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THOUSANDS OF COSTUMED KIDS TO DESCEND ON COAST VILLAGE ROAD FOR ANNUAL TRICK-OR-TREAT EXTRAVAGANZA (STORY ON P. 18)

GHOST VILLAGE ROAD Village Beat

The Monarch at Montecito Inn closes its doors; Copus family to open own restaurant in its place in 2020, p. 12

40 Years of Good Times

Quite possibly Santa Barbara’s longest-standing band, Tom Ball & Kenny Sultan celebrate 40 years at Lobero, p. 24

Real Estate

Four single-story homes on the market, all in the Montecito Union School District, p. 44

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Guest Editorial

Bob Hazard address power outage situation and provides tips on buying emergency generators

Montecito Miscellany

Women’s Auxiliary of the Music Academy of the West benefit; Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Healthcare Heroes lunch; Frank McGinity’s new edition; Festa Italiana! at Granada; Heal the Ocean gala; Generosity of Eye screening; Evening of Achievement at Arlington; Blithe Spirit at SBCC; Joel Sartore reception; Halloween-birthday bash at Tydes; Paul Walker’s car collection up for auction; Oprah opens up; Neiman Marcus gift catalog; sightings

Letters to the Editor

A collection of communications from readers Daphne Moore, Thomas Carlisle, Robert L. Roebuck, Dan Seibert, Jonathan Lampel, H.T. Bryan, Dale Lowdermilk, Steve King, and Michael Edwards

This Week in Montecito

A list of local events happening in and around town

Tide Chart Village Beat

The Monarch at Montecito Inn closes; Ghost Village Road; Coast Village Association’s Transportation & Traffic Symposium; Crane Country Fair

Seen Around Town

Lobero Theatre Associates benefit; Santa Barbara Rescue Mission Bayou 500; Kristin Chenoweth at Granada

Santa Barbara in a Glass

Alma Rosa Winery introduces new look

Our Town

Pico Iyer in conversation with Philip Glass presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures

Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant reminds us that in the long run, it’s humans that are racing the rats

Spirituality Matters

“Rosen Method: A Somatic Approach to Awareness” workshop; DiviniTree Halloween event; Yoga 101 - Foundations of Yoga class; Santa Barbara Ecstatic Dance Co-op gathering; YDM silent disco yoga class; Wild Yoga session; Bodhi Path Santa Barbara Center potluck; Santa Barbara Buddhist Meditation Meetup full-day retreat; David Cumes offers new class; October’s Authentic Relating Games gathering; Yoga Soup events

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Tom & Kenny mark 40th anniversary; Santa Barbara Acoustic Music Association’s new Listening Room series; 5Qs with Lewis Black; Ojai Storytelling Festival

Your Westmont

Unique initiative tackles opioid crises; Government Inspector delivers humor; Chamber Orchestra performs; volleyball hosts weekend games

Montecito Moms

Birgit Klein Interiors to open on San Ysidro Road

Legal Advertising Open House Directory Calendar of Events

Santa Barbara Reads events; Hazel White discusses book; Camerata Pacifica program; Paul Berkowitz recital; Rubicon presents Big River; Opera Santa Barbara free rehearsal; The Met: Live in HD production; CAMA’s 101st season kicks off

Real Estate

Mark Hunt profiles four attractive, single-level homes for sale

Classified Advertising

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

Local Business Directory

Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” – Dolly Parton

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Guest Editorial

by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an associate editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club.

Power to the People

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he hottest topic last week was “When will we lose our power in Montecito?” And, if so, “How often and for how long?” In the past, some 60% of power blackouts have been caused by bad weather such as violent storms. However, 30% of power outages can be attributed to aging electrical grids that are overloaded, poorly maintained and unable to turn off power selectively at the neighborhood level. Welcome to Venezuela on the American Riviera.

The “New Normal” in Montecito

Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), which provides all electrical power north of the Gaviota Tunnel, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection last January, estimating that it faced $30 billion or more in potential wildfire liabilities. Southern California Edison (SCE) is not far behind. It is said to be one fire away from bankruptcy.

This month, PG&E shut off power to 738,000 customers in 35 counties radiating out from the Sacramento area. The president of PG&E told regulators to expect that for the next 10 years, frequent intentional power outages will be planned every time gusty sundowner winds are strong enough to break tree limbs or fan wildfires. In other words, protection of our public utilities from fire-related lawsuits has taken precedence over providing reliable power for homes, farms and businesses. This is a new low, even for California.

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Still in recovery from the Thomas Fire and the 1/9 debris flow, Montecito residents are now facing red flag alerts from warm temperatures, low humidity and sundowner winds with gusts up to 60 mph. Along with an elevated fire risk, power utilities are warning local customers that their electricity may be cut off at any time.

Last weekend’s proposed shutoff of the Sheffield Circuit would have affected part of Birnam Wood, eastern Montecito above and below East Valley Road (State Route192), Ortega Ridge, Summerland, and the western portion of Carpinteria.

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Life Without Power

For Montecito residents, planned power outages means no Google, no computers or printers or copiers. No lights. No TV. No Montecito Journal. No cell phone or hearing aid chargers. No garage door openers. No gasoline pumps.

Food spoils, traffic signals die, cellphones fade out. Schools come to a standstill and frustrations grow into concerns over safety as hospitals, water, sanitary and fire protection districts switch to emergency standby generators. Not to mention the inability of electric car owners to charge their vehicles... in case of emergency.

Power outages can destroy small businesses. No lights. No cash registers. No credit cards. No point-of-sale computers. No hot water. No heat or A/C. No refrigeration. No security systems. No affordable backup generators.

To Buy, or Not to Buy a Generator

Faced with planned power outages, many homeowners ask themselves the same question: “Is now the time to buy a generator?” It could be, especially if you live in an area prone to high winds. Power shutoffs will surely become more common as drought conditions and the threat of wildfires continue.

Local Efforts to Inform

Last week, Das Williams, 1st District Supervisor of the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors, warned residents of Montecito, Summerland and

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Monte ito Miscellany

by Richard Mineards

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, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, a commentator on the KTLA Morning News and Entertainment Tonight. He moved to Montecito 12 years ago.

A Little Garden Music

Diana Katsenes, Julie Ann Brown, Marie Hansen, Marilyn Gutsche, and Susanne Illgen enjoying MAW’s Music in the Gardens (photo by Priscilla)

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t was another high note when the Women’s Auxiliary of the Music Academy of the West hosted its second annual benefit Music in the Gardens on the Miraflores campus, with a record 400 guests raising around $80,000 to benefit the community access program, which provides

subsidized and free tickets to MAW events.

With the theme American Rhythms, the popular event included vintage jazz and swing by the Amanda Castro Jazz band, rocking dance music by the Roaries, bluegrass by Peter Feldman and the Very Lonesome Boys, blues by

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Flavia Ritterstein with Dale Van Mill, Pepe Garcia, Marc Borowitz, and Diana Arrieta at Music in the Gardens (photo by Priscilla)

Sarah Corliss, Robert Howell, Sally Morgan, Ruby with her dad Scott Reed, Valeska Parish, and Lauren and Erik Wilk at Music Academy of the West (photo by Priscilla)

Leonie Dwenger, Helga Norris, and Ellen and Tom Orlando with jazz singer Amanda Castro, Patrick Aranda on trombone, and Nah Ketmer on saxophone (photo by Priscilla)

Kelly’s Lot, and New Orleans jazz by Ulysses Jasz.

While enjoying the various performances guests got to enjoy a cornucopia of food within five gardens prepared by the culinary whizzes from Rincon Events, including Snake River farm wagyu beef sliders, pulled pork po boys with watermelon slaw, Cajun shrimp, Dixie black eyed pea caviar, fried chicken on biscuits, watermelon mint juleps, and s’mores.

The fun fête, co-chaired by Nancy Schultz, Christine Leveque, and Debra Cochrane-Vercammen, also featured an online silent auction with 150 items, including myriad vacations and trips, with stays at the San Ysidro Ranch and the La Jolla Club. and a “wine grab” with more than 100 bottles of vino available to quaff.

“Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” – Dolly Parton

Hometown Healthcare Heroes Thomas Tighe, president and CEO of Direct Relief for 19 years, was lauded at a sold-out Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Healthcare Heroes lunch at the Montecito Club.

During his time with the non-profit, it has provided cash grants of more than $40 million and furnished more than $4 billion in essential medicines, equipment and supplies to support health services for low-income people in 88 developing countries and in all 50 U.S. states, including 1,500 clinics.

Tighe, who was draped with a laurel wreath by Dorothy Largay, a board member, who had just returned from a trip to Cambodia and Vietnam, was then surprised by a video from former

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LETTERS

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

Twisting The Truth

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r. Buckley’s response to Glenn Griffith’s letter in the June 6-13 Journal, is yet another example of twisting the facts to suit one editor’s politics.

Robert Mueller’s report did not indict the president, nor did it exonerate him. Rather, the report lays out a roadmap of Mr. Trump’s activities for Congress to investigate. For Mr. Buckley to imply that the president is not guilty of criminal activities because Mr. Mueller couldn’t find any “dirt” is another attempt to whitewash what is undoubtedly the worst “hire” in American history.

Daphne Moore Montecito (Editor’s note: Here is my note that Ms Moore is referring to, in its entirety: “We asked around and couldn’t find anyone who, if they voted for Mr. Trump, in his/her ‘heart of hearts’ believes the U.S. made a bad hire in 2016. Of course, those who didn’t vote for him and have nothing but animus towards his policies

certainly feel that way. In any case, he has eighteen months left as President and if the country’s voters boot him out, well, that’s what is supposed to happen to ‘bad hires,’ not impeachment.

Oh, and, let’s stop with the ‘criminal enterprise’ stuff. If a troupe of Trump haters and Hillary supporters under the direction of former FBI Director Robert Mueller couldn’t find enough dirt to indict the man after a two-year-plus search, the likelihood of a criminal enterprise ‘high up in Trump Tower’ leans in the direction of fantasy.” Please explain where the “attempt to whitewash” is in that. – J.B.)

The Sycamore Solution

I have an update on the East Valley Lane sycamore tree. In order to repave the street, all of the lower branches were removed. That exposed something interesting. The tree is pushing new limbs out of the shattered trunk.

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Dan Seibert Santa Barbara

The Three-Inch Solution

When push comes to shove, there is no doubt this country does need to stop illegals from coming in. Some are offended by a wall or a steel barrier. I think there is a plausible way. Have a giant bush that would aesthetically be pleasing to the eye, yet would have three-inch thorns to prevent someone from jumping it (you pick the height).

And, as a punishment for trying to cross over, they would have to care for the bush and maintain its pleasant features.

It wouldn’t cost billions and Mexico could well afford it.

Thomas Carlisle Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Not a terrible idea, Mr. Carlisle, and in some cases it may work, but if human traffickers and dope smugglers can construct half-mile tunnels under border walls, they’ll probably make short order of such a bushy solution. How about a simple $20 entry fee for everyone crossing the border at all U.S. designated border crossings? And, with that money, we can continue to strengthen border security and pay for more border guards.

– J.B.) “Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.” – Dolly Parton

Water Bill to Double The Montecito Water District Board is reviewing a Water Rate Study through Fiscal Year 2023/24, which would dramatically increase water rates for all District customers. The Study includes funding a very expensive 50-year Water Supply Agreement with the City of Santa Barbara based on the City’s Desalination Project costs.

The following is an example of how the proposed rates will affect customers: Presently most single family residence customers pay a monthly fixed service charge of $44.59. In the rate study that charge will go to $114.62 by FY 2023/24 (157%increase). In addition, the commodity charge, presently $5.40/hcf (without the water shortage emergency surcharge), will increase to $9.85/hcf (82% increase). The net result is that a single family residence customer monthly bill for 18 hcf of water will go from $141.79 today to $291.92 by FY 2023/24 (a 106% increase).

So why such a huge increase in customer bills? District customer interior water use is only 15% (560 acre feet/ year) of all District water consumption. As a result, interior water use by customers can be met under all conditions including drought by reliable groundwater pumped from District

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This Week in and around Montecito

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25

(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 24 Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meetup for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Montecito Library Community Meeting Join the conversation about the future of the library, hosted by First District Supervisor Das Williams. Learn about the history of the local library and governance options for the future.

All residents welcome; refreshments and Spanish interpretation will be provided.

When: 6 to 7:30 pm Where: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 568-2186 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Youth Interactive Masquerade Ball Enjoy a glamorous night inspired by art and culture, all to benefit Youth Interactive, the most innovative entrepreneurial arts academy in Southern California, that bridges opportunity and social divisions by providing cre-

ative young adults from all walks of life with the keys to self-sufficiency.

The new flagship Youth Interactive space downtown will be transformed into a fantastic masquerade with music, dancing, food, drinks, and so much more. Cocktail attire and masks required.

When: 6 pm Where: 1219 State Street Cost: VIP tickets are $250, individual tickets are $150; Sponsorship opportunities are available Info: please call (805) 617-6421 or email info@youthinteractive.us SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 Treasure Hunt in Carpinteria Seventy-five vendor stalls will overflow with treasures and merchandise at the Museum Marketplace on the grounds of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History. This popular monthly fundraiser features antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants, and great bargains on gently used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, and much more.

When: 8 am Where: 956 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: 684-3112 Halloween Festival Costume contest for the kids and pets at Montecito Country Mart When: 11 am Where: Montecito Country Mart, Coast Village Road at Hot Springs Road Info: www.montecitocountrymart.com Luncheon & Lecture Get to know candidates, be informed about local issues and enjoy a delicious lunch at La Cumbre Country

IMPROVology at the Lobero IMPROVology, the Santa Barbara Zoo’s science-meets-comedy show, has outgrown its nest and flown the coop, landing at the Lobero Theatre.

Sold-out shows at the Zoo since 2015 have proven that audiences are “batty” about this mashup of wildlife talks with improv theatre. The format remains the same as when the show began at the Zoo: two leading animal experts are interviewed live on stage, followed by comedy skits, songs, and silliness created on-the-spot by members of L.A.’s Improv Theatre. There’s live music accompaniment, audience participation, and a friendly competition between the two teams scored by local celebrities.

The 90-minute show is performed without intermission.

The two experts for this IMPROVology show are both involved with endangered species. Dr. Peter Alagona is an environmental historian at UCSB and author of “After the Grizzly: Endangered Species and the Politics of Place in California.” Santa Barbara-based Forrest Galante is host of Animal Planet’s “Extinct or Alive.”

When: 8 pm Where: Lobero Theatre, 33 East Canon Perdido Street Cost: Tickets are $30, $25 for Santa Barbara Zoo Members, and $50 for a VIP ticket Info & Tickets: www.lobero.org, or by calling (805) 963-0761 Club. Candidates Brian Campbell, Santa Barbara City Council Second District and Bruce Porter, County Supervisor Third District will share their priorities and solutions if elected. The luncheon is open to the public. Dress code is business casual.

When: 11:30 am Where: La Cumbre Country Club, 4015 Via Laguna Cost: $30 Info & RSVP: 805-684-3858 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 Crane Country Fair Crane Country Day School’s annual Country Fair is a Santa Barbara tradition, with festivities open to the entire community. This year’s Fair brings back all the old favorites, including a cupcake walk, carnival games, dunk tank, giant slide, face painting and the delicious Country Kitchen featuring home-baked sweets and savories.

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“I’m not going to limit myself just because people won’t accept the fact that I can do something else.” – Dolly Parton

New this year is a 25-foot climbing wall, Ninja course and bouncing horse race. A safe play area for preschoolers features a petting zoo and Wahooo ride-able stuffed pets. Food includes Big Daddy’s BBQ, healthy fare, Scoops ice cream, popcorn and more. Fair is open to the entire community. Game tickets can be purchased on site for activities and raffle.

When: 10 am to 3pm Where: Crane School, 1795 San Leandro Lane Info: www.craneschool.org TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 Financial Education: Retirement

by Design Please join for a financial education workshop about saving for retirement.

The presentation will discuss how to translate your vision for retirement into tangible goals. You’ll learn investment strategies and ways to work toward fulfilling your retirement expectations.

Focus on how to provide for your income needs and how to address key concerns such as inflation, health care expenses, market volatility and unexpected events. This workshop will be taught by financial advisor Irene Kelly who offers complimentary classes through our community.

Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30 Special Montecito Union School Board Meeting

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When: 11:30 am to 1 pm Where: 385 San Ysidro Road Info: 969-3249 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 East Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Ghost Village Road Montecito’s annual trick-or-treat event When: 3 to 6 pm Where: Coast Village Road FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish

Conversation Group. The group is for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish. Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Mesa Artists Studio Tour For the past 16 years, the award-winning artists who live on and near the Santa Barbara Mesa have succeeded in making their annual Mesa Artists Studio Tour a pleasant, leisurely saunter. The twoday event is designed so visitors can come to the tour’s 12 ateliers, see the artists’ latest works, chat about the art, and nosh on light refreshments in one of the city’s most scenic, and charmingly quirky neighborhoods. This intimate event, aided by a free map, lets art lovers take their time, enjoy the airy hillside and cozy canyon scenery between the studios.

It’s easy to visit every site on the tour without rushing.

When: Saturday and Sunday 11 am to 4 pm Cost: free Map and info: www.santabarbarame•MJ saartists.com

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Village Beat

by Kelly Mahan Herrick

Kelly has been editor at large for the Journal since 2007, reporting on news in Montecito and beyond. She is also a licensed realtor with Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, and is a member of Montecito and Santa Barbara’s top real estate team, Calcagno & Hamilton.

The Monarch Closes at Montecito Inn

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he owners of the Montecito Inn on Coast Village Road announced last week that a new restaurant concept will be coming to the historic hotel, expected to open in Spring 2020. The announcement comes after the closure of The Monarch and Silver Bough, two restaurant concepts

by Scratch Restaurants, a Los Angelesbased restaurant group, which closed earlier this month. “Our family looks forward to opening and managing an all-day restaurant to serve both the guests of our hotel as well as Montecito and Santa Barbara locals,” said Jason Copus, who co-owns and operates the property with brothers Jim Copus and Danny Copus, and parents Dewayne and Kathy Copus.

The concept for the new restaurant, which will serve an elevated version of traditional breakfast, lunch, and dinner fare, in a casually elegant environment, is expected to be unveiled early next year. The eatery will also feature a full bar with imaginative cocktails and an extensive wine list.

“Although we’re sad to see a wonderful restaurant like The Monarch close, we’re excited to finally, after many years of considering, bring the restaurant and hotel operations under one roof,” said Jim Copus. “We’re really looking forward to the symbiosis between the two. And most of all, our family has been in Montecito for almost 50 years, and we’re very motivated to create a spot that locals can call their own for years to come.” The Copus family plans on delivering high quality, approachable, and moderately

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priced cuisine.

The Monarch closed in early October, after first opening its doors for service in August 2018. The Silver Bough, which was housed in a separate space within The Monarch and was open limited hours, also ceased service in October, after opening January 31, 2019. The completely remodeled space was once home to Montecito Café, which closed in November 2016 after 30 years in business.

A third concept by Scratch Restaurants, Sushi|Bar, will continue to operate on the east end of the Montecito Inn property. Founded by husband and wife chef duo, Phillip Frankland Lee and Margarita KallasLee, the omakase speakeasy serves up an array of sushi in 17 courses.

Lee’s play on new wave nigiri and other delicacies from land and sea first opened in Encino in 2017, with a second location opening at the Montecito Inn earlier this year. Lee will remain in charge of Sushi|Bar’s menu creation, with pastry chef Kallas-Lee overseeing the dessert program, and food and beverage director Gavin Humes curating the selection of drink pairings and Japanese beverages, including sake, beer, and Japanese whiskey. Sushi|Bar in Montecito will continue to be led by head sushi chef Lennon Lee and is open every Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday with seatings available at 6 pm and 8 pm; Friday and Saturday evenings with seatings available at 5 pm, 7 pm,

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Seen Around Town

by Lynda Millner

Lobero Associates and Steve Tyrell

The Lobero Auxiliary board Susan Tarlow, Maribel Jarchow, Emily Dempster, Janet McCann, Annie Williams and president Mindy Denson

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he Lobero Theatre Associates had their latest event to benefit the Lobero Theatre with “An Evening with Steve Tyrell.” It began in the tent-covered courtyard with a reception featuring unique pizzas from Oppi’Z. There was an unusual cheesecake that was savory instead of sweet topped with smoked salmon as well as the usual sweet ones. Oppi’Z is nearby the Lobero at 1026 State.

The lights blinked and it was time to be seated for the much-anticipated concert by award winning vocalist Steve Tyrell. He’s been involved in the music business for four and a half decades as an artist, producer, songwriter, music supervisor and performer.

Tyrell’s music crosses the decades and appeals to a variety of ages. One of his prized engagements is at New York City’s Café Carlyle where he took over Bobby Short’s gig after his passing. Steve does the holiday season which Mr. Short had done for 36 years.

Steve appeared in Father of the Bride I and II repopularizing classic pop standards. He has produced hits for

The credits go on and on. He’s earned his place in the spotlight and the encores he received that evening.

In 1938 the Lobero Theatre Foundation was incorporated and manages, maintains, preserves, and programs the theatre. In 1972 the Associates were founded as a women’s auxiliary to support the theatre’s mission. They hold a seat on the Foundation’s Board and attend meetings. In their 40 years they have contributed over $1 million to aid the theatre. The current board president is Mindy Denson and her board: Maribel Jarchow, Joan Crossland, Susan Tarlow, Margaret Slater, Emily Dempster, and Annie Williams.

The Associates are a group of all ages and you can be an active member or a mini member. If you would like more information, contact Joan Crossland at joan@bluepalmgroup. com.

The Bayou 500

For the 18th time the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission held their annual event at the historic Rancho Dos Pueblos estate, this year with the theme “The Bayou 500.” They encouraged us to “Start Our Engines, stroll the Brickyard to see the silent auction

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Grammy winning artists ranging from Linda Ronstadt to Rod Stewart and Diana Ross. For himself you’ll recognize “The Way You Look Tonight,” “The Simple Life,” “Crush On You,” and “The Sunny Side of the Street.”

The Bayou 500 entrance at Rancho Dos Pueblos for the Rescue Mission

The locomobile alias Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car at the Bayou 500

Rescue Mission president Rolf Geyling with his son Wilson

and cruise over to the Pit Stop to savor tantalizing appetizers, while revving up to the music by Idiomatiques.”

As we entered the grounds there sat the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car or its twin. The car now belongs to Dana Newquist. He tells the story that Bill Swanson wanted the car after reading the book by Ian Fleming, but it wasn’t for sale so he built his own.

All the Auxiliary ladies were the committee led by co-chairs Susan Hughes, Kim Mullen and Joan Wimberly with Dianne Davis as decorations chair and silent auction coordinators Rose Hodge and Terry Foil.

Auxiliary president is Kim Schuck.

The ladies were all dressed in red and white checkered outfits along with the tables and the miniature racetrack around the swimming pool.

Emcee Catherine Remak thanked the Rancho owners Henry and Dundie Schulte for the use, once again of their beautiful property. The Leni Fe Bland

Jean-Marie Hamel Phelps, Sandy Stahl, and Betsy Bingham enjoying the preconcert reception at the Lobero

Bayou 500 co-chairs Susan Hughes, auxiliary board president Kim Schuck, Kim Mullen, and Joan Wimberley

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Rescue Mission honoree Janet Garufis with board chair Joyce McCullough

Award was presented to Chairwoman and CEO of Montecito Bank & Trust Janet Garufis for the many years of partnership with the Rescue Mission which has enabled the Mission to provide assistance to the homeless and addicted. Janet responded, “I’m being recognized for doing what I do.

There’s much to give back from the Michael Towbes legacy.

Janet began her career 40 years ago as a bank teller for Security Pacific Bank, now Bank of America. She has been with Montecito Bank & Trust since 2004 and also serves on many local boards in her “spare” time.

We dined family style from Lorraine Lim Catering with our “pit crew” under the grand stand of Moreton Bay Fig trees and listened to program graduate Travis Slauterbeck. The parents divorced and Travis began to steal at nine years of age. He was in

and out of foster care. Another burglary and ended up homeless. He calls the Rescue Mission a miracle.

Board chair of the Rescue Mission Joyce McCullough told us, “Over 800 people have completed our program.” Rescue Mission president Rolf Geyling is proud. “While only 21% of those completing treatment programs nationally maintain their sobriety beyond five years, 52% of our graduates remain in recovery over the same period.”

After a recent renovation costing millions, the Mission is operating at full capacity again. As Rebecca Weber says, “Our doors are always open.”

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SANTA BARBARA IN A GLASS

Alma Rosa 2.0

by Gabe Saglie Gabe Saglie has been covering the Santa Barbara wine scene for more than 15 years through columns, TV and radio. He’s a senior editor with Travelzoo and is a leading expert on travel deals, tips and trends. Gabe and wife Renee have 3 children and one Golden Retriever named Milo

Alma Rosa 2.0: Famous Santa Barbara Wine Label Launches New Look & Experiences From left, Richard Sanford, me, and moderator Matt Kettmann at this past weekend’s event at El Jabali Vineyard on the Alma Rosa estate

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t its core, it is business as usual at Alma Rosa Winery – nothing’s changed. The popular label founded in 2005 is still in the hands of wine legend Richard Sanford, still growing grapes organically and still producing some of the best pinot noir and chardonnay that Santa Barbara County has to offer.

But a refresh of the brand means Alma Rosa has a new look now – its label has gone from black and red

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Richard Sanford inside the newly refurbished historic ranch house on the Alma Rosa estate

writing on a white backdrop to a more textured look on a marine blue canvas, with language and an artistic nod to the Sta. Rita Hills – the lauded growing region where Alma Rosa is based – in copper colored curves. And Alma Rosa is raising the bar when it comes to intimate wine experiences, too, providing a variety of educational tasting options at the winery’s historic ranch.

Richard and his wife, Thekla, planted El Jabali Vineyard in 1983 on a

628-acre ranch along Santa Rosa Road, just south of Buellton. This sprawling property, marked by undulating north-facing slopes, had once been part of the much larger Rancho Santa Rosa land grant, which was established in 1839 and which would later be parceled out. In the hands of the Sanfords, champions of sustainability, El Jabali would go on to become the first certified organic vineyard in all of Santa Barbara County.

Of course, Richard Sanford had fallen in love with this remote area – known today as the Sta. Rita Hills – years earlier for its unique grape growing potential: the diatomaceous soils here are rich in silica and the ocean air funneled by the east-west traverse of these hills moderates temperature.

Sanford planted the area’s first pinot noir vines back in 1971, an act that was equal parts foresight and serendipity: that vineyard, Sanford & Benedict, located about five miles from El Jabali, and the Sanford Winery that it would soon spawn, remain prominent milestones in Santa Barbara’s viticultural identity to this day. Sanford’s decades of insightful plantings and thoughtful winemaking would earn him induction into the Vintners Hall of Fame – the first Santa Barbara winemaker to win this honor – in 2012.

Sanford, now 78, riffed about his winemaking tenure during an inti-

“Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton

mate gathering at El Jabali Vineyard this past weekend. In a chat moderated by Wine Enthusiast Magazine editor Matt Kettmann, Sanford reminisced about the days after Vietnam when he, a former Navy captain, sought immersion in nature as a way to cope – hence his love for agriculture and his fortuitous discovery of an uncultivated landscape north of Santa Barbara. He spoke about heartache – financial setbacks led him to lose his namesake winery, which is owned by the Chicago-based Terlato Wine Group conglomerate now. And he expressed hope “for the young winemakers who have chosen to make wine here, too.”

The open-air conversation with Sanford took place just outside a historic ranch house that dates back more than 100 years. The structure, which just completed a one-year refurbishment, is cozy, elegantly rustic, and full of old world touches. Something special: the gentle pull of a mock book on the shelf opens a thick wooden door that reveals a temperature-controlled cellar filled with old vintages of Alma Rosa wine. Outside, it is shady and secluded, and a stone’s throw from the 38 acres of vineyards that make up El Jabali. The ranch house is available for private events and is also at the epicenter of Alma Rosa’s brand new lineup of wine tasting experiences: the Historic Ranch House Tasting ($35 per person, 90 minutes), a guided seated tasting of current releases; the Historic Ranch House and Vineyard Tour ($40/ pp, 2 hours), which includes a onemile stroll through the vines; and the Ranch House Wine & Cheese Pairing Experience ($50/pp, 90 minutes). All these experiences can be customized, too.

Alma Rosa did, itself, change hands in 2015, when the Sanfords sold their label to Bob and Barb Zorich. Richard and Thekla Sanford continue to live on the sprawling ranch, though, and continue to be the faces of the brand, especially as it reinvents itself now and expands the way it allows consumers to experience wine. You can also visit the Alma Rosa tasting room along Industrial Way in Buellton, which is open seven days a week.

Cheers!

Check out almarosawinery.com. •MJ 24 – 31 October 2019

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Chenoweth patiently had her photograph taken with all the Producer’s Circle members and especially sponsors Luci and Richard Janssen and Mandy and Daniel Hochman. My sorority in college was Gamma Phi Beta. There were ten UCSB Gamma Phi’s at the concert. They were super excited and told me, “Kristin is a Gamma Phi too.”

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Our Town

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n a candid interview conducted by our town’s favorite literary author Pico Iyer, 82-year-old Philip Glass talked about his parents, becoming a musician-composer and still being stimulated by life to write and play the music he hears. The October 4 event was part of Pico’s talk series for UCSB Arts & Lectures, sponsored by Martha Gabbert, Dori and Chris Carter, Laura Shelburne, and Kevin O’Connor.

Glass stopped in our town on his way to his 19th season of “Philip Glass’ Days and Nights Festival in Big Sur” October 5, and the UK with his ensemble October 26-30.

Accolades abounded, but Glass maintained his compositional status, answering the questions Pico posed in his own unique language, cued with silences and phrasing and saying what he wanted when he wanted – just like his music. Much of what he reflected on in his early

life can be found in his 2016 autobiography titled, Words Without Music: A Memoir. To the uninitiated, he is intangible; to musicians and artists he makes perfect sense of life in a changing world with realistic notes.

He of course was asked about being a NYC taxi driver and other sordid “day jobs” in 1970, but Glass did not flinch, “I looked forward to it. For most of us musicians, composers, choreographers, painters, and writers, there is no mechanism to jumpstart your career. My day job lasted till I was 40, quite frankly I liked it.

In the ‘60s and ‘70s, you didn’t have to work all the time to pay rent, only three or four days per week. I didn’t believe I was suffering at all.”

He understood that he had to do as his parents asked, go to the college they wished, and when he was 18, with his own money and time, he took himself to NYC to study music at Juilliard, “I knew at age five I

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Left, composer Philip Glass being interviewed by Santa Barbara literary author Pico Iyer

would do music and I wrote my first piece at fifteen. Artists are called, they are chosen, we don’t know by who, but it doesn’t matter, we just know.” He studied flute as a kid and listened in on his brother’s piano lessons.

His earliest influence was his father’s love of music. “Although he was not a musician and couldn’t read music, he owned a music store in Baltimore and I worked for him at age twelve. Every night he would come home with records and for hours listen to music, for him it was business, he had to find out why people purchased certain records and not others. I would listen with him and developed my ear for music. I thought that being a musician meant you would make money, because I was selling records at my dad’s store.”

Pico prompted, but Philip glossed over his studying with the legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger in Paris saying, “At that time I had two angels, one was fear and the other was love, you can guess who was who. From Paris I went across land to India, which you can’t do anymore, I was 28 or 30 years old. On that trip, I learned that music was a global affair.

I am still meeting people whose music I don’t understand but if I listen long enough – like my dad did – I will and then we can play together.

What attracts me most to a person is what I don’t know. It is important the way the world of music thinks about itself. For example, I met a group of people that had never traveled outside their village, but told me that they were nurturing and protecting their music for humanity.”

In 1957 he studied yoga. “We did not know what it was, so we looked it up under ‘y’ in the yellow pages to find a class! You know the Buddhists will say it’s karma and how can we argue with that? [jokes] I got my first grant at age 75. You ask, why are we

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here, and they say because we were here before!”

The rhetorical question that Glass shared he has had all his life is, “I always wondered where music comes from. In a strange way, artists are chosen, you can wrestle with it, but you can’t refuse it. Hard work is easier than creative work. Everything makes me tired except writing music.

I began performing at age five, and it’s not difficult, it’s just another way of being with people. I don’t think about it. I now write about what I want to, isn’t that nice?! Yes, I get woken up in the night, and know that if I hear the music, it is a dream, so I get up, write it and play it. It’s a composite of energy you are a part of in that moment, a system of energy. There is a gift going on at that moment if you recognize it as such.”

In closing, Pico mentioned to Glass that his music is visceral.

Glass replied, “I know it can be seen that way because the music seems physical. The rules that define quality have abandoned us. This is a very rich time, not in money, but in arts we have never seen and music we can’t write down. The kids aren’t suffocated from the past. Same for me, I truly did not care what people thought. When the world is in its worst place, artistically it’s in its best place, and that’s happening right now. The 1950s was a terrible time, but the arts were there. At a time when society has lost its way, the arts seem to be showering us with intuition and beauty. It’s the way the energy works. I can statically prove it. I don’t have to be hopeful, it’s already there and I see it in children.

I’m seeing it outside of me. We’re allowed to not know what we are doing. I write pieces now that surprise me. I used to work out of ideas, I am working out of intuition now.

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During the recent drought, customer needs were met primarily by the purchase of water delivered through the State Water Project. Some property owners with significant landscaping had to limit their consumption to 25 hcf/month.

The current Board is concerned about the 25 hcf/month limit during the next drought and the possibility of a reduction in water supplied from the Cachuma Project due to environmental concerns. Also, water will become more valuable due to the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act in California. As a result the Board is preparing to sign a 50-year Water Supply Agreement with the City based on their desalination plant costs. This cost is the major driver for the Study’s proposed increase, which results in customer water bills doubling.

I believe that possible water supply reductions can be addressed when needed by purchasing water from other water purveyors as was done in the recent drought. Water has always been available for purchase in the past and that should not change in the future. However the cost to purchase water will undoubtedly be higher but it will be a pittance compared to the cost of the water supply agreement.

Unlike water purchases made only when the water is needed, the water supply agreement requires the District to pay for desal water regardless of need. Cachuma and Jameson Lakes can be full or spilling and the District is still required to pay $4.3 million/ year for water it doesn’t need and can’t use. The cost will likely increase in the future due to the fact that the desal plant reverse osmosis process uses large amounts of imported electricity. This heavy financial burden continues for 50 years regardless of the District’s water supply situation or other water supply opportunities.

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I believe that this concern can be addressed effectively by: creating a water conservation program that provides financial incentives, counseling, and financial assistance to customers focused on reducing exterior water use: implementing a comprehensive local groundwater management plan; expanding the existing groundwater banking program; executing water purchase agreements now for delivery of water during the next drought, and updating the 10+ year old District Water Supply Plan.

Please email (customerservice@ montecitowater.com), write, and/or attend Board meetings in order to express your concern regarding the proposed water rate increase.

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Montecito Water District Past Water Resources Manager,

City of Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: No doubt you know what you are talking about but if the former Board had been more judicious in its use of arbitrary “fines” when customers experienced breaks in irrigation systems or other unforeseeable situations, perhaps there’d be more attention paid to such a program.

People just want a reliable water supply at a set price. Those of us who cannot afford a luxuriant landscape will adjust to the new rates and those that can afford them, will pay the going rate. Seems like an equitable solution to us. – J.B.)

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Richard Jack Rail in the American Thinker suggests that “Trump’s Syria plan reveals a master strategist in the White House.”

He goes on to write that, “It’s

just too delicious. President Trump ordered U.S. Special Forces out of Syria to a chorus of howling Democrats and all the old, experienced hands State and, supposedly, the military. (I had doubts as well.)

Democrats yelled that all hell was about to break loose. The Pentagon pulled its hair. Europe trembled and blanched. The Mideast girded for something awful.”

But, President Trump saw a different reality and, even in the face of some really terrible “reportage” by ABC News, which ran with five-year-old footage of explosions at a Kentucky firing range, and called it the “chaos” at the Syrian/Turkish border. ABC News still hasn’t really apologized for the “error.”

“Not so fast, fellas,” Rail says, noting that the “long sought negotiations” with Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds, are finally taking place, now that U.S. troops are leaving.

“Only Donald Trump saw it,” Rail concludes. “Trump,” he writes, “once again exhibits strategic insight not seen in the White House since George Washington.”

Just sign me a Fan Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Funny enough, I conducted an interview with former Prime Minister Binali Yildirim of Turkey about six weeks ago (“Coming & Going,” MJ # 25/38), in which Mr. Yildirim explicitly addressed the situation. In case you or other readers missed that, here is the gist of it: Q. You are headed to New York to speak at the UN and are seeking assistance from other nations in dealing with a growing refugee population. Could you tell us more about that?

A. You know, after eight years of conflict, fighting, inside Syria, millions of Syrians have been killed and injured, and other millions of people have had to leave the country, as refugees. Some four million of those refugees crossed the border into Turkey, and we have hosted them for seven years. We share our shelter; we share our schools; we share our hospitals, and we share our food.

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Turkish students study, and in some cases, there are separate schools for them.

How do you pay for that?

Well, we do. So far, we have put out over thirty billion dollars. It is difficult.

What is the situation along the border right now?

We’ve eliminated terrorist groups such as YPG (Kurdish “People’s Protection Units” that even have separate female brigades), PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party), ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria), ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant), also referred to as Daesh (a desultory term), and Al Qaeda. These groups are a headache for not only Turkey, Iraq, Iran, but also for Syria.

The problem is with terrorists, not with Kurds. We have to distinguish between them. Turkish people love the Kurds, but terrorist groups such as PKK just kill people; they don’t care.

It’s awful.

A group of neighboring countries have formed a coalition – Russia, Iraq, and Iran – along with the United States, which has to act more to settle things.

Do you expect to meet with President Trump in New York?

I’m not sure, but I heard that our President (Erdogan) and your President Trump will get together to discuss the Syrian issue and [the building of] a security zone along the Syrian border. If they do come together to strengthen the cooperation in the region, this would be a very fruitful meeting.

Where is this “security zone?”

The area west of the Euphrates River is taken care of by the Russians, and east of the Euphrates, by the United States and its coalition.

So, the U.S. is already involved?

There is a “secure zone” in the eastern section where nearly 400,000 Syrians have already returned to Syria.

The zone is about twenty miles deep and perhaps 200 kilometers wide, but the border with Syria is nine hundred kilometers long. We still have problems in the rest of the area, because the PKK and other groups have relationships with Iraqis and that allows them to travel back and forth across the border...

President Trump did meet with Erdogan and the Prime Minister and apparently, they reached a meeting of the minds, hence the “abrupt” policy change, which doesn’t seem all that abrupt in light of the aforementioned interview that appeared in your favorite little newspaper. – J.B.)

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ost of us are familiar with the term “The Rat Race,” and we probably have an idea that it derives from scientific experiments in which rats were, and possibly still are, raced against each other, especially in mazes. What was it all about? What was it meant to prove? Whatever the answers, some things are fairly certain. One is that rats make fairly useful experimental subjects, because, as mammals, their bodies are in some ways, very similar to ours.

Another factor, which goes back at least as far as the Story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin, is that rats, over the centuries, have in general received a very bad press. Having no media agency working on their behalf, with no humanitarian organization promoting their interests – as have dogs and cats – the very word “rat” has come to be a pejorative.

I need hardly conjure up for you images of Jimmy Cagney lashing out with an epithet like “You Dirty Rat!” (which was probably the most severe epithet the Hollywood censors of that day would allow).

So, because there will always be extremists (known to some as “cranks”) willing to protect any endangered form of life from what they see as human exploitation – scientists in general feel socially safer, working with supposedly repulsive rats than with cute cats and cuddlesome canines. Even better, of course, would be insects, like the ant and the cockroach, – but here the genetic similarities unfortunately diminish.

There is indeed a whole class of God’s Creatures which we refer to as “pests,” which may legitimately be the subjects of widespread experimentation – but in this case, the usual object is to find ways of wiping them out.

There are in fact, as we all know, whole “extermination” industries – many of whose members, I don’t doubt, are good church-going people – who feel not the slightest remorse when they see the Sixth Commandment, rendered by the scholars of King James, as “Thou Shalt Not Kill.” (Subsequent generations of translators, no doubt under much pressure from lobbyists like the Slaughterers’ and Exterminators’ Alliance, have brought out more soothing versions, such as “Thou Shalt Not Murder.”)

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We seem to have come a long way from the Rat Race – but not really.

Figuring out new ways to kill off the rat population (which is blamed for such epidemics as the historic Black Death, in turn the cause of death of about a third of the population of Europe in the 14th Century – although the real culprits were not the Rats, but the Fleas they carried) is still a popular vocation among scientists. It competes for funding with the quest for anti-mosquito techniques and toxins, and many similar campaigns. What’s most remarkable is that, despite these efforts, over all this time, the rats and mosquitos – to say nothing of so many other apparent enemies of Mankind, such as termites, ticks, and bedbugs – have not only been able to hold their own, but even make occasional frightening inroads in our defenses – so that, from time to time the headlines inform us that a new bug, unseen for centuries, is deforming fetuses or killing cattle.

In the long run, it’s really we who are racing the rats – and the rats (and their ilk) have a good chance of being the ultimate winners. But Science (I hope) still has a thing or two up its sleeve. In the great tradition of Louis Pasteur, the Curies, and Walter Reed, research is constantly progressing towards a pest-free world. It may be that somebody somewhere – perhaps not yet born – will discover how to eliminate an entire odious segment of the genetic scale. But is species extinction really what we want? All life (for better or worse) depends on other life. Get rid of one species, and you upset the whole balance of Nature. One is tempted to be seduced by biblical visions of the lion lying down with the lamb, and all being as harmonious among the species as it was (presumably) on Noah’s Ark. Perhaps the best hope one can reasonably cherish is that of coming to terms with one’s own private ratrace. I don’t know how many of my readers are in the habit of composing their own epitaphs, but one that keeps recurring to me is the single word, “ENOUGH!” But far be it from me to leave you with such a dismal thought.

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t might seem counterintuitive to consider as a spiritual practice a healing modality that looks like it largely consists of massage-like touch with a little bit of talking. The Rosen Method, after all, was developed in the early 1980s by a former physical therapist named Marion Rosen. The bodywork is based on the concept that people protect themselves from past painful experiences through the body mostly showing up as chronic musculoskeletal pain and tension.

Yet much more goes on than meets the eye. The physical protection mechanism, according to Rosen, also serves to separate people from their true selves.

Rosen Method aims to re-integrate the whole person.

“The spirituality in the Rosen Method is that it’s not about fixing anything, or making things different than they are. What gives Rosen Method its power rests in the foundation of allowing what is, its gentleness, standing in the unknown, and not having an agenda,” said Meg Butler, a Summerland-based Certified Rosen Method Practitioner, echoing the tenet of many spiritual practices, from meditation to chanting. “There is simplicity and beauty of this work and its profound capacity to invite wholeness – however wholeness is experienced.”

The Rosen Method has another strong connection to spirituality, Butler explained.

“Like many mindfulness techniques, we watch the breath, but unlike yogic traditions or even meditation, we’re not controlling it, but watching the breath that breathes itself. We use the breath as a metaphor for life – how you breathe Tom & Kenny celebrate 40 years with a celebration show at the Lobero on Saturday, October 26 (photo that unconscious breath is a reflection of the life being lived.”

by Anita Reyes) Butler came to the Rosen Method 25 years ago when she was both looking to remove barriers to romantic relationship and seeking a spiritual practice. A ast Sunday afternoon, Tom Ball weekend training with founder Rosen led to her pursuing a four-year training. and Kenny Sultan played at the Steven Libowitz has reported on the arts Butler has maintained a practice in the process ever since.

Cold Spring Tavern. November and entertainment for This weekend, she’s offering a two-day introductory workshop called “Rosen 3 will find the acoustic blues duo at more than 30 years; he Method: A Somatic Approach to Awareness” that will be held at a downtown the roadside bar in the woods below has contributed to the location in Santa Barbara. The weekend is meant to both expose people to the the San Marcos Pass again. So will Montecito Journal for modality and offer some hands-on healing, including demos and one-on-one three of the four Sundays after that. more than 10 years. treatments between participants. Attendees should come away with a deeper No surprise there – Santa Barbara’s awareness of how emotional imbalances show up as tension in the body, and “Good-Time Ambassadors of the how awareness starts the process of healing.

Blues” have played Cold Spring near“It’s about exploring the connection between the body and our emotional ly every Sunday they’re in town for the country and beyond, extended to state, exploring whether we still need to put tension in certain places,” Butler almost 35 years. a sizeable catalog of recordings plus But this weekend the duo – featur- more than a modicum of TV and said. “The idea is to bring into an area of choice whether to be vulnerable or not, ing Ball on harmonica and vocals and film music placements, and seen them rather than having it be unconscious and the tension up all the time.”

Admission to the workshop which runs 1-6 pm on Saturday and 1-5 pm Sultan on acoustic guitar – will be progress from covering blues and jugSunday, October 26-27, is $270. A preview lecture/demonstration takes place doing something different downtown, band songs to composing more than from 7-9 pm on Friday, October 25, at Unity of Santa Barbara and costs $15. For namely performing at a sold out con- half of their material. “That’s what more information, call Butler at (805) 684-0356, email info@megbutler.com, or cert marking their 40th anniversary, happens when you run out of stuff a musical milestone that makes them to steal,” Ball joked. And through it visit http://megbutler.com.

Santa Barbara’s longest-running band all their approach remains and lightby a wide margin. hearted and fun-loving as ever. Good Tom & Kenny, as the duo is known, friends and good times set to 12-bar Get groovy at DiviniTree’s first annual Halloween event for which the regular began their four-decade sojourn back refrains. lights will be turned out in favor of a special blacklight scheme for an ener- in 1979 at the now-defunct Sojourner “Tom and I are what you see is what gizing glow-in-the-dark yoga experience led by Rachel Wilkins. Participants Restaurant, just a literal stone’s throw you get,” Sultan said. “No schtick, should arrive dressed in Halloween costumes and/or blacklight-friendly attire from the Lobero, a gig for which they or costumes or anything. We’re just (neons and crisp whites glow the strongest) and be ready to add to your glow were paid $15 and all the beer they being ourselves. It’s not an act.” with custom body paint from Tribal Markers and other body artists. Then could drink. That last part isn’t just “We’d be pals even if we weren’t prepare to stretch, pose, and move to spooky ghoulish beats for the creative a footnote: while the genre they ply playing together,” Ball agreed.

Halloween-inspired flow yoga session on Halloween eve, Wednesday, October originated down in the Mississippi “Because we’ve got a lot in common.”

30. All levels are welcome for the 7-9 pm session and the studio expects the class Delta, beer plays a much big part in Good thing, though, that they both to sell out, so pre-registration is advised to lock down a spooky spot. But leave the duo’s oeuvre than, say, sharecrop- still love serving up their unique the glow sticks at home, as Halloween Glow & Flo is an eco-friendly event. Fee: ping. blend of acoustic blues with swing, $25 in advance, $30 day of.

“We’re white guys from Santa ragtime, and jugband influences. Else Barbara,” Ball said in a joint interview we wouldn’t have such classic Tom earlier this week. “We sing and write & Kenny songs as “Perfect Woman,” what we know about – pretty much Ball’s catchy, fun and clever as can be The downtown studio this week also offers one of its periodic Yoga 101 beer, gambling and women, among paean to a bar-owning, Dodger sea- Foundations of Yoga classes, as Sierra Noland leads a free session from other things.” son-ticket holding, “She’s got smarts That formula has taken them to SPIRITUALITY Page 264 clubs, theaters, and festivals around ENTERTAINMENT Page 284

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1-3 pm on Saturday, October 26. The workshop is designed for absolute first-timers, those still in the beginning stages, or anyone who wants to dig deeper into the yoga tradition and fine-tune their primary yoga asanas (poses). The two-hour session not only provides basic instruction but also serves as a non-intimidating environment to ask any questions you have about yoga: the poses, history, philosophy, breathing, meditation, and more so you can maximize the understanding and the benefit of the practice.

Participants will also learn how to use props and their own bodies to modify poses and movements to meet their unique needs. The poses then will be incorporated into an accessible and moderately-paced Vinyasa flow that links movement and breath. The intention is for participants to leave the free workshop with the tools to start confidently practicing yoga at home or in the studio.

DiviniTree is located at 25 East De La Guerra Street. Call (805) 897-3354 or visit http://sb.divinitree.com.

Ecstatic on East De La Guerra

DiviniTree also hosts the return of the Santa Barbara Ecstatic Dance Co-op, the organically organized weekly gathering having found a new home after a few weeks’ hiatus. DJ Caille (aka Baldemar Guerrero) handles the beats and rhythms for the Friday, October 25 re-launching of the community dance open to collaboration and synergy that was created by Michael Love. “My intention for this set is to connect us to all the feelings we have in our bodies in our daily lives,” offered Guerrero. “The hugs that almost bring us to tears. The children that remind us to jump for joy. The moments we choose dance in public to a loved song, or a seductive breeze. When we are generous with one another. I’d like to honor all the feelings that make us human and spiritually connected.”

Admission to the 7:30-9:30 dance is $10.

Those interested in serving as musical host and creating a 90-minute playlist of the music they themselves love to dance to can learn the guidelines and arrange a date via emailing Love at mjlfilm@gmail.com or texting (805) 4526455. Connect to the community, get news, give suggestions and see the future schedule online at www.facebook.com/groups/348680169122789.

Yoga Dance Magic Glowing

Glow is also a go at Yoga Soup on Saturday night, when Yoga Dance Magic founder Emma Davis leads a 50-minute all levels YDM silent disco yoga class, in which participants wear headphones and the instruction and rhythms are aimed to activate the breath with intuitive postures. The yoga session then transforms into a dance party where all are invited to stretch, ecstatically dance, engage in consensual contact improv, be still and meditate and otherwise move as freely as each individual wants, all to beats from DJ Nyrus delivered through the high-tech headphones. October’s theme for the monthly event is “Neon Glow Flow,” so feel free to wear bright clothing for black light highlighting, or dress up in Halloween costumes that will let you move freely. Admission is $15 for the entire event, including the 7 pm yoga warm-up and 8-9:30 silent disco ecstatic dance.

Wild Yoga goes East-ern

Unless you’re scared of the sunset, there’s nothing to fear about Wild Yoga’s next session of wind-down evening flow yoga at East Beach, which takes place 5-6 pm on Thursday, October 24, on the grass near the public restroom where Calle Ceasar Chavez meets Cabrillo. Bring your own mat or blankets, water and props, and wear comfy clothing with layers as the temperature cools down quickly as the sun sets. The suggested donation is $5-$10 in cash or via Venmo @sonyabarriere. Visit www.facebook.com/ wildyogasb.

Haunted Potluck?

Halloween falling on a Thursday means the holiday is invading even the Bodhi Path Santa Barbara Center, where the sangha is hosting one of its periodic potluck parties from 7-9 pm on October 31. The event represents an opportunity to study the support of community and the interdependence of conditions by participating in sangha’s supper, where the concept of “shaping your own experience” extends to preparing a vegetarian dish that’s as spooky and/or festive as you’d like to make it.

The previous Thursday, October 24, the center also hosts “The Power of Transformation” teaching by resident teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips, whose talk address how, unlike purely intellectual endeavors, the power of Dharma lies in its ability to generate authentic and holistic transformation.

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The teaching focuses on transformation and how you can experience more of it in your own life. In between, the sangah’s ongoing Book Discussion Club continues its study of Working with the Emotions by Jigme Rinpoche, which delves into how such emotions as anger, jealousy and pride affect us negatively, and how to be liberated by releasing them, in a 7-8:30 pm session on Tuesday, October 22.

Bodhi Path Santa Barbara events take place at 102 W Mission Street. Call (805) 284-2704 or visit www.bodhipath.org/sb.

Quiet Contemplation

Santa Barbara Buddhist Meditation Meetup’s next full-day retreat finds Kate Ratliff and Ajahn Khamjan co-hosting a silent meditation retreat on Saturday, October 26, at the American Buddhist Meditation Temple to practice a variety of traditional techniques designed to work together to cultivate, develop and strengthen mindfulness in every aspect of daily life.

Guidance and basic instruction will be offered at appropriate times, and a sound healing session will also be offered, but otherwise talking should be kept to a minimum. Chanting, sitting and walking meditations, a Dharma talk, mindful movement, Ayurvedic healing, mindful eating (bring your own lunch) and a late-afternoon Q&A session comprise the offerings.

Participants are welcome to come for the whole day, or for any portion of it. There are no formal fees to participate in any of the ABMT events, however heartfelt donations for the temple and/or the co-hosts are gratefully accepted. ABMT is located at 1251 Orchid Drive. Meetup info at www.meetup.com/Santa-Barbara-Buddhist-Meditation, or call (805) 680-9794 or visit www.abuddhisttemple.org.

Cumes on Shamanism

Veteran School of Extended Learning teacher David Cumes offers a new class this weekend examining shamanism and indigenous wisdom and how they help to describe life’s cosmology. According to Cumes, who is also a well-respected urologist in town, the knowledge can be life-affirming, life-changing and even life-saving. He’ll explore several paradigms and techniques and help participants discover how to access a non-local, “quantum field” of information across the veil between worlds with the help of their own spirit guides. You’ll likely come away knowing how to correct issues with rituals, use sacred spaces as a medium, and apply indigenous wisdom to heal, diagnose, and treat psycho-spiritual ailments and challenges. Admission to the 10 am to 1 pm class on Saturday, October 26, at SBCC’s Schott Center Tannahill Auditorium is $25. Visit https:// sbcc.augusoft.net.

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“Let’s go deep!” is the theme for October ’s Authentic Relating Games gathering, with the invitation to explore inside to become aware of and reveal those parts of yourself that are not easily accessible. Jenny Calcoen and Damian Gallagher lead the evening of self-discovery and connection through group play in the relational field 7:00 - 9:30 pm on Friday, October 25. Admission is $18 in advance, $25 day-of…

Half a dozen local authors whose books fall into the spirituality and/or self-help sphere will appear together in a book fair sponsored by the creativity coach group CreativeHowTo 2-4 pm on Saturday, October 26. Learn about the author ’s process from creation to publishing in a Q&A panel followed by a book signing and opportunity to mingle with the creative writing community. Montecito’s Agatha Carubia (“Heart-Based Singing”) is among the panelists. Free…

Naturopathic physician Dr. Lynn von Schneidau, counselors Bill and Gloria Kastenberg, and local yogi Luca Cupery team up for an immersive seven-day Health Rejuvenation & Cleanse Retreat, a journey toward self discovery and deep interpersonal self healing through physical, mental and emotional soul work. Visit www.purerenewal-retreat.com or https:// haramararetreat.com/2019/10/26/dr-lynns-health-immersion-rejuvenation-retreat-mind-body-soul-intensive for details about the October 26 November 2 retreat…

Learn financial skills and tools to transform your relationship with money so that it becomes an abundant, freeing, and positive force in your life in the free 3 Keys to Financial Freedom: Free Workshop at 7:15 pm on Wednesday, October 30. Sara Arredondo will lead an exploration of how the relationship with money is connected to one’s sense of self, wellness and spirituality before shift to considering pragmatic tools, education and money management – leading to an understanding how they are intimately connected.

•MJ

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Pension Problem

I have read, with great interest, and a little knowledge, Mr. Hazard’s recent piece on public pensions (Guest Editorial, MJ # 25/41). If the attached article (https://californiapolicycenter. orgn/californias-state-and-local-liabilities-total-1-5-trillion-2/) is accurate, he has vastly understated the magnitude of the problem. Please continue this reporting.

Jonathan Lampel Santa Barbara

Blowing The Whistle

The Whistler Blower Impeachment Complainer, has no personal knowledge. He relies on hearsay. The Complaint conflicts with the transcripts that President Trump released.

Who is he and what is his background? Is he a CIA agent and a Democrat who supported Hillary and a supporter of Biden? An accused in our nation, including the president, is entitled to constitutional due process as to specific nature of claimed wrongdoing and the identity of the accuser and full disclosure of all supporting evidence and the identity of witnesses and he is entitled to cross examination, and a defense.

The Democrats are promoting Unconstitutional “Star Chamber Justice”, with their closed non-public hearing and their control of witnesses and examination. A full House of Representative vote as to impeachment proceedings, and the full granting of due process and Constitutional Rights, are demanded. Note: If the Liberal-Progressive- Democrats, who control the House of Representatives,

vote for an Article of Impeachment, the Senate, controlled by Republicans, will have to vote 67 out of 100 to convict; 34 no votes against ends the farce.

Democrats with their three-year hatred of President Trump over Hillary’s defeat, have and are dividing our nation and causing more damage to it, than Russia, China, North Korea, and Islamists could hope for. What about trade agreements, health care, prescription drug high costs, the opiate crises, immigration law enforcement and reform, deteriorating infrastructure, the coming bankruptcy of Social Security and Medicare and our out-of-control National Debt, now over $22,831 trillion? The real issues facing our nation.

H.T. Bryan Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: The important things will have to wait until after the 2020 election. We should remember that Democrats had an eight-year hate fest with George W. Bush, and, to be fair, there wasn’t much love lost between Republicans and Barack Obama. – J.B.)

The Hate Speech Solution

Finally, there will be consequences for using the hateful words “illegal alien.” Thanks to a 29-page “directive” by the Human Rights Commission (HRC) of New York City, anyone using the term “illegal alien” or threatening to report someone to U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) will be subject to a $250,000 fine. This noble experiment in social engineering to “…protect both immigrants and non-immigrants from hate speech…” was spawned in Mayor Bill de Blasio’s

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The details for enforcing this law will take some time to figure out, so I thought it would be helpful to offer Mr. De Blasio and his crew some suggestions.

With the right incentives ($$$) this project could turn NYC into a whistleblower’s paradise. Armed with only a smart phone or tape recorder homeless individuals could document neighboring crack-heads talking to invisible friends and cursing at “illegal aliens”.

These clips of video/audio evidence could be turned into the HRC for prosecution. Generous rewards should given to these ambitious, though perhaps disoriented, whistleblowers. By creating a secret “tattle-tale” industry, providing street people with cameras and free cell phones, everyone could become involved in gathering evidence of “hate speech”. A handful of these aspiring paparazzi would become famous, earn enough money for luxury apartments, sign book deals, collect movie residuals and, based upon their real-life street credentials, eventually run for Mayor of NYC, completing the cycle of liberal solutions.

There’s no reason a whistleblower’s reward should be limited to exposing “hate speech”. Someone caught adding extra sugar to their coffee, sipping from an ancient plastic straw, bribing a waiter to serve more than one cheesecake, smoking without permission, expelling methane or CO2 within 1,000 yards of an elementary school, wearing t-shirts with hateful images or phrases or questioning the validity of man-made climate change, should be reported and prosecuted for disrupting the sanctity of NYC bureaucracy and group-think.

If this innovative, brilliant, NYC HRC Anti-Hate Speech program costs five billion dollars, tosses one racist/ hater in jail, saves two lives (especially if they are women and/or children) or makes one homeless person a millionaire, it’s worth it.

Or not.

Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara

The Nation-State Solution

After committing any crime against humanity, under military command, one may claim: “I was following orders.” Or, also often true: “Either I obey, or they shoot me.”

Such blind obedience to authority and personal sacrifice can only be accomplished through state indoctrination: State schooling, Pledges of Allegiance, National Anthems, 20-gun Salutes, Flyovers, Parades, Trumpets, Flags, etc.

To be sure, those who serve are to be honored and respected, but one must understand the deliberate, generations-deep propaganda that compels

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them to believe it is noble to take lives and sacrifice their own at the whim of the state.

Almost every nation in the world practices indoctrination, i.e. brainwashing, to the benefit of the state/ government, but often to the detriment of humanity.

Conflict between nations becomes a government necessity to keep their own citizens fearful and to justify expanded national defense and aggression abroad. Similarly, it serves the state well to encourage dependency through a welfare state.

Political rhetoric aside, peace and self-reliance do not serve the state’s ambitions well. Greed is a common human fault. It exists both in the private sector and public (government) sector. Free markets, competition and choice suppress private sector greed; in government, including crony capitalism, greed may run wild.

One may argue that they are prosperous and live in the best nation in the world, and in first world nations that may be relatively true, but one should recognize their government’s deceptions, blunders, thievery and fraud. One should place their good conscience over state designs that run contrary.

Steve King Carpinteria

The Librarium Solution

I picked the latest edition of the Montecito Journal and found on the cover one of my favorite places to take a break, reconstitute, and read (Montecito Library). I’ve been on a poetic streak these days and once again found myself writing.

Librarium Without a steeple or pews This church embraces knowledge From Ariadne to Zorro stories are found here awaiting curious visitors Inviting researchers, all Cradle me so I can turn page by page Into your magic carpet Cries the binding!

Like a good restaurant Patrons await the opening; Food for thought served here for free!

Facing serious financial issues only cannabis converts Governance options will be discussed.

The Library needs friends.

Hope to see everyone at Montecito Union School auditorium this Thursday, October 26, at 6 pm.

Michael Edwards Montecito (Editor’s note: I expect to be in Paris, France, on the 26th, otherwise I’d be at MUS too! – J.B.) •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 24) and never farts” fantasy girl. The 1996 track is a fan favorite just about everywhere they go, but even the duo doesn’t get tired of performing it.

“We never play the same song exactly the same way twice,” Sultan explained. “How we’re feeling that day is how the music comes out. Even though we might have played a song 1,000 times, it comes out different every time we play it.”

Need proof? If you can’t make the Lobero show on Saturday night, hop onto a Harley and head up to Cold Spring any ol’ Sunday where you can see Tom & Kenny ripping out the good time blues that seem to emanate from the musicians as easily as breathing. It’s a sign of chemistry and trust that’s being built for four decades.

“I know where Tom’s going to go (musically) sometimes even before he does,” Sultan said, with a laugh. “We have that kind of connection.”

Acoustic Alchemy

The Santa Barbara Acoustic Music Association’s new partnership with SOhO Restaurant and Music Club continues this week with a double dose of rarely heard acts in the new Listening Room series in which audience and staff are both cautioned to keep as quiet as possible. San Francisco Bay Area fingerstyle guitarists Teja Gerken and Doug Young, who perform Thursday, October 24, have played together for more than a decade, drawing material from their individual catalogs of original compositions, Celtic tunes, arrangements of jazz standards, and even classical pieces. The duo takes advantage of a wide tonal palette via employing a variety of guitars including baritone, metal-bodied resonator and 12-strings in addition to more standard instruments. Each of the art-

ists has also released two CDs under their own names. Wednesday evening October 30 brings a solo appearance from fellow fingerstyle guitar player Kinloch Nelson, who delivers a synthesis of folk, jazz, classical, rock, American popular music and original compositions. His programs range even further than Gerken and Young’s, encompassing Bach to John Sebastian, with references to Miles Davis, Franz Schubert, John Fahey, Leo Kottke, The Ventures, Flatt and Scruggs and even occasional TV themes – an amalgam amassed over the course of a 50-year career.

Rant and Roll: 5Qs with Lewis Black

A few things have changed since Lewis Black last performed in Santa Barbara, not the least of which is the 2016 presidential election (more on that later), but also a new addition to his Grammy Award-winning anger-driven stand-up comedy show in which he shares the stage with members of the audience. Not literally, of course. That could be dangerous.

But Black now follows his hourplus-long regular set with a live streaming show called “The Rant is Due” in which he performs rage-filled rants drawn from written comments solicited from his fans about what makes them angry on a local level.

Black also sometimes peruses the local papers to find something silly or outrageous about the townsfolk, and hinted that might happen when he performs at the Lobero Theatre on Sunday, October 27. But don’t expect to see him sidling up next to other funny folk in a weekend home in our Eden-by-the-Sea anytime soon.

“I couldn’t live in a place like that because when you wake up in the

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Q. How hard is it to do comedy when Washington itself is pretty insane and upside down, and the real news can be so outrageous it’s almost like a joke or punchline? How do you differentiate yourself?

A. I look for another way to approach what we’re going through. A way that will widen things up. There’s a mass hysteria going on that makes it difficult. Including the news itself, the way they deliver it, which doesn’t help, trying to foment stuff. What happened to getting to the bottom of the story?

They don’t do that anymore. I need information, not opinion! …

People are watching what goes on in politics as if it’s a reality show, and because we don’t teach civics anymore they don’t know what it means… It’s weird when everybody’s angry – because that’s my job! But I’ve found that a to talk about things differently. It took a year and a half to get there. But I’ve finally honed it and refined it.

Is the anger just your act or do you walk around pissed off all day?

I have to go to the bank tomorrow, and I know it’s going to be really irritating. So I’m already angry going in there. But I’ll let the anger sit there until I get to the next show and then there will be ten things I’ll go off on during my act. I get it out on stage.

That’s why have perfect blood pressure. And also because to work at this level I have to take a nap every day.

Otherwise I’d be dead.

Do you think that it’s also cathartic for the audience, that you’re channeling their anger?

From what I hear. I get two comments: kids will say, “You’re just like my father only you’re funny.” Or people tell me, “You get to say what I wish I could say.”

You’ve said you are funniest when you are angry. Why do you think that is, and why is the rant so enjoyable?

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morning, you think ‘What can I do today that’s more impressive that what I’m looking at?’ That wouldn’t work for me.”

Black dished about his righteous rants and turning an avalanche of anger into comedy over the phone earlier this week.

I don’t know why. Whoever it is I become when I’m angry on stage has a funny quality. Just playing anger is funny, how I get all flustered and stumble around looking for words, go through the full spectrum of the emotion. People can relate to that. And they know there’s something silly about the way I get angry, because it’s exactly the same about the weather as it is about politics. Which is nuts.

So do you sometimes forget you are on stage and lose it?

The fourth wall doesn’t exist for me, and I can actually get pretty worked up on stage. That’s when I say I’ve gone too far, and have to explain what happened.

Ojai Storytelling Festival

Storytelling might still conjure images of caregivers reading a book to children to get them to sleep, but Ojai’s long weekend festival attracts an abundance of tellers who consider delivering stories in the oral tradition to be a performance art at the highest level. Among the on-stage acts this year at the 19th edition of the festival are Peter Cook, a deaf storyteller from Chicago, and Debra Ehrhardt, the now L.A.-based actress-teller whose prize-winning organic one-person show Jamaica Farewell (which played at the Lobero back in 2007) recounts her upbringing on the island nation.

Also spinning yarns are Blind Boy Paxton of New York, Jennifer Munro from England, Kim Weitkamp from Ohio, and Oregon’s Anne Rutherford, plus The Moth’s Brian Finkelstein, who also is a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, and Ruby Cooper. Santa Barbara singer Kimberly Ford and her band will also offer a special performance of “Celebrating Joni Mitchell.”

Most of the afternoon and evening sessions in the October 24-27 fest are themed, with such titles as Humor and Heart, Amazing Adventures, Song Stories and Naughty Tales, the latter a special late-night offering where the tales careen past the G rating of the rest of the fest. Budding storytellers can also partake of myriad morning workshops. Call (310) 890-1439 or www.ojaistoryfest.org for details. •MJ

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Carpinteria of pending public safety power shutoffs (called PSPS by Southern California Edison).

In remarks to the Montecito Association (MA) Board of Directors, Das warned “I highly discourage people from going out and buying generators. The air quality gets demolished. It would be counterproductive if a massive amount of diesel generators are purchased.” Das said he would direct his staff to look into solar options.

Not satisfied with this response, MA, prodded by meeting attendees and led by president Megan Orloff; Directors Cindy Feinberg and Kathi King, and strongly supported by MA executive director Sharon Byrne, unanimously passed a motion for the formation of an ad hoc committee working with Supervisor Das Williams, Montecito Fire Protection Chief Kevin Taylor and the Montecito Journal to meet with Montecito residents to provide knowledge and guidance for those considering the purchase of home generators or exploring neighborhood micro grids.

The intent of a consolidated research effort is to collectively research and price optimum standby generator manufacturers, professional installers and individual generator costs.

Homeowner organizations, such as Birnam Wood, Ennisbrook, Bonnymede, Montecito Shores, Riven Rock or Sea Meadows could possibly aggregate individual purchases of generators with one or more manufacturers, and/or negotiate group installation contracts with installers to cut costs. Individual homeowners with access to a Montecito shared database will have a place to start their own research efforts. Permitting costs and regulation and compliance costs could possibly be examined and reduced by the County.

One option, favored by MA Directors Feinberg and King is the formation of a private Micro Grid where, for example, the historic Birnam Wood clubhouse might upgrade its commercial emergency generator capacity that services the clubhouse to accommodate an emergency power supply for all 135 homes in its gated community. This could be an environmentally preferable solution to installing individual emergency generators at each of the 135 homes in the Birnam Wood community.

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can run $10,000 to $15,000; up to $30,000 installed. Commercial generators can cost even more for owners of large estates.

How to Get Started

Before buying a standby generator, have an experienced electrician calculate your home’s energy loads and systems, then come up with a plan. Generators need professional installation and there are restrictions on their placement.

They also can be noisy; imagine a motorcycle running next to your house around the clock. Then multiply that noise by all your neighbors with the same noise roar.

When shopping for a generator, think about what you really need power for.

Focus on a “partial-house generator” that will have enough power to operate kitchen appliances, furnace, well pump and water heater plus a few lights and outlets (to charge cellphones, etc.). Central air conditioning, electric clothes dryers, computers and television sets all take a lot of energy; you’ll need a much larger generator to keep them powered.

Local Installers

The professional reputation of the installer is the key to success. Reliability, access to 24/7 customer service, noise control, safety, automatic kick-in, customer referrals and consumer reports are tough to come by, but vital in decision-making. Locally, two names keep cropping up. One is McCoy Electric Corporation at 132 Garden Street in Santa Barbara and the other is Powell Electric Corp at 4415 Carpinteria Avenue in Carpinteria.

Bottom Line

I am by no means an expert on emergency generators. This is just the beginning of pulling together generator or micro grid solutions for Montecito. Those who have gone through the process of installing backup generators are invited to e-mail me at bobhazard@gmail.com to share actual experiences and recommendations. Bringing together the combined knowledge of the community, posted on a community website, is the longer-term goal. We need your advice and ideas.

•MJ

Today’s standby generators operate on natural gas, liquid propane, gasoline or diesel. The best ones kick in automatically when electrical power is cut off.

They are permanently situated outside with good ventilation, so they can go to work immediately when needed.

Homeowners seem to favor natural gas, if available. Environmentalists prefer solar or wind powered generators. Good luck. Wind and sun can be unreliable.

Lithium storage batteries can pose a fire hazard. Diesel and gasoline powered generators tend to be noisier, less environmentally friendly in terms of fumes and fire safety and require higher maintenance.

Choosing the Brand

Standby generators are becoming the option of choice for homeowners who are tired of being left in the dark. They are a necessity for people with homecare medical equipment.

The Generac Guardian Series ranks near the top. Reputedly the 16-kW Generac Guardian Series Air-Cooled Home Standby Generator, operated on natural gas or propane, with a 200-amp automatic transfer switch (Model 7178) is the #1 selling home standby generator at $4,247 plus installation. A 30-kW Generac Liquid-Cooled Home Standby Generator comes in at $9,897 plus installation.

Briggs and Stratton generators utilize reliable commercial-grade Vanguard engines to power their family of air-cooled, natural gas backup generators.

The Symphony II Power Management system balances power demands for a more reliable generator. Briggs and Stratton back their air-cooled generators with an industry-leading 5-year parts, 5-year labor, and 5-year travel warranty.

Other home backup generator brands for backup generators include Cummins, Kohler, Champion, Predator, GE, Westinghouse and Honda. Your installer will size your generator to meet your needs before recommending the right brand, at the right price, for the emergency power you may need.

The Cost of Backup Power

Having your own standby power source is not cheap. A basic 22kW aircooled standby generator, enough to power a typical 2,500-sq-ft home, costs about $5,000; double that to include installation.

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The cast of The Government Inspector brings the laughs for a final week October 24-26

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

Westmont Initiative Tackles the Opioid Epidemic

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he opioid epidemic sweeping the country affects virtually every American, directly or indirectly, often in deeply personal ways. The Westmont Initiative for Public Dialogue and Deliberation (WIPDD) hosts a community conversation on the topic Thursday, October 24, from 7-9 pm at First Presbyterian Church, 21 East Constance Avenue.

Community members may register to participate on a first-come, firstserved basis by email at wipdd@west mont.edu. Registrants are asked to arrive at 6:45 pm. Free parking is available onsite.

Deborah Dunn, professor of communication studies, and Rachel Winslow, director of the Westmont Center for Social Entrepreneurship and assistant professor of history, created and began directing WIPDD in 2018 to encourage dialogue on difficult issues in the local community.

“The concerns that underlie this issue are not confined to party affiliation, nor are they captured by labels like ‘conservative’ or ‘liberal,’” Dunn says. “This is a kind of talking that starts where the problem starts – with your experience of it – real, genuine, human struggles.

Ultimately, this conversation is less about seeing eye-to-eye and more about looking at the costs and consequences of possible solutions to daunting problems, and finding out what we, as a people, will or will not accept as a solution.”

“By facilitating these discussions, we hope to equip students and neighbors with the tools they need to cultivate healthy conversation and careful listening,” says Jordan Baldridge, program coordinator.

Clarinetist Samila Aquino Holt performs Oct 27

Chamber Orchestra Performs Fall Concert

The Westmont Chamber Orchestra and Chamber Winds, featuring performances by the Westmont Winds, Westmont Chamber Brass, and Westmont String Orchestra, host a fall concert on Sunday, October 27, at 7 pm in Deane Chapel on Westmont’s lower campus. Admission is free. For more information, please contact the music department at (805) 565-6040.

“One of the notable pieces is a set of four Renaissance-era Polish dances in a new arrangement for strings,” says Paul Mori, who conducts chamber ensembles and coaches the wind and brass sections for the orchestra throughout the year. “These pieces are rarely heard, but are spirited and charming.”

The repertoire includes two movements (III and IV) of a symphony composed by Mozart when he was 18.

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The chamber brass group will open with a mystical sounding piece by American composer Alan Hovaness.

“His ‘Fantasy No. V’ was last performed at Westmont probably back in the 1970s when Howard Stevenson led the Westmont Brass Choir,” Mori says.

A spirited march by Gounod and a gospel-style arrangement of “Go Tell It on the Mountain” will follow.

The concert features student musicians Samila Aquino Holt (clarinet); Sophia Bartolo (bassoon); trumpet players Simon Janzen, Joshua Acuna, and Soren Warren; Caroline Field (horn); William Mitsuk (trombone); Chet Steussy (tuba); violinists Laura Dagg, Olivia Huebner, Caelia Moore, Laura Joy Phillips, Abbie Pryor, and Michael Rodriquez; and cellists Noah Johnson and Karis Daley.

Government Inspector Delivers Laughs

Westmont’s performance of Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector delivers heavy doses of hilarity and introspection. Award-winning director Mitchell Thomas brings the play back to Porter Theatre for three final performances October 24-26, all at 7:30 pm in Westmont’s Porter Theatre.

General admission is $15; and $10 for seniors and students. Purchase tickets at westmont.edu/boxoffice. For more information, please call (805) 565-7040.

Yuri Okahana-Benson, the play’s scenic designer, illustrated an air of velvet luxury by draping a red curtain across the stage to create extravagant waves at the home of the mayor.

Actor Justin Sharp did an excellent job of intertwining a mixture of slapstick humor with a biting sense of genuine demand for authority.

The deep rooted greed that surfaces in The Government Inspector creates a sense of self-reflection in our own lives. When a small Russian village learns of a secret, undercover government inspector coming for a surprise visit, panic arises. A case of mistaken identity sends the whole village spiraling into a world of hysteria, disarray, and greed.

A lanky Luke Spicer creatively portrayed the greedy Hlestakov, whose feigning honesty leaves the audience stunned silence and laughing out loud in back-to-back scenes.

Volleyball Set to Secure Home Court

The No. 17 Westmont volleyball team, led by senior right side hitter Cassidy Rea, hosts two crucial Golden State Athletics matches this weekend against San Diego Christian College on October 25 at 7 pm and No. 21 Vanguard University on October 26 at 7 pm. The Warriors have slipped to second place in the GSAC with six matches left in the regular season and the right to host the GSAC Tournament (November 15-16) hanging in the balance. SDCC has yet to win a conference match, but Vanguard beat the Warriors in five sets September 27 in Costa Mesa.

First-year Head Coach Ruth McGolpin has steadily guided the young Warrior’s team up the national rankings. Junior outside hitters Hali Galloway and Brooklynn Cheney have contributed 221 and 180 kills respectively, second only to Rea’s 287.

Dynamo junior libero Lauren Friis has tallied 417 digs this season, raising her career tally to 1,532 digs, the third highest in Warrior history.

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Montecito Moms

by Dalina Michaels

Dalina Michaels worked as an award-winning television news producer for KEYT NewsChannel 3. She also served as a reporter for several years with “Inside Santa Barbara,” the city newsmagazine show.

She now freelances for various websites and journalistic outlets. She is a native of Montecito and is grateful to be raising her own children here. If you are a Mama-Cito mama (or know someone!) who would like to be featured, please email: tim@montecitojournal.com

Birgit Klein

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irgit (Bee) Klein is an international woman of travel, style, and design. With a resumé boasting clients all over the world, she is now poised to make her presence in Montecito more formal... with a new store!

Ms Klein and her family came to Montecito four years ago, when her daughter was entering kindergarten and they didn’t want to begin school in Los Angeles.

She and her husband fell in love with our town back in 2009 when they first moved to California and visited Santa Barbara for a weekend. She then realized it was perfect for their family, but she had to work on her husband for six years before he was ready to make the move. Says Klein, “Where else can you hike in the morning, drop your kids off at school, and then be at your office to work at 9 am?”

Not that there will be much time for hiking in the coming days. Ms Klein is

preparing to open a new design studio in Montecito in early October.

Says Klein, “We will have onsite interior designers and also a retail store where both trade and retail clients can come and shop for fabrics, custom upholstery and case pieces, lighting, accessories, and bedding.

Whether it is just one piece or the design of a room or a whole house… we will be able to help.”

Ms Klein grew up in Germany and then studied interior design in London. After working for a well established interior designer there, she decided to start her own business in London back in 2006, and eventually came to the West Coast. Of course, running an international business is not an easy task, especially when you factor in kids.

“Having your own business and being a mom is super hard. With all the traveling that comes with my work and having the office in Los Angeles, I am often away. But I couldn’t imagine it any other way and hopefully one day my kids will look back and are proud of what their mom has achieved.” Now with an established reputation in Los Angeles, London, and New York, she is excited for this next adventure in our community.

“With our new store, all the furniture is designed and made by us, and anyone can come in and see the high quality of the pieces. A lot of the fabrics we will be selling are European brands that I love and have been using for a long time. The quality is fantastic and they are well priced. We will have the most beautiful bedding that can be monogrammed and some fantastic accessories brands from Europe also!”

The idea of the studio is to have a one-stop shop where clients can come and design any furniture for their

home but also get help with the overall look of a room or house – whether it is furniture, drapery, or accessories.

Klein is collaborating with her friend Una (Malan) who already has two showrooms in Los Angeles, representing some great brands. Their partnership for this new adventure will help to ensure they can take care of clients here in our town. “We both have different skill sets and we complement each other really well so we are very excited about this new opportunity.”

Most items on display in the studio will be for sale including accessories such as decorative pillows, throws, accessories and some bedding that can be purchased off the floor. Many items can be customized and can usually be ready in four weeks if the chosen material(s) are in stock.

When she looks back on what brought her to the 93108 and this new endeavor, Klein is proud and looking forward to what her new store can offer people here.

“I love the community feel of Montecito. It’s small but very international!”

Birgit Klein 525 San Ysidro Road, opposite Jenny Kayne (opening tentatively: Winter 2019) www.birgitklein.com @birgitkleininteriors

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breast surgery program

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compassionate diagnostic services & comprehensive care Ridley-Tree Cancer Center’s breast surgeons collaborate with the multidisciplinary team that includes medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, patient navigators, and other support staff to provide prompt, compassionate diagnostic services and comprehensive care, close to home. In addition to treating breast cancer, we also care for patients with benign breast disease, including complications of lactation.

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Seated is Leslie Ridley-Tree with Dorothy Largay, Katina Zaninovich, Rev. Mark Asman, Charles Fenzi, and friend (photo by Priscilla)

ity, which has initiated the Healthy People Communities Campaign to raise $20 million over the next five years including a new Westside clinic building, were Leslie RidleyTree, Mark Asman, Lois Capps, Das Williams, Randy Weiss, Silvana Kelly, Geoff Green, Tom and Linda Cole, David Edelman, Maria Long, Penny Jenkins, Travis and Jessica Hawley, Peter and Gerd Jordano, George and Laurie Leis, Dana Newquist, Maryan Schall, Ron and Andrea Gallo, Peter MacDougall, Stan and Betty Hatch, Anne Towbes, Bob and Patty Bryant, Alixe Mattingly, Mike Eliason, Denny and Bitsy Bacon, Rolf Geyling, Carrie Towbes and Catherine Remak.

Festa Italiana!

Santa Barbara Symphony kicked off its 66th season with Festa Italiana! at the Granada featuring works by Verdi, Paganini, Mendelssohn’s Italiana symphony and Tschaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien under the baton of Nir Kabaretti.

International Italian violinist Francesca Dego was at the top of her game playing Paganini’s fiendishly complicated Concerto No.1 in D Major, and then performing a shorter work by the composer as an encore given the rousing standing ovation she received.

Prior to the packed concert Montecito

Guests at the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Healthcare Heroes lunch (photo by Priscilla) New Symphony board member Allen Mask and his wife, Carly (photo by Baron Spafford)

Daniel and Mandy Hochman enjoy Festa Italiana! (photo by Baron Spafford)

philanthropist Anne Towbes hosted a Via Maestra-catered dinner in the McCune Founders Room for 90 guests, including Kevin Marvin, Mary Dorra, Gillian Launie, Patricia Gregory, George Konstantinow, Bob and Patty Bryant, Barbara Burger and Paul Munch, Sheila Lodge, Dan and Meg Burnham, Stefan and Christine Riesenfeld, Joan Rutkowski, Arthur Swalley, and Howard Jay Smith.

At the reception beforehand a trio from the Santa Barbara Youth Symphony showed off their talents.

Sea Soirée A tidal wave of generosity swept over the historic El Paseo restaurant when Heal the Ocean, celebrating its 21st anniversary, hosted its annual sold-out gala, raising around $300,000 from 200 guests.

The fun fête had Montecito actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, now recovered from breast cancer surgery, and husband Brad Hall as honorary chairs, and Los Angeles auctioneer T.Wanna Kennedy selling off an Aladdin’s cave of goodies, including a Napa Valley glamping experience, a week’s vacation anywhere in the world - which sold twice for $7,000 -, and an oil pet painting by Peggy Lindt.

Among the tsunami of tony types flooding into the eatery for Hillary Hauser’s popular charity were John and Hazel Blankenship, HannahBeth Jackson, Jean-Michel Cousteau, Mahri Kerley, John Palminteri, Teresa

Samantha Bearman, Das Williams, Charles Caldwell, Adriana Marroquin, Ben Romo, David Landecker, Jenni Ramirez, Yessenia Marroquin, Jenna Tosh, and Leslie Kearney at the Montecito Club (photo by Priscilla)

president Bill Clinton commending the work done by the Goleta-based charity, after introductions by clinics

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board president Melinda Stavely and CEO Dr. Charles Fenzi.

Among the 225 guests for the char-

Honorary Santa Barbara Symphony board members Anne Towbes, Natalie Myerson, SBS CEO Kevin Marvin, Jim Franzen, and Marilynn Sullivan (photo by Baron Spafford)

“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.” – Dolly Parton

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Megan Rapinoe, event sponsor Marcy Carsey, and Alex Morgan (photo by Grace Kathryn Photograph)

George Eskin, Heal the Ocean’s Hillary Hauser, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson (photo by Priscilla)

Maria and Stephen Black (center) with guests Ellen and Tom Dunnion, Barbara and Chuck Gray, Connie and Chris Lambert, and Stephanie and Chuck Slosser (photo by Priscilla)

Drake, Randi, and Harry Rabin at the Heal the Ocean gala (photo by Priscilla)

Goal Oriented It must have been one of the quickest ticket sales in UCSB Arts & Lectures history when 2,000 tickets were snapped up in just 90 min24 – 31 October 2019

The Evening of Achievement, moderated by radio host Catherine Remak, took place after the dynamic duo led a soccer clinic for 200 girls at UCSB’s Harder Stadium, organized by the Santa Barbara soccer club.

Afterwards a reception was held on the cavernous stage with many of the audience, aged five to 17, dressed in soccer uniform.

They obviously got a kick out of it...

Seeing Ghosts British playwright Noël Coward stands the test of time as was amply shown by the Santa Barbara City College Theatre Group’s production of Blithe Spirit at the Garvin Theatre.

The 80-year-old World War II work, directed by R. Michael Gros with impressive scenery by Patricia L. Frank and costume design by Pamela

McWilliams, Pat McElroy, Janet Wolf, Gregg Hart, Trish Reynales, and Das Williams.

McGinity’s Moves Montecito accountant Frank McGinity has just published the third edition of Get Off Your Street, a personal travelogue of his global jaunts.

The 253-page book encompasses six new trips, including China, Cambodia, South Africa, Easter Island, Antarctica and Israel, and a six-page chapter on the mudslides, which had a major impact on his longtime home in Riven Rock.

A handsomely illustrated work and just $12.

Event sponsors Bruce and Susan Worster, Megan Rapinoe, and Alex Morgan (photo by Grace Kathryn Photograph)

Shaw, has lost none of its quick-fire humor over the decades.

Leslie Ann Story as the dotty medium Madame Arcati and Leesa Beck as the ghostly late wife Elvira, who is accidentally conjured up during a seance, were perfect for their roles in the two and a half hour show.

The production runs through October 26.

Guys and Ghouls Gloria Clark, wife of Aussie musician Peter Clark, hosted a Halloweenbirthday bash at Tydes at the Coral Casino.

The sunset soirée feted three locals who were celebrating birthdays – Condor Express owner Hiroko Benko, TV host Joyce Shaar and real-

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Frank McGinity publishes third edition of Get Off Your Street (photo by Frank McGinity)

utes when the two co-captains of the U.S. Women’s World Cup winning team, Megan Rapinoe, 34, and Alex Morgan, 30, spoke at the Arlington.

Birthday gals enjoying their bash at Tydes in Montecito with friends

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the Coast Village Business Association.

The new iteration of the association, the Coast Village Association (CVA), continues to loosely promote the event, which has taken on a life of its own. “We make sure to remind our members, the majority of which are local businesses along the road, to be prepared with thousands of pieces of candy,” said Bob Ludwick, president of the CVA. “The business owners have really taken it upon themselves to offer really fun treats, play music, dress up, and get involved in the festivities.”

A few highlights: Here’s the Scoop owners Bob and Ellie Patterson will host their popular costume contest, seeking the most creative handmade costumes. “We want to remind the kids that you can only win if you make your own costume!” Ellie told us earlier this week. As always the pair will pass out their Worms ‘N’ Dirt gelato; those will allergies can request an alternative.

Richie’s Barber Shop will participate in the Teal Pumpkin Project, which offers an alternative for kids with food allergies who may not be able to partake in eating candy. “So many kids these days have food allergies, and they can’t enjoy Halloween like all the other kids do!” said Jessica Jay from Richie’s. “It’s simple: besides handing out the normal large amounts of Halloween candy we are also giving out an alternative for kids with food allergies. We want to bring awareness to parents that Ghost Village Road will be safe for their kids with allergies,” she said, adding that she hopes to encourage other business owners to offer a candy alternative for those that need it. For more information on the nationwide movement, visit www. tealpumpkinproject.org.

The festivities will span from Montecito Country Mart to Olive Mill Road. Safety is the number one priority during the event, and drivers are urged to use care when driving in the area. The event is from 3 pm to 6 pm, on Thursday, October 31.

CVA Traffic Symposium Last Wednesday, October 16, the Coast Village Association held a Transportation & Traffic Symposium, the first of what is hoped to become an annual fall event. “We wanted to get everyone in the same room to talk about an issue that impacts us all, especially the business community on Coast Village Road,” said Trey Pinner, a member of the CVA’s Traffic & Safety Committee.

The symposium, which was held in the conference room at Montecito Inn, was standing room only, and was attended by Coast Village Road business owners and Montecito residents. The content of the presentations touched on various traffic projects slated to impact Montecito, including the 101 expansion, parallel projects including the roundabouts at Olive Mill, San Ysidro Road, and Los Patos, improvements to Coast Village Road and Coast Village Circle, and improvements to public transportation.

Fred Luna with Santa Barbara County Association of Governments (SBCAG) began the presentation by giving a background on the highway widening from Carpinteria through Montecito. The first three phases (seven miles) of the project, from Carpinteria to Sheffield, are fully funded with monies from Senate Bill 1, Measure A, and Caltrans grants.

With the freeway widening through Montecito occurring as the last phase of the project, the funding, as well as the beginning of the design and permitting phases, are expected to occur early next year.

Caltrans District 5 Project Manager Scott Eades explained that the design of the Cabrillo Blvd interchange, dubbed “F Modified,” calls for reconstruction of the existing bridge in order to accommodate three lanes in both directions. The new interchange removes the current left-hand exit at Cabrillo, and adds a new northbound right-hand exit, as well as a

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new southbound freeway entrance at Cabrillo, which was removed during the Milpas project several years ago.

The increased traffic issues on Coast Village Road and surrounding streets has long been blamed on the removal of the southbound entrance at Cabrillo Blvd.

Parallel projects to the freeway widening are required to be at a certain design phase by the spring of 2020, in order to apply for funding in conjunction with the freeway widening. These projects include the roundabout at San Ysidro Road, a sidewalk at Eucalyptus Lane, the Olive Mill interchange roundabout, the Los Patos/Cabrillo intersection roundabout and railroad bridge, and the Milpas southbound off-ramp. The City of Santa Barbara’s Rob Dayton, Transportation Planning and Parking Manager, and Derrick Bailey, Supervising Transportation Engineer, discussed the roundabout at Olive Mill, which will include entrances and exits for Olive Mill, Coast Village Road, North Jameson Lane, and Highway 101. The project will require both Design Review approval and Planning Commission approval from both the City and the County since the intersection is bifurcated between the two jurisdictions.

Because there will need to be a cohesive plan for the intersection, the City and County held a joint conceptual design review last Friday; there were not enough board members for a quorum. The project, which includes reconfiguring the intersection from a stop-controlled, 5-way intersection to a single lane roundabout, and includes adding sidewalks, landscaping, lighting, and directional crosswalks, will also be in front of a joint Planning Commission hearing early next year.

Bailey also discussed the current paving of Coast Village Circle, as well as some traffic and safety mitigation measures that will be implemented on Coast Village Road. These include the removal of several parking spots on the east side of Coast Village Circle (near the Chevron Station) in order to allow for better traffic flow. The stripe that separates the lanes on Coast Village Circle will also be removed, as this is proven to slow traffic down. The crosswalk and the stop sign at Coast Village Circle and Coast Village Road, between the Chevron and Whiskey & Leather, will be moved north a few feet, in order to allow for better line of sight. A flashing crosswalk sign will also be installed on the existing crosswalk in the 1100 block of Coast Village Road.

Santa Barbara County Deputy Director of Transportation Chris Sneddon unveiled the plans for the roundabout at San Ysidro Road, the first time the renderings had been presented to the public. The project includes a single-lane roundabout at San Ysidro Road, North Jameson, and

“Smile - it increases your face value.” – Dolly Parton

both the entrance and exit to Highway 101. It includes pedestrian access on every leg of the intersection, including crosswalks that connect with paved walkways through the medians or refuge areas; the roundabout also promotes bicycle accessibility, giving enough space for bicycles to traverse the lane. The preliminary engineering design of the roundabout is complete, and the Design Working Group, which includes two members of MBAR and two MPC commissioners, will review the project next, followed by the full board of MBAR and MPC, which is expected in the coming months.

Jerry Estrada, General Manager of Santa Barbara MTD, rounded out the panel of presenters by explaining that MTD helps to support traffic initiatives by offering several stops in Montecito and along Coast Village Road; the bus company is also vital in emergency situations, offering its services to help during evacuations.

Following the presentations, several members of the audience asked questions to the panelists. Some voiced concern over the timing of the projects, and the potential of more congestion during construction. Eades responded that the various agencies are cognizant of the impact that road projects can have on the community, and will time them accordingly. “All of these projects will provide tangible congestion relief for Montecito for years to come,” he added.

To learn more about Coast Village Association, visit www.coastvillag eroad.com.

Crane Country Fair

by Ann Pieramici Crane Country Day School’s annual Country Fair has ushered in the fall season for more than 25 years by providing a festive day for the whole community to enjoy. This year’s event is no different, taking place on Sunday, October 27 from 10 am to 3 pm on the school’s spacious fields at 1795 San Leandro Lane in Montecito.

“Each year at the Fair, Crane welcomes new friends and old, grandparents, alumni and neighbors,” said Meg Purdy, who is co-chairing the event with Meggen Maloney. “We share our beautiful campus, play, eat, listen to music and commune with each other. It’s a day filled with joy.”

The exuberance is especially apparent among the kids, who safely run from one activity to the next on the school’s carnival-like fields. Kids of all ages can enjoy the bounce house, cupcake walk, dunk tank, sponge toss, petting zoo, sack races, arts & crafts and much more. For those seeking a more physical challenge, there’s a new 25-foot climbing wall as well as a competitively timed Ninja Course

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tor Diana MacFarlane – with other guests including Arlene Larsen and Ginni Dreier.

Magic Castle emcee Luca Ellis crooned, appropriately enough, Frank Sinatra’s “Witchcraft” tableside.

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Generosity of Eye Screening

He started the project a decade ago and has since visited 40 countries in his quest for a massive photo archive of global biodiversity.

Among the party animals were Gretchen Lieff, Randy and Dana Jaffe, Richard and Lucille Janssen, Rhonda Henderson, and Rod and Winnie Dunbar.

Hosts Clifford and Crystal Wyatt holding Joel Sartore’s National Geographic book, The Photo Ark (photo by Priscilla)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Rod Lathim, Angela Antenore, and Geoff Green at Marjorie Luke Theatre (photo by David Bazemore)

Santa Barbara Junior High’s Marjorie Luke Theatre was socially gridlocked when Generosity of Eye, directed by Emmy-winning actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s husband, Brad Hall, was shown to raise funds for the theater.

The entertaining film, which debuted at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, focused on Julia’s late billionaire father, William, who died three years ago aged 84, having amassed an art collection of more than 3,000 works, which he donated to the Harlem Children’s Zone, to help underprivileged African-American youngsters get a proper education.

It featured a number of the artists he collected and touching conversations between father and daughter during interviews.

Afterwards Rod Lathim, who spearheaded the theatre’s renovation in 2000, moderated a discussion with the dynamic duo before a VIP reception.

Snapping Species Cliff and Crystal Wyatt opened the doors of their charming Montecito home to host a bash for National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, who spoke at Campbell Hall, part of the UCSB Arts & Lectures program.

His talk Building the Photo Ark focused on a multi-year initiative to document every living creature in the world’s zoos and wildlife sanctuaries before it’s too late.

To date Sartore has photographed more than 9,500 of an estimated 12,000 species of birds, fish, mammals, reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates, from the massive African elephant to the tiniest bumblebee.

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Paul’s Auto Auction The late Santa Barbara actor Paul Walker’s car collection is coming upon for auction.

The Fast and the Furious actor has 21 autos up for grabs, including a Nissan 370Z and five E36-generation BMW

M3 lightweight models, of which only 125 were made.

There’s also a 1964 Chevy Chevelle wagon, a 1967 Nova and a 2000 Audi S4.

The cars are part of Barrett-Jacksons Scottsdale auction for 2020.

Not Married with Children Former TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey, 65, has no regrets about how she has lived her life, including not marrying or having children.

Montecito’s most famous resident, who met her longtime partner Stedman Graham at a charity event in 1986, says she did once think of motherhood after she and Graham, 68, became engaged.

“At one point in Chicago I bought an additional apartment because I was thinking, ‘Well, if we get married I’m going to need extra room for children,” Oprah tells People.

“I used to think about this all the time when I was working 17-hour days and so were my producers. Then I’d go home to my two dogs and Stedman, who’s letting me be who I need to be in the world.

“He’s never demanding anything from me like ‘Where’s my breakfast?’ and ‘Where’s my dinner?’ Never any of that, which I believe would have changed had we married. Both he and I say, ‘If we’d married we’d not be together. No question about it.’”

Stocking Stuffers With Christmas looming large, Texas shopping emporium Neiman Marcus has just released its annual Yuletide gift catalog.

Topping the extravagant shopping list is an Aston Martin DBS Superleggara, designed exclusively for James Bond actor Daniel Craig.

In keeping with his code name 007, only seven of the pricey autos have been made.

The twin turbo, 5.2 liter V12 engined car is selling for $700,007, and also comes with one of several limited edition all platinum Omega Seamaster dive watches, and VIP tickets to the premiere of the 25th Bond movie No Time To Die. Other gifts from the catalog, known affectionately as Needless Markup by Dallas denizens, include a behind the scenes visit to the Paris jewelry store Boucheron, founded in 1893, and just a tiara’s toss from the Ritz Hotel on the Place Vendome.

The cost is a hefty $695,000, but includes a necklace, bracelet and two brooches.

For fashion mavens there are front row seats to four shows during New York Fashion Week, a comparative snip at $250,000.

Sightings: Veteran actor Dick Van Dyke at the Magic Castle... Singer Jack Johnson noshing at Pascucci...

Basketball great Bill Walton taking in the Bob Dylan concert the SB Bowl Pip! Pip!

A&L board members Rhonda Henderson, Brian Robertson, photographer Joel Sartore, Gretchen Lieff, and Miles Hartfeld (photo by Priscilla)

“When someone shows you their true colors, believe them.” – Dolly Parton

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NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING ON A PROPOSED ORDINANCE ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE STATE BUILDING STANDARDS CODES WITH LOCAL AMENDMENTS Notice is hereby given that a public hearing on the matter of the proposed ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Barbara amending Santa Barbara Municipal Code Chapter 22.04; adopting by reference the 2019 California Building Code, Volumes 1 and 2; 2019 California Residential Code; 2019 California Electrical Code; 2019 California Mechanical Code; 2019 California Plumbing Code; 2019 California Energy Code; 2019 California Historical Building Code; 2019 California Existing Buildings Code; 2019 California Green Building Standards Code; 2019 California Referenced Standards Code; and the 2015 International Property Maintenance Code; adopting local revisions to those codes; and repealing Ordinance Number 5780 will be held in the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California on November 12, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. at which time evidence will be taken and interested persons will be heard by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara.

Notice is further given that copies of the 2019 California Building Code, Volumes 1 and 2; 2019 California Residential Code; 2019 California Electrical Code; 2019 California Mechanical Code; 2019 California Plumbing Code; 2019 California Energy Code; 2019 California Historical Buildings Code; 2019 California Existing Buildings Code; 2019 California Green Building Standards Code; 2019 California Referenced Standards Code; and the 2015 International Property Maintenance Code, and the proposed local amendments to those codes being considered for adoption are on file with the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Santa Barbara, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California and are open for public inspection.

ORDINANCE NO. 5910

ORDINANCE NO. 5911

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

SANTA BARBARA AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE BY

SANTA BARBARA AMENDING THE MUNICIPAL CODE BY

AMENDING

AND

AMENDING SECTIONS 17.36.010, 17.36.020, 17.36.035,

CHAPTER 14.56, AND REPEALING CHAPTER 16.15,

17.36.040, 17.36.060, AND 17.36.080 PERTAINING TO

RELATING

SECTIONS TO

OF

WATERS,

WATERFRONT PARKING

WASTE OF WATER AND IRRIGATION METERS

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on October

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

15, 2019.

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on October 15, 2019.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

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

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

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

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

California.

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

(Seal) (Seal)

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

Written comments may be sent to the City Clerk of the City of Santa Barbara at the above address.

For further information, please contact the Andrew Stuffler, Santa Barbara Community Development Department, Building and Safety Division, (805) 564-5553.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager October 14, 2019

PROTECTION

14.08.180

WATERCOURSES, THE CITY’S STORM DRAIN SYSTEM,

The proposed ordinance will adopt the aforementioned state building standards codes and will adopt local amendments to these state-wide codes based on local geological, topographical, and climatic conditions and local administrative procedures for the implementation of said codes.

(SEAL)

14.04.020,

ORDINANCE NO. 5911

ORDINANCE NO. 5910

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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

Published October 16, 23, 30 & November 6, 2019 Montecito Journal

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

was introduced on October 8, 2019, and was adopted by the

was introduced on October 8, 2019, and was adopted by the NOTICE OF A PUBLIC HEARING ON A PROPOSED ORDINANCE ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE 2018 INTERNATIONAL FIRE CODE AND THE 2019 CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE WITH LOCAL AMENDMENTS TO BOTH CODES NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing on the matter of the proposed ordinance of the Council of the City of Santa Barbara repealing Santa Barbara Municipal Code Chapter 8.04 and adopting a new Chapter 8.04 adopting by reference the 2018 edition of the International Fire Code, including Appendix Chapter 4 and Appendices B, BB, C, CC, and H of that Code, and the 2019 California Fire Code with local amendments to both codes will be held in the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California on November 12, 2019, at 2:00 p.m. at which time evidence will be taken and interested persons will be heard by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that copies of the 2018 International Fire Code, the 2019 California Fire Code, and the proposed local amendments to both codes being considered for adoption are on file with the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Santa Barbara, City Hall, 735 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California and are open for public inspection.

The proposed ordinance will adopt fire safety standards promulgated by the International Code Council and the State Fire Marshal and will adopt local amendments to these statewide fire safety standards based on local geological, topographical, and climatic conditions and local administrative procedures for the implementation of said codes.

Written comments may be sent to the City Clerk of the City of Santa Barbara at the above address.

For further information, please contact the Santa Barbara Fire Department, Fire Prevention Division, (805) 564-5701.

On Thursday, November 7, 2019, an Agenda with all items to be heard on Tuesday, November 12, 2019, will be available at 735 Anacapa Street and at the Central Library. Agendas and Staff Reports are also accessible online at www.santabarbaraca.gov/CAP. Regular meetings of the Council are broadcast live and rebroadcast on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:00 p.m. and on Saturday at 9:00 a.m. on City TV Channel 18. Each televised Council meeting is closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

These meetings can also be viewed over the Internet at www.SantaBarbaraCA.gov/CouncilVideos.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need auxiliary aids or services or staff assistance to attend or participate in this meeting, please contact the City Administrator's Office at 564-5305. If possible, notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will usually enable the City to make reasonable arrangements. Specialized services, such as sign language interpretation or documents in Braille, may require additional lead time to arrange.

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

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

October 15, 2019, by the following roll call vote:

October 15, 2019, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

AYES:

Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

Councilmember Jason Dominguez

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

Councilmember Randy Rowse

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

on October 16, 2019.

on October 16, 2019.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

October 16, 2019.

October 16, 2019.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

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Published October 23, 2019 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Your House For Cash, 935 Sunrise Drive, Santa Maria, CA 93455.

Kyle William Rayner, 935 Sunrise Drive, Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 18, 2019. 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 Mary Soto. FBN No.

2019-0002623. Published October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Bowtique Decor, 840 Riven Rock, Montecito, CA 93108. Carolyn Petersen, 840 Riven Rock, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 8, 2019. 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 state-

ment on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Brenda Aguilera. FBN No. 20190002491.

Published October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JLD Boxing Academy; Home of the Lion, 504 W. Boone St. Space 11, Santa Maria, CA 93454. Ricardo Ayala Barajas, 1439 Marilyn Way, Santa Maria, CA 93454.

John Leo Dato, 2722 Banyan Way, Santa Maria, CA 93454. This statement was filed with the County

“If I see something saggin’, baggin’, or draggin’, I’m gone have it nipped, tucked, or sucked!” – Dolly Parton

Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 7, 2019. 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 Kathy Gonzales. FBN No. 20190002476.

Published October 16, 23, 30, November 6, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Simply Organic Landscape, 1187 Coast Village

24 – 31 October 2019

ORDINANCE NO. 5912

ORDINANCE NO. 5913

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF

SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE

SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE

WATERFRONT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A LEASE

WATERFRONT DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A LEASE

AGREEMENT WITH HARBOR MARINE WORKS LOCATED

AGREEMENT WITH MARINE SERVICES LOCATED AT

AT 122 HARBOR WAY, COMMENCING UPON THE

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EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ENABLING ORDINANCE.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ENABLING ORDINANCE.

HARBOR

WAY,

COMMENCING

UPON

THE

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on October

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on October

15, 2019.

15, 2019.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

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

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

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

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

California.

California.

(Seal)

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

ORDINANCE NO. 5912 ) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

ORDINANCE NO. 5913 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

was introduced on October 8, 2019, and was adopted by the

was introduced on October 8, 2019, and was adopted by the

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

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

October 15, 2019, by the following roll call vote:

October 15, 2019, by the following roll call vote:

AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Oscar Gutierrez, Meagan Harmon, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

on October 16, 2019.

on October 16, 2019.

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on October 16, 2019.

Published October 23, 2019 Montecito Journal

Road, Montecito, CA 93108. Edgar Echeverria, 115 Tecolote Ave., Goleta, CA 93117. Raul Torres, 1187 Coast Village Road, Montecito, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 7, 2019. 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 Brenda Aguilera. FBN No. 2019-0002466. Published October 9, 16, 23, 30, 2019.

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/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on October 16, 2019.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received via electronic transmission on the City of Santa Barbara PlanetBids portal site until the date and time indicated below at which time they will be publicly opened and posted for: BID NO. 5797 DUE DATE & TIME: NOVEMBER 13, 2019 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Brenda Aguilera.

FBN No. 2019-0002228. Published October 9, 16, 23, 30, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coach Chella, 4477 Shadow Hills Circle, Unit A, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Stefan Menichella, 4477 Shadow Hills Circle, Unit A, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 12, 2019. This statement expires five years from

Scope of Work: The qualified firm will provide uniformed, unarmed security guard officers at the Central Library facility located at 40 East Anapamu Street in downtown Santa Barbara on a daily basis Monday through Sunday.

Bidders must be registered on the city of Santa Barbara’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit their bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. The receiving deadline is absolute. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete Bid will not be accepted.

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on October 30, 2019 at 2:00 p.m., at the Central Library located at 40 E Anapamu St, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. Bids will not be considered from parties that did not attend the mandatory meeting.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a valid State of California, Bureau of Security and Investigative Services, Private Patrol Operator's license and be accredited by CALSAGA, California Association of Licensed Security Agencies, Guards and Associates. No private patrol operator shall provide services within the City of Santa Barbara without first having registered with the Commission in the manner provided in this Chapter. (Ord. 4499, 1988; Ord. 3748, 1975.), per City of Santa Barbara Municipal Code 5.07.030.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids.

FAIR EMPLOYMENT PRACTICE ACT Contractor agrees in accordance with Section 1735 and 1777.6 of California Labor Code, and the California Fair Employment Practice Act (Sections 1410-1433) that in the hiring of common or skilled labor for the performance of any work under this contract or any subcontract hereunder, no contractor, material supplier or vendor shall, by reason 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, discriminate against any person who is qualified and available to perform the work to which such employment relates. The Contractor further agrees to be in compliance with the City of Santa Barbara’s Nondiscriminatory Employment Provisions as set forth in Chapter 9 of the Santa Barbara Municipal Code.

LIVING WAGE Any service purchase order contract issued as a result of this request for bids or quotes may be subject to the City’s Living Wage Ordinance No 5384, SBMC 9.128 and its implementing regulations.

CERTIFICATE OF INSURANCE Contractor must submit to the contracted department within ten (10) calendar days of an order, AND PRIOR TO START OF WORK, certificates of Insurance naming the City of Santa Barbara as Additional Insured in accordance with the attached Insurance Requirements. ________________________ Published: October 23, 2019 William Hornung, C.P.M. Montecito Journal General Services Manager

Published October 23, 2019 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Beach house Winery; River Run Winery; Sleeping Indian Winery, 1534 Sleeping Indian Road, Fallbrook, CA 92028.

Beach House Winery, Inc., 1534 Sleeping Indian Road, Fallbrook, CA 92028. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 13, 2019. 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

INVITATION FOR BIDS

SECURITY PATROL SERVICES AT CENTRAL LIBRARY

(Seal)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA – GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION PO BOX 1990, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93102-1990

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 Thomas Brian.

FBN No. 2019-0002211. Published October 2, 9, 16, 23, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Couture Pattern Museum, 315 Meigs Road, STE A380, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.

Cara A. Rademaker, 315 Meigs Road, STE A380, Santa Barbara,

• The Voice of the Village •

CA 93109. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 26, 2019. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy.

FBN No. 2019-0002368. Published October 2, 9, 16, 23, 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing busi-

ness as: Moto Fabrica, 1110 E De La Guerra Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Chris Puglisi, 1110 E De La Guerra Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 23, 2019. 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 Margarita Silva.

FBN No. 2019-0002315. Published October 2, 9, 16, 23, 2019.

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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 34)

Crane Country Day School holds its annual Country Fair this Sunday, October 27

designed by a Crane dad. Also new this year, a bouncing horse race geared to older kids and even adults.

Crane’s Green Committee Chairs, Sarah Sheshunoff and Brook Eiler, are spearheading an educational and interactive Green Booth, offering ideas for promoting a healthier planet.

They will sell worm bins, owl boxes, bird houses, water bottles and other eco-friendly items and kids will be able to make native seed balls.

“The Fair has long been one of my favorite events because it represents what makes Crane, Crane,” said Meg. The event’s focus on families, community, joy and learning align with the ideals of the school. And consis-

tent with Crane’s credo, which integrates service into the curriculum, the fair has a booth dedicated to philanthropy.

Service learning teacher Ryan Long is collaborating with Direct Relief and creating a dental kit-packing event, open to attendees. The goal this year is to assemble 1,000 kits, which Direct Relief will disperse both nationally and internationally. In addition, prize ticket winners can donate their tickets to Direct Relief and a generous and anonymous Crane family will match the contributions.

No fair is complete without food, so there will be plenty to keep kids well-fueled thanks to Big Daddy’s BBQ, Scoops ice cream and healthy,

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vegetarian alternatives provided by Food Liaison at the Healthy Hut. In addition, the Country Kitchen sells the most delicious fall favorites, including pumpkin pies, peanut brittle, homemade granola, jams, and spice cakes.

Sponsors include Giffin & Crane, Purdy Pediatric Dentistry, SolWave, and Safeway Signs.

The Country Fair will be held on Sunday, October 27 from 10 am to 3 pm on Crane Country Day School’s campus at 1795 San Leandro Lane in Montecito. Admission is free and the fair is open to the public, but tickets or a wristband must be purchased to participate in games and activities. For more information, visit www.crane school.org.

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“You’ll never do a whole lot unless you’re brave enough to try.” – Dolly Parton

24 – 31 October 2019

C O M M E M O R AT E YO U R B U S I N E S S B Y D E D I C AT I N G A S T O N E AT O U R D R E A M P L A Z A AND GIVE LIFE TO FINAL DREAMS The Dream Plaza is a beautiful oasis in front of downtown Santa Barbara’s historic Hotel Californian. Locals and visitors alike will start here to explore the city’s attractions. It’s a place to linger and dream, and every contribution to this beautiful plaza will support Dream Foundation programs and bring thousands of Dreams to life.

Learn how you can be a part of Conde Nast Traveler’s 2018 Best Hotels in the World, all while supporting end-oflife Dreams. Please contact Dream Foundation by phone at 805-539-2208 or email plaza@dreamfoundation.org.

Wells Fargo Private Bank set their commitment to compassion in stone.

“WELLS FARGO PRIVATE BANK is proud to stand and support our local community and organizations like Dream Foundation. We’re honored to the have the opportunity to dedicate a stone at Dream Foundation’s Dream Plaza, contributing to their mission of helping terminally-ill adults fulfill their final Dream.”

— The Private Bank, Santa Barbara Office Choose from four sizes of stone to be elegantly engraved in this one-of-a-kind gift opportunity.

Every stone purchased is eligible for a tax-deductible contribution.

Dream Foundation is the only national dream-granting organization for terminally-ill adults.

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24 – 31 October 2019

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

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 Book ’Em – In Vigilance Is No Orchard, Hazel White records her haunting romance with the Valentine Garden, created by landscape architect Isabelle Greene in the Santa Barbara foothills. Jealous of its maker’s power to affect a dynamic experience of space, White tries to make language play faithfully in the game, coursing between the body and Greene’s fiercely stirring landscape. Both the poems and the constructed landscape they describe are complex and explorative. This week, there are two chances to spend some time in the company of both the author and the architect, beginning tonight, as White and Greene share a talk in the Kitchell Architecture and Design Lecture Series at UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum, which recently acquired the Isabelle Greene Landscape Architecture Records archive. Two days later, the pair of protagonists will also head downtown to the Book Den, adjacent to the Sullivan Goss Gallery, to discuss the book and the interaction between the creators. WHEN: 5-7 pm tonight, 4 pm Saturday WHERE: UCSB campus, across from the lagoon tonight; 15 East Anapamu St. Saturday COST: free INFO: (805) 893-2951 / www. museum.ucsb.edu tonight; 805-9623321 / www.bookden.com Saturday FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25 Camerata American Salute – Camerata Pacifica’s next program in Season 2 of its “Why Beethoven?”

project actually avoids music from Ludwig entirely, instead focusing on compositions by American masters Aaron Copland, John Harbison, George Crumb, and William Bolcom, the latter three of whom are still alive.

“I know many of you won’t show up simply because we’re not playing music by dead European males,” founding artistic director Adrian Spence says on the Ensemble’s YouTube video promoting the program.

“This is a phenomenon that absolutely mystifies me… If that’s why you don’t come, you’re absolutely crazy… and you don’t know what you’re missing.”

Spence goes on to expound upon his personal passion for all four of the composers, particularly Harbison, who has received several commissions from Cam Pac, including “Songs America Loves to Sing.” Also being performed are Crumb’s “other-worldly” “11 Echoes of Autumn,” Bolcom’s second Sonata for Violin & Piano, and Copland’s Western-themed Duo for Flute & Piano. Flutist Melanie Lançon and pianist Huw Watkins join principals Jose Franch-Ballester (clarinet), Kristin Lee (violin) and Ani Aznavoorian (cello) for the patriotic program of progressive pieces. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $56: INFO: (805) 884-8410 or www.cameratapacifica.org Bach, Brahms, and Berkowitz – UCSB music professor Paul Berkowitz’s recital kicking off the on-campus performance series from the university’s ever-more-esteemed

ONGOING Santa Barbara Reads – The program from the Santa Barbara Public Library – which began back in 2002 with The Tortilla Curtain by famed Montecito author T.C. Boyle – annually offers one title to the community with the goal that everyone will read the same book at the same time, sparking engagement and conversations about its themes and how they relate to our lives. Events have mushroomed in recent years, and the trend continues with this year’s selection, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, the multiple award-winning young adult novel/coming-of-age story that explores such topics as racial and sexual identities, family relationships and mental health issues. Some of this week’s highlights include a chance to take the book’s stray dog Legs’ story to heart as families can make dog toys for the dogs waiting to be adopted at DAWG (3 pm Thursday, October 24, Central Library). Saturday at 10 am you can get into puppy love a la Ari’s dog by showing off your own canine pet in a dog parade from the Montecito Library through the Upper Village before ending at Upper Manning Park.

INFO: www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/lib/events/sb_reads.asp

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EVENTS

by Steven Libowitz

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26 Mississippi in Ventura – Propelled by a soul-stirring score of country, pop, gospel and bluegrass music created by Roger Miller (“King of the Road”), Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a rollicking river adventure based on Mark Twain’s timeless 1884 novel. Winner of seven Tony Awards including Best Musical, Best Book and Best Score, the show gives a musical treatment to the long cherished story of the irrepressible, rebellious young Huck, who resists polite society and takes off on a raft with Jim, a runaway slave. The two encounter wild extremes of greed, bigotry, kindness and love along their journey, and many of Twain’s memorable characters are brought to vivid life and delivered in song and dance.

Rubicon Theatre opens its 22nd season with a special “environmental production” of Big River – in which ensemble members sing, play multiple characters, and also play instruments – fulfilling a long-held dream for husband-and-wife team Kirby and Beverly Ward, both Broadway and West-End veterans, who serve as director/choreographer and associate producer/associate director, respectively. Their vision revisits Twain’s timely tale with an integrated group of storytellers who have a sense of urgency because of the show’s relevance to the present time, creating a presentation that is raucous and charming and full of music and dance and laughter, while also packing a powerful dramatic punch, bringing home the fact that prejudice is still a pervasive problem in our country more than 135 years after the novel was first published. The 23-strong cast is led by David Aron Damane – whose Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon, Don’t Dress for Dinner, The Life, Riverdance, Porgy & Bess, and Big River – playing Jim, with Josey Montana McCoy as Huck. Other Broadway and touring company veterans and local favorites will also share the stage with up to 20 audience members, while the house itself will feature large docks and a raft that protrudes into what is usually the front rows of the theater which itself will be transformed by projections and set dressing moved by the actor/storytellers. So get ready to rock and roll (on the river). WHEN: Opens tonight, runs Wednesdays-Sundays through November 10 WHERE: Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura COST: $20-$74 INFO: (805) 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org

department faculty find the pianist returning to the repertoire for which he is best known and acclaimed, Schubert and Brahms. The concert will feature works he has not performed in Santa Barbara for more than 20 years, Brahms’ Klavierstücke, Op. 119 and Schubert’s Sonata in A minor, D845 (Op. 42). Berkowitz was described by the London Sunday Times as being “in the royal class of Schubert interpreters,” while BBC Music Magazine effused about the pianist’s Brahms as having “a voice, a musicality, a bigness of pianism distinctively his own... his integrity is commanding, his stylistic authority convincing and his refusal merely to play the notes impressive.” The pieces will be accompanied by J.S. Bach’s Partita No. 5 in G Major, as well as four short piano pieces by 20th-century French composer Francis Poulenc that are rarely played: Mélancolie of 1940, Intermezzo No. 3, Presto in B-flat Major, and Improvisation No. 15 “Hommage à Édith Piaf”, FP 176. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB cam-

“Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent.” – Dolly Parton

pus COST: $15 general, $5 students INFO: (805) 893-2064 or www. music.ucsb.edu SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 Going MET-a: Opera in HD – The Music Academy of the West’s 201920 season of encore screenings of The Met: Live in HD productions gets underway this afternoon with a revival of Franco Zeffirelli’s popular 1987 production of Puccini’s Turandot, which received raves from The New York Times for new Metropolitan Opera music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s “exciting and insightful account of Zeffirelli’s glittering, over-the-top production, (featuring) a strong cast headed by the blazing soprano Christine Goerke as Puccini’s icy Princess Turandot, the ardent tenor Yusif Eyvazov as Calaf, and the plush-voiced soprano Eleonora Buratto as Liù.” The season encompasses 10 transmissions, split evenly between five revivals and five new productions, including the Met premiere of Philip Glass’ 20th-century opera Akhnaten, starring Anthony Roth Costanzo as 24 – 31 October 2019

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 27 ‘Butterfly’ is Free – Just a few days before its 2019-20 season opening production of Madama Butterfly, Opera Santa Barbara is offering its first-ever free open rehearsal to the public in an outdoor space where you might actually get visited by a real life version of the fluttery insects. Featuring musical accompaniment by the OSB Orchestra, the opera’s cast of singers will go through the show in an open rehearsal that provides insight to how it all comes together, including input from the production’s and company’s artistic team. Puccini’s popular turn of the century piece has become a staple of the operatic repertoire around the world, and now you and the family can get a glimpse why in the free event at the Santa Barbara Courthouse’s Sunken Gardens this afternoon where you‘ll have a chance to meet the people behind the magic. Bring low-back lawn chairs or breathable blankets, meaning no plastic underlining or yoga mats in order to protect the venue’s lawn. Come in costume for a chance at free tickets to the full production of the opera about love, loss, dreams and culture clash that plays at the Granada on November 1 & 3. WHEN: 3-5 pm WHERE: 1100 Anacapa St. COST: free INFO: 805-898-3890 or www.operasb.org

the title pharaoh and featuring MAW alumnus Aaron Blake (‘10, ‘11) as the High Priest of Amon, plus Berg’s Wozzeck in a new staging by visual artist and stage director William Kentridge; Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess; the Met premiere of Handel’s Agrippina, starring MAW alumna Brenda Rae (‘08) as Poppea in a contemporary staging by Sir David McVicar; and a new take on Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer. Live in HD will also give its HD treatment complete with backstage

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visits and commentary to Massenet’s French masterpiece Manon; Anthony Minghella’s take on Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, with Plácido Domingo as Sharpless; Puccini’s Tosca; and Maria Stuarda, the second opera of Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy. WHEN: 2 pm WHERE: Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West campus, 1070 Fairway Road COST: $28 ($10 students, Community Access; free for youth ages 7-17) INFO: 969-8787 or www. musicacademy.org •MJ

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ALESSIA CARA SAT NOV 9 7:30 PM

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DANISH STRING QUARTET WITH THE

DANISH NATIONAL GIRLS CHOIR TUE NOV 12 7PM

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29 CAMA at 101 – The Community Arts Music Association celebrated its centennial last season with a series of special events and memorable concerts. Now it’s 101st program of presentations of internationally touring orchestras and in-demand recitalists gets underway, perhaps appropriately to indicate continuity, with the return of the well-regarded British pianist Stephen Hough. Named by The Economist Magazine as one of 20 Living Polymaths (“a person of great and varied learning”), Hough is a leading concert pianist, writer, composer, teacher, and painter who has won global acclaim for his outstanding interpretations of the piano repertoire and continued to amass awards, accomplishments, and accolades. Notably, he was the first classical performer to be awarded a MacArthur (Genius) Fellowship and in 2014, Queen Elizabeth appointed him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to music. In his return to the Lobero, Hough hunkers down to deliver a program of music on the subject of death, representing his desire to explore pieces which have the theme as part of their identity or inspiration. Chopin’s Funeral March sonata and Liszt’s Funérailles speak for themselves, he explains in the program notes, noting that Bach’s Chaconne was apparently written in memory of his first wife while Busoni’s Berceuse acquired the subtitle “The man’s lullaby at his mother’s coffin” when he orchestrated it. Hough’s own fourth piano sonata, Vida Breve, explores brevity in a work that ends sooner than expected while Liszt’s two Mephisto Waltzes find the composer (and audience) facing the Devil himself. Still, Hough has a lighter touch to what most consider the darkest topic of all, writing “Death: the only certainty in every life; the final piece on everyone’s recital programme. Ah, but what about the encores?” Perhaps we shouldn’t expect a piano arrangement of “Ode to Joy.” WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $45-$55 INFO: (805) 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

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Real Estate

by Mark Ashton Hunt

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

Homes on One Level

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ousing trends change with some regularity, although perhaps not as frequently as fashion trends change. Housing style trends can take longer to shift as changing the style or look of a home is a very costly undertaking. Maybe that is why we tend to refer to housing styles in terms of eras, other than type of architecture (like Modern, Spanish, or Ranch), think 1950s and ‘60’s ranch style homes, ‘80s modern style or ‘90s McMansions for instance.

Right now it seems (and for a few years now) single-level homes are enjoying a broad buyers pool, from families that want to be sleeping on the same lower level to those who don’t want to do stairs throughout the day, to those who are less able to climb stairs for one reason or another.

There are advantages to a two-story home (increased potential for number of rooms with a view, higher vantage points for views, multiple balconies, a dramatic staircase in the home, more square footage on a smaller lot by building up, etcetera). There are also advantages to single-level construction, the top being simply no stairs to climb or descend.

There are numerous two- or three-story homes with 6,000 or 8,000 square feet or more on the market at any given time in Montecito. However, there are usually very few single-level homes for sale that can boast that much square footage.

The following are three single-level homes in prime Montecito locations. I’ve also included what might be considered a Montecito starter home, for a good look at a single-level home with upside opportunity in a lower price range in a top area.

1848 East Valley Road: $2,225,000 (reduced from $2,495,000)

Set back from East Valley Road with a deeper, 1 +/- acre rectangular type of lot, this home is adjacent to a sizable estate and is nestled between Park Lane and Buena Vista Drive on the mountain side of the street.

Enter the impressive and convenient circular motor court and take the formal pathway to the home. This approximately one-acre property offers a 2,700+/- square foot, single level home consisting of three bedrooms and three bathrooms in an area of generally more expensive homes and estates.

Enjoy mature specimen trees and landscaping. Take in the garden view through oversized picture windows and doors, highlighting the outdoor spaces. The kitchen was remodeled in the 1990s and the home is in the Montecito Union School District.

1237 East Mountain Drive: $8,290,000 (reduced from $8,950,000)

This single-level Montecito property is located on a secluded 2+ acre lot (two separate parcels with a private well) featuring enviable privacy and ocean and island views. The home features 6,500+/- sq ft in a single level and boasts beamed and high ceilings, a formal dining room, and chef’s kitchen with great room and dining area as well, not to mention the ocean views.

The compound offers a rich history, having been owned at one time or anoth-

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er by Troy Aikman, Marcus Allen, and frequented by Ronald Reagan. Entertain outdoors overlooking the mature gardens, water features and the Koi pond.

Spend time at the pool and spa, while preparing dinner in the outdoor kitchen equipped with an infrared BBQ, pizza oven, sink and refrigerator.

After gathering in front of the outdoor stone fireplace, guests can retreat to the guest cottage near the pool. This property is gated and within the Montecito Union School District.

121 Olive Mill Lane: $10,750,000 (new to market, original asking price) This sprawling, single-level Spanish hacienda-style estate rests behind gates near the end of a private lane and offers an extensive list of amenities. The designers of this estate embraced Montecito’s indoor-outdoor lifestyle with an open floorplan, high ceilings, archways and an abundance of windows and glass doors creating a sense of space and light.

The main residence includes a master suite, three guest suites, a study, office, living and great rooms, media room and chef’s kitchen with butler’s pantry.

In addition, the estate includes a guest house, auxiliary structure, pool and spa, and a tennis court with a tennis cabana that serves as a focal point when viewed from the main home, highlighting the depth of this 1.3+/- acre lot. This compound on Olive Mill Lane is just a few blocks from Coast Village Road and is in the Montecito Union School District.

1569 East Valley Road: $12,950,000 (reduced from over $15,000,000)

Positioned near the upper village in Montecito in an area of equally impressive estates is this 2.48+/- acre lot, just a stone’s throw from Oprah’s digs. A long private drive leads to the compound, which includes a 6,800+/- sq ft main home, a 3-bedroom 2-bathroom guest house and a 1-bedroom guest cottage, all offering Old World charm and state-of-the-art modern convenience.

The kitchen and great room in the main home are a must see if you like to entertain. The social rooms flow out to a sprawling patio leading to an infinity pool, private yard, and views beyond. The temperature-controlled wine room can house an inventory of 750+ bottles and the family wing has three bedrooms, a media room, and an office or bedroom.

Additionally, there is a fitness gym with powder room, pool house with a powder room, garages and a total of 8 bedrooms, 7 full bathrooms and 4 powder rooms. The home is in the Montecito Union School District.

••• For more information on any of these listings or to arrange a showing with the listing agents, please contact me directly, Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text 805698-2174. Please view my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based.

•MJ

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24 – 31 October 2019

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NEW LISTING! 422 Alan Road, Hendry's Beach 3 Bed, 2.5 Bath 2,558 Square Feet .42 acres

Offered at $1,849,500

Live your best beach life at this perfectly situated property, located just steps from the sand at Hendry’s Beach. This large home enjoys plentiful living spaces inside and expansive entertaining space outside. Refinished oak floors are throughout the main level, which boasts a spacious living room with fireplace, media room/den equipped with surround sound speakers, a bonus office/flex space with vaulted ceilings and exterior access, a powder room, and remodeled kitchen. The open concept kitchen offers quartzite countertops, newer appliances, custom cabinetry, a breakfast area, and French doors leading to the backyard deck. Upstairs is a large master bedroom with fireplace and vaulted ceilings, complete with a recently updated master bath with dual sinks and spacious shower. Two large guest rooms and a full guest bathroom complete the upstairs.

Perched on nearly .42 acre, you’ll smell the ocean air as you enjoy stunning views of Elings Park from the backyard, surrounded by fruit trees, roses, and tropical landscaping. An expansive tile deck is the perfect place to entertain friends after a day at the beach, from the ideal Santa Barbara beach home.

Kelly Mahan Herrick (805) 208-1451 Kelly@HomesInSantaBarbara.com www.HomesInSantaBarbara.com

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$14,500,000 | 2697 Sycamore Canyon Rd, Montecito | 5BD/7½BA 3±acs Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233 | Lic # 01209514

$11,950,000 | 1050 Cold Springs Rd, Montecito | 7BD/8BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233 | Lic # 01209514

$4,300,000 | 560 Meadow Wood Ln, Montecito | 4BD/4½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

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$3,995,000 | 974 Park Ln, Montecito | 2BD/2BA + Art Studio & GH Angela Moloney | 805.451.1553 Lic # 01221588

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$2,850,000 | 1284 Coast Village Rd, Montecito | 2BD/2½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896 Lic # 00976141

$2,795,000 | 790 Ayala Ln, Montecito Upper | 1.25 ± acs Cristal Clarke | 805.886.9378 Lic # 00968247

$2,695,000 | 2942 Torito Rd, Montecito Upper | 3BD/3BA Joyce Enright | 805.570.1360 Lic # 00557356

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$1,700,000 | 1230 Toro Canyon Rd, Summerland | 2BD/2BA 13+ acs Jody Neal | 805.252.9267 Lic # 01995725

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