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Water World: Gretchen Lieff visits Tanzania to assist with H2OpenDoors, p. 6

ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, P. 23 • MOVIE GUIDE, P. 39 • OPEN HOUSES, P. 44

GOOD-BYE, CANTWELL’S! POPULAR SUMMERLAND SHOP CLOSES AFTER DECADE OF UPGRADES AND SUCCESS (STORY ON PAGE 12)

Making The Cut

Richie’s Barber Shop owner Richie Ramirez finalist as 2017’s top Santa Barbara Young Professional, p. 16

Three Of A Kind

Quebe Sisters set to perform at Lobero Theatre on Friday for Sings Like Hell series, p. 18

On The House

Mark Hunt highlights quartet of MUS District homes from Seaview to East Mountain Drive, p. 35

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INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5

Guest Editorial

Montecito Miscellany

Letters to the Editor

Bob Hazard cuts through the density of tax cuts and tax reform, as he dissects the myths and facts – by the numbers – for Californians Gretchen Lieff; Armie Hammer; Oprah and 60 Minutes; Katy Perry; Beverley Jackson; Hospice of Santa Barbara; Dreamland gala; bank’s Community Dividends Awards; Rescue Mission feast; Bob Evans exhibition; and goodbye to David Cassidy An assortment of missives from Journal readers comprising Kathi King, G. Hebert, Paul O’Keeffe, Pierre Nizet, and Matt McLaughlin

10 This Week

MBAR meeting; Knit N Needle; open house; book signing; Walk & Roll; Spanish group; winter retreat; prayer at La Casa; holiday tree; Carp marketplace; Tecolote signing; SB Music Club; Snow Leopard fest; holiday tree; MA committee; holiday luncheon; tech class; art exhibit; poetry club; story time; Italian; Carp arts; and farmers market

Tide Guide

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

12 Village Beat

Cantwell’s Summerland Market closing; Sansum & Blue Shield contract; Scholarship Foundation Board; Coast Village shopping; and MFPD donations

14 Seen Around Town

Lynda Millner covers the Opera Santa Barbara; Una Noche de Estrellas; plus Samantha Bee and Starshine Roshell

16 Our Town

Joanne Calitri talks with Richie Ramirez, owner of Richie’s Barber Shop, who proves to be a cut above as an SB Young Professional nominee

17 Spirituality Matters

Steven Libowitz previews Dave Stringer & Friends; Jewel at Chumash Casino; Emily Esfahani Smith; Full Moon Meditations; Patrick San Francesco; and Dawa Tarchin Phillips at La Casa de Maria

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18 On Entertainment

Steven Libowitz interviews Love Letters star Meredith Baxter; Andrew Barnicle at the New Vic; questions with Hulda Quebe as Lobero hosts Qeube Sisters; Pink Martini; Cathy Byrd; and sounds of music around town

20 Rescue Mission

Jon Vreeland delves into the $10-million details of Santa Barbara Rescue Mission’s restoration, in the early stages of a 16-month undertaking

23 Brilliant Thoughts

Ashleigh Brilliant, not unlike Robert Frost, has promises to keep – and a column to write before he sleeps. Then there’s the SB City Rose Garden near his home.

27 Your Westmont

President Beebe unveils new painting; beloved professor earns award; and students host an art sale

35 Real Estate

Mark Hunt surveys the Santa Barbara scene, taking a close look at a quartet of homes from Seaview Drive to Santa Rosa Lane to East Mountain Drive

38 Legal Advertising 39 Movie Guide 42 Calendar of Events

UCSB music; SB Folk Orchestra; The Lark and book signing at Chaucer’s; Jewel Kilcher; political podcast; Carousel Carnival; musical jubilee; gala at Lobero; Station Eleven; and Lobero hosts Arturo Sandoval

44 Open House Directory 45 Real Estate View

Michael Phillips feels the Montecito Heat Index, which registers at 147, almost triple the demand of the same date in 2016; the $4-to-$5-million group takes top honors

46 Classified Advertising

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

47 Local Business Directory

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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.

California Screaming

fter a weekend of Thanksgiving gobbling and gorging, most of us are more interested in waist cuts than tax cuts, but the Senate is about to make its move on tax reform… and Californians are nervous. Voter registration in the State of California runs 44% Democrat versus 29% Republican; California is definitely a dark-blue state, especially along the coast. Both of California’s U.S. Senators and 39 of 53 House members are Democrats. In Santa Barbara County District 1, which includes Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito, a large swath of Santa Barbara, and Cuyama Valley, the party count is 50% registered Democrat voters and only 20% registered Republicans. Independent voters along the coast tend to support Democrats. On tax relief, California voters are a little closer, according to research from the Public Policy Institute of California: 43% say they prefer paying lower taxes and receiving fewer government services, while 48% say they are willing to pay higher taxes for more government services. We wonder how many of those 48% pay any taxes at all, or if they are saying they’d be happy to raise your taxes to pay for their services?

Nancy Pelosi says…

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Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has been in Congress for 30 years representing San Francisco’s 12th District. During her years in public service, she has accumulated a colossal net worth of well over $200 million, making her the ninth-wealthiest member of Congress. She can well afford higher taxes without compromising her lifestyle. As speaker of the House, Ms Pelosi demanded her own government jet to commute from Washington to her Bay Area home. She now says this about GOP Tax Reform: “The Republican Tax Plan gives away the store to the wealthiest, while sticking the middle class with the bill… 36 million middle-class families will see a tax hike under Speaker Ryan’s GOP tax scam.”

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Never shy, senator Chuck Schumer (D-New York) joins in the class-warfare cry with this tidy tidbit: “The Republican Tax Plan is little more than an acrossthe-board tax cut for America’s millionaires and billionaires.” Neo-socialist Bernie Sanders “The Republican Tax Plan is morallyHOMEWOOD repugnant and bad economic COLEadds, CONSTRUCTION AND STRUCTURAL - MONTECITO policy.” Let’s look at the GOP Plans in the House and Senate.

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Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail, and was an editor on New York Magazine. He was also a national anchor on CBS, a commentator on ABC Network News, 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.

Lieff it to Gretchen

Making new friends at Maasai Village in Northern Tanzania where the warrior wives taught Gretchen their intricate dance steps

ontecito animal activist Gretchen Lieff has been exploring more liquid assets! Peripatetic Gretchen has just returned to our rarefied enclave from Tanzania after volunteering her services to H2OpenDoors, an organization devoted to helping solve the global water crisis. “It focuses on third-world countries and uses special technology to turn filthy polluted water into clean, safe sustainable drinking water.” she tells me. Gretchen went to the town of Nhobola near Lake Victoria in the north of the country where women have to walk for miles, often in the dark “through terribly dangerous conditions” to provide drinkable water for their thirsty families and animals.

“It is heartbreaking to see these desperate women throughout Africa risking their lives in such a way,” says Gretchen. “Not only did we help this community by providing safe drinking water but also gave them the ability to sell the water to other villages and use this new source of money to build schools and provide medical care. “It felt so good to help such lovely people... to help themselves by leaving them with a truly sustainable clean water solution.” After leaving Tanzania, Gretchen traveled to Zimbabwe, which just dumped its despotic president Mugabe, and went on safari to the Serengeti.

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There are few resources at the Nhobola School, which has more than 400 students. But they welcome Gretchen with smiles and laughter as they recite the English alphabet.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 T HE WAY IT WAS • SANTA BAR BAR A CO M E S O F AGE

A B O U T T H E AU T H O R

or the past 12 years, Hattie Beresford has written a local history column for the Montecito

Journal called “The Way It Was,” in which 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, their historical journal. She is also a regular contributor to the

Montecito Journal Magazine writing the column entitled “Moguls and Mansions.”

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860) A retired teacher of English and American history with the Santa Barbara School District, Hattie attended the University of California, Santa

Barbara, earning degrees in both English and History as well a teaching credential.

Eclectic in her interests, Hattie’s articles run the

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gamut from ranches to mansions, murder to

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delinquency, and elegant hotels to auto camps. Stories behind transportation, entertainment, philanthropy, and celebrations have all found

expression through her pen. This volume contains

Book Signing & Reception D 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 THE WAY IT WAS

THE WAY IT WAS

uring the fifty years between 1880 and 1930,

Santa Barbara threw off its Victorian cloak and

donned the mantilla of a thoroughly modern town.

Wrapping herself in romanticized Spanish tradition,

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she nevertheless bobbed her hair to create the

institutions that prepared the way for the Santa Barbara of today.

The Way It Was ~ Santa Barbara Comes of Age offers a journey into the past that explores the

mountain trails, joins 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 city and contributed greatly to Santa Barbara’s coming of age.

a small collection of the fascinating stories of Santa

MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito. On today’s agenda: a new pool deck and trellis on Court Place, a garage addition on Valley Club Road, new small cell wireless facilities on San Leandro Lane, Miramar Avenue, and Mesa Road, new single-family homes on East Mountain Drive and Nicholas Lane, and many more items. When: 1 pm Where: County Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Knit ‘N Needle Fiber art crafts (knitting, crochet, embroidery, and more) drop-in and meet-up for all ages at Montecito Library. When: 2 to 3 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 Laguna Blanca Open House Children and parents are encouraged to attend as an introduction to the Laguna community. Visit classrooms and explore art, science, music, technology, and cooking. This childcentric event offers an opportunity to tour the school, meet and ask questions of teachers, administrators, and current parents, and learn about the curriculum in each grade while children are engaged in learning activities. Drop-ins welcomed, registration appreciated. When: 3:30 to 5 pm Where: 260 San Ysidro Road Register: www.lagunablanca.org/ open

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

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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 Carpinteria Artists Marketplace The First Saturday Carpinteria Artists Marketplace will be closing its season with a celebration of the arts in the courtyard of the Carpinteria Arts Center. Unique handcrafted gifts will be for sale, and there will be entertainment by the band Saltwater Cowboys and the Americana Cats. Artists interested in participating in future marketplace events are invited to participate by logging into the Carpinteria Arts Center website: Market@carpinteriaartscenter.org to apply. When: 10 am to 4 pm Where: 855 Linden Avenue Info: www.carpinteriaartscenter.org Book Signing at Tecolote Meet actors William Daniels and Bonnie Bartlett in person at a book signing event at Tecolote Book Shop, along with author Cheri Steinkellner. William will be

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signing his memoir, There I Go Again; Bonnie and Cheri will be signing Because I Was a Girl. When: 3 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 E. Valley Road Info: 969-4977 Free Music The Santa Barbara Music Club will present another program in its popular series of concerts of beautiful music. A valued cultural resource in town since 1969, these concerts feature performances by instrumental and vocal soloists and chamber music ensembles, and are free to the public. When: 3 pm Where: Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street Cost: free SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3 Snow Leopard Festival 80 tons of snow will be delivered to the Santa Barbara Zoo for sledding, snow play, and more, in part to bring attention to the zoo’s snow leopard residents. When: 10 am to 4 pm Where: 500 Ninos Drive Info: www.sbzoo.org 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

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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 TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5 Montecito Association Land Use Committee The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito; today the Land Use Committee meets to discuss upcoming projects. When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6 Annual Holiday Luncheon Channel City Club is hosting worldrenowned whale and dolphin expert Dr. Lori Marino, at their annual holiday luncheon. The event takes place at the Fess Parker Resort. Dr. Marino’s talk will be “Dolphins and Whales: Brainiacs of the Sea.” The Montecito Union School Chorus will perform along with local pianist Gil Rosas. When: 11:30 am Where: 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd Tickets: www.channelcityclub.org Free Tech Class at Montecito Library iPads and iPhones are versatile devices capable of countless useful functions, but many of these remain a mystery to their owners. Everyone is invited to bring along his or her iPad and iPhone along with any questions. Users of all levels are welcome. When: 1 pm Where: 1469 East Valley Road Info: (805) 969-5063 Art Exhibit Opening The Divine Inspiration Gallery of fine Art is having a holiday reception for the exhibit: “Down by the Seashore,” featuring watercolor and acrylic

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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 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 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 6:30mpm in conjunction with the Carpinteria farmers market Where: at the Intersection of Linden and 8th streets Information: Sharon at (805) 291-1957 FRIDAYS Farmers Market When: 8 to 11:15 am Where: south side of Coast Village Road •MJ

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pera Santa Barbara just opened the season with their most elaborate production ever — Massenet’s Manon. It was sung in French with English subtitles. When I went to my first opera it was the Opera House in Naples, Italy there were no subtitles. We would read our book that told all the stories before we went, so we had some idea what was going on. Fast-forward to Santa Barbara, prior to the show there was a patron’s reception and dinner in the Founders Room at the Granada. The supporters looked like they stepped out of a more elegant period in time with tuxes for the gentlemen and long gowns for the ladies. The tables were done in black and white with stunning feather centerpieces. The china was equally rich in gold and cream. The diners looked like they should have opera glasses dangling from their necks. Dinner was gourmet by Duo and beautifully served. As artistic director Kostis Protopapas said, “This is a scandalous story of love, lust, and greed and became an instant sensation in

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18th-century Paris. We bring it to life once more in a sumptuous production featuring the most magnificent costumes we have ever put on the Granada stage.” There were 150 costumes and 80-plus wigs brought over from the Sydney opera house. There was also a 45-member orchestra and a 30-member chorus. It was eye candy, indeed! The debut title role was done by soprano Sarah Coburn, who has performed at the Met opposite Placido Domingo. I was amused by her interview in the Scene telling she had three children and saying, “We have a bug collection and a semester project due in a few weeks, so that is what is presently on my mind.” The cover of the program had a

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drawing of a costume design for Ganna Walska in Manon done by Erte in 1920. You may remember she spent the last 40 years of her life developing Lotusland. The curtain call was a standing and noisy ovation. The audience obviously liked it! Look for The Barber of Seville March 2 and 4, 2018. Board chair Nancy McAleer Golden told us, “To build new audiences, we’re taking opera out of the opera house with two performances of a double bill of contemporary one-act operas at the Center Stage Theatre on April 20 and 21, 2018. Our studio artists will also be performing concerts throughout Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties

and will introduce school children to opera through our innovative Opera Lab program.” So, come on out and try some opera. It beats all those car-crash movies. For tickets or information, call (805) 8992224/Operasb.org.

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Why a barber for your chosen profession? Barbering is one of the oldest professions. For years, it has brought communities together. Your local barbershop is where you go to get groomed, relax, laugh, joke, and feel at home. I’ve always wanted to find a career that felt more like home and family then a job!

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A Cut above: Richie Among Nominees

elf-made Montecito business owner Richie Ramirez, owner of Richie’s Barber Shop on Coast Village Road (CVR) is one of five nominees for the title and responsibilities of the Santa Barbara Young Professional [SBYP] 2017. It’s a role that continues till December 2018. To find out more, I contacted attorney Andrea G. Posey, Young Professionals board member who was the SBYP 2015. She added, “In March 1996, the SBYPO was founded and led by Dan Encell, with members Jim Hazard, J. Paul Gignac, Amanda Thomas, Shana Bright, Michael Magne, Laird Cagan, and Laura Carlos. In 2010, we introduced the Young Professional of the Year Award, presented at our Annual Holiday Gala to an individual, age 45 or younger, who has demonstrated the traits and actions of an exemplary young professional in our community. The five finalists for 2017 selected by the board are Cassidy Arnold, Danielle Hazarian, Kat Hitchcock, Richie Ramirez, and Marine Schumann.”

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Richie Ramirez the barber is up for Young Professional SB 2017

Richie’s CV shows a strong and dedicated track record for establishing his own successful barber shop business in Montecito and winning the SB INDE’s Best of in 2015, 2016, and 2017. Starting out in town with an established shop near Vons, he jumped on his own, and now employs six barbers – five are women, a game-changer. Having been there, he looks to help others succeed, especially those less fortunate with a huge soft spot for kids.

To keep balance, he practices various martial arts and is a classic motorcycle enthusiast. Richie is an active member of the SB Chamber of Commerce, fund-raises for the Boys & Girls Club of SB, the Orfalea Foundation, Jodi House Brain Injury Support Center, CASA SB, Transition House, SB Police Department, the “Movember” Foundation USA, Toys for Tots, Relief for Vegas, and Relief for Sonoma County. Richie and I talked about it at his shop: Q. Please tell us about your nomination for Young Professional of 2017. A. I’m a small business owner that tries to give back to communities that have supported my barber shop for the last seven years. It may be on a smaller level, but I’m grateful for the fact that I was nominated. If you are chosen, how will you interpret the role and how will you use it for the community, other young professionals, and yourself? Honestly, I’m just thankful to be a part of the top five nominated. My fellow nominees are amazing! However, if I were chosen I would give it right back to the community. I would like to get involved with kids and be a positive role model just as I had it when I first started. My team and I are discussing a future program to mentor young people with an interest in barbering or becoming a small business owner.

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Who are your mentors? I’ve been lucky to work in a community where many successful business owners live! Pete Jordano (CEO of Jordano’s food service), Shawn Stussy (creator of Stussy clothing), Emmet Hawks (Hawks & Co Realtor), Paul Orfalea (founder of Kinkos), and Andy Puzder (CEO of Carl’s Junior) would be my top five! These men have taken me under their wing. They’ve always been there for me. I look up to them, and they give me great advice in all aspects of my life. I would also like to give a special thanks to my • The Voice of the Village •

How did you grow your business from yourself to six barbers? Again, the community. Mostly word of mouth in the beginning. We try to stay noticed on social media. If you give a great service, people will come back and bring their friends! And five of six are women... Honesty, it just happened. The first female barber was referred. She then recruited a friend, and so on. All our female barbers knew how to cut, but everyone still goes through a training period to cut “The Richie’s Barber Shop” way, which is really just attention to detail from start to finish. What are your plans for your shop? There are some great things in the works, but most importantly we would like to keep growing our business! The more we grow, the more we can give back! That’s very important to not only me, but my crew as well. We are all on the same page and that’s very important to me. How did you get into martial arts, and what does it mean in your life? I’ve been into fitness most of my life. I got into boxing 13 years ago. That evolved into Jujitsu, wrestling, and kickboxing at Paragon Academy. It’s a huge outlet for me! It’s challenging both physically and mentally. Recently, my team at Paragon took us to Thailand, where I trained with an Aka Thailand trainer in the Muay Thai style for 10 days. It was a great experience. And your soft spot for kids and others in need comes from...? I’ve had such great mentors in my life. I guess it’s just my way of paying it forward. How about that Triumph ‘66 moto in the window... and any more at home? Longtime client and friend Doug McKenzie has an entire collection. He lets us showcase his bikes in our window. It’s a great visual for us and showstopper for people walking by. MJ wishes our best to Richie and hoping he comes home with the win! 411: www.sbypc.org www.richiesbarbershopsb.com

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Spirituality Matters by Steven Libowitz “Spirituality Matters” highlights two or three Santa Barbara area spiritual gatherings. Unusual themes and events with that something extra, especially newer ones looking for a boost in attendance, receive special attention. For consideration for inclusion in this column, email slibowitz@yahoo.com.

Stringer Theory: Chanting for Conscious Healing

n his most recent email missive, Yoga Soup founder/owner Eddie Ellner mused on how his effort 12 years ago to “construct the place that I’d want to go to when I felt I had no place to go” eventually turned into the thriving consciousness-raising hub as he eventually realized that he was “surrounded by a loving, supportive, and appreciative community.” Kirtan singer Dave Stringer – who back then was not long out of his singer-songwriter/filmmaker days – was one of the first visiting performers helping to open Yoga Soup a dozen years ago and has since gone on to help expand the genre of call-and-response devotional singing beyond studios to the mainstream. This weekend, the two are reuniting for the first time in several years when Stringer returns for a special holiday concert and chant-fest concert at Yoga Soup that begins with a food court with vendors selling unique gifts in the main building before moving to the studio for the music. Stringer – who will be accompanied by singer-songwriters Joss Jaffe (who was raised in Montecito) and Sheila Nicholls, plus local musicians Sudama, Mark Kennedy and Philippo Franchini – talked about the concepts and the concert over the phone.

t was a wonderful evening for local author Randi Rabin as Tecolote Book Shop was filled on Thursday the 16th with friends and family celebrating the release of her new book, “Grab Your Miracle!” The Magic of a Mother’s Love. The shop was a buzz with everyone saluting Randi and her beautiful story. Congratulations Randi!

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On Entertainment Baxter’s Ties That Bind

by Steven Libowitz

he world “family” shows up in the title of no fewer than half a dozen TV shows on Meredith Baxter’s list of acting credits, from an early guest shot on The Partridge Family, to her four-year (and double Emmy-winning) stint at the end of the 1970s on Family to her famed seven-year run as Elyse on the hit sitcom Family Ties. The actress herself credits her TV family with helping her cope with marital problems at home. So, it’s no surprise that 30 years later Baxter is still performing with her TV husband from the latter series, this next time reprising one of her cherished roles as Melissa in A.R. Gurney’s two-character epistolary classic, Love Letters, opposite Michael Gross’s Andrew. The two sit side by side at tables and reading half a century’s worth of the notes, letters, and cards in which they discuss their hopes, dreams, disappointments, and defeats. Baxter became a permanent resident of Santa Barbara just 13 months ago, buying a home near the Mission with her spouse, general contractor Nancy Locke. While Baxter and Gross have previously collaborated more than 20 times on Love Letters, this weekend’s performances – a benefit for Speaking of Stories – marks her official local debut with the play. She talked about the show and more earlier this week.

Q. How does your time on Family Ties still resonate for you? A. I did it for several years, so I have a lot of fondness. But what mostly stood out was the people I got to work with. It was a lot of mutual respect and admiration between all of us. We

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Meredith Baxter co-stars in Love Letters on Center Stage (photo by Greg Hernandez)

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younger than they are; you can count on one hand the female actresses who gets any parts with substance. Any job that comes up for anyone over 50, all the woman in town are trying to get that part. Outside of acting itself, you’ve had other challenges, from an abusive marriage to surviving breast cancer, to coming to terms with your sexual orientation, all of which you talked about in your book few years ago. And I saw on TV clips how you persevered by not wanting to perceive yourself as a victim. How did you come to that? The only thing I can say about that is sobriety. I grew up and became a sober woman. A 12-step program allowed me to follow the process that revealed myself to me – who I was, how I behaved and how I made the choices that I did. That had all been lost to me because I was so busy feeling sorry for myself since my childhood. I just saw a New Yorker cartoon the other day, and I laughed for a moment before I was horrified. There’s a woman lying on the ground, and she says, “Someone dropped me as a baby,” the idea being you stay dropped, but that’s up to you. It wasn’t who I wanted to be. I didn’t want to perceive myself that way anymore. Speaking of perception, I saw the clip of you on the Ken Boxer cable show recently. Everyone is astonished that you’re 70! I don’t want to ask the clichéd question about your secret, but what’s your secret? I’m currently working with the most amazing trainer here in Santa Barbara who has helped me to do what you need to do without hurting. I feel so much stronger. I’d attribute a lot to that. Otherwise, I’m just a happy person and I have good genes. What else can I say? (Love Letters with Meredith Baxter and Michael Gross, directed by Speaking of Stories’s Maggie Mixsell, performs at 2 & 6 pm on Sunday, December 3, at Center Stage Theater, upstairs at Paseo Nuevo. Tickets cost

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Christmas at Pemberley

Andrew Barnicle freely admitted he had some doubts about signing on to helm Ensemble Theatre’s holiday show Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, an imagined sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, despite scoring successes with all three of his previous directing turns at the Santa Barbara company in just two short years. “I’ll be honest, I was skeptical,” he said over the phone last week. “And I didn’t even know why they wanted me. I do understand historically how things work. But quite frankly, I figured he would want a female whose sensibilities seemed more attuned to Austen than mine. Then I read it and I liked it. “But the real litmus test was my wife.” That would be the woman who served alongside him as volunteer dramaturg at Laguna Playhouse, where Barnicle was the artistic director, helming 40 plays and producing another 80 during his 20 year tenure. His wife, Barnicle said, is “the biggest Jane Austen freak in the world.” “When I gave it to her, she said, ‘No, nobody would try to write that.’ But then she read it one sitting and declared it delightful. So I knew I was good to go.” The Barnicles aren’t the only ones impressed by Miss Bennet. Only a year after debuting, the play has become a regional holiday hit, while its co-author, Lauren Gunderson, at 35, is said to be the most produced playwright in the country for the 2017-18 season. “She’s done a really accurate job of recreating the style and syntax of Jane Austen, the circumventing language that dances around the truth with that weird veneer of politeness of the era before getting down to it,” Barnicle said. The plot of Miss Bennet concerns the “lost middle sister, Mary, who is neglected in Pride and Prejudice, just a geeky teenager that nobody played attention to. But now, just two years later, she’s having her moment in the sun,” he said. “It’s about her coming of age and finding out who she is in the shadow of her sisters.” The action takes place at the titled estate, the distinguished home of Mr. and Mrs. Darcy in the early 19th century. The happy couple have invited the entire family to visit for Christmas, and they gather in the drawing room as the play unfolds. “It’s a holiday play with lots of

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Rescue Mission

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he Santa Barbara Rescue Mission’s $10-million renovation is now in its first phase of the estimated 16-month project. Interior walls and ceilings are demolished and gutted down to its wooden bones. The carpet and linoleum floors are peeled away to the shelter’s original concrete slab on the first story, to thick heavy plywood on the second. What was recently the last functioning bathroom for the dozens of homeless guests that arrive every day for food, shelter, and a place to sleep, is nothing more than a hollowed-out room with no doors or lighting, just old black pipes still tangled in the walls of stucco and original 2x4s. And the old-weathered tile on the bathroom floors and walls – that too is gone. As a result, the one and only bathroom for the homeless men and women is on the second floor, and shared with the 35 men enrolled in the drug and alcohol treatment program, the only inpatient rehab in the City of

Santa Barbara that is completely free of charge. The 53-year-old non-profit organization can currently house 22 women and 18 men overnight. Of course, these numbers are temporary, and because of the private funded refurbishment, according to the Rescue Mission’s news column online, “the shelter capacity will double.” President of the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission Rolf Geyling says this renovation will be a major improvement and better benefit the homeless community, especially the women who will not only gain a large bathroom of their own in the new-andimproved sector of the facility. These alterations are aimed to provide safer conditions for the females altogether, and ultimately, their overall bed availability will increase as well. In the interim, the few beds that are available, of course, will be given to the most guests who are: the elderly, the sick, or any physically and/ or mentally disabled person has the

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Myth #1

GOP Tax Cuts Will Only Benefit Millionaires and Billionaires. The House plan contains $228 billion in tax relief for individual taxpayers. It will reduce the current number of tax brackets from seven to four, but the top rate remains at 39.6%. There would be a net reduction in taxes across all income groups, including middle- and low-income filers. A family of four people with an average household income of $72,641 would save $1,200 on their tax bill. According to the liberal Chicago Tribune, the House tax reform plan, if it becomes law, will result in nearly 81 million federal income-tax filers (or 47.5% of all filers) paying nothing (zippo, zilch, not a penny) in 2018 in federal taxes. That number will be up from 2017, when an estimated 44% of filers will pay no federal income taxes. The new plan nearly doubles the standard deduction from $12,600 to $24,000 for married taxpayers filing jointly, and half that for single payers. Here’s how a married couple with $50,000 or with $100,000 in adjusted gross income would fare under the current tax plan (2017) and under the proposed House-approved plan (2018). Adj. Gross Income Std. Deduction

Taxable Income Taxes Owed House Plan Tax Savings

$50,000 $50,000

$12,600 (2017) $38,400 $24,000 (2018) $26,000

$4,827 $3,120

$1,707 (35%)

$100,000 $100,00

$12,600 (2017) $87,400 $24,000 (2028) $76,000

$12,178 $9,120

$3,058 (25%)

In addition, under the House Plan, the child credit exemption will be boosted from $1,000 per child to $1,600, favoring lower- and middle-income families in their early years that tend to have larger families with young children. Mortgage interest would be deductible, but only up to a $500,000 mortgage, again penalizing the rich and the two-home owners.

Myth #2

Tax Simplification is No Big Deal It has been more than 30 years since Washington, D.C., has passed significant tax reform. For 30 years, tassel-toed lobbyists have inserted exemption after exemption for clients who pay for privileged treatment in our tax system. Under the House Plan, an estimated 94% of filers, will not itemize deductions, preferring to take the increased standard deduction and filing a postcard return. This would save a major portion of the $195 billion a year taxpayers spend on accountants and tax preparers. By filing for the standard deduction, taxpayers will no longer spend six billion hours per year of their own time, for tax record keeping, tax preparation, and compliance costs.

Myth #3

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Myth #4

“We are kicking 13 million people off health insurance to give tax cuts to the wealthy,” says Chuck Schumer. Senator Schuman can’t even formulate a good lie when he says, “The Republicans are paying for tax cuts with reductions in Medicare.” Changes to Medicare or Medicaid are not mentioned in either the House or Senate tax reform bill. The truth is that nobody is being kicked off health insurance. Instead, 13 million taxpayers who have elected not to buy ObamaCare coverage would no longer be forced to pay an annual fine (or a “tax” according to Supreme Court justice John Roberts) for not purchasing mandatory government healthcare insurance. Over 10 years, an estimated $338 billion dollars would be taken out of the government’s pocket and put back where it belongs, in the taxpayers’ pocket, especially benefiting the young and healthy. For 2018, Santa Barbara County will be down to one approved ACA (Affordable Care Act) insurance provider – Blue Shield – after Anthem Blue Cross pulled out of the market. For a family of four, annual ACA premium costs are expected to reach $30,000 a year, including an expensive $24,000 annual basic coverage package with a $7,000 deductible. Remember this old Obama promise: “On average, every family will save $2,500 on their health insurance premiums.”

Myth #5

Cutting the Corporate Tax Rate From 35% to 20% is a Bad Idea Because It Rewards Big Corporations, Millionaires, and Billionaires. Cutting the corporate tax rate from 35% – the highest tax rate in the industrialized world – to 20% makes U.S. businesses more competitive, boosts economic growth, increases capital investment in the U.S. for new factories and businesses and stimulates job creation. The average corporate tax rate in the developed world is 25%; tax havens including Ireland (12.5%) or the Bahamas, Bermuda, and the Cayman Islands offer a zero corporate tax rate. Small-business owners who do not choose to incorporate to gain personal liability protection will be allowed to reduce their taxes. The House bill reduces their top rate to 25% with some limitations. The Senate bill would allow them to claim a deduction equal to 17.4 % of their business income. Both plans address small-business tax relief. According to The Wall Street Journal, “corporate tax reform is a serious attempt to fix a broken U.S. tax code that has festered for 30 years and made America increasingly uncompetitive as a destination for mobile global capital. The GOP reforms would help the economy and make it harder for corporations to cheat.” U.S. companies such as Apple and Google would be able to repatriate their foreign income, creating an enormous pool of capital for new business creation, driving up the demand for U.S. workers and driving up wages.

Potential Losers in GOP Tax Reform

There will be a small number of people, estimated at 8%, who may pay higher taxes even though tax rates will be reduced. Mostly they will be wealthy Americans in high-tax states who will lose their federal exemption for state and local taxes, and their exemption for property taxes above the $10,000 threshold. That would include me, but I am more than willing to pay higher taxes to demonstrate to tax-and-spend liberals in California how much we actually pay in taxes to deliver our substandard roads, humdrum schools, and runaway state, county, and teacher public pensions and healthcare costs. •MJ

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Promises to Keep

ecently, at one of those pleasant “curbside free libraries,” which have lately become so popular, I picked up a book called I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. I was intrigued by the title, for a personal reason. No one ever promised me a rose garden, either – and I never particularly wanted one – but I got one anyway, and though I don’t own it, you might say I acquired it by marriage. I’m talking about the Santa Barbara City Rose Garden – a municipal treasure, which happens to be located just a few yards from the house where Dorothy and I have lived since 1973. It lies on our side of a sort of open park stretching between us and the Old Spanish Mission. Dorothy’s family has been in Santa Barbara for generations, and we moved here so she could be near them. Our house was originally her mother’s. The Rose Garden, maintained by a devoted corps of volunteers, is virtually our back yard. Too bad I’m not enough of a rose lover to take an interest in all the varieties. Even more a pity, because I assume from the book’s title that such an asset is one symbolizing an easy joyful life. But I’m really more interested in promises than in rose gardens, anyway. Robert Frost, in one of his most famous poems told us that he had …promises to keep, And miles to go, before I sleep. We don’t know what those promises were – and we don’t want to know. Those two lines stand as a metaphor for the essence and tragedy of all our lives: we must live, and fulfill our obligations, before we die. But our lives are built on other promises – especially financial promises to pay and wedding vows. There are also, of course, politicians’ promises – but few of us give them any more credit than they deserve. But what about the most important promises of all – those made by God – and one in particular concerning land ownership. There are many mentions in the Old Testament about these – but in the first one, made to Abraham, and bestowed upon his descendants, not only is the specific territory delineated, (as running from the Nile to the Euphrates), but all its then-current inhabitants – 10 different peoples – are named – all presumably 30 November – 7 December 2017

to be dispossessed (which could only mean eradication, or, at the very least, enslavement). This was the pledge that enabled the Hebrews to claim a “Promised Land,” and to consider themselves a “Chosen People” – thus prompting this witticism several thousand years later:

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The story of the transformation of those aspirations into a political reality – the epic called “Zionism” – is to me one of the most enthralling chapters of modern history (perhaps in part because in my late teens, I was able to spend a summer in the State of Israel, which was then only five years old.) It centers around a book called The Jewish State, published in 1896 by a young journalist named Theodore Herzl, who came from an Austrian Judaic background, but had been thoroughly assimilated. His most famous quote was “If you will it, it is no dream.” But of course, there have been many other Promised Lands. One is the spiritual home of the Mormons in Utah, to which they were led by Brigham Young, who in 1847, overlooking what is now Salt Lake City, is said to have uttered the words “This is the Place.” And Martin Luther King, on April 3, 1968, the day before he was killed, spoke more metaphorically of the ultimate triumph of his cause when he said that he had been allowed to go “up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land!” Since we began today in a rose garden, I’d like to end by taking you back there, to remind you of that famous poetry competition in Spain, in which the prizes were three roses. Third prize was a rose of silver. Second prize was a rose of gold. And the grand prize was: a real rose. •MJ

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stand that we’re trafficking in sounds that are inherently either soothing or can convey some kind of meaning. When I break them down, you get to collaborate in seeing what state they are meant to evoke, which works across cultures, and that the names of gods and goddesses are representations of philosophical concepts and approaches. Similarly, you have studied and embraced the science behind Kirtan – the neuroscience of music and meditation, mantras, and molecules. Why does that matter? Partly because I want to know how it works. How is it that I can start out singing in a terrible mood and end up feeling elevated and connected as a result of just singing what are basically non-sensical syllables? To me, having an understanding of how we are neuro-equipped for ecstasy, and especially how it is that we are driven to experience it on a collective level, is important. I love looking into that whole hypothesis that consciousness is something we as humans share but don’t possess. In composing kirtan songs, what drives your decisions on melody, instrumentation? And for that matter, when played live, the rhythm and tempo, et cetera? The ragas and melodies are deeply within us, and for me as a writer it’s partly a matter of discovery. They’re elemental. They’re not arbitrary. So, the effort is to connect to something deeper. When I do that, it automatically produces a connective response. (As far as live), skillful kirtan musicians know how to listen and connect organically. It’s like what drives a flock of birds or school of fish. What is the underlying consciousness? Who decides? We do, collectively, by listening to each other, and the audience singing the music back. What causes us to speed up, or drop out, or change the groove is attunement and a feeling of “rightness.”

matic past. Her alcoholic father was abusive to both her and her brothers after divorcing her mother when Jewel was just 8. Now they’re all touring together to celebrate the holiday season. “We’re really coming full-circle in a lot of ways,” she said. It’s unlikely she’ll delve into the subject at the concert, but Jewel is also an expert on the suddenly hot topic of sexual harassment, as the singer-songwriter lost her first two jobs as a teenager for turning down propositions from her bosses, stories that have been documented in the book and interviews. Just three years later, she found herself as one of the headliners on the debut Lilith Fair high-profile women’s tour. Full circle, indeed.

The Power of Meaning

Emily Esfahani Smith, the TED Talks favorite and author of The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life that Matters, knows that there’s more to life than endlessly searching for happiness. The positive psychology instructor and editor at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Smith draws on psychology, philosophy, and literature to postulate that pursuing meaning in life is ultimately more fulfilling and leads to a richer life. Smith, who writes about the human experience – why we are the way we are, and how we can find grace and meaning in a world that is full of suffering – gives a public lecture titled “The Power of Meaning: Making Your Life, Work and Relationships Matter” at UCSB Campbell Hall at 7:30 pm this Thursday, November 30. Admission is free.

Moon-gazing Meditations under a Roof

(The Yoga Soup holiday party and concert with Dave Stringer & Friends takes place 6:30 pm on Saturday, December 2. Admission is $20 in advance, $25 at the door. Call 965-8811 or visit www.yogasoup.com.)

Rupa Meditation founder Tom G. O’Brien, a Montecito native, is back in town and hosting his monthly Full Moon Meditations again. Only with the winter fast approaching, you’ll have to imagine the luminous orb as the events have moved indoors for the next several offerings. The next program, slated for 8 pm this Saturday, December 2, takes place at The Base, the new fitness and wellness facility at 116 Anacapa St. in the heart of the Funk Zone, just a couple of blocks away from East Beach, the meditations’ warm-weather locale. Each event features a new guided meditation from O’Brien, as well as continued focus on a variety of pranayama (breathing) exercises. Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for seniors, students and teens, and by donation for veterans and first responders. Returning participants get a $5 discount. No experience is necessary, and there’s plenty of room at the workout space. For details or to reserve a spot, email O’Brien at rupameditation@gmail.com or text 453-8965.

Jewel: Falling from Pieces to Peace

More Magic in the Moonlight

What can we expect this time around at Yoga Soup? I’ll sing some classic call and response kirtans, but we’ll also do songs. That was always the tradition (in India), a philosophy in poetry that would be sung intermixed with kirtans. So, we are using meditations to move people from mass ecstasy to mass stillness, and then offer songs that are both beautiful and philosophical. Sheila and Joss will do a few songs, too, and I might even do some new songs from a record that I’m working on in English right now.

Back in 1995, Jewel’s first pop album Pieces of You took nearly two years to click, and then, almost overnight, became one of the bestselling debut records of all time, eventually moving more than 12 million copies. The singer-songwriter was just 21 at the time, not far removed from being a homeless San Diego teenager, and the sudden success might have proved overwhelming if not for the mindfulness practices and coping mechanisms she’d already developed in her early days as an aspiring troubadour. (Not coincidentally, her first two smash hit singles were called “Who Will Save Your Soul” and “You Were Meant for Me”.) Fast-forward 22 years, and Jewel – who brings her Handmade Holiday tour featuring her father and two brothers as guests to the Chumash Casino on Friday night (see the events calendar) – is turning that lifelong spiritual pursuit into a business. Jewel Inc., which launches just a year after the debut of her website www.JewelNeverBroken.com (named after her 2015 memoir), a joint project with mindfulness research expert Judson Brewer, expands upon the concept of encouraging “emotional fitness.” The company will offer a digital tool kit to improve mental health fitness, and she’s also creating curriculum for public schools to help youngsters “realize they are observers of their thoughts, not victims of them,” she told the San Diego Union-Tribune last week. If nothing else, the current concert tour is proof of healing her own trau-

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Patrick San Francesco – the Goa, India-based healer, teacher, and philanthropist who travels the world offering healing to individuals, teaching his unique energy healing in workshops, and presenting talks on higher consciousness – returns to Santa Barbara for two events at Yasa Yoga & Wellness Center (22 W. Mission St.) this weekend. The founder of Samarpan Foundation and Light Movement Foundation helps participants to harness the power of the full moon with his Celestial Meditation and Talk 6:30 to 8:30 pm on Friday, December 1, then returns to the studio the next morning for a four-hour workshop Consciousness and Power Living talk and healing sessions (Level 1/Level 3) beginning at 9 am. Admission is $20 Friday night, and $150 on Saturday, and proceeds go to fund the Samarpan Foundation, a non-profit charity named after the Sanskrit word meaning “surrendering your identity to the universe” that serves the poorest and most vulnerable people and works to protect and rejuvenate the environment. More info at San Franscesco’s website, www.the firstprinciple.org, or call 845-4626 or visit www.yasayoga.com .

Dawa Heads to La Casa

Bodhi Path Santa Barbara resident teacher Dawa Tarchin Phillips is offering another one of his extended local retreats this week over at the La Casa de Maria Retreat Center. The five-day meditation workshop and practice, taking place December 4-8, focuses on “Mahamudra – The Ocean of True Meaning”, a seminal text on Mahamudra Meditation by the 9th Karmapa Wangchuk Dorje. Phillips will lead participants in meditation, discussion, and practice in the beautiful and serene environment of the Montecito center. Meanwhile, with Phillips at the retreat, members of the Bodhi Path sangha – located at 102 W. Mission, a block from Yasa Yoga – take over his regular Thursday evening slot on Thursday, December 7, for a screening and discussion of Hannah: Buddhism’s Untold Journey, a documentary about the transmission of Tibetan Buddhism to the West through the life of Hannah Nydahl, a Danish practitioner and a teacher who was instrumental in this journey. Everyone is welcome; admission by donation. Details at www.bodhipath.org. •MJ

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Let’s Have Color

Quite some years ago, when Coast Village Road was created, the right things were done, like the various medians, et cetera, and each has excellent beautiful trees and bushes. Coast Village Road, in the old days, was a “fill-up” turn-off for gasoline/ oil. There were 13 to 14 stations along the one-mile stretch. Between San Francisco and Los Angeles, they were easy to reach. Later, the designers and makers of the medians did create a water sprinkling system therein... underground. Wouldn’t it be interesting to plant the drought-resistant, beautiful, bright high-color bougainvillea between the now mature trees? G. Hebert Montecito (Editor’s note: Now there is an excellent idea, Mrs. Hebert. Bougainvillea’s water needs are slight and the flowers bloom for a good part of the year, so they would make perfect mid-median flora. – J.B.)

Hockey Stick Rebuttal

Dr. Harold Lewis was a UCSB emeritus professor of physics, former chairman; former member of the Defense Science Board, chairman of a technology panel; chairman DSB study on Nuclear Winter; former member of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards; former member of the President’s Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee; chairman of the APS (American Physical Society) study on Nuclear Reactor Safety, chairman of the Risk Assessment Review Group; co-founder and former chairman of JASON; former member USAF Scientific Advisory Board; served in the U.S. Navy in World War II; wrote Technological Risk (about, surprise, technological risk) and Why Flip a Coin? (about decision making). He was also my next-door neighbor and head of the UCSB physics department, as well as a NASA consultant. I thought you and Mr. Ray Winn might enjoy the following letter that the late Dr. Lewis sent to Curtis G. Gallan, Jr., Princeton University, president of the American Physical Society (APS), dated 6 October, 2010: “Dear Curt, “When I first joined the American Physical Society sixty-seven years ago, it was much smaller, much gentler, and as yet uncorrupted by the money flood (a threat against which Dwight Eisenhower warned a half-century ago). Indeed, the choice of physics as a profession was then a guarantor of a life of poverty and abstinence – it was World War II that changed all that. The prospect of worldly gain drove few physicists. As recently as thirty-five years ago, when I chaired the first APS study of

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by a few people over lunch, and is certainly not representative of the talents of APS members as I have long known them. So, a few of us petitioned the Council to reconsider it. One of the outstanding marks of (in)distinction in the Statement was the poison word ‘incontrovertible,’ which describes few items in physics, certainly not this one. In response, APS appointed a secret committee that never met, never troubled to speak to any skeptics, yet endorsed the Statement in its entirety. (They did admit that the tone was a bit strong, but amazingly kept the poison word ‘incontrovertible’ to describe the evidence, a position supported by no one.) “In the end, the Council kept the original statement, word for word, but approved a far longer ‘explanatory’ screed, admitting that there were uncertainties, but brushing them aside to give blanket approval to the original. The original Statement, which still stands as the APS position, also contains what I consider pompous and asinine advice to all world governments, as if the APS were master of the universe. It is not, and I am embarrassed that our leaders seem to think it is. This is not fun and games, these are serious matters involving vast fractions of our national substance, and the reputation of the Society as a scientific society is at stake. “3) In the interim, the ClimateGate scandal broke into the news, and the machinations of the principal alarmists were revealed to the world. It was a fraud on a scale I have never seen, and I lack the words to describe its enormity. Effect on the APS position: none. None at all. This is not science; other forces are at work. “4) So, a few of us tried to bring science into the act (that is, after all, the alleged and historic purpose of APS), and collected the necessary 200+ signatures to bring to the Council a proposal for a Topical Group on Climate Science, thinking that open discussion of the scientific issues, in the best tradition of physics, would be beneficial to all, and also a contribution to the nation. I might note that it was not easy to collect the signatures, since you denied us the use of the APS membership list. We conformed in every way with the requirements of the APS Constitution, and described in great detail what we had in mind – simply to bring the subject into the open. “5) To our amazement, Constitution be damned, you declined to accept our petition, but instead used your own control of the mailing list to run a poll on the members’ interest in a TG on Climate and the Environment.

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

Augustinian Painting Unveiled for Beebes Gayle and Pam Beebe with a painting of Saint Augustine after chapel

estmont trustee Walter Hansen and Bruce Herman, Lothlorien distinguished professor in fine arts at Gordon College, presented president Gayle D. Beebe and his wife, Pam, with a commissioned portrait of Saint Augustine on October 27 in Westmont chapel. The gift honors the couple’s 10 years of service at Westmont. In Beebe’s book Longing for God, he describes Augustine as the most influential Christian figure in the history of the Church. Westmont named its honors program featuring 90 students who benefit from significant scholarships after Augustine. “Gayle is the original Augustinian here at Westmont,” Hansen said. “So we’re honoring him today by giving him a portrait of his hero.” Herman and his apprentice, Rachel Pacitti, a junior at Gordon, worked on the painting together. “All four of us collaborated on this project,” Herman said. “I was the master artist,

but Gayle is the brains behind it, and Walter is the heart behind it. His love for Gayle, his love for Jesus Christ, and his love for the wise words of Saint Augustine are what gave me the engine to move forward. The work of Augustine, whom we revere in the Christian tradition, was predicated in humility and losing his face, as it were, in order to gain a new name that Christ would give him rather than to make a name for himself.” In the painting, the face of Augustine, who was North African, is taken from images of first-century sarcophagus portraits and photos of the late Abune Paulos, the former head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Gayle met Paulos at Princeton Theological Seminary in 1982 after Paulos had been imprisoned and tortured for speaking out against communism in 1974. “He is an incredible, ordinary saint,” Gayle said. “His is the face I think of when I imagine Saint Augustine.

“Plato says beauty is the only spiritual essence we love instinctively by our nature. We should use it for access to the transcendent good. I often think of paintings as avenues God uses to awaken in us a deeper love and awareness. This painting is such a remarkable piece of work. We will treasure this the rest of our lives.”

Spencer Named Master Teacher Greg Spencer, Westmont professor of communication studies, is the Western States Communication Association (WSCA) Communication and Instruction Interest Group’s 2018 Master Teacher. Spencer will speak on the Master Teacher panel in Santa Clara on Saturday, February 16, from 1 to 2:30 pm. Each year, the Communication and Instruction Interest Group recognizes master teachers from around the region and asks them to share their teaching style, strategies and philosophies at the WSCA convention and participate in an open forum to discuss their approaches to the profession. Spencer was nominated by members of the WSCA, which was founded in 1929. Spencer earned a bachelor’s degree at California Polytechnic State

Dr. Greg Spencer, communication studies professor

University (Cal Poly) before earning a master’s degree and doctorate in communication, both from the University of Oregon. He has taught at Westmont since 1987, specializing in rhetorical theory and criticism, religious rhetoric, and media ethics. He has published several books, including Awakening the Quieter Virtues, and two novels, The Welkening and Guardian of the Veil. His latest, Reframing the Soul: How Words Transform our Faith, will be released in March 2018.

Holiday Art Sale

The artwork of 15 students and two instructors will be on sale Friday, December 1, from 8:30 am to 4 pm at the Mosher Foundation Terrace outside the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. The handmade pieces include ceramics, drawings, prints, and sculptures. A portion of the sales will support art student scholarships. •MJ

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Tim Aceves, Ashley Tammietti, co-chair Debby Aceves and husband Roger (former mayor of Goleta) at the Noche de Estrellas The SBTHP soirée co-chair Keith Mautino Moore, Kristan O’Donnell, Linda Rosso, Jeannie Davis (direct descendant of Jose de la Guerra), and board member Kevin Snow

I lived for seven years. One must always start with food, and there were tapas including my favorite, tortilla Espanola (egg and potato omelette). The entrée was paella, which originated in Valencia and was cooked in the largest pan I’ve ever seen. It was designed for Santa Barbara Paella Catering and Benjamin Schuster was cooking away. Co-chairs for this Spanish extravaganza were Debby Aceves and Keith

Mautino Moore. Their committee was Robin Cederlof, Terease Chin, Mary Louise Days, Kevin Snow, and Kay Van Horn. The executive director is Anne Petersen, Ph.D. Premier sponsors were James Patrick Donahue and Cecilia S. Donahue, who came all the way from Marin County to join the crowd. Also premier sponsors were Hutton Parker Foundation, Montecito Bank & Trust, Santa Ynez Band of Chumash

Sponsors and honorary chairs of SBTHP’s Spanish evening Jack and Jeff Thiemer with their lovely ladies

Indians, Jack and Jeff Theimer, and Tom and Chris Parker, who were also honorary chairs. John Palminteri led the live auction that could garner a seven-day stay in an Alaskan Cabin or a behind-thescenes tour of Santa Ines Mission Mills. There was music by Folk Orchestra

of Santa Barbara and a performance by Danza de Cota. Board president Terease spoke. Since I don’t think many people understand about SBTHP, the following is an explanation from the program about their founding and what they do. “For over fifty

Chef Benjamin Schuster with his “small” paella pan

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SBTHP board president Terease Chin with the executive director Anne Petersen

years, the SBTHP has worked to preserve, restore, reconstruct, and interpret sites in Santa Barbara County. Founded in 1963 by Dr. Pearl Chase and other concerned community leaders, SBTHP operates El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park – Santa Barbara’s 18th-century birthplace – under a unique agreement with California State Parks. Within the Presidio neighborhood lived many generations of Santa Barbarans, a rich cultural mix of Chumash, Spanish, Mexican, EuroAmerican, Chinese, and Japanese settlers. SBTHP owns and operates Casa de la Guerra, the 1820s home of Presidio Commandante Jose de la Guerra and his family. The restored

home is now a museum featuring original furnishings and rotating exhibits. “In 2009, SBTHP signed an agreement with State Parks to manage and develop the Santa Ines Mission Mills, rare relics of the industrial operations carried on at some of the California missions by Chumash neophytes and Spanish padres, as a future California State Park. Through education programs, living history demonstrations, and exhibits, SBTHP strives to encourage community involvement and foster an appreciation for Santa Barbara’s distinctive history.” If you’d like to become involved, call (805) 965-0093 or just come and have a look.

Samantha Bee

UCSB Arts & Lectures is at it again! They have brought the cutting-edge comedian Samantha Bee from New York to appear at the Arlington Theatre for a conversation with our own local bombshell writer Starshine Roshell, who is also wise and witty. Samantha is known for her comedic voice on her late night show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She was born in Canada and began performing as a member of the all female sketch comedy troupe The Atomic Fireballs. She claims to be shy except

when on stage. In 2003, she was on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as the sole female correspondent for two years (2006 until 2008). She set a record for show longevity, leaving in 2015. On Full Frontal, she explored important stories that mainstream media may have missed. It was nominated for a Primetime Emmy in 2016 for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series. And there’s more. Samantha and her husband, Jason Jones, have co-created the series The Detour about a couple’s experiences on family getaways. When Starshine asked her if it was autobiographical, she chimed in, “Not at all.” Regarding her use of foul language, Samantha admitted her three children were “puritans” who didn’t like her to swear (she doesn’t when they are around) and weren’t interested in her show. Samantha has been named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Wow! Starshine has always been a favorite writer of mine, so it’s not surprising she can interview as well. She has interviewed the likes of George Clooney, Ellen DeGeneres, Steve Martin, Tom Hanks, and Gloria Steinem. Local readers have voted her Best Columnist for 11 years in the Santa Barbara Independent. She’s

Samantha Bee and Starshine Roshell at the UCSB Arts & Lectures event (photo by Kimberly Citro)

also written for many other magazines such as The Week, The Hollywood Reporter, and the New York Post. A lively Q&A followed from fans of all ages. Producer’s Circle members and sponsors met with Samantha on stage after her performance where wine and tapas awaited. A few of those meeting and greeting were premier sponsors Marcia and John Mike Cohen, Justine Roddick, Kirstie Steiner and husband John Groccia, and Gordon Morrell. Miller McCune executive director Celesta M. Billeci told the group, “It’s a UCSB event, but it’s the community that makes it possible.” The Arts & Lectures calendar is packed into 2018. •MJ

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But the Popes not only fed and temporarily housed those in dire need of food and shelter, they also taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ: stories of hope and faith of the Jewish carpenter, who was born in Bethlehem and crucified at the age of 33, for claiming He was the Son of God. By the spring of 1965, because of insurmountable help given by the people and churches who shared the same faith in Jesus and also taught the Holy Gospel, Chuck and Mary’s brand-new organization was now able to serve 225 meals at the daily dinner table. And by 1966, the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission purchased El Nido Hotel at 202 State Street, where they fed and housed 40 homeless guests a night and had a Chapel that seated more than a hundred guests at a time. Overall, the Popes not only expanded their food and bed availability by nearly seven times the amount, but now had room for 12 men who suffered from the disease of alcoholism and/or drug addiction. Men who shared the same disease as today’s clients. But according to the history on the Mission’s webpage, those who joined the evolving organization, one based on love and faith in the Gospel when healing one’s pain and misery, “responded to Chuck’s invitation to ‘start a brand-new life in Christ.’” Twenty years later, in 1986, the oneacre lot on East Yanonali Street was purchased in what the Rescue Mission called the “Miracle on Yanonali Street.” Now, for the past 30 years, the shelter has held 80 homeless men and 20 women. Plus, the treatment program holds 45 men at a time, (but due to the remodel is currently down to 35), and altogether, 53% of the graduates today achieve five years of sobriety and beyond. Despite the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission’s well-above average success rate, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, says Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) is a “chronic relapsing brain disease characterized by compulsive alcohol use, loss of

What was once “useless” storage space downstairs will be utilized for women and children

control over alcohol intake, and a negative emotional state when not using” (NIAAA). The institute also claims that more than 16 million Americans suffer from Alcohol Use Disorder. In addition, the National Institute on Drug Abuse says, “Illicit drug use in the United States has been increasing.

In 2013, an estimated 24.6 million Americans aged 12 or older – 9.4 percent of the population – had used an illicit drug in the past month. This number is up from 8.3 percent in 2002” (NIDA). But because of private donors who make it financially possible for shelter and program to exist, the men and women who are admitted into today’s drug and alcohol treatment program at the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission, the one and only emergency shelter

and inpatient drug treatment program in California’s second-wealthiest county, are able to treat this spreading disease with the help of 75-plus process groups weekly that address everything from PTSD to anger management, to addiction and all types of abuse. Some clients are court-ordered. The term used for those clients is “a nudge from the judge.” Some are family-ordered or self-ordered. Others are alcoholics or drug addicts, but most are both. The younger clients, some who are not yet old enough to drink in a bar, claim heroin is their number-one drug of choice. “Deaths from overdoses of prescription drugs and heroin continue to be the leading cause of unintentional death for Americans,” the network claims; also, in 2014, “47,055 people died from drug overdoses – 1.5 times greater than the number killed in car crashes” (CNN). This program was designed in the 1960s, when the country was at war with Vietnam, so these clients could learn new tools to fight this malignant disease, one that is known to lead to homelessness, jail, even death. The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission teaches or re-teaches those who have abused alcohol and drugs, discipline, and work ethics, to connect or reconnect with God while they prepare to venture back into the world of rules and responsibility. But what the Rescue Mission also conveys is the ability to have faith in oneself; faith that they too can achieve a life of family and employment. So, the clients partake in groups such as “family therapy,” and serve the homeless guests their meals at mealtime; even those who cannot stay after dinner, those with no intention of change, and are okay living in the dark corners of these cold autumn nights, are loved and fed by the Santa Barbara non-profit organization. Most of the clients in treatment have been homeless before. But some have decided they no longer see themselves outdoors, with a needle in their last remaining vein, or drinking a warm beer on the cold streets at dawn. So,

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You did ask the members if they would sign a petition to form a TG on your yet-to-be-defined subject, but provided no petition, and got lots of affirmative responses. (If you had asked about sex, you would have gotten more expressions of interest.) There was, of course, no such petition or proposal, and you have now dropped the Environment part, so the whole matter is moot. (Any lawyer will tell you that you cannot collect signatures on a vague petition, and then fill in whatever you like.) The entire purpose of this exercise was to avoid your constitutional responsibility to take our petition to the Council. “6) As of now, you have formed still another secret and stacked committee to organize your own TG, simply ignoring our lawful petition. “APS management has gamed the problem from the beginning, to suppress serious conversation about the merits of the climate change claims. Do you wonder that I have lost confidence in the organization? “I do feel the need to add one note, and this is conjecture, since it is always risky to discuss other people’s motives. This scheming at APS HQ is so bizarre that there cannot be a simple explanation for it. Some have held that the physicists of today are not as smart as they used to be, but I don’t think that is an issue. I think it is the money, exactly what Eisenhower warned about a half-century ago. There are indeed trillions of dollars involved, to say nothing of the fame and glory (and frequent trips to exotic islands) that go with being a member of the club. “Your own Physics Department (of which you are chairman) would lose millions a year if the global-warming bubble burst. When Penn State absolved Mike Mann of wrongdoing, and the University of East Anglia did the same for Phil Jones, they cannot have been unaware of the financial penalty for doing otherwise. As the old saying goes, you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing. Since I am no philosopher, I’m not going to explore at just which point enlightened self-interest crosses the line into corruption, but a careful reading of the ClimateGate releases makes it clear that this is not an academic question. “I want no part of it, so please accept my resignation. APS no longer represents me, but I hope we are still friends. – Hal” Paul O’Keeffe Santa Barbara

JFK’s 1961 Texas Visit

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tragic event of 1963. I am a witness of his first visit there, and I will explain. I was in my second year of residency in internal medicine at Baylor University Hospital, and my attending physician was Dr. H. Kimmerling. One of my duties was to participate in the care of his private patients who were assigned to the teaching program. One such patient was the Honorable Sam Rayburn, who had returned to his native Texas for cancer treatment. A portion of the hospital top floor became a special suite, as vice president LBJ was a frequent visitor also. In the afternoon of October 1961, I was in the hospital elevator when three men with raincoats pushed me toward the back, while a smiling sun-tanned gentleman advanced toward me. “Jack Kennedy,” he said, shaking my hand and reading my name tag; he asked, “Pierre? French?” “No, Belgian,” I replied simply. By then, the elevator had reached the seventh floor and the presidential party exited. Thirty minutes later, JFK had left the hospital for the airport. Later that evening on my routine rounds, I reviewed Mr. Rayburn’s hospital chart. In the section reserved for the nurses’ notes, I read three entries on separate lines: Pt had a BM; President Kennedy in; Pt had a BM. The local press was silent about this short presidential visit and the only written memento was on a hospital chart, sandwiched between two bodily function notes. Later that month, the patient lapsed into a coma and was transferred to a private clinic in his hometown of Bonham, where he expired a month later. Pierre Nizet Santa Barbara

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We’re only a few days away from 2018, and the State of California has shown no evidence that it has a special relationship with the federal government where it can launder cannabis tax monies into the nation’s banking grid. California treasurer John Chiang has said something about armored trucks to transport all the cash from pot outlet to “special banks,” but no DEA letter saying it’s all legal. Just based on that account should be enough for in-state pot distributors to tell Chiang to take a hike and not collect the weed tax. Under federal law, you cannot monitor an illegal substance. Why enable John Chiang to do so? Matt McLaughlin Santa Barbara •MJ

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friends Tamara Kinsell’s Indian silk prints and heavily beaded caftans, Hjalmar Van Meerdervoort’s handblown glass, and Martine Dupuch’s hand-painted silk stoles and scarves.

Hospice of SB’s Tianna Swede, MSW, lead social worker/ community liaison, reception co-host Linda Yawitz, and Joyce Dudley (photo by Cheryll Puyot)

Bringing Sexy Back Armie Hammer loses out as the Sexiest Man Alive

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“I was relieved to find healthy and robust populations of animals,” adds Gretchen. “My favorite line from the Maasai Rangers was ‘We shoot to kill,’ not the animals, of course, the poachers.” What’s in Store Just in time for Yuletide Montecito, society doyenne Beverley Jackson is joining friends in setting up a pop-up shop downtown. The store at 725 de la Guerra Plaza will sell Beverley’s pine needles baskets and art deco collages, and

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Armie Hammer, the dashing actor son of Montecito car and art collector Michael Hammer, just lost to fellow thespian Blake Shelton, 41, as People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive. Armie was just in our Eden by the Beach for a Cinema Society screening at the Riviera for his latest and most risqué film Call Me By Your Name, which is already getting, as they say in Hollywood, Oscar buzz. “It features a lot of nudity,” Michael tells me. “Armie should get an award for the bravest man alive!” Ticking Away After the firing of anchor Charlie Rose from the TV show CBS This Morning for inappropriate sexual behavior, network executives are asking Oprah Winfrey to come to its rescue and fill in on-air, given she appears on the network’s primetime show 60 Minutes. “They are begging Oprah to fill in,” a TV insider tells the New York’s Post’s Page Six. “Not full time... but they’re hoping she’ll do one day, two days, one hour to fill in till a proper replacement is found. Anything.” Oprah joined 60 Minutes in September and is best friends with This Morning co-anchor Gayle King. Stay tuned. Ray of Light Hospice of Santa Barbara couldn’t have had a nicer evening when it host-

Co-host Linda Yawitz, HSB’s CEO David Selberg, and co-host Gerd Jordano (photo by Cheryll Puyot)

ed its annual Shining Light Society sunset soirée at SB Maritime Museum for VIP donors. District attorney Joyce Dudley joined the more than 70 guests quaffing the wine and snaffling the comestibles, including Gerd Jordano, Hiroko Benko, Chris Davis, Roger and Robin Himowitz, Ted and Kay Stein, and hospice director David Selberg, while harpist Laurie Rasmussen provided a delightful musical backdrop. The charity deals with 1,200 people annually with a budget of $2.5 million. Sweet Dream British singer Cliff Richard was the star of the show in the cavernous ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Bacara when 400 glamorously garbed guests turned out for the popular charity, the Dream Foundation, which hosted its 16th annual gala, Dreamland. Cliff who, you might ask, but Sir

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day to carry on his vision and we will never let him down.” The program included a five-minute video tribute to Michael, reflecting on what it means to the community and meant to the man himself. Over the past decade, the 42-yearold financial institution, which now has more than $1.3 billion in assets, has handed out a hefty $15 million to needy causes. This year there were 365 applications for help, including organizations with missions that serve the arts, youth, education, social welfare, and medical and health service sectors. Among those checking out the lunGala committee members (from left) Yasmine Zodeh, Kelly Weiser, Daryl Stegall (chair), Kisa Heyer (DF CEO), Karen Trogan, and Lana Mohtashemi (photo by Jesse Grant, Getty Images)

Live auction with auctioneer Dawnmarie Kotsonis and a young Dream Foundation supporter (photo by Jesse Grant, Getty Images)

Cliff, 77 – he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1995 for services to music and charity – has sold more than 250 million records during his stellar 60-year career – and is only eclipsed by The Beatles and Elvis Presley. He just debuted his 102nd album and sang four hits, including a cover of Chuck Berry’s rollicking “Roll Over Beethoven”. Tina Schlieske and the Graceland Exiles with Sister Laura also performed at the bustling bash in the venue, spectacularly decorated by Montecito event planning whiz Merryl Brown. Dreamers included Claire Wineland, 20, who has been living with cystic fibrosis her entire life and at age 13 founded the Claire’s Place Foundation that provides support to children and families affected by the disease, and Jim Mills, whose late wife Leeanne’s dream of visiting our Eden by the Beach, was fulfilled by the charity, which has seen a 40 percent increase in requests since 2015. “This year, we hope to forge a connection between Dreams and destiny, reminding us all why dreams are so vital,” says CEO Kisa Heyer. “We value the dreams of all, especially those with limited time remaining.” 30 November – 7 December 2017

cheon largesse were Anne Towbes, Carrie and Lianne Towbes, George Leis, Greg Gorga, Rona Barrett, Joe Campanelli, Leila Drake, Roger Durling, Geoff Green, Hannah-Beth Jackson, Catherine Remak, Luke Swetland, Steve Ortiz, Erik Talkin, Lynn Brittner, Gordon Guy, Sylvana Kelly, Elsa Granados, Mitchell Sloan, Tom Reed, Craig Springer, and Roman Baratiak. Food for Thought Wesley Jones, head of the kitchen at the Rescue Mission, celebrated his

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The ubiquitous Andrew Firestone emceed the gala while DawnMarie Kotsonis acted as auctioneer selling off an Aladdin’s Cave of goodies, including a private cruise for 40 on the Double Dolphin for $6,500, a stay on Vancouver Island for $8,000, a Four Seasons vacation in Maui for $9,000, a private jet trip to Las Vegas for $12,000, a Harry Potter Broadway show and stay at the Mark Hotel in Manhattan for $26,000, and dinner for 10 prepared by celebrity chef Marcel Vigneron at the Montecito home of comedian Dennis Miller and his wife, Carolyn, for $15,000. Among the stellar wave of guests at the beano, which was expected to raise more than $750,000 for the charity which helps achieve 2,800 dreams annually for adults suffering from terminal disease, were Bryan and Lisa Babcock, Bob and Holly Murphy, Luke and Michelle Ebbin, Justine Roddick, Jeff and Hollye Jacobs, Ivana Firestone, Tanya Thicke, Nigel Lythgoe, Doug and Marni Margerum, Peter and Mireille Noone, Alan Rose, Corinna Gordon, Michael and Nati Smith, David Edelman, George Leis, Amanda Klentner, David Selberg, Lynn and Colleen Kirst, and Michael Rosenfeld. Sweeping Dividends It was a bittersweet moment when Montecito Bank & Trust celebrated the 15th anniversary of its Community Dividends Awards, with 184 nonprofits sharing $1 million, at the Coral Casino. It was the first time the popular event had been held without its founder, philanthropist Michael Towbes, who used to describe it as “my favorite day of the year,” who died in April aged 87. Mayor Helene Schneider announced that the annual global Giving Tuesday was being named Michael Towbes Day in his honor, while bank CEO Janet Garufis said: “To carry on this man’s legacy is an honor and a privilege. He set the bar high, and we will work hard every Human saliva’s boiling point is three times that of regular water

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and beyond.” Former Sopranos actor, Michael Imperioli and his wife, Victoria, volunteered again this year, while I celebrated my 11th year on waiter duty, with my trusty snapperazzi, Priscilla, ditching her Nikon to serve the goodies, including apple and pumpkin pies, along with Boy Scouts from the Santa Barbara troop, realtor Keith Berry, Gerd Jordano, and residents of the Samarkand retirement community. Making Waves

But Hollister stepped in and attempted to purchase the property from two nuns who had lived there as Sisters of the Most Holy and Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A judge voided that sale, saying the archdiocese had the right to sell the property, not the nuns. Hollister believed she owned the house after paying the nuns just $44,000 for the 20,000 sq. ft. and moving in – while Katy was willing to pay $10 million in cash, plus an additional $4.5 million for House of Prayers. The jury found the actions led to Bob Evans and supporters at the exhibition opening (photo by Jim Knowlton, Blue Ocean Productions)

It’s a special time with these young people being able to serve and share Thanksgiving dinner and friendships at the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission are Bob Larson, Holly Garcin, Maya Shelly, Talia Shelly, Gary Church, Wilson Geyling, Olivia Geyling, Robby Williams, Nathen Wong, Trey Pinner, and Rebecca Wilson (photo Priscilla)

first anniversary in the job cooking the annual Thanksgiving Feast for 300 guests, including 960 pounds of turkey, 100 pounds of potatoes, and 80 pounds of stuffing. “It was nerve-wracking when I did

Enjoying a fresh-cooked Thanksgiving dinner with desserts and service by Alessia Crickette, diner Richard Ambrosi, and server Jennifer Lessett (photo Priscilla)

Santa Barbara Rescue Mission hosts and servers Max Geyling, Keith Berry, Gerd Jordano, SBRM president Rolf Geyling, with SBRM chef Wesley Jones (photo Priscilla)

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it for the first time last year, but I’m now more confident and have great helpers,” says Wes, who replaced Daniel Osti. Rolf Geyling, president of the mission, which has an annual budget of more than $2.5 million and helps more than 2,000 people annually, says: “It is a heaping help of love that transforms hearts and lives this Thanksgiving

Ocean photographer Bob Evans was definitely making a splash when his debut exhibition Marine Megatropolis featuring 26 colorful images opened at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum. Bob, who was a deep-sea diver off our city’s offshore oil platforms, logging 850 dives between 1974 and 1981 taking thousands of slides and 7,000 feet of film footage, describes the show as “a celebration of marine life.” “The oceans are in peril everywhere,” says Bob. “It is incumbent upon us to act as stewards.” Among the 250 guests turning out for the opening of the show, which runs through April, were Jean-Michel Cousteau, Hiroko Benko, Sean O’Brien, Frank Skipper, Greg Gorga, Nancy and Peggy Callahan, and Susanne Chess. Nun-sense Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry has been triumphant in the legal battle to buy a Los Angeles convent. A city jury has found businesswoman, Dana Hollister, must pay $5 million to the former Dos Pueblos High student and the archdiocese of the Big Orange, deciding she intentionally interfered with the sale of the hilltop property in Los Feliz. The archdiocese was awarded $3.47 million and Katy $1.57 million for interference with contractual relations and other misdeeds. The 33-year-old singer has sought to buy the 8-acre estate and its Romanstyle property for $14.5 million and relocate an adjoining house of prayer used by priests.

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Katy and the archdiocese having to pay exorbitant legal fees and other costs, which Hollister should get the bill for. Goodbye, David On a personal note, I remember Partridge Family singer David Cassidy, who went to more heavenly pastures at his home in Florida, aged 67. In February, Cassidy, who was a top-selling artist in the 1970s, revealed he was suffering of dementia, which was abundantly apparent when I saw him perform at the Granada when he forgot lyrics, stumbled around the stage, and rambled away nonsensically. His career had been in severe decline of late, with him filing for bankruptcy, a divorce from his third wife, Sue Shifrin. arrests, and a stint in rehab. It is to be hoped he is now in a better place. Sightings: Actor Ashton Kutcher and wife Mila Kunis shopping at Whole Foods...Rolling Stones keyboardist Chuck Leavell checking out the crowd at Lucky’s...Oscar winner Kevin Costner at Lama Dog in the Funk Zone 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. To reach Priscilla, email her at pris cilla@santabarbaraseen.com or call 969-3301. •MJ 30 November – 7 December 2017

Real Estate

by Mark Ashton Hunt

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

Reduced and Ready to Sell

or whatever reason, the available housing inventory for sale under $10 million in Montecito continues to be low and, especially at this time of year, we don’t expect to see a lot of new homes hitting the market. That said, there are plenty of properties to choose from in most price ranges over a million dollars. So, while you are lamenting the lack of home choices on the market in your price range, remember that to live in Montecito is to be lucky enough, regardless of the roof you are under. These properties presented here are all located in the Montecito Union School District and represent a few of the areas in town that make Montecito such a desirable place to live.

27 Seaview $2,595,000

Drive:

This ocean-view Montecito Shores condo was remodeled in 2015 and offers one of, if not the largest, floor plans in this beachside community, with approximately 2,360 square feet of living space. Enjoy convenient access to Butterfly Beach, the Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel, Coral Casino members-only club, and the restaurants and shops of the lower village. The community at Montecito Shores offers tennis, swimming, oceanfront benches and picnic tables, social areas, and more. 27 Seaview Drive includes 2 bedrooms plus a den, 2 full and one-half bathroom and ocean views from the sun-room area. Enjoy privacy and sunset views, as this unit faces west and looks out over a greenbelt and mature trees. This unit was originally listed at $3,100,000 and has been reduced over the past 10 months to the current listing price.

529 Santa Rosa Lane: $2,695,500

This is a rare opportunity to own a home just a block from the Montecito YMCA, public parks, and Montecito Union School. The 2,800+/- square foot, single-level California cottage is also just blocks from the restaurants, shops, and conveniences of Montecito’s upper village. Features include a lighted garden pavilion, lower maintenance landscaping with mature trees, a spacious, drive-thru parking area, 2-car garage, and more. The interior boasts 2 fireplaces, a den/library, spacious living, dining rooms and master suite, a charming bedroom suite, storage areas, and laundry facilities. The kitchen is light and bright and looks out over the private backyard and unique tea pavilion. This home was recently reduced from the original listing price of $2,950,000.

1389 Plaza Pacifica: $5,250,000

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The first level includes an eat-in kitchen with granite countertops, in-closet stackable laundry, half bath, and a wet bar. The second level has the master suite with a private balcony and ocean and island views and a second bedroom with en-suite bath. There is also a private, 2-car garage with room for storage as well. Bonnymede, just as with the Montecito Shores complex, offers numerous shared property amenities such as tennis court, swimming pool, and pathways leading to the beach. The property is adjacent to the Coral Casino and Four Seasons Biltmore Hotel and is close to the shopping and conveniences of Coast Village Road. This unit has been reduced in price numerous times over the past two years from the original list price of $7,995,000.

1478 East Mountain Drive: $13,950,000

A gated driveway leads to a motor court with parking for guests. The location, architectural pedigree, and single-level living, are just a few of the key selling points offered at Le Ciel (The Sky). The 2.5-acre property rests two blocks from the San Ysidro Ranch Hotel. The estate includes an impressive, 6,000+/- square-foot main residence designed by architect John Elgin Woolf. The circa 1960s Hollywood Regency estate has been extensively remodeled (in both 2008 and 2014) into a sophisticated, contemporary oasis, featuring indoor/outdoor living with dining areas, outdoor kitchen, fire pits, a fully tiled swimming pool, a 2-bedroom cabana (1,080 sq ft), and a 2-bedroom guest house (926 sq ft), all complemented by lush landscaping and private lawns, maintained courtesy of a private well. This listing was originally priced at $15,995,000. For more information on any of these listings or to have me arrange a showing with the listing agents, please contact me directly, Mark@Villagesite.com or call/text (805) 698-2174. Please view my website, www.MontecitoBestBuys.com, from which this article is based. •MJ

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music and even Christmas carols,” Barnicle said. “But it’s also about love and tolerance in the face of numerous legal, social historical gender-based obstacles. Ultimately, it’s about people figuring out how to come together rather than breaking apart, an ode to the human heart.”

opportunity to share both songs and stories spanning his career (7 pm; Lobero; $55 to $65; 963-0761 or www. lobero.org.)

Batter up for Byrd

(Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley plays November 30 to December 17 at the New Vic Theatre. Call 965-5400 or visit www.etcsb.org.)

5Q’s with Hulda Quebe

Hulda, Sophia, and Grace were ages 7, 10, and 12 in 1998 when they attended their first local fiddle competition near their Texas home, and within a year won both state and national championships in their respective age groups for four years running. Nearly two decades later, the trio’s evolution from “whiz-kid Western swing fiddlers” into an adult Americana band with heavenly harmonies is nearly complete, as the Quebe Sisters are finally fixing to record their fourth album, their first featuring original songs. Hulda clued us in on the latest developments in advance of the sisters return to the Lobero stage this Friday as part of the Sings Like Hell series. Q. Being in a band with your sisters: sibling rivalry or sibling revelry? A. (Laughs) That’s a good question. We have a lot of fun together. It’s good because we can be really honest with each other, ‘cuz we’re family. While we do have disagreements, we appreciate both our differences and our similarities. And usually, we can come to some sort of consensus when there are issues. How do you create the close harmonies, and for that matter divvy up the fiddle parts? When a song is brought to the table, it’s usually pretty clear who should do what, which one of us will have the best interpretation, which is usually the one that found the song. The current setup is mostly Sophia singing lead, with Grace doing lower harmonies, and me the higher ones. But we switch around a lot more now

Lobero Theatre hosts the Quebe Sisters

than we used to. Same goes for the fiddling. Transitioning from a kid trio to a mature band has meant a bit of a change in style. How has that happened? It was our mentor who introduced us to western swing, which we love. But as you mature, your musical taste deepens and you learn to love music on your own. It’s like weening yourself from your parents. You don’t really know what you want when you’re still in your teens. I think all three of us are in our journeys, figuring out our own tastes and our sound. We’re in the process of diving into what inspires us as individuals and as a band. We want to take it further, still do dance-based music that makes you want to move, but also lyrically says something about the culture we live in and make a difference. So, we’re excited about finally writing our own songs that are good enough to record. You’ve played Asleep at the Wheel’s Dance Hall tour, on cruise ships with Delbert McClinton, and with a zillion stars at the Grand Ole Opry. What’s the biggest thrill of your career so far? Oh, man, that’s a tough one. Gimme a second... okay, as a kid, it was playing the Ryman Auditorium for the first time. It was a special

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night, because we were on the same stage where all the musicians I’d listen to growing up had played. I actually cried after we walked off the stage. It was validation that we were doing something that mattered. Now it’s getting to work with the booking agency we have. We’d been pushing ourselves, and when someone in industry you respect wants to work with you, it means a lot. It’s a moment to step back and go wow, this is really my life. Speaking of which, this life is all you’ve ever known. Ever envy the “regular” kids? Hmmm. What’s “regular” in this world? I think it’s a matter of anything you don’t get to experience, you wish you could have that lifestyle. So sure, I wanted to do those normal teen things, like go to school and hang out with kids, which would be cool. But I also appreciated how unique our experience has been. I know it sounds like a generic answer, but it’s the truth.

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Pink Martini’s annual holiday spectacular finds the dozen-strong effervescent and eclectic ensemble paired with singer China Forbes for Christmas music and more, hot on the heels of their ninth studio album release, Je dis oui (8 pm Saturday; Arlington; $40 to $150; 963-4408 or www.thearlingtontheatre.com).... Sunday brings the first visit from Grammy-award winning R&B singer Aaron Neville in several years, this time pairing the soulful 76-yearold New Orleans fave – who NPR says “still sings like an angel who’s swallowed a wah-wah pedal” – with only Michael Goods on keyboards, a format that allows the singer the

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Cathy Byrd was a busy Santa Barbara realtor raising two young children and never considered writing a book before her 2-year-old son began sharing his vivid memories of being a baseball player from the 1920-30s, namely the legend Lou Gehrig. The story that came from that uncanny experience led to the her memoir, The Boy Who Knew Too Much: An Astounding True Story of a Young Boy’s Past-Life Memories, which had its movie rights acquired a 20th Century Fox feature even before its publication date last March. Byrd will be joined by Chicken Soup for the Soul creator Jack Canfield, who lives in Santa Barbara and wrote the foreword, for a signing session at 4 pm on Sunday, December 3, at Chaucer’s Books. The store will donate 25 percent of all sales during the event to Laguna Blanca Lower School in Montecito.

Music Downtown and in the Hills

Emma Lou Diemer, the veteran Santa Barbara composer-pianist whose work was celebrated at the most recent Santa Barbara Music Club concert last month, once again contributes a work for Saturday’s performance at First United Methodist Church, which focuses on works for two pianos. Bradley Gregory and Tachell Gerbert offer the local premiere of Diemer ’s 1995 piece Norteamexispanicumsake, following Davis Reinhart and Christopher Davis’s rendition of Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, KV 448, the work that was employed in the famous 1993 scientific study of the “Mozart Effect,” the theory that classical music increases brain activity more positively than other kinds of music. Betty Oberacker and Eric Valinsky conclude the program with Brahms’ seldom performed Sonata in F minor, Op. 34b. Show time is 3 pm and admission, as always, is free. The quarter-century old Arianna String Quartet returns to Ojai’s Chamber On The Mountain Music Series on Sunday afternoon for a program comprising Bach’s Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, BWV 903; Janáček’s String Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters; and Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, featuring pianist Michele Levin. Tickets cost $25. Info at 646-9951 or www. ChamberOnTheMountain.com. •MJ 30 November – 7 December 2017

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

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.

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for: BID NO. 5598 DUE DATE & TIME: December 20, 2017 UNTIL 3:00P.M. ThyssenKrupp Elevator and Escalator Maintenance A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on Thursday, December 7, 2017 at 10:00 a.m., in the main Lobby at the Airport Airline Terminal, 500 Fowler Road, Goleta to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. The general scope of work is to provide complete Preventative and Routine Maintenance services for the ThyssenKrupp elevators and escalators. The City of Santa Barbara is now conducting bid and proposal solicitations online through the PlanetBids System™. Vendors can register for the commodities that they are interested in bidding on using NIGP commodity codes at

http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/business/bids/purchasing.asp.

The initial bidders’ list for all solicitations will be developed from registered vendors.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained electronically via PlanetBids. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Contractors and Subcontractors must be registered with the DIR pursuant to Labor Code 1725.5. This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the DIR. The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a current valid State of California C11 Elevator Contractors License. The company bidding on this must possess the above mentioned license at the time bids are due and be otherwise deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the license name and number of a subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive. Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total for the first/initial year will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. If the renewal options are exercised, new bonds shall be provided. Bidders are hereby notified that a separate Performance Bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total for the first/initial year will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. If the renewal options are exercised, new bonds shall be provided. Bidders are hereby notified that they shall furnish a Bid Guaranty Bond in the form of a money order or a cashier’s certified check, payable to the order of the City, in the amount of 10% of the bid, or by a bond in said amount and payable to said City, signed by the bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds in the State of California. When submitting a bid via PlanetBids™, the Bid Guaranty Bond must be uploaded as part of your submittal AND the original Bid Guaranty Bond must be received by the bid date and time to be considered responsive. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. _________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: November 29, 2017 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

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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

just days after the walls and ceilings literally came crashing down, eliminating more than half of the overnight beds for the time being, the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission held a commencement for 14 graduates who had pulled themselves from the dark hole of addiction, and completed the year-long, Christian-based program. The graduation was held on November 11 of this year, at the Living Faith Church off Hollister Avenue. Some graduates were in their earliest 20s. Others middle-aged, some from the streets or in lieu of jail or prison. Some there because of a “nudge from the judge.” All had faced numerous accounts of living horror. Not only with drugs and alcoholism, but prior events as well: molestation and abuse, long stints of homelessness as children and adults; deaths, abandonment, events that are known to trigger the deadly disease of alcoholism and addiction, and bring unwanted pain to the chronic user. “Every story of homelessness has a tragedy in it, some traumatic event that has happened,” says Geyling. “And most of the time it’s just, unimaginable.” One graduate was barely 20 years old and stood on stage behind the podium, and for 10 minutes she shared her story. How her first sibling was murdered. How she lived in multiple foster homes and survived multiple molestations, unexplained abandonments and abuse. The audience gasped three different times when she shared the incidents of her life through rolling tears and a voice that trembled. Still, she finished her speech with, “I love you all and thank you to all the donors.” After she exited the stage, the next man spoke of his survival of not only heroin addiction and homelessness, but also jail and prison – the aftermath of his mother’s untimely death, when he was a 3-year-old boy, and living on the crests of Montecito. Before the graduates had admitted themselves into the drug and alcohol treatment program, all claimed to be caught in the sickness of addiction, and the desolation of being homeless, broken, without God. One claimed that, at first, he was “there to dry off,” but eventually “surrendered to God.” He thanked the Rescue Mission, AA, and his peers before another graduate called his “amazing journey” at the Rescue Mission an “honor and a privilege.” The next man had been homeless the past eight years of his middle-aged life and said, “I’ve learned how to face fears and negative thinking and trust in God.” But before he gave the mic to the next graduate, he told the crowd that from now on he was, “Not going to live outside.”

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According to the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission’s website, more than 700 graduates have completed the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission in the last 20 years, a decade after Chuck Pope trained and supervised the – then, in the ‘80s – $2-million project during what the Rescue Mission calls, “the era of severe no-growth politics”; back when Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, before vice president, George H. W. Bush, took over in 1988. As for today’s project, a project that, so far, has raised almost $8 million, director of Communications and Constituent Relations, Rebecca Weber, who volunteered at the Rescue Mission for 10 years before hired a decade ago claims the renovation has not at all affected the number of daily meals served. But the number of overnight guests, homeless and treatment program combined – as the Rescue Mission had forewarned – has dropped dramatically. Between the people without homes, men and women, and the men’s rehabilitation program – since the women are offsite at the Bethel House near downtown – each night, the total number of overnight guests caps at 75. In addition, those who are affected by the year-long remodel include employees, such as Weber, who has moved her office into Geyling’s office, and Geyling now walks to his new and temporary office at the linen and uniform service Mission Linen, who established itself in Santa Barbara in 1930. Weber says that Mission Linen has agreed to let Geyling use one of their spaces as his own, until the Rescue Mission’s first renovation since opening in 1987 is further along or complete. Furthermore, the conference room is temporarily being used as the women’s homeless shelter; instead of long tables and a sea of chairs and meetings with staff members and volunteers, there are 11 bunk beds with clean bedding to house the 22 women each day. At the November 11 graduation, President Geyling – who was named the new president in 2007 – compared the graduate’s growth to “The Kingdom of God.” He said it’s like a farmer who plants a seed with the faith that something powerful will happen under that dirt. After a few months, the seed will have grown under the supervision of God, and the change and journey that started exactly one year prior – when the client’s metamorphosis had also begun – will have made the planted seed “unrecognizable.” The Santa Barbara Rescue Mission is located at 535 East Yanonali Street and is open 365 days a year. The phone number is (805) 966-1316. •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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ward to handing over the reins,” Jim said. Unfortunately, lengthy negotiations were stalled when the owner of the Summerland building could not come to a lease agreement with the new potential owners of the business. The Santa Barbara location (in which the Gallys owned the building and business) was sold in 2016. That was where the original grocery was founded by Tom Cantwell in 1981. Now, with the Gallys’ 10-year lease up Thursday, November 30, they are having to liquidate the inventory and vacate, instead of selling the business or relocating. “I’ll never be a tenant again,” said Jim, when asked if he’d think about opening another location elsewhere in Summerland or Montecito. “But if we found the right property, we’d potentially reopen.” The Gallys opened the market on Lillie Avenue in 2008, then added the picnic area, improved the parking lot, and made interior tenant improvements. The couple employed 20 people to help run the grocery, which was known for its extensive deli and sandwich selection, as well as a variety of grocery items, including locally produced products and foodstuff, with an emphasis on natural and organic items. Their lease also included two residential spaces upstairs, which housed Westmont students and the head chef of the deli. “We see the same people, day in and day out; from the professionals stopping for coffee on the way to work, to the blue-collar employees grabbing breakfast or lunch, to the tourists from L.A. renting a home on Padaro Lane during the summer,” Jim said. “We will miss our loyal customers and especially our great employees, who have made it such a special place.”

Sansum & Blue Shield

Good news for nearly 7,000 Sansum Clinic patients from Santa Barbara and Montecito; this week, Sansum and Blue Shield of California announced a contract has been secured for individual health insurance plans offered through Covered California. As of January 1, 2018, Anthem Blue Cross will no longer offer individual health plans in Santa Barbara County through Covered California and many other counties;

the new contract means that Sansum Clinic should be an in-Network provider for plans sold by Blue Shield for individuals through Covered California. “Anthem Blue Cross was previously the only plan we contracted with for individual plans obtained through Covered California,” said Jill Fonte, Public Information officer for Sansum Clinic. Last summer, Anthem Blue Cross decided to pull out of the individual plan market in most of California. “Therefore, people who had Anthem plans need to buy Blue Shield if they want to be covered with an individual plan; the only problem was, we didn’t have a contract with Blue Shield, which means they wouldn’t have been able to continue with us as an in-network provider,” Fonte explained. “It is always a good idea to confirm with your insurance broker or with Blue Shield that the plan you choose will include Sansum Clinic, as those plans will be available.” Fonte said the contract affects those in our area with individual health plans, small-business owners, and others who are not eligible for group health insurance. “It’s really good news for those people,” she said. Blue Shield of California is the only insurance company offering individual plans to people who live and work in Santa Barbara County. Sansum Clinic is encouraging everyone who is able to obtain individual insurance to sign up with Blue Shield during open enrollment, between November 1 and January 31. To shop individual Blue Shield health plans, visit www.blueshieldca. com.

Scholarship Foundation Board of Directors

Julia Rodgers has been appointed to the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara’s Board of Directors

graduated from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and worked as a litigator. Ms. Rodgers also served as director of communications at the University of Chicago Law School and Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism. She has been a resident of Santa Barbara since 2002. A former board member for Storyteller Children’s Center, Ms Rodgers has contributed to fundraising and public relations efforts on behalf of Crane Country Day School, Laguna Blanca School, the local youth development organization AHA!, and the Santa Barbara School of Squash, among other nonprofits. She wrote and edited a publication commemorating the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara’s 50th anniversary and has served as a student interviewer for the foundation. She has also written many freelance articles for Montecito Journal. “Julia has been a foundation advocate and partner for several years now, and we expect her to bring the same enthusiasm and passion for our mission to her board work,” said Scholarship Foundation president and CEO Candace Winkler. For more information about the Scholarship Foundation, visit www. sbscholarship.org.

Julia Rodgers, a former journalist and attorney who now works as an independent writer and editor, has been appointed to the board of directors for the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara. A native of Illinois, Ms. Rodgers earned a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s degree in journalism at Northwestern University before working as a reporter for the SunSentinel in south Florida. She later

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The 6th annual Season of Hope food and toy drive is underway. Local TV station KSBY has teamed up once again with local non-profit organizations, fire departments, and several businesses for the community-wide event. The Montecito Fire Protection District is now accepting donations of non-perishable foods and new, unwrapped toys at either of the two Montecito fire stations. The Unity Shoppe’s “Central Distribution Facility” serves the low-income clients of 300 non-profit organizations, social service agencies, churches, schools, and hospitals. More than 22,000 people are referred for furniture, food, clothing, school supplies, and basic necessities. Items needed include canned fruit and vegetables, canned tuna, pasta, dried rice, dried beans, and peanut butter. The Season of Hope continues through Friday, December 15. For more information, please contact Joyce Reed at (805) 969-2537. •MJ

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ENDING THIS WEEK UCSB Music – The school’s Fall 2017 Concert Series offers no fewer than five concerts over the course of the next nine days, all on campus in the intimate halls at the main music building. The Wind Ensemble’s “Bits and Pieces” (November 30) features Roger Cichy’s “Galilean Moons”, Eric Whitacre’s “October”, and Gustav Holst’s First Suite in Eb for Military Band, transcribed for modern band by Colin Mathews, among other works. Grammy Award-winning soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian – the UCSB professor who portrayed the title role in Opera Santa Barbara’s The Cunning Little Vixen last March, and makes her CAMA Masterseries debut singing Respighi’s Il Tramonto, Leonard Bernstein songs and more with the St. Lawrence String Quartet in May – serves as special guest for the Middle East Ensemble multi-faceted, regionally comprehensive concert (Saturday, December 2). The University Chamber Orchestra perform works by Beethoven, Kodaly, Mendelssohn, and Tchaikovsky after an opening set from the UCSB Chamber Players (Monday, December 4). The UCSB Jazz Ensemble’s pair of combo concerts include special performances by two larger ensembles, plus five student combos and feature the music of pianist Horace Silver (Tuesday, December

5) before the season comes to a close with the Gospel Choir’s annual offering of traditional and contemporary songs. WHEN: All concerts at 7:30 pm (plus 4 pm additional Jazz Combos concert) WHERE: Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB campus COST: $10 general, $5 students, free for children under 12 (Middle East $15 & $10; 4 pm Jazz concert free) INFO: 893-2064 or www. music.ucsb.edu THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Great Scots – Has any sizable local ensemble ever found the sort of instant success enjoyed by the Santa Barbara Folk Orchestra? Founder/ music director Adam Phillips dared to dream of bringing together some of the area’s best musicians to play an amalgam of folk and classical music from the Americas, Europe, and beyond in his own inventive arrangements, and not only made it happen, but immediately also found an audience. The ensemble – 25 strong, including violins, violas, cellos, basses, harp, flutes, whistles, bagpipes, and bodhran, plus Phillips on Scottish smallpipes, Irish whistles, acoustic guitar, mandolin, and vocals – has already played several concerts since forming at the beginning of the year, and winds up its inaugural season with a Scottish-flavored program that will be performed twice

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30 Cooking on a Lark – The Funk Zone kicked into high gear when The Lark restaurant opened in the once low-rent area just two blocks from the ocean several years ago. Now, the eating and drinking establishment located in an old fish market surrounded by wineries and brewpubs that has been called the hippest place to dine on the Central Coast is publishing its first cookbook. Famed Santa Barbara author and photographer Macduff Everton – whose work is in the collections of many national and international institutions – partnered up with owner Sherry Villanueva and executive chef Jason Paluska to create the new book Around the Table: Recipes and Stories from The Lark in Santa Barbara. Amid the recipes for Paluska’s popular creations and tantalizing imagery from Everton that should stir your inner chef, you’ll also learn about those that raise and farm for a truly farm-to-table experience. Tonight, the trio launch a series of three celebrations of the publication just down the street from the restaurant at the Santa Barbara Wine Collective, where the public is invited to mingle with featured purveyors and winemakers and get even more involved in the sensational work by tasting samplings and sipping wines straight from the pages of the self-published, limited first-run edition. You can also meet the three collaborators – albeit without samples of the savory stuff – in a book signing at Chaucer’s Books in Loreto Plaza at 7 pm next Thursday, December 7, or at 2 pm on Saturday, December 9, at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. For more information about the book, visit www. thelarksb.com/store. WHEN: 6 to 9 tonight; 2 pm Thursday WHERE: 131 Anacapa Street tonight; 3321 State St. Thursday COST: free INFO: 456-2700/www. santabarbarawinecollective.com or 682-6787/www.chaucersbooks.com

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 Jewels for Christmas – The holidays are all about family, but that might come into conflict with touring if you’re a singer-songwriter in the post-CD era. No problem for Jewel Kilcher – the Grammy-nominated chanteuse who rose to quick prominence with her 1995 debut album, Pieces of You – she’s taking the gang on the road with her. Jewel’s special guest for her concerts that will offer up a combination of holiday classics, original seasonal songs, and top hits feature her father, Atz, and two brothers, Atz Lee and Nikos Kilcher. Much of the material will be drawn from her two Christmas albums – 1999’s Joy and 2013’s Let It Snow – plus her chart-topping 2008 country album, Perfectly Clear, as well as those early smash hits “You Were Meant for Me” and “Who Will Save Your Soul”. (See my Spiritual Matters column for an item about her new mindfulness company.) http://www.chumashcasino.com/entertainment

in the intimacy and acoustic wonder of the Presidio. Among the selections are Flower of Scotland, Scotland the Brave, Ca the Yowes, The Skye Boat Song (Outlander Theme), and many more. Get your tickets ASAP, as Sunday afternoon’s concert is already sold out. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: The Chapel at El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $28 INFO: www.folkorchestrasb-scottish12-3. brownpapertickets.com FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 Lovett or Leave it? – What do you do when your boss’s time at the White House comes to a close, and the new occupant is moving in a different direction? You start your own podcast! “Pod Save America”, which bills itself as a “political podcast for people not yet ready to give up or go insane,” is hosted by Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor, each of whom spent several years in the Obama Administration serving as speechwriters, and/or spokesmen, as well as senior advisers. The foursome – who also all run their own podcasts and/or collaborate in various combination in others – use “PSA” to break down the week’s news and “help people figure out what matters and how to help.” Now, they’re taking the show on the road for what’s being presented as a “live, no-BS conversation about politics, the press, and the challenges posed by the Trump presidency.” Expect quite a bit of humor between the headlines and hand-wringing. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Arlington Theatre, 1317 State St. COST: $39.50 to $49.50 INFO: 963-4408 or www. thearlingtontheatre.com / www.axs. com/events/340938/pod-toursamerica-tickets

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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2 Carousel Closing – The clichéd ending for Western movies has the hero on horseback riding off into the sunset, but the closing of the historic Chase Palm Park carousel isn’t enjoying quite the same sort of happy ending. After nearly 20 years of going round and round and up and down in the picturesque park on the Santa Barbara waterfront, the carousel is leaving town because operating costs are exceeding the attraction’s revenue. The owners, Historic Carousels Inc., will be removing the Allan Herschell ThreeAbreast Carousel merry-go-round that made its debut in San Diego back in 1916 and came to Santa Barbara in 83 years later, and the hand-carved mini-horses and carriages will head to the company’s Hood River, Oregon, headquarters, where it will become the first installation of a planned Carousel Museum on the Columbia River. But first, there’s today’s Carousel Carnival, part of a final weekend of rides and remembering. The festival features free carousel rides (also all day Sunday) plus music, giveaways, a photo booth, carnival games, a bouncy castle, balloons, face painting, and more. And then the painted ponies will part ways with the park. WHEN: 10 am to 2 pm WHERE: 323 E. Cabrillo Blvd. COST: free INFO: www.santabarbaraca.gov/ gov/depts/parksrec Juber-lee of Music – Back nearly 100 years ago, the School of the Arts was founded by local artists and performers to engage Santa Barbara with a place for community participation in the arts. Later that same site became the home of the Ensemble Theatre Company for more than two decades. Now, the Alhecama Theatre will once again ring with music as the new home for The Wooden Hall Concerts, the ongoing 30 November – 7 December 2017

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5 Station’ed in Santa Barbara – As this year’s selection for Santa Barbara Reads, Emily St. John Mandel’s novel Station Eleven has been the talk of the town ever since late in the summer. Drawing on themes from the futuristic novel – about a traveling Shakespearean theatre company in a post-apocalyptic North America – readers in the coordinated program from the library have been reflecting on what they find most important, what they would miss if the material things were no longer available, and what elements of culture they would strive to preserve in the wake of cataclysmic events. Tonight, the program comes to a close with a visit from Mandel herself, as the author of the book that won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award will participate in a short, moderated conversation followed by a Q&A session with the audience. While community members are encouraged to have read Station Eleven before the event, it’s not required and nobody is checking your mind at the door (it’s not 1984, after all). But it is available free from the library. WHEN: 7 pm WHERE: Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High, 721 East Cota St. COST: free INFO: 884-4087, ext. 7

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venture from Santa Barbara Acoustic Music Association, which produced its second annual Acoustic Instrument Celebration this past summer. Named for its only earlier show held at the all-redwood 125-year-old hall at 2020 Chapala St., the series aims to bring acoustic musicians from near and far to town for intimate and truly independent concerts where the performer is encouraged to stray outside his standard playlist. First up at the new 100-seat venue is Laurence Juber, the guitarist, composer, and arranger who first came to attention as lead guitarist in former Beatle Paul McCartney’s Wings, with whom he won a Grammy. Juber has since established himself as a finger-style guitar virtuoso and entertainer who fuses folk, jazz, blues, pop, and classical styles, creating a multi-faceted performance that belies the use of only one instrument. In addition to his 25 solo albums, Juber has also recorded with Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks, Seal, and the French chanteuse Sylvie Vartan, plus played on the soundtracks to hundreds of TV shows, video games, documentaries, and movies. Juber will also inaugurate the series’ Player Workshops with a class that addresses the principals of arranging songs for solo guitar, including

demonstrations of basic picking patterns, chord shapes, and sequences and more (2 pm; $50). WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: 914 Santa Barbara St. COST: $20 (series subscriptions available) INFO: or www.sbama.org

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Shaking up the System – Dozens of actors, authors, and activists are coming together for an evening of speeches, music, and more as “A Call for Prison Reform with Ryan Leone, Danny Trejo, and Friends”. Leone is the author of Wasting Talent and the producer and subject of Idiot Savant: The Savage Life of Ryan Leone, a forthcoming feature documentary about his experiences, while Trejo is an activist and actor (Heat, Con Air, Desperado). They’ll be joined by several other authors and actoractivists, as well as college professors and live music from Them Guns, plus a Q&A with the cast and crew of Idiot Savant. Some proceeds benefit the Prodigy Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering national prison reform including expanding literacy. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $80-$1,000 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com •MJ

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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6 Oh, Dizzy, He’s Busy – Cuba native Arturo Sandoval began studying classical trumpet at 12, but it didn’t take him long to catch the excitement of jazz just a little more than a decade after Dizzy Gillespie became the first musician to bring Latin influences into American jazz. Later a protégé of Dizzy, Sandoval has since evolved into one of the world’s most acknowledged guardians of jazz trumpet and flugelhorn, as well as a renowned classical artist, pianist, and composer. Highly decorated for his wide-ranging accomplishments, the trumpeter’s hardware includes 10 Grammy Awards, six Billboard Awards, and an Emmy, the latter for composing the entire underscore of For Love or Country, the HBO feature film based on his life. Still staying true to his Latin roots, Sandoval’s newest CD, Eternamente Manzanero, is a tribute to the revered Mexican romantic pianist and singer-songwriter Armando Manzanero. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. COST: $42 & $52 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com

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Real Estate View Real Estate Heat Index

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by Michael Phillips

Michael is a realtor at Coldwell Banker, and is a Montecito Planning Commissioner. He can be reached at 969-4569 and info@ MichaelPhillipsRealEstate. com

for closure are up 18%, and our median sales price is up a respectable 9% to an even $3M. This is what a hot market looks like. And if you are in the $4-5M market, you better have a place to move to when you list your home. You will find little competition, and there seems to be buyers aplenty eager to move in. Not much different in the other sectors except, of course, the high-end – which continues to be unable to sufficiently impress their buyers. And as most sellers enjoy this “hot” market, we should remember it is not necessarily good news for all. In fact, there are few delighted buyers out there; far too few properties, and prices have continued to inch up all year. And to make things even more challenging, the folks in Washington, that is the elected folks, are proposing

Heat Index

he Montecito Heat Index is a snapshot of demand for single-family homes in five price sectors. Rather than a measurement of completed sales, typically referred to as lagging data, the Heat Index looks at homes currently under contract resulting in a more accurate picture of market demand. And as real estate activity is seasonal, today’s demand is compared to this date last year. All data are from the Santa Barbara MLS and uniformly deemed reliable. Today’s Heat Index registers a staggering 147 – nearly three times the demand gauged a year ago today. The $1-2 million group reflects a strong showing of 47 besting last year’s score by 213%, yet for the first time in memory, is not our demand leader. Now, the honor goes to the too-often neglected $4-5M group with a big score of 55, outperforming last year by a remarkable 816%. And the typically robust $2-3M market continues showing strength bettering last year by 100%. Overall, as the adjacent chart demonstrates, all sectors but one, the $5M-and-up group met or outperformed last year’s demand. Sales are up 7%, homes under contract heading

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to make the homebuying experience more difficult. The elimination of incentives to homebuying was once considered a fast way not to get re-elected. Apparently, that has changed both in the present House and Senate. Should these incentives be reduced, the way we view homeownership, both primary and secondary, will be altered. We Californians will be particularly impacted. Millennials, now the largest segment of our society, already questioning whether homeownership is affordable for them, will be looking harder at that new condo rental with

the swimming pool, community rec room, and one-year lease. For Montecito in particular, where many purchases are second homes, little or no associated deductions won’t help the buying decision. But that will be next year, so perhaps the final result will be less draconian than it appears now. And I’m not sure we have any Republican officials in California to complain to anyway. So, for now, it looks like we will end the year with a median sales price incre.ase in the double digits and more water for the lawn. All things considered, not too bad. •MJ

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