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A NEIGHBORHOOD JUST BELOW PARRA GRANDE AT EAST VALLEY ROAD FEATURED SMALL HOMES AND TIGHTKNIT FAMILIES, AND MOST OFTEN RESONATED WITH AFTER-SCHOOL SCREAMS OF CHASE AND DELIGHT, OF TREE CLIMBING AND FORT BUILDING. THE MUD, DEBRIS, AND BOULDERS THAT CAME CRASHING DOWN UPON THOSE HOMES A LITTLE AFTER 4 AM ON A TUESDAY MORNING CHANGED ALL THAT, FOREVER. (STORY BEGINS ON PAGE 5)

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Guest Editorial It’s personal for Cassie Neumann, who describes her family’s devastated East Valley Road home and explains the loss of neighborly friendships Miscellany Kids Helping Kids; Ellen DeGeneres; ZIP code’s value; Scratch eatery; CAMA show; Oprah on social media; SB Symphony; Rob Lowe vs Bella Thorne; Orlando Bloom’s gala; and Elizabeth Skene, rest in peace Letters to the Editor An array of missives and photos from Journal readers, including the Savilles, Juliet Tibma and Barry Jones, Denice Adams, Bill Palmisano, J.W. Burk, and Dan Seibert This Week Treasure hunt; SB Music Club; mudslide benefit; yoga on wharf; Quire of Voyces; library lecture; Summerland yoga; 10 West; concerts; and fishermen’s market Tide Guide The Mindful Word Dr. Diana Raab searches for the right words while recalling her personal experience during Montecito’s mudslides and Thomas Fire Village Beat Latest on Montecito mudslides; and Coast Village Road reopens for business Seen Around Town Lynda Millner covers the Community Arts Workshop gala with mayor Helene Schneider; and Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church holiday concert On Entertainment Steven Libowitz interviews Mark Fucik, Pilobolus creative director; Alan Parsons at Chumash; disaster fundraisers; comedian Lewis Black; and John Mooy On Law In the first of a series, Steven Blum, a partner of Blum Collins LLP, gets down to business about Montecito’s recent mudslides and the impact on private property owners with an emphasis on inverse condemnation Spirituality Matters Steven Libowitz chronicles Beth Amine before her book party at Red Piano; Emily Esfahani Smith; author Rob Bell; Breathwork; Linda Martella-Whitsett; Richard Groves at Yoga Soup; and an update about delayed events Legal Advertising Brilliant Thoughts Fine line: Ashleigh Brilliant makes reference to an assortment of lines, from those on sidewalks to Mason-Dixon to Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Real Estate View Michael Phillips laments the incalculable damage caused by the Thomas Fire and subsequent mudflow as he reviews disaster recovery claims Our Town For the birds: Joanne Calitri documents Santa Barbara Audubon’s 118th Christmas Bird Count and interviews ex-CBC director Joan Lentz Your Westmont Water service is restored; music faculty to perform; and Stafford poetry reading January 27 Calendar of Events Souren Baronian; Cali Wine Festival; Buyer and Cellar at Rubicon; PuppetPalooza; Alan Brown at SOhO; Richard Smith; SBMA; Jeffrey Toobin; Still We Rise; and José González with Bedouine Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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25 January – 1 February 2018

GUEST EDITORIAL by Cassie Neumann

The Sounds of Silence

We were thrilled to have Pasta join us for Fireworks on Butterfly Beach on July 4. It was his first trip to Butterfly Beach and also his first time seeing fireworks. He was over-the-moon happy and so were we.

ur family’s story involves almost all the children who were killed during this terrible tragedy. You see, we own (I guess I should say owned) a house directly next to the Taylor and Benitez families. There is nothing left. Literally, nothing. What’s worse is that our dear friends and neighbors were pummeled by the storm, and, they too, are gone. The children, Pasta and Jonathan, were our daily playmates. The little girls,

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t was child’s play when Kids Helping Kids, the 10-year-old organization launched by students at San Marcos High School, raised a record $501,251 to help local children in need with two sold-out concerts at the Granada. The group, headed by economics teacher James DeVries, has raised more than $2.5 million since it started. Singer-songwriter Andy Grammer performed among other headliners, including Five For Fighting, Need to Breathe, Toad the Wet Sprocket, and Switchfoot, and the Music Academy of the West received the Investment in People Award. President Scott Reed, who has been a board member for eight years, said: “It is amazing what a group of 17 year

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Thank those who worked day and night to save lives? Convey gratitude to those who rescued others in need? Express the heartbreak of loss of life and property? Put into words the devastation of our neighborhoods? Explain the emotions of not being able to go home? Articulate the many acts of kindness to those of us displaced? We are in awe at the individual acts of heroism, the resiliency of our community and forever proud to call Montecito home. - Chris & Lisa Cullen Montecito Landscape

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e are sending this email to all our friends and family who have reached out to us in regard to the Montecito fire and mudslide tragedies and evacuations. The story begins over a month ago, when Lynda and I were forced to evacuate our Romero Canyon home due to the largest wildfire in California history. Three hours after arriving home from a Christmas party, we received the call at 2:30 am and began packing a few odds and ends. We got on the road at 5:30 am and left town for a one- or two-day hiatus in San Luis Obispo. By the time we stopped for breakfast in Santa Maria, it became apparent that the wildfires were rapidly approaching our home and that it was a much bigger deal than we anticipated. So, we decided to continue on to Tahoe, where we remained during the two-week evacuation. Once the evacuation was lifted, we remained in Tahoe for the previously planned Christmas holidays with family. We headed back home on January 6. As it turned out, the fire came within a quarter-mile of our house. We expect the fire would have destroyed it, had not the much-anticipated northeast winds unexpectedly calmed. After being back for approximately a week, our home was once again placed under mandatory evacuation for possible mudslides. We (in particular, Patrick) did not take the warning seriously and, after a bit of discussion, finally decided to evacuate to another part of town (Picacho Lane), even though it too was within the mandatory evacuation area. The next morning, at 4 am, we awoke to an orange glow filling the sky for more than 30 minutes (gas main explosion to the east) and the sound of an ongoing muffled rumbling, only one block to the west. In the morning, there was no electricity; we were essentially unaware of the tragedy around us and we took the dogs for a walk in the rain. Only after seeing a neighbor who gave us a few hints of the tragedy, did Lynda and I decide to load the dogs in the car and go find breakfast and coffee. One block later, we found ourselves in a war zone; houses on both sides of the street were gone and every telephone pole for a mile was broken in two. The smell of natural gas permeated the air. We spent the next six hours either walking through disaster areas or trying to leave the area in our 4X4 Toyota Tundra. There was no escape,

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and, believe me, we tried. Eventually, we loaded our golden retrievers, Troy and Jax, onto military transports and headed to Santa Barbara proper. Once we arrived in Santa Barbara, it was as if nothing had ever happened. We booked a hotel room in a largely vacant hotel; by day three, the same hotel was 100 percent full with evacuees. The day after arriving, it became apparent to us that rentals were going to be an issue. We immediately rented a house in Carpinteria. We also rented one of the few remaining cars in the Santa Barbara area. During our first day as “refugees,” we spent the day buying clothes and toiletries. We have now received area video footage that clearly shows the sixhouse cul-de-sac on which we live, in the Romero Canyon area. One house is completely gone. One house, to the immediate north, was taken off its foundation and crushed on its north end. Two houses were filled with mud to the windowsills or worse; they have been marked as “destroyed” by SB County. One house has major damage. Only our home appears to have suffered no damage whatsoever, largely because the two houses to the immediate north took the direct impact of the mudflow. Our adjacent neighbor, Joe (Joseph Francis Bleckel), died in his home that night. (Mudflow mechanics: The creek that runs thru our rear property became clogged, just above Joe’s property. Instead of the mud being directed to our property by way of the creek, the mudflow “jumped the creek,” demolishing the two homes to the north, killing Joe and effectively blocking our structure from natural disaster.) Life is random. We have no idea why we have been so blessed or why Joe was the one who lost his life that night. Lynda and I have now settled down in our rental home for a month in the Carpinteria area. In order to get to the rental, we had to drive six hours, the long way around, to arrive in an area that is typically 15 minutes away. Our church home is located here. As for Montecito, neighbors that we know or have worked with have died, others have lost family members; many have lost their homes. Some of those losing their homes, I anticipate, will have land that may never be built on again. Of less importance than human tragedy is the tragedy to the landscape of

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 25 MBAR Meeting – CANCELLED Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito When: 1 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 Treasure Hunt in Carpinteria Seventy-five vendor stalls will overflow with treasures and merchandise at the Museum Marketplace on the grounds of the Carpinteria Valley Museum of History. This popular monthly fundraiser features antiques, collectibles, hand-crafted gifts, plants, and great bargains on gently used and vintage goods of every description, including jewelry, furniture, housewares, clothing, books, toys, and much more. When: 8 am Where: 956 Maple Avenue in Carpinteria Info: 684-3112 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

Mudslide Benefit In light of the current situation, the FluidStance 80s Ski Party, scheduled for January 27, will go on. However, organizers will be redirecting 100 percent of all net proceeds to benefit the victims of the recent Montecito mudslides. So bust out your ski suit onesie, Swatch watch, Vuarnet’s, and rear-entry ski boots and rock to the ‘80s while doing good for our town. When: 7:30 pm Where: Creekside Inn, 4444 Hollister Avenue Cost: $50 Info: fluidstance.com/80s SUNDAY, JANUARY 28 Yoga on the Wharf Join us for another class on Stearn’s Wharf to benefit the Baptiste Foundation. All of the proceeds from this class will go directly to the cause. Bring your mat, your sunglasses, and friends. The Baptiste Foundation discovers new partnerships to share the transformational power of Baptiste yoga for everyone, everywhere. The Baptiste Foundation, like many in the community, was adversely affected by the Thomas Fire when its new retreat center located in Ojai was completely overcome by flames leaving behind nothing but ash. When: 9 am Where: Stearns Wharf, 219 Stearns Wharf Cost: donation Quire of Voyces The Quire of Voyces canceled its annual Christmas concerts in December due to the Thomas Fire. The Quire missed singing for you during December and will do one performance of this concert, “The Mysteries of Christmas: A Healing Concert for our Community.”

Lecture at the Library Prof. Brendan Burke of the University of Victoria, Canada, will deliver an illustrated lecture on “Life and Death at Ancient Eleon: Excavations in central Greece 2011-2017,” at the downtown library. It is the annual Sandra L. Church Lecture in memory of Albert H. Clayburgh, sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the Classics Department at UCSB. The event is free and open to the public. When: 6 pm Where: Karpeles Manuscript Library, 21 West Anapamu Street Info: nancywinter@gmail.com Traditional carols will not be performed at this concert, but the choir will be singing music that soothes and heals. Purchased tickets from either the December 16 or 17 concerts will be honored on January 28, or you can obtain a refund through the Garvin Box Office. Tickets available at the door and in advance at the SBCC Garvin Box Office (805) 965-5935. Firefighters or other first responders can obtain free tickets by showing up at least 20 minutes before 3 pm. When: 3 pm Where: St. Anthony’s Chapel at Garden Street Academy, 2300 Garden Street Cost: $20 general admission Info: www.quireofvoyces.org WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 Summerland Evening Yoga A longtime Summerland tradition, taught by Bob Andre. Small Hatha 1 yoga class with brief meditation and breathing work. When: 5:30 pm Where: Summerland Church, 2400 Lillie Avenue Cost: donation FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2 Concerts for Recovery and Hope Out of continued care and concern,

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the Music Academy of the West is offering two Concerts for Recovery and Hope for the community. The Board of Directors, administration, faculty, and alumni are heartbroken about the devastation in the area, lives lost, and neighbors injured. The Academy offers a space and music for people to come together for comfort amid the neighborhood that was heavily impacted by the Thomas Fire, and the winter storm and mudslides. The 75-minute concert program will bring a bright moment to everyone dealing with difficult circumstances. Music Academy faculty who will perform include alumnus Nico Abondolo (’87, ’88), double bass; Richie Hawley, clarinet; alumna Natasha Kislenko (’01), piano; Julie Landsman, horn; and Paul Merkelo, trumpet. Alumnus cellist Joshua Roman (’02) will also appear, and additional artists will be announced at a later date. The concert at Hahn Hall on Friday, February 2, at 7 pm will be repeated on Saturday, February 3, at 4 pm. Admission is free. Advance tickets are recommended. When: tonight at 7, tomorrow at 4 pm Where: Hahn Hall, 1070 Fairway Road Tickets: www.musicacademy.org/ hope. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3

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The Mindful Word by Diana Raab, Ph.D.

Fires to Mudslides and Apocalyptic Feelings

eing a writer and one of the lucky ones to have survived the recent California Thomas Fire and Montecito mudslides, I feel compelled to try to express what others and I are feeling. I’ve rarely had a difficult time putting my feelings into words, but these two experiences have truly left me scrambling. I’ve been receiving inquiries from all around the world about my whereabouts. People are worried and concerned. In fact, most of my day is spent responding to these emails and texts. I’m not complaining; rather, I feel blessed that so many people care about me. I have

band and some workers hours to clean things up; but even so, I was extremely grateful just to have a home to return to. After being home for two days, we decided to leave on a planned December holiday trip east. Five days after we returned, we had barely unpacked when, on January 8, there was a knock on the door. My dog, always distrustful of uniformed men, barked with a particularly angry tone. “Hello, I’m Officer Joe from the Santa Barbara Police Department. I’m here to inform you that you need to leave your house as soon as possible. We’re expecting eight

At times, it feels as if rehashing what happened is re-traumatizing been quick to respond because I also know that, when you put your story out there, in return you become surrounded with love and prayers. Responding to the inquiries is also a mindless activity, which is helpful right now because I am having difficulty focusing without becoming emotional and distracted. At times, it feels as if rehashing what happened is re-traumatizing; however, my mission in life has always been to comfort others. But there also comes a time, and mine is now, when I need to engage in some self-care and nurturing. I can no longer put my creative efforts into replying to all the queries I’ve received. During the Thomas Fire, which began December 4 last year and burned in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties for more than one month, we were in the voluntary evacuation zone; but having asthma and after a week of wearing N95 masks, I was still finding it difficult to breathe both inside and outside the house. Ash the size of snowflakes was falling onto our yard. We finally decided to evacuate to Los Angeles, about 90 miles southeast of the fires. When we returned home a week later, the yard was coated in white ash; and the house – the windows of which we had been told should remain shut – smelled of trapped smoke. It took my hus25 January – 1 February 2018

inches of rain, and because of the recent fires, we’re very concerned about mudslides.” “Oh my gosh, that’s awful!” I exclaimed, and thanked him for coming. I phoned Simon, who was at a business meeting near Los Angeles about one hour away. “You need to come home. We’re being evacuated.” “They’re overreacting,” he said. “Well, I’m leaving. You can stay. I don’t think they’re overreacting if a cop knocked on our door.” “Okay, I’ll come home soon,” he said. A few minutes later, Simon called to say he was on his way and would also pack. By the time he arrived, my suitcase and dog were waiting by the back door. Sometimes we just have to follow our instincts; and, as had happened during the Thomas Fire, I knew when it was time to go and when it would be time to return. I texted my friend Jodi of Jodi G, a local loved interior and landscape designer who lived up the road, that we were leaving. She had not yet been advised of the potential flood risk and she wished us well. We were in the mandatory evacuation zone. She was not, yet her home was one of the 64 that were destroyed. I was deeply relieved to

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Village Beat by Kelly Mahan Herrick

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

Repopulating Montecito Portico Fine Art Gallery owners Jordan Pope and Dennis Newell were back open Tuesday, January 23, ready to welcome students to art classes and ready to offer new paintings that were painted during the two-week closure of their gallery on Coast Village Road

n Tuesday, January 23, evacuation orders were lifted on the western flank of Montecito, including Coast Village Road, which was closed for two weeks following the mudslides on January 9. Major utilities including sewer, electricity, and gas, were up-and-running, allowing most businesses to repopulate and

welcome customers back to the business district, following the opening of Highway 101 on Sunday. The majority of Montecito was still under a boil-water notice, with Montecito water being highly chlorinated to disinfect the water system, which was rebuilt as of Monday. Fully restored water service is antici-

Brian Brunello and Jason Herrick returned to open the Liquor & Wine Grotto, which sustained minor damage from the mudflow. Their landscaping out front was destroyed, with one of the three wine barrel planters ending up on the 101 freeway following the storm.

pated for this weekend, and until then, many restaurants and cafés along the road will remain either closed or offering limited service. “We have to start somewhere, and having Coast Village reopened for business is the first step in achieving any sense of normalcy,” said Coast Village Association (CVA) executive director Sharon Byrne.

Katie Frank of K. Frank opened the doors of her clothing store on Tuesday, January 23, welcoming more customers than she expected

Byrne, working with the sheriff and local government agencies, kept business owners and local residents apprised of the developments related to the closure of Coast Village and its reopening. Now, the Coast Village Association is opening a Recovery Assistance Center on the road, which will be up and running by the end of this week. There will be represen-

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CAW board member Leon Olson, past president Rod Hare, mayor Helene Schneider, and gate artist David Shelton at the celebration

t was time to celebrate mayor Helene Schneider’s 14 years of public service (eight years as mayor) and hundreds showed up at the Community Arts Workshop (CAW) on Garden Street to do so. Besides celebrating at the carnival-themed part, they honored the first responders who bravely battled the Thomas Fire, and funds were also raised to complete the

Summer Solstice Gate at CAW. CAW is the result of a 30-year dream to have a year-round workspace where artists can come together to be inspired. Artist David Shelton’s fanciful Winter Solstice Gate was installed in 2016. The next funds will complete the Summer Solstice Gate on Ortega Street. The Summer Solstice folks will be able to use the facility for a perma-

nent home, and the rest will be there for artists at an affordable place to create, teach, rehearse, perform, exhibit, and inspire. The corner was rockin’ when I arrived, thanks to Jeff Theimer of the famed New Noise Music Festival who coordinated the live entertainment.

The lineup was The Brian Titus Trio, The Paradise Kings, and the Public Works Band. Silver sponsors were the Hutton Parker Foundation, Nancy O’Reilly, Laura and Larry Ragan, Santa Barbara Firefighters Association, Santa Barbara Foundation, Santa Barbara Police Officers Association, Wayne and Sharol Siemens, and Union Bank. I always enjoy listening to Helene speak. She seemed to say just the right thing, not too long or too short. I remember one night we ended up at a party and I needed a ride home. And so the mayor gave me one. Thanks,

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SEEN (Continued from page 14) Santa Barbara’s Historical Museum PR person Dacia Harwood, executive director Lynn Brittner, and Heal the Ocean leader Hillary Hauser wish the mayor well

Helene. We’ll be looking for your next foray into politics. CAW’s outreach efforts are funded in part by the Organizational Development Grant Program, using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission. Inquiries go to Casey Caldwell, (805) 679-1268 or hello@sbcaw.org.

Christmas in January

Remember December? Or better not. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church (OLMC) had scheduled a Christmas concert for December but had to cancel it because of the Thomas Fire. So, there was Christmas in January. The church and concert were free and open to the public. The poinsettias still filled the altar area, and the crèche was there as well. A most unusual one. It is topped with a beautiful white Indian headdress. When I asked the reverend Lawrence Seyer and the reverend O’Mahony why, they explained, “Because our church is built in a Pueblo Indian style; they acknowledge Christ as the Chief of All Nations.” A unique slant to be sure. Also, there are no three wise men or three kings in the scene, and no one seemed to no why. It’s

been that way for many years. The church filled to hear guest soloist Carol Ann Manzi, soprano, accompanied by classical guitarist Thomas Heck, and on flute Ritchie Gonzales. Carol Ann has performed extensively in the United States and Europe. Her master’s in vocal performance came from the prestigious Yale School of Music. She will return to Italy this summer as a voice teacher at the Musical Academy International in Trentino. She recently led 15 of her voice pupils on a tour of Austria and the Czech Republic. Thomas graduated in a doctoral program in musicology from Yale in 1970. His career was always music. He is now retired in Santa Barbara and plays for fun. He also founded the Guitar Foundation of America in 1973 – still flourishing today. Ritchie loves for every student of his to develop a lifelong love of playing the flute and to gain the skills needed to become independent musicians, no matter what their career path. The program included many favorites such as “Mary, Did You Know?”, “I Wonder as I Wander”, and “Somewhere” from West Side Story. The concert ended with audience participation singing old-fashioned Christmas carols led by church choirmaster Gary Smith. He joked, “One

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President of the parish council Mark Lorge and wife Tina at the concert reception

never hears about a Catholic choir, only the Morman choir, but now I know you can sing.” Well, maybe not so good, but with much gusto. After, we followed luminaries to the Parish Hall for a wine reception with plenty of sandwiches to eat. Frank Umanzio and Eustacchio Guadagnini, who are members of the

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Thank you, Emergency Responders. You Firemen who saved us, Who cried and gave a prayer for those who perished. We thank those brave heroes entering the wreckage – To carry us to safety. To rescue our beloved pets. Thank you hard-working officials – Public Works, And all those Search & Rescue workers Who came from everywhere to help us. Thank you, fabulous dogs who helped us search and find. And are still helping. Thank you Ocean, you received our sorrow. When we had nowhere to turn. IN LOVING MEMORY: Jonathan Benitez, age 10; Kailly Benitez, 3; Faviola Benitez-Calderon, 28; Joseph Francis Bleckel, 87; Martin Cabrera-Munoz, 48; David Cantin, 49; Morgan Christine Corey, 25; Sawyer Corey, 12; Peter Fleurat, 73; Josephine Gower, 69; John McManigal, 61; Alice Mitchell, 78; James Mitchell, 89; Mark Montgomery, 54; Caroline Montgomery, 22; Marilyn Ramos, 27; Rebecca Riskin, 61; Roy Rohter, 84; Peerawat Sutthithepa, 6; Pinit Sutthithepa, 30; Richard Taylor, 67. AND MAY SEARCH & RESCUE FIND YOU SOON: John “Jack” Cantin, 17; Lydia Sutthithepa, 2.

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tatives from FEMA, Cal OES, and the Small Business Administration, as well as information from various local businesses relating to rebuilding. “It will be a central collection of resources,” said CVA president Bob Ludwick, who was setting up donated furniture in the donated space earlier this week. “We want Montecito residents to have a local place to gather, find comfort, and find information.” On Tuesday, the road was filled with trucks, utility workers, members of the media, and business owners reopening their doors; a thin layer

of dried mud and dust coated the street, a vast improvement over the debris, water, and mud that filled a segment of the street and Coast Village Circle immediately following the mudslide. Business owners and customers shared stories, hugs, and gratitude for the sense of community the tragedy had left behind. The rest of Montecito is expected to be repopulated in the coming days, ahead of the Wednesday, January 31, target date the County estimated last week. “The process will be systematic and incremental,” said sheriff Bill

Brown at a press conference Monday. The repopulation will occur based loosely on evacuation zones, beginning with MTO 9 (an area already in voluntary evacuation) on Tuesday, followed by MTO 13 and 15, and the eastern portion of MTO 14 on Wednesday. Those areas are located below Highway 101 to the sand, between the cemetery and Sheffield Drive. A portion of MTO 14 – including Bonnymede and Montecito Shores – will not be part of that repopulation, according to Brown. On Thursday, it’s expected that portions of MTO 11, which includes Birnam Wood and Ennisbrook, will be allowed to go back home, fol-

lowed by central Montecito (areas along San Ysidro Road and the upper village). The Sheriff’s Department is still planning repopulation for upper Montecito; Caltrans announced Monday that four bridges along Highway 192 are condemned, including the bridge at Montecito Creek near Parra Grande Lane, one at the San Ysidro Creek crossing at Glen Oaks, the bridges to the west and east of Ladera Lane, and the bridge crossing at Toro Canyon. “This will complicate repopulation of those areas,” Sheriff Brown said. The sheriff explained that some

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Pilobolus Returns to the Granada

hen your company is named after a fungus that grows on cow poop, clearly you’re involved with an outfit that loves playfulness as well as metaphors. Pilobolus formed at Dartmouth back in 1971 but has grown more explosively than its light-seeking namesake, now numbering more than 120 dance works in its repertoire, including three entities that interchangeably tour, create, and perform everywhere from on Broadway, to the Oscars, to TV commercials and corporations. Along the way, they’ve received rave reviews for astonishing physical feats seamlessly married to emotionally stirring themes along with more than a dollop of humor. Pilobolus returns to the Granada Theatre on Sunday night, January 28, sporting not only two brand-new pieces – including a new collaboration with banjo greats Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn – plus an older one with magicians Penn & Teller, but also several interstitial movies and opening and closing themes to keep the evening flowing. Creative director Mark Fucik, who danced for years

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On Law by Steven A. Blum Steven A. Blum received a law degree from Yale Law School in 1987 and has practiced real estate litigation, specializing in landslides, over the past 30 years in law firms big and small. He lives in Montecito and his website is www.cal-landslidelaw. com. He is a partner of Blum Collins LLP.

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live on Glen Oaks Drive, 200 yards from San Ysidro Creek. On January 9, a torrent of mud and giant boulders tore through my neighborhood and destroyed dozens of homes. Tragically, three of my immediate neighbors lost their lives, and after staying through the week my family and I followed the mandatory evacuation order. As our community begins to pick up the pieces, where will we get the enormous resources required to rebuild our homes and lives? As someone who has practiced landslide law for the last 30 years, I will try to answer this question in a series of articles published here. This first article is about inverse condemnation, a constitutional remedy for damage to private property. Most people are familiar with the concept of the government taking private property for a public use through eminent domain (or “direct” condemnation), which ends with a payment of compensation to the property owner. Inverse condemnation is less wellknown, but it’s the flip side of the same legal coin. It describes the case where the government takes or damages a property but fails to pay the property owner, who has to sue the government to recover compensation. The only difference between

a direct and inverse condemnation is who starts the lawsuit. Inverse condemnation is not governed by the rules that govern rights and responsibilities between private parties. It is based entirely on rights enshrined in the California and United States Constitutions, which prohibit private property from being taken or damaged for public use without the payment of just compensation. While negligence law is based on determining who is at fault, inverse condemnation law is not based on anyone’s fault. The California Supreme Court established the general rule of liability without fault in inverse condemnation cases in the landmark decision of Albers v. County of Los Angeles. In that case, a County of Los Angeles road-building activity triggered a landslide that damaged the plaintiffs’ property. The court found that the county was liable for inverse condemnation even though it was not negligent. Any property damage caused by government improvements is compensable under the Constitution, whether foreseeable or not, as long as the property owner demonstrates a cause-and-effect relationship between the public works (e.g., roads, creeks, sewers, drainage paths, water mains), and the incident

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giving rise to the property damage. The purpose of inverse condemnation is to distribute throughout the community the loss inflicted upon the individual by the construction, maintenance, or operation of public improvements. The constitutional mandate requires the public to pay for the true costs of a public project – not just the direct costs of labor and materials, but the damage to private property that the public project substantially causes.

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The constitutional guarantee of just compensation is designed to bar the government from forcing some people alone to bear public burdens which, in all fairness and justice, should be borne by the public as a whole. The decisive consideration is whether the owner of the damaged property if uncompensated would contribute more than his proper share to the public undertaking. For example, while a water main is socially beneficial, there is no reason why the economic cost incident to the expulsion of water from the water main should be borne by the adjoining landowners, rather than by the government agency undertaking such projects. Inverse condemnation is, to a remarkable degree, formulated almost entirely by courts across the state in hundreds of sometimes contradictory decisions over the last 150 years, with which few lawyers or even judges are familiar. The California Law Revision Commission (the state agency responsible for reforming laws) has called inverse

condemnation one of the most complex areas of California law. There are plenty of traps for the unwary. The roadmap to recovery is a long and twisted one and success is not guaranteed, as shown by the experience of the residents of La Conchita, who lost their case against the County of Ventura. The involvement of public works does not always mean there is inverse condemnation liability. For example, if a water main breaks in the ordinary course of its operation, then there could be inverse condemnation liability. However, if someone accidentally puts too much pressure on the water main or hits it with a sledgehammer, then the government is probably not liable. While the law has some clear and established features, inverse condemnation can be difficult for an individual or business to navigate and results can vary significantly. Inverse condemnation is inherently cross-disciplinary, involving constitutional law, tort law, property law, insurance law, water law, and earth movement law, among others. An integrated team of experienced technical experts, including geologists, soils engineers, hydrologists, appraisers, and structural engineers, are necessary to successfully prosecute such cases. Further, the process involves suing the government, which is complicated by requirements such as the need to make administrative claims before initiating tort litigation. (The claim is not needed for an inverse condemnation cause of action, because it stems from a constitutional right, not a statutory one). The experience level of the inverse condemnation lawyer will be critical in developing case strategy and assembling the team of experts. The merits of each inverse condemnation claim depend on the specific facts and exceptions to general rules sometimes apply. In the next article in this series, I will discuss civil procedure – the viability of pursuing class actions and other forms of collective litigation in the mudslides’ aftermath, as well as some other avenues of recourse that may be available in individual circumstances. •MJ

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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.

Joyful Living, in Seven Simple Steps

here are a lot of self-help books out there in the world, but Beth Amine’s just-published Joyous Every Day Living is a lovely little gem. The 116-page book is a simple yet meaningful work that is organized in a straightforward but powerful manner, and represents the first published writing from Amine, a 40-years-plus Santa Barbara-based painter, belly dancer, developer, and teacher of the Joyous Movement program. The book grew out of that latter work, a process for healing through movement that Amine developed largely for seniors, especially those in assisted living centers. “Over the last few years, I’ve been deep into how America is aging,” she explained. “I see a lot of suffering and unnecessary conditions. It doesn’t have to be that way – if people just had a different approach and few different habits.” Amine based the book on her own experiences and those of her large network of friends and colleagues. “This formula came out of my observations and my own processes. I see what works for me and others, and a lot of what doesn’t work. It just seems if you do a lot of these things, life will be a whole lot better.” The point, Amine said, is that people don’t have to decline as rapidly as Americans seem to do. “I want to inspire people to take another approach to enjoying the rest of their lives. Why not party instead of suffer the inevitable decline?” Joyous Every Day Living – subtitled “How to Choose a Life of Perpetual Rejuvenation and Party till Checkout Time” – is divided into seven chapters with one-word titles that represent the steps to increased vitality: Move, Nourish, Release, Give, Create, Join, and Relax. Each one begins with a short inspirational quote and an original painting by Amine to visually and symbolically represent the essence of the chapter. Amine’s own thoughts on the subject are followed by personal experiences – both her own and those of a wide variety of people from the area, including dancers, a feng shui expert, spiritual leaders, a nutritionist and a variety of healers. Scientific references back up the claims before a short suggesting practices for cultivating that method of aliveness concludes the section. “I just observe,” Amine said, explaining how she put the book together. “The (methods represent) everything I saw and felt and have come to learn 25 January – 1 February 2018

Fine print: Beth Amine signs Joyous Every Day Living at Red Piano

over the years. (For the others), I just thought, who among my friends is fascinating and can talk about a particular subject? It was easy!” It’s no accident that the first chapter is about physical action. “I put movement number one even before diet because I see the results out there every day, what happens when people move. The body is meant to move in inspired ways. Anything you can possibly do to move and dance – it’s what most cultivates aliveness. What you eat is important, too, Amine understands, noting keeping away from sugar and other inflammatory foods is paramount. “The rest just unfolded from there. Keeping thoughts positive is gigantic, because what you think is what you get.” Being of service is also vitally important, which Amine gleaned from her recent work in memory care facilities. “I actually feel myself lifted up. My molecules fill up with radiance. There’s something about getting out of your own boundaries and exchanging love that enlivens you on every level.” Creating is about keeping things fresh, forming a new perspective frequently. It doesn’t matter the format or success level, she said. “There are no mistakes when you understand that you’re in process. Everything is just the next step. And we’re constantly creating fresh neural pathways, which is vitally important to maintaining mental acuity.” Amine said that joining with others is also paramount to a life of perpetual rejuvenation. “When I’m in community, I can feel that collective, primitive tribal spirit. It’s a natural instinct. I

feel more alive.” The final step, and what brings it full-circle, is relaxation. “We are not taught to be quiet, or meditative, or even appreciate empty space,” Amine said. “But that’s the bookmark to all the other things. It gives them perspective.” Without a doubt, Amine is her own best witness. When she’s not working, Amine can often be found dancing all around town, in clubs and on stages, or at her frequent house parties at her west side home. She turns 71 in a couple of months, but based on her youthful appearance and ebullient energy, you’d have to cut her open and count the rings in order to erase any doubt. “I’m walking my talk,” she said. “And I feel unbelievable. So, I’m the proof that it works.” (Beth Amine hosts a book-release party for Joyous Every Day Living on Wednesday, January 31 at the Red Piano, where she’ll be signing and selling and likely saying a few words from 7 to 10 pm. “It’s a community celebratory party where we can all hug and dance and interact, and experience some joy after all the things we’ve gone through.)

Franklin’s Key Ingredients

When Emily Esfahani Smith, author of The Power of Meaning: Crafting a Life that Matters, did a pre-UCSB lecture gathering at Santa Barbara Central Library in late November, the editor at the Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and manager of the Ben Franklin Circles project brought a small taste of the Circles, an ongoing process aiming to build meaning in local communities. Based on the Junto, a weekly mutual-improvement club formed by Franklin in 1727, the circles meet regularly, using Franklin’s classic “13 Virtues” to spark discussion about members’ goals and aspirations – who they want to be and what they want to contribute to the world. The ongoing circles are revisiting and redefining the virtues as tools to enrich our own lives and our communities. At the November gathering a few days before the Thomas Fire ignited, after some introductory remarks by Smith, a few dozen of us congregated in dyads to talk over the suggested virtue of “frugality” before reconvening as a group to hear what others came up in their conversations. Even in that small sample, a clear sense of community formed, as we realized our shared values and mutual curiosity and compassion. Now, Franklin’s nearly 300-year-old creation is coming to Santa Barbara to stay. The Central Library’s new Ben Franklin Circle has slated monthly meetings for the last Monday of every month, beginning January 29, at 6:30 pm. The first meeting will be a lev-

Without Valentine’s Day, February would be January. – Jim Gaffigan

el-setting and organizing meeting to prepare for the discussions in the next months, when the 13 virtues will be the topics, including Temperance, Silence, Order, Resolution, Frugality, Industry, Sincerity, Justice, Moderation, Cleanliness, Chastity, Tranquility, and Humility. All you need to bring is an open mind, patience, a willingness to listen and share. Free. Visit www.meetup.com/Santa-BarbaraCentral-Librarys-Ben-Franklin-Circle for details, or check out www.benfranklincircles.org for more on the national organization..

Ringing the Bell

Rob Bell, the New York Times bestselling author of Love Wins, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, The Zimzum of Love, How To Be Here, and What is the Bible?, creates and hosts a podcast called RobCast, which is among the most popular spirituality podcasts in the country. Bell, who has been profiled in The New Yorker, has toured with Oprah Winfrey, and was named in 2011 by Time Magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, conducts a regular show at Largo, the comedy and music club in Los Angeles. Bell is taking the show on the road for a Saturday, January 27, date at the Lobero Theatre, where he’ll be accompanied by Peter Rollins, the provocative writer, lecturer, storyteller, and public speaker who forged an international reputation for overturning traditional notions of religion and forming “churches” that preach the “Good News” that we can’t be satisfied, that life is difficult, and that we don’t know the secret. The 8 pm lecture is preceded by an hour-long Q&A session that begins at 6:45 pm. Tickets, which cost $75, or $25 for the lecture only, are available at www.lobero.com or call 963-0761.

Breathwork Bounce Bath

This alliterative almagam of activities at Airobic Fitness (AF) in La Cumbre Plaza combines breathwork, a sound bath, guided meditation, and bouncing for a full body, mind, and soul workout. The evening begins AF’s Elyse leading 20 to 30 minutes of bouncing on individual trampolines to reconnect with our bodies, increase blood flow and stimulate the immune system. Then it’s back to the trampolines to lay back as Ashley Luna guides a theta meditation to ease the mind into a relaxed state, followed by a guided breathwork process to clear other hidden emotional energies. Finally, Scott Rubenstein employs crystal bowls, Tibetan bowls, a gong, and various other instruments to pour vibrational healing over the room and

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olds, who embrace philanthropy and helping others, can accomplish.” Among those helping the youngsters celebrate their 10th anniversary in the theater’s founders room were Allie Jones, Avery Ridenour, Elizabeth Krachuk, Kelsey Warren, Mya Adornetto, Claire Hyatt, Addie Furrer, Kendra Dayton, Ryder Rivadeneyra, Layla Landeros, Lily McWhirter, Annika Dalhstrom, Brenna Yager, David Dinklage, and Amanda Herbst. Getting the Itch Scratch is nearing its long-awaited opening date at the Montecito Inn. The eatery run by chef-owner

Phillip Frankland Lee, wife and pastry chef Margarita Kallas-Lee, and designer Jordan Olson is the tony triumvirate’s first hotel venture and expansion outside Los Angeles. The Coast Village Road eatery will consist of four concepts with the first up Frankland’s Crab & Co, an elevated fast-food concept delivering dinein and takeaway meals for lunch and dinner, an ice cream parlor, and The Monarch that pays tribute to the treasures of the Central Coast with cooking around a wood-burning hearth. For his grand finale, Lee’s Silver Bough is slated to follow in due course with a modern approach to the grand

Chef Phillip Frankland Lee and wife Margarita KallasLee prepare quite a Montecito venture (photo: www. scratchrestaurants.com)

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fine-dining tradition. Everyone is itching to know. Ellen’s Empathy Former Oscars host Ellen DeGeneres has been wearing her heart on her sleeve over the Montecito mudslides that have brought deadly destruction to our community. “This room is always full of positivity and love,” she told her daytime talk show audience at Warner Bros. in Burbank. “So many times over the past 15 years, people have come up to me and say to me that when they’re going through a tough time this show helps them through it. “Today, I need you because there’s a lot going on in my life right now.” Ellen, who fled her home with actress Portia de Rossi two days before the torrential downpour, showed a photo of the street in front of her estate filled with mud-covered debris from fallen trees and boulders. “It’s catastrophic, beyond recognizable,” said, almost in tears. ZIP it It will come as no surprise whatsoever that our rarefied enclave is one of the most expensive ZIP codes in the United States. Montecito’s 93108 is high on the list of the 100 priciest ZIPs, according to PropertyShark.com, with 77 communities on the Left Coast in the rankings, with Beverly Hills at number 5 with a median house price of $3,850,000, and celebrity haven Malibu lower in the ranks with an average price of $3,081,600. The median house price in our Eden by the Beach is currently $3,222,000, a 9.5 percent increase in the last year with a forecast increase of another 6.8 percent next year, according to Zillow, so Montecito will go even further up the rankings in the next list. Other pricey postal property locales include Atherton, with a median price of $4,950,000, and Burlingame, Palo Alto, and Santa Monica, at number 7 with an average of $3,512,000. Among the rankings is the charming Hamptons enclave of Sagaponack, where I have frequently stayed, given a friend of mine had a beach house there near the late Jaws actor Roy Scheider, who died in 2008, and polo-playing entrepreneur Peter Brant, before moving to Amagansett near Sir Paul McCartney and radio shock jock Howard Stern. America’s former ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, daughter of JFK, and fashion mogul Calvin Klein, also had homes in the community where the median house price is $5,500,000. It is one of 19 listed ZIP codes in New York state, with half of them located in New York City.

• The Voice of the Village •

Violinist Augustin Hadelich impresses

Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) launched its first performance of the New Year with the 138-yearold St. Louis Symphony under music director David Robertson at the Granada. The performers managed to work out an alternative route to our tony town to avoid the 101 closure. Grammy-winning Italian violinist Augustin Hadelich, 33, mesmerized playing a 1723 Kiesewetter Stradivarius in Benjamin Britten’s concerto. The show opened with Thomas Adés’s Powder Her Face Suite wrapping with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1 in F minor. A cracking start to 2018. Show and Tell Former TV talk-show titan Oprah Winfrey has been resorting to social media to show what life is like in Montecito after the mudslides. She’s been showing videos of her experiences with residents in the neighborhood as part of the recovery process, including a clip in which she interviews search and rescue crews, learning about their specially trained dogs. The videos are “no frills” – shot on her phone and uploaded from the disaster zone straight to her fans. A far cry were multi-million-dollar studios with HD cameras and an opulent wardrobe. A stripped-down version of one of the world’s richest and most powerful media icons.

Soothing Sounds Santa Barbara Symphony, under conductor Nir Kabaretti, in partnership with Montecito Bank & Trust, held a free concert at the Granada to raise money for disaster relief and recovery efforts in our rarefied enclave. Guitarist and artist in residence Pablo Sainz Villegas, accompanied by a small orchestra, gave an intimate

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Pilobolus Maximus

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Sun, Jan 28 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre Tickets start at $55 $19 UCSB students

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Former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice will share her unparalleled expertise on global affairs, national security and education. Pre-signed books will be available for purchase

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“A peek or two into the crannies of the heart and lots of humor, both awful and sublime.” The New York Times From the irreverence of a wild circus to the physical filigree of their most classical work, Maximus is not only the best of Pilobolus but the most revealing of how diverse and surprising Pilobolus’ work can be.

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ORDINANCE NO. 5819

ORDINANCE NO. 5820

ORDINANCE NO. 5821

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR TO EXECUTE A LAND EXCHANGE AGREEMENT WITH SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ACCEPT LAND AT FIRE STATION NO. 5 AND DISPOSE OF UNUSED LAND AT THE EASTSIDE LIBRARY PROPERTY

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO AMENDED RESTATED LEASE NO. 12,037.4 BETWEEN THE CITY AND SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT SANTA BARBARA, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, AMENDING “TERM”, “RENT”, “SURRENDER, HOLDING OVER,” “FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION REQUIREMENTS”, ADDING “TITLE VI LIST OF NONDISCRIMINATION ACTS AND AUTHORITIES” AND “CERTIFIED ACCESS” TO TAKE EFFECT UPON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ORDINANCE

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING AN AMENDMENT TO AMENDED LEASE NO. 21,267.3 BETWEEN THE CITY AND MERCURY AIR CENTER SANTA BARBARA INC. DBA ATLANTIC AVIATION, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, AMENDING “PREMISES”, “TERM”, “RENT”, “SURRENDER, HOLDING OVER,” “FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION REQUIREMENTS”, ADDING “TITLE VI LIST OF NONDISCRIMINATION ACTS AND AUTHORITIES” AND “CERTIFIED ACCESS” TO TAKE EFFECT UPON THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ORDINANCE.

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

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

9, 2018. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on January 9, 2018. The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal)

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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

was introduced on December 12, 2017, and was adopted by

AYES:

January 9, 2018, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

NOES:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

on January 10, 2018.

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

January 10, 2018.

Published January 24, 2018 Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Presidio Properties, 2101 Village Lane, Solvang, CA 93463. Kristiann Eleanor Wightman, 2101 Village Lane, Solvang, CA 93463. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 18, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Tech Doctors, 511 E. Gutierrez Street, STE A, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Paul Vertsekha, 38 La Calera Way, Goleta, CA 93117. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 16, 2018. This

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STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on December 12, 2017, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on January 9, 2018, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

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

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on January 10, 2018.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published January 24, 2018 Montecito Journal

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Christine Potter. FBN No. 2018-0000198. Published January 24, 31, February 7, 14, 2018.

ORDINANCE NO. 5821

on January 10, 2018.

January 10, 2018.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

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

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

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

on January 10, 2018.

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

(Seal)

January 9, 2018, by the following roll call vote:

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

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter

ORDINANCE NO. 5820

was introduced on December 12, 2017, and was adopted by

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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

9, 2018.

(Seal)

ORDINANCE NO. 5819

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on January

California.

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

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

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Margarita Silva. FBN No. 2018-0000163. Published January 24, 31, February 7, 14, 2018. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Golden State Taekwondo, 422 W. Ocean Ave., Lompoc,

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published January 24, 2018 Montecito Journal

CA 93436. Loyal Gesture, INC, 422 W. Ocean Ave., Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 11, 2018. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Connie Tran. FBN No. 2018-0000132. Published January 17, 24, 31, February 7, 2018.

• The Voice of the Village •

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ANKUSHKHEMANI, 4751 Amarosa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Ankush Khemani, 4751 Amarosa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 29, 2017. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my

office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2017-0003482. Published January 10, 17, 24, 31, 2018. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: JUHIKHEMANI, 4751 Amarosa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Juhi Khemani, 4751 Amarosa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 29, 2017.

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

Some Lines about Some Lines

ne of the best gifts I ever received was a “Rapidograph” pen, from a friend who knew I was starting to illustrate my epigrams. This pen was extremely useful, because it could draw very fine lines of a single steady width. But, like the many others which I have bought since then, it also proved troublesome, because, unless you were careful, the ink had a tendency to dry up and block the narrow channels through which it had to flow. This then required elaborate procedures for taking the instrument apart and cleaning it. I mention the above only as a sort of metaphor for the difficulties we encounter in connection with lines, in all kinds of situations. As children, many of us were particularly aware of the lines on sidewalks, and our game was to avoid stepping on them or suffer unthinkable consequences. In my neck of the woods, the mantra was

thought to have been the origin of the South’s nickname, “Dixie.” Then there was the European Curzon Line, named for Lord Curzon, the British foreign secretary, who proposed it during World War I, as the eastern boundary of a new state of Poland which did not yet exist. It formed part of many complicated negotiations after the war, and also after World War II. What it brings to my mind is the story of one family who’d always believed that their property was in Russia, but they were informed by the surveyors that it would now be in Poland. “Thank God!” the mother is said to have exclaimed, “I couldn’t have taken another of those Russian winters!”

tep on a line, break your father’s S spine – Step on a crack, break your mother’s back.

Considering lines of fortification, two of the most famous but equally ill-fated lines in recent history were those confronting each other in Western Europe: the French Maginot Line and the German Siegfried Line. They were military marvels, with units completely self-contained, to withstand lengthy engagements – but both ultimately failed. One thing they gave us was a song that emerged during the early days of World War II, when there was little actual fighting. The song was popular with British troops stationed in France, who felt safe behind the Maginot Line, and confident that they’d soon be advancing into Germany. They sang

I am particularly interested in lines that have names, with stories attached to them – for example, the famous Mason-Dixon Line, originally drawn in the 1760s in pre-Revolutionary America by two professional surveyors, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, to settle a boundary dispute between several colonies. While never so intended, that line came be seen as the border between the “Free” North and the “Slave” South. And though there are competing theories, it’s

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“We’re Gonna Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line.” But within a few months, in 1940, they were scrambling desperately to get off the continent at Dunkirk. Some two millennia earlier, there was “The Hadrian Line” across northern Britain, actually known to us as “Hadrian’s Wall.” Begun under that Roman emperor in 122 A.D. to separate the “civilized” south from the barbaric tribes to the north, today much of it still survives, as a major tourist attraction. Of course, there are many meaningful expressions that use the word “line,” though the original meaning may have been forgotten. For example, we speak of facing a “deadline,” unconscious of the fact that a deadline was once a line beyond which, if you dared to cross it, you were literally dead. As one instance, such a line in the form of a shallow trench about

6 yards inside the stockade’s log walls, was a feature of the notorious Civil War prison camp at Andersonville, Georgia. Guards in the wall’s towers were under orders to shoot to kill any prisoner who, even inadvertently, crossed that line. One other line, which I myself saw in operation, deserves mention here: Winston Churchill, in 1946 named it, rather dramatically, the “Iron Curtain.” It stretched north to south, all the way across Europe, effectively separating the West from the Sovietcontrolled East. When I visited Vienna in 1959, there were actually special busses taking tourists to an observation point from which it was possible to see a stretch of the barrier with its fences, ditches, guard-posts, and armed patrols. Not for another three decades did this symbol, and the Soviet Union itself, reach their own “end of the line.” •MJ

County of Santa Barbara Board of Supervisors NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Cannabis Land Use Ordinances Tuesday, February 6, 2018

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Board Hearing Room, Fourth Floor 105 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M. On Tuesday, February 6, 2018, the County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing to consider ordinance amendments concerning the land use activities associated with cannabis. At the hearing, the Board of Supervisors will consider taking the following actions regarding the project: 1. Make the required findings for approval for the proposed ordinances and resolutions, including California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) findings and the statement of overriding considerations. 2.

Case No. 17ORD-00000-00004. Adopt an ordinance amending Section 35-1 of the Santa Barbara County Land Use and Development Code, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the County Code.

Case No. 17ORD-00000-00010. Adopt an ordinance amending Section 35 of the Santa Barbara County Coastal Zoning Ordinance, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the County Code.

Case No. 17ORD-00000-00009. Adopt an ordinance amending Section 35-2 of the Santa Barbara County Montecito Land Use and Development Code, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the County Code.

Case No. 17ORD-00000-00019. Adopt a resolution amending the Santa Barbara County Uniform Rules for Agricultural Preserves and Farmland Security Zones.

Case No. 18ORD-00000-00001. Adopt an ordinance amending and partially rescinding Article X, Medical Marijuana Regulations, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the County Code.

Case No. 17EIR-00000-00003. Certify the Cannabis Land Use Ordinance and Licensing Program Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (Case No. 17EIR-00000-00003, State Clearinghouse No. 2017071016) and the associated revision letter (RV 01) for Case Nos. 17ORD-00000-00004, 17ORD-0000000009, 17ORD-00000-000010, 17ORD-00000-00019, and 18ORD-00000-00001, and adopt the mitigation monitoring and reporting program pursuant to the State CEQA Guidelines.

Adopt a resolution transmitting Case No. 17ORD-00000-00010 (CZO) to the Coastal Commission for certification by the California Coastal Commission as an amendment to Santa Barbara County’s certified Local Coastal Program; find that transmittal of the Resolution is an administrative activity of the County, which will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment and is therefore not a “project” as defined for purposes of CEQA under State CEQA Guidelines Section 15378(b)(5); and direct the Planning and Development Department to transmit the adopted Resolution to the Executive Director of the Coastal Commission.

Please see the posted agenda and staff report available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at http://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx under the hearing date. The Board of Supervisors meeting begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Board. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak on the project. Remote testimony can also be given at the Betteravia Government Center, 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the County Clerk at sbcob@co.santa-barbara.ca.us. For additional information, please contact the project planner, Jessica Metzger at: Email: jmetzger@countyofsb.org | Tel: 805-568-3532 If you challenge the project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Board of Supervisors prior to the public hearing. Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors by 4:00 p.m. on Friday before the Board meeting at (805) 568-2240.

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and uplifting performance. “It was an evening of community and comfort with the healing power of music,” said symphony director Kevin Marvin. The event was emceed by ubiquitous Andrew Firestone and Montecito Bank & Trust honcho Janet Garufis.

Lisa Rivas of the Santa Barbara Symphony, Robert “Bob” Weiman, SBS Board member, and attendee Rebecca Phillips participating in the benefit embracing the healing power of music (photo by Priscilla)

Pleased with the gifts of giving and receiving for those in need at the SBCPA Granada Theater are host Janet Garufis, chairman & CEO of Montecito Bank and Trust, and Kevin Marvin, CEO Santa Barbara Symphony (photo by Priscilla)

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THE MEDICAL CHALLENGES OF LIFE WITH THE THREAT OF

APPROACHING MORTALITY STORIES OF REAL PATIENTS Dr. Dunham’s personal involvement with the subjects of his books, ranging from his Jail Ward duties as an intern fresh out of UCLA Medical School to his service as a nuclear reactor operator aboard a submarine and his challenges of 40 years of practicing Internal Medicine, allows an authoritative credibility that holds the reader spellbound. As Dr. Dunham will tell you, these books are not about invented threats to survival, they are not contrived—they tell stories about the very real daily threats faced by human beings in the tumultuous world of medicine and in the battlefields beneath the seas.

Hosts Andrew Firestone, Janet Garufis with the Santa Barbara Symphony under the music direction of conductor Nir Kabaretti, guitarist Pablo Sainz Villegas, artist-in-residence present their music for the community (photo by Priscilla)

With honored firefighters: Josh Pickard; Dan Will, engineer; Robby Pickard; and resident families Mindy Munns, with her son Koda Kolai; Gaemus Collins; Steve Ortiz, United Way president & CEO; Seth Vaughn, United Way development director; captain Brian Wall; Tracy Collins with son Elllington and Eliza (photo by Priscilla)

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Bloom Bash British actor Orlando Bloom has been following the footsteps of his former girlfriend Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry and celebrating his 41st birthday at a lavish bash in Marrakech, Morocco. The Pirates of the Caribbean actor joined Oscar winner Leonardo DiCaprio, 43, and 150 other guests at the trendy Le Palace restaurant before heading to the Raspoutine Marrakech nightclub. Four years ago, Katy marked her 30th birthday in the same city at the luxury Amanjena Hotel. Fond Farewell On a personal note, I mark the passing of one of the Santa Barbara Polo Club’s most stalwart members, Elizabeth Skene, at the age of 104. A regular attendee, presenting the annual Robert Skene Trophy named after her late husband, “Hurricane” Bob Skene, who held a top 10-goal rating for an astounding 17 years. He died in 1997, aged 83. Elizabeth, who I had known for 10 years, was a most gracious and charming lady, and her weekly presence with ambassador Glen Holden and his wife, Gloria, was a wonderful tradition. Elizabeth will be much missed. Sightings: Actor Ashton Kutcher shopping at Whole Foods...Oscar winner Jeff Bridges masticating at Opal... Comedian Steve Martin checking out the wares at C’est Cheese

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High and Lowe Actor Rob Lowe roasted Bella Thorne in an Instagram after she complained of her traffic woes among the carnage of the Montecito mudslides. The 20-year-old Worst Enemy actress tweeted “F**ck u 101 Barbara. I’m missing my boyfriend’s first date on his tour,” in reference to rapper Mod Sun. Rob, 53, lost no time in shooting back: “This attitude is why people hates celebrities and Hollywood. Bella I’m sorry you were inconvenienced. We will try to move out our dead quicker!”

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Anticipating the sounds from Santa Barbara Symphony under the direction of conductor Nir Kabaretti are Adam Gilman, SBS president Don Gilman; Gaja Hubbard Kabaretti; SBS Board member Howard Jay Smith; Jack Fetters, Deana Gilman, and Tricia Dixon (photo by Priscilla)

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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 •MJ 969-3301. 25 January – 1 February 2018

In light of the recent tragic events affecting our entire community, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is offering free admission through February 28—in the belief that the power of art will provide solace, tranquility of mind, healing, and a source of inspiration going forward. EXHIBITIONS OPENING JANUARY 28:

Brought to Light: Revelatory Photographs in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Collection Through April 22, 2018

Crosscurrents: The Painted Portrait in America, Britain, and France, 1750–1850 Through May 27, 2018

Crosscurrents: American and European Portrait Photographs, 1840–1900 Through May 27, 2018 Please enter through the Museum Store or Park entrance (near the Library), as State Street entrance is closed. Free admission during February is a gift to our community from Clay Tedeschi and the Charles Bloom Foundation.

For more exhibitions and events, visit www.sbma.net. 1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA • Tuesday–Sunday: 11 am–5 pm • Free Thursday Evenings: 5–8 pm

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learn that she and her husband had eventually evacuated and survived. Three days after the mudslide swallowed her house, she texted me saying, “It’s weird not even having a hairbrush.” “I can’t imagine,” I answered. That Monday, January 8, I made reservations at a hotel 15 miles north and got the last room. I thought we would only be gone for a few days and packed accordingly. Little did I know that on that night, half an inch of rain would fall in five minutes, causing the deadliest mudslide in California history – a mere month after we had endured the largest fire in state history. One would think that natural disasters and difficult life experiences would pave a path to contemplation and reflection, but my initial response has been a deep sense of numbness and shock. Some might say that, as people do when faced with any other kind of loss, we bedraggled Californians will go through what the pioneer in neardeath studies Elisabeth KüblerRoss describes as the five stages of grief – denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. We all go through these stages at our own rate, but together they form a framework for how we can learn to live with our losses.

Now, after more than a month of living out of a suitcase, I realize that I had packed for only a few days away, I’m unsure where I am in Kübler-Ross’s framework. But I do know that I’ve not been sleeping and have spent a lot of time crying and wandering aimlessly on walks with my dog at the hotel that I now call home, with so many other residents from our community.

take time to process. For now, all we can do is be in the moment, count our blessings, and be grateful for the love and support that surrounds us. In many ways, this experience feels apocalyptic – a rite of passage, a way ultimate moment of transformation? One person asked, “Is it locusts next?” Confusion lurks. Panic attacks awaken me during the night. I dig deep into my psyche and

My prayer is that my magical community be encircled with love and healing light We gather for drinks in the hotel bar to soothe our nerves but feel helpless and a deep sense of sadness. We are all heart-wrenched about what has happened to our magical community – that spiritual place where the mountains meet the ocean – and the brilliance and creativity of its people, known ones, such as Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bridges, Rob Lowe, Ellen DeGeneres, Pico Iyer, T.C. Boyle, the late Sue Grafton and Thomas Steinbeck, and less-known brilliant individuals. I’m mourning for my friends, my colleagues, and my neighbors who lost homes and loved ones in the devastation. I’m

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experiencing a tornado of feelings. People have asked if I and my house are okay, and my response is, “Yes, I am fine. My house is fine, but I cannot celebrate that when so many others have lost their homes and loved ones.” My family wonders why I am not happier that my house is intact and why we aren’t going back to our part of town where the damage was minimal. I explain that my heart center, which

is my guide, is telling me that now is just not the time to go back. How could we drive up our lush driveway and walk into our home running on a generator, when rescuers are still trying to rescue bodies, fix pipes, and make sense of what has happened? Further, Highway 101, the only port in and out of town, is filled with four feet of mud, and the latest report is that it will be closed indefinitely. The back roads and alternate routes, I’ve been told, are laden with fallen boulders. At this point, five days after the mudslide, the missing persons are no longer individuals. People who were loved and cherished, whom I’ve seen about our town in various places, have become dead bodies. My beautiful friend Jodi, who has created lovely homes that are sanctuaries for those who live in them, is now herself homeless. This woman has brought so much love and light into other people’s lives. Just to give you an idea, her Facebook page says, “Love life.” She always finishes texts with, “Have a beautiful day.” And this morning, she didn’t even have a hairbrush. My question is, “Why?” What is there, if anything, to learn from these experiences? Why and how could this devastation happen to my friend and her husband? Another woman – a pillar of the community in so many realms, from championing human rights to being a board chairman of some of the most prestigious and humanitarian organizations – has also lost her house. The top real-estate agent in the community, Rebecca Riskin, known as “the first lady of luxury real estate,” is dead. These are all powerful and influential individuals. Movers and shakers, now stilled. Are we to take away a message here? At present, we who remain are all working at the survival level. I am aware that this sort of disaster is part of the human journey. It is all part of being a human being, and it will

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heart center to see what will help and recall that years ago my spiritual advisor suggested I do a morning check-in. This check-in can be done verbally or in writing. It’s a way to categorize and come to grips with chaos. I remind myself and others encountering trauma to ask these questions: • What is my body feeling? • What emotions am I feeling? • What are the messages from my heart? • What is my soul/spirit feeling? My spiritual advisor also suggested that, after my check-in, I send a prayer of hope to enjoy the precious day – and to live toward our higher purpose. So, here goes: Today, my body is feeling confused, but hopeful, my heart is feeling full and open, my mind is feeling analytical, and my soul is feeling like it needs nurturing. And today, my prayer is that my magical community be encircled with love and healing light, and that the people in my community find resilience together to rebuild their lives and expand in joy through the process. This kind of practice given to me by my spiritual advisor helps me with acceptance and centering. One day at a time. The natural disasters my community has suffered transcend cultural boundaries and political worldviews. Whether we live in a hovel or in a mansion, Haiti or Beverly Hills, and regardless of our race, métier, or level of education, we all need a home that is our sanctuary from the world. When that sanctuary is lost, disorientation and deep suffering ensues. May our own recent tribulations deepen our sense of oneness with those who – although they may seem far removed from us in life – are at the core not that different from us after all.” There’s really no other way of •MJ looking at it. 25 January – 1 February 2018

Rebecca Riskin

Our hearts are profoundly broken over the loss of Rebecca Riskin during the devastating flooding and mudslides in Montecito. Rebecca was an extraordinary broker and friend who has been a cherished part of our family for over twenty years. Our thoughts and prayers are with her family, friends, and partners at Village Properties and throughout the community. We are committed to supporting Riskin Partners as they honor Rebeccaâ€™s legacy in the days and years to come.

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Real Estate View Our Town Disaster Recovery Claims by Michael Phillips

ll of us have been damaged by the fires and mudflows that have left our community reeling over the past month. As we grieve for the loss of too many of our neighbors, and the destruction of so much of our community, we all share the burden of getting the insurance coverage we paid for associated with this tragedy; specifically our forced evacuation, and for many, the additional daunting task of replacing or repairing our homes and property. Due to the forced evacuation orders affecting all of us in Montecito and the State’s declaration of “disaster,” we are all entitled to Additional Living Expenses. Your insurance company must provide a list in writing as to specific items that are covered and reimbursable plus the dollar and/ or time limit caps specified in your policy. Generally, reasonable expenses incurred as a result of not being able to live in our homes, whether temporarily or permanently, should be covered within policy limits. If your home was destroyed, you are entitled to at least 24 months of coverage (CA Ins. Code section 2060). As we are all experiencing, the path to recovery after a disaster event is neither easy nor quick. Insurance is big business, and the claims process is often complicated. Fortunately, California’s “Fair Claims Settlement Practices Act” provides more protection to us than does any other state. Most importantly, your insurance company has a legal duty to deal with you fairly and honestly, and to investigate, process, and pay you for your loss promptly. In reality, given prior disaster claimants’ experiences, we will most likely be facing difficult

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

arm’s-length negotiations with our insurance providers. Those of us who must rebuild will certainly be facing a protracted, difficult process. If we arm ourselves with a basic understanding of the laws that are to control this procedure, we might speed up our settlements and improve our chances of recovering what we are entitled to under our respective policies. For specifics on claim rules, deadlines, and what we are owed, we’ll want to know about California’s Fair Claim Handling Regulations. They identify what information our insurance company must provide us and what we must provide to them. In addition, they spell out important deadlines for responding to letters and phone calls, submitting paperwork itemizing our loss, and when our insurer must pay us or deny our claim. To obtain copies of these laws and regulations, make a request in writing to your insurance company. They are required by law to give them to us. You can also find them at www. insurance.ca.gov and go to “insurers” section, “legal information.” Michael Phillips is a Montecito resident, a broker with Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate, a former Montecito Planning commissioner, and an attorney licensed in •MJ the District of Columbia.

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Christmas Count for the Birds

he SB Audubon’s 118th Christmas Bird Count (CBC) proved interesting and challenging, given the continuing drought in our area and the Thomas Fire. More than 175 all-volunteer bird counters work a full 24-hour period on land and sea, identifying and counting all the species of birds in the region. Each sub-area in SB County chooses the date of the count from December 18 through January 5, which occurs no matter the weather conditions. The count for our area was done on December 30, after the fires and before the January mudslides. Our area for SB/Montecito covers a 15-mile diameter count circle, centered at Highway 154 and Foothill Road, Santa Barbara. Approximate count circle boundaries are: San Ysidro Road on the east, Paradise Road on the north, Coronado Road on the west, 5 miles offshore on the south by boat. The count includes sea birding onboard a boat, as well as night birding volunteers trained in hearing, as well as sighting night birds, such as the Great-Horned Owl, Western Screech Owl, Spotted Owl, the Northern Saw-Whet Owl, and the Common Poorwill. I interviewed Joan Lentz, renowned birder, author, and 20-year veteran of the CBC who served as its Director for 16 consecutive years through 2012. The CBC is now directed by SB Museum of Natural History voluntary manager Rebecca Fagan-Coulter, another 20-year birding expert. Rebecca compiles the entire SB County count with Joan and Bill Murdoch of Montecito, plus additional volunteers. For December 30, they found 203 species of birds in our town, a high score result given the environmental odds. Joan said, “I want to stress we can help wild birds by feeding them in our gardens and, most importantly, providing a source of water for them. This will lessen the effects of the recent environmental disasters.” Q: Were there any new or unusual bird species noted this year? A: Yes! Three bird species were found for the first time here: a Blue Grosbeak at Ellings Park; a Gray Catbird at Isla Vista; and a Mountain Plover on the beach near Coal Oil Point.

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Has the Thomas Fire impacted bird life in the area? The Thomas Fire was certainly a deterrent to birds in Montecito. I would say the worst damage has occurred above East Valley Road. The common • The Voice of the Village •

birds that were able to escape the heat and ferocious winds of the fire will either move farther away from the mountains – closer to the coast – or will leave completely. In this regard, it’s the migrant birds that might be on their way south, that we often can entice to stay in our pretty gardens with the lush plantings in Montecito, but this year they were greeted by the Thomas Fire. And what do they do? They just migrate on through, not stopping to stay the winter here. That’s why there are fewer rare bird species in Montecito this year. I believe the continuing drought (despite one year of normal rain last winter) is the chief cause (not only of the fire itself) of the decline in bird life in Montecito. You look at the trees and hedges and they are full of brown, desiccated leaves, few blossoms, fewer nectar sources for the birds to feed on. This is a more permanent effect on birds than the Thomas Fire. Also, overly groomed gardens, less understory, less “mess” so fewer places where insects might collect — these are all contributing to fewer birds in recent years than in the past. Which common birds have left or joined our area? A few common bird species that seemed to have declined over the years in Montecito are the: Yellow-Rumped Warbler, White-Crowned Sparrow, Song Sparrow, and the Common Yellowthroat. Some common species that have increased include the Scalybreasted Munia, Oak Titmouse, WhiteBreasted Nuthatch, California Thrasher, and the Orange-Crowned Warbler. And this year’s count? Our 203 total this year compares with 196 here last year, so we feel like we’re creeping back up there, but between the drought and the fire — it’s been difficult. For the past 25 years, the average species count is just a fraction under 209, with end of 2016 coming in at 196 species, the lowest in over 25 years as affected by the drought. Your birding wishlist includes...? Anyone in Montecito with a pond large enough to attract ducks or other water birds in your garden, contact me at joaneastonlentz@gmail.com I would love to census the birds on your pond during next year’s Christmas •MJ Bird Count! 411: http://casbbirdcount.org 25 January – 1 February 2018

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mula for how we make a dance. So, it’s also very much about the people who are there coming together and creating something as a group. It’s definitely not just for dancers. Here’s Fucik’s comments about Friday’s program: Branches: Here the question was “What can we do in an outdoor space looking at Adirondack mountains? How do you compete with that?” You don’t. You work with it, and have what we do be a part of the space. Watching Animal Planet, we saw that animals are beautiful and terrifying and absurdly funny. And we thought, wait, that’s kind of us! So, the dancers are embodying everything from animals to trees to what is, really, as corny as it sounds, the essence of life. At rehearsals, we had the dancers go out on three-hour hikes by themselves, just being quiet and reflective on what was around them and taking it in.

Fungus among us: Pilobolus invades the Granada on Sunday, January 28

Sometimes we don’t even have an idea. We just put on music that has a feel we’d like to explore. And then we look for the connections that happen emotionally or physically between the dancers as they move and pull ideas from that. It grows organically, with the movement threads made through the collective of all the people in the room. It’s not the most efficient way to make dance, but it’s rewarding. The company has also done a great deal of collaborating with non-choreographers. How does that work? We’re drawn to artists who have active imaginations, especially people from outside our field. We even want our dancers to be well-rounded and from different backgrounds. Otherwise, you’re missing things that are absolutely fascinating, like interpreting drones and robotics at MIT through dance. We’ve worked with visual artists, using the body as paint, and writers to take the words and make it a live medium. In essence, choreography is trying to answer questions. Even from outside our

world, we find the answers through movement. It seems the focus is always on the human body, moving in concert with other ones – meaning it’s as much about relationship as it is about individual movement. Yeah, for me it’s all about relationship. I’m interested in what happens when you touch another person. What’s the connection? Even if it’s abstract. Any time you touch another body, a relationship is already created, even if it’s only the atmosphere rather than a deep emotional connection. For me, as much as dance is about form, and what you can do with your body, it’s also about the spirit and connection to each other. Your community dance class (Saturday at noon at Santa Barbara Dance Arts) is for everyone. What’s the format? It’s a crash course into how we create our work, our philosophy. There are things you can apply elsewhere beyond dance and movement – creative problem solving that’s the for-

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Echoes in the Valley: Abigail and Bela were in the studio with us, with both of us taking cues from each other. We had pairs interacting to the sounds they were making together, with them playing live as we improvised to the music, and the singing would influence the movement. And as we did something, they’d watch us and react. Bela would play a riff on a banjo and we’d respond, like a conversation, fueling each other. Eventually, there were a lot of discussions about what the songs meant and how to put it together. To me, it’s a very tender and theatrical piece. (esc): People always call what we do magical, so we wanted to see if we could do actual magic on stage. Penn & Teller had the idea of escape, which Houdini made famous. When we perform it, the audience comes up on stage and builds the box. It’s a lot of fun, but also kind of scary, like a rollercoaster. It took a lot of rehearsal to make sure the dancers who perform it knew what they were doing. Rushes: It’s a collaboration with these amazing choreographers from Israel. It follows a tight-knit group of people who are on a journey thru their memories. It’s a heartstring strummer – so beautiful but also awkward and out there, just like we are as humans.

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When famed British progressive rocker and music producer Alan Parsons first booked his one-off show for Friday night, January 26, at the Chumash Casino, there was a clear purpose in mind. Get the new band together – the latest incarnation coming after the departure late last summer of Santa Barbara-based guitarist

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Alastair Greene in favor of pursuing his own solo blues career – play a live show, and then spend some time in his new state-of-the-art home studio fleshing out new material. The Thomas Fire didn’t even put a big crimp into those plans. Parsons’s home since 2005 is located on an avocado orchard high up in the hills above the Bacara Resort in western Goleta, far enough from the flames that they never even received an evacuation warning and were able to handle the infrequent influx of smoke and ash. The Montecito mudslide, however, has caused a few wrinkles, with the freeway closure forcing those helping him put together the home studio having to take the long way round from L.A. But Parsons knows that’s a trifle. A delay and inconvenience in constructing a home studio pales in comparison to losing your home, or worse yet, your life, as happened to so many in Montecito. And he’s cognizant of the tireless work put in by the firefighters and other first responders for both cataclysmic events. The concert has now been turned into a benefit, with all of the proceeds being donated to the first responders and victims of the twin tragedies. “It affected a lot of people we know, friends in the area. The stories we heard were just horrific,” Parsons said last weekend after returning home from a meeting about the show. “These guys (firefighters) deserve an enormous amount of credit for what they have done to help.” The 90-minute show at the Chumash will feature the first half of The Alan Parsons Project’s (APP) I Robot album, an early release from the outfit he formed after serving as an engineer on albums by The Beatles and most memorably Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, as well as producing such records as hugely successful Al Stewart’s “Year of the Cat”. The Isaac Asimov-influenced classic marked its 40th anniversary last year, while December saw the release of a four-CD box set 35th Anniversary Collector’s Edition of the Projects’s Eye In The Sky, whose title track was Parsons’s biggest hit. “It was fascinating to go back and hear all those old tapes and then re-produce the original recordings in Surround Sound,” said Parsons, who is also noted as an early and constant champion of high-quality equipment. “I’d happily update all of my albums if they want.” Passages from the album have become pop culture touchstones, with airings at the Super Bowl and on myriad TV commercials. “It was never the intention to make it what it has become,” he said. “It’s just a piece of music I strung together in a studio in an office in my house. But of course, I’m delighted.” 25 January – 1 February 2018

Where do we go from here? To Chumash Resort, where Alan Parsons performs Friday

Now there’s a new recording studio in his Santa Barbara house, where Parsons is planning to make the first new album under his name in years. “Those are my roots. The recording studio is where I come from. I’m really looking forward to spending more time recording and less time on the road.” Word is that the new record will feature musicians from the APP’s earlier incarnations, along with modern rock artists, and carry an internal theme as with the early albums. But Parsons is characteristically mum on the subject. “It’s a concept album that’s written and ready to go. But I don’t want to talk about what the concept is. We always kept the details quiet, secret until almost the release date.” As for his legacy, Parsons eschewed the hits for the equipment, and offered a suggestion. “I’d like to be remembered for my opinions and contributions to high fidelity and creating a work with a quality of sound. That’s always been top of my list, more than the music itself. People should… enjoy music the right way, not on mp3s on the train. Spend money on a decent sound system and sit down and listen. It’s not background music.”

Flow, Flood, and Fire Fundraisers

The Alcazar Theatre in Carpinteria, formerly the Plaza Playhouse, has booked four straight nights of benefit concerts, and now that the 101 freeway has reopened, we all can get there pretty easily. Superstoked headlines the first of the foursome on Thursday, January 25 – which is actually the second in the Alacazar Rises series following Dishwalla’s show in early January – with Traveling Hurtados and Out Of The Blue also on the bill. South on Linden and The Youngsters share the stage on Friday night; Blown Over, afishnsea, and The Moon take over on Saturday; and Sunday brings a Dance Party with the Dusty Jugz, as the theater’s stage will be transformed into a dance floor. Each concert begins at 7:30 pm (7 pm on Thursday), with tickets set at $15. The proceeds are earmarked 25 January – 1 February 2018

for local victims of the Thomas Fire. Call 684-6380 or visit www.facebook. com/alcazartheatre. The Cal Strong concert this Sunday at SOhO, perhaps the first of a series, also supports victims of the Thomas Fire, as it was booked and confirmed just days before the torrential rain caused the flash flood and mudslide in Montecito. Ace Pro Music’s Nancy Singelman’s lineup of local luminaries features Rachel Sedacca, Teresa Russell, The Tearaways, Smitty and Julija, Bruce Goldfish, the Contenders, Laura Cozzie and the Santa Barbara Strong band and Tantamount, though the roster is in flux. Items will also be up for silent auction during the 3 to 11 pm event. Admission is $25 general, $75 with dinner.

outside of KEYT’s John Palminteri (and I’m not even sure that exception applies), incessantly posting information and videos on Facebook about every detail and offering upbeat missives of love and support. Then came January 9. In a cruel irony, Mooy and his longtime love, Nancy Soohoo Little Moon, managed to escape from her Montecito cottage when the mudslide and debris flow began, but lost their home, a car, and likely most of their possessions in the onslaught of debris. Despite it all, the Facebook posts continued, nearly always with a message of hope and love before the enormity of the emotional trauma took its toll. But

barely hours after posting a complaint or two, Mooy was back on Facebook apologizing and back to expressing gratitude. Now, Santa Barbara musicians Susan Marie Reeves and Jesse Rhodes have started a gofundme campaign (www.gofundme.com/disaster-fundfor-john-and-nancy) to aid the couple in their recovery. Do they deserve the help more than other victims who suffered even greater losses? You decide. But suffice it to say that within a few hours of the fund’s creation last Sunday evening, there were already 20 donors, including a lot of local musicians and the like. Perhaps you’ll •MJ add your name?

Back on the Schedule

The Grammy-winning stand-up comedian Lewis Black, whose ranting and raving at political perfidy and social screw-ups might be just the elixir for post-mudslide Montecito, has been rescheduled for the Lobero on Thursday, January 25.... Quire of Voyces’s canceled December concerts have been reconceptualized as “The Mysteries of Christmas: A Healing Concert for our Community”, in which music that soothes and heals will substitute for the traditional Christmas carols on the program. One show only at 3 pm on Sunday, January 28. Firefighters and other first responders admitted free.

Money for Mooy

Those of you who know John Mooy are aware of how beloved he is – as a guitar tech (undoubtedly you’ve heard local fans shouting out his name at concerts at the Bowl or Lobero when he trundles on stage to hand a freshly tuned instrument to Jackson Browne, Kenny Loggins, or David Crosby), music community connector, and all around good man. Then, last month, during the Thomas Fire, Mooy put on another hat, turning into perhaps the most intrepid and accurate reporter of the advancing flames, the evacuations, and smoke and ash alerts

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Pasta (deceased) and his sister, Lydia (missing), and their mom (survived) joined us for Noah’s 11th birthday cake and ice cream in our front yard at our home, which we lovingly called Birdsong Cottage, because of the wonderful array of birds swooping through the Oak grove

Lydia and Kailly, were always running about as well. Our little valley echoed laughter and fun. We were a tight-knit group. We often hosted neighborhood basketball games, kiddo parties in the hot tub, meetings in the clubhouse (think Little Rascals), big games of hide and seek, s’mores and karaoke by the fire pit, and endless swinging and spinning on both the tree swing and the oversized hammock. We have three boys, ages 6, 9, and 11. If we had been home, we would all be dead. This thought rocks me to my core. I’m not even sure how to return. I think pulling back into our shared driveway would cause too much pain for our kiddos. I think they would wait for Jonathan to run out with a basketball and wait to hear Pasta tell us about his ice

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Best summertime buddies Pasta and Jonathan (deceased) huddle with Noah, Nelson, and Niles with their dog, Tessa, for a quick photo at Birdsong Cottage

skating or show us one of his new dance moves. I can picture my youngest son building a never-ending train track with Pasta, and my oldest sons exploring the woods and the creeks with Jonathan. The whole thing is like a bad dream to me. As a mother, I always like to have an open door. In Montecito, with the temperate climate, our doors were literally always open. Pasta, Jonathan, and Lydia literally came in and out as they pleased. Our house was their house. This loss has really been a lot to take in. I’ve lost children. I don’t care about the things. Things are things. But how do you tell your children that nine people that they know have died in an instant? How can I even swallow that information? We are devastated. Our beloved friends. Our beloved Montecito. Their stories must be told. They were young and vibrant and full of life. Our children were not separated by race, or color, or creed, or bank account. They were all buddies, everyday buddies, who woke up looking for one another. We’d have to force our kiddos to wait until at least 8 am before they began knocking on their neighbors’ doors. There were things to do, games to be played, videos to be made, clubhouse mottos to be created. There was fort building, exploring, creating every day, all day. No video games. No TV. Just one another. True friendships. Jonathan would sit on his step and wait for my boys to return from Westmont basketball camp. He had a quiet calm about him, this priceless little smirk and mischievous eyes. He would light up as we pulled in the driveway. The children would count the minutes until they could be together. And Pasta – oh, how his sweet voice just rings in my ears. He was quite possibly the most innocent, glorious little boy to ever set foot in Montecito. He had a smile that could light up the oak grove and a giggle that could hold me for days. Sometimes, he would sit at my counter and sip on his water and just stare at me and smile. He often just watched my boys interact, as if he were a sponge, taking it all in. He was so happy to have such good friends. We were so blessed to have him. He loved building blocks and playing with trains. He would work for hours on a tower, meticulously creating, and then step back in awe of his work. His creative little brain was in hyper-drive as he explored toy after toy. Drippy popsicles on the hardwoods and an emptied pantry seemed a small price to pay for the constant love I was surrounded with. These boys were just flat-out fun to be around. Good old-fashioned summertime fun. We were so happy to take Pasta to Butterfly Beach for his first time ever. I remember the way his eyes lit up as he viewed the fireworks in the distance. Likewise, we were thrilled to escort Jonathan to Coast Village Road for his first time. So many memories of these precious lives. I wish their clubhouse would’ve remained. They painstakingly rescued an old work shed, and together cleaned it out, painted it, and hung an American flag. They elected clubhouse leaders and had secret meetings with secret pledges and passwords. It was the stuff little boys dream of. We also lost the wonderful patriarch of our neighborhood, Mr. Richard Taylor. He knew everything about everything. Literally. And he had a new joke up his sleeve every day. He kept our bushes trimmed neatly and tightly and insisted on

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doing all the work himself. He would wander down our path in his bathrobe and delight us with stories from his world travels. He had so much to teach and we had so much to learn. I wish I could hear one last story of his. I am so glad my kids got to know him. My husband and I will never forget him. He is simply irreplaceable. And we miss Faviola, who always seemed to have a light shining above her. She loved her babies so much and just couldn’t wait to get off work to be with them. She was such a hard worker and always made sure her work was completed perfectly. She cleaned for us, and we loved her very much. She was an amazing hostess. My husband can still taste Victor’s amazing barbecue. I pray that God will bless the Taylor family. Oom was a great dad. I pray that God will comfort Victor and Antonio Benitez and their precious little Ian. May Ian carry on the strength and love of his strong, beautiful family. And I hope that the giggles and laughter will continue beyond the pearly gates. This is my only solace. We will never forget our wonderful extended family in Montecito. With love, Cassie and Spencer Neumann Noah, Nelson, and Niles

•MJ

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complete the healing journey. The 6 to 8 pm event on Saturday, January 27, costs $25. Wear clothing that can accommodate jumping and bring your own pillow, blanket, and water bottle. Call 637-9516 or visit www.facebook. com/events/178129659607010.

The Audacity of Divinity

The reverend Linda MartellaWhitsett, senior minister at Unity Church of San Antonio and the author of the books How to Pray Without Talking to God: Moment by Moment, Choice by Choice and Divine Audacity: Dare to be the Light of the World, is coming to Unity of Santa Barbara this weekend for a workshop, services, and prayer training. Saturday’s “Divine Embodiment – Intensive”, a two-hour gathering at 10 am, begins with the premise that all power you could ever need already lies within you. In a teaching based upon Martella-Whitsett’s book, participants will learn powerful physical, mental, and spiritual activations for amazing spiritual capacities. Reverend Linda will also participate in both of Sunday’s services, followed by the “Empowering Affirmative Prayer” training from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Guests are invited to ramp up your prayer consciousness with her approach to affirmative prayer that

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moves beyond the basics to offer deepening understanding of Unity’s core message of Oneness in prayer, in language, and in practice. Knowing your spiritual capacities allows you to respond powerfully to life’s circumstances and intentions without formulas or formality. “Just real Divine You learning more about how to BE the answer to your prayers.” Each seminar carries a suggested donation of $20. Call 966-2239 or visit www. santabarbaraunity.org.

Soup up Your Type

Richard Groves’s deep dive into the spiritual aspects of the Enneagram, slated for last weekend, fell victim to the Montecito mudslide that devastated La Casa de Maria retreat center. But you can get a mini-taste via “The Power of Knowing Your Personality” with Crystal Stokes, MA, at Yoga Soup on Saturday afternoon, January 27. Stokes, who in her practice applies a Stanford-developed system that helps her clients discover strengths, weaknesses, motivations, and blind spots that directly impact the daily decisions they make at their work, with their partners, friends, and family, offers a brief but powerful intro to the process that helps participants know their personality traits and tendencies, which empowers you to “grow

out of your box.” The 2:30 pm workshop costs $10. Take a pre-assessment online at www.DiscoverMyType.com. Details at www.yogasoup.com.

New Dates for Delayed Events

Tahara Ezrahti Winter Introductory Clairvoyant Healing Course, postponed from mid-January, gets underway on Tuesday, January 30, at Crystal Chiropractic in Goleta. Geared toward intuitives, clairvoyant hopefuls, those sensitive to the energy of others, and healing professionals, the course is intended to launch participants on a path to reading energy clairvoyantly. First class is free. Details at 961-3947 or www.appliedintuition.org, or email appliedintuition@cox.net.... Yasa Yoga’s community appreciation night, postponed from early January due to the fire and mudslide, is now slated to take place on Wednesday, January 31, at its 22 W. Mission St. location. Info at www.yasayoga.com.... Dale Halaway’s Karmic Destiny, the first seminar in the transformational coach’s new Santa Barbara series, has been rescheduled to February 2-4 at the Healing Hub. Halaway was interviewed in this column earlier in January. For details, call 453-7281 or visit www.healinghubsantabarbara. com. •MJ

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ORDINANCE NO. 5822

ORDINANCE NO. 5824

ORDINANCE NO. 5823

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ADOPTING THE 2017-2019 SUPERVISORS MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING TITLE 29 OF THE SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE TO AMEND THE AIRPORT ZONING MAP TO CHANGE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE GOLETA SLOUGH RESERVE ZONE AND SPECIFIC PLAN NO. 6 (AIRPORT INDUSTRIAL AREA) IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT THE AIRPORT MASTER PLAN

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA APPROVING THE SALARY PLANS FOR UNREPRESENTED MANAGERS AND PROFESSIONAL ATTORNEYS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018 AND FISCAL YEAR 2019 PROVIDING: A 1% SALARY INCREASE IN JULY 2017 AND A 1% SALARY INCREASE IN JULY 2018 FOR ALL MANAGERS, INCLUDING EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT AND THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR; SPECIAL SALARY ADJUSTMENTS EFFECTIVE JULY 2017 TO ADDRESS COMPACTION AND ALIGNMENT ISSUES FOR CERTAIN NON-EXECUTIVE CLASSIFICATIONS; AND SPECIAL SALARY ADJUSTMENTS EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2018 TO ADDRESS LABOR MARKET INEQUITIES FOR CERTAIN MANAGEMENT CLASSIFICATIONS INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT CLASSIFICATIONS: 3.5% ASSISTANT CITY ADMINISTRATOR; 1.8% PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR; 1% COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR; 8.1% PARKS AND RECREATION DIRECTOR; 11.7% LIBRARY DIRECTOR; 9.9% ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES DIRECTOR.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on January 9, 2018.

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

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

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

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the

ORDINANCE NO. 5822 ) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on December 12, 2017, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on January 9, 2018, by the following roll call vote: AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

9, 2018.

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ORDINANCE NO. 5824 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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

provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

(Seal)

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

/s/ Sarah Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager ORDINANCE NO. 5823 STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ) I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

was introduced on December 12, 2017, and was adopted by

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

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

on January 10, 2018.

January 9, 2018, by the following roll call vote:

/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on January 10, 2018.

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor

/s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published January 24, 2018 Montecito Journal

Published January 24, 2018 Montecito Journal

This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Melissa Mercer. FBN No. 2017-0003481. Published January 10, 17, 24, 31, 2018.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Santa Barbara Mobile Mechanic, 3901 Sheldon Drive, Apt. 31, Ventura, CA 93003. Marc Edward Sandor, 3901 Sheldon Drive, Apt. 31, Ventura, CA 93003. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 29, 2017. This

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Loan Closet, 360 Olive Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care of SB, 509 E. Montecito Street, Suite 200, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on December 7, 2017. This

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 17CV05797. To all interested parties: Petitioner Isabel Ibarra filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name of child from Aiden Alexander Alvarez to Aiden Alexander Ibarra. The Court orders that all persons interested in

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AYES:

Councilmembers Jason Dominguez, Eric Friedman, Gregg Hart, Randy Rowse, Kristen W. Sneddon; Mayor Cathy Murillo

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on January 10, 2018.

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 December 27, 2017 by Sarah Sisto, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: February 7, 2018 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published January 3, 10, 17, 24, 2018

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/s/ Sarah P. Gorman, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on January 10, 2018. /s/ Cathy Murillo Mayor Published January 24, 2018 Montecito Journal

25 January – 1 February 2018

Notice Inviting Bids New Playground and Patio at the Municipal Tennis Courts Bid No. 3905

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will be received and posted electronically on PlanetBids for:

Bid Acceptance. The City of Santa Barbara (“City”) will accept sealed bids for its New Playground and Patio at the Municipal Tennis Courts Project (“Project”), by or before Thursday, February 22, 2018, 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.

Project Information. 2.1 Location and Description. The Project is located at the Municipal Tennis Courts, 1414 Park Place, Santa Barbara, California and is described as follows: Construct a new 2,200 sf playground with permeable pour-in-place rubber surfacing and a 500 sf permeable paver patio. New site amenities include fencing, benches, trash and recycling cans, two drinking fountains, landscaping, lighting, gates, and signage.

BID NO. 5602 DUE DATE & TIME: February 20, 2018 UNTIL 3:00 P.M. Marinas 2-4 Guardrail Replacement Project Phase 4 A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on February 6, 2018 at 10:30 a.m., at the Harbor Maintenance Shop, located at 117C Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, CA to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Please be punctual since late arrivals may be excluded from submitting a bid. The purpose of this project is to remove 309 linear feet of existing guardrail, excavation and removal of cobble along seawall, and install 309 linear feet of new guardrail compliant with current Building code.

2.2 Time for Completion. The planned timeframe for commencement and completion of construction of the Project is: March 26 to May 4, 2018. 2.3 Engineer’s Estimate. The Engineer’s estimate for construction of this Project is: $300,000. 3.

License and Registration Requirements. 3.1 License. This Project requires a valid California contractor’s license for the following classification(s): Class A General Engineering Contractor and C-61/D-34 Prefabricated Equipment Contractor.

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

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.

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.

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.

Bid Security. The Bid Proposal must be accompanied by bid security of five (5) 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.Prevailing Wage Requirements.

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 either a current valid State of California A-General Engineering “or” B-General Building 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.

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. 6.

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.

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

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.

Wage Rate Requirements. Pursuant to Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the general prevailing wage rates in the county in which the work is to be done have been determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations. These wages are set forth in the General Prevailing Wage Rates for this Project, available at the City of Santa Barbara, General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and available from the California Department of Industrial Relations’ Internet web site at http://www.dir.ca.gov/DLSR/PWD. The Federal minimum wage rates for this Project as predetermined by the United States Secretary of Labor are set forth in the specifications and in copies of these specifications that may be examined at the offices described above where project plans, special provisions, and bid forms may be seen. Addenda to modify the Federal minimum wage rates, if necessary, will be issued to holders of these specifications. Future effective general prevailing wage rates, which have been predetermined and are on file with the California Department of Industrial Relations are referenced but not printed in the general prevailing wage rates.

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.

Attention is directed to the Federal minimum wage rate requirements in the specifications. If there is a difference between the minimum wage rates predetermined by the Secretary of Labor and the general prevailing wage rates determined by the Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations for similar classifications of labor, the Contractor and subcontractors shall pay not less than the higher wage rate. The City of Santa Barbara will not accept lower State wage rates not specifically included in the Federal minimum wage determinations. This includes "helper" (or other classifications based on hours of experience) or any other classification not appearing in the Federal wage determinations. Where Federal wage determinations do not contain the State wage rate determination otherwise available for use by the Contractor and subcontractors, the Contractor and subcontractors shall pay not less than the Federal minimum wage rate, which most closely approximates the duties of the employees in question.

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: January 24, 2018 General Services Manager Montecito Journal

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This is a federally-assisted project and Davis-Bacon (DBRA) requirements will be strictly enforced. Federal Labor Standards provisions HUD-4010 will be incorporated into the successful bidder’s contract and is attached hereto as Attachment A. Contractors, including all subcontractors and apprentices, must be eligible to participate. Federal Wage Determination #CA160023 dated 08/12/2016 is incorporated herein and is attached hereto as Appendix G. However, actual prevailing wage rates will be determined as of the bid opening date. If any modifications have been issued to the wage decision, the contractor must adhere to the modified wage decision. Additional CDBG requirements are described in Appendix G: Attachments C-U. 10.

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

11.

Mandatory Bidders’ Conference. A mandatory bidders’ conference will be held on Tuesday, February 6, 2018, at 10:00 a.m., at the following location: Municipal Tennis Courts, 1414 Park Place, Santa Barbara, California for the purpose of acquainting all prospective bidders with the Contract Documents and the Worksite. The bidders’ conference is mandatory. A bidder who fails to attend a mandatory bidders’ conference will be disqualified from bidding.

By: ___________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M, General Services Manager

Date: ________________ Publication Dates: 1) 1/24/18

2) 1/31/18

END OF NOTICE INVITING BIDS

In the gloomy month of February, deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London. – Washington Irving

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

Water Certified Drinkable

Students used portable showers and restrooms their first week back on campus

me. It’s almost never in the moment I wish it would happen, but it happens in the most surprising, crazy, beautiful ways. In the darkness, He finds me. And if that is true, then maybe it is also true that He can bring beauty from ashes and joy from mourning.”

Faculty to Perform Violin, Piano Recitals

Jose Leiva, Westmont executive chef, used a mobile kitchen to serve the student body

ife on campus is returning to normal this week after Montecito Water District officials certified Westmont’s water supply as drinkable January 20. Of course, “normal” means something different after the devastation of the Montecito mudslides. When students returned January 16, the campus had water but remained under a mandatory boil-water order, so the college supplied students with bottled water and installed portable showers and a kitchen. Westmont faculty and staff from Carpinteria, Ojai, and Ventura happily drove to work January 22 once U.S. Highway 101 reopened. Many had traveled to campus by ferry, train, or the long detour to the north by car. Professors Jane Wilson (education), Greg Spencer (communication), and Holly Beers (religious studies) joined president Gayle D. Beebe in chapel on January 19 to discuss suffering and grief. You can watch or listen to the service by clicking on “Chapel Online” on the Westmont website, westmont.edu, and choosing the January 19 Reflection Chapel. “When we experience setbacks such as lack of water, difficulty in prepar-

ing food, or evacuation, we may have found within our hearts a growing appreciation for these daily necessities in our lives,” Wilson says. “And not only that, we might find in our brains an expanding ingenuity for thinking of ways to solve these problems of lack of water and food both locally and globally.” Spencer said on the night before the massive storm that his last thought before going to bed was that he needed to feed the birds the following day. “I needed to do what was life-giving. I needed to fulfill my life-nurturing responsibilities. This goes, of course, for more than the birds. I need to do what I can do, what I am called to do, to hold the hurting, to listen to my students’ stories, to prepare for the semester ahead,” Spencer says. “And the same is true for you. Toward what life-giving acts are you now called? How you frame this last month matters. It has everything to do with how you go forward.” Beers read from Psalm 88, explaining that the psalmist is yelling to God, “Where are you?” “When I yell in the right direction, God always finds me,” she says. “I don’t find Him. He finds

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Westmont musicians Han Soo Kim (violin) and Neil Di Maggio (piano) perform works by Mozart and Schubert at a violin and piano recital Friday, January 26, at 6:30 pm in Wood Glen Hall (full recital); Saturday, January 27, at 3 pm in Faulkner Gallery at the downtown Santa Barbara Public Library (participating in a group recital); Friday February 2, at 7 pm at Westmont’s Deane Chapel (participating in Faculty Recital); and Saturday, February 3, at 3 pm in Trinity Episcopal Church (full recital). Kim, an award-winning and internationally accomplished violinist, has performed at the Boston Symphony Hall, Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall, and the Kennedy Center. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Juilliard School and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University in New York. Di Maggio, a graduate of San Jose State University, earned a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the San Francisco Conservatory. He earned a Master of Music in collaborative piano at UC Santa Barbara. The performances feature Sonata for Piano and Violin in B-flat Major by Mozart and Fantaisie for Violin and Piano in C Major by Schubert.

Annual Reading to Honor Poet Stafford

Paul Willis, professor of English at Westmont and former poet laureate of Santa Barbara, hosts the 12th annual community poetry reading to honor the life and work of William Stafford (1914-1993) on Saturday, January 27, at 2 pm at the First Crossing Day Use Area in Los Padres National Forest,

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Dr. Paul Willis hosts poetry reading

across from the Los Prietos Boys Camp, 3900 Paradise Road. This is the former site of the Los Prietos Civilian Public Service Camp, where Stafford served as a conscientious objector during World War II. In case of rain, the reading will move to the Los Prietos Ranger Station at 3505 Paradise Road. The event will feature Peg Quinn, a poet, mural painter, award-winning quilter, and mixed-media artist. “Peg is wonderful,” Willis says. “She will get us started with a short selection of Stafford poems, and anyone present may read a Stafford poem in her wake. Come for a time of refreshment and recovery.” Passes are required for the gathering; however, Willis says he has already purchased a group of passes at educational discount, which he will distribute upon arrival. Stafford won the National Book Award in 1963 and became poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1970 and poet laureate of Oregon in 1975. In 2013, the annual gathering dedicated a permanent outdoor display about Stafford, the history of the camp, and the role it played in the formation of Stafford as a poet. The sign was co-sponsored by Westmont College and the Friends of William Stafford. •MJ 25 January – 1 February 2018

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Montecito, which is forever changed. Over 100 years of carefully groomed landscape and specimen trees have disappeared overnight. The wealth of many has all but evaporated. Obviously, Northern California, Houston, Florida, and the Caribbean have all suffered similar tragedy. It’s just so surreal when it actually happens, and when we are the subject of the random acts of nature. All that being said, we are so fortunate to live in this country and to have the community safety nets that we do. Regardless of the situation, it never really seems to compare to the daily tragedies that take place in countries like Sudan or Iraq. But, when people suffer, this observation seems to offer very little solace. As for the immediate future, I expect Montecito will be evacuated each and every time that any significant rainfall is expected this winter. I’m certain there will be further tragedy in Montecito through the winter, all because the fires denuded the vegetation in the mountains above. Regardless, Lynda and I are absolutely fine in every way. But, please pray for the folks in Montecito, be gentle on yourself, and hug your kids. Life is short. God bless you, Patrick and Lynda Saville Montecito

A Lost Trail

Hiking the Hot Springs Trail won’t be the same for many years to come

We hiked the Hot Springs Trail on Saturday, January 6, and were spellbound by the desolation caused by the fire. It was a blue-sky day, and it was 25 January – 1 February 2018

difficult to discern the trail location because the brush, bushes, and trees were burned off. We are very familiar with the area, as we had hiked it many times. As a historical piece, we share these photographs taken on this day. Later photos can compare these photos to the storm results. We suspect the trail will be lost. Barry Jones Juliet Tibma Santa Barbara

No Weed at Red Cross

Listening to morning local news, I learned that the Red Cross was closing an emergency shelter at 6 this morning displacing – again – 30 to 40 disaster evacuees. Apparently, as reported by an older female evacuee, closure relates to marijuana smoking rights: some insist on their legal right to smoke marijuana at shelter and law enforcement got involved. Rather than allow it, the Red Cross decided to close the shelter, putting 30 to 40 mandatory evacuees outside early in the morning. Who’s in charge of Montecito? City evacuees? Who in Montecito coordinates with mayor (Cathy) Murillo and representative (Kristen) Sneddon? Where’s Monique Limon, Salud Carbajal, Das Williams on this one — other than on a boat ride during Coast Village Road merchant meeting and on Ellen (DeGeneres)’s TV show? It’s time to wake them up. Again, who is in charge of Montecito? This emergency requires federal, state, and local resolution and a point person. There is no leadership in Montecito beyond fire chief Chip Hickman within his limited jurisdiction. We are observing first-hand the possible end of Red Cross shelters in California if the right to smoke marijuana, or drink alcohol for that matter, is the issue. This is wrong for the victims: elders, children, workers staying there to save a 4.5-hour to 9-hour daily drive to and from work. For starters, we need to keep shelter open. Then bring in the Army Corps of Engineers to replace Caltrans; if we did that to re-open 101, they’d have a third lane up and running in a short time. In the absence of a Montecito accountable point person, Montecito’s recovery and the disappearance of the County’s tax base will be the next disasters. It’s time for others beyond the Montecito Journal to give locals facts and in-depth news. Our world is upside-down. We’ve been patient long enough. Denice S. Adams Montecito (Editor’s note: The Montecito Association is as close to a governing body that Montecito has, and we believe they and MA president Charlene Nagel have

been doing a pretty good job of informing the public, as have both Bob Ludwick and Sharon Byrne of the Coast Village Association. – J.B.)

The Enemy is Us

I would like to suggest a different spin on terrorism as written by Ray Winn (Ray’s Ramblings, MJ #24/2). As a child, I remember the most evil terrorists depicted in movies were red-skinned Indians. They were subdued, usually with bullets by brave white cowboys. I wonder what God or religion justified and promoted the slaughter of the indigenous populations of North America? Hint, it wasn’t Islam. I also wonder what American religion justified the torture, displacement, and slaughter of civilians in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria? What American religious leaders besides Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Quakers have spoken against these wars? I believe that demonizing and attacking any religious, social, or political movement makes them stronger. Early Christianity is a perfect example. How about Islam today? Maybe if the U.S. followed the teachings of Christ, we might create less terror around the world. Bill Palmisano Santa Barbara

Lawsuits a-Comin’

Well, while the mud is still being removed, already a Montecito couple has hired a local law firm to start suing. It is like shaking one’s fist at the sky. Except, this kind of mentality can tear a community apart. This couple

lost no lives but suffered material loss and apparently believe someone must pay them because wind blew into utility transformers, water mains broke, and debris clogged catch basins. No one saw this generational event coming or could have predicted or prevented the torrential downpour in the hills or their impact. It is such a rare cataclysmic event that people will be studying it for years. However, the last thing this community needs is to start pointing fingers to blame others, as if mere mortals could have stopped such a monumental disaster. On top of this, the couple’s lawyers are holding a meeting at a local hotel and inviting and hoping for others to come and join the lawsuit too. How shameful and disgraceful to take such a tragedy as this and turn it into a lawsuit. J.W. Burk Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: Well, somebody has to pay for all the damage done; no doubt the lawyers who do get involved will experience a healthy payday, but if they help to make most people whole, we’ll probably have to hold our collective noses and accept what positive consequences may evolve too. – J.B.)

The Beautiful SY Ranch

For days now, I’ve been seeing horrible photos of Montecito. Here’s one from San Ysidro Ranch in 1988. Things change; we are lucky to be alive to see it. Dan Seibert Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: My guess is that one day in the not-too-distant future, we’ll see sights like this again at San Ysidro Ranch and all over Montecito. – J.B.) •MJ

The San Ysidro Ranch circa 1988

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 Souren Soaring – Born in East Harlem to Armenian parents who fled the genocide, Souren Baronian grew up surrounded by traditional Armenian, Middle Eastern, and Balkan music at home while simultaneously getting swept up in the golden age of jazz in New York City. He’d sneak into famous 52nd Street jazz clubs to see Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and the like, concerts which informed his own tastes as a young man, when he melded a new musical language of vastly different but compatible traditions. Baronian has been spearheading groups playing Middle Eastern jazz since 1975. Tonight’s concert at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center Theater features a five-piece band playing a variety of world-spanning instruments including duduk, kaval, riq, oud, dombek, clarinet, soprano sax, upright bass, and drums. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: UCSB University Center Room 1504 COST: $12 general, $5 youth under 12 INFO: 893-2064 or www.mcc. sa.ucsb.edu SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 Winter Wine Classic – The 7th annual mid-January event produced the folks who host the California Wine Festival at Chase Palm Park

every summer once again gathers together some of California’s ultra-elite winemaking masters in the Grand Ballroom of the Fess Parker DoubleTree Hilton Resort. Guests will have the opportunity to taste up to almost 100 classic California wines of notable stature, including releases from some of the famous names from the wine world, including Bernardus, Charles Krug, Lieff Wines, Peju and Whitehall Lane, as well as artisan gold-medal producers Beckmen, Tablas Creek, Westerly and others who will pour their premium wines to tempt and delight oenophiles in attendance. A variety of delectable wine-worthy gourmet morsels, some paired to the wines by some of the region’s most notable chefs will serve as taste sensations to accompany the swirling glasses. Speaking of which, tickets include a commemorative crystal tasting glass plus all wine and appetizers, not to mention the evening ocean-front view just outside the doors. WHEN: 7 to 9:30 pm (VIP admission at 6 pm) WHERE: 633 E Cabrillo Blvd. COST: $85 general, $110 VIP INFO: (800) 936-3126 or www. californiawinefestival.com/events/ winter-winefest PuppetPalooza Preview – Giant bubbles, puppet videos, jugglers, puppet selfies, puppet memorabilia, and whole lot more – including a festival preview – are in store at the

SATURDAY, JANUARY 27 Babs and the Basement – Jonathan Tolins’s 2013 play Buyer and Cellar, winner of the Drama Desk Award for best play, is an adaptation of Barbra Streisand’s book My Passion for Design. The story follows a struggling actor named Alex who winds up working for an unnamed show-business legend in her Malibu basement mall, below an enchanting home hidden in the hills, where the grass is Irish golf course green, the fish in the pond swim happily, and the leaves on the trees shimmer in the breeze. An unlikely friendship develops between the two, from which Alex learns profound lessons about the price of fame, about the cost of things in the oddest of odd jobs, and, ultimately, about himself. Rubicon’s Associate artistic director Brian McDonald – who appeared in the National Tours of Miss Saigon and Forever Plaid, the latter of which he also directed for various regional theaters including Rubicon – stars in the one-man tour-de-force that The New York Times called “a seriously funny slice of absurdist whimsy”. “This show will go down like butta’!” predicted Entertainment Weekly, while The New York Post exclaimed “Buyer and Cellar is fantastically funny… a Funny-Girl Babs-inspired comedy.” Ovation Awardwinner Stephanie A. Coltrin directs, having previously helmed Taking Sides, Sylvia, Moonlight and Magnolias, and The Last Five Years for Rubicon. WHEN: Opens 7 tonight; continues through Sunday, February 11 WHERE: Rubicon Theatre Company, 1006 E. Main St., Ventura COST: $40 to $55 (open night $120, includes post-show reception) INFO: 667-2900 or www.rubicontheatre.org

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EVENTS by Steven Libowitz

SUNDAY, JANUARY 28 Three for Free – In the wake of the fire and mudslide, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art is offering free admission to everyone through February to make available the contemplation of art as an elixir to the tragedies. The venerable institution is also opening three new exhibits today: Brought to Light: Revelatory Photographs, featuring 60 photographs by 13 artists revealing unusual and lesser-known facets of wellknown artists’ work, as well as new-to-thecollection photographs that will be on view for the first time; Crosscurrents: The Painted Portrait, 1750–1850, which explores American, British and French portraitists from the Colonial period through the Industrial Revolution, when portraits were the precursor to photography; and, combining the two, Crosscurrents: American and European Portrait Photographs, showcasing how photographic portraiture blossomed in an array of media and formats in the latter six decades of the 19th century. This afternoon also brings the fire-postponed final in a trilogy of book-signing events celebrating the publication of Around The Table: Recipes and Stories from The Lark in Santa Barbara. Lark owner Sherry Villanueva, chef Jason Paluska, whose recipes grace the pages, and photographer Macduff Everton, whose depictions of land, sea, and food bring the story to life. Their discussion includes a few stories behind the popular Funk Zone restaurant that became a book chronicling the story of community. WHEN: “Lark” event 2:30 pm; exhibit today through April 22. WHERE: 1130 State Street COST: free INFO: 963-4364 or www.sbma.net

official kickoff party for the upcoming four-day PuppetPalooza festival. Puppetry mayhem is well on the way before the family-friendly fest coming to Santa Barbara March 1-4, but first there will be a special PuppetPalooza tribute to the whole KEYT News Channel 3 team for their coverage of the Thomas Fire and Montecito Mudslide, with John Palminteri reporting alongside his newest sidekick – the John Palminteri puppet! Light refreshments and beverages will be served in the event that launches the PuppetPalooza Museum/Theatre/ Store/Central Headquarters in Paseo Nuevo. Get all the details about the festival, participants, and events on the fest’s website. WHEN: 4 to 7 pm WHERE: 651 Paseo Nuevo #301 COST: $25 INFO: www. puppetpaloozasb.com SOhO’s Brown-out – SOhO’s longtime sound engineer, the amiable fellow known to his friends as “Downtown” Alan Brown, left the club at the end of the year. What with the fire and flood mayhem, they’re just now getting around to saying goodbye. SOhO sends off the sound man – an Independent Local Hero several years back, and a legend in the music world in Santa Barbara – with a night of music, entertainment, dancing, celebrating,

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toasting, roasting, and more. Brown was a regular at Burning Man, so the event is also sporting a Burner’s theme, meaning fun, fabulous, and intergalactic attire, so expect top hats, goggles, moon boots, tutus, glitter, sparkles, and glow sticks galore. Everyone is invited to the community event – even if you don’t know Brown, who spun the dials in the dark at the upstairs restaurant/music club for more than 20 years. WHEN: 6 pm WHERE: 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $5 INFO: 9627776 or www.sohosb.com SUNDAY, JANUARY 28 Alias Chet & Jerry – Just last Sunday night, SOhO hosted Muriel Anderson, the veteran guitaristharpist who was a onetime colleague of Chet Atkins, who is credited as one of the chief architects of the Nashville sound. Now an even closer companion of the famed Tennessee guitarist comes to the Wooden Hall Concerts series. Richard Smith, who was a protégé of both Atkins – who later called him “The most amazing guy I know on the guitar. He can play anything I know, only better” – and Jerry Reed, the latter of whom was just inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame last year, is presenting a special show dedicated 25 January – 1 February 2018

MONDAY, JANUARY 29 MeToo-bin – Jeffrey Toobin, the veteran journalist and newsman who is a staff writer for The New Yorker and a senior analyst for CNN, has provided analysis on some of the most provocative and important events of our time, including the trials of O.J. Simpson and Patty Hearst – both of which were turned into best-selling books – as well as delving into the inner workings of the Supreme Court and its relationship with the American presidency. Considered one of the most accessible experts on all matters of American law, Toobin continues to provide context to today’s events within our judicial, political, and media landscapes. That’s the topic of tonight’s talk at UCSB as he turns his customary sharp eye, rapier wit, and way with words toward politics, law, and media in the post-Obama age. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $20 to $35 INFO: 893-3535 www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

to their work at the intimate and folksy Alhecama Theatre, the historic 1925 auditorium downtown. Smith, like Anderson, is a former National Fingerstyle Guitar champion and also the 2008 Thumbpicker of the Year who will largely put aside his skills in classical music, gypsy jazz, ragtime, and Sousa marches to pay tribute to the two late country stars. By the way, even Anderson herself, who hosts AllStar Guitar Night, called Smith “One of the world’s greatest guitarists.” Smith will also be offering a players’ workshop at 2:30 pm to teach his fingerpickin’ style, with all proceeds donated to victims of the Montecito mudslide. Flutist Leslee Sipress and guitarist Mark Coffin kick off the concert. WHEN: 7:30 pm WHERE: Alhecama Theater, 914 Santa Barbara St. COST: $20 (workshop $35, or free for first responders and mudslide evacuees) INFO: www.sbama.org WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31 Still We Rise – A collaborative performance showcasing art, music, dance, theater, and poetry, Still We Rise will be performed by UCSB

students with poet Rick Benjamin, Ph.D., and feature choreography by professor Monique Meunier. The evening is an abstract examination of the subject of immigration with a special focus on DACA and includes a scene from the upcoming LAUNCH PAD play Staging the Daffy Dame directed by professor Risa Brainin. “I hope to offer a valuable landscape and bring to surface the necessity for an intercultural society and need for diversity,” Meunier says in the program. “As a daughter of immigrants, my work expresses the hopes and strength, love and passion, and fear and uncertainty immigrants face as they strive for a better life. I hope that this evening will bring us together and understand that we are all here for a reason and deserve respect, kindness, empathy, and humanity.” The performances are dedicated to all of the Dreamers among the student population at UCSB. WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30 tonight & tomorrow WHERE: UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UCSB campus, across from the lagoon COST: free INFO: 893-2951 or www. museum.ucsb.edu •MJ

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Strange Bed-fellows – José González, the Swedish-Argentinian indie folk singersongwriter and guitarist, once favored hardcore punk and other aggressive rock before discovering his voice in the mastery of minimal melodies and intricate classical guitar accompaniment. A veteran of several solo albums, including Vestiges & Claws, his latest, González has also made two albums with Junip, the trio he formed back in 1998 with childhood friends Tobias Winterkorn and Elias Araya. Now a fan fave for his soulful songs full of probing lyrics and intricate guitar melodies delivered with a deep, quiet power, González integrates the sounds of his Latin American roots with sublime introspective folk punctuated by rock panache, perhaps an influence of his European upbringing. Opening is Bedouine, a.k.a. Azniv Korkejian, a Hollywood music editor turned recording artist whose self-titled debut album has been described as 1960s folk meets ‘70s country-funk with a glimmer of bossa nova cool. WHEN: 8 pm WHERE: Campbell Hall, UCSB campus COST: $20 to $40 INFO: 893-3535 www. ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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Coast Village Association president Bob Ludwick and executive director Sharon Byrne are preparing a new recovery and assistance center in Olive Mill Plaza. The center will be open later this week to offer resources to help mudslide victims rebuild.

Sven and Amanda Dybdahl, the new owners of Viva Oliva, spent the weekend cleaning up their shop after mudflow made its way into the shop

areas in Montecito will remain under a long-term exclusion zone due to extensive damage and destruction; those home owners will be able to gain access via escort to gather belongings if necessary. Montecito Water and Sanitary districts have made great progress on restoring their respective systems; Nick Turner from Montecito Water District (MWD) announced Monday that all temporary and permanent fixes to the highline had been completed. A boil-water notice is in effect, and the District is chlorinating the water to disinfect and flush the system. That work is expected to take place at least through Saturday, January 27. MSD’s (Montecito Sanitary District) Diane Gabriel had a similar sentiment, reporting that the majority of inspection of the system had already been conducted, and that manholes that were filled with mud were in the process of being cleaned out. Repopulated Montecito residents are urged to take certain precautions when accessing their homes. According to the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, precautionary measures should include a tetanus booster for those who have not had a tetanus shot in the last 10 years. Residents and contractors removing mud and debris should wear longsleeved shirts, boots, nitrile gloves, and goggles. Regarding the sewer, if your home and property was not damaged by the mudslide, your sewer service is

The Honor Bar on Coast Village Road was the only restaurant up and running, as management brought in a tank of potable water to use during the boil-water notice

available and reliable with no further action required. If your home and/ or property experienced anything more than minor damage, your private sewer lateral may have become impacted with this mud and debris. Prior to using any indoor plumbing, please contact the Montecito Sanitary District at (805) 969-4200 or email cmartin@montsan.org. The District will work with your plumbing contractor in locating your sewer clean outs and coordinate the appropriate removal of mud and debris. Any mud and/or debris from your property, including water features such as swimming pools and fountains, cannot be disposed of in the sewer system as this may cause a backup of wastewater into your home or an overflow from the District’s pipeline system, causing environmental harm. “I want it to be as smooth and easy as possible for people when they return to their homes,” said Gabriel, whose own home was extensively damaged during the storm. SoCal Gas is currently working to restore gas service to Montecito and is asking residents to update their contact info by calling SoCal Gas at

Alison Hardey, owner of Jeannine’s, distributed free cookies and spoke to business owners and neighbors. The café is unable to open until the water situation improves.

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1-(800) 427-2200. As crews work to restore gas and relight pilots, they will attempt to contact customers to set up appointments. Many Montecito residents have not been receiving regular mail delivery service, due to mandatory evacuation restrictions. Those people may continue to pick up their mail at the post office at 107 Nopalitos Way in Santa Barbara. As mandatory restrictions are lifted in parts of Montecito, carrier delivery mail service will resume soon thereafter, according to postal authorities. The post office in the upper village of Montecito is in a mandatory evacuation area and will remain closed until that area is re-opened to public access. Read N Post in the lower village will have limited hours through this week for mailing packages and purchasing postal needs, with regular hours resuming on Monday, January 29. Montecito schools, which are currently located at satellite locations with the exception of Cold Spring School, are expected to repopulate shortly after their students and parents are allowed back home.

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At a District board meeting on January 22, the Montecito Fire Protection District Board of Directors was briefed on the mudslide situation by division chief of operations, Kevin Taylor. As of Monday, the recovery operations for the incident was transitioned to the County’s Emergency Operations Center, with Montecito Fire having an advisory role in the clean-up effort. Taylor, along with Battalion chief Travis Ederer and Wildland Fire specialist Maeve Juarez, are working closely with the County to choreograph the recovery efforts, as two people – 2-year-old Lydia Sutthithepa and 17-year-old Jack Cantin – remain missing as of press time. “Finding them is our first priority, followed by the safe repopulation of Montecito,” Chief Taylor said, adding that Ederer and Juarez have a unique knowledge of Montecito’s topography and continue to help facilitate the clearing of streets, restoration of utili-

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Montecito Fire District’s new board president Abe Powell and his family (courtesy photo)

ties, and recovery efforts. “There are a lot of moving pieces,” he said. Chief Taylor told the board that his close-knit group of firefighters, with the help of firefighters from Santa Barbara County and City, conducted hundreds of “surface rescues” on the morning of January 9, following the mudslides that took place around 3:40 am. “I’m proud of everyone in this organization for the heroic efforts that occurred and continue to occur,” Chief Taylor reported. Moving forward, MFPD reps will take part in a community advisory group being developed by the County’s Office of Emergency Management to address the complicated task of rebuilding damaged and destroyed homes. District reps are also taking part in the development of new evacuation plans with the County, to be used in future weather events. Those proposals, which are being formulated with scientists, geologists, and engineers, could take up to nine months to devise, and will take into account the change of topography that occurred from the recent mudslides. “We’re working on a new interactive map below the burn areas and identifying the actions that people should take during future storms,” said Office of Emergency Management director Rob Lewin at a community meeting on January 22. “We each get to choose if we are a victim or a survivor,” he said, explaining that residents should take greater precautions during this winter’s rains. Also at the MFPD board meeting: director Abe Powell was voted in as president of the board for 2018, with Sylvia Easton chosen as vice president, and Michael Lee as secretary. Director Powell was credited with keeping hundreds of residents informed during both the Thomas Fire and the Montecito mudslides, via regular social media posts and emails. Powell, who helped residents fill sandbags in the days prior to the storm, was vocal about the seriousness of the storm and urged residents to follow evacuation orders. “I feel well-prepared to lead this board during this time of recovery,” •MJ Powell said. 25 January – 1 February 2018

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