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Montecito YMCA Opens New Pickleball Courts by MJ Staff
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he Montecito YMCA opened its new pickleball courts with learning clinics on April 12. There are both Introductory and Intermediate clinics. Sign-up for the clinics is required through the website. On May 10, the Y will celebrate having the courts in a grand opening event. Community is invited. 411: www.ciymca.org/montecito
Channel Island YMCA 25th Reaching for the Stars Fundraiser The Channel Islands YMCA’s 25th Annual Reaching for Stars fundraiser is on Thursday, May 1, at the Rockwood Women’s Club SB. Funds raised by the event are slated for the Channel Islands Y’s programs that assist disenfranchised youth in SB County to enroll for free in their programs – Noah’s Anchorage Youth Shelter, the Haley Street Navigation Center and My Home Transitional Age Living Program. 411: Tickets are on sale now www.ciymca.org
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month in the U.S. For Child Abuse Prevention Month, the Channel Islands YMCA – via press release – has listed its services for immediate publication as follows: NOTICE TO BIDDERS Bids open at 2:00 PM on Friday, May 2, 2025 for: FISCAL YEAR 2024/2025 PAVEMENT PRESERVATION AND PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE IN THE 1ST, 2ND, 3RD, 4TH, AND 5TH SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICTS COUNTY PROJECT No. 820800 General project work description: Pavement Preventive Maintenance The Plans, Specifications, and Bid Book are available at https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874. The Contractor must have either a Class A license or any combination of the following Class C licenses which constitutes a majority of the work: C-12, C-31, AND C-32 Submit sealed bids to the web address below. Bids will be opened and available at the web address below immediately following the submittal deadline. PlanetBids https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874
- The Y’s Operations Director serves on the Santa Barbara County Child Abuse Prevention Council (CAPC), collaborating with many other dedicated county and community leaders. - The Y provides immediate 24/7 crisis and respite care to youth and families, allowing them to have a safe space to ‘cool off ’ and then come back together as they work through conflict. - The Y offers conflict resolution, mediation, and mental health services to youth and families, ensuring they have a safe and supportive environment in which to live. - The Y ensures youth have access to basic needs, alleviating stress and hardships around necessities like food, shelter, and clothing. - The Y coordinates care with local agencies like Child Welfare Services, Santa Barbara Unified, and Juvenile Probation to provide well-rounded collaborative care in support of each youth and family. - The Y provides young adults with housing opportunities and all-encompassing supportive services as they navigate adulthood and prepare to build and grow their own families and future generations to come.
Ted Rhodes is the Carpinteria 2024 Volunteer of the Year Ted Rhodes will receive his award for Carpinteria Volunteer of the Year for his service during 2024 at the Annual Carp Awards Banquet, April 26. He has been selected by the Carpinteria City Council for his work as an advocate and leader committed to defending open natural spaces from development since 1988. His work includes spearheading the Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve & Viola Fields, bluffs acquisitions, stewardship, the Measure X campaign, and funding and reopening of the Franklin Trail. Currently Rhodes serves on the Carpinteria Open Space Management Board (COSMAB).
Juliza Briones, New Public Info Officer, City of Carpinteria Juliza Briones is hired as the new Public Information Officer, City of Carpinteria. She is a UCSB grad and worked as a Communications Analyst for the City of Thousand Oaks, CA. Briones, “I’m eager to use my bilingual skills to help improve bilingual emergency preparedness efforts, making sure all Carpinteria residents have the information and support they need in times of need.”
Dr. Amir Jalilian Joins Cottage Health SB Cottage Health has announced this week that Dr. Amir Jalilian, Family Medicine Physician has joined Cottage Health’s Primary Care Goleta office. Dr. Jalilian is Board Certified in Family medicine and a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Jalilian worked as a Family Medicine physician at Peace Health Medical Group in Florence, Oregon; before moving to the Santa Barbara area, where he was a Family Medicine physician at Jackson Medical Group. He then went on to work at the Santa Barbara Health Care Center, a public health clinic under the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department from 2021 to March 2025.
Complete the project work within 40 Workings Days. The estimated cost of the project is $ 3,670,000 This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR). A contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, subject to the requirements of PCC Section 4104, or engage in the performance of any contract for public work, as defined in this chapter, unless currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Labor Code (LAB) Section 1725.5. It is not a violation of this section for an unregistered contractor to submit a bid that is authorized by Business and Professions Code (BPC) Section 7029.1 or by PCC Section 10164 or 20103.5 provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to LAB Section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded. Prevailing wages are required on this Contract. The Director of the California Department of Industrial Relations determines the general prevailing wage rates. Obtain the wage rates at the DIR website https://www.dir.ca.gov/. Inquiries or questions based on alleged patent ambiguity of the plans, specifications, or estimate must be submitted as a bidder inquiry by 2:00 PM on 04/25/2025. Submittals after this date will not be addressed. Questions pertaining to this Project prior to Award of the Contract must be submitted via PlanetBids Q&A tab. Bidders (Plan Holders of Record) will be notified by electronic mail if addendums are issued. The addendums, if issued, will only be available on the County’s PlanetBids website, https://www.planetbids.com/portal/portal.cfm?CompanyID=43874 By order of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara this project was authorized to be advertised on 06/04/2024. Christopher Sneddon, PE Director of Public Works Published April 17, 2025 Montecito Journal
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CRIME IN THE ‘CITO Sheriff’s Blotter 93108 . . . .
Trespassing / Eucalyptus Lane Wednesday, April 4, at 05:50 hours Subject returned to the trespassed property from which they had been escorted the day prior. Subject was arrested and booked at SBCJ for trespassing. Fraud / 1470 East Valley Road Wednesday, April 4, at 08:32 hours The victim posted a check for $1,295 to an address in Santa Monica, CA. During midMarch, the victim noticed the check had been intercepted, altered, and cashed at an unknown location. It appears as if there is a series of checks being intercepted at the U.S. Post Office in Montecito.
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