Tenants’ Last Stand at La Cumbre Apartments
A Romantic Trip to Italy with Opera Santa Barbara
St. Patrick’s Day Events
In Memoriam: Chef Karim Chhibbane
George Eskin Ends 30-Year Run as Gauchos’ Announcer
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This week’s issue is all about pets and animals, and there is no one better on staff to curate its content than Senior Editor Tyler Hayden. Tyler has a love for pets and animals that goes beyond your average Joe’s. We sat down with him to learn more about his unique passion for pets.
Tell us about your animals at home. Two big cats, Maine Coon–mix brothers named Kendo and Ryu. And Paco, a blue-tongued skink, which is a type of lizard. Oh, and our toddler, who’s sort of half-puppy, half-monkey.
What is one of the most interesting animals you’ve owned in your lifetime? Growing up, we had all sorts of snakes, lizards, frogs, insects, etc. Our ball python was one of my favorites. He was slow and mellow and I’d show him off to whoever came over. We also had a really beautiful leopard gecko that was with me from 3rd grade through college.
Paco the lizard
Do you have a dream animal that you hope to care for one day?
Nothing exotic. I’d love to have a dog again. Hopefully in the next couple of years.
What originally sparked your interest in venturing outside the normal cat/dog club? My dear old dad. I’ll always appreciate that. He’s still caring for a few reptiles at home.
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Sun shone through the dewdrop-covered windows of Santa Barbara County residents on Wednesday morning, signifying the end of Tuesday’s downpour that brought out the sandbags, closed schools, moved meetings online, flooded roads, and downed trees.
Hundreds of people in burn scar areas had to evacuate their homes, but this week’s storm system ended up being much calmer than originally expected. Downed trees were really the worst impact the county saw in terms of debris, and the minor flooding was nowhere near what the region had to deal with in January.
In short, the crisis was averted; the storm was not as bad as the National Weather Service had predicted. In the past 48 hours, most areas in the county received about two to three inches of rain, with the highest rainfall totals just exceeding four inches. Over the duration of the storm, San Marcos Pass only got a little more than four inches of rain, compared to the max of 10 inches meteorologists had predicted. County reservoirs are not looking too bad, either Gibraltar and Jameson reservoirs are just a little more than 100 percent capacity, and Twitchell and Cachuma reservoirs are nearing but not yet exceeding their spillway elevation.
“The best way of looking at it was all the ingredients were there, but they did not come together for the perfect recipe,” said meteorologist Eric Boldt with the National Weather Service out of Oxnard. “The first part of the storm raced out ahead of the rest, so it split apart into two segments.”
Boldt said that the steady precipitation Tuesday morning fractured over the Central Coast, then regenerated later in the afternoon and evening. “Also, the south winds were anticipated to enhance rainfall across the foothills and mountains,” he said. “Normally, this would result in rain amounts doubling at higher elevations, but this storm was relatively uniform from coasts to mountains with only about an inch difference.”
However, he did note that some areas, including Ventura and Oxnard, did see the overall strength of this storm, receiving more than three inches of rainfall.
Santa Barbara County Fire spokesperson Scott Safechuck said County Fire was prepared for the worst and had increased resources and staff funded by the California Office of Emergency Services prepositioned across the county to assist with any incidents that arose due to the storm.
“Most of our involvement with prepositioning was waiting for things of signifi-
Finding homes for homeless individuals has entered the realm of possibility in Santa Barbara County as an influx of dollars coming from state and federal sources is helping to both create housing and provide the services that help people stay in them. To that end, the Board of Supervisors approved a total of $3 million to Good Samaritan on 3/14. About $2 million goes to continue DignityMoves’ 33 tiny homes on Santa Barbara Street through March 2025. Another $1.3 million will fund services at the Santa Maria shelter, including to households with children, for housing placement and intensive support services like substance abuse prevention and case management.
On 3/14, the City Council unanimously accepted its upcoming five-year Capital Improvement Program, which outlines the city’s large-scale projects costing more than $100,000 in order to plan for future funding. Over the next five years, the city has $775 million in projects that have funding lined up, and $805 million in projects that are still unfunded at this time. The program includes projects for the Airport, Fire, Library, Parks and Recreation, Police, Public Works, and Waterfront departments.
cance to happen, but also surveying and constantly being aware of what was going on,” Safechuck said, “so we could transition to an incident command team running the incidents if necessary, and it just didn’t. Fortunately, it didn’t materialize to that point.”
He said the impact was consistent across communities; South County saw more isolated tree falls, and in North County, there was slight spillage over the Guadalupe River levee in Santa Maria as the river reached max capacity. But overall, the widespread, minor incidents were nothing that isn’t to be expected for Santa Barbara during storm events.
“So, keeping eyes on that stuff, we were fortunate with this storm that the front when it came in usually will carry a lot of wind with it. And with the soil saturation, we’ll see a lot of trees starting to fall, down power lines, and isolated power outages,” Safechuck said. “But we were fortunate with the way that the rain came down during this storm that it just spread out throughout the duration of a timeframe versus all at once, and it just didn’t materialize to what the National Weather Service had originally predicted.”
County Flood Control did not note any damage by the end of the day on Tuesday, and many of the roads closed on Tuesday reopened Wednesday morning, said County Public Works’ public information officer Lael Wageneck. However, some flooding was expected Wednesday morning due to high levels of ground saturation and runoff, so Public Works was still monitoring low-lying and flood-prone areas across the county.
“Peak flows were anticipated in the early morning, so staff is currently assessing sites countywide,” Wageneck said on Wednesday morning. “Alamo Pintado between Santa Barbara Avenue and Baseline in Santa Ynez was closed last night due to flooding, and our crews are currently responding to the plugged culvert near the 2200 block of Alamo Pintado. There was also a downed eucalyptus tree on Ortega Hill Road in Summerland that crews will be removing today.”
County Fire is set to respond to any emergency storm happenings until Thursday morning. “We will continue to monitor the area, check the rivers and creeks as that water is shedding out of the mountains and going into our creeks and river systems,” Safechuck said Wednesday. “And with the soil saturation, a lot of that water is not being absorbed into the ground, so it runs into our rivers.”
Since the resources offered by the Office of Emergency services are funded by the state, Safechuck said, those resources can be repositioned when other counties experience greater flooding or have greater emergency needs, as was the case in this storm.
Communities across California were pummeled by the statewide atmospheric river, but the scenes in Northern California made flooding in Santa Barbara County seem more like a puddle in comparison. In Monterey County, floodwaters breached Pajaro River’s levee and inundated a nearby agricultural community, submerging cars and forcing roughly 1,700 people to evacuate their homes.
Santa Barbara will have a new sister city, Miraflores, Peru, which will take the place of the former sister city relationship with San Juan Metro Manila, Philippines, after both sides agreed to dissolve the arrangement due to years of inaction between the two cities. Miraflores joins S.B.’s other sister cities, Kotor, Montenegro; Patras, Greece; Puerto Vallarta, Mexico; Toba City, Japan; and Weihai, China. The Sister City Program is part of the People-to-People Program initiated by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1956 to foster connections between people from different communities across the world.
For the second time in the last three seasons, the UCSB men’s basketball team will be a part of the spectacle that is March Madness after defeating Cal State Fullerton 72-62 on 3/11 and claiming the Big West Conference Tournament championship. The Gauchos (27-7) are the 14th seed in the South Region and will take on third-seeded Baylor (22-10) out of the Big 12 in Denver, Colorado, on 3/17. This is the seventh tournament appearance and 10th NCAA tournament game in UCSB history.
A “mystery gift” of $500,000 to the Land Trust for Santa Barbara County is going toward the addition of coastal grassland to the historic Arroyo Hondo nature preserve. The donation came at the end of February as part of the Land Trust’s fundraising campaign to raise $750,000 to add the 48-acre property known as Gaviota Overlook to Arroyo Hondo’s existing 782 acres between Refugio State Beach and Gaviota State Park. If the Land Trust raises the additional $210,000 needed to buy the land, it will be the first time in 20 years that public access is expanded for Arroyo Hondo, and the first new piece of Gaviota Coast conservation in 15 years.
Carpinteria city officials announced last week that crews are officially done clearing the debris basins following the January storm surge, and now the city is working to re-grade and groom the beach area with high-quality sediment over the next two weeks. Santa Barbara County Flood Control removed 43,000 cubic yards of material from
As the colorfully wavy-gravy graph above shows, Santa Barbara County’s roads, bridges, and bike lanes are built, maintained, replaced through a number of revenue streams (left), and go variously into four pots of money (right) accessed by Public Works, which is looking to increase its funding for the coming fiscal year.
County Budget Director Paul Clementi made the presentation to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday morning, asking for more from the Measure A fund known at its inception as the “lane and train” measure and that the county add $1 million more from its General Fund to cover increased liability insurance rates. Maintenance costs went up by $2.8 million between 2017 and 2022, Clementi explained, liability insurance more than doubled to $1.9 million between 2017 and 2023, and salary, benefits, and admin costs are anticipated to increase by $1.6 million this coming year. Clementi later told the Independent that the Measure A fund amount might increase by up to $2 million to a total of $8 million.
Clementi also stated that in the April budget talks, he would be proposing increasing permit revenue, perhaps in the road encroachment fees charged to utilities and others that use the county’s right-of-way, to cover a $450,000 shortfall in the cost of services. Supervisor Bob Nelson stated he agreed with the recommendations but had some reservations: “As we begin looking at broadband in our future... it’s a potential revenue source from entities using our county right-of-ways.” The
fee was to maintain the right of way, which the entities used to make a lot of money, but he said it would cause him heartburn to see small mom ’n’ pops burdened with the increase when bigger operators could better absorb such costs.
Public Work’s requests were approved unanimously by the board, but not before attorney Marc Chytilo commented on Measure A on behalf of the Committees for Land, Air, Water, and Species. He noted several things, including that the maintenance and expansion of bicycle paths were important, especially with the increased range of electric bicycles helping to cut greenhouse-gas emissions, and the growing concern with toxins produced by automobile brakes and tires.
“We’re still waiting for the train to join the lane,” Chytilo commented. “The expanded 101 is not going to provide the capacity that our community needs. The modeling shows that there will be future traffic congestion even with the additional lane,” he added, asking for board leadership in alternative transportation. He also observed that the 10 percent from Measure A intended for alternative transportation was a floor, not a ceiling.
Voters approved Measure A in 2008 as a 30-year half-cent transportation sales tax, which raised about $454 million so far, sending $25 million toward widening Highway 101 and $4.5 million toward commuter rail, with the remainder going toward numerous bridge, circulation, school, and transit programs.
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The first- and second-place winners from each division are invited to compete in the California State Spelling Bee on 5/13 in Stockton.
Basin, Toro Basin, Franklin Channel, and Santa Monica Channel, and the operation included frequent testing on sediment being transported to Carpinteria City Beach. Full story at independent.com/carp-debris.
Four of Santa Barbara’s stellar student spellers will be buzzing on up to the California State Spelling Bee after emerging victorious at the Santa Barbara County Spelling Bee on 3/9, organized and held by the Santa Barbara County Education Office. Carpinteria Middle School 6th grader Emiliano Jimenez took first place in the elementary division with the winning word of “guillotine,” and in the junior high division, first place went to St. Raphael Catholic School 8th grader Luke Johansen with the word “ecstasy.”
Two men are in critical condition after being stabbed during a fight 3/12 on lower State Street, according to police. At 3:16 a.m., police say they received a report of a physical altercation between two groups near the 500 block of State Street that resulted in two men being stabbed. Police reporting to the scene located the first victim on the first block of East Cota Street and the second on East Cota Street’s first block. The victims were then transported to Cottage Hospital, where they were reportedly in stable but critical condition. Detectives are currently investigating the incident and say it is unknown if the fight was gang-related. No arrests have yet been reported. n
The Santa Barbara City Council unanimously agreed with the city Planning Commission’s previous denial of an appeal against the Westside Neighborhood Clinic, doubling down on the decision that the community’s need for a free health clinic outweighed the appellant’s concerns over parking impacts.
The appeal was filed by attorney Andrew Hazlett on behalf of Auto Fuels, Inc., a gas station directly next door to the current clinic and across the street from the proposed new location at 621 Micheltorena Street. The appeal argued that the current clinic was already causing traffic impacts at the gas station, and that the parking modification granted at the new location is “based on flawed data,” according to attorney Mark Carney, who presented the appeal to the City Council on Tuesday.
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The Planning Commission heard the appeal in December, deciding to uphold the staff’s determination to approve the parking modification, development plan, and conditional-use permit.
On Tuesday, the City Council considered the appeal of the Planning Commission’s decision, and the Council voted 6-0 to confirm the commission’s denial, with Westside district councilmember Oscar Gutierrez recusing himself from the vote because of his work with the neighborhood clinic.
Councilmember Kristen Sneddon recommended the denial of the appeal without hesitation, saying that she found it was inappropriate that the appellant was arguing about parking impacts from the current clinic and that the proposed clinic’s benefit to the community outweighed any concerns raised in the appeal. Ryan
Los Padres National Forest on Monday reopened most of the areas that have been closed since January 13 due to damage caused by winter storms. The new order reopens areas that have been repaired or not extensively damaged by January’s storms and supersedes the Special Closure Order that closed four of Los Padres’ five ranger districts to allow for damage assessment and repairs.
However, forest officials say that storms forecast over the next two weeks could cause further damage that may require additional closures. They are encouraging the public to exercise maximum caution when entering areas of the forest that are now open for hiking and camping, and to closely monitor weather forecasts.
“This has been an extraordinary challenge for Forest Service employees and partner groups as well as for the public,” Los Padres Forest Supervisor Chris Stubbs said. “I ask for your patience and understanding as we continue what in all likelihood will be a long-term effort to restore and reopen as many of these areas as we responsibly can.”
All wilderness areas are again open for public use, except for the extensively damaged wilderness trails that will remain closed until repairs can be made. Seven of
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the nine Santa Barbara front country trails reopened, along with popular campgrounds such as Plaskett Creek and Arroyo Seco on the Monterey Ranger District, Cerro Alto on the Santa Lucia Ranger District, and the Lower Santa Ynez Recreation Area up to First Crossing.
Remaining closed for now are River Road from First Crossing to Red Rock Day Use Area, the Los Prietos and Fremont campgrounds, Whiterock Day Use Area, Sage Hill Campground, and the San Ysidro and Romero front country trails. Forest engineers, partner groups, volunteers, and contractors will continue to work on repairs in the areas that remain closed as funding becomes available. A complete list of closed roads, trails, campgrounds, and day use sites can be found on Los Padres National Forest’s website at fs.usda.gov/lpnf.
The struggle to provide public access to eight miles of pristine beach along the privately owned Hollister Ranch continues to crawl along with the only signs of progress being two reports now being prepared: a cultural resources survey and an environmental impact report (EIR).
Both surveys are intended to answer questions coastal commissioners raised last year about the unique quality of the Hollister Ranch, a privately owned, 14,000-acre subdivision of 100-acre residential parcels with miles of twisting roads, a functioning cattle operation, and Chumash sites.
The roughly 1,200 residents and lot owners at Hollister Ranch have repeatedly expressed concerns about the adverse consequences an increased human presence would have on the ancient sites, the natural habitat, and on dangers to the beachgoers themselves.
The EIR is tasked with determining what impact opening the property to the general
public would have on the land, its artifacts, and its plentiful wildlife.
A number of state agencies, including the coastal commission, are now hiring a consultant to answer the practical question of how to safely transport visitors through rough terrain to remote beaches.
The state also has hired Applied Earthworks to assess danger to ancient heritage sites with the help of tribal members as part of a Chumash Tribal Working Group.
In 2019, Senator Monique Limón authored Assembly Bill 1680, which planned for public access to begin by April 2022. But that date has come and gone as the program faced prolonged negotiations and legal battles.
“Senator Limón was very clear,” Linda Locklin, the coastal commission’s access program manager, said. “This has been a controversy in Santa Barbara County for 40 years. It’s time that it’s resolved.”
Callie FauseyThe downward trend in tax revenues from the cannabis industry in Santa Barbara County continues to be a “dark spot” in an otherwise bright financial picture, county officials said this week. While revenue from property taxes and hotel bed taxes is estimated to exceed county projections by $17 million and $2.2 million, respectively, for fiscal year 202223, cannabis tax revenue will fall short by $10.5 million, according to a secondquarter budget update presented to the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
Cannabis tax revenues for 2022-23 are projected to be about $5.8 million, Brittany Heaton, the principal cannabis analyst for the county’s Chief Executive Officer, told the board. That’s only about a third of the $16.3 million that was budgeted last June for what the county calls its “cannabis program” including administration, oversight, and public services.
A glut of cannabis on the market in California has caused prices to plunge in recent years. And in Santa Barbara County, tax collection based on gross cannabis earn-
ings has been problematic. Of 71 cannabis operators, only 40 reported their gross earnings for the second quarter, Heaton said. Fifteen reported zero earnings, and 12 did not file a report.
Santa Barbara County is number one in California for active cannabis cultivation licenses, with 1,614 issued by the state, or 22 percent of the total. At their peak in fiscal year 2021-22, the county’s cannabis tax revenues totaled $15.7 million. But so far this fiscal year, Heaton said, only $3.5 million has been collected. Meanwhile, the update shows, it will cost the county District Attorney’s Office, Sheriff’s Office, and Tax Collector’s Office $5 million this year to enforce the law against illegal operators and tax scofflaws.
County officials told the board they will use carryover cannabis tax revenues from previous years to cover much of the $9.7 million that was budgeted in the cannabis program for county libraries, long-range planning, park and roads maintenance, and other services in 2022-23.
Melinda BurnsOver on La Cumbre Road, just up from State Street, an aging, neglected 17-unit apartment complex has become ground zero in a battle between a 30-year tenant who refuses to leave and the building’s new owner, who wants to remodel and create luxury units in its place.
It is one of the more dramatic examples of how developers in Santa Barbara are pushing tenants out of their rental apartments and exacerbating the city’s already dwindling affordable units a method so prevalent it has its own name: renoviction.
The apartments at 111 North La Cumbre Road were once a bustling community of families, but now the complex resembles a wasteland. Piles of trash line the crumbling carports; weeds crawl over walkways covered in broken glass. At night, transients break into the empty units, leaving behind their discarded drug paraphernalia.
For the past several months, the Martinez family the only tenants still occupying the building have existed without a working refrigerator, gas, hot water, or outside lights. The electricity in their apartment gives the building its only light.
For the past three weeks, dozens of residents and housing advocates have packed city council meetings pleading for an end to renovictions. Under state law, it is completely legal for landlords to tell tenants to vacate units in order to make repairs and it is often used as a way to legally raise the rents.
The situation with the Martinez family is “especially egregious,” but increasingly common, according to Stanley Tzankov, cofounder of the Santa Barbara Tenants Union, which has been pushing to ban renovictions.
“We are seeing whole buildings of people being displaced,” he said. He believes the city could pass tenant protections such as making renovictions only allowable for livability concerns.
“Renovictions are erasing the remains of affordable housing in the city,” said Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) organizer Wendy Santamaria.
Norma Martinez moved into apartment #17 more than three decades ago, in 1991, when she was only 17 years old. At the time, she moved in with other family members, but
over the years, she became the unit’s primary tenant with her son, Bryan, and daughter, Jessica.
In the past few months, after receiving the notices from the new property owners, she said she lives in a constant state of fear, “always waiting for something bad to happen.” If she can’t stay at the apartment, she says she will likely have to move out of town to find a two-bedroom unit in the same price range.
The company that bought the apartments, Driven Capital Partners, was created by former professional soccer player Dan Kennedy and his partner Matt Shamus, who left his job at Facebook to pursue a career in real estate investing. The company also owns Mission and State Luxury Apartments. Both are managed by Sandpiper Property Management.
According to the company’s website, Shamus got his real estate license at the age of 20, “sold his childhood home for a tidy profit, and has been hooked on real estate investing ever since.”
During an interview on the We Love Real Estate Podcast with Sean Pan, Shamus said, “Santa Barbara has 2 percent vacancy in multifamily right now, and throughout California there’s a housing crisis. So, the opportunity that we saw was to purchase the property, convert it back into apartments, and then sell it to someone that wants to own apartments in downtown Santa Barbara. So that’s our intention for that property.”
On another podcast, The Best Ever Real Estate Investing Advice Show with Joe Fairless, Shamus describes one of his first property investing experiences, where he realized that owning and managing a property was more work than he had bargained for.
“Two weeks after we bought the house,” he said, “I was in Mexico, on vacation, getting a phone call from the tenant, saying that the toilet was backed up, the tub was backed up, and the house was in danger of starting to flood…. And I just kind of thought ‘Man, what have I gotten myself into here?’ ”
Robert Forouzandeh, the attorney representing the property owners, maintains that the Martinez family has not paid rent since November 2022, and they refuse to leave despite several notices given in June and August 2022 informing the tenants that they were to leave by October 31.
The property owners provided half of the relocation fee when they gave the tenants notice. When the apartment is vacated, the tenant receives the other half. All the other tenants in the building left without issue, he said.
The building was “dilapidated and destroyed,” Forounzandeh said, before being bought by Driven Capital, and the previous property owner did not complete any work.
In November 2022 the city issued a “stop work” notice at the property, in which the property owner was directed to “stop all work” until permits were issued, and to “clean up outside of structure and secure property from vagrants.” On February 10, a judge ruled that the property owners’ notice to the tenant was “missing some information” and denied the eviction order.
The property owners are now filing a new complaint, suing the family for the half of the relocation fee that the company says was never returned. Efforts to come to a settlement have also fallen apart at this time, with the tenants refusing any offers to vacate the unit.
“We got these people who won’t leave,” Forounzandeh said. “This is bizarre.”
Through this whole process, Bryan, 19, has acted as agent and translator for his mother. The day the property owner shut the lights off in the exterior of the apartments, January 17, he called the property manager who was dismissive but said he would put in a work order to address the lights. They have not been restored to this day.
Bryan helped his mother get assistance from the county Legal Aid Foundation, but even with the help of an attorney, he wears his anxiety across his face: “It’s honestly the worst thing I’ve gone through,” he says.
Bryan’s older sister, Jessica, recently moved out, but is also helping her family through this process, which for her has been indicative of a larger problem facing families of first-generation immigrants.
“It’s so bad that any day someone can just come for passive income and now 17 families are gone,” she said. “They’re not even taking care of it. It’s trashed; it’s disrespectful.”
Alex Entrekin, an attorney at Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara helping the Martinez family, said this case is “about who has a right to live in Santa Barbara,” because renovictions heavily target communities that are paying lower rents.
Entrekin said the family was never officially offered a one-year lease, as mandated by the city’s Mandatory Lease ordinance. Every notice was sent to a name on the original 1991 lease, the lawyer said, although Norma had taken over as the primary month-to-month tenant years ago and the disputed check for relocation assistance was not made out to Norma or Bryan.
“It’s such an incredible indignity to say we’re going to evict you and not even name you,” Entrekin said. “Like they aren’t even people.”
Even if the property owners win in court, and the family is forced out, housing advocates say that the battle is proof that the tenants do have some power to fight landlords.
“This was just one family,” Entrekin said. “Imagine if it was all 17 units refusing to leave.” n
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Santa Barbara Permaculture Network celebrates its third annual Eco Hero Award honoring John & Nancy Jack Todd, Ecological Design Pioneers. Joining us to receive the award, John & Nancy Todd will share their amazing partnership journey over five decades committed to the emerging field of ecological design, that uses human ingenuity to design a future in balance with nature, while healing broken ecosystems.
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what’s this I hear that our “Friendliest Goddamn Town” may be friendly but not too accommodating. So councilmembers reject Pride banners and painted crosswalks, leading to the usual accusations of all things, bigotry, and the old tired wokeness nonsense?
Well that’s fantastic, councilmembers! The preference of shooting down the local Pride community’s excitement of being able to enjoy some recognition in Solvang rather than working out a compromise was just too good to pass up?
A small bit of advice for the leadership of Solvang. Whether you’re a conservative or liberal or anything in between, it’s your sworn duty to serve the whole community. Your obligations are to work together to solve problems without bias.
Whenever there’s a decision to be made, regardless of the endeavor, it’s your collective leadership that drives your decisions. There should never be a “no” to any proposal that could benefit the greater good of our community.
There’s always a place for compromise without subjecting politics, religious beliefs, or biases to the equation. And I’m a straight, white, conservative male, who happens to believe in equality and inclusiveness, which reflects individuality, integrity, understanding, and compassion. And I know of other folks in our community who live their lives the same way.
If Solvang is indeed “The Friendliest Goddamn Town,” Mr. Robert Clarke and friends, then put your words to use and make it that way. Friendly also means acceptance, accommodating, supportive, and welcoming for all members of our community. Next time, do better. Learn to compromise.
—Mark Mansfield, Los Olivos
In reference to the article “California Counties Weigh In on Hot Springs Parking,” property owners near the Hot Springs trailhead started placing boulders in the public right of way about two years ago, for the obviously illegal purpose of blocking hikers from parking near the trailhead.
Independent reporter Jean Yamamura calls this “landscaping” and claims it had been there for years. Not just “landscaping” but “habitat.” She also claims that the trailhead has “limited legal parking.” No, there was always plenty of legal parking until these boulders were illegally placed.
She falsely claims “the county was attempting
to add more [parking]” when in fact they were just trying to restore what always had been there. The Hot Springs trailhead serves many trails, all of which have been rendered inaccessible.
It is gratifying that all 58 California counties have stepped up to call attention to this lawlessness by the property owners and by the courts. This is the kind of behavior during the Civil Rights era that called for federal intervention. It is disheartening to see the Independent print such a distorted story worthy of Fox. Can we please have truthful coverage on this case of lawlessness that affects so much of our community?
—Robert Bernstein, GoletaResidents illegally placing rocks on the public right of way near the Hot Springs Trailhead has eliminated parking going back decades. One Riven Rock resident even created his own parking space, much of it on the public right of way, according to the county road department. A sign placed next to it says “private property” and threatens towing.
Hikers get ticketed for parking on Riven Rock, but residents who illegally block parking or create their own parking spaces on public land do not. Time for equity in ticketing. Everyone should be ticketed, or no one ticketed.
Local residents have clout. Due to their pressure, county parks restricted parking to two hours on weekends and eliminated overnight parking. Rangers have even been posted at the trailhead.
Residents can’t stop the Sierra Club from leading night hikes up Hot Springs Canyon, but they can make it more inconvenient. Backpackers are no longer able to leave their vehicles overnight when they take extended trips into the backcountry.
Residents having so much power over a local trailhead is bad precedent. Oh, the power and influence of wealthy residents!
—Bryan Rosen, Montecito¶ In last week’s news story on the city’s new HOPE fund, we note SBCAN is the County Action Network, not Community Action Network.
¶ We note that Andersen Bakery’s Dessert Burger, listed in the Burger Week options, was vegetarian, not plant-based.
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of his life, Nina Lázaro, after being set up on a blind date by a roommate. They were married in 1967, and together raised four children, Carlos, Alexander, Jeremy and Jessica. He served in the Army Reserve from 1968-1972.
In 1972, Richard and Nina moved their family to Santa Barbara to escape the LA smog.
Celebrating the Life of Charles Ephraim French
March 18th, 2023
Gathering 1:00-4:00 pm Sharing Stories 2:00-3:00pm Scofield Park
1819 Las Canoas Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Join us for a community celebration of Ephraim’s adventurous and love-filled life. Bring a story or a song. Instruments welcome!
Richard Lewis Hunt
8/18/1943 - 1/25/2023
Richard’s professional career as an accountant spanned 56 years, working with Jarabin, Gaggs and Hunt and in later years Macfarlane, Faletti & Co. LLC. His honesty, reliability, and dedication to others meant that many of his clients and colleagues became lifelong friends. Even though Richard was always the last to leave the office, he found time to have dinner every night with his family during tax season, and to attend his children’s school and sports activities. Richard’s passion for scuba diving began in his 50s and continued to his mid-70s. During the 55 years of their marriage, he and Nina traveled to six continents, and Richard looked forward to diving on these trips. In later years, Richard enjoyed spending time with his grandchildren, who were a good reminder that life isn’t always that serious.
ica, Tristan and Ethan Dominguez and his siblings Judi, Mary, Rosalie, Virginia, Kathy, Patricia, and Tom; countless nieces and nephews and many friends and colleagues. He was predeceased by his siblings Joan and Bob, and his son Carlos, who passed in 2014. Richard was a rock of stability, calm and kindness for those that knew him, and he will be sorely missed. His dry sense of humor will also be missed.
A celebration of Richard’s life will be held on March 25 at 11:00 a.m. at the MacKenzie Center in MacKenzie Park in Santa Barbara. For more information, please contact Alexander Hunt via email at alexanderhunt@ yahoo.com. In lieu of flowers, Richard’s family requests that you please make a donation to the Gaviota Coast Conservancy at https://www.gaviotacoastconservancy.org/donate/
and will be remembered by all who loved him for being and easy going, wise, kind, and great man.
Services will be held on Saturday, March 18, 2023, at St. Raphael’s Church, 5444 Hollister Ave. Viewing is at 9:00 a.m., followed by Mass at 10:00 a.m. Burial to follow at Calvary Cemetery, 199 N. Hope Ave. SB
UCLA’s premiere film-making school where she won a Sol Siegal Award for best screenplay, an award given to Francis Ford Coppola several years prior.
She was known for throwing multi-dish dinner parties for friends from film school, and people she befriended commuting on the Los Angeles RTD bus. After film school, she trekked through Afghanistan, Pakistan, and remote parts of India as a single woman in the 1970s. More recently, at age 70, she tried hitchhiking back to her hotel after missing a bus while traveling abroad. A Good Samaritan saw her, screeched to a halt, and packed her in his car while scolding her that hitchhiking along the Yemen border during a civil war was crazy for a small old lady.
Richard Lewis Hunt, CPA of Santa Barbara, California, died on January 25th, 2023, at 79 years of age, after 17 years battling prostate cancer. Richard was born in New Jersey on August 18th, 1943 to J. Lewis Hunt and Doris Rita Hunt and moved to North Hollywood, California in 1946. Richard was the second in line of 10 siblings in a large Catholic family and attended Loyola High School and Loyola University in Los Angeles. Although it might surprise some of his tax clients, as a young man Richard built his own hot rod from a Model T and enjoyed riding street legal and offroad motorcycles. His annual family camping and fishing trips instilled in him a love of the outdoors and an appreciation for the natural world that endured throughout his life. As a young man and student, Richard kept busy delivering newspapers, working at a gas station, in a laboratory, at a plant nursery and helping his father add a room to the house in North Hollywood.
In 1965, RIchard met the love
Richard enjoyed his work as an accountant and used his skills and knowledge to help his community and the environment. He volunteered as the treasurer for the Los Padres Chapter of the Sierra Club for 45 years and served as treasurer for the Gaviota Coast Conservancy for 15 years. Richard’s financial expertise with these organizations helped preserve land in the public trust, though he also didn’t mind getting his hands dirty and continued doing highway and beach cleanups until recently.
Richard volunteered for Planned Parenthood for many years, serving on the Board of Directors as well as on the Finance Committee. He was also on the Board of Directors of the Arloma Foundation, which is known for providing full scholarships for nurses aides for all the junior colleges in California.
Richard is survived by his wife Nina Hunt; son Alexander Hunt (Danielle) of Oakland, CA; son Jeremy Hunt of Marietta, OH; daughter Jessica Dominguez of Santa Barbara, CA; grandchildren Anders, Marlena and Silvia Hunt, Malcolm Hunt, and Angel-
At the age of 99, Sylvester Lechuga died peacefully at home surrounded by his family. He was born in Santa Barbara to his parents Simon and Asarision (Del Gado) Lechuga. Sylvester was a young boy when his mother passed away and he went to live with his aunt and uncle. Sylvester joined his uncle Ventura Camacho farming, and it became his life-long passion. He farmed many areas throughout the Goleta Valley and Santa Barbara County. In the 1940s, Sylvester and his uncle established the “Green Stand” selling local produce. He met Margarita Cuevas growing up as a young boy their two families were friends they married December 1952.
He is the Lechuga patriarch
My mom, (Elly) Mira Basar Kusuma Oaten, passed away peacefully on January 30th 2023. Around Santa Barbara you may have seen her delivering food to the homeless along State Street, befriending a homeless vet looking for a home for their dog, volunteering as an usher, reading her poetry at a local pub, or singing at the Red Piano Bar with her walker in one hand and a glass of wine in the other.
Mom was in a hurry to meet the world. She left her prosperous Indonesian family at age 17 by buying a one-way ticket to Melbourne, Australia. Two months later, she won a hotly-contested audition to become a radio broadcaster for the Australian Broadcasting Company, reading the daily morning news to millions in Indonesia. She married my dad at 18, had me at 19, and moved to the United States. She struggled to learn English, especially colloquialisms ‘a bird in the hand saves nine… or no, is like a rolling stone? ack.. Two in the bush is better than a rolling stone without moss…ack! what does that mean?’ And yet, she earned degrees from UCSB in Anthropology and an MFA from
In Santa Barbara, she loved buying coffee for others, bought lots of dog treats for random dogs around town, and fed birds under signs that said ‘Please don’t feed the birds! ‘ As a small Asian woman with an accent, she was unable to break down the Hollywood barriers of the 70s, but she persevered and ended up teaching Indonesian to our military at the Monterey Language Institute. I was able to provide for her in a manner that allowed her to live a life without boundaries her final 20 years or so. She led a fully engaged extraordinary life on her terms. She was proud of her son, and grandsons Alex and Adrian, perhaps feeling that through us the world finally recognized that she mattered, and was unique. She did and was.
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to the ideal of accessible education for all, Eleanor supported scholarships to Santa Barbara City College’s nursing program and volunteered for many years with Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, where she helped convert many volumes – many of them specialized textbooks — into recorded media for audio consumption.
by his daughter Lori Rolleri of Stockton, his son Joseph Rolleri of Santa Barbara, his grandchildren Bradley Hoyt and Melissa Hoyt of Stockton, his sister Antoinette McDaniel of Monterey, nieces, nephews and many cousins.
and the family takes some solace in knowing that our tragic loss has provided miracles for other families.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that you donate in his name to a Suicide Prevention or Mental Health Association.
Eleanor Frances Rummell
Precoda passed away at her home in Valle Verde retirement community on March 2, 2023. Born in Douglas, Wyoming on April 8, 1925, Eleanor was a resident of Santa Barbara for 65 years, where she and her husband Norman raised their family.
As a young girl, Eleanor dreamed of becoming a concert pianist, and later recalled her Aunt Frances taking her, at age 10, to see Rachmaninoff perform in Columbia, Missouri. Eleanor would graduate from Michigan State University in 1947 and from UC Berkeley in 1949 with a master’s degree in Spanish language and literature, earning her California Teaching Certificate in 1950. She taught Spanish at Monterey Peninsula College to returning soldiers on the G.I. Bill, and often remarked that these were the most motivated students she ever had. She also taught at Mt. Diablo High School, San Marcos High School, and Adult Education at Santa Barbara City College. While at Berkeley, she met Norman, and they married in 1952. She spoke Spanish as a second language until her passing.
In the 1970s, Eleanor exchanged piano for viola, and studied for years with Ann Tischer, a long-time member of the Santa Barbara Symphony. She performed with the SBCC Symphony, the SBCC Chorus, the Santa Barbara Choral Society, and the West Coast Symphony. After retiring from performing, she donated her prized viola to the Music Department at UCSB, where it has since appeared in numerous recitals. For many years, Eleanor was a season subscriber to the Symphony, and found many ways to support the arts, enjoying live theatre and concerts at the Music Academy of the West, where she delighted in discovering new generations of virtuosi.
Devoted throughout her life
Eleanor was predeceased by her husband Norman and her sister Marilyn Smith, and is survived by her sister Elizabeth Staley of Honolulu, Hawaii, her daughter Kristin and her partner David Huron of Benicia, California, and her son Karl and grandson Oliver, of Blacksburg, Virginia. The family is grateful to the staff at Valle Verde, where Eleanor spent 20 happy years. At her request, there will be no service. Memorial gifts may be directed to the Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Barbara County and to the SBCC Foundation for nursing scholarships.
John A. Rolleri III12/9/1947 - 2/27/2023
Funeral services will be private. Memorial tributes may be made to Hospice of Santa Barbara.
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ship, a Mayo Clinic fellowship, and his life-changing permanent move to Los Angeles with his collie, Sandy. His musical talents traveled with him, as he played the guitar and piano by ear. He continued traveling too, studying French in Paris for six months to fight off heartache.
Life as a doctor, including county jail shifts, apparently was not enough. Richard soon graduated from USC Law School and became a dualpracticing medical malpractice attorney and Kaiser surgeon. He also earned his private pilot’s license and enjoyed flying small aircraft throughout Southern California. Richard married a Los Angeles native, Diana, in 1971, adopted her daughter, Darlene, and welcomed his son, Ryan, in 1974.
It is with great sadness that we share the passing of Jeremy by his own hand on February 18, 2023.
John A. Rolleri III passed away on February 27, 2023 in Santa Barbara CA surrounded by his loving family. John was born to John and Albina Rolleri on December 9, 1947 in Stockton, CA. He graduated from St. Mary’s High School, where he excelled in athletics. He was a purchasing agent for 35 years and then retired in Santa Barbara.
John was very proud of his Italian heritage. His grandparents immigrated to Stockton, CA from Genova, Italy. His family founded Genova Bakery, a historic landmark, which is still in operation a century later. He loved all things Italian, especially the food. John was a loyal 49ers fan and also enjoyed listening to the Oakland A’s play baseball on the radio. He enjoyed fishing, camping, boating, sunny days at the beach, driving his classic Chevy El Camino and listening to music.
John will always be remembered as a devoted son and loving father. He is survived
Jeremy was born on March 22, 1980 in Santa Barbara, California to Paul Steketee and Donna Gingrich, where he joined older brother Joshua, and later a sister Jennifer joined the family. He lived his entire life in Santa Barbara. He did high jump at Dos Pueblos, setting a school record and going to the Easter Relays. He later returned to DP to coach high jump. He went on to study Geology at UCSB where he received the Department Field Award.
Jeremy was smart, funny, generous, thoughtful, kind and loving. He cared about people, animals and nature. He enjoyed disc golf, camping and backpacking. As a young child he would find heart-shaped leaves and rocks, taking them home to family as a token of his love, a habit he continued the rest of his life. He would often bring a home a homeless person to feed them a hot home-cooked meal.
Jeremy is survived by his wife Marie and her daughters Jennifer and Suezzan, and grandkids. He is also survived by his children, Orion and Aurora, his mother Donna Steketee-Asten (Michael Asten), brother Josh and niece Sophie Steketee, sister Jen and niece Sara Aswad, as well as many aunts, uncles, and cousins. He was preceded in death by his father Paul, and grandparents, Marvin and Connie Steketee, and Donald and Barbara Gingrich.
Jeremy was an organ donor,
From Indiana to California and multiple destinations near and far, Dr. Richard Ray Sanderson lived a fascinating life of his own. His time came quickly yet naturally at home in Santa Barbara on February 15, 2023.
The son of a physician and a nurse, Dick (as known in his younger years) grew up in South Bend, Indiana with his older brother, David, and his beloved Scottish terrier, Rags. He attended John Adams High School and crafted his impeccable typing skills preparing invoices for his father’s medical practice. After graduating Sigma Chi from Northwestern University with a bachelor’s in philosophy and stints of summer adventure in the Tetons, he enlisted in the Army, learned Mandarin in Monterey, and bought a brand-new 1958 Corvette that he always regretted selling when shipping out to Taiwan as an Intelligence Specialist. Honorably discharged as a Sergeant (SP5), Richard headed to Northwestern University Medical School, joining the NU Sigma NU medical fraternity and playing in a band called The Foreskins. Then came an L.A. County intern-
After nearly three decades in Woodland Hills, with regular Hawaiian vacations to his favorite Mauna Kea Beach Hotel and many Mammoth ski trips, Richard lived briefly in Oxnard and Hollywood before retiring and relocating to Phoenix with his renewed love, Carol, their dogs, and his nostalgia-inspired 2001 Corvette. Some years later, after more travel to Europe and Asia, his return to California landed him in Pebble Beach with a docent position at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, followed by hospital volunteer work during his time in El Dorado Hills.
With a nod to his love of trains, Richard’s last stop was Santa Barbara. He arrived in 2017 and quickly became a well-known Harry’s regular while continuing to do parttime medical exam work up to the very end. His love of dogs never died, but his own death was a reality he long anticipated and addressed openly with dry humor, appreciating Bob Fosse’s film “All That Jazz” and remarking that he did not buy green bananas.
Considerate yet guarded, brilliant but unassuming, Richard lived 87 years as a stoic, deep-thinking figure of mystery. Now his cremated remains will be deposited in the ocean with no service, per his wishes. In fitting tribute, he has taken his place in good company on the wall at Harry’s!
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Peripheral neuropathy is a result of damage to the nerves often causing weakness, pain, numbness, tingling, and the most debilitating bal- ance problems.
This damage is commonly caused by a lack of blood flow to the nerves in the hands and feet which will cause the nerves to begin to slowly degenerate due to lack of nutrient flow.
As you can see in Figure 1, as the blood vessels that surround the nerves become diseased they shrivel up which causes the nerves to not receive the nutrients to continue to survive.
When these nerves begin to “die” they cause you to have balance problems, pain, numb- ness, tingling, burning, and many additional symptoms.
There is a facility right here in Santa Barbara that offers you hope without taking those endless drugs with serious side effects. (see the special neuropathy severity examination at the end of this article)
In order to effectively treat your neuropathy three factors must be determined:
· What’s the underlying cause?
· How Much Nerve Damage Has Been Sustained
· How much treatment will your condition require
The treatment that is provided at SB Regenerative Health has three main goals:
1. Increase blood flow
2. Stimulate small fiber nerves
3. Decrease brain-based pain
The amount of treatment needed to allow the nerves to fully recover varies from person to person and can only be determined after a detailed neurological and vascular evaluation.
We can objectively measure the severity of deficit in both small and large nerve fibers prior to start of care.
Charles Sciutto Lac along with NP Kristen Nelson at Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic, will do a neuropathy severity consultation to review peripheral neuropathy history, symptoms and discuss plan of treatment. This consultation will be free of charge and will help determine if our therapy protocol may be a good fit for your needs.
Santa Barbara Regenerative Health Clinic will be offering this neuropathy severity consultation free of charge from now until February 28, 2023.
Karim Chhibbane was born in the Atlas Mountains outside of Marrakech, a member of the ethnic group known as Berbers, the first people of Morocco. When we first met, in 1980, I asked him how old he was, but he wasn’t sure. At the time of his birth, no records were kept for the people who were born and died in those mountain villages.
He’d come to Marrakech to learn English in the American school, and I spent many days in the souk at his small carpet shop, a trade he learned from his father. He already knew how to speak English quite well when we met, but I helped him get better through our conversations. People frequently came from the embassy in the Moroccan capital of Rabat to Karim’s shop for rugs, the finest in the souk, and he did much business with these clients.
Karim became my teacher when I started buying Moroccan carpets. I bought many of his special pieces, and I still treasure them. He visited me at my home in Ibiza, and we once drove from Barcelona to Amsterdam. Every day on that trip, he’d walk around just meeting and talking to all sorts of people.
On Friday nights, we would go to the French part of Marrakech to visit his favorite restaurant. They had such great wine, and we always finished a bottle or two. One time, we drank so much that, though I’m not sure how, we ended up back at his shop in the souk. We frantically measured, priced, and boxed up more than 200 pieces. The next day, we took them through customs at the airport and sent them off.
A few days later, I was back in Los Angeles, ready to receive the carpets and take them through customs. They all arrived in great shape, but one critical component was missing: Being a bit drunk that night, we’d forgotten to put the prices and sizes on all of the carpets! So I had to measure and price each one yet again. Only then could I bring the carpets home.
Would you believe that Karim was one of the toughest guys in Marrakech? He was really into karate, and his conditioning was amazing all muscle. I used to have T-shirts made in Ibiza and then take them to Morocco to sell. Once, a guy in Marrakech wanted all of them to sell but then decided he didn’t want to pay me. After a few days of going back to the guy’s house and returning with no money, I told Karim. “I’ll come
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CA, on Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 11:00 AM for family and friends.
with you,” he said. When that man saw Karim, he suddenly had my money. Everyone seemed to know about Karim.
I visited his house many times for dinner. He learned to cook from his mother, as did his two brothers and two sisters, and he also studied in France. What fantastic meals we had! Couscous, tagine, lemon chicken, and much more. You would always leave his house stuffed. That’s one reason you could later find me at his restaurant in Santa Barbara every Friday night, sitting by myself and enjoying couscous with beautiful belly dancers to watch. They would remind me of how Karim always had a lady with him in Marrakech.
In the mid-1980s, Karim finally decided to come to California. I’d brought him over a few months earlier to see if he’d like it. He loved it. He arrived with his wife, Atika. They eventually had a son, Adam, who is in his mid-thirties. When they divorced, Karim took Adam to the San Fernando Valley. That’s where he met Kathy, whose son, Allie, attended school with Adam. Following the 1994 Northridge earthquake, they moved to Santa Barbara.
Together, Karim and Kathy opened Chef Karim’s in Victoria Court in 1996, enjoying nearly 15 years of success. I could never believe my eyes when seeing the lines of people waiting to get in on weekend nights. People came all the way from Los Angeles just to eat his food. That sure put wide smiles on our faces.
Unfortunately, restaurants in Santa Barbara tend to come and go. Chef Karim’s closed in 2010 when the customers stopped coming, and he was hurt. He found work managing UCSB’s many campus restaurants for a while, but he was never very happy there.
Then he met a man who offered him a 50 percent stake in a restaurant. Where? Lincoln, Nebraska, of all places. Karim moved to Lincoln and helped build the place. But it never really took off and soon closed down too.
Karim moved back to Southern California, where he was with friends when his heart gave out on December 24 of last year. He was just 64 years old. Karim’s son, Adam, took his body back to Marrakech, where he was buried on February 6.
We all lost a very special friend, and I lost my brother.
Garret (“Gary”) James Allen was born in Santa Barbara, California on September 19, 1969 to Mark Land Sandra J Allen. Gary passed away suddenly in his sleep on March 7, 2023. He attended Hope Elementary School, La Colina Junior High School, and graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1988. Gary was a proud member of the A Cappella Choir at SBHS and had a lifelong passion for music. He toured as a member of the crew for his childhood friends’ band “Toad the Wet Sprocket”. Gary studied at Santa Barbara City College and then finished up his education in Miami, Florida with a degree in Dental Technology.
After returning to Santa Barbara, Gary married his high school girlfriend Darla Kimbrough. They traveled the world together and then settled in Seattle, Washington for 10 years. They were avid U2 fans and attended their concerts around the world. They returned to Santa Barbara where their twin sons Joshua and Jeremiah were born. His wife Darla predeceased Gary.
Gary was a devout Christian. He loved surfing and enjoyed writing and playing Christian music. Gary was a loyal friend and family member. His cheerful smile and tender ways will be missed by all. He is survived by his twin sons, his parents Mark and Sandra Allen, sisters Karen Allen, Reta Tafelski and her husband Mark Tafelski, his stepmother Trudy Allen step sister Karen Cartwright and step brother Gene Cartwright and many loving aunts, uncle, nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends. Donations in Gary’s name may be made to the Santa Barbara Rescue Mission. A memorial service will be held at Emanuel Lutheran Church 3721 Modoc Rd, Santa Barbara
Kristi Lee Casto passed away at home on March 2, 2023. She was 63 years young. Kristi was loved and surrounded by her family as she began her journey home. Kristi was born Kristi Lee Pelt on October 3, 1959, in California. Kristi lived in Moreno Valley with her family until she was 18 years old, then moving to Santa Barbara County where she resided until her passing.
Kristi is predeceased by her parents, Jim and Marijane Pelt. She is survived by her husband James R. Casto, and her sisters, Robin Murray and Teri Brister. She leaves behind her nieces and nephew, Carrie Krejdovsky, Crystal Simpkins, Shondel Brister, Bonnie Pommerville, Bobby Murray and Erika Williams as well as two great nieces, two great nephews, and extended family members that will miss her dearly.
Kristi will be cremated and a memorial service will be held on Friday, March 17, 2023 at 11:00 a.m., Starbuck-Lind Mortuary, 123 North A Street, Lompoc CA, 93436. A reception will immediately follow at the mortuary’s event hall.
The family would like to thank Kristi’s care team at Cottage Hospital, Sansum Oncology in Solvang and Central Coast Hospice for their care, love, and support.
Kristi loved animals. So, in lieu of flowers, the family asks that a donation be made in her honor to Happy Endings Animal Sanctuary (http://www. happyendingsanimalrescuesanctuary.org). Then raise your glass to Kristi and say, “This isn’t goodbye. It’s until we meet again!”
We’ll be the first to admit that this installment of our Pets & Animals issue is pretty dog centric. It wasn’t intentional. Anytime we compile a grab bag of stories like this, we always strive for variety. But first and foremost, we look for what’s interesting, and frankly, the doggos won out this time. That’s the way the biscuit crumbles.
Still, there’s plenty here about other creatures, including a profile on Central California’s biggest and best wildlife hospital located in our backyard, plus a new pest management tool rat birth control.
And there’s always next year. To pitch an idea about other species, email tips@independent.com. We’ll keep your messages on file. Especially if any are about a search-and-rescue cat. —Tyler Hayden
Three minutes. That’s the time it takes for someone at a playoff football party to realize that their friend is wearing a hat that reads: “Safe. Rat. Sex.”
“It’s birth control for rats,” explained Zed Reagan, an anesthesiologist who lives in the semi-rural Goleta hills near Cathedral Oaks Road. He discovered the product and its producer, ContraPest, while searching the internet for rat control options that were safer than traditional rodenticide, which often passes up the food chain to kill innocent birds of prey, mountain lions, and coyotes.
Rat populations, meanwhile, usually outlive lethal eradication efforts anyway given their ferocious fecundity. They start reproducing at just two months old, then do so every eight weeks, pumping out as many as 15 baby rats per litter. All told, one rat couple can be responsible for more than 15,000 offspring in a year.
“It’s like whack-a-mole if you’re just trying to kill them off you’re never going to get them all,” said Nicole Williams, ContraPest’s chief revenue officer. “It’s not really a complete management program if you’re not also addressing the birth rate.”
Reagan is happy with the results so far happy enough to wear the hat, at least. His traps, once the execution chambers for at least two rats per week, have been much quieter, and the rats enjoy the liquid so much that they even try to eat the bait station when it runs low. But he remains in the evaluation stage. “It’s not cheap,” said Reagan. “Maybe I should get a night camera or something, but it’s hard to know if it’s working.”
Those with a bigger sample size, such as the Los Angeles Zoo, are more confident in their ContraPest results. At the end of last year, the zoo expanded from 17 original test stations to 250. Up north, Santa Clara County used ContraPest to manage rat infestations in areas where the unhoused congregate,
by Matt Kettmannand municipalities, homeowner associations, and vector control agencies nationwide are turning to the product as anticoagulant rodenticides get banned.
“People are looking for effective alternatives to either get ahead of or get into compliance with new regulations,” said Williams, explaining that it’s becoming popular in the integrated pest management protocols. “We are the only product registered with the EPA that is a fertility control mechanism that impacts both male and female rats. This should be part of every program.”
The technology was developed by two scientists, Loretta Mayer and Cheryl Dyer, who found a way to induce menopause in mice, hoping to test out meno pausal drugs for women. The Phoenixbased company, which launched in 2004, adopted the science to instead affect Norway and roof rats, winning EPA approval in 2016. By 2021, ContraPest was making headlines and selling directly to homeowners.
That’s when things got funny, at least for the marketing department. Most people’s eyes would gloss over when company representatives started talking about fertility inhibitors and restricting reproduction rates. “As soon as we started saying it was ‘birth control for rats,’ it was that ‘aha’ moment,” said Williams. “We’re all familiar with that concept. Instead of having to explain it to someone 20 times, that just skipped to one sentence that would get them to understand the concept immediately.”
But ContraPest, which is owned by the publicly traded company SenesTech, skips the cheeky vibes when speaking in industry circles, and is dead serious about changing
the pest control industry for the better. They recently completed their 2023 EPA registration with no red flags and released a study showing a 95 percent reduction of rats when added to existing integrated pest management plans. It may not be long before Santa Barbara County vector control agencies take notice.
Meanwhile, Reagan is reporting more progress at his home in the Goleta hills. He started off using one ContraPest cartridge per week, but his latest cartridge is still half-full two weeks later.
“The consumption seems to be going way down,” said Reagan. “It makes me think there may be less of them around.” See
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At midnight on February 6, two Carpinteria residents made the overseas journey to Adıyaman, Turkey, where a 7.8-magnitude earthquake caused widespread devastation earlier that morning.
Bob George and his dog, Shadow, were deployed as part of the L.A. County Fire Department’s Urban Search and Rescue Team (USAR), ready to seek out survivors buried beneath the rubble.
George, a military veteran, and his partner, Shadow, a former stray turned search-andrescue canine, have been paired up since 2017. Their assignment to Turkey marked their first international deployment.
When George first landed, he described the situation as like a scene “out of a movie.” He recounted huge crevices in the street, cars piled under rubble, and thousands of demolished buildings. “The stench of death is everywhere,” he texted his wife, Amanda.
George worked in freezing conditions, without the comfort of hot showers, a proper bathroom, or even coffee. It was just a taste of what victims in the region have experienced as they try to recover from the destruction.
“This is what they train for,” Amanda said in an interview with the Independent while her husband was still overseas. “It really takes a certain type of person to be able to do this type of service…. [Bob] really is a hero to my family. We’re just so proud of him.”
The other half of the heroic duo is Shadow, a 9-year-old black German shepherd mix, whom the Georges lovingly refer to as a “nut” who goes berserk for tennis balls. Shadow is a working dog right now, but Amanda explained that once he retires, he will become their family pet.
“I’m not really sure how that’s gonna be because I’m sure he’s still going to be quite
perky,” Amanda said. “But, you know, he’s a great mix. We have three young children 10 and under, and he is phenomenal with the kids,” she said.
Shadow was trained through the Search Dog Foundation (SDF) in Santa Paula, which takes in dogs deemed “unadoptable” due to their high energy or high toy drive and uses those traits to teach them how to search for live human scent in disaster areas. Shadow was one of the seven SDF-trained canines that were deployed to Turkey this year.
“Once they get to the disaster site, then they’re just ready to go,” Amanda said of the canine teams. “And my husband said … because everyone’s wearing their searchand-rescue gear, that’s when Shadow gets so excited, because he knows he’s going to search. That’s his favorite part of the job.”
Shadow was picked up as a stray in 2016, and after his former owners never came to claim him, he was referred to the SDF canine recruitment team. In 2017, Shadow was teamed up with George, and the two have been inseparable ever since.
“He’s definitely his sidekick, 24/7,” Amanda said. “Every time he comes out of his crate, even for little things like walking on a leash, it’s all obedience and behavior training. So when he is doing a search or in an environment like Turkey, he is so well-trained and so obedient, that he listens to Bob’s commands.”
Unfortunately, over the course of their two weeks in Turkey, Shadow did not detect the scent of any live victims. But George and Shadow’s efforts were at least able to give families the opportunity to start the grieving process.
“Hopefully it gives them some closure,” Amanda said, adding that other American teams were able to save multiple survivors in the area. n
What do we humans do when we have a medical need that requires quick attention but doesn’t rise to the level of an ER visit? We go to an urgent care clinic, of course.
Our pets, however, don’t have that option. If they get sick or hurt, they either have to hold out for an appointment with their vet, which could take days or weeks, or brave one of two emergency animal hospitals in town, where wait times can get lengthy.
But not for long.
In the next few weeks, veterinarian Dr. Addie Crawford and her husband, Dan, will open a new clinic on De la Vina Street called Urgent Veterinary Care of Santa Barbara, effectively bridging the gap in service.
“We’re going to offer that middle ground,” Addie explained.
“We saw the need for a walk-in facility that can treat patients quickly,” Dan elaborated. “And if we can’t, we’ll stabilize them and refer them to an emergency vet.”
Foxtails, bites, lacerations, torn nails, coughing, gastrointestinal issues, and allergic reactions are the kinds of things the new clinic will treat, Addie said. What it won’t do is offer dental treatment, give vaccines, or conduct checkups. “You would still see your regular veterinarian for those,” she said.
The fully renovated 2,800-square-foot facility, located across the street from Handlebar Coffee, features a waiting room, three exam rooms, a large treatment area, and radiology and surgical suites. There is also a private room for euthanasia, should the need arise. “If that time comes, we don’t want you waiting any longer than you need to,” Dan said.
Born and raised in Santa Barbara, Addie went to Cornell University’s College of
Veterinary Medicine before completing an internship in San Diego. She returned to town and has worked at an animal ER, Advanced Veterinary Specialists, for the last five years. Dan, also native to S.B., sells real estate.
The lightbulb moment for their joint venture, Addie explained, came during the pandemic. Every vet in the city was getting backed up with newly adopted pets, and Addie found herself working 14-hour overnight shifts for days on end. Clients were frequently difficult and angry. She was burning out.
Not wanting to give up a career she “knows and loves,” Addie started exploring other options. She and Dan met with the owners of a couple of urgent-care clinics down in Los Angeles the concept is apparently catching on who confirmed there was a serious need for their services.
The Crawfords plan to hire another staff veterinarian in addition to two or three technicians. They hope other vets in town won’t see them as competition but instead as a resource to alleviate some of the load. “We don’t want to step on toes,” said Dan. “We just want to help take the pressure off.”
At first, the clinic will be open every day from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m., which in Addie’s experience covers the bulk of the peak hours. “Right after lunch and before dinner,” she said. Their focus will be cats and dogs, Addie said, and they’ll take pet insurance.
Depending on how things go, they may start opening at 10 a.m., but there won’t be any overnight shifts. So, hopefully, there will be less burnout. And the Crawfords said they’re committed to paying their staff a livable wage. “We want this to be a place where people are happy to work and are compensated fairly,” Dan said. n
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When Ariana Katovich, executive director of the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, says the organization comes from humble beginnings, she means it. It was 1988 when a ragtag group of friends and nature lovers saw the need for wildlife rescue in the area and started caring for sick and injured animals out of their kitchens and bathrooms.
Two decades went by before they were able to find a permanent home in the foothills of Goleta, and even then, the facilities at 1460 North Fairview Avenue consisted of trailers, sheds, and temporary structures that by necessity became permanent. “Everything and everyone was just squished together,” Katovich said.
Nevertheless, thousands of animals on their worst days passed through those doors and left happy and rehabilitated. Fully licensed by the state and powered mainly by volunteers, the Wildlife Care Network grew to become the best known and most respected rescue outfit in the region. The 2018 Holiday Fire, however, prompted some honest reassessment.
When the organization evacuated and relocated to the spacious Humane Society campus for three months, it saw the survival rates of its patients increase. “Just from having more room,” Katovich explained. “We realized it was imperative that we build a new hospital. We knew we could do better.”
Four years and a lot of donor funds later, the Wendy McCaw Wildlife Hospital opened for business. The news flew under the radar, coming as it did when the pandemic was still top of mind, but the impact to the staff, the volunteers, and their charges was immediate. “It’s an absolute game-changer,” Katovich said on a recent tour.
The two-story, 5,400-square-foot building is equipped with all the bells and whistles needed to do the dirty and difficult job of saving wild animals. On the first floor is an exam room, x-ray and surgery suites, ICU, quarantine zone, seabird bay, oil washing and drying stations, mammal center, and songbird nursery. The latter features lighting that mimics the rising and setting of the sun, hand-knit nests suspended in incubators, and an air exchange system strong enough for baby hummingbirds, which respirate a hundred times a minute.
The kitchen is one of the busiest rooms, with constant prep taking place for fish slurries, bug plates, and other specialized meals for the 240-plus different species the organization feeds. On the second floor are staff offices that look into the property’s existing enclosed pools for big birds, like pelicans and cormorants. A little ways away are other elements of the original campus, including the Raccoon Resort and the Harry Potter–inspired Hufflepuff Aviary.
In the coming years, Katovich said, the nonprofit hopes to continue its upgrades with two new enclosures. One would be for raptors, like the hawks that get hit by cars and are regularly brought in by the California Highway Patrol. The other would be for more mam-
mals, including possums, which Katovich thinks get a bad rap. “They’re North America’s only marsupial, and they eat ticks,” she said. “They’re awesome!” She’s also always had a soft spot for crows after she rescued one outside a UCSB dining common as a student.
While 70 percent of the Wildlife Care Network’s intakes are birds, they don’t discriminate against any animal in need. An oiled gopher snake was recently treated, as is the occasional dusky-footed woodrat. Skunks are regulars too, meaning guaranteed incidents of spraying. Luckily, the hospital now features a shower.
But arguably the most exciting addition to their operations, Katovich continued, was the hiring of Dr. Rebecca Aldoretta, a new director of veterinary services. Aldoretta comes to Santa Barbara from Canada’s Prince Edward Island, near where the avian flu that is currently sweeping across the continent was first detected. Her experience with the highly pathogenic strain has already helped the hospital prepare for and protect against infection, Katovich said.
As the only facility of its kind anywhere in Santa Barbara or Ventura counties, and with a coverage zone of Morro Bay to Malibu, the Wildlife Care Network takes its responsibility seriously, Katovich said. The effort can be a grind, especially as we head into spring nesting season and the hospital braces for the inevitable influx of baby critters disturbed from their homes. Dozens of them, every single day.
“These are basically newborns. They need heat, food, and care around the clock,” said Katovich. “We watch their eyes open.” But it’s also the best part of their mission, she explained saving an animal from certain doom and watching it take flight back into the wild.
“The thing I love about the work is it’s very hopeful work,” she said.
To learn more about the Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, including volunteer and giving opportunities, visit sbwcn.org. To reach its helpline for wildlife emergencies, rescues, and advice, call (805) 681-1080.
Native People through the Lens of Edward S. Curtis
by Tyler Hayden
Rabies is one of the oldest and most terrifying diseases known to man. With common symptoms of aimless wandering, sudden aggression, and indiscriminate biting, it has inspired a whole canon of zombie-themed fiction. The disease is also one of the deadliest. Once symptoms appear as the bullet-shaped virus travels through the nervous system and replicates in the brain, it is nearly 100 percent fatal.
Most of the world stamped out rabies over the last century. Yet it persists in poor and marginalized communities across Asia and Africa, killing an estimated 59,000 people annually, the majority of whom are children. Ninety-nine percent of cases are a consequence of dog bites, resulting in the regular fear-induced slaughter of healthy animals.
Veterinarian Dr. Beverly Holmes, co-owner of La Cumbre Animal Hospital, knew all of this when she attended a medical conference several years ago, but it was there that she realized she could actually do something about it. Holmes learned of Mission Rabies, an international coalition of vets who fan out across the globe dispensing vaccines to dogs and education to people with the goal of ending human deaths from rabies by 2030. “When I heard about it,” Holmes said, “I thought, ‘I need to do this.’ ”
Holmes recently returned from a “dusty but beautiful” trip to Tanzania, where she and a dozen other vets spent three weeks vaccinating approximately 6,000 dogs. Their goal was 10,000, but global conflict got in the way tensions with ISIS in East Africa temporarily halted their efforts upon arrival. In their downtime, the team set up an impromptu spay and neuter clinic, and for the rest of the trip they stayed mobile so as not to become targets.
Their daily routine, as Holmes explained it, began early in the morning at base camp. The group would fan out in different directions along bumpy roads, receiving “African massages” as Mt. Kilimanjaro came into view. Sometimes, they’d stop to let giraffes cross. Using a tracking app on their phones, they’d identify which communities to visit and where unvaccinated dogs were likely to be found.
In Tanzania, most dogs are not considered pets, Holmes said. Those that “belong” to families exist alongside their cattle and goats, while others roam streets and the tree-line in loose packs. Nearly all fit the same physical description medium-sized mutts, 30-35 pounds, tan in color. Villagers (it was usually children, as their parents were busy working) would lead dogs with ropes, chains, and branches to the veterinarians, who would make quick work with their syringes and mark the animals with a big Crayola pen.
Herd immunity for an area, Holmes explained, was considered 70 percent. If the initial team believed they didn’t hit that number, another team would come through and vaccinate as many of the unmarked dogs as they could, though they understood that many simply couldn’t be wrangled. “They would be part of the 30 percent,” Holmes said.
The response from the people they encountered was overwhelmingly positive, Holmes said. Many had lost family or friends to rabies. “People really support the effort,” she said. When they weren’t working, the vets would indulge kids who don’t have access to mirrors with selfies on their phones. Snapchat filters were a big hit.
As long and as hot as the days were, Holmes said, she would do it again. “I would definitely go on another trip,” she said. “I left feeling like there’s so much more to do.” Mission Rabies is such a worthy project, she went on, as it offers “a tangible way to save animals’ and children’s lives.” And she encourages other veterinarians to sign up. “We need people to get out there and get their hands really dirty,” she said.
Learn more at missionrabies.com.
Now open through Apr 30, 2023
Influenced by the pictorialist movement of the early twentieth century, Edward S. Curtis set out to create a photo and ethnographic record of Indigenous peoples living in Western regions from the Mexican border to Alaskan shores. 100 years later, Indigenous people still contend with “Indian” stereotypes that are consequences of Edward Curtis’s vision. This exhibit endeavors to present his breathtaking photogravures within the context of American colonialism.
• 20,426 animals received affordable or free expert veterinary care
• 1,031 dogs learned important behavioral skills through free or low-cost humane behavior training
• 1,666 animals were adopted from our two campuses (up 32% from 2021)
• 722 animals were transferred to us from overcrowded shelters
• 5,762 animals were spayed or neutered
• 978 owner-surrendered pets were welcomed into our shelter
Eric Smith tells it like it is. The owner of K-Nine Solutions doesn’t pamper the dogs he trains, and he doesn’t tiptoe around the bad habits of their owners. “A lot of clients refer to dogs as babies,” he said. “One of the first things I do is tell them to stop that. It sets them up to fail.”
As soon as a person begins to treat their dog like an animal, not like a child, Smith explained, and once they begin to communicate with the dog on its terms, not on theirs, they embark on a much happier and healthier relationship with their pet. “That’s when things start to turn around,” he said.
This is part of the philosophy and technique Smith has employed for the last decade at K-Nine Solutions, one of Santa Barbara’s most popular dog training programs that has won its category in the Independent’s annual Best Of poll for seven years running. Here we pick Smith’s brain about what makes his firm but fair approach so effective.
How did you get into this line of work?
I grew up in Boston, and my dad was always a big fan of working dogs Dobermans and German shepherds. I went into the Army when I was 22 and started working with patrol dogs. When I got out, I started working with dogs a bit. I also got one of my own. It became very aggressive toward other dogs, but I didn’t know how to deal with it I was good at creating aggression, but I didn’t know how to stop it. So I swallowed my pride and hired a trainer.
I split my time as a photographer and as a dog trainer, and dog training won out. Ten years later, we have an awesome 6,000-squarefoot facility and an incredibly talented staff. We’re bigger than I ever thought we’d be. My main focus now is to train the trainers and grow the business. The staff is really the backbone.
What makes you guys so successful?
There are great trainers out there, and good people managers. We do both really well. We’re very good at teaching what we do. We tell people who come to us that it’s really about them. It’s not about the dog. The dog is the easy part.
I’ve been mentored by some of the best trainers in the country and I watched how they
interacted with their clients. A lot of clients are at their wits’ end. They’re stressed out by their dogs; they’re stuck in the house; their social lives have gone down the tubes. We’re able to give them relief almost instantaneously.
What are some of the most frequent challenges you run into? Dog-on-dog aggression is a big one. We don’t get a lot of dogs that bite humans. And even when we do, it’s almost never a malicious bite. It’s a defense mechanism.
The dog-on-dog issue is often from a lack of proper socialization. People bring puppies to dog parks, but I’m not a fan of dog parks. It’s like throwing an infant to the wolves. A lot of older dogs will bully a puppy, or correct their behavior aggressively, and the puppy is in an imprinting phase. They learn to fear other dogs and when they see another one, they think, “I’m gonna get you before you get me.” At that point, the dog needs intervention and reconditioning. And the longer you put it off, the harder it is to change.
How long does reconditioning typically take? Our programs run two to six weeks. In six weeks, we can fix pretty much anything. We do what’s called “balanced training.” It uses positive reinforcement to teach a dog everything we want it to know. There’s no punishment. Once a dog demonstrates that it understands what’s expected, we do negative reinforcement, meaning taking something away. When you’re dealing with behaviors that you want to extinguish right off the bat, you can’t bribe the behavior away. You can’t love the problem away.
We don’t stick with one steadfast philosophy. Every dog is different. Just like how some people are visual learners and some people are doers. To get a dog to really understand, you need to figure out what motivates it food, attention, toy.
We get people crying because they’re so frustrated. They think they’ve failed. We tell them, “Nope, you’ve just gotten the wrong information. You have us now, and we’ll help you.”
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Quipster Hale Milgrim (former President/CEO of Capitol Records) and music lover Richard Salzberg (aka Music Maniac) are crafting a very special program. Live and rare concert clips will be showcased from a wide variety of iconic musicians, all of whom have played on the Lobero stage at some point in their careers from the 60s to present.
Sun!
“A must for magic buffs of all ages.” – The Los Angeles Times Master Magician Lance Burton’s astonishing new show, with amazing guest stars, is a thrilling mix of illusions, sleight of hand, and audience participation. A family-friendly extravaganza!
The saxophonist finely mixes his Louisiana upbringing with his strong individualism and idiosyncratic voice.
The accomplished award-winning solo artist and Rock & Roll Hall of Famer is also known for being one half of the best-selling duo of all time, Hall & Oates.
As always, find the complete listings online at independent.com/events. Submit virtual and in-person events at independent.com/eventsubmit
Venues request that patrons consult their individual websites for the most up-to-date protocols and mask requirements for vaccinated and unvaccinated status before attending an event.
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THURSDAY
Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 3-6:30pm
FRIDAY
Montecito: 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Rd., 8-11:15am
SATURDAY Downtown S.B.: Corner of Santa Barbara and Cota sts., 8am-1pm
SUNDAY Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm
TUESDAY Old Town S.B.: 500-600 blocks of State St., 3-7pm
WEDNESDAY Solvang: Copenhagen Dr.
and 1st St., 2:30-6:30pm
(805) 962-5354 sbfarmersmarket.org
FISHERMAN’S MARKET
SATURDAY
Rain or shine, meet local fishermen on the Harbor’s commercial pier, and buy fresh fish (filleted or whole), live crab, abalone, sea urchins, and more. 117 Harbor Wy., 6-11am. Call (805) 259-7476. cfsb.info/sat
3/16: S.B. Maritime Museum Presents Global History and the California Missions: A Sea Story Author, artist, educator, and native Californian Janet Dowling Sands will explain how the missions were inextricably linked to global maritime history and prehistory including the origins of California’s indigenous people. There will be a member-only pre-lecture at 6:15pm. 7-9pm. S.B. Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Wy. Free-$20. Call (805) 9628404 or email info@sbmm.org sbmm.org/santa-barbara-event
3/16: UCSB Music of India Ensemble
Concert Listen to North Indian classical music for sitar and tabla directed by Scott Marcus 7:30pm. Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB. Free-$10. Call (805) 893-8000. tinyurl.com/IndiaEnsemble
3/16-3/18: S.H.E. (Strong, Hopeful & Empowered): One-Act Plays These four one-act comedy plays about women and their livelihoods will feature three female directors and 14 female actors from Carpinteria, S.B., and Ventura. 7pm. Alcazar Theatre, 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria. $15-$20. Call (805) 684-6380 or email info@thealcazar .org thealcazar.org
3/16: Couples with Cassandra C. Jones and Mikael Jorgensen Inspired by the artistic collaboration of Ed Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz and the SBMA exhibition
Scenes from a Marriage: Ed & Nancy Kienholz, this guided conversation will explore what happens in fiction and life when artist couples work together or in parallel, and sometimes within competitive creative spaces. 5:30pm. S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. $5-$10. Call (805) 963-4364 or email info@sbma.net sbma.net/ events
3/16: Soap-Making 101 Create the perfect concoction of aromatic oils and textures as you customize your two soap bars by choosing from more than 40 fragrance oils in a step-by-step class. 5:30pm. The Crafter’s Library, 9 E. Figueroa St. $60. Call (805) 7703566. thecrafterslibrary.com/calendar
3/16: March Pop-Up Night Market
Shop for jewelry, art, candles, pet treats, baked goods, home goods, and more with Mediterranean food by Aegean Neotaverna and live music. 5-9pm. Stik N Stuk Creative Studios, 118 Gray Ave. Free stiknstuk.com
3/16: I Love Santa Barbara Block
Party Join and meet new friends and neighbors with roller-skating, face-painting, games, music provided by DJ Darla Bea, and performances by the Junior Spirit of Fiesta, SBHS’s cheer team, and World Dance for Humanity. Connect with Healing Justice, Earth Day organizers, Heal the Ocean, and more. 5-8pm. 700 and 800 blocks of State St. Free. Call (805) 962-2098. downtownsb.org/events/calendar
3/17: UCSB Gospel Choir Winter Concert Enjoy traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African-American religious traditions and directed by Victor Bell. 7:30pm. Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB. Free-$10. Call (805) 893-8000. tinyurl.com/ GospelChoirUCSB
3/17,
UCSB Arts & Lectures Presents Grandeza Mexicana ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! welcomes L.A.’s premier folk ballet company that preserves the traditions and customs of Mexico’s historic past and promising present with strength, artistic flair, use of elaborate costuming, and commitment to quality. Fri.: Isla Vista School, 6875 El Colegio Rd., Goleta; Sun.: The Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. Free. Call (805) 893-3535 or email info@ artsandlectures.ucsb.edu tinyurl.com/ GrandezaMexicana
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3/16: Eos Lounge Thu.: Serial Killaz, 9pm. Ages 21+. 500 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 564-2410. eoslounge.com
3/16-3/19, 3/22: Lost Chord Guitars
Thu.: Tisa Adamson and Randy Ray Mitchell, 7:30-10:30pm. $11. Fri.: Nick & The Old Souls, 8-11:30pm. $11. Sat.: Nick Justice, Richard Stekol, 8-11:30pm. $11. Sun.: Arielle Silver, 8-10:30pm. $16. Wed.: Spontaneous Musical Magic, 7:30-11:30pm. Free. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Call (805) 3314363. lostchordguitars.com
3/16-3/20: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: ALO with Rainbow
Girls, 9pm. $30. Ages 21+. Fri.: Spencer & The Worried Lads, 5pm. $10. Sat.: EarthKry, 9pm. $25. Ages 21+. Sun.: S.B. Jazz Society presents John Proulx, 1pm. $10-$25. Mon.:
SBCC Big Band Jazz, 7pm. $15. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com/events
3/16-3/18: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Thu.: Shabang Event, 6-9pm. Fri.: Tearaways, 6-8pm. Sat.: Beau James
Wilding & Friends, 6-8pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
3/17-3/19: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Are We Not Horses, 8:30-11:30pm. Sat.: Teddy Spanke, 1-5pm. Jimi Nelson Band, 8:30-11:30pm. Sun.: About Time Duo, noon-4pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free. Call (805) 686-4785. mavericksaloon.com/event-calendar
3/17: Third Eco Hero Award: John & Nancy Jack Todd Join the S.B. Permaculture Network to celebrate the third annual Eco Hero Award honoring John and Nancy Jack Todd of Ocean Arks International, pioneers in the ecological design movement. 6:30-9pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $14-$40; Eco Hero Premium: $100. Call (805) 962-2572. sbpermaculture.org
SATURDAY 3/18
3/18: Go to Hale: Quips & Clips Six Decades of Music
In honor of the Lobero’s 150th anniversary, Quipster Hale Milgrim (former President/ CEO of Capitol Records) and music lover Richard Salzberg (a k a Music Maniac) will craft a special program showcasing live and rare concert clips from a wide variety of iconic musicians. Proceeds support live music at the Lobero Theatre. 6:52pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $25. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org/events
3/17 Uptown Lounge Fri.: The Trio, 5-7pm. Missbehavin’, 8-11pm. 3126 State St. Free. Call (805) 845-8800. uptownlounge805.com/events
3/18, 3/19: Cold Spring Tavern Sat.: Bobby, Fin & Dave, 1:30-4:30pm. Do No Harm, 5-8pm. Sun.: Kelly’s Lot, 1:304:30pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. Free. Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com
3/18-3/19: Hook’d Bar and Grill Sat.: Marika and the Ohms, 4-7 pm. Sun.: Jeff Pine, 1-4pm. 116 Lakeview Dr. Call. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookd barandgrill.com/music-on-the-water
3/19: S.B. Wine Collective Sun.: Peter Barnes Martin, 2pm. 131 Anacapa St., Ste. C. Free. Call (805) 456-2700. santabarbarawinecollective.com
3/18: Eyes in the Sky Bird Interactions/Ojos en el Cielo Interacciones con Aves Hannah Atkinson, program director with Eyes in the Sky S.B. Audubon Society, will get you up close and personal with live owls. Ask questions and interact with the birds and their handlers. Hannah Atkinson, directora del programa Eyes in the Sky S.B. Audubon Society, le acercará a búhos vivos. Haga preguntas e interactúe con las aves y sus cuidadores 11am-noon. Patio, Eastside Library, 1102 E. Montecito St. Free/Libre. Call (805) 963-3727 or email info@sbp library.libanswers.com tinyurl.com/ BirdInteraction
EVENTS MAY HAVE BEEN CANCELED OR POSTPONED. Please contact the venue to confirm the event. Volunteer Opportunity Fundraiser
3/20: Sunset by the Sea: Global Unity Through the Gift of Music CAMA (Community Arts Music Association) presents Robert Brewer Young, cofounder of The Open String, as the speaker for this annual fundraiser with wine and hors d’oeuvres, a silent auction, and musicians from S.B. Strings. Proceeds go toward support of the music education movement. 5:30-7:30pm. Cabrillo Pavilion, 1118 E. Cabrillo Blvd. $100. Call (805) 966-4324 or email wb@camasb.org camasb.org/get-involved
3/18:
Center of the Heart S.B. Healing Arts Faire Health and wellness technicians will offer traditional and alternative modalities such as massage, shamanic healing, reiki, energetic healing, pet healings, tarot readings, and more. Mini sessions will be $20 for 15 minutes with full and extended sessions available as well as a crystal bed healing session. Noon-5pm. Center of the Heart, 487 N. Turnpike Rd. Free-prices vary. Email centeroftheartsb@ gmail.com centeroftheheart.com
3/18: No Indoor Voices Presents Comedy Gold Take in a night of comedy from Dana Gould (The Simpsons, HBO, Comedy Central), Matt McCarthy (CBS, Conan), and Jake Noll (S.F. Sketchfest, Laugh Factory). 9pm. Soul Bites, 423 State St. $15-$20. tinyurl.com/ComedyGoldMar18
3/18: InterAct Theatre School: No Second Chance This annual showcase will feature the talents of students ages 4-16 in a specially written musical set in S.B. about a young student who dreams of being a stunt person for a James Bond movie told through song and dance. 2 and 5pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. Free-$20. Call (805) 869-2348 or email info@InterActTheatreSchool .com luketheatre.org/events
3/18-3/19: John Williams: A Symphonic Celebration Hear and watch powerful cinematic moments from ET, Star Wars, Jaws, and more come to life through the magic of live orchestral accompaniment from the S.B. Symphony with guest conductor Rei Hotoda. Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $35-$175. Call (805) 899-2222 or email boxoffice@thegranadasb .org Read more on pg. TK. ticketing.granadasb.org/events
3/19: It’s Magic! Lance Burton & Friends
Don’t miss this exciting lineup of performers such as Master Magician Lance Burton, juggler Michael Goudeau, comedy magician Fielding West, and illusionist Keith West in a show suitable for all ages. 2 and 6:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $25-$106. Call (805) 963-0761 or email boxoffice@lobero.com lobero.org/whats-on
3/19: S.B. Jazz Society Presents John Proulx Trio Enjoy an afternoon of jazz stylings with jazz pianist and vocalist John Proulx, (“Proo”) along with Santino Tafarella on bass and drummer Kevin Winard. 1-4pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10-25. Call (805) 687-7123. sohosb.com/events
3/20: Glenn Miller Orchestra Get “In the Mood” to hear all the great classics such as “Moonlight Serenade,” “Chattanooga ChooChoo,” “Pennsylvania 6-5000,” and more from this orchestra who uses many of the original Miller arrangements and will also play modern selections arranged and performed in the Miller style and sound. 7pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. $30-54. Call (321) 441-9135. tinyurl.com/GlennMillerConcert
3/21: Chaucer’s In-Store
Book-Signing: Caroline DeLoreto Caroline DeLoreto will talk and sign copies of her book, From Lyme to Light: A Spiritual Journey and Guide to Healing From Lyme Disease, her journey from a tick bite that led to dementia, a stroke, and a near-death experience to wellness. 6pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/event
3/22: Glass Etching at the Grassini Tasting Room Enjoy wine tasting and glass etching as you sip while creating a design on a stemless wine glass for you to take home. 3pm. Grassini Family Vineyards Tasting Room, 24 El Paseo. $45. Call (805) 897-3366. tinyurl.com/GrassiniEtching
3/22: Chaucer’s In-Store Book-Signing Charles Healey
Area author Charles Healey will sign his book, Santa Rosa Island: A Photographic Panorama, a visual journey of the ranching and natural history of Santa Rosa Island, California, with 200 pages of photographs from the private collections of the last ranching family to live on the island. 6pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/event
(VITA)/El Programa de Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) The VITA program will offer free tax help to local residents with IRS-certified volunteers to provide free, basic-income, tax-return preparation with electronic filing to qualified individuals. Visit the website for more information. Assistance available through April 18. El programa VITA ofrecerá ayuda tributaria gratuita a los residentes locales con voluntarios certificados por el IRS para brindar preparación gratuita de declaraciones de impuestos básicas con presentación electrónica a personas calificadas Visite el sitio web para más información.Asistencia disponible hasta el 18 de abril. 3-7pm. Martin Luther King Jr. Wing, Eastside Library, 1102 E. Montecito St. Free/Libre. Call (805) 962-7653 or email info@ sbplibrary.libanswers.com. tinyurl.com/AssistanceVITA
3/17,
AARP Foundation Tax-Aide: Free Tax Assistance
There is no age, income, or AARP Membership requirement to have your taxes prepared by a Tax-Aide volunteer who is trained and IRS-certified. Visit the website for a list of required documents you will need to provide. The last check-in time at each location is 3:30pm. Assistance will be available through April 14. Tue.: 1-4pm. United Way of S.B. County, 320 E. Gutierrez St.; Wed-Thu.: 9am-noon; 1-4pm. Goleta Valley Community Ctr., 5679 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free tinyurl.com/TaxAide-AARP
¡Entrada Gratuita! / Free
¡Entrada Gratuita! / Free
3/17: S.B. Independent’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day Stroll Calling all party people, families, kids, babies, and pooches. Put on your green and meet at the parking lot of our new office and join the stroll as we will be led by bagpipers on State Street from Valerio, through La Arcada, back to State Street and then to the S.B. Public Market, where we can enjoy a pint, plenty of chat, and craic (fun). Meet: 5pm; stroll: 5:30pm. 1715 State St. Free. Email emily@independent.com tinyurl.com/IndyStroll2023
3/16: A Decent St. Patrick’s Day Celebrate with mead and merriment with rockin’ Irish songs, banjo, fiddle, penny whistle, bodhrán, and guitar from The Decent Folk Irish band. 2-4pm. Wylde Works, 609 State St. Free. Call (805) 705-9122 or email archart@cox .net. tinyurl.com/DecentStPats
3/17: St. Paddy’s Day at the Red Piano Enjoy drink specials and music from The McRankin File Trio followed by Jason Libs and Matt Fetbrandt. Doors: 3pm; music: 4pm. The Red Piano, 519 State St. Free
3/17: The Foggy Dew Experience the music, dancing, and craic (fun) provided by The Foggy Dew. 5:30-7:30pm. Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. Free
3/17: Beau James Wilding St. Patrick’s Day Set Join the gritty, spirited, and soulful vibe with Beau James Wilding on guitar, vocals, and harmonica and Tom Kenny on bodhrán and drone, who will play a few traditional and original tunes. 8-10pm. M.Special Brewery, 634 State St. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. tinyurl.com/BeauJames
3/17: Open Irish Jam Session Get totally green at this first annual open Irish jam session on St. Paddy’s Day with creative libations and great music. 7pm. Wylde Works, 609 State St. Free. Call (805) 705-9122 or email archart@cox.net. tinyurl.com/IrishJamSesh
3/17-3/18: S.B. St. Patrick’s Day Bar Crawl & Block Party Dress in green and visit more than 10 celebrations with one all-access pass that includes shots, drink specials, and free cover. Fri.: Check in at 4-7pm. Backstage, 409 State St. $29. Sat.: Check in at 1-4pm. Institution Ale Co., 516 State St. $24-$29. Ages 21+. tinyurl.com/StPatricksCrawl
3/17: St. Patrick’s Day Bash: Spencer & the Worried Lads Join the Lads, who will entertain, carry forth, and hold court at their annual show at SOhO. 5-9pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com/events
3/17: St. Patty’s Silent Disco! This Meetup event invites you to bring family, friends, neighbors, well-behaved dogs, chairs, snacks, drinks (no glass), and picnic blankets to dance on the beach. Choose music from three different channels (vibes, reggaeton, and Top 40) from multiple live deejays. 6:30-8pm. Leadbetter Beach, 801 Shoreline Dr. Free ($5 headphone rental). tinyurl.com/StPattySilentDisco
3/21: S.B. Revels 15th Annual Spring Pub Sing! The Revels with song leader Erin McKibben invite you to celebrate the vernal equinox by singing Irish ditties, sea shanties, favorite folk classics, familiar rounds, and beloved traditional tunes. Admission includes a song book, a beverage, and merriment. 6-8pm. Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. $10-$20. santabarbararevels.org
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DOMINGO, 19 DE MARZO / SUNDAY, MARCH 19th
Doors open 6:30 pm Reception follows the performance
DOMINGO, 19 DE MARZO / SUNDAY, MARCH 19th
7 PM | MARJORIE LUKE THEATRE | 712 E. COTA STREET
DOMINGO, 19 DE MARZO / SUNDAY, MARCH 19th
7 PM | MARJORIE LUKE THEATRE | 712 E. COTA STREET
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7 PM | MARJORIE LUKE THEATRE | 712 E. COTA STREET
Las puertas se abrirán a las 6:30 pm Habrá recepción después del espectáculo
Doors open 6:30 pm Reception follows the performance
Las puertas se abrirán a las 6:30 pm. Habrá recepción después del espectáculo. Doors open 6:30 pm. Reception follows the performance.
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Las puertas se abrirán a las 6:30 pm Habrá recepción después del espectáculo
Doors open 6:30 pm. Reception follows the performance.
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At the end of the game on Thursday, March 2, the last day of George Eskin’s 30 years as publicaddress announcer for UCSB women’s basketball, he signed off with these words: “Final score: UC Davis, 80; UCSB, 59. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for attending tonight’s game. Drive safely on your way home. Follow the Gauchos to the Big West Conference tournament in Henderson, Nevada … and, ladies and gentlemen, thanks for the memories.”
Eskin accrued a treasure trove of memories through three decades of glorious triumphs and heartbreaking defeats, while endearing himself to fans, players, and coaches alike.
His favorite moment occurred when Lisa Willett, a Santa Barbara High graduate, stood at the line to sink the free throws that clinched UCSB’s 56-52 victory over Houston in the second round of the 2004 NCAA tournament. It sent the Gauchos into the Sweet 16.
“I said, ‘How sweet it is!’ ” Eskin recalled.
Then his law-and-order mentality sunk in. Eskin, a Superior Court judge, had been advised that NCAA tournament announcers were required to maintain strict neutrality.
“I was so nervous about being reprimanded that as soon as the game ended, I ran out of here,” he said.
Nobody faulted Eskin for his honest emotion. During regular-season games, when he could side with the Gauchos, only with his inflection did he give his feelings away. UCSB’s baskets received more emphasis than the opponent’s: “Stacy Clinesmith for THREE!”
His excitement reached a peak during a 2005 game against UCLA, when Jessica Wilson dribbled the length of the court and scored at the buzzer to tie the score. Wilson added 11 points in overtime as the Gauchos upset the Bruins, 90-81. “That’s my next favorite moment,” Eskin said.
He included Wilson when asked to list his favorite players over the years. The top 10: Erin Buescher, Kristen Mann, Stacy Clinesmith, Kayte Christensen, Lindsay Taylor, Erin Alexander, April McDivitt, Emilie Johnson, Jessica Wilson, and Jess Hansen.
Most of them played from 1995-96 to 2004-05 when the Gaucho women made 10 consecutive appearances
in the NCAA tournament under Coach Mark French. Their home-court record during that span was 119 wins and 14 losses.
A rival Big West coach once said that Eskin’s enthusiasm was worth several points a game for the Gauchos.
“People frequently ask what brings you joy in life,” said Eskin, who retired as a judge 10 years ago. “I found joy in my [law] career helping people solve problems. And for 30 years, I found joy in the experience of being the basketball game announcer.”
He started in 1993 after a Gaucho fan heard Eskin announcing results at his daughter’s youth track and field meet. He was already following the Gaucho women’s team. “When I saw Barb Beainy and Cori Close, I thought ‘Wow,’” he said of two UCSB stars in the early 1990s.
His wife, former State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, remembered hearing him in the shower, forcefully pronouncing players’ names: “Dio Aguinaldo!
Sasha Scardino!”
During his final game at the mic, Eskin received several recorded plaudits on the video board at the Thunderdome. Clinesmith, who is coaching at Gonzaga, said she was motivated to score baskets so she could hear Eskin announce her name.
“That blew me away,” he said.
UCSB honored him after the game with a framed number-30 jersey, a plaque, a signed basketball, and proclamations.
It most touched him, he said, that after their resounding loss to UC Davis, the Gaucho players all stuck around for the tribute.
“I don’t get close to the players,” he said. “When Ila Lane came over, gave me a big hug, and said how much she appreciated me, that made an incredible impression on me.”
Eskin addressed the UCSB women with some words that might have sounded Pollyannaish after their 21-point defeat: “You’re going to win it all in Henderson, Nevada.”
So Coach Bonnie Henrickson’s Gauchos went out last Wednesday and thumped UC Davis, 70-36 a 55-point turnaround. They reached 20 wins for the first time in 14 years.
They added another victory over Cal State Bakersfield in the semifinals, but in the title game, they fell short of defending champion Hawai‘i, 61-59. They had a shot at the end, but lacked George Eskin at the mic to say, “Anya Choice for THREE.”
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The essential news is that there is no news while Tom and Vicki Dolan have sold their beloved Toma Restaurant & Bar, new owners Sam Grant and Julian Sanders insist, “We’re keeping Toma [as] Toma, and then we will build from there.” That means the Foodie Award–winning spot will still be serving up those tuna cones and fresh squid-ink pasta.
Both Grant and Sanders realize, though, that Toma is more than its menu. “The place has such great bones, and its history means so much,” Sanders explains. “There are regulars who had their rehearsal dinner here 30 years ago [when the building housed Emilio’s] and they still come in excited about carrying the tradition on.”
Grant and Sanders have been picking up on the ins and outs of those traditions since December, excited to learn directly from the Dolans as they waited for escrow to close. “We know it’s all about building relationships,” Grant stresses. “What table does one group like, what are their favorite drinks. We’re lucky that most of the staff already does that so well.”
The new owners are certainly not new to the hospitality industry.
wines and wines from more regions in Europe,” Sanders says. “We might do some wine dinners with winemakers. The food here works so well with wine.”
Grant is eyeing some physical improvements for the older Cabrillo Boulevard building. “Maybe booths along the walls, some new lighting in the bar,” he says. “We want to make things better for our staff, too.” Both are also hoping to upgrade the COVID-era parklet to get even more out of their harborside location. Sanders points out the parklet also allows dog owners to dine with their pooches.
Given both Grant and Sanders have young families, they also want to keep Toma community and family focused. They talk of strengthening and expanding already existing connections to local farmers, fishers, and foragers. They suggest we might see more specials from Chef Gregorio Bonilla. But we also will see a table or two held from reservations for regulars to walk in, as the Dolans told them 60 percent of the business was local.
by George YatchisinSanders ran the delightful Café Ana with his wife, Katherine, and then worked as a server/ bartender at Caruso’s; Grant comes from the wide-ranging TS Restaurants group, working at Jake’s in Del Mar, Sunnyside on Lake Tahoe, and Leilani’s in Maui. A mutual friend, retired TS Restaurants CEO Bill Parsons, brought the two of them together when he heard that the Dolans were looking to retire. “Between them, they have it covered,” is how Tom Dolan sees it. “I really like these guys.”
Change, when it comes, will be embellishments. Tom Dolan was well-known for his scouting trips to Italy to add to Toma’s wine offerings, and the new team hopes to build off what he began. “We want to add more local
Tom Dolan, while relishing the thought of being able to take a three-month Italian sojourn and not just a two-week busman’s holiday, also admits, “I’ll be honest, it’s bittersweet. We have been on such an eventful ride for 10 years. The accolades we got from the locals it’s so special. I’ve known the restaurant business my whole life, so it will be tough for me to get up in the morning and not think, ‘What do I have to do at the restaurant today?’”
And while Grant and Sanders are “a hundred percent focused on Toma,” they also suggest this could be just the beginning of a wonderful business friendship. Sanders says, “If another opportunity arises with the experience we build here, we’d love to expand.”
Reader Larry N. tells me that Mollie Ahlstrand, namesake founder of now-departed restaurants Trattoria Mollie in Montecito (Oprah’s favorite) and Mollie’s on State Street, is opening an Italian market/deli near the World’s Safest Beach: “FYI, Mollie Ahlstrand spoke at the Alcazar Theater this evening in a program about women chefs for Women Making Change and she announced that she signed a lease in Carpinteria yesterday to have an Italian market/deli in Shepherd’s Place Shops. Best, Larry”
RASCAL’S VEGAN FOOD OPENS: Reader Leslie sent me a link to the Instagram page for Rascal’s Vegan Food, which announced that they have opened at 432 East Haley Street, completing their move from a temporary home on Cota Street. “We are so excited to announce that we will be opening for dinner service starting tomorrow,” says the restaurant. “Can’t wait to show you what we have been working so hard on. We will be doing casual table service to switch it up in our new intimate space. No reservations; first come, first serve. There is limited seating, so takeout will be available as well. 5 p.m.-9:30 p.m.”
LILAC PÂTISSERIE COMING TO CVR: Reader
Steve C. says that real estate agent Caitlin Hensel has posted the following message on Instagram, saying that Lilac Pâtisserie is taking over the space at 1209 Coast Village Road in Montecito, the former home of Mesa Burger: “A big congratulations to my amazing clients Lilac Pâtisserie for closing on this deal and officially expanding into Montecito! We found this opportunity off-market with @dpinner and got to work with our favorites over at @mnstudiointeriors as well.”
SIAM ELEPHANT CHANGING HANDS: Here is a tip from reader Lido about Siam Elephant Thai Restaurant at 509 Linden Avenue in Carpinteria: “I don’t know if you reported this yet or not: Siam Elephant Thai Restaurant is changing hands. I saw it in the Public Notices section of the Coastal View
News last week. A few days later, I saw a group of people with notebooks and cameras looking it over. The restaurant is on Linden in Carpinteria.”
PASCUCCI EXTENDS ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL:
“Thank you, to all of our loyal customers, for supporting Pascucci for 30 years! We have been having so much fun with our 30-year celebration; due to upcoming back-to-back storms predicted with almost a week of rain, we will be extending our two-week promotion for an extra week, until March 23! Our top-selling 30 menu items are 30 percent off! It is valid for dine-in or take-out (sorry, no thirdparty delivery). Hope to see you at 509 State Street!”
MCCONNELL’S LAUNCHES WHISKEY ICE CREAM: McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams tells me that one of their most requested flavors is returning to their scoop shops and online store starting March 10. McConnell’s has teamed up with award-winning Texas bourbon distillery Garrison Brothers for the third year to create the ultimate whiskey ice cream flavor: Garrison Brothers Whiskey & Pecan Pralines.
“Featuring smooth, sweet, smoky ’n’ spicy Texas straight bourbon; married to Central Coast milk and cream; and topped off by delicious, buttery, salt-roasted and caramel-coated pecans,” says the dessert destination. “This is one of our best-selling and most requested flavors. We’re super excited to bring it back. Last year, it sold out within weeks.”
SNEAK PEEK OF TEDDY’S ON STATE: I stopped by Teddy’s on State, which is coming to 3102 State Street, the former home of Yanni’s Greek Deli and Mackenzie Market, to see if there has been any progress. It is filled with stacks of items that are either on their way in, or on their way out (it’s hard to tell), and no renovation seems to have been started. I called sister business Teddy’s by the Sea restaurant in Carpinteria and was told that it is still on track to open eventually.
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Perfectly poised to piggyback on the Academy Awards fervor, the Santa Barbara Symphony (SBS) turns its attention to movie music of legendary and Oscar-kissed proportions. This weekend’s symphony outing (Mar. 18-19) is a celebration of music by Hollywood top dog John Williams, now 91, who was nominated for an Oscar for his latest Steven Spielberg collaboration The Fabelmans.
Guest conductor Rei Hotoda, head of the Fresno Symphony since 2017, leads the charge in the program dubbed John Williams: A Symphonic Celebration
For a quick run-down of Williams’s greatest hits, which will fill The Granada Theatre in full orchestra regalia, the playlist includes scores from Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Schindler’s List, ET, Jaws, and Harry Potter This symphonic tribute, which is unabashedly the most populous symphony program of the current SBS season, is geared toward pulling in audience members not necessarily inclined to have orchestral concerts on their radar.
As it happens, the Santa Barbara Symphony’s rank-and-file personnel includes many Los Angeles–based musicians who
have kept busy in the film scoring world by day, including many close encounters of the John-Williams-score-session kind.
This is not the first time Williams’s music has filled an orchestra program in Santa Barbara. One memorable evening from the past came when Williams himself conducted the Music Academy orchestra at the Santa Barbara Bowl, in 2007. On that carefully divided program, only the second half spotlighted
To varying degrees, art is best appreciated up-close and personal, versus any detached or secondary mode of viewing or beholding. The truism is especially true in the rough, vivid case of sculpture by Ed Kienholz, which I first learned upon seeing his work including his ribald, controversystoking, hardscrabble, high artwork from 1964, “Back Seat Dodge ’38” in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art a few decades back. You really have to “be there” in its visceral and often paradox-imbued presence to “get it.”
Suddenly, we have another ripe opportunity to “get it” in this space, with Scenes from a Marriage: Ed and Nancy Kienholz, the return of the Kienholz family name in the renovated upstairs contemporary art gallery. The short story: Ed married Nancy in 1972, and the pair started collaborating on their sculpture made of cast-offs, funky materials, and art made of earth and wood and gritty gumption.
At the heart of this small but must-see show featuring both collaborative works and art by each Kienholz is the large tableaux “Bout Round Eleven,” a newly acquired piece for the museum, from which the show’s art is largely drawn, along with works loaned from outside the museum organism.
If Ed and Nancy Kienholz’s art had a
musical parallel, it would be some brand of punk-textured roots rock, with scrappy, deconstructed Americana in the mix along with unexpected jolts of meaning and implied narrative. Pop art was often fussy. Their work was more akin to the dark side of David Lynch, mining grimy dream worlds with materials filched from the real-world garage.
In their collaborative “Bout Round Eleven,” its title relating to a grueling boxing match in its wearied post-10-round phase, a couple, made of papier-mâché, is seen in a state of chilled silence in their separate “corners.” She is an all-pink visage gazing vacantly out the window, her face in a frame and shovel head; he, meanwhile, sits at a table with another shovel head, tethered to a cigarette and hypnotized by a television with a wild dog protruding through the screen.
Clearly, this scene from a marriage is not a happy home, its unease complicated by the central ambiguity of its implied drama a Kienholz and Kienholz trademark.
Domestic American life takes a different turn in Ed’s “The Nativity,” dating from his pre-Nancy life in 1961 (and part of the infamous 1966 L.A. County Museum of Art retrospective with hot-button works “Back Seat
his glittery movie music catalog. The first half delved back into his early, serious music phase, in the muscular and semi-modernist form of his Violin Concerto, written in 1976 for his late wife Barbara Ruick, who passed in 1974. Famed violinist Gil Shaham rose to the soloist occasion on that rare classical music night at the Bowl, while part of the audience patiently waited for the iconic Star Wars theme.
In an interview before that concert, Williams told me about the division of creative labor in his compositional life. “My principal work life has been in the film world,” he said. “I’ve been at it in the studios now for about 50 years [in 2007], if you can believe it. The other work that I’ve done, I’ve really done for my own instruction or amusement, or as a diversion from activities in film. I really haven’t written all that much concert music. I’ve been doing more of it lately.”
He continued, “But I always thought of it as a kind of an adjunct to my real world, which is the commercial work in film, at least in my mind. If I have any frustration, it’s one that we all share, that life can go by very quickly. I’d like to have done many more films and many more concert pieces also. We’re given the time we have, and the challenge is to use it well.” —Josef Woodard
John Williams: A Symphonic Celebration is at The Granada Theatre (1214 State St.) on Saturday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, March 19, at 3 p.m. See granadasb.org.
Dodge ’38” and the brothel-based “Roxys” in the house). Composed of roughed-up pieces of wood, lamp parts, and a metal box with doll’s arms and a flashing traffic-light head passing for baby Jesus, with an illuminated star above it all, “The Nativity” is a suburban Christmas scenario gone gonzo, like something weird Uncle Rupert made in the basement.
Across the gallery, further observations on home life fester in Nancy’s piece “Home Sweet Home,” made in 2006, after Ed’s death in 1992. Mixed metaphors and historical references enter the picture, with its melted stereo components and a burnt-out television housing a faux fireplace. The ironic anti-hominess also includes a cozy Persian rug below and, above, a “God Bless Our Home” black-light painting with a glum Jesus peering with disappoint-
ment over a faceless, possibly alien city.
As a fitting ancillary piece, Nancy’s “Face to Face” (2007) is a lenticular photograph which shifts between the couple’s respective faces as we shift our position. It’s a two-as-one image, falling in with the timeless romantic ideal of marriage, but also a portrait of fierce individuality within the twosome package.
The exhibition finds these unique artists toying with and tweaking archetypes of hearth, home, and wedded life, with irreverence and love. And, not incidentally, with a shared love of both elevating found materials and demanding that viewers “be there” for full impact.
—Josef Woodard
Adreamy tale of romance in Italy comes to Center Stage Theater with Opera Santa Barbara’s (OSB) production of The Light in the Piazza
Written by Broadway composer Adam Guettel, The Light in the Piazza is a dramatic hybrid of opera and musical theater. This opera, which runs March 23–26, is performed by singers from OSB’s Chrisman Studio Artists Program, which supports and encourages upand-coming professional-level talent.
“The Light in the Piazza is very well-regarded in the opera world,” says Kostis Protopapas, the artistic and general director of OSB. “It started out on Broadway, but it lends itself very well to operatic voices, so opera companies sort of took it over.” The show was chosen for OSB’s season to expand the company’s repertoire and feature current Chrisman Studio artists (and some recent Chrisman alumni). “We want to do a show that is going to appeal to the public who are more interested in musicals, and make some new friends,” says Protopapas. “It’s an opportunity for folks who may not want to go directly to a big grand opera and it gives our regular patrons a kind of experience on the lighter side.”
In the story, Clara is a young woman on her first trip to Italy. She’s traveling with her mother, Margaret, who is kind, but protective. Due to Clara’s emotional infirmity (she was kicked in the head as a child, which led to a developmental disability), Margaret doesn’t believe that her daughter will ever find love. Enter Fabrizio, a young Italian man who spies Clara and is drawn to her immediately. Clara and Fabrizio fall in love at first sight and make plans to marry. The arrangement leads to friction for the families of both lovers that threatens to destroy their happiness.
Matthew Greenblatt and Brooklyn Snow, who play the roles of Fabrizio and Clara on March 23 and 25, are a couple off the stage and are excited to do their first musical theater–style performance together. Both were performers in the Chrisman studio’s 2021 season. (The roles of Clara, Fabrizio, and Margaret are double cast, with the alternate cast featuring Ariana Sutherland Horner as Clara, Kyle Rudolf as Fabrizio, and Georgia Jacobson as Margaret.)
Snow describes Clara as childlike and pure; Green-
blatt says that Fabrizio can see something special and different in Clara. “It’s about two people connecting with each other. Society has these preconceived notions of what it should be, what it should look like, what two people are compatible,” says Greenblatt. “These are just two young people who are very genuine…. They recognize the beauty in each other immediately, and that grows and evolves throughout the show. Love really can be so simple and so beautiful.” Fabrizio, who has been coddled his whole life, brings his own kind of emotional innocence to the relationship.
The Light in the Piazza is directed by Layna Chianakas, who also focuses on the struggle between Clara and her mother (played by Christina Pezzarossi on March 23 and 25). “For me, the whole show is about Margaret’s journey and her love of her child,” Chianakas says. “The main thing that is really interesting to me is this idea of language barrier. Whether it’s two American women in Italy who don’t speak Italian; Fabrizio, who doesn’t speak English; or Clara, who has special needs… through miscommunication and struggle, the bottom line is a mother’s love for her child.”
Another star of The Light in the Piazza is the sweeping musical score. There’s complex, operatic singing for fans of traditional opera, but also recognizable elements from musical theater, including the influence of Stephen Sondheim. This combination of genres will leave both opera fans and musical theater fans satisfied with how the emotional narrative is conveyed.
The premise behind The Light in the Piazza is that Clara, despite her differences, is capable and deserving of love. This tale of starry-eyed lovers will be accompanied by members of the Opera Santa Barbara orchestra, conducted by Tim Accurso. “It doesn’t apologize for being very romantic, very heartfelt, funny, and really dry,” says Chianakas. “It’s big emotions which totally matches that we’re in Italy. I love that [Guettel] brought an Italian opera to English.” — Maggie Yates
The Light in the Piazza will be performed at Center Stage Theater, (751 Paseo Nuevo) March 23-26. See centerstagetheater .org
The 25th annual Configuration show presents a gorgeous array of dances performed by the combined companies of Santa Barbara Dance Arts (SBDA). Playing at Center Stage Theater through March 18, the young dancers are talented and energetic, and the choreography — by staff, guests, and students — is fresh and innovative. There are more than two dozen dance pieces on the program, but as they are relatively brief, the show moves along energetically.
In an effective opening piece, titled “You,” dancers wear leotards that say “ME” under shirts that say “YOU” and utilize this labeling in clever ways as the group dynamics shift.
There is a satisfying range of music used here — from the hip-hop tunes surely favored by the young dancers to old-time gems like “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend.” In the surprising middle era are songs from Billy Joel, Carole King, and INXS.
A very special part of this show is the “Pride Video Advocacy Project,” a video directed by René García Hernández. To the song “Rainbow Reign” by Todrick Hall, the video features SBDA students dancing in locations around town, including the middle of State Street, and also includes cameos by some of Santa Barbara’s premiere drag queens.
The finale is a gratifying tribute to Lin-Manuel Miranda conceived by Company Director Alana Tillim, with five video clips followed by dance numbers. Starting off with Hamilton, of course, the dancers also celebrate Miranda’s work in Mary Poppins Returns, Moana, and the song “Love Make the World Go Round,” which he created with Jennifer Lopez in response to the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting.
Configuration ends with a dazzling, colorful number from Encanto, another animated musical featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda, where the already crackling energy level soars to even greater heights, and the audience is left with a deep and abiding sense of these young dancers’ joy.
—Justine SuttonArts Mentorship Program and Santa Barbara Dance Arts present the 25th annual company repertory showcase Configuration at Center Stage Theater (751 Paseo Nuevo) through Saturday, March 18. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit centerstagetheater.org.
(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): I highly recommend the following experiences: 1) ruminating about what you learned in a relationship that ended and how those lessons might be useful now; 2) ruminating about a beloved place you once regarded as home and how the lessons you learned while there might be inspiring now; and 3) ruminating about a riddle that has long mystified you and how clarifying insights you receive in the coming weeks could help you finally understand it.
(Apr. 20-May 20): For “those who escape hell,” wrote Charles Bukowksi, “nothing much bothers them after that.” Believe it or not, Taurus, I think that in the coming weeks, you can permanently escape your own personal version of hell and never, ever have to return. I offer you my congratulations in advance. One strategy that will be useful in your escape is this idea from Bukowski: “Stop insisting on clearing your head clear your f*cking heart instead.”
(May 21-June 20): Gemini paleontologist Louis Agassiz (1807–1883) was a foundational contributor to the scientific tradition. Among his specialties was his hands-on research into the mysteries of fossilized fish. Though he was meticulously logical, he once called on his nightly dreams to solve a problem he faced. Here’s the story: A potentially crucial specimen was largely concealed inside a stone. He wanted to chisel away the stone to get at the fossil but was hesitant to proceed for fear of damaging the treasure inside. On three successive nights, his dreams revealed to him how he should approach the work. This information proved perfectly useful. Agassiz hammered away at the slab exactly as his dreams suggested and freed the fossilized fish. I bring this marvel to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that you, too, need to carve or cut away an obstruction that is hiding something valuable. Can you get help from your dreams? Yes, or else in deep reverie or meditation.
(June 21-July 22): Will you flicker and sputter in the coming weeks, Cancerian? Or will you spout and surge? That is, will you be enfeebled by barren doubts, or will you embolden yourself with hearty oaths? Will you take nervous sips or audacious guzzles? Will you hide and equivocate, or else reveal and pounce? Dabble gingerly or pursue the joy of mastery? I’m here to tell you that which fork you take will depend on your intention and your willpower, not on the caprices of fate. So, which will it be: Will you mope and fritter or untangle and illuminate?
(July 23-Aug. 22): I applaud psychologists who tell us how important it is to feel safe. One of the most crucial human rights is the confidence that we won’t be physically or emotionally abused. But there’s another meaning of safety that applies to those of us who yearn to express ourselves creatively. Singer-songwriter David Bowie articulated the truth: “If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a bit out of your depth, and when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re in the right place to do something exciting.” I think this is a wise strategy for most of us, even those who don’t identify as artists. Almost everyone benefits from being imaginative and inventive and even a bit daring in their own particular sphere. And this will be especially applicable to you in the coming weeks, Leo.
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are in the sweet, deep phase of the Receiving Season. And so, you have a right and a duty to show the world you are ready and available to be blessed with what you need and want. I urge you to do everything necessary to become a welcoming beacon that attracts a wealth of invigorating and healing influences. For inspiration, read this quote by author John Steinbeck: “It is so
Rob Bresznyeasy to give, so exquisitely rewarding. Receiving, on the other hand, if it be well done, requires a fine balance of self-knowledge and kindness. It requires humility and tact and great understanding of relationships … It requires a self-esteem to receive a pleasant acquaintance and liking for oneself.”
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran poet EE Cummings wrote that daffodils “know the goal of living is to grow.” Is his sweet sentiment true? I would argue it’s only partially accurate. I believe that if we want to shape our destinies with courage and creativity, we need to periodically go through phases of decay and decline. They make periods of growth possible. So I would say, “The goal of life is to grow and wither and grow and wither and grow.” Is it more fun to grow than to wither? Maybe. But sometimes, withering is educational and necessary. Anyway, Libra, I suspect you are finishing a time of withering and will soon embark on a series of germinations and blossoms.
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): All of us have elements of genius. Every person on the planet possesses at least one special talent or knack that is a gift to others. It could be subtle or unostentatious, like a skill for communicating with animals or for seeing what’s best in people. Or maybe it’s more spectacular, like composing beautiful music or raising children to be strong and compassionate. I mention this, Scorpio, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to identify your unique genius in great detail and then nurture it and celebrate it in every way you can imagine.
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The emblem associated with Sagittarius is an archer holding a bow with the arrow pointed upward. This figure represents your tribe’s natural ambition to always aim higher. I bring this to your attention because your symbolic quiver is now full of arrows. But what about your bow? Is it in tip-top condition? I suggest you do some maintenance. Is the bow string in perfect shape? Are there any tiny frays? Has it been waxed recently? And what about the grip? Are there any small cracks or wobbles? Is it as steady and stable as it needs to be? I have one further suggestion as you prepare for the targetshooting season. Choose one or at most two targets to aim at rather than four or five.
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s prime time to feel liberated from the urge to prove yourself to anyone. It’s a phase when your selfapproval should be the only kind of approval you need, a period when you have the right to remove yourself from any situation that is weighed down with gloomy confusion or apathetic passivity. This is exciting news! You have an unprecedented opportunity to recharge your psychic batteries and replenish your physical vitality.
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I suspect you can now accomplish healthy corrections without getting tangled up in messy karma. Here are my recommendations: 1) As you strive to improve situations that are awry or askew, act primarily out of love rather than guilt or pity. 2) Fight tenderly on behalf of beautiful justice, but don’t fight harshly for ugly justice. 3) Ask yourself how you might serve as a kind of divine intervention in the lives of those you care about and then carry out those divine interventions.
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): In describing her process, Piscean sculptor Anne Truitt wrote, “The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.” I propose that many Pisceans, both artists and non-artists, can thrive from living like that. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to give yourself to such an approach with eagerness and devotion. I urge you to think hard and feel deeply as you ruminate on the question of how to work steadfastly along the nerve of your own most intimate sensitivity.
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“The Best of 2022” another year, another look back.
1. Course average
4. “Riptide” singer ___ Joy
9. Approximately, in dates
14. Argentina’s daily sports newspaper
15. Colgate competitor
16. Central Florida city
17. Guillermo Del Toro remake of 2022 that got a 97% on Rotten Tomatoes
19. Ancient Mesopotamian civilization
20. “CSI” sample
21. Reading material, for short
23. “The Serpent and the Rope” novelist Raja
24. Revelation from sevenyear-old Tariq in a memeworthy 2022 interview (and earworm song)
30. Jodie Foster title role
31. “Go Green!” newsletter org.
32. Bob Marley album with “Three Little Birds”
33. Game that uses chalk
36. Sugar amt.
37. Jeremy Allen White show that’s very Chicago-centric (and topped many 2022 Best of TV lists)
39. Rink fakeout
42. Contemptuous, in a way
47. “The Barber of Seville” barber
49. Prickly plant part that sticks to clothing
50. Pasta that looks like rice
51. Jennette McCurdy memoir that was a 2022 #1 New York Times Bestseller
54. Play scenery
55. Golfer’s support
56. Charged particle
57. Breed popularized by Queen Elizabeth II
59. Game of the Year winner at The Game Awards 2022
65. 1836 Texas battle site
66. Armless sculpture, e.g.
67. Keg opening
68. Macbeth’s invitation to Macduff
69. Use some language
70. “That’s right”
1. Work on some bubble wrap?
2. “Always Be My Maybe”
actress Wong
3. Mystery novelist Ruth
4. Outspoken
5. Story path
6. “Don’t believe so”
7. 151 in Rome
8. “Christ Stopped at ___” (Carlo Levi book)
9. Add to the price, like additional features
10. “ER” venue
11. Musketeers’ accessories
12. Become less cloudy
13. Spelling and Sorkin
18. Crawling ___ fours
22. Barinholtz involved in the upcoming series “History of the World, Part II”
24. Bach’s “Mass ___ 53-Down”
25. Big name in outdoor equipment
26. “People Puzzler” host Remini
27. Belgian battle site of WWI
28. Social media personality whose recent charity single broke the Beatles’ record for most consecutive U.K.
Christmas #1s
29. Item seen in the 24-Across video
34. Repeated step
35. Vaccine fluid
38. Prefix meaning “height”
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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION:
The Campus & Community Engagement / Special Projects Manager will assume the high‑level essential responsibilities of the Director of Education and Community Engagement position on an interim basis. Reporting to the Associate Director, this position is responsible for planning programs and creating relationships with educators and community leaders to fulfill Arts & Lectures’ educational mission; and directs the ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! community arts program.
Arts & Lectures educational outreach provides experiences that embrace the University’s rich intellectual, artistic and inquisitive life bringing together world‑renowned artists and thinkers, reaching 12,000 to 15,000 UCSB students and community members each year. The interim incumbent will support senior leadership by creating and managing these educational programs and cultivating and sustaining relationships with educators and community leaders.
Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area or equivalent experience and/or training. Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Driver’s License (U08): Must maintain valid CA Driver’s License, a clean DMV record and enrollment in DMV Pull‑Notice program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Must be available and willing to work evenings and weekends as needed for events and priority projects. This is a 100% Contract position of approximately 6 months in duration. No permanent status will be obtained through this position. The full salary range for this position is $6,316.67 to $12,466.67/mo. The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $6,316.67 ‑ $7,500.00/ mo. 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 # 50281
Directs and supervises subordinate staff, including assigning and delegating projects. Schedules employees to ensure proper staffing levels are maintained. Performance monitoring includes evaluating work performance and implementing oral corrective action for performance or conduct issues. Supervises unit operations to ensure compliance with departmental or organizational policies, procedures, and defined internal controls. Trains subordinate dispatchers in the use and operation of various complex communications equipment including radios, telephones, and computer‑aided dispatch consoles. Troubleshoots, diagnoses, repairs, and maintenance needed for communication equipment and makes necessary recommendations for correction. Interface with appropriate shift supervisory personnel from each external agency, internal division, and campus partner served by the Communications Center to assure the quality of service and to deal with current operational problems. Shift
work schedule includes mandatory overtime, nights, weekends, and holidays on short notice. Reports to work at any hour of day or night as required for disaster or another emergency including technical issues. Engages in frequent interpersonal interactions that are stressful or sensitive. Performs the full range of Public Safety Dispatcher call‑taking and dispatching functions as needed.
Reqs: POST Dispatcher Certificate. Bachelor’s Degree in a related area and/or equivalent experience/training.
4‑6 years experience performing the duties of a Police Dispatcher or higher‑level position in a Police Dispatch Center. 1‑3 years of working knowledge of Computer Aided Dispatch System (CAD).
1‑3 years experience with E911 Systems, and phones, including Telecommunication Devices for the Deaf (TDD). 1‑3 years of detailed current (within the last 2 years) knowledge of relevant federal and state systems, and departmental laws, rules, guidelines, practices, and terminology regarding police dispatching. 1‑3 years experience documenting information and maintaining records.Basic knowledge of the English language, math, and other analytical skills as evidenced by possession of a high school degree, GED, or equivalent. Manage and accomplish multiple priorities and responsibilities with a high level of accuracy. Successfully supervise, motivate, correct, train, and evaluate assigned staff. Notes: 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. Ability to work rotating shifts on days, nights, weekends, and holidays. Must maintain valid CA DL, a clean DMV record and enrollment in DMV Pull‑Notice Program. Successful completion of the POST Dispatcher test. $62,300 ‑ $117,500/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 # 49505.
TECHNICIAN
COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
We are seeking an experienced Communications Technician professional with responsibility for providing connectivity, trouble‑shooting, and configuration activities for services provided by UCSB’s central telephone system (PBX), peripheral voice/data/CATV communications equipment using the various intra‑building and inter‑building data infrastructure for which the department is responsible. Assumes shared responsibility for the cable plant by determining and assigning the appropriate cable pairs, working in concert with other telecommunications technicians for required changes in cable pair assignments. Collaborating with cable maintenance and installation crews on locating cable, cable tray, conduits, access panels, and manholes for the construction, adding and/or maintaining the cable plant.
Reviewing and verifying all completed work orders for accuracy of cable assignments, and recording all changes to both outside and inside cable plant. Configures, installs, tests, repairs and maintains complex voice and data communications equipment, circuits and services in a blended protocol communications network environment. Reqs: 1‑3 years fiber optic experience. 1‑3 years copper cable experience. 1‑3 years working
with an underground copper and fiber plant. High School Diploma or GED.
Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check Driver’s License (U08): Must maintain valid CA DL, a clean DMV record and enrollment in DMV Pull‑Notice Program. ICT Fundamentals License/Certification (within 120 days of hire).Confined Space License/Certification (within 60 days of hire). The full salary range for this position is $31.32 to $37.81/ hr. The budgeted hourly range is $32.83 ‑ $35.23/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 # 49943
OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT
The Development Assistant serves as the primary initial contact for three Directors of Development and provides essential administrative and financial support for the Student Affairs Division that is critical to the successful operation of a complex fund‑raising program. Assists the Directors with all aspects of analysis, planning and implementation strategies for the Student Affairs Division, to support its research mission by securing support from private donors. This requires strong analytical skills as well as the ability to act professionally, independently, and exercise discretion and sound judgment. Also provides administrative support.
Reqs: HS Diploma or equivalent. Excellent grammar, composition and proofreading skills. Strong written communication skills, organizational skills and unfailing attention to detail and accuracy. Exceptional verbal and interpersonal skills that foster positive relationships with diverse populations. Excellent computer skills including strong proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Internet, InDesign and e‑mail and demonstrated ability to quickly learn various software programs. High level of initiative, creativity, and energy. Ability to: work independently, maintain strict confidentiality in all aspects of work, prioritize duties and achieve planned goals for a complex program, coordinate multiple complex tasks while meeting tight and shifting deadlines and effectively solve problems and demonstrate sound reasoning and judgment. Proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, internet, and email and demonstrated ability to quickly learn various software programs. Notes: May be called upon to work occasional evenings and weekends at various Development Office, SAGD, Institutional Advancement, or campus‑wide events. Satisfactory completion of criminal history background check. Budgeted hourly range: $26.67 ‑ $27.32/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 3/21/23
Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job #50078
ARTS & LECTURES
Reports to the Arts & Lectures (A&L)
Senior Director of Development, and operates as an integral part of the A&L Development Office team. Establishes, develops, and maintains comprehensive development and communications systems, in coordination with A&L and Central Development and Gift Administration colleagues, and serves as the gift administration and donation data expert for the Arts & Lectures. Manages and supports the Tessitura software development module, ensuring data integrity, analysis, and current and accurate reporting. Provides in‑depth analysis of prospects for program interest and potential giving capacities and provides high‑level administrative and analytical support for all aspects of researching, planning, and implementation of fundraising strategies. Serves as the administrator for the A&L financial team and utilizes the Central Development and departmental databases to support the management and reconciliation of fundraising income and expense data. Provides administrative functions that support strategic goals, initiatives, and projects leading toward increased and sustained philanthropic support for A&L, including reception planning and follow‑up. Must be adept at assessing priorities. Must develop thorough knowledge and understanding of all gift acceptance, University policy, state and federal regulations related to fundraising and accepted business practices and is responsible for the full life cycle of gift administration. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area or equivalent experience and/or training. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Must be available and willing to work evenings and weekends as needed for events and priority projects. The full hourly range for this position is $26.39 to $44.78/ hr. The budgeted hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $26.39 to $27.00/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. Application review begins 3/24/2023. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu
Job # 50385
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS
Oversees and builds teams to advance community affairs, guides student co‑developed curricula and experiential learning, provides mentoring and resources that advance student initiated projects. Sets ethical standards for a community with a public university ethos, values of transparency, accountability and integrity. Supervises the Assistant Director for Student Leadership and Government Affairs and the Assistant Director for Student Development, and Civic Engagement. Ensures excellent stewardship of departmental resources. Reqs: Must have expert knowledge of student development theories and practice along with considerable political acumen to handle sensitive and contentious issues relevant to both the university and community affairs. Must have Advanced knowledge of advising. Skill in building consensus and conflict resolution. Notes: UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery
Act. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted
Salary: $94,250‑$100,154. Full Salary
Range: $75,800.00‑$149,600 *
Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. 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 #50063
FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
Under the supervision of the Assistant Superintendent, performs a variety of custodial tasks and other related duties. Handles all heavy lifting and moving tasks, the moving of all furniture out of classrooms, offices, labs, and the replacement of all furniture. Required to perform custodial duties in zone, and campus‑wide as necessary. Reqs: Ability to perform heavy manual tasks and follow oral and written instructions. Ability to perform a variety of unskilled manual tasks; and perform other related duties 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.
Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $20.96 ‑ $28.76/hr. Full Salary Range: $20.96 ‑ $29.31/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 3/21/23. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #50110
OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE VICE CHANCELLOR
Provides financial and administrative support for the divisional office of Academic Affairs. Initiates financial transactions, such as reimbursements, purchase requisitions, direct payments, and transfers of expense. Supports payroll and timekeeping. Provides administrative, financial, analytical, and organizational support. Provides support for document management and distribution. Reqs: 2+ years experience in administrative and financial operations. Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/ or training. Demonstrated ability to think critically and effectively apply analytical, organizational, and problem‑solving skills to administrative and financial issues. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Salary offers are determined based on final candidate qualifications and experience; the budget for the position; and the application of fair, equitable, and consistent pay practices at the University. The full salary range is $27.56 ‑ $45.15/hr. The budgeted salary or hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $28.25 ‑ $31.97/ 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 3/24/23. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 50390
ALUMNI AFFAIRS OFFICE
The Financial Officer is responsible for the overall budget management of the Family Vacation Center (FVC) under the supervision of the Executive Director of the Alumni Association. The FVC represents a large portion of the revenue generating business model of alumni affairs and thus this position carries a high level of responsibility and strategic initiative to generate income in excess of $2.1 million. This requires leadership, decision‑making, resource and budget management, and training of seasonal staff, frequent and independent interaction with the Exec. Director of the Alumni Association, the CFO of the Foundation and the Alumni Board of Directors. The Financial Officer is responsible for quarterly tracking and preparation of Alumni Affairs department reporting for the Exec. Director to present to the Alumni Board of Directors and for the annual external audit of the Alumni Association. The Financial Officer works closely with Foundation staff and Alumni Affairs program staff to ensure financial transactions are coded correctly and ready for accurate reporting. The FVC is an all‑inclusive family style summer camp that operates nine one‑week sessions with 2 managers, 7 supervisors and 55 seasonal staff, which caters to 2,200 guests during a summer season. The year‑round Financial Officer provides administrative leadership to the Director of the FVC for all areas relating to the financial success and budget management of FVC. This leadership allows the Director to focus on planning and implementation of effective programming. The Financial Officer supervises one Blank Asst. 3 and together they oversee financial control in all aspects, hiring and payroll for seasonal staff, reservations, campus department relationships and payments, outside vendor contracts and payments, financial paperwork and guest bills. Communicates with guests, vendors and staff with a high degree of professionalism to provide excellent guest service and a positive work environment. Responsible for inventory control and purchasing.
Reqs: 1‑3 years experience working in accounting, finance or related field; Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience in related field; thorough knowledge of basic concepts, principles, and procedures of building and maintaining effective relations with alumni, internal and external constituencies; thorough knowledge of the campus, its mission, goals, objectives, programs, achievements, infrastructure and issues of concern; thorough written, verbal and interpersonal communications, tact and political acumen to effectively represent the campus. Notes: Must maintain valid CA DL, a clean DMV record and enrollment in DMV
Pull‑Notice Program; must be available to work nights and weekends in the Spring and Summer as needed.
Budgeted Salary Range: $57,800 ‑ $70,000/year. The full salary range for this position is $57,800 ‑ $105,600/ year. 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 # 50026.
Manage sediment/paleoclimate lab. Perform sediment sample processing of cosmic impact indicators and other related materials for various projects related to sediment records of climate, environmental change and past cosmic events. Hire, train and supervise undergraduate students to do the same. Assist with purchasing, organizing and maintaining office and laboratory supplies and equipment. Assist with literature and correspondence. Assist the PI in communicating with multiple investigators and research projects. Reqs: Basic knowledge and understanding of geologic processes and terminology; good computer skills: proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and email; experience with microscopes; excellent organizational skills; cataloging and archiving samples; database management; graphing, plotting and making scientific figures. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $27.09 ‑ $30.49/hr. Full Salary Range $27.09 ‑ $43.58/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 # 50011
OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS & COMMUNICATIONS
Reporting to and working closely with the Vice Chancellor for External Relations (VC‑ER), the Manager (Manager) of Internal Communications helps strategically evaluate, manage, and improve UC Santa Barbara’s internal communications directed primarily, but not limited to, staff and faculty audiences. The Manager serves as a key member of the communications team and will help to create and develop an overarching framework and communication plan that effectively and creatively conveys the UC Santa Barbara brand and leadership objectives to internal audiences. Reqs: 7‑9 years relevant experience in communications, including internal communications; 4‑6 years advanced knowledge and understanding of all aspects of communications, including strategic planning; 4‑6 years advanced skills to create, develop, and implement long and short‑term strategic communication plans; 4‑6 years excellent written, verbal, interpersonal communications, active listening and political acumen skills; 4‑6 years excellent analytical, critical thinking, project management, and problem recognition, avoidance, and resolution skills. Budgeted/Hiring Pay Rate/Range: $83,100‑$100,000/yr.
Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. 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 #49564.
COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
We are seeking an experienced professional with responsibility for the outside cable plant infrastructure, including pathway, man‑holes, vaults, hand‑holes, multi‑pair copper cable and fiber optic cabling on the UCSB campus. Primary responsibility for the planning, design, engineering, estimating, installation, repairs and project management services for campus outside plant communications infrastructure, working with Engineering Manager, Design, Facilities and Security Services, Architect and Engineering groups to ensure the campus outside plant infrastructure can support current projects and is maintainable over the useful life of the infrastructure. Reqs: 10+ years ‑ experienced professional who applies theory and puts it into practice, with in‑depth understanding of the professional field of Communications
Infrastructure. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check
Must maintain valid CA DL, a clean DMV record and enrollment in DMV Pull‑Notice Program. May be required to work overtime, alternative work schedules and weekends. Budgeted
Salary Range: $75,800 to $ 112,700/ 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 # 48375
Responsible for the coordination and execution of all personnel and payroll related activities for the Materials Department. This includes responsibility for ~ 150 researchers, students, and staff employed under multiple funding sources including extramural awards and Departmental 19900 funds. Personnel include incoming and continuing research scholars; Postdoctoral Scholars, graduate student researchers; project scientists; undergraduate assistants; career; and limited staff appointments, and undergraduate student assistants. Provides high‑level analysis to PIs and supervisors on personnel and payroll management issues. Independently inputs, tracks, and monitors payroll and leave accruals as well as salary and benefit projections. Maintains knowledge of UC Contract and Grant policies; UC Accounting, Graduate Division policies and procedures; Academic and Staff Personnel functions and policies; UCPATH; and departmental accounting systems; and in‑depth knowledge of cost accounting and control standards. Ensures integrity of information across various campus and department databases. Analyzes, interprets and implements new and frequently changing campus and federal policies and procedures. Maintains effective working relationships with principal investigators, administrative staff, Office of Research, other campus departments, various agencies and other institutions. Must be able to work under pressure of deadlines.
BUSINESS & FINANCIAL SERVICES
Uses critical thinking, analytical, and problem solving skills to analyze and develop solutions to escalated payroll and general ledger questions, issues, and concerns. The Analyst researches and troubleshoots business processes and program systems issues and demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining resolution within tight deadlines. Responsibilities include Payroll transactions and analysis, Leave Accruals, Salary and Benefit Cost Transfers, Campus Training, Glacier/ Nonresident Alien Tax Compliance, preparation of financial journals, and reconciliation. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree Bachelor’s degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Experience with day‑to‑day payroll operations, payroll accounting, general accounting and payroll taxes while performing a variety of payroll operations and accounting functions or related work in an equivalent sized organization. Strong multi‑state payroll and tax processing experience, with heavy emphasis on federal, state, and other jurisdiction tax and labor law compliance. Experience in working through payroll critical situations while maintaining the appropriate level of professionalism and communication. Note: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. Budgeted Salary Range: $57,800/yr. – $69,750/ yr. This represents the budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position. Full Salary Range: $57,800/yr. ‑ $105,600/ 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 # 49870
and classroom facility needs with Extension program support staff. Suggests marketing/promotion strategies to Extension marketing staff. Works with Extension student services staff to answer certificate, course, and program questions and to resolve any problems related to them. Works with the Sr. Program Manager and cooperatively with local chapters and representatives of international, national, or regional professional institutions and organizations to develop standards and co‑sponsorship arrangements that satisfy the needs of professionals working in related fields and with government, state, and private agencies pertaining to the goal of developing and implementing appropriate continuing education programs. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent training and/or experience. 1‑3 years experience in program management or customer support and outreach.
Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range $24.81 ‑ $29.26/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 # 49190
MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or training. Experience handling sensitive/ confidential information. Experience working on cross‑functional and cross‑departmental teams to achieve common goals. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. Able to spend long periods spent sitting, typing, or looking at a computer screen. The full salary range for this position is $27.56 to $45.15/ hr. The budgeted hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $27.56 to $33.58/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 # 49043
Manage sediment/paleoclimate lab. Perform sediment sample processing of cosmic impact indicators and other related materials for various projects related to sediment records of climate, environmental change and past cosmic events. Hire, train and supervise undergraduate students to do the same. Assist with purchasing, organizing and maintaining office and laboratory supplies and equipment. Assist with literature and correspondence. Assist the PI in communicating with multiple investigators and research projects. Reqs: Basic knowledge and understanding of geologic processes and terminology; good computer skills: proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and email; experience with microscopes; excellent organizational skills; cataloging and archiving samples; database management; graphing, plotting and making scientific figures. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check Hiring/Budgeted
Salary Range: $27.09 ‑ $30.49/hr.
training programs, adjusting work procedures and priorities to meet schedules or work demands, meeting with clients and vendors, ordering and inspecting materials, site inventory management, analyzing and resolving work problems, maintaining records, quality control for maintenance work. Reqs: High School Diploma. 4‑6 years experience with demonstrated leadership and supervisory responsibility, leading various journey level craft workers, in an institutional facilities maintenance and construction environment. Substantial experience with demonstrated leadership and supervisory responsibility, leading and directing various journey level craft workers, in an institutional facilities maintenance and construction environment. Journey level certification or equivalent education and/or experience in one or more trade specialties. Familiarity with multiple skilled trades including but not limited to: HVAC, electrical, plumbing, locksmithing, carpentry, painting, and hazardous material abatement. Two years experience managing small to medium size construction and renovation projects. Ability to read and interpret construction drawings and specifications. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Excellent organizational, analytical, planning, and management skills. Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, Google suite, other management software, and familiarity with a range of modern electronic communication media. Use of emotional intelligence as an effective leadership tool. Ability to assess interpersonal interactions with clients and staff and adjust style to have positive outcomes. Notes: Ability to respond to emergency and after hours maintenance calls. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employer Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary Range: $88,200/ yr. ‑ $99,120/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/27/23. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #50469
Security Authority under Clery Act. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Hiring/Budgeted
Salary: $28.57 ‑ $29.77/hr. Full
Salary Range: $24.81 ‑ $39.85/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 #50092
COORDINATOR
COMPUTER SCIENCE
or training. Two or more years of relevant management and supervisory experience. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check.
The full salary range is $57,800 ‑ $105,600/yr. The budgeted salary range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $60,000 ‑ $81,700/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 3/21/23. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 49940
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Responsible for assisting the Sr. Program Manager in planning, implementing, and managing a viable, fee‑supported continuing education program of new and existing courses and certificate programs in both domestic and international education program areas of Extension, especially those which are conducted via online and hybrid platforms. In addition, coordinates the review, issuance, processing, and enforcement of contracts relevant to the courses, instructors, and meeting locations, including recruitment, hiring, and retention of instructors and classroom venues. Works with the Sr. Program Manager and Extension finance staff to develop and oversee program and course budgets. Coordinates with Extension program support and marketing staff to draft course titles and descriptions, including securing the approval of new Extension courses. Communicates and coordinates course schedules, syllabi, assigned reading materials and other audio‑visual, equipment,
Full Salary Range $27.09 ‑ $43.58/ 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 # 49434
ASSOCIATED STUDENTS
Responsible for all aspects of the Computer Science undergraduate programs. Serves as the initial source of information, advises major, partner major, and prospective major students regarding general and admissions information. Monitors every aspect of progress towards degree, and counsels students as appropriate. Initiates, maintains, and evaluates students’ academic records, processes all petitions, checks prerequisites, and performs other administrative tasks. Ensures grades are reported for both graduate and undergraduate students and develops and updates the Schedule of Classes and other publications. Requires knowledge of policy and procedures for the College of Engineering, College of Letters and Science, and the College of Creative Studies. Drafts original correspondence regarding undergraduate matters for the Chair, Vice Chair, Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, MSO, and Student Affairs Manager. Serves as the departmental liaison with the Office of the Registrar on all matters pertaining to departmental courses grades and undergraduate records. Reqs: Ability to use various programs (Excel, Word, Google) to complete required tasks. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check, The full salary range for the position is $24.81 to $39.85/hr. The budgeted hourly range that the University reasonably expects to pay for this position is $24.81 to $29.77/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 3/27/2023. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 50476
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ADMINISTER OF ESTATE
NOTICE OF ANCILLARY PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ARNOLD LEE GREENBERG AKA
ARNOLD L. GREENBERG
CASE NO. 23PR00082
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of ARNOLD LEE GREENBERG AKA ARNOLD L. GREENBERG.
AN ANCILLARY PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ROBERT SHAIMAN in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA BARBARA.
THE ANCILLARY PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ROBERT SHAIMAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE ANCILLARY PETITION requests the decedent WILL and any codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE ANCILLARY PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act with limited authority. (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.) 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.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 04/13/23 at 9:00AM in Dept. 5 located at 1100 ANACAPA ST., PO BOX 21107, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93121
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.
Attorney for Petitioner
KIRK O. BROBERG ‑ SBN
169124, CALLISTER, BROBERG & BECKER, A LAW CORPORATION
700 N. BRAND BLVD., SUITE 560, GLENDALE CA 91203
Published 3/9, 3/16, 3/23, 2023
CNS‑3675090#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PHILIP MIRA CASE NO. 23PR00092
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: PHILIP MIRA.
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: EILEEN MIRA in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara. The Petition for Probate requests that: EILEEN MIRA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
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.) 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.
A HEARING ON THE PETITION WILL BE HELD IN THIS COURT AS FOLLOWS: 04/13/2023 AT 9:00
A.M., DEPT: 5. SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. 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.
Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer, Date: 02/27/2023 By: April Garcia, Deputy.
PETITIONER: Eileen Mira, 172 La Visa Grande, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103 (805) 637‑5626.
Published March 9, 16, 23, 2023
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: FRANK BERMUDES, AKA FRANCIS J BERMUDES CASE NO. 23PR00120
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of (specify all names by which the decedent was known): FRANK BERMUDES, AKA FRANCIS J BERMUDES, A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: BRIAN BERMUDES in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
The Petition for Probate requests that: BRIAN BERMUDES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
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.) 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.
A HEARING ON THE PETITION WILL BE HELD IN THIS COURT
AS FOLLOWS: 5/4/2023 AT 9:00
AM DEPT: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107. 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.
Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer,
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 (for 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.
Attorney for Petitioner: WALTER T. KILLMER, JR. ‑ SBN 241526, SMITH, GAMBRELL AND RUSSELL, LLP, 444 South Flower Street, Suite 1700, Los Angeles, CA 90071. Published March 16, 23, 30, 2023
CNS‑3677422#
SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
NAME STATEMENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ELWOODY WOODCRAFT, 125 Harbor Way, Suite 22, Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Frederick E Hershman (same address).
Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0000377 E30.
Published: February 23 & March 2, 9, 16, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as:QUILT PROJECT GOLD COAST
1615 Calle Canon, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Quilt Project Gold Coast (same address). This business is conducted by a corporation.
SIGNED BY NEIL COFFMAN‑GREY, SECRETARY/TREASURE. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 02, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0000280 E4.
Published: March 2, 9, 16, 23 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: PRO MOTION PHYSICAL THERAPY
Date: 03/8/2023
By: Jessica Vega, Deputy Clerk .
PETITIONER: BRIAN BERMUDES, 2978A 21ST STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94110; (805) 284 3181
Published March 16, 23, 30 2023
NOTICE OF AMENDED
PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BRANDON CHRISTIAN WIEMANN CASE NO. 23PR00036
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of BRANDON CHRISTIAN WIEMANN. AN AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ROBERT DOUGLAS WIEMANN in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA BARBARA. THE AMENDED PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ROBERT DOUGLAS WIEMANN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE AMENDED PETITION requests the decedent’s WILLL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE AMENDED 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.) 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. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 05/04/23 at 9:00AM in Dept. 5 located at 1100 ANACAPA ST., SANTA BARBARA, CA 93121
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
This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY FREDERICK E HERSHMAN JR, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 8, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0000347, E30.
Published: February 23 & March 2, 9, 16 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: GREEN GARDENS LANDSCAPE AND MAINTENANCES 126 N K St, Lompoc, CA 93436; Jose R Zacapa (same address); Green Gardens Maintenance; Green Gardens Landscape; Green Gardens. This business is conducted by an individual.
SIGNED BY JOSE ZACAPA, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 8, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0000342 E47.
Published: February 23 & March 2, 9, 16, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ELIZABETH GORDON GALLERY 15 W Gutierrez St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Shades International Inc., 122 Powers Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; E.G.G.; Elizabeth Gil Gallery. This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY ELIZABETH ROBISON, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 7, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0000333 E30.
Published: February 23 & March 2, 9, 16, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SERVICEMASTER ANYTIME I N. Calle Cesar Chavez, Suite 11, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Smanytime, Inc (same address).
This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY ANDI
LESEC, CONTROLLER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 10, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0000382 E30.
Published: February 23 & March 2, 9, 16, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: BIJOU LIMON, 2819 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Paradise Hotels, Inc, 7000 S Pecos RD, Las Vegas, NV 89120. This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY SCOTT PERRY, PRES. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 10, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County
1117 State Street, #74, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Pro Motion Physical Therapy P.C. (same address). This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY PAUL
O’BRIEN, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on February 10, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0000387
E49.
Published: March 2, 9, 16, 23 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: IPX UNLIMITED, 6564 Calle Koral, Goleta, CA; 93117; Alex Irkhin (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY ALEX IRKHIN, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 1, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0000552
Published: March 9, 16, 23, 30, 2023
E30.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TRI‑COUNTY BOOKKEEPING SERVICES , 7017 Scripps Crescent Street, Goleta, CA 93117; Cynthia M Huntziker (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY CYNTHIA HUNTZIKER, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on March 6, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0000596 E40. Published March 9, 16, 23, 30, 2023
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EZ FLOW DRAIN & SEWER SERVICES 655 Rossmore Road, Goleta, CA 93117; Javier Castro Jr. (same address) This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY JAVIER CASTRO, JR. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on January 27, 2023. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). FBN Number: 2023‑0000222 E30. Published: March 9, 16, 23, 30 2023.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person (s) is/are doing business as: FIRST