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Can artificial intelligence be too smart?

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SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

At 3:11 p.m. today, SpaceX is projected to launch the Falcon 9 Rocket and the earth observation satellite from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

The launch had previously been scheduled to take place at the same time on Saturday, but was postponed just before 10:30 a.m. due to weather.

“Three previous attempts were scrubbed due to poor weather,” according to a yahoo report.

The COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2, or CSG-2, is projected to fly from Launch Complex 40. The booster is set to return to Cape Canaveral.

Spectators and residents of the launch are warned to be prepared for the sonic boom.

“According to the latest forecast by the Delta 45 group of the U.S. Space Force in Florida, there is less than a 10% chance of bad weather affecting SpaceX’s CSG-2 satellite launch plans on Sunday,” reported Tariq Malik, Editor-in-Chief of Space.com.

“The delays have had a ripple effect for SpaceX’s missions. The Hawthorne, California-based

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A beach cruiser adorns The Cruisery restaurant’s parklet on State Street in downtown Santa Barbara. “There’s a desire by the community to keep downtown vibrant and to grow what was developed over the recent years,” said Robin Elander, executive director of Downtown Santa Barbara.

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Local businesses are preparing for an abrupt change after the Santa Barbara City Council’s decision to widen the center fire lane on the State Street promenade.

The council on Tuesday approved staff recommendations to extend the emergency fire lane from 14 feet to 20 feet as of March 8. This means that some businesses will have to rework their outdoor seating to appease the new stipulations.

But even as State Street businesses deal with the rule, Downtown Santa Barbara sees

the promenade as a success that has helped businesses during the pandemic.

“We are in a transition period,” Robin Elander, executive director of Downtown Santa Barbara, a nonprofit, told the News-Press about last week’s city council vote on the fire lane. “Some businesses will have to reduce the size of outdoor seating to be no larger than nine feet from the curb on State Street.”

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Cars protrude from the parking lot at the Chick-fil-A on Upper State Street on Saturday.

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City Council hearing to consider traffic issues related to Chick-fil-A drive through On Tuesday, during the regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City

Parklets stand on State Street In front of Sandbar and Holdren’s.

Parklets have remained popular for outdoor dining even after the resumption of indoor dining.

company is also preparing to launch its next batch of Starlink internet satellites from the historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which is near the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

That mission was originally expected to launch on Saturday afternoon, but was delayed to no earlier than Sunday due to the CSG-2 launch delay on Friday,” reported space.com.

Additionally, the Starlink mission will launch no earlier than Monday, according to SpaceX officials, reported Mr. Malik. SpaceX is also preparing to launch a third rocket which will carry a classified NROL87 satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. The launch is projected to take place on Feb. 2. The mission will lift off from SpaceX’s pad at the Vandenberg Space Force Base northwest of Lompoc.

The weather forecast for the Florida missions does look to have improved today.

The launch is set to take place at 3:11 p.m., which you can watch live on www.spacex.com. A livestream will begin at 2:56 p.m.

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At 98 years old, it is interesting that the subject Henry Kissinger now chooses to write about is …

A.I. Yes, the secretary of state from the Nixon era has just published a new book — “The Age of AI and our Human Future” — which he co-authored with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. (The pair met at a Bilderberg conference — the annual, secretive pow-wow of movers and shakers that in recent years has, interestingly, become weighted by the proliferating presence of high-tech titans.)

A review in The New York Times dismissed this tome as “a fairly forgettable entry in the genre.”

So let’s forget about Dr. K’s take on the future and his desire to remain relevant as he approaches centenarian status — and instead take a peek at “Rule of the Robots” by Martin Ford, an acknowledged expert of this field who calls A.I. the “new electricity,” but with this caveat: “It has a dark side, and it comes coupled with genuine risks both to individuals and society as a whole.”

THE DARK SIDE For a start, A.I. will put much of the workforce out of their jobs, from those who do routine labor to those who undertake predictable intellectual tasks — estimated

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to be about 65 percent of the population.

Next level: Cyber-attacks and perfectly polished fake news.

“Photographic, audio and video fabrications that are virtually indistinguishable from reality,” writes Mr. Ford.

You think it’s confusing now about whom to believe among mass media broadcasters and newspapers. just wait!

Next level: Elevate to fully autonomous weapons with the ability to kill without authorization from a human.

Billionaire Elon Musk says of super artificial intelligence, the A.I. community’s Holy Grail, “we are summoning the demon. It is our biggest existential threat.”

Writes Mr. Ford: “A.I. is inevitable” and will “in a great many ways be superior to us.”

Ray Kurzweil, a futurist who has worked for Google as director of engineering since 2012, says, “By 2029, computers will have human level intelligence.

“We don’t have one or two A.I.s in the world. We have billions,” adds Mr. Kurzweil, who believes A.I.’s advantages outweigh the negatives. “What’s actually happening is machines are powering all of us. They’re making us smarter. By the 2030s, we will connect our neocortex, the part of our brain where we do our thinking, to the cloud.”

And he predicts “Singularity” in 2045.

Singularity?

This is when machines become smarter than humans — and, according to Mr. Kurzweil — we begin to merge with them, multiplying our intelligence by a billion.

But this optimistic futurist also predicted driverless cars by 2009. Other experts in the field stretch the advent of super A.I. much further into the century and beyond, averaging out at the year 2099.

Yet, already, A.I. is being utilized to oppress select portions of the human race, especially in China, which has become the world leader (yes, already ahead of the U.S.) in A.I. research and development. The Chinese Communist Party runs 300 million cameras equipped with facial (plus gait and clothing) recognition that can record the movements of everyone within their vast range.

For now, the state focuses on the Uyghurs, a Turkic ethnic group who populate China’s Xinjiang region, because, as Muslims, they are the Chinese government’s target number one.

Which means this: When anyone among the Uyghurs is seen to step out of line (they are easily identified through A.I., even in a coliseum among tens of thousands of people) they are picked up and placed in a “re-education camp,” which is code for indoctrination (or brainwashing) prison hell.

(Some report China’s treatment of the Uyghurs as a genocide-inprogress.)

“Even in the other areas of the country,” writes Mr. Ford,

“the Chinese government has a terrifying vision for systematic behavior modification, implemented through the deployment of a comprehensive social rating system. Eventually, nearly all aspects of a person’s life — consumer purchases, physical movements, social media interactions and associations with others — will be surveilled, recorded and analyzed.”

And not just in China. This concept will extend — it already has to some extent — to all “civilized” regions of the world.

That China views A.I. as a strategic national priority is reflected, writes Mr. Ford, in its “New Generation Artificial Intelligence Developmental Plan,” which calls for Chinese global domination of such technology by 2030.

The late Stephen Hawking, perhaps the brightest scientific mind of our time, put it this way: Super A.I. “will either be the best thing that’s ever happened to us, or it will be the worst thing. If we’re not careful, it very well may be the last thing.”

But, wait a minute, if super A.I. becomes sentient and goes rogue, we can simply pull the plug on it, like we do with an errant television set, right?

Wrong. Not so easy — and, quite likely, downright impossible.

You’ve ever tried turning off Facebook?

Now give Facebook higher intelligence so that it may copy its code into places no one can find it and continue to hang out, whether you want it to or not. What do you do —switch off your laptop, maybe trash it?

No, your Facebook profile is still out there, everywhere else.

But the larger question is, with A.I. everywhere, who would pull this plug and under whose authority?

Mark Zuckerberg? The government? The U.N. and all governments in unison?

Good luck with that.

And which plug? There will be millions!

And what’s to say A.I. doesn’t devise its own propaganda program (one that is a thousand times much more sophisticated than anything humans are capable of conceiving) to convince people — lawmakers, corporate bigwigs with vested interest in techie profits and folks in general — not to go along with shutting it down?

By the time anyone tried to organize and implement such a plan, it would be too late. Because, aside from everything else, A.I. will be somewhat faster than we are — lightning speed faster, in fact, at everything.

And even trying to understand or communicate with this vast higher intelligence or coaxing it back in our direction is a joke because — those in the know point out — this would be like an ant trying to communicate with a human.

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“We are summoning the demon. It is our biggest existential threat,” Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk warned about super artificial intelligence. (He’s seen here in a 2016 press conference at the Kennedy Space Center.)

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Brent Spiner, who played the android Data on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” portrays Aton Soong, the son of Data’s creator and the co-creator of a race of androids/synthetic beings on “Star Trek: Picard.” Self-aware (i.e. living) robots don’t exist today, but work is being done on artificial intelligence, and columnist Robert Eringer is concerned about where the future may take society.

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destroyed. An example must be made.

“The human race has a gift, professor: the gift of thought, of reasoning, of understanding. A highly developed brain. But the human race has ceased to develop.

It struggles for petty comfort and false security. There is no time for thought. Soon there will be no time for reasoning, and man will lose sight of the truth.

“The whole town must be utterly destroyed. An example must be made. Your ignorance makes me ill and angry. Your savageness must end.”

And then our subject clearly explains himself and where’s he’s evolving to: “The mind will cast off the hamperings of the flesh and become all thought and no matter.

A vortex of pure intelligence in space.”

In other words, super A.I. This was a teleplay ahead of its time.

And a reasonably accurate statement about the danger that super A.I. might ultimately pose to mankind.

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If you wish to understand A.I., or, perhaps more significantly, “super” artificial intelligence, you need not look to the future.

Instead, we can simply revisit the past.

Specifically, back to Oct. 16, 1963 and “The Sixth Finger,” an episode (written by Ellis St. Joseph) of “The Outer Limits” (a popular television series at that time) in which a human guinea pig is genetically altered to create what humankind will evolve to 20,000 years from now — and soon after, a million years hence.

A.I. meets Frankenstein.

“I no longer have any need for sleep,” states our highly-evolved, artificially smartened subject (portrayed by David McCallum of “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.” and later “NCIS”). “You released the mechanism of evolution which is a self-generating force, it is now mutating under its own impetus.

I am now where a man will be approximately one million years from today.

“I’m laughing,” he adds, “because of what’s in your mind, professor.” (He is able to read the doc’s brain). “You think I’m a monster. May I remind you that everything is relative. For me, you look as monstrous as the missing link.”

Which is how, it is believed, super A.I. will view humans.

The professor’s maid contrives to see the genetically mutated subject after delivering more books to his door. These are books he demands for absorbing more knowledge — and can upload into his brain by merely scanning pages.

As a result, the subject, without emotion, kills the doc’s maid with a mind-beam, after which he calmly explains: “She’s dead. Your race is too prejudiced to tolerate any differences from its own kind.

She saw me only as a monster.

It was in her mind to run to the village and rouse its inhabitants.

They would come with their primitive weapons and obliterate me. I wanted to stop her. I stopped her heart.”

“You feel no remorse?” asks the shocked professor.

“Would it bring her back?” he poses, devoid of any feeling.

“You are, after all, a human being,” the professor poses.

“In relation to me,” the subject corrects the professor, “she was no more advanced than a monkey.

She wouldn’t have become civilized for another million years.”

Which is how, it is believed, super A.I. will view humans.

After considering the matter further, the subject dispassionately decides that “The whole town must be utterly

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Former Senator Gary Hart dies

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Former state Sen. Gary K. Hart died from pancreatic cancer Thursday in his home in Sacramento. He was 78.

Mr. Hart represented Santa Barbara and Ventura counties as a senator for 12 years. Prior to serving in the government, he served as a social studies teacher in Santa Barbara.

Mr. Hart also served as the California secretary of education under Gov. Gray Davis.

“Gary was widely respected and admired. In fact, I cannot recall a single person in Sacramento who ever said a critical word about Gary,” former Gov. Davis said in a Los Angeles Times report. “Gary was my first and arguably most important appointment as governor.

Education was and always will be my passion. We both believed that while only one student could be the best, every student could get better.”

Just weeks after Mr. Davis won the 1998 race for governor, he selected Mr. Hart to be his secretary of education. Mr. Hart and Mr. Davis were roommates at Stanford and served together in the state Assembly.

Mr. Hart was elected to the Senate in 1982 following a campaign that pitted incumbent Assembly members from Ventura and Santa Barbara counties against each other. Mr. Hart represented the district encompassing the two counties until he retired from the Senate in 1994.

Mr. Hart’s expansive public service record includes environmental protection and women’s rights.

However, Mr. Hart’s devotion to education marked his life. He authored legislation that would

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assess the need for a public university in Ventura County as well as campaign for what is now the joint UC-CSU learning center in Ventura, which would later evolve into a Ventura satellite campus for Cal State Northridge and ultimately to the establishment of Cal State Channel Islands in Camarillo.

During his time as a senator, he served as chair of the Senate Education Committee. In addition, he successfully authored bills to enhance professional development for teachers, reduce class sizes, establish higher academic standards for students including a landmark law in 1992 that allowed for the creation of California’s first public charter schools.

The Ventura County Star quoted Sen. Hart as saying, “Our democracy could only thrive with a strong public education system where students from varied backgrounds could learn to work together and every student, with quality instruction and hard work, had opportunities to pursue their dreams and succeed.”

Mr. Hart was born Aug. 13,

1943, in San Diego. His family moved to Santa Barbara when he was a teenageer. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School, where he excelled in multiple sports, particularly football, in which he received all-CIF honors.

Mr. Hart attended Stanford University on a football scholarship where he graduated with a degree in history. He also received a master’s in teaching from Harvard University School of Education.

Mr. Hart and his wife Cary were married for 52 years. They met on the East Coast, when they were both working on the presidential campaign of Sen. Eugene McCarthy. They had three daughters, Elissa Hart Mahan, Katherine Hart and Laura Murray, along with six grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the SCOE Resiliency Scholarship Program, Sacramento County Office of Education, P.O. Box 269003, Sacramento, CA 95826. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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On Tuesday, the Santa Barbara City Council will consider scheduling a hearing concerning traffic concerns related to this Chich-fil-A drive through.

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Continued from Page A1 Declaration of Public Nuisance arising from traffic impacts allegedly related to the Chick-fil-A drive through.

If the date setting resolution is adopted, the hearing will be scheduled for March 1. Public comment will be limited to that issue. During the proposed March 1 hearing, the public will have the opportunity to

comment and submit evidence concerning the Chick-fil-A drive through and its impact on traffic.

On Saturday, there were little to no traffic disruptions aside from one or two brief moments of extended lines spilling into the street, which cleared quickly. During the weekdays, especially during lunch hour, traffic disruptions reportedly happen frequently at Chick-fil-A. There were no less than three Chick-fil-A employees

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Chick-fil-A did not respond to the News-Press’s request for comment.

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and food supply chains to all power grids; from the vehicles you drive to the indispensable smartphone in your pocket on which you have become not only totally dependent but also highly addicted.

Bottom line: A.I. will be embedded everywhere — and connected to other A.I.— with algorithms that could go wrong either by error, which humans (say the experts) would not be smart enough to reset — or by the design of a higher intelligence intent on implementing its own agenda for ensuring its perpetuation while not being terribly concerned about human survival.

Shut it all down?

Yeah, right.

Even if we were able to regulate A.I. under various governmental authorities, beyond corporate/ private influence and ownership, it is ultimately like attempting to combat global warming for a cleaner environment: For all the blather among celebrities

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who fly private jets to climate conferences to lecture everyone else about why they shouldn’t drive their cars to work, unless you get China and India on board (with their one-third of the human population) — and you won’t — it ain’t gonna happen.

And even if we in the West were convincing enough to bring these countries on board (at the cost to them of worsening their own economies, which they are not inclined to do), here is a sobering thought: When the world came to a standstill in August 2020 due to COVID-19 (little air travel, no traffic, empty office buildings and factories, quiet streets) emissions dropped by a mere … 8%.

The race is on amongst the adversarial countries of the world to create the biggest and best super A.I. And once here — and sentient — there will be no stopping it.

Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes questions or comments at reringer@gmail. com.

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Hania Tallmadge, born May 26, 1933, passed away on January 14, 2022. In 1947 Hania with her parents, Leon and Marysia Puacz, were invited by Leon’s older sister Madam Ganna Walska, to live in a cottage on her Lotusland estate in Montecito, California.

Hania began her education at Montecito School for Girls (now Casa Dorinda). She spoke no English but after a few years her language skills improved dramatically, and she graduated valedictorian. She moved on to college and marriage becoming a patron of the arts. She supported several charities, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, The Historical Society, the Music Academy of the West, Cottage Hospital and her favorite, The Lotusland Foundation. She was a member of the Valley Club of Montecito and Burnim Wood Golf Club. Hania was predeceased by her husbands, Mark Addison Bacon and Harold Tallmadge. She leaves behind a son, Mark Addison Bacon. The family is very thankful for the excellent care she was provided by Dr. Koonce and the staff at the Casa Dorinda Medical Hospital. A private ceremony was held at Santa Barbara Cemetery.

ROGERS, Douglas R. Doug was born in Hamilton, Ohio on July 16, 1950 and passed away on January 25, 2022 in Santa Barbara.

Doug’s family moved to California when he was eight, and eventually settled in Santa Barbara. Doug graduated from San Marcos High School in 1969, and he then spent a number of years working for his dad’s construction firm. He spent the last several years taking care of his family members in Santa Barbara. Doug is survived by three sisters, Cheri Hendricksen (Santa Barbara), Robbie Rogers (Santa Barbara) and Debbie Willis (Oxnard).

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DONOVAN, Robert “Bob” L. With sadness we announce the passing of Bob Donovan on December 19, 2021.

Born in Somerville, MA, Bob relocated to Santa Barbara on his birthday in August 1959. He often said that moving to Santa Barbara was one of the best decisions his parents ever made. Bob attended Dolores Grammar School and graduated from Bishop Diego High School in 1969. At a young age, Bob contracted polio which affected one of his legs. However he never let this disease get the best of him - he was active in school sports and loved taking part in outdoor activities throughout his life whether it was surfing, fishing or golfing.

Bob developed a successful and enjoyable career as an estate manager at a number of beautiful local properties. During the last two decades, Bob was responsible for landscape management at an awe-inspiring Hope Ranch estate. Bob was a dedicated and conscientious employee who was always proud to share his latest project.

Alongside his love for the outdoors, Bob had a soft spot for animals - particularly dogs.

Bob never traveled far without a dog biscuit in his pocket. His kindness and generosity with dogs always resulted in a fast new friend.

Bob is survived by his loving daughter Katie Ventura and son-in-law Ryan, and his Dalmatian Gia - all of Santa Barbara. He is also survived by his brother Rick and sisterin-law Alice Donovan of Santa Barbara, sister Donna Zupan of Bend, OR, and sister Mary Lopez of Chico, CA. He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews who will forever carry wonderful memories of Bob in their hearts.

Bob will always be a greatly loved father, brother, uncle and friend. He brought smiles, laughter, joy and warmth to all those around him and he will be greatly missed.

Due to the current pandemic conditions, a memorial celebration will be held at a future date.

KLUVER, David Allen, Sr.

David Allen Kluver, Sr, 70 years old born, in Vermillion, South Dakota on 7/26/1951 and passed away on 1/17/2022 in Plano, Texas from GBM, brain cancer. He is survived by his wife, Mary Ann. They moved to Dallas, Texas from Santa Barbara after graduating from UCSB in 1982 in Engineering. He worked many years with Texas Instruments and Raytheon Company. He always loved Santa Barbara and considered it home. He leaves behind his sons, Benjamin, David and Kenneth Kluver, daughterin-law, Tracey and grandson, Julian David and his brothers and sisters, Gwen McKinney, Clark and Mark Kluver, Barbara Miller and Patricia Johnson.

VOGEL, M. Dean, M.D.

M. Dean Vogel, M.D. passed away on December 26, 2021.

He was 88. Dean is lovingly remembered by his wife Mary; his children Theresa (Elias), Stephen, Phillip (Robin), and Paula (Sam); his grandchildren Brian, Michelle (Peter), Christina (Tim), Deanna, Theo, and Pearl; his greatgrandchildren Quinn, Sutton and Olive; and his sister Ettna “Honey” Miller. Dean grew up in Indiana and Los Angeles, playing high school championship basketball in the Hoosier State and serving as senior class president and valedictorian. He attended medical school at Indiana University and met Mary, the love of his life and wife of 60 years, while interning at Charity Hospital in New Orleans. They married in Rochester, MN where he completed his medical residency at the Mayo Clinic. In 1963, Dean and Mary moved to Santa Barbara, CA where Dean opened a private practice in Internal Medicine. He was drafted into the Army in 1966 and he and Mary moved their family near Fort McArthur in San Pedro, CA. Dean later returned to private practice in Santa Barbara where he remained an involved and respected member of the medical community until the end of his life. He was instrumental in bringing coronary care to Southern California in 1968 when the field was in its infancy. Dean was named 1995 Physician of the Year at the former St. Francis Medical Center of Santa Barbara and served on several hospital committees at St. Francis Hospital and Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. In retirement, he served on the board at the former Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara. Dean has been lauded as “the quintessential physician” and “a true healer.” Medicine was his passion and his love for helping others followed him throughout his life. He was always willing to listen and provide guidance – professionally and personally. Dean enjoyed playing tennis with Mary and their friends. He loved watching sports and was a big USC fan, especially of football. A lifelong learner, Dean was an amateur photographer and astronomer. His humor, dry wit, and generous spirit are greatly missed. A memorial service will be held at San Roque Catholic Church in Santa Barbara, CA on Saturday, March 26 at 11:00 am. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Monastery of Poor Clares in Santa Barbara.

BEATTIE, Mary Teresa 1923 - 2022

Lifelong Lompoc resident, Mary Teresa Beattie, age 98, departed this world at her home in Lompoc on January 17, 2022, surrounded by her loving family. Mary was born in 1923, in Lompoc, CA to parents Antonio (Tony) Guerra and Stella (Noni) Pastre Guerra, who emigrated from Northern Italy in 1911 and 1922.

The eldest child, Mary shared her childhood with brothers Mike and Louie, and sister, Della. As a young girl, Mary spent early mornings milking cows at the Turri Dairy before heading off to school. Her reward for all that work came after school when she was allowed to ride and care for her beloved pet horse, Sam. She attended rural schools, “Maple” and “Artesia”, and Lompoc High School on South N Street.

In 1940, Mary met the love of her life, John Beattie, alocal farmer. They were married on January 24, 1941. She was the perfect match for John. They worked long hours in the fields together, she even drove tractor alongside her husband, and often accompanied him in trucking fresh vegetables to market locations far north of Lompoc. In 1950, John and Mary built their own home on De Wolff Avenue, where they raised their two children, Patricia Lee, born 1951 and William A (Billy), 1953.

Mary was the consummate homemaker. Never idle, she loved doing handwork: sewing, knitting, crochet, cross stitch, embroidery, macrame, and other crafts. She gifted her family and friends with beautiful hand-knit afghans, sweaters and scarves.

She loved working in her garden among the hummingbirds. She excelled in growing begonias, roses, and other flowers which she enjoyed displaying at the Santa Barbara County Fair, winning Sweepstake awards during the Fifties and Sixties. She also provided cut flowers from her garden for Memorial Day bouquets for family and friends.

She was a lifetime member of the Lompoc Valley Historical Society, the Lompoc High School Alumni Association, and the Lompoc Grange.

Mary loved her pets, including Rosie the Cow, several much-loved dogs, cats and birds, and she had a passion for ocean fishing.

Mary made her home on De Wolff Avenue available for many events including an election polling place for several years. In the Seventies and Eighties, the travelling Italian food truck from San Francisco parked in her front yard once a month to sell its specialty foods to the locals. It became a favorite gathering place for the people to chat and catch up with the news of the day.

Mary and her husband also enjoyed traveling. They visited several countries in Europe as well as Hawaii. In 1974, they brought Mary’s mother, Stella, to visit her four sisters in Northern Italy, whom she hadn’t seen in fifty-two years. They also visited Buenos Aires, Argentina to visit another brother and sister, not seen since 1922.

Mary Beattie’s world was indelibly changed in 1983 with her husband John’s sudden death. Being the practical woman that she was, she suffered her loss in private and carried on with her life. In 1985, she began work in retail, first in Solvang, and later in Lompoc, where she enjoyed assisting customers with their knitting, sewing, crochet, and other craft projects. In Mary’s late eighties, she hand-knit 106 scarves using camouflage yarn for the U.S. military troops in Afghanistan.

Mary had a long, wonderful life filled with love, beauty, creativity, challenges and joy.

She is remembered lovingly for her indomitable spirit and strength, her unconditional love for her family, and the values she instilled in us. She will be deeply missed.

Mary is preceded in death by her husband John in 1983, and her son Bill in 2017. She is survived by her daughter, Pattie Beattie O’Doherty, son-in-law Martin O’Doherty, granddaughter Annelise O’Doherty, sister Della Rider, brother Louie Guerra, sister-inlaw Angie Guerra, and many nieces and nephews.

The family would like to express their heartfelt appreciation to those who cared for Mary during the last years of her life: Dr. Rollin Bailey and medical assistant, Maria; her wonderful caregivers Lorena Rios and Kenna Hunter; and the VNA Hospice team.

Visitation for Mary Beattie will be held at Starbuck-Lind Mortuary in Lompoc from 5 to 6pm on Thursday, January 27, 2022. The Liturgy Service will take place at 10am on Friday, January 28, 2022, at La Purisima Catholic Church in Lompoc, followed by graveside service at Oakhill Cemetery in Ballard at 12 noon. In accordance with Covid protocols, social distancing and masks will be required at the church and graveside services. A Celebration of Life will be held at a future date.

RUSSELL, Louise De Simas

August 25, 1951 – December 19, 2021

MCDERMOTT, Kathleen Ann Wilson 1931-2022

On January 17th Kathleen McDermott passed away suddenly but peacefully in the presence of family in Livermore, CA. She was 90 years old.

She often said one of the best days of her life was when she and her husband Tom and their four children moved from the San Fernando Valley to Goleta in 1969. She lived in the same home until two years ago when she moved to Livermore to be closer to her children. Kathleen taught 7th and 8th grade math and science at St. Raphael’s school from 1970 until her retirement in 1992. Even in her later years it was hard to go out and not hear a long ago student call out, “Hey Mrs. McDermott!” She loved that and was always excited to hear how her former students were doing. She enjoyed her book club, evenings playing bridge with friends, and dinner groups over the years. Kathleen made many longterm and loyal friends through these groups and cherished them all. She still enjoyed the company of college friends from Lone Mountain (USF) College in San Francisco.

Kathleen was born in Sioux City, Iowa on September 2, 1931 to Dr. Leo and Ann Wilson, the second of three children. World War II brought the family to the West Coast as her father served as an Army physician. After the war they settled in San Jose, CA. She met her husband Tom when he was a student at Santa Clara and she was at Lone Mountain.

They enjoyed a long and happy marriage until his passing in 2017.

Kathleen is survived by her four children Tom (Margrethe) of Elk Grove, Brian (Lynne) of Napa, Molly (Ralph) of Tracy and Maureen (Bob) of Livermore, nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She was also preceded in death by two grandsons.

A funeral Mass will be held Saturday, February 19th at 9:30am at St. Raphael’s Church in Goleta with a reception to follow immediately after in the parish hall.

In lieu of flowers please consider supporting Noozhawk. Kathleen loved reading the local news and keeping up with what was happening in Santa Barbara.

BRADFIELD, Roger “Jolly Roger” Bradfield rang out the old year by sailing off into the sunset, leaving a cast of colorful characters in his wake. From lavender lions to giants of different sizes.

Goofy princes and sharp-witted princesses. With just one stroke of his paintbrush Roger had the power to transport us, inviting us into his vivid world of imagination where anything was possible.

Born in White Bear Minnesota in 1924, Rog joked that his father took one look at him and disappeared. Smiling with his signature twinkle, he recounted that he was left with a small fortune: his father’s prized pool cue and old holey bathrobe. Raised by his mom and grandma in a “skinny” railroad home, he and his grandma spent countless afternoons playing ball in the street. Saturday afternoons were reserved for cowboy movies, where – for just a nickel – he and his ragtag friends would “yell as loud as we could when the hero was chasing the bad guy.”

When WW2 arrived, Rog was drafted into the army. A lifelong trumpet player, he was known for waking his Camp Robert’s comrades with Reveille and ending their day with Taps. Following the war, he attended Minneapolis School of Art, where God graciously intervened, putting the saintly “Joanie” in his path. As the story goes, Roger took one look at the blue-eyed beauty on the art school steps, turned to his buddy, and declared, “See that blonde over there? I’m gonna marry her!”

His prophesy would materialize just months later. The two were wed on the fourth of July in 1948. How fitting that they would ring in a sixty-seven-year marriage with fireworks. A once-in-a lifetime kind of love, the twosome had a magic all their own.

Crossing the Atlantic on the Queen Mary, they set out for France, where Roger attended the Academie Julian. Once he discovered that no attendance record was kept, he spent the entire year wandering the streets of Paris, “drawing, drawing, drawing,” and sipping café au laits at corner cafes. He shared, “Looking back, this probably had more influence on my eventual style (or lack of style!) than anything else.”

Living abroad, Roger and “his angel” Joanie picnicked on the banks of the Seine in Paris, rode bicycles through tulip fields in Holland, and eventually welcomed their first child, Steve (aka ‘Reno’) while Rog was attending the Heatherly School of Art in London. Kari arrived shortly after their return to Minnesota, followed by Cindy (aka ‘Venetia’), Sue, and Heidi.

Roger and Uncle Pete hand-built the young family a home in Golden Valley, where the happy clan built snow forts, and skated on Strawberry Pond. In 1967 they traded Minnesota’s blustery winters for Santa Barbara’s ceaselessly sunny skies. Landing on Arbolado Road, where Rog once famously trimmed the poolside topiary into a giant, thirsty camel, he spent his days in his art studio, dreaming up a world of colorful characters and reemerging at dinnertime covered in paint.

Renowned for an illustrious career that would span an early stint with BBDO and General Mills – sketching a medley of characters including the famous Keebler elves, Trix rabbit, and Mr. Bubble – Roger parlayed his talents into the nationally syndicated comic strip, Dooley’s World, a host of beloved children’s books under the pen name, “Jolly Roger Bradfield,” and later, an ever-expanding watercolor collection dreamt up from his travels through Greece, Portugal, Mexico and Norway with his “sweet Joanie.”

In his fifties, Roger became a Christian. In his book, Everybody’s Somebody, he wrote: ‘Sometime after I made my own decision to let Christ come into my life and take over, I adopted this personal motto—it’s lettered on a card and tacked to the top of my drawing board: “I’d rather have the Creator of the Universe running my life than some secondrate cartoonist.”’

Retiring to Arroyo Grande in 1988, Roger and his son, Reno, designed and custombuilt a Tudor-style charmer, complete with a turret and old brass firepole. When he wasn’t happily sketching in his studio, Rog would get lost in his workshop, spinning out handmade furniture with the same effortless panache as his legendary paintings.

A colorful character with limitless talent, Roger’s humor was perhaps his greatest gift. His grandfatherly advice? “Be good. But not too good. You gotta have a little fun once in a while.” As we close the chapter on an extraordinary life that spanned ninetyseven remarkable years, let us always remember the immeasurable gifts that Roger imparted.

May we all navigate life with the same unrestrained enthusiasm, unfiltered comedic timing, and abundant appreciation for the beauty around us. Roger had a special talent for bringing love, laughter, and a few clinking martinis wherever he went. Cheers to you, Rog. You’ve left an indelible legacy and will be forever missed.

Jolly Roger Bradfield is enjoying heaven with his beloved Joanie and his cherished daughter Sue Ostby. He is survived by children Reno Bradfield, Kari Hansen (Bob), Venetia Bradfield, and Heidi Palladino (Steve), son-in-law Dana Ostby, 13 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.

Special thanks to all the staff and caregivers at Heritage House and Samarkand, who took such great care of Roger, and showered him with love. You are deeply appreciated.

Please join us in celebrating the magical life of “Jolly Roger” Bradfield. We will be gathering outside at 2pm on Saturday, February 26th, 2022, at Santa Barbara Community Church (1022 Cieneguitas Rd). A colorful character who led a brilliant life, we will be remembering Rog with the same kaleidoscope of colors that he splashed across his canvases. Feel free to come dressed in bright, bold hues. Rog would’ve loved that.

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Louise left this world unexpectedly on Friday, January 14, 2022 to be with God. Louise was born on October 21, 1934 in New Bedford, MA to Joseph and Louise De Simas.

She graduated from New Bedford High School in 1952.

She settled in Santa Barbara, CA. Louise was a pioneer of women’s rights. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Science while raising 5 children. She was the first female deputy sheriff and bailiff in the Superior Court of Santa Barbara County. She was honored to attend the FBI National Academy, and to be the first woman to apply for membership to the Santa Barbara Elk’s Club. Louise was an active participant and volunteer in her community. She was generous, and supported many charitable causes. Beyond her impressive resume, she was beloved by family and friends. As the child of Portuguese immigrants, she was proud of her heritage. She loved travel, her birds, bridge, strong coffee, comfort food, and gardening.

She is survived by her children Denise, Randall (Karen), Annette, and Matthew, as well as her brother Raymond, her grandchildren, great-grandchildren, 1 great-great grandchild, numerous nieces and nephews, and her significant other, Olaf. In heaven she will be greeted by her daughter Lisa, her parents, and her other siblings. An informal gathering to honor Louise’s incredible life will be held on Saturday, February 5th at the Rockwood Woman’s Club beginning at 1:30 PM. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Meals on Wheels or the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club in her name.

Rockwood Woman’s Club: 670 Mission Canyon Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93105

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LOCAL FIVE-DAY FORECAST TODAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY THURSDAY

Mostly sunny

Periods of sunshine

Increasing amounts of sun

Plenty of sun

INLAND

INLAND

INLAND

INLAND

Mostly sunny INLAND

71 33

65 37

65 28

63 27

65 27

65 40

62 42

63 41

64 38

64 37

COASTAL

COASTAL

Pismo Beach 71/40

COASTAL

COASTAL

COASTAL

Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows.

Maricopa 65/41

Guadalupe 68/37

Santa Maria 67/38

Vandenberg 65/42

New Cuyama 65/34 Ventucopa 65/36

Los Alamos 72/37

Lompoc 64/41 Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2022

Buellton 71/34

Solvang 71/33

Gaviota 65/46

SANTA BARBARA 65/40 Goleta 67/40

Carpinteria 65/44 Ventura 65/47

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

Source: airnow.gov Unhealthy for SG Very Unhealthy Unhealthy Not Available

ALMANAC

Santa Barbara through 6 p.m. yesterday

TEMPERATURE High/low Normal high/low Record high Record low

68/44 64/42 82 in 1953 29 in 1975

PRECIPITATION 24 hours through 6 p.m. yest.

Month to date (normal) Season to date (normal)

0.00” 0.06” (3.62”) 8.89” (8.53”)

City Cuyama Goleta Lompoc Pismo Beach Santa Maria Santa Ynez Vandenberg Ventura

STATE CITIES Bakersfield Barstow Big Bear Bishop Catalina Concord Escondido Eureka Fresno Los Angeles Mammoth Lakes Modesto Monterey Napa Oakland Ojai Oxnard Palm Springs Pasadena Paso Robles Sacramento San Diego San Francisco San Jose San Luis Obispo Santa Monica Tahoe Valley

65/40/s 67/36/s 48/20/s 64/27/s 63/52/s 63/42/pc 71/40/s 50/41/pc 64/39/s 71/47/s 45/19/s 63/38/s 61/43/pc 63/38/pc 57/45/pc 71/44/s 66/45/s 79/50/s 72/46/s 67/34/s 61/39/s 66/47/s 56/47/pc 63/43/pc 71/40/s 68/47/s 49/21/s

Mon. Hi/Lo/W 63/33/pc 64/42/pc 62/44/pc 66/45/pc 64/44/pc 65/37/pc 62/49/pc 61/51/pc

56/35/s 25/10/pc 28/14/pc 69/48/s 52/27/s 69/53/s 62/48/s 21/13/pc 26/18/s 28/18/s 72/47/pc 49/38/r 38/24/s 39/25/s 48/37/r 35/26/pc

POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind northeast at 6-12 knots becoming west today.

Wind waves 1-3 feet with a west swell 2-4 feet at 12-second intervals. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind northeast at 6-12 knots becoming west today.

Wind waves 1-3 feet with a west swell 2-4 feet at 12-second intervals. Visibility clear.

SANTA BARBARA HARBOR TIDES Date Time High Time Jan. 30 Jan. 31 Feb. 1

7:28 a.m.

9:25 p.m.

8:17 a.m.

10:03 p.m.

9:04 a.m.

10:41 p.m.

LAKE LEVELS

6.7’ 3.8’ 6.8’ 4.0’ 6.7’ 4.2’

Low

1:04 a.m.

2:53 p.m.

1:59 a.m.

3:35 p.m.

2:50 a.m.

4:15 p.m.

2.2’ -1.8’ 2.0’ -1.9’ 1.7’ -1.7’

AT BRADBURY DAM, LAKE CACHUMA 62/40/pc 66/43/pc 49/27/pc 63/29/s 61/49/pc 61/41/pc 68/43/pc 52/37/pc 61/42/pc 67/49/pc 45/20/s 59/39/pc 59/45/pc 63/38/pc 58/43/pc 66/45/pc 63/47/pc 77/51/pc 68/49/pc 64/37/pc 61/41/pc 65/54/pc 57/46/pc 62/40/pc 68/43/pc 65/51/pc 47/17/pc

NATIONAL CITIES Atlanta Boston Chicago Dallas Denver Houston Miami Minneapolis New York City Philadelphia Phoenix Portland, Ore. St. Louis Salt Lake City Seattle Washington, D.C.

Wind from the southwest at 4-8 knots today. Wind waves 2-4 feet with a west swell 2-4 feet at 12-second intervals. Visibility clear.

TIDES

LOCAL TEMPS Today Hi/Lo/W 65/34/s 67/40/s 67/38/s 71/40/s 67/38/s 71/33/s 65/42/s 65/47/s

MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

62/37/s 30/17/s 34/30/c 65/49/c 56/21/s 64/58/r 69/60/pc 33/24/c 34/21/s 36/24/s 71/50/pc 44/36/r 52/43/s 43/22/pc 45/37/r 42/29/s

At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment.

Storage 93,157 acre-ft.

Elevation 712.13 ft.

Evaporation (past 24 hours) 9.2 acre-ft.

Inflow 3.6 acre-ft.

State inflow 19.2 acre-ft.

Storage change from yest.

-57 acre-ft.

Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

SUN AND MOON Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset

New

First

Jan 31

Feb 8

WORLD CITIES

Today 6:59 a.m.

5:27 p.m.

5:59 a.m.

3:49 p.m.

Full

Feb 16

Mon. 6:58 a.m.

5:28 p.m.

6:55 a.m.

5:01 p.m.

Last

Feb 23

Today Mon. City Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Beijing 38/25/pc 36/21/s Berlin 43/33/pc 37/31/sn Cairo 64/51/s 62/51/pc Cancun 71/60/pc 73/67/pc London 47/41/pc 47/40/pc Mexico City 72/47/s 73/46/s Montreal 12/3/s 16/2/pc New Delhi 70/46/pc 70/47/pc Paris 47/39/c 46/36/pc Rio de Janeiro 83/76/t 85/77/r Rome 56/43/pc 57/42/c Sydney 81/71/pc 83/73/pc Tokyo 46/37/c 49/37/s W-weather, s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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Goleta Beach basks under a sunny sky on Friday morning.

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Honoring the heroes of the sky

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The World War II Aviators Memorial stands at Santa Barbara Airport on Friday.

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TRAFFIC, CRIME AND FIRE BLOTTER Montecito Fire Department’s annual chipping program to begin Feb. 14

State Street businesses with parklets are preparing for a new rule widening the center fire lane.

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space onto the street. Dining and doing business outdoors allowed customers to interact with local spots while preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Before restaurants got the greenlight for indoor dining, the outdoor seating allowed customers to eat meals outside the restaurants. After indoor dining resumed, the parklets have remained popular with customers who preferred to eat outside.

Other than the expanded fire lane, city staff also proposed

that all businesses on State Street be “portable,” meaning equipment and furnishings can be removed within 24 hours without the use of mechanized equipment.

Given the short notice of these proposed changes, the city council agreed to defer implementing portability to a later date.

Mrs. Elander told the NewsPress that outdoor business has done wonders for the local places on State Street, and Downtown Santa Barbara plans on investing in this space despite the scramble to prioritize the fire lane.

“Downtown Santa Barbara is working in partnership with the city to start a master planning

process for the entire downtown area,” Mrs. Elander said. “This will study circulation and all of the elements associated with downtown to determine if they want to keep (lower State Street) closed.”

A State Street advisory committee was developed to oversee the future of the changing downtown area.

“There’s a desire by the community to keep downtown vibrant and to grow what was developed over the recent years,” Mrs. Elander said.

To protect the momentum behind State Street, Downtown Santa Barbara is offering resources to local businesses

during this transitional period.

“We have a ‘shop local’ downtown campaign that we’re revamping for State Street businesses,” Mrs. Elander said.

“We’re also developing quite a bit of new programming along State Street to accompany some of the changes.”

Despite the incurring stipulations, the executive director said that Downtown Santa Barbara is working with local businesses to create partnerships and troubleshoot issues that are expected to occur at the promenade throughout these changes. email: fmcfarland@newspress.com

The Montecito Fire Department’s annual Neighborhood Chipping Program will begin February 14, as the department prepares for wildfire season by working with identified neighborhoods to assist residents in improving community defensible space.

A new interactive Neighborhood Chipping Map on montecitofire.com allows community members to type in their address to learn the start date of chipping in their neighborhood.

Every spring, the department partners with residents to prepare for the approaching high fire season and reduce the density of vegetation in strategically selected areas of roadways and private properties.

The intent is to assist community members with maintaining defensible space around areas most at risk of severe impacts from wildfires.

The department also offers guidance to residents on how best to trim back vegetation along driveways and roadways with the goal of creating safer evacuation routes for the community as well as better access for first responders.

Residents will receive a Neighborhood Chipping Program postcard in the mail with specific dates the work will be done in each selected neighborhood. The postcard provides instructions for

homeowners, including their responsibilities for cutting the vegetation, how and where to place cut material and what material cannot be chipped, including vines, grass, palms, succulents, firewood and other small trimmings. Those materials may be disposed of in roll-off containers that are provided as part of the program.

Montecito Fire will work in partnership with a contractor to complete the chipping work for the program. The contractor will work alongside the Wildland Fire Specialists throughout the 10-week program to chip material and facilitate the “Tag & Trim” portion of the program.

Low-hanging branches are identified, or “tagged,” by the Fire Department during routine neighborhood inspections. The contractor will then remove the flagged branches. Clearing these areas improves access for fire engines while also making it safer for residents to evacuate during a fire or other disaster.

Montecito Fire offers the Neighborhood Chipping Program to approximately 1,300 residents within the Very High Fire Severity Zone of the community. Reducing the volume of flammable vegetation creates more defensible and survivable space around a property and increases the entire community’s resilience to wildfires.

For more information about the Neighborhood Chipping Project or to schedule a complimentary Defensible Space Survey, please contact Wildland Fire Specialists: Maeve Juarez and Nic Elmquist at (805) 969-7762 or email preventionmail@montecitofire. com.

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Girls sports celebrate 50th anniversary of Title IX

By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

Hueneme defeated the Carpinteria girls basketball team 43-28, but there was still reason to celebrate at the home game Friday.

Jan. 28 marked the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the 1972 law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at any school that receives federal funding. It paved the way for equality for girls sports, and U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, marked the occasion by

attending the Warriors’ home game.

And during a ceremony, Rep. Carbajal presented a flag that was flown for a day over the nation’s Capitol.

The new flag will replace the current flag on a wall of the Carpinteria High School gym, Coach Henry Gonzales told the News-Press in an email.

Gonzales said that during Friday’s game, the Warriors “showed their spirit and determination on a night when we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Title lX law.

“The Warriors played with excellent effort and competitiveness,” Gonzales said.

“We got down early 11-6 but battled back by outscoring the Vikings 13-7 in the second period to take a 19-18 lead at the half.

“The third period saw the two teams battle back and forth for most of the period,” Gonzales continued. “The Vikings were able to take advantage of some Warrior turnovers, which helped them lead at the end of the third (period) 33-25.

“We were not able to convert on many scoring opportunities

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and scored only two points in the fourth period,” he said. “Thus, the Vikings were able to pull away.

“I was very happy with how we competed and the energy throughout the game,” Gonzales said.

WATER POLO VICTORY In other girls sports on the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the Dos Pueblos water polo team sank Huntington Beach 15-9.

The Chargers lived up to their name and took charge — 7-3 by the end of the half and 9-4 by the end of the third quarter.

It was a great night for junior Athena Wigo, who scored six goals and made two assists.

Also in the spotlight was another junior, Ava Bennett, who made five goals and one steal.

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Gilbert, scored two goals. She also made two assists and one steal.

Senior Isabella Moore scored one goal.

And Clara Rickey, a junior, made a goal.

Freshman, HanaLora Abel, tallied two assists.

Freshman Franki Court had two assists and one steal.

Senior Hannah Godlis contributed two assists.

It was also a good night for defense. Freshman goalie Megan Garner tallied six blocks, one assist and three steals.

LAGUNA BEACH DEFEATS SAN MARCOS Laguna Beach defeated the San Marcos girls water polo team 1311 Friday, and during the day’s second game, Foothill beat San Marcos 11-10.

Both games were at the Newport Harbor Invitational.

In the game against Laguna Beach, Ava Stryker made four goals for San Marcos, followed by junior Madi Haaland Ford with three, Mia Amberger with two and Brooke Ingram with one.

“Goalie Elaia Hamilton had 12 blocks against Laguna and then 11 versus Foothill,” San Marcos Coach Chuckie Roth told the News-Press in an email.

In the game against Foothill, Stryker scored five goals, followed

by Mia Amberger with two goals, Regan McEachen with one and Madi Sparre with two.

“Our team is playing very well against some of the best teams in the country,” Roth said. “I’m very proud of the effort and our team growth.” email: dmason@newspress.com

SBCC falls short of comeback at softball season opener

By MICHAEL JORGENSON SBCC SPORTS WRITER

The Santa Barbara City College softball team scored five runs in the bottom of the seventh inning, but came up two runs shy of completing a spirited comeback in Friday’s 10-8 season-opening defeat against Saddleback.

Center fielder Sarah Hammonds opened the year with a two-run homer on the Vaqueros’ third at bat of the day, also scoring a run from catcher Naveah Freitas who led off with a single up the middle.

SBCC’s two-run lead last until the third inning, when the Bobcats took the lead back with three runs.

The Vaqueros trailed 10-3 heading into the final inning, when the offense suddenly turned it on to tally four of its seven total hits.

With runners on second and third, Freitas stepped up to knock a double through the left side, bringing left fielder Isabella Huckaby home.

Second baseman Mckinnzie Grossini scored on an RBI single by pitcher Armani Garcia on the next at bat.

Shortstop Alyssa Perez then popped up for a sac fly RBI as Freitas made it home for the third time in the game, making it 10-6. With two outs, Garcia would score next, taking advantage of a wild pitch.

First baseman Natalie Depasquale followed with a single down the left field line. That tied her with Hammonds, who made it home from second base, for a team-high two RBI. Third baseman Jade Leoffler earned a walk next, but with two runners on base, the Vaqueros’ comeback bid finally ended with a groundout to second base.

Garcia pitched the entire game, finishing with three strikeouts. The eight runs were tied for SBCC’s most in a season-opener in its last seven seasons.

The Vaqueros will be back in action Thursday when they host Taft for a 1 p.m. doubleheader at Pershing Park.

Michael Jorgenson works in communications/media relations at Santa Barbara City College. email: sports@newspress.com.

Masjuan clinches 4-3 win for UCSB over LMU

By DANIEL MOEBUS-BOWLES UCSB SPORTS WRITER

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Sophomore Pablo Masjuan clinched the win in the final singles match taking a three-set victory on court four.

The Gauchos looked good to start the doubles round with the duo of Masjuan and senior Stefano Tsorotiotis finishing first with a 6-4 win on court three, but the host Lions found wins on courts one and two to take the

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LMU refused to quit picking up wins on courts five and six to even the overall match at 3-3 and leave the decider on court four.

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Senior Viktor Krustev took care of business on court two, downing LMU’s Manoel De Alencar in straight sets of 6-1, 6-3 and sophomore Kai Brady made it 31 in the Gauchos’ favor with a 6-4, 6-3 win on court one over RanaRoop Bhullar.

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UCSB women’s tennis team defeats UCF in Orlando

By DANIEL MESSINGER UCSB SPORTS WRITER

ORLANDO – The UCSB women’s tennis team was defeated 4-2 by No. 20 UCF Friday afternoon. The match was the Gauchos’ (1-2) first away match of the season and saw reigning Big West Athlete of the Week Camille Kiss defeat the Knights’ (2-0) No. 102 Marie Mattel in two sets.

Santa Barbara got off to a strong start, with Shakhnoza Khatamova and Elizaveta Volodko defeating UCF’s Marie Mattel and Noel Saidenova 6-3.

The Knights evened it up with a 6-4 win on court three

by Sophia Biolay and Nandini Sharma over Kiss and Filippa Bruu-Syverson.

The doubles point came down to court two, where Central Florida’s Evgeniya Levashova and Nadja Bay Christians defeated Gauchos Kira Reuter and Amelia Honer 6-2.

Into the singles portion, Volodko was narrowly defeated 7-5, 6-4 by Saidenova, but the Gauchos were brought within a point by BruuSyversen’s 7-5, 6-2 win on court six.

Kiss then tied the match up at two points apiece with an impressive 6-2, 7-6 (7-6) win over No. 102 Mattel in the number three matchup.

A court four win for the Knights brought them within a point of victory, which was then clinched by Bay Christians with a comeback 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 win over Reuter on court five.

Khatamova’s court one battle went unfinished but could have ended up going either way, stopping when the Uzbekistan native led 2-1 in the third set.

Daniel Messinger writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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UCSB downs Penn State in men’s volleyball

By MICHAEL JORGENSON UCSB SPORTS WRITER

For the second consecutive Friday, the UCSB men’s volleyball team defeated the No. 4 ranked team in the nation, this time doing it in a dominant home sweep over Penn State, 25-13, 25-21, 25-21.

The Gauchos (3-3) enjoyed what was easily their most efficient offensive night against a ranked opponent this season, posting a .471 hitting percentage while holding the Nittany Lions (4-3) to a .247 clip.

Junior outside hitter Ryan Wilcox made a strong case for the best attacking player on the court, crushing his previous season-high with a .611 hitting percentage (12-for-18).

Middle blockers Donovan Todorov and Brandon Hicks made big plays on both sides of the ball all night. Todorov finished with seven kills (.667) and three blocks, while Hicks had six kills (.556) and two stuffs.

Relentless hustle followed by precision passing told the story for setter Patrick Paragas, who averaged over 10 assists per set (11.3) for the first time this year. He also had six digs, tied a season-best with three blocks, and flexed his reflexes with a onehanded reaction save that turned into a kill late in the third set.

UCSB finished with a 4-0 advantage in aces and 6-4 in blocks.

Fresh off last week’s five-set win at Pepperdine, the Gauchos picked up right where they left off, jumping out to a 9-4 lead in the first set.

Hicks and sophomore outside hitter Dayne Chalmers provided a huge spark midway through the set as UCSB began to pull away. Hicks went 2-for2 in the set and Chalmers turned it on to score four straight Gaucho points, including back-to-back aces to put the home side up 18-8.

The Gauchos hit at a .625 clip before Xia ended the one-sided opening game with an offspeed ace, his team-leading eight of the season.

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Michael Jorgenson writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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LA MIRADA – The No. 16 UCSB women’s water polo team improved to 5-2 to open its 2022 campaign, earning its first road win over Biola on Friday, 13-7.

Leigh Lyter continued her hot start to the year, recording her team-leading third four-goal performance through just seven games. All four scores came in the second half, as she outscored the entire Biola team over the final 13 minutes of play.

Fellow UCSB redshirt freshman attacker Nina Munson scored both of the Gauchos’ goals in the first period, but it was the Eagles (1-2) who actually led through one, 3-2.

From there, it was all UCSB, as the visitors scored five straight times, each goal coming from a different Gaucho. Lyter’s first of the day made it 8-4 midway through the third and redshirt junior Caitlyn Snyder later closed the day’s scoring with her second to give UCSB its largest lead of five goals.

Goalkeepers Madison Button and Taylor McEvilly split time in the cage once again. Button finished with three saves while McEvilly was given the win, tallying a save, an assist and a steal.

This is the fifth time in eight seasons under head coach Serela Kay that UCSB has opened the year at 5-2 or better.

Michael Jorgenson writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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Set two provided more of a battle as Penn State’s offense got going. Despite the Nittany Lions posting their match-best .400 hitting percentage, the Gauchos topped them with their own best of .667, tallying 13 kills on 18 attempts with just one attacking error.

Xia once again ended things with his fourth kill of the set, matching Wilcox, who also had four.

UCSB won the second set 25-21.

In the third set, neither team held more than a twopoint advantage for most of what proved to be the closest game of the night.

Leading 18-17, the energized Gaucho squad continued to show off its recently heightened level of play, meeting everything at the net and diving to make the plays they were missing to start the season.

Another Wilcox kill led to outside hitter Dominic Lang being subbed in to man the service line. The sophomore’s solid serving set the stage for a decisive 5-0 run capped by an incredible hustle scoop by Paragas that brushed over the net and turned into an unexpected kill.

Xia eventually made it 3-for-3 as he put yet another set on ice with a powerful spike that went out off a Penn State defender despite being in the right position to make the play.

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Utilizes advanced skills gained at the Master’s degree level in counseling fields (student affairs and/or higher education); exhibits culturally inclusive active listening skills (e.g., appropriately establishing interpersonal contact, paraphrasing, perception checking, summarizing, questioning, encouraging, avoiding interrupting, clarifying) and provides counseling services for personal, social and academic issues, including but not limited to cultural identity, educational, relationship, family, sexuality and sexual identity issues. Designs, implements and evaluates cultural and academic services for the Asian Cultural Resource Center. Develops program designs and tools to assess the quality of programs and events offered. Assists in campus efforts to recruit and retain underrepresented students. Plays a key role in the Division of Student Affairs Initiative to build bridges for EOP students and the Asian Resource Center. Reqs: Master’s Degree in counseling or related area or years of equivalent experience/training.

Experience in providing in-depth, wide-ranging and complex academic advising and holistic services to undergraduates. Experience with social media management on multiple platforms, updating department website, and Emma application. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child & Dependent Adult Abuse. Satisfactory conviction history background check. May work occasional evenings and weekends. May be called upon to reside in the residence hall during the summer program.

On-call during summer programs and campus emergencies. $55,000 - $63,975/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/7/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 29926

DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, ENGINEERING & THE SCIENCES Development

Serves as the primary initial contact for six Directors of Development (hereafter referred to as “the Directors”) in the Engineering and the Sciences Development Office (hereafter referred to as “the Office”) and provides essential administrative and financial support that is critical to the successful operation of a complex fund-raising program. Assists the Directors with all aspects of analysis, planning and implementation strategies for the College of Engineering and the Division of Science, to support the research mission by securing support from private donors. This responsibility requires strong analytical skills as well as the ability to act professionally, independently, and exercise discretion and sound judgment. Also provides administrative support, which includes handling confidential, high profile, and time sensitive matters involving senior UC Santa Barbara administrators, faculty, staff, collaborating institutions and the donor community. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience. Ability to effectively solve problems and demonstrate sound reasoning and judgment. Excellent computer skills including proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet and e-mail and demonstrated ability to quickly learn various software programs. Excellent grammar, composition and proofreading skills. Strong organizational skills and unfailing attention to detail and accuracy. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. May be called upon to work occasional evenings and weekends at various campus-wide events. $24.61 - $25.77 /hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 2/8/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 30096

Manages all academic personnel transactions in the College of Engineering, provides analysis, monitors and reviews college-wide ladder faculty appointments, merits, promotions, sabbatical and other leaves and releases for compliance with the campus, university, and federal policies and procedures.

Reviews and closely analyzes annual faculty FTE requests for CoE departments and programs, identifying areas of projected growth, attrition, interdisciplinary commonalities and shared opportunities between departments and programs. Works with Dean to determine priorities and develop strategies for the long-term planning relating to faculty recruitment, and writes College FTE plan and works closely with Dean on Council on Planning & Budget Report.

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Serves as a committee member/ resource for inter and intra-college faculty recruitment, and is CoE’s liaison with the Academic Personnel, Affirmative Action Office, Human Resources, and Office of International Students and Scholars.

Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $61,200 - $93,200/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 2/4/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 29978

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Satisfactory conviction history background check. May work occasional evenings and weekends. May be called upon to reside in the residence hall during the summer program. On-call during summer programs and campus emergencies. $55,000 - $63,975/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/7/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #29929

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Responsible for providing the full range of administrative management functions and services for the Departments of History, Religious Studies, Classics, and East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, as well as a number of research centers and labs, and one publication department. Oversees all academic personnel transactions for ladder and temporary faculty recruitments, appointments, reviews, and leaves, using in-depth knowledge of academic personnel policies to guide faculty and support staff. Financial responsibilities include overseeing all accounts within HASC, ensuring monthly review and reconciliation of ledgers, providing timely reporting, coordinating corrective actions, and ensuring compliance with University, Federal, and State accounting policies and procedures on all transactions. Establishes best practices for procurement, payroll, and accounts payable functions. Funds managed to include a variety of state operating funds, gifts, endowments, fellowships, and grants. Supervises six support staff, and serves as back-up to each of them as needed. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training or experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $61,200 - $75,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 2/2/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 29667

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Assists with all aspects of planning, analysis, implementation, and ongoing administration of the Development activities required to support a successful and complex Development Team (D-Team) in Gevirtz Graduate School of Education (GGSE). Manages online calendars, screens incoming calls, and makes travel/ entertainment arrangements for D-Team; completes and tracks administrative paperwork related to gift processing and budget expenses in compliance with policies and procedures; supports with the generation of gift documentation, donor correspondence, and donor stewardship communications; maintains electronic and hard-copy files related to DTeam activities; compiles data and reports from various sources including Advance database, requiring high degree of initiative, confidentiality, discretion, and strong analytical/technical capacity; assists with planning and execution of donor events; supports D-Team social media activity and administrative tasks related to online community development; works collaboratively with various administrative support staff members from GGSE and Central Development; handles confidential, high profile, and timesensitive matters involving senior UCSB administrators, faculty, staff, collaborating institutions and the donor community, requiring discretion and highly professional written and verbal communication.

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cedures to establish the summer curricula. Provides consultation to control points and departments in response to issues or problems related to courses and/or academic appointments. Monitors course enrollments. Works with Business and Finance Manager to reconcile instructional costs; conducts an analysis of enrollment trends and prepares various reports for control points. Provides curricular, academic personnel, policy, and operational expertise in the development and/or implementation of new programs/initiatives that meet a variety of academic objectives established by the campus or Summer Sessions. Serves as a secondary DSA for the department. Reqs: Thorough knowledge of University rules and regulations, processes, protocols, and procedures for academic personnel and enrollment management. Thorough knowledge of financial analysis and reporting techniques, and policies and procedures for academic employees. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Extended vacations are not permitted from April through July. $61,200 - $77,200/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 2/8/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 30130

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Responsible for independently maintaining the fly stocks for two labs, which includes changing the stocks regularly, correctly labeling fly vials, monitoring and keeping track of the health of flies, reporting any lost stocks and other issues to the lab managers in a timely manner. Will use a dissecting microscope, taking extreme care to avoid contamination of one stock with another and to control mites.

Receives fly line requests from lab members and propagates these lines for distribution accordingly.

Responsible for mosquito maintenance which involves regularly hatching eggs, rearing larvae with regular monitoring and feeding, hand collection of pupae, and blood-feeding/egg collection from adult mosquitoes. Responsible for maintaining a backup egg stock for each line in order to maintain and propagate the main colony for the mosquito facility. Responsible for keeping records of fly and mosquito genotypes accurate and up-to-date including verifying consistency between physical and electronic records and re-labeling stocks appropriately. Reqs: High school diploma required (BS/BA degree in biology or related field preferred). Some college-level biology coursework or lab experience.

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Responsible for the creative and progressive marketing, social media presence, communications, public relations, and major initiatives for the Department of Music.

Is also responsible for adhering to an annual publicity budget, the design and maintenance of the department’s website, and negotiating contracts and royalties for licensed materials used for publicity purposes. The department produces approximately 200 events each academic year, including large and small audience lectures, concerts, recitals, and masterclasses.

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ASSOCIATE. DIR. OF DEVELOPMENT, GGSE Office of Development

Associate Director of Development (ADD), Gevirtz Graduate School of Education (GGSE) ADD for GGSE will work with donor prospects to optimize philanthropy to benefit UC Santa Barbara and to support GGSE. ADD primarily focuses on giving from individuals and foundations to promote fundraising priorities in support of the overall school-fundraising strategy.

Fundraising efforts, as defined by the Dean and the GGSE Assistant Dean of Development (DD), are devoted primarily to the Gevirtz School, with an emphasis on fundraising priorities connected to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Social Justice, and GGSE’s role in furthering UCSB’s campus efforts as a Minority Serving Institution and a Hispanic Serving Institution ADD will raise money for priorities as set annually by the Dean and DD. ADD will identify, cultivate, solicit, and steward individual prospects and associated family foundations, with a focus on major gifts of $25,000+ including targeted solicitations to foundations and corporate sponsors. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Demonstrated interpersonal skills to establish and maintain good working relationships with diverse groups, including colleagues, faculty, staff, donors, and students.

Proven success in leading a creative venture or program. Experience with social media. Proven success in managing events at various scales and generating positive outcomes. Broad knowledge of the principles and practices of university fundraising and stewardship best practice. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record. Satisfactory conviction history background check.

May be required to work some evenings and weekends. $67,500 - $75,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 28174

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05",)# ./4)#%3 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN 2022-0000036 The following person(s) is doing business as: David Cameron Studio, 656 Rancho Alisal Dr., Solvang, CA 93463, County of Santa Barbara.

Cameron Media, Inc., 606 Alamo Pintado Rd Suite 3-221, Solvang, CA 93463; CA This business is conducted by a Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ David Cameron Coats, President This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 01/06/2022.

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The California State Legislature recently passed, and the Governor signed, Assembly Bill (AB) 361, which amends the Government Code to allow Brown Act bodies to continue to meet remotely after September 30, 2021, if there is a proclaimed state of emergency and the State or local officials recommend measures to promote social distancing. Based on the proclaimed state of emergency and the Santa Barbara County Public Health Officer’s recommended social distancing, the Planning Commission meeting will not provide in person participation at this hearing.

The following alternative methods of participation are available to the public. If you wish to make a general public comment or to comment on a specific agenda item, the following methods are available: 1. You may observe the live stream of the County Planning Commission meetings on (1) Local Cable Channel 20, (2) online at: http://www.countyofsb.org/ceo/csbtv/livestream.sbc; or (3) YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/user/CSBTV20 2. If you wish to provide public comment, the following methods are available: •Distribution to the County Planning Commission - Submit your comment via email prior to 12:00 p.m. on the Monday prior to the Commission hearing. Please submit your comment to the Recording Secretary at dvillalo@countyofsb.org. Your comment will be placed into the record and distributed appropriately.

•Attend the Meeting by Zoom Webinar - Individuals wishing to provide public comment during the County Planning Commission meeting can do so via Zoom webinar by clicking the below link to register in advance. Register in advance for this meeting: After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing important information about joining the webinar.

When: February 9, 2022 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: County Planning Commission 02/09/2022 Register in advance for this webinar: https://countyofsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MrU07BIKSA2S3QreygdEgg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

OR PARTICIPATE VIA TELEPHONE: Dial (for higher quality, dial a number based on your current location): US: +1 213 338 8477 or +1 669 900 6833 or +1 720 928 9299 or +1 971 247 1195 or +1 253 215 8782 or +1 346 248 7799 or +1 602 753 0140 or +1 312 626 6799 or +1 470 250 9358 or +1 646 518 9805 or +1 651 372 8299 or +1 786 635 1003 or +1 929 205 6099 or +1 267 831 0333 or +1 301 715 8592 or 877 853 5257 (Toll Free) or 888 475 4499 (Toll Free) or 833 548 0276 (Toll Free) or 833 548 0282 (Toll Free) Webinar ID: 990 9484 6501 The Commission’s rules on hearings and public comment, unless otherwise directed by the Chair, remain applicable to each of the participation methods listed above.

The Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Planning Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support or in opposition to the projects. Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Santa Barbara County Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California, 93101. Letters should be filed with the secretary of the Planning Commission no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Monday before the Planning Commission hearing. The decision to accept late materials will be at the discretion of the Planning Commission.

Maps and/or staff analysis of the proposals may be reviewed at https://www.countyofsb.org/plndev/ hearings/cpc.sbc a week before the hearing or by appointment by calling (805) 568-2000.

If you challenge the project(s) 21APL-00000-00042 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 Planning Commission prior to the public hearing.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need a disability-related modification or accommodation or are exempt from applicable Health Officer Orders, including auxiliary aids or services such as sound enhancement equipment or an American Sign Language interpreter, to participate in this hearing, please contact Hearing Support Staff at 805-568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements. If you have any questions or if you are participating in the hearing telephonically or electronically and need a disability-related modification or accommodation or have any issues attempting to access the hearing telephonically or electronically, please contact Hearing Support Staff at 805-568-2000.

21APL-00000-00042 Vandebos Appeal of Adamson Single Family Dwelling Solvang Exempt, CEQA Guidelines Sections 15303 and 15304 Travis Seawards, Deputy Director (805) 568-2518 Tina Mitchell, Planner (805) 934-6289 Hearing on the request of the appellant, Jan Vandebos, to consider Case No. 21APL-00000-00042, an appeal of the Planning Director’s approval of Case No. 21LUP-00000-00146 in compliance with Section 35.102 (Appeals) of the Santa Barbara County Land Use and Development Code (LUDC).

The proposed project is a request for a Land Use Permit to allow construction of a new 2,645 square foot two-story, single family dwelling. The first floor will be 1,908 square feet and the second floor will be 737 square feet. A new 960 square foot detached garage with a restroom and outdoor shower is also proposed. The subject property is zoned Agricultural I (AG-I-10) and is located at 2017 Alamo Pintado Road (Assessor Parcel No. 137-020-054) in the Santa Ynez Valley Community Plan area, Third Supervisorial District.

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Elsie’s Tavern in Santa Barbara stands out for its Bohemian environment.

The world of Elsie’s Tavern

Santa Barbara business stands out for its special environment and approach

At left, Kirra Boelsterli, one of Elsie’s patrons, lays the pinball machine, which is in a side room. Center, a table incorporates an engine block at Elsie’s. Robbyn Degenhardt said her husband, Pete, hates to waste anything and likes to repurpose things. At right, Mrs. Degenhardt, seen in the front room at Elsie’s Tavern, owns the tavern with her husband Pete.

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Bohemian environment graces Elsie’s Tavern, where you’ll see everything from traffic lights on the wall to a table that incorporates an engine block.

In 2000, Elsie’s Tavern was purchased by the current owners, Pete and Robbyn Degenhardt. The beer and wine tavern is at 117 W. De la Vina St. in the heart of Santa Barbara, where the Bohemian atmosphere has been cultivated since before the Degenhardts purchased the tavern.

There are some unique pieces in the tavern that have been handcrafted by Pete. Not only are they unique and beautiful to look at, but they were fully functioning pieces of machinery. Some of these items include a lamp made out of a carburetor, a table that incorporates an engine block and a bumper attached to the front of a bench.

“He doesn’t like to waste things,” Mrs. Degenhardt told the News-

Press.l tavern changes on a monthly basis.

“During the COVID shutdown we Dinah Parker, a bartender at the had to come up with unique ways tavern, helps run the monthly art to keep business up,” she said. “So shows. we started serving coffee in the “Elsie’s Tavern has been a morning starting at 7:30. We serve hotspot and haven for those in Low Pigeon coffee Monday-Friday, the know since the bar opened starting at 7:30 a.m. in 1993,” Ms. Parker said. “This “This is another unique aspect neighborhood watering hole has of the tavern, as in the morning been open every day of the year we have more coffee shop vibes since then, providing a laid back with professors sanctuary to and students their diehard from UCSB regulars and Elsie’s Tavern is at 117 W. De la Vina St. coming in, and wandering in Santa Barbara. in the evening strangers. Even it has more of during the the tavern vibes, Thomas Fire, when we serve beer and wine,” you could always find an open door Mrs. Degenhardt said. “We hired and a bar full of people exchanging Patsy Lakey in the early days of the updated information and enjoying shutdown, and she spearheaded the company that only a true the whole coffee shift,” Mrs. neighborhood bar can provide.

Degenhardt told the News-Press.

“It’s hard not to understand the “Our staff is amazing. Jesse appeal,” Ms. Parker continued.

Keenan, our longest-standing “Pete and Robbyn, the current employee, has been with us 20 owners, have made a space years,” said Mrs. Degenhardt. welcoming and strange, with The tavern also hosts monthly cold beer, free pool, and, since art shows that take place on the the COVID-19 shutdown, hot first Thursday of every month. coffee. Elsie’s has been a wine So the art that is exhibited in the and beer spot for decades, but

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the introduction of early morning hours and great local espresso have transformed the spot into a hub of productivity and socialization for early birds too.

“The pandemic has been hard on all of us, and especially on small business owners and their employees,” Ms. Parker said.

“This local treasure has managed to survive and thrive, holding regular pop-ups and workshops, and continuing to be the heart of a diverse and eclectic crowd that keep Santa Barbara feeling like Santa Barbara.”

The tavern also has a courtyard in the back that features art on the walls. The art was painted by former employees and regular customers.

“One day we just asked everyone that wanted to to come in the back and paint,” Mrs. Degenhardt said.

“A lot of people that come through are surprised how nice and cozy the patio is. It’s covered with trees, and it’s green and has lots of seating,: Another unique aspect of the tavern is their unique and eclectic Please see ELSIE’S on B4

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Many people are leaving their jobs right now because they don’t feel treated very well, either financially or as human beings. Have you ever been in that position? If so, you know the kind of frustration that builds to the point that you feel like escape is your only option.

I knew of a great employee who yearned for recognition from the guy in charge of the company, and the boss wouldn’t give it to him.

So the employee who failed to get the recognition he deserved took his clients and started his own firm. The company he left went from $150 million to zero in that same time frame. This is only one example of why civility and kindness need to come first in business as well as in our relationships with friends and strangers.

When people don’t treat each other well, negativity builds rather quickly and festers into something worse. Road rage is a good example of how bad things can get.

Yes, a lack of civility can kill.

We can each do our part to increase civility in the world. We just need to be more conscious of how we treat others and how they treat us. We need to be civil with others and expect it in return.

For example, if someone feels they are in a higher position than you, they may believe they have the right to treat you as subhuman. They don’t.

If something like that happens in your work life, I suggest you document it and take it to HR. If it happens in your personal life, you need to tell the other person how you feel. These are vastly different circumstances and require different tactics, but both situations require tact.

You may not have the option of leaving your job. If you suddenly announce to your boss or a client that you don’t like how you’re being treated, you may lose your position or their business, so it’s important to be psychologically smart about it. You need to think before you act,

and walking away needs to be your last resort in most cases.

Learning how to talk about feelings in a civil manner is really the answer. You need to learn to talk about emotions without getting emotional and to express how you honestly believe you deserve to be treated.

Imagine how nice it would be if everyone, and I mean everyone, were kind to each other.

Let that sink in.

Cynics will tell you that if you’re trying to be nice all the time, you’ll be taken advantage of, that what you’re seeking is impossible. But if each of us takes part, we can make the world a better place.

Just smiling and talking nicely with a stranger who is helping you bag your groceries can make a huge difference in someone’s day — both theirs and yours.

We can choose how we behave, and we can choose how we accept or reject the behavior of others. And we can work on our relationships with those who are close to us. If

you accept bad behavior, you get more of it.

But if you hold a firm boundary and reject the bad behavior of others — if those people love you, want you or need you — it opens the door to change.

Unfortunately, there isn’t much you can do when you encounter bad behavior in people you don’t know or who don’t care. The only real option is not to deal with them.

This may be the best way to set an example of how to deal with toxicity in human beings for anyone who is watching, like, say, your kids.

We have to raise the bar on civility. If you agree, then I leave it to you to find where and how to do it and how to spread the message.

People will always disagree, but they don’t have to be disagreeable.

That’s a choice we each can make.

Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D., is an award-winning therapist and humanitarian. He is also a columnist, the author of seven books, and a blogger for PsychologyToday.com with nearly 27 million readers. Reach him at barton@bartongoldsmith.com.

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At left, pianist John Churchwell will perform Feb. 12 during the Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series. Center, violinist Johnny Gandelsman will perform at the Feb. 16 concert. At right, “We present this concert series to enrich lives through the exquisite beauty of masterworks performed by brilliant musicians,” said Robert Cassidy, the concert series’ artistic director.

By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The 41st season of the Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series continues at 5 p.m. Feb. 12 with pianist John Churchwell and at 7 p.m. Feb. 16 with violinist Johnny Gandelsman at St. Mark’s-in-theValley Church, 2901 Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos In a concert inspired by Valentine’s Day, Mr. Churchwell, head of music for the San Francisco Opera and faculty member at the Music Academy of the West, will present “Love Songs and Dances — An Evening of Lieberslieder,” a romantic program of songs and dances featuring two rising stars from the San Francisco Opera — Esther Tonea, soprano, and Victor Cardamone, tenor, with guest pianist Robert Cassidy.

The concert program features Brahms, arias and a duet from the opera, “Roméo et Juliette by Gounod.” The artists will conclude with some of their favorite love songs from different genres.

On Feb. 16, Mr. Gandelsman, a Grammy-award-winning violinist, returns to the Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series with several works from “This is America,”

the anthology project he was as the assistant conductor for inspired to create in response to the Metropolitan Opera and San the turbulent period this country Francisco Opera, has also worked has been experiencing since 2020. on more than 125 productions He commissioned original pieces with conductors such as James from 20 American composers Levine, Nicola Luisotti, and focused on the theme: “This is Sir Charles Mackerras. He also America.” serves as the director of music at “Each composition in the the Music Academy of the West anthology reflects on the current Summer Festival. state of American society in a Mr. Gandelsman is a founding personal and member of intimate way, the influential looking through Brooklyn Rider an unflinching Quartet, a For more information about the lens at member of Youniversal topics Santa Ynez Valley Concert Series, Yo Ma’s Silk contact Linda Burrows at 805-705like separation, Road Ensemble 0938, syvconcerts@smitv.org or visit loneliness, and a soloist. www.smitv.org. hope and love,” He frequently according to Mr. collaborates with Gandelsman, luminaries from who will also perform one or two many musical genres, including works by Bach.

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By KATHERIN ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

UCSB Arts & Lectures will present a free virtual thematic learning initiative event featuring Amanda Nguyen, a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16.

It’s titled “Hopeanomics and How Social Entrepreneurs are Transforming Grassroots Activism.”

The presentation is part of Arts & Lectures’ 2021-2022 Creating Hope programming initiative and Thematic Learning Initiative.

Ms. Nguyen is a social entrepreneur. Her 2021 viral video ignited worldwide coverage on anti-Asian hate crimes and is credited as a pivotal moment for

the Stop Asian Hate movement.

She was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2019 for penning her own civil rights into existence by unanimously passing the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights.

As the CEO of Rise, a social movement accelerator, she teaches grassroots organizing. Rise has drafted and passed 33 laws that codify 84 million sexual violence survivors’ civil rights.

Ms. Nguyen is also an expert advisor on the Chloé Sustainability Board.

In recognition of her work, Ms. Nguyen is a Heinz Laureate, Nelson Mandela Changemaker and Marie Claire Young Woman of the Year. Previously, she served at NASA and the State Department

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Ms. Nguyen was also named one InStyle’s 50 Badass Women of 2020 and Foreign Policy’s leading global thinkers of 2016.

Ms. Nguyen is also the lead of Emmy-nominated Mini Documentary “Rise Above” by Money Magazine.

“The most powerful tool we have is our voice,” said Ms. Nguyen.

The event is free but registration is required. Register at artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/ Details.aspx?PerfNum=4762.

For more information call Arts & Lectures at 805-893-3535, or go to www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

Spanish casita setting for pop-up art exhibit SANTA BARBARA — Sun Potion Transformational Foods in Santa Barbara and New York-based Shin Gallery are presenting a pop-up art exhibition from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 11 and 12 at 707 Anacapa St. in a traditional Spanish casita.

A backyard barbecue will be served at 5 p.m. both days.

The show will feature works by artists such as Keith Haring, Otavio Schipper, Marlene Dumas and Choong Sup Lim. This will be Shin Gallery’s first pop-up show of 2022.

SUNDAY, JANUARY 30, 2022

LOMPOC — The Lompoc Father Daughter Dance is making a comeback thanks to the Lompoc Department of Parks and Recreation, after a hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

This year’s Father Daughter Dance will take place over three nights – Feb. 4, 5, and 6. The dance will take place each evening from 6-8:30 p.m. but doors will open at 5 p.m. for photos.

This popular dance is for girls ages 3 to 18 and their father or

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Elsie’s also has some specialty drinks including a matcha latte directly from Japan, which is served during the coffee shift.

Scones are also served in the mornings. Some of Elsie’s unique and eclectic menu items include a cup of soup, pop tarts and

another father figure. A pizza dinner will be provided, and is included in the ticket price.

Other novelty items will be sold, and professional portrait packages will be available for purchase.

Tickets are $30 per couple per night, with each additional child in the same family costing $10 more. Participants must be accompanied by an adult.

All participants must adhere to the current mask mandate.

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He’ll even run out and get Pop Tarts if we are running low,” said Mrs. Degenhardt.

“During the COVID-19 lockdown, we started doing pop-up events, and workshops including a Christmas Bazaar,” Mrs. Degenhardt said.

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“Everyone gets shut down when the power goes out, but we have a crank cash register so that we can still operate, and we light all the candles,” said Mrs. Degenhardt. “It’s the hub of the community, during those times.”

— Katherine Zehnder

email: kzehnder@newspress.com

Sun Potion is a natural and organic supplements brand, and Shin Gallery focuses on contemporary art.

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However, if you are among that still large group of parents who believe the modern schoolhouse is where actual learning takes place — and you may be right about that — here is a primer as to what is not only being taught but also and perhaps more importantly what seems to be stressed above all else.

The drift away from the fundamental three Rs begins early. Pre-schoolers are quickly introduced to picture books such as “And Tango Makes Three,” “My Rainbow,” “Phoenix Goes to School,” “When Aidan Became a Brother,” “Sparkle Boy,” “Call Me Tree,” “Red, a Crayon’s Story” and other similar material.

“And Tango Makes Three” is a picture book that tells the story of two male penguins – Roy and Silo – who apparently are desperate

Well done, Mayor Rowse ‘The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.”

— Patrick Henry

ust when you thought the “leaders” of our nation couldn’t get any dumber, they did. But let’s back up to about a year ago.

I and many others had written that President Joe Biden’s lack of leadership, cognitive skills and ability to prove he was in control of the country would send signals to those who don’t like us and open the door to advance their evil agendas.

They knew, long before most Americans were willing to concede, that President Biden was weak. This would open the gates to test Mr. Biden how far they could go. We’re seeing the evidence all over the world now. And the stupid in Washington are actually considering going to war. I guess enough time has passed since our last one.

For reasons no one can explain, way too many people have jumped on the war wagon. Why? Because it’s Russia?

We have been at war for years with Mexico and are losing. Why aren’t we focusing on that one?

We never talk about Mexico being one of our enemies. When your neighbor tears down his fence and let’s his family use your swimming pool, use your bathroom, eat your food, well, that just wouldn’t be considered a good neighbor or friend. You don’t like it. But you keep letting him do it, so you deal with the consequences. All your fault.

We look terribly weak and sad, and that’s because we are. From an outsider watching our news, we are a violent out-of-control nation.

We’re a bunch of drug addicts. We’ve lost control of our sovereignty, and we spend more effort trying to alienate the antivaxxers than the aliens.

Rather than use what we’ve learned about the virus the past two years to scientifically dig ourselves out of the pandemic, we’re still using it as a divisive bat.

We want to treat the unvaccinated as pariahs and put them in their place with any means possible to shame them out of society.

We’re actually removing highly trained pilots out of the military because they want to be in control of their bodies, not the government.

These guys cost millions to train; they are the vanguard of keeping us safe. They fly alone in a cockpit, and they have and continue to be willing to put their lives out there for the rest of us.

And what do we do? We fire them because they don’t see their wicked ways of not following the leftist rule of law.

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to raise a little penguin together. clear what sex he/she really is) After discovering they can’t hatch who’s nervous about his/her first a rock, the couple is given a fertile day in school because he/she is egg, snatched from a female afraid of being bullied. “Just be penguin by a kindly zookeeper. The yourself and always listen to your egg hatches and voila, Roy and Silo heart,” is his/her mom’s advice. now have a “true” family Then there is “Sparkle as they raise the young Boy,” another tale of PURELY penguin together. They — guess what? — a boy POLITICAL call their new offspring who likes “girlie” things.

“Tango” because “It takes He loves bracelets and two to make a Tango.” necklaces and things that “My Rainbow” is the glitter. His sister doesn’t tale of Trinity, an autistic approve and wants him to trans-gendered little girl act more like a boy, but by (boy?) whose desire is to the end of the illustrated have long hair just like book, she comes around his/her dolls. Trinity’s to accept that when her James Buckley loving mother searches for brother goes out wearing just the right kind of wig his girlie finery, the love of for her son/daughter to wear, and, his family overcomes the bullying though she doesn’t come up with he gets from his peers. it right away after failing to find “Call Me Tree” sounds innocent anything appropriate at her hair enough, as it concerns a child salon, bundles up various hairs and who says he is like a tree… in that creates a unique “Rainbow” wig for he doesn’t use specific male or Trinity. female pronouns or other “gender“Phoenix Goes to School” is specific” words to describe himself. the heartwarming tale of a young He “just is,” you know, like a tree. transgender boy or girl (it’s not He began as a little seed and is

growing into a big strong tree, so who needs “gender” if you’re a tree?

“Red, A Crayon’s Story,” is the sad tale of a blue crayon mistakenly labeled as red. Red crayon goes on to suffer an identity crisis, as all the other crayons call him red because that’s how he is labeled on the box.

But he knows he really is blue. It’s a book about “finding one’s true self and being true to that inner self,” regardless of how you are labeled (assigned?).

All these books are recommended reading, and individual teachers can apparently pick and choose among these and many other children’s book options to read and study in class.

For Grades 3 through 6 (8 year-olds to 11-year-olds) the reading becomes more pointed: “Stonewall: A Building, An Uprising, A Revolution,” “PRIDE: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag,” “Julian Is a Mermaid,” “It Feels Good To Be Yourself; a Book About Gender

Identity,” and so much more.

No doubt, many of the abovementioned books were written and illustrated by people who’ve overcome personal experiences with bullying, gender confusion and the like, so I don’t mean to be unkind. But perhaps – particularly through elementary school – such subject matter could be curtailed and introduced at a later date? It’s worth a thorough discussion, and, at the very least, parents should be able to opt out of such readings.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll work with a Santa Barbara teacher who I have introduced as Teacher, and we’ll examine what may pass as a standard lesson plan for pre-K to second grade and third to sixth grades.

Teacher will then draw up a plan that she suggests could be a better path to beginning learning.

See you next week.

James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com.

t this point, we still have our country, and we still have our flag.

We salute Mayor Randy Rowse, who brought the Santa Barbara City Council back to the council chambers.

A little plexiglass, and the chambers are open so we can observe our city council and their interactions, while the citizens call in with public comment, and issues are discussed.

We admire that Mayor Rowse stands up and formally salutes the flag. A traditional respect for our flag and country is one of our values. A good kick start for the first meeting in City Hall chambers in two years.

Must say, several city council members acted the part of cub reporters, asking the police department questions they should have known after several years as council members. Many inquiries could be answered just by attending the Santa Barbara Police Department’s Citizen’s Academy. Maybe the questions were rhetorical.

No matter how inane, the city council acted as if it were conducting a congressional hearing, while the police department was giving its yearly presentation. Yet no one asked about drugs, overdoses etc.

It appears some council members are looking for screen time. What a waste of our time.

Interim Police Chief Bernard Melekian remained unflappable and, as usual, a gentleman’s gentleman.

Kudos to City Councilmember Mike Jordan for chastising the city staff for not doing its job. He was sufficiently annoyed that, as he just discovered, that it is a state law that requires a 20 foot clearance for emergency vehicles on State Street and its promenade with the dining parklets. Remember it was all about the green bike lane, not safety. Surely the city’s manager of transportation knew this, when his baby, the State Street Promenade was configured. He probably just smirked, and said — “..yeah – dumb like we like ‘em….” But again, we didn’t get what we paid for. Instead we got someone who would leave out the truth –for the good of the whole. Isn’t lying a definition for wokeism?

A heartfelt thanks to Mayor Randy Rowse for efficiently presiding over the meeting with such fruitful results: a 20-foot emergency vehicle allowance will be on State Street. We anticipate more positive results with the coming decisions to keep open the 400 block of State Street and the reopening of West Victoria Street.

Have you received your woke lesson for today? It is time we get down to real business, enough of this funny business.

Since wokeism is a waste of our time, a subterfuge of the truth, and a spin to nowhere, why don’t we just face reality and get back to work? Just do your job. Of course, look at the elected role models we have doing their “job.”

Gov. Gavin Newsom commented on the Third World appearances of the Los Angeles train yards due to the crooks burglarizing the freight trains, and the packages littering the tracks. He apologized and corrected himself after he called the perpetrators “gangs.”

He said with a straight face, ” … forgive me, they are ‘organized groups.’”

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hat sense does this make?

First, spend copious amounts of taxpayer dollars to build a beautiful new bike path along Las Positas Road, presumably to take bikes off the road and make it safer for bikers and motorists.

Second, reline the road with narrower lanes and bike paths designated on both sides of the road, which will make it more dangerous for both.

Nice plan until the first accident.

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dmittedly, solving county imposes its will in the problem of a jurisdiction other than homelessness its own and then leaves the is no easy task. cities to deal with the ensuing However, I mess? submit to you that what we What will these people are doing is not working — living in these converted something liberals are loath motels do during the day? to admit while they spend Loitering and vagrancy billions of dollars, yes, billions does not go away simply by of dollars, doing the same providing a bed. Will there things over and over again be any rules or regulations with little to no success. That pertaining to the residents of is because activity is not an these facilities? If they break accomplishment. the law, do they get to stay?

Our local approach to If they are a nuisance, will homelessness includes the supervisors remedy the spending hundreds of situation? millions of dollars on alcohol, Would it be too much drug and mental trouble to bother health counselors; to officially meet homeless shelters; with city officials, warming centers; and the neighboring social services; properties of these medical treatments motels to discuss the and jail. The result? probable impacts of More and more the conversions? In Andy Caldwell homeless people living the case of the Santa in and degrading our Maria Motel 6, it is community, including barely a block away setting fires, defecating in from a junior high school. Is the streets and camping this a suitable location for a wherever the hell they want. homeless facility? Will the Then there is the occasional residents be screened on a assault and murder because regular basis for drugs and some of these people are alcohol use? Will criminal literal ticking time bombs. background checks be What to do? If you are conducted? a Santa Barbara County The county started renting supervisor, you double down motels in the city of Santa on all the above.

Barbara more than a year Flushed with extra ago. What are the results of COVID-19 cash and President that experiment? Have any Joe Biden’s inflation-busting of these people reintegrated giveaways, supervisors are into society because of the trying to spend an additional stabilizing force of a safe $40 million-plus as fast as space to live? Is the county they can, going above and still having to provide beyond what they have security 24/7 due to criminal done in the past. They are behavior? now buying and building Businesses and residences permanent housing because in our communities are somehow our shelters are not routinely vandalized by the enough. homeless. How come the They are renting motel county doesn’t create a fund rooms, buying motels, to refund the costs to these building huts, providing taxpayers of the damage done sanitation services to to their property while they homeless camps, and even are flush with so much cash? offering to spend hundreds The slogan of Motel 6 is of thousands of dollars “We’ll leave the light on.” The taking care of the pets of county’s motto? “We’ll move homeless people. The largest the blight on.” expenditures have to do P.S. Supervisors, what to do with the hush hush process when all that free money runs of sneakily purchasing the out?

Super 8 in Goleta and a Motel 6 on East Main in Santa Andy Caldwell is the COLAB Maria for the homeless. executive director and host of If the county has the “The Andy Caldwell Show,” authority to ipso facto airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays change the zoning within on KZSB AM 1290, the Newsthe boundaries of an Press radio station. incorporated city (Goleta and Santa Maria), is it still Editor’s note: After hearing the right thing to do in light objections from the city of of the fact that the cities Santa Maria, the Santa will lose property tax, bed Barbara County Board of tax and incur the costs Supervisors has put its plans associated with providing for the Motel 6 on hold and enhanced security as a delayed an application for a result of the conversion $17.9 million grant to purchase of the motels? That is, the and renovate the motel.

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Just who is Ray Epps?

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clearly shown to have played a significant role in escalating the violence, for some unexplained reason he was immediately released, whilst hundreds of the truly peaceful protesters still sit in the D.C. jail/prison with no release date in sight for the horrendous crime of “trespassing.”

If it wasn’t obvious before this travesty of justice, it should be painfully obvious to all by now that to put the country back on the right track, this entire Democratic administration needs to have a giant enema that should include a quasi-Nuremberg type of trial with no stone left unturned and with no sacred cows

here seems to be two political questions people have been asking aside from COVID-19, and they are: 1) Who is actually pulling President Joe Biden’s strings?

(2) Just who is Ray Epps?

When I ask people the former question, it’s unanimously answered without hesitation: Barack Obama, which is my guess as well. As to the latter at his most recent Mega MAGA rally, former President Donald Trump asked the huge crowd, “Exactly how many of those present at the Capitol complex on Jan. 6 were FBI confidential informants, agents or otherwise working directly or indirectly with an agency of the United States government?”

At the mostly peaceful protest at the Capitol on Jan.6, Ray Epps is shown , on video, quite clearly directing the protesters with a bullhorn which way to go to the entrance of the building. Many of the protesters can be heard derisively jeering him with chants of “Fed, Fed, Fed.” Mr. Epps then went and whispered something into a young man’s ear, who was with him, who immediately went and started tearing down the protective fencing around the Capitol.

It is widely known that Mr. Epps was initially “arrested” along with the hundreds of the peaceful protesters, but even though he is

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eople are getting older.

They need electric carts to go shopping in stores for food.

They run around selecting their groceries and drive up to the counter to pay the bill. Then they drive out to their car to unload their purchases.

Some stores will have one or two carts for shopping, but they need more carts.

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Truth beginning to come out

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nce upon a time, there was an emperor, raised with all his wishes met and who always won a prize, even if he didn’t place first.

He imagined he had accomplished many wonderful things and admired his reflection with each new outfit.

One day a new tailor brought an amazing new gown, so beautiful it was translucent, and when the emperor put it on, the tailor said, “Your majesty, you look magnificent.”

So the emperor decided to stroll into the village, showing off his new robe. Oh my, all the people were amazed at thIs beautiful new fashion, and as they applauded, he held his head high with pride.

Suddenly a small boy said, “But

he has no clothes on.”

The bubble burst and finally everyone could admit what they saw with their own eyes.

We are now living in a time when the truth is beginning to come out.

As hard as the courtiers and publicists try, it is getting more difficult to keep hiding what has really happened and where we are heading.

Some very brave men and women have been investigating and now are revealing what they have learned. Fortunately for us, this newspaper prints editorials by some of those wise and learned men and women, helping to open our eyes.

The good citizens of our beloved country are not willing to let it be taken down, and we are eager to learn the truth. Attributed to Voltaire, “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”

Suggested reading: “A Plague Upon Our House” by Scott Atlas, “The Real Dr. Fauci” by Robert Kennedy Jr., “Red Handed” by Peter Schweitzer, “Abolition of Sex” by Tara Danski.

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he pandemic death purge of America’s elderly has become settled public policy by now. Those of retirement age far and away fill up the toll of the dead, and we turn our heads.

Pandemic administration on the state level, and especially in Republican states, hasdictated this, notwithstanding it goes against the commandments of religion (honor thy father and thy mother), the dictates of conscience (care for those who cared for you), the honor of ancestors, and even the code of scouts.

A “saving older lives” policy has not been deemed sufficient cause to counterbalance the cause of republican liberty. American Republicans have once again answered the clarion call of “Give me liberty or give me death.” But the policies they have championed Please see LETTERS on C4

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Columnist Brent Zepke today looks at the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling upholding the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.

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Vaccine mandate and the Golden Rule

eflecting the including announcing former importance of Xavier Becerra as the first Latino mandatory vaccines Secretary of Health and Human for COVID-19, the Services and Chiquita BrooksU.S. Supreme Court LaSure as the first black to head recently held an emergency the Center for Medical Services, hearing for two cases and which is responsible Medicare expeditiously issued and Medicaid. opinions.

Mr. Becerra, after My piece in the Newsbeing appointed to Press on Jan. 23 (“OSHA: replace Kamala Harris Law or politics?”) covered as the attorney general the high court’s holding of California, filed over that Occupational 100 lawsuits against the Safety and Health previous administration Administration lacked that were mostly the authority to require defeated by the then Brent E. a vaccination mandate Secretary Alex Michael Zepke for employees of all Azar, who previously employers of more than was a pharmaceutical The author 100 employees. lives in Santa executive and was In the other case, the general counsel of HHS. Barbara. court upheld the mandate Federal agencies are of the Department of required to publish Health and Human Services their proposed regulations and for vaccinations of the nation’s consider the responses from healthcare workers. Why the the public. In the vaccine cases, difference?

OSHA failed to comply, alleging Since his first day in office, the agency should use the President Biden has included the “emergency” exception. race and gender of his nominees Two district courts said about for his “most diverse cabinet ever,” CMS’s attempt to do the same by

holding “CMS fatally undercutting that justification for not complying with seeking public input because of its own delays” and that CMS argued against its own propose requirements by stating “the uncertainty and rapid nature of the current pandemic” and issued injunctions preventing the mandate.

CMS’ appeal led to Biden v.

Missouri, 595 US (page number to be filled in later) 2022, a per curiam holding, meaning no justices signed it.

The liberal justices Elena Kagan, Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor were joined by Chief Justice John Roberts and his fellow conservative Justice Brett Kavanaugh in ruling 5-4 to uphold the vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.

The court did not mention the lack of congressional or public input while finding the funding through CMS gave it the authority to attach conditions on the funding. However, without citing any specific grants of authority Please see ZEPKE on C4

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The author lives in Montecito

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Bathtub booze and government overreach

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uring World War I, while so many of our men were overseas fighting, the “drys” were able to add the 18th Amendment to our Constitution.The Volstead Act prohibited “the manufacture, sale and transportation of all alcoholic beverages” My father had emigrated from Sweden when he was 27 and was 45 in 1919 when Prohibition started. He was employed by the New York Street Railways as a woodworking machinist repairing damaged trolley cars. His wage was $30 a week, and we lived in a cold water walk-up flat on East 57th St. in Manhattan. The rent was $20 a month.

I was 8 when my father started making bathtub booze.

My mother, who, as a young woman, had also emigrated from Sweden, took me to the movies every Friday night.

It was a real treat for both of us. Those were the days of the “silents” and I remember well “The Perils of Pauline,” “Janice Meredith” and “Orphans of the Storm.”

Friday night was special for my father, too. When the Volstead Act was passed, my father decided to take things into his own hands and make his own whiskey. He and his friends liked their occasional “schnapps” when they had their friendly poker games on Saturday nights.

Like so many immigrants from Europe, my father had passed through Ellis Island to enjoy the liberties America offered. He saw no reason to stop a weekly pleasure. Rum runners and bootleggers were thriving. Some of the stuff was good, but there was always the dread of literally being poisoned by wood grain alcohol and perhaps going blind.

While Mom and I were at the movies, Papa would set up his still.

Our narrow kitchen took on the appearance of a professional high school lab.

On the gas stove stood a huge round glass bottle. The large bottle would be filled with a “mash” that Papa had been nurturing in a big pickle crock for a certain number of weeks until “ripe.” The gas would be lit, and a rolling flame would start the process of evaporation.

Soon steam would start to make its way through the bent tube until it came to the quart bottle where drops would fill it to the brim. Papa had a measure — it looked like a thermometer. I can remember how pleased he was when it registered 180 proof. Pure alcohol!

This he would dilute with water until it reached 90 proof, and a molasses coloring would be added. He had made what was known as “rye whiskey.”

Meticulous man that he was, this had to age in an oak barrel in the clothes closet for several months. He would sell small amounts of this pure product, leaving enough for Saturday night poker.

As a good and proud naturalized American, Papa knew that the Volstead Act was not good for the country and saw it as an infringement of his right to “Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

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#FreeMartyG: Exposing America’s secret prisons

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arty Gottesfeld, 37, is an American political prisoner.

There’s just no other way to describe the self-taught, nonviolent techie/medical freedom activist now locked away in solitary confinement at a secret federal detention facility in Marion, Illinois — after being transferred this month from a different secret center in Terre Haute, Indiana. Both are known as “communications management units” in prison industrial complex bureaucrat-ese.

Or you could just call them un-American penitentiary black holes.

Twice — last June and last week — I’ve asked the federal Bureau of Prisons to explain why Marty is being held in solitary confinement, how long he has been squirreled away and on what grounds he was transferred.

“For privacy, safety, and security reasons,” I was told, “the BOP does not discuss any individual inmate’s conditions of confinement to include housing quarters or reasons for transfer.”

Jan. 23 marked four full months that Marty has been in solitary and blocked from communicating with loved ones or the media.

I first learned of Marty’s plight and Family Support Network — and his heroism — five years residential treatment center ago from his loyal and vigilant where she was confined, she and wife, Dana, whose words in her family recounted to me in my defense of the dissident action he 2018 documentary on the case, she took that earned him a was harassed by a staffer 10-year federal sentence while taking a shower. have never left me: The physical and mental “It was the right thing torture lasted 16 months. to do.”

Enter Marty G. A quick recap for In April 2014, he helped those who have never lead a social media heard of, or have army that implemented forgotten, the “Free distributed denial-ofMichelle Malkin service attacks against Marty G” nightmare.

In 2013, a young girl Boston Children’s named Justina Pelletier Hospital and the nearby was ripped from her parents’ Wayside Youth and Family custody by Boston Children’s Support Network residential Hospital. The teen, who has treatment. Marty had organized mitochondrial disease and a social media army to knock postural orthostatic tachycardia the computer networks of both syndrome, had gone to BCH after institutions offline to protest coming down with a severe case of Justina’s medical kidnapping. the flu. Instead of receiving topHackers from the loose-knit notch care and attention at BCH, collective, Anonymous, allegedly however, Justina was medically participated in the campaign. kidnapped and recklessly reMarty was charged and diagnosed with a psychological convicted of cybercrimes and condition, “somatoform disorder.” sentenced to 10 years in federal Justina was dragged from prison. He had already spent more BCH’s neurology department to than a year behind bars without its infamous psych ward, where bail at the time of his sentencing she was reprimanded for being (including about 80 days in solitary unable to move her bowels or confinement and a stint in the walk unassisted in her weakened same detention center as Mexico’s state. At the Wayside Youth notorious drug cartel kingpin “El

Chapo”).

He has no regrets about stepping up in Justina’s defense and continued his whistle-blowing investigative journalism after his imprisonment with Dana’s help — until the feds tried to shut him up and shut him down after reporting on the plight of other CMU inmates.

The last time Dana spoke to Marty was last September. The last time she was able to see him in person was at his sentencing three years ago — yes, years — this month. Last summer, BOP officials had recommended that Marty be removed from the Terre Haute CMU. Instead, he was hauled from one American Gitmo to another.

“We were devastated to find out that the placement of Marty in the CMU will continue,” Dana told me last week. “There was never any good — or even comprehensible — reason to place him in that ultrarestrictive unit that was created in the 9/11 era. The BOP’s decision to continue placing Marty in the CMU shows that the pattern of harassment and retaliation that Marty faced when he began speaking publicly about conditions in BOP facilities continues.”

Dana added that “less than twotenths of 1% of federal inmates are held in the CMUs. Many of them

are members of radical Islamist terror organizations. The BOP has never given a reasonable explanation for why it has chosen to hold Marty, a nonviolent person never previously convicted of a crime, in these specialized prison units. I believe the BOP is continuing to retaliate against Marty for his decision to speak publicly about conditions in BOP facilities, ranging from damp and freezing cells, non-potable water, to misconduct by a BOP unit manager.”

The Justice Department’s inspector general passed the buck on Marty’s case to the BOP Office of Internal Affairs. Marty’s complaint has fallen into yet another black hole.

If you’re outraged that this is happening in America and want to help, visit freemartyg.com for more information. Fighting human rights abuses starts here at home, inside our borders, for our fellow citizens.

Michelle Malkin’s email address is michellemalkininvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

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President Joe Biden expects to announce his Supreme Court nominee by the end of February

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Justice Stephen Breyer plans to stay with the U.S. Supreme Court until the end of the current term and the confirmation of his successor.

Columnist Josh Hammer writes that identity politics shouldn’t limit the selection process for the next Supreme Court justice.

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n Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court finally granted a writ of certiorari in two now-consolidated affirmative action cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina.

The cases will be jointly argued during the next Supreme Court term, and they place directly in their crosshairs the court’s noxious precedents in the thorny area of race-conscious university admission policies. As presented to the court, the leading question the justices will consider is “whether the Supreme Court should ... hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a

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factor in admissions.” v. Seattle, penned perhaps his The court should, of course, do most iconic line: “The way to stop so posthaste. discrimination on the basis of race The propagandist assertion is to stop discriminating on the that America in the year 2022 is basis of race.” bedeviled by a sprawling, But by Thursday, pan institutional Monday’s propitious “systemic racism” is a step forward toward destructive lie, but the an America no longer ubiquity of affirmative obsessed with race and action means that identity politics was university admissions abruptly undermined by offices do, in fact, a severe step backward propagate systemic toward a race-centric Josh Hammer racism. polity. Justice Stephen Fortunately, there Breyer, an octogenarian is reason for optimism that the Jewish male and the senior justices will do their job. statesman of the court’s liberal It was the mercurial Chief bloc, announced his retirement, Justice John Roberts himself effective at the end of this court who, in the 2007 case of Parents term and contingent upon the Involved in Community Schools successful confirmation of his

successor.

The announcement was hardly surprising. Given Breyer’s longstanding Democratic ties, his liberal jurisprudence and the fact that Republicans are poised to retake control of the U.S. Senate this fall, it would have been more surprising if Breyer had not retired this year.

The more interesting twist came after news broke Wednesday of the impending retirement: President Joe Biden affirmed that he intends to fulfill his 2020 campaign promise to nominate a black woman — not a black man, not a Hispanic woman, but specifically a black woman — to replace the retiring Jewish male justice.

There is only one way to describe crass identity politics

operationalized at this high a political level: Evil.

The nine justices of the Supreme Court are the most important jurists in the country. They swear an oath to uphold the constitution and the American rule of law, which has the equality principle at its very core.

From the Declaration of Independence to the 14th Amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, genuine equality under the law and an eschewing of the centrality of something as arbitrary as race has always been the American lodestar. Americans have often fallen short of our enunciated ideals, but the equality ideal of race neutrality has often Please see HAMMER on C4

Kremlin aggression is a challenge to NATO

he threat of Russian military invasion of the remainder of Ukraine represents the most serious military crisis and challenge in Europe since the Balkan wars of the 1990s. The ongoing substantial buildup of Russian military forces around that nation continues, ominously.

President Vladimir Putin of Russia continues to exploit the situation to increase his international visibility and attempt to reinforce his deserved reputation at home as a strong effective leader. Restoring order and stability following true anarchy in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union has been key to his remarkably durable tenure in office, which now surpasses two decades.

The Ukraine crisis also is a long-term affair. In 2014, Russia seized Crimea and the eastern portion of Ukraine. Crimea had been part of Russia until

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev historic strategic victory for the transferred the peninsula to the West. authority of Ukraine in 1954.

The end of the Cold War Ukraine, historically part of confirmed the policy of restraint Russia, became independent and deterrence termed following the Russian Revolution “containment,” supported by that began in 1917. After World every U.S.resident from Harry War II, the Soviet Union absorbed Truman when the Cold War the nation. Independence began in Europe, to returned following the George H.W. Bush, who Arthur I. collapse of the Soviet navigated the end of the Cyr Union in 1991. long-term and extremely The overt invasion of dangerous ideological, Eastern Ukraine by Russia’s army, military and political conflict with after months of covert aid to rebel exceptional diplomatic skill. forces, drastically undercut the President Truman and cautious stability of Europe that associates spearheaded the followed the Cold War. The U.S. formation of the North Atlantic and European nations have an Treaty Organization in 1949 to obligation to respond skillfully, counter Soviet expansion toward while trying to avoid direct Western Europe. The Soviet Red combat with Russian forces if Army conquered and occupied possible.

Eastern Europe in consequence The fall of the Berlin Wall of the titanic struggle and victory in 1989, followed by the over Nazi Germany in World War disintegration of the Soviet bloc II. of satellite states, and then the Moscow responded to NATO Soviet Union, represented a by establishing the Warsaw Pact,

which disintegrated following the end of the Cold War. NATO endures.

President Putin, undeniably a remarkable leader, generally plays his strategic cards well. However, his hand remains weak. The Russian economy is structurally vulnerable, heavily dependent on petroleum and plagued with corruption.

Opinion polls in Russia show Mr. Putin’s popularity declining.

External power plays clearly are in part a response. The very existence of serious opinion polls provides profound evidence of just how much Russia has changed since the era of Soviet totalitarianism.

General war in Europe was avoided for a century following the final defeat of Napoleon until the outbreak of World War I. A concert of European nations brokered by Great Britain was essential to the effort. The British government also played a crucial role in the

creation of NATO. Poland, a NATO member since 1999, is active in the collective effort to provide arms to Ukraine.

The new coalition government in Germany led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz has been low-profile so far, a striking contrast to his predecessor Angela Merkel.

President Biden remains unsteady, and the chaotic Afghanistan departure a stunning failure, but the U.S. is strong.

Russia is relatively isolated in Europe, and objectively weak.

Arthur I. Cyr is author of “After the Cold War - American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia” (NYU Press and Palgrave/Macmillan). He is also the director of the Clausen Center at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisc., and a Clausen Distinguished Professor. He welcomes questions and comments at acyr@carthage.edu.

John Stossel

Sick City

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an Francisco’s liberal mayor declared a “state of emergency” to try to deal with the city’s “nasty streets.”

How did it get so bad?

Journalist Michael Shellenberger’s new book, “San Fransicko,” argues that it happened because of progressive ideas.

“The town I love is sick,” Mr. Shellenberger said in my new video.

He came to San Francisco when he was in his 20s to support social justice causes. He still supports those ideas, but “it just went too far.”

In 2014, California politicians decided to end mass incarceration.

It’s a noble goal. America locks up a higher percentage of its people than any other country. Jails are overcrowded.

People in jail are more likely to learn to be better criminals than to be rehabilitated.

So California converted many nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors. People who steal less than $950 worth of items are no longer jailed.

Proponents said this would divert money from prisons that could go to mental health and drug treatment programs.

But not jailing people who break laws had nasty unintended consequences.

Shoplifters steal right in front of security guards. Police look the other way. They know if they make an arrest, they’ll face hours of paperwork and the person arrested will just return to the street. Cars are broken into 74 times a day.

“None of us want mass incarceration,” said Mr. Shellenberger, who voted for the law to stop jailing people. “But that was a recipe for disaster.”

Because no one is arrested for camping on the street, San Francisco is now filled with tent cities that supposedly house the “homeless.” But most campers are the mentally ill and drug users who choose life on the street. They shoot up or light up in public, confident no one will interfere.

In my video, one crack addict said she stays in San Francisco because it is “more lenient.” In other cities, she said, she’d be in jail.

Other cities, like Miami, do treat the homeless differently.

Please see STOSSEL on C4

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‘We have allowed the walls to be breached’ DONOVAN

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Columnist Arthur I. Cyr writes that Russian President Vladimir Putin is continuing to exploit the tensions with Ukraine to increase his international visibility. See his column on C3.

‘He who has the gold makes the rules’ ZEPKE

Continued from Page C2 for vaccines, the opinion rambled through different regulations for many of the 15 different parts of the industry, including hospitals, nursing homes, ambulatory services, surgical centers, hospices, rehabilitation facilities, and more, before concluding that this cumulation of unrelated regulations establishes the authority for a vaccine mandate the industry.

Justices Samuel Alito, Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch joined the dissent written by Justice Clarence Thomas that held “These cases are only about whether CMS has the statutory authority to force healthcare workers, by coercing their employers, to undergo a medical procedure they do not want and cannot undo.”

The dissent continued, “If Congress had wanted to grant CMS authority to impose a nationwide vaccine mandate, and consequently alter the statefederal balance, it would have said

so clearly. It did not.”

The “hodge-podge” of unrelated regulations was insufficient to show CMS had authority for vaccines. These examples for hospitals included “the amount of time after admission within which a hospital patient must be examined and by whom, the tasks that may be delegated by a physician assistant or nurse practitioner; and surveillance, prevention, and control of infectious diseases.”

For healthcare workers they included “the number of hours dieticians must be supervised; personnel for radiologic equipment; and infection prevention and control guidelines.”

The dissent continued, “Vaccine mandates also fall squarely within state’s police power” (Zuch v. King, 260 U.S. 174 (1922). The vaccine mandates for hepatitis B, influenza, measles, mumps, and rubella, were all required by states’ actions. In addition, the mandate for all 15 parts of the healthcare industry was overly broad as CMS does not provide funding for five parts of the

industry.

Subsequent to the Supreme Court’s holding, CMS ruled that the estimated 10 million healthcare workers in 75,000 facilities must be fully vaccinated no later than Feb. 28. There is an exception for those with medical or religious purposes.

I think something as serious as conditioning the employment of healthcare employees on their getting a vaccine too important to be done without any input from the people or their elected representatives and not by a few bureaucrats “in the still of the night” with all the transparency of a D.C. basement.

The District Court agreed by holding that the administration through HHS avoided public input by asserting it was an emergency based on their own delays, a pattern as OSHA also used the same technique to avoid the requirement of public input.

The actions of the CMS illustrate the risks of having federal agencies involved in allocating funding being subject to the Golden Rule. This rule was first identified in 1604 by

Anglicans Charles Gordon and Timothy Jackson as “he who has the gold makes the rules.’

In political terms,it means using federal funding to assume federal control of activities.

Current examples include the feds in September grabbing control of the treatments for COVID in order to add racial guidelines to their distributions along with reducing the amounts to Republican states such as Florida.

The Build Back Better bill includes adding voting, child care and education to their control under the Golden Rule where they can insert racial guidelines as they did in the treatments for COVID. We taxpayers have the gold.

Don’t vote to send it to the feds.

Brent E Zepke is an attorney, arbitrator and author who lives in Santa Barbara. Formerly he taught at six universities and numerous professional conferences. He is the author of six books: One HeartTwo Lives, Legal Guide to Human Resources, Business Statistics, Labor Law, Products and the Consumer, and Law for NonLawyers.

If people are homeless, should the government arrest them?

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Continued from Page C3 “They don’t let people use drugs in public, and they built sufficient homeless shelters,” Mr. Shellenberger said.

In San Francisco, new homeless shelters are blocked by progressive activists who argue that everyone deserves an apartment. Yet it costs $700,000 to build one apartment in San Francisco.

A few years ago, I made a video suggesting that the high cost of apartments was a major reason for San Francisco’s tent cities.

California’s excessive regulation discourages new construction, so there’s a housing shortage. That

keeps rental prices high and leads people to live on the street.

“It’s not true,” Mr. Shellenberger said. “If it were true that expensive places made for homelessness, why don’t we see large open-air drug scenes in Carmel? Why don’t we see large open drug scenes in many fancy neighborhoods? Homelessness is just a function of whether or not you allow people to camp in public or not.”

But if people are homeless, should the government arrest them? The Constitution gives us the right to peaceably assemble.

“People have a right to be outdoors,” I told Shellenberger.

“We don’t have a right to force them off the street if they aren’t directly threatening anybody.”

“We should defend those rights because that’s part of our freedom,” he replied, “but you don’t have a right to shoot heroin at the public park.” There need to be “consequences for people’s behaviors.”

After researching his city’s problems, Shellenberger decided he could no longer identify as progressive. “Progressivism has become the abdication of personal responsibility.”

I think it’s always meant that.

But now parts of San Francisco have become such a sewer that even liberal politicians have changed their positions. The mayor of San Francisco, London Breed, recently declared it’s time to end the “reign of criminals who are destroying our city!”

Not long ago, when protesters shouted, “Defund the police,” Mayor Breed cut San Francisco’s policing budget by $120 million.

Now she says her town will be “more aggressive with law enforcement ... and less tolerant of all the (crime) that has destroyed our city.”

Progressive ideas almost always end badly.

John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com.

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Club, the Democratic Party are organized groups. Gangs are gangs. Crooks are crooks, and changing the definition to alleviate the pain and destruction they cause, does not change the outcome. Evil is evil, and good is good. The sun is the sun, the moon is the moon. Get real, people.

While we are letting the world fall apart, we are told to worry about descriptions that may offend. This is madness foisted upon us. Push back and stand your ground!

In 2021, the Department of Homeland Security dispersed 273,396 illegal immigrants throughout the U.S. in only five months. In Brownsville, Texas, illegal single adult men were being processed in a building with darkened windows, then taxied to the airport to fly to Houston, Miami and Atlanta.

These new arrivals, from 117 countries, each paid the drug cartel $2,000 to arrive, then were ferried by ICE to infiltrate our

HAMMER

Continued from Page C3 provided American statesmen succor during our darkest hours.

For Abraham Lincoln, the equality-centric Declaration of Independence was an “apple of gold” for which the Constitution was but an enveloping “frame of silver.”

President Biden’s affirmation of his campaign-season promise to nominate such a specific population subgroup is a dagger to the telos — the overarching orientation of true colorblind equality and justice — of the United States.

Even holding aside the lunacy, from a sheer sample size perspective, of announcing at the outset of a Supreme Court justice search that one intends to limit that search to roughly 2% of the national lawyer pool, the higher-level message Democrats telegraph by doubling down on such an identity politics obsession is extraordinarily pernicious.

How can a justice who knows she was selected purely on the basis of race and gender reasonably be expected to adjudicate cases during her court tenure that implicate issues of race and gender?

Furthermore, consider the impact that President Biden’s announcement surely has on young lawyers all across the nation who do not fit into the narrow sliver of the intersectional pie that he has

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Continued from Page C2 have never in the history of the world been included in a real bill of rights. And the death they have championed is not for themselves, but for others unable to defend themselves.

For the love of God, people, are there not any real Republicans in the legislatures willing to honor their own parents by standing up for their right to live? History already knows where to lay the shame of responsibility if there are not. Uncaring legislators, and even our citizens themselves, are acting like out-of-control rats spreading disease across the streets of cities, and bullies more relentless than any we have ever seen before.

Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross, Utah (Former Goleta resident)

Columnist Henry Schulte questions why the U.S. is so focused on Ukraine when it should be paying more attention to Mexico.

Continued from Page C1 we need to fight their possible damn war. The same goes for the SEALs and all branches of the military. Of course, it doesn’t stop there; firefighters, police, nurses, doctors all being fired while illegals are being bussed, flown and even using Ubers to bury themselves inside our borders with not a worry in the world.

Can our government get any dumber than that?

With the tanks and soldiers on the border poised to invade, America will stand strong and take the side of Mexico. Oh, wait, got it mixed up. We need to defend the Ukrainian border. We need to risk the lives of more Americans,

again. For what? That’s the big question.

We peons don’t get to make that decision and we’re also not privy to knowing the reason why there’s such a push. I think it’s about time that we do. More illegals crossed into America in December of 2021 than the previous three Decembers combined. How full does the glass have to get before we shut the spicket off?

It’s ridiculous and absolutely irresponsible, and Washington isn’t doing a thing about it. It’s being downright ignored. But boy it’s imperative we defend a country some 9,000 miles away for no apparent reason at all. Give me a break!

How stupid do we have to get? We left billions of dollars of equipment in Afghanistan, and

now we’re sending over billions more to corrupt Ukraine. Again, for what?

Americans are not privy to what the morons in Washington or at the Pentagon base their decisions on. We have to guess what the people in gray and blue are deciding for us. You would hope that careful consideration is given to what could affect 350 or so million people, but I don’t think they do.

Afghanistan was the green light for these predator nations to move forward with their agendas. That was the bay window to stupidity.

They know America is more screwed up right now than it has ever been. Do you think even a small country like Honduras or Nicaragua respects us anymore?

No one does. We’ve lost all cache

and deservedly so. That is very dangerous for all of us.

We can go about our daily lives, try and find cheaper gas or a sale on meat, but the world stage is getting ready to make big changes.

Ask yourself, what leader(s) can we turn to show the world we’re still tough? Don’t mess with us or else. Honestly, I can’t think of anyone from any political party.

We have zero leadership.

We’re still spending more energy and money going after former President Donald Trump two years later than we are making sure we can protect ourselves from really bad people. We’re so stupid.

Henry Schulte welcomes questions or comments at hschulteopinions@ gmail.com.

Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

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country.

And just to be sure that our country is unrecognizable, at least to us, the taxpayers are funding all of this — the housing, the education, the medical and the food stamps. We are being attacked from all directions. We were energy-independent. Now we stop our pipelines, while the Biden/Harris administration begs OPEC to sell us more oil.

How does this make our country better?

As Bishop Robert Baron recently stated, “We have allowed the walls to be breached. The stories and the law that identify us as a people are no longer being told in the same persuasive way.

“What that leads to is a loss of purpose, identity, and mission.

We have been so interested in being relevant to the times, that we lost a sense of who we are, forgetting our stories, forgetting our own rituals and identity.”

Carbajal seen without a mask

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ecently Congressman Salud Carbajal received an award from the California Special Districts Association as the “Federal Legislator of the Year.”

The ceremony was at the Santa Maria Public Airport District in an indoor setting.

When I viewed this news on KEYT, I noted that Congressman Carbajal, a political leader, was without a mask as was the presenter and those in the front row seeking “face time with the big guy.”

Considering Congressman Carbajal’s status in government, I wondered if he knew something

now proclaimed will comprise his entire prospective talent pool. Hold aside white men; that ship seems to have sailed. What kind of message does this send to young liberal lawyers who are black men? Or how about the message it sends to young liberal lawyers who are Hispanic women?

And why stop at the intersectional sliver of black and female? Why not preemptively announce that his next two hypothetical court picks will be a Muslim and a homosexual, respectively? (Jews and Mormons, two religious minorities who nonetheless sit low on the left’s intersectional hierarchy pyramid, of course, need not apply.)

The juxtaposition of the court’s colorblind certiorari grant on Monday and President Biden’s color (and sex)-centric announcement on Wednesday is nothing if not ironic. Perhaps Republicans might be galvanized to make opposition to identity politics a key part of their 2022 midterm election platform.

And regardless of who replaces Justice Breyer, the court next term will hopefully take us closer to a society that is race-blind — and not besotted by cancerous identity politics by gutting affirmative action in America.

To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com.

Copyright 2022 by Creators.com. that the rest of us didn’t. Could it be that the indoor mask mandate had been canceled and the local government didn’t tell anyone?

Probably not. It was just that “important people” don’t have to wear masks indoors when receiving awards or posing for photo ops.

You can see the video at: keyt.com/news/localpolitics/2022/01/25/congressmansalud-carbajal-honored-asfederal-legislator-of-the-year.

Ron Fink Lompoc

Socialism doesn’t work

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shocking recent Gallup Poll shows 38% of Americans have a positive opinion of socialism compared to capitalism. Yes, socialism may sound good to the average person: Everyone is taken care of. But such a politicalsocial-economic system has never worked as it is contrary to basic human nature.

Governments in control become corrupt. People who want to work hard are not rewarded. Those who do not want to work are glad for others to take care of them, etc. The system falls apart.

Prior to the 2022 Congressional elections, I have written a short, easy to read, compelling novel for voters of all political persuasions describing what America would be like under socialism 12 years from now 2033: “Forging a New America: How American Liberalism and Climate Change Landed Us in Siberia.”

Let’s keep America in balance.

Roger Colley Montecito