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Last week, after much arm-twisting, both houses of the state legislature voted overwhelmingly in favor of Governor Gavin Newsom’s last-minute effort to extend the life span of PG&E’s twin domed nuclear power plants at Diablo Canyon by five years. With a slashing heat wave poised to punish California for the indefinite near future, Newsom argued compellingly that without Diablo Canyon’s steady stream of carbon-free electricity they produce one-ninth of the state’s total electrical output brownouts and blackouts could wreak havoc on the fifthlargest economy on Planet Earth.
Legislature Votes Overwhelmingly to Extend Life of Nuclear Plant ENERGY by Jean Yamamura L abor Day in Santa Barbara will long be remembered for the 34 people who died in a boat fire off Santa Cruz Island. But this year, on the day before the third anniversary of the tragedy aboard the Conception, the federal court dismissed the seaman’s manslaughter charges against the dive boat’s captain, Jerry Boylan.
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Civil lawsuits have blamed the fire on the ship’s owners and inadequate Coast Guard inspections, but the legal arguments that led to the dismissal of the criminal charges against Boylan without prejudice, which means the government may bring new charges revolved around whether he had to be found guilty of negligence or of gross negligence.Boylan’spublic defenders argued that when it came to criminal acts, the government had to allege gross negligence, as per the plain meaning of criminal negligence described by legal dictionaries, treatises, and case law. In response, the prosecutors listed the failures on Boylan’s part both before and during the fire as demonstrating his “misconduct, negligence, or inattention to his duties,” as described by the manslaughter statute. Though Boylan was a longtime and respected captain for boat owner Truth Aquat ics, most of his crew was new; their experience ranged from one prior trip to about two years. Prosecutors alleged none of them received fire suppression training from their captain, and they didn’t know where the firehoses and pumps were on the ship. Also, Boylan did not set a night watch, even though he knew a fire broke out aboard the Conception’s sister ship the October before. The National Transporta tion and Safety Board (NTSB) cited the lack of a night watch as one of the main factors that allowed the fire to consume everyone belowdecks.Indescribing Boylan’s behavior, prosecu tors stated his words and actions were only of escape. After a crewmem ber woke to smoke and fire below on the main deck, he awakened the crew, and chaos ensued. Boylan called, “abandon ship” or “everyone out,” and the four crewmem bers jumped to the main deck, one breaking his leg. Boylan placed mayday calls at around 3:14 a.m., then leapt into the water. Prosecutors allege he didn’t use the boat’s PA system to notify the passengers of the fire. Instead, he yelled for his crew to jump into the water and to lower the skiff to get away. One crewmem ber who wanted to go back on deck to rescue passengers told prosecutors that Boylan said, “We can’t save them.”
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According to authorities, Sgrignoli may have been spotted close to the 101 and 1 highways near Gaviota Pass; he was wearing shorts and no shirt.
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Two sections of the federal homicide stat ute were in question: One included maritime jurisdiction; another section was for ship’s offi cers and is commonly known as seaman’s manslaughter which Boylan was charged under. Because the Seaman’s Manslaughter Statute’s Section 1115 and the “gross negli gence” standard hasn’t been interpreted by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, where California cases are heard, Wu drew a paral lel to the cases involving the other section, Section 1112. He observed that the difference between “slight” negligence as compared to gross negligence was one of “a degree, so gross and wanton, as to be deserving of punish ment,” quoting a case called Barbeau. Judge Wu then wrote: “It is difficult for this Court to understand why gross negligence would be required for an involuntary manslaughter conviction under Section 1112 but not for a conviction under Section 1115.” Judge Wu did recognize striking language from a case in Louisiana’s Fifth Circuit about Section 1115 and simple negligence as applying to commercial vessels operated by those who “daily have the lives of thousand[s] of helpless human beings in their keeping.” The passen gers belowdecks on the Conception had two ways out, and both were on fire on September 2, 2019. Prosecutors assert some were awake, dressed, and trying to escape as the captain abandoned ship. The Ninth Circuit will likely have a chance to rule on the issue of negligence or gross neg ligence for Boylan. The government planned to appeal the judge’s ruling, said Thom Mrozek, spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. n IN MEMORY: A memorial at Santa Barbara Harbor remembers each of the 34 people who died aboard the Conception on September 2, 2019.
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Boylan’s actions weren’t the only ones that doomed the Conception. The NTSB could not positively conclude the tangle of electri cal cords charging lithium-ion batteries were to blame for starting the fire, but the wires and batteries were high on the list of poten tial causes. The agency noted that some of the marine-grade wiring in the galley, where the fire started, had been replaced by belowstandard household wiring. Nearly all of the families of the victims have sued the Coast Guard for missing key problems during its inspections of the Conception, including the inadequate escape hatch that led only to the galley where the fire was roaring early that September morning. Legislation since the Conception fire has pushed the Coast Guard to implement stricter standards for overnight passenger vessels.
Manslaughter Charges Dismissed Against Conception Captain
Just three days later even with the pas sage of this monumental policy change 2,300 residents of San Luis Obispo County, home to the Diablo Canyon Plant, experi enced a five-hour brownout. Both sides for and against the bill claimed the power interruption demonstrated the rightness of their argument. It is all too obvious that the grid-busting threat posed by the convection thermals unleashed by the current heat wave
As far as the ruling that prosecutors failed to allege gross negligence against Boylan, the difference between gross negligence and neg ligence was seated in the common law under standing of manslaughter, Judge George Wu explained in 12 packed pages of reasoning.
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The Sheriff’s Office identified the one-year-old boy struck and killed by a car in Old Town Goleta 8/30 as Munir Delgado of Goleta. According to the Sheriff’s Office, Delgado was struck by a car on Nectarine Avenue not far from a neighborhood park shortly before 3 p.m. When emergency personnel arrived, he had already suffered traumatic injuries and was rushed to the hospital, where he later died. Drugs or alcohol were not a factor in the collision, and authorities said the driver of the vehicle remained on scene. There are no pending charges.
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The search continues for a Ventura man reported missing after hiking Trespass Trail near Gaviota on 9/4. Tim Sgrignoli (above), 29, was hiking with his girlfriend in more than 110-degree heat. Sgrignoli reportedly left to get help for his partner, who was experiencing heat exhaustion, and left her with his own cell phone. County Fire crews began an extensive search, and Sgrignoli’s girlfriend was located and rescued by helicopter.
The man struck and killed by a big rig truck on Highway 101 in Goleta early 9/1 has been identified by the Sheriff’s Office as Paul Douglas Larson, 30, of Lompoc. Larson was reportedly crossing from the right shoulder to the center divider when he was hit by a southbound semitruck, according to CHP. The driver of the big rig, who immediately stopped and called 9-1-1, was not injured or suspected to be under the influence of any drugs or alcohol. The incident caused major traffic delays, with a temporary closure of southbound lanes and bumper-tobumper traffic throughout the morning.
The Santa Claus Lane Bikeway project will be built between the freeway and the railroad tracks and will include a bikeway and turnaround, according to a statement from Kirsten Ayars at SBRoads .com. The construction will force closures on several
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The motorcyclist killed in the 8/31 crash on Highway 101 in Santa Barbara has been identified as Joshua Latham, 31, of Ojai. Latham was driving a Yamaha motorcycle and “traveling in and out of all traffic lanes, at a high rate of speed,” according to CHP, when he collided into the left rear of a Honda CRV just south of the Salinas Street off-ramp and was ejected onto the roadway, where he died. The driver of the Honda, a 61-year-old woman from Ojai, was reportedly uninjured. The crash is under investigation by CHP.
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On April 8, Providence gave Girls Inc. 90 days to vacate the property. The quick and unexpected notice wreaked havoc on the organization, Faust said. Programs had to be suddenly shut down and curriculums modi fied, she explained, with clients and their families blindsided by the news. “These are vital services that help girls stand up for themselves and navigate the world,” she said.
“So much has been taken away from so many people,” Faust went on, noting the Eastside organization serves more than 1,200 Santa Barbara County residents every year. “The resources that should be going to support girls and teens are instead being diverted to this really unfortunate situation. It’s more than disappointing for us it’s heartbreaking.”Thecaseisbeing heard by Judge Colleen Sterne. The next hearing is scheduled for October 10. n
by Tyler Hayden G irls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara was the victim of a real estate bait-andswitch, a new lawsuit alleges, in which a development firm purchased the nonprofit’s Ortega Street property with a promise to lease it back to Girls Inc., only to flip it to another buyer who then forced the organization out. “This is hard for us,” said Girls Inc. CEO Jen Faust, of litigating the dispute after talks between the parties failed. “But at this point, we feel it is the best way to stand up for our rights.” The suit, which alleges misrepresen tation, breach of contract, and other civil violations, seeks to rescind both sales and also asks for damages. Robert Forouzandeh, an attorney repre senting the development company, Presidio Capital Partners, called the lawsuit “frivo lous” with “absolutely no basis in fact.” The buyer, Providence School, also said the com plaint had no merit. “[W]e are vigorously defending against the action as we take all appropriate legal steps to protect the school,” said Head of School Soo Chang. The saga began in July 2021 when Girls Inc., grappling with pandemic-related losses in revenue and looking to reduce overhead, decided to sell the Eastside property it had occupied for 65 years and use the proceeds to support a new and nimbler way of serv ing the community through on-site part nerships with schools, community centers, and other youth programs. The nonprofit decided it would look for a buyer who would allow Girls Inc. to remain at the property for at least a year, and up to two and a half years, as it gradually wound down operations with as few disruptions as possible. The property was listed that September, and by October, Girls Inc. had received an offer of $7.75 million from Providence, a private Christian school that planned on building a new campus for its middle and high school students. Girls Inc. declined the offer, however, when it learned Providence would not be able to abide by the extended leaseback requirement, the lawsuit states. Shortly thereafter, Girls Inc. received a second offer, this time from Presidio Capi tal Partners, who offered $7.5 million. But unlike Providence, the complaint continues, Presidio said it was willing to give Girls Inc. the time it needed to relocate and reorga nize, as the company expected it would take at least two years to secure the necessary city approvals to construct the new hous ing it was planning for the site. Based on that representation which Girls Inc. says was made multiple times to multiple board members in numerous emails and conver sations the nonprofit agreed to sell to Presidio. Escrow closed February 11, 2022.
The nonprofit’s staff of 50 was also left in the lurch, Faust said.
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Just five days later, the lawsuit claims, Pre sidio sold to Providence in an all-cash trans action for $8 million, representing a quick $500,000 profit. Negotiations between Pre sidio and Providence had apparently been taking place throughout the escrow period, the lawsuit states, with Girls Inc. intention ally kept in the dark. “Girls Inc. was stunned to learn the faith and confidence it had placed in Presidio was broken,” the com plaint says. “In addition to Presidio’s broken promises, Providence, knowing the reason that Girls Inc. decided against accepting its offer, decided to then circumvent Girls Inc.”
Girls Inc. was given 90 days to vacate the Ortega Street property after development firm Presidio Capital Partners resold the property to Providence, a private Christian school
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The mysterious and suspicious circumstances surrounding the suspected homicide of 96-year-old Montecito resident Violet Evelyn Alberts this May just got more mysterious and suspicious. During last week’s Board of Supervisors hearing on the status of the District Attorney’s Real Estate Fraud task force, it came out that Alberts had been targeted in an alleged real estate fraud scheme concocted by Pauline Macareno, a Porter Ranch real estate operator, a few months prior to Alberts’s demise. Moreover, it was revealed Alberts had filed legal action against Macareno in March of this year. Macareno is currently being held in Santa Barbara County Jail on charges of identity theft, forgery, theft from an elder, and burglary, all involving a change of title Macareno allegedly had effectuated on Alberts’s $4 million Montecito residence. These crimes allegedly took place between September 2020 and March 2022. Sheriff’s investigators are still investigating the cir cumstances surrounding Alberts’s death. No related charges have been filed against Macareno. Alberts lived alone and the cir cumstances of her death were deemed to be “suspicious” by sheriff’s investigators who found her body early on the morn ing of May 27. In July, the Sheriff’s Office announced it was treating her death as a homicide.HowAlberts’s path crossed with Macareno’s remains unclear, but at some point Macareno reportedly transferred the title of Alberts’s home to a new entity Violet Evelyn Alberts LLC reportedly without Alberts’s knowledge or consent. It was that action that gave rise to Alberts’s lawsuit against Macareno. Initially, Macareno had been released on $1 million bail for the identity theft and fraud allegations, but on August 8, The Bail Boys Bail Bonds revoked her bail; as a result, Macareno remains in custody. According to a court document filed by Bail Boys, Macareno repeatedly failed to check in with the bail company daily, a condition of the bail. The defendant was “explicitly reminded” of her responsibility to do so no fewer than seven times.
COURTS & CRIME S.B. Police arrested Dillon James Joseph Johnson, 34, on 9/1 on murder and numerous felony narcotics charges stemming from the fentanyl-induced overdose death of a 30-year-old male whose body was discovered behind a building on the 100 block of State Street on 4/29. This is the first time anyone has been charged with murder in connection with a fentanyl overdose in the county.
Another red flag, according to the bail agent Atiana Duran, was that Macareno had initially used a North Hills property for her bail collateral that was listed as the business address for Violet Evelyn Alberts LLC, the very entity by which the alleg edly fraudulent conveyance had taken place. Duran expressed concern about using property associated with the alleged victimization of Alberts as bail collateral against charges of real estate fraud and identityDurantheft. also speculated that Macareno had sought to conceal this property’s murky association with that alleged fraud from the bail bond company by submit ting an application to substitute another property as collateral. In this case, the sub stitute property, a Santa Paula garage, was already in financial default. Macareno is now represented by crimi nal defense attorney Ron Bamieh, who explained he’d only just received the dis covery documents and could not com ment other than to say he’d “do a hell of a job” representing his client. Nick Welsh
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The County Riding and Hiking Trails Advisory Committee met 9/6 to discuss a disputed proposal to change part of the McMenemy Trail in the foothills above Montecito. The new route would move the trail to the north down a canyon and along a scarp to join the San Ysidro Trail.
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Described in police documents as a “transient,” Johnson was arrested on the 7100 block of Hollister Avenue and booked at the County Jail, with bail set at $1 million.
The Montecito Trails Foundation’s Ashlee Mayfield explained the existing switchbacks had erosion issues, while opponent Dave Everett stated the new route had stability issues. The Advisory Committee decided they would get the full picture at the meeting on 10/10.
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PRESCRIBED HERBIVORY: The hills are alive with the sound of 900 grazing sheep in Tepusquet Canyon.
T he fight against fracking off the California coast still isn’t over. Last Wednesday, the Department of Justice asked for a new hearing to again hash out whether an environmental review is required before fracking and acidizing permits are given to oil companies. Their moving papers are deeply in the regulatory weeds but argue that the appeals court ruling could affect offshore wind energy. Back in 2012, the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) discovered the feds had issued 51 permits to frack and acidize off shore wells, including in the Santa Barbara Channel. “Put simply,” said EDC Chief Counsel Linda Krop, “we caught the govern ment issuing permits for these really risky and polluting practices on our platforms. They’ve been told twice now that they can’t do that until they follow the environmental laws. But instead of doing that, they keep asking for relief ... they keep fighting us,” Krop said on Thursday. One of the red herrings in the feds’ lat est petition is the implication that offshore fracking is gone. Krop agreed the existing permits had expired but said the only rea son no new permits had been issued was because the EDC had won an injunction to block them until environmental review was completed. And the oil companies definitely wanted to resume well stimulations; they’ve intervened in the case against environmen tal review and asked for exemptions from theTheban.petition also warns that the prec edent set in the appeals court ruling could affect permits for offshore wind. “They’ve never brought this up before,” Krop said. “To get the second bite at the apple, they have to show that the appeals court was not only wrong but that it’s important. They’re trying to elevate the importance of this by expanding this to wind.” The ruling didn’t seem to be affecting offshore wind permitting, however. Krop pointed out that federal leases off Hum boldt and Morro Bay recently got approval from the California Coastal Commission.
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Move over, Smokey Bear; make room for about 900 sheep, specially programmed to devour around 400 acres of grasses in dangerous abundance beneath the steep oak canopies of Tepusquet Canyon. At least, that was the county supervisors’ message last week when approving a $250,000 contract with Cuyama Lamb LLC to do just that. Thus far, the sheep have devoured much of the grassy understory of 194 acres with another 200 to go. The sheep don’t feed on the pulpier chaparral that burns much hot ter, but instead on the quick-flash grasses that burn without much provocation and spread in even a slight breeze. “They do a good job,” said County Fire Marshal Rob Hazard. When the sheep are through, he said, they leave a landscape that looks profes sionally weed-whacked and raked up. What would cost hand crews $5,000-$10,000 an acre to clear costs Cuyama Lamb LLC $500$800 an Goats,acre.Hazard said, are somewhat bet ter in attacking the chaparral but are more prone to spreading the seeds of exotic and invasive species in their droppings. The term of art for this practice, Hazard noted with rueful appreciation, is “prescribed herbivory.”Thisisjust one ingredient in a much bigger, multi-pronged, multi-year plan to reduce the fire risk of 42,500 fire-prone acres of Tepusquet Canyon, for which $6.4 mil lion in state and federal grants have been obtained. Hazard said another $1.9 million grant has just been secured to use sheep to clear about 3,000 grassy acres almost all the way from Gaviota to Montecito. “None of this is costing the county a dime,” Hazard stated. It all starts with cap-and-trade money generated by the state to reduce greenhousegas emissions in the first place and then trickles down to CalFire’s Climate Change Fire Prevention program. Also included in this package will be 32 miles of roadside fuel reduction, 2,064 acres of controlled burns, 138 acres for strategic fuel breaks, and the creation of community defensible space zones. But for now, it’s the sheep, all 900 of them.
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Legislators representing the Central Coast have been emphatically ambigu ous in their reaction to the bill. Congress member Carbajal is wary of anything that might intrude upon the Morro Bay wind project. The shorter-term license extension, Carbajal stated, helps do that. Still, he voiced concerns. “But the right decision in a cri sis, if made without adequate outreach and thought, can still be a wrong one,” he stated. Since Newsom first floated the idea in April, Carbajal pushed the governor to reach out far more than he had to the San Luis Obispo community. Newsom’s outreach, Carbajal said, had improved since then, but he added that many key decisions remain to be made before the plant can be relicensed. “I have made it clear that consistent outreach to the Central Coast,” he said, “was necessary.”
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Critics of the bill contend that those federal funds are eligible only to power plants suffer ing financial hardship; Diablo Canyon, they insist, does not meet that requirement. In the face of intense opposition and the prospect of staggering environmental mitiga tion costs, PG&E had negotiated a deal with a coalition of environmental organizations in 2016, agreeing not to seek license renewal. Shortly thereafter, the state legislature would ratify this deal. Last week’s action changes all that.
State Senator Monique Limón did not vote for or against the bill but rather chose to abstain. Limón expressed pride that her involvement prior to the vote led to improve ments to the bill, but she said the final draft does not fully address her concerns related to safety and ratepayers. The final bill, she said, did not guarantee reliability and allowed “a level of shareholder profit” that caused her pause. “I have concerns about the storage of spent nuclear waste,” she said, “and the prox imity of the plant to four seismic fault lines and limited ratepayer Assemblymemberprotections.”SteveBennett voted for the bill but expressed reservations of his own in an interview two weeks before the vote. Bennett was not happy that the state failed to push for the production of alterna tive green energy sources as soon as it knew Diablo Canyon was going offline. But as a practical matter, he understood the outcome was a foregone conclusion. Supply-chain issues have slowed down the transition from traditional carbon-based energy sources to alternative sources. In that context, Bennett said he would push to maximize the use of hydrogen technology as a vehicle to store solar and wind energy during peak use hours typically the early evening when the sun has gone down. n
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Under the revised plan, the California Coastal Commission would have some lim ited permitting authority; initially, there had been no room for any such oversight. And lastly, the Governor agreed to throw in $1 billion in additional funding for solar power and other non-carbon-based forms of energy. (That brought the total of such investments approved in the last day of this year’s legislative session to $54 billion.) What still remains is the $1.4 billion forgiv able loan the State of California will extend to PG&E to secure the permits necessary to extend its licenses with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission to the years 2024 and 2025. This loan, however, will be paid out in phases. If PG&E fails to secure any por tion of the $6 billion the federal government seems intent on setting aside to keep the plant humming, then the state would cut its losses.
T he Santa Barbara–Santa Maria metropolitan area won the dubious distinction of having the biggest gap between wages and rents for millennial renters out of all mid-size cities detailed in a recent housing report issued by Filterbuy, a national company that sells home air filtration systems. Using data accumulated by the U.S. Cen sus Bureau, Filterbuy concluded that in the Santa Barbara–Santa Maria market, mil lennial workers ages 24-39 made 61.5 percent less than what they needed to afford renting a one-bedroom apartment with out spending more than 30 percent of their wages as rent. According to the data provided by Filterbuy, wage earners in Santa Barbara would need to take home $87,080 in order to pay only 30 percent of their earnings on a median-priced one-bedroom apartment. In second place on Filterbuy’s list of the top 15 cities with the highest wage-rent gaps in the country was Oxnard at 51.1 percent. Among bigger cities, Los Angeles ranked first, San Francisco fifth, and San Jose seventh. During COVID, the gap between what it cost to rent and the pay for millennial workers narrowed somewhat because of emergency rent control ordinances and emergency tenant protections. But nation ally, rents have jumped by 17.6 percent since 2021 and another 6.7 percent in 2022. Wages have gone up somewhat because of the COVID-induced shortage or avail able employees, but not nearly enough to offset years of wage stagnation. According to Filterbuy’s report, median hourly wages have increased by 6 percent since 2014, while median rents have gone up 25 percent throughout the United States in that same time. Nick Welsh
have exposed the vulnerabilities of the state’s electricalLobbyinggrid.was intense on all sides. Although the bill SB 826 would sail through with 101 aye votes and only four against (16, includ ing Santa Barbara’s State Senator Monique Limón, would abstain), the environmental opposition exacted some concessions. The license for the Avila Beach facility was for only five years, not the 10 years that Gover nor Newsom first proposed. (For proponents such as Santa Barbara Congressmember Salud Carbajal, supporting the massive wind energy project now under consideration off the coast of Morro Bay, that’s significant.)
As for the upcoming candidates’ forum between Hart and Stoker, I’m hoping whoever moderates asks Mike to explain “Lock ’er up.” I’m hoping he might amend that to “Lock him up, too.” If I had a farm, I wouldn’t bet it. —Nick Welsh
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But at the time, Benghazi was the subject of more government hearings, investigations, inquests, probes, reports, and leaks than per haps any time in human history. It was for a very long moment the single most overreported story in American journalism. It may still be.
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If I have it right, Clinton ran about 30,000 emails through her personal server related to her work as Secretary of State along with another 30,000 or so personal ones. Not one of these work emails indicated they contained classified information. In fact, it turned out, 110 should have been stamped classified 65 of them were later deemed “Secret” and 22 “Top Secret.” Another 2,100 were reclassified, after the fact, as “confidential” info. The FBI undertook two investigations. Twice it found Clinton guilty of sloppiness and carelessness; twice it concluded no criminal charges were warranted. Had Clinton heeded advice offered early on, she would have put all work communications on a government-protected server, but she chose notForto. that, “Lock ’er up?” Okay, then what about the 300 obviously marked classified documents over which Trump is now claiming after-the-fact executive privilege. Some of these contain such top secret information that the agents executing the search needed their clearances upgraded just to look at them. Some of these are so top secret that they remain off-limits to many high-ranking Biden administrators. NowtheWashington Post yes, I know, the lick-spittle lackey doormen for the Deep State reports some of the documents contain details about the nuclear capabilities and military defenses of unnamed foreign governments. Yes, it’s true there’s a dangerous tendency to overclassify documents. But all these were clearly and dramatically marked as “classified.” About the only things missing were the radioactive skull and crossbones. As a result, files including the identity of “human assets” might have been strewn around Trump’s country club along with his news clippings and old underwear. I like Mike Stoker. I can’t help it. It’s a failing of mine even though he declined however graciously to participate in a candidates’ forum jointly sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Independent were I to have moderated. He said I was too biased My feeling was hurt, but truthfully, I was also relieved. Those things take a lot of work. And he wasn’t wrong. As far as Republicans go these days, Stoker is the one-eyed man among the army of the blind
First, Mike Stoker is back. This time, he’s running for State Assembly in November against Gregg Hart, the 2nd District county supervisor, an experienced bureaucratic apparatchik, and long the Democratic Party’s resident grown-up in the room. When deciding between these two, I think “Lock ’er up” qualifies as a relevant data point. I suspect it’s the main reason Trump later appointed Stoker to run the West Coast Division of the Environmental Protection Agency. Second, what’s now unfolding at Mar-a-Lago with the boxes of classified documents Trump took as mementos of his days in the White House makes anything Clinton did or even may have done pale in comparison. On a scale of severity, Clinton’s offenses were akin to forgetting to lock your car at night and perhaps leaving your lights on. Trump’s transgressions, by comparison, are like leaving the uranium pellets needed to power the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in a shopping cart in a Costco parking lot alongside several boxes of the best screw-top Chablis.
The main problem is that your doctor has told you to just live with the problem or try the drugs which you don’t like taking because they make you feel uncomfortable. There is now a facility right here in Santa Barbara that offers you new hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity consultation at the end of this article). Nearly 60% of Peripheral Neuropahty patients are Diabetics. ref: The foundation for Peripheral Neuropathy. June 2018
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To his credit, he’s never espoused Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was somehow stolen.
To the extent election fraud may have taken place, I believe Stoker said, it was not sufficient to change the results. In today’s context, that qualifies Stoker as a moderate Republican For this, we should be grateful?
So why dredge all this up now?
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DISTANT KARMA: It may be worth recalling how members of the California delegation at the 2016 Republican convention that nominated Donald Trump for president were stricken with the viru lent norovirus virus. This induces an especially explosive form of retching and diarrhea. Nature, it seems, was trying to warn us. Mercifully spared from this outbreak was Santa Barbara perennial Republican warhorse Mike Stoker, ever ebullient in both his ambi tion and enthusiasm. Seized by the passions at that convention, Stoker famously launched the chant that would shake the world. “Lock ’er up,” he shouted to the crowd. “Lock ’er up,” the crowd shouted back. It was like church. The “’er” in Stoker’s equation, of course, was Hillary Clinton, the Democrat candidate run ning against Trump for president. The ostensible reason for locking ’er up had something to do with Clinton’s stubbornly stupid insistence upon using her own private e-mail server and Black Berry devices instead of the federal government’s when she served as Secretary of State under Barack Obama. This reckless disregard for basic security protocol, it was breathlessly intimated at the time, somehow implicated Clinton in the deaths of four Americans killed during an attack on the American Embassy in Benghazi, Libya, which took place 10 years ago this week. Since then, we have mercifully expunged all memory of Benghazi and the attendant “Beng hazi-gate” scandal. See, the brain does heal itself.
But no, it did not help Trump beat Clinton, as Clinton herself has long insisted. Instead, it helped Clinton always her own worst enemy despite the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that in fact has dogged her every step beat Clinton. And she did so decisively even though she won 3 million more votes than he in the popular count.
Taxing the Sun I n case you were not aware of this, the utility companies are trying to create a solar tax for households that have solar panels! This actually affects everyone and not just people who have panels (I personally do not have solar panels).
If Californians continue to place solar pan els on their own roofs, we can also help protect open space instead of converting open space into utility-scale solar farms. We have all seen the endless “sea” of utility-scale solar farms while driving through the California deserts. The util ity companies make tons of profit off of those government-subsidized utility-scale solar farms out in the desert.
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“L andlords operate on very thin margins in Santa Barbara.” That’s the first of many unsupported claims made in the Voice titled “Rent Control Will Harm the Poor” in last week’s paper. Not just unsupported; in my experience, it’s laughably untrue.
The people of California need to tell Governor Newson to choose the people and not the util ity companies. If you are still interested, follow: solarrights.org/utilityprofitgrab —Amy Plesetz, Carpinteria
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My landlords have been consistently and sig nificantly in the black, a circumstance that’s not hard to achieve when the house has been owned for more than a few years. Oh, but wait, his bio says the author, Jeffrey Harding, is a real estate investor and adjunct real-estate investment professor. The author’s concerns are driven by a “real estate as an invest ment” agenda, not “real estate as a place to live.” In many markets, 20-30 percent of recent single-family home sales have been to investors, with the intent of offering them for rent. Mini mizing the down payment, as an investor would seek to do, means maximizing the monthly rent to cover the costs of servicing a larger mortgage. These are the people Mr. Harding is watching outForfor.each category of Santa Barbara rentals (single-family homes, apartments, etc.), I would like to see the following breakdown for purchases made for investment purposes: percent bought within the last three years, percent owned for five years, percent owned for 10 years, and so on to 25 Theseyears.data would speak to the profit margins on which Santa Barbara landlords operate.
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—David Jonathan, S.B. Vote for Democracy D uring the January 6 hearings, we’ve heard from former members of the Trump admin istration and Republican state officials about how Trump and his allies worked together to try and overthrow our democracy because the 2020 presidential election didn’t go their way. Now, they’re working to make sure all of our elections go their way in the future, whether we vote for them or Already,not.Trumpers in office have changed state laws to weaken our freedom to vote and threatened Republican election administrators who won’t go along with them. Now, they’re run ning candidates for key election administration offices, from secretary of state to county clerk. Should they win their elections this fall, these officials won’t hesitate to overturn future elec tions if they or their MAGA allies lose. This completely undermines the tenets of our democracy. The only way we’re going to protect our elections is to fight back and make our voices heard.We have to cast our ballots in the upcom ing midterm elections. It’s up to us to hold elec tion deniers accountable at the polls and elect democracy defenders up and down the ballot on November 8. —Jessica Barene-Gutierrez, S.B.
From my research, it will be a solar tax between $300 and $600 a year. It would be based on the amount of solar energy you make and consume. The more solar energy you make, the higher the tax. This includes apartment build ings, new homes built with solar, and solar-pow ered batteries. By adding this additional burden on California residents interested in solar, we will actually disincentivize efforts to reduce a carbon footprint. This does not make any sense to me.Iam sure you do not need me to tell you that the utility companies only care about profits and not people or climate change for that matter.
Donna had a heart of gold, a genuinely kind spirit and a light that shined like no other. Fly with the Angels sweet Donna. You are so loved and will be missed by so many.
Esther was born into a large family which came to the USA from Eastern Europe between 1882 and 1921 settling in Chicago and becoming teachers, retail store owners, delicatessen pro prietors and metals middlemen. She attended Shakespeare and Kenwood Elementary Schools, Hyde Park High School, and the University of Illinois in Cham paign-Urbana, receiving her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago in Later1950.when her sons, David (Denice) of Los Angeles and Frank (Colleen) of Maui were completing high school, she obtained her master’s degree in library science from Immaculate Heart College in LA. She served a short time as acting head librarian at that college then was employed by the Los Angeles Library System as a reference librarian. After taking classes with Master Calligrapher, David Meckelberg, Esther became an accomplished calligrapher in her own right, and used those skills throughout her profes sional and personal life. An avid bibliophile from an early age, she worked as a vol unteer in the library at the ele mentary school where her sons were students and was active in the PTA. Esther’s love of read ing continued for decades. In 1973 she opened Banbury Book Shop in Woodland Hills, which became known as a top class independent bookstore where the employees read and were knowledgeable about the books that they were selling and the personalized attention paid to customers was without equal. She was forced to sell the store eleven years later when the big box chain stores opened just a few blocks away. A published author of children’s stories, Esther became a literary agent and helped aspiring writ ers develop their writings for publication. Thereafter she went to work as a physician’s aide in her husband’s surgical specialty office until he elected to retire in The1992.couple moved to Santa Barbara and a new home on Coronada Circle which they purchased on their 40thanniver sary. Dr. Bob joined a surgical group in the tricounties for 5 years finally retiring completely in They1996.cruised extensively to dis tant ports and spent many Sep tembers in Hawaii to celebrate anniversaries, first on Kauai and then after their first grand son, Jason, was born on Maui. Granddaughter Jessie (Kerry Kullback) was born in 1989 and grew up near Esther’s home in Woodland Hills. As they got older they joined their parents and grandparents on cruises to see the world and enjoy the good life onboard the ships. Esther served nine years on the Santa Barbara Parks and Rec reation Commission, worked on the redevelopment of Chase Palm Park, participated in the Pearl Chase Society, took courses at the Adult Education School serving two terms on their board of directors and served on several other chari table committees and boards. She was diagnosed with mixed dementia in early 2010 and she and her husband moved to Maravilla Senior Community where she remained from 2012 to her passing. She is survived by her younger sister, Francine Hokin Katz of San Marino, CA. and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. Services were held at Congre gation B’nai B’rith on August 12, 2022 followed by private interment at Santa Barbara Cemetery. A celebration of life is planned for October. Donations may be made to the Rabbi’s dis cretionary fund at Congregation B’nai B’rith or to your charity of choice.
Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 am, September 9, 2022, at Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church. Burial will follow at Goleta Cemetery, 44 South San Antonio Rd, Santa Barbara fol lowed by a Celebration of Life at Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church.
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In lieu of flowers, the family requests contributions be made to the Sarah House, 2612 Modoc Rd., Santa Barbara, CA. 93105, in Donna’s memory.
Donna’s family wishes to extend their sincere thanks to the Sarah House of Santa Barbara for their loving care and compassion. The family is grateful to Father Bob Fox from the Santa Barbara Greek Orthodox Church for always being present for Donna especially in her last days.
Donna Marie (Polly) Aguirre 1/5/1959 - 8/28/2022
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Donna Marie (Polly) Aguirre, 63, of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully surrounded by her family and went to be with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Sunday, August 28, 2022, in Santa DonnaBarbara.wasborn at Vandenberg Airforce Base in Lompoc on January 5, 1959. She was raised in Lompoc and graduated from Lompoc Senior High School in 1978. Donna later moved to Santa Barbara where she met and married the love of her life, Raul Aguirre on September 9, In1989.her early years, Donna worked at Odile’s Beauty Salon in Lompoc. She also successfully managed several restaurants in the Lompoc and Santa Maria area. Later she worked and was well known in the cosmetics department at Robinsons-May in Santa Barbara for ten years. Baptized Greek Orthodox, Donna consistently embraced her Greek heritage and culture with passion and was a faithful member of the Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church for a number of years. Donna is preceded in death by her father, Donald Ray Polly and father-inlaw, Raul Aguirre Sr. Donna is survived by her loving husband Raul; two daughters, Corinna Polly-Cortez and Krystle Schlegel (Josh), son Raul Aguirre; two brothers, George Polly (Cathy) and Nick Polly (Jennifer); sister, Era Polly; sis ters- in -law Aida Barnes (Greg), Irma Mera (Paco), Irene Glick man (Barry); brothers-in-law George Aguirre (Amy), Michael Aguirre (Jan), Richard Aguirre (Judy); her mother, Elene Tall man (Bob) and mother-in-law Stella Aguirre as well as numer ous grandchildren, nieces and Donna’snephews.love of children led her to operate “Donna’s Day Care” for ten years. Many of those children would later return as young adults to share memories with her. Donna showcased her culinary skills at BBQ’s and holidays with family. She loved to decorate for all holidays espe cially Halloween and Christmas. She always had a smile on her face and was always eager to join in family activities.
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John Joseph Cornejo, 69, of Santa Barbara CA, passed away on August 29, 2022. John’s battle against cancer ended in the care of hospice while surrounded by loving family. He was born on June 26, 1953 in Santa Barbara CA, to Jose and Guillerma Cornejo, who preceded him in death. His formidable years were spent in Goleta, Casmalia, and Dos Pueblos Ranch among wide open spaces which served as a playground for him and his siblings; birthing his great love of nature.Heworked with the US For est Service as a park ranger, Circle Bar B Ranch, drove as a city school bus driver, as well as at the Santa Barbara Zoo helping with the elephants and as train operator. John retired from a career at the City of Santa Barbara as a Water Front Maintenance Facility Worker at the harbor. After his retirement John stayed busy as a camp host at Tuckers Grove Park and worked as a mechanic at the Botanical Gardens where he could be seen in the company of his faithful dog Samantha, who accompanied him to work every day. His love of the outdoors, gardening, camping, fishing, and animals in addition to his amazing mechanical aptitude were present in each pursuit of John’s pastimes, hobbies, and jobs.He was a long-standing mem ber of the Bravados Motorcycle Club of Santa Barbara. There was a time when he was never far from his bike, always ready for adventure, and equipped to take on life to the fullest. He loved to travel and was able to created lasting bonds of loyal brotherhood with club members creating a lifetime of great sto ries to recount. Another passion of John’s was photography; he leaves a legacy of photos which chronicled the loves he fostered in combina tion with the journeys he made. He enjoyed capturing pictures of family vacations, get togeth ers, camping trips, his work life, the numerous rides he participated in, and countless nostalgic moments from every phase of his life. Each picture attests to the nurturing bonds he cultivated with his children, the women he loved, the family he was a part of, and the spirit with which he embraced and loved life. The most memorable things about John were his easy-going disposition, his ability to always have a smile on his face, his friendly mannerism, the fact he was such a soft, gentle, and kind-loving soul. He will be greatlyJohnmissed.issurvived by his part ner of 17 years, Rita Martinez, his children Tealeye Cornejo, Theasha Cornejo-Gonzalez, Ira Cornejo, step son Shane, grand kids Ivette, Steven, Gabriel, JessieRae, and step grandkids Marisa and David, as well as his numerous and extended family members.Interment will be held the 16th of September 2022, 3:00 PM at Santa Barbara Cemetery: 901 Channel Drive Santa Bar bara, CA 93108. Esther H. Baum 10/31/1928 - 8/6/2022 Esther H Baum passed away on Saturday, August 6 in Santa Barbara at the age of 93. Esther was born on October 31, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois to Barney E. Hokin and Dorothy L. Schwartz. She was a loving and dedicated partner to her husband, Robert K. Baum, M.D., for 71 years.
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Davis recalled that Eric shot video with Patrick Fourmy and organized material on nefarious govern ment operations, including Iran Contra. “I met Eric in the 1980s when we took TV production classes together,” Patrick Fourmy said. “He was always a very kind, generous, and intelligent person lending a hand to others and priding himself in being philo sophical and unique. Eric, we miss you.” Patrick’s brother Christian played in the drum circle at Chase Palm Park together with Eric, and they spent a great deal of time hiking in the mountains and into the back country: “Eccentric, Eric had no problem being Eric,” Christian Fourmy said. “Many a local knew him from the video store or drum circle, and if you didn’t, you probably saw him on the road riding a beater bicycle wearing a Hawaiian shirt with a basket of flowers for sale.
It is hard to imagine this life without Eric Hansen. A father, son, brother, friend, ocean-swimming enthusiast, history buff, lover of nature, drum circle devo tee, and our very own flower guy, Eric Bryant Hansen was born January 29, 1971, in Bay City, Michigan, to Grant Hansen and Cynthia Richards. He moved with his family at age 3 to Santa Barbara and graduated Dos Pueblos High School in 1989. Eric had an infectious smile and a mem orable ability to make people laugh, and through the lens of his curiosity, he felt com fortable speaking with anyone he met. There were no strangers to Eric Hansen. Eric contributed to our community in cre ative ways. He decided to work at his uncle’s video store on Mission Street instead of going to college, adding to the hubbub of conversa tion and nonstop critique about films of all genres that went on into the evening hours. A total film buff, Eric was dedicated to help ing people pick out the perfect movie at the videoOneshop.year, Eric was hired onto the film production crew for Steal Big Steal Little, a movie written and directed by Andrew Davis and filmed in Santa Barbara County. Davis reflected, “We were fortunate to have Eric help as a great production assistant on the film. We all remember what a sweetheart and outrageous, creative character Eric Hansen was. He lived life with passion and integrity, and worked tire lessly on his many jobs, causes, and passions.”
“Eric had a profound influence in my life through his friendship and introducing me to his good friend and benefactor Patrick O’Donovan. Patrick would be crucial in starting the drum circle at Chase Palm Park. Over the next five years, hundreds would gather. “As for the mountains and the ocean, that may have been one of his greatest loves. In fact, fitness in general, he never stopped whether it was riding up Gibraltar or Old San Marcos Pass, running up Rattlesnake Trail and hitting the cold pools, or swimming in the ocean. You are missed, Eric. See you up the road,” Christian said.Eric started his own flower stand at UCSB. His nat ural charm and desire to be helpful combined with his conversational spontaneity to make him a popular fig ure on campus. He’d pause at least once a day to jump in the surf or boogie board in any season. He loved being a part of and participating in Nite Moves, setting up the buoys and tents and working the beer garden.
His friend Lowell Blank said, “I never saw Eric in a bad mood or heard an angry word from his mouth. He was always ready to engage in a friendly conver sation. Eric was was a Santa Barbara institution, a child of the universe, marching to the beat of his own drum.”The greatest joy of his life came in March 2008 when Brody Hansen was born to Eric and Courtney Shannon. Eric was a devoted father. He and Brody were always out on bike rides, hikes, beach days, camping, and many adventures in and out of Santa Barbara. Eric was beloved by Brody’s cousins as a funny uncle, a leader of games, and a great gift giver. His family set down the things they would miss the most: Eric’s contagious smile and his poking fun until you laughed, his uncanny ability to remember historical facts, his compassionate heart for the home less, his John Deere tractor bike he used to deliver flowers, his vintage Hawaiian shirts, his variety of parade costumes and bike decorations, his treasures found at yard sales, and his unending love for his son. In November 2021, Eric was diagnosed with pan creatic cancer. He fought like a warrior to have time to create as many fun memories as he could with Brody. Together they went camping in Big Sur, bike riding, swimming in the ocean, watched movies, and played videoThisgames.pastJuly 16, Eric was baptized at Saint Antha nasius Christian Orthodox Church, and he met with his priest regularly to receive communion. He departed this life peacefully under the care of Seren ity House on Sunday, August 7, 2022. The sounds of a Rebelution reggae concert drifted into his room as he was surrounded by his friends and family: Brody; Courtney; Briana; his godfather, John Casey; Sebas tian; Mark; Brody’s godmother, Michelle; and his brother, Todd. Shortly before passing, Eric’s face shone like the sun and his eyes widened. He smiled a great grin as if he were seeing his heavenly family waiting for him. We love you, Eric!
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Schwarz notes, “The arts and entertainment have always been an effective way for those who suffer from mental illness to express themselves van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, Frida Kahlo, Charles Dickens, Sylvia Plath, Picasso, Tim Burton, Woody Allen, Anthony Bourdain, etc. It is healing for some to share and help others in the process, (to make) post-traumatic growth.” n
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echnically, the British play Every Brilliant Thing is a one-man show, an acclaimed tour de force achieve ment by British comedian Jonny Donahoe, who inspires tears and laughter over the course of 75 min utes of inventive theater. But when the play lands in Santa Barbara’s Center Stage Theater (Sept. 23-25), audiences will quickly learn that the literal one-man show description is at least marginally incomplete. For one, audience participation reaches new heights of interactivity in the clever structural design of the play. More tellingly and yet more abstractly the play’s unseen char acter is a huge, quietly looming specter: a suicidal mother character and, by extension, the vast, broadly relevant topic of mental illness and its effect on both victims and family members. Those entities loom in the wings. And yet, some how, the play works a delicate balancing act of lightness and compassion.Heralded as a sensation in London, off-Broadway, and streaming via a 2018 HBO special, the play, written by Dun can Macmillan with Donahoe, makes its Santa Barbara premiere with a fitting benefactor, as a fundraiser for New Beginnings Counseling Center.
In Silver Linings Playbook, one of the more prominent Hollywood films dealing with mental illness (and inspired by director David O. Russell’s experience raising a bipolar son), our protagonist (Bradley Cooper) measures baby steps of success in grappling with bipolar condition by noting suc cessful moments in a figurative playbook.
Key lines jump out of the play’s rolling text and fluid nar rative, as when Donahoe suddenly utters a core value and message of the play we’re watching: “Advice to suicidal peo ple: Don’t do it. Things get better.” From an empathetic angle, he also suggests, “If you make it to old age and you haven’t been crushingly depressed, then you probably haven’t lived.”
In Every Brilliant Thing, our protagonist, trying to bring life-affirmation to both his depressed mother and himself, creates an expanding list of “brilliant things” to make life worth living. On that list, which he starts at age 7 after his mother’s first suicide attempt and continues through his own depression-flecked adult life, are such nuggets as “kung fu movies,” “Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose,” and “Marlon Brando.” The audience is folded into the pro cess, having been passed out cards and asked to read the lifeaffirmative “things,” and sometimes asked to play roles a father, a girlfriend in the evolving life of our protagonist.
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Kristine Schwarz, executive director of New Beginnings, points out that “subjects like trauma, grief, depression, and loneliness can be very isolating and often make it difficult for a person to articulate what they are feeling, and sometimes it is easier to express heavy emotions when we become or ‘play at’ being someone else, or by using music or draw ing or an artistic depiction to communicate a profoundly overwhelming emotion. Somehow that makes it easier for others to be empathic. It can get people to think in a differ ent way about the issue of mental health, or homelessness.”
In considering the juncture of art and mental distress, it’s important to recognize that mental illness, in varying forms and degrees, has been woven into the very fabric of the creative process and of making art, throughout history.
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Jonny Donahoe, who starred in Every Brilliant Thing in London, off-Broadway, and in the 2018 HBO special shown here, brings the play to Center Stage Theater September 23-25, as a benefit for New Beginnings Counseling Center.
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I was so impressed, on multiple levels, with the televised version of Every Brilliant Thing. I don’t believe I’ve ever experienced anything quite like it, in terms of its structure, audience engagement, and deft balancing of tragedy and comedy not to mention showcasing the subjects of depression and suicide. Would you say this piece has changed your life, and do you see it as a theatrical experiment with a deep Jonnyheart? Donahoe: It has definitely changed my life, and it’s very good of you to say such nice things about it. The show has such a “deep heart,” as you so kindly put it, I think because of the gravity of the subject matter. To talk about suicide onstage is so vital, and yet also could be dangerous if it was incorrectly handled.Sowe had to work and work and work at that to get it right and strike that balance. The audience engagement was an obvious theatri cal thing to do for us. The first step you need to take to help yourself in a depression is to reach out, to share, and to commune, so we felt we had to make that happen with the audience live in the show. This television version was shot in 2018, after you were already deep into the play’s runs in the U.K. and New York. How has the piece evolved for you, especially in the gap between then and now, after the hollow chasm of the pandemic? Is there a new depth to the experience of performing it now? Well, this will be the first time I’ve performed it since the pandemic, so I’ll find out how that has changed the nature of the play and the audi ences’ reactions. But I have found that, since we were all locked down, the very act of per forming on a stage in front of an audience is an even deeper, more resonant and cathartic act for everyone performer and audience. That was noticeably the case when I performed other shows earlier this year. I can only imag ine it’ll be more so with Every Brilliant Thing As a central aspect of the piece, you really do interact with and feed off of the crowd in the round (love that scene with you singing as your key board is revolving). Is that always a refreshing element in each perfor mance, and do you feel your work as a comedian has enhanced your natural ability to “work the crowd?” One inten tion of the show a very long time ago when we were first making it was to try to make something that would combine the very “live” and spontaneous style of a standup or improv performer, alongside the more technical, nuanced skills of a proper, real stage actor to try to get the best of both worlds in one show. I knew a great deal less about real stage acting than I did about stand-up at the start, so it made sense to use the skills I had. I do think the improvisation and changes made every night keep the show very fresh and alive, and that makes it a better experience for everyone.
Every Brilliant Thing is an interactive show that addresses depression, mental illness, and suicide, and the effects it has on those closest to us, using the many small but brilliant things we have to hold onto as a way to see the brighter side of life.
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Obviously, this is a project that both entertains and deals creatively with the pressing and universal issue of depression. Post-pandemic, the prevalence of mental illness, anxiet ies on different levels, has become even more an issue, globally. Do you have general thoughts about the potential interaction and therapeutic powers of the arts theater, film, and beyond and mental illness as a subject? I think in the seven or so years since I first performed this show and now, the world has changed dramatically. We seem now to be able and willing to talk more about mental health, and mental illness as a society, and we seem to have become more understanding of this issue. We appear in some ways to be better at talking, listening, helping…. But we’ve only chipped at the surface. There’s so much more to be done, and that’s one of the reasons I wanted to be performing this show again.
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Your Santa Barbara performance will benefit a worthy cause, New Begin nings Counseling Center. Is it gratify ing to be able to directly impact and help organizations such as this in the line of your theatrical duty? Does it involve a sense of helping out at a ground level? Organizations like New Beginnings do such amazing work, and it’s very special for me to be able to do some thing that’s in any way beneficial to the char ity and the people they work with. I’m just a silly comedian, really and I don’t always have the skillset to do “ground-level” work, nor the patience or any of the other things needed to do such important work. Some times, you can feel a bit selfish just making theater, even if the work is about trying to help people. So this is a very special, impor tant run of shows for me.
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After such a long investment in the intense world of Every Brilliant Thing, do you have a desire to lighten the load with acting or comedy projects of a more frivolous kind? I keep mean ing to do that just make something silly and fun. But you look out the window or catch the news and it’s hard to stay frivo lous. When we’ve solved climate change, the number of children living beneath the poverty line, the mental health crisis, and Trump is in prison, maybe I can make a show about ice-cream and dancing. That’s a good aim for the future.
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For more information and to purchase tickets for the fundraiser, visit sbnbcc.org/benefitseptember-2022.
ith a track record exceed ing half a century, the New Beginnings Counseling Cen ter (sbnbcc.org) qualifies as an anchoring presence in Santa Barbara’s mental wellness field. Its worthycause status is well-established. Hosting the famed Every Brilliant Thing, featuring its dynamic originator onstage dealing directly with the subject of mental illness, amounts to a beautiful, beneficial case of synergy. But the arts and arts-related philan thropic entities have long been a part of the New Beginnings world. It all began with a surprisingly popular screening of the docu mentary Skid Row Marathon, about Los Angeles judge Craig Mitchell, who launched a running club for homeless people, addicts, and others sentenced to Skid Row. After the success of that event, New Beginnings Execu tive Director Kristine Schwarz said the Cen ter “decided to embrace a new approach for our annual fundraiser where we utilized the arts and entertainment to engage with and educate our community about the critical issues we address in our work.” Since then, the Center has enlisted the help and dialogue from actors and
The team for New Beginnings’ 2019 fundraiser, a production of Food and Shelter, the fanciful but heartrending story of a homeless family splurging on a day at Disneyland, written by Emmy Award–winning writer Jane Anderson and directed by award-winning theater and film director Jenny Sullivan.
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“Jonny also shows us how important and necessary and normal it is to want to talk about depression how important interdependence is to our well-being. That it’s okay to have emotions about stuff that is really chal lenging and scary and painful, and it can help to feel better if you talk about it. And learning that through a story about someone you can relate to, connecting to the public through the arts in this way, is somehow anonymous and safe and, in this instance, bonding and compelling.” n
The Center’s services are more critical than ever at the moment. Schwarz says, “We have seen an unprec edented presentation of increased distress and a decrease in distress tolerance since the start of COVID. Services need to be accessible and affordable and equitable. There are a number of commu nity partners and collaboratives we work with who are working to increase access, through such organizations as YouthWell, the Mental Health Advisory Board, Be Well, Cottage Hospital, Mission Harbor Behav ioral Health, Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics, and CenCal.” Art therapies are also entrenched in the Center’s list of projects and objectives. These include drawing, painting, collage, journaling, poetry, and fStop Foundation, a digital photography workshop created by former board member Terence Ford for First Responders and Veterans. Circling back to the essential message and method of Every Brilliant Thing, Schwarz says, “Most of us have experienced grief and rejection and fear, especially like in some of the situations depicted within the context of this play. Jonny’s reflections about depression and suicide and his resulting interactions with the audience are surprisingly funny without being irreverent or political or stigmatizing. There is a ten derness to his handling of the subject that the audience appreciates and respects.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES ABOUT SUICIDE DEPRESSION:AND • National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988; 988lifeline.org • countyofsb.org/559/Suicide-Awareness-Prevention • hotlines/suicide-prevention-hotlines211santabarbaracounty.org/mental-wellness/ • namisantabarbara.org
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Special public events and celebrity guests aside, the year-round, day-to-day focus of the center’s efforts puts a special emphasis on working with an underserved clientele, in need of help but lacking financial resources to pursue it via conventional avenues. Making services available to those who can or can’t afford it, New Begin nings describes itself as “a nonprofit that provides lowbarrier mental health counseling, as well as supportive services for families, youth, individuals, aging adults and veterans; we are on a mission to help destigmatize mental health care and ensure it is accessible to all.”
Cheri Steinkellner interviewed Harrison Ford at a special event in 2018 to celebrate the 50th year of Beginnings. Shelter takes a bow.
An all-volunteer team of counselors and clinical supervisors ensures that counseling sessions run an average of only $13.
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Zooming up to this year’s stellar fundraising event, Schwarz says, “In 2020, I was researching the subject of mental illness for our next event and came across Every Brilliant Thing and watched the documentary while the play was running off-Broadway, and I knew immediately that this was our next event. Unfortu nately, COVID had other plans, but we are now finally able to bring Jonny to Santa Barbara after almost three years in the planning.
arts-related visitors including Harrison Ford, Julie Bowen, and Annabelle Gurwitch, and produced a Jane Anderson play at the New Vic, all helping to draw awareness and generate fundraising for the center.
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“This is definitely not a customary way of talking about homelessness and mental illness necessarily, but each event has brought more and more commu nity members to our organization and increased their understanding of these issues.”
In one of the many signs of life and cultural calendars in Santa Bar bara returning to a regularly scheduled programming, De la Guerra Plaza recently played host to a long-standing tradition, the Mental Health Arts Festival, a flagship event for the Mental Wellness Center (mentalwellnesscenter.org). In its 26th iteration, the festival once again served as a centrally located and very public display of the fruits of art therapy, deployed by many mental-health services in town but with an inspiring “street” presence in town. Apart from the annual exhibition’s literal public visibility, the tradition shows up in other forms, as it did through director Justin Rowe’s documen tary Crazy Art, an Audience Choice Award–winning film screened at the 2010 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Three of the schizophrenic artists profiled in the film Rodger Casier, Trinaty Lopez Wakefield, and Lesley Grogan were festival-featured artists Postponed during the pandemic, the return of the festival’s feast of art by patients and clients of the Mental Wellness Center (MWC) also provided a reminder of the increased attention on mental illness in the current stressinfused global environment. As the Center’s seasoned CEO Annmarie Cameron explains, the festival is “a much-anticipated event for the artists who participate in it. Beyond just being an arts festival, this event offers a unique opportunity for indi viduals living with mental illness to exhibit their creative talents, enhance their self-esteem, and be perceived as worthy and valuable members of our“Allcommunity.”toooften,people living with mental illness are marginalized and not seen,” she said. “While others may focus on their differences or limitations, MWC chooses to see their attributes, their strengths and their resilience despite the often enormous odds against them.”
Creative approaches to therapy and creative activities are central to the agenda of the MWC, now 75 years old, including art workshops at its Fel lowship Club and weekly drum circles. Cameron believes that “creative work benefits many, if not all, people. Studies show that music, painting, and other material art forms contribute to brain functioning, not just for children but also for adults. The physical act of craftsmanship can be calming and help with anxiety and depression. For people battling internal voices, engaging in art puts those voices in the background, offering a brief respite. Creative work also allows people to access trauma when they have no words. In short, art helps form a road map or vision that can advance recovery from mental illness.” n
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In the annals of Santa Barbara–based the ater concerned with, and populated by, marginalized communities, the name Access Theater looms large, with a repu tation extending well beyond city limits. Formed in 1979 by founder and director Rod Lathim, the company starting humbly as an all-volunteer group but elevating into a nationally known equity group was an intrepid organization daring to engage and employ actors with disabilities and to actively develop “accessible” theater practices. Lathim says, “We were created to be a fully accessible theater, which meant that our doors were open to all people, regardless of disability or having no disability. We worked primarily with people who happened to have physical disabilities and actors who were deaf, as well as able-bodied and hearing actors.” “We had a wonderful 18-year run,” Lathim says. The highlight was the play Storm Reading, which began its life in 1988 at the Lobero Theatre and ended up touring internationally for six years, giving Access Theater a national and global spotlight unprec edented in Santa Barbara theater history. A special 30-year anniversary of Storm Reading was presented at the Lobero in 2018, including original cast members Neil Marcus, Mat thew Ingersoll, and Kathryn Voice. As Lathim notes, “Storm Read ing is a classic example of how the ater can impact people’s emotional and mental health. The show was enlightening, to say the least. It dispelled so many stereotypes and opened the minds of every audi ence it performed for. We received countless letters from people shar ing their stories of how the show changed them through giving them new perspectives on their own lives and on those living with disabili ties. Although Neil [Marcus] had a severe disability [dystonia] and had difficulty speaking, his incredible spirit blasted through and touched people. He was a role model of liv ing one’s true self.” Speaking more broadly about the expressive and therapeutic powers of theater, especially in dealing with rarely broached subjects and communities, Lathim says, “I truly believe that theater can impact emotional and mental health in its audiences. Part of what made Access Theater wonderful and unique for me was that we were telling authentic human stories. Our civilization is built on storytelling to pass on cultures and practices and myths. Theater is such a magical platform to touch people face-to-face in a live setting. This is something that our culture is rapidly losing thanks to technology.”
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In her brief stint as director, just pre-COVID lockdown, Abaseh Mirvali boldly presented the U.S. premiere of Ger man artist-musician Ari Benjamin Meyers’s Kunsthalle fur Musik, for an ensemble of musician/performance artists engaged in a series of musical and conceptual actions, live in the gallery space and outside of it during this five-week run. The music-infused gallery setting recalled CAF’s earlier adventures with new and experimental music by Carl Stone, Phil Niblock, Paul Dresher, and Scott Johnson.
Late last year, I was basking in the peculiar, understated splendors of Rasha Yaghmai’s Drifters, from Alexandra Terry’s short tenure as chief curator. I sensed a genuinely warming feeling of renewal, having escaped the COVID hunker-down and being gratefully back in this inviting, livedin gallery fueled by ideas made manifest. Thoughts of this landmark’s demise were unthinkable, then. Art of the now will have to fend for itself in our region. But one clings to hope that contemporary art-loving conspiracies will soon be hatched around well-appointed kitchen tables, or digital facsimiles thereof, in the 805. Art will still win out.
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T here is a hole in the center of Santa Barbara’s cul tural identity. Perhaps more specifically, it’s a hole just left of center, where fresh, challenging, and contemporary ideas live and prosper. Just as the glimmerings of normal art world and cultural habits were returning earlier this year, in the promising twilight of the pandemic, the sad news of MCASB’s recent closure hit like the cold slap of harsh reality. The news shouldn’t have come as a huge surprise, given the financial shakiness of the operation in recent years, com pounded by the damage done to cultural institutions by the COVID scourge. And yet the closure seems very personal, in terms of Santa Barbara’s collective art consciousness and institutional memory. The Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara which spent three-quarters of its life as the Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF) before the name and direction change in 2013 bravely fought the fight to keep contemporary art a lively concern in a local art landscape that can drift off into tourist-town pleasantries and complacent genres. We needed it to stay engaged in the ever-evolving art realm about now. News of the museum’s closing ushers in a flood of mem ories for successive waves of art fans, artists of local and national interest, donors, idle (and sometimes befuddled) gallery hoppers, and others who have passed these nowshuttered portals. For me, as one who has reviewed more shows here than any other known human over these past four decades, the memory trail leads all the way back to 1980, a pivotal dream-awakening moment in the institutional saga. Back then, I sat at the kitchen table of artist and CAF co-conspirator Richard (Dick) Dunlap, working on my first article for the Santa Barbara News & Review (and the first of a long, rambling journalist-critic career to follow). Also at the table was artist and bon vivant John Tanner (both Tanner and Dunlap would have one-person shows at CAF in future years) and Betty Klausner. Klausner was the spark plug and dynamo who would lead the formerly itinerant “Forum” into its first official home, on the ground floor of the Balboa Building, also home to the News & Review at the time. A sense of idealistic and auspicious beginnings buzzed around the table, along with a stated mission of filling a void for contemporary art focus in this otherwise cultured town. Like-minded patrons and art support forces rallied to the cause, and CAF became an important spot on the fine art map between L.A. and S.F. The list of artists hosted there included the celebrated likes of John Baldessari, the Keinholzes, Wayne Thiebaud, and Craig Kauffman. On a more localized, sitespecific note, the galleries’ centralized location energized a “gateway to lower State Street” zone, and CAF-related parties could be found drifting across what was then De la Guerra Street to the original Mel’s, dive hangout to the art stars and hangers-on.Alongcame the massive Paseo Nuevo project and CAF’s move literally up, over, and upward to its final 3,500-squarefoot space upstairs at the Paseo, circa 1990. Starting in 2005, the directorial reins were handed to the dynamic and enter prising Miki Garcia, whose nearly 13-year run at the helm was the longest of the organization’s history. That period also included ventures into performance art and off-the-wall/ radar art events organized by Heather Silva. This art-watcher’s random access memory search of shows in the institution’s space includes local-linked artists Keith Puccinelli, Jane Callister, Ro Snell, and Richard Ross, Nancy Gifford’s epic bibliophile mural “Lament” and “Hope,” Chan Schatz’s proto-computer art display in 2003, and shows with such thought-perking titles as Things That Turn Your Brain to Mush (2013) and assume vivid astro focus: avalanches vol canoes asteroids floods (2016). The 2018 exhibitions featured such memorable fare as the surf-splashed post-psychedelia of Barry McGhee: S.B. Mid-Summer Intensive and noted painter Cecily Brown’s Rehearsal One of the most memorable exhibition adventures in the CAF era ventured outside of gallery walls, into the tempo rary site-specific domestic locales involved in what became three iterations of the Home Show. Originally conceived and organized by Klausner in 1988, sequels unfolded in due time, during the Nancy Doll–directed era in 1996 and Garcia’s model in 2011. One of my salient memories was of conceptual, industry/textile-minded artist Ann Hamilton’s installation on Yankee Farm Road, with eucalyptus-leaf-slathered walls and the artist herself lost in the deadpan action of ironing a heaving pile of shirts on a long table.
Lara Favaretto’s Coppie Semplici (Simple Couples) — a site-specific installation of car-wash brushes, iron slabs, motors, electrical boxes, and wires — was one of the first shows from MCASB Chief Curator Abaseh Mirvali in 2019. A peek into the museum’s final headquarters, a 3,500-square-foot space upstairs at Paseo Nuevo
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9/13: S.B. Central Library Vir tual Fiction Book Club All fiction lovers are welcome to talk about this month’s book, L.A. Weather by María Amparo Escandón, about one year in the life of a Catholic Mexican American and Jewish family in West Los Angeles in 2016. 5:30pm. Call (805) 962-7653 or email info@sbplibrary.libanswers.com BookClubtinyurl.com/VirtualFiction WEDNESDAY 9/14 9/14: Tales from the Tavern Presents Eliza Gilkyson Two-time Grammy-nominated singer/song writer and activist Eliza Gilkyson will bring her folk, roots, and American sound to this extraordinary concert series and community cultural pro gram. 7pm. Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. $34.16. Ages 21+. Call (805) 697-6335. talesfromthetavern.com 9/12: Science Pub: Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer Come learn about advances in cancer immunotherapy, cell therapy, tar geted molecular therapy, and gene therapy related to blood diseases with hematologist and medical oncologist Julian Davis, M.D.. 6:30-8pm. Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. Call (805) 682-4711 x172 or email jrolle@sbnature2.org. sbnature.org/visit/calendar
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If anyone seemed destined to find immediate suc cess on the WTA Tour, it was her. But things didn’t happen anywhere near as planned. Day has struggled with injuries, a wheelbarrow full of them. Elbow, hip, foot you name it, Day has hurt it. Those physical woes led to mental confidence issues, and a whole host of defeats on the pro tour from 201820 followed.Her ranking plummeted, and she just couldn’t catch a break. She fell off the proverbial tennis map, and joked that the best thing about the hit 2018 movie Eighth Grade naming its lead char acter Kayla Day was “I saw people finally Tweeting about me again.”
The Billie Jean King National Tennis Center spans 46.5 acres of Queens, N.Y., a sprawling com plex of courts and buildings and concession stands, and for two weeks every August and early September, hundreds of thousands of people.
The plaque, and the period of time it symbol ized, will always be special to the now 22-year-old Santa Barbaran. Six years ago, she rocketed to junior stardom with a dominating win at the tournament, capturing six matches, including a semifinal tri umph over future U.S. Open women’s champ Bianca Andreescu, and dropping only one set. Day was a 5'8'' lefty with power and great touch at the net, with a bubbly personality off the court and a fierce killer instinct on it. At that same 2016 Open, she won a round in the women’s draw before falling to American star Madison Keys, who predicted big things for Day.
“I’ve been looking all over for it, and I’m so mad I can’t find it!” she said last week with a laugh, upon her return to these hallowed grounds for the first time in five years. “Someone told me it was over by the Chase Center building, but I couldn’t find it over there. I don’t know, it’s gotta be here somewhere.”
She’s gotten her ranking back up to No. 211, and in recognition of her efforts, the USTA gave Day a wild card into the U.S. Open Qualifying Tournament, the event a week before the big show where lower-ranked players try to get into the main draw. Day won one match here but fell in a tight threesetter in the second contest, so she’ll have to wait at least another year before getting back in the big spot light of the Open.
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t’s here, somewhere. Kayla Day is sure of it.
“I did think about quitting a little bit. I think every tennis player has at some point,” she said. “But I knew I was too young to leave, and I knew I would’ve regretted it if I did. I just had to find that loveDayagain.”found it and is most certainly on her way back. This season, she’s been able to play a full slate of tournaments as a pro, healthy, and has been grinding her way through the minor league events of the WTA.
Young Tennis Pro Overcomes Injuries and Flagging Confidence to Restart Career by Michael J. Lewis
But somewhere in this giant mass is a plaque that lists all of the past champions of the U.S. Open Girls’ Tournament. And on that plaque, next to the words “2016 champion,” it says “Kayla Day, United States.”
Day said she’s very far from the person she was at 16; who among us isn’t different six years later? She has embraced the challenges of life on the tour, adding a new coach last year in veteran pro Cecil Mamiit but also loving traveling by herself most of the time. (Day said she will always talk to and get advice from Santa Barbara’s Larry Mousouris, who has coached her since she was a little kid.)
“She’s found her identity and has that sense of clarity, very strongly now,” Mamiit said. “She’s growing as a tennis player and getting the kind of self-confidence you have to have.”
During her injury-riddled seasons, Day also had to watch as con temporaries from her junior career, like Andreescu, Sonia Kenin, and close friend Claire Liu, had big successes on the tour. “Comparison is the thief of joy, right?” she said. “Of course it was tough sometimes, seeing them win, but now it’s inspiring, like ‘If she did it, why couldn’t I?’”With her appearance and win in qualifying, Day’s ranking will be inside the Top 200 now, with Mamiit saying getting inside that mark will enable her to get into qualifying at other Slams.
It’s another step on the long road back.
“One step at a time,” Day said. “The rise may be a little slower this time, and maybe slower than I like sometimes, but it’s 100 percent good.“I’m very happy to be back.” n ‘I didn’t go through the grind of earning everything, and I wasn’t as developed as a person or a player.’ —Kayla Day
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“It’s a flavor-of-the-month sport, tennis, and a lot of people have counted me out since they haven’t heard from me the last few years,” Day says with a smile. “But one of the things I’ve learned is the only person’s expectations I have to live up to are my own.”
“I didn’t go through the grind of earning everything, and I wasn’t as developed as a person or a player when I reached that level,” she said. “Of course at the time it was great getting into Indian Wells and events like that. But things did happen maybe a little too fast for me.”
Mamiit, who has worked with Maria Sharapova, among others, said he’s been very impressed with his new charge’s professionalism on and off the “Hercourt.sense of organization, the way she conducts herself, and just her being open-minded about improving herself and her game has been terrific,” Mamiit said. “One thing we have done is utilized the opportunity that came about because of her struggles. She had a great platform [before] and now we’re building on it and looking forward.”
Looking back, Day said perhaps things came a little too easily to her, too fast, once she rose to junior stardom. All the advantages that came with being an American-born prospect, like wild cards into big tournaments, may have robbed her of the opportunity to learn the hard way.
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“I continually get asked about how my life was at that particular time, working with Richard Sanford and Rich ard Graff during the best decades in California winemak ing,” said D’Alfonso. “I’ve tried to distill it down to a word: It was an adventure. Like any adventure, the good, the bad, and the ugly were all involved. It was just a fantastic time to be alive.” The next move for D’Alfonso was obvious. A decade earlier, in 1995, he started his own line of Italian varietal wines called Di Bruno. Then the family that owns Ran cho La Viña, where he and Curran began living in 2000, offered to build them a winery on-site, completing that proj ect in Curran,2007. meanwhile, was charting her own course. Born in Los Angeles but raised in the Santa Ynez Valley, she grew up familiar with wine culture, playing polo with Brooks Firestone and his origi nal winemaker Alison Green, working in Mattei’s Tavern and other wine country res taurants as a teenager, and particularly loving the 1988 Sanford chardonnay.
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SMART WINES: Kris Curran and Bruno D’Alfonso rely on decades of combined experience to explain their reliance on innovation in the cellar. “The science, the technology, the chemistry, the physics,” explained D’Alfonso, “we apply those to our winemaking.”
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firmly on the global map of cult wine collectors. “Bruno and I knew it was a great property, but we didn’t expect such a whirlwind situation,” said Curran. “There are big, long stories about Sea Smoke, but ulti mately, it boiled down to the fact that people were really up for a very nice pinot noir from this area. It was the right time, and was a real surprise for all of us. It was just a kismet ofShetiming.”leftSea Smoke in 2008 to work for Foley Estate, where she stayed until 2010. Curran had started her own brand back in 1997, so, like D’Alfonso, her next move was clear as day. “Let’s just focus on what we’re doing here at Rancho La Viña,” she said. The couple now makes a wide range of wines under the umbrella of D’AlfonsoCurran, which they launched in 2006. That label includes single-vineyard expressions of pinot noir and chardon nay, but also a zesty series of more obscure, aro matic white wines including loureiro, verdelho, arneis, vermentino, and grüner veltliner. Their other brands continue to thrive, including the original Di Bruno (Ital ian varieties), Curran (pinot plus Spanish and more), and Badge, which is a more affordable line. D’Alfonso bristles a bit when asked about what sets their wines apart in today’s crowded scene. “People are trying to differentiate their wines through marketing rather than making better wine,” he said. “But we don’t really have a schtick. We are here to be extremely serious about what actually makes wine and how it develops. It’s not anything else but that. If you don’t know science, you’re not gonna get there.” See d-cwines.com
After a year in Hawai’i trying to become a merchant marine, she returned to the valley and met D’Alfonso in 1990. She assumed that winemakers were only hired through family ties, but he explained that you could get a degree in the trade and be hired as a winemaker. They’ve been together ever since. In 1997, with an enology degree from Fresno State, Curran was hired at Cambria Winery in the Santa Maria Valley. In 1999, she turned a horse barn into Koehler Winery, and then was hired by Bob Davids in 2000 to help develop Sea Smoke Cellars. The brand quickly became a pinot noir sensation, putting the Sta. Rita Hills
What follows is an edited excerpt from Vines & Vision: The Winemakers of Santa Barbara County, published in 2020 by Matt Kettmann and Macduff Everton. You might expect romantic tales of viticultural con quest and testaments to age-old traditions when talking to wine industry veterans Bruno D’Alfonso and Kris Curran. But when sipping on crisp white wines made from grapes you’ve never heard of next to a walnut orchard outside of their winery on Santa Rosa Road in the Sta. Rita Hills, the conversation instead revolves around electrostatic sprayers, protein adherents, and protease enzymes. After nearly 65 combined vintages in the Santa Ynez Valley during which they built up the reputa tions of legendary estates such as Sanford and Sea Smoke while developing their own brands this power couple is firmly, even defiantly, focused on the molecular side of winemaking rather than the charming methods of yesteryear. “Thescience, the technology, the chemistry, the phys ics we apply those to our winemaking,” says D’Alfonso. “I wasn’t that smart back in the day. I was more of a tra ditionalist. Now it’s different. Winemaking is totally an interventionist exercise for me.” For D’Alfonso, back in the day means 1980, when he got his first job as an assistant winemaker at Edna Valley Vineyards. He’d grown up in Glendale, the first genera tion American of an Italian family that toiled as stone masons, shoemakers, mechanics, and carpenters. “They were people who worked with their hands,” he said. But Mom wanted Bruno to go to college, so he studied soil science at Cal Poly, where he learned that you could get a degree in winemaking, which he then did at UC Davis. Upon graduation, D’Alfonso itched to get back to his friends on the Central Coast and noticed a job post ing for the new Edna Valley Vineyards. He was hired by renowned vintner Richard Graff, who’d founded Chalone Vineyard in Monterey County in 1966, and got to know then-owners Jack and Katherine Niven quite well. “They were the old guard, the greatest human beings I just fell in with a very excellent group of peo ple,” explains D’Alfonso of the Nivens and Graff, who died tragically in 1998 at age 60 upon crashing his plane near Salinas. “As far as I am concerned, the 1980s was the finest decade of California winemaking. I was right in the thick of it.” In 1981, D’Alfonso met Richard Sanford, who’d left Sanford & Benedict Vineyard to start Sanford Win ery, which was being made at the Edna Valley facility. D’Alfonso was assigned to work for Sanford every Friday, which he did for two vintages. In 1983, Sanford asked D’Alfonso to become his fulltime winemaker. He took the job, and stayed for nearly a quarter-century, developing a world-class reputation for the wines of Sanford Winery along the way. In 2005, Sanford Winery was taken over by the Terlato family, prompting both Sanford and D’Alfonso to leave as part of the transition.
Attention to detail can be everything. Brian Deignan, co-owner of the Funk Zone’s new Validation Ale with his wife, Briana, lamented the sad state of bathrooms at too many breweries. “We built twice as many as the city asked,” Brian proudly states. “It’s like a museum in there.” Those palatial bathrooms are just one data point to show that this couple took their tech background and rethought the ways of beer and restaurants. The two met while at GoTo Meeting; Brian most recently worked at AppFolio, while Briana has been working at Zoom since before it was a verb, as she put it. That put them in a per fect position financially to go for their dream, but it also gave them a unique perspective. Briana says, “Coming into an industry with no experience, we got to question the status quo.” That questioning began with the concept behind the beers they make each beer in a category such as light/hoppy/not hoppy/dark is either validated or vying. If a vying recipe knocks off a validated one by selling more pints, the latter beer is off the list. “We are put ting the power back into the customer’s hands,” Briana points out. “Humans love competing, and it gamifies theOfexperience.”course,that means the tasty Imperial Lager you had one visit might be gone the next. The Deignans along with their head brewer, Ryan Hensley, who does bring years of industry experience from places like Figueroa Mountain, Pizza Port, and Rough Draft are ready for that, too. “We want to be a place for the education and exploration of beers,” Briana says. “If someone came in and asked for a Blue Moon, we would ask them, ‘What do you like about Blue Moon?’ and then go from there.”
Brian says the general categories also help, asserting they sold out of a Belgian blonde in a surprisingly quick two days because people were drawn to it in the “light” category. “Most people haven’t had the opportunity to experiment,” he points out. “We want to make the place safe for even the Coors drinkers.” The Deignans also wanted to be sure the grub was as good as the brews and again innovated on that end. They knew Matt Marsit and Kaity Dean, as they were frequent visitors to Brass Bear, where the couple worked at the time. “They approached us, and it was the perfect match,” Brian recalls. “Essentially, they are set up as an entrepreneurial business inside our entrepreneur ial business.” Just like the beer menu, the food menu will change frequently based on the sales data. Also arranged into clever sections Fingers, Hands, Bowls, and Specials it currently ranges from burgers to lob ster rolls to salmon salad. Brian admits he has high hopes for Validation’s food with Marsit as head chef and Dean running kitchen operations, for he says, pointing to his neighbor across Anacapa Street, “We want to be good enough to compete for the overflow from places like The Lark.” Ultimately, Brian says, “I know it’s a cliché, but we want to be someplace for every body. We’ve got the ‘singles bar’ window looking out into the Funk Zone, we have the wall of screens for the sports fan, we have the gender-neutral bath rooms to show we’re a place of inclusivity, and we’ve got the best water in the world.” Figur ing they had to build a great RO filtration system for the water they were brewing with, the Deignans also ran the system to a tap in the restaurant. Briana says, “It’s important to remain hydrated while drinking beer.” And if that seems moth erly, there’s also this Valida tion opened July 14, and Briana gave birth to the couple’s second daughter on July 27. So they see it as a family business, too, as you can bring kids to a restau rant and not to a tech office. “Eventually, they will be our bouncers,” Brian jokes. “Our 3-year-old could be one now.” n Craft Brew’s Status Quo by George Yatchisin
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VEGAN CHEF CHALLENGE: Presented by animal advocacy organization Vegan Outreach, the third annual Santa Barbara Vegan Chef Chal lenge runs October 1-31. As veganism becomes more mainstream, restaurants nationwide are adding options to accommodate their growing number of vegan patrons. Vegan Chef Challenge is a month-long event showcasing new vegan menu items created by chefs at local restaurants.
GOLETA IHOP CLOSES: Reader Primetime let me know that IHOP at 4765 Calle Real in Goleta has closed. The IHOP at 1701 State Street (RIP Frimples) is open for business as usual. The for mer Goleta IHOP property now begins a transi tion to become the second South Coast outlet for Chick-fil-A. Fortunately, a new IHOP opens in Goleta later this year at 7127 Hollister Avenue near the DMV and Costco, in the former home of Itsuki.
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MARTY’S PIZZA CLOSES: It appears that Marty’s Pizza at 2733 De la Vina Street, a local icon since 1984, has closed. In April, I reported that its building is slated to be demolished as part of a De la Vina Street bridge replacement project. I was told at the time that they were closing in the fall and do not plan to reopen. Sometimes the process of figuring out if a restaurant is actually closed can be a little tricky since nobody is around to confirm it. Marty’s website and Yelp say they are open for business as usual, but their phone number and online ordering system are discon nected, and reader Primetime says he has seen their store looking dark and lonely during posted business hours.
PIZZA MY HEART CLOSES: Pizza My Heart at 6533 Trigo Road in Isla Vista has closed. The restau rant opened in October 2012. Rumor has it that a dispensary will replace it, though reader Eric says the space is still listed as available for lease.
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Main dishes (about $16) include mixed veg etables (sautéed with cabbage, snow peas, garlic, onions, mushrooms, and carrots), garlic pep per (sautéed with garlic pepper sauce), pa-ram (spinach topped with peanut sauce), eggplant (Japanese eggplant sautéed with garlic, chili, and Thai basil), kaprow sweet basil and chili (sautéed with chili, garlic, bamboo shoots, onions, carrots, and Thai basil), ginger and vegetables (sautéed with ginger, garlic, onions, mushrooms, and car rots), cashew nuts (sautéed with Thai chili paste, onions, and cashew nuts), and prick king (panfried in the prick king curry paste with green beans and coconut milk).
SAIGON IN FIVE POINTS MOVING TO CHAPALA: Reader Roger says that at Saigon Vietnamese Restaurant in Five Points Shopping Center, a sign indicates that they moved on August 30 to Chapala Street. Reader Brendan adds that on their website their address is now listed as 721 Chapala Street, the address of Sachi Ramen, which he believes has the same owner.
Lao Thai Restaurant, offering Laotian and Thailand cuisine, has opened in the Shep herd Center at 1017 Casitas Pass Road in Carpinteria, the former home of Phoever more, which closed last January. The ambiance is casual with just a few wall hangings in addi tion to monitors that show photos of Thailand, Laos, and food. “At Lao Thai Restaurant, we offer meals of excellent quality and invite you to try our delicious food,” says the family behind this new gem. “The key to our success is simple: pro viding quality-consistent food that tastes great every single time. We pride ourselves on serving our customers delicious genuine dishes.”
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Lunch specials (about $15) include cashew nut chicken, ginger and vegetables, kra prow, garlic pepper sauce, mixed vegetables, pa-ram, prick king, pad thai, eggplant basil garlic and chili, seafood platter, pineapple curry, and curries.
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Students aren’t the only ones getting back to the books this fall. The annual Planned Parenthood Book Sale is back, in person, at the Earl Warren Showgrounds Exhibit Hall September 15-25. This awesome book sale is a great place to stock up on bestsellers, fiction and nonfiction favorites, children’s books, cookbooks, and all sorts of unusual titles like Throw the Damn Ball: Classic Poetry by Dogs, Normal Is Just a Setting on Your Dryer, The Sex of a Hippopotamus: A Unique History of Taxes and Accounting, and Moonwalking with Einstein, as well as a large inventory of puzzles, CDs, and DVDs among the rows and rows and rows of books. Not only are there 100,000 gently loved, well-priced, and impressively organized books, all of the proceeds support Planned Parenthood California Central Coast’s mission of providing families in our community with a wide range of vital education and health-care services such as wellness exams, cancer screenings, and reproductive care.
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Heebner’s artworks are held in numer ous public and private collections, including the Santa Barbara and San Francisco Muse ums of Art, the U.S. Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, the New York Public Library, and UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum, as well as its Special Collections Library. —Leslie Dinaberg The Architectural Foundation Gallery (229 E. Victo ria St.) hours are Saturdays from 1-4 p.m. and by appointment. For more information, visit afsb.org.
Mother Earth is certainly taking a breather, as we suffer our losses and envision how best to move forward, as it becomes unavoidably clear that this whole world is connected, is one, and that there is no return to what we called ‘normal’ only a move forward, with eyes wide open, somewhat together.” Heebner’s daughter Sienna Craig, an anthropologist whose work focuses on cul turally Tibetan areas in Mustang, Nepal, and abroad, taught her that the colors in tradi tional Tibetan prayer flags refer to each of the five elements yellow for earth, green for air, red for fire, white for water, and blue for aether. “So I set about writing my own prayers to those elements as I reflected on them during this era of global warming, climate change, environmental distress, extinctions, and social migration.” The exhibition consists of Heebner’s twosided prayer flags; a spiral-bound artist’s book, Prayer Flags & A Tale of Longing; and a booklet, Elemental Offerings all of which originated with Heebner’s travels to India to see how prayer flags were made. Prayer Flags & A Tale of Longing, a lim ited-edition book, is handwritten in cursive (“I wrote and rewrote the text dozens of times before I could get a nearly perfect page. I felt like a monk!” said Heebner) and printed on letterpress, with hand-painted, foil-stamped covers. “This story is derived from journal notes I made in 1993 during a trip to Sikkim, an Indian state bordering Bhutan, Tibet, and Nepal, and specifically to Rumtek Monastery. Upon reviewing my notes in 2019, I realized that they told a tale about longing. What are we longing for when we encounter another’s culture and other ways of being in the world? What do we expect from the experience, and why?” said Heebner. The tales’ accompanying prayer flags are presented together as a set in a ribboned cot ton pouch inside an acrylic sleeve. The book let, Elemental Offerings, contains Heebner’s five prayers to the elements, printed digitally, accompanied by a colorful set of five cotton flags, and placed in a cotton pouch.
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Admission is free, parking is free, and the main sale starts at 10 a.m. on Friday, September 16. Avid bookworms may also want to attend the opening night Preview Sale on Thursday, September 15, from 4-9 p.m., where a $30 donation gives you the very first chance to peruse and purchase titles.
—LD For information, visit ppcccbooksale.com or call (805) 722-7870.
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Don’t miss what’s sure to be a lively and entertaining event with artist Angela Perko in conversation with Roger Durling, who wrote the comprehensive cover story about Perko for the August 11 issue of Santa Barbara Independent. Held at Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, where Perko’s show, The Place of Hidden Things, is on view through September 26, the conversation will delve into Perko’s inspiration and process behind her newest body of work. Her recurring interest in depictions of women is particularly vivid in a collection of 17 10"x 10" paintings included in the exhibit, each one spotlighting a fertility figure from a different historical culture. “The idea to paint a series was inspired in part by Kehinde Wiley’s ‘Equestrian Portrait of Prince Tommaso of Savoy-Carignan.’ I admired the painting when it was displayed at our local [Santa Barbara] museum. For me, it seemed that Wiley was attempting to visually fill a gaping hole in our mythology in a most grand and dramatic fashion… The little women are not grand, but together they tell an absolutely essential human story,” shared Perko. The self-taught artist has been represented by Sullivan Goss since 2005. She and her husband, Jerry Jacobs, also own the Lost Horizon bookstore in Montecito, which provides an endless stream of ideas to inform her work. This is her ninth solo exhibition with the gallery and her third to concentrate on her own mytho-historical ideas. Always a well-informed and enthusiastic interviewer, Durling is the executive director of the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, as well as a professor of film studies at Santa Barbara City College, and an arts journalist for the Santa Barbara Independent. This special event takes place on Saturday, September 10, at 4 p.m., at Sullivan Goss Gallery (11 E. Anapamu St.). Tickets are free, but seats are limited and registration is requested. Register at tinyurl.com/ eveningwithangelaperko.
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nspired by a combination of her travels, concern for the planet, and reflections during the recent pandemic, multime dia artist Mary Heebner’s new exhibition, Prayer Flags & A Tale of Longing, is on view at the Architectural Foundation Gallery from September 10 to November 5, with an open ing reception on Friday, September 9, from 5-7Discussingp.m. the inspiration for her book, Prayer Flags & A Tale of Longing, Heebner said it came in the midst of the COVID pan demic. “This prolonged period of distress is also a time of reflection, perhaps of hope.
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“Now, we are planning our return to live programming and hope to make an announcement in early 2023,” says Pizano. She adds, “This concert is important because it helps to promote flamenco music, which is a priority for the Flamenco Arts Festival. Our goal is to increase the knowledge, interest, and understanding of flamenco in our community not just through dance events, but also through music concerts.”
F lamenco music and dance fans are in for a history-making special treat this weekend. International flamenco superstar Antonio Rey, one of Spain’s best guitarists and composers, will perform in Santa Barbara for the first time on Sunday, September 11. Rey says this is a don’t-miss event “because it will be a night of flamenco in its pure state.” He will play his own composi tions from his 2020 album Flamenco Sin Fronteras, which won a Latin Grammy. In addition, he will play songs from prior albums such as Camino Al Alma and Colores Del Fuego
— Cheryl Crabtree Antonio Rey performs at The New Vic (33 W. Victoria St.) Sunday, September 11, at 7 p.m. For tickets, call (805) 965-5400 or visit store.ensembletheatre.com/events.
A GOLD STATUE FOR THE GOLDEN AGE OF TELEVISION a&e | PREVIEWS Our First Annual Roundup of Reviews of the Emmy Nominees COURTESY
As for the drama selections, in a category that includes Squid Game, the most-streamed show in Netflix history, Succession, with a field leading 25 Emmy nominations, and Stranger Things, which Bouwer describes as “emotional, relatable, and deeply nostalgic,” there truly is enough here to keep viewers happily binging through the winter, at least. —Leslie Dinaberg
LEGENDARY LATIN GUITARIST ANTONIO REY COMES TO SANTA BARBARA One of Spain’s Best Guitarist-Composers to Delight Flamenco Fans COURTESY TVMUSIC Antonio Rey
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Guitarist José Tanaka, percussionist Diego Alvarez (a mas ter cajón player), and dancer Maria Bermudez will join Rey on stage at The New Vic. They are all close friends and have performed together a number of times. Bermudez, a flamenco artist, director, choreographer, and teacher who runs the Maria Bermudez Flamenco Performing Arts Studio in downtown Santa Barbara, is particularly excited about the event. More than 30 years ago she moved to Jerez de la Frontera (recognized as the birthplace of flamenco) to immerse herself in the art form “full-on.” Now a master of the region’s complex and intricate dance style, she still lives there part-time. She has performed at many legendary ven ues, including the Hollywood Bowl, Lope de Vega in Seville, Lincoln Center in New York, and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. She says it’s a privilege to perform with Rey, Tanaka, and Alvarez. “They are consummate artists. We all share our love for flamenco; it’s what we do; it’s our lifeline.” “I’m proud to be working together to bring an artist like Antonio to Santa Barbara together with the Flamenco Arts Festival,” says Mitch Chang (founder and owner of the Los Angeles Flamenco Festival, Kala Koa Entertainment, and Mitch Chang Mortgage), who is producing the show in partnership with Santa Barbara’s nonprofit Flamenco Arts Festival. A fan of the S.B. festival from the beginning, Chang says, “It was a beautiful opportunity to experi ence so many incredible artists that have since gone on to become legendary. Those concerts will forever hold a place in my heart, and it is my wish that Santa Barbara locals will likewise walk away from this performance with their own special memories and a newfound thirst for discovering flamenco music and artists, both past andSincepresent.”itsdebut in 2000, the Flamenco Arts Festival usually happens every September, but the pandemic forced a pause in programming. Vibiana Pizano, the festival’s founder and president, explains that they instead launched a virtual event in April 2022 called Flamenco on Film, with eight different films showcasing various artists performing from Spain and in Santa Barbara.
I can still remember being stuck at home with mono when I was in elementary school, and all day every single day, on all FOUR of our channels the Watergate Hearings were the only thing to watch on TV. Now there’s so much great stuff to stream that it’s easy to take it for granted. To help you sift through this embarrassment of riches, we’ve compiled our first-ever collection of Emmy preview/reviews for some of the big shows that will be honored at the 74th Emmy Awards on Monday, September 12.
A super-strong selection of ripped-from-the-headlinesinspired drama got high praise from our reviewers, includ ing Dopesick, which Ellie Bouwer writes is “frustrating and heartbreaking, and greatly informative about an extremely dark time in American history.” As I wrote in my review of The Dropout, “Watching Amanda Seyfried transform herself into Elizabeth Holmes the person and then ELIZABETH HOLMES the CEO is undoubtedly one of the most amazing performances I’ve seen this year.”
Also getting high props from our critics were The Andy Warhol Diaries, which Callie Fausey calls, “a heartfelt, sexual, and fascinating peek into a once-private world”; and 100 Foot Wave, an obsession-with-surfing documentary that Koss Klobucher found “worth the watch.”
Some of the highlights include The Beatles: Get Back nominated for Outstanding Documentary or Non fiction Series about which art critic Josef Woodard wrote, “To cite Peter Jackson’s stunning Beatles documentary Get Back as the year’s greatest music doc or even one of the best films, generally somehow falls short of identifying its special status.” Woodard also appreciated jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy, and takes us through the pros and cons of not one, but two Britney Spears documentaries.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To love oneself is hard work,” declares Virgo author Hanif Abdurraqib. He adds, “But I think it becomes harder when you realize that you’re actually required to love multiple versions of yourself that show up without warning throughout a day, throughout a week, throughout a month, throughout a life.” Let’s make that your inspirational strategy, Virgo. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to refine, deepen, and invigorate your love for all your selves. It may be hard work, but I bet it will also be fun and exhilarating.
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TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): As a Taurus, you are always wise to be rever ent toward your five senses. They are your glorious trea sures, your marvelous superpowers, your sublime assets. In the coming weeks, they will serve you even better than usual. As you deploy them with all your amazement and appreciation unfurled, they will boost your intelligence. They will heighten your intuition in ways that guide you to good decisions. You will tune into interesting truths that had previously been hidden from you. I suspect your sensory apparatus will be so sharp and clear that it will work almost as extrasensory powers.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) When you Geminis are at your best, you don’t merely tolerate dualities. You enjoy and embrace them. You work with them eagerly. While many nonGeminis regard oppositions and paradoxes as at best inconvenient and at worst obstructive, you often find how the apparent polarities are woven together and com plementary. That’s why so many of you are connoisseurs of love that’s both tough and tender. You can be effective in seemingly contradictory situations that confuse and immobilize others. All these skills of yours should come in handy during the coming weeks. Use them to the hilt.
ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Aries-born Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was one of the greatest basketball players ever. He excelled at most aspects of the game. Some experts say his rebounding was only average for a player his size seven feet, two inches. But he is still the third-best rebounder in National Basketball Association history. And he played for 20 years, until age 40. What tips might Abdul-Jabbar have for you now? Here’s a suggestion from him that aligns with your current astrological omens: “Work on those parts of your game that are fundamentally weak.” The implication is that you have a lot of strengths, and now it’s time to raise up the rest of your skill set.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author Jean Frémon says Cancerian naturalist Henry David Thoreau “always had two note books one for facts, and the other for poetry. But Tho reau had a hard time keeping them apart, as he often found facts more poetic than his poems.” Judging from your current astrological omens, Cancerian, I suspect you are entering a time when facts will be even more poetic than usual. If you open yourself to the magic of reality, the mundane details of everyday life will delight you and appeal to your sense of wonder. Routine events will veer toward the marvelous. Can you bear to experi ence so much lyrical grace? I think so.
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PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): In the coming weeks, logic may be of only partial use to you. Information acquired through your senses might prove less than fully adequate, as well. On the other hand, your talents for feeling deeply and tap ping into your intuition can provide you with highly accurate intelligence. Here’s a further tip to help you maximize your ability to understand reality: Visit a river or creek or lake. Converse with the fish and frogs and turtles and beavers. Study the ways of the crabs and cray fish and eels. Sing songs to the dragonflies and whirligig beetles and lacewings.
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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I have always felt you Capricorns are wise to commune with rocks, dirt, mud, sand, and clay. I think you should regularly touch the actual earth with your hands and bare feet. If I’m out hiking with a Capricorn friend, I might urge them to sniff blooming mushrooms and lean down to kiss the exposed roots of trees. Direct encounters with natural wonders are like magic potions and miracle medicine for you. Moreover, you flourish when you nurture close personal relationships with any thing that might be described as foundational. This is always true, but will be extra true for you in the coming weeks. Your words of power are kernel, core, gist, mar row, and keystone.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “What good is it if you read Plato but never clean your toilet?” writes author Alice Munro. To which I add, “What good is it if you have brilliant breakthroughs and intriguing insights but never translate them into practical changes in your daily rhythm?” I’m not saying you are guilty of these sins, Leo. But I want to ensure that you won’t be guilty of these sins in the coming weeks. It’s crucial to your long-term future that you devote quality time to being earthy and grounded and pragmatic. Be as effective as you are smart.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): How to be the best Libra you can be in the next three weeks: (1) Make sure your cool attention to detail never gets chilly. Warm it up now and then. Invite your heart to add its counsel to your head’s observa tions. Tenderize your objectivity. (2) Always be willing to be puzzled. Always be entertained and educated by your puzzlement. Proceed on the theory that nothing ever changes unless somebody is puzzled. (3) Practice, practice, practice the art of moderation. Do so with the intention of using it as a flexible skill rather than an unthinking habit. (4) Applying the Goldilocks principle will be essential. Everything must be just right: neither too much nor too little; neither overly grand nor overly modest.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One of my favorite Sagittarians is practi cal mystic Caroline Myss, who was born with sun and Mercury and ascendant in Sagittarius. In accordance with current astrological omens, I’ve gathered six of her quotes to serve your current needs. (1) “There isn’t any thing in your life that cannot be changed.” (2) “When you do not seek or need approval, you are at your most powerful.” (3) “Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the edu cation cost you.” (4) “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself.” (5) “What serves your spirit enhances your body. What diminishes your spirit diminishes your body.” (6) “What is in you is stronger than what is out there to defeat you.”
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The coming weeks will be a favorable time to dream up creative solutions to problems that haven’t fully materialized yet. Then you can apply your discover ies as you address problems that already exist. In other words, dear Aquarius, I’m telling you that your uncanny facility for glimpsing the future can be useful in enhanc ing your life in the present. Your almost psychic capacity to foretell the coming trends will be instrumental as you fix glitches in the here and now.
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Provides a full range of social work services, with emphasis on identifying treatment resources and providing psychosocial interventions (individual, group, crisis) not offered by other campus resources, to assure that students receive optimal benefit from medical and/or psychiatric care. The primary client population to be served is students with significant psychosocial stress, acute and chronic mental illnesses and in need of short and long term social services, including long term counseling and case management support. This position is a grant funded position with an emphasis on crisis support services. Reqs: Must be currently registered as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the State of California at all times during employment. Master’s degree from an accredited school of social work; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Three years of post‑master’s experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child & Dependent Adult Abuse. Must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment and date of hire. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Officer Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Must have a current CA Licensed Clinical Social Worker license at all times during employment. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. Salary commensurate with experience and within limits of the grant. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job #41572
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RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS Performs duties in accordance with established standards and instruction, for University owned Residence Halls, Apartments and Dining Facilities. Promotes a customer service environment to residence and clients. Assists with the development and maintenance of a work environment which is conducive to meeting the mission of the organization and supports the EEP. Responsible for completing job duties that demonstrates support for the Operations Team. Initiates communication directly with co‑workers and or supervisor to improve and clarify working relationship. Reqs: Working knowledge and experience in utilizing the following equipment: vacuums, conventional and high‑speed buffers, extractors and related custodial equipment desirable (Will train on all equipment and chemicals used.) Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others as a team. Must have effective communication skills. Ability to interact as a team member with sensitivity towards a multi‑cultural work environment. Experience in a custodial cleaning operation or an equivalent combination of training and experience. Ability to read, writing and follow oral and written instructions. Notes: Able to lift up to 50 pounds. May be required to work schedules other than the assigned weekend schedule to meet the operational needs of the unit. Two positions available. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. 20.74 ‑ $22.44/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Application review begins 9/12/22. Job # 41761
LOCKSMITH MAINTENANCE‑ RESIDENTIAL TheOPERATIONSlocksmith performs journey level locksmithing tasks and related repairs/installations for the buildings maintained by Residential Operations. In compliance with H&RS goals and objectives, affirms, and implements the department Educational Equity Plan. Reqs: Fiveyears’ experience working at a journeyman level as a locksmith. Experience with Best Inter‑changeable core system and Schlage institutional lock hardware and cylinders. Experience installing and servicing door hardware including exit devices (Von Duprin) and door closers (LCN). Understanding of safety practices and Environmental Health and Safety policies and procedures. Ability to work effectively in a team environment. Notes: Five (5) years’ experience working at a journeyman level as a locksmith. Experience with Best Inter‑changeable core system and Schlage institutional lock hardware and cylinders. Experience installing and servicing door hardware including exit devices (Von Duprin) and door closers (LCN). Understanding of safety practices and Environmental Health and Safety policies and procedures. Ability to work effectively in a team environment. $39.71/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #39424
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ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER IndependentlyENGINEERING serves as the reviewer for all reimbursements/payments processed in the ECE department. Prepares and processes recharge financial journals for two department recharge programs, and processes journal charges to ECE accounts from other departments’ recharge programs and central campus units. Reqs: High School Diploma or GED. 1‑3 years administrative experience. Ability to organize and prioritize a high volume of process work. Accurate with data entry and attention to detail, particularly with financial data. Ability to focus in a busy and dynamic work environment with frequent interruptions. Must possess excellent communication, organizational, and computer skills including Microsoft and Google applications. Analytical skills including the ability to interpret policies and provide guidance on them. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.61 ‑ $25.77/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 9/15/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #41724.
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problem solving and critical thinking skills. experience working independently with varied tasks. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $27.67‑$29.00/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #41517
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The Financial Assistant administers all financial activities for the Departments of Classics and East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, and the Humanities Administrative Support Center. Processes monthly review and reconciliation of ledgers, providing timely reporting, identifying and initiating corrective actions, and ensuring compliance with University, Federal, and State accounting policies and procedures on all transactions. In collaboration with management, establishes best‑practices for procurement, payroll, record retention, and accounts payable functions. Funds administered include a variety of state operating funds, gifts, endowments, fellowships, and grants. Requires considerable initiative, multitasking, communication, attention to detail, and problem‑solving abilities. Must possess a strong knowledge of UC and departmental policies and procedures as they relate to financial services. Advises faculty on policies and procedures that govern the full‑range of accounting processes, gift and award administration, and academic and staff payroll. Processes gifts and monitors endowment accounts. Responsible for assisting faculty with logistical arrangements. Reqs: Strong computer experience using Word and Excel. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.61–$25.77/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 9/15/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 41861
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all equipment and accesses all resources within the Dispatch Center. The majority of each shift is at the console monitoring radios and alarms, radio dispatching personnel, answering phones, computer input/retrieval using specialized software, including CLETS, alarm software, and 911/telephone software in addition to common Microsoft Windows‑based programs. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent education and experience. 1‑3 years of law enforcement agency experience or equivalent education and experience. Read, write, speak and understand English fluently. Proficient typing data/entry, familiarity with computer operations, excellent communication and Customer Service skills, ability to deal well with stress and stressful situations. Meet all other requirements for public safety dispatcher as established by the law and the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). Note: Ability to use vehicles, computer systems and other technologies and tools utilized by police agencies. Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. Mandated reporting req of Dependent Adult Abuse. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Ability to work in a confined work environment until relieved. Successful completion of a pre‑employment psychological evaluation. Successful completion of a six month in‑house training program. Ability to work rotating shifts on days, nights, weekends and holidays. Successful completion of the POST Dispatcher test. 30.91‑39.45/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Application review begins 9/15/22. Job #40952
Department of Chemistry and ResponsibilitiesBiochemistry include coordinating science inquiry‑based activities in secondary schools: setting up schedules, organizing events, updating the website, fundraising, overseeing joint Master’s program, grant reporting, arranging meetings with all partner institutions https:// scitrek.chem.ucsb.edu. Req: BA in Chemistry, Biochemistry or a related field at time of application. The department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through teaching and service. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Deadline for applications 9/8/22. Apply online at https://recruit.ap.ucsb. edu/JPF02269. The posting will remain open until filled.
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PROGRAMMERAPPLICATIONSINSTRUCTIONAL COLLEGE OF LETTERS & SCIENCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Develops, enhances, and maintains web‑based instructional applications, including the campus‑wide learning management system and associated application modules. Codes, tests, implements, and maintains applications in a multi‑server LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) environment. Integrates securely with other applications. Plans and implements software updates using distributed version control. Provides operational support for escalated issues, bugs, and technical problems. Reqs:Bachelor’s Degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. 5+ years of experience in software development. 3+ years developing complex web application software. Experience and proficiency in PHP, MySQL, and HTML. Experience developing securely within a Linux/ UNIX environment. Experience using a distributed control versioning system, such as GIT. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $68,700 ‑ $100,600/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 37503.
CoordinatesCENTERall aspects of the undergraduate program for the English Department within the South Hall Administrative Support Center, Student Services unit. This includes approximately 600 majors and 100 minors. Advises students and faculty on all matters concerning undergraduate affairs; academic planning in the honors program, internships, independent studies, specializations, EAP studies, and other campus‑wide
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ManagesCENTER all departmental fiscal activities and accounting systems for the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Latin American & Iberian Studies Program. Interprets policy and advises faculty, staff and students of proper university guidelines regarding policies for personnel, purchasing, entertainment and travel. Analyzes expenditures and spending patterns, resolving discrepancies. Reconciles financial transactions with the general and payroll ledgers. Produces accurate monthly cost projections and financial reports for management review. Participates in fiscal closing, budget projections and financial planning. Administers and coordinates employment activities and processes personnel actions for faculty, staff and students via the UCPath System. Ensures data integrity and compliance with University, Federal, agency and union policies. Maintains current knowledge of University policies and procedures of Accounting, Travel, Human Resources, Academic Personnel, Graduate Division, Purchasing and Business Services on all fund sources. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area or equivalent experience and/or training. 1‑3 years financial work experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.61‑$25.77/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 9/14/22; open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 41679
Plans, develops, implements and manages programs and activities for all aspects related to staff health, wellness and safety programs for over 750 HDAE FTEs, and occasionally for campus staff and faculty. Responsibilities include the management of the HDAE Injury Prevention, Safety and Wellness programs. Collaborates with campus partners to ensure departmental compliance with State and Federal requirements and to enhance Safety and Wellness Program offerings. Supervises Health Advocate (assistant) and Student Health Advocate assistants. Creates, establishes and evaluates safety and wellness campaigns. Collaborates and participates with departments to share information and resources and to continually improve safety and wellness programs. Reqs: 3 years experience in the field of safety and/ or wellness programs, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Bachelor’s degree or higher in Health Education, Biomechanics/ Kinesiology, Environmental & Occupational Health, Public Health, PT, or Occupational Therapy, or equivalent combination of education and experience. Excellent verbal & written communication skills. Demonstrated customer service experience. Proficient in Microsoft & Google Office Suite. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. $32.56 ‑ $35.82/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Application review begins 9/12/22. Job # 41742
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SAFETY SPECIALIST ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY Under the general supervision of the Industrial Safety Program Manager, develops, implements, manages, and identifies needs for a diverse set of campus‑wide occupational health and safety programs, including but not limit to: Shop Safety, Energy Isolation (Lock‑out/Tag‑out), Powered Industrial Trucks & Heavy Equipment, Machine Safety, and Crane & Hoist Safety. Additional areas of responsibility include performing job hazard and personal protective equipment assessments, developing and providing training and technical information, performing audits and compliance inspections, generating reports and corrective action notifications, providing injury prevention program assistance, implementing injury prevention strategies, and monitoring injury trends on campus. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/ or equivalent experience /training. Have completed all state courses and have a minimum of at least 3 years of relevant experience. Comprehensive working knowledge / understanding of a specific EH&S field including related laws and regulations, and general understanding of all EH&S fields. Excellent organizational skills to plan, organize, and prioritize multiple projects. Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills to communicate effectively in a diverse environment. Working skills in the appropriate use of technology and relevant scientific equipment as required. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Must be able to work some evenings and weekends. Must be willing to work with and respond to emergencies (on and off‑hours) involving potentially hazardous materials. $61,200 ‑ $95,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #37914
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Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: Wendy Ann Connor aka Wendy Connor Case No.: 22PR00414
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: Wendy Connor aka Wendy Connor A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: AMY CONNOR in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom September 20, 2022, at 5:30 P.M.
Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.81‑$28.57/ hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 9/16/22. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 41904
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOCAL DESIGN COMPANY, 4317 Meadow Dr, Santa Maria, CA 93455; Stacy Vasquez (same address). This business is conducted by an Individual. SIGNED BY STACY VASQUEZ. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 26, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001882. Published: August 18, 25, September 1, 8, 2022.
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A HEARING ON THE PETITION will be held in this court as follows: 10/06/2022 at 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street,Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Electronically Filed: Superior Court of California County of Santa Barbara, Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer Date: 08/15/2022 By: April Garcia, AttorneyDeputy.for Petitioner: Barrett P. O’Gorman, O’Gorman & O’Gorman, LLP, Attorney at Law, 5901 Encina Rd., Suite B‑2, Goleta, CA 93117, 805‑967‑1215. Published August 25, September 1, 8, 2022.
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Fairview Business Associates and Torridon Development Agreement 420, 430, & 490 S. Fairview Avenue; APNs 071-130-057, -062, -061 City of Goleta Case No. 21-0002-ORD
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: BIRD AND THE BEE COUNSELING, 6 Harbor Way, #142, Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Brianne B Hughes (same address). This business is conducted by an individual.
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DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: Staff reports and related materials for the City Council hearing will also be posted on this website at least 72 hours prior to the meeting on the City’s web site at www.cityofgoleta.org.
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The project was filed by agent Eva Turenchalk of Turenchalk Planning Services on behalf of Fairview Business Associates/Torridon (“applicant”). The applicant proposes a Development Agreement (DA) to provide an ease ment to the City to use 35 parking spaces located on the applicant’s property to be used for public parking in Old Town in exchange for DRB approval of the design of 25 additional parking spaces to be valid for the next 20 years.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW FINDINGS: A Notice of Exemption (NOE) has been prepared pursuant to the re quirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code §§ 21000, et seq., CEQA), the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 California Code of Regulations, §§ 15000, et seq., CEQA Guidelines), and the City’s Environmental Review Guidelines. The City of Goleta is acting as the Lead Agency. The NOE is appropriate pursuant to CEQA Guidelines §15061.b.3 because the act of approving a Development Agreement will not cause development of the project site itself. The project has been found to be exempt from CEQA since the project substantially conforms to the previous approval 98-DP-024 and its environmental document 96-EIR-05.
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: THE PHLEB MOBILE PHLEBOTOMY SERVICES, 219 Oceano Ave, 2, Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Juan Cambron Perez (same address). This business is conducted by an individual.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE SANTA BARBARA SALAD PROJECT, 1486 Aarhus Dr., M, Solvang, California 93463; Sabina Roan (same address). This business is conducted by an individual.
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The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA CHICKEN RANCH , 2618 De La Vina St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; SBCR Inc (same address). This business is conducted by a Corporation. SIGNED BY MATT BENKO, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 18, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002075. Published: August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2022.
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ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https://cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MELLOW CLAY , 312 Ellwood Beach Drive, 53, Goleta, CA 93117; Sarah Yu (same address). This business is conducted by an Individual. SIGNED BY SARAH YU. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 20, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001842. Published: August 18, 25, September 1, 8, 2022.
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SIGNED BY JUAN CAMBRON PEREZ, CPT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 18, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2022‑0002076. Published: August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2022.
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LOCATION: 420, 430, & 490 S. Fairview Avenue APN 071-130-057, -062, -061
PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hear ing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the City Council meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing the City Clerk at CityClerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to Council and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.
Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hear ing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The subject property (APNs 071-130-057, -062, -061) consists of 3 separate parcels (4.63, 3.72, and 8.32 acres respectively) located at 420, 430, & 490 S Fairview Avenue, in the Inland area of the city. Yardi Systems is the current tenant. The property is zoned Business Park (BP) and the land use designation is Business Park (I-BP).
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FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Associate Planner Travis Lee at 805-562-5528 or tlee@cityofgoleta.org or Kathy Allen, Supervising Senior Planner, at (805) 961-7545 or kallen@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmar tinez@cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org.
REVIEW PROCESS AND APPEAL: As noted above, on April 25, 2022, the Planning Commission recommended the City Council enter into the Development Agreement. The next step in the review process is a City Council hearing, which is the subject of this notice, to consider the request and render a decision on the Development Agreement. The City Council decision cannot be appealed.
HEARING DATE/TIME: Tuesday, September 20, 2022, at 5:30 PM
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Goleta City Council will conduct a public hearing on a Development Agreement between Fairview Business Associates/Torridon and the City of Goleta. The date, time, and location of the City Council public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www.cityofgoleta.org).
SIGNED BY SABINA ROAN. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 4, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E52. FBN Number: 2022‑0001954. Published: August 18, 25, September 1, 8, 2022.
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On April 25, 2022, the Planning Commission held a public hearing and recommended the City Council enter in the proposed Development Agreement with the applicant. The City Council is the final decisionmaker for the Development Agreement for the City. The Development Agreement would not need Coastal Commission approval as the site is located in the Inland portion of the City.
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THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that: AMY CONNOR be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
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The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
CORTESE LIST: The Project site is not listed on the EnviroStor online database of hazardous site records main tained by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control TSC in coordination with the California State Water Resources Control Board consistent with Government Code § 65962.5 (the “Cortese list”).
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SIGNED BY BRIANNE BILLUPS HUGHES, INDIVIDUAL. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 15, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002033. Published: August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2022.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)
ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
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EXTRA SPACE Storage will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. September 29, 2022 at 3:30 PM
SIGNED BY ALICE MACDONALD, OWNER/ TRUSTEE. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 12, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30.
SIGNED BY RICHARD J. BATTAGLIA, MANAGING MEMBER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 04, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30.
MELENDEZ CONSTRUCTION, an Unknown business entity; MATTHEW CROTTY, an individual; FRANCES CROTTY, an individual; BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION, A NATIONAL BANKING ASSOCIATION, as Trustee under that certain Pooling and Service Agreement dated as of October 1, 1992 for RTC Commercial Pass‑Through Certificates, Series 1992 CHF; ROBERT L. LOVGREN, an individual; DOREEN J. LOVGREN, an individual, 6651 L.P., a California limited partnership; HARVEY H. WIPF, an individual; HARVEY H. WIPF, as Trustee of the Wipf Family Trust; BERNICE A. WIPF, an individual; BERNICE A. WIPF, as Trustee for the Wipf Family Trust; ERNEST G. GULSRUD, an individual; ERNEST G. GULSRUD as Trustee of the Gulsrud Family Trust; MURIEL GENEVIEVE GULSRUD, an individual; MURIEL G. GULSRUD, as Trustee for the Gulsrud Family Trust; CURTIS R. JAHNKE, an Individual; and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE) : MARSHALL R. BERNES, an individual; MARSHALL R. BERNES, as Trustee of the Marshall R. Bernes Family Trust; JUDITH DANNETT, an individual; AND, ELINOR FISHER, an individual NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
FBN Number: 2022‑0001952. Published: September 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.
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PETITION OF ZANETA SEILEROVA 111 OCEANO AVE., APT E, SANTA BARBARA, CA
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA ALLIANCE FOR TRANSFORMATION,COMMUNITY 624 W Carrillo St, Santa Barbara CA 93101, Uffizi Order, (same address), SB ACT, Alliance for Community Transformation, ACT. This business is conducted by a Corporation.
SIGNED BY RANDY GOETZ, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 31, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002164. Published: September 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
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DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO) : CAMILLA MELDAHL AKA CAMILLA MEHDAHL, an individual; ED ST. GEORGE, an individual; JAMES GELB, an individual; JAMES M. GELB, as Trustee of the 2010 James M. Gelb Revocable Trust, MARIO MELENDEZ, an individual;
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MOUNTAIN VIEW LANDSCAPING, 4844 Winding Way, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Mountin View Landscape Construction LLC (same address); SB Paver Pros. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. SIGNED BY TYLER VALENZUELA, CEO. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 11, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002007. Published: August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2022.
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NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 10, 2022, 10:00 AM, DEPT 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: August 22, 2022, Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published September 1, 8,15, 22, 2022 IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: EVELYN SALM, 559 MOUNTAIN DRIVE, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103. CASE NUMBER: 22CV03133. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: EVELYN SALM TO: CODY CAMMBELL. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
SIGNED BY MARITZA NAVA LOPEZ. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 28, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E40. FBN Number: 2022‑0001906. Published: August 18, 25, September 1, 8, 2022.
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A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: ZANETA SEILEROVA TO: ZANETA SEILEROVA GOERKE FROM: DAMIAN SAMUEL SEILER TO: DAMIAN SAMUEL SEILER THEGOERKECOURT
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SKSB, 715 Ramming Way, #A, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Sensational Kids of Santa Barbara, Inc., (same address). This business is conducted by a Corporation.
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Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Aaron M. Thomas 3910 Maricopa Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY AARON M. THOMAS. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 18, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002083. Published: August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2022.
NAME CHANGE PETITION OF Annisa R. Mayer, 184 Middle Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108, annisamayer@yahoo. com for change of name. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF RAIF NIKOLAJ SNYDER,VALDEMAR LUKE SNYDER AND ELERI AVA SNYDER, TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 22CV02850 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: RAIF NIKOLAJ SNYDER TO: RAIF NIKOLAJ MAYER FROM: VALDEMAR LUKE SNYDER TO: VALDEMAR LUKE FROM:MAYER ELERI AVA SNYDER TO: ELERI JOSEPHINE MAYER THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed , the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING 10/3/2022, 10:00 AM, DEPT 5 , SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121, Anacapa Divison. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated August 10, 2022 by Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published August 18, 25, September 1, 8, 2022.
NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 26, 2022, 10:00 AM, SB3. SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: August 26, 2022 by Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published September 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.
AMENDED APPLICATION OF IMARI DEMETRIUS RUTHERFORD, 721 CLIFF DR., SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103 FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 22CV02347 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: IMARI DEMETRIUS RUTHERFORD TO: CALCULUS LUCIFER GOLIATH YALE TESSY. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
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The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RANCHO SAN MARCOS GOLF COURSE, 4600 HWY 154, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; RSM Resort LLC, 17992 Cowan, Irvine, CA 92614, Rancho San Marcos Resort, RSM Golf Course, RSM Resort, San Marcos Golf Course, San Marcos Resort. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DIVINA BOUTIQUE , 1120 North G St, Lompoc, CA 93436; Maritza I Nava Lopez (same address). This business is conducted by an individual.
FBN Number: 2022‑0002017. Published: September 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.
NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 5, 2022, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: August 17, 2022, Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Published September 1, 8,15, 22, 2022 IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: LINDSEY PAIGE SCHICK‑FULLER, 1153 CHURCH LANE, CARPINTERIA, CA 93013, CASE NUMBER: TO22CV03136ALLINTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: LINDSEY PAIGE SCHICK‑FULLER TO: LINDSEY PAIGE FLOWERS. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FEDERAL DRUG COMPANY , 3327 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Alice F MacDonald (same address). This business is conducted by a Trust.
NOTICE OF HEARING 9/26/22, 10:00 AM, DEPT 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated August 15, 2022, Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court, Published September 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.
SIGNED BY KATHERINE E. TROLL, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER/ PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 10, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0001997. Published: September 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PACIFICA MEDICAL SPA SANTA BARBARA, 1722 State Street, Suite 102 , Santa Barbara, CA 93101; DGK Holdings Santa Barbara, Inc (same address). This business is conducted by a corporation.
NOTICE OF HEARING 9/26/2022, 10:00 AM, DEPT 5 , SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121, Anacapa Divison. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. SIGNED and Dated August 3, 2022 by Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2022.
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OOTYS SCOOTERS, 629 E Haley St, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Ryan Neely, 279 Mountain DR, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY RYAN NEELY. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 16, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E51. FBN Number: 2022‑0002038. Published: August 25, September 1, 8, 15, 2022.
NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 17, 10:002022,AM, DEPT 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: August 26, 2022, Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published September 1, 8,15, 22, 2022 IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: AUTUMN LEIGH CHRISTMAN, 654 Mayrum Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. CASE NUMBER: 22CV02777 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: AUTUMN LEIGH CHRISTMAN TO: AUTUMN LEIGH WEBB. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
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SIGNED BY DANIEL GENE KOLDER MD, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 26, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002138. Published: September 1, 8, 15, 22, 2022.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: JEAN MARIE KUJAN, 131 PALM TREE LANE, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93108, CASE NUMBER: TO22CV03072.ALLINTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: JEAN MARIE KUJAN TO: JEAN MARIE TZEIBAKHECOURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 5, 2022, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: August 23, 2022, Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Published September 1, 8,15, 22, 2022 IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CATERINA SANFILIPPO LEE, 804 MORENO ROAD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103 AND CHI HOON LEE, CASE NUMBER: TO22CV02998.ALLINTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: SOPHIA SAGE LEE TO: SOPHIE SAGE LEE. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
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IN THE MATTER OF THE AMENDED APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: HYON SOOK CHOUGH, 3090 HIDDEN VALLEY LN, MONTECITO, CA 93108. CASE NUMBER: 22CV01952 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: HYON SOOK CHOUGH TO: HYON CHOUGH SINGER THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 5, 2022, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: August 23, 2022, Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court, Published September 1, 8,15, 22, 2022
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PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The proposed San Jose Creek Multipurpose Path consists of two segments.
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): Stephen Jamieson, SOLOMON SALTSMAN & JAMIESON; 426 Culver Blvd.; Playa Del Rey, CA 90293 Ph: (310) 822‑9848
Northern Segment: This portion of the project extends from Calle Real under U.S. 101 and Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR) to Armitos Avenue. Here, the Path would join the Class I facility near Armitos Park (to be constructed in 2023) which connects to the existing Class I path at Jonny D. Wallis Park. The northern segment would be a paved path approximately 2,400 feet in length ranging from 8-10 feet wide with shoulders ranging from 0-2 feet wide. Retaining walls will be located along sections of the path and range from 4-12 feet in height. The Northern Segment would be on the west side of San Jose Creek, within the floodplain but outside the active channel. It is anticipated that about 680 feet of the proposed path would be constructed within the existing San Jose Creek bank. This situation would occur where the proposed project crosses under the UPRR, US 101 and Calle Real bridges.
The project site’s land use designation according to the City’s General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan varies along the proposed route as follows: Northern Segment: Medium Density Residential, High Density Residential, Community Commercial, General Industrial, Planned Residential, and Open Space/Active Recreation; Southern Segment: Old Town (commercial), General Commercial, Business Park, Old Town, Service/Industrial, General Industrial, Mobile Home Park, Open Space, and Public/Quasi-Public. Surrounding zoning of the entire project site includes Design Residential DR-10 to DR-35, Light Industrial (M-1), Highway Commercial (CH), Professional Institutional (PI), Business Park (BP), General Commercial (CG), Old Town (OT), Service Industrial (IS) and General Industrial (IG). The request is to approve the Final MND, adopt the Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program (MMRP) pursuant to 14 California Code of Regulations §§ 15074, and approve a Development Plan for the project.
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HEARING DATE/TIME: September 20, 2022 at 5:30 P.M.
PROJECT LOCATION: Along San Jose Creek, from Calle Real to Atascadero Bike Path and along State Route 217 (SR 217) shoulder; Public Right of Way including 071-035-CA, and multiple APN’s: 071-090-048, 071-090-047, 071-090-074, 071-090-083, 071-010-010, 071-090-082, 069-160-013, 071-200-011, and 071-140-055
Southern Segment: This portion of the project would be approximately 1 mile in length, ranging from 8-10 feet wide, with shoulders from 0-2 feet wide. A 2-foot wide, 3.5-foot-high standard concrete barrier with a bicycle/ pedestrian rail would separate the multipurpose path from SR 217. The multipurpose path would raise in elevation at the proposed 12-foot-wide bicycle/pedestrian bridge that would span over San Jose Creek and then transition to the SR 217 shoulder. The path will remain at grade with SR 217 for approximately 3,200 feet, at which point it will drop below the SR 217 grade for 1,066 feet as it approaches the proposed 14 ft. wide by 8 ft. high box culvert crossing under SR217. Approximately 1,500 feet of the southernmost portion of this segment is outside of City limits and located within Santa Barbara County jurisdiction.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed Final Mitigated Negative Declaration (Final MND), SCH #2022070006, for the San Jose Creek Multipurpose Path project (described below) has been prepared and that the Goleta City Council will conduct a public hearing to consider approving the Final MND and a Development Plan (Case 20220007-DP) for the project. The date, time, and location of the City Council public hearing are set forth below. The agenda for the hearing will also be posted on the City website (www. cityofgoleta.org).
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW: The proposed project Final MND has been prepared pursuant to the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code, §§ 21000 et seq.), the regulations promulgated thereunder (14 California Code of Regulations, §§ 15000 et seq.), and the City’s Environmental Review Guidelines. The City of Goleta is acting as the Lead Agency for this project. The Final MND identifies and discusses potential impacts, mitigation measures, monitoring requirements, and residual impacts for identified subject areas. No significant and unavoidable impacts are identified as resulting from the project. Potentially significant but mitigable effects on the environment are anticipated in the following areas: Aesthetics, Biological Resources, Geology and Soils, Hazards and Hazardous Materials, Hydrology and Water Quality, Noise, Wildfire and mandatory findings of significance. The site is not listed on any hazardous waste facilities or disposal sites as enumerated under Section 65962.5 of the California Government Code (the “Cortese list”).
FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Ms. Teresa Lopes, Senior Project Engineer (Tlopes@cityofgoleta.org; 805-961-7563) or Laura Bridley, Contract Planner (Lbridley@cityofgoleta. org; 805-896-2153). For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@ cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org. The proposed project Final MND is now posted on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org.
Plaintiff: Joyce Donaldson Defendant: Funyas Masih, et al.
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara, CA 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101
PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested persons are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the City Council meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by e-mailing the City Clerk at cityclerkgroup@ cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to Council and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.
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Warren B. Treisman, Esq., 7183 Navajo Road, Suite I, San Diego, CA 92119; (619) 583‑1900 DATE: (FECHA) 5/4/2022 Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/Johnny Aviles, Deputy (Adjunto) ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS OR CITATION ATTORNEY OR PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY (NAME AND ADDRESS): Warren B. Treisman 7183 Navajo Road. Suite i San Diego, CA 92119
Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements.
Moving Party Plaintiff, Joyce Donaldson filed their application for an order for publication on July 15, 2002. From the application and supporting evidence it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that an order for service by publication is permitted pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 415.50.
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, if the address of the party to be served is ascertained before the expiration of the time prescribed for publication of the summons, the moving party shall forthwith mail to the party to be served a copy of (1) the summons, citation, notice of hearing, or other document(s) identified above, (2) the complaint, petition, or motion for which notice is being served by this order, and (3) this order for publication. A declaration of this mailing, or of the fact that the address was not ascertained, must be filed at the expiration of the time prescribed for the publication.
DATE: (Fecha) 1/13/2020 Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Sarah Sisto, Deputy (Adjunto) SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER: (NUMERO DEL CASO): 20CV01717
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO) : FUNYAS MASIH; NSP TRANSPORTATION INC. (a business entity, form unknown); TORI ANNE THORNBURGH; and DOES 1 AND 25, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): JOYCE DONALDSON NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp),Center your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org),site the California Courts Online Self‑Help quedemandante,denombre,plaintiffnumberTheSantaCourt‑Civil,Division,lacourtThedesecharcortequeunovalorrecuperacionunytienelocales.corteoCaliforniaCentrolawhelpcalifornia,org),Californiadeencontrarlegalesdeobtenercumplaaabogados.recomendableHaysinquitarincumplimientotiempo,Sidelapresentacion,Sicortedesucorte.ca.gov),deinformacionestosparaformulariolasiestarSuellamadademandante.queporparaestadespuesTieneinformacionsincorterespondeAVISO!thepaidcivilawardonlienNOTE:oror(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp),Centerbycontactingyourlocalcourtcountybarassociation.Thecourthasastatutoryforwaivedfeesandcostsanysettlementorarbitrationof$10,000ormoreinacase.Thecourt’slienmustbebeforethecourtwilldismisscase.Lohandemandado.Sinodentrode30dias,lapuededecidirensucontraescucharsuversion.Lealaacontinuacion.30DIASDECALENDARIOdequeleentreguencitacionypapeleslegalespresentarunarespuestaescritoenestacorteyhacerseentregueunacopiaalUnacartaounatelefonicanoloprotegen.respuestaporescritotienequeenformatolegalcorrectodeseaqueprocesensucasoencorte.Esposiblequehayaunqueustedpuedausarsurespuesta.PuedeencontrarformulariosdelacorteymasenelCentrodeAyudalasCortesdeCalifornia(www.enlabibliotecaleyesdesucondadooenlaquelequedemascerca.nopuedapagarlacuotadepidaalsecretariodecortequeledeunformularioexenciondepagodecuotas.nopresentasurespuestaapuedeperderelcasoporylacortelepodrasusueldo,dineroybienesmasadvertencia.otrosrequisitoslegales.EsquellameaunSinopuedepagarunabogado,esposiblequeconlosrequisitosparaservicioslegalesgratuitosunprogramadeserviciossinfinesdelucro.PuedeestosgrupossinfineslucroenelsitiowebdeLegalServices,(www.eneldeAyudadelasCortesdel,(www.sucorte.ca.gov)poniendoseencontactoconlaoelcolegiodeabogadosAVISO:Porley,lacortederechoareclamarlascuotasloscostosexentosporimponergravamensobrecualquierde$10,000omasderecibidamedianteunacuerunaconcesiondearbitrajeencasodederechocivil.Tienepagarelgravamendelaantesdequelacortepuedaelcaso.nameandaddressoftheis(Elnombreydirecciondecortees);SouthCountyCourtSantaBarbaraSuperior1100AnacapaStreet,Barbara,CA93101.name,address,andtelephoneofplaintiff’sattorney,orwithoutanattorney,is:(Elladireccionyelnumerotelefonodelabogadodelodeldemandantenotieneabogado,es):
DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY: Staff reports and related materials for the City Council hearing will also be posted on this website at least 72 hours prior to the meeting on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org.
NOTICE OF AVAILABILITY OF PROPOSED FINAL MND AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CITY COUNCIL Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom September 20, 2022 at 5:30 P.M.
SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION. If you require interpretation services for the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s office at (805) 961-7505 or via email to: cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org at least 72 hours prior to the hearing. Please specify the language for which you require interpretation. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the meeting helps to ensure that reasonable arrangements can be made to provide accessibility to the hearing.
Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, September 8, 2022
The name and address of the court is: (El nombre y direccion de la corte es): Santa Barbara Superior Court, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107
Dated: 7/15/2022 Judge of the Superior Court Thomas P. Anderle
8, 2022 THE INDEPENDENT 45 INDEPENDENT CLASSIFIEDS PHON E 805-965-5205 EMAIL ADVERTISING@INDEPENDENT.COM INDEPENDENT.COM SEPTEMBER 8, 2022 THE INDEPENDENT 45 CLASSIFIEDS | PHON E 805-965-5205 | ADVERTISING@INDEPENDENT.COM
SEPTEMBER
LOCATION: Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, CA 93117 and Teleconference Meeting; this meeting will be held in person and via Zoom (with detailed instructions for participation included on the posted agenda)
LEGALS (CONT.)
ATTENTION: The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https://cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings.
Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).
IT IS ORDERED that service of the summons, citation, notice of hearing, or other document(s) in this action shall be made upon defendant, respondent, or citee Tori Anne Thornburgh by publication thereof in Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation published at Santa Barbara County, California, and that said publication be made at least once a week for four successive weeks.
AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.