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Actor Tab Hunter reveals all about Confidential documentary to Richard Mineards at SB premiere, P. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P.11 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P.38 • OPEN HOUSES, P.45

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Montecito Planning Commission weighs in on hot-button vacation rental issue, asking county staff to write laws prohibiting shortterm rentals and “homestays” in Montecito (Story on page 10)

Isle Be Darned

Chuck Graham feels the breeze while kayaking amongst our Channel Islands to camp amid lighthouses, p.42

Small Business Saturday

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 4 On The Water Front

Bob Hazard analyzes Montecito’s water rates, opines about conservation, and outlines future proposals, considers what lies ahead, and reviews the history of rate increases

6 Mineards’s Miscellany

Tab Hunter; Katy Perry; Ellen DeGeneres; Porsche vs Paul Walker; Silverhorn charity; Youth Ensemble Theatre; Alexander Harmer exhibit; and B’nai B’rith bash at Bacara

8 Letters to the Editor

Geri Ventura bids farewell; Joel Maloney on bureaucrats; David Kent about the YMCA; Des O’Neill credits Dr. Andreea Serban; Ehsida Bisset is grateful; JvW about craziness; Dana Newquist salutes Justin Fareed; and Nancy Gifford praises Joanne Calitri

10 Village Beat

MPC receives briefing from Jessica Metzger about short-term rentals; Small Business Saturday and WEV graduates; and Montecito Fire Protection District accepts donations

11 This Week

Thanksgiving dinners and pumpkin smash; library schedule; Black Friday; Sensible Spirituality; Holiday Faire; Immersion in Death; MA Land Use; free tech classes; movies at library; Maritime Museum history; Simpatico Pilates art show and much more

Tide Guide 14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner covers Casa del Herrero party; Our Lady of Mount Carmel School “Swanky Sixties Soirée; and La Casa de Maria dinner

26 On Life

Hope Dance publisher Bob Banner’s “All Day Immersion Into Death” event is slated for this Monday, November 30, at La Casa de Maria

28 Our Town

Listen up: John Ferriter puts on musical benefit for Puppies member Tim Bryson, who learned earlier this year he has cancer

33 Your Westmont

Presidential adviser David Gergen examined leadership; alumni will celebrate the lighting of the campus Christmas

34 On Entertainment

Thomas Lauderdale of Pink Martini before his return to Arlington Theatre; Goodland Supper Club’s latest production at Timbers; and Area 51 at SOhO with Mari Martin

38 Calendar of Events

Mozart by West Coast Chamber Orchestra; The Long Run at SOhO; Crawfords and Center Stage; musical medley at Granada; Chasing Shadows at Lobero; Borders documentary at UCSB; La Arcada Christmas Walk; “Winter Gift” in Ojai; reindeer art; and 1st Thursday

40 Legal Advertising 41 Ernie’s World

Ernie Witham ongoing travels take him to New Hampshire, home to sky-high Mount Washington Cog Railway, established in 1869

Movie Guide 42 Far Flung Travel

Chuck Graham sees the light – specifically lighthouses – and feels the breeze while channel surfing, via kayak, around East Anacapa Island

45 Open House Directory 46 Classified Advertising 47 Local Business Directory

ON THE WATER FRONT

by Bob Hazard

Understanding the Cost of Water in Montecito

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ater in Montecito has historically been our least-expensive utility, behind electricity, natural gas, and cable TV. Not anymore. Some shocked Montecito residents have found that their water bills have tripled, even when they have cut usage by 40 to 50% or more. When residents use less gasoline, they save money. When they use less electricity, they save money. If they eat out less frequently, they save money. Why is it when we use less water, we pay more – a lot more?

What Has Happened to Water Rates?

Back in 2013, MWD water rates for single-family residential users were $3.90 per unit per month for tier 1 use (0 to 25 units). Today, two years later, water rates have risen to $8.48 for tier 1 use, a 117% increase. Water rates for tier 4 users (121 units or more per month) have risen from $5.90 per unit in 2013 to $11.36 today, a 93% increase in the last two years.

Catch-22 on Conservation

Montecito residents have conserved water at a remarkable rate of just under 50% of 2013 usage, easily surpassing Governor Brown’s target of a 25% reduction. Unlike Beverly Hills, Bel-Air ,and Rancho Santa Fe, our community has one of the best conservation records in all of California. Unfortunately, Montecito Water District (MWD) is a small district with large fixed costs. The severe decline in water sales revenue, combined with an inability to cut fixed and variable costs, has sent water rates skyrocketing.

Regrettably, added rate jumps may be necessary, even if we are blessed with record-shattering El Niño rains this winter. The question is, “Will MWD customers buy more water if more water is available, or will this community continue to use less water, driving up MWD rates?” The downside of conservation is that our community is morphing from green to brown, trees are dying, more wells are being dug, and large users are trucking in water from neighboring communities as MWD water sales plunge.

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26 November – 3 December 2015

Plan for the Future

How MWD restructures its water portfolio will determine future water rates.

Desalination

MWD is currently negotiating with the City of Santa Barbara for permission to participate in the City’s Charles E. Meyer desalination plant – drawing water from the largest surface reservoir in the world – the Pacific Ocean.

The delivery of reliable, locally controlled, desalinated water would end Montecito’s unhealthy dependence on rainfall and imported surface water, but at what expense?

The City already has the rate structure to fund its $55-million facility reactivation with a 20-year loan at 1.66% from the state revolving fund.

Unfortunately, MWD has no rate structure and no reserves to fund its participation in the City desalination program.

Good News. The projected cost to City residents for their 3,125 AFY of desalinated water is $2,350 per AF, or an affordable $5.40 per billable HCF unit. If plant capacity is increased from its 3,125 AFY planned production to 7,500 AFY in modules at an added cost of $25 million, economies of scale could drop the cost per acre foot from $2,350 per AF to a more reasonable range of $1,450 per AF, a blessing for both MWD and City customers.

Bad News. The City Term Sheet may ask MWD to pay as much as half of the City’s $55-million original upgrade cost, plus a share of the $25 million for a capacity increase, plus a share of increased operating expenses, plus the cost of any new pipes and pumps needed to transport desalinated water to Montecito. That could amount to $6 million or more in annual expenditures for MWD, when these costs are amortized by the City over the next 20 years.

The City’s rationale is that their MWD offer sheet is a whole lot less expensive than MWD building its own desalination plant at a proposed cost of $90 million, plus decades waiting for California Coastal Commission approval, other regulatory approvals, and potential Environmental Impact lawsuits from disgruntled Montecito ratepayers.

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entertaining film, produced by Tab’s longtime companion Allan Glaser and directed by Emmy Awardwinning filmmaker Jeffrey Schwartz, and hosted by yours truly, who also conducted a question-and-answer session with the tony twosome after the show, which has already aired

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

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

Geri Says Good-Bye

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any of you may know that my dad was a battalion chief at Oxnard Fire. What you may not know is that late in his career, he won a half-million dollars in the California lottery. Following his win, a few years later, my cousins won an even bigger lottery: $122 million in the Mega Millions jackpot. The cash value option for their win was over $73.5 million – the largest Mega Millions prize ever claimed in Texas.

I don’t know about you, but I am pretty sure that luck runs deep in my family. I may not have won millions, but I have won the lottery – in many other ways!

I won the lottery by having the best childhood any person could ask for, and I was spoiled beyond imagination. Not only did my mom and dad give me “things”... you know... those possessions that every child wants, like ponies, shiny red bikes, and fancy sneakers. My parents gave me all those things, but more importantly, they gave experiences, great memories, confidence, and love.

More love than anything.

I won the lottery with my friends and neighbors. We’ve had many barbecues, gone camping, spent vacations together, held block parties, progressive dinners, celebrated holidays together, including, Mardi Gras and Chinese New Years. And, it was my friends who set me up on the blind date with the man who eventually became my husband. We’ve shared highs and lows and laughed so hard, we cried. I have the best of friends and thank you all for being such a big part of my life. I love you all and look forward to spending more time with you all in the days and years to come.

I won the lottery with my own wonderful family – my boys Cody and Justin – I’m so proud of both of you – you are both smart, independent, and have strong work ethics. And of course, my husband, Bobby, and his children – what can I say? The best results a blind date could offer. You have had to put up with my constant worry about work, the weather alerts that woke us up throughout the night and late nights on my computer, keeping the community informed during windy nights and other emergencies.

There were also the many weeks I spent away, when I worked on fires for other agencies, and most recently you had to help me through the stresses I endured after the 2012 election. I have the best family a girl could ask

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for. I love you all more than you know.

I won the lottery when I was hired at Montecito Fire in 1993 for many reasons, including that it afforded an opportunity to work for many great leaders.

Herb McElwee was my first fire chief. A visionary and a mentor.

Without his leadership and support, I’d have never had the opportunities to expand the skills that I am leaving with today. Herb was a great man, and I miss him so very much.

Ron McClain was my second fire chief. It was Chief McClain who encouraged me to take MERRAG to the next level, allowing me to bring CERT training to the group and expanding the program to include individual community members. He was also the chief that supported my education in computers and information technology. He was strong and wise, and he was the man behind the curtains who brought Herb’s visions to reality. They were quite a team.

Kevin Wallace was next. Chief Wallace allowed me to step in as the District’s spokesperson after the Zaca Fire and supported my desire to complete my Associate’s Degree in Communications. Thank you for that Kevin. I learned so much under your leadership.

And, Chip Hickman has been my last fire chief. Together, we have endured the most difficult times I think Montecito Fire has had to go through, at least in the 22 years I have been here. Much like Chief McElwee, Chip has been a beacon of light when it felt like darkness was all around.

He bandaged me up and gave me encouragement when I felt ineffective and broken; he helped me survive these past few years and I couldn’t have done it without his support.

Thank you, friend. You made coming to work worthwhile when I’d thought we were lost.

So yes, I won the lottery with my family, and I won the lottery when I was hired by Montecito Fire, which, as it turned out, became a double win, as MFD became my second family.

In spite of being 20-40 years older than me, the active MERRAG volunteers often refer to me as their “Mother Hen,” as I gave them training and guidance. Know they have been very worried about my departure, but a good parent raises their children to leave them. I am confident, as with my own children, my MERRAG “children” will take what they’ve learned

and be great on their own.

My second family included all my coworkers. At times, I’ve felt like they were like my brothers and sisters, bickering over stupid things, pulling pranks on [one another], and even punching a few of the guys.

At times, I’ve felt like a mother to the firefighters I work with, constantly worrying about them as they responded to the emergencies that endangered their lives. Will they make it back alive? Please make it back alive and well.

And for a few, I was their “work wife”... making their coffee, talking about politics and family, straightening their ties, strategizing with them, and supporting them behind the scenes.

We may joke about this with [one another], but I truly believe that everyone I’ve worked with at Montecito Fire are heroes and I’m proud to have worked alongside them.

I mentioned at the beginning that my father retired from Oxnard Fire Department after 30 years of service and winning the lottery. The lottery win had given him an incentive to finally leave his job, in spite of loving what he did. Yup, my family has always been pretty lucky. But sadly, his luck ran out, when he passed away at the young age of 60, having only a few years as a retiree to enjoy

his family, his grandchildren, and his newfound financial windfall.

Since then, I have lived every day like it might be my last day, and I am taking this opportunity now, to retire early so that I can enjoy everything that life has to offer, for however long that may be.

My dad never thought I’d like this business, but he was so very wrong. Working at Montecito Fire has been very rewarding, and I have made many friends, and extended my family to include my brothers and sisters in the fire service and the MERRAG volunteers with whom I have worked. When members of my MERRAG family refer to me as their “Mother Hen.” This always makes me laugh. “What are you going to do?” these (mostly) retired folks ask me. “I’m not sure,” I tell them. “What do you do?”

I hear you are busier being retired than you were when you worked – so we’ll see how that works out.

I’ve enjoyed my career more than you know, but now I have the opportunity to enjoy all of the other things that make me feel like a lottery winner and enjoy the things that make my life special. I can focus not on clocking in every day, but instead I can focus on my friends and family, my kids, my granddaughter, and my husband.

Thank you all for supporting me

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26 November – 3 December 2015

Ugly Boxes, Ugly Bureaucrats

In light of Santa Barbara mayor Helene Schneider’s recent request to reduce the height of the modular homes along the freeway, I thought your readers would like a follow-up on my previous letter (“Santa Barbara Ugly” MJ #21/42) regarding this eyesore.

First of all, although I commend the local politicians for finally getting involved in what we now know was a four-year permit and planning process, I think it is obvious that their heartfelt requests to tear the top floor off of the units are not realistic.

The units have been built, are permitted by the state, and are going to remain. As I said before, we (they) were duped, and there is no reason to believe the State of California is going to require an adjustment to the rooflines of the units by the freeway.

Nor is it realistic that the State is going to cancel the laws pertaining to trailer parks just because Santa Barbara doesn’t like them.

Okay, so let’s deal with reality: my previous letter to the editor drew such tremendous positive response that the builder contacted me, and we met several weeks ago to discuss enhancing the landscaping around the units to offset the negative esthetics. (The original plan called for no landscaping other than a few palm trees on the interior of the project.) He agrees that tall, bushy trees should be planted on both the Montecito and Milpas “gateway” sides. There is ample room, and it is my understanding he is now working with an arborist on a feasible plan. I strongly suggested that the trees should be large, mature trees and that they should be elevated in some sort of concrete planter box six to eight feet (the sound wall is 12 feet). It seems to me that this would give us some immediate relief while the trees continue to grow.

As for along the wall, facing the freeway, this is more problematic.

There is five feet of space (I know it looks like inches from the freeway) with what appears to be fertile soil.

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spreading eucalyptus tree/bush and the developer seemed open to it. If they grow as they should, within a year, the corners to the buildings should be softened by the plantings.

Finally, I strongly suggested that the units be painted an appropriate color to soften and minimize the obnoxious visual. I’m not an expert in these matters. I just know when I drive to Carpinteria, there are many buildings close to the freeway that are not blatantly offensive to the eye.

They seem to be dark brown and dark green, and they seem to have trees and bushes planted around them. So, bingo! I recommended dark brown for the most obnoxious units. Again, he seemed amenable.

If anyone else has a realistic suggestion (other than burning them down or tearing the second story and roofs off them), I’d be happy to pass it along to the developer. Otherwise, I will continue to work with him on a reasonable solution and will be happy to share the final rendering of the new landscaping when available.

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No Need for Bigger YMCA

Why does the YMCA continue to stubbornly insist upon its expansion plan? In the very beginning, leaders of the Montecito Association tried to reason with the YMCA principals, offering our support for a renovation plan rather than the proposed expansion of the facility and the membership.

Nevertheless, YMCA leaders insist upon building a full-scale gymnasium that will assuredly attract non-member users from outside the Montecito area. Their plan also calls for the addition of a second exercise room, so that two workout classes may be run simultaneously. The expansion of the swimming pool, as well as the addition of a second indoor pool, will certainly expand the use of this facility.

Where will all these people park?

One needs only to drive by the Y any morning to see folks circling the parking lot for a vacant spot to open up. Parking and traffic congestion is already a serious problem around the YMCA, in spite of the installation of a traffic signal on San Ysidro Road.

The expansion of this facility can only exacerbate the problem.

The Montecito Association and the local neighbors have consistently voiced their concern and opposition to the current YMCA plan.

Last week’s editorial as well as the letter from neighbor Marty Riessen (“Cap the Y at 1,600” MJ #21/46)

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n November 18, Montecito Planning commissioners received a briefing from county planner Jessica Metzger regarding short-term rentals (STRs) within the unincorporated areas of Santa Barbara, and were asked to provide direction to help develop specific zoning ordinance amendments which would affect Montecito.

As part of the county’s Long Range Planning Division’s Annual Work Program for 2015/2016, staff is reviewing and clarifying provisions in the county zoning ordinances regarding STRs, as issues with vacation rentals have increased in the last few years with the boosted presence of such Internet sites as Airbnb, HomeAway, and VRBO. The county’s current zoning ordinances do not presently address the short-term rental of residential properties, though they do place restrictions on the use of certain structures for overnight accommodations.

The term “short-term rental” is not

currently defined in the Montecito Land Use Development Code (i.e. a residential rental for less than 30 days, where the owner of the property is not present at the same time as the tenant), nor is the term “homestay,” which staff defines as a unit rented for 30 days or less, where the owner of the property inhabits a legal dwelling on the parcel at the same time as the tenant. Traditional “transient lodging uses,” such as hotels, hostels, and bed & breakfasts, are allowed primarily in commercial zone districts, and prohibited in residential and agricultural zones.

The lack of clear definitions has created a loophole in the zoning ordinance, with Metzger estimating that there are at least 120 STRs and homestays in Montecito, if not more.

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This Week in and around Montecito

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26 Thanksgiving Several restaurants in Montecito are serving up traditional turkey dinners with all the fixins; call for details and reservations.

Trattoria Mollie, 1250 Coast Village Road, 565-9381 Bella Vista at the Biltmore, 1260 Channel Drive, 969-2261 Montecito Wine Bistro, 516 San Ysidro Road, 969-7520 Plow & Angel, 900 San Ysidro Lane, 565-1724 Stonehouse Restaurant, 900 San Ysidro Lane, 565-1724 Stella Mare’s, 50 Los Patos Way, 969-6705 Thanksgiving Day Pumpkin Smash Animal lovers are encouraged to get the kids out of the house on Thanksgiving and come to the zoo for a smashin’ good time! Watch as the elephants, gorillas, and other animals play and interact with pumpkins.

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When: 10 am to 3:30 pm Where: 500 Ninos Drive Info: www.sbzoo.org FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Library Closed All libraries in the Santa Barbara Public Library system are closed on both Thanksgiving Day and the Friday after.

Black Friday at Jenni Kayne Jenni Kayne in San Ysidro Village will host a “Black Friday” promo, with everything in the store discounted 20 percent. The special will run for five full days, until December 1.

Where: 525 San Ysidro Road #H Info: 309-0550

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When: Friday, November 27, 7:30 pm through Sunday, November 29, 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $265 for commuters, $365 for residents Info: www.lacasademaria.org SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Holiday Faire Showcasing the work of 85 participating artisans from throughout California, an exceptional variety of fine handicrafts awaits shoppers at the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History’s 35th Annual Holiday Faire. Some of the unique gifts offered for sale will include wooden toys, country crafts, fine jewelry, quilts, crochet hats and scarves, stained glass, baby gifts, Christmas ornaments, decorations, and wreaths. From ceramics, succulent dish gardens, and exotic wooden bowls to original photography, oil, and watercolor paintings, this year’s faire promises art for everyone’s tastes and pocketbook.

There will be a variety of refreshments, including hot foods and fresh home-

Maritime History Greg Gorga, executive director of the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, will present an overview of Santa Barbara’s rich, thousand-year maritime history at the Montecito Library.

Santa Barbara’s seagoing past predates that of other famous maritime cities such as Boston and New York. Even those familiar with local history will likely learn new information from this presentation. The Montecito Association History Committee and the Montecito Library are jointly sponsoring this free event.

When: 6 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Cost: free Info: (805) 969-5063 baked goodies. Enjoy live bluegrass and Irish folk music, while the children indulge in face painting or share their Christmas wishes and candy canes with Santa Claus.

When: 10 am to 3 pm Where: 956 Maple Avenue Info: 684-3112 MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 All-Day Immersion in Death A day of films, film shorts, speakers, and conversations about death.

When: 8:30 am Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $40-$75 Info: www.lacasademaria.org TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects.

When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 Free Tech Classes at Montecito Library iPads and iPhones are versatile devices capable of countless useful functions, but many of these remain a mystery to

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their owners. The Montecito branch of the Santa Barbara Public Library System will be offering free workshops demonstrating various tips and tricks to help users get more from their Apple mobile devices. Everyone is invited to bring along his or her iPad and iPhone along with any questions.

Users of all levels are welcome.

When: 1 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: (805) 969-5063 Movies at the Library Shaun the Sheep, a family film, will be presented at Montecito Library.

When: 3 to 5 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Cost: free Info: (805) 969-5063 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 Art Show at Simpatico Pilates Showcasing Visionary Art, featuring the dynamic and inspiring art of Oceanna. The public is invited to visit the show. Artwork for sale.

When: 9 to 11:30 am Where: Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road, suite I upstairs Info: (805) 565-7591; www.oceannavisions.com

Knitting and Crocheting Circle Fiber art crafts drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

Must have some manual dexterity for crochet and knitting.

When: 2 to 3:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Poetry Club Each month, discuss the life and work of a different poet; poets selected by group consensus and interest. New members welcome.

When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Design Awards Gala The Santa Barbara Chapter of the

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the ordinance is crafted now, we do not believe it is enforceable to regulate short-term rentals, and that’s why we’re here,” added development director Dianne Black.

Over the past several months, county staff has been conducting public outreach via meetings and public forums, to get a sense of how residents feel about STRs. The Montecito Association has been conducting its own outreach, polling members via a survey last fall; they also formed a subcommittee to look into the issue.

At last week’s hearing, county staff submitted more than 200 emails with various positions on the issue for Montecito Planning commissioners to take into consideration. The key issues against STRs, according to Metzger, deal with residential compatibility, noise and parking nuisances, housing stock, and lack of regulation, resulting in safety and accessibility issues.

Those residents in favor of allowing STRs cite tourism revenue and defrayed mortgage costs that come from renting out their homes on a short-term basis.

Metzger outlined four approaches for the MPC to consider. The first was to allow STRs in all zoning districts but regulate them. The second approach was to prohibit STRs in zoning districts that do not currently allow transient lodging. The third

approach was to allow homestays – in which the owner of the property is on the premises during short-term tenancy – in specific zones with regulations, and the fourth approach was to keep “status quo,” making no changes to the zoning ordinance. Metzger then went through what each of these approaches would entail, including possible ways of regulating STRs with permits, noise and parking standards, and other regulations.

After the staff presentation, about 20 members of the public spoke on both sides of the issue, including two owners of local vacation rental companies who asked commissioners to look at more data before amending the zoning ordinance. Montecito Association executive director Victoria Greene spoke on behalf of the Association, asking for a clear prohibition on all short-term rentals in Montecito. “At this point, the Association is asking for a prohibition across both coastal and inland zones,” she said.

When the discussion returned to the commissioners, the consensus was that short-term rentals are not compatible with the Montecito Community Plan, which protects the semi-rural character of the community. “I would be in favor of a ban in all sections,” said commissioner Jack Overall. “I think

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asa del Herrero is still celebrating its 90th birthday year, and this was perhaps a once-in-alifetime party. As executive director Molly Barker said, “At what other event can you dine in one National Historic Landmark, while supporting another one?” This was a fourcourse candlelit dinner paired with local wines served in the Mural Room of the Courthouse to a sell-out crowd.

Guests walked the red carpet at the Courthouse entrance and then had a photo op with soldados from the Presidio before entering the building.

Event underwriter and chair Sharon Bradford partnered with the executive director of the California Missions Foundation David Bolton and chef Michael Blackwell of the Montecito Country Club to make this special event a reality. It’s not easy to cook for 60 people when you have no kitchen and you have to take the food up in an elevator.

The room was stunning with all the benches gone and a U-shaped harvest table was set with a jacquard gold cloth and lined with an autumn display of leaves and fruit. The whole scene was accentuated by dozens of

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candelabras with faux flames.

The event not only paired wine, the courses were paired with the murals in the room. David told us the history of the four nations involved: Chumash, Spanish, Mexican, and The new Casa del Herrero board chair Susan Jackson with husband Palmer and Casa del Herrero executive director Molly Barker

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The Mural Room set for dinner to celebrate Casa del Herrero’s 90th birthday

the United States. As Sharon joked, “I learned more history from David while preparing for this event than in four years as a history major.”

The first course related to the Chumash with a smoked duck breast salad, second came Spain with a chorizo goat cheese stuffed piquillo pepper. Third was Mexico with cumin-dusted beef fillet, and last the U.S. for a roasted apple tart and whip cream served with a sherry.

Some of those enjoying the intimate atmosphere were executive director of the Courthouse Legacy Foundation Linda Rosso, Gonzalo Sarmiento, Bill and Julie Esrey, Stefan and Irina Hearst, Casa del Herrero board president Susan Jackson and husband Palmer Jackson Jr., Casey and

Melissa McCann, Lois Erburu, John Paul Beltran, Betsy and Ken Coates, Barbara and Wayne Smith, and Philip and Phyllis Smith.

The Casa del Herrero 90th celebration culminates in their signature holiday event, “Christmas at the Casa” on Saturday, December 5. It’s my favorite time of year at the Casa with the whole house decorated including the children’s bedroom with its antique toys of a simpler time. Call 565-5653 for reservations.

Casa del Herrero is the only historic home and garden in Montecito open for tours. It is a classic George Washington Smith Spanish Colonial Revival estate and better yet, it is

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Swanky ’60s Soirée

It always adds an extra element of joie de vivre when a party has a costume theme. Our Lady of Mount Carmel School (OLMCS) managed that with their “Swanky Sixties Soirée” (their 32nd) at Fess Parker’s to raise funds for their scholarship program.

It began with a sleek black-and-white Cadillac parked at the entrance. A photo op for sure!

There was ‘60s memorabilia everywhere from Samsonite suitcases, to Coke bottles in a wooden case, ladies gloves, typewriters (does anyone

remember them?), 45-rpm records, and more. The ladies had big hair, false eyelashes and nylons with seams up the back. It was fun to just sit and watch the record crowd of more than 400 browsing the silent auction just to see what they had on.

OLMCS director Karen Regan welcomed parents and grandparents, and especially thanked co-chairs Silvia Unzueta and Anna Prober for their months of work. “This evening we are excited to honor our pastor, monsignor Stephen Downes, aka Father Steve,” said Karen. He was born in Dublin, Ireland, eventually being ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 1966. After serving in various churches in southern California, he moved to Our Lady of Mount Carmel in 2009. As Karen told us, “He is a daily presence at the

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Arriving at the Tab Hunter Confidential pre-reception are Deborah Bertling, Tab Hunter, and Brooks Firestone (photo by Priscilla)

Ginny and Chad Dreier, executive producers of Tab Hunter Confidential (photo by Priscilla)

across the nation in New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Miami, and Palm Springs.

“It has been so popular that many of the cities held the film over because of demand,” says Allan, a former Fox film executive.

The documentary, punctuated with rare clips and provocative interviews with co-stars, including Clint Eastwood, John Waters, Debbie Reynolds, Robert Wagner, Portia de Rossi, Noah Wyle, Connie Stevens, Robert Osborne and the late Montecito philanthropist Marilyn Gevirtz, who was at school in L.A. with Tab, was also shown at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences earlier this

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month and, as I revealed at the debut, may well be in the running for a Best Documentary Oscar in due course.

“There is certainly stiff competition, but you never know,” observes Allan,

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Before the screening a bustling reception was held in the McCune Founders Room with Tab and Allan, attended by a torrent of too-too tony-types, including Mike and Anne Towbes, Chad and Ginni Dreier, Cheri and

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clearly lays out the case for a revised plan that focuses on renovation rather than expansion. It is time for the YMCA leadership to listen to and work with their Montecito constituents rather than to continue pursuing a plan that nobody wants.

David Kent Montecito (Mr. Kent is past president of the Montecito Association.)

Credit Owed to Dr. Serban

I want to clear up a misstatement in Lynda Millner’s “Seen Around Town” article (“Gratitude of Generous Giving,” MJ #21/45) about SBCC accreditation.

Accreditations are normally every six years and are conducted by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC). The 2009 accreditation report was superlative, probably the best ever given a California college.

The self-reporting of the college, basic to the process, was headed by Dr. Andreea Serban. The board of trustees was singled out for excellence.

However, in 2010 Governor Brown announced that the State would no longer finance the Adult Ed functions. The local Adult Ed community was furious, and blamed the board of trustees, four of the members of which were up for re-election in November.

Challengers promised the electorate that free Adult Ed classes would be restored if they were elected, and the incumbents were indeed defeated. The incoming board members promptly fell out with Dr. Serban, and in the course of maneuvering to either force her resignation or fire her went “outside the lines,” and though Dr. Serban did in the end resign, with a

hefty cash-out settlement, the whole situation prompted the ACCJC to come back in for a special accreditation visit, which resulted in an accreditation warning for the shenanigans of the new board majority.

The 2015 accreditation, a regular one, went well, and the accreditation warning has been superseded.

However, the 2009 accreditation was a good one, an excellent one, and you might perhaps ask the college for copies of all ACCJC reports to verify this.

By the way, the college submission to the Aspen Institute, which resulted in a nation-wide number-one ranking, of which the college is justifiably proud, was based on another self-reporting submission, also under Dr. Serban’s direction, which has never been properly acknowledged in all the publicity that has accrued to the college.

Des O’Neill Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Mr. O’Neill was a valuable and respected member of the board of trustees, SBCC, from 1994 to 2010.

As for Ms Serban, we at the Journal always believed she was an extremely competent and judicious president of the college; she seemed always only interested in the well-being of SBCC and did not deserve the less than gracious treatment she received from the newly elected board of trustees. – J.B.)

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You

There is something so incredibly beautiful to be on the receiving end of a simple “Thank you.” It means you have been acknowledged, appreciated, recognized, valued, and that you have contributed something important and significant to another person’s life. However, those two words

wield far more power than we may imagine.

“Thank you” is the magic wand I whip out in times of need.

Driving down Park Lane as usual this morning, a shiny red BMW zipped out from a side street without looking, causing my car to come to a very abrupt halt as the BMW drove on at lightning speed. Thank you!

I said out loud with deep sincerity.

Thank you for waking me up! Thank you for not hitting my car. Thank you for bringing more awareness to my day. Thank you for adding a little spice to my energy. Thank you for raising my metabolism. Thank you, thank you, thank you, I continued as I drove. Miraculously, every driver I met subsequent to my first “Thank you” was remarkably polite, gracious, considerate, kind, generous, and pleasant to share the road with.

Thank you, red BMW, for starting my day out with so many blessings.

Every “Thank you” sets a miracle in motion When I wake up with a little ache or pain in my body, I say thank you to the painful area for showing me what needs a little extra love and affection.

The pain seems to feel acknowledged and smooths out almost immediately.

When an extra bill arrives; thank you for showing me how abundant I am.

When the person beside me on the plane won’t stop talking, thank you for making the peace I will enjoy once I get to my hotel room that much more luxurious! When a family member at Thanksgiving dinner shows up with that same old gloomy darkness, thank you for showing me how bright and happy my life is. When a friend criticizes, thank you for inspiring me to raise my standards. Thank you, thank you, thank you! May you all be blessed.

Distain, fear, angst, frustration, even anger doesn’t stand a chance of messing with your psyche when you are armed and ready with a simple “Thank you!” The gift of gratitude is finding the blessing in everything.

May your infinite supply of thank

you’s add more light and joy to the season.

Ehsida Bisset Montecito (Editor’s note: Ms Bisset has copyrighted this pithy and delightful commentary to us: © 2015 Ehsida Bisset All Rights Reserved.)

More Craziness

I was most interested in Lyn Gianni’s letter to the editor (“Crazy Is As Crazy Does” MJ #21/45), as the same thing has happened twice to me in the last few weeks and am glad to know it wasn’t my eyesight or the car acting up. Hope they catch this person or these persons soon, as it sure isn’t funny!

Jean von Wittenburg Montecito

He’s for Justin

Many years ago, I decided I would stay out of the political arena. It is safe to say that whenever you get “in,” immediately 50 percent or more of the citizenship hates you, sad but true. So partisan are the parties that they can’t get anything done, regardless of who is in power or what the issue is.

Congress is the body that represents all of us; it is our branch. Both parties have severely failed with our business.

We need leaders that we trust to serve their constituents.

Justin Fareed is the right candidate for the job of Congressman for the 24th District.

All of Justin’s opponents have come through the ranks of the same model that has broken our country.

This is one of the many reasons that the polls show front-runners are coming from non-political arenas; Trump and Carson are prime examples.

The American people need to take back the power they have given to the government, whose spending is unabated and their power disregards the laws of the land.

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Those who hold office today are beholden to factions that contribute to their campaigns, not the people they represent.

Career politicians need to be removed and replaced with those who truly believe in principles that made our country great.

I can no longer remain still and hope for change. Barack Obama based his first campaign on “Change.” Our country got changed all right! Changes affected every major agenda in a negative way: deficit, health, education, foreign policy, military, Immigration, and perhaps most importantly, our image around the world.

I have spent many hours with Justin to know that he represents the character and knowledge to help turn our district and country around!

Does he have a chance? Absolutely.

Does he need our help? Absolutely.

May God (with Justin’s help) save our country.

Dana Newquist Montecito (Editor’s note: You’ve really hit on something in the beginning of your letter, and that is the hostility one creates when one expresses an opinion opposite or at odds with someone of a different political persuasion. This really is a festering problem that needs to be dealt with. I, too, am fond of Mr. Fareed and wish

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him luck in his upcoming campaign. It won’t be easy, and he’ll be up against the public sector led machine that rules this area. Justin will be hard-pressed to match the bundles of SEIU money that will be thrown to his opponent. But, we encourage other high-profile supporters of Mr. Fareed’s to actively and publicly show their support. What California really doesn’t need is another vote in the U.S. House of Representatives for Nancy Pelosi as speaker. – J.B.)

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THIS WEEK (Continued from page 11) American Institute of Architects and the Architectural Foundation of Santa Barbara present the 2015 Design Awards Gala at Montecito Country Club, where Design Award recipients will be announced.

When: 5:30 pm Where: 920 Summit Road Info: www.afsb.org FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4 30th Annual Folk & Tribal Arts Marketplace The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History proudly presents the 30th annual Folk & Tribal Arts Marketplace featuring 30 unique artisans this weekend.

This free event features items available for purchase ranging from $2 to $2,000 and they include a large variety of baskets, décor, wearable art, furniture, jewelry, pottery, rugs, sculptures, toys, and more, from more than 50 countries around the world – including Chile, Honduras, Indonesia, Pakistan, Spain, Thailand, and Turkey. The museum receives 25 percent of all sales, making it one of the biggest fundraisers of the year.

Funds from the Folk and Tribal Arts Marketplace support the museum’s science and education programs, and funds exhibits such as the beloved butterflies alive!, the curiosity lab,

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and new dinosaur exhibit, “A T-Rex Named Sue,” coming to the museum in summer 2016.

Guests can also enjoy exceptional cuisine from chef Pete Clements of the Funk Zone Patio at the Tribal Arts Café. The café will have a variety of options available for purchase, including breakfast pastries, lunch items, and desserts.

When: today from 10 am to 6 pm, and Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm Where: 2559 Puesta Del Sol Info: sfrazer@sbnature2.org SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5 Centering Prayer Practice Retreat A mini-retreat day for Centering Prayer practice. There will be meditation walks, journaling, reflection, and prayer practice. Led by Sister Suzanne Dunn, Jeannette Love, and Annette Colbert. Beginners welcome.

When: 9:30 am to 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: donation Info: 969-5031 Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular

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series of concerts of beautiful music.

A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public.

When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free Holiday Fete Coast Village Walk business owners host a first annual community event, with complimentary wine tastings, live music, a fashion show, holiday treats, and much more.

When: 6 to 9 pm Where: 1046 Coast Village Road Cost: free and open to the community SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6 Tea Dance The City of Santa Barbara donates use of the ballroom and volunteers provide music and refreshments for this ongoing, free dance event.

Ballroom dance music including the Waltz, Tango, Viennese Waltz, Slow Fox Trot, Quick Step, and rhythm dances such as the Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Mambo, and Bolero are played, among other dance music.

Participants can hone their dancing skills or learn new dance techniques.

The Santa Barbara Ballroom Tea Dance is held on the first Sunday of every month at the Carrillo Rec Center.

No partner necessary, but if you can find one bring him or her along!

When: 2 to 5 pm Where: 100 E. Carrillo Street Info: 897-2519 Cost: free Benefit Concert & Reception Greek-American soprano Jamie Chamberlin, a Santa Barbara native, will present a benefit concert and reception for St. Barbara’s Greek Orthodox Church, with pianist Renee Hamaty.

Described as “spellbinding” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Miss Chamberlin will return to her hometown for one night only to delight with opera, cabaret, and American musical theater favorites. Chamberlin, who appears regularly with L.A. Opera, has been recognized for her abilities as a singer and actress. Among her many credits: she recently starred as Marilyn Monroe in the U.S. premiere of Gavin Bryars’s Marilyn Forever at Long Beach Opera, for which Opera News praised her “shimmering tones” and “star-struck vulnerability.”

When: 4 pm Where: 1205 San Antonio Creek Road Cost: $50 Info: 683-4492 26 November – 3 December 2015

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

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

When: This ongoing group session will be held Wednesdays through December 16.

Where: Hospice of Santa Barbara 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 100 Cost: free; donations accepted Info: (805) 563-8820, x110 MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 WEDNESDAYS THRU SATURDAYS Live Entertainment Where: Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road When: 7 to 10 pm Info: 969-8500 MONDAYS Connections Brain Fitness Program Challenging games, puzzles, and memory-enhancement exercises in a friendly environment.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $50, includes lunch Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 Locals Night at the Public Market Every Monday, take advantage of one-night-only merchant specials, games, prizes, and fun for locals.

For November, chef Vanessa Craig of Vanessa Loves Food will be popping up in The Kitchen with a gourmet game-day menu featuring a different lineup of finger-licking favorites! Beer, wine, and other beverages will be available for purchase, too.

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

There is also live music each week.

When: 5 pm Where: 38 West Victoria Info: 770-7702

TUESDAYS Adventuresome Aging Program Community outings, socialization, and lunch for dependent adults.

When: 10 am to 2 pm Where: Friendship Center, 89 Eucalyptus Lane Cost: $75, includes lunch, plus onetime fee of $35 Info: Kai Hoye, 969-0859 Story Time at the Library A wonderful way to introduce children to the library, and for parents and caregivers to learn about early literacy skills; each week, children ages three to five enjoy stories, songs, puppets, and fun at Story Time.

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

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: South side of Coast Village Road Local Artisans Market When: 3 to 7 pm Where: La Cumbre Plaza, 121 South Hope Avenue Info: www.localartisansmarket.com

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SUNDAYS Cars & Coffee Motorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles, and as close as East Valley Road, park in the upper village outside Montecito Village Grocery to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends, and other subjects. Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty of other autos to admire.

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

Info: sbcarscoffee@gmail.com French Conversation Every Sunday at Pierre Lafond in Montecito, look for a small group in the shade and join for casual conversation (and lunch if you’d like!)

All levels welcome.

When: 12:30 to 2:30 pm •MJ Questions: Nicole, 770-2364

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soul classic “My Girl”, were among the other songs deployed against the protesters.

It reminds me of the time the New Zealand city of Christchurch blasted music by crooner Barry Manilow all day to drive away local punks who were drinking in public, doing drugs, and plastering graffiti on walls.

It worked.

Meg Burnham and Allan Glaser (photo by Priscilla)

Bill Steinkellner, Robert and Leslie Zemeckis, Robert and Gretchen Lieff, Dan and Meg Burnham, Nina Terzian, Brooks Firestone, Corinna Gordon, Holly Murphy, Gene Sinser and Patty DeDominic, Alicia St. John, Jane and Hilary Burkemper, Beverley Jackson, Dolly Granatelli, Karl Ward, and Mara Abboud.

Katy’s Clash Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry was the subject of some unusual crowd tactics deployed by Philippine officials, as thousands of activists clashed with riot police at the AsiaPacific leaders’ summit in Manila.

Some 2,000 left-wing protesters had been marching toward the venue where the leaders of the 21 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) nations, including President Obama, were meeting, and the situation turned violent as activists tried to break through police lines.

After initially resorting to traditional methods such as water cannons and riot shields, police began blasting Katy’s music on giant loudspeakers into the street to disperse the crowd.

The former Dos Pueblos High student’s hit song “Roar”, played at full volume, is the top of a “demonstration disco playlist” aimed at distracting the protesters and drowning out their chants.

Dolly Parton’s “Islands in the Stream”, The Bee Gees’s “How Deep Is Your Love”, and The Temptations’s

Time on Her Hands As if she doesn’t have enough watches, TV talk-show host Ellen DeGeneres added another one to her collection last week when 007 actor Daniel Craig presented her with the same $7,500 Omega Seamaster 300 Spectre timepiece he wore in the 24th film of the lucrative franchise.

The 47-year-old Emmy nominee, who reportedly scored a $39-million paycheck to reprise his latest James Bond role, says he’s still unsure whether he’ll be coming back.

“It takes a big chunk of my time, and I’m away from my family,” he explained. “You know, I just want to go home at the end of it. I don’t even want to think about it at the moment.”

The actor then joined the Montecitobased multi-Emmy winner’s “Get Elley On The Telly” campaign to bring her talk show to England.

“You’ve got so much pull in London,” implored Ellen. “We’re on the air in India. We stream live in China. We’re on the air in Dubai – everywhere except London.”

Craig then read Ellen’s official plea to Queen Elizabeth that was scrawled on a comically large, old-fashioned scroll.

“I’ll do what I can,” he assured her.

“I’m not sure when, but I’ll get it to her someday. Of course, I will.”

Stay tuned.

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he last time Bob Banner saw a dead human being in person, he was just 7 years old and his parents took him to his grandfather’s funeral.

“That was the only time I saw a person in a coffin,” Banner said recently.

“I didn’t want to fly back to Detroit to see my mom or dad (after they passed). Or my sister. I haven’t attended funerals of friends who died. I’ve always had a very strong sense of not wanting to deal with death at all. I know I’m afraid.”

But after seeing a trailer for a documentary that showed a deceased homeless man being moved, Banner realized that his galvanizing fear required some sort of action.

“Someone was removing a dead body from a bed,” he recalled. “It was so totally relaxed. It folded together so easily. I was shocked. I thought, wow, this is a real, live dead person being moved around. It wasn’t like what you see on TV shows. It wasn’t just intellectual curiosity anymore. I could viscerally feel the difference.”

The moment was a revelation for Banner. who despite his background as the publisher of the Hope Dance newspaper – a vehicle for spiritual and environmental exploration which he still runs as an online magazine – still had trouble confronting the issue of death, both his own and others.

“That’s when I knew I needed this,” he said. “I realized I needed to get in touch with my grief, find out what was going on. And I thought that if if it’s happening for me – and I’ve done a lot of work on myself for decades – if I still have this fear, there must be other people who feel the same way and might want to work it out.”

At first, Banner brought films on the subject to several venues, including the Montecito Library and Yoga Soup.

But simple screenings followed by discussions didn’t go far enough, he said.

So as his his wont, Banner decided to go at the issue full force. He created an almost 12-hour event called “All Day Immersion Into Death” and booked a couple of films on the subject, as well as several speakers who are in the “business of the death trade,” as he put it, plus a number of healers and even some vendors. The initial event held up on San Luis Obispo did well and served to further crystallize Banner’s curiosity, so he produced a similar one-day immersion a few months later up in the Bay Area.

Now his third “All Day Immersion Into Death” event is slated for this Monday, November 30, at La Casa de Maria retreat center here in Montecito.

As with each of the past events, the presenters and speakers, most of

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whom are allotted 20-minute windows, are mostly locals, who Banner found through his years of connection to the community. It’s a smorgasbord of documentaries, lectures, music, information, break-out groups, meditations, and even comedy and poetry.

Both Griefwalker and Death Makes Life Possible will be screened, Tamra Rutherford will talk about neardeath experiences in “Dying Before We Die”, and Duncan Badine will share his personal story “Carrying Mom Across Her Threshold Into Death”. The Threshold Choir, which offer deathbed song-making, will perform “Kindness Made Audible” while Arlene Stepputat will discuss the hospice experience. Other speakers will delve into such topics as Green Burials, the beauty in death, shareddeath experiences, and home funerals.

Also, Maxwell Cordon Wheat, Jr.., will read some of Walt Whitman’s poetry on the issue, while Douglas Gilles tackles the lighter side of death with “101 Cool Ways to Die.” “I’ve been very lucky to get people who can represent each of the themes that I wanted to cover,” Banner explained. And just as with the Hope Dance paper, he has kept the tone largely upbeat. “I always focused on people who were positive, not just criticizing what was wrong but doing something about it. So I have that same idea with these events, which just keep growing to include even more features than I had originally thought of, new ideas that have presented themselves.”

Banner hopes that those who attend will find themselves more comfortable dealing with death, whether in conversation with colleagues and family, or sharing stories and maybe opening their minds to unusual experiences.

“When you hear others talk about the subject, you realize that it’s okay to have conversations about death out in the open,” he explained.

Banner is also planning for other day-long immersions into other “undernourished” areas, such as relationships, sexuality, education, money, the media, and food. But he’s not yet fully done with death, he said.

“I sense that the fear is being chipped away. It’s lessening its grip on me. I’m becoming more friendly with death.

I’m not quite there yet, but there are cracks in the wall.”

“An All Day Immersion into Death” takes place 8:30 am to 6 pm Monday at La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road.

Admission is $75 including lunch, or $40 for a half-day. For more information, a schedule, speaker bios, and reservations, visit www.HopeDance.org or call 7624848. •MJ 26 November – 3 December 2015

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La Casa de Maria co-directors Stephanie Glatt and Steve Jacobsen on either end with Gary and Mary Becker at the donor dinner

school and the children love him.”

Monsignor Jennett told how much time Father Steve spends at the hospital consoling the sick. He will be retiring this coming year and will obviously be missed. Then Gary Smith sang a very moving rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”

Gabe Saglie kept the evening moving as emcee and introduced the professional auctioneer during dinner.

Among the 12 items to sell was my favorite made by the kindergarten class – it was a photo of all their hands interspersed with flowers in the shape of a heart. Inside the heart were these words: “We hold our children’s hands for a little while… but they hold our hearts forever,” Some of those cheering the auction were Chris Toomey, David and Louise Borgatello, Mario and Judy Borgatello, John and Susan Pate, Peter and Tina DaRos, and Frank and Mary Ann Bognar.

OLMCS has been serving the community for 60 years teaching in the Catholic tradition. About one-third of the students are on scholarships.

Funds raised this night all go to the school, which has a rigorous but balanced curriculum including art, music, physical education, technology, and foreign language.

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terrace, we went inside for dinner to hear about the accomplishments of the last year and what was to come.

La Casa de Maria runs a center for spiritual renewal giving 60 to 70 programs a year. Co-directors Stephanie Glatt and Steve Jacobsen wanted us to know “About 12,000 attendees come through the Casa a year to take classes and seminars in a wide range of subjects. They come from all over the world.”

The Casa is a non-profit interfaith retreat and conference center founded and governed by the Immaculate Heart Community. The mission is to be a sanctuary of peace for individuals and groups as they renew purpose, strengthen community, and increase their effectiveness in the world.

To name a few accomplishments: the Casa is debt-free having paid off a $4-million mortgage. There have been $3.7 million in improvements and there is a new website. Thanks went to Don George, who was a director for an amazing 29 years. Special awards were given to Friends of La Casa and Regina McPartlin Legacy members.

The Casa is one of my favorite places. Don and I were married in their chapel 14 years ago and have been walking through the property every since. Our dog loved it, too. They graciously leave the gates open so anyone can enter and share in the peaceful atmosphere. “When I am here at La Casa, looking at the trees, plants, squirrels, and the falling leaves, I feel totally connected to the earth,” so said a recent visitor.

To learn more, check out www.lac asademaria.org or call Diane Dale at 456-4212 •MJ

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he history of the Santa Barbara music scene is most remembered during the pivotal period from 1969 through the early 1980.

Bands sprung up from every corner of our town, mirroring the influences of The Beatles, the Beach Boys, the Kinks, The Knack, and bands that played concerts at the Earl Warren Show grounds such as The Who and Jimi Hendrix. It was those musicians who founded a new subculture here and the music mattered – it was loved and lauded.

Bands intermingled, traded members, and remixed to find their core.

Bands of note were The Tearaways, The Dreamers, The Pranks, The Puppies, The Tan, and Norman Allan.

Every block in the town had live music venues. With the rise of disco, the local live music scene died. Many of our musicians went on to success in the Music Industry in L.A., San Francisco, New York City, and abroad.

However, the heartfelt bonds among them remain solid to this day. So solid, that when one of them needs help, the tribe is there, no question.

And thus, when Puppies member Tim Bryson was diagnosed with cancer this year and needed help, the Benefit for Tim Bryson took place on November 12 at Blind Tiger, featuring 19 bands from our town’s epic music era in a four-hour concert, raising more than $12K in one night. Many of the bands hadn’t played together with the original members in 30 years, but they performed seamlessly, making it seem no time had passed to the 500 local residents who came to listen, hug, dance, and bring their love and support for Tim. Tim was able to attend the benefit, and with the encouragement of his friends, picked up his red Fender Strat and rocked out. He literally brought the house down, playing Led

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Musician and the man behind the scenes of the benefit, John Ferriter

Zeppelin’s “Rock ‘n’ Roll” with singer songwriter Bridget Benenate of The Dreamers, backed by The Tearaways.

I spoke with Tim backstage; he was deeply moved and ha\ppy to rock with his long-time friends.

Afterward, I interviewed the musician John Ferriter behind the scenes that made it all come together: Q. Tell us about Tim’s music history in SB and his current forays.

A. Tim is mainly known for his work with the Puppies as one of Santa Barbara’s seminal pop/rock bands who dominated the club circuit in the early ‘80s. Always friendly and affable, they could sing like birds, and Tim’s guitar playing was at a whole other level. Like all of us, Tim grew up listening to The Beatles. His sister told me that he started on drums and could play “Ruby Tuesday” at age 7, switching to guitar at age 16 in the band Apocalypse and onto the Puppies. Since mid-1980s, he has played for the last several years with The Bob Cowsill Band and has been a 26 November – 3 December 2015

The Tan performing their hits

Award-winning singer/song writer and producer Ron Dante rocks out with The Tearaways at the Benefit for Bryson

music producer/performer/engineer for the last 20-plus years, working on countless movies and TV shows with old music friend Robert Irving in L.A. Tim has 3 boys, Zach 24, Kale, 18, and Kai, 13. He lives in Los Angeles County and is focusing on healing and getting back to what he loves most next to family: music.

How did the benefit come together?

I heard the news that Tim had been diagnosed with cancer and that he was struggling. I called my band mate John Finseth, and we talked about our early experiences with Tim and how instrumental he had been to all of our musical development. We talked about the treatment and the process that someone goes through, as both of us have had loved ones who’ve passed from cancer. We also talked about the cost and the impact that these things have on family. Fin suggested that we try to organize something. I called Philip Claypool, who played with Tim in The Puppies and we had a long heartfelt conversation about Tim, The Big C, and the SB Music community.

We picked a date that would work – November 12 – and I said, “Let Fin and I take it from here”.

How did you select the bands and musicians to contact and why, and how quickly they responded to help Tim? I called Fin back, and we jotted out a list of the bands and musicians that we thought had a direct connection to Tim and were the most influential around the time Tim and the Pups were dominating the scene, and began to reach out to them one at a time. It came together in two days: I sent an email to Eric Eisenberg at 5:45 am asking him to call me and my phone rang

at 5:59. Eric said “Yes” immediately. Dave Humes, Spencer Barnitz, Randell Kirsch, Luann, Bo Fox, Robbie Scharf, Jesse Benenati, Perry Benenati, Randy Jasiorkowski, Edie Robertson, Christian Love, Chris Merritt, Chris Story – one at a time, every one started joining the bill.

I was particularly happy that Bridget Benenate volunteered, because I love her voice and I know how close she is to Tim. In fact, so many people volunteered that we simply could not accommodate all the acts at a single show. Hector and Dave helped secure the Blind Tiger as the venue, which was simply amazing. We reached out to the press; The Tearaways had donated 30-some odd spots from KEYT and Dave Hefferman jumped in to help us in return with spots for the benefit.

Lin Aubochon from KTYD volunteered to emcee the event, and The Montecito Journal and Santa Barbara Independent also offered support. It was really unbelievable.

What bands were on the bill?

The Beach Boys recorded a special music video for Tim; Shades of Soul; Matt Armor; Phantom Pomps; Luann Olson & Randall Kirsch of Show of Hands; Randall Kirsch, Robbie Scharf & Bo Fox of The Pranks with Luann Olson; Ron Dante & The Tearaways; The Tearaways with Bridget Benenate, and special guest Tim Bryson; The Tearaways with Philip Claypool and special guest Tim Bryson; Philip Claypool with guests; The Tan; Norman Allan; Flock of Cougars with Bridget Benenate; Smoke & Burn, and Red Fish. We also had a slideshow of old photos of Tim and the band scene, with help from Tim’s sister.

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Who did you also ask for help from the MI (music industry) in L.A. that became part of your dream team?

I’ve been doing some work with Ron Dante, lead singer of the Archies & Cufflinks and an amazing producer, having won Two Tony Awards.

Ron also produced Cher, discovered and produced Pat Benatar’s early hits, produced every Barry Manilow hit.

Ron sang the #1 song in the world in 1969, “Sugar Sugar”, and was the voice behind the biggest commercial jingles of all-time, including “I’d like to teach the world to sing” for Coca-Cola. When I told him about Timmy, he volunteered his time and The Tearaways backed him up on his hits. Jeffrey Foskett and John Cowsill wanted to attend, but The Beach Boys were booked to play in Australia at that time. So we told Mike Love about Tim, Mike, Bruce, Jeffrey, and the other Beach Boys taped a song especially for Tim and for the performance. I brought in Jamie Gruttemeyer from The Alternative, along with Jim Yukich (500 MTV videos, including two VMA winners with David Bowie, Phil Collins, Michael Jackson, et cetera). Alex Yukich and award-winning filmmaker Stephen David Brooks to film the event. Paul Dugre himself a cancer survivor and James Antunez both volunteered their time and equipment to get us the best sound possible. It was an amazing team of people who came together for one reason: to support Tim.

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There are deep musical roots in Santa Barbara. It was heartwarming to reconnect with so many people, and I had tears of joy in my eyes many times throughout the night as I watched Norman Allan doing “B4U” and “Girls Are Weird” and the Tan doing “We’re Hanging Out” and “Bad Party”. Phantom Pomps, Smoke n Burn, Shades of Soul, and Red Fish turned in great sets as well, and it just shows you how the legacy of Santa Barbara music continues to grow. Thirty years ago, we were younger and extremely naive. Several of us tasted some degree of success, but I don’t think any of us realized that the true success is being healthy and happy and being able to perform our songs for audiences that were just happy we were doing it. I believe that love and laughter can promote light and life and that love can heal, as John Lennon sang, “All You Need Is Love”. Well, there was a lot of love for Timmy on November 12, and I hope we get to do this every year, and Tim gets to get up there and play with us again.

411: Checks can be sent to Tim and his family through the Alternative 1801 Century Park East, suite 2160, Los Angeles, CA 90067. Also, a documentary film is currently being produced and edited. •MJ

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In response to a wrongful death lawsuit filed by Paul’s daughter, Meadow, the auto giant said he was “a knowledgeable and sophisticated” user of the 2005 Carrera GT. The company also claimed the Porsche he was a passenger in had been “abused and altered,” and was “misused and improperly maintained,” according to the syndicated TV show TMZ. The GT was driven by Paul’s friend, Roger Rodas, the owner of an auto racing shop, when it spun out of control on a city street in Valencia and burst into flames after hitting a power pole and several trees.

Paul, 40, and Rodas, 38, both died at the scene.

Meadow, 16, filed suit in September alleging the car would never have careened out of control if it had a proper stabilization system and that Porsche knew the Carrera GT had “a history of instability and control issues.”

Porsche alleged the Fast & Furious star should not have agreed to go on a high-speed ride in the Carrera GT on city streets and should have been aware of the dangers.

An investigation carried out by law enforcement following the fatal crash determined the Porsche had been going between 80 and 93 mph when Rodas lost control and concluded that speed was the cause of the crash.

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There was also an online auction featuring a missile silo tour at Vandenberg Air Force Base and special experiences at the Santa Barbara Polo Club and the SB Zoo. Among those turning out for the cause were Jim Sokolove, Dave and Caroline Powers, Fiona Stone, Maureen Harmon, Steve and Cindy Lyons, Rick and Ro Sanders, Barrie and Arlene Bergman.

Furry Friends Silverhorn, the Coast Village Road bling emporium, was going to the dogs when owners Michael and Carole Ridding handed out checks to Santa Barbara animal charities as part of the Silverhorn Ruby’s Friends Fund, named after the 40-year-old store’s mascot, a 9-year-old Shiba Inu.

Peter Howorth, recipient for the Santa Barbara Marine Mammal Center; petting Gracie at Silverhorn (photo by Priscilla)

The fund has supported one animal-related charity each year, but to mark the fifth anniversary of the fund, made a donation to each of the past years’ recipients, including the Diana Basehart Foundation, the Animal Shelter Assistance Program, DAWG – Dog Adoption & Welfare Group, the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, and the Marine Mammal Center.

“There are so many worthy causes in our community, and we support a good deal of them,” says Carole.

“But I always feel a special and painful tug at my heart for helpless animals that are not able to express

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In addition to compatibility with the MCP, commissioners also discussed the effect of STRs on housing stock for long-term renters. “I know that you can make more money if you rent short term, but you can still make a very good income renting long term in Montecito,” said commissioner Susan Keller, who admitted she came to the hearing feeling that STRs should be prohibited, but homestays should be allowed. “After hearing the information today, I think that trying to make those distinctions is going to be very difficult,” she said.

Keller went on to say: “The thing that has really struck me today, was that ten months ago the woman that owns the property next door and rented it for three years to a lovely family with a small child, did not renew their lease because she decided she could make a killing renting out her home on VRBO. The impact to me personally is not noise, or wild parties, but I have a void. I don’t have a neighbor. And having a neighbor previously, someone I knew and could call if I had a problem – it meant a lot.”

Chair J’Amy Brown agreed, adding that the commission would prefer to

“put teeth in the existing ordinance so that it can be enforced.”

“You can still rent out your property, you just can’t rent it for less than thirty days,” Brown said.

With the MPC’s clear direction on the issue, county staff, after hearing from the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission, will spend the next few months preparing new ordinance language for the commissions to review and adopt in the spring of 2016.

Also at the hearing, Montecito YMCA reps asked the commission for a continuance from the November 18 date. YMCA rep and attorney Chip Wullbrandt told the commissioners that recent public meetings had led to a “re-crafting” of the proposed YMCA remodel project, and that reps needed more time to solidify a Lower Manning Park parking agreement with the county. A new hearing date has yet to be determined.

Next week, Thursday, December 3, the MPC will hold a special hearing to further discuss the Casa Dorinda Master Plan Update, with Casa reps expected to furnish additional information about the project which commissioners requested at the hearing on October 21. For more information, visit www.sbcountyplanning.org.

Small Business Saturday

With the holiday shopping season just days away, and Small Business Saturday this Saturday, November 28, it was brought to our attention that three local business owners who we’ve featured in the last year are all graduates of Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV), a nationally recognized, local nonprofit that provides business training, small business loans, and many other resources for both women and men throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura counties to start or expand a business.

“Since 1991, WEV has helped start or sustain an estimated 3,000 businesses in Ventura and Santa Barbara, and three of those are right on Coast Village Road,” said Amy Bernstein, who provides marketing and PR for WEV. Those small business owners are Kimberley Hayes of Maison K, who last year returned to her original home at 1253 Coast Village Road; Maison K has been in business on the road since 2003. Viva Oliva’s Andi Newville is also a WEV alum, opening her specialty olive oil shop at 1275 Coast Village Road in May of this year. The third WEV client is Rebecca McKinney, owner of Whistle Club, a women’s clothing and accessory store at 1235 Coast Village Road, which opened in July.

Bernstein said the WEV training • The Voice of the Village •

program is 14 weeks long, providing training on topics including finances, marketing and sales, public relations and advertising, legal and insurance issues, and record keeping. After the 14-week course, WEV graduates emerge with a completed business plan and the most important tools and resources they need to start a new business or grow their current business. The nonprofit also helps clients with small business loans if necessary.

“The program helps boost the local economy and reminds us all to shop local this holiday season,” Bernstein says. For more information, visit www.wevonline.org.

In both the upper and lower villages this holiday season, many business owners will participate in several organized shopping events. On December 5, there will be a “Holiday Fete” at Coast Village Walk, 1046 Coast Village Road, and on December 10, San Ysidro Village will also hold a holiday shopping party with food, music, and sales.

We’ll have more on the holiday festivities in next week’s edition.

Food & Toy Donations at MFPD

The 4th annual Season of Hope food and toy drive is underway locally, with Montecito Fire Protection District now accepting donations of non-perishable foods and new, unwrapped toys at both fire station locations. The event is sponsored by KSBY and takes place at various locations in Santa Barbara County.

The donated goods are sent to Unity Shoppe’s “Central Distribution Facility,” which serves the low-income clients of 300 non-profit organizations, social service agencies, churches, schools, and hospitals. More thanr 22,000 unduplicated people are referred for food, clothing, school supplies, furniture, and basic necessities.

Items needed include canned meat, canned fruit, canned soup, dried rice and beans, peanut butter, pasta, and other non-perishable items. New toys are also appreciated; the drive continues through December 18.

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Errors & Omissions

In last week’s Village Beat (#21/46), there was an error in the story about new Montecito librarian Tatiana Johnson. We mistakenly reported Johnson and her husband, David, had been married 22 years; in fact, they have been married three years this December. Johnson has been a resident of Solvang for 22 years. We regret the error. •MJ 26 November – 3 December 2015

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

Gergen Examines Presidential Leadership

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iven the current political landscape, David Gergen offered a voice of optimism as he spoke to 170 people about his experiences as former adviser to four U.S. presidents on November 20 at the Coral Casino. The luncheon was part of the Mosher Foundation’s series on Moral and Ethical Leadership in American Society.

Gergen claimed his generation hadn’t done a good enough job, leaving the country too divided. “But it’s the next generation that offers much promise,” he said. “There is a kind of spirit similar to the WWII generation: a greater spirit of service, a greater sense that we need social change in this country, we need to reform institutions that have become decrepit.

And there’s a willingness among a lot of these young people to step in.

“What we need to do is coach them and help them get along. Your leadership program here, encouraging a real focus on moral and ethical leadership, is exactly what the country needs.”

Looking out at the sun-washed Pacific Ocean, Gergen recalled what a privilege it was for him to work with Ronald Reagan, calling the Gipper “the best leader in the White House since FDR.” Gergen, a senior political analyst for CNN, says he learned more from Reagan than from any other president about leadership. “You don’t have to be the smartest person in the room,” he says. “Leadership is a far bigger issue and you not only have to have the quality of knowing yourself, but you have to have a passion for change and a passion for taking an organization or a group or a country someplace else. And you have to have the character. I worked for Richard Nixon.

Believe me, character matters.”

He said Reagan kept the big picture steadily in his mind. “The place of the president, the leader, is not down in the boiler room, it’s up in the fo’c’sle.

It’s up there saying, ‘Here’s where we want to take the ship. Here’s the horizon we’re looking at. Here’s the direction we want to go.’ And that, to me, was the essence of Reagan. That he understood where he wanted to go. It was a rapidly changing world, but he kept steadily applying the principles and steadily going toward the goals that he wanted to achieve, and he did it through compromises.”

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Westmont Hosts Tree Light, Santa

Westmont kicks off the Christmas season with the 14th annual Christmas Tree Lighting on Kerrwood Lawn on Wednesday, December 2, at 5 pm.

Following caroling and the annual Pickle Address, a mystery tree lighter will throw down the massive switch that lights a 150-foot redwood tree, affectionately known for the past 10 years as the Pickle Tree. The event is free and open to the public.

Hundreds of students, alumni, and neighbors will join the celebration, enjoying warm apple cider and cookies. Santa Claus will be inside Kerrwood Hall posing for pictures with people who bring a canned good or unwrapped toy to donate to the Unity Shoppe, a local volunteer program that helps the less fortunate in Santa Barbara. Westmont alumni and their children are invited to arrive at 4 pm for Santa photos. For more information, please call (805) 565-6056 or email alumni@westmont.edu.

A student band, the Ahh-Men a cappella group, will perform and lead participants in traditional Christmas carols.

Ed Song, philosophy scholar in residence, and Felicia Wu Song, associate professor of philosophy, will co-deliver the humorous Pickle Address.

Felicia, who chairs the sociology and anthropology department, joined the Westmont faculty in 2013 after previously teaching at Louisiana State University’s Manship School for Mass Communication. Ed graduated from Yale, before earning a master of arts from Oxford and a doctorate from the University of Virginia. •MJ

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ink Martini, Thomas Lauderdale’s now 21-year-old “little orchestra” from Portland, returns next Thursday, December 3, for what is turning into an annual show at the Arlington Theatre, just one little corner of the world for the globally popular band that takes songs and sounds from a bygone era and turns them into a frothy, fun-filled festival of music. Five years ago, the eclectic ensemble put its stamp on holiday music with its album Joy to the World, perhaps the most glamorous set of intoxicating seasonal songs in the modern era.

After a collaboration last year with the von Trapp family offspring, Pink is tickled pink to be doing the holiday thing again, setting its intoxicating intentions over a blend of jazz, cabaret, cinema music, and Latin flavors, among just a few pursuits. This time around, singer Storm Large, who guested with PM when China Forbes took a leave of absence to undergo surgery on her vocal cords and recorded with the group for the first time on Get Happy, the band’s 2013 globe-trotting album (in nine different languages, no less) is once again the vocalist du tour.

We caught up with Lauderdale over the phone from the road last week.

Q. Pink Martini started as a opening act for a political rally concert you were putting together in Portland after you moved there in anticipation of entering government. It was just supposed to be a one-off. How did it evolve into the juggernaut that it is today?

A. It started so strangely and so fluke-ily, but I guess that’s true for most things. I never had a goal of being in a band and never would have imagined I’d be doing that today. I thought I was going to run for office. But after a few years, when we released our first album, people were just incredulous and crazy for what we were doing, even though it’s anything but trendy. And in France, our first song was nominated for song of the year.

The whole thing has just been sort of surreal since then. The big goal of bringing people together is still intact, but on a much different and grander scale than I ever imagined.

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Hearing you talk about this, I’m wondering about the apparent similarities in skill set from leading a large group such as Pink Martini with those of a politician.

I’ve been re-watching The West Wing recently, so maybe that’s on my mind.

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different goals and ideas and issues and passions – the things people want to do, or ones they want to avoid. In a lot of ways, it’s very much the same.

It’s artistic, and music is full of artsy people, but it’s challenging in the same way that it might be in a political office. But you don’t have to run for re-election.

True, but in a way, your albums are like an election. Consumers vote with their pocketbooks and downloads.

The records are more a measure of our growth. And these days, album sales which used to be 50 percent of our income are now only five percent.

But I know what you mean.

You also mentioned your early success in France. Pink Martini has always been big there and all around Europe. You must have some personal thoughts following the recent terrorist attacks.

We played there less than two years ago. Unfortunately, the world is turning more and more like the film Brazil, that terror can happen any moment in time. So many people feel disenfranchised and don’t believe they have any other options to express their frustration and rage. It’s tragic.

It’s happening all around the world and it’s going to continue. In the pop culture, there isn’t any demonstration of empathy or kindness, just a lot of violence. If you want the world to change, you have to change the images of the world. It’s a mirror of what pop culture has given us, which is death and violence and meanness. I know I should be optimistic, because we have the ability to try our best to help those we can and listen to those who need that. Just pay attention and be engaged in everything around us.

I agree. We need more leaders who talk like that. Maybe you should go back into politics. But transitioning here, a least a little, I’ve always been impressed how Pink Martini comes at the music from a very sincere place. It might appear campy because you have a lot of fun with it, but really there’s much more reverence than irony.

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Pink Martini performs at the Arlington on December 3

critics and reviewers thought we were both campy and ironic. But that only goes so far. I can’t imagine spending 20 years not being sincere about something. This is the music I want to be playing. So there’s no irony. It’s earnest. There’s no question about it...

I think of Andy Warhol, whose whole goal was to make people look and sound better than they were. So in Interview magazine, he’d take a black marker and improve how they looked, correct their grammar. The idea was to uplift. I think that’s a great goal.

At least for me, I’d rather uplift than besmirch.

Turning to this upcoming concert, what’s changed in the program in the holiday show in the five years since Pink Martini’s holiday album Joy To The World. Has it been updated?

Oh, certainly. We’ve got a song from Lebanon that is sung in Arabic. It’s about snow. I’ve also re-written the lyrics to “Santa Baby” because the original ones are like prostitution, which doesn’t seem right for Christmas. I’m always changing things to keep the band interested and on their toes.

How does the show change based on who is singing with you, Storm versus China?

They’re different performers, but they both have the same quality of galvanizing the audience. By the end of the concert, they’ve got everyone jumping around like it’s a rock concert. These are going to be the most raucous holiday concerts we’ve ever given.

How about playing at the Arlington again, which is such a historic theater?

I love that theater. Love it. Love it.

Love it. And I just like the whole scene in Santa Barbara, too. The people are so interesting, and it’s always fascinating to talk to them afterward at the reception.

After working with the von Trapp family on PM’s last album, what other collaborations might you want to pursue?

I loved working with them, and we’d love to do that quite a bit more.

It was great to show that they weren’t trapped as the Sound of Music kids and that they could do anything they want going forward. I’m so happy to have been a part of that. And I’m always looking out for people to collaborate with. I’ve got a big long list.

Finally, you were still doing classical music when PM first started. And I know you’ve returned to performing piano with orchestras on and off since, including some recent concerts. Does that work show up in PM? Doing classical concerts makes me a better pianist. It forces me to practice with a different intention. So it actually makes my personal performance in PM better.

Last Supper

The title of The Goodland Supper Club’s final production of its first season at the Timbers – The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of A Christmas Carol – is certainly quite a mouthful. But maybe that’s appropriate, as feeding mouths has become something of a complicated process

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their own needs.

We are blessed to have a business which allows us to make a difference to some of the creatures who share the planet with us.”

Yuletide Youth Magic was definitely in the air when the Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theatre, under bubbly director Janet Adderley, threw a Yuletide bash at the home of new president Lester Knispel and his wife, Jane.

The Victorian-style home, decorated

in Dickensian splendor, hosted five magicians from Milt Larsen’s legendary Magic Castle in Hollywood, casting a spell on the many youngsters attending with their sleight of hand and prestidigitation prowess.

The 100 guests also got to see a scene from the troupe’s forthcoming production Fiddler on the Roof at the Center Stage Theater on January 16 and 17.

Among those enjoying An Evening of Magic and raising around $5,000 in the process were ER actor Noah Wyle’s ex-wife, Tracy, and their 10-year-old

Milt and Arlene Larsen’s Magic Castle magicians entertaining the guests are Dany Ray, Stephen Lebino, and Matt Marcy (photo by Priscilla)

Doug McFarling with son Drewes, former Adderley student; and costumed Adderley performer Zoe next to Allen and Anne Sides with granddaughter Chloe (photo by Priscilla)

Juliette, Cole, Isabella, Hugh, Bridgett and Chloe, with Janet Adderley and magician Mark Collier from the Magic Castle (photo by Priscilla)

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daughter, Auden, Grammy winner Allen and Anne Sides, Lori Tudor, Scott and Monique Evers, Jon and Melody Duprau, Sandy Toye, Susan Henry, and Stephanie Christoff.

They will all, no doubt, be glued to the PBS channel on Friday at 8 pm when the Andrea Bocelli special airs, which many of the children featured in when it was taped at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre in September.

Big Man on Canvas Santa Barbara Historical Museum has just opened its new exhibition

based on artist Alexander Harmer, considered southern California’s first great painter of the 19th century.

New Jersey-born Harmer settled in our Eden by the Beach in the early 1890s, working on a series of paintings of the California missions under Mexican rule.

His adobe on De La Guerra Plaza became a hangout for many of the state’s premier painters.

The new show, titled Gatherings and Celebrations, which consists of 27 oil and watercolor works, as well as personal memorabilia, Hattie Beresford, historian, Marlene R. Miller, guest curator; and Luis Morena, vocalist/guitarist (photo by Priscilla)

William Burtness, Albert Martin, descendent of Alexander Harmer; and Michael Redmon, historian (photo

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is curated by Marlene Miller and lasts through February 8.

Among the 95 guests at the opening reception were Eleanor Van Cott, Lynn Brittner, Neal Graffy, Thad and Laurie MacMillan, Ernie Witham, Steve and Carol Newman, Michael and Hattie Beresford, John Westward, and Alicia St. John.

70-year Salute Jewish veterans were out in force when Congregation B’nai B’rith hosted a reception at the Bacara to commemorate the 70th anniversary of World War II. Some 18 surviving war veterans from Santa Barbara County were at the party that featured Nancy Spielberg, sister of mega director Steven Spielberg, discussing her newest film Above & Beyond, which tells the story of Jewish veterans, their top secret flying missions, and their bravery following the end of the war.

Earlier in the day, the veterans were toasted at the inaugural Children of the Covenant Legacy lunch, which featured WWII military memorabilia from the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation, with some of the proceeds going toward a proposed WWII memorial by the airport.

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In a way, winter is the real spring, the time when inner things happen, the resurgence of nature. – Edna O’Brien

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Mozart By Candelight – The West Coast Chamber Orchestra’s annual candlelit Thanksgiving celebration of the glorious music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart takes place this year at First United Methodist Church in downtown Santa Barbara. The program, with conducting shared by founder Christopher Story VI and Westmont professor Dr. Michael Shasberger, will feature several Mozart favorites including the Eine Kleine Nachtmusic Serenade K. 525; the Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, No. 3, K. 216 in G Major with WCCO concertmaster Tamsen Beseke as soloist; the Overture to Mozart’s opera La finta giardiniera; the Sinfonia Concertante in A Major with violinist Beseke, violist John Acevedo, and cellist Maxim Velichkin; and the Divertimento in D Major K. 136.

The soothing sounds of some of the most sonorous music every written performed amid candles and stained glass windows should help ease your way into the weekend after a likely day of indulgence.

WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 305 E. Anapamu Street COST: $25 general, $20 seniors, $10 children 18 & under INFO: 963-4408 or www.CieloPerformingArts.org

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Musical Mastery – It takes a lot of guts to name an ensemble after Orpheus, legendary mythological Greek musician who could charm all living things and even stones with his playing. But the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has met those expectations since its founding in New York in 1972, and has achieved 71 albums,

including the Grammy Award-winning Shadow Dances and 42 commissioned and premiered original works over the ensuing 43 years as an unusual outfit that eschews a conductor, instead rotating musical leadership roles for each work as the players themselves interpret the score. But there will be one star at tonight’s concert: the 31-year-old violinist Augustin Hadelich, who just last month became the first recipient of the Warner Music Prize, a $100,000 cash prize that will be awarded annually to a classical musician aged 35 or under who demonstrates exceptional talent and outstanding promise. Hadelich will play the “Kiesewetter” Stradivarius violin on both Stravinsky’s Divertimento from Le baiser de la fée and Tchaikovsky’s Valse-Scherzo in C Major, Op.34, TH58, on either side of intermission.

Händel’s Concerto Grosso Op.6 No.5, HWV323 opens the concert, and Ottorino Respighi’s The Birds (1928) closes out the performance. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: 1214 State Street COST: $38-$108 INFO: 899-2222 and www.granadasb.org or 966-4324 or www.camasb.org

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1 It’s Miller Time – The 66th annual feature from the venerable ski film pioneer Warren Miller Entertainment is called Chasing Shadows, meant to be a reference to an exploration of what it means to be inspired. “As skiers and snowboarders we’ve all chased it,” says the film’s press materials. “A feeling, a memory, a storm, a turn — we’ve been chasing it our whole lives and we’ll keep chasing it a lifetime more.” This time around, the pursuit features JT Holmes, Seth Wescott,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Take it Easy – Southern California folk-rock was surely popularized if not entirely invented by The Eagles back in the early 1970s. More than 100 million records were sold in the U.S. alone!

And even though the superstar group has gotten back together on and off after their original break up back in 1980, the tribute band known as The Long Run has worked continuously for 16 years since being hand-picked to perform Mark Cuban’s and Ryan Seacrest’s network AXStv for a 90-minute live concert back in 1999. The group is blessed by lush vocal harmonies and exceptional musical accuracy, as the boys do their best to duplicate the beloved Eagles’ studio recordings with an energetic live show. And at SOhO, they’re close enough to touch. WHEN: 9 pm WHERE: 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Crawfords’ Choreograph Christmas – After teaching dance at Santa Barbara Festival Ballet for nearly 30 years, Emmy Lou Crawford and her daughter, Sean Lynn, co-founded their own dance school at the Goleta Valley Community Center. As with Festival, the mission of their new non-profit dance school is to provide technique, training, and performance opportunities for boys and girls ages 18 months to adult, as well as to create a Community Engagement Program with Santa Barbara’s public libraries and schools. Now, Inspire Dance Santa Barbara, which opened its doors in late August, is ready to premiere its first original storybook ballet, ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. The delightful libretto, created by Sean L. Crawford, is set in the Victorian Era, and follows two young girls, Frances and Mary, as they encounter adventures while returning home to spend Christmas with their Auntie Bess. Dancing Dolls, Swirling Snowflakes, beautiful Snow Princesses, and Mischievous Mice are among the characters they confront along the way. It all sounds a bit like The Nutcracker, which is understandable, since Crawford – who danced in Hollywood with Fred Astaire, Elvis, and Barbara Streisand – was instrumental in mounting the Festival Ballet’s annual show, while the daughter performed in the show 20 times. But instead of a massive production at the Arlington, this charmer of a story takes place at the intimate “black box” Center Stage Theater and features just a dozen young dancers (ages 6 and up) taking on the roles. WHEN: 1 & 5 pm WHERE: Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo, upstairs in the mall COST: $18 general, $15 students & seniors, $10 children under 12 INFO: 963-0408 or www.CenterStageTheater.org Caroline Gleich, Steven Nyman, and many others as they negotiate turns on some of the world’s most formidable mountains, from Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, the highest summit in the Alps, to Alaska’s Chugach, Utah’s Wasatch, and even the Himalayas. As always, swag awaits skiers who attend the screening, including two-for-one lift tickets at Squaw Valley/ Alpine Meadows, ski and ride free at Steamboat, and 20-percent off a full-price snow helmet or snow goggle at REI. Trailer and more details online at www.skinet. com/warrenmiller. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 East Canon Perdido St. COST: $21 INFO: 963-0761 or www. lobero.com Evaporating Borders – Iva Radivojevic’s 2014 documentary, which has gained even more currency due to the recent Syrian refugee crisis, poetically examines the testimony of asylum seekers on the island of Cyprus and the native Cypriots who have alternately received and resisted them, weaving the stories into a compelling portrait of a world in flux. An essay in five parts that covers a PLO activist, neo-Nazi fundamentalists and more, Evaporating Borders offers a series of vignettes that are interpreted and filtered through the filmmaker’s curious eye and personal reflections, and becomes a meditation on themes of migration, tolerance, identity and belonging. Filmmaker Radivojevic – herself an immigrant to Cyprus – will introduce

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tonight’s screening at UCSB and join film professors Bhaskar Sarkar and Laila Shereen Sakr for an on-stage discussion after the film. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Pollock Theater, UCSB campus COST: free INFO: 893-5903 or www.carseywolf. ucsb.edu/pollock

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2 UCSB Music, Modern & Swingin’ – The music department’s fall season of concerts continues with two more events on Wednesday, beginning in the afternoon with the Ensemble for Contemporary Music, which presents “Strings Attached”, a program of newer selections spanning five countries and three continents.

The closing movement from American composer Lou Harrison’s Piano Trio will open the program, followed by two sets of violin trios in popular dance forms by Henk Badings of the Netherlands. New graduate pianist Petra Peršolja will perform Slovenian composer Aldo Kumar’s “A Game of 12” followed graduate violist and new UNLV faculty member Tianna Harjo as the soloist for Bulgarian composer Emile Naoumoff’s new Viola Sonata. Argentinian Alberto Ginastera’s String Quartet No. 1 will provide a rousing Gaucho-style finale, under the direction of Jeremy Haladyna. Then at night, it’s time for the UCSB Jazz Combos, directed by Jon Nathan, who will showcase three of the school’s ensembles. The groups, comprised of UCSB music students, as well

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 Don’t Harp on it – Legends of the Celtic Harp presents its latest offering, “A Winter Gift”, featuring Patrick Ball, Lisa Lynne, and Aryeh Frankfurter, who perform Celtic legends, along with Irish and English literature woven together with beloved and rare pieces of holiday music. The trio of gifted string players whose previous show offered legends of the harp through time now take on a heartwarming collection of tales and music from Celtic legend and traditional folk stories. They will perform “A Child’s Christmas in Wales”, a chapter from The Wind in the Willows, and passages from Shakespeare, William Butler Yeats, and Thomas Hardy, interspersed among original and classic pieces of seasonal music. Among them, Ball, Lynne, and Frankfurter will play three Celtic Harps, Swedish Nyckelharpa, Fiddle, Bandura, Bouzouki, and more. Details at www.

LegendsOfTheCelticHarp.com. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Ojai Valley Women’s Club, 441 East Ojai Avenue, Ojai COST: $20 in advance, $23 at the door; half-price for 14 & under INFO: 665-8852 or www.ojaiconcertseries.com as graduate and undergraduate students from other departments across campus, will each spotlight compositions by jazz greats Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus. WHEN: ECM 4 pm; Jazz combos 7:30 pm WHERE: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall (ECM), Karl Geiringer Hall (Jazz) on the UCSB campus COST: $10 general, $5 students and children under 12 INFO: 893-2064 or www.music.ucsb.edu La Arcada Christmas Walk – The annual one-day holiday mini-festival at the open-air downtown shopping plaza has been a local favorite for more than two decades. Enjoy free photos with Santa, performances from strolling carolers and other local music groups, free fresh-popped popcorn, holiday shopping specials and other goodies as the center’s 22 merchants – which include restaurants and art galleries, retail boutiques and service companies – get into the Christmas spirit amid the tile-lined walkways, fountains, and famous sculptures. WHEN: 5-8 pm WHERE: 1114 State Street COST: free INFO: 966-6634 or www. laarcadasantabarbara.com

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3 1st Thursday – December not only brings out the shoppers but some of

the best entertainment of the year as a couple of performing arts organizations offer previews of their annual holiday events. The Santa Barbara Quire of Voyces returns to Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State Street) from 6:30-7 pm to perform a short program of choral music in advance of its upcoming Mysteries of Christmas concert that will feature carols and music by Vaughn Williams on December 19-20. Santa Barbara Revels music director Adam Phillips leads the Solstice Singers in Spanish, Moorish, and Sephardic music from the cultural crossroads of Andalusia and the Pacific Sword Company showcases its signature sword dance on Marshall’s patio (900 State Street) as the troupe previews its annual The Christmas Revels: In Celebration of the Winter Solstice shows set for the Lobero on December 19-20. This year’s spectacle is The Treasures of Spain. Finally, our favorite female DJ, Darla Bea, spins the tunes at the 1st Thursday After Party at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum (136 East De la Guerra) from 7:309:30 pm, which also features pop-up performances, door prizes, a no-host bar, and free appetizers. WHEN: 5-8 pm COST: free INFO: www. santabarbaradowntown.com/about/1stthursday •MJ

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Get the Nack – When you’re about to leave your teenage years behind, it’s always a good idea to try something big. Maybe that’s the thinking behind veteran Santa Barbara artist and arts manager Brad Nack, who is still creating vast quantities of the miniature animal oils that comprise his annual “100% Reindeer Art Show”, which offers something new for the 19th year. The critters posed in all sorts of whimsical expression in tiny abstract masterpieces still populate the show, which has its opening and closing within a matter of hours at Restaurant Roy. But Nack has also created a number of larger oils of reindeer that will hang in Roy’s front room through the end of the year, after which, yes, you can take them home to enjoy year ‘round. WHEN: 6-8 pm WHERE: 7 W. Carrillo Street COST: free INFO: 966-5636 or www.restaurantroy.com

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that could give the convoluted concoctions of the would-be cast featured in the play itself a solid run for its money.

Goodland is the successor to Circle Bar B Dinner Theater, which ruled the roost – actually a converted barn – at the working ranch for more than four decades before a kind of regime change precipitated a change in direction. So theater principals Susie and David Couch, who had also produced on-site shows between courses over at the Waterfront Grill last year, hooked up with the Timbers, which is being converted into a full-on events center in its latest iteration.

Goodland opened earlier in the fall with Murder at Cafe Noir, a comic musical tribute to 1940s Bogart movie in which the audience has the opportunity to help solve the crime. Next up was Rich Hoag returning to the title role in the one-man Will Rogers’ America, a show the local thespian has made his own over the last decade.

But there were some issues with the catering, and a quick substitution had to take place.

Now, the latest news is that Goodland is partnering with the popular Georgia’s Smokehouse Food Truck for a traditional Southern (London) holiday dinner this time around, eschewing the kitchen at the Timbers altogether. (Don’t ask why – the situation is almost a convoluted as a Farndale production.)

Hopefully, folks will be laughing so hard they won’t even notice as Farndale’s stab at Christmas Carol is another in a serious of seriously funny comedies in the popular British series that has also taken on The Mikado, Hamlet, and murder mysteries. The ladies of the town mount another assault on the classics with their inimitably awful stage version of the Dickens holiday classic, with the five actors portraying an absurd array of characters, some of whom aren’t even part of the actual story, as everything FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Montecito Concierge Services, 133 De La Guerra #32, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Michelle King, 133 De La Guerra #32, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 29, 2015. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luporello. FBN No. 20150003122. Published November 18, 25, December 2, 9, 2015.

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“It’s extremely funny, one of the funniest I’ve ever seen,” said Susie Couch. “It’s Monty Python meets Noises Off at Christmas. It’s just hilarious in that way of British humor.”

The Couches produced Farndale in 2004 during their first season at the Circle Bar B helm. Bringing it back again was a no-brainer, Couch said.

“It’s a Christmas show but we had to do it in the fall, so I’ve been wanting to do it this time of year ever since,” she explained. “While everybody else is doing The Nutcracker or a traditional Christmas Carol, this is completely nontraditional.”

Indeed, all the would-be actresses of Farndale have going for them is an excess of enthusiasm as the actresses deal with a slew of obstacles that make the production more than challenging, but keep audiences roaring with laughter. While Ensemble also previously presented the show, it’s been more than a decade, and actors came out of the woodwork for a chance to portray one of the roles, Couch said.

The story is about the members of the housing estate “who all think they’re fabulous, amazing actresses, but none of them are good,” Couch explained. “Whenever they put on a show, whatever can go wrong always does. It’s really a lot of fun to do.”

Thelma (Tiffany Story) and Mrs. Reece (Kathy Marden) do battle to be in charge of the troupe, while the notso-agile Mercedes (Shannon Saleh) and one-lady stage crew Maureen (Wendy Tarasick) help to give it a go, under the guidance of enthusiastic stage manager Gordon (Miller James). Meanwhile, Britni AllemanDeLorenzi plays a new member of the ladies club, “a terrible actress but one who will do it all,” Couch said.

But as with Goodland’s first show, the audience also gets a chance to get involved.

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“When one of the characters doesn’t show up on time, Mrs. Reece asks people if they can step in, and then later someone goes down literally and they have to pull someone else from the crowd. The audience is really a big part of it.”

If you do get called up to join in for the final 2015 Goodlands Supper Club show at the Timbers, just be sure you don’t, you know, eat it.

(The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society’s Production of A Christmas Carol plays at 7:30 pm December 3-5 & 10-12, plus 2 pm December 6 & 13, with dinner served one hour earlier. Tickets cost $49, with a $4 discount for seniors and students. Call 705-9598 or visit www.prismproductions. org.)

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Just a year after moving to Santa Barbara, singer Mari Martin co-founded Area 51 with Michael Andrews way back in 1994. Before long, the high-energy funk and roll band became the biggest party group in the land, holding down regular gigs at SOhO and other clubs, as well as festivals and local events plus playing more than their share of weddings and private parties.

Area 51 is still going strong, but Martin moved back to Massachusetts in 2010 to take care of her ailing father, and has only been back to visit once or twice. Her dad passed away in the spring, and Martin returned to Santa Barbara for a three-week trip that ends next month. Or at least that was the original plan.

Martin filled in for her Area 51 replacement, Laura Schlieske, when the band played one of those private bashes in Montecito last week, and the old juices started flowing.

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said when we chatted at SOhO last weekend. “It really filled my heart.

I just stepped back in after five-anda-half years and it was like nothing, like no time had passed. Michael and I have a wonderful synergy together, and it felt like being home again.

Playing all that music again really felt great. I just slipped right back into it.”

Area 51 has its monthly gig at SOhO on Friday night, and Martin said she’d likely sit in for a song or two, though most of the female vocal duties will be handled by powerhouse singer Schlieske. But before she heads out, Martin has one more full gig lined up, fronting her own band back at SOhO on Sunday, a quartet featuring Ray Pinnel on guitar, Larry Perpolli on drums, and Area 51’s George Friedenthal on keys.

They’ll play Martin’s interpretations of classic songs including “God Bless the Child” and “Doctor My Eyes”, and cover tunes by Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, and others. “We mix it up, and really make it our own,” she said, though it’s “more listening than dancing.” But no originals. Martin hasn’t tried her hand at writing in a while. But that’s next.

“I’m really wanting to get back in to that, write some songs on piano and flute,” she said. “I used to do a lot more folk and blues. But it’s been 10 years. I’m rusty. I’m excited to put a little WD40 on there and oil it back up.”

Whatever she’s singing, Martin might be doing most of it back here in Santa Barbara, her adopted home for nearly two decades.

“I didn’t come out here thinking I was going to move back, but now I really think I might,” said Martin, who has spent a lot of time traveling in the last few months. “I have a lot of ‘family’ here, in term of friends, people I’m really close with. Santa Barbara is drawing me back more than I thought it would.” •MJ

show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed November 2, 2015 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: January 27, 2016 at 9:30 am in Dept.

1, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 11/11, 11/18, 11/25, 12/2 ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS (ParentageCustody and Support): CASE No. 1487038. Notice to Respondent: Juan Carlos Carachure-Angel: You have been sued by Petitioner Zita Nevarez.

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You may also be ordered to pay child support and attorney fees and costs. Starting immediately, you and every other party are restrained from removing from the state, or applying for a passport for, the minor child or children for whom this action seeks to establish a parent-child relationship or a custody order without the prior written consent of every other party or an order of the court. This restraining order remains in effect until the judgment is entered, the petition is dismissed, or the court makes other orders. The respondent cannot with reasonable diligence be served in any manner specified in CCP sections 415.10 through 415.40 based on the petitioner’s declaration. A copy of the summons or citation and the complaint or petition could not be served via alternate methods. Filed November 3, 2015, by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Published November 18, 25, December 2, 9, 2015.

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Ernie’s World

by Ernie Witham

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Not Quite Cognizant The author and wife, on top of the world as far as New Hampshire is concerned

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from the comfort of the beautiful, historic Mount Washington Hotel, a few miles away the previous day. I thought it looked incredibly steep.

Turns out it is the second steepest cog railway in the world, the average grade being one foot up for every four feet forward.

“Welcome, my name is Josh and I’ll be your brakeman. We’ll be traveling at a blistering speed of five miles per hour on the way up and six miles per hour on the way down.

The steepest part of the trip will be Jacob’s Ladder where we will be at a thirty-seven-degree angle.” I looked toward the back of our car. People were about 15 feet lower in the back.

I sure hoped they could catch, in case I tripped.

The ride up was great. We paused near the water tower that the last remaining steam engine uses to refill its boiler. We also passed the Half-Way House that was located, well, halfway.

Just as we reached the solid granite, treeless top, we passed a train headed down. Some of the passengers had their eyes closed. Others seemed to be holding rosary beads.

Fortunately, it wasn’t the chilly 55-degrees it had been at the bottom.

It was now 37 degrees. We walked past a sign that cheerfully stated that on April 12, 1934, a wind gust on Mount Washington hit 231 miles-perhour. I’m guessing all those folks that bought Cog Railway souvenir hats that day had to go to Canada to retrieve them.

They had a café and we both ordered the chili, which I got all over my face because my hands were shaking. Still, there were photos to be taken, so we ventured outside to the actual summit, which is a mound of rocks with a sign in it where everyone has to have their photo taken. I also took 100 photos of the incredible views before we re-boarded.

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“What did you call me?”

My wife pointed at something that looked like an old moonshine still on a wagon. “That’s the first cog railway engine in the world.”

“Great, but free white lightning or no free white lightning, I’m not riding anywhere on that thing. I’d feel safer on a Devil’s Shingle!”

We were at the Mount Washington Cog Railway in Northern New Hampshire, in operation since July 3, 1869. Mount Washington is the highest mountain in the Northeast at 6,288 feet, and there are three ways to get to the top, the cog railway, the auto road, and hiking. Sylvester Marsh came up with the idea for the cog railway while climbing the mountain in the 1850s during some not-all-that-uncommon harsh weather.

“Holy icicles, I should have trained for this. Hmm, train…”

People considered him insane for thinking he could get a train up there, so naturally they said: “Go for it.” The $5,000 dollars he put up, plus the hotel he offered to build for “expected tourists” might have affected the approval process. In the end, it took three years to build and cost $136,000 – the equivalent of a permit application today.

The Devil’s Shingle was a three-foot long, 10-inch-wide sled that workers used to use to descend the mountain. Most of them made it down the three-mile-long track in about 15 minutes, though the record is two-and-ahalf minutes by some guy who really wanted to beat the traffic.

“We won’t be going up on Peppersass,” my wife said. “We’ll be going up on that train.” She pointed at a far more modern train with one passenger car and an engine behind it. The engine pushes the passenger car up the mountain and prevents the train from coming back down too fast.

We had seen the path of the railway

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We had a different brakeman for the trip down. He made a joke about being new. Then he made another joke about the train car not being attached to the engine. I laughed.

“Seriously,” he said. “If something happens, I could most likely stop our car with the brakes, but I couldn’t

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hold the engine back, too.”

“Are there emergency Devil’s Shingles?”

“I’m afraid not.”

Above him was a sign saying gratuities for a job well-done were welcome. I handed him a buck, then sat down and closed my eyes. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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Far Flung Travel

Channel Crossing, Lighthouse to Lighthouse

by Chuck Graham

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he National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) weather report was calling for 47 mph northwest winds, gusting to 60. As myself and three others sat momentarily stranded on a cobble beach strewn in driftwood on West Anacapa Island, it sure felt like it.

Earlier in the day, we left the southeast end of Santa Cruz Island kayaking toward East Anacapa Island and the lighthouse towering over the iconic 40-foot-tall rock arch, the symbol of the Channel Islands National Park 11 miles off the coast of Oxnard, California. The northwest winds hadn’t reached extremes just yet, and with the winds at our back we had no problem making good time to the second smallest isle off the mainland.

We were supposed to camp at the only campground on East Anacapa Island just west of the lighthouse on top of the island, where there is no cover from the wind. By the time we reached West Anacapa, wind velocity had ratcheted upward. We realized we weren’t going to be able to pitch tents and sleep reasonably well in

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those winds, so we opted to stay on that cobble beach tucked against the cliffs.

Before it got dark, we made a wind barrier with our kayaks, and twice in the night the wind picked the kayaks up and blew them to the edge of the water like a flimsy piece of cardboard.

As the lighthouse flashed in the night, we recovered our kayaks and wedged rocks against them that held the rest of the night.

It was so windy, that even weather-beaten California brown pelicans seeking shelter within our kayak barrier waddled by us to stick their heads in the bushes behind us.

By 4 am, those howling northwest winds suddenly stopped. It was as if someone had shut the window in a house. Utter calm swept across the channel. There wasn’t a whisper of wind on the island, but the NOAA report was calling for more wind that coming afternoon. At first light everyone was in a mad rush, cramming their gear inside their kayaks before paddling toward the lighthouse just a couple miles east of where we camped.

We paddled beneath the natural archway and then paddled northeast for the mainland. We kayaked in a tight formation aiming between oil platforms Gail and Gina at the east end of the Santa Barbara Channel. Our final destination would be the Port Hueneme Lighthouse built in 1941.

The 11-mile channel crossing is the shortest distance between the Channel Islands and the mainland.

As we approached the oil platforms, a small pod of common dolphins joined our small flotilla of kayaks.

We were about eight miles from the

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mainland as pelagic birds such as black-vented shearwaters, western gulls, and western grebes swooped from above and swam around our kayaks while we paddled over a bait ball of fish. As they fed, we felt the first whisper of oncoming northwest winds, which were predicted to pick up by the afternoon. We all looked at one another and began to paddle with more fervor, not wanting to get caught up in a wind event like the one the day before.

Things started to become more familiar as the mainland came into view. The Santa Monica Mountains tallest crags were visible to the east. Long sandy beaches, the Port Hueneme Pier, and to the west of it was the Port Hueneme Lighthouse, its Fresnel light flashing in the distance.

The Anacapa Island Lighthouse can be visited through Island Packers, the only boat concession permitted to land visitors on the Channel Islands National Park. Call (805) 642-1393, www.islandpackers.com.

The Point Hueneme Lighthouse is owned by the U.S. Coast Guard and was constructed in 1941. The lighthouse is open for tours the third Saturday of the month from February through October, from 10 am to 3 pm (last tour is at 2:30 pm). Admission is free. For more information, call (310) 541-0334. •MJ 26 November – 3 December 2015

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WATER (Continued from page 5)

for the preservation and protection of our community character and our $9.6 billion investment in residential real estate.

State Water Commitment In 1991, this community, and 10 other water districts in Santa Barbara County, voted to import state water via the Coastal Branch of the State Water Project (SWP), operated and controlled by the State Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the Central Coast Water Authority (CCWA).

Availability of State Water was sold to voters as the permanent remedy for future droughts. The project was estimated to cost $270 million.

Unfortunately, the total project price has now ballooned to $595 million and counting. Tragically, the State promised five times more water to southern California water districts than it has available, making State Water a bad joke as a drought insurance policy.

In 2014-15, MWD’s water allocation of 3,000 acre feet per year (AFY) of state water was reduced by 95% to 145 AFY, but the fixed costs of State Water for MWD remained at $5.4 million per year. With only 5% of allocated water delivered, the cost per AF of State Water soared to close to $40,000 per AF, or a whopping $85 per billable unit, or more than 10 times the projected cost of desalinated water.

Starting now, MWD needs to actively pursue a possible disposal of its State Water allocation and at least a portion of the cost of its pipes and pumps to connect State Water to the Cachuma reservoir. Unlike the City of Santa Barbara, a smaller MWD can afford either State Water or desalinated water as its emergency drought back-up plan, but not both.

Water Exchange Liabilities MWD’s recent purchases of supplementary water carry a liability that at least an equal amount of water must be paid back to the sending party within the next five to 10 years. As of June 15, MWD has purchased 3,413 AF of supplementary water that must be paid back at an estimated cost of just under $900,000. This liability may have to be funded by future rate increases.

Ending Mandatory Rationing Ending rationing would mean that more than $2.5 million per year in rationing penalty fees would no longer be collected by MWD. MWD would have to raise rates to make up for the $2.5 million it now receives.

Aging Infrastructure Rate increases that were levied in 2007, 2008, and 2013 were supposed to build reserves to fund the replacement of 23 miles of corroded pipeline that is now heading toward its 100th birthday. Nearly all of that aged pipeline still remains in place.

Legality of a Tiered Rate System for Water Usage In April 2015, a three judge California Appeals Court unanimously ruled that San Juan Capistrano’s tiered rate system that charges a lower amount ($2.47 per unit) to smaller 1st tier users and a higher amount ($9.05) to larger 4th tier users was unconstitutional, dismaying the two-thirds of water districts in the state that have adopted tiered rates to incentivize lower usage and punish large users. The Court decided it was arbitrary and unfair to charge larger users higher rates, and that tiered rates are in violation of the State Constitution and Proposition 218 passed in 1996 that prohibits government agencies from charging more than the cost of service. State lawyers are now reviewing the decision in the hopes that tiered rates are legal, so long as the District can show that each rate is tied to the cost of providing the water to that tier. Elimination of rate tiers penalizes preference low users who benefit by shifting costs to higher users.

What Happens Next?

MWD Finance Committee chairman Doug Morgan and new MWD director Charles Newman have requested a bid from Doug Dove of Bartle Wells & Associates to perform an updated “Cost of Service Analysis” for MWD to propose a new, and perhaps innovative, rate structure. Newman expressed a desire to get away from rationing with its penalties as soon as possible.

A Cost of Service study is a start, but it is not a substitute for an in-depth community conversation. Public input is essential when discussing the future of the character of Montecito and the value of its $9.6 billion in residential real estate, with and without water. The MWD board needs full transparency in keeping the Montecito community informed and involved in water strategy and future rate-making decisions. We need to all work together – the community, our special districts, our neighboring communities, and our elected officials – to develop a sensible long-term strategy for water independence at an affordable cost.

•MJ

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What is the History of Water Rate Increases in Montecito?

By Bob Hazard

To plan for the future, one has to study the past and learn the hard lessons of water management in a tiny district.

The 2013 Rate Increase

Two years ago, faced with a budget that showed a $1.5 million net operating loss to be funded by appropriations from reserves, MWD retained Hoag Consultants, who recommended a 55% rise in rates and meter charges, spread over the next five years, from 2013 to 2017. This was intended to be a long-term solution as opposed to annual adjustments in rates.

The first step was a 16.3% increase in water rates and meter charges beginning on September 1, 2013, followed by four successive compounded increases of 7.4% in each of 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. The stated purpose was to generate sufficient “funds to upgrade and replace aging facilities, especially 23 miles of 80 year old pipelines that cost up to $1.8 million per mile to replace.” According to MWD general manager Tom Mosby, the rate increase was expected to raise $2.4 million a year for pipe replacement. As it turned out, little to none of this five-year increase was spent on planned replacement of aging and corroded cast iron pipes, pushing that priority down the road.

The 2014 Rationing Penalties

Four months later, on February 11, 2014, the MWD board declared a water shortage emergency. Ten days later, MWD adopted Ordinance 93, setting mandatory monthly water rationing allocations for all customer classifications and severe financial penalties for consumption in excess of rationing amounts.

In explaining the need, Mosby announced “that without rain, the district could run out of water completely by October 2014. The only solution was mandatory rationing to force a reduction in usage of 30%.” Penalty fees, estimated to produce $3 million in new MWD revenue were imposed. For each unit used over the rationed allotment, customers were to be billed a penalty fee of $30 per unit for the first offense, $45 per unit for a second offense and a water shutoff and reconnect fee for further offenses.

The 2015 Rate Increases

A year later, beginning April 1, 2015, MWD introduced a new rationing wrinkle – a temporary Water Shortage Emergency Surcharge of $1.87 per HCF billing unit applied to all customers, with the right to increase the surcharge to $4.16 per HCF, as needed. The stated reasons were that (1) water sales in the last half of 2014 were half of water sales in the prior year, and (2) a surcharge was needed to fund the purchase of supplementary water.

Community protesters and the Montecito Association (MA) argued that the implementation of any surcharges or further rate increases should be deferred until a comprehensive and rational short and long-term plan for water resources and infrastructure in Montecito had been developed, presented to the community and adopted by the MWD board. MWD responded by claiming that the Montecito Association and others in the community who were calling for a strategic plan were putting the entire MWD operation at risk.

After imposing a $1.87 per unit surcharge on April 1, 2015, and imposing its second 7.4% increase in water rates in July as part of the 2013 five-year plan, MWD came back again in September 2015 and bumped the Water Shortage Emergency Surcharge up to $3.45 per unit for all users. MWD explained its action by noting that “the surcharge will apply until water conditions have returned to normal and drought related costs have been recovered.”

In other words, record-breaking El Niño rains that could refill Cachuma and Jameson reservoirs and bring an end to the drought, but the surcharge could remain in place until “all drought related charges have been recovered.”

Calculations of the cost of water in Montecito will have to wait until after the MWD board completes a long sought after strategic plan. What are the costs of alternative MWD water options? This community deserves a MWD long-term strategic plan for providing reliable water at an affordable and definable cost. •MJ

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MISCELLANY (Continued from page 37) Santa Barbara Dance Theater surrounding Alice Condodina, the company’s first director; Jerry Pearson, second director, Christopher Pilafian, current director, and Ryan Beveridge, composer (photo by Priscilla)

Supporters Don and Jan Dowd with Marcia and John Mike Cohen (photo by Priscilla)

Rabbi Stephen Cohen described the veterans as fighting “a titanic struggle to provide and protect our life-affirming, life exalting, imperfect, but fundamentally life-loving civilization.”

“We owe them everything,” but warned, referencing the Isis attacks in Paris, “the lovers of death are still hard at work.”

Three’s Company Santa Barbara Dance Theater is celebrating its 40th anniversary and held a preview of its hotly anticipated 2016 season at the Center Stage Theater with new creations from three of its artistic directors – Alice Condodina, Jerry Pearson, and current director, Christopher Pilafian, which will premiere between January 20 and January 24 at UCSB’s Hatlen Theater.

The company of Carisa Carroll, Thomas Fant, Steven Jasso, Tracy Kofford, Nikki Pfeiffer, and Christina Sanchez, performed selections from a number of works, including Common Ground, choreographed by Edgar

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Zendejas, with music by Max Richter and Vivaldi, and Strange Attractor from Pilafian, with collaborator Ryan Beveridge, a Los Angeles-based composer with many TV and film credits to his name.

“This year is a special occasion, the first time in four decades the choreographic visions of three past and present artistic directors will be seen in one program,” says Christopher.

In the spring, the company plans to work with internationally known Canadian choreographer Joshua Beamish, who has worked with talents from The Royal Ballet and American Ballet Theater, with the work premiering at the Lobero in May. An exciting season ahead.

Sightings: Actress Julia Roberts and husband Danny Moder having breakfast at Jeannine’s on Coast Village Road....St. Elsewhere actor William Daniels getting brunch at Pierre Lafond...Ice hockey ace Wayne Gretzky noshing at Olio e Limone Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmineards@verizon.net or send invitations and other correspondence to the Journal.

To reach Priscilla, email her at priscilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301 •MJ

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World-Class teachers from Russia.

Sign up today (805)512-0332 www.sb.dancefeverstudio.com dancefeverpros@yahoo.com HOUSEKEEPING SERVICES **JnJcleaning specialize in cleaning office/ home*** Affordable, dependable and friendly staff.

Ask for detailed cleaning, general or luxury cleaning. $ 23.00 per hrs, minimum 3 hrs. we make your house like your castle. fresh and fantastic. 320-2773 PR SERVICES Marketing and Publicity for your business, non-profit, or event. Integrating traditional and social media and specializing in PSAs, podcasts, videos, blogs, articles and press releases.

Contact Patti Teel seniorityrules@gmail. com REAL ESTATE SERVICES NancyHussey.com Nancy Hussey Realtor ® 805-452-3052 Coldwell Banker / Montecito DRE#0138377 “Thanks Nancy, for Making our Third Transaction go so Smoothly. We appreciate ALL your efforts. Good Fortune is a Friend Like You.” –Irene and Ken Steiner photo of Nancy alone HOUSE/APT WANTED Professional woman looking for professional people to do a rent share in the Montecito/ Summerland area. Contact Joyce 831-624-7231.

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Walk to Harbor & Downtown.

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Complimentary Consultation (805) 708 6113 email: theclearinghouseSB@cox.net website: theclearinghouseSB.com Estate Moving Sale Service-Efficient30yrs experience. Elizabeth Langtree 689-0461 or 733-1030.

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(805) 453-3481.

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

Oak, mix & stove wood 805-895-2099 or 967-1474 HANDYMAN SERVICES Finish Custom Carpentry.

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• The Voice of the Village •

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