Santa Barbara News-Press: October 04, 2020

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Lobster season fast approaching

International market struggles could prove for huge domestic boost this year DAVE MASON / NEWS-PRESS

Angela Walters Yates, former executive director of Animal Shelter Assistance Program, has been named the new Santa Barbara County Animal Services director. ASAP, which is kitty corner to the Animal Services shelter in Goleta, is a nonprofit that cares for cats.

Yates to lead county Animal Services By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Angela Walter Yates won’t have to move too far for her new role. Ms. Yates, the now-former executive director for the Animal Shelter Assistance Program, has been named the new Animal Services director for the county, a position she will officially take over starting Monday.

ASAP is kitty corner to the county Animal Services on the same campus on Overpass Road in Goleta. The cats are all adopted through Animal Services, and ASAP is the nonprofit that cares for the animals and provides them with support services. Ms. Yates will move into her new office this week as she looks to continue making an impact throughout the Please see yates on A4

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Henry Hepp, deckhand for Ray Kennedy’s fishing vessel “Rain Man,” celebrates the return of lobster season which is set to begin on Wednesday.

By JORGE MERCADO NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

With lobster season fast approaching, for some it means the return of one of the best seafood delicacies out there. But for Ray Kennedy, it’s a chance to return to the ocean one more time and enjoy doing what he’s loved nearly his whole life: catching lobsters. “I’ve been doing this for 30 years now and I believe I was fish in a former life, so I just always gravitate back to the ocean,” Mr. Kennedy, CEO of Defiance Seafoods and the man who runs the fishing vessel “Rain Man,” said with a laugh. “I have been a surfer, a spear fisherman diver since I was a teen so getting into this line of work has always just been natural for me.” For three decades, Mr. Kennedy has been involved in catching and selling lobsters, both locally and internationally. The official start of the lobster season is Wednesday, the first time fishermen can go out and legally catch and retain lobsters. It also means that this Saturday, for the first time in months, Mr. Kennedy will be there selling the special crawfish that’s only in season for about six months of the year. “There tends to be a little bit of lobster fever right about this time and people get a little excited about it and it’s a good thing to be excited about as far as I’m concerned,” Mr. Kennedy said. For years, Mr. Kennedy and his deckhand, Henry Hepp, have gone out and caught lobster during this time. This year will be no different as since it’s just the two of them, they can successfully adhere to social distancing guidelines. Unfortunately, the novel coronavirus

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Village Properties donated 1,000 jump ropes to local elementary schools this week through a partnership with the American Heart Association.

Jump ropes donated to local schools Village Properties partners with American Heart Association to deliver 1,000 jump ropes By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS ASSOCIATE EDITOR

Ray Kennedy, CEO of Defiance Seafood, said that the lack of an international market this year could lead to a big boost in the domestic market here in Santa Barbara and Southern California as a whole.

did hurt their selling capability to another country, specifically China. “We used to sell almost primarily to China but that market is gone. There is a lot of demand for our product. It’s a very hearty product and that’s why it’s well sought after on the international market because it can

actually make it to China,” Mr Kennedy said, adding that it had been their primary market for about the last 15 years because it can survive a 36-hour flight to the foreign land. Mr. Kennedy hasn’t ruled out that the market could return, but he doesn’t anticipate Please see LOBSTER on A3

As some elementary schools continue with distance learning, in-person education isn’t the only thing that students are missing out on. They have also been without recess. Combined with a surplus of screen time as students learn from home, many could be falling short of their daily physical activity goals. With this in mind, Village Properties recently donated 1,000

American Heart Association Kids Heart Challenge jump ropes to four local elementary schools. The AHA recommends that kids between 6 and 17 get at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity on a daily basis. The jump ropes will be added to the students’ lunches this week at Adams, Cleveland McKinley and Santa Barbara Charter schools aimed at helping meet this goal. Renee Grubb, owner of Village Properties, helped deliver the jump ropes on Thursday. She Please see JUMP ROPES on A5

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Classified............... A7 Life.................... B1, 4 Obituaries........... A10

Saturday’s SUPER LOTTO: 5-32-38-39-43 Meganumber: 11

Saturday’s DAILY 4: 4-0-8-2

Friday’s MEGA MILLIONS: 9-38-47-49-68 Meganumber: 25

Saturday’s FANTASY 5: 6-12-18-22-25

Saturday’s DAILY DERBY: 09-02-01 Time: 1:42.00

Saturday’s POWERBALL: 18-31-36-43-47 Meganumber: 20

Soduku................. B2 Weather.............. A10

Saturday’s DAILY 3: 0-1-4 / Sunday’s Midday 7-1-7


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