdoor eating space, storm water runoff upgrades, accessibility, and driveway improvements. Jones outlined many meetings with various committees over the last few months, all of whom supported the vision of the project.

A handful of public speakers talked at the hearing, the majority of which supported the project and the removal

of the trees.

In addition to unanimously denying the appeal, the city council added supplementary conditions to the project: the adding of box trees in the median adjacent to the property. City staff will look into the idea and return on Tuesday, November 10, to discuss the types of trees to be added, and the quantity.

In Business: Bloom Floral & Foliage

Earlier this summer, third-generation flower enthusiast Victoria Urquhart launched Bloom Floral & Foliage, a subscription floral delivery service serving the Central Coast. In just a few short months, the endeavor has already landed Urquhart several ongoing accounts, including multiple businesses on Coast Village Road, and private clients in both Montecito and Santa Barbara. “I took a chance earlier this year to start working for myself, with a vision to change the way we order and enjoy flowers along the Central Coast,” Urquhart told us during an interview last week.

Former vice president of operations for Caroline Diani, the owner of DIANI, DIANI Shoes, and DIANI Living, Urquhart says she was inspired

by Diani’s entrepreneurial spirit; in May she left the retail world to launch

Bloom. “The idea is to bring the Farmers Market to my customers, supporting flower growers in the Carpinteria Valley while bringing seasonal, fresh, beautifully arranged bouquets to local businesses, homes, and offices on a regular basis,” she explained.

She went on to say that a large percentage of flowers sold in the United States are imported (nearly 80 percent), much from South America, resulting in poor vase life and the delivery of arrangements that look nothing like the photos on the largescale flower delivery websites. “We’ve all been there, we get flowers that die within two days, which has lead to a steady decline in consumer confidence.” Urquhart’s mission is to source only locally, and she guarantees weekly delivery of expertly curated and arranged bouquets within 24-48 hours of harvest.

Urquhart’s grandparents and parents were both flower growers, and she harvests a portion of the flowers she uses directly from the fields she grew up on in Carpinteria. “I grew up watching my grandmother pick carnations from their farm, and watching my mom arrange flowers. Now, my dad distributes flower bulbs throughout the state. The floral industry was instilled in me,” she says, adding that her parents also grow avocados, which Bloom customers can add onto

Bloom Floral & Foliage owner Victoria Urquhart, who launched the floral delivery business this past summer

their floral delivery subscriptions.

Here’s how it works: customers choose the size of bouquet, and then choose subscription lengths of one, three, six, or 12 months. Each week they are delivered a fresh bouquet: Thursdays for residential clients, to have flowers for the weekend, or Mondays for retail locations and medical offices, so they’ll have a bouquet to last the work week. Vases and containers are left on the porch for Urquhart to collect each week.

“They’re getting seasonal, local, and long-lasting bouquets, delivered to their door,” she said. Bloom also offers a one-month gift subscription that includes four weeks of deliveries. “It’s for the person who is hard to buy a gift for; who wouldn’t want fresh flowers every week?” Urquhart said.

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 18) All Smiles

“I saw his passion for helping others, a passion we both share, and volunteered to sponsor him. I feel it’s our obligation and privilege to give back when we have been blessed to be able to do so.”

The impressive commendation, topped with the seal of Hawaii and signed by senate executives, lauds Michael as “a renaissance man” who has inherited his family’s dedication to philanthropy..

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Montecito philanthropist Michael Hammer has received a commendation from the Hawaiian senate for his support of the 16-year-old Smile Train charity, which helps children with cleft lips and palates.

“I was having dinner at Lucky’s a while back with my friend, Sunny Garcia, the most decorated international surfer of all time with an unprecedented six Triple Crown of Surfing titles, and he said he wanted to participate in his first ironman competition, the Kona Triathlon, to raise big money for the charity,” says Michael.

Howdy, Rowdy Santa Barbara yachtsman Christopher Madsen debuted his first book, Rowdy, at a bijou bash at Tecolote, the lively literary lair in the upper village.

A boat owner for decades, Christopher has made hundreds of trips to the Channel Islands and has spent innumerable hours in a six-year project renovating Rowdy, a 60-foot racing yacht built nearly a hundred years ago, which he bought in 1998.

And that doesn’t include the 10 years of research into the boat’s colorful past in order to produce the book.

“It’s a great adventure,” he tells me.

“It brings back the era of Hemingway and Gatsby and makes for a wonderful read. It whisked me back, metaphorically, in time.”

Christopher, who moved to our Eden by the Beach in 1967, is now

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thinking of a follow-up in a similar vein.

Feeling Hungary CAMA – the Community Arts Music Association – launched its latest Masterseries at the Lobero in great style with a sold-out concert by world renowned Hungarian pianist and conductor András Schiff.

A direct contrast to the flamboyant style of Chinese keyboardist Lang Lang, who had appeared at another CAMA event at the Granada the week before kicking off its International series. Schiff, who was last here two years ago, was making his sixth appearance in our tony town with his Last Sonatas tour.

Works by Haydn – Sonata in E-flat Major – and Beethoven – Sonata No. 32 in C minor – launched the concert and Mozart – Sonata No. 18 in D

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SBRM president Rolf Geyling remembered, “We opened in a store front in 1965 with 24 beds. Last year we provided 56,538 nights of shelter and 145,669 meals to men, women, and children.” Then there are the extended programs. “While only 21% of those completing treatment nation22 – 29 October 2015

ally maintain their sobriety beyond five years, we are proud that 55% of our graduates remain in recovery over this same time period.” Program graduate Leslie Brown told us her moving and successful story.

Board chair is Karl Willig and president of the women’s auxiliary is Andrea Preiser. Event co-chairs were Susan Hughes and Suzi Ryan with decorations chair Dianne Davis and silent auction coordinators Rose Hodge and Terry Foil. Director of Communications Rebecca Weber is always there to help me get photos.

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Navy Visits Our Lady of Mount Carmel School

Marc Crawford and crew members spend time with Our Lady of Mount Carmel students at the school

Commanding officer Marc Crawford of USS Gridley (DDG-101) and his crew CDR Al Villanueva XO (executive officer), ENS Gabrielle Dimaapi, and ENS Natasha Patterson, visit Our Lady of Mount Carmel School with principal Karen Regan

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n excited Karen Regan, principal of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School (OLMCS), Montecito informed me September 23 that the school would have the USS Gridley ( DDG-101) commanding office (CDR) Marc Crawford and two members of his crew would visit with the students and teachers on September 24 before the officers left for their home port in San Diego.

As there were only two elementary schools visited during the USS Gridley’s stay off our shores, this was a wonderful piece of news for her school and our town!

Mrs. Regan explains, “One of our school parents, Teri Green, works for the city and sent me a press release letting me know the USS Gridley was in town. It was a fantastic opportunity for the students and families of

OLMCS to be able to thank the service men and women who work so hard to protect us all. As is characteristic of our school community, families, and teachers came together to make care packages, provide a morning reception, and beautiful cards from all the students at short notice to give to the officers.”

Crawford arrived promptly for OLCMS morning assembly with three crew members: CDR Al Villanueva XO (executive officer), ENS Gabrielle Dimaapi, and ENS Natasha Patterson. Assembly included The Pledge of Allegiance, opening remarks by Mrs. Regan, and a brief introductory talk by CDR Crawford.

A brief reception followed for the crew while the students filed into their respective classrooms for the day, eagerly awaiting their turn for

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a personal visit from Crawford and his crew. Taking their time to answer questions from each grade, the crew called into base and extended their visit with the school so no classroom would be left unvisited.

From kindergarten through 8th grade, the kids were attentive and fairly awed at the officers in their Navy whites, sparking questions such as, “How many times do you have to change to keep the whites perfect?”

Popular questions at every level were: how CDR Crawford chose the Navy, how long he has served and what are all those pins on his shirt, how many countries he has seen, has he seen a whale, what is life like on board and how big the Gridley actually is, how many missiles does it have, and how did it get its name.

Crawford’s replies were informative. He talked about how he started college as a criminal justice major on the way to becoming an FBI agent, and followed his heart in 1997 at age 23 to join the Navy. The pins on his shirt mark both his personal and team triumphs in Navy service, “like stickers on your homework when you do a good job.”

He takes his work seriously: “The biggest thing for me as C.O. is to mentor and empower my crew to work as a team, then I know I’m doing my job. On board, we have a culture of family and take care of each other. We have a culture of fitness and workout daily in our gym, and there are board and video games that we play to learn even more. Basically, we all sleep in two-hour intervals, with an average of six hours total in 24. One third of my 330-member crew are women.

These whites are our “dress whites;”

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on board, we wear blue fireproof uniforms. The Gridley is 509 feet long, 65 feet wide, and 138 feet above water.

It can go 45 mph and stop within 509 feet.”

In closing, he advised the students to never stop learning, as the crew and himself continue to study while on board. After each visit, one student who represented the class shyly came up to present him with handmade cards for the crew and some brownies. He bent down to the child and they shook hands. The crew was impressed and touched by the kindness and attentiveness of the students and teachers.

After the crew left for their ship, Karen said, “I have a feeling the visit was as meaningful for Commander Crawford and his sailors as it was for all of us at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School... an experience we will all remember!”

On August 22, 2014, the USS Gridley (DDG-101) departed the naval base for a scheduled 10-month deployment and returned June 4, 2015. Crawford was appointed commanding officer September 18. As part of the Pacific fleet, fourth USS Gridley (DDG-101) is the 51st Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in the Navy.

It was commissioned on February 10, 2007. She is named after captain Charles Gridley, who commanded admiral George Dewey’s flagship USS Olympia during the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898. Its motto, Ignis Ubi Paratus, means “Fire when ready.”

The Santa Barbara Navy League, in conjunction with the City of Santa Barbara’s Waterfront Department, sponsored the Gridley’s visit to Santa Barbara.

•MJ 22 – 29 October 2015

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THIS WEEK (Continued from page 10)

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 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

Independent School Information Night After a brief welcome and introductions, presentations will be given by several local private schools along with a Q&A. Afterward, parents will have an opportunity to get information from individual schools at their booths. This event isn’t a specific endorsement of private school education, but because many MUS families elect to take this path when leaving MUS at the end of 6th grade, this opportunity is provided to help parents make more informed decisions. Additionally, SBJHS Information Night will take place in early November and will provide yet another opportunity for parents to learn about post-MUS school options.

When: 6 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 Summerland Evening Yoga A longtime Summerland tradition, taught by Ram Das Andre.

Small Hatha 1 yoga class with brief meditation and breathing work.

When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue Cost: $12 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 Bead Elements Special Preview Night Bead Elements and Design Show will host a special Preview Night at the Fess Parker DoubleTree Santa Barbara. Preview Night begins with a wine & hors d’oeuvres reception and fashion show put on by August Finch Events. It includes a raffle drawing for prizes such as Workshop Package ($900 value); Carole Witt Enameled Necklace ($200 value); URU Clothing Silk Scarf ($100 value); Mountain Robbins Studio Sculptural Earrings ($75 value); and much more.

Preview Night attendees will get first dibs on handmade beads and jewelry designs offered for the first time – and by the artists themselves. There will be free mini workshops & demos, Trick or Treat giveaways (beads, gemstones, supplies, and other items). As a bonus, everyone who attends Preview Night will receive a VIP pass for two

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for the regular show on Saturday & Sunday ($20 value). The regular Bead Elements and Design Show begins on Saturday and goes through Sunday, October 31, through November 1, 10 am to 6 pm. Admission is $10 and includes complimentary hotel parking for all events.

When: 5 to 9 pm Where: 633 W. Cabrillo Blvd Cost: free Info: www.beadelements.com SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 MUS Dads Annual Pancake Breakfast The entire family is invited to enjoy pancakes, eggs, and sausage made by dads at Montecito Union School.

When: 8 am Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Cost: donation Ghost Village Road Montecito’s annual trick-or-treat event will be on the Saturday of Halloween.

When: 3 to 6 pm Where: Coast Village Road ONGOING Adults Grieving the Death of a Sibling Support Group When a sibling dies, the world changes in a heartbeat. Hospice of Santa Barbara invites people grieving the loss of a brother or sister to its Adults Grieving the Death of a Sibling Support Group. This bereavement group will provide support and comfort for those suffering from the loss of a sibling. Space is limited.

Interested participants must complete registration before the first session begins. No drop-ins, please.

When: This ongoing group session will be held Wednesdays from October 14 through December 16 Where: Hospice of Santa Barbara 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 100 Cost: free; donations accepted Info: (805) 563-8820, x110 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

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 Halloween Monster Mash The Santa Barbara Public Market is getting into the spirit with its firstever Halloween Monster Mash, a SPOOKTACULAR night filled with Halloween tricks and treats, free to attend for all ages.

Little ghouls and goblins looking for fun are invited to come dressed up in their Halloween best, and participate in a costume contest. At 6:30 pm, all children entered have the chance to show off their costumes during a market-wide Halloween parade.

A panel of merchant judges will then announce the top three costumes and each winner will be awarded one free pass to the Santa Barbara Rock Gym along with other Public Market prizes. Kiddos are also invited for complimentary pumpkin decorating in The Kitchen (while supplies last) and to Trick-or-Treat the market. Public Market merchants will be handing out treats throughout the night, in addition to offering some delicious seasonal food and drinks. The market will have live music all night long.

For all the witches and warlocks 21 and older, Wine + Beer will host a costume contest from 7-9 pm. Stop by in your costume and enter for a chance to win prizes; winners announced at 9 pm.

When: 5 to 10 pm Where: 18 W. Victoria Street memory-enhancement 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. This October, Dave’s Dogs Food Truck is bringing their famous hot dog creations downtown, and popping up for dinner at the Public Market each Monday!

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 lunch for dependent adults When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75, includes lunch, plus one-time fee of $35 Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 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,

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and fun at Story Time.

When: 10:30 to 11 am Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Casual Italian Conversation at Montecito Library Practice your Italian conversation among a variety of skill levels while learning about Italian culture. Fun for all and informative, too.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road Local Artisans Market When: 3 to 7 pm Where: La Cumbre Plaza, 121 South Hope Avenue Info: www.localartisansmarket.com SUNDAYS Cars & Coffee Motorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles, and as close as East Valley Road, park in the upper village outside Montecito Village Grocery to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends, and other subjects. Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty of other autos to admire.

When: 8 to 10 am Where: Every Sunday in the upper village, except the last Sunday of the month, when the show moves to its original home, close to 1187 Coast Village Road.

•MJ Info: sbcarscoffee@gmail.com 22 – 29 October 2015

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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 5)

Winslow went on to design the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Public Library, as well as the Los Angeles Public Library and the Bel Air Country Club.

The estate was frequented by the social elite of Montecito until the start of World War II, when it was offered by the Bliss family to the U.S. Navy to operate as a rest and recuperation center. In 1946, following the end of WWII, Dr. Homer Barnes bought the estate from the Bliss family and opened the Montecito School for Girls, where proper young California ladies (and a few from the East), were schooled in etiquette and fine arts during the administrations of Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The school closed in 1956, though Dr. Barnes did keep a summer camp going there for a few years. During the ‘60s, Casa Dorinda sat empty except for its caretakers.

Renovation & Revival

In 1970, James Fursh, president of Retirement Residents Inc. of San Francisco, and William Loorzs, president of the contracting firm that built Casa Dorinda’s team for this year’s Heart Walk with the American Heart Association the William Randolph Hurst castle in San Simeon, rediscovered Casa Dorinda.

In 1975, Casa Dorinda welcomed its first senior residents. Over the followTheir plan was to recreate the Casa as a luxury retirement community. The ing 40-years, Casa has evolved into a California premier LifeCare retirement main salons were restored to their former grandeur to be used for music, campus offering a full continuum of care. Residents who enter Casa can dining, literature, and entertainment, just as Anna Dorinda Bliss had always move effortlessly from independent living to assisted living to the medical envisioned. center. Assisted Living includes either greater physical support or memory care, and the Medical Center provides skilled nursing 24 hours a day. Casa Dorinda’s entrance and monthly fees include a portion of prepaid medical expenses. Even as the cost of care accelerates, resident fees do not.

Active Retirement

Activities at the Casa include an expansive list of social and cultural activities, including Music Academy Master Programs and concerts; lecture series; a walk-in medical center; physical therapy; a fitness facility and swimming pool; walking paths; fine dining for all meals; recreational programs including croquet, ping pong, bridge, movies, games, and libraries; and transportation services to off-campus locations.

By law, Casa Dorinda cannot reject resident applicants from outside the Montecito-Santa Barbara community area. Nevertheless, 75 percent of the current Wait List of 300 would-be residents are from the local area.

••• Casa Dorinda is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) run by the Montecito Retirement Association (MRA). A 16-member, financially-astute board of non-resident members, sets policy and serves voluntarily without compensation. The president and CEO, Ron Schaefer, is retained by the board to manage a staff that provides services. Residents elect their own council as an advisory body to management and the board. There are no investors and no dividends. All earnings are re-invested, either as capital improvements or used to lower the cost of healthcare and social services.

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Your Westmont

by Scott Craig Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Alumna Stages New Plays

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estmont alumna Diana Lynn Small ’09, who graduated from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin in 2015, has written two plays being produced through October 24 at Westmont. Good Day, directed by Mitchell Thomas, Westmont associate professor of theater, is at 7 pm in Porter Theatre. Mad & a Goat, featuring alumnae Heather Johnson ’10 and Paige Tautz ’14, is October 22-24 at 9 pm in Black Box Theatre at Westmont. Tickets, which cost $12 general admission and $7 for students, seniors and children, are available online. Both plays contain mature content.

“A Conversation with Playwright Diana Lynn Small,” moderated by Thomas, is free and open to the public on Saturday, October 24, at 6 pm on Porter Patio.

In Good Day, a prodigal daughter returns home, only she can’t get any farther than the front lawn. An exterminator shows up to clear away a suburban wasps’ nest, but a hunger strike prevents him from doing his work.

“Good Day is a funny and unsettling play that examines grief, spirituality and the unfathomable nature of love and reconciliation,” Thomas says.

It was selected for the 2015 Great Plains Conference PlayLabs, Kitchen Dog Theatre’s New Works Festival, made Honorable Mention for the 2015 Kilroy List, and was a finalist for the 2015 Play Penn Conference.

Mad & a Goat is a two-women show about one woman who joins a Wyoming goat farm she inherits from her occult-leader birth parents to free herself from college debt.

“I created Mad & a Goat as a container to explore my identity as a multi-disciplinary theater artist while in a strictly playwriting graduate program,” Small says. “The play has evolved over the course of four pro-

ductions and it will be different at Westmont, too.”

Workshop productions at the Fort Collins Fringe, FronteraFest, and the Cohen New Works festival in Austin have featured the play.

Small, who began writing for the stage her third year at Westmont, premiered her first full-length play, Muvéme, Muevéte, at Westmont in February 2009. At Commencement that year, she earned the college’s Dave Dolan Award, given to a graduate whose campus leadership has made significant contributions in our awareness and response to the social and spiritual needs of the community, the nation and the world.

“I’m thrilled to be presenting two of Diana’s plays here at Westmont, and to have her return as an artist in residence to connect with our students and community,” Thomas says. “Diana has a wonderfully distinct voice and style, and we are so happy to be able to work with her as she emerges from her MFA program training and begins to make a significant contribution to the American theater.”

After graduating, Diana joined the Lit Moon Theatre Company in Santa Barbara, served as an instructor in the Westmont theatre department, and wrote three plays for Westmont’s stage. She credits the small size of her theater classes at Westmont with helping her explore the many disciplines within theater arts and develop lifelong relationships with her peers and professors.

She’s made new theater with UT Austin, Theatre Masters, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Westmont College, and the Zach Theatre. Diana was an artist-in-residence at Tofte Lake Center in Ely, Minnesota, in 2014. In July 2015, she directed the new play MAST by Elizabeth Doss for the Austin theater company Paper •MJ Chairs.

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Our society understands that art shapes culture.

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MONTECITO SPORTSMAN

by Dr. John Burk

Alaskan Fishing is Quite the Catch

Bob Blais’s back to us, chatting with Bob Manger as wife Betsy retreats a bit from the Brown Bear who is also fishing in the Tsiu River of Central South Alaska

View from the Otter “bush plane” as we travel back to Yakutat over glaciers, waterfalls, and ice fields – whose beauty is difficult to convey with a quick photo

There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon… …And the glacier-glutted streams sweep down at the clarion call of June.

– From the poem “The Heart of the Sourdough” by Robert W. Service

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Dr. John Burk is a retired Santa Barbara dentist and a longtime Montecito resident

ne useful thing about fishing is how it can serve as a “boot-out-the-door” and onto a place you would normally never go except for the fishing trip, which in this case was Central South Alaska. It started with the jet landing in Yakutat, Alaska after a prior stop in Juneau, then walking out of the small airport and into a balloon-tired “bush plane”, a 12-seater de Havilland Otter, which took us farther west.

It was another 45-minute flight to a soft landing on the sandy “glacier till” dunes, where the Tsiu River meets the sea. It was a short flight with the spectacular Wrangell Mountains as a backdrop, as we flew low over two glaciers and ice fields then turned toward the coastline where glaciers melt into crevices that form glacial rivers that meet the sea. One could easily

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The “scraggily six” (from left): John and Sue Burk, Mark Vadon, Bob Blais, Betsy Manger being playful and Bob Manger (far right) with six 50-pound boxes of flash-frozen Coho salmon fillets

see this flight as a “destination tour” and your entire reason for coming here. However, we had further plans.

Look at a map of Alaska, find the vertical line marking its flat east border, then extend the line south to the curved southern shore; the mouth of the Tsiu River and the lodge is about a pencil-width distance toward the left or west. This puts it in the neighborhood of Juneau and the cruise-popular Glacier Bay and the less familiar Yakutat. Because distances here are so vast with virtually no roads, you are either a pilot or must hire one.

On a decent day, you can hire one in Yakutat to go aerial sightseeing or during most any weather hire one to go fishing. We chose the latter and got good weather, salmon, and more.

“How does one best experience a vigorous 9-to-13-pound Coho (or silver) salmon fresh from the predator-like ocean?” you ask. Answer: by having a freshwater rod suddenly bend and pump in your hands as the water erupts with an acrobatic twisting fish, the reel screams out line and a determined grimace appears on your face soon displaced by the whisper of a smile – the battle begins.

It is not easy and a lot of fish are lost.

Handling such a heavy fish on a #8 weight fly rod or medium-weight spin rod is not the same as a 16-ounce trout.

But our group of six, which consisted of Sue Burk, veteran fishers Betsy and Bob Manger, and Seattle friends/ residents Bob Blais and Mark Vadon, soon learned. After three days of good

food, cocktail-sunsets, and fishing, we filled six boxes – each with 50 pounds of salmon fillets; this is what keeps people coming back. And this area happened to be having a slow season due to the unusually warm eastern Pacific; think El Nino.

One can only get to the broad beaches of the Tsiu River by bush plane or by sea. It’s not fancy. You come here to fish and it’s a short season. The comfortable utilitarian Dierick’s Tsiu River Lodge is only open to sportsmen from August 1 to mid-October. This unique location on grey tidal flats and sand dunes brings you a stone’s throw from the ocean to the south, and to the north you gaze at white Wrangell monarchs towering and sandwiching the mammoth Bering Glacier between

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The Bering Glacier just visible on the lower left (resembling a lake) sandwiched between the Wrangell Mountains and dark green mountains a little south Sue Burk is all smiles with guide Sam Robinett (of Redding) holding a chunky Coho salmon just caught on the Tsiu River of Central South Alaska

Sue Burk concentrating on her salmon fishing on the Tsiu River among the splendor of the Alaskan beauty of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park not far from Yakutat

An attentive coastal brown bear fishing the Tsiu River for spawning Coho salmon

another lower set of peaks that loom dark and green in the foreground. A bonus to the clear weather and views enjoyed between salmon “hook-ups” was the numerous sightings of coastal brown bear. These imposing creatures are here, like us, for spawning salmon and could not care less about us fishers. That said, we had bear spray, kept our distance, and kept a careful eye on the bears. In mesmerized amusement, we watched them napping and lumbering, then suddenly launch an 22 – 29 October 2015

incredible charge into the river for fish. It was a bear-watching paradise.

The nearest town to the Tsiu that has a landing strip accepting jets is Yakutat. Yakutat is framed by the Tongass National Forest and the high snow-covered peaks of the 13-million acre (a size bigger than Vermont and New Hampshire and four N.Y. Cities) Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, which is wilderness on a scale beyond anything you can imagine.

By low plane, the artistry of nature stands stark and magnificent with waterfalls and incomprehensibly massive glaciers that form ice-fed rivers of grey-chocolate “glacier milk” that wash over beaches and into the coastal waters, creating plumes of muddy water meeting the wall-like aqua blue interface of the Gulf of Alaska. You are far from the hustle here where roadless watersheds lead to an ecosystem entirely intact and untamed, one that nurtures bears, eagles, mountain goats, swans, wolves, salmon, muskeg, and tundra. This is “Wild rugged Alaska,” and it is good to know it is here, but admittedly it is hard to see and experience, and hence the worthwhile “boot-in-the pants” to get up here, take a good look, be humble – and cast.

Getting your Alaskan bearings: String the “Pearls of the Northeastern Pacific and the Gulf of Alaska” by beginning on the lower “panhandle” of Alaska at Ketchikan, go north to Sitka, then Juneau; curve west to Yakutat, further west to Cordova, then decide to bend up NW to Anchorage or dip SE to the Kenai Peninsula for Seward or Homer. These are popular assessable towns close to the coast with jet airports. Then you must venture out from there.

More about Yakutat: This small rural outpost sits in the only protected bay along the northern edge of the Gulf of Alaska. This strategic loca-

tion was used by the U.S. military in preparations during WWII in support of the Aleutian Islands campaign to counter the Japanese. The same airstrip that jets and bush planes land on today was originally built during this period in the 1940s. Sport and commercial fishing are important here.

Dierick’s Tsiu River Lodge: Orvis approved with a humble courteous staff welcoming you at touchdown and extending easy hospitality until take off. Clean, warm rooms and comfortable bunks, and one of the best prime ribs I ever had. A great location for fishing Coho salmon with their •MJ competent guides.

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Storyteller Celebrates Prom Gala

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inding inspiration from the glory days of high school, supporters of Storyteller Children’s Center dressed up in party dresses with corsages and tuxedos with boutonnieres for “Prom,” the theme of this year’s fundraising gala, appropriately held in the gym of the Page Youth Center.

The celebration, which supports Storyteller’s preschool for homeless children, was a big success. After the raffle and live auction concluded, a “paddle raise” in honor of Terri Allison, Storyteller’s retiring executive director, raised nearly $100,000.

Storyteller hopes to continue to raise money in Allison’s honor through the end of the year, hopefully matching the $100,000 raised at the gala.

“It is an extraordinary experience seeing our community come together in support of Terri Allison and all the amazing work she has done for Storyteller,” said Rachael Stein, gala chair and Storyteller board member.

“While our gala was a great success, there is still work to be done in order to keep our phenomenal programs moving forward.”

Storyteller, a preschool for homeless

Storyteller board member Kenny Slaught gave a moving tribute at the gala to retired executive director Terri Allison. Slaught and Allison were founding board members of Storyteller 27 years ago

Storyteller Gala chair Rachael Stein with Storyteller board president Tiffany Foster

and at-risk children, serves almost 100 families a year, but almost always has a long waiting list. The preschool takes a therapeutic approach to helping children who may have already experienced trauma in their young lives. Parents must work or attend school while their children are attending Storyteller. This fundraising gala

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Tony and Kyra Rogers, sponsors of the Storyteller gala, in front of the entrance to the high-school prom-themed event

John Lewis and Carrie Towbes, who serves on the Storyteller board of directors, with Jessica and Mike Schaeman

helps supports the operating costs of the preschool.

In her opening remarks, Tiffany Foster, Storyteller’s board president who has helped organize every Storyteller gala since 2003, told the heartfelt story of how she first became involved at Storyteller when she moved to town 12 years ago. With two small toddlers of her own and pregnant with her third child, she was shocked to learn that a young mother such as her could be living on the streets with no way to feed her children.

“Storyteller gets Santa Barbara’s most vulnerable children ready for kindergarten and ready to learn,” said Foster. “Children who start school emotionally and socially prepared are the children who go on to finish school and become net contributors in our community. Storyteller helps breaks the cycle of poverty.”

In an interesting twist on the usual gala format, a raffle was held before dinner, giving the winner the option to choose any of the live auction

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items, which included: an opportunity to walk the red carpet at the New York City premiere of Joy, a movie starring Jennifer Lawrence, Bradley Cooper, and Robert De Niro; a five-day stay for five people at the Miraval Resort and Spa in Arizona; and a week at an exclusive Vail, Colorado, summer retreat. Dressed for the occasion in a white tuxedo jacket and pink ruffled shirt, Ricardo Calderon served as live auctioneer. Major sponsors of the event include: Kim and Andy Busch, COX Communications, I.D.O. Events, Naila and Peter Lewis, Susan and Craig McCaw, and U.S. Bank.

Party details reminded guests of their high school days gone by: they could have their photo taken with a dreamy background, vote for the Prom king and queen, and pick up treats at a “bake sale.” At the end of the night, guests danced to an ‘80s tribute band and the Prom King and Queen were announced with a balloon drop.

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Brent and Lizzie Peus of Storyteller board of directors with Lisa and Bryan Babcock, who donated the wines for the event from Babcock Winery

Ricardo Calderon served as auctioneer, with event planner Tamara Jensen of I.D.O. Events

board member of Storyteller and then became its executive director in 2005.

“Terri, you have touched the hearts and minds of so many children in this community,” Slaught said, as the previously rowdy crowd fell silent.

“You have personally improved the lives of hundreds of families, many of whom so desperately needed your help, comfort, and compassion. On behalf of the entire board of directors, all of the Storyteller staff, and all of your admirers in this room, I thank

Peter and Naila Lewis were sponsors of the gala

usual high school prom fare: petit filet with sweet corn, studded potato puree with apple and fennel, braised cabbage with wilted spinach, provided by Duo Catering. The wines were generously donated by Babcock Winery & Vineyards, which hosted its annual Harvest Party, with a portion of the proceeds going to Storyteller

you and honor you for all that you have done for the Storyteller community.”

After Allison’s retirement this summer, Donna Barranco Fisher, whose career has been devoted to working with children with special needs and training special education teachers, was appointed Storyteller’s new executive director.

To donate to Storyteller Children’s Center, visit www.storytellercenter. org or call (805) 682-9585.

•MJ

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HEALTH (Continued from page 26)

there to raise a family without close friends and family around, so we decided to look into coming back home to California, as we knew that was where we wanted to ultimately settle.”

Jonathan then applied for the director of radiology at Sansum Clinic. “I was invited for an interview to meet with the president and CEO, and after a wonderful meeting, was invited for a second interview to meet with the executive team, and after subsequent conversations and discussions about Sansum Clinic, based on my skill set and exchange of ideas, a new role was created,” says Jonathan, reporting his first task was, “integrating the Sansum Clinic Radiology Services with the Nuclear Medicine Services from the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara (which recently merged with Sansum Clinic), to standardize how we deliver care.”

After that, he reports he looked into adding services Santa Barbara needed. “I focused my attention on Women’s Health and Screening Services for cancer diagnosis – two areas I have been largely interested in in my career,” says Jonathan, noting that in 2007, he was found to have invasive skin cancer, had extensive surgery to remove the cancer and reconstruct the affected area.

“Currently, we are working toward the establishment of a dedicated women’s imaging center at our Pesetas Lane location in Santa Barbara to further support the radiologic needs in our community, and this is the perfect time to talk about this,” adds Jonathan, “because October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.”

Jonathan says he is also working on obtaining accreditation from the American College of Radiology for Sansum to become a Center of Excellence for Women’s Imaging.

In addition, Jonathan boasts that a new cancer center slated for completion in 2018 is being built from the ground up. “This is a brand-new massive building featuring glass, steel, stone, wood, and water elements on Pueblo Street, where we will be able to do full and comprehensive cancer care provided by an integrated team of specialists to include: oncologists, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, surgical oncology, patient care education specialists, nutritionists, and a wellness program with yoga, T’ai Chi, painting, and services too long to list,” says Jonathan. “There will even be a healing garden with plants that promote health, wellness, and aid in recovery. It is going to be the largest and most clinically comprehensive state

Sansum Clinic’s Jonathan Andrews, with wife Aleta and son Jack, soak up Santa Barbara’s sun

of the art cancer center between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Sansum Clinic is attracting top-notch specialists in medical care. It is going to be amazing.”

Outside of work, Jonathan is an avid cyclist, craft beer enthusiast, and plays on local soccer and softball leagues. “I’m always involved in charitable events to support health in the community. I’d rather people be healthy than come in to see us. We used to say, ‘An apple a

day keeps the doctor away’. That is still reflective of what we do and want. The healthier the lifestyle, the less you rely on us. We love you, we are advocating for your health and wellness, and we’ll always be here if you need us.”

For more information, or if you are interested in contributing to fund-raising efforts for the new Cancer Center, contact Jonathan at (805) 898-3580 or email him at JAndrews@SansumClinic.org. •MJ

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 28) Andras Schiff sells out Lobero (photo

by David Bazemore)

Major – and Schubert – Sonata No.21 in B-flat major – wrapped the show.

Budapest-born Schiff, who was knighted last year by Queen Elizabeth in the Birthday Honors List, was at the top of his game.

On the Table Jim and Stephanie Sokolove opened their Montecito estate, just a tiara’s toss or two from Oprah Winfrey, to host the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County’s fourth annual Table of Life bash, co-chaired by Arlene Montesano and Marybeth Carty, with a record 200 guests in “garden party

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“Tables of Life” Foodbank supporters Sharon Hilton, Pam Anderson, Hiroko Benko, Jeff Dinkin, and Sean Kelly (photo by Priscilla)

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(Editor’s note: Mr. Collector is a former president of the Montecito Association. In addition to Mr. Collector, Ms Christensen has also garnered the support of former 3rd District supervisor Brooks Firestone. In her capacity as Santa Barbara County Investment officer, Ms Christensen oversees a billion-dollar portfolio critical to the county, its public schools, and various special districts.)

are windbags. Take Joe Biden... please, or Das Williams, Hillary Clinton, Mike Huckabee... well, no more names, but they all say stuff that either has no basis in fact or makes them look good, i.e., “I led the charge...” etc. A windbag is one thing, but it’s another to continually tear down your opposition, especially those who are supposedly on your side!

– J.B.)

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Hot Under the Collar

It just occurred to me to write to you on the matter of Richard Mineards and his column. I was just soooo impressed with his most recent column. It read rather like – with length and depth and entertainment factor – a Vanity Fair piece. It was nearly astonishing!

I know he has countless fans who must remark regularly, so just include me as another in the long line.

Thank you so much for your fine, fine paper. I don’t know what our town would be without it. If you are ever able to have someone submit for an award some time, I would be first to nominate.

Fondly, Gretchen Lieff Montecito

’Cito Support

Just a note of sympathetic vibration for the gal who wrote in recently about her two-wheeled travel in our little village (“On Bicyclists and Traffic,” MJ #21/40).

I too have been closely called both on bike and in car. I have also plucked from our thoroughfares more than my share of plastic bottles and cello wrap left behind by bike clubs and races; I like to refer to it as velo c*#p.

It feels like the lineup at a surf break with outsiders trashing our roads and showing disrespect. We need more aloha folks, and less bad vibe. Mahalo.

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Even on Sandia Mountain, 10,000 feet up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, we continue to enjoy and appreciate your publications! I have been reading the Montecito Journal for years. You are spot-on with politics and especially with upper and lower village news and updates. I grew up surfing Hammond’s and Nun’s and dodged Jacques a few times on the Miramar property in the 1980s.

John and Mabel de la Torre Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: John is produce manager at Tri-County Produce at 335 South Milpas Street where, not only fruits and vegetables are always fresh (“If it’s

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any fresher, it’s still in the fields”), but Montecito Journal and Santa Barbara Sentinel are always on hand, too. – J.B.)

Mute is Her Muse

My thumb is heavily bandaged. My doctor says I have mute-itis, caused by hitting the mute button on the television remote, better known as the big garbage can in the sky remote control.

The avalanche of commercials has proven too much for my thumb, and I have been ordered complete peace and quiet.

In truth, I won’t miss seeing the “125-year-old woman who still looks like a sexy 23-year-old, due to our miracle face cream,” nor the man who lost 60 pounds in one weekend due to a special diet pill, which is only $19.95 a month for life, nor the table of experts out-shouting each other, or the people who are stuffing gigantic amounts of food into their mouths and the ad that follows for... indigestion pills... with the warning: “If you are allergic to this, call your doctor immediately, or your lawyer.” Nor will I miss the man who brags that his vacuum cleaner has balls.

I could go on, but in truth I’m enjoying the peace and quiet too much.

Christina Allison Montecito

Loves the Tunnel

As an elderly third-generation Californian, who for a very long time has admired a Santa Barbara unique public work of art, I would like to make a suggestion: Very close to where Coast Village Circle meets Coast Village Road at Butterfly Lane, there is a pedestrian access tunnel that crosses under U.S.

101. Construction on it was completed in 1956.

Twice a day, I admire the design concept, the color, and the execution. It is terrific. One notes that the designer and creator made both sides the same, as if a pathway were cut through a beautiful scenic cliff.

I would like to suggest that a plaque be created and placed at both ends of the tunnel passageway. It could tell about the generous originator, and when it was made and if it has a name.

How fortunate indeed we are to have it. Could the tunnel be made a California monument and so marked with a plaque?

G. Hebert Montecito (Editor’s note: Ms Hebert is referring to the art work inside the tunnel, not the tunnel itself, we believe. In any case, walking under Highway 101 can be a joy, but watch for oncoming trains! – J.B.)

As the Wind Blows

First of all, I am grateful to you for publishing my last letter (“En Garde! MJ #21/40). Your opinion and response was much appreciated by humble me. I dearly love hearing about and reading about a fair-minded discussion of bright side/dark side issues.

That said, I would like to quote a man I greatly admire: Ronald Reagan, who once said, “There you go again,” to the press when they made ad hominem remarks rather than issue discussions. Now, you say that Trump is a “windbag” and associate him with Rush Limbaugh. That is not an issue, is it?

P. Olson Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Geez. Most politicians

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I believe the apocalyptic warning about global warming is a fraud. If you Google “the world’s Ice Ages,” you’ll find at least five major ice ages.

According to the records, outside those five periods, “Earth seems to have been ice-free even in high latitudes.” Those five periods are: the Huronian (2.1 to 2.4 billion years ago), Cryogenian (630 to 850 million years ago), Andean-Saharan (420 to 460 million years ago), and the Karoo Ice Age (from 260 to 360 million years ago), along with the Quaternary glaciation, which began nearly 2.5 million years ago.

If you search “The world’s hot ages” you’ll reference movies and peppers. Search “Heat Waves” and you’ll also find nothing really on point. What you have just searched for is what historians, archeologists, climatologists, and other scientists have recorded for us to read of history. Obviously, when the world becomes less cold, it is warming.

Earth has been going in and out of this event since it developed.

So, do not fret the warm times. It simply means palm trees will grow in Anchorage and its land values will go up. We in the arid areas will have to make usable water from the ocean, like Israel does. But for God’s sake, fear the Ice Ages. Man and his dog cannot live under a glacier. The last ice age, which pushed glaciers over most of France, finally fell back just over 30,000 years ago. Even when we had what appear to have been volcanic ash times as opposed to meteor hits, it was not the heat or carbon dioxide that killed land life, it was the ash clouds that hid the sun. Without enough sunlight filtering through, our planet devolved into a very cold place.

Embrace the warmth.

When our Sun dies, Earth will die with it... from the cold.

What we need to figure out is: why the global warming hysteria?

Rooster Bradford Ventura (Editor’s note: Explaining the hysteria is easy; just follow the money. There will be such a big pot of OPM – Other People’s Money – available for the taking if these folks manage to pass a “comprehensive” world-wide carbon tax that they’ll all be able to afford their own carbon-spewing •MJ jet planes. – J.B.) 22 – 29 October 2015

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 5415 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5415 for the Coastal Infiltration Reduction Project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 11, 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, “Coastal Infiltration Reduction Project, Bid No. 5415".

The work generally includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to rehabilitate approximately 2,400 linear feet of 33-inch vitrified clay pipe sanitary sewer main, rehabilitate sanitary sewer manholes, abandon 1 manhole, replace manhole frames and covers, bypass sewer flows, and all other work as required by these specifications.

The Engineer’s estimate is $750,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

There is a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday, October 29, 2015, at 10:00 at Chase Palm Park Parking Lot, 236 E. Cabrillo Boulevard, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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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: October 21 and 28, 2015 Montecito Journal

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3772

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3772 for the Santa Barbara High School Wellhead Project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, November 12, 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, Santa Barbara High School Wellhead Project, Bid No. 3772”.

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:

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Insert improvements per plans and specs. The Engineer’s estimate is $420,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

Scope of Work requires procedures for application of interior coating to concrete and steel surfaces to produce a totally protected and leak-proof structure.

There will be a mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Wednesday NOVEMBER 4, at 9:00 AM at 630 Garden Street, Public Works Main Conference Room.

The plans and specifications for this Project are available electronically at SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. Plan and 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 Philip Maldonado, Project Engineer, 805-560-7544.

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: October 21 and 28, 2015 Montecito Journal FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Shivall; Tickled Inspirations, 708 Chelham Way, Montecito, CA 93108.

Ehsida Bisset, 708 Chelham Way, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 8, 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. 2015-0002935. Published October 14, 21, 28, November 4, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coastal Pride Carpet and Window

• The Voice of the Village •

BID NO. 5418 DUE DATE & TIME: NOVEMBER 12, 2015 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. Interior Coating Project for Reservoir No.1

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on October 29, 2015 at 8:00 a.m., at the Public Works Main Conference Room, 630 Garden St., Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please allow for 1 hour.

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

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.

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

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

Care, PO Box 745, Santa Barbara, CA 93102. Greg Sanderson, 1433 Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 30, 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,

Published: October 21, 2015 Montecito Journal

County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2015-0002852.

Published October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Winters Wonderland, 755 Romero Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Lucinda Kelly Winters, 755 Romero Canyon Road, Santa Barbara,

22 – 29 October 2015

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE OF DROP-OFF CENTERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that at the General Municipal Election to be held in the City of Santa Barbara on Tuesday, November 3, 2015, 1. there shall be 4 Drop-Off Centers.

2. that the Drop-Off Centers shall be the places designated below and the language(s) other than English in which assistance will be provided.

Drop-Off Center Description: Drop-Off Center Address: Accessible to Handicapped: Assistance will be provided in: Drop-Off Center Description: Drop-Off Center Address: Accessible to Handicapped: Assistance will be provided in: Drop-Off Center Description: Drop-Off Center Address: Accessible to Handicapped: Assistance will be provided in: Drop-Off Center Description: Drop-Off Center Address: Accessible to Handicapped: Assistance will be provided in:

Franklin Neighborhood Center, Multipurpose Room 1136 E. Montecito Street, Santa Barbara, 93103 Yes Spanish Calvary Baptist Church, Sizer Hall 736 W. Islay Street, Santa Barbara, 93101 Yes Spanish Holy Cross Catholic Church, Fellowship Hall 1740 Cliff Drive, Santa Barbara, 93109 Yes Spanish City of Santa Barbara, City Hall (Lobby) 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, 93101 Yes Spanish

The drop-off centers will be open on Tuesday, November 3, 2015, between 7:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. The drop-off center located at the City of Santa Barbara, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, will also be open on Saturday, October 31, 2015, between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

/s/__________________________________ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager Publication date: October 21, 2015

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE THAT ALL BALLOTS FOR THE GENERAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2015 WILL BE COUNTED AT A CENTRAL COUNTING PLACE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Clerk of the City of Santa Barbara has authorized that the Council Chamber is designated as the central place to count the ballots for the General Municipal Election to be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2015.

Vote by mail ballots will begin to be counted at 4:30 p.m., but results of the vote by mail ballots will not be released until after the drop-off centers close at 8:00 p.m.

/s/___________________________ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager Publication date: October 21, 2015

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CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 30, 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 Miriam Leon. FBN No. 2015-0002855.

Published October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Plaza Eight Twenty Nine, 829 De La Vina Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Donald George Sharpe TTEE, 680 Cowles Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Kay Whitney Sharpe TTEE, 680 Cowles Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 24, 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. 2015-0002810.

Published October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Hellfire Gear, 2020 Las Canoas Ridge Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Robert Wilkins Sheffield, 2020 Las Canoas Ridge Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 2, 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 Adela Bustos. FBN No. 2015-0002866.

Published October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT: The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the Fictitious Business Name(s): Servicemaster Commercial Cleaning By Office Team; Servicemaster Fire & Water Clean-up by Rapid Response Team, 2646 Palma Drive, Suite 175, Ventura, CA 93003. Pacific Building Maintenance, INC, 2646 Palma Drive, Suite 175, Ventura, CA 93003. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 24, 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.

Original FBN No. 2014-0003078.

Published October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Servicemaster Restoration & Cleaning by Integrity, 2646 Palma Drive, Suite 175, Ventura, CA 93003.

Pacific Building Maintenance, INC, 2646 Palma Drive, Suite 175, Ventura, CA 93003. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 21, 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. 2015-0002775.

Published October 7, 14, 21, 28, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JanGeorge, 1101 Coast Village Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Jan and George LLC, 11 Madison Street #1837, Sag Harbor, NY 11963. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 1, 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. 2015-0002611. Published September 30, October 7, 14, 21, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Oswald Construction; Oswald Inc.; Pirate, 1061 East Mountain Drive, Montecito, CA 93108. John Oswald, 1061 East Mountain Drive, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 2, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Campo Vanworks; Campovans, 687 Circle Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Byron R. Beck, 687 Circle Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Robyn G. Beck, 687 Circle Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 16, 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 Adela Bustos.

FBN No. 2015-0002724. Published September 30, October 7, 14, 21, 2015.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Honey Butter Food Company, 209 West Haley Street #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Katie Belanger, 209 West Haley Street #4, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Tara Coleman, 15025 Corona Del Mar, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272. Whitney Spackman, 4630 Vista Buena Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 25, 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 Adela Bustos.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV03430. To all interested parties: Petitioner Diana Jessup Lee filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Adrienne Catherine Kowblansky to Adrianna Catherine Kowblansky.

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 October 14, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: December 9, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 10/21, 10/28, 11/4, 11/11 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV02967. To all interested parties: Petitioner Skyler Marie StokesTillotson filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Skyler Marie Stokes. 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 September 21, 2015 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk.

Hearing date: November 18, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Published 10/14, 10/21, 10/28, 11/4 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 15CV01890.

To all interested parties: Petitioner Jeovany Javier filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Jeovany Abrajan Javier and from Guadalupe Salatiel Chavez Tenorio to Salatiel Abrajan Chavez. 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 October 5, 2015

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Hearing date: November 18, 2015 at 9:30 am in Dept. 1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

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attire” helping raise around $250,000 for the organization that has effectively distributed 9.7 million pounds of food over the years.

The colorful party, honoring Leslie Ridley-Tree, who has contributed for more than 25 years, and Sherry Villanueva, who has transformed the Funk Zone into a haven of sharing the fruits of Santa Barbara’s agriculture, also featured the Doublewide Kings and the La Bohème Professional Dance Group entertaining.

Culinary whizzes Michael Hutchings, Christine Dahl, and Vincent Lesage of the Bacara cooked, while eateries, including Trattoria Mollie, The Lark, and McConnell’s Ice Cream displayed their wares.

Silent auction items included a villa in Mexico, a stay at The Ranch at Live Oaks in Malibu, a condo in Aspen, Colorado, a painting by Mara Abboud, a gift certificate from Bryant & Sons, and a private dinner party prepared by Carpinteria restaurateur James Sly. Among the foodie fans were Frank Abatemarco, George Thurlow, Hiroko Benko, Bilo Zarif, Allen Ghitterman, Perri Harcourt, Nina Terzian, Barry Spector, party planner Judi Weisbart, Missy Sheldon, Thomas Rollerson, Eric Phillips, Tom Parker, Erik Talkin, Brian King, and Marcy Carsey.

King for a Day Heal The Ocean’s Evening With Elvis annual gala at the historic El Paseo restaurant had the 184 guests suitably rocking and rolling and raising more than $200,000 for founder Hillary Hauser’s popular nonprofit.

The bustling bash, with actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus as honorary chair and co-chairs Heather Hudson, Shannon Trotta, and Francoise Park, had comic “rocktioneer” Russ Stolnack working his magic to sell a Viva Las Vegas! stay in Nevada, a “Blue Hawaii” trip to Honolulu, a seven-day trip to Costa Rica, and a one-week vacation anywhere in the world with Interval International.

Scot Bruce, described by CNN as the “closest you can get to Elvis in the flesh,” performed an energetic selection of The King’s most memorable songs, while guests, some even wearing blue suede shoes, poured on to the dance floor to join in the fun.

Brian and Laurence Hodges, the ubiquitous Hiroko Benko, JeanMichel Cousteau, mayor Helene Schneider, state senator HannahBeth Jackson, assemblyman Das Williams, supervisor Salud Carbajal, Gina Tolleson, Ron Beardsley, Chuck and Stephanie Slosser, and Harry Rabin, were among the crowd getting all shook up.

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In the Garden City College alumus Stan Fishman and his wife Roberta opened the doors of their oceanfront home for the City College Foundation garden party to thank VIP supporters.

As the day was oh-so hot, the Pacific breezes made the event one to savor for the 100 guests, including Perri Harcourt, college president Lori Gaskin, Geoff Green, film fest director Roger Durling, Stan and Betty Hatch, Kandy Luria -Budgor, Beno Budgor, Wendy Uribe, and Maddy Jacobsen.

The Foundation was established in 1976 to support City College student through sustained philanthropy.

Conor Quinn, Paul Ramsey, and Rick Lehman, SB Showdown co-directors (photo by Alison Hansen)

Big Time A tsunami of 5,500 lacrosse players from across America descended on Carpinteria at the weekend for the second annual Showdown at the Santa Barbara Polo Club.

Featuring 90 teams from Washington, Arizona, Colorado, and California, the lush 87-acre facility was athetically gridlocked for the occasion, and brought more than $1 million in economic benefits to our rarefied enclave with parents and family members jamming the hotels, eating out, and enjoying the Eden by the Beach experience.

The event, the largest ever in the county, was organized by co-director Mike Allan, UCSB men’s lacrosse coach Rick Lehman, president of SB lacrosse, Paul Ramsey, UCSB women’s lacrosse head coach, and Conor Quinn, founder of Cal Coast Sports Ventures.

“We have 1,000 more players participating than last year,” says Conor.

“It has a great foundation, and you can’t beat the locale. Everyone loves coming here.”

STEAM Dream Lynda Weinman, who sold her online learning company, Lynda.com to LinkedIn in April for $1.5 billion, the fourth-largest deal in social media history, was honored at Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara’s 14th annual lunch at the Bacara, which celebrated women in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematic (STEAM) fields.

Scenes from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana at the Granada (photos

by David Bazemore)

Lynda, 60, who co-founded her Carpinteria business with painter-illustrator husband, Bruce Heavin, was responsible for the student-centered teaching philosophy, authored numerous books and tutorials, and served as chief executive chair of the company.

She spoke to the 350 guests about the importance of life-long learning, work-force readiness, and the need for creative and social skills.

Britt Andreatta, director of learning and development at lynda.com, emceed the bash in the cavernous ballroom, which raised $60,000 for the nonprofit.

Stephanie Ball was event chair.

The lunch also featured the fourth annual Strong, Smart and Bold awards, which went to to the real estate software solutions giant, Yardi, and Curvature, a global technical support company, both located in Santa Barbara and longtime supporters of Girls Inc. Among those turning out to support the young amazons were Celesta Billeci, Janet Garufis, Geoff Green, Perri Harcourt, Kristi Newton, Eileen Mielko, Alixe Mattingly, Hiroko Benko, David Edelman, Thomas Rollerson, Bill and Lois Rosen, Jean Schuyler, Salud Carbajal, Nina Terzian, Caroline Thompson, Pam Valeski, Mary Ellen Tiffany, Lorraine Wilson, Victoria Hines, Ginni Dreier, state senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, Karen Lehrer, and Margo Baker Barbakow.

Nir and Far Santa Barbara Symphony, accompanied by the Santa Barbara Choral Society and the State Street Ballet, launched its 63rd season in glorious style with one of the most magnificent works of the last century, German composer Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, at the Granada.

Nir Kabaretti, who is celebrating 10 years with the symphony, kicked off the sold-out performance matinee – the show the previous evening was also a sell-out – with Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, while choral society director, JoAnne Wasserman, now in her 22nd season, conducted Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with top countertenor Randal Scotting.

Then it was all change as the orchestra descended from the heaving stage into the pit for the massive Orff work,

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with Rodney Gustafson’s State Street dancers performing movements from veteran New York choreographer William Soleau, and Spanish soprano Maria Rey-Joly and Paris-based Canadian baritone Nigel Smith singing.

It was an Orff-ully good show.

A Sight to See The 34-year-old Braille Institute Auxiliary of Santa Barbara hosted its first Festival of Flavors at the institute’s downtown headquarters.

The food fest, co-chaired by Sandy De Rousse and president Mary Romo, featured menu items from Benchmark, Barbareno, Carlitos Cafe, the Palace Grill, Pascucci’s, Via Maestra 42, the Montecito Wine Bistro, C’est Cheese, and dessert from English chef Pascale Beale, who also gave a cooking demonstration for 25 VIP guests in the new $200,000 kitchen, which is specially equipped for visually impaired clients.

The 90 guests helped raise $30,000 for the cause.

Food for thought, indeed.

Sightings: Oscar winner Jeff Bridges noshing at the Wine Cask...

Actor William Daniels picking up his Java jolt at Pierre Lafond...Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi checking out The Honor Bar 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.

To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call •MJ 969-3301 22 – 29 October 2015

ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 24) Area electronica DJ Timonkey, plus Montecito sarod-player Montino Bourbon.

We’ll have an interview with Jaffee in next week’s issue.

Focus on Film

Agatha Carubia’s new CD and book will be celebrated at MAW’s Singher Studio

controls. Jim Connolly added strings while Carubia performed on piano and synthesizer.

Releasing the two works together wasn’t just a coincidence.

“You can also tell in the singing on the CD that I employ the technique used in the book,” Carubia said. “Being an avid meditator and practicing yogi has completely influenced my work. A good teacher still practices what they preach. Working on music myself keeps my work real.

Also, my own heart still has a song which wants to be expressed. The chants pulled me in as I practiced them, and the result was the CD. These offerings mark the growth, maturing, and ripening of myself as singer and voice teacher.”

While Hughes and Perry aren’t expected, three of Carubia’s former students – Joanna Lynn-Jacobs, who is getting her master’s at UCLA; Myron Aguilar, who just graduated from UCLA; and USC music major Maria Ines Echeverria – are returning to sing for Saturday’s book-signing and musical event. Meanwhile, the book and CD are also available at Tecolote or Chaucer’s Books and via Amazon.com.

Details about the event, book, and CD are available at www.heart basedsinging.com.

Jaffee’s Reappearance

Chanting in Sanskrit also forms the heart of the show next Thursday, October 29, at SOhO, when former Montecito resident Joss Jaffee returns to town with an all-star lineup of support musicians for the CD release concert of Dub Mantra Sangha. The new recording features guest shots by Black Uhuru founder Mykal Rose and kirtan favorites Shimshai, Jai Uttal, Dave Stringer, and Jaya Lakshmi, while the concert band will have as special guests former Madonna backup singer Donna De Lory and Bay 22 – 29 October 2015

UCSB’s Pollock Theater pays tribute to a hot TV show with a writer-producer who also happens to be an alum of the school, and then hosts a preview screening of the hotly anticipated biopic Trumbo followed by two older films.

Executive producer/writer Toni Graphia, a graduate of UCSB whose teleplay writing credits date back to writing two episodes of the war drama China Beach back in 1989 and one for the time-traveling series Quantum Leap in 1991, screens “The Devil’s Mark”, a recent episode of her latest series, the female-centric Outlander – which recalls both of those earlier shows. Outlander follows the journeys of a British army nurse who, while on a second honeymoon in Scotland after World War II, finds herself transported to 1743, where her personal and political loyalties are tested amid the Jacobite uprising.

Graphia will conduct a Q&A moderated by Constance Penley, professor of Film and Media Studies, following the free October 22 TELEtalk screening.

On Sunday, October 25, the Pollock’s Script-to-Screen series unspools Trumbo, which stars Bryan Cranston of Breaking Bad fame as Dalton Trumbo, the Golden Age of Hollywood screenwriter who was blacklisted during the 1940s-50s era anti-Communist campaign. The film recounts the complex, sometimes absurd machinations of the film industry in the grips of paranoia and political purges highlighted by the struggles of Trumbo and others against the shameful “naming names” era in Hollywood.

Director Jay Roach, best-known for the Meet the Parents and Austin Powers franchise films, and screenwriter John McNamara (Lois & Clark, The Fugitive, and Aquarius TV series) will be on hand for a post-screening Q&A with the audience in advance of the film’s November 6 release. Reservations are strongly recommended for the free event.

Karan Bali’s documentary An American in Madras traces the career of filmmaker Ellis R. Dungan, an American-born director who visited India in the mid-1930s and ended up staying for 15 years working in the Tamil film industry where he directed some of the greatest stars and classic films of Tamil cinema. Bali does a Q&A with UCSB film professor Bhaskar Sarkar and doctoral student Bhargavi Narayanan following

Monday’s screening, which costs $10 general, $5 students.

Finally, Pollock’s Vamps! Icons of the Silent Screen series is showing a restored print of Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau’s 1922 take on Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula considered one of the most technically innovative, severe, and poetic films of the genre, on Wednesday, October 28 ($10/$5).

Information and tickets/reservations for screenings at www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock.

Movies and Mountains

UCSB Arts & Lectures’ annual presentation of the Telluride Mountainfilm on Tour takes place next Thursday, October 29, at Campbell Hall and as usual the 14 short films, animation, and digital media offer a more personal and organic take on the adventurers and environmentalists and their interactions with nature than the much larger Banff Festival films, due later in the year.

Films in the UCSB program explore desert canyons, big waves, and sacred mountain peaks as well as adrenaline-packed feats of athleticism.

Among the highlights is I Am Able, a 13-minute short directed by Santa Barbara filmmakers Isaac SeigelBoettner and Jacob Seigel-Boettner.

The brothers are longtime Santa Barbara-raised cyclists whose 2010 feature-length documentary With My Own Two Wheels was nominated for a 2011 Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice in Documentary award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

I Am Able follows Frederick Ndabaramiye, who as a 15-yearold boy in his native Rwanda was dragged from a bus and brutally attacked (hands hacked off with machetes) when he refused to kill 18 fellow passengers. But he survived the Rwandan genocide and found new life through painting and creating his Ubumwe Community Center that helps children and adults with disabilities challenge the idea of what it means to be “able” across the country and the world. It’s a story that serves as a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of recovery and reconciliation after the horrors of violence.

Tickets are $15 general; $10 youth 18 & under. Call 893-3535 or visit www.

ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.

Open Mic Night for the Undead

Zombie Rock, Rick Cipes’s new scripted theatrical rock musical that plays October 28-31 at Center Stage Theater, imagines what happens when a group of undead wander

into an open mic night and sing up a storm rather than chomp on brains. Expect grunts, groans, and bad puns, but also a score ranging from poignant balladry to pop culture parody in the latest work from Cipes, a former journalist (Los Angeles Times, Playboy, ESPN Magazine) who is also the the frontman for indie band The Agreeables. Valarie Mulberry, Michael White, Nina Rose Carlin, Laura Cozzi, Ryan Daly, Steve Stockmal, and Brad Katz star in the new voracious vehicle from Cipes, whose previous rock musical Bad Daddy played both at Center Stage and Boston’s Oberon Theater in 201011. Tickets cost $10.

Do You Believe?

If you somehow haven’t heard about Oprah’s Belief – the new documentary series that focuses on stories of individuals who reflect the practice of faith from a variety of perspectives around the globe in humankind’s ongoing search for meaning and connection, currently airing on Oprah’s OWN network – there are two culminating events this weekend. Tia Walker, the founder of Santa Barbara’s Inspirique and a member of Oprah’s Belief Team, hosts screening events at Ayni Gallery on Friday evening and a much larger event that encompasses Insprique’s own Circle of Light Awards at Trattoria Mollie in Montecito on Sunday, October 25, where Sandra and Daniel Biskind, the founders of Platinum Circles, will be honored.

Market Munching

Bacara Resort & Spa’s new executive chef Vincent Lesage offers a modern take on classic French recipes from the legendary cookbook author Julia Child, who spent her last years in Montecito. Lesage heads downtown to the Kitchen at the Public Market for the four-course dinner that also includes wine pairings by the Market’s Wine + Beer. On the menu are Orange Duck (foie gras, confit leg rillettes, breast carpaccio, orange vinaigrette, mache ) paired with Georges Brunet Vouvray DemiSec ; Lobster Thermidor (lobster tail, parmesan crusted, lobster foam, spinach puree, shellfish stew ) served with Domaine Caillot Meursault White Burgundy ; Beef Bourguignon (grilled prime New York, stew of onion, carrot mustard puree, watercress foam) accompanied by Joseph Drouhin Pommard Red Burgundy ; and Tonka spice veloute (chocolate mousse, hazelnut ice cream, brandied cherry) paired with Gilles Brisson Pineau des Charentes. The “tribute with a twist” dinner is $95 and limited to 32. Call 770-7702 •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 Homecoming for Lawton – Bay Area-based choreographer-dancer Dana Lawton, a Santa Barbara native whose parents still live in her childhood home, returns to town with her contemporary dance company to present “Home”, a work that explores the imagery, emotions, and ideas that encompass this powerful concept in our human lives: “The bitter, the sweet, the silly, the sad... all the ways we live in our homes.”

The evening-length dance touches on contexts, relationships, and images intended to trigger thoughts about what “home” means to each of us.

Lawton is a tenured faculty member at Saint Mary’s College in the Performing Arts Department, a faculty member at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, and codirector of the Enchanted Ridge Dance Retreat who was a founding member of Bay Area’s acclaimed dance company Janice Garrett & Dancers (Garrett+Moulton) before creating her own company nearly a decade ago. She brought her acclaimed piece “Beyond This Moment” to the Center Stage in early 2014. (Note: Lawton will teach a master class at Montecito School of Ballet at 10 am on Thursday, October 22.) WHEN: 8 pm today, 4 & 8 pm tomorrow WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $25 INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org Berkowitz Does Beethoven – UCSB music professor Paul

Berkowitz performs Beethoven’s 33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op. 120, the composer’s last major work for piano, one that has been called a kaleidoscope of inventiveness in its wildly contrasting and adventurous variations that, due to its immense scope, is not often performed. The work is considered to represent the peak of Beethoven’s variation writing, and is considered by some to be his greatest composition for piano. Berkowitz, who has recorded the complete piano sonatas of Schubert for Meridian Records, leading the London Sunday Times to hail him as being “in the royal class of Schubert interpreters”, and he’s also released a series of three CD recordings of Brahms’s piano music, which found BBC Music Magazine praising Berkowitz’s “voice, a musicality, a bigness of pianism distinctively his own... his integrity is commanding, his stylistic authority convincing.”

Berkowitz is a 22-year veteran of the UCSB Department of Music, which he chaired from 2007-12.

WHEN: 7:30 pm (pre-concert reception at 7 pm) WHERE: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall on campus COST: $10 general, $5 students, free for children under 12 INFO: 893-2064 or www.music.ucsb.edu SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 Brew Up & Hoedown – I think it’s the title as much as the event itself

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 Element-al dance – MOMIX, the highly inventive dance company founded by Moses Pendleton, a founding member of the groundbreaking Pilobolus Dance Theater, returns to town with the local premiere of a new evening-length work, Alchemia. The multimedia spectacle purports to manipulate the notion of transformation and the four classic elements – earth, air, fire, and water – to create a visually arresting theatrical experience full of whimsy, sensuality, beauty, and intrigue. Pendelton’s new piece is meant to bring out the talents of his company of dancer-illusionists who are known for presenting work of exceptional inventiveness and physical beauty, which has appeared on stages across the world as well as in film and TV specials (including a recent commercial for Hanes underwear and a Target ad that premiered during the Golden Globes telecast). Alchemia features the 10 acrobatic dancers often soaring in the air supported by wires, and aided by fabric, oversize props, backdrops, complex lighting schemes, and large-scale costumes. But take notice: some critics have found the billowing fire, glow-in-the-dark skeletons, outer-space projections, stretchy golden pyramid, kaleidoscopic mirrors, and more to be distractions for a less-than-enthralling dance piece. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $43 to $68 INFO: 899-2222/www.granadasb. org or 893-3535/www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 Whiskey-soaked Simon – Santa Barbara-born bluegrass-folkpunk band Poor Man’s Whiskey (PMW), which now bases its high-energy shows out of Northern California, heads back to SOhO tonight with two full sets of music.

The first features its fine fusion of old time, southern rock, and ragged old school jams on original songs, a “High-Octane Hootenanny” designed to produce a foot-stompin’ good time. Then post-intermission (and more imbibing), Poor Man’s Whiskey returns to the stage to present its highly interpretative cover of Paul Simon’s iconic and influential Graceland, the 1986 album that did quite a bit of culture and genre mixing itself.

It’s not the first time that PMW has covered classic material: their 2009 recording Dark Side of the Moonshine was a double-disc that offered original music, as well as a bluegrass interpretation of the famed Pink Floyd album. Expect impressive chops, knee-raising rhythms, and lots of zany on-stage shenanigans from the outlaw musical bards. WHEN: 9 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $13 in advance, $17 at door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

that makes this downtown benefit so appealing. Held at the Santa Barbara Carriage Museum just up from the beach, the festival is promoter/ producer Night Out’s take on a classic with all the fixins, including a bevy of beers, a finger-lickin’ good barbecue dinner from Georgia’s Smokehouse (additional charge), whiskey tastings at the old-time saloon, and some good ol’ country music and fun, including riding the mechanical bull. Tickets include a beer or whiskey tasting from each of the vendors (Figueroa Mountain Brew Co, Rincon Brewery, Angel City Brewery, Pure Order Brew Co, Craft Collective, Curious Traveler, Angry Orchard, and Breckenridge Distillery are among the providers) and your own keepsake mini mason jar. A portion of the proceeds goes to Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation.

WHEN: 1-4 pm WHERE: 129 Castillo Street COST: $30 INFO: (800) 9363126 or www.nightout.com/ca/santabarbara SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 Simrit Storms Center Stage – Devotional chant music has become popular in recent years in performance venues as well as yoga studios. Witness the sold-out crowd a few months ago for Snatam Kaur’s concert at the Marjorie Luke, where 800 people sang along to the gently swaying rhythms and then were stunningly silent during the musical pauses. Now comes Simrit, whose singing has been hailed as haunting, hypnotic, and healing, and who counts Snatam among her biggest fans: “Her voice, her music, and her teaching

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reflect this devotion... to a sacred worship of the Divine… which seems to come from her so effortlessly.” Simrit’s recordings have topped charts, with her most recent album, From The Ancient Storm, staying at No. 1 at iTunes for consecutive week, and reaching No. 3 on Billboard World Music chart.

As with Snatam’s approach, Simrit’s evocative voice floats over a bed of layered instrumentation and modern drums in arrangements aimed at healing and evoking the innate power within all human beings. The intention for the audience is that you’ll sing, you’ll chant, you’ll dance – you’ll leave with your heart filled up and wide open.

Music Club Mélange – Santa Barbara audiences normally get to hear pianist-composer Edward Valinsky performing onstage as the musical director of his wife Carrie Diamond’s dance company. Today, he plays twice, both opening and closing the Santa Barbara Music Club’s free concert at the Public Library. He’ll start with Beethoven’s Sonata No. 15 in D major, Op. 28 (“Pastoral”) and end with his own “Rag”, written in New York City in 1994 in conjunction with one of Diamond’s dances, and set “in rag form that... devolves into chaos.” In between, oboist Adelle Rodkey and pianist Mandee Sikich play Mozart’s Concerto in C major, K. 314, which was later re-worked by the composer as his Flute Concerto in D major. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: Faulkner Gallery, 40 E. Anapamu St. COST: free INFO: 617-3401 or www. sbmusicclub.org 22 – 29 October 2015

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 Climbing Ice – UCSB Arts & Lectures kicks off its 2015-16 National Geographic Live series with climber Mike Libecki’s gripping presentation “Untamed Antarctica”. Libecki, a veteran of more than 60 climbing expeditions and first ascents on seven continents, led a team of three taking on Bertha’s Tower, a 2,000-foot spire in Antarctica’s Wohlthat Range considered nearly inaccessible as it is surrounded by a solid sheet of ice. Even before they reached the base, they faced furious katabatic winds of near-hurricane force, their gear was shredded, and their supplies were buried in snowdrifts. Now Libecki, whose photographs and words were published in the September 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine, is on a tour filled with humor and enthusiasm to match his courage and resolution as he takes audiences through his hair-raising adventure and shares behind-the-scenes images and stories that didn’t make it into the magazine. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $25 general, $15 youth 18 & under ($80/$60 for four-event series) INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

Jasz ‘n’ Jive BASSH – Step back in time to a Prohibitionera speakeasy circa 1920-33 as the team behind the community dance show BASSH presents a participatory celebration to raise funds for the upcoming performances. They’ll be serving gourmet jambalaya prepared by Big Easy Catering chef David Postada along with beer and sparkling wine – no password necessary – while Ulysses S. Jasz Band, the venerable local Dixieland-swing group, plays music for social dancing. BASSH founder Derrick Curtis and wife Trudie will teach mini-dance lessons during band breaks. Halloween costumes encouraged! WHEN: 3-6 pm WHERE: Santa Barbara Dance Center, 127 W. Canon Perdido St. COST: $20 in advance, $30 at the door INFO: www.nightout.com/ events/jasz-n-jive-bassh/tickets

Home Harmonizing – Home Free, the male vocal quintet formed 15 years ago in Minnesota, where Season 4 champions of NBC’s The Sing-Off competition in late 2013, which earned them $100,000 and a recording contract with Sony. Less than two years later, they’re already released three albums, including Country Evolution, which features collaborations with The Oak Ridge Boys, Charlie Daniels, and Taylor Davis, just last month. Now, the a cappella five-piece group is coming to the Lobero as part of their Don’t It Feel Good Tour, offering a night of high-energy harmonizing to Nashville standards, country-flavored pop hits and a few originals. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $35.25 ($152.75 VIP tickets include meet & greet, pre-show Q&A, photograph, and autograph sessions with the band, a signed copy of the new album, show laminate and poster) INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com •MJ

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Jones-ing for Brass – Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings have had a pretty good couple of years. They were nominated for a 2014 Grammy for Best R&B album. A new album, It’s a Holiday Soul Party, comes out just two days after the band plays at UCSB’s Campbell Hall, which is just a few months since Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings opened for the Tedeschi Trucks Band at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Jones is the subject of the forthcoming documentary Miss Sharon Jones!, directed by two-time Academy Award winner Barbara Kopple, which is set for release next month. And oh, yeah, Jones has also survived a bout with cancer. Jones & the Dap-Kings formed as a sort of all-star band from the demise of an indie record label back at the turn of the century and slowly built a strong following via vigorous touring.

Give the People What They Want, which earned the Grammy nod, was the band’s dramatic return after four years from Sharon’s 2013 battle with pancreatic cancer, a story that informs the forthcoming doc along with the group’s magnetism that has attracted everyone from Prince to Beck to John Legend to Michael Bublé to join them on stage or in the studio. The Dap-Kings appeared on Amy Winehouse’s Grammy Award-winning album Back to Black, as well as producer Mark Ronson own No. 1 hit “Uptown Funk (featuring Bruno Mars).” They backed Beck, and worked with David Byrne while Jones has collaborated with David Byrne, They Might Be Giants, Rufus Wainwright, and Lou Reed. Now the smart lyrics, impassioned singing and sharp, irresistibly danceable funk grooves are coming to blow the roof off of Campbell Hall. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall COST: $30-$42 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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REAL ESTATE (Continued from page 20)

The Seamair homestead consists not only of 23.26 acres of prime Montecito property, but it also features a 4,750+/- sq-ft Cliff May-designed ranch home, fruit orchards, a five-acre avocado grove, private swimming pool, and 360-degree views

The property borders on Oprah Winfrey’s estate on the north, Ennisbrook dedicated open space on the east, and the large expanse of flat arable land on the west portion of the property goes all the way to Santa Rosa Lane

in sales worldwide in 2014), we are joined via telephone by Sage Auction expert Marty Rogers. “It’s been difficult to come up with a price,” he says, adding that even a local assessor couldn’t get a handle on an asking price. So, Seamair will be sold at a closed auction. The range the two men suggest is somewhere between $24 million and $31 million. “The high end is really the hard thing to judge,” Marty says, but opines that “it’s probably somewhere north of $35 million.”

Many – including yours truly – had heard that Oprah had already purchased the property and were surprised to learn that she hadn’t. Dan says he, too, had heard that “she had already bought it, that it was in the will, that she had a right of first refusal, all kinds of different things, but they were obviously not true.” Marty says Ms Winfrey has shown “some interest” in it, “but I wouldn’t say she’s been aggressive about it.”

Marty says he really doesn’t refer

to the impending event as an auction at all: “This is a very different type of sale,” he says, “due primarily to the uniqueness of the property.” There had been more than 68,000 visits to the website as of our conversation. “This is easily the most-watched sale in our history,” he notes. “We’ve had interested parties from New York, Texas, Colorado, and of course California; we are showing it to a party from Los Angeles on Monday.” He says there has also been “international interest,” and a number of potential buyers from China have contacted his group.

“We do feel this sale will exceed our expectations, and I try to be conservative about sale expectations.”

All the Details

Here’s how the two-tiered modified sealed bid process will work: all sealed bids will be opened after 5 pm on Wednesday, November 18. Depending upon the bids and

the number of bidders, they’ll then decide whether they want to declare a high bidder or go to a second round of bidding. The property trustee has retained that option and will make that decision.

“What would determine that,” Marty says, “is basically the grouping of the bidding. If it were a pretty tight group of bids, then it would make sense to go to a second round and open it up for additional bidding. If there were a limited number of bids, we could just ask for the highest and final offer and close out the bidding after that.” If the bids are too low, it’s possible they could pull it off the market entirely.

All the bidders will be informed of what the high bid was (if the auction goes to a second round of bidding).

They won’t be informed who that bidder is, but they will be notified if they are invited to be involved in a second round. The auction will not be open to the public; it will be completely private. “We’re trying to be very discreet about it,” Marty says. “What we’re looking to do,” Dan explains, “is come up with a fair way of allowing people to put an offer on a property that’s difficult to price.”

The second auction, if there is one, is scheduled for Monday, November 23, at 1:30 pm. The sellers are looking to close before the end of the year, so all due diligence must be completed before November 18 and the sale will be non-contingent on financing.

“We’re having a survey done,” Dan says. “We’re having the two wells tested for production; we have floor plans and site plans of the property, they’re doing a phase-one testing on it.” All to ensure all due diligence is complete before 18 November and that the deal can close before the end of the year.

A $200,000 earnest money deposit will be required of each bidder in bank check or transfer, and the high bidder must come up with another $800,000 at the close of bidding once chosen as the buyer. Closing will be on or before December 23.

••• For an auction packet from Sage, go to mrogers@sageauctions.com or danencell@aol.com. For a personal tour of the property, you are invited to call Alan Armstrong at (805) 335-7106.

If you are interested in the property, you can call Marty at (800) 544-5186, or Dan at (805) 565-4896.

•MJ

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401 CHAPALA ST, #304 - $2,550,000

293 CALLE ESPERANZA - $825,000

1632 SAN ANDRES ST - $499,000

224 ENTRANCE RD, #3 - $505,000

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DAN CRAWFORD

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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).

LOST DOG

Lost dog, apricot poodle, 12lbs “Bella”, very shy & scared lost on Cold Springs Rd in Montecito. Reward 805 565-2120.

Please call if you see her.

PERSONALS

Attractive, New Yorker, joyful, mature, world traveler, interested in continuing the journey, would love to meet fellow urban nomad. 917-272-7259.

BEAUTY & SPA SERVICES

Forget Lash Extensions ~Try a Lash Perm. We perm your lashes creating beautifully curled natural lashes that last 8-12 weeks. $65 Call Riverblue Salon Spa 565-1999 DANCERS WANTED

Dance Fever studio Seeking dancers for(incl.Beginners) Christmas Dance Show “Blizzard”. Rehearsals will start October 27th. Tuesday-7.45pm and Thursday-7.00pm at 127 W Canon Perdido St, Santa Barbara.

No Partner required. Only $7 per class and we are looking for dancers of all ages and all levels.

For more info (805) 512-0332, www.sb.dancefeverstudio.com DANCING STUDIO OPEN HOUSE

Halloween Tango and Salsa Open House October 31st 8:15pm - Free Argentine Tango Lesson 9p-9:15 - Free Salsa Lesson Followed by Tango and Latin Dancing Over 25 Years in Montecito

Over 25 Years in Montecito

MONTECITO MONTECITO ELECTRIC ELECTRIC

EXCELLENT R EFERENCES EXCELLENT REFERENCES • Repair Wiring • Repair Wiring • Remodel Wiring • Remodel Wiring • New Wiring • New Wiring • Landscape Lighting • Landscape Lighting • Interior Lighting • Interior Lighting

(805)969-1575 969-1575 (805)

Dance $10. Costumes encouraged Santa Barbara Dance Center 127 W. Canon Perdido, Santa Barbara, 93101 tel. (760) 271-7183 Yulia POSITION WANTED

Estate Management Couple for Hire, 20+yrs exp.

She: Chef and CMA (certified Medical Assistant) –oversight of household staff, shopping, planning, packing, travel & much more!

He: PGA(Professional Golf Association) level land management.

Construction and operations oversight for large projects. Computer savvy.

Both: Event planning & catering for large parties (1000 +) non-profit and private. World travelers, familiar with customs. Marketing & trade show experience. English speaking, clean background and DMV. Willing to travel. gmalogos@gmail.com Professional Girl Friday! As your Personal, Business & Executive Assistant, I will help you streamline your personal and professional responsibilities and work more efficiently. Office/House Manager, Shop/Errands, Special Occasion/Event Planning, excellent Computer skills.

Avail 7 days a week-hourly, part-time, on call or temp. Excellent references.

Contact Georgette at 805 708-1005 or email GirlFridaySantaBarbara@gmail. com Longtime SB resident, will chauffeur to appts, personal shopping, reliable, pet care. $20/hr.

Excellent refs.

805 687-1190.

Ageless,Timeless,Youthful Style Refresh, rethink your personal style.

Over 40 years of unique experience.

Author of “Forever Cool” and “Steal This Style” (Random House) www.sherriemathieson.com 480-3618550 sherrie@sherriemathieson.com LASTING LEGACY Preserve your life story as a precious gift for loved ones and future generations. Autobiography, Family History or Biography of a Loved One. David Wilk (805) 455-5980.

Wilkonian@sbcglobal.net. Ask to see previous books I’ve written and references.

HOUSEKEEPING SERVICES

Experienced, compassionate & focused in house caretaking for elderly, children or any other client in need of house cleaning, cooking, laundry etc. References upon request.

My contact is 805-680-1091. Email annettendagano@hotmail.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

PHYSICAL THERAPY Improve the Way You Move-Improve the Quality of Your Life. Josette Fast, PT- 35 years experience. House calls 805-7228035 www.fitnisphysicaltherapy.com 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. Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@gmail.com REAL ESTATE SERVICES

NancyHussey.com Nancy Hussey Realtor ® 805-452-3052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#0138377 “Thanks Nancy, for Making our Third Transaction go so Smoothly.

We appreciate ALL your efforts.

Good Fortune is a Friend Like You.” –Irene and Ken Steiner

Fit for Life SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL

SPECIAL/PERSONAL SERVICES

DRIVER/ CHAUFFER for Local & Long Distance. Airports & Errands.

My Lincoln or Yours.

Kurt: 319-981-2861 Personal Art Consulting Jessika Cardinahl 310-6543136 www.jessikacardinahl.com

$8 minimum

Customized workouts and nutritional guidance for any lifestyle.

Individual/ group sessions.

Specialized in CORRECTIVE EXERCISE – injury prevention and post surgery.

House calls available..

Victoria Frost- CPT & CES 805-895-9227

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

Beautiful garden patio. Walk to beach and town. $110/night. 831-624-6714 Santa Barbara Short Term fully furnished Apartments/Studios.

Walk to Harbor & Downtown.

Day/Week/Month 805-966-1126 TheBeachHouseInn.com EXCEPTIONAL RENTAL HOME Unique home beautiful setting ocean and mountain views near hiking trails.

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LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY local expertise. national reach. world class.

BUSINESS CARDS FOR VOL 20#48, Dec 10, ’14

(805) 565-1860

CAREGIVING REFERRAL SERVICE www.filcaremanagement.com • Full time/Part time Caregivers • Meal & Menu planning • Escort to medical & personal appointments • Light housekeeping

Hydrex Rob Adams | 805-560-3311 228 W. Carrillo Street, Suite A Filcare Merrick Construction Santa Barbara, CA 93101 1024 Rosewood Avenue, Camarillo, CA 93010 www.lee-associates.com Bill Vaughan Shine Blow Dry Musgrove(revised) Valori Fussell(revised) PORTICO FINE ART GALLERY Lynch Construction ART CLASSES Good Doggies Beginner to experienced welcome.

Pemberlysmall classes | convenient parking 1235 Coasteyelash Village Rd. Santa Barbara/Montecito, CA 93108 Beautiful (change to Forever Beautiful Spa) For more information call (805) 695-8850 Luis Esperanza Simon Hamilton

www.MontecitoVillage.com® Broker Specialist In Birnam Wood. Member Since 1985 Bonded & Insured

(805) 200-8881

www.BirnamWoodEstates.com BILL VAUGHAN 805.455.1609 BROKER/PRINCIPAL

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LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED SINCE 1990

CALL FOR A FREE ESTIMATE @ 805 451 1291 OR 805 563 7439

Offering great affordable prices this season for residential & commercial.

All type of windows, screens & sills skillfully washed by hand.

Just Good Doggies

Loving Pet Care in my Home

Satisfaction guaranteed.

Free estimates.

Licensed/bonded/insured & ladder specialist.

Call or text 805 259-5255

Fully furnished with 3br/3ba. Short or long term rental.

Offer at $9500/mo.

Contact Omid Khaki (805) 698-1616 Cabre 01472496

$25 for play day $40 for overnight Carole (805) 452-7400 carolebennett@cox.net

and Laundry, Smoke Free, and Quiet.

We have exceptional credit, and great references. You can reach me at: (805) 637-2112.

ESTATE/MOVING SALE SERVICES

COTTAGE/APT/ROOM WANTED

Looking for a room to rent in a private home in Montecito/Summerland. Quiet & responsible.

Good refs & excellent credit.

Jacqueline. 805 722-4792.

COTTAGE/APT/ROOM wanted.

Artist, ocean swimmer. New to SB after 20yrs in Santa Monica. Seeking 1 large bd/1ba. Maria 805 729-6648. chateauhaven@gmail.com My name is Peter Smith and I work as a Spiritual Guide & Teacher, and my Girlfriend Yulia Maluta is a Professional Dancer, Dance and Fitness Instructor, We are a Couple in our early 40s, We are responsible, courteous, quiet people, looking for a Rental, a Cottage, or a 1 Bedroom Apt. w/Wood Floor’s to tile in the First level, Full Kitchen, 22 – 29 October 2015

THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC

Recognized as the Area’s Leading Estate Liquidators – Castles to Cottages Experts in the Santa Barbara Market!

Professional, Personalized Services for Moving, Downsizing, and Estate Sales .

Complimentary Consultation (805) 708 6113 email: theclearinghouseSB@cox.net website: theclearinghouseSB.com Estate Moving Sale ServiceEfficient-30yrs experience. Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030.

TUTORING SERVICES

PIANO LESSONS Santa Barbara Studio of Music seeks children wishing to experience the joy of learning music. (805) 453-3481.

When you need experienced care at home…

Non-Medical

In the Privacy and Comfort of Your Own Home

HOME C are PLUS

LLC

Schulman Window Cleaning Service

NON-MEDICAL IN HOME CARE

There’s no place like home.

FIREWOOD

El Niño ?? Praying for rain??

Get ready now, Abundant Firewood! $50-400. Seasoned, well split.

Oak, mix & stove wood 805-895-2099 or 967-1474 WOODWORKING/CARPENTRY

Finish Custom Carpentry.

Furniture, cabinets, restoration, doors,

805.426.0990

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

windows.. Ca Lic#911243.

(805)696-8507.

Cristian.

CEMETERY PLOTS

(4) burial plots (grave sites) for sale, at Santa Barbara cemetery in Montecito.

Nice location, west corner of central section (O), bordering top plateau. $32,000 total.

966-0707RS NEEDED

All Imports Serviced & Repaired

Over the past 23 years our goal has remained the same, to provide honest and reliable service to all our customers.

EZ Automotive is Santa Barbara’s best choice for all your cars maintenance and repair needs.

100% Customer Satisfaction Since 1992

All that we ask is that you give us a try, you’ll be glad you did!

Certified Technicians • Courtesy rides available Courtesy car collection & return

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We perform warranty maintenance, keeping your new car warranty valid

517 EAST GUTIERREZ STREET • (805) 685-2900

All are on their rounds tonight; in the wan moon’s silver ray, thrives their helter-skelter play. – Joel Benton

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LUCKY’S steaks / chops / seafood... and brunch •

Morning Starters and Other First Courses •

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Sandwiches •

With choice of Hash Browns, Fries, Mixed Green, Caesar Salad, Fruit Salad

Fresh Squeezed OJ or Grapefruit Juice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................... $ 6/8.

Bowl of Chopped Fresh Fruit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................................... 9. with Lime and Mint

Giant Shrimp Cocktail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................................... 22.

Chilled Crab Meat Cocktail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 22.

Grilled Artichoke with Choice of Sauce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 14.

Burrata Mozzarella, Basil and Ripe Tomato . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 19.

Today’s Soup ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 10.

Lucky Burger, 8 oz., All Natural Chuck ....... ...................................................... $ 20.

Choice of Cheese, Homemade French Fried Potatoes, Soft Bun or Kaiser Roll

Grilled Chicken Breast Club on a Soft Bun ................................................. 18. with Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato and Avocado

Sliced Filet Mignon Open Faced Sandwich, 6 oz. ........................................ 24. with Mushrooms, Homemade French Fried Potatoes

Hot Corned Beef .................................. ........................................................ 19. on a Kaiser Roll or Rye

Reuben Sandwich ................................. ....................................................... 20. with Corned Beef, Sauerkraut and Gruyere on Rye

French Onion Soup, Gratinée with Cheeses . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 12.

Matzo Ball Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 12.

Lucky Chili .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 15. with Cheddar and Onions

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Wedge of Iceberg ....................................................................................... $10. with Roquefort or Thousand Island Dressing

Caesar Salad ........................................ ........................................................ 10.

Eggs and Other Breakfast Dishes •

with Grilled Chicken Breast ...............................................................................

Eggs Served with choice of Hash Browns, Fries, Sliced Tomatoes, Fruit Salad

Classic Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .....................................

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Seafood Louis ....................................... ....................................................... 29. $18.

with Julienne Ham and Hollandaise

Crab, Shrimp, Avocado, Egg, Romaine, Tomato, Cucumber

Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad ................................................................ 27.

California Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 18. with Spinach, Tomato and Avocado

Lucky’s Salad ............................................................................................... 17. with Romaine, Shrimp, Bacon, Green Beans and Roquefort

Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 22.

Smoked Salmon and Sautéed Onion Omelet . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 19. with Sour Cream and Chives

Cobb Salad .......................................... ........................................................ 19.

Tossed with Roquefort Dressing

Chopped Salad ..................................... ........................................................ 17.

Wild Mushroom and Gruyere Omelet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 19.

Home Made Spanish Chorizo Omelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 18. with Avocado

Small New York Steak 6 oz, and Two Eggs Any Style ................................ 25.

Corned Beef Hash (made right here) and Two Poached Eggs ......................... 19.

with Arugula, Radicchio, Shrimp, Prosciutto, Cannellini Beans and Onions

Sliced Steak Salad ............................... ........................................................ 24. with Arugula, Radicchio and Sautéed Onion

Jimmy the Greek Salad with Feta ........ ........................................................ 14.

Dos Pueblos Abalone (4pcs) ........................................................................ 28.

Huevos Rancheros, Two Eggs Any Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 15.

Tortillas, Melted Cheese, Avocado and Warm Salsa

Brioche French Toast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 14. with Fresh Berries and Maple Syrup

Waffle Platter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 14. with Fresh Berries, Whipped Cream, Maple Syrup

Smoked Scottish Salmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....................................... 20.

Toasted Bialy or Bagel, Cream Cheese and Olives, Tomato & Cucumber

Mixed Vegetable Frittata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........................................ 17. with Gruyere

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