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Lawmaker wants to screen youths for cardiac disease State senator proposes new bill

By KAITLYN SCHALLHORN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

A bill creating additional opportunities for sudden cardiac arrest screenings for youths is working its way through the California Legislature — and garnering bipartisan support.

From Sen. Brian W. Jones, RSantee, SB 1135 would establish a three-year pilot program open to any public or private school in the state. The California Department of Education would contract with a nonprofit that would run sudden cardiac arrest screenings and provide data to the state at the end of the program.

The screening would be conducted on students from grades 5-12 and is meant to mitigate the chances of studentathletes dying or becoming seriously injured because of an undiagnosed or undetected heart condition.

“Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death

of student-athletes with an estimated 23,000 children under 18 lost each year in the U.S.,” Sen. Jones said. “SB 1135 establishes a pilot program to screen children for SCA conveniently in their school setting. These screenings deliver a potentially life-saving service and give access to critical care before tragedy strikes.”

SCA is the abrupt loss of heart function, usually due to an issue with the heart’s electrical system that disrupts the pumping and flow of blood throughout the body. It is not the same as a heart attack.

Without immediate treatment, including CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator, SCA will most likely result in death.

SCA generally occurs without warning, but some earlier symptoms can include chest discomfort, heart palpitations, shortness of breath or weakness, Please see CARDIAC on A7

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Mariann Asanuma gets started on her lego entry in front of the Mechanics Bank during the first annual Solvang LEGO Building Competition in Solvang on Saturday.

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Starting Saturday and continuing today, the city of Solvang is hosting its first annual LEGO building competition. Due

to the city’s Danish roots, there could be few better places for a celebration of the famous Danish block-building brand.

LEGO is the inspiration behind the two-day, family friendly competition, which will pit top

LEGO builders against each other as they construct their own versions of Solvang’s five fabled Danish bakeries.

“We wanted to gather some of the biggest lego builders in and outside the California area and to

bring more awareness to Solvang and the community,” Allyson Gail told the News-Press when asked what inspired the event. Ms. Gail is the Event Manager and LEGO coordinator and will also serve Please see LEGOS on A5

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A bill in the California Legislature would allow for more sudden cardiac arrest screenings, such as the shown above, for studentathletes. SCA is an abrupt loss of heart function.

Goleta considers allowing cannabis retailers to stay open longer

By KAITLYN SCHALLHORN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Goleta cannabis retailers may soon be able to stay open longer.

The Goleta City Council is considering allowing cannabis retailers to remain open until 10 p.m. (instead of 8 p.m.) as a way to bolster business in the community. The move could recapture sales and lost tax revenue that is being lost to businesses elsewhere in Santa Barbara County that are open longer, according to a presentation from an HdL Companies adviser.

The council had a special meeting Thursday to consider potential revenue enhancement options.

Council members overwhelmingly expressed interest in seeking further

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Some members also were interested in applying cannabis taxes evenly to both adultuse and medicinal cannabis businesses and sales.

Members did not seem to be open to raising taxes on cannabis businesses, even on a tier system that would target high-earning businesses. Members expressed that Goleta could lose businesses or be less attractive to future businesses if taxes become higher than elsewhere in the county.

Additionally Thursday, the Goleta City Council indicated it would be open to implementing a new sales tax to increase revenue to tackle projects for the city.

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Reilly, Ace of Spies: Our last moments with a very gentle soul

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‘ACE OF SPIES’ Wily Reilly was named after the so called “Ace of Spies,” Sidney Rosenblum, whose motto was “Trust no one” and who was executed by the Bolsheviks after getting tricked into trusting a bogus anti-Soviet organization called, of all things, “The Trust.”

(I was in the midst of wrapping up a five-year stint as spymaster to Prince Albert II of Monaco, so the world of espionage was very much part of my psyche.)

Although a very gentle soul, who greeted any newcomer with a tail wag and an actual smile, Reilly could be vicious if he felt threatened, and in his doggy mind, those who threatened him were veterinarians.

He bit at least one vet. Others refused to take him as a patient — and about 10 years ago, I stopped taking him for checkups altogether on the basis that he would henceforth live his life out his way, without vets. And if he developed some illness or other, well, we’d allow him his Christian Scientist beliefs. No more vaccines, teeth cleanings, nothing.

In fact, despite the absence

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of regular medical care, Reilly surpassed the expected 14-15 year-range associated with his breed.

But sure enough, as he eclipsed that higher mark, Reilly began to fail. For a start, he would no longer (or could no longer) jump up on a chair or couch. Probably arthritic legs. And then, about six months ago, his back legs began to shake, a palsy of some kind.

Reilly seemed bewildered, not understanding old age, but also bordering on canine cognitive decline, a genuine syndrome akin to dementia.

Pretty soon his legs would simply collapse beneath him, and he’d struggle to retain his composure, seemingly embarrassed if we were watching, trying his best to maintain.

Meantime, he could no longer hear much of anything beyond a shout.

Clearly, Reilly was in discomfort and dying. But now, bereft of his presence, the above only seems like a host of excuses for me to do what I would have preferred not to do.

I honestly did not think Reilly would make it through last Christmas, though he did.

My big hope was that I would not have to put him down, that one morning I would enter the room where he slept and find that he had peacefully transcended into permanent slumber.

But the days and weeks went on, and, soon, Reilly could no longer go outside for a walk. He wanted to. He tried. But — so un-Reilly — just a few steps out the door, he would turn around and shuffle back inside.

I consulted a local vet, who told me about a mobile unit that comes to your home to euthanize.

It seemed the right way to go because had I taken him to the vet’s, he would likely go nuts.

Literally. His last time at the vet’s, years earlier, his eyeballs practically popped from their sockets as he burst blood vessels in his eyes.

THE END NEARS The vet recommended a medication called Gabapentin as a sedative, to be provided before the mobile unit’s arrival.

For Reilly’s last supper, a family member went to Vons and bought a filet mignon steak, which he cooked rare and fed to Reilly, who enjoyed every bite, then two hours later upchucked the whole meal, completely undigested.

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Reilly lived a good, long life with columnist Robert Eringer and his family.

We wanted to take Reilly to Butterfly Beach, which he loved and was once the fastest dog on that beach, outrunning everything on legs (to hell with their leash ordinance).

But just being picked up for placement in the car had become too painful for Reilly, and it seemed to me if we put him through such an ordeal, it would be to make us feel better, not Reilly.

So instead, we lavished him with love and affection and treats, and the hours passed slowly until the mobile unit pulled up outside.

With COVID-19 still a concern (to some), we set Reilly’s bed outside on a patio in the open air.

The Gabapentin had hardly any effect on Reilly, and wily to the end, he sensed something was up — a fact confirmed by the arrival of a pair of women suited in protective clothing, armed with a bag of un-speakables.

First step is an opioid injection to tranquilize.

For this, a muzzle was needed because Reilly became agitated.

I’m convinced he knew what was going on; what was going to happen. His survival instinct was so strong there was no way he would give up the ghost without a tussle, God bless him.

After my first attempt at trying

to slip the muzzle around his snout, he let out an almost human howl, which to my ears sounded like, “Aww, please don’t do this.”

It broke my heart. It is broken still. Thinking about it now, putting this experience into perspective, into the written word, my eyes fill with tears.

The first injection did its work.

Reilly was now resigned to his fate, and, in any case, paralyzed to do anything more about it, his tongue hanging limply from his mouth.

Five minutes later, another shot of opioid. He seemed already gone when that took hold, his eyes placid, perhaps unable to move.

And then the lethal serum, injected into a shaved part of his lower leg.

A poignant moment ensued as Lulu, our genuine chihuahua, drew up nose-to-nose to sniff her brother, a final farewell.

As the poison coursed through his system, Reilly took his last few breaths.

And then he was gone.

And with him, a piece of my heart that can never be replaced.

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t is never easy to put your dog down. Whatever the illness, whatever the age, your canine companion is the soul who loves and trusts you more than any other in the world, unconditionally.

Reilly (Ace of Spies) was supposed to be a chihuahua — or at least that’s what the pet store (long gone) in Malibu Mart billed him to be.

I told my daughter, then 12, as we drove from Montecito to Malibu almost 16 years ago, we would return home with a canine only if it truly seemed the right fit: Don’t be disappointed if that doesn’t happen.

However, it was clear the moment we walked through the door that Reilly was not only our dog, but had actually been awaiting our arrival, his head swinging back and forth as we entered, his facial features brightening as if to day, “What took you?”

He was born (according to his papers) a couple months earlier in Oklahoma, presumably trucked to California, which might explain his lifelong nervousness about taking road trips.

Reilly was tiny, like a chihuahua, though his markings suggested he might be part raccoon, part weasel. Maybe part bat.

As he grew out of puppyhood, he also grew larger. In fact, it took me over 10 years to figure out his true breed, mostly because I’d never known of its existence: miniature Siberian husky.

He possessed astonishing eyes, awed by all who crossed paths with him. And while dogs won’t usually look you in the eye, Reilly could hold a steady eye gaze. In fact, I learned from him the art of the eyeball lock, along with living fully in the moment, as dogs naturally do.

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South Coast work continues on Highway 101

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Here’s the latest on the Highway 101 construction project in the Carpinteria/Montecito area and its impact on traffic.

The speed limit is reduced to 55 mph in construction areas.

NORTHBOUND HIGHWAY 101 From 9 tonight to 7 a.m. Monday, it’s one lane of traffic from Bailard Avenue to Sheffield Drive, affecting onand off-ramps at Bailard Avenue, Casitas Pass Road, Linden Avenue, Santa Monica Road and North Padaro Lane.

Overnight from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m.

Mondays through Thursdays, there will be one lane of traffic from Bailard Avenue to Sheffield Drive, affecting on- and off-ramps at Bailard Avenue, Casitas Pass Road, Linden Avenue, Santa Monica Road and North Padaro Lane.

The on-ramp at Sheffield Drive will be closed for up to six months, and is expected to reopen July 13.

In the meantime, drivers can use the on-ramp at San Ysidro Road.

The off-ramp at Sheffield Drive will be closed for up to 6 months starting Monday and is expected to reopen Oct. 3. Drivers can use the off-ramp at San Ysidro Road.

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on a social media platform in California under the new legislation.

The bill also establishes that the distribution of fentanyl that leads to death would result in a maximum penalty of 20 years to life in prison, according to PetrieNorris’ office.

“The scourge of fentanyl is poisoning our communities, killing our kids and wreaking havoc all across the state of California today,” Assemblymember Petrie-Norris, D-Irvine, told reporters Tuesday.

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On Saturday, April 16, from 9 a.m. to noon Sedgwick Reserve is hosting a public hike day. Community members are invited to visit the 6,000-acre protected reserve, normally closed to the public, on a guided morning hike with experienced docents.

Docent guides will lead multiple levels of hikes to accommodate a diversity of abilities while offering insights into the unique geologic history, flora, and fauna of the reserve, considered by some to be one of the crown jewels of the University of California Natural Reserve System.

Check-in for participants opens at 8:30 a.m. and hikes depart from the field station promptly at 9:00 a.m. Hikes last between two and four hours.

Hikers are welcome to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy in the shade of valley oaks at the Field Station picnic area after their hike, and are invited to take advantage of the opportunity to see the newly-renovated, century-old Sedgwick barn, the Sedgwick pond (home to numerous rare and specialstatus species, including the Western pond turtle and the tricolored blackbird), and the LEED-certified Tipton Meeting House.

Those interested in participating can register at https://sedgwick.nrs.ucsb.edu/ store.

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firearm, commonly known as a “Ghost gun,” was recovered during the search.

Eduardo Molina, 18, was arrested for Vandalism, Participation in a Criminal Street Gang, Conspiracy and Possession of Illegal Firearm. Silvestre Navarro, 19, was arrested for Vandalism, Participation in a Criminal Street Gang, and Conspiracy. Both subjects were booked at the Lompoc Jail.

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(The Center Square) — To combat the deadly rise of fentanyl overdoses in California, a state lawmaker announced new legislation Tuesday that would target traffickers who possess fentanyl.

Assembly Bill 2246, introduced

by Assemblymember Cottie Petrie-Norris, would classify the possession of 2 or more grams of fentanyl as a felony and punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for up to four years.

Additionally, drug traffickers could face up to nine years in county jail for selling fentanyl

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During sound wall construction, North Jameson Lane by Sheffield Drive will have a temporary speed limit of 3 mph with bikes sharing the eastbound lane. Caltrans reminds motorists to be mindful about sharing the lane with bicyclists during this time.

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trade show.

First place was awarded to the Santa Barbara Fair and Expo for Overall Marketing Campaign, Single TV Ad and Single Radio Ad. 1.62 Creative Group, a local advertising agency, presided over the Santa Barbara Fair and Expo’s marketing campaign, media strategy, TV and radio concept and production, social media ad designs, graphic designs and press releases.

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On Friday, the Lompoc Police Department’s Detectives and Special Investigation Unit served arrest and search warrants on two residents in Lompoc in regards to a graffiti investigation that occured on March 25.

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Flaggers will direct traffic as needed to set safety barriers for upcoming bridge removal on the southbound side of the old overcrossing.

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SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Fair and Expo 2021 theme was “Santa Barbara Rides Again!”

And the Earl Warren Showgrounds event and its marketing rode its way to several awards in the “small fair category-under 50,000 attendance” at the Western Fairs Association’s annual convention and

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will be closed for up to nine months and is expected to reopen Oct. 24. In the meantime, drivers can use the southbound off-ramp at Sheffield Drive.

The on-ramp at North Padaro Lane closed Saturday. It will remain closed for three months and is anticipated to reopen June 20. Drivers can use the on-ramp at Santa Claus Lane.

The off-ramp at South Padaro Lane/Santa Claus Lane will be closed beginning April 2 and will be closed for up to seven months.

It is anticipated to reopen Oct. 19.

Drivers can use the off-ramp at Carpinteria Avenue to Santa Ynez Ave, Via Real, and South Padaro Lane.

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Monday, there will be one lane of traffic from Sheffield Drive to Bailard Avenue, Carpinteria Avenue, Reynolds Avenue, Linden Avenue, Casitas Pass Road and Bailard Avenue.

Overnight from 8 p.m to 7:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday, there will be one lane of traffic from Sheffield Drive to Bailard Avenue, affecting on- and offramps at North Padaro Lane, South Padaro Lane/Santa Claus Lane, Carpinteria Avenue, Reynolds Avenue, Linden Avenue, Casitas Pass Road and Bailard Avenue.

The on-ramp at Sheffield Drive is expected to reopen June 12.

In the meantime, drivers can use the southbound on-ramp at North Padaro Lane.

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Washington legislation would spend $57M on suicide prevention According to the Pacific Northwest Suicide Prevention Resource Center (PNSPRC), an average of 2.6 young people between the ages of 10 and 24 kill themselves each week in Washington State.

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(The Center Square) - Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Spokane, has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives to reauthorize funding for community-based youth and young adult suicide prevention efforts.

The programs were established under the Garrett Lee Smith (GLS) Memorial Act and were set to expire at the end of fiscal year 2022.

Reauthorization of the program authorizes $9 million for the national Suicide Prevention Resource Center, $40 million in state and tribal grants, $7 million for campus grants and $1 million for mental and behavioral health outreach and education.

“The Garrett Lee Smith Memorial programs save lives and gives hope to young adults in need of rescue from despair. COVID-19 lockdowns have resulted in mental health emergencies, and children and young adults of all ages are in crisis,” said Rep. McMorris Rodgers.

“A day doesn’t go by that I don’t talk to a parent in Eastern Washington who tells me their teenager is depressed,” she continued. “I think about the mom who told me she can’t leave her daughter alone because she harms herself. Or the mom who lost her 23-year-old son to a drug overdose after purchasing a fentanyl-laced pill he thought was Xanax.

“This is an urgent time to ensure these strong bipartisan programs can continue to support youth in our communities, and I appreciate all my colleagues who are leading this bill with me.

Let’s continue to build on this work for a more secure future for the next generation, especially in providing healing for those struggling with the trials of life.”

According to the Pacific Northwest Suicide Prevention Resource Center (PNSPRC), an average of 2.6 young people between the ages of 10 and 24 kill themselves each week in Washington State. An average of 17 adolescents are admitted to the hospital with non-fatal suicidal behavior.

PNSPRC reports that 20% of 10th grade students in Washington have seriously considered suicide.

The memorial act was named after the son of former Oregon Congressman Gordon Smith. Garrett Smith died by suicide in his apartment in Utah where he attended college in 2004 In Eastern Washington, GLS Programs helped Washington State University bring additional mental health services to campus between 2016 and 2019, said Rep. McMorris Rodgers.

As a result, the university was able to implement campus-wide, collaborative trainings and help a growing number of students deal with the struggles

of depression, anxiety, stress, and thoughts of suicide.

Studies have shown GLS programs to be effective at reducing youth suicide rates and saving lives, said Rep. McMorris Rodgers.

According to a study from 2006 to 2015, counties exposed to GLS initiatives had lower youth suicide rates and sustained them for a longer period of time. Additionally, a similar study found counties implementing GLS programs had significantly lower suicide rates for youth and young adults following implementation, which was estimated to have averted 79,000 suicide attempts.

To date, the GLS act has provided funding for 68 state, territory, and tribal community grants, and 74 college campus grants for suicide prevention efforts. Suicide prevention activities supported by GLS grantees have included education, training programs, including gatekeeper training, screening activities, infrastructure for improved linkages to services, crisis hotlines, and community partnerships.

Through participation in both local- and crosssite evaluations, GLS grantees are generating data regarding the local context, proximal outcomes, and implementation of programs, as well as opportunities for improvement of suicide prevention efforts.

Rep. McMorris Rodgers was joined in introducing the bill to renew programs under the GLS act by Reps. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts, Kim Young, R-California, and Cindy Axne, D-Iowa.

Rep. McMorris Rodgers has served in Congress since 1994. She represents the 5th Congressional District, which encompasses the eastern third of Washington and includes Spokane, the state’s second-largest city.

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California drought remains severe, statewide snowpack drops to 38%

By MADISON HIRNEISEN THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) – California officials are calling on residents to step up water conservation efforts after new data on Friday showed that the state’s snowpack is at 38% of average – a sign state water officials say reveals the severity of the ongoing drought.

Officials gathered at the Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for a snow survey on Friday, where they recorded only 2.5 inches of snow depth – the equivalent of just one inch of snow water. That total is just 4% of average for the location on April 1, which would typically have about five feet of snow depth at this time of year, officials said Friday.

California Department of Water Resources Director Karla Nemeth said that the conditions are “evocative of 2015,” when California saw its last major drought. She explained that despite seeing a set of wet storms in October and a December “for the record books,” dry conditions left just mere inches of snow to measure on Friday.

“You need no more evidence than standing here on this very dry landscape to understand some

Officials gathered at the Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada Mountains for a snow survey on Friday, where they recorded only 2.5 inches of snow depth – the equivalent of just one inch of snow water.

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crisis,” she later added.

The legislation comes as California and the U.S. see a rise in overdose-related deaths.

Between April 2020 and April 2021, there were more than 100,000 drug overdose deaths in the U.S. — an increase of 28.5% over the previous year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in November.

In 2020, California saw more than 5,500 opioid overdose deaths and over 3,900 deaths related to fentanyl overdose, according to the state’s Overdose Surveillance Dashboard.

Synthetic opioids like fentanyl and stimulants like methamphetamine are the drugs most frequently involved in increasing fatal overdose deaths, with 90% of all fatal overdoses involving one or both drug classes, according to a recent policy brief from California Health Policy Strategies.

Assemblymember Petrie-Norris said Tuesday that her legislation aims to target drug traffickers in California by increasing penalties against those hiding fentanyl in counterfeit prescriptions and abusing social

media platforms to distribute fentanyl to children and teens.

“Drug dealers no longer need to stand on dark street corners to sell,” she said. “They are connecting with our kids on platforms like Snapchat, WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook, and I will tell you both as a legislator, but more importantly, as a mom, this keeps me up at night.”

San Francisco County had one of the highest rates of opioid-related overdose deaths per 100,000 residents in 2020, followed by Nevada and Lake Counties. Several other California counties are seeing upticks in the amount of fentanyl circulating in the community.

Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes told reporters Tuesday that his deputies seized more than 205 pounds of fentanyl and over 140,000 clandestine-produced illicit pills that contained fentanyl in the first two months of 2022.

Sheriff Barnes called the fentanyl crisis the “most significant long term public health and public safety crisis,” adding that if it were not for the pandemic, this would be the most predominant issue the nation would be facing.

“Fentanyl is flooding our community,” he said.

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September 15, 1964 - January 4, 2022

Beloved son and brother, James A. “Tiki Jim” Voros passed away peacefully in San Francisco at the age of 57.

He was born in West Allis, Wisconsin. The Voros family moved to Santa Barbara in 1972.

He attended Mountain View Elementary, Goleta Valley Junior High, and graduated from Dos Pueblos High School. He enjoyed baseball and played catcher in Little League. He moved to the Bay Area to attend San Francisco State College, and graduated with a B.A. in Radio and Television.

He loved living in San Francisco with its diverse food, culture and music that the city had to offer. Jim was a loyal Oakland A’s and Green Bay Packer’s fan. He also traveled extensively to Spain, Hawaii and Jamaica.

A legendary bartender for over 30 years, he built many lasting friendships from the job. He had a huge passion for music, loved collecting vinyl records and attending concerts. His “Tiki Jim” nickname came when he started deejaying at the Dalva Bar for a Tiki night.

The Voros family has been touched by the many cards and messages of sympathy. His kindness and friendship were acknowledged. The San Francisco Board of Supervisors gave a special tribute at their January meeting.

He will be deeply missed and long remembered by his parents Arthur and Lavelle Voros, brothers Mark and David, plus his many friends.

A Celebration of his Life will take place in San Francisco in April.

Under current California law, fentanyl possession is considered a misdemeanor offense, which Assemblymember PetriNorris and others equated to a “slap on the wrist.” Supporters said Tuesday that AB 2246 would ensure that drug traffickers possessing extremely lethal doses of fentanyl would be brought to justice.

“Drug dealers who knowingly sell fake pills made of fentanyl and buy or add fentanyl to recreational drugs like cocaine in an effort to addict (users) to the drug immediately must suffer the consequences for their actions,” President of Victims Of Illicit Drugs Jaime Puerta, whose son, Daniel, died in April 2020 of acute fentanyl poisoning, told reporters Tuesday.

Assemblymember Petrie-Norris’ bill has been assigned to the Assembly Public Safety Committee for a hearing in the coming weeks.

The author said Tuesday that getting the legislation through the committee could be a “tough battle,” saying there are “currently not enough allies” on the panel to ensure the bill is pushed through.

Madison Hirneisen covers California for The Center Square.

TIGHE, Roberta Ann

Roberta Ann Tighe, 85 years, passed peacefully in her home surrounded by family on March 8, 2022. She is survived by her three children, Theresa Embry, Michael Tighe, Tracey Tighe, five grandchildren, and four greatgrandchildren. Roberta is also survived by two brothers, Delano “Skip” Bond and his wife Lynn; Doug Bond and his wife Adele. Graveside services will be held on Friday, April 8 at 1:30 PM at the Goleta Cemetery. A joyful celebration of her life will be at Mulligan’s Café for family and close friends.

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of the challenges we’re facing here in California,” Ms. Nemeth said during a live-streamed press conference on Friday. “All Californians need to do their part.”

About 30% of California’s water supply comes from snow melt that trickles into reservoirs, according to state data. During a typical year, April 1 is when the state sees a peak in snow water content. Yet, this year, officials believe that the northern Sierra Nevada saw its peak in mid-January.

Sean de Guzman, manager of DWR’s Snow Surveys and Water Supply Forecasting Unit, explained Friday that the majority of the state’s snowpack came from storms in December, and the small amounts of snowfall the state has experienced since then “haven’t been enough to outpace the snow melt.”

“As the snowpack continues to melt, the big unknown is how much of that water will make it into reservoirs,” Mr. de Guzman said Friday.

Heavy storms in December put the snowpack at the Phillips Station at 168%, with around 6.5 feet of snow measured on December 30, officials said Friday.

But dry conditions since Jan. 1 have caused the snow to dwindle over the last three months.

“January, February and March have been the driest period on record in the Sierra Nevada dating over 100 years,” Mr. de Guzman said Friday, later adding that the state has only received half the amount of rainfall as

2013 – the driest calendar year on record.

Officials said Friday that the dismal survey results further emphasize the impact of climate change in California. Below average rain and snow statewide indicate that California is heading into its third consecutive year of dry conditions, officials say, and state residents are being urged to make greater efforts to conserve water.

In July, Gov. Gavin Newsom called on Californians to voluntarily reduce water use by 15%, though the Los Angeles Times reported that between July and January 2022, cumulative savings were only at 6.4%.

Mr. Newsom took things a step further last week by signing an executive order asking the State Water Resources Control Board to consider a ban on watering decorative grass outside of commercial buildings and at institutions. The order also called on local water suppliers to move up to the next level in their Water Shortage Contingency Plans in preparation for a water shortage of 20%.

“Today’s snow survey reinforces what we’ve all observed – California just experienced the driest three months on record, and drought is worsening throughout the West,” California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot said in a statement. “Climate-driven water extremes are part of our reality now, and we must all adapt and do our part to save water every day.”

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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.

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Builders to continue their work today LEGOS

Continued from Page A1 as a judge in the competition. Ms. Gails’ work has been featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show and The Brick Brothers by LEGO. “We would love to make this an annual event. So far we have had a lot of success today a lot of people have shown up and are swarming the tables. We would love to do this again,” said Ms. Gail.

The event kicked off at 10 a.m.

Saturday, as the builders began their projects with Solvang’s Northern European architecture and ambience as a back-drop for the event. Saturday’s build ran through 4 p.m., with the public invited to watch as the invited pros worked their building blocks into their best version of a storybook bakery.

LEGO blocks were originally made of wood. The Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen created the first version of the building blocks in the 1930s.

Denmark is still home to the original LEGOLAND and LEGO House.

“Solvang’s Danish roots and authentic heritage seemed the perfect fit for this family-oriented spring event, celebrating one of Denmark’s most famous exports.

We’re thrilled to have some of the top LEGO block builders in the nation joining us for this fun Danish tribute, and we look forward to welcoming locals and visitors to this first-ever event,” said Scott Shuemake, Executive Producer with Cogs & Marvel, planners and organizers of the inaugural Solvang LEGO Building Competition.

There are 10 competitors, some professionals and some not. One of the registered participants is none other than Zack Macasaet, block builder extraordinaire featured on Season 2 of the FOX competition series LEGO Masters.

Also slated for the Solvang competition is Bill Vollbrecht, a former Master Model Designer and LEGOLAND Parks designer; Mariann Asanuma, the world’s first female freelance LEGO artist and former Master Model Designer at LEGOLAND California, where she was the first American woman to hold that LEGOLAND title; Gwyneth Kozbial, a writer for BrickNerd; and Chris Wight, whose LEGO craftwork has helped with projects for the LA Auto Show and the construction of an oversized model of the neurology wing at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Another noteworthy competitor is Tiffany Thompson, who was having audience members help her find different LEGO pieces according to Ms. Gail.

“We have 10 builders dispersed throughout the town in big white tents in high traffic areas so people can see what they are building and come over and talk.

It is a very busy day, there are a lot of people. It’s really nice to see groups come to people. One of my favorite things I saw today was when I went to visit some of

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Tiffany Thompson starts on her lego set in front of the Olsen’s Danish Village Bakery as curious passersby look on during the first annual Solvang LEGO Building Competition in Solvang on Saturday.

the female builders, I saw a bunch of little girls come up and get all starry eyed and want to do it to,” said Ms. Gail.

The projects include replicas of bakeries around town, lifesize food out of lego, a viking ship, large windmills and more as competitors are taking inspiration from throughout the town. Mr. Volbrecht is making a replica of a chef with his daughter, featuring Danish pastries.

There will be a judging period today at 12:00 p.m. followed by a 1:00 p.m. Awards Ceremony for the best build, both to be held at the Solvang Visitor Center,1639 Copenhagen Drive. Prizes will be awarded to the top three builders in the competition.

“The townspeople have been so warm and welcoming. They gave the whole group a tour and some pastries to taste. We got a tour of all the bakeries and all the places around Solvang. Someone even played the accordion for us, it was really magical and welcoming, it almost feels like a second home,” said Ms. Gail. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

Ms. Thompson begins her construction.

Above and at right, Jonathan Turney builds his lego set next to Birkholm’s Bakery & Cafe.

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UCSB baseball beats Hawaii in series opener, 8-4

By DANIEL MOEBUS-BOWLES UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The 21st-ranked UCSB Baseball team used a trio of long balls and another great outing from starting pitcher Cory Lewis to take down visiting Hawai’i 84 in game one of the weekend series.

Lewis (5-0) picked up his fifth win of the season, tossing six full innings and once again tying his career-high with 11 strikeouts.

Three runs scored under his watch.

UCSB’s eight runs scored on just six hits, as five of them went for extra bases and the Gauchos collected five walks.

Zander Darby, Kyle Johnson, and Broc Mortensen all went deep in the game and Nick Vogt had a bases-clearing double that was good for three RBI. Michael Rice finished the game on the bump, tossing 2.2 innings with no runs to his credit.

Hawai’i scored the first run of the series with a solo shot in the top of the 2nd, but UCSB was quick to respond with a five spot in the bottom of the third.

The Gauchos loaded the bases and with two outs Vogt stepped in to crush a bases-clearing double to put his team in front 31. The next batter was Johnson, who cranked a two-run homer over the right field wall to make

UCSB’s eight runs scored on just six hits, as five of them went for extra bases and the Gauchos collected five walks. it 5-1.

Mortensen made it 6-1 with a towering shot in the bottom of the fourth, but the Rainbow Warriors got the run back in the top of the fifth.

A double by Christian Kirtley and a Hawai’i error drove in Johnson to extend the lead to 7-2, and in the bottom of the sixth it was Darby’s turn as the freshman went yard to make it 8-2.

Two more would come across for the Bows in the 7th to conclude the scoring. Hawai’i threatened to score more, but Rice put an end to that by getting two quick outs.

UCSB will look to win the series tomorrow evening in game two. First pitch is set for 4 p.m. at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium.

Daniel Moebus-Bowles writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

Warriors maintain GSAC lead with sweep

By RON SMITH WESTMONT SPORTS WRITER

Westmont Baseball continued its successful 2022 campaign by sweeping San Diego Christian In a doubleheader. Westmont came from behind to take the first game 9-7, then won the second 10-3. Westmont maintained its two-game lead for first place in the GSAC standings over Hope International while gaining two games on Vanguard after the Royals swept the Lions in Costa Mesa.

The Warriors put up one run in the top of the first to open the scoring. After Robbie Haw singled through the right side of the infield, Brady Renck was hit by a pitch. Simon Reid reached on a fielder’s choice that saw Renck retired at second and Haw advance to third. Haw scored on an RBI-single by Rego.

The lead did not last long, however. Hawks’ lead-off hitter Johnny Radomskiy cleared the left field fence to tie the game at one. One out later, Alec Arnone singled to right, then advanced to second when Aaron Hoch singled through the right side.

That brought up Ryan Lystlund who doubled down the right-field line, driving in Hoch and Peyton Berroth, the latter of whom was running for Arnone. Westmont starter Bryan Peck, who appeared injured on the play, was replaced on the mound by Alex Blaszyk.

After Justin Rodriguez started off the top of the second and reached on an error, Ryan Desaegher singled up the middle, advancing Rodriguez to second.

When Haw was hit by a pitch, Warriors occupied every base.

That brought up Renck who picked up an RBI when he was walked, making the score 3-2 in favor of the Hawks.

Arnone was hit by a pitch to start the bottom of the third and replaced on the base pad by Cade Cabral. Cabral reached third on a double by Hoch, then scored on a sacrifice fly by Lystlund.

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eight and nine hitters loaded the bases on an error, infield single and a walk. Gabe Arteaga came into the game in relief of Kim. Arteaga coaxed a ground out from Radomskiy that scored Berroth and recorded the first out. The second out came on a sacrifice fly to right by Pankratz that scored Brown. Arteaga then struck out Arnone to end the inning.

Kim allowed two runs (none earned) on one hit and two walks in one-plus innings of work. Kim was awarded the win, his first of the season.

After a scoreless top of the ninth, Carlos Moreno was called on to preserve the win for the Warriors. After giving up a single through the right side to Hoch, Moreno persuaded Lystlund to ground to second. Haw threw out Hoch at second while Lystlund reached on a fielder’s choice.

Moreno walked Davin Burroughs on a full count to bring the potential winning run to the plate in the person of pinch hitter Anthony Macchia, However, Moreno struck out the would-be hero. That brought up Brown as the Hawks’ last hope. Like the previous batter, Brown became Moreno’s strikeout victim as the junior right-hander recorded his sixth save of the season.

Arteaga pitched one inning, facing the minimum while striking out one.

The second game proved to be the polar opposite of the first, starting as a pitcher’s duel.

Westmont sent Eric Oseguera to the mound who entered the game with the GSAC’s best record (8-0) and ERA 1.16 to face Luke Gentry (9-4, 4.01 ERA). Neither pitcher allowed a hit in the first two innings.

In the top of the third, Ryan Desaegher recorded the game’s first hit with a one-out double down the left field line. With two away, Brady tripled to left center field, driving in Desaegher. Renck then scored on a wild pitch, giving Westmont a 2-0 lead.

Oseguera retired the first eight batters he faced before Billy Strohm doubled down the right field line with two away in the third and reached third on an

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In the top of the fourth, Haw was hit by a pitch for the second time in the game, When Renck singled through the right side, Haw advanced to third. He took third when Reid flew out to center. One out later, Rego singled up the middle, driving in Haw and making the score 4-3.

Once again, the Hawks’ extended their advantage by one run in the bottom half of the inning. Jalani Brown reached on an error, then, with one away, took second when Radomskiy was hit by a pitch. A single by Tre Pankratz through the right side brought Brown home.

In the top of the fifth, Haw delivered an RBI-single to left that drove in Parker O’Neil. O’Neil had reached on a single of his own then advanced to second on a bunt

by Desaegher.

The Warriors finally tied the score in the top of the seventh inning. Paul Mezurashi pinch hit for David Martinez and ripped a double down the left field line.

When he slid into second, the ball got past the second baseman.

Mezurashi picked himself up and took third on the play. A sacrifice fly to right scored Mezurashi and resulted in a 5-5 score.

Sam Kim was called upon to relieve Blaszyk in the bottom of the seventh. Blaszyk’s five and two-thirds inning kept the Warriors in the game. He allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits. On 84 pitches, he struck out eight and issued just one walk.

After a scoreless bottom of the seventh, the Warriors took control in the top of the eighth.

Haw led off and was hit by a pitch for the third time in the game.

Renck then walked for the second time. Reid was asked to produce a sacrifice bunt, but instead provided a bunt single, loading the bases with no outs. That brought up Thomas Rudinsky who had gone hitless in four at bats. On his fifth trip to the plate, Rudinsky pounded the first pitch he saw, crushing a grand slam down the left field line to put the Warriors up 9-5. It was their first lead since the first inning.

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The No. 6 UC Santa Barbara men’s volleyball team swept both its season series and its final home match over No. 14 UC Irvine in a 26-24, 25-19, 25-20 Friday night win.

The Gauchos improved to 16-6 overall and 5-2 in Big West play while dropping the Anteaters to 8-13 overall, 1-5 conference.

Junior outside hitter Ryan Wilcox tied for match-high honors with 10 kills (.350) and four blocks. This marks his 12th double-digit kill performance in 13 outings, seven of which only went three sets.

Haotian Xia had another solid outing as he appeared in a second striaght match for just the second time since the end of January. The junior opposite was second on the team with eight kills.

As a team, the Gauchos had seven aces, with their 2.33 aces per set tying their third-highest average of the year.

Sophomore Dayne Chalmers led all players with three.

Wilcox had two. Sophomores Patrick Paragas and Andrew McSweeney had one each.

Middle blocker Donovan Todorov enjoyed his secondbest hitting percentage (.778) of the year with seven kills.

He also tied Wilcox for a match-high in blocks (4).

Coming off their four-set win over the Anteaters two nights earlier, the Gauchos couldn’t get into a rhythm early on in the first set. A block by Brandon Hicks and Wilcox ignited the Rob Gym crowd while tying the opening game at 12-12.

Energy levels rose once again when Wilcox, Todorov and Xia combined for another block to put the Gauchos up 16-14 for their first two-point lead of the night.

After a timeout, UCI went on a 5-0 run to go up 19-16.

UCSB soon answered with a run of its own, as Chalmers tied things at 22-22 with a blistering ace into the feet of a backpedaling defender.

The Gauchos didn’t trail again from there, sealing set one on a classy finish from Xia who hung high in the air before punching one right over a three-man wall into no man’s land.

Santa Barbara continued to show its quality in set two, pulling away midway through the set. A big ace from Wilcox capped a 5-2 run to put the Gauchos up 19-15.

Hicks made it look easy with a kill at the net and that was followed by Conor Dunn setting up Wilcox for a putaway to make it 24-18.

Paragas showed his quick reflexes with a dump to end the game in favor of the home side on one of his two kills for the night.

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error. Strohm tallied the Hawk’s first run on a wild pitch.

Rudinsky led off the top of the fourth with his second home run of the day, powering another shot to left field to put the Warriors on top 3-1. The rally continued when Rego singled to right and Rodriguez was hit by a pitch. One out later, and with Luke Tillitt pinch running for Rodriguez, Jack Fletcher was issued a free pass to first, resulting in Warriors stationed at every base.

That brought up Desaegher, who added an RBI to his stats with a sacrifice fly to right to plate Rego and make the score 4-1 in favor of Westmont.

Westmont added single runs in both the fifth and sixth innings.

In the fifth, Rodriguez drove in Jeremiah Canada from third.

Then in the sixth, Renck brought home Desaegher from second.

The Warriors added four more runs in the top of the final seventh inning to go up 10-1.

Mezurashi hit his second double of the day, this one going to right center and driving in both O’Neil and Canada. Desaegher doubled to left center, driving in Mezurashi before Haw made it three doubles in a row with a shot to left center, driving in Desaegher.

The Hawks would score twice in the bottom of the seventh, but it was too little, too late.

With the win, Oseguera improved to 9-0 on the year. He allowed two runs (one earned) on three hits, struck out six and did not issue a walk.

Zach Yates closed out the seventh inning, allowing one run on one hit. He struck out two and also did not surrender a walk.

The Warriors and Hawks will play again tomorrow, but will change locations. Tomorrow’s doubleheader will be held in Fullerton on Duane Winters Field in Amerige Park. First pitch is scheduled for 11:00 a.m.

Ron Smith is the sports information director at Westmont College. email: sports@newspress.com

UCSB women’s tennis opens conference play with 5-2 victory over Hawaii

By DANIEL MESSINGER UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The No. 29 UC Santa Barbara women’s tennis team bested No. 73 Hawaii 5-2 on Friday afternoon at the Arnhold Tennis Center. The win marks the Gauchos’ (106) second conference victory of the season, having swept UC Davis on Feb. 21. Santa Barbara has now won five of its last six matches.

While a closely contested 6-6 match was left unfinished on court one, the Gauchos seized the doubles point with 6-3 wins on courts two and three. On court three, the No. 68 duo of Amelia Honer and Kira Reuter beat Tal Talya Zandberg and Ana Vilcek and on court two, Marta Gonzalez Ballbe and Camille Kiss clinched the point with a triumph over Nidhi Surapeneni and Gitte Heynemans.

Moving onto singles, Reuter made it 2-0 in favor of Santa Barbara, beating Heynemans 6-1, 6-2 on court six. Honer collected a 6-0, 61 win over Zandberg on court four making it 3-0.

Filippa Bruu-Syversen beat Madison Kim 6-2, 6-4 on court five to clinch the match for UCSB. Following the clinching point, the Rainbow Wahine picked up wins on courts two and three. Satsuki Takamura took down Elizaveta Volodko 2-6, 7-6(3), 10-4 on two and Vilcek won 6-4, 1-6, 7-6(4) over Kiss on court three.

The Gauchos picked up a fifth and final point with No. 105 Shakhnoza Khatamova’s nail-biting 6-4, 6-7(4), 10-5 victory over Lea Romain on court one.

Santa Barbara is right back in action tomorrow at 10:30 A.M., continuing conference play as they host Long Beach State.

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A common cause of SCA is a disturbance in the heart rhythm, or ventricular fibrillation, which can be detected through screenings with the use of an electrocardiogram.

According to Sen. Jones, one in every 300 children has an undetected heart condition.

SCA is the leading cause of death on school campuses and the No. 1 killer of student-athletes, according to a San Diego County organization committed to providing screenings.

In 2009, Eric Paredes, a student-athlete at Steele Canyon High School in Spring Valley, was preparing to go on a family vacation. But when his father came home, he found his son collapsed on the kitchen floor. At just 15

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His parents started the Eric Paredes Save a Life Foundation to honor their son and commit to preventing other families from experiencing this tragedy by providing screenings.

“The underpinning of this initiative is the fact that about half of youth stricken by SCA had no warning signs or family risk factors that would’ve triggered diagnostic follow-up to identify their heart condition before tragedy struck,” Rhina Paredes-Greeson and Hector Paredes, co-founders of the foundation, said.

“The pilot is meant to provide a life-saving service to California youth while collecting the data necessary to continue to evolve the standard of care.”

Thus far, the Eric Paredes Save a Life Foundation has given nearly 35,000 screenings to teenagers, discovering 543 cardiac

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(The Center Square) – Baruch Feigenbaum is not a fan of government’s plan to phase out gas-powered vehicles in the Evergreen State in eight years.

“Ugh, Jay Inslee seems to be focused on one thing, making life more expensive for folks under the guise of ‘environmental protection,’” Mr. Feigenbaum quipped in an email to The Center Square.

Washington state’s Gov. Inslee recently signed legislation that sets the legally binding goal of ending gas vehicle sales by 2030.

Mr. Feigenbaum, senior managing director of transportation policy at the free market Reason Foundation, said that a statewide transition from fossil fuel-powered vehicles to electric vehicles in less than a decade is simply not realistic.

“The year 2030 is not viable,” he said. “2035 could work, but it would still increase costs for working class commuters.”

As an example of how this would boost costs, he cited Tesla prices.

“The Model 3 is the cheapest electric vehicle and it costs well over $40,000,” Mr. Feigenbaum said of Tesla’s most affordable electric automobile.

He had some good words for electric vehicles but thinks the cost is an impediment to larger adoption.

“Electric cars can be fantastic,” Mr. Feigenbaum said. “The Lucid Air has a range of 500 miles but it costs over $100,000 and is not in my budget or that of most Washington residents.”

The Lucid Air is an electric car produced and sold by Newark, California-based Lucid Motors.

Still, Mr. Feigenbaum is optimistic prices will come down over time.

“The best approach would be to let the market decide,” he said. “The electric car industry has grown substantially over the last 3 years and if you have the money (again not me) you can buy an electric car that is faster, quieter, and cheaper to operate than a conventionally-powered vehicle.”

Electric car adoption in Washington is already amongst the highest in the country with

registrations up to 17,140 as of November 2021, according to pro-electric vehicle website Recurrent.

EVadoption.com puts cumulative electric vehicles in the state between 2011 and September 2021 at 80,397, the fourth highest in the nation.

Another major headache with going all-in on electric vehicles is the limited driving range associated with electric vehicles, Mr. Feigenbaum pointed out, as well as the complication of locating charging stations.

“Charging stations are a problem,” he said. “There are several policies designed to increase charging stations, but I’m skeptical we will have enough stations in eight years for longdistance trips.

According to the Alternative Fuels Data Center, there are 3,796 electric vehicle charging ports at 1,570 locations in Washington.

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The Gauchos’ momentum started picking back up from there. Todorov and Wilcox combined for a big block. The Gauchos showed great reflexes with a Chalmers scoop going to Paragas, who redirected it for another unstoppable Wilcox kill to put the Gauchos up 12-10.

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On the final point of the night, McSweeney came off the bench and sealed the win with another ace that dipped into unsaveable territory off the net before being mobbed by his teammates.

UCSB will be on the road for its final four regular season matches, starting with back-to-back outings at No. 4 Hawaii on Friday and Saturday at 7:00 p.m. at the Stan Sheriff Center.

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Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 20111.6(j) a list of prequalified general contractors and electrical, mechanical, and plumbing subcontractors will be made available by the District no later than May 19, 2022 at lgonzalez@sbunified.org Prequalification packages are available through the Cybercopy at http://www.cybercopyplanroom. com. Pre-qualification questions must be directed to L.M. Sweaney at lynns11s@aol.com or leave a voice message at (909) 337-8302.

Prequalification packages must be submitted to L.M. Sweaney & Associates, P.O. Box 3187, Santa Barbara, CA 93130 (U.S. MAIL ONLY) (Voice Message: 909-337-8302) no later than May 12, 2022 [Note: Per PCC 2011.6 – must have submitted package at least 10 business days before bid opening].

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED VIA U.S. MAIL. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1773 and 1773.2 of the Labor Code of the State of California, the District has obtained from the Director of Industrial Relations, the general prevailing rate of per diem wages and the general prevailing rate for holiday and overtime work in the locality in which the work is to be performed for each craft, classification or type of workman needed to execute the contract which is available for review at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/statistics_research.html.

During the Work, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) will monitor compliance with prevailing wage rate requirements and enforce the Contractor’s prevailing wage rate obligations, with a copy of the same being on file with the clerk of the District’s governing board. It shall be mandatory upon the contractor to whom the contract is awarded, and upon any subcontractor under him, to pay not less than the said specified rates to all workmen employed by them in the execution of the contract, and to comply with all prevailing wage requirements set forth in the Labor Code.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 1771.1 of the Labor Code of the State of California, a contractor or subcontractor shall not be qualified to bid or engage in the performance of any contract for this project unless; (1) currently registered and qualified to perform public work pursuant to Section 1725.5; or (2) expressly authorized to submit a bid by Section 1771.1 and provided the contractor is registered to perform public work pursuant to section 1725.5 at the time the contract is awarded.

This project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. The successful Bidder will be required to post all job-site notices required by DIR regulations and other applicable law.

The successful bidder and its subcontractors will be required to follow the nondiscrimination requirements set forth in the General Conditions.

The District will be participating in the Disabled Veteran Business Enterprises (DVBE) Participation Goal Program pursuant to Education Code section 17076.11 and Public Contract Code section 10115.

No Bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of sixty (60) days after the date set for the bid opening.

The District reserves the right to reject any and all bids or to waive irregularities in any bid.

BY THE ORDER OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE SANTA BARBARA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT By: David J. Hetyonk, Interim Project Manager Planning Department Facilities and Modernization APR 3, 10 / 2022 -- 58145

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Pearl Social: “Beautiful Escape” The refreshing aromas and flavors of kiwi shrub, rosemary and lemon topped with brut make the “Beautiful Escape” precisely as it’s called — a beautiful escape at the first sip to an imaginary flower-filled meadow and the perfect way to say “Hello, Spring!”

Creative cocktails Acme eateries offer seasonal libations

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La Paloma Cafe: “Alta California” La Paloma Cafe honors its historical and indigenous roots by house-infusing dragon fruit, an indigenous fruit to the Americas, with Vermouth Oso d’Oro, turning them into frozen spheres crafted to keep your cocktail effortlessly cold.

ive new cocktails with special names for the warmer months have arrived at five popular Santa Barbara venues — The Lark, Pearl Social, Santa Barbara Wine Collective, Loquita and La Paloma Cafe.

Acme Hospitality’s bar team, led by Maximilian Hill and Natalia Fartan (The Lark); Maximillian Hill and Jason Barrow (Pearl Social); Sharlene Rubio (Santa Barbara Wine Collective); Ryan Lykins (Loquita) and Jorge Baez (La Paloma Café), has designed a new menu of hand-crafted cocktails, reflecting the change of season in Santa Barbara County.

Included are “Game of Wits” at The Lark. “Beautiful Escape” at Pearl Social, “Spring Spritz” at Santa Barbara Wine Collective, “Alta California” at La Paloma Café and “Bésame” at Loquita.

All seasonal cocktails are priced from $12 to $18, and they are available now and through the spring and summer season. email:mmcmahon@newspress.com.

Please see COCKTAILS on B4

Santa Barbara Wine Collective: “Spring Spritz”

Loquita: “Bésame” Bésame translates to “kiss me” in Spanish, and this seductive cocktail is cleverly flavored with passion fruit with an edible nasturtium garnish – it’s the perfect pairing to Loquita’s fiery and flirtatious ambiance and flavorful menu.

Nothing says the seasons are changing more than a spritz. This beautiful house-crafted “Spring Spritz” is made with the Collective’s House-Amaro blend and local sparkling wine to sip all season long on the outdoor patio.

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Horoscope.com Sunday, April 3, 2022 ARIES — Start the week by getting closer to your friends and building mature relationships when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your friendship zone on Monday. While it can be difficult to make and maintain friendships, setting healthy boundaries can help you build stronger bonds.

TAURUS — Start the week by doing some serious networking to develop solid working relationships when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your career zone on Monday. If you want to achieve something or reach a higher social status, it’s all about who you know.

GEMINI — After a long talk with a friend, you might realize that you were wrong about someone when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your expansion zone on Monday.

CANCER — Your relationships start to shift and change this week when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your shared resources zone on Monday.

Whether you’re moving in together or pooling your money, remember to set boundaries to keep the relationship healthy.

LEO — Start the week off right by negotiating contracts and making some deals when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your partnership zone on Monday. If you’ve been feuding with someone, Leo, this is a good day to bury the hatchet and move on.

VIRGO — Having someone to keep you accountable will help you be more productive when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your habit zone on Monday.

Whether you need a fitness buddy or are addicted to your phone, if you’re struggling with something, ask a friend to help you.

LIBRA — Your week begins on a fun, enjoyable note when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your pleasure zone on Monday. This is a great time to express your feelings to your partner in unique ways as you allow your love to bloom.

SCORPIO — Start the week by doing some serious adulting in your family relationships when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your family zone on Monday. You’ll need to show certain family members that you aren’t a child anymore.

SAGITTARIUS — If you need to have a serious conversation, do it when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your communication zone on Monday. This is a great day to set boundaries in your relationships while saying it in a way that doesn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. Be gentle, Sagittarius.

CAPRICORN — Friendship and money don’t mix, Capricorn. It’s a lesson you’ll learn very quickly when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your value zone on Monday. Set firm boundaries about your finances with your loved ones so you don’t ruin your valued relationships.

AQUARIUS — Your week begins with a serious wake-up call when Venus conjoins Saturn in your sign on Monday. Your relationships give you a new perspective on how you behave. You might have to do some growing up as you improve your manners.

PISCES — Your week begins on a quiet note as you reflect on your important relationships when Venus conjoins Saturn in Aquarius and your privacy zone on Monday. Whether you’re ending a secret relationship, moving on from a relationship you’ve outgrown, or blocking someone on social media.

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CASE IN POINT Elvira (not her real name) was haunted by PTSD for years following the end of an abusive relationship, and getting it under control was not easy. She tried many medications, none of which worked. She got counseling from some good people and did her own work, but she would still wake up in a state of anxiety every single morning.

When we started working together, I asked her to imagine, as often as she could, that the discomfort she was feeling was the negativity leaving her body.

Whenever a negative thought entered her mind, she would repeat this visualization exercise and would soon begin to feel okay again.

Before you can release a negative emotion, you must first notice it and recognize the negative thought behind it. Once you do, you can kick the negative feeling to the curb with the power of positive thinking.

In this way, you are taking control of your uncomfortable emotions instead of being run by them.

Elvira has a successful acting career, and she still has some bad moments, but she also knows they are only moments. To stay in a balanced emotional place, she continues to use visualization, journaling, psychotherapy and positive self-talk as her main

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others don’t respond to traditional treatments. Luckily there are many new treatments available, and you can find the right one if you look for it.

Even after you’ve worked on this, you may have to deal with the after-effects of a traumatic experience.

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IT’S A PROCESS Learning to let go of what triggers or haunts you is a dream for many people, and each of us has our own personal demons to slay. The big question is how do you let go? There are many answers to that question, and no one answer works for everyone, because we’re all different.

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Michael Steele to speak at UCSB

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

UCSB Arts & Lectures will present former Republican National Committee chair RNC Chair Michael Steele at 7:30 p.m.

April 21 at UCSB Campbell Hall.

Mr. Steele is a self-described “Lincoln Republican” who brings his experience from a lifetime in politics to a wide-ranging discussion about the key political and cultural issues of the day.

Mr. Steele, who’s an MSNBC political analyst, will aim to guide attendees through today’s fast-paced world of politics, transcending traditional political boundaries in order to dig deep and find real solutions.

Mr. Steele was born at Andrews Air Force Base in Prince George’s

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When he was elected lieutenant governor of Maryland in 2003, Mr. Steele made history as the first black man elected to statewide office and again with his subsequent chairmanship of the Republican National Committee in 2009.

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CAMA elects Edward S. DeLoreto to Board of Directors Community Arts Music Association of Santa Barbara, Inc. (CAMA), celebrating its 103rd concert season, has elected Edward S. DeLoreto to its board of directors.

Mr. DeLoreto has been a CAMA subscriber for 35 years, and a donor for over two decades.

He has supported CAMA through sponsorships of concerts including the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (twice), the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and the upcoming concert by the English Baroque Soloists (April 12 at the Granada Theatre).

Mr. DeLoreto is also a coowner and manager of Loreto Plaza in Santa Barbara.

CAMA, Santa Barbara’s oldest arts organization, brings the finest classical musicians from around the globe to Santa Barbara’s Granada Theatre and Lobero Theatre.

For more information on CAMA, please visit: https://www. camasb.org.

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Second annual Poetry Slam was a hit

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Students from San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara and Pioneer Valley and Righetti high schools in Santa Maria took top honors at the Santa Barbara County Education Office’s Poetry Slam competition.

The event took place via Zoom on March 31 to kick off April as National Poetry Month.

The first place winner was Makai Copado, a junior at Pioneer Valley High School, with poems titled “What We’ve Done Is What We know” and “I’ll Love You Forever.”

Madeline Miller, San Marcos High School senior, won second place with “The One About Sea Anemones” and “Song for My Sister.”

Third place went to Steven Villanueva, Righetti High School senior, for “Peaceful, Screaming, Golden Gleam” and “Hammer of Justice.”

The Poetry Slam competition, which combines performance,

writing, competition and audience participation, is a program of the Santa Barbara County Education Office Educational Technology Services Department. This year, SBCEO tapped the team at the Get Lit-Words Ignite organization, a Los Angeles nonprofit founded in 2006 to increase literacy, empower youth and energize and heal communities through poetry and visual media.

“Spoken word poetry provides students a stage to be unapologetic truth-tellers and to use the power of language and authentic performance to transcend human struggle and create beauty. It is art for collective healing,” said Ellen Barger, assistant superintendent of SBCEO Curriculum and instruction.

The students will perform their winning poems at the Juvenile Youth Empowerment Summit hosted by SBCEO in October.

For more information, contact Rachel Lawton at 805-964-4710, ext. 5222, or rlawton@sbceo.org. email: mmcmahon@newspress.com

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ASAP is kitty corner to Santa Barbara County Animal Services.

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• Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation, sbcanimalcare. org. (The foundation works regularly with the Santa Maria Animal Center.)

• Santa Barbara County Animal Services in Goleta: countyofsb.org/ phd/animal/home.sbc.

• Santa Barbara Humane (with

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• Santa Maria Animal Center, countyofsb.org/phd/animal/home. sbc. The center is part of Santa Barbara County Animal Services.

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• Shadow’s Fund (a pet sanctuary in Lompoc), shadowsfund.org.

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DID YOU KNOW? Bonnie Donovan

Race is on for schools position

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TRANSGENDER SWIMMER LIA THOMAS What I don’t know is the height and the weight of Lia Thomas, the trans swimmer for the University of Pennsylvania. A site called Ghanafuo.com (a subsidiary of DM Network) calling itself “an international news media and informational-based news outlet,” pegs the swimmer’s height as 5’7” and weight at 134 pounds.

Starsgab.com has him at 5’8” and 132 pounds.

Vimbuzz.com also has his height at 5’8” but weighing in at a whopping 215 pounds.

olitics is serious business The latest scheme is to have no challengers to the Democratic-appointed script reader.

No political race is possible without any choices. No debates, no platforms, no positions, no holding anyone accountable for their campaign promises, when we have no real chance of “electing” someone because there is only one contender. What a world.

However, the race is on -— for SB County superintendent of schools. Susan Salcido, the incumbent, is challenged by Christy Lozano, a schoolteacher, after Ms. Lozano’s victory in court where Joe Holland, the Santa Barbara County registrar of voters, was absolved for allowing the challenger to remain on the ballot. Mollie Culvers, a political lobbyist, filed a lawsuit against the challenger for not having adequate credentials.

We are happy that Judge Connie Sterne, who focused only on the law, found that the voters should be the ones who decide elections instead of politically motivated operatives and their attorneys.

What Ms. Lozano stands for has gained her national attention for her courage to go against the narrative and focus on reading, writing and arithmetic.

It seems to DYK that Santa Barbara elected officials, across the board, are being bullied

by Black Lives Matter activists into excessive spending of taxpayers’ money to satisfy their thirst for more power.

The Santa Barbara Unified School District Board just approved a contract with James Joyce III, aka Coffee with a Black Guy, at a cost of $8,100 for up to three meetings/consulting with junior high schoolers involved in a racial incident.

The reason, we suspect, the school district hired James Joyce was because of the three female BLM /Healing Justice representatives, who during a previous board meeting issued a list of demands, one being to hire black people as counselors, nurses etc. for the demographics of like on like (for black people). Is the school district endorsing the notion that henceforth, any student requiring counseling should be counseled only by a person of the same race? If so, do they have access to exclusive, Hispanic, Chinese, Korean, Native American and Caucasian counselors? If not, why not?

Remember, the SBUSD is accused of covering up 12 racial incidents over the different campuses. The district may feel under pressure of possible further investigation This incident was not reported to the police. However. the parents insisted on filing a police report, and the investigation is in the hands of the district attorney’s office.

Nick Masuda, the communications director of the school district, when asked if the school contacted law enforcement regarding the racial attack, responded, “Unless there is imminent danger, we contact law enforcement after the investigation has revealed a need. In this case, the Ed Code violations did not require law enforcement to be called.”

After the BLM demands, Mr. Joyce submitted a contract on March 9 to the school board for his “organic” conversation services. His contract was one of the consent items on the agenda March 15, which were passed without any discussion; which is normal for consent items. However, we wonder when it was brought to the table?

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Regular gas was priced at $5.759 a gallon last week at a Shell station in Goleta. The average price in Santa Barbara County Friday was $5.95 a gallon, according to the American Automobile Association.

Time to be energy-independent again

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t’s ironic. I’m reading a thriller novel right now, written a couple years ago, where the U.S. president was faced, in some respects with a similar crisis we are facing today. Mexican cartels blow up a refinery in Houston, and it immediately causes the price of oil to rise to $127 a barrel. Stock market plunges and the price of gas hits $6 a gallon.

The author was almost psychic.

The difference with the fictional female president and the one we have now is, in the novel she’s a leader.

She signs an executive order to put a temporary freeze on all environmental regulations related to oil exploration, production drilling and refining.

She removes all restrictions on drilling in federal land. And she

opens the door for new oil and Build Back Worse program, gas refineries. She also applies it we’ll have a Drill Back Better to coal and natural gas and fires policy making us powerful again up the Keystone pipeline and strengthening our again. She’s determined national security instead to make America energyof undermining it. independent before her Oil haters reading this first term is up. are having a conniption And within hours of her fit. This will make address, the stock market “climate change” even soars. worse! It would be their Her plan would also ultimate nightmare.

Henry stop the funding of global So, tell me this. We’re Schulte terrorism and prevent willing (have to) to bring shoving cash at people in oil from the Middle The author like Vladimir Putin so he East or Venezuela, all lives in Solvang corrupt countries, and can murder at will. (For all of you who care about pay extra to ship over Ukraine this is how you here because we want go about it.) In return America to do our part to fight climate would become the world’s largest change? That of course makes oil exporter and would create zero sense. What difference does thousands of high-skilled jobs. it make if the oil is drilled and Instead of President Joe Biden’s loaded somewhere else in the

world? Does that mean it will have no effect on climate change?

If you believe in climate change and oil is the evil culprit, then just because you can’t see it being drilled in Venezuela makes it all better, then you’re just deceiving yourself.

At least in the States, we have control on how it’s produced. In corrupt nations, they can do as they please and pollute the air.

Isn’t that defeating the entire point?

If we have full control of our own production, we also have full control on how it’s extracted as opposed to relying on some foreign land. We get all the profit, much cheaper cost for Americans and it just makes us great again.

This shouldn’t be disputable.

We have more than enough energy resources to take care

of ourselves and surplus to sell elsewhere. We’ve already proven it. Time to do it again.

And it’s time we finish the wall. No more messing around.

We need to button this country up. We can regain our energy independence and control our border. Maybe even start making our own fertilizers and antibiotics. Pull completely away from relying on the likes of China. Which by the way, owns 200,000 acres of American farm lands. That fact alone should cause shivers to ripple across our country.

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‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation is about appropriate curriculum

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know that the forces arrayed against revealing the truth about the so-called “Don’t Say Gay” legislation recently passed by the Florida legislature and signed into law by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are relatively small in number but extremely influential and because of that, very powerful.

I know that the truth of the “Don’t Say Gay” bill has nothing to do with the suppression of the reality of various sexual proclivities and orientation and everything to do with the appropriateness of introducing such subject matter to really young children.

In recent columns, I’ve chronicled discussions with Santa Barbara schoolteacher Christy Lozano (who, incidentally, is currently running for Santa Barbara County superintendent of schools) about the misguided

curriculum espoused by the school what kind of “health care services” district for kindergarten through are being offered and allows third grade and for fourth through parents to refuse to permit their sixth grades. Ms. Lozano children to access the finds the subject matter services they feel impinge PURELY recommended for those on their parental rights or POLITICAL grades inappropriate. duties.

Here’s what I know School are now also about the Florida required to notify legislation: Its main tenet parents about changes reads thusly: “Classroom in any student’s mental, instruction by school emotional, or physical personnel or third parties health situation. on sexual orientation or During his bill James Buckley gender identity may not signing ceremony, Gov. occur in kindergarten DeSantis held up a through grade 3 or in a poster illustrating “The manner that is not age appropriate Genderbread Person,” and he or developmentally appropriate for cited it as an example of what he students in accordance with state considers inappropriate teaching standards.” material for kindergarteners Perhaps more importantly, the up to third graders. The Florida bill not only allows parents to sue Legislature was merely responding a school district if it violates the to parental outrage at the material letter of the law, but it also requires and Gov. DeSantis, by signing, school districts to notify parents of expressed his agreement.

RUSSIA VS. UKRAINE What I think I know about the situation in Ukraine is that President Joe Biden and his handlers believed from the getgo that Russian troops would overwhelm Ukrainian resistance quickly and that “regime change” in Ukraine would replace President Volodomyr Zelensky with a more amenable leader, one who would bow to Russian demands when called upon to do so. And they seemed to be OK with that result.

What I think I do know is that rather than accept the U.S. offer of protection for him and his family (and presumably whatever other Ukrainian official who wished to take up the offer), Mr. Zelensky’s apparent willingness to stay and fight against Russian hostility took Biden et al by surprise.

“I don’t need transportation,” Mr. Zelensky historically said to

the U.S. offer of a free ride out of Dodge, “I need ammunition!”

It’s a statement that Ukrainian children will be taught for as long as there is a Ukraine that isn’t under a Russian thumb.

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Our cringeworthy maniacal state government

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he concept that the California Globe: AB 2098 the government would punish physicians and derives its just surgeons for “unprofessional powers from the conduct” for advocating for consent of the the potential benefits of governed is officially dead in early treatment with off-label California. drugs, or those who dare to Not merely dead, but really ask questions about COVID most sincerely dead. vaccine safety. The bill would “So what’s new?” you ask. reclassify the sharing of The Legislature is still using COVID-19 “misinformation” COVID-19 (and other excuses) by doctors and surgeons as to assert control on all facets unprofessional conduct that of society even though the rest would result in disciplinary of the nation has moved on. action.

AB 1993 (technically Under AB 2098, doctors “paused” at the would be subject to moment) would disciplinary actions mandate the COVID by the Medical Board vaccine for everyone of California and the in the public and Osteopathic Medical private sectors, Board of California if including all employees they do not adhere to and independent the approved COVID contractors who treatment consensus.

Andy Caldwell work in California. It Hence, in the imposes stiff financial name of “the science penalties on employers who is settled,” the California fail to comply. And there is legislature is on the cusp no limitation on the number of outlawing the concept of of boosters that would be second opinions, the once required in the future. definitive preventative SB 1464 was created protection against medical because numerous sheriffs malpractice. Too bad, there refused to enforce ridiculous is no law against legislative lockdown orders. Instead, malpractice! they were busy dealing with A particularly a bevy of serious crimes due reprehensible, non-COVID bill to previous instances of the is AB 2223 — which legalizes state Legislature being “stuck infanticide! on stupid” — i.e, adopting As reported by LifeNews, legislation that created a if signed into law, former “crime does pay” in California Philadelphia abortionist mentality among the criminal Kermit Gosnell, who class. murdered three infants born SB 1464 would force law alive after botched abortions, enforcement officials to could not be prosecuted. enforce public health orders And incredibly, someone — hence, the creation of like Dr. Gosnell, who helped COVID police. The bill would a California mother kill her prohibit state funds from newborn after birth, will have being provided to any law a cause of action to sue police enforcement agency that for investigating the matter if publicly announces that they AB 2223 becomes law. will oppose or adopt a policy Finally, one of the most to oppose a public health loathsome agencies in modern order. times was the Stasi of East There are many other bills Germany fame. The Stasi being considered that indicate was a most effective force that our state Legislature of repression and terror, as knows no bounds having to one author put it, while their do with the rights of parents people starved and plotted to determine what is best for to escape from California — their children. er, their clutches! Their core SB 871 would require all mission? Root out dissenting children, including infants voices and prevent people from to 17-year-olds, to get the challenging the government.

COVID-19 vaccine to attend Ergo, SB1390 “would childcare or school. punish disinformation or SB 866 would allow teens misinformation, including, from ages 12 to 17 to get the but not limited to, information vaccine without parental regarding medicine or consent, thereby exposing vaccinations, elections, and these children to the conspiracy theories”! As associated meteoric rise in defined by whom, you should myocarditis. ask.

SB 1479 would require schools to continue testing Andy Caldwell is the COLAB children on a regular basis. executive director and host of The Legislature is also “The Andy Caldwell Show,” attacking physicians with airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays on impunity.

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Contradictory messages about vaccines

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am confused by the different messages.

The FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention post helpful informational tools on their websites such as statistics and disclosures. However, mass media ignores the official information direct from the CDC and FDA websites when they provide the “news” and ignore public testimony from experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci and CDC Director Rochelle Walensky.

Such as what I wrote about last week where Dr. Walensky stated on CNN five months ago that COVID vaccines do not prevent one from getting COVID and they do not prevent the spread. Per the experts ,the vaccines only protect the individual by lessening the symptoms of COVID, much like NyQuil for the flu. NyQuil does not protect others, it does not prevent me from getting sick. So why are they pushing “NyQuil” on oriole and requiring proof that you took “NyQuil”?

Another thing I’m confused about is that the vaccines were given FDA emergency use authorization to “prevent” the disease and spread of COVID, but they don’t “prevent,’ which means they don’t do what they were promised to do anymore.

Per the FDA approval letter for Pfizer dated Aug. 23, 2021, “Under this license, you are authorized to manufacture the product, COVID-19 Vaccine, mRNA, which is indicated for active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 16 years of age and older.” (www.fda. gov/media/151710/download.)

“Prevention” is also in the FDA Fact Sheet posted at fda.gov, which was updated Jan. 31, 2022.

On the cover page it states, “The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to permit the emergency use of the unapproved product, Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, for active immunization to prevent COVID-19 in individuals 5 years of age and older” (www.fda.gov/media/153713/ download).

The national experts, like Dr. Fauci and Dr. Walensky. have been publicly stating for almost half a year that COVID vaccines do not “prevent” COVID or the spread of COVID (m.youtube.com/ watch?v=swlUv2SbmT8&feature= youtu.be).

In essence, the vaccines are “defective” for what they were authorized and need to be recalled and re-engineered so they do as they were promised to, as they were legally authorized to do, to prevent people from getting sick and prevent the spread of the virus. That is my opinion, do as you promised.

Yet the mass media, the White House keeps stating, requiring, that orioles get the vaccine knowing they are ineffective.

Why does the mass media and the White House contradict the scientific data and testimonies from the national experts Drs. Fauci and Walensky?

Why is our Santa Barbara County Public Health and our local schools pushing the vaccines knowing they do not prevent COVID? Perhaps the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department know something that Dr. Fauci

and CDC Director Dr. Walensky do not know?

I for one would like to hear from our Public Health to openly discuss why the current vaccines are “essential” since they do not prevent sickness and do not prevent the spread.

Brian Campell Santa Barbara

COVID-19 vaccines prevent most infections

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he commentary in the March 27 News-Press’ Voices section, “COVID-19 vaccine and its side effects” (by Brian Campbell), might mislead some people into believing that the risks of COVID-19 vaccination outweigh its benefits.

The writer cites the FDA, stating the increased risk of myocarditis after COVID-19 vaccination.

But a little further research into myocarditis and COVID-19, (Eur, Heart J. Vol 4.3, issue 9, May 2022 pages 855-856) reveals the following: “The reported CDC myocarditis/pericarditis rate was low—12.6 cases per million second-dose mRNA vaccine …”

Further, and more importantly, “By contrast, the incidence of COVID-19 associated cardiac injury or myocarditis is estimated to be 100 times higher (1,000 1,400 per 100,000 people with COVID-19) than that of vaccinerelated myocarditis” The writer also claims that “factual information from Dr. Anthony Fauci” is that the “vaccines are not working to prevent infection..”

I don’t know what Dr. Fauci may have said, but no one ever claimed that the vaccine prevented ALL infections. But it does prevent the majority of infections and serious illness and death in most (but not all) cases.

Again, a somewhat more indepth research shows a different picture. According to the CDC’s Jan. 28, 2022, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, “During October–November, unvaccinated persons had 13.9 and 53.2 times the risks for infection and COVID-19–associated death, respectively, compared with fully vaccinated persons who received booster doses, and 4.0 and 12.7 times the risks compared with fully vaccinated persons without booster doses.”

When making important decisions about our health, such as to vaccinate or not to vaccinate, it is important to look at the whole picture — the evidence and the data — and not rely on out-ofcontext snippets and politically motivated rhetoric.

George Bajor, M.D. Santa Barbara

Biden is ‘American Last’ president

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fter reading the letter “Biden leads coalition against Putin’s aggression” by Mr. (Robert) Baruch (News-Press, March 27), I say, take the blinders off.

Donald Trump was a strong “America First” president, and President Joe Biden is a weak “America Last” president.

Case in point: Under Mr. Trump, we had a secure southern border, America was energy-independent, the world including the Middle East was relatively peaceful (Abraham Accords), our enemies (China-Russia-Iran-N.Korea) were

held at bay and the interests/ safety of America came first.

Conversely, under President Biden, the open southern border is being over run (illegal-drugs-sex trafficking), our energy sector has been knee-capped, forcing us to beg for gas/oil from our enemies.

Iran via a bad deal with President Biden will become a nuclear state and threaten Israel. North Korea is shooting off ballistic missiles.

And Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, and China will, sometime in the future, attack Taiwan.

Furthermore, as far as NATO, President Trump threatened to pull out of NATO as a leverage to get European nations to pay their 2% (of their gross domestic product), instead of making America pay for almost everything.

Finally, Mr. Trump believed in “ peace through strength.”

President Putin never invaded Ukraine during the Trump administration because President Trump said he would bomb Moscow if Mr. Putin did On the other hand, Mr. Putin knew Biden was weak and hesitant, so he made his move.

As far as leading in Ukraine, Mr. Biden has been slow on sanctions and supplying weapons and aircraft.

In conclusion, the question of the day, will the slow, weak, incoherent actions of President Biden lead us into a nuclear World War III? I pray not.

Diana Thorn Carpinteria

Let’s stand together for liberty

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ticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” When we were young, we didn’t know there was power in those words. But we had confidence in the truth and could withstand jokes, able to laugh at ourselves, too.

Today we see far too many people indoctrinated to quickly take offense, who fear being canceled, so they toe the line of political correctness.

Conservatives, who should be able to stand by the facts they know are true, are intimidated. When most of the media are promoting propaganda that we know is not true, we need to stand together, a united front for the liberty upon which our country was founded.

The loudest voices are not always correct, and common sense can be our guide as we seek the truth. We know the difference between male and female, and the difference between right and wrong. We can foresee the results when we spend more than we have, because in our own lives we dare not make that mistake.

The frustrations are great as we look at what is happening around the earth. How have we become so intimidated by name calling? Those who are calling others racist are actually accusing themselves.

Describing dark-skinned people as oppressed and lighter as oppressors is an attempt to disenfranchise and disable the ones they claim to defend.

Equal opportunity is the important fact upon which our nation was founded, and is still offered to all of us as responsible citizens. It is time to reclaim the basics of Judeo/Christian morality that once were ours.

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e must formulate and put forward for other nations a much more positive and constructive picture … than we have put forward in the past.”

This is from the famous “Long Telegram” sent from Moscow to Washington by diplomat George F. Kennan in early 1946. This brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia provides an undeniable reminder that the world is difficult and dangerous, including old-fashioned military aggression.

The end of the Cold War did not mean the end of war.

On the contrary, the Cold War was a source of restraint on the superpowers – the Soviet Union and the United States – and on nations generally, whatever their military and economic strength.

The end of the overriding competition between the communist and anticommunist blocs opened the door for other conflicts and divisions to reemerge, as Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago has insightfully pointed out, now for many years.

This includes ethnic and border conflicts crossing the always insecure, often ambiguous national boundaries of Eastern Europe. Deeply rooted Russian anxieties about invasion and subversion emanating from their western borders are of profound importance.

The alliance against Nazi Germany, vital to victory in World War II, collapsed soon thereafter. Soviet leaders’ efforts to force Britain, France and the United States out of Berlin sparked four decades of Cold War. The Korean War made the conflict global.

The Cold War was essentially rooted in different conceptions of society and relations between nations.

The Soviet Communist Party was a passing political machine. More significant is enduring Russian insecurity and fear of invasion.

Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, Nazi Germany’s vast surprise attack on the Soviet Union – until then a military ally – enormously reinforced this fear.

Earlier, Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 had a similar effect. Though the leaders and people ultimately repulsed these invasions, the cost was tremendous in human, material and psychological terms.

As the Soviet Union was collapsing, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and advisers, in particular Secretary of State James Baker and National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft, proved extremely sensitive to history and sensible in developing policies and responses.

Bush was clear and emphatic that we would not celebrate any sort of victory.

As he put the matter, there would be no “dancing on the Wall,” referring to the heavily guarded barrier between East and West Berlin.

The Berlin Wall, built on the orders of Nikita Khrushchev in 1961, reflected desperation and fear in Moscow. The population of East Germany was literally flowing to West Germany through the open door provided by Berlin.

Mr. Kennan was among the most perceptive of the Cold War U.S. policy analysts.

He focused on traditional realist diplomacy, including awareness of conflicting national interests.

He emphasized contrasts between Soviet and U.S. leaders in experiences and outlooks. Direct human experience with brutal total war informed Moscow’s worldview.

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his week marks the 17th anniversary of the court-sanctioned murder of Terri Schindler Schiavo.

Under the order of a Florida judge who never bothered to visit her and an adulterous spouse-in-nameonly who ranted “When is that (expletive deleted) gonna die?” to one of Terri’s nurses, American legal and medical authorities supervised the cruel, two-weeklong starvation and dehydration of a profoundly disabled woman who was not terminally ill and who had an army of family members ready to care for her for the rest of her natural life.

Bobby Schindler, Terri’s stalwart brother, penned a tribute to Terri this week as a reminder to those who have forgotten the family’s landmark battle to save her life.

“It was 1990, for those who do not remember, when Terri, at the age of 26, sustained a brain injury resulting from suspicious circumstances while home alone with her husband, Michael Schiavo,” Bobby wrote. “Terri’s brain injury affected her ability to swallow and therefore she needed a feeding tube to receive nourishment.”

Michael Schiavo became Terri’s court-appointed caretaker since she hadn’t created a medical directive. But shortly after a

nearly $1 million medical trust dead. was established to provide for And that perturbed Michael her long-term medical needs, he Schiavo. Registered nurse declared he wanted to end her Carla Sauer Iyer, who worked life - and inherit the cash. Terri’s at the Palm Garden of Largo family fought Michael Schiavo Convalescent Center in Largo, all the way to the Supreme Court Florida, while Terri Schiavo was a and lost. Pro-life politicians tried patient there, testified in a sworn to intervene, but the judicial deal affidavit: “Throughout my time was sealed, and Terri’s at Palm Gardens, Michael death sentence was Schiavo was focused on unstoppable.

Terri’s death. Michael What I will never would say ‘When is she forget are the feckless, going to die?’ ‘Has she died callous corporate media yet?’ and ‘When is that lies about Terri and (expletive deleted) gonna those who defended her. die?’”

National outlets derided When Terri’s 39-page Michelle Malkin the Schindlers and autopsy report was attacked the “radical, released a few months after antiabortion, right-toher state-ordained murder, life Christian right” for casting gloating propagandists concluded doubt on medical experts who that it exonerated Michael Schiavo wrote Terri off as hopeless and of allegations of abuse. “No falsely mischaracterized her as trauma before Schiavo collapse,” “brain-dead” or on “life support.” a typical headline blared. But Here are the facts: As I reported on page four of the medical in my 2005 column calling out the examiner’s summary, what the lying media liars at the time, Terri report actually noted with regard was on a feeding tube. A feeding to possible strangulation was tube is not a ventilator. Terri was this: “Autopsy examination of her breathing just fine on her own. She neck structures 15 years after was capable of saying “Mommy” her initial collapse did not detect and “Help me.” And as many of her any signs of remote trauma, but, medical caretakers and parents with such a delay, the exam was have argued, if given proper unlikely to show any residual neck rehabilitation, Terri could learn to findings.” chew and swallow on her own as Indeed, the autopsy report well. She was disabled, not brainrefuted Michael Schiavo’s widely

disseminated claims in the media that she had an eating disorder or had suffered myocardial infarction. But if mentioned at all, news reports downplayed and buried those astonishing revelations (revelations which bore directly on Mr. Schiavo’s credibility regarding his claim that Terri would have wanted to die).

With regard to Terri’s alleged persistent vegetative state, most news articles inaccurately portrayed the report as supporting that diagnosis. But “(i)t’s always seemed to us that PVS isn’t really a diagnosis; it’s a value judgment masquerading as a diagnosis,” Stephen Drake, research analyst for the disability rights group Not Dead Yet, commented. “When it comes to the hard science, no qualified pathologist went on the record saying she couldn’t think or couldn’t experience her own death through dehydration.”

Diane Coleman, president and founder of Not Dead Yet, agreed.

“The core issues remain the same.

Protection of the life and dignity of people under guardianship, and a high standard of proof in removing food and water from a person who cannot express their own wishes. These are issues of great concern to the disability community - evidenced by the 26

national disability groups that spoke out in favor of saving Terri Schiavo’s life over the past few years.”

“The sooner we realize ... that we are battling a systemic, radical, anti-life, anti-Christian value-system, the more we will understand it is now our urgent duty to defend the medically weak.

If we don’t protect them now, it will be impossible to protect our own families if and when the time comes to do so,” Bobby Schindler warned this week.

Terri’s murder at the hands of a cabal of liars and grifters is more relevant than ever as Big Pharma, Big Government, Big Tech and Big Media elites conspire to undermine medical autonomy in the age of COVID-19.

As we have witnessed repeatedly over the past two years, the “Trust the Science” control freaks don’t take kindly - and never have to dissident families who dare question their authority.

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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Columnist recalls World War II as she watches Russian invasion of Ukraine

he first memory I return.To me, as a toddler, the have of my father trunk — as that is what it was — as a World War II seemed huge and its contents war correspondent exotic. An embroidered dressing is the red hat my gown from Kashmir for my mother wore when she took me mother. Silver bracelets from and my sister, Christina, to meet India for Chris and me. Three the Liberty ship my father was diamonds, wrapped in yellow returning on, after 18 months of tissue paper, for my father’s covering the war in China, Burma “three girls” (my parents bought and India. That was in 1946. I was a car with them). A wok and 4 and Christina was 6. utensils —to help my father My mother had written to my recreate the Cantonese dishes father, when she knew he was he’d learned to cook from his coming home after the Japanese devoted assistant, Jimmy Li. surrender, that she would be Ivory chopsticks for all of on Manhattan’s west side dock us, plus war buddies, whose wearing a red hat. My mother expertise in survival helped knew she would be among turn a cow barn into a charming a throng of waving home.They would families, fiancées and arrive now-and-then Calla Jones wives welcoming home for long weekends in Corner soldiers, sailors, airmen Weston, Conn., equipped and a handful of war with useful tools and The author correspondents, and she tales from their war lives in wanted to stand out. experiences. I grew up Montecito I wish my father had on these tales, told over captured in color the and over, always with, it moment he saw the red hat. But seemed, yet another vignette.

Kodachrome wasn’t yet available My father was an art director to war correspondents. His main at J. Walter Thompson when camera, the Speed Graphic, was he was recruited by the State used to record the war with more Department for his many talents. than 3,000 black and white photos As a married man with children, he’d taken for Uncle Sam. he was not required to sign up I do have, nevertheless, a flash for active duty. Nevertheless, of red in my memory bank and like many able bodied men of my father’s charming, colorfully his age, who also were exempt illustrated letters that he wrote from military service, they to my sister and me from the volunteered to fight for their CBI theater, that told and taught country in Europe or the Far us about his war. The letters East. I once asked my father why, were flown to us via his Air if he didn’t have to fight, he would Force buddies who piloted the leave his family to fight a war so planes (sometimes under enemy far away. fire), which carried my father’s His answer was simple: It’s colorfully illustrated pamphlets, what one did. that, as a member of the Office Having helped my father put of War Information, he wrote, together his account of those 18 illustrated, printed and dropped months as a war correspondent behind enemy lines, cajoling the in “High Road To China,” while Japanese to surrender. he battled pancreatic cancer, My best memories, after the I was fortunate to be able to letters, are the contents of my provide for my children a unique father’s “war chest” that arrived story of history they would not at our home in Pleasantville, Please see CORNER on C4 N.Y., a few days after my father’s

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illions flee Ukraine.

Where will they go?

Some want to come to America. But doing that legally is hard. A complex system is supposed to determine which people deserve to get in line to get in.

“The line is broken,” explains Reason Magazine editor at large Matt Welch in my new video.

For example, America has a nursing shortage, but immigration authorities turn away foreign nurses. A Mexican teenager who wants to help build houses might be admitted, but he’d have to wait 100 years.

No wonder people sneak across the border.

This month, President Joe Biden announced the United States would take in 100,000 refugees from Ukraine.

“He could snap his fingers and make it 250,000 if he chose,” says Mr. Welch, and he should, because “we’re a refugee country, and the people who come here tend to be the best.”

“But they could be the worst,” I point out.

Even the supposed “worst of the worst,” Mr. Welch replies, made America better.

That’s a reference to 1980, when Fidel Castro let 100,000 people out of jail and encouraged them to go to America. Some were his political opponents, but most were, as a Miami TV anchor put it, “bums off the streets of Havana - murderers, thieves, perverts, prostitutes.”

Mr. Castro assumed they’d cause problems in America.

But “that was wrong,” says Mr. Welch. Despite their past problems, “they enriched Miami. They added to the economy and didn’t detract from the people who lived there.” A study showed that the Cuban exodus raised wages of low-skilled Miamians.

Immigrants improved America even when we took in people who’d tried to kill us, and who we had tried to kill.

Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter eagerly took in refugees from Vietnam and Cambodia.

Mr. Reagan, campaigning for the presidency, said immigrants make us better. “They share the same values, the same dream.”

“He was bragging on this as a conservative and American value,” says Mr. Welch. “It is no Please see STOSSEL on C4

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Rein in big tech or cease to be a free people

n the precipice of the regime-defining 2020 presidential election, Facebook and Twitter committed their “Pearl Harbor attack” against the incumbent president, Donald Trump, and in dutiful favor of the regnant regime’s favored candidate, Joe Biden.

In an October move that would presage the collapse of the “public”-”private” distinction during the Biden presidency - as seen in press secretary Jen Psaki’s open bragging last summer of collusion with Mark Zuckerberg to censor COVID “misinformation,” and Eric Schmidt’s recently revealed role helping shape administration science policy Big Tech oligarchs dropped the hammer on the New York Post, a high-circulation newspaper, for its reporting on Hunter Biden’s now-infamous “laptop from hell.”

The laptop’s files demonstrated

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the notoriously troubled Hunter Biden campaign; he was rebuffed.

Biden’s venality, abuses of power There are myriad problems and general sketchiness of his with this picture. Most notable, foreign dealings. He and some of perhaps, was the undoubted his cronies remain under federal nature of the laptop’s authenticity; investigation for possible tax no one, not even anyone in the and money laundering Biden clan, denied at the violations. time that Hunter Biden’s In response to the computer was genuine.

Post’s reportage, Twitter One might normally deem locked the paper out such a detail important. of its own account for But the Big Tech over two weeks. Both powers, uninterested in Facebook and Twitter, something as mundane moreover, heavily limited as “truth,” immediately Josh Hammer or outright-blocked grasped the greater disseminating the Post’s imperative - to discredit URL for the laptop story. the story in, and even Crucially, the entirety of this to memory-hole it from, the sordid affair transpired less than collective public conscience. a month away from a momentous The entire saga was eyeElection Day. Sen. Josh Hawley opening. Purportedly “private” (R-Missouri) correctly demanded companies worked hand in hand that the Federal Election with their favored presidential Commission investigate whether candidate, evincing the lie of the Facebook and Twitter illegally “public”-”private” distinction issued in-kind contributions to the and exposing the sprawling, pan-

institutional nature of America’s Ruling Class. The Ruling Class’ ends sought were clear: Elect Joe Biden to be president of the United States. The means were then retrofitted after the ends were established.

Big Tech knew its role, and it executed its role flawlessly.

Never mind that, if such shenanigans were to recur in 2024, with President Biden as sitting president, such collusion would run afoul of the Supreme Court’s 1973 admonition in Norwood v. Harrison that the government “may not induce, encourage or promote private persons to accomplish what it is constitutionally forbidden to accomplish.”

Over the past few weeks, both The New York Times and The Washington Post, America’s two leading amplifiers of homogenous Ruling Class thought, corroborated and acknowledged

the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s laptop. “A day late and a dollar short” doesn’t quite cut it here; “a year and a half late and trillions of dollars (in national indebtedness) short” is more like it. Given the exceedingly close nature of the 2020 presidential election, Big Tech’s protection of the Biden family likely cost Mr. Trump a second term. (Which also means Big Tech cost Ukraine a Russian invasion; no sane person thinks Vladimir Putin would have invaded under Mr. Trump’s watch.)

Uh, can we “deplorables” get a redo?

A look back at L’Affaire Hunter, with the clarity of both hindsight and the Times’ and Washington Post’s recent self-serving admissions, ought to provide a clarion wake-up call. There are few more pressing imperatives Please see HAMMER on C4

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Continued from Page C1 district superintendent, requested all items be approved. The board president asked if there was any discussion and none ensued. His contract was approved for $8,100; will this be the cost of any racial incident?

Board member Laura Capps seconded Kate Ford’s motion to accept the consent items. We question if Ms. Capps should have recused herself, due to a possible conflict of interest with her working relationship with Mr. Joyce on the board of the Common Table Foundation.

We understand that any expenditure less than $10,000 can be approved by the board. However we still wonder what qualifies Mr. Joyce to work with children?

These families should have trained certified professionals.

We researched other available solutions. Some comparisons of fees charged by qualified professionals in L.A.: psychologists: $200-$300 for 50 minutes. Family law attorneys: $395-$595 per hour, Arbitrators: $1,000 per day. Los Angeles County judges; $1,200 per hour.

So why in heaven’s name are we paying Mr. Joyce $1,800 an hour or, $2,700 for 90 minutes, with a total of three sessions at $8,100 which is 4.5 hours to counsel some young boys? We could get a trained, black, qualified psychologist to do it for $1,350. Or a black, family law attorney to do it for $2,677. Or a Los Angeles. County judge to do it for $5,400.

In fact, in James Joyce’s contract with the district,, he, as “Coffee

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with a Black Guy LLC, founder and Chief Visionary Officer,” continues that “… he is a proven analytical thinker, speaker and writer who has a knack for addressing potentially tense situations head on, while creating ease and space for shared growth and development in the process.” Who says? Oh right, he does. And maybe some of his cronies.

The contract continues, “the client (SBUSD) wishes to retain CWABG services for a custom incident intervention package of developmental facilitated conversations.” Custom incident?

What? And the payment schedule: Not many contractors exact these terms — 25% ($2,025) due at time of agreement approval and the remaining 75% ($6,075) within 30 days after completion of first developmental session. (90 minutes). Paid in full, after one third of the job is completed?

Several issues stand out: Not

just the exploitive price, but also the confidentiality. Although the contract states, “The scope of this specific interactive experience will be available to Santa Barbara Unified School District, La Colina Junior High School community.”

The three 90-minute sessions facilitated by CWABG, deems it “… best limited to families directly involved in the recent social media video teachable moment.” What?

Further the contract reads: “Confidentiality: Any reports, information, exhibits, data, documents, or materials given to or prepared or assembled by CWABG under this Agreement shall be confidential and shall not be made available to any third person or organization by CWABG without prior written approval of SBUSD.” How will anyone know what happened? What focus, and what we got for what we paid? The whole idea is ludicrous, and smacks of the pandering of white people to woke

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bullyism. Wow – does that sound organic enough?

This may be his start in a lucrative career of consulting in education. Calculate 12 incidents at $8,100 equals $97,200. Do you see why it was written as one school in his contract? Over $10,000 triggers competitive bids.

However, Mr. Joyce may have rosier paths to follow. After all he has close ties with Laura Capps and is a board of director on the Common Table Foundation.

If Christy Lozano’s qualifications for superintendent of schools are questioned, shouldn’t the same be for James Joyce? We find he attended Ohio University as a journalism major. His work experience is as a reporter for a few regional newspapers, and he has had the title of director of communications for several politicians. He copied Coffee with a Cop to set up his Coffee With a Black Guy stand. Didn’t Lucy in “Peanuts” do that first? The Doctor is in — 5 cents.

It appears to DYK that the forces of indoctrinating our children with non-academic neo-political, social dogma, while failing them in true education, are fearful that Christy Lozano as the new superintendent of schools would reverse their grip on educational policies. Parents in Santa Barbara, take note. Your children’s future depends on their education and must be at the helm of those who are trustworthy. “It is time to clean out the Augean Stables in SBUSD.” 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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have learned in school. The collaboration was not only an act of love on my part, but a way for my father’s unique legacy to be handed down to grandchildren and future generations. That legacy is set against a historical background of adventure, romance and a sense of patriotism that might have stopped with my generation.

Fast forward to today. I was following Fox News Channel correspondent Benjamin Hall’s extraordinary daily briefings, along with the other Fox team from Ukraine, when I saw and heard about the ambush that killed a veteran war zone photographer, Pierre Zakraewski, 55, and Oleksandra Kuvshynova, 24, a Ukrainian journalist, and seriously injured Mr. Hall, 36. I immediately turned to memories of my father’s war.

Married with three children, Mr. Hall is the same age as my father when he volunteered to cover his war. Why would a young journalist, with so much living ahead of him, risk his life to report on an insane war, whose outcome depends on whether Vladimir Putin fails in his attempt to force Ukraine back into a “new Russia empire” or whether he pushes a red button to release weapons of mass destruction? There will be no enticing “war chest” for his children — just hours and hours of bloody, videoed devastation. I perhaps see talent and patriotism but no romantic adventures.

My father idolized Ernest Hemmingway’s war experience and his prose in “High Road To China” and the articles he wrote for Collier’s is Hemingwayesque.

His photographs and illustrations are, however, all his. I wonder

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Continued from Page C1 Most sites, however, place Lia’s height at 6’1” and weight mysteriously at “60 to 70 kgs” (no actual U.S. poundage mentioned).

Since one kilo equals 2.2046 pounds, that’ll put a 6’1” athlete at either a little over 132 pounds at the low end to 154 pounds at the high end.

What I do know is that would be one skinny athlete.

What I really don’t know is why this is a mystery at all. Aren’t all athletes weighed and measured before and after performances?

Isn’t the height and weight of any competitor a well-known factor in any coach’s equation?

What I do know by looking at a photo of Lia Thomas (there are none that I could find with other female swimmers), is that Lia looms large next to the competition.

HUNTER BIDEN’S LAPTOP FROM HELL What I know is that Hunter Biden’s laptop and all the

which war correspondents Mr. Hall and his colleagues admire?

With 24/7 coverage in horrifying images being sent nonstop via satellite and amateur cell phones, was going behind enemy lines in this murky fog of war worth the risk?

The heroes here are the Texan doctor and Fox team that got Mr. Hall out of danger and to Germany. Our enemies no longer follow the Geneva Convention that once protected the press.

In a FaceTime session with my daughter, Lucy, in Australia (she is married to a film photographer and they are very strict about what they allow the children to see), she told me their 5-year-old said he wanted to use “the war” for a recent show-and-tell. He had overheard his parents attempting to explain the war to his 10-yearold twin brothers. Lucy said she’d found a brilliant explanation for children on the internet, posted by a British mom. I looked it up and it was rather brilliant.

But I wondered if there was a way to explain the war visually to children without freaking them out. A picture, even a video, is still worth a thousand words, in my book.

The overarching geopolitical “domino theory,” which I grew up with, suddenly seemed possible by using LEGO blocks. Even a 5-year-old would understand that, if Russian President Vladimir Putin’s autocratic dreams aren’t stopped and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s are allowed to expand, a line of LEGO blocks tumbling one by one will be the unimaginable result.

The LEGOs could even be labeled — Poland, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Hong Kong, Taiwan just to start.

The first block, of course, would be labeled communism. There’s nothing new about that. information contained therein is and was real when New York Post journalist Miranda Devine revealed its existence just weeks before the November 2020 presidential election.

I know too that all the usual suspects – The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC and virtually all mainstream media — ignored or debunked the story without investigating its accuracy. I know that 50 members of the socalled “intelligence” community, including Obama-era Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Obama CIA Director John Brennan, signed off on a document alleging that Ms Devine’s NY Post story “had all the earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.”

I know that Hollywood celebrities and talking heads on every television network except for Fox Cable News Channel denounced the story as “fake news” and that they circled their Priuses, Mercedes and Lamborghini SUVs around their presidential candidate Joe Biden in order to protect him

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Continued from Page C1 you get into your electric car, all the plastic that makes it look cool, was not created by wind machines. And the electricity required to charge the batteries is produced by coal and gas and the tires that make it go round and round weren’t made by solar panels The day will come following the natural order of things when oil will eventually run out. Prior to that, more scientific headway will have been made offering even better solutions to provide man with its energy needs. But right now, the human race has been blessed with black gold to make our lives comfortable, safe and enjoyable. Don’t fight it. Enjoy it.

Think about Ukraine. Cities

that have been destroyed who lost their energy source have resulted in even more deaths because of it. Windmills and solar panels wouldn’t have done a thing for them.

Gas prices will hopefully come back down, but the crisis won’t go away unless we’re proactive. We’re always leading from behind. We become so complacent. Sadly, too many people still think they can rely on the government to take care of them. If we allow this socialist mentality to dominate our decisions, we’ll forever be at the mercy of foreign countries who hate us.

That is not who we used to be.

Let it not be who we become.

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

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Continued from Page C3 longer a conservative value.”

Today, conservatives are more likely to argue against letting in refugees, saying, as Ann Coulter put it, “Things can turn overnight when you’re bringing in these masses of people from very, very different cultures.” Then she joked, “And make it a hate crime to ask them to assimilate.”

It wasn’t entirely a joke. Some leftists call asking Latinos to assimilate “racist repression.”

More reasonably, many Americans fear that crime will rise if we let in more immigrants.

But that’s unlikely.

“They commit far less crime than native-born Americans,” Mr. Welch points out. He’s right.

Native-born Americans were 11.6 times more likely to be jailed than Afghan immigrants.

“It’s hard for us to process that fact,” says Mr. Welch. “It feels like it should be wrong, but it isn’t.

People who go to the lengths to get to this country tend to be less criminal than the native-born population.”

“What if they just feed off welfare?” I ask.

“Then they would be the exception,” he responds.

Immigrants, overall, collect less welfare than native-born Americans.

Still, people feel threatened when large numbers of

foreigners arrive. Polish people protested when Syrian refugees came to Poland.

But now Poles welcome Ukrainians.

Some call that racism.

“Maybe it is racism,” Mr. Welch responds. “But maybe when someone you speak a common language with, and have a common history with ... lives right next door, it’s just a different story. ... Can we spare a moment and say, they’ve just assimilated an astonishing number of refugees. And they’re not in tents in camps, shivering.

They’re staying with people in their apartments!”

That sure seems like a good thing.

Soon more refugees will come to America. Mr. Welch argues that we should let more in.

“America is an assimilation machine,” he says. “It’s something that we should do more of because we’re really good at it!”

I agree.

As long as people are peaceful, let them come.

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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This is one of Robert Arthur Jones’ illustrated letters to his daughters in 1945.

from this Mother of all October Surprises. Not a word was uttered publicly, not a sentence was printed that didn’t cast doubt on the article’s authenticity. All elements of the story were erased from virtually all social media and online information outlets.

And, I know that it worked. By suppressing this story, basementdwelling Biden’s victory was secured.

I know that The New York Times recently relented and declared that the existence of the laptop was factually correct but that no apologies were forthcoming.

THE ORDER OF SUCCESSION I know that, even if both President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were removed from office, we’d be facing the presidency of thirdin-line Speaker of the House of Representatives, San Francisco’s own corrupt and corruptible Nancy Pelosi, as specified in Title 3, Chapter 1, Section 19 of the U.S. code. And if all three were disqualified, Senate President Pro Tempore Patrick Leahy would be next in line, followed by Secretary

of State Anthony Blinken, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III, and so forth. Though Secretary Blinken seems like a decent fellow, our country should not be in this position.

And if the press had done its job with integrity, we would not be facing this dilemma.

THE UNTRUSTWORTHY PRESS I know, above all, that I will never trust another word written or spoken by any of those media outlets.

Ever.

And neither should you.

The mainstream media — via the above-outlined collusion with the Democrat Party, the entertainment industry, and Big Tech – has saddled us with a cognitively impaired president and an absolutely incapable vicepresident. What they’ve done is unconscionable.

That’s all I know.

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

invasion, something relatively secure Americans can easily overlook. He also reflects the blindness and bad judgment of the dictator who listens only to his own voice. The invasion of Ukraine is proving to be a miscalculation of devastating scale.

Mr. Kennan argued a fundamentally unproductive Soviet system would eventually collapse. Alliances with friendly nations were the key.

The European Union and NATO alliance provide frameworks for nations to

coordinate counter-pressures on Russia. The U.S. rightly emphasizes these established ties.

Mr. Putin’s Ukraine invasion has energized both organizations.

To learn more, read John Mearsheimer’s “The Great Delusion” 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.

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Continued from Page C3 in American political life in the year 2022 than to rein in the Big Tech oligarchs and to reclaim “We the People”rooted democracy from Silicon Valley technocracy. The Big Tech debate is often aired in the rhetoric and phraseology of “censorship” and “speech,” but the better way to view the debate is through the lens of sovereignty and republican self-governance.

When it comes to the Big Tech wars, the most fundamental question is a version of “who decides?”: Who, that is, will watch the watchmen?

The collapse of the “public””private” distinction, at least in the context of the Big Tech robber barons, resolves the question. We the People must decide; We the People must watch the watchmen. The rules

by which the 21st-century public square operates cannot be written in private by shadowy Birkenstock-wearing computer science Ph.D. dweebs. The underlying issues here are far too fundamental to our republic and our way of life. We must write the rules; we must reclaim our sovereignty from the woke titans of industry champing at the bit to impose an American social credit system.

If Big Tech can sway an election and ban a president of the United States, there is nothing it cannot do. All policy options must remain on the table to put Big Tech in its place once and for all.

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