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ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 35 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 47 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 53

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Making History

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“Community Stars” Jim Garcia and Erin Graffy to be honorees at this year’s Mistletoe Ball, p. 16

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5

Guest Editorial

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Montecito Miscellany

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Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard surveys the scene of Coast Village Road, detailing the shops, eateries, their founders and owners around the heart of Montecito Alan Lin and Jeopardy!; Natalie Portman; Lotusland; Hall of Famers; SB Symphony; Empty Bowls; Voices for Justice; Tresor display; Misty Hammer; pianist Seong-Jin Cho; Julia Louis-Dreyfus; Gwyneth Paltrow; and Michael Imperioli Correspondence from readers comprising Dr. William Santoro, Sanderson Smith, Steven Lawrence, Joe Rution, David McCalmont, Art Thomas, Dale Lowdermilk , and Bob Ludwick

10 This Week

Thanksgiving meals; library; retreat for recovery; holiday faire; author A.J. Harris; book signings at Tecolote; Summerland yoga; MBAR meeting; Knit N Needle; Walk & Roll; Spanish group; Winter retreat; prayer at La Casa; holiday tree; art classes; brain fitness; story time; yoga; Italian; Carp arts; Latin dancing; farmers market; Tai Chi; Cars & Coffee; and French language

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Eat. Sip. Shop. Connect.

Tide Guide

Handy chart to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

12 Village Beat

Montecito Planning Commission meeting; Hattie Beresford’s new book; The Elephant Project; and Leopard Festival at the zoo

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner covers the 21st annual Military Ball; AWI’s “Your Brain Matters Luncheon”; and Santa Barbara Peace Prize award dinner

16 Coming & Going

James Buckley previews the Catholic Charities annual Mistletoe Ball at Coral Casino, which honors Erin Graffy and Jim Garcia; food fest; and Emily Mullisen

20 In Business

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Jon Vreeland visits Rugs and More, where owner and dealer Michael Kourosh gets called on the carpet

23 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz previews Thanksgiving Day classes; retreat and journey; Dr. Dream’s Tibetan healing; Jim Dreaver; śūnyatā; and “Fate of the Dream”

24 Ernie’s World

Happy trails? More like a Rocky road for Ernie Witham as he ventures to Rocky Mountain National Park, upward of 12,000 feet above sea level.

26 Ray’s Ramblings

Breaking it down, to the ground: Ray Winn explores planet Earth, by the numbers, specifically terawatts and CO2

35 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant sits at the head of the class referencing the middle class while scrutinizing grammar schools and reliving his school days

36 On Fitness

Karen Robiscoe checks into The Lab, whose scientific name belies the fact it’s actually a fitness and recovery center for athletes

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Gene Dongieux reports on Carlyle Global Partners and its conference slated for Montecito next year

38 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz interviews Nate Birkey prior to his SOhO concert; Nicole Lvoff; Judi Dench and SBIFF winners; The Shape of Water; Carp comedy; and Joanna Murphy

42 Your Westmont

Guy Kawasaki offered influential business tips; Christmas Festival is December 1-3; and the beloved Pickle Tree comes aglow November 28

46 Hello, Dolly

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37 On Investing

Megan Waldrep talks with country music icon Dolly Parton, who is releasing the first children’s album of her 50-year career for her eponymous nonprofit

47 Movie Guide 49 Legal Advertising 50 Calendar of Events

Mozart in church; dancing at SOhO; Open Mic Nite; SB Symphony; Con Brio; Lobero hosts Warren Miller; writer Zadie Smith; benefit concert; and holiday shopping

53 Open House Directory 54 Classified Advertising

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

55 Local Business Directory

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

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Guest Editorial

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

Meet the Merchants of Coast Village Road

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oast Village Road (CVR) houses some 150 retail shops, restaurants, hotels, real estate companies, banks, residences, hair salons, and offices within its fourblock stretch between Hot Springs and Olive Mill. Many of these businesses are struggling to stay alive; they need your patronage and support. Residents of Montecito, especially those living in the upper village, need to become more aware of the rich variety of products and services available to them in our Jeff and Susanna Menelli of Menelli Trading local business district, purloined by Company the City for want of a Montecito sewer line back in 1965.

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A number of CVR retail shops have enjoyed continued success through high-quality products, excellent customer service, and impressive attention to detail. My personal favorite is Occhiali Fine Eyewear, hosted by its customer-sensitive owner, Irwin Eve. There are many other CVR boutiques that are discriminating in their selection of first-rate, price-sensitive merchandise, combined with a warm and welcoming mix of personal services.

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by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, gossip on The Joan Rivers Show and Geraldo Rivera, host on E! TV, a correspondent on the syndicated show Extra, and a commentator on the KTLA Morning News. He moved to Montecito ten years ago.

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ormer Santa Barbara software engineer Alan Lin, who won six consecutive games on the popular TV quiz show Jeopardy! in May, garnering $123,600, continued his winning ways on the program’s Tournament of Champions, adding another $100,000 to his coffers, when he came second in the hotly contested two-part final.

The former Caltech, Pasadena, student, who now lives in Riverside, was pipped to the crown by 32-year-old Los Angeles music executive Buzzy Cohen, who walked away with a handsome check for $250,000.

Alan, 25, says he wants to use his winnings to buy a home.

Garden Variety Lotusland supporters with a yen for horticulture turned out en masse for the groundbreaking of the $4.6-million renovation of the 60-year-old Japanese one-and-a-half-acre garden by dynamic designing duo Paul Comstock and Derrik Eichelberger.

The original design was done by the late Frank Fujii, but time has taken its toll and it is undergoing a major upgrade.

“It is the largest and most comprehensive renovation in Lotusland’s history,” says executive director Gwen Stauffer of the extensive work, which includes deepening the pond, installing a liner to replace the clay, and fitting new piping and a filtration system.

The garden, which is expected to be completed by 2019, will also be made more accessible for visitors with disabilities.

Bob Sedivy, a Japanese flutist, performed a Kagami Biraki, a 15th-century “Breaking the Mirror” blessing that brings good luck.

More than 100 guests made a sake toast while quaffing a Mr. Fuji cocktail made of yuzu, ginger, Fuji apple and green tea infused vodka, concocted by Lotusland employee Patrick Reynolds, and noshing Japanese canapés.

Among the gaggle of gardening gurus were Hiroko Benko, Christopher Toomey, Caroline Thompson, Randy Weiss, Anne Towbes, Wilson Quarre, and Peggy Wiley, Herb and Bernardine Aldwinckle, Noelle and

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

Paderewski a Pianist, not Violinist

Ignacy Jan Paderewski was not only a world-class pianist, but he was also a Polish patriot who served as prime minister of Poland and represented that country at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919

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ongratulations to Ms Diana Starr Langley for serving as publisher of the beautiful new issue of your glossy magazine, her first.

However, there is an egregious error in the issue, which suggests carelessness or ignorance on the author’s or caption-writer’s part. This error must be appalling to the informed music lovers in this community and to the esteemed Music Academy of the West, not to mention the dedicated caretakers of Casa Dorinda.

On page 112 in the article about Casa Dorinda (“Moguls & Mansions”), there is a photo of the great Polish statesman and musician Ignacy Paderewski, and beneath the photo a copy of the program performed by Paderewski at Casa Dorinda. The caption describes Paderewski as a “world-famous vio-

linist,” and the program as entirely by Chopin.

Ignacy Paderewski was a world-famous pianist, and Chopin wrote almost entirely for the piano. The compositions listed on the program are for the piano.

I think this uninformed misinformation should be corrected in the next issue of the Journal or the magazine. I believe the continued esteem for your publications depends upon a much more careful review of facts.

William Santoro, M.D. Montecito P.S.: I am a 40-year resident of Montecito, a retired psychiatrist, and I share your accurate appreciation of this beautiful community.

(Writer’s note: My apologies for the slip

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(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 23 Thanksgiving Day Pumpkin Smash Animal lovers are encouraged to get the kids out of the house this Thanksgiving and come to the zoo for a smashin’ good time! Watch as the elephants, gorillas, and other animals play and interact with pumpkins. Free with zoo admission. The zoo closes early today.

When: 10 am to 3:30 pm Where: 500 Ninos Drive Info: www.sbzoo.org 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 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Library Closed All libraries in the Santa Barbara Public Library system are closed on Thanksgiving Day and the Friday after the holiday.

A Thanksgiving Retreat for People in Recovery An attitude of gratitude is at the center of our experience of the 12 Steps. This weekend is designed to allow you to reflect upon your own stories in a lifegiving way. Through presentations,

quiet time, small group processing, and 12 Step Meetings, we will take a Thanksgiving pause to consider the maintenance of our spiritual condition. All in recovery and those who love them are welcome. John McAndrew, M.A., MDiv, former director of Spiritual Care at the Betty Ford Center, has been directing retreats for people in recovery for the past three decades.

When: tonight 7:30 to Sunday 1 pm Where: La Casa de Maria, 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $265 to $365 Info: www.lacasademaria.org SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Annual Holiday Faire An exceptional variety of fine handicrafts from 85 artisans are showcased at the Carpinteria Museum’s 37th Annual Holiday Faire. Everything from paintings, photography, ceramics, and fine jewelry to stained glass, woodworking, fabric art, dish gardens, natural bath soaps, Christmas décor, children’s gifts, and more can be found for a hand-crafted, gift-shopping opportunity. Visitors may enjoy hot foods, home-baked goodies, live folk music, face painting, and photos with Santa Claus! Admission is free.

When: 10 am to 3 pm Where: 956 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27 Book Signing at Maravilla A.J. Harris, an award-winning author, will launch his new novel, Lucifer in Celestial Gardens. There will be wine, refreshments, and drawings for novels.

When: 3 pm

Tree at the G The Granada Theatre invites the entire community to a festive free event to see the theatre in all its holiday glory and kick off the holiday season in style. Santa will be visiting from 12:30 to 1:30 pm, and guests are invited to come and take their own holiday photos in front of the Granada’s majestic holiday tree, enjoy live musical performances from local youth choral groups, enjoy festive holiday refreshments, and support the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County. The event is open to the public and free to attend.

When: 11 am to 3 pm Where: 1214 State Street Info: www.granadasb.org Where: Maravilla Senior Living Community Clubhouse, 5500 Calle Real WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Book Signing at Tecolote Contributors to the new anthology Unmasked, Women Write About Sex & Intimacy After Fifty will read excerpts of their pieces and sign copies of the book at Tecolote Books in Montecito. Refreshments will be served.

When: 5 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 Summerland Evening Yoga A longtime Summerland tradition, taught by Bob Andre. Small Hatha 1 yoga class with brief meditation and breathing work.

When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue Cost: donation THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito.

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Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library.

When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Book Signing & Reception Montecito Journal’s own Hattie Beresford signs her new historic book, The Way it Was – Santa Barbara Comes of Age at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum.

When: 5:30 pm Where: 136 E. De La Guerra Street Cost: $15 for SBHM members; $20 for guests FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 Walk & Roll Montecito Union School students, teachers, and parents walk or ride to school, rather than drive.

When: 8 am Where: Via Vai, Ennisbrook, and Casa Dorinda trailhead Info: 969-3249 Spanish Conversation Group at the Montecito Library The Montecito Library hosts a Spanish conversation group for anyone interested in practicing and improving conversational skills in Spanish.

Participants should be familiar with the basics.

When: 1:30 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Winter Retreat at La Casa With the holy days of winter approaching, there is no better time to tap into the wellsprings of our innermost selves. In this season, the life force in the natural world surrenders its outer layers, receding again to its innermost core. We can follow this lead, peeling back the layers of our outer identities to recall and rekindle the purpose, peace, and wisdom within our own hearts and souls. Through the practices of gentle yoga, movement, meditation, silence, 23 – 30 November 2017

and prayer, and using the tools of journaling, art, and sand play, we will rediscover this ever-present, renewing source of the Divine.

Led by Katherine and Taran Collis; Katherine provides spiritual direction for the Center for Spiritual Renewal at La Casa de Maria. She has a background in adult education, human development, spiritual psychology, and Celtic studies.

When: today 5:30 pm to Sunday noon Where: 800 El Bosque Road Cost: $525 single/$425 double/$325 commuter Info: www.lacasademaria.org ONGOING MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS Art Classes Beginning and advanced, all ages and by appointment – just call.

Where: Portico Gallery, 1235 Coast Village Road Info: 695-8850 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: 969-0859 TUESDAYS 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 two 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 WEDNESDAYS Yoga on Coast Village Yoga is back on Coast Village Road at Simpatico Pilates! Stretch, strengthen, breath and rejuvenate, with Vinyassa flow classes taught

by Leanna Doyle. All levels are welcome.

When: 8:30 am Where: Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road, Suite I Info/Reservations: 895-1368 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.

When: 12:30 to 1:30 pm 23 – 30 November 2017

Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Carpinteria Creative Arts Ongoing weekly arts and crafts show with many different vendors and mediums.

When: every Thursday from 3 to 6:30 pm in conjunction with the Carpinteria farmers market Where: at the Intersection of Linden and 8th streets Information: Sharon at (805) 291-1957 Latin Dancing for Beginners Dance Fever Studio is offering a beginning course in all International Latin dances, including Cha Cha, Samba, Rumba, and Jive. This class is designed for everyone interested in learning how to dance socially and/or competitively. No experience necessary!

When: 7 pm Where: Dance Fever Studio, 1046 Coast Village Road Cost: $23 Info: 941-0407 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: south side of Coast Village Road SATURDAYS Tai Chi Class Master Yun Chao Zhang will teach a six-week introductory class in Wu Style Tai Chi and Qi Gong. The class will cover basic postures, movements and breathing. The emphasis will be on developing Qi to promote health.

Master Yun has been studying traditional Chinese Martial Arts for 40 years.

When: through November at 10 am Where: Simpatico Pilates, 1235 Coast Village Road, Montecito Cost: $150 for all 6 classes Info: If interested, please write info@ masteryunmartialarts.com SUNDAYS Cars & Coffee Motorists and car lovers park in La Cumbre Plaza 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: parking lot of La Cumbre Plaza 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).

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ontecito Journal columnist Hattie Beresford has published a new book called The Way It Was ~ Santa Barbara Comes of Age. Beresford, a well-known historian and author, tells us the book chronicles the 50 years between 1880 and 1930, when she says our town threw off its Victorian cloak and donned the mantilla of a thoroughly modern town. “Every aspect of what we have today was laid in the turn of the century, including the paved streets we still have today,” she said.

“The book offers a journey into the past that explores the evolution of our mountain trails, chronicles elaborate celebrations for famous visitors, and revels in the mania created by the town’s first horseless carriages.

Readers will also meet a quintet of colorful characters whose enthusiasm, vision, and work created the underpinnings of today’s town and contributed greatly to Santa Barbara’s coming of age,” she said. “These lesser-known but no less brilliant lights helped establish the town we have today. Their stories are fascinating and their influence wide-ranging and long-lasting.” Those people include Jane Edna Spaulding, Adele and Albert Harmer, the Parks of Park Lane, and Roland Sauter, all of whom contributed to either the architectural or cultural landscape of Santa Barbara and Montecito.

In book form, Beresford’s work will be archived in Santa Barbara’s historical record, versus a more transient weekly article. “I was motivated to make my hard work more permanent,” she said. She says most of her content stems from digging deeper into specific people and places, with help from the previous, broader work of such notable historians as Stella Haverland Rouse and David Myrick.

Illustrated by more than 250 historic photographs and images, the book invites readers to ride with president William McKinley as he is reluctantly conveyed in a rose-bedecked carriage to the old Arlington Hotel, join hikers on the 1902 Chamber of Commerce trail perched on La Roca Grande for spectacular views of the city, and ride with “Wild Bill” Ruess as he races along East Cabrillo Boulevard straight into arms of the law in the town’s first speed trap.

For the past 12 years, Hattie has written a local history column this paper called The Way It Was, where

• The Voice of the Village •

Montecito Journal’s columnist and historian Hattie Beresford has written a new book: The Way It Was ~ Santa Barbara Comes of Age

she has been able to indulge her long-standing interest in the people and events of Santa Barbara’s past that determined its present. In addition, together with the Santa Barbara Historical Museum, she co-edited and produced the memoir of local artist Elizabeth Eaton Burton entitled My Santa Barbara Scrap Book and wrote two Noticias, the museum’s quarterly historical journal. She is a regular contributor to Montecito Journal Glossy, writing the column titled Mansions and Moguls, and she is the former editor of The Capital, the newsletter produced by the Pearl Chase Society, of which she was also a board member.

Hattie is holding two talks and book signings at the Santa Barbara Historical Museum. A talk and reception is scheduled for Thursday, November 30, at 5:30 pm. Another talk is scheduled for Wednesday, December 6, at 11 am. Both events require reservations.

Email hattieberesford@gmail.com for reservations.

The book is available at the SBHM bookshop, Tecolote, Chaucer’s, and Read ‘N’ Post.

Montecito Planning Commission Meets At this month’s Montecito Planning Commission (MPC) hearing, former commissioner Jack Overall was recognized for his decade of service on the commission; he stepped away from his post earlier this year and was named Montecito Association’s Citizen of the Year earlier this month.

“Jack has given great service to the community of Montecito and the County,” First District supervisor Das

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Happy Thanksgiving!

by Lynda Millner

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“To be killed in war is not the worst. To be lost in war is not the worst. To be forgotten is the worst.” – Pierre Claeyssens Pierre Claeyssens board member Gary Simpson, Jill Nida, and Peter Ogburn World War II combat engineer who was at Omaha Beach

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Greeting us outside were American flags, a helicopter, and a bag piper Bill Boetticher in a kilt. It’s always fun to check out all the guys and gals in full uniform regalia loaded with medals.

Represented were all six branches of the military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine. After a reception, we went into the ballroom for a three-course dinner.

It’s always thrilling to me to see the posting of the colors, saying the “Pledge of Allegiance” and the

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singing of the national anthem by David Gonzales. The Missing Man Ceremony given by Dominique Chan, Senior Cadet with Santa Barbara’s ROTC Surfrider; Battalion followed.

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Coming

Community Stars

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by James Buckley

Dr. James Paul Garcia and Erin Graffy are this year’s Mistletoe Ball honorees

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oth Erin Graffy de Garcia and her husband, James Paul (Jim) Garcia, will be honored by Catholic Charities at the upcoming 26th Annual Mistletoe Ball at Coral Casino on Friday evening, December 1. The meal will no doubt be excellent, as the food from Four Seasons Biltmore always is, but the real attraction will

be the molten chocolate “Dulce de Leche” cake, as Erin is a well-known and irrepressible chocaholic. “If it’s not chocolate, it’s not dessert,” she says during a short interview with the couple held at the Lemon Tree Inn’s Crocodile restaurant recently.

It’ll be a black-tie (preferred) event starring John Palminteri as auction-

eer and guest speaker Bishop Robert E. Barron. Additionally, Erin and Jim are notorious dance floor show-offs (and they’re pretty good at it too), so invitations to this gala include the instructions to “bring your dancing shoes.” The R&B group MissBehavin’ will supply the music. The event is co-chaired by Carol Scott Wathen and Debbie Saucedo.

Erin is a longtime contributor to the Santa Barbara News-Press as well as Montecito Journal. She has written a number of books, including the indispensible trifecta for new arrivals to our area: Society Lady’s Guide On How To Santa Barbara, An Insider’s Exposé, How To Santa Barbara, The Advanced Course, and the third volume The Annotated Guide To Santa Barbara Protocol. Other books include Our Lady Of Sorrows, Saint Barbara, Old Spanish Days, and The Santa Barbara Yacht Club.

So, it’s easy to see why Erin would be chosen to be honored.

But her husband, Jim? Why him?

Well, what is surprising is that Mr. Garcia hasn’t been honored more, and more often. He apparently enjoys his anonymity, especially when he’s playing one of his medieval instruments (lute, harp, flute) at yet another fundraiser or cause... as a volunteer. Jim also played traditional Irish music on his guitar professionally with Shepherd’s Pie. Jim has given his time and energy, for example, serving as secretary and vice president of the Catholic Charities’s Board of Directors. One of the things that brought him notice and a large measure of respect was his chairmanship of a committee to look into the finances of Catholic Charities.

It was running at a deficit and Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, which oversees Catholic Charities Santa Barbara, wanted the charity to cut services in order to make up the shortfall. “My emphasis,” he relates, “was to get us more fundraising and to have more community awareness of what we

do.” Within two years, Garcia and his committee cut the deficit to zero.

Mr. Garcia was the first person in Santa Barbara County to bring neurofeedback training to the area, a technique that works directly off brainwaves. What he did was – and Erin was instrumental in writing a grant for the equipment – set the program up at Bishop High School and donated his time for some three years to help Bishop students with learning disabilities and other disorders.

He’s worked with Special Olympics and with the more handicapped – the ones in wheelchairs and totally disabled – and created methods to allow them to participate in Special Olympic events too. All volunteer work. On weekends.

Jim holds bachelor degrees in philosophy and psychology from UCLA, a master’s in educational psychology, and a doctorate in psychology.

In addition, he holds diplomate status in the American Board of School Neuropsychologists.

Now retired, he has served as an educational psychologist, specializing in K-6, for Goleta Union School District and Santa Barbara County Education Office.

Erin has her share of awards, but this should top off a long career as a problem solver and trouble shooter for dozens of local organizations. Her specialty is helping with fundraising, special events, writing (and singing) parody songs for myriad events – from the late Larry Crandell’s birthday parties to the Sheriff’s Council. She has emceed and auctioneered at too many events to count. She has been a volunteer for decades for SCORE, WEV (Women’s Economic Ventures), and others and gives free lectures on everything from Vietnam to Old Spanish Days. She also covers many nonprofits in her News-Press column that get little publicity otherwise. She

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LETTERS (Continued from page 8)

of the pen that misidentified Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860-1941) Mr. Paderewski was indeed a piano man, not a fiddler.

With his wild mane of curly red locks, Paderewski was revered as a musical genius worldwide; he was also a staunch Polish patriot and statesman who served on the Polish National Committee during World War I. Afterward, he served as prime minister of Poland for a short time and represented Poland at the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which restored Polish sovereignty after nearly 100 years.

Starting in 1914, the patriot pianist spent a great deal of time on the Central Coast, eventually buying two large ranches near Paso Robles and growing fruit trees and zinfandel vines. During this time, he continued touring and playing concerts, often appearing on the stages of Santa Barbara’s theaters or playing private recitals, such as the ones for Anna Dorinda Bliss.

In 1991, local Paso Robles history buffs founded the Paderewski Festival, which features classical music and wine, the legacy of Paderewski for the Central Coast.

– Hattie Beresford)

Political Party Thoughts I have conservative views but have voted for Democrats in the past. I look for candidates who have sincere

beliefs and convictions that don’t necessarily have to totally jive with mine, have the ability to compromise on vital issues, and who make financial sense. There are very few modern politicians with these qualities: none among Democrats, very few in the Republican realm.

My problem with present-day Democrats: their suggested programs offer nothing except welfare-type handouts with more government control. Without a permanent needy class, Dems would have nothing to offer. They fail to encourage people to make efforts to help themselves. The likes of Pelosi, Schumer, Waters, and other Dems simply toss around words and phrases such as white privilege, racism, greedy rich, lacking compassion, et cetera at proposals they deem threatening to the Obama-era-created status quo. They offer nothing except more welfare by taking from the rich and giving to the poor. They falsely present American wealth as a zerosum game. By promoting this belief, they perpetuate the existence of a needy class of American people.

Think about this: would you prefer a political party that will encourage and provide opportunities for personal growth and success if you will put in some effort? Or would you prefer a political party that will offer you

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benefits provided by others without any effort on your part? What would you want your children to believe in relation to their futures? Personally, I would want my children to have compassion for others but believe that individual efforts for growth and benefits will be encouraged, not penalized.

Regardless of political party, I’ll consider voting for any politician who wants to create opportunities for the needy and underprivileged to advance and better themselves. We should work towards reducing welfare, not towards creating a class of people dependent upon it.

Sanderson M. Smith, Ed.D. Carpinteria (Editor’s note: We like your thinking, Mr. Smith, and your Cate and SBCC students probably liked your thinking too.

Let’s have more teachers such as you! – J.B.)

On my way, I was asked a few times for money and or cigarettes.

Finally, I made it to Starbucks on De la Guerra and sat and had coffee and a treat. Santa Barbara has so much to offer: great food, beautiful waters, beautiful mountains, beautiful trees, caring and giving people. But alas, Petula Clark was wrong. You cannot “forget all your troubles,” and you surely cannot “forget all your cares” when you go downtown.

Steven Lawrence Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: You paint a bleak picture of Santa Barbara, but it’s not one that we share. Yes, there are too many layabouts downtown, but they don’t take away the enjoyment of a vibrant cityscape. – J.B.)

Down on Downtown

I’m surprised that Montecito Journal would pick someone like Ray Winn as its resident scientist (Ray’s Ramblings) who would be guilty of data mining and selection bias in his analysis of human contribution to climate change.

I’m also surprised that he or you would not heed the doctrine of another of your favorites, former V.P. Dick Cheney (in recommending appropriate response to evidence of weapons of mass destruction): even if there’s just a one-percent chance of the unimaginable coming due, act as if it is a certainty.

Joe Rution Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: We don’t quite get the “data mining and selection bias” you refer to, but we also don’t know when former vice president Richard Cheney became one of my “favorites” either.

Good to hear from you though; it’s been awhile. – J.B.)

Recently, I went downtown to see Michael McDonald at the Lobero Theatre for a beautiful benefit show.

That is the good news.

Now the bad: downtown was very unpleasant. I was early, as the show started at 8 (I would prefer a 7 or 7:30 start, but that is another story). I was planning on getting a dessert and coffee. First, I tried Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, as I like the taste of their coffee.

A homeless woman was sitting at the table I was hoping to sit next to and was eating ice cream and having a very loud conversation with herself.

She also smelled of urine.

So, I moved on to the Good Cup next to the Fiesta theater. I also enjoy the coffee there. Once again, a similar experience but with two less-fortunates. I left, headed to one of the many Starbucks.

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Franken Disqualified

Good time rock ‘n’ roller Al Franken is more dangerous than Anthony Weiner.

Al does his stuff in public – in front of people. Weiner does his thing in his bedroom.

He is firmly illustrating the imbalance of power that clearly exists in his favor and is daring these adoring sex kittens to exchange the glowing halo they are basking in for an embarrassing break in rapprochement.

He is daring these young women to “call him out” – on stage – in public.

This is more than sexual abuse.

He is taking from them something they were unaware was available to be taken, and he’s doing it in public, while daring her to defend her dignity in what she, seconds earlier, thought was a once-in-a-lifetime fun ‘n’ frolicking situation. “Look everybody, I’m up on stage with SNL’s Al Franken”!

You attend a show headlined by someone on TV you love and admire.

The guy picks you out of anonymity and places you on stage in front of a host of unforgiving spotlights.

Anybody who’s been the subject of TV/theater lights knows how intimidating this situation is. You literally cannot see anything.

Before you know it, Al Franken’s hand is firmly planted on the ass of a 19-year-old college girl from Montana.

It’s all part of his “routine” – supposedly. She brushes him off. He puts the hand back where it was. She brushes him off, again. She’s resisting throughout. This “song ‘n’ dance” continues through several cycles – in full view of 200 paid ticket-holders.

Big New York City TV entertainer is in Montana doing a show in 1980, preying on unsuspecting young woman who, while not being prudes, are nevertheless not in possession of Big City sophistication at that age.

This is deliberate and conscious, and Franken is hoping the abuse will be lost in the celebrity worship and theater spotlights and let bygones be bygones, in the name of having a good laugh... ...at her expense!

I think this is pretty sleazy stuff.

I think it disqualifies him from anybody’s political respect.

David S. McCalmont Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: As much as I disagree with Mr. Franken’s politics and, to be completely honest, I too find him unpleasantly self-righteous, I don’t see why this episode should require his removal from the Senate. – J.B.)

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Rugs and More is a third-generation business owned by rug dealer and collector Michael Kourosh. Michael’s grandfather collected rugs in the first half of the 20th century in Hamburg, Germany. By the late 1960s, Michael’s uncle turned the grandfather’s passion for rugs into the still-evolving business. Then, Michael moved the array of products from the north end of Hamburg to the realms of the world-famous State Street just 10 years prior to the new millennium.

Now, the vast menagerie of Persian, antique, classical, modern, or any style rug imaginable, sits on the lower end of town where the award-winning business continues to dominate Santa Barbara’s thriving world of interior design.

Despite the vast selection of rugs being by far their number-one product — including wholesale accounts with San Ysidro Ranch, Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel, as well as Montecito Valley Club — Michael says the customers who purchase rugs usually find additional decorative products and furniture such as sofas, chairs, loveseats, dressers, vanities, armoires, statues, pictures, mirrors, or anything to adorn one’s home or business. This enormous haven of rugs and home

decor also displays entire living room sets, arranged with couches made of leather amid tables made of premium woods, with a different style and size chandelier that hangs from the rafters of the store’s vaulted ceiling.

According to Michael, everything is made from the finest materials, and the work is top-notch craftsmanship.

Everything from the careful stitching on every vintage, antique, modern, shag, woven, transitional, traditional, tapestry, flat, hand-braided, handhooked, or hand-woven rug made of silk, fur, wool, outdoor, leather, cotton, or blended and synthetic materials with natural dyes, to the hundreds of variegated statues of animals and Buddhas scattered like an old sentry amid the many products and exhibits.

Furthermore, upstairs in the left corner of the gargantuan store is a room with hundreds of antiques: little model ships on old wooden chests, the store’s two largest Buddhas sitting side by side on locusts and in front of a large tapestry with the stitchings of a king on a white horse, and a woman with long black hair and deep scarlet lips who smiles and holds a gilded cup of burgundy wine, while the other women serve the king on bended knee.

Michael is an earnest collector of “anything old,” but refers to himself as a “rugoholic.” He has been involved with Persian rugs, shawls, and tapestries his entire life and says, “As soon as I see a great rug or

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an interesting textile, I get a rush and a childish smile that only an addict can get upon injecting his favorite drug.”

Rugs and More restores, repairs, cleans, appraises, rents, ships, and installs any style and any size rug.

But for those whose home needs a proper scrutiny before purchasing the perfect set of rugs and/or decor, Kourosh himself, especially when it comes to rugs – or one of his professional designers located all around the country – will come to clients’ homes to better assist them with decisions.

This includes the customization of colors to complement the existing carpet, hardwood floors, paint, and furniture, and with the clients never leaving the comfort of their home.

Michael Kourosh’s long-standing business carries more than 14,000 rugs which includes Santa Barbara’s “Rug of the Month” – a rug from South East Persia that is 4’ x 6’5 and woven in the 1700s or earlier. As with many Persian rugs and tapestry, the art conveys a special type of story. In this case, it is a tale of good versus evil: a mythical dragon and its quest to devour holiness, a lion overpowered by what looks like an innocent rabbit, amid flowers and birds to symbolize the beauty of love and marriage, or what Michael says is “the whole story of good and bad, Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, the higher aspirations of humankind, the paradox of living, and its expectations all knotted into this master work.”

Rugs and More uses Ziegler and Co. — established in 1883 — as their one and only manufacturer. They are open Monday through Saturday from 9:30 am to 5:30 pm, and closed Sunday.

And every Saturday night at 10 pm, Michael appears on KEYT to present some of his finer items: shawls worth $50,000 and more, tapestries with art and weaving that take unfathomable amounts of time and dedication, and to some are considered priceless. You can also visit the website at rugsand more.com.

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was a crucial factor in helping raise $5 million to endow a chair for Father Virgil at UCSB.

Catholic Charities’s Mission “Catholic Charities of Santa Barbara,” says Jim, “does so much with so little. It doesn’t get a lot of the publicity some of the other nonprofits do, but it operates on a shoestring, and yet is the biggest direct distributor of food in Santa Barbara County. And they do it not just in Santa Barbara. It’s Carpinteria, the Valley, also Lompoc and Santa Maria.”

“I think,” Erin says, “when people hear ‘Catholic Charities,’ they’re thinking big, that the archdiocese supports them. But they don’t. They get no money.

“You just have to go to their offices,” adds Erin. “That tells you everything. They’re not spending money there. It all goes out to the poor. The thing I personally like about Catholic Charities,” she continues, “is that they help the working poor. They like to say, ‘with a hand up, not a handout.’ If a guy loses his job, they’ll help out by paying the utilities. If a man’s car breaks down, they’ll get him passes for the bus. If they don’t have enough money for clothes for a job interview, they’ll open up their thrift store where he can find the clothes he’ll need. They have nice clothes,” she adds.

“So many of the working poor in Santa Barbara are just one or two checks away from homelessness,” Jim points out. “If they get hurt and can’t work for a couple weeks, they’re in big trouble. That’s where,” he concludes, “Catholic Charities comes in.”

Jim Garcia and Erin Graffy de Garcia are easily a couple worth honoring.

I’m not sure there are still seats or tables available, but if you’d like to

coming,” she adds, “and we’ll have a lot of holiday items too.” The store will undergo a complete makeover “sometime next year,” she says. As for local suppliers, Roxy didn’t want to mention them because there are so many. “It’s constantly evolving,” she says, adding that “Tony the butcher is still here. Thirty-six years and happening.”

Mollie, who makes the focaccia and ciabatta herself and says her breads “are great for toast and sandwiches,” will soon be selling her turkey meatballs, freshly made pasta, sauces, and “as much as we can get from her. We’ll keep her working,” says Roxy.

The Pizza Lady (from left) Julio Carranza, Roxy Lawler, Julie Kellner (the Kellners grow and market their Sangiovese and Montepulciano grapes featured in their Buoni Anni label in Los Olivos; Doug Margerum is their winemaker), and Mollie Ahlstrand were offering free tastes of their various products on a recent Saturday at Montecito Village Grocery

attend this year’s Mistletoe Ball, call Yolanda Vasquez at (805) 965-7045, ext. 109, or go online to yvasquez@ ccharities.org.

Emily Mullisen, whose husband, Blake Parsons, teaches civics at SBHS, was at Montecito Village Grocery handing out small and tasty slices of Table 5 pizza

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It’s not just Whole Foods or Lazy Acres that tries to accommodate local food purveyors, though their reputations for doing so deserve notice.

Ever since Roxy and Michael Lawler purchased Montecito Village Grocery, their aim has also been to include as many local food producers’ items on their shelves. And, at this point, there are too many such labels at the store to name them all. New this month, however, is freshly made focaccia and ciabatta from Trattoria Mollie, whose reputation for baking the best bread in Santa Barbara is unchallenged (at least

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Roxy is adding “lots of new items every week,” she tells me during a short visit to the market, “and we’re working a lot on the prepared-food section; we’ve got lots of new graband-go food items. The holidays are

made with a mix of cornmeal and wheat, giving its crust a heft not often found in pizza. Table 5’s top seller is the mushroom-and-basil combo that Emily was serving up. Vicolo, which sells fresh pizza in downtown San Francisco, produces the frozen Table 5 brand and is where Emily worked before returning to Santa Barbara. The pizzas are found in the frozen section at the back of the store, next to the ice cream.

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Classes with a Side of Turkey

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hat better way to start off the Thanksgiving weekend than by centering and grounding yourself before the relatives arrive? Two local yoga centers are offering free classes on Thanksgiving morning, though one of them comes with a give-back catch.

YASA Yoga & Wellness Center, begins the day with a half-hour Thanksgiving Core Fusion Class with Catherine Rhodes at 8:30 am, followed by her Welcome to Meditation offering, which will feature a special guided thankful meditation from 10 to 10:45 am. On Saturday, there’s a free two-hour Intro to Peaceful Pranic & Meditation with Chantal Evrand from 1-3 pm. Pranic Healing is a revolutionary and comprehensive system of natural healing techniques that utilize Prana, the Sanskrit word meaning “Life Force,” referring to the invisible bio-energy or vital energy that keeps the body alive and maintains a state of good health. YASA Yoga is located at 22 W. Mission St. Call 845-4626 or

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Santa Barbara Yoga Center, the granddaddy of yoga studios in town, also offers two free workshops on Thursday, November 23, early enough to get home to start the turkey (or Tofurkey, as the case may be). You’ll have to choose between “Flow with Meditation for Gratitude and Relaxation” with Nuria Reed, which takes place 9:30 to 11:30 am, or “Give Thanks and Relax” with Jim Derrick, happening 10 am to noon. And they’re only free if you are a volunteer with Organic Soup Kitchen, either later in the day at the popular annual community Thanksgiving at the Veterans Memorial Building or a sponsor/volunteer for monthly meals for cancer patients and house-bound elders.

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Ernie’s World

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Rocky Mountain High

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here’s no… air… gasp…”

“I think… I’m too dizzy… to drive…”

“Lucky… we are… parked then…”

We were 11,796 feet up at Alpine Visitors Center on Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park, watching a line of people waiting zombie-like to use the outhouses – the water in the real bathrooms already shut off for the season. It was cold.

And windy.

“My bladder… is full…”

“Probably… the only thing… keeping you… from being blown… off the mountain…”

The guidebook suggested one way to beat altitude sickness was to stay hydrated. So, we had each slurped our own weight in water two times over.

We had also gone through several packs of Trident.

“Is that… your gum popping… or my ears?”

We had started the day in Boulder, Colorado, a mere mile high, and driven “peak-to-peak” over Route 7, stopping each time there was a view or when we felt a bit weak-kneed.

“Pull in… here…”

“I just pulled… out of there…”

The scenery was breathtaking.

Valleys full of yellow and bronze aspens, leading up to miles of pristine pine trees, finally turning into the craggy tops of the Rockies. I had taken a photo every time I took a breath, which was about 30 times per minute.

My wife, Pat, finally mustered the

courage to head for the head. I went inside the gift store in search of coffee and a souvenir T-shirt.

“AARP?” the woman at the check stand asked.

“Does… it… show?”

“Well, you just handed me your library card. But the reason for asking is that you get a discount on your purchase.”

I gave her an actual credit card. “We live… at sea level… in Santa Barbara,” I said. “Haven’t been… this high… since the 1960s.”

After several cups of coffee and a nutritious snack of Cheetos, we headed back down Trail Ridge Road to Estes Park, where we had a room in a quaint motel that advertised “recent renovation,” which meant we probably had clean sheets and Wi-Fi. We were breathing easier now that we were back at 7,500 feet, so we sat back, opened a bottle of wine, and watched a meadow across the road where the owner had seen some elk only a few days earlier.

I haven’t been real lucky lately spotting wildlife. In New Hampshire, there were more “Moose Crossing” signs than moose. And every time we go to Yosemite, we are warned to watch for bears. But nary a cub.

“See anything?” Pat asked, as I scanned the area with my telephoto lens.

“Couple of locals heading for the liquor store.”

“See? That’s wildlife.” She started to

take off her shoes.

“Wait! Let’s go look for elk. Before it gets dark.”

“What’re the odds? Unless we cruise by the local BPOE.” “Where now?” Pat asked, after driving just a few minutes from the motel.

“Here!” I said, pointing at a sign that stated: “Elk Viewing Area.”

We were skeptical, but we pulled onto the dirt road, drove a short distance and… “There’s one!”

I jumped out of the car and took a photo of the distant bull elk. Then I began walking up the road, which was bumper-to-bumper with haphazardly parked cars. The buck was trying to gather in a harem of does, but they were confused by all the cars and people, so they held real still. Perfect!

I got closer and closer, taking a shot every 10 seconds or so.

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were guys there with outfits that gave me major lens envy. Some of them were standing behind women, resting the lenses on their shoulders. Tripod wives even better than trophy wives.

I kept easing in.

Finally, I couldn’t fit the entire bull elk in my viewfinder, so I backed off.

“Amazing,” someone said.

“I know! I feel like I’m in a National Geographic special – except for the guy in flip-flops and plaid shorts driving the Tesla.”

The light started to fade, so we all jumped into our vehicles and tore out of there at a blistering 1 mph. Back at the room, we put our feet up again and looked at the photos.

“Tomorrow, we should look for Bighorn sheep in the high country,” Pat said.

I poured us more wine. “Might as well start hydrating now.”

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The Wonders of CO2

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hat I wrote a couple issues ago deserves another go-round, so here goes: There are about 1,100 terawatts (TW) combined from internal earth, solar, and adding in some from charged particle heating from the sun captured by the magnetosphere of the earth.

Man uses about 14 terawatts of energy. About one third of this is already in Earth’s energy budget of 1,100 TW because some 4.3 TW is non-additive – being derived from water, wind, and solar – leaving about 9.7 TW man-additive from coal, petroleum, nuclear, gas, et cetera. Thus, man-created heating of Earth of 9.7 TW is less than 0.9% of the total heat budget of the planet.

Carbon dioxide, C02, is an inert and colorless gas making up about 0.038% (380 parts per million [PPM]) of our atmosphere. The range is 320 to 408 PPM, depending on where in

the world and at what altitude the measurement is taken… and almost as importantly, by whom. Some have suggested that the “normal” range for the last 50,000-100,000 years is 331 PPM, based on ice cores and plant studies. The ice studies had been the most accepted.

However, recent information suggests that the measurements are low due to an effect of liquid water in ice absorbing some of the C02, then leaking out, yielding a lower reading of C02 concentration. The jury is still out on this issue, but the side taken is usually related to political party affiliation.

According to the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) and the EIA (Energy Information Agency), about 3% of the low-altitude C02 is caused by the burning and processing of fossil fuels, with lesser

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contribution at higher altitudes. This results in the contribution of C02 from fossil fuel burning and processing at 11 to 12 PPM out of the 380 PPM total C02. The other “natural sources” of 368 PPM comes from bubbling gasses from the deep ocean, decaying ocean plants and animals, decay of landbased plants and animals, volcanic eruptions, forest fires, and a variety of other natural causes.

A fun way to put this is that 97% of C02 molecules agree that they come from natural sources.

C02 is plant food! Without it, there would be virtually nothing green or edible on the planet. Go back to your high school science book and review the C02/O2/photosynthesis cycle.

This magic comes from the component that is only 0.035% or so of the total Earth atmosphere. The magic results in the production of oxygen, which is 21% of the atmosphere and the life-blood of existence of all animals on Earth, including you.

Without it, you could barely live for more than five minutes. The makeup of the atmosphere is: nitrogen: 78%; oxygen: 21%; argon: 0.9%; trace: 0.1% trace gases include neon, helium, methane, nitrous oxide, ozone and C02.

Before the western United States was settled, lightning-induced forest fires raged throughout the West; sometimes burning for several years on end until the fuel was gone or rains came to the rescue. God created forest fires, but forgot to put them out. In modern times, those fires are extinguished quickly by man, reducing the “natural” contribution from that source.

Coincidently, according to NASA, water vapor is categorized as a greenhouse gas, and represents 43% of all greenhouse gasses. Water vapor is conveniently left out of nearly all the data reported. How can one believe data when 43% of the climate and/or temperature-re-

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lated gas is ignored, while a few parts per million of other species are dutifully accounted for?

All the issues of weather and climate change are extremely complicated and turn quickly on the most minor of natural world events. In spite of our super computers and algorithms, we are barely able to predict the weather with any degree of certainty more than a week or so in advance, and we are sometimes surprised more often than that.

Prognosticators are routinely embarrassed by their announcements and forecasts. They needn’t be.

The subject is wrought with the ever-changing events hurled at us by Mother Nature. Winds shift, electrostatic storms rage, volcanoes erupt, ocean currents rise/fall/shift, El Niño occurs, temperature inversions come and go… and a whole plethora of unpredictable events befall us.

Rather than embroil ourselves in diatribes and invectives hurled at one another at close range, maybe it is time to step back, look at the past, carefully analyze the best data we have, and rationally draw the best conclusions we can for the future, from a purely scientific and non-political plane. Then to try and understand one of the major phenomena that impacts our daily lives, our security, our well-being, and our futures: the weather.

May your day be full of sunshine, some rain, and the bountiful harvest and happiness that is brought forth by both.

If you are so inclined, please pick up your copy of Heaven and Earth, by Ian Plimer, professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide. There are a number of Mr. Plimer’s books available to MJ readers absolutely free at Tecolote Book Shop. I purchased them for your edification, if not enjoyment. I only ask that after reading the book you bring it back to Tecolote, so that someone else may read it free as well.

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Dedicated

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We are an independent Catholic co-educational secondary school that welcomes students of all faiths and provides them with the spiritual, personal, and intellectual knowledge to meet the enduring challenge of realizing their God-given potential in a multi-cultural society Through our rigorous academic program, extensive extra and co-curricular opportunities, service learning activities, and faith-based education, students are free to explore their interests, discover their gifts, and live their purpose. Bishop Diego graduates are lifelong learners and responsible citizens who are well prepared for college and life.

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At Bishop Diego, our campus is infused with Catholic tradition. Students from all faiths participate in daily prayer, school masses, a 4-year retreat program, service learning, and Theology classes. They can also enjoy our onsite chapel, be a part of Campus Ministry, lead and facilitate donation drives, and much more. Each Bishop Diego student completes 100+ hours of service to others by graduation, affirming our core values of Respect, Perseverance, and Compassion.

Students are encouraged to be involved members of their school community through participation in a variety of activities, such as student government, tutoring other students, and volunteering 25 hours or more each year in service to others. Bishop’s campus supports students to develop leadership skills that enable them to be of service to others.

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WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY...

“I frequently brag about the English teacher I had for three years in high school who was tough but molded me into the eloquent writer and book aficionado I am today.”

MIGUEL GONZALEZ, CLASS OF 2017 SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, MAJORING IN ENGLISH & MATH

Inspired to succeed

Bishop Diego’s faculty and coaches inspire students to reach goals and set new ones. Whether they seek admission to an Ivy League school or to become one of our many alumni entrepreneurs, Bishop Diego graduates are motivated to succeed. In fact, many local businesses have a Bishop Diego alumnus at the helm! Our students thrive in an environment that offers exploration, discovery, and inspiration.

Guidance counselors are available for academic, personal, and college counseling. They help students learn about the resources available to them and mentor each student through the college and scholarship application process.

Artists on many stages

The visual and performing arts offer opportunities for students to develop their skills and reach their fullest potential. Class offerings include Ceramics, Color and Design, Drama, AP Studio Art, Digital Sound, Advanced Graphic Design, Advanced Art, and Intermediate Multimedia. Extra and co-curricular opportunities include Choir, Music, and Art Club.

Did you know that Bishop Diego has one of the only state-ofthe-art, student-run broadcast studios in Southern California?

From daily newscasts to live streaming athletic events, Bishop Diego students experience hands-on learning that focuses on developing the 21st century skills necessary to be successful in college and the workplace.

Champions on and off the field

Athletics at Bishop Diego are characterized by strong Catholic values. We place great emphasis on the physical, psychological, and social benefits that students gain from participation. The athletics program provides opportunities for personal development of mind/body awareness, competitive spirit, skills, and character attributes that are applicable to life beyond high school.

Bishop Diego offers 20 sports and 30 teams. All students, regardless of experience or ability, are invited to participate and 80% of our students are athletes who play at least one sport.

We are Bishop García Diego High School and we invite you to take another look!

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We Are Prepared

for the future

We have a longstanding tradition of academic excellence, including a 100% college acceptance rate and admission to prestigious schools.

Bishop Diego also has an average class size of 15 students and offers College Preparatory, Honors, and 11 Advanced Placement courses, providing opportunities to acquire college credit while in high school.

COLLEGE ACCEPTANCES - CLASSES OF 2013 - 2017 Adelphi University Cornell University American University Creighton University Amherst College Dartmouth University Arizona State University DePaul University Art Institute of California, Los Angeles Dickinson College Azusa Pacific University Dominican University of California Bard College Drexel University Bates College Elon University Baylor University Emerson College Becker College Emmanuel College Belmont University Fordham University Berklee College of Music Fort Lewis College Biola University Furman University Boise State University George Mason University Boston College Georgetown University Boston University Georgia Institute of Technology Brandeis University Gettysburg College Bucknell University Gonzaga University California Lutheran University Gordon College California Polytechnic State University, Goucher College San Luis Obispo Graceland University California State Polytechnic University, Grand Canyon University Pomona Grinnell College California State University, Channel Islands Haverford College California State University, Chico Hawaii Pacific University California State University, East Bay High Point University California State University, Fresno Hiram College California State University, Fullerton Holy Names University California State University, Long Beach Humboldt State University California State University, Los Angeles Illinois College California State University, Maritime Iowa State University Academy Knox College California State University, Monterey Bay Lasell College California State University, Northridge Lehigh University California State University, Sacramento Linfield College California State University, San Bernardino Louisiana State University California State University, San Marcos Loyola Marymount University Calvin College Loyola University Chicago Carleton College Loyola University Maryland Carroll College Manhattanville College Chaminade University Marquette University Chapman University Marymount California University Claremont McKenna College Marymount Manhattan College Clemson University Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts College of William and Mary Menlo College Colorado Mesa University Merrimack College Colorado School of Mines Miami University, Oxford Colorado State University Michigan State University Concordia University Middlebury College Montana State University Mount Ida College Mount St. Mary’s University New Mexico Highlands University New York University Newbury College North Carolina State University Northeastern University Northwestern University

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Northern Arizona University Notre Dame de Namur University Occidental College Ohio Wesleyan University Oregon State University Otterbein University Pace University Pacific University Pacific Lutheran University Pennsylvania State University Pepperdine University Pitzer College Point Loma Nazarene University Providence College Purdue University Reed College Rhodes College Rockhurst University Royal Holloway, University of London St. Martin’s University Saint Mary’s College of California San Diego State University San Francisco State University San Jose State University Santa Clara University Seattle Pacific University Seattle University Seton Hall University Siena Heights University Simon Fraser University Sonoma State University Southern Methodist University Southwestern University St. Olaf College Sterling College Stetson University Stonehill College Stony Brook University Suffolk University Swarthmore College Syracuse University Texas Christian University Texas Lutheran University The George Washington University The New School The Ohio State University The University of Alabama The University of Arizona The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Dallas Tiffin University Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University University of Advancing Technology University of British Columbia University of California, Berkeley University of California, Davis University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Merced

WHAT OUR STUDENTS SAY...

“The influence of Bishop Diego’s teachers has prepared us so well for success in college and in life.

We had the opportunity to flourish and grow under their mentorship because they pushed us to succeed both personally and academically.”

EMILY CONDON, CLASS OF 2017 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, MAJORING IN PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, AND ECONOMICS WITH MINORS IN LAW & SOCIETY AND FINANCE.

We strive to make a Catholic education affordable and offer a Personalized Tuition model that assists families in making the gift of a Bishop Diego education possible. Thanks to our generous donors, nearly $1.6M in tuition assistance and scholarships were awarded to Bishop Diego students this year.

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LETTERS (Continued from page 19)

Disaster,” MJ #23/46), you say that you attended “most of those meetings and… everyone present agreed with Caltrans.” Well, perhaps that was true in meetings of the Montecito Association or the Montecito Planning Commission, but I wasn’t at those meetings. I attended the City Planning Commission formal review public hearing and, as I recall, there was agreement from the commission that the uphill fast-lane entry was hazardous, but there was substantial pushback from the commissioners over the removal of the on-ramp and the Caltrans theory that drivers would use the Milpas onramp instead.

We now know that all those others that predicted the Caltrans solution wouldn’t work were correct.

Art Thomas Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Pleased to hear there was more opposition to Caltrans’s disastrous decision to remove the 101 southbound entry at Cabrillo. Not that it did a lot of good. – J.B.)

Identity Dilemma

A survey by pewresearch.org found that 77 percent of Democrats, holding degrees from a four-year college, believed that a person’s gender is not determined at birth. Transgender, sexual orientation, and identity-develop-

ment issues seem to keep hitting the nightly news. These important topics can be fodder for conversation, and here are some of the “questions” I hope Montecito Journal readers will respond to: 1) If someone, born with female genitalia, identifies as a man, should they be permitted to have their birth certificate changed to “male”?

2) If someone born Caucasian identifies as “African-American”, should she (Rachel Dolezal) be allowed to claim her ancestors were slaves?

3) If someone born in Oklahoma City (Elizabeth Warren) falsely claims she is part-Cherokee and takes advantage using “minority status” to advance her academic career, has she committed a crime if she sincerely “identifies” as a Native American?

4) If an alcoholic communist (Jim Jones) convinces 900 people to commit suicide, can his actions be excused because he “identified” as God? 5) If a 40-year-old pedophile “identifies” as a fourth grader, should he be allowed to re-enroll in elementary school?

6) If a speeding driver identifies as an Indy 500 champion, should the fines and/or penalties be reduced?

7) Should weeds in a garden be allowed to grow because they identify as tomatoes?

8) Although I didn’t get a fouryear degree, can I sign my name with

“Ph.D.” because I identify with Albert Einstein?

9) If women (Amanda Rogers, Wilma Callagan, et al) decide to marry their dogs (Sheba, Henry, et al) because they’re disillusioned with men, could this be considered a gender-biased hate crime?

There are too many other “identity” scenarios to list, but I hope these uncomfortable examples will generate some discussion.

Dale Lowdermilk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: To be fair, Ms Warren could actually have a miniscule percentage of Cherokee in her background. That she and Harvard would use that to boast about the “diversity” of their faculty that included a “Native American” is what galls most of us. The rest of your questions we’ll leave to smarter men... and women... to answer. – J.B.)

$1,200 Raised on Ghost Village Road On behalf of the Coast Village Association (CVA) board of directors, I want to thank the community for its enthusiastic, colorful, and safe participation in the recent Ghost Village Road trick-or treating event. It was a fantastic celebration of community and the street was a very good host, with merchants and businesses glad-

THIS SEASON

GIVING

THANKS Mark Your Calendar • MONTECITO FAMILY YMCA December 2 • 1st Annual Holiday Botique and Pantry.

Come to the Y for a market full of handmade crafts, fashionable wearables and more!

December 2 • Youth Lacrosse Clinic Learn the basics of lacrosse while having fun and making new friends.

December 16 • Teen Night Join us for a night full of gifts, karaoke and creating crafts.

Get more information and register at the front desk or ciymca.org/montecito

ly providing thousands of treats for our visitors. The public should know that this is a totally volunteer effort of these businesses, and they spend hundreds of dollars each providing the candy, as well as being essentially out of business from about 2:30 until dark.

I want to acknowledge this generous gift of each participating business and thank them for making the day special for so many kids and their families!

This year our board, as sponsor of Ghost Village Road, took initiative to add a component of “giving back” by partnering with Direct Relief International (DRI), a relief organization providing urgently needed medical supplies around the world from its headquarters right here in our community. We raised about $1,200 from our visitors and CVA members for relief in hurricane-ravaged parts of North America, and we would like to encourage more in our community to avail themselves of our website donation page and support this important effort and the work of DRI. The website donation page will remain active for another couple of weeks [www.bit. ly/GhostVillageRoad ]. We thank all donors for their support.

And we look forward to future celebrations of community around Coast Village!

Bob Ludwick President, Coast Village Association •MJ

WINTER DAY CAMP

WINTER CAMP I December 18 - 22 9:00am - 4:00pm

Take advantage of lower rates and access more programs by becoming a member. Visit our facility or call us at 805.969.3288 to learn more.

BIRTHDAY PARTIES AT THE Y Swim, sports, skating and more!

For ages 3 - 12

YOUTH BASKETBALL LEAGUE Last day to register: DECEMBER 20

WINTER DAY CAMP II December 26 - 29 9:00am - 4:00pm

Exciting and memorable days are in store for your children at our winter camp. Each day is full of adventure and stimulating fun!

MONTECITO FAMILY YMCA • 591 Santa Rosa Lane, Montecito, CA 93108 • ciymca.org/montecito

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The Restaurant Renaissance

Fortunately, dining and travel trends are on the upswing as consumer spending habits change from fewer material purchases of clothing and household goods to farmfresh dining with friends and family. CVR restaurants seem to be booming.

Lucky’s Steakhouse opened as a partnership of Gene Montesano and his friends Herb Simon and Jimmy Argyropoulos. The site was home to the Pink Squirrel in the 1950s; [John] Ireland’s in the’60s; Chanticleer in the Renaud Gonthier and Jerry Lee will bring their eateries, ‘70s; Santa Fe Bar & Grill in Renaud’s Bakery and Empty Bowl Noodle Bar, to town the ‘80s; and the Coast Village next year Grill and Sports Bar in the ‘90s, before becoming Lucky’s, Montecito’s second living room, in the year 2000.

When you add in Trattoria Mollie, Jeannine’s Bakery, Cava, Tre Lune, Los Arroyos, the China Palace, Sakana, the Honor Bar, Oliver’s, Little Alex’s, and Giovanni’s Pizza – the CVR dining lineup becomes world-class.

For casual dining, the Montecito Deli, Bree ‘Osh Bakery, Alice, and Panino offer great food and fast service. The ever-popular Starbucks, Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, Juice Ranch, and Blenders in the Grass also provide friendly gathering spots. Ice cream and gelato enthusiasts can choose between Here’s The Scoop and Rori’s.

Newcomers

Oliver’s, a vegan restaurant under the watchful eye of new general manager Jeremy Sewell, former chef at Belmond El Encanto, is finally open after a five-

K.Frank owners Katie and Kevin Frank

Laura Dinning (Allora by Laura)

year battle with the City Planning Commission. Be sure to sample the Artichoke Crab Cakes and the Wild Mushroom Tostada.

The Montecito Inn will soon replace the former (and beloved by many) Montecito Café with three new dining concepts from Scratch Restaurant’s chef Phillip Frankland Lee – Frankland’s Crab (replacing the former Martini Bar), the Monarch, and Scratch.

Clothing Boutique Choices

The strength of CVR is its wide variety of traditional boutiques that carry a range of hand-made and specialty merchandise not found in traditional chain stores. Local shops include Laura Dinning at Allora by Laura, James Perse, Chasen Clothing, CO clothing, Antoinette’s Apparel, Whiskey & Leather, Civilianaire, Kate McMahon’s custom-knit sweaters, the Tennis Shop, Angel Montecito, Sepi, Nurture Cottage, J. McLaughlin, K. Frank, Blanka, Mischief, Leggiardo of Montecito, and Malia Mills.

Popular CVR home goods and gift shops include Nancy Kimsey’s Legacy, Maison K, Hudson-Grace, Menelli Trading, Mate Gallery, Silverhorn, Lily, Ara 24K Collection, Peregrine Galleries, Legacy, Daniel Gibbings, Montecito Optometry, Space NK Apothecary Cosmetics, Letter Perfect, and Portico Gallery & Frame.

Then there’s CVS Pharmacy, Vons Pharmacy, and three sources of wine, beer, and spirits: the Liquor & Wine Grotto, locally owned by certified sommelier Brian Brunello and Jason Herrick, the Bottle Shop, and Vons Grocery.

The newly remodeled Chevron Station at 1085 CVR features new gasoline pumps, a convenient car wash, and a drop-in mini-mart. While reducing station choice by converting the 76 Station at the east end of CVR with a multi-use building, John Price has given us a big improvement in facilities and services.

Coast Village Plaza

Coast Village Plaza at 1187 CVR has been undergoing a major renovation is about to feature new dining options at Renaud’s Patisserie & Bistro (upstairs) and Khao Kaeng Empty Bowl Gourmet Noodle Bar (downstairs).

Here’s The Scoop has moved upstairs to join Giovanni’s Pizza, the new Juice Ranch, the Tennis Shop, the UPS Store, Riviera Smiles Dentistry, Sequel Salon, Norvell Bass Cleaners, and Richie’s Barber Shop. On the lower level, adjacent to the Noodle Bar, is the Montecito Clock Tower (watch repair), along with a variety of business offices. There is lease space for an additional restaurant concept, downstairs, adjacent to parking.

The Montecito Country Mart

Vons has been and remains a grocery fixture in Montecito for more than 50 years. While in need of an upgrade to a Vons Pavilion, it serves as an anchor for all the shops in the Montecito Country Mart, built in the 1960s at Coast Village Road and Hot Springs. The current Country Mart owner is James S. Rosenfield, who runs a similar operation in Malibu.

Tenants include Union Bank, Little Alex’s, Panino, Montecito Natural Foods, Montecito Barbers, Pressed Juicery, One-Hour Martinizing, and boutiques such as Space NK Apothecary, Malia Mills, Hudson-Grace, James Perse, Alice, Kendall Conrad Design, Mate Gallery, Montecito Natural Foods, Read ‘N’ Post, George Pet Shop, and Toy Crazy.

The Montecito Starbucks Center

The Starbucks-anchored Montecito Center was sold to Montecito couple

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Heal the Ocean BENEFIT 2017

Heal the Ocean’s Annual Celebration

HTO THANKS OUR 2017 BENEFIT SPONSORS! The Heal the Ocean 2017 Benefit was a great party for a sold-out, packed house — and wow, did we have fun for our Good Cause!

We thank our wonderful Honorary Chair Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the generous sponsors of our event!

HAMMONDS Marie Morrisroe RINCON

LEADBETTER

Dan & Rae Emmett

AQUEOS Corporation

MIRAMAR

Carolyn & Ted Roche/Wendy & Larry Barels

The Roy E. Crummer Foundation Tomchin Family Foundation

SUMMERLAND

Nora McNeely Hurley & Michael Hurley

BUTTERFLY

David & Lyn Anderson Brad Hall & Julia Louis-Dreyfus Marcy Carsey & Susan Baerwald/ Just Folk Patagonia.com Maire & Pat Radis Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Sam Scranton

Heather & Kelly Clenet Thomas & Nancy Crawford Naila & Peter Lewis Kenny Loggins & Matt McGinn/ MSMConstruction James & Francoise Park

REFUGIO

Alan & Kathryn Van Vliet

HENDRY’S

Big Speak Francesca Cava Jed Hirsch Marborg Industries Karin van Hoek-Niles & David Niles Susan W. & Carl W. Robertson Zog Industries/Fred Herzog

IN-KIND DONORS

A Frame Surf Shop Ablitt House Bicycle Bob’s Hydroflask Jason Lehman Kenny Loggins/Higher Vision Inc. Luna Rustica Por la Mar Jes MaHarry/Sun Horse Inc. Porch Rareform Santa Barbara Sailing Center Tom de Walt Toma Restaurant Topa Mountain Winery Trader Joes

Unique American Folk and Outsider Art

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Resolution to begins or resume a practice. The free two-hour intensive is geared for beginning students who would like to learn the basics before attending an ongoing class but also open to any yoga student who’d like to brush up on the foundational concepts of the practice. Emphasis is given to the understanding of the basic yoga postures – their effect and correct alignment – preparing students to proceed to ongoing lower level classes. The noon to 2 pm workshop takes place on Saturday, December 9.

Santa Barbara Yoga Center is at 32 E. Micheltorena St. Call 965-6045 or visit www.santabarbarayogacenter.com.

Thanksgiving Retreat

An attitude of gratitude is at the center of the experience of the 12 Steps, so Thanksgiving Weekend is a fine time for those in recovery to reflect upon their own stories in a life-giving way at a workshop at La Casa de Maria Retreat Center. John McAndrew, M.A., MDiv – the former director of Spiritual Care at the Betty Ford Center who has been directing retreats for people in recovery for 30 years – will lead a weekend full of presentations, quiet time, small group processing, and 12 Step meetings, a holiday pause to consider the maintenance of the spiritual condition. All in recovery, and those who love them, are welcome. A Thanksgiving Retreat for People in Recovery takes place this Friday to Sunday, November 24-26, at the Montecito center. The weekend costs $265.

Next weekend brings “Journey to the Light Within: A Contemplative Yoga and Spiritual Deepening Winter Retreat” to La Casa de Maria. The winter season – when the life force in the natural world surrenders its outer layers, receding again to its innermost core – offers the opportunity to tap into the wellsprings of our own inner selves, peeling back the layers of our outer identities to recall and rekindle the purpose, peace, and wisdom within our hearts and souls. The workshop features practices of gentle yoga, movement, meditation, silence, and prayer, and employs such tools as journaling, art, and sand play to rediscover and rekindle the ever-present,

renewing source of the divine. Led by Taran and Katherine Collis, the latter of whom provides spiritual direction for La Casa’s Center for Spiritual Renewal, the workshop takes place December 1-3. Retreat fee is $325.

Next month’s Wednesday Retreat Day also has a holiday connection: “What Are You Waiting For? An Advent Retreat” slated for Wednesday, December 13, invites all to dive deeply into the season by exploring your life through the lens of waiting. What are you waiting for? Is it a vacation, a break, a job, retirement, a partner, an apology, stability, or something else?

The reverend Christine McSpadden will lead periods of meditation and reflection so that participants can gain spiritual insight into the depth of the subtle movements of the advent season in your life. McSpadden, author of What Are You Waiting For?, a book of advent meditations, is a former priest vicar and chaplain at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, and has served parishes in San Francisco and Santa Barbara. The 9:30 am to 3:30 pm mini-retreat is by donation.

La Casa de Maria is located at 800 El Bosque Road in Montecito. Call 9695031 or visit www.lacasademarial.org.

Can’t Drive 55?

Sorry, Van Halen, but actually you can – if you are Mark “Dr. Dream” Peebler, who deftly handles nearly five dozen Tibetan bowls in his Tibetan Healing Bowl Experience, which comes to Center of the Heart next weekend.

Peebler, a holistic healing practitioner and speaker based in Joshua Tree, employs the bowls from the Gilung and Sindupalachoka villages in Nepal, using the hand-crafted sound tools to create an aural experience to wash over your being and expand your consciousness. But the event is more than simply a sound bath, as Peebler’s “The Universal LOVE Galactivation Experience” – which has been conducted nearly 500 times in more than 170 cities around the world – offers a multi-sensory journey utilizing several energetic modalities to create a tangible spiritual experience through a deeper connection to “Source”. Also used are high-frequency rose essential oils known as The ROSE Frequency

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plus other essential oils, Raw Chakra Chocolates and Citrine Generator Crystal, plus visualization and storytelling. Admission to the 2 to 5 pm event on Saturday, December 2, is $25 in advance, or $33 at the door, and proceeds will benefit the Gilung and Sindupalachoka villages in Nepal which were devastated by a series of earthquakes dating back to 2015.

Also at Center of the Heart: Aquarian Morning Chanting with JoAnn Mermis, an ongoing Satsang Service every Sunday at 9:30 am, followed by a group meditation at 10 am before the weekly celebration service at 10:30 am. For details, visit www. centeroftheheart.com or call 964-4861.

The Present of Presence For many of us, nothing can trigger our old patterns of thoughts and behaviors and have us buying into “stories” like spending lots of time around extended family, or, perhaps worse, finding yourself alone on the holidays. And even if you’re secure on your path of inner peace and largely living in the moment, it sure can’t hurt to get a booster shot of awakening.

Fortunately, Jim Dreaver leads one of his periodic presence gatherings next week, providing a refresher if some unhappy energy still lingers from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

“The Joy of Freedom”, which takes place from 7 to 8:45 pm Wednesday, November 27, at a private home on Verde Vista Drive, reminds us that the shift into true presence and joy comes as we further integrate the concept that we are not the ego “I” we’ve always taken ourselves to be, but rather an awareness that we can observe without judging. While the ego self comes and goes, shifts and changes, suffers and revels – at mercy of the “story” – “we” as simple awareness, are always here, unchanging, clear, open and present.

At the gatherings, Dreaver – the author of End Your Story, Begin Your Life – invites participants to share where you’re not yet free, then guides you in exploring the “story” behind the issue. As you learn to welcome your emotional reactions, you see more clearly how your “story” comes and goes. This results in a shift where suffering unwinds replaced by the simple joy of presence. Even better, the whole group gets to have a vicarious shift of their own as they observe the process and get more insight into their limiting “stories.” Who knows? You might even look forward to sharing the insights amid the power of awakening with your tribe next month at Christmas. Call (310) 916-4037 or visit www.jimdreaver.com for details.

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all fill our bellies (hopefully with gratitude in our gut along with the turkey), Santa Barbara Bodhi Path Center next Thursday hosts a talk on emptiness from visiting Dharma teacher Trinlay Rinpoche, who at 13 months was recognized by the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa (the spiritual leader of the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism) and the Venerable Kalu Rinpoche as the reincarnation of an important Buddhist teacher. The teaching on “Emptiness”, a translation of the Sanskrit term śūnyatā, presents the most subtle, irrefutable, and fascinating insight into the ultimate nature of reality. The notion is synonymous with the Buddha’s famous formulation of dependent arising known as pratītyasamutpāda in Sanskrit whereby both the process of origination and cessation of our conditioned existence are explained. Trinlay Rinpoche’s Buddhist studies ran concurrent with his Western education at the Sorbonne University, among others. He has been filming an extensive video course in which he teaches on Shantideva’s 8th-century spiritual gem The Way of the Bodhisattva at Bodhi Path Centers in North America. Santa Barbara BodhiPath Center is located at 102 W. Mission St. Admission to the 7 to 9 pm event on Thursday, November 30, is by donation. Visit www.bodhipath. org/sb.

Who is Dreaming the Dream?

Considering studying at Pacifica Graduate Institute? Perhaps a oneday seminar with Pacifica’s chancellor and founding president Dr. Stephen Aizenstat might offer some guidance.

“The Fate of the Dream in the Future of the World” explores how the fields of depth psychology and deep ecology might be impacted by emerging virtual and augmented realities afforded by new technologies. The presentation offers foundational ideas that underpin coursework, as well as the mission and core values on which Pacifica was founded, including the sharing of Pacifica origin stories featuring contributions from Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, Marion Woodman, and others. Using his DreamTending work, Dr. Aizenstat will offer tools in working with dreams that address the emerging interactions between the Natural World, the Dream World, and Virtual Worlds. Admission to the 10 am to 1:30 pm Pacifica Dialogue event on Saturday, December 2, costs $20, including lunch and the opportunity to explore the grounds of Pacifica’s two campuses in Montecito and Carpinteria. Pacifica’s $75 application fee will be waived for those who attend. Visit www.pacifica.edu or call 879-7305.

•MJ 23 – 30 November 2017

Brilliant Thoughts

by Ashleigh Brilliant Born London, 1933. Mother Canadian. Father a British civil servant. World War II childhood spent mostly in Toronto and Washington, D.C. Berkeley PhD. in American History, 1964. Living in Santa Barbara with wife Dorothy since 1973. No children. Best-known for his illustrated epigrams, called “Pot-Shots”, now a series of 10,000. Email ashleigh@west.net or visit www.ashleighbrilliant.com

Class Dismissed

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’ve always thought it strange that, while there’s no acknowledged “class system,” most Americans firmly believe they belong to the “middle class” – an expression prominent in political rhetoric. One hardly dares ask what the other classes are, because it’s somehow “un-American” even to concede the existence of an upper or lower class.

Having grown up in England, I can face this issue with a broader outlook.

When I lived there – and possibly even lingering today, the concept of a population containing high- and lowclass elements was taken for granted.

Among the factors which determined your placement on the scale were: how you spoke, what school you attended, your income, where you lived, the nature of your work, trade, or profession, and many less specific indicators, including dress and manners – even what newspapers you read.

My own youthful class-system experience centered primarily on the British educational system. When my family returned to England in 1946 – after spending the war years in America – children were supposed to take an examination at the age of 11 (called the “Eleven Plus”), which more or less determined your fate, possibly for the rest of your life. Its results decided which of three different types of secondary school you would attend.

The most promising pupils went to what were called “grammar schools,” whose theoretical upper-class aim was to prepare them for university, though only a minority would go that far. (A college education was still very much the exception.) Parents ambitious for their children would do anything to get them into a grammar school. The

second-class schools (though never acknowledged as such) were called technical schools. Their role was to provide a vocational-type education.

At the bottom were institutions known as “secondary modern” schools.

(But you could by-pass all this, if your parents, unlike mine, could afford a private school.)

When I arrived with my family back in England, I was 12, and had missed taking the Eleven-Plus exam. We were also unable, as originally intended, to move back into our London home, so I had to live for most of a year with my father’s relatives about 100 miles away, in the seaside resort of Bournemouth.

We also happened to arrive in the middle of a school year, so I found myself, apparently by default, in a lower-class Secondary Modern school.

One difference between “us” and those who attended the Bournemouth Grammar School was obvious: the latter all wore neat school uniforms, which our school didn’t require. But there were more subtle differences. I remember our headmaster giving us a sort of pep-talk in assembly on the theme that we were really “as good as” those other kids, and that, if we tried hard enough, we could “show them.” One of his favorite metaphorical exhortations was to “Pull your socks up – and pull ‘em up quickly!”

The actuality was in my mind, unfortunately, symbolized by the fact that the teacher who taught us physical education was himself handicapped and couldn’t demonstrate some of the exercises he wanted us to perform.

When my family moved back to London, I finally got into a grammar school, the type of school where supposedly I belonged. But even within

that school, although we all wore uniforms, I found that a sort of “class system” still prevailed, echoing the divisions outside. We were each put in one of three different “streams,” called “language,” “science,” and “practical,” which (I see now) clearly reflected social class distinctions.

“Language” students were college-oriented, “science” were more technical, and “practical” did more in the way of manual skills, such as metal-shop.

English was always my best subject, but I was, for some reason, stuck into the “Science” category, which was heavy on physics and chemistry, and where, though I kept up, I never really felt comfortable.

Nevertheless, I somehow assumed

that I would next be going to one of the prestige universities, Oxford or Cambridge. But, at a late date, I found – to my horror – that they both required Latin, which, not being in the language stream, I hadn’t been exposed to. By desperate efforts, with special tutoring, I remedied that deficiency. However, I then had to pass a special “scholarship” examination.

Despite several attempts, I never made it – and finished up at the lower-status University of London.

After graduating, I‘d had enough of the British class system, and took the first opportunity to emigrate to California, where everybody could always tell that I have no class at all.

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FITNESS FRONT

by Karen Robiscoe

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It’s Science at The Lab

Brittni Hutton, clients service coordinator at The Lab, stands next to the AlterG anti-gravity treadmill, the cryotherapy sauna in the bone-chilling background

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he Lab. Conjures up images of test tubes, beakers, and breakthrough scientific research being conducted, doesn’t it? Swap out those containers for athletes, and that imagery wouldn’t be far off from The Lab fitness and recovery center located in Santa Barbara’s funk zone. The brainchild of partners Dr. Marcus Elliott, Mike Swan, and Dave Odell, the wellness facility established in 2015 is like none other I’ve seen in all the time I’ve spent reviewing health clubs.

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all familiar, The Lab must be experienced to be fully appreciated.

Let’s start with the treadmill. No humdrum hamster wheel, the AlterG treadmill The Lab houses is anti-gravity. Utilizing NASA developed technology, the AlterG allows you to control exactly how much load you take while running or walking. Operations manager Bentley Nunes elaborated. “You still get a good cardio workout, using the same gait as you would on a normal treadmill, but your joints aren’t taking the same amount of impact.

You can control the amount of body weight impacting your joints in 1 percent increments, lessening it up to 80 percent.” A runner himself, Bentley confided: “It feels like you’re running on clouds when you’re on it. Some people have even cried when they first tried it. The anti-gravity aspect gives

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The Normatec compression system, dubbed “socks” by the staff, helps lactic acid in the muscles dissipate and enhances blood circulation

them back an ability they had lost; allowing them to do something they’d been unable to do for a long time due to injury, age, or other extenuating reasons.”

After donning the apparel necessary to make the machine work — a pair of adjustable fitted shorts encircled by a projecting, zippered waist à la Judy Jetson, I went for my own walk on Cloud 9. Increasing my pace to reach Cloud 10 was indeed effortless, and my feet were as feathers no matter what speed I attained. As Brittni Hutton, client-service coordinator said: “I love the AlterG. It’s a great tool for recovery if you’re experiencing muscle or joint pain. It’s great for shake-outs too,” explaining that “shake outs” are typically 3- to 6-mile runs geared toward eradicating the lactic acid built up in muscles after a more strenuous workout day.

“Your brain doesn’t know you’re not running on dirt or concrete. You’re increasing your heart rate too.” A runner with the Mammoth Lakes Track Club, the high-performing athlete with Olympic aspirations was emphatic.

I followed up my moon-run with a relaxing sit-down. Not your ordinary heels up, the chair into which I plopped my quasi-astronaut self was straight-up zero gravity. Eminently fitting, if you think about it, but I wasn’t doing much thinking. I was enjoying the sensation the “Human Touch” chair provided by virtue of rotating my recumbent form heels above head. Add to that the Normatec “socks” Brittni helped me don — a stocking-like compression system that enhances blood circulation, and fit toe to hip — and I was orbiting heaven. Worn for a minimum of 10 minutes, I resembled the Michelin Man from the waist down, an effect that could have been increased had I chosen to also wear the Normatec sleeves for hips and arms. My legs felt tingly all over after the session, and the aches and pains I felt from my workout earlier that day were a distant muscle memory.

Moving on to the cryotherapy sauna, I’ll admit its temperature gave me

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pause. Chilled by nitrous oxide, and measuring a cool -140 degrees Celsius, I wondered if I’d be able to withstand the allotted two-minute exposure most beginners try. Monitored the entire time by trained staff, the experience was as out-of-this-world as the prior recovery equipment I’d tried – in a totally different way. The first 30 seconds seemed like an eternity, while the final minute and a half flew by.

Shuffling my feet as instructed within its confines, I didn’t have time to get cold, though the temperature insisted I should.

The experience was extraordinarily invigorating, both during and after, and the instant I stepped out, a feeling of well-being suffused my mind and body. Proven to increase athletic performance, and decrease recovery time, cryotherapy alleviates the symptoms of a host of ailments too. From anxiety and insomnia, to multiple sclerosis and psoriasis, it even revs up the metabolism! Call me an ice cube and put me in the fridge, because it’s one bone-chilling therapy I’d gladly undergo again.

The subsequent chat I had with one of the lucky 30 members The Lab hosts echoed my impressions of the club’s uniqueness. “It’s a new frontier to explore. A new way of finding out what my body can and can’t do,” Carpinteria resident John Able told me, referring to the customized workout routines designed for its members.

“A way of training to get the most out of my body. A way to explore new ways of living — expanding my physical limits at a time of life when most people are limiting what they can do.”

The 60-something competitive water skier radiated good health and sound philosophy. “The staff is encouraging too. Friendly and smart, they’re just the type of people I like to be around.”

Me too. It was a mystery to me how I could bang elbows, though, given its limited membership and waiting list status for the same – a mystery Nunes was able to clear up. “With the exception of personalized training, all our services are offered to the public.” Packaged as combinations or available as individual sessions, Nunes recommended the fitness and recovery package, the cryotherapy package, or just plain recovery as the best bang for your buck and balm to your body. “One of the reasons we opened The Lab was to offer our recovery modalities to those looking to recover like professional athletes.

Santa Barbarans were asking for it, and we met that need.”

The Lab provides Pilates and yoga in addition to its one-of-a-kind recovery tools and fitness assessments. You can peruse its full à la carte menu by visiting The Lab online, or dropping by the club located at 121 Gray Avenue, Suite 100.

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ON INVESTING

by Gene Dongieux Gene became chief investment officer in ’85 for what is now Mercer Advisors one of the largest independent investment firms in America, across from the Bird Sanctuary here in Montecito. After Mercer, having interfaced with some of the greatest investment minds, Gene discovered unique investment strategies using individual stocks, alternative investments, and sophisticated tax algorithms. These new strategies, together with his longstanding passion for client-centered service, are the genesis of Ariadne Wealth Management upstairs from the Honor Bar on Coast Village Road.

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hen asked by Sandy and Bob Nickerson to attend a conference focusing on Family Offices, I jumped at the chance. My multi-family office just above the new Honor Bar restaurant has families interested in the same.

The opportunity to sit shoulder to shoulder with these other worldclass family offices was an opportunity not to be missed.

Carlyle Global Partners conducts these elegant conferences twice a year, most recently in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and San Francisco.

Next year, one is planned for Monaco, but some influential Montecito members paved the way for this event. The three-day conference hosts occasions throughout the Santa Barbara area including local members’ homes, the Music Academy of the West at UCSB hosted by chancellor Dr. Henry Yang, and concluded with an informal barbecue at the Reagan Ranch. Social events at local residences included top-notch entertainment including Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road ensemble, local five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald, and others.

Social impact investing takes philanthropy beyond just writing

the check; it seeks to invest in companies that make the world (or a specific community) a better place through their product and mission.

These events promote opportunities with an exclusive group of entrepreneurs and leaders.

I was particularly interested in local company EVmatch, introduced

by UCSB alum and co-founder Heather Hochrein. EVmatch seeks to bring the “sharing economy” to the needs of electric car users. Out of town and need to charge your car? Bring up the EVmatch app on your phone and find members of the local community who will open their (garage) doors to you for an hourly charging fee. Think of it as Airbnb for your electric car.

Family offices often look to take their families’ wealth beyond the traditional venture-capital space and instead directly pursue ideas the family finds personally attractive.

One recent addition to the group had an immense liquidity event with the sale of the family’s multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical company. On the heels of this transaction, the family wanted to focus on mind/brain health innovations, especially after a family member’s tragedy. When

they went to various foundations and investment funds, everyone said they had the perfect answer for them. But what they were looking for was more of a journey – one that they could brainstorm and share with other families of similar means and inclinations.

What they originally thought would be a six-figure gift turned into membership and a consulting engagement with the Carlyle Global Partners. Through their guidance, the family ultimately took a portfolio approach where 40% was a gift and 60% an investment. According to Alex Charlton, chairman of

Carlyle, more and more wealthy families share this recurring theme.

Philanthropy is no longer limited to the world of 501(c)(3) charities; wealth benefactors today are moving more toward investments including early-stage venture capital and other for-profit seeking companies of the private sector. One of the attractions of an investment over a gift is that the investment has an opportunity to grow and can turn into a gift that keeps on giving.

While I have participated in numerous different family office conferences, this meeting was a special experience.

•MJ

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On Entertainment From Rome, with Love

by Steven Libowitz

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olorado native Nate Birkey lived in Santa Barbara for an extended period surrounding the turning of the millennium, a time that saw him finish his education and establish his credentials as a jazz trumpeter and vocalist deeply devoted to the Bix Beiderbecke/Chet Bakerschool of lyrical playing mostly in the instrument’s middle-low register.

Then, craving a more thriving musical scene, he departed for the jazz mecca of New York City more than a dozen years ago, where he further honed his chops and developed a core trio that has helped him delve deeper into his desires and his gifts.

But the city that might actually own his musical heart, or at least his muse, is all the way on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Birkey first visited Rome, Italy, back in 2006, spurred on by a colleague who referred him to Alessandro Marzi, a drummer with a like-minded musical approach. The two clicked right away, forging a bond both musical and personal that has only grown as Birkey returned half a dozen times over the years, playing mini tours of the country that

Nate Birkey performs in January at SOhO

has something of an affinity for jazz and romantic music, with a cultural temperament that clearly appeals to the laid-back trumpeter. His last visit, which took place just last summer, resulted in a nearly impromptu recording session, suggested and set up by Marzi, who put together the rest of the band for the single day in the studio.

The resulting album, Nate Birkey: Rome, might just be the best recording yet in Birkey’s already impressive 10-CD catalog on the Santa Barbarabased Household Ink Records.

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some of Italy’s most respected musicians (Roberto Tarenzi and Manuel Magrini on piano, Luca Bulgarelli on bass, and Marzi on drums) – created the kind of intuitive chemistry that characterizes the best jazz outfits, even though they had absolutely no rehearsal prior to arriving in the studio. Beyond the playing, however, Rome also captures the spirit of the city, or at least Birkey’s bittersweet take on the place, his subtle emotions dripping from every note and phrase.

Birkey’s four original songs, which he wrote just before departing for the 11-show tour of Italy, settle quite comfortably next to carefully chosen covers that range from movie music (Morricone’s “Cinema Paradiso”) to Michel Legrand’s classic “Windmills of Your Mind” and include two understated vocal numbers.

Birkey returns to town to perform at SOhO on January 3, though he won’t have the Italian musicians from the album – which came out earlier this month – with him, instead playing with his longtime local cohorts Jamieson Trotter on piano, Jim Connolly on bass, Tom Buckner on tenor sax, and Peter Buck on drums.

But he’ll play all of the music from Rome, setting the new year with a romantic and lyrical tone.

Q, It’s absolutely astonishing how great the band sounds together, considering there was just the single day and you’d never met before. How do you explain that?

A. Actually, I was pleasantly surprised myself at how it turned out.

They didn’t even have the music ahead of time. We just met at the studio, I gave them the music, and we talked through a few things. It’s the beauty of jazz and working with accomplished musicians that wonderful things can happen without having any history together. It just intuitively happens. All of us were into adapting and being open and having, as they say, “big ears”, listening to the others and reacting to what they play.

In some ways, jazz is actually meant to be more that way – spontaneous and intuitive rather than too carefully planned out and over-rehearsed, which can take the life out of it...

What is it about Italy and Rome that inspires you?

The Italians love jazz and they love more of the romantic side of it, which tends to be how I approach the music myself, from the lyrical side rather

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than technical. I just love walking the streets. Rome doesn’t feel like a big city when you’re walking around in the little streets and outer parts of the city, especially at night. That’s what inspired “Roma di Notte”, which means Rome by Night, and came from my remembering my first visit, when Alessandro took me around to all the tourist sights at night. “Adriatica” is about my time in a town by the Adriatic Sea, when a big storm came in very suddenly and intensely, and then moments later it was gone. Even “How I Find You”, which was partially written to be cathartic about a past relationship that didn’t work out, is also about how I find Italy, how I relate to what’s around me.

The album is truly lovely, easy to listen to, but still rife with nuances and implications that intrigue.

I always want my music to be beautiful. But this was an album that I wanted to be really pretty – not at all flashy. There’s improvisation, but that’s not what it’s about. It’s really more the songs. I picked ones that are romantic and beautiful. I was particular about the mood that I wanted to set.

And that is?

Introspective, a little sadness but also some serenity and peacefulness.

It’s melancholy, but it’s heartfelt and sincere. Not to get political, but I’m struggling with where we are, the state of our country and the world, with so much vitriol and hate speech.

It impacted how I approached the album. I wanted it to be beautiful and positive. I made it as an antidote to what’s happening right now.

(Nate Birkey: Rome is available on Birkey’s website, www.natebirkey. com. For tickets to January 3 concert at SOhO, visit www.sohosb.com.)

Singer Lvoff Goes to the Head(less) of the Lane If Nicole Lvoff could swing it, she’d rather be singing jazz music full-time for a living than working in the public library system. On the other hand, if it weren’t for her library job, she might never have met Joe Woodard, another Santa Barbara who is well-known in town as an entertainment journalist (The News-Press and Independent) and musician who’s had a hand in several indie projects. They befriended each other years ago, and eventually decided to try making some music together. It was through that connection that Lvoff landed her newest gig,

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Lotusland trustee Belle Hahn Cohen and Nicole Berry (photo by Bob Craig)

Fame Game It was certainly a jock hop at the Cabrillo Arts Pavilion when 200 sports fans turned out to induct the second class into the Santa Barbara High School Hall of Fame, founded by David Bolton, president of the Dons athletics boost group, Ye Ole Gang, started in 1974.

“For decades, the school has produced so many outstanding individuals and so many outstanding achievements, even representing our nation in the Olympics,” says David.

“Few high schools have enjoyed an equal athletics success. It is only fitting to have an official Dons athletics Paul Comstock, Comstock Landscape Architecture; Lotusland trustee Lesley Cunningham; Derrik Eichelberger, Arcadia Studio; and Gwen Stauffer, CEO Lotusland “opening the mirror” at the Kagami Biraki Japanese ceremony (photo

by Bob Craig)

Celebrating with his family are granddaughter Victoria Ybarra, wife Lourdes Ybarra, honoree Rudy Ybarra, mother Socorro Ybarra, father Joaquin Ybarra; standing are granddaughter Carolina Ybarra, son Maroc Ybarra, daughter-in-law Krista Ybarra with friends Lauren Schneider and Johnny Whallon (photo

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SBHS Hall of Fame chair and founder David Bolton with Dons and Lakers great Jamaal Silk Wilkes (photo by Priscilla)

Ozzie DaRos, Christine Neuhauser, and Curt Coughlin (photo by Bob Craig)

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The current roster includes 81 previous inductees with nine new members inducted last week – racketeers Eldon Ford and Lola Trenwith Georgi, baseball ace Bill Oakley Sr., football player Rodger Schmandt, coach Manuel “Lito” Garcia, basketballers Victor Bartolome and Jamaal Wilkes, soccer player Rudy Ybarra, and, for special achievement, photographer Dick Martin.

Among the athletic supporters celebrating the occasion were school principal John Becchio, athletics director Joe Chenoweth, Joby Nunez, Billy Brace, Peter Jordano, Sally Becker, Meredith Brace, Marth Grace, Mike Knapp, Bill Oliphant, Mo Masson, and Rachel Roesch.

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A table was set with symbols, such as a white tablecloth to symbolizing the purity of their motives when answering the call to duty or a pinch of salt to symbolize the tears endured by those missing and their families. It ended by the raising of glasses in a toast to honor America’s POW/MIAs. Executive director of the PCVF John Blankenship presented the Generations of Service Award to the Di Loreto Family: Venanzio (dad), Silvio, Aldo, and Lucio. Receiving the award for the family was Lucio “John” who entered the Navy in 1954, earned his wings of gold and served two tours in Vietnam. The rest of the family served in other branches of the service.

Medal of Honor winner Jack Jacobs, Army colonel (retired) was the keynote speaker. He was cautioned not to join the Army because he was too small. He joked, “ If I’d been two inches taller, I’d be dead.” He also spoke earlier in the day at the Elks Club in Goleta. His regular job is as a military news analyst for NBC and MSNBC, so he’s usually talking to a camera or an anchor, neither of which he credits with any brains.

In a Q&A at the club, he said, “Bowe Bergdahl should spend his life in jail.”

When asked about transgender people in the military, he replied, “All I care about is how fast a person can reload

a gun.” Jacobs also believes we should have mandatory military service, if only for a short time. That way future generations would all have shared an experience that might end our fragmented society. The Art Deco Band took over and more dancing began.

And so once again, all veterans were honored and “not forgotten.”

Your Brain Matters

The Alzheimer’s Women’s Initiative (AWI) Committee gave its fourth annual “Your Brain Matters’ Luncheon” at The Fess Parker. This was obviously on people’s minds (pun intended), since there was a crowd of 500 attending and looking forward to the speakers and some Alzheimer’s education.

Co-chairs were Katina Etsell and Gerd Jordano, who was also a co-founder along with Anne Towbes.

The mission of AWI is to educate families, associates, and neighbors on the economic and human impact of Alzheimer’s; honor those who selflessly provide care for people affected

by Alzheimer’s; expand the resources available to more than 40,000 families locally who are living with Alzheimer’s each and every day and advocate for more federal research dollars to find a way to prevent or cure Alzheimer’s disease.

Katina welcomed all and thanked

Alzheimer’s Luncheon co-chairs Katina Etsell and Gerd Jordano on either side of CEO Rhonda Spiegel and Patti Davis

Dana Newquist with Rona Barrett, founder and CEO of the Golden Inn and Village, at the Alzheimer’s luncheon

Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree for being the honorary chair. Katina introduced Rhonda Spiegel, who is CEO of AWI. She said, “Alzheimer’s will be

the healthcare crisis of the century.”

Nearly two-thirds of the Americans living with the disease are women.

The risk of developing Alzheimer’s is one in six – for breast cancer, it is one in 11.

Gerd presented the special Caregiver Award, a crystal Tiffany star, to Kim Campbell who is Glen Campbell’s widow. As Kim has said, “I have been grieving and saying goodbye to Glen every day for the last six years, ever since his diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, not knowing which day he might forget me or which day might be his last.” He died August 8.

Roberta Briton, Ph.D., is the inaugural director for the Center for Innovation in Brain Science. She is the leading neuroscientist in the field of Alzheimer’s disease, the aging female brain and regenerative therapeutics.

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for research, including investigating the regenerative mechanisms of the brain.

Chris Hannafan was diagnosed at age 61 and told what it’s like to live with the disease. His partner, Debbie, was there with him.

Leslie introduced president Ronald Reagan’s daughter, Patti Davis, who wrote The Long Goodbye referring to her father, who died of Alzheimer’s after 10 years in 2004. She started Beyond Alzheimer’s in 2011, which is a support group for caregivers and family members whose loved ones have the disease. She facilitated the program herself and is now trying to get it into more hospitals other than Saint John’s in Santa Monica.

The luncheon ended with Lady Leslie donating $10,000 to the cause, matched by Maryann Schall. If you’d like to donate, call Mitchel Sloan at (805) 892-4259, x102.

Peace Prize Award Dinner The United Nations Association (UNA) of Santa Barbara and Tri Counties has awarded its inaugural 2017 Santa Barbara Peace Prize to environmental leader Rinaldo Brutoco, founding president of the World Business Academy, now in its 30th year. Friends and nominees gathered at Moby Dick restaurant for a wine reception and dinner and to congratulate Rinaldo.

According to UNA president Barbara Gaughen-Muller, “The UNA was started in 1947 and is the oldest chapter in the nation.” They have been involved locally with many important global topics, such as the Fukushima nuclear disaster, youth in peril, climate change, educating the community about human trafficking, and the plight of refugees internationally. In celebration of its 70th year, they created a Santa Barbara Peace prize to be awarded to locals working toward a more peaceful world.

Besides Rinaldo, three others were nominated: Emiliano Campobello, Sue DeCicco, and Emmanuel Itier.

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Peace Prize nominees Emiliano Campobello and Sue DeCicco

Emiliano is an artist, musician, peace activist, and healer of Native American and Chicano descent. He serves as chair of the Advisory Board for the Barbareno Band of Chumash and the list goes on. Sue created the Peace Crane Project. More than one million children are estimated to have taken part. They make origami cranes to symbolize peace and raise awareness of September 21 as International Day of Peace. Emmanuel is a global filmmaker. He created the peace documentary The Invocation narrated by Sharon Stone and with Desmond Tutu, HH the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, and many other peace activists. Emmanuel continues to make peace films and wins awards.

Rinaldo has a whole page full of credits. To name a few, he wants to create a Global Bill of Rights that is enforceable in the courts of all countries. He has helped 10,000 children in Africa have clean drinking water in their schools and villages. He’s the founding chairman of the Board of Unstoppable. They’ve built two residential high schools with full computer systems for girls. The Unstoppable is now a project of Rinaldo’s World Business Academy.

You can become a UNA member for $25; it’s free for students. Just mail to UNA P.O. Box 91844, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1844, or can call the national office at (202) 862-6309. As they say, “Be a voice of compassion and action.”

•MJ

great haircut is possibly the one most underrated act of self-improvement. Sounds dramatic? Think about it. You’re staring at yourself in the mirror for the 11th time this morning, dragging yourself through another dreary daily routine accented with bad breath and a hangover. You stare at your closet full of clothes you’ve worn a thousand times, longing for a day when you feel energized by the sight of your own wardrobe. Chugging down another cup of coffee, while needing a caffeine fix. You throw your hair in a bun and put on the same outfit you’ve worn three times in the past week. It’s reliable. And stretchy. You, my friend, are burned out. The monotony of everyday life has sucked you dry.

Hair psychology is a complicated science, but it’s safe to start with the basic idea that looking good can actually make you feel really great. A Dadiana Salon cut is also a consultation, shampoo, massage, conditioning, and styling as well. Leaving Dadiana Salon with a new, perfectly done hairdo is a feel great, sexy, confident elevating mood -inducer. It’s okay to have a little vanity here and there.

When you decide to chop off those dry, frizzy uneven, gnarly ends, you’re relieving yourself of more than just lifeless frizz. You’re detaching yourself from a security blanket of habit. For many of us, the idea of a new haircut or style change can be intimidating. That’s your comfort zone talking. That’s the little voice in your head that wants to you to be safe and pick the basic blue dress over the electric teal one.

Throwing caution to the wind is much easier said than done. That is why I like giving a consultation first, so I can help you decide what style you want or need, and how much to cut. Just think how amazing you will feel after getting a great new haircut because your risky choice actually paid off. It can make you feel proud of yourself for embracing a new adventure. I understand that It takes courage to sit quietly and stare into a mirror while someone hacks away at the physical embodiment of your comfort zone but a new great haircut is a well-deserved prize.

We all know, hair can be your best friend or your worst nightmare. Some days it takes 10 minutes, sometimes it takes an hour and you end up wearing a hat anyway. A good hair day can lead to endless productivity and confidence, while a bad hair day can cause you to spend the entire day grouchy and negative. It is a power struggle with your hair. Life is difficult enough, let alone to lose the battle with your hair. So, when you take it upon yourself to get a great haircut, you’re showing your hair who’s in charge.

Establishing dominance over your tresses may sound a little bit ridiculous, but I bet every single one of you can honestly say that “uncooperative hair” before a big night out has made you almost tear up, at least a little bit. We deal with tons of different micro-struggles throughout our daily lives, and taking control of any situation always leads to an increase in confidence. Plus, you feel lighter, brighter, bouncier, and healthier after getting rid of a bunch of split ends; because you are the one who made the executive decision to have yourself of unnecessary baggage Now is the time to see for yourself. Next time you have the time, the cash, and the courage, make an appointment at Dadiana Salon for a great haircut.

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

Kawasaki Offers Leadership Tips, Apple Insight

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enowned entrepreneur Guy Kawasaki explored leadership and innovation at a sold-out luncheon November 3 in Westmont’s Global Leadership Center. Kawasaki’s speech, part of the Mosher Center’s series on Moral and Ethical Leadership in American Society, offered practical ways to influence and persuade people and change their minds in a moral and ethical way.

Kawasaki said one of the keys to success is being likeable. He told the story of meeting with Richard Branson in Moscow, who asked him if he flew Virgin Atlantic Airways, which Branson founded. Kawasaki said he wasn’t willing to jeopardize his Global Services standing with United Airlines.

“At that moment, he got down on his knees and started polishing my shoes with his jacket,” Kawasaki said.

“So that’s the moment I started flying with Virgin Airlines.”

Kawasaki serves as the chief evangelist of Canva, an online graphic design

tool, brand ambassador for MercedesBenz since 2015, and an executive Fellow of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. As the chief evangelist at Apple, he worked with Steve Jobs to launch Macintosh. He left Apple in 1987 to start ACIUS, the Macintosh database company that published 4th Dimension. Kawasaki returned to Apple as an Apple Fellow in 1995, and in 2013 he joined Google as an adviser to Motorola. He has written Art of the Start, The Art of Social Media, Enchantment, and nine other books, covering a range of topics, including social media, and self-publishing.

Kawasaki says trustworthiness is another important trait of a champion. “You have to trust others before you can expect them to trust you,” he said. He explained that he never thought Zappos would be successful selling shoes to women who couldn’t see, smell, and try on the shoes first.

“Why did Zappos succeed?” he asked.

“Because women trusted Zappos.

And why do women trust Zappos?

Because Zappos has the world’s best return policy. They pay shipping both ways. You don’t like the shoe, send it back, they will pay.”

Kawasaki emphasized the importance of innovation. He described how the ice-harvesting business gave way to ice factories, which gave way to refrigerators. “No company went from ice harvesting to ice factory to refrigerator,” he said, “because most companies define themselves in terms of what they already do. If you truly want to innovate, you need to get to the next curve.”

Following his presentation, Kawasaki sat down with president Gayle D. Beebe and reminisced about his days working with Apple and co-founder Steve Jobs.

“The company that did the most for Macintosh and arguably saved Apple was Aldus Pagemaker, which created a market called desktop publishing,” he said. “If it was not for desktop publishing, Apple would have died.

Imagine the world without Apple.

Wrap your mind around that.”

After a pause, he jokingly continued, “You would have phone batteries that last more than half a day, GPS would actually work, and Siri would understand what you say.

“I know we’re at a Christian college and this isn’t exactly C.S. Lewis-level reasoning, but one of the reasons I believe in God is there is no other explanation for Apple’s continuous survival.”

Kawasaki describes Gates as an inspiring visionary such as Walt Disney and Elon Musk. “I think the world is a lot less interesting without Steve Jobs,” Kawasaki said. “Right now, he is telling God what to do. He is also working on Universe 2.0, so if you didn’t like Universe 1.0, stick around. Having said that, I can tell you Universe 2.0, designed by Steve, is going to be late, it’s going to be expensive, and none of your cables are going to work.”

The Mosher Center also sponsors the 2018 Lead Where You Stand Conference June 6-8 at the Global Leadership Center with keynote speakers Doris Kearns Goodwin, David Brooks, and Lynda Weinman.

Tickets to the three-day event, which include all materials, parking, and meals, cost $499. Registration will open soon online at westmont.edu/ lead.

Annual Christmas Fest to Spread Love

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Westmont hosts its 13th annual Christmas Festival, retelling the Christmas story by weaving narration with music from the Westmont Orchestra, College Choir, and Choral Union on Friday, December 1, at 7 pm; • The Voice of the Village •

There are four performances of the Westmont Christmas Festival December 1-3

Saturday, December 2, at 2 pm and 7 pm; and Sunday, December 3, at 3 pm, all at First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave. Tickets for this year’s event, “Covenant of Love”, cost $15 each and are on sale at westmont. edu/christmasfestival. Please call (805) 565-6040 for more information.

The festival blends traditional seasonal carols with historic works performed by Westmont’s Orchestra, Choir, and Choral Union. These pieces include “The Waters of Love”, a 20th-century composition by Patrick Hawes, “Speaking Love”, a 21st-century piece by Danyew, and “Gaudete”, a 16th-century composition arranged

by Gary Fry.

Westmont to Light Beloved Pickle Tree Westmont ushers in the Christmas season with the 16th annual Pickle Tree Lighting on Tuesday, November 28, at 5 pm at Kerrwood Lawn. Following holiday music and the Pickle Address, a mystery tree lighter will throw down the massive switch that lights the 150-foot redwood tree, affectionately known 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 pose for pictures with people who brought cameras inside Kerrwood Hall beginning at 4 pm. For more information, please call (805) 565-6056.

The Cold Spring School Choir, led

by Sara DiSalvo, will perform from 4:40 to 5 pm and Westmont’s AhhMen will perform from 5 to 5:30 pm.

Michelle Hughes ‘89, Westmont alumna and associate professor of education, will deliver the Pickle Address.

She earned a bachelor’s degree in English and teaching credential from Westmont in 1989 and worked as a teacher and assistant principal in Santa Barbara for two decades. She earned a master’s degree in educational leadership and an administrative services credential from CSU Northridge; in 2014, she earned a doctorate from George Fox University.

Hughes looks forward to delivering the Pickle Address and kicking off the Christmas season with the Westmont community.

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stepping into the featured vocalist role in Headless Household, the eclectic, genre-expanding jazz/experimental ensemble fronted by guitarist-songwriter Woodard.

Lvoff, who has performed jazz standards periodically all around town for more than a decade, is taking over for Julie Christensen, the nationally known singer-songwriter (and longtime background vocalist for the late Leonard Cohen) who recently moved from Ojai.

Her first gig with the band takes place Tuesday night at SOhO, when the opening act is Lucinda Lane, the self-described “IndieBossaSwingTwang” band she co-leads, also with Woodard.

“I don’t do all the ones she (Christensen) did with Headless Household, because she was very versatile. Those are very big shoes to fill,” Lvoff explained the other day. “I’m starting out with a few I think I might sound good on – not the polka songs, because that’s just not my style. I have to do what I’m in love with.”

That’s also what defines the material she sings with Lane, for which the songs are all written by Woodard – some with her voice in mind, she said – but are approved jointly. “Right from the beginning, I told him that I can only sing songs that I really like. Otherwise, it doesn’t work. I’m not good at faking it. I have to believe in the song.”

Fortunately, Lvoff – who comes from a household of classically trained musicians, including her father, Juilliard-trained violinist Andre Lvoff who played with the Santa Barbara Symphony – serves as a muse for one of Woodard’s cherished genres of altered roots-country. Lvoff, who was previously purely a jazz singer, didn’t realize she felt kinship with the style until she heard his takes.

“It’s fun to wear a different hat and get out of my usual repertoire,” she said. “Jazz songs are beautiful, but a lot of them are serious and moody. It’s been great to see what else I can do. I never thought I would, but I really like the whole country thing, what Joe calls his ‘shoegazer songs’. They’re just so fun to sing.”

Lane, an “expandable and contractible group” that can range from a harmonizing duo to as large as a dozen-strong ensemble, will show up as a quartet for Tuesday’s gig, with Santa Barbara stalwarts Tom Lackner on

drums and Randy Tico – who is also making his Headless Household debut – on bass. Both groups plan to record CDs in the new year, after Woodard finishes laying down tracks with the erstwhile “rock and droll” band flapping, Flapping (which features Glen Phillips, among others). The forthcoming discs will be Lane’s debut and the umpteenth for Household.

Meanwhile, Lvoff also plans to make a new album soon, a follow-up to her 2010 debut Here’s that Rainy Day. With Tico producing and playing bass, the singer has already recorded two tracks, “Beju Sem” and “The Nearness of You”, both a bit outside the mainstream of standards. And while her public jazz are few and far between these days as her time is taking up by her job and nearly 4-year-old son, one of her favorites is coming up this Wednesday: La Arcada Christmas Walk.

“It’s a major children’s fest, which I love because I do children’s programs at the library,” she said. “I get to sing Christmas songs, which is so much fun.”

Focus on Film: Dame Dench Dubbed Douglas Winner Academy Award-winning actress Dame Judi Dench will be honored with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s (SBIFF) 12th annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara next Thursday, November 30. The black-tie gala dinner fundraiser may serve as a precursor to another nod next March for Dench, who won supporting actress Oscar playing a Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, for her latest role portraying another British monarch, Queen Victoria, in Stephen Frears’s Victoria & Abdul. Dench, whose filmography includes Philomena, Notes on a Scandal and the James Bond thriller Skyfall, also has a smaller role in Kenneth Branagh’s just-released remake of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express.

Ali Fazal, Dench’s co-star in Victoria & Abdul, and Montecito favorite son Jeff Bridges are among the luminaries who will be on hand to laud the actress

at the gala and on the red-carpet cocktail reception, which begins at 6 pm. Funding from the event supports the many educational and community programs hosted by the Santa Barbara International Film Festival including Film Camp, its new initiative to be launched next summer.

SBIFF Selects Early Winners

Meanwhile, two of the slate of honorees to receive tribute awards at next year’s 33rd annual festival have been announced. Gary Oldman gets SBIFF’s top prize, the Maltin Modern Master Award, on February 2, in honor of a career that currently culminates with Darkest Hour.

In the British war drama directed by Joe Wright, Oldman stars as Winston Churchill in his early days as prime minister as Hitler closes in on Britain in World War II. It opened in theaters earlier this week.

Among the former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s earlier iconic roles are Sid Vicious in Sid and Nancy, Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK, Count Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ludwig van Beethoven in Immortal Beloved, Sirius Black in the Harry Potter series, and an Oscarnominated turn as George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Also grabbing honors the night before is Willem Dafoe, who receives SBIFF’s Cinema Vanguard Award for his role in Sean Baker’s The Florida Project, on February 1. Dafoe’s 37-year career dates back to an uncredited role in Heaven’s Gate and includes Academy Award nominations for Platoon and Shadow of the Vampire. For CONSTRUCTION STRUCTURAL more COLE information andAND tickets to all SBIFF events, visit www.sbiff.org or call 963-0023.

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Joanna Murphy, the Santa Barbara artist (profiled here in last week’s column) whose first solo exhibition of alcohol inks painting opened last weekend at Nutbelly in Carpinteria, is passing on her passion for the medium in a workshop at Center of the Heart this Saturday, November 25. Alcohol inks “brings its own ideas about what your painting might look like,” Murphy says, which makes it an excellent way to create something eye-catching and original, even if you have no artistic experience. Murphy invites all to come participate from a playful, exploratory place, one of willingness to let go and connect with painting as spiritual creative experience. Participants will have the chance to create several paintings on ceramic HOMEWOOD - MONTECITO tiles, which will be provided along with all other materials. Details and registration at www.centeroftheheart.com. •MJ

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UCSB Pollock Theatre’s Script to Screen series gets in on the award season hoopla with its own event not far from the Bacara also on Thursday, November 30. The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro’s otherworldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War-era America circa 1962 that is being hailed as the auteur’s best work since Pan’s Labyrinth, stars a much decorated cast headed by Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer, and also features former nominees Michael Shannon and Richard Jenkins.

Screenwriter Vanessa Taylor will be on hand for a post-screening Q&A moderated by Pollock Theater director Matt Ryan. Tickets are free for the screening of The Shape of Water, which opens in theaters a week later, three months after it claimed the Golden Lion when it premiered at the Venice International Film Festival. Visit www.carseywolf.ucsb. edu/pollock/script-screen.

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Williams said, noting that Overall was vital to the governmental body, doing his homework on every item, and providing thoughtful points. “He is a great resource and leader, and an asset to this community,” he said.

“It was a pleasure to serve on the commission, and I will continue to be involved,” said Overall, who – with his wife, Sherri – has lived in Montecito for more than 25 years and has been an active volunteer, philanthropist, and advocate. Former commissioners Michael Phillips and Bob Bierig were in attendance at the meeting, thanking Overall for his service.

“Jack always saw the big issue first, and then he’d dig in deeper, keep at it, and work for a resolution that would benefit the community. We need more of that, and we are all beneficiaries of his efforts,” Phillips said.

Also at the hearing, the commission voted to ask the board of supervisors to grant permit authority to the MPC over the ancillary projects related to the Highway 101 HOV project; roundabouts are planned at San Ysidro Road/North Jameson and Olive Mill/Coast Village Road. “If this were a baseball game, we’d be in the first inning,” said Public Works Alternative Transportation manager Matt Dobberteen, explaining that the projects still need to be designed and analyzed, as well as undergo environmental review and public comment.

The MPC is asking that they be the governmental body representing the County, as the Olive Mill roundabout has joint jurisdiction between the County and the City, with the County having planning jurisdiction over the San Ysidro Road roundabout.

The MPC also provided comments on the upcoming condominium project at 1062 Coast Village Road, which came before them for courtesy review only, as the project is located in City limits. The endeavor calls for the demolition of the current 14-unit apartment building, to be replaced with nine 3-bedroom, luxury condos with rooftop decks and private subterranean garages, as well as a commercial component that fronts Coast Village Road. Designed by architect Brian Cearnal, the building is slated to be finished in 2020. Neighbor Sascha Liebowitz, who has been following the project’s progress as it is directly next to her property, told the MPC: “All of this input is great, but it’s very clear that whatever gets built here is going to be built to the maximum allowable by law. Advisory input is going to be incredibly charmingly received by Mr. Cearnal and his team, and to some extent will be addressed if it doesn’t conflict with maximum profitability. I don’t want to make this project go on and on with advisory input with no teeth.”

The commissioners voiced concern

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over the project’s massing, the setbacks, current tenant displacement, lack of meeting noticing, neighbor privacy concerns, story poles, the potential of the rooftop decks to be intrusive to the neighbors, ingress and egress on the site, trash pickup, parking, construction timing with roundabouts and the 101 widening, loss of trees, and neighborhood compatibility, among other items. They asked to see story poles erected on the site, and asked the applicant to go to Montecito Board of Architectural Review for comments on neighborhood compatibility and landscaping. “We are happy to go, but we do not want too many cooks in the kitchen,” Cearnal said.

The project is expected to be at the City Planning Commission in the early spring.

Kristina McKean and her daughters, Penelope and Paloma, are helping to support elephant advocacy groups with the sale of Kiki, a plush toy designed by McKean

The Elephant Project

Local Montecito mom Kristina McKean has launched The Elephant Project, an organization dedicated to supporting various nonprofits that help aid in fighting the elephant poaching crisis and also provide care to injured, abandoned, orphaned, and abused elephants around the world.

An animal advocate for many years, McKean was prompted to get involved with saving the elephants many years ago during her honeymoon in Thailand, where she witnessed baby elephants being exploited for money.

Realizing that signing petitions and protesting the circus was not enough, McLean, a former product development specialist for The Gap, designed “Kiki,” a soft stuffed animal elephant.

“I felt like there was a market and a need for it, and it would raise awareness among our kids,” she said.

One-hundred percent of the proceeds of Kiki, whose name means “new life,” go to support elephant welfare groups, including the David Sheldrik Wildlife Trust in Kenya and the Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee.

Kiki is wrapped, packaged, and shipped by McKean’s own daughters, Paloma and Penelope, who are students at Laguna Blanca and Montecito Union School. McKean’s husband, a local contractor, has donated a conference room in his office for the venture, which has grown exponentially since launching in August. “The Montecito community has been so supportive of this endeavor. It’s my passion and I’m so grateful of its success so far,” she said. McKean plans on expanding the line of animals, including a boy elephant named “Tembo,” which will be released in the coming weeks.

On Friday, December 1, from 2:30 to 5 pm, McKean and her daughters will sell the stuffed animals at Here’s The Scoop on Coast Village Road, while Scoop owners Ellie and Bob Patterson will donate a percentage

Kids are encouraged to visit the zoo on December 3, when 80 tons of snow is brought in for sledding and snow play

Kiki will be available for purchase at an event at Here’s The Scoop on December 1

of their gelato sales to The Elephant Project. Scoop is located at 1187 Coast Village Road.

“The elephants will be extinct if we don’t step up and fight for them,” McKean said.

For more information, visit www. theelephantproject.com.

Leopard Festival at the Zoo On Sunday, December 3, 80 tons of snow will be delivered for the Santa Barbara Zoo’s annual “Snow Leopard Festival,” which will take place from 10 am to 3 pm. The snow will be shaped into sledding runs for kids (sleds provided), deposited in a snow play area, and provided as enrichment to many of the zoo’s animal residents, including the highly endangered big cats honored at this festival.

At age 19, the zoo’s male snow leopard Everett is the oldest of its kind living in a zoo accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA). The zoo’s female Zoe is aged 14. The two are not a breeding pair,

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but they often are seen on exhibit together, which is rare among this solitary species. Snow leopards are critically endangered and currently number between an estimated 3,900 and 6,400 in the wild. They have long been prized as hunter’s trophies, destroyed as predators of domestic flocks, and sought as a source of valuable fur.

Adapted for the extreme weather, snow leopards have been viewed at elevations as high as 19,600 feet in summer. Their furry feet help them to stay on top of the snow by providing a greater surface area – like snow shoes – and their fur keeps their paws warm and dry, providing traction as well.

With the holidays not far away, guests are also encouraged to visit the zoo’s temporary exhibit of reindeer, where Santa is available for photos and gift requests (Wednesdays through Sundays only, starting November 22). Two male reindeer, named Lightning and Holiday, are on view from Wednesday, November 22, 2017 through Tuesday, January 1, 2018.

Sledding tickets are $3 and are sold at the zoo’s front gate and at the snow area. Regular admission is required to enter. Sledding is for children aged 4 to 12 only. Sleds are provided (no personal sleds). The snow play area is open to children 12 and under. For more information, call 962-5339 or visit www.sbzoo.org.

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Hello, Dolly From Dolly, with Love

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it. I had sent it out to L.A. when they asked for some of my music, and Kevin Costner and his secretary had loved that song but I never heard whether or not they used it. One day, I was on my way home and I turned the radio on. All of a sudden I heard that a cappella part and I knew it was something familiar. By the time it dawned on me what I was hearing, I had to stop the car because I almost wrecked. I thought my heart was just going to bust out of my body. It was the most powerful feeling I’ve every had, because it was such a shock and she sang it so good. I was just overwhelmed.

I Believe in You is Dolly’s first children’s album partly inspired by her niece.

The proceeds will benefit the nonprofit Dolly Parton’s The Imagination Library.

D

olly Parton giggles her way through the last question on our group phone interview and she is refreshingly everything you hope her to be – sweet, humble, funny, the Dolly with whom you’ve grown up watching on TV. Dolly began her solo career in 1967 with Hello, I’m Dolly and has since amassed success in songwriting, movies, the award-winning theme park Dollywood, and too many business ventures to name. The proceeds from her first children’s album, I Believe in You, will benefit her nonprofit called Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library which launched 20 years ago and has since delivered one-hundred million books to children around the world.

Dolly took time to relive a few highlights of her recent album and reveal a few stories that make us appreciate her even more.

Q. Why is children’s literacy so important to you?

A. I actually started the library (in 1995) in honor of my father, who was never able to read or write. So, my dad got to help me and he felt very proud of me to be doing it, to involve him in it, and he lived long enough to see it doing well. He got such a kick out of people calling me the “book lady.” I think it’s important because if you can learn to read, you can educate yourself about any subject. You don’t have to have money. If you can’t afford to go to school, there’s a book on anything you want to know – but it’s not going to do you any good if you can’t read. So, that was the main thing, inspired by my dad and just knowing how important it is.

What was your inspiration to address

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Dolly wrote and performed all 14 songs on the album addressing bravery, responsibility, bullying; it also features a new recording of her classic tune “Coat of Many Colors”

pediatric cancer on your new album?

When you see the actual CD of the album, there’s a picture of two little girls kissing me on the cheek. Those are my nieces, and the one on the left is Hanna, my sister Rachel’s daughter. When she was 4 years old, she got leukemia and we almost lost her.

When she was sick, I wrote “Chemo Hero” and “Brave Little Soldier” for her and about her. I took a bunch of my little nieces and nephews and her friends into the recording studio, and we recorded that and a few other children’s songs for her to listen to while she was recuperating. I just thought that children (and adults) who have to go through (illness from all diseases) would enjoy it too.

How did your songwriting process for this album differ from your others?

It was fun for me because (most of) the songs on this album were inspired by the first book that we give away through the Imagination Library, The Little Engine That Could. So I used that line, “I believe in you,” just like that little engine that we’ve all read about.

These songs were fun for me because I love children. I have so many nieces and nephews, and I practically raised five of my younger brothers and sisters. I’m very close to my family, so I like to write songs to entertain them.

Can you tell us about your first guitar and the instrument you dreamed of owning when you grew up?

Music was such a part of our whole family. All of my momma’s people were musical and played some sort of instrument. Of course, I took my music real serious, and I was always plucking someone’s instrument that was laying around. But I always loved

the guitar. My uncle Lewis was a great guitar player and he had this little Martin guitar that I loved. When he saw how serious I was about my music, he gave me his little Martin guitar and it was my treasure. I put it in the loft of our home when I left at 18, because it was beat-up and I was going to fix it up when I got money.

But the loft burned out of our house and burned up my little Martin guitar, so I only have the neck of that one. But I have collected little Martin guitars throughout the years. I have a lot of classic guitars, especially the baby Martin.

How did you write your song “I Will Always Love You” and what did it mean to you when, years later, Whitney Houston recorded it and made it one of the biggest songs of all time?

Well, that’s a very good question.

That song is very deep-seated in my soul. Years ago I worked with a man named Porter Wagoner, and we had one of those relationships that we were so much alike we couldn’t get along, or we were so different we couldn’t get along. But we had a great love – it was kind of a love-hate relationship, and I always wanted my own band and told him from the start that I wanted to go out on my own.

But it was very hard. He had a number-one television show at the time and for me to leave was going to take a big hunk out of his show, but I still wanted to move on. So, after much fighting and all the love we had for each other, I wrote that song to say how I feel. It was a very hard song, but when I sang it to him he said, “Okay, you can go but let me produce that record.” So, it was very personal to us.

Years later when Whitney Houston did it, I didn’t know she had done

• The Voice of the Village •

When you were younger, what was it inside of you that drove you to launch into an unknown world of becoming a professional singer, especially as a woman?

I just had this burning love for music and a burning desire to get out into the big world. You know, I was a country girl and there was some fear, but my desire to do it was always greater than my fear. I never thought about that I was a girl or a boy, I just had a gift, and I felt it was Godgiven and I felt that I had to be doing something with it. I didn’t have a lot of problems like many of the other girls were having at that time. I guess because I grew up in a house of brothers with my dad and my uncle, so I understood men and didn’t let them intimidate me.

Fifty years ago, you released your debut album, Hello, I’m Dolly – and now you’ve just released your first children’s album with so many albums and projects in between. What would the current Dolly say to mentor the Hello, I’m Dolly artist?

I would probably say, I think she’s in her second childhood! (Laughing) I didn’t realize it was 50 years ago. I was a young girl and now I’m doing a children’s album, so I think I’m in my second childhood. That just hit me funny when you was saying that.

Anyway, I don’t know. In many ways you learn a lot, and in many ways you’re still stupid. I’ve learned a lot about life and hopefully have learned a lot about songwriting too. But I’m the same ol’ gal I was back then. Back then, I was just dreaming about being a star, and I’m so fortunate and lucky I’ve gotten to do so many things: the movies, records, and write songs for movies, and Dollywood, but still the music is always right there in the heart of it all. And now being able to have such wonderful programs because of my success where you can give back, I’m just happy it all turned out the way it did.

The new album I Believe in You is available now. www.dollyparton.com

•MJ

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EDITORIAL (Continued from page 32)

Information: thru Thu. November 30

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 = Restrictions on Silver MetroValuePasses (MVP)

Liquor & Wine Grotto owners Brian Brunello and Jason Herrick

Real Estate Services

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Deborah and James Longo in 2014. Long-term tenants include Starbucks, Vons Pharmacy, Antoinette/Intimo, Dance Fever Studio, Blenders in the Grass, Occhiali Fine Eyewear, and Sakana.

Among the globally recognized real estate names along CVR are Sotheby’s International Realty, Christie’s International Real Estate (Village Properties), Berkshire Hathaway, Coldwell Banker Previews, and Compass Real Estate.

Successful local realtors such as Calcagno & Hamilton (Berkshire Hathaway), Dan Ensell (Berkshire), Suzanne Perkins (Sotheby’s), Riskin & Associates, Coastal Properties, and other brokers have opened their own offices on CVR.

Banking and Financial Services

CVR is home to several major banks – Montecito Bank & Trust, Bank of America Financial Center, Union Bank, JP Morgan/Chase, and City National Bank. There are also numerous mortgage lenders, attorneys, and investment advisors, scattered along CVR.

Personal Care Services

CVR is Montecito’s go-to place for hair salons and barbershops. Women and men have a choice of Patricia Noel Studio, Sequel Salon Montecito, Red Hair and Makeup Studio, Haven Salon, Salon Montecito, Richie’s Barbershop, Montecito Barber, Belle de Jour Salon, Flying Hearts Studio, Rema Nail Salon, Alice’s Nail Boutique, For Paws Salon, Pandora Nail Spa, Bel Viso Italian Skin Care, Cos Bar Cosmetics, Space NK Apothecary, Julie Richter Skin Care, and Montecito Aesthetic Institute Skin Care Spa. Home Care Assistance is available at 1165 CVR. Prieton Physical Therapy & Pilates, Gladiator Massage, a clinical psychologist, the Montecito Dental Group, and Dr. Todd Fearer, Internist and Geriatric Specialist, have CVR addresses.

Hotels and Resorts

The iconic Montecito Inn, where room rates were as low as $2.50 per night in 1938, is currently under the ownership of the Copus family, including brothers Danny, president and general manager, Jason, sales and marketing, and Jim, operations. Danny Copus also served as president of the Coast Village Business Association from 2001 to 2016. The Copus family also owns and manages Coast Village Inn. CVR restaurants and shops are highly dependent on hotel guests from the nearby Four Seasons Biltmore Resort and the super-luxury San Ysidro Ranch hideaway.

Apartments and Condos

Reputedly, there are fewer than 100 registered voters living on Coast Village Road. Villa Fontana offers 36 apartments at 1150 CVR. Six are studios, 12 one-bedroom, and 18 two-bedroom. The former motel behind Cava was long ago converted to a doctor’s office, Rema Nail Salon, and 18 studio apartments.

At 1062 CVR, tucked between Starbucks and China Palace, property owner David Back, has applied to the City to demolish his current 10,872 SF, 14-unit apartment building to build a 3-story mixed-use development consisting of nine condominiums, street-level commercial space, and a subterranean parking garage with 24 parking spaces.

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THE HITCHCOCK CINEMA &

M E T R O P O L I T A N T H E A T R E S

PUBLIC HOUSE 371 Hitchcock Way

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THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS (PG)

thru Sun: 11:50 2:20 5:30 7:45 Mon-Thu: 2:20 5:30 7:45  THREE BILLBOARDS

OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

FIESTA 5

PASEO NUEVO

Walt Disney / PIXAR  COCO (PG)....Plus: Special Short Feature OLAF’S FROZEN ADVENTURE

Denzel Washington is

916 State Street

3D thru Sun: 2:10 5:10 3D Mon-Thu: 5:10 2D thru Sun: 10:00 11:10 12:50 3:45 6:40 8:10 9:35 2D Mon-Thu: 2:10 3:45 6:40 8:10

Julia Roberts

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WONDER (PG)

thru Sun: (R) 12:00 2:45 5:00 8:00 Mon-Thu: 2:45 5:00 8:00

thru Sun: 10:30 1:10 4:00 6:50 9:30 Mon-Thu: 2:00 4:40 7:30

CAMINO REAL

 THE STAR (PG) thru Sun: 10:10 12:20 2:30 4:45 7:00 9:10 Mon-Thu: 2:30 4:50 7:00

CAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE

Hollister & Storke

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WONDER (PG)

thru Sun: 11:10 1:50 4:30 7:10 9:50 Mon-Thu: 1:50 4:30 7:10 9:50

8 W. De La Guerra Place

 ROMAN

J. ISRAEL

ESQ.

(PG-13)

thru Sun: 12:45 3:40 6:30 9:30 Mon-Thu: 2:15 5:00 7:45

MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS thru Sun: 12:15 1:20 4:00 6:40 8:00 9:20 (PG-13) Mon-Thu: 2:05 4:20 7:00 8:00

Saoirse Ronan is

 LADY

BIRD (R)

thru Sun: 1:45 3:00 4:20 5:30 6:50 9:10 thru Sun: (PG-13) Mon/Tue & Thu: 11:30 2:00 4:35 7:10 9:45 Mon-Thu: 2:45 5:20 7:45 2:00 3:15 4:45 5:40 7:15 Wed: 2:00 4:45 7:15

DADDY’S HOME 2

 JUSTICE LEAGUE thru Sun: 10:45 12:30 ARLINGTON METRO 4 1317 State Street 1:30 3:30 4:35 6:30 618 State Street 7:30 9:25 10:15  JUSTICE LEAGUE Mon-Thu: 12:30 1:30 3:30 2D thru Sun: (PG-13)  JUSTICE LEAGUE 4:35 6:30 7:30 9:25 10:15 3D thru Sun only: 5:55 11:00 2:00 5:00 8:00 (PG-13) (2D) 2D thru Sun: 12:00 1:00 Mon-Thu: 2:00 5:00 8:00 3:00 4:00 7:00 9:00 10:00 MURDER ON THE 2D Mon-Thu: (PG-13) FAIRVIEW ORIENT EXPRESS 225 N. Fairview Ave. 2:00 3:30 4:45 6:30 7:40 thru Sun: (PG-13) Walt Disney / PIXAR 11:00 1:40 4:20 7:00 9:40 VICTORIA & ABDUL Mon-Thu:  COCO (PG)....Plus: thru Sun: 2:25 (PG-13) 1:40 4:20 7:00 9:40 Special Short Feature Mon-Thu: 2:45

DADDY’S HOME 2

thru Sun: (PG-13) 10:50 2:20 4:10 7:40 10:05 Mon-Thu: 2:20 4:10 7:40 10:05

THOR: (PG-13) (2D) RAGNAROK

OLAF’S FROZEN ADVENTURE

3D thru Sun only: 1:40 2D thru Sun: 10:45 12:10 3:10 4:40 6:10 7:40 9:05 2D Mon-Thu: 1:40 3:10 4:40 6:10 7:40

 THE STAR (PG) thru Sun: thru Sun: 11:20 1:15 4:45 6:35 9:30 11:50 2:00 4:15 6:30 8:40 Mon-Thu: Mon-Thu: 2:00 4:15 6:30 1:15 4:45 6:35 9:30

LOVING VINCENT

thru Sun: 12:05 5:00 Mon-Thu: 5:30 (PG-13)

A BAD MOMS CHRISTMAS (R) thru Sun: 7:20 9:50 Mon-Thu: 8:00

THOR: RAGNAROK

thru Sun: (PG-13) (2D) 12:40 3:40 6:40 9:40 Mon-Thu: 1:55 4:55 7:50

Outlook for the Future

The future success of CVR will require a coordinated effort by the Coast Village Association with building owners and tenants, who are often at odds, and with the City of Santa Barbara, with a long history of indifference and neglect.

Newly elected Santa Barbara mayor Cathy Murillo has demonstrated concern for State Street, but none for Coast Village Road. Kristen Sneddon, newly elected City councilperson for District 4, which includes CVR, supports a new roundabout at the eastern end of CVR as the appropriate traffic solution to avoid congestion.

In 1890, Russell Conway published an essay called Acres of Diamonds. The theme was that one does not have to search the world for opportunity or achievement. The solution is right here in your own community. Dig in your own backyard and you will find your own Acres of Diamonds.

Montecito residents, without political clout and without decision-making power, are the only ones who can step forward and support the character and content of the locally owned shops of Montecito’s Main Street, Coast Village Road.

Next, we’ll cover the upper village and its diverse array of shops, eateries, and retailers.

•MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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China Syndrome Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry and former Montecito Union School student, supermodel Gigi Hadid, who were scheduled to participate in the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in Shanghai this week, have been banned from China.

Visas for both beauties have been denied by Chinese officials, according to reports.

Former Dos Pueblos High student Katy was initially informed she’d be able to gain access, but the decision was apparently reversed after government officials caught wind of a controversial incident from 2015 when she donned a glittering gown decorated with sunflowers during a performance in Taipei, capital of Taiwan.

Her outfit wound up causing widespread outrage because the sunflower had been adopted the year before by anti-Chinese protesters.

Katy also waved a Taiwanese flag during her concert in a show of support for the country that has been butting heads with China for years overs its independence.

As for Gigi, along with other models, it is thought they’re banned due to various social media posts they made, which were apparently deemed offensive, particularly a February video in which she held up a biscuit shaped like Buddha and imitated the religious icon by squinting her eyes, which led to it being deleted after a storm of criticism.

Her sister Bella, however, did participate.

Bowled over The 20th annual Empty Bowls fundraiser at the Ben Page Youth Center was so busy there had to be three seatings for the simple soup and bread meal, which allowed the 1,000 participants paying just $30 to choose a hand-painted bowl and, after dining, take the bowl home.

The bustling event, founded by Danyel Dean, who has been the committee chair for two decades, is now one of the most popular bowls

tic selection of breads, and coffee was provided by the French Press.

Doing deeds for the Empty Bowls fundraiser are sponsors and servers Penny Sharrett of Union Bank; Jordan Ben Shea, breadmaker Hove Keld, founder Danyel Dean; and Janet Garufis of Montecito Bank and Trust (photo by Priscilla)

Voices Carry Family and friends partake of the soups and breads and supporting Empty Bowls is the Pryor Family including Jeff, Owen, Ashley, and Amy; standing are volunteer Autumn Christman, Maureen and Tom Ray, Matt Ziegler, Deena Hetfield, and Angel Veloz holding son Louis (photo by Priscilla)

Spirits are filled when Bowls maker and server Merrillee Ford ladles soup for Toni Straka, Barbara Ford, and Jordan BenShea (photo by Priscilla)

Ready to have their bowls filled from choices of soup are Kevin Shertzer and Paige Minney with Empty Bowls server Susan Bridges, wife of actor Jeff Bridges (photo by Priscilla)

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By a String Santa Barbara Symphony’s latest concert at the Granada had a decided Spanish flavor when the orchestra’s first-ever artist in residence, classical guitarist Pablo Sainz Villegas, showed off his abundant talents.

Villegas performed last May at the previous season’s finale with an impressive rendition of the guitar concerto of the late film composer Elmer Bernstein, who called our Eden by the Beach home for many years.

The program, conducted by maestro Nir Kabaretti, featured Joaquin Rodrigo’s masterpiece Concierto de Aranjuez and selections from Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo, Bizet’s L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2, and a new arrangement of Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz’s Souvenir of Spain by former Santa Barbara resident Patrick Russ.

Villegas, who won the gold medal at the prestigious Christopher Parkening International Guitar Competition in 2006, was at the top of his game.

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events in the U.S., not to mention Argentina, Hong Kong, New Zealand, and France.

“I think it speaks a lot to the generosity and philanthropy in our city,” says Danyel, who expected the event to raise $125,000 for the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County, which runs 300 programs annually.

Soup purveyors offering tastings included Bouchon, Louie’s at the Upham, Opal, San Ysidro Ranch, Lucky’s, Olio e Limone, Sly’s, Benchmarck, the Biltmore, The Black Sheep, Fresco Cafe, Downey’s, the Flagstone Pantry, and The Nugget.

Santa Barbara police officer Hove Keld of Hove’s Loaves baked an eclec-

• The Voice of the Village •

Santa Barbara Human Rights Watch associate director Lis Leader (photo by Kimberly Citro)

A record 560 guests packed into the ballroom at Fess Parker’s DoubleTree when Human Rights Watch held its 11th annual Voices for Justice dinner which raised a hefty $1,005,790 for the nearly 40-year-old nonprofit, which is a leading defender of fundamental freedoms, the activists who uphold them, and vulnerable people worldwide in 90 countries globally.

The bustling bash, co-chaired by the tony triumvirate of Gwyn Lurie, David Rintels, and Fiona Stone, featured researchers for the worthy cause, including Peter Bouckaert, director of emergencies, Elizabeth Calvin, a senior advocate for children’s rights,

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(SEAL) by Margarita Silva. FBN No. 2017-0003005. Published November 8, 15, 22, 29, 2017.

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE INVITING BIDS BID NO. 3880 1.

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its 6100 Hollister Avenue Project, by or before December 19, 2017, at 3:00 p .m., at its Purchasing Office, located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, at which time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Each bidder is responsible for making certain that its Bid Proposal is actually delivered to the Purchasing Office. The receiving time at the Purchasing Office will be the governing time for acceptability of bids. Telegraphic, telephonic, electronic, and facsimile bids will not be accepted.

2.

Project Information.

2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at 6100 Hollister Avenue, Santa Barbara, California, and is described as follows: This project consists of the construction of new commercial industrial and retail space buildings and associated improvements along Hollister Avenue within the City of Santa Barbara.

2.2 Time for Completion. The contract period from commencement and completion of construction of the Project for the base bid is 180 working days. If bid Alternate 1 is awarded, add 20 working days, if bid Alternate 2 is awarded, add 20 working days, if bid Alternate 3 is awarded add 25 working days.

2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of the Base Bid for this project is $3,297,290 The Engineer’s Estimate for Additive Alternate 1 is $809,000. The Engineers Estimate for Additive Alternate 2 is $1,087,000. The Engineers Estimate for Additive Alternate 3 is $2,104,000 3.

License and Registration Requirements.

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

3.2 DIR Registration. City will not accept a Bid Proposal from or enter into the Contract with a bidder, without proof that the bidder and its Subcontractors are registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) to perform public work under Labor Code section 1725.5, subject to limited legal exceptions.

4.

Contract Documents. The plans, specifications, bid forms and contract documents for the Project, and any addenda thereto (“Contract Documents”) may be downloaded from City’s website at: SantaBarbaraCA.gov/ebidboard. A printed copy of the Contract Documents may be obtained from CyberCopy Shop, located at 504 N. Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, at (805) 884-6155.

5.

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

6.

Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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

6.2 Rates. The prevailing rates are on file with City and available online at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR. Each Contractor and Subcontractor must pay no less than the specified rates to all workers employed to work on the Project. The schedule of per diem wages is based upon a working day of eight hours. The rate for holiday and overtime work must be at least time and one-half.

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

7.

Performance and Payment Bonds. The successful bidder will be required to provide performance and payment bond for 100% of the Contract Price regardless of contract dollar amount.

8.

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

9.

Subcontractor List. Each bidder must submit, with its Bid Proposal, the name, location of the place of business, California contractor license number, DIR registration number, and percentage of the Work to be performed (based on the Base Bid) for each Subcontractor that will perform work or service or fabricate or install work for the prime contractor in excess of one-half of 1% of the bid price, using the Subcontractor List form included with the Contract Documents.

10.

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

11.

Mandatory Bidders’ Conference and Site Visit. A bidders’ conference will be held on December 5, 2017 at 2:00 p.m., at the following location: Santa Barbara Airport Administrative Office, 601 Firestone Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93117 for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference will be disqualified from bidding.

By: ___________________________________ General Services Manager Publication Dates: 1) November 22, 2017

Date: ________________

2) November 29, 2017 END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Professional Services; Trisoma, 351 Stansbury Drive, Orcutt, CA 93455.

Paul Svacina, 351 Stansbury Drive, Orcutt, CA 93455. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 30, 2017.

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

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copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL)

by Connie Tran. FBN No. 20170002991. Published November 22, 29, December, 6, 13, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Pompeian Court Estates, 319 San Ysidro Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Nicholas Zwick, 3525 Turtle Creek Blvd 9D, Dallas, TX 75219. This statement was filed

with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 20, 2017. 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 Connie Tran. FBN No. 20170002919. Published November 15, 22, 29, December, 6, 2017.

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

business as: Coyote Oaks, CA Native Growers, 1745 Nacimiento Lake Dr, Paso Robles, CA 93446. Deborah Applegate, 1830 Grand Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 31, 2017. 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

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. – George Bernard Shaw

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sensi Spices; Yuppy Puppy, 134 Loureyo Road A1, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.

Sonjia Polanco, 134 Loureyo Road A1, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 2, 2017.

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 Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0003047. Published November 8, 15, 22, 29, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brasserie Solera, 406 E. Haley Street Suite #2, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Brasserie SB, LLC, 406 E. Haley Street Suite #2, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 31, 2017. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2017-0003017. Published November 8, 15, 22, 29, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Brain Balance of Santa Barbara, 5735 Calle Real, Goleta, CA 93117.

ALLRAMSB LLC, 23212 Sherwood Place, Valencia, CA 91354. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 13, 2017. 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 Connie Tran. FBN No. 2017-0002849. Published November 1, 8, 15, 22, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: WB Services, 736 Cieneguitas Apt A Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Wanda Beckstead, 736 Cieneguitas Apt A Santa Barbara, CA 93110.

Robert Bulat, 736 Cieneguitas Apt A Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 26, 2017. 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 Tania Paredes-Sadler. FBN No. 2017-0002968. Published November 1, 8, 15, 22, 2017.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Coast Village Association, PO Box 5771 Santa Barbara, CA 93150. Coast Village Road Association, 1230 Coast Village Road, Suite K, Santa Barbara CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 20, 2017.

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 Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2017-0002923. Published November 1, 8, 15, 22, 2017.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 17CV05038. To all interested parties: Petitioners Tracy Jo Brewer and Joseph Dispenza filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Shinara Joseph Dispenza to Shen Dispenza Brewer. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes 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 13, 2017 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: December 20, 2017 at 9:30 am in Dept.

6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 11/22, 11/29, 12/6, 12/13 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 17CV04356. To all interested parties: Petitioner Sharon Celeste Fay filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name from Sharon Celeste Fay to Sharon Celeste Fay Allen. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Filed October 23, 2017 by Terri Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: December 6, 2017 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Double Dose of Dance – Area 51 has been among the most popular dance bands for special events in the Santa Barbara area for about 23 years now, right after they formed back in 1994. The group – which still has many of its original members, including lead singer Michael Andres, keyboardist George Friedenthal, and bassist Randy Tico – boasts a playlist that veers from classic funk, soul, and R&B to Motown, disco, and modern pop hits. The seasoned group of professional musicians that features a full horn section has also long cemented their reputation (and attracted private party bookings) through mostly monthly shows at SOhO, the classy nightclub upstairs in Victoria Court about half a dozen blocks from the college-and-early20s scene on lower State Street. The day after Thanksgiving is likely to draw lots of long-lost local residents who are back home visiting the family, so it’s a perfect night to come out and kick up your heels. Especially since among the visitors might be Mari Martin, the former founding co-lead singer who skipped down seven years ago to head home for family obligations back in Massachusetts. We’re not sure if she’ll be sittin’ in for Area 51’s show, but the singer who first honed her chops when she studied with the renowned University of Massachusetts Amherst jazz professor Dr. Horace Boyer will for sure be showing up at SOhO two nights later for her own gig with The Mari Martin Band, whose set list includes some similar songs but draws material from even earlier eras (1940s jazz, 1950s pop, 1960s folk), and

eschews the brass for a deeper focus on the vocal inflections. Martin will be joined by keyboardist Friedenthal, plus Larry Perpoli on drums, and Ray Pannell on guitar, plus special guests. WHEN: 9:30 tonight, 7 pm Sunday WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $8 tonight, $10 Sunday INFO: 9627776 or www.sohosb.com Feast of Fun – It’s Friday of Thanksgiving weekend, any maybe you’re already wishing the relatives would head back where they came from, or at least that you’d finally wake up from the tryptophan-induced coma. Well, your weekend should warm up considerably with one of Pure Order’s periodic Open Mic Nites at the brewery’s headquarters located smack in the middle of Santa Barbara’s trendy Lagoon District (The Funk Zone is so 2015). Let’s talk turkey: the show, which features musicians and comedians hailing from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, is held outside on the taproom’s heated patio under the stars and hosted by Terrance Washington, a Ventura-based comedian who regularly appears at The Ventura Harbor Comedy Club and Levity Live in Oxnard and is set to make his Inland Empire debut at The Ontario Improv next week. (And, knock on wood, the jokes will be as fresh as Pure Order’s products, unlike the inside the brewery, where the taproom is made entirely from locally recycled Santa Barbara wood.) If that’s not enough to make you smile, they’ll also be raffling off $25 gift certificates to Amazon.com. Now, that’s my kind of stocking stuffer! WHEN: 8 to 10 pm

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Mozart by Candlelight – West Coast Chamber Orchestra’s annual Thanksgiving weekend concert tribute to the Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is back at First United Methodist Church, a more spacious facility than its former home at the Presidio Chapel. Michael Shasberger conducts an array of the famed classical composer’s works, including excerpts from separate flute (K. 313, adagio ma non troppo), clarinet (K. 622, allegro), French horn (K. 412), and bassoon concertos (K. 191, adante ma adagio and rondo tempo di minuetto) – with soloists Andrea Di Maggio, Joanne Kim, John Mason, and Andy Radford (the latter of whom also plays with the Santa Barbara Symphony and serves as director of the Youth Orchestra), respectively. Also on the program, which is performed amid actual burning candles, are Eb Sinfonia Soncertante, K. 297b, that features all four aforementioned soloists, and the much beloved Eine Kleine Nachtmusik serenade. (K. 525). WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu Street (at Garden St.) COST: $25 general admission, $20 seniors (55+), $10 students (19 & under) INFO: 963-4408 or www.cieloperformingarts.org

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Carnival Concert – What better weekend than Thanksgiving, when the full family is often gathered around in celebration, to present a classical music family concert. As part of its expanded community programming, the Santa Barbara Symphony will perform “The Carnival of the Animals” Camille Saint-Saëns’s 130-yearold musical confection created for a party by French cellist Joseph Le Bouc in 1886. The series of sketches, purporting to portray various animals, was in fact designed to poke fun at some well-known Parisian composers and musicians. Of course, the particular political-societal aspects of the piece have largely been lost to history in favor of the family-friendly musical menagerie that opens with the “Royal March of the Lion” and offers a succession of other tuneful creatures large and small, a total of 14 brief, humorous movements in all. Guest conducting is Lara Webber, who is in her fourth season as the music director of the Livermore-Amador Symphony (California) following positions of both assistant and associate conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, where she programmed and conducted more than 80 concerts annually, including classical subscription programs and educational, pops, and community concerts. Robert Cassidy and Santa Barbara Symphony principal Natasha Kislenko are the featured pianists for the 45-minute piece, which will be preceded by interactive musical activities in the Granada lobby organized by the Santa Barbara Zoo, the Symphony’s Music Van, and the Santa Barbara Public Library. WHEN: 3 pm WHERE: Granada Theatre, 1214 State Street COST: $10 to $50; family four-packs cost $25 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.org

WHERE: 410 North Quarantina Street COST: free INFO: 966-2881 or www. pureorderbrewing.com TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28 Miller Time – Warren Miller turned 93 last month, so it’s no surprise that the ski film pioneer no longer directs the annual action-packed documentary that has been his company’s stock in trade for 68 years now. Line of Descent, the 2017 entry, contains double entendre, like nearly every film in the company’s catalog. The doc traces the downhill path taken by skiers and snowboarders on mountains near and far, famous and exotic, but also delves into family relationships in the sport. Snow riders are their own community, albeit a huge one, and nearly all who are a part first experienced the thrill of gliding across the powder through their family members. Line of Descent celebrates the lineage of legendary athletes, the rites passed down through time, via a multi-generational cast of skiing’s icons and fresh faces, including Tommy Moe, Jonny Moseley, JT Holmes, Lexi duPont, Seth Wescott, Kalen Thorien, Marcus Gaston, Jeremy Jensen, Griffin Post, and others. The full-length film goes from New Zealand, home to some of the Southern Hemisphere’s deepest lines, to the French Alps, where native son Jean-Claude Killy’s legacy fills ValD’Isere hearts with pride. In Norway, a Canadian ski patroller enjoys the company of his Norwegian brethren, and in British Columbia, the Provo brothers discover the pow-surfing

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stashes of Mustang Powder Lodge. The film also cruises through the Northern Rockies and rips the rugged terrain of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. As always, attendees will receive a full slate of swag and other offers, including free lift tickets for Snow Valley and Steamboat, plus 2-for-1 lift tickets to Squaw Valley/ Alpine Meadows and Crested Butte Mountain Resort. More details online at www.warrenmiller.com. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $21 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29 Raising Voices for Relief – ‘Twas just last month that Santa Barbarabased jazz vocalist Kimberly Ford performed her well-honed tribute to Joni Mitchell at SOhO in a jazz-based format. Tonight, the extraordinary singer-songwriter will again be the focus of musical homage at the venue as a selection of local musicians gather to offer their own take on Mitchell’s songs in a benefit concert that serves as a fundraiser for Direct Relief International’s efforts to aid victims of the hurricane in Puerto Rico. Longtime area singer-songwriter Kate Bennett – a lifelong devotee of Mitchell whose voice sometimes recalls the soprano – is among the artists hosting the event, which also features contributions from Dave Blackburn, John Lyle, Karen Thurber, Natalie D-Napoleon, Kay Ashley, and Steve J. Key, among others. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State 23 – 30 November 2017

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Funk with Feelings from ‘Frisco – When you name your band Con Brio, which is a musical direction meaning “with spirit” in Italian often used in classical music, your fans might expect to hear some classical leanings, or perhaps at least a little violin in the mix. But the septet chose its moniker more for its implications of energy than anything else, as Con Brio is a lively soul band that probably can’t even spell adagio let alone play a slow movement. The group’s music clearly draws a lineage from the dance-heavy funk legacies of fellow Bay Area band Sly & the Family Stone and James Brown while also channeling such R&B trailblazers as D’Angelo and Prince. Propelled by the young vocalist Ziek McCarter – a charismatic, undeniably gifted showman – gets down with a dynamic that fuses pulsating rhythms, blazing guitar-work, soaring horns, the syrupy sounds of a Hammond organ, and the simmering high-tenor vocals by McCarter, a Texas transplant who as a 19-year-old had already begun drawing crowds in his new hometown of San Francisco when he hooked up with the other musicians back in 2013. Con Brio’s debut album Paradise, which came out last July, is eminently danceable, but also lyrically loaded, full of themes that hit the head as the rhythms drive the feet. Especially in “Free & Brave”, an overtly political anthem that uses an infectious grooves to name-check Trayvon Martin and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., territory inspired by McCarter’s personal relationship with police brutality, as his father, an Army veteran, died at the hands of East Texas police in 2011. Opening is Monophonics, a fellow San Francisco outfit also partial to soul but with influences that tap into the psychedelic sound of the 1960s and ‘70s, as well as doo-wop, rock ‘n’ roll, and cinematic music. WHEN: 9 pm WHERE: SOhO, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $18 in advance, $23 at door INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com

Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $15 INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb. com Harbingers of the Holidays – Stop and shop and savor the season’s offering as two State Street shopping plazas just two blocks apart offer similar events over successive nights. La Arcada’s Christmas Walk is a 23-year-old tradition, a fest for the full family filled with visits from Santa Claus, strolling carolers, impromptu musical performances, free fresh-popped popcorn, and other holiday goodies. The plaza’s 20-plus merchants – an assortment of boutiques, galleries, bistros, and more – all participate in the event, with special pricing or other offerings, though you could easily spend the

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THE GRANADA THEATRE CONCERT SERIES Sink Your Teeth into Smith-Pico – British novelist, essayist, and short story writer Zadie Smith has received accolades for unique perspective on contemporary culture, superb dialogue, and emotionally rich stories ever since publication of her first novel, White Teeth, in 2000. A vibrant portrait of contemporary multicultural London, told through the stories of three ethnically diverse families, immediately established Smith’s reputation as one of the most important voices of her generation. Her latest novel, Swing Time, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2016, while her new collection of essays, Feel Free, is slated for publication in February. Currently a tenured professor of Creative Writing at New York University, Smith will share the stage in conversation with Pico Iyer, the part-time Santa Barbara-based author who has been an essayist for Time magazine since 1986 and who is himself the author of numerous books about crossing cultures. Books by both authors will be available for purchase and signing. The event inaugurates UCSB Arts & Lectures’s new Speaking with Pico series, which formalizes a relationship that has existed for years. Future events include conversations between Iyer and palliative care physician B.J. Miller, Brain Pickings blog curator Maria Popova, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anthony Doerr. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $20 to $35 INFO: 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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Carlos Conde of the Asia division, and Grace Meng of the U.S. program.

A tribute film was presented by Bouckaert and Jane Olson, co-founder of the Santa Barbara council, while deputy executive director Iain Levine was keynote speaker.

Screenwriter, producer, and director Vicki Riskin, a stalwart supporter for 30 years, was awarded the first Human Rights Watch award for her work in starting the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara committees.

Among the tony torrent of guests were Robert Lieff, Ted Bauer, Marc Appleton. Rinaldo and Lalla Brutoco, Frank Ochoa, Lois and Laura Capps, Salud Carbajal, Ron and Jill Dexter, Larry Feinberg and Starr Siegele, Robert Weinman, Allan Ghitterman, Das Williams, Stan and Betty Hatch, Lis Leader, Hannah-Beth Jackson, Sara Miller-McCune, Paula Lopez, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Justine Roddick, Sybil Rosen, Shaun and Carla Tomson, Anne Towbes, and David and Anne Gersh.

MAW Than a Feeling Camerata Pacifica packed two magnificent works into its 80-minute concert at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall.

Giora Schmidt shone in Sergei Prokofiev’s violin sonata No.1 in F Minor with pianist Gilles Vonsattel, with the extremely entertaining show concluding with Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time with Jose Franch-Ballester on clarinet and Ani Aznavoorian on cello joining the tony musical twosome.

Jewels’ Gold Jeremy Norris and Paco Buxton, owners of the upper village bling emporium Tresor, have quite a majestic display in their window.

The 50-year-old Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry, which formerly belonged to the Countess Raine Spencer, stepmother of the late Princess Diana, was bought from a dealer in Geneva, Switzerland, and consists of an impressive suite of a necklace, bracelet, earrings, and a ring of 18-karat yellow gold and seven blue sapphires weighting 70 carats and 25.32 carats of diamonds.

I met Raine, who was formerly Countess of Dartmouth, many times and I knew her son, William Lewisham, now the current Earl of Dartmouth, when he worked for a publishing company in Manhattan.

I also interviewed her romantic novelist mother, Dame Barbara Cartland, at her English estate – formerly owned by children’s writer and illustrator Beatrix Potter – when I was an anchor on the CSB syndicated show Day & Date. Raine, a total courtesan, died last year at the age of 87.

The jewelry is being sold for $185,000.

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concluding with two Debussy works – La plus que lente and L’isle Joyeuse – and four ballades by Chopin.

An evening to savor.

Friends gather while celebrating a bridal shower luncheon and tea ceremony for Misty Hammer with friends Kaila Dinius, Jill Alfano, SBPD chief Lori Luhnow, Andrea D Rosso, Diana Starr Langley, Yuki Nakamura (tea presenter); Erin Graffy, hostess Hiroko Benko, Michael Hammer, hostess Dolores Johnson, Andrea Newquist, Brenda Blalock, Tom Craveiro (presenter), and honoree Misty Hammer in the Tea Garden (photo by Priscilla)

Gleeful Engagement Montecito actress Gwyneth Paltrow is engaged to Glee creator Brad Falchuk after three years of dating.

The Oscar winner, 45, and Falchuk, 46, met on the set of the musical drama in 2014, but initially kept their relationship tightly under wraps.

Gwyneth, who was married to Coldplay rocker Chris Martin and has two children, Apple, 13, and Moses, 11, also had a string of high profile romances, including Brad Pitt and Ben Affleck.

I wish the newsome twosome well.

Tresor owners Jeremy Norris and Paco Buxton with the late Raine Spencer’s jewelry

Toda Raba Montecito’s newest celebrity, actress Natalie Portman, is the first female recipient of Israel’s Genesis Prize in recognition of her commitment to social causes and deep commitment to Jewish and Israeli roots.

The $1 million award, known as the Jewish Nobel Prize, is granted annually to a person recognized as an inspiration to the new generation of the Jewish people.

“I am proud of my Israeli roots and Jewish heritage,” says Natalie. “They are crucial points of who I am.”

She won an Oscar in 2011 for Black Swan and in 2015 directed and starred in Tale of Love and Darkness, a Hebrew language film made in Israel based on an Amos Oz novel.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to present her with the prize at a ceremony in Jerusalem in June.

Previous winners of the award, set up in 2014, include former Montecito resident Michael Douglas, violinist Itzhak Perlman, and former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Misty-Eyed Montecito philanthropist Michael Hammer’s wife, Misty, was feted at a bridal shower hosted by Dolores Johnson at the home of Condor Express owner, Hiroko Benko.

After lunch overlooking the ocean and the Channel Islands, a tea cere-

A Veep of Faith Montecito actress Julia LouisDreyfus, 56, who stars in the HBO show Veep, is taking a lengthy break from filming the final and seventh season to allow her to complete treatment for her breast cancer.

The nine-time Emmy winner will return when her medical work is completed, having recently undergone her third round of chemotherapy.

“We are waiting for Julia to get back to full-strength,” says executive Frank Rich. “In the meantime, we’ve been having table reads of scripts to make sure everyone is ready.”

My best wishes for a quick recovery.

Michael and Misty Hammer (photo by Priscilla)

mony was presented by Tom Craveiro and Yuki Nakamura, wife of Nobel Prize winner Shuji Nakamura.

Guests included police chief Lori Lunhnow, Diana Starr Langley, Andrea Newquist, the Journal’s Erin Graffy, and a host of other amazons.

Cho and Behold Korean pianist Seong-Jin Cho enthralled at the Music Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall for UCSB Arts & Lectures second Up Close & Musical performance, sponsored by Robert Weinman.

Cho, who could well give Chinese keyboardist Lang Lang a run for his money, was brought to the world’s attention when he won First Prize at the Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw at the age of 21 in 2015 and is considered one of the most distinctive artists of his generation, playing with conductors such as Esa-Pekka Salonen and Leonard Slatkin.

His sold-out show featured two Beethoven works – Sonata No.8 in C Minor and Sonata No.30 in E Major –

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Cuomo As You Are Santa Barbara actor Michael Imperioli, who rocketed to stardom in The Sopranos, will star as New York governor Andrew Cuomo in a new Showtime TV series.

The eight-hour program, Escape at Dannemora, will re-enact the June 2015 prison break from the Clinton Correctional Facility involving two convicted killers who broke out with the help of married female inmate with whom they were having an affair.

Michael, who I volunteer with regularly at the Rescue Mission, stars with James Bond actor Benicio Del Toro and actress Patricia Arquette. Ben Stiller will direct the drama.

Sightings: Oscar winner Jeff Bridges masticating at Opal...Oscar winner Michael Keaton at Ca’Dario...Oscar winner Natalie Portman strolling on State Street Pip! Pip! Readers with tips, sightings and amusing items for Richard’s column should email him at richardmin eards@verizon.net or send invitations or other correspondence to the Journal.

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By appointment only Contact Steve – 805-969-4300 Montecito, gated, beachfront property with main house, fully equipped - 1 bedroom/1bath upstairs and extra sofa bed and 1/2 bath downstairs. Additional 1-2 bedroom, one bath guest house. Beautiful yard and pool. Private gate and beach access. Separate office space near the water. Renting weekly for $1,000 nightly but 7th night is free! Call Nancy at (805) 403-9203 for viewing.

RENTAL HOUSING NEEDED Retiring couple hope to find a reasonably priced separate cottage on a property to rent in the area.

Call 994-6628 ask for John Tune REAL ESTATE SERVICES

REVERSE MORTGAGE SERVICES Reverse Mortgage Specialist Conventional & Jumbo 805.770.5515 No mortgage payments as long as you live in your home!

Gayle Nagy Executive Loan Advisor 23 – 30 November 2017

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Mon - Fri 9 am-6 pm A. DURANT ​ Sat. 9 am-5LISA pm Event Design, Planning & Production Sunday Closed Sophisticated, Stylish Gatherings & Celebrations of all Sizes 805.770.2278 (formerly with Martha Stewart in NYC, and Stanlee Gatti in SF) (telephone) 805.886.6227 lisadurant@me.comRd. #102, Montecito 1253 Coast(email) Village (instagram) @lisaadurant

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Schulman Window Cleaning Service

695-8850 Portico Gallery

Licensed/bonded/insured & ladder specialist.

Call or text 805 259-5255

1235 Coast Village Rd. • Convenient Parking

Housecleaning Available Call or Text 805 451-5255

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Dr. Kathleen Boisen , OMD, LAc,CH For a Complimentary Phone Consultation

Contact us for your free estimate bluebirdwclean@gmail.com

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THE CLEARING HOUSE, LLC Recognized as the Area’s 23 – 30 November 2017

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WOODWORKING/REPAIRS

Artisan Custom Woodworks.

Repairs on doors, windows, furniture,

kitchen cabinets. Small jobs welcomed.

Ruben Silva 805-350 0857. Contractor Lc#820521.

Woodworking Remodel Specialist Kitchens / Cabinets / Furniture / Mouldings / Built-ins / Wainscoting / Beam Ceilings / Room additions & conversions / Commercial Tenant Improvements Small Jobs OK! Call Erich @ 805-252-1246 www.digmydesigns.com License # 822764 HOME SERVICES

One Day Tree Service Fast, efficient, friendly Sr Veteran discount Call Greg (805) 585- 8578

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$37,500,000 | 1104 Channel Dr, Montecito | 5BD/7½BA Phyllis Noble | 805.451.2126

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$22,500,000 | 3055 Padaro Ln, Carpinteria | 4BD/4½BA Kathleen Winter | 805.451.4663

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$13,500,000 | 1050 Cold Springs Rd, Montecito | 7BD/8BA Nancy Kogevinas | 805.450.6233

$10,995,000 | 4215 Mariposa Dr, Hope Ranch | 3BD/2BA + 2HB MK Properties | 805.565.4014

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$3,995,000 | 4116 Creciente Dr, Hope Ranch | 5BD/4½BA Daniel Encell | 805.565.4896

$2,625,000 | 541 Hodges Ln, Montecito | 3BD/3BA MK Properties | 805.565.4014

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