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In a spectacular tour-de-force Season Opening, The Symphony continues its impactful tradition of performing arts collaboration to create new experiences for the community. More than 150 performers from State Street Ballet, Santa Barbara Choral Society, Quire of Voyces and Sing!, the Music Academy’s children’s chorus join The Symphony on stage.

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Music Academy’s Sing! children’s chorus, Erin McKibben, Director

Nir Kabaretti, Conductor

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We’ve enjoyed numer ous photos and videos on Instagram during the Santa Barbara In dependent ’s second an nual Burrito Week, with 10 restaurants serving $7 burritos for the past seven days. But we’re suckers for pets, espe cially those that enjoy burritos, so we’re high lighting the efforts of @jaggerdwagger to eat as many as possible while also showing off the curlicues of Jagger and Sierra. Jagger is a 9-year-old Goldendoo dle who worked as a therapy dog in San Francisco until recently, while Sierra is a sassy 2-year-old Bernedoodle, both seen here at Los Aga ves. “They are very happy the Pawrents decided to move back to Santa Barbara after 10 years in the Bay Area,” said their human Cat Nisbet. “We just arrived this month and we realize here in Santa Barbara we have the best burritos.” While Nisbet enjoyed the birria burrito from S.B. Food Connection most, the pups enjoyed small bites of egg from El Zarape’s pasilla burrito. Until next year!

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Over the next few weeks, the Santa Barbara Indepen dent will be rolling out our endorsements for the November 2022 election. Check our daily website at Independent.com for continuing information on other candidate races, city measures, and state propositions. As always, the Independent only endorses in races that we have researched carefully. In this installment, we are focusing on the South County school board races.

Thank you for considering our suggestions.

South County School Boards

Who in their right mind would want to run for school board in these times of rancor and rage? Yet candidates for this post abound. In fact, school board races have suddenly become some of the hottest down-ticket contests on the ballot, offer ing among other things localized battlegrounds for broader cultural wars playing out across the country on issues of race, sex, and equity.

After spending the last three years responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, school districts are returning to focus on their basic mandates. But the transition is anything but smooth. Many students have suffered significant learning losses, as well as COVID-infused mental-health challenges inflamed by enforced isolation. For teachers and administrators, high turnover is at critical mass; in Santa Barbara Unified School District (SBUSD) we have just witnessed an unprecedented exodus among experienced executive staff.

In this election, long-simmering cultural battles over such contentious issues as ethnic studies and sex education have been bubbling. More cultural conservatives are vying for office than at any time since the early 1960s, when members of the John Birch Society said they were running to save the school districts’ children from creeping communism.

At times it must be acknowledged the Santa Barbara district and its board members have been their own worst enemies in communicating how they are responding to the challenges of great transition. But just because a school board disagrees with some parents on certain issues doesn’t mean they aren’t listening to them, as our cultural conservatives are way too quick to claim.

The Independent rejects the notion that ethnic studies incul cates white self-loathing or that an inclusive sex education curriculum qualifies as grooming for gay pedophiles, as has been alleged by certain candidates. This is fearmongering at its most unhinged and dangerous.

We don’t need to make up new and imaginary problems when we already have real ones staring us right in the face.

For example, it is now clear that there is a profound and foundational weakness in how some school districts have been teaching younger students to read. New evidence or per haps old evidence recently reviewed indicates that without a strong foundation in phonics, too many young readers are unable to achieve the proficiency levels for their ages. Lit eracy it must be stressed is not a “back to basics” conserva tive issue; it’s not a progressive issue. Instead, it’s a fundamental human rights issue. If you can’t read, you’re sunk. It doesn’t get more basic than that.

Of all elected government positions, that of a school board member is by far the hardest and most thankless. To everyone willing to stick their necks out even those with whom we disagree most strenuously you’ve helped members of the community to focus on schools and the families they serve. Many thanks.

As always, we have not endorsed in every race, only in those where we were confident about the issues and candidates.

Santa Barbara Unified School District, Area 1: Gabe Escobedo

Of all the candidates, Gabe Escobedo has demonstrated the greatest grasp of the problems facing the Santa Barbara Unified School District. He brings a compassionate understanding to

all sides of the issues, and, most importantly, the determination to close the chronic achievement gap that’s long separated stu dents racially, ethnically, and economically in our community.

Escobedo is a genuine, data-driven policy wonk with an open manner that suggests the ability to listen and to resolve conflict.

Growing up in Ontario as the son of a single mother and an incarcerated father, he attributes the heroic intervention of teachers that prevented him from falling through the cracks himself. But he believes students should not have to rely on such blind good fortune to receive a strong, useful education.

Escobedo who serves on the City of Santa Barbara’s Plan ning Commission and works for UCSB organizing intramural sports possesses a striking clarity of analysis and detailed notions of how to achieve this. He understands that the role of a school board member, though limited, can improve educa tional opportunities for all students. Number one is teaching the ability to read. The curriculum must have a strong phonics base. Also, students must be encouraged to succeed. Zerotolerance policies are counterproductive and defeatist. Instead, he’s a proponent of restorative justice models that combine rehabilitation with accountability. He has the data and the experience to prove it.

Of the three candidates vying for this position, Escobedo has had the most hours serving on government boards and committees. Most recently, he chaired the city commission suggesting proposals for a police review board. While that process had its bumpy times, we’re hopeful the experience will prepare Escobedo for the sort of high-impact compromises that are often necessary under the glaring polarization of the school district.

Of the other candidates running, we were favorably impressed by Dan La Berge, whose Mothers’ Helpers nonprofit has provided thousands of schoolkids with the supplies and support they need. We hope to see him continue his interest in school board issues.

But in this District 1 SBUSD election, vote for Gabe Escobedo.

Santa Barbara Unified School District, Area 4: Rose Muñoz

Rose Muñoz, seeking reelection to a second term, is the clas sic citizen-activist all school boards should have. For the past 20 years, she’s worked as a social worker for CenCal, a mega insurance provider for those on Medi-Cal. She and her hus band who live in Noleta behind the Magnolia shopping center have seen their two daughters successfully graduate through district schools. Experiencing this as a parent has given Muñoz a real-time awareness of why some students fare better

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than others. Muñoz is clear there are systemic issues within the school system, and she is enthusiastic about programs that are working to correct it, such as dual-language immer sion, expanded after-school care, and increased vocational instruction. Muñoz also calls out the dangerous effects of lack of affordable housing for teachers who are moving out of the district because they cannot find homes. From the dais, Muñoz is soft-spoken and always courteous. Given how polarizing, self-aggrandizing, and angry public comment has become dur ing board meetings, Muñoz’s ability to remain calm and kind is an essential talent for which we can all be grateful. But we hope to see her play a stronger role in her next term.

Goleta Union School District, Area

1: Richard Mayer

After serving 40 years on the Goleta Union School District now 10 terms! Richard Mayer, a UCSB educational psy chology professor specializing in how people learn math, sci ence, and the art of reading, is still raring to go. His enthusiasm is palpable; he all but bounces with a sense of joy, mission, and purpose. He understands the Goleta school system inside and out, from its infrastructure to its curriculum, and is justifiably proud of the district’s achievements: small class size, a proven dual-language program, a welcoming environment, counselors on campus, a social justice task force, and a strong researchbased phonics system for reading. Mayer said the research data is unequivocal. During his many years on the district’s curriculum committee, he and his colleagues figured out that a bottom-up collaboration between board members, teachers, administrators, and parents yields better results with a lot less disharmony than a top-down approach. Mayer’s expertise, style, and hard work over the years have made a major con tribution to the Goleta School District success. His opponent, Caroline Abate, despite being perhaps the most polite Trump supporter and anti-vaccination activist on the South Coast, brings irrelevant and disruptive issues to a school district focused on moving forward. Vote for Richard Mayer.

Goleta Union School District, Area

Coast’s culturally aggrieved conservative right. Given Lozano’s wild-hair statements accusing public school sex ed programs of “grooming” victims for gay pedophiles, it’s fair to say we’d be hard put not to support almost anyone running against her. Fortunately for all who live in Goleta, Zacarias is actually an outstanding candidate.

She is the mother of two young children; has taught in Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and Goleta school districts at a number of grade levels; and now teaches children with severe special needs for the County Department of Education. Conflicts over the adequacy of special education have been the breed ing ground for a disproportionate percentage of the litigation ensnaring school districts across the state. People charged with administering such programs too often lack either the bandwidth or the authority necessary to make meaningful improvements. Having someone with Zacarias’s vantage point on the board would be an invaluable contribution. But it is her thoughtful eye that can spot issues where simple solutions can prevent major problems. Just realizing that porta-potties for little 4-year-olds on campus for the first time must be put nearer their classrooms to prevent them having upsetting acci dents could be invaluable. Zacarias would infuse board discus sions with real-world considerations that might not show up in administrative memos and district flow charts. And she has a strong understanding of how a child’s brain works, why the dual-language program is so important for both English and Spanish language students, and why an Expanded Learning program will promote a safe, succeeding student body. It was a good day in Goleta when Emily Zacarias decided to run for the school board.

Hope School District, Area 5: Frann Wageneck

Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees: Jonathan Abboud, Marsha Croninger, and Charlotte Gullap-Moore

Marsha Croninger, now running for her third term, has pro vided a steady intelligence and attention to nuts-and-bolts details for a district otherwise beset by frequent turnover at the top and no shortage of political melodrama. She has proven over and over again her determination to make the board work together. It hasn’t always been easy. For example, when fellow boardmember Jonathan Abboud now running for his sec ond term and Croninger first began working together, they started off as antagonists. Abboud an ambitious young man pushing the envelope of progressive politics did his utmost to help unseat Croninger, who is more implacably moderate in temperament. To put it bluntly, he failed miserably. In fact, he and Croninger have achieved the near-impossible in today’s hellish climate of polarization. They have become successful allies. Given all the uncertainties that still surround one of the true gems of Santa Barbara’s educational infrastructure, this collaborative relationship has proved a blessing. Abboud is running unopposed and should be returned to office. Cron inger, who faces opposition, should most definitely be returned to office.

Running for the first time is Charlotte Gullap-Moore, an academically endowed health professional and nurse who teaches at Cal State University Channel Islands, against Debi Stoker, wife of Republican Assembly candidate Mike Stoker. Gullap-Moore, a Black woman, brings additional diversity to the board of a college that necessarily finds itself on the front lines of almost every equity issue. But we also think GullapMoore a former member of the Women’s Political Commit tee will bring vital synergistic energy to City College’s already renowned nursing program. We love the nursing program. In fact, we think City College should create more such special programs to help fill key niche gaps while creating career paths for occupations that pay living wages.

County Board of Education: Area 1: Marybeth Carty

Frann Wageneck went to school in the Hope School District and today lives only a few blocks from where she grew up. She has spent her entire career in education, working for more than 25 years in a variety of teaching and administrative capacities, mostly in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. For the past seven years, Wageneck functioned as its assistant superin tendent during one of the most difficult times the district had ever faced. The horrors of the Thomas Fire and the 1/9 Debris Flow deeply impacted that district. And then came COVID-19. Her everyday job made her an expert in school safety stan dards. She was able to expand the definition of what constitutes school safety beyond the sad reality of active shooter drills to include programs addressing bullying and mental-health concerns. On issues of racism and equity concerns, Wageneck led from within. To say she is vastly overqualified for the post is a gross understatement. This month’s stunt by cultural con servatives targeting the Hope District with flyers complaining about “child porn” textbooks was clearly aimed at Wageneck. The child of two of the parents involved, it turns out, had a beef with Wageneck from her days as an administrator in Santa Bar bara. The book in question was not, in fact, a textbook, as was alleged; it was a library book. Nor was it to be found anywhere in the Hope District, but instead on the shelves of the Santa Barbara High School library. With enemies like that, some have opined, Wageneck hardly needs friends. We think she does and urge residents to cast their ballot in her direction.

Elections for what had previously been obscure educational boards have grown friskier with the rise of conservative culture warriors demanding greater accountability. One such target has been the County Board of Education. Last year, conserva tive crusader Christy Lozano took on Susan Salcido, superin tendent of an educational entity with a budget of $100 million and 500 people on the payroll. Lozano lost badly. This time around, longtime incumbent board member Marybeth Carty faces a challenge from longtime neighborhood schools advo cate Roseanne Crawford, who can get rambunctious when public documents are not released as swiftly as she’d like. Carty represents Carpinteria on the board and, in more ways than we can count, she is everything of, for, by, and about Carpinteria. She is also all about education and has a track record of pub lic engagement and philanthropic donations to prove it. While we appreciate Crawford’s devil-may-care swagger, we think that the whole county will benefit greatly by keeping Marybeth Carty on the County Board of Education.

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Cruise Ships Return in Record Numbers

Critics Contend Impacts Outweigh Economic Benefits

The Scenic Eclipse anchored a mile off Santa Barbara Harbor around noon on Tuesday, one of 30 cruise ships to make port at the city this year. Billed as a “discovery yacht” by owner Scenic of Australia, the 10-deck ship is on a 10-day cruise from Vancouver to San Diego that costs a passenger more than $4,000. Though the city reaps $10 per passenger, about a dozen swimmers, fishers, and scientists appeared at a new Harbor subcommittee last Thursday to make a case that the environmental costs exceed that amount.

Santa Barbara began a program to bring cruise ships and their revenue to the area in 2002, and since then, roughly 200 have dropped anchor, said Mike Wiltshire, the city’s waterfront director. Over time, the program grew from a handful of ships annually to numbering in the high twenties in 2014-2016; the program stopped in 2020 and 2021 when outbreaks of COVID-19 spread rapidly on cruise ships globally. This year’s total of 30 visiting ships is an all-time high. The program earns about $400,000 per year for the Waterfront Department, Wiltshire said, and a study by Visit Santa Barbara found that the economic benefit to the city closed in on $4 million in 2016 from retail and restaurant spending, and from enter tainment and excursions.

Santa Barbara Channelkeeper often mon itors the discharge coming from the cruise

coast. The Santa Barbara Channel, however, is about 24 miles across, and the ships purge their bilge and wastewater tanks once out side the 12-mile zone.

“Channelkeeper is sensitive to the fact that we have one ocean, one atmosphere. I don’t know that Santa Barbara officials are aware of the kinds of impacts that cruise ships have,” Pitterle said.

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Cruise ships are in essence floating cities, with as many as 3,500 passengers and more than 1,000 crewmembers on board. In the case of the Scenic Eclipse, 170 passengers are tended to by 185 crew members. In addi tion to water quality issues is the quantity of air pollution the ships emit from their stacks, not only while en route to and from a destination, but also to power the electricity for all the plugin equipment serving crew and passengers, such as computers and air conditioning.

The county Air Pollution Control District is in the pre liminary stages of quantifying cruise ship emissions, finalizing a method to compare the num ber of visitors if they came by ship, or if they were to come by gas-powered vehicle. The draft report indicates that a large ship with a 10,191-kilowatt engine load at anchorage emits approx imately twice the quantity of CO²e(carbon dioxide equivalent) and about 150 times the nitrogen and sulfur oxides than the equiva lent number of car trips back and forth to Los Angeles. Cruise ships make up about

S.B. police arrested multiple burglary suspects over three days in three incidents police believe to be unlinked. Bennet Ward Cawthon, 29, of Summerland, was booked on felony residential burglary charges at a home on the 1600 block of Shoreline Drive on 9/24, with bail set at $50,000. Later that same day, Dylan Michael Gibson, a 32-year-old homeless man on active parole, was booked for felony residential burglary, possession of narcotic paraphernalia, and an outstanding warrant after allegedly burglarizing a home on the 2700 block of Clinton Terrace. Gibson is currently being held on “no bail.” On 9/26, Phillip Hernandez, 29, of Oxnard, and Johnathan Cisco Sears, 26, of Montecito, were arrested for burglarizing a home on the 100 block of Conejo Road. Hernandez was booked for felony residential burglary, felony identity theft, and possession of burglary tools, and Sears for felony residential burglary, possession of narcotics, and an outstanding warrant. Their bail is set at $50,000 each.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested La Mirada man Jeremiah Jacobson, 43, for allegedly attacking someone with a knife in Goleta’s Camino Real Marketplace on 9/23. Following a search of the area, deputies spotted Jacobson behind Target and placed him under arrest. Jacobson was booked at the Main Jail for felony assault with a deadly weapon and is being held on $30,000 bail. The victim was not physically injured and did not require medical attention.

A UCSB student was reportedly raped at an on-campus housing facility on 9/18, prompting a “timely warning” broadcast to students four days later containing no further details. Kiki Reyes, spokesperson for UCSB, said it was not uncommon for a survivor to take time to make a report as they considered their options. She said she couldn’t discuss the details but that the campus police and Title IX Office were investigating the crime. The rape is the first to be reported this quarter. On average, 13 rapes are reported per year at UCSB.

The back and forth over the fate of fracking from federal oil platforms off the coast of California has tilted back toward environmental territory. The last move by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to seek a rehearing, this time before all the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judges, was tossed out on 9/26, keeping in place for now the moratorium on offshore fracking in federal waters. Full story at independent .com/doj-denied

1.5-2 percent of the county’s total nitrogen oxides emission inventory.

Heidi DeBra monitors the ocean surface almost daily because she’s been swimming off Leadbetter Beach for more than 40 years. She’s one of about 100 swimmers who stroke through Santa Barbara waters regularly for exercise. Over the years, DeBra had come to notice that scum in the water often showed

Plains All American Pipeline, the oil corporation behind the 2015 oil spill that unleashed an estimated 142,800 gallons of crude oil into the ocean off the Santa Barbara coast, will pay $230 million in a settlement for a class-action lawsuit brought by fishermen and property owners. Final approval of the lawsuit settlement was granted last week by a federal judge in Los Angeles following a settlement agreement in May, seven years after the oil pipeline ruptured due to what the law firms that filed the suit called “failed maintenance and extensive pipeline corrosion” in a press statement. The spillage had spread to cover S.B. beaches and harmed wildlife,

NASA’s DART Mission Accomplished

and cheers filled a Cortona Drive conference room Monday afternoon as astronomers with Goleta’s Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) watched the live feed of an American spacecraft colliding into an asteroid. For those in attendance who huddled over laptops, whispered among one another, and occasionally glanced up at the big screen it was the moment they’d been waiting 18 months for.

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The dramatic footage began at 3 p.m. with the egg-shaped asteroid, Dimorphos, appearing as a small, white dot against a sea of black that grew larger and larger as the spacecraft drew near. In the final few moments, Dimorphos quickly filled the frame, the details of its rocky surface com ing into sharp focus before the broadcast abruptly ended. “We have impact (!)” mis sion control announced. It was a shot for the ages, a bull’s-eye from 6.8 million miles away.

The planetary defense test officially dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a k a DART was carried out by NASA to determine if we can deflect potentially dangerous asteroids from striking Earth.

“DART’s success provides a signifi cant addition to the essential toolbox we must have to pro tect Earth from a devastating impact by an asteroid,” Lindley Johnson, NASA’s planetary defense officer, said in a statement. “This demonstrates we are no longer powerless to prevent this type of natural disaster.”

As one of the space agency’s key partners, LCO had trained its worldwide network of telescopes on Dimorphos more than a year ago to study its trajectory. The team will now continue observing the asteroid to deter mine if and how the collision altered its orbit.

The data crunching will take some time.

Meanwhile, project lead Dr. Tim Lister was surprised to notice the big plume of “ejecta” that blasted from the asteroid’s surface at the moment of impact, and he’s looking forward to figuring out what it means.

“It was amazing to see the mission and the impact go so well, and to see all the great images that came down from DART,” Lister said. “Seeing such a large plume from the impact using LCO’s telescopes in South Africa was unexpected, but there were a lot of unknowns going in, which is why the mis sion was a needed test. I’m excited to get the telescopes observing again and find out how big a change to the orbit we made in the days and weeks ahead.”

UCSB Researcher Arrested on Child

Pornography Charges

Aresearcher in UC Santa Barbara’s Psychology & Brain Sciences department was charged in July with one felony count of “possession or control of child pornography” by the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s Office. The individual arrested was Matthew Peterson, 42, whose attorney, Sanford Horowitz, said Peterson denied all allegations and charges.

The story came to light in early Septem ber when reporters with the UCSB news paper, the Daily Nexus, followed up on a sheriff’s blotter report in the Carpinteria Coastal View concerning a raid in June in connection with “child sexual abuse mate rial” on a UC computer. The felony com plaint states that between January 1, 2020, and June 29, 2022, child pornography was found in Peterson’s possession or control, and that it was an offense that required registering as a sex offender. According to

Horowitz, Peterson’s computer at the uni versity was shared by several people. He emphasized that Peterson had no priors: “He has no prior criminal record, no prior arrests, no convictions, no misdemeanors, nothing whatsoever.”

Horowitz described Peterson’s research as having to do with “visual perception and attention studies.” According to a post ing at the lab Peterson worked in, he and three colleagues won a four-year National Science Foundation grant in 2020 to study how people between the ages of 5 and 55 viewed faces and how the brain optimally encodes recognizing faces.

According to Kiki Reyes, a spokesper son for UCSB, no connection seemed to exist between the research and the allega tions. Peterson was on leave and was not allowed on campus pending the outcome of the investigation, she wrote in an email.

CITY

Civilian Oversight Ordinance Passes Initial Hurdle

New Police Chief Declares It Historic

After some quietly momentous deliberations, an ordinance designed to transform City Hall’s existing Fire and Police Commission into a civilian review board for the Santa Barbara Police Department passed the City Council’s Ordinance Committee by a vote of 2-1. Santa Barbara’s newest Chief of Police Kelly Ann Gordon showed up to bless the legislative handiwork of Barbara Andersen, who will function as the city’s de facto independent oversight officer assuming the measure wins the support of the full council. “This is, in fact, historic,” declared Chief Gordon in perhaps her most extensive public remarks since assuming the reins from her predecessor, interim chief Barney Melekian.

By Santa Barbara standards, Gordon’s assessment is correct. As Andersen put it, “Never before has the city created this level of civilian oversight.”

Although the ordinance is decidedly not what members of the Community Forma tion Commission created in the wake of the George Floyd murder two years ago to investigate models of police oversight appropriate for Santa Barbara had initially envisioned or hoped for, former chair Gabe Escobedo and Louisa Wood both gave the measure their blessings. “This is progress,” they both stated. But both also urged the Ordinance Committee to endorse a hand ful of changes they said would make the ordinance more faithful to their commit tee’s initial recommendations. Most of the proposed changes are relatively minor; but one which would effectively exclude any law enforcement officer who served in Santa Barbara County in the past seven years is decidedly not.

This is one of the issues, Andersen stated, that falls into the category of “issues of robust discussion” still to be resolved.

As proposed, the new ordinance would transform the DNA of the city’s existing five-member Fire and Police Commission typically where dance permits are issued and towing franchises are awarded and remake it as a police oversight body that would meet in City Council Chambers. In addition, those meetings would be televised. If and when this ordinance is approved by the whole council, members of the exist ing Fire and Police Commission would have to resign and new appointees would be selected. These would be picked by the council based on the new mission.

The new commission would review the number and type of complaints both internal and from outside the police department and whatever action was subsequently taken. It would also review the number of officers disciplined and the level of discipline imposed. The commis

sion would also discuss individual investi gations and officer-involved shootings with the chief once those investigations are dis closable. The commissioners will not have access, however, to the contents of those internal investigations, nor will they render recommendations on the level of discipline to be administered. To the extent certain department practices became the subject of an audit for example, whether Latino motorists are disproportionately targeted for traffic stops that too could become grist for the commission’s mill.

It will fall to Andersen, a high-ranking executive in the City Administrator’s office, to assume the function of independent review officer. As such, she will have access to the internal investigation files.

A key issue raised by Councilmembers Kristen Sneddon and Oscar Gutierrez is the extent to which the new commission would, in fact, be independent enough to oversee the police department and to what extent it might appear compromised in its ability to do so. Gutierrez asked Andersen a series of questions about her training in law enforcement and racial sensitivity. She spent much of the past 20 years, she responded, doing emergency management working with fire and police departments in moments of crisis, and she also worked in the field of anti-terrorism and national security. She’d undergone implicit bias and white supremacy training as well. Sneddon expressed concerns that Andersen’s role was “a little bit overly vague” and could become blurry over time. Sneddon also worried that if any law enforcement officers who worked for any agency in the county were allowed to serve on the commission, it might make members of the public or communities more inclined to question law enforcement apt to wonder if the former cops held undue sway. “I don’t want this to be under mined by public perception there’s anybody on it that can skew the results,” she said. The ordinance as written bars any former sworn officers from serving if they’d ever had a seri ous misconduct charge against them sus tained.

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Tim Van Haitsma, Westmont associate professor, chair of the kinesiology department, and a lifelong runner, speaks about mental strength training within sport performance.

TIM VAN HAITSMA

Thursday, October 13, at 5:30 p.m. Community Arts Workshop (CAW) 631 Garden Street Sponsored by the Westmont Foundation

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SEPT. 22-29, 2022

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up about a day to a day and a half after the ships departed. “It’s a bubbly slick,” she said, “oily, with whitish stuff, but it doesn’t smell of sewage.” Seagrass often was mixed in, she said, which could be from the bot tom getting churned up when the anchors were pulled up.

DeBra’s undergraduate degree is in marine biology, and she works now as a tutor in math and the sciences, includ ing environmental science. She consid ered the cruise ships a blight and told the subcommittee commissioners that she’d prefer that the number of ships be kept smaller. “It feels like they’re here a lot, and in terms of aesthetics, they’re a blight on the landscape.”

One of the cruise-ship stories that have circulated among fishers is one about the ship that anchored on top of the reef that’s about a mile offshore. Harbor Commis sioner Merit McCrea, who is a biologist at UC Santa Barbara’s Marine Science Insti tute, had heard about the incident and told the Independent that the reef is in 60-70 feet of water, rising up to about 54 feet.

Jason Diamond thought he actually saw it occur. He and his wife, Jaime Diamond, operate Stardust Sportfishing at what is now called Santa Barbara Landing (Sea Landing went out of business after the Conception tragedy). Jaime said that a few years ago, her husband had seen a cruise ship anchored about where he knew the reef to be, as it is a popular fishing spot. He later motored over it with his fish sonar and saw the reef had been badly damaged from the tug and pull of the anchor. “The cruise ships typically anchor a mile offshore,”

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Jaime said, “but not at that spot anymore.”

Ben Pitterle with Channelkeeper said new at-berth regulations would be coming soon that required cruise ships to connect to electricity providers to keep the boil ers and diesel generators to a minimum when at dock. The exceptions were Cata lina, Monterey, and Santa Barbara because no such dock extensions exist. He thought the city could be more selective on who it allowed to anchor offshore. “Some ship makers have made progress with techno logical improvements,” he noted. “Maybe Santa Barbara could become a leader and drive the industry toward greater progress by choosing more carefully.”

And Pitterle wondered how the city’s cli mate efforts conformed with its cruise ship policy. “My key question is, how is Santa Barbara going to get to carbon-neutral by 2035 when they have cruise ships every year that emit a lot of greenhouse-gas emis sions? A ship anchored for eight hours can produce 80 tonnes of CO²,” he said. “We have a community that is devoted to doing its part to curb emissions. This seems to be one issue that deserves examination on a holistic level and not just within arbitrary jurisdictional boundaries.”

Thursday’s was only the second meet ing for this cruise ship subcommittee, and Pitterle said they had yet to learn how the three members would incorporate public comment. He hoped they would turn into recommendations to the City Council.

Subcommittee chair Michael Hanrahan indicated the next meeting would be held in late October or early November.

Concern over Construction Clutter

Eastside Residents Ask City to Clean Debris Near Ortega Park

Eastside Santa Barbara residents visiting Ortega Park last week were shocked to find debris and construction equipment heavy machinery, rows of pipes, cones, and piles of wood, metal, and tools strewn along the curbs surrounding the park on Salsipuedes and Cota streets.

Some

One group, at the park for a community meeting to plan for the upcoming Día de los Muertos celebration, reached out to the city to ask why the streets were being used as a “dumping ground” for construction in the area.

In a letter sent to the City Council, Mayor Randy Rowse, and the Public Works Department, Andi Garcia an Eastside community activist and Occupy Ortega Park organizer provided photos and described “huge tractors, mounds of dirt and gravel, large blue pipes,” and piles of garbage left by city-paid contractors from Toro Engineering. “We found the debris to be quite hazardous,” she wrote. “It does not appear that these contractors are being mindful of how they are handling this proj ect that is right smack in the middle of a family community and park.”

The mess, she said, came as a surprise. Although the city had been accused of fail ing to reach out to the Eastside community before like when historic murals at Ortega Park were left out of the original plans to update the park in 2021, or when the city decided to downsize the Yanonali Commu nity Garden Garcia said there has been some progress with city staff working along side the community. Recently, the Parks and Recreation department started providing trash receptacles at the park and set up a small storage shed for Occupy Ortega Park organizers to keep tables and chairs for weekend events.

“We appreciate it,” she said, adding that the city has been supportive of efforts to “uti lize the park for community engagement events” and the preservation of the arts culture in the park, ever since the wave of community support to save the murals last year. The latest version of the Ortega Park Master Plan has 12 of the murals being either

“reenvisioned, re-created,” or relocated in new areas throughout the park.

The construction near the park is part of the city’s Desal Link Pipeline project, according to Supervising Engineer Carson Wollert. The project is intended to extend the existing pipeline to connect the Cater Water Treatment Plant to the Charles E. Meyer Desalination Plant on Yanonali Street, starting at the intersection of Mission and Garden Streets and working toward Yanonali.

In a response to Garcia’s letter, Wollert wrote that the materials and debris were located near Ortega because that is where the crews are currently working. “The contractor is making good progress on the pipeline installation and is continuing to progress down Calle Cesar Chavez,” he wrote. “This will mean that the materials stored will move further down the street as well, or be used during installation.”

The bulk of materials are being stored in the parking lot of the former Sears building near La Cumbre, he said, and since hearing from the community, “city staff has followed up with the contractor and the debris has been cleaned up and moved.”

The project will increase access to desali nated water to many more community residents, he said, and construction could extend through October. The city did notify neighborhood residents prior to construc tion, with handouts to businesses and sig nage throughout the area, but Wollert told the Independent that the messages from concerned neighbors showed some room for improvement.

“We’re trying to do a better job of signage,” he said, “but sadly we need this equipment.”

Since last week, social media posts have shown an improvement at the site: Big equipment is now parked at the corners of the street, materials are now more orga nized, and trash has been removed from the area.

Wollert says movable signs will be posted daily to inform neighbors of current prog ress and construction schedules, and more information about the Desal Link Project can be found on the city website. n

Once a Don, Always a Don

Logo and design by Malcolm Steward,

Candidate Forum: For District 37 State Assembly

Thursday, Oct.

Gregg Hart: now a SB County Supervisor representing the 2nd District, previously elected to four terms on the SB City Council.

Mike Stoker: served on the SB County Board of Supervisors from 1986-1994, most recently was Southwest Regional Administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

Gregg Hart Mike Stoker

Each candidate will be asked a list of questions and provided equal time to answer. The Forum will be recorded by TVSB and live-streamed on the League’s Facebook page – lwvsb. Simultaneous interpretation in Spanish will also be provided. Recordings of the forum in both English and Spanish will be available on our website -lwvsantabarbara.org - for later viewing.

For Zoom link, go to www.lwvsantabarbara.org

This event is co-sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Santa Maria Valley, the American Association of University Women, the Future Leaders of America, TVSB, and the Santa Barbara Woman’s Club.

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obituaries

Nelson Huber

7/10/1949 - 9/18/2021

Nelson Huber came here for one purpose, to make music. For him, music was a sacra ment capable of healing us and lifting us out of the ordinary and into the sublime. The term sui generis – in a class by him self- does not even begin to describe him.

He tells the story of his dis covery of music in the follow ing way: At the age of sixteen, he sat down at the piano and the music came rushing out of him. It was as if it was coming through him, not from him. His fingers just knew where to go.

spontaneous personality concealed his shy, introverted nature. He identified with the Okapi, also known as the forest giraffe, a gorgeous, exotic crea ture that is essentially solitary. Although he was at home with solitude, he found profound joy in connecting with pure beings who seemed to rec ognize and love him uncon ditionally–most notably, his “niece” Lauren’s baby boy, Kasper, with whom he yearned to spend more time.

Electric Car Eats 40 kWh

The total number of registered on-road vehicles in California is 29,830,797, according to the DMV. California will go to a gradual 100 percent of new vehicles to be electric by 2035. Where is all this power going to come from? The electric system can’t keep up with the power we use now!

Parklets, Bah

I have thought the parklets looked like a big home less encampment since day one. Then they got dirtier and dirtier. I think State Street is just too small an area for someone’s big dream of parklets and people walking, bike riders, and empty stores all fitting in. Move the parklet idea somewhere else. Milpas? Goleta? State Street does not work.

Nelson lived for beauty. He collected crystals because their unique, timeless quality mirrored something ineffable inside him. He loved cultivat ing roses and luxuriated in their primal, delicate sensual ity. When asked what he imag ined heaven might be like he said, “An English garden in full bloom.”

Nelson gratefully spent much of the latter portion of his life with his closest and dearest friend, Vicki Archer. She has been the truest and most loyal family to him, just as he was to her.

Though Nelson was an introvert by nature, he had many friends across the globe. You know who you are.

He requested that some special colleagues be acknowledged:

Val Underwood, Hawaii Performing Arts Festival

Two other important points: the infrastructure needed for thousands of charging stations that will be required all over California, and that electric cars do nothing to change the increasing problem of traffic jams from a growing number of cars and trucks.

Sorry, restaurant people. No more free extra space on our dime —Nancye Andriesse, S.B

No Fan of Cruise Ships

More electric vehicles would be more of a relief than a challenge. Why? Costs and car bon emissions are driven by what people use on peak, or from 4-9 p.m. Only 0.04 percent of the California on-peak electricity demand is related to electric car charging, which usually occurs offpeak. Charging in the middle of the day may be the best value for customers and our grid, but charg ing after 10 p.m. still benefits the overall grid by utilizing energy during a period of low demand, providing revenue without increasing rates. This even benefits folks who don’t have electric cars by maintaining grid stability.

Transportation accounts for roughly 40 percent of carbon emissions. Central Coast Community Energy, where I serve as the vice chair, is develop ing more than one gigawatt of renewable (solar, wind, geothermal) energy resources and answer ing the call for grid reliability by aggressively deploying a diverse portfolio of battery storage. These batteries help deliver renewable energy at night while also providing flexible response times for grid events like we saw over the Labor Day holiday. Federal and state government funding mechanisms are being made available to drive this needed investment.

Eventually, electric cars could help owners avoid using on-peak power entirely. The new electric trucks from Ford and Chevy both provide this capability charging up off peak and then power ing the house with the truck on peak. It’s a major win.

Of course, while 40 kWh (kilowatt hours) for 259 miles of travel is better for the environment, the grid, and the pocketbook, even better is biking, busing, or walking.

The City of Santa Barbara quietly, and with little comment, reversed the ban of cruise ships in our port city. The Waterfront is going to take on a record number of ships: Between September 22 and November 11, the city has scheduled 16 cruise ships. Spewing carbon pollution into the air and leaving a river of pollution in our oceans the impact on our community is extensive. What is the justification for allowing them in our port?

I read the Harbor Master Plan. It talks about the need for recreation, accessibility, and fishing. It does not talk about cruise ships.

If we listen to those that argue, “We need these ships for the economy,” then look at the data from 2021 when cruise ships were banned. The city took in a record $26 million in TOT taxes. Our economy did fine without them.

Our elected officials need to listen to citizens and ask if they want these ships in our port town. Santa Barbara has an obligation to be carbon-neutral by 2030; what sacrifices are our citizens going to have to make to offset the carbon footprint from these pollution machines? —Suzanne Cohen, Goleta

For the Record

¶ Last week’s endorsement of Jenelle Osborne for mayor of Lompoc listed her occupation incorrectly; rather than running an accounting firm, she runs a professional organizing and event-planning business.

¶ The former Palms Restaurant was in escrow with the Miramar Group, as we reported last week, but that deal fell through and the hotel project is looking for a new buyer.

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One of his most cherished memories was falling asleep on a secluded beach in Hawaii, then waking up completely surrounded by giant sea turtles.

Nelson saw God’s face in manifest creation. Whether it was the thunderous drum of the ocean as it met the shore, or the flawless Fibonacci sequence of a nautilus shell, he saw what most others could not see. An exalted piece of music would make him weep with joy. A well-crafted film was like a Tarte Tatin, that magnificent French creation consisting of an upside-down fruit pastry that’s traditionally made with caramelized apples and puff pastry. Art fed his soul.

Though he loved Christ, he was fascinated by the Chinese philosophy of Taoism. In fact, he did his master’s thesis in choral conducting referencing Taoist principles. In particular, he was inspired by the notion that alignment with the natural order creates harmony and meaning. He was intrigued by the Taoist concept of wu wei – sometimes incorrectly trans lated as “non action.” What it really means is “the absence of superfluous action.” This was the secret of his gift. He instinctively knew the precise formula for creating music that transports the listener— not too much, nor too little.

Wherever he chose to play, he filled the space with a deep and penetrating light made of sound. His music lit the path so that we could find our way home.

As awe inspiring as his musical gifts were, his bold,

Emma Lou Diemer, Marilyn Skiold , Josephine Brummel, Julie Neufeld, Gary Smith, Erin Bonski- Evans, Jacqueline Greenshields, Steven Thomson, Temmo Korisheli, Kristen Ditt man, Mary Dombek, Christine Hollinger, Ed Thompson, and all of the wonderful, creative people with whom he shared a love of music.

On Sunday, Sept. 18th, 2022, Nelson peacefully joined (perhaps to conduct?) the Heavenly choir of angels. We shall miss him along with his inimitable musical improvisa tions, and all that he brought to every occasion for which he was asked to play.

To truly understand Nel son’s tender heart, here are some of his final words:

“I feel the Cosmic Love fall ing all around me, through me and from me. I am one with It, as It is with me.

At last, dancing.”

If anyone feels inclined to donate in his memory, he requested that the offering be sent to

Hawaii Performing Arts Festival

Please send to:

Irma Singer, HPAF Director of Finance

Nelson Huber Scholarship Fund

340 Old Mill Road, Space 266 Santa Barbara, CA 93110 https://www.hawaiiper formingartsfestival.org/ donate/

A memorial will be held for Nelson on October 1, 2022, at 1:00 pm at First Presbyterian Church, 21 E. Constance Ave., Santa Barbara, CA, 93105

John Joseph Cornejo 6/26/1953 - 8/29/2022

about John were his easy-going disposition, his ability to always have a smile on his face, his friendly mannerism, the fact he was such a soft, gentle, and kindloving soul. He will be greatly missed.

husband, (Rudy Mazzella), parents (John Gibilaro and Clara Hankel), and brother (Lyle Gibilaro).

A private Celebration of Life will be announced at a later date.

Natalie Salter Myerson

3/16/1920 - 9/19/2022

John Joseph Cornejo, 69, of Santa Barbara CA, passed away on August 29, 2022. John’s battle against cancer ended in the care of hospice while surrounded by loving family.

He was born on June 26, 1953 in Santa Barbara CA, to Jose and Guillerma Cornejo, who preceded him in death. His formidable years were spent in Goleta, Cas malia, and Dos Pueblos Ranch among wide open spaces which served as a playground for him and his siblings; birthing his great love of nature.

He worked with the US For est Service as a park ranger, Circle Bar B Ranch, drove as a city school bus driver, as well as at the Santa Barbara Zoo helping with the elephants and as train opera tor. John retired from a career at the City of Santa Barbara as a Water Front Maintenance Facil ity Worker at the harbor. After his retirement John stayed busy as a camp host at Tuckers Grove Park and worked as a mechanic at the Botanical Gardens where he could be seen in the company of his faithful dog Samantha, who accompanied him to work every day.  His love of the outdoors, gar dening, camping, fishing, and ani mals in addition to his amazing mechanical aptitude were present in each pursuit of John’s pastimes, hobbies, and jobs.

He was a long-standing mem ber of the Bravados Motorcycle Club of Santa Barbara. There was a time when he was never far from his bike, always ready for adventure, and equipped to take on life to the fullest. He loved to travel and was able to created last ing bonds of loyal brotherhood with club members creating a life time of great stories to recount.

Another passion of John’s was photography; he leaves a legacy of photos which chronicled the loves he fostered in combination with the journeys he made. He enjoyed capturing pictures of family vaca tions, get togethers, camping trips, his work life, the numerous rides he participated in, and countless nostalgic moments from every phase of his life. Each picture attests to the nurturing bonds he cultivated with his children, the women he loved, the family he was a part of, and the spirit with which he embraced and loved life.

The most memorable things

John is survived by his partner of 17 years, Rita Martinez, his children Tealeye Cornejo, Theasha Cornejo-Gonzales, Ira Cornejo, Shane, grandkids Ivette, Steven, Gabriel, JessieRae, Jerry, and Marisa and step grandchild David, as well as his numerous and extended family members.

Mary Jane Mazzella

7/6/1944 - 8/12/2022

OBITUARY – NATALIE SALTER MYERSON (MRS. RAYMOND KING MYERSON)

Mary Jane Mazzella passed away on August 12th, 2022, sur rounded by friends and family at the Serenity House. She was born in Los Angeles and raised in Palos Verdes. After leaving Palos Verdes, she lived in Hollywood where she met and married Rudy Maz zella. She later lived in Malibu and then Ojai. While working at the Oaks in Ojai she took a position at their sister spa at The Palms in Palm Springs where she began her career in esthetics. A few years later she found her forever home in the Old San Roque area of Santa Barbara.

Mary Jane’s singular goal in life was to bring joy and hap piness to her friends and small family. There is no question she accomplished this goal with her warmhearted spirit, her gentle healing hands, and excellent cook ing skills.

She maintained a loyal network of clients in her flourishing facial business unfortunately cut short by her illness.

Mary Jane also studied many years at the Schott Center kitchen classroom recruiting many old friends into the class while mak ing new lifelong friends with the other students. And every one wanted to be invited to her charming home for parties where she took personal pride in her dйcor and in the food she served. She had a way of bringing people together.

Putting her cooking experience to good work, Mary Jane volun teered her time cooking for “Food from the Heart”, a food distribu tion non-profit created for seniors and the disabled.

Mary Jane is survived by her nephew (John Gibilaro), who she raised after her brother’s death, and companion (Hisham Mosely). She was pre-deceased by her ex-

Natalie Myerson passed away peacefully at her home in Santa Barbara on 19 September 2022. She was 102.

Born Natalie Salter in Chelsea, Massachusetts, on she grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts with her parents and three older brothers. The Salter family often summered at a family home on Cape Cod. Natalie graduated from Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland in 1941 as an English major, as she frequently reminded her children. Returning to her parents’ home in Brookline following college, she met a handsome young naval officer, Raymond Myerson, who was in officer training school in Boston as part of his naval service in World War II. They married in 1943 and enjoyed 63 years of won derful marriage until Raymond’s passing in 2006. Following the end of World War II, when Ray mond returned from naval ser vice, Natalie and Raymond moved from Boston to Chicago, where Raymond had grown up and his family resided. Living first in Chi cago, where daughter, Bette, and son, Toby, were born, Natalie and Raymond later moved to High land Park, a northern suburb of Chicago on Lake Michigan. There they lived until 1964 when Natalie and Raymond, along with son, Toby, moved to Brentwood, a sub urb of Los Angeles. While Natalie, Raymond and Toby went West to Los Angeles, daughter Bette went East to attend Wellesley College. Natalie and Raymond lived in Brentwood and then Century City in Los Angeles until 1973, when they moved to Santa Barbara. Natalie often remarked on the wonderful gift of being able to live with Raymond in beautiful Santa Barbara, where she resided for 49 years. Always full of energy and possessed of a positive spirit, Natalie was involved in numerous civic and charitable activities and was particularly devoted to her Jewish faith, and to music, litera

ture, and the arts, throughout her life in Boston, Chicago, Los Ange les and Santa Barbara. In Santa Barbara, Natalie served for years on the Santa Barbara Arts Coun cil, she was a founding member of the Santa Barbara Literary Society, she served on the Board of Directors and and numerous board committees of the Santa Barbara Symphony, she served on the Advisory Board of the Hillel Foundation of the University of California, Santa Barbara, she and Raymond were active participants and supporters of Santa Bar bara’s Congregation B’nai Brith, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai Brith and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. Natalie was frequently honored. She was honored by the National Women’s Committee of Brandeis University, Santa Barbara Chapter, as Woman of the Year in 1998. She and Raymond were honorees at the Anti-Defamation League annual dinner in 2001. Natalie was named a Woman of Valor by the Women’s Division of the Santa Barbara Jewish Federation in 2009. She was the first honoree of the Center for Successful Aging in 2014. She and Raymond (post humously) were honored at the Leadership Circles Dinner of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in 2019.

Natalie was preceded in death by her parents, her beloved hus band, Raymond, her three broth ers, her brother-in-law and three sisters-in- law. She is survived by her daughter, Bette, son, Toby, and his wife Rosalind and her grand children Marshall and Marissa, numerous nieces and nephews, one sister-in-law, and 45 “cour tesy” daughters and 7 “courtesy” sons (who were her numerous younger friends achieving the sta tus of “courtesy” daughter or son), as well as many friends, family and loved ones.

A memorial service will held at Congregation B’nai Brith. In lieu of flowers, Natalie and her family would appreciate donations to any nonprofit organization the donor chooses.

All letters cards and correspon dence to: Bette Myerson, 810 Dillon Lane, Taos NM 87571 – Email correspondence to Bette@taosnet.com; and toby.s.myerson@gmail.com

Ronald L. Romero

9/23/1934 - 8/21/2022

Ronald Romero, of Lompoc, passed away peacefully, in his home surrounded by his girls, a month shy of his 88th birthday. He joins his loving wife Bernice, to whom he was married to for 57 years, prior to her passing in February 2021.

Ron or “The Bear” as he liked to be called, was a much loved father, grandfather, brother, uncle, friend and new great-grandfather to baby Eleanor Mae, born this spring.

He was one of eight children, all of whom have passed, each born in Santa Barbara to Joseph L. and Frances (Valencia) Romero. He is survived by his daughter, Amanda Windes of Arizona, his greatest joys, his three granddaughters, Samantha Von Bargen, Jessica Youmans and Briana Von Bargen. He had a special place in his heart for his nieces, Cindy, Lisa and Janice and for his in-laws, Mike and Mona Lopez.

Ron was an industrious, sincere and dedicated man when it came to his close family and profession. He often bestowed tid bits of advice or wisdom where he saw fit, even if it wasn’t necessarily asked for. He shared with those he loved, his work ethic and belief that nothing in life is free and that everything you desire must be worked hard for. He advised us about living within our means whenever the topic of finances came up. His brand of “tough” love will leave a lasting impression on us and the genera tions after, as we pass on the life les sons taught to us.

Most notably Ron was proud of his profession, serving as a Santa Barbara County Firefighter for 27 years. He took on tasks for the union, assisting his fellows, even after his retirement in 1994. His coworkers remember him as a “Mainstay and stabilizing force for Firefighters Local 2046 for decades, during turbulent times for fire fighters.” He would fondly recall breakfasts with his fellow retirees and would frequently regale us with stories from the fires or accidents he served on.

There were many facets to The Bear, all of which he took on with gusto. He was an avid reader and life long learner. He had many different collections and not to mention his love for a shot or two of Crown Royal. So as we remem ber Ron fondly we salute you… ЎArriba,abajo,al centro y pa’ dentro!

A special thank you to the Care givers for all the care during Ron’s final weeks, especially Rose.

There will be a small celebration of life 11:30am to 3:30pm on Satur day October 29, 2022, held at the Events Mission Valley in Lompoc.

Email: thebear34@yahoo.com by Oct. 20th if you plan on attending.

8/27/1930 - 9/9/2022

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital gift shop.

Her family expanded further in the 1990s, and Agnes treasured the years she spent doting on her grandkids. She spent hours hugging them, sneaking them treats, and taking them on fun adventures to Goleta Beach or the neighborhood hills where they would use cardboard to sled on pine needles.

Guided by her modest roots and Southern upbringing, Agnes always had food to offer guests, a welcome smile and a story to share. Even into her final years, she would ask anyone who visited, “Have you eaten?” Home and family were everything to Agnes, and her loved ones felt her care and generosity.

Born on August 27, 1930 in De Queen, Arkansas, Agnes grew up in rural New Hope, Arkan sas, where her dad gave away food and goods from his store to help neighbors during the Great Depression. In remembering these lean years, Agnes spoke fondly of getting an orange or kid-size broom for Christmas. She “laughed and laughed” upon receiving these simple delights as a child.

After graduating from high school, Agnes moved to Oregon, where she lived with her sister Irene and worked her first job in a credit bureau. There in Roseburg, Oregon, she met Bob Garner, whom she married on August 11, 1951 after a six-month, longdistance courtship. Bob loved her dearly for the rest of his life, and Agnes returned that devotion.

Agnes and Bob started their family in Oregon, welcoming their two oldest boys in Rose burg then moving to Klamath Falls, where she worked to help Bob through Oregon Institute of Technology. In 1959 they moved to Santa Barbara, California, and bought their first home in the then outskirts of Goleta, Califor nia, where they eventually had a third son and Agnes’ Southern hospitality continued to shine for many decades to come.

Agnes poured her heart and soul into raising their boys, sur rounded herself with many best friends and maintained the books for Bob’s successful land-survey ing business. She stayed fit with bowling, tennis and aqua aerobics, and she and her friends gave volleyball a try—likely laughing more than playing on the com munity courts. Friends regularly came by the house for card games, barbecue, potluck meals and many laughs. And after the boys left home, she volunteered at the

Agnes departed this life on September 9, 2022. She is pre ceded in death by her husband of nearly 70 years, Robert Gar ner; parents Edward and Edith Smith; sisters Irene White and Pauline Everett; and brother Warren Smith. She is survived by sons Scott, Brad (Chris) and Tim (Karen) as well as her grandchil dren Nick and Kelsey.

Bernice Barbara Anderson

9/5/1930 - 6/11/2022

2 granddaughters, Kendall and Grace, a great grandson, Jackson and several nieces. He was pre ceded in death by his beloved daughter, Wendy, in 2019. A cel ebration of life will be held on Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022 at 1 pm at 611 Mulberry Ave. Santa Barbara CA 93101. The family wishes to thank the staff, doctors, nurses and caregivers at Oak Cottage, Santa Barbara, for their kind and compassionate care.

Anthony Michael Munoz

1986 - 2022

Munoz, his mother Yvonne Tor res (Roberto); father, Anthony Munoz; sisters Amanda Munoz, Salina Munoz (Griselda), brother Isaac Munoz (Danielle); nieces and nephews, Naomi, Sophia, Lily, Luke, and Brandon; grandmother, Lorraine Torres, numerous cous ins and a large extended family. He is preceded in death by his grandfather’s Gilbert Torres Sr., Anthony Munoz and his grand mother Theresa Munoz.

Tony was charismatic and had a passion for life, always present in the moment. He was fiercely loyal, and he lived life for today.

Tony was loved by so many in the community and he will be dearly missed. To know him is to love him. He had a kind heart and never wanted anyone to feel alone. His passing will forever change all of us and the mark he has left on our lives will last forever.

Paula worked for non-profits including the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural His tory. She graduated Santa Barbara City College with an AA in busi ness and eventually started her bookkeeping and check-writing company Checkbook Services from which she retired.

Through sewing and tailor ing classes at Santa Barbara Adult Education, Paula became a skilled seamstress. She enjoyed constructing her own wardrobe, making clothes and costumes for family and friends, sewing church vestments, and selling her cre ations at the Old Mission 4th of July Arts & Crafts Fair.

Born September 5, 1930 , died June 11, 2022 after a long illness. She was a local resident since the early 1960’s. Bernice was a devoted wife and mother. She loved her job as a registered nurse and worked at St. Francis hos pital in Santa Barbara for many decades.

James Frank Jamnik

3/5/1944 - 9/16/2022

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the unexpected pass ing of Anthony (Tony) Michael Munoz on the morning of Sep tember 16, 2022.

Tony was born in Santa Bar bara and raised in Goleta, “the Goodland” where he participated in youth sports; Goleta Valley South Little League, YFL, Page Center Basketball, Boys Club Basketball, and martial arts. He attended St. Raphael’s Elementary School, Bishop Garcia Diego High and graduated from Dos Pueblos High School in 2004 where he played football and basketball. He was an All-Channel League Defensive Back and was selected to the Santa Barbara County All Star Football team.

Tony worked for Santa Barbara County for 11 years in various positions and was employed as a Park Ranger at Cachuma Lake at the time of his passing. Cachuma Lake was a special place for him, and he enjoyed hanging out there with his friends and co-workers.

Services are as follows; Rosary on Thursday, September 29, 2022, at 6:30pm at St. Raphael’s Church, Funeral Mass on Friday, September 30, 2022, at 10:00am St. Raphael’s Church. Interment immediately following at Calvary Cemetery.

Paula Antonia Mauro 2/9/1936 - 9/20/2022

Paula’s love of art led to her association with the Santa Bar bara Museum of Art Docent Council for 37 years. Starting as a provisional docent in 1985, she served as president in 1995-96, and remained a sustaining docent until her retirement in 2022.

Travel was important to Paula. With the docent council she vis ited museums and historic sites across the US as well as in Europe. She enjoyed visiting family in California and New York, and with her daughters she visited her father’s ancestral home in Sicily.

When she wasn’t traveling, Paula enjoyed all Santa Barbara had to offer: coffee and croissants at Mousse Odile, shopping at the Farmers Market, walking along Hendry’s Beach. Her love of read ing included local history. She was a member of the St. Anthony’s Community for over fifty years.

Paula Antonia Mauro passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on September 20, 2022, at the age of 86.

Her children and her grand children were her joy! As a mom, she was ever-supportive, a good listener, and very loving.

“Jelly” was born in Sheboygan, WI and moved to Santa Barbara in 1978. He was a lifelong “car guy” with a passion for muscle cars and owned his own body shop in Johnsonville, WI before moving to Santa Barbara. He loved animals and usually could be found with the garage door open, working on whatever classic car he was restoring, with a faithful Labrador Retriever by his side.

He leaves his wife of 40 years, Joanne, his daughter Sherry Beall of Aliso Viejo, his sister Vicki Koenig of Sheboygan, WI, his

Tonys greatest joy was being a father to his daughters Malia and Makena. He was devoted to his girls and adored them. He loved teaching and coaching them in sports and spending quality time with them.

Tony was an avid sports fan and loved his Cowboys, Dodg ers, and Lakers. Another passion of his was playing a competitive round of golf with his brother, Isaac, and his friends. When he wasn’t on the golf course, he was fishing, hunting, playing disc golf, hiking with his dog Oakley or socializing with his friends and family.

Tony is survived by his daugh ters Malia (8) and Makena (6)

Paula was born in Brooklyn, New York on February 9, 1936. She grew up in Middle Village in the family home shared by her mother Anne, father Mario, sisters Patricia and Judy, brother Peter, and extended family including her maternal grandmother from Slovenia.

Childhood summers were spent at the Sound Shore Club in Wading River, NY. After gradu ating Dominican Commercial High School, Paula held clerical positions at McKesson & Robbins in Queens, then Lever House in midtown Manhattan. She married F. George Kammer on April 22, 1957, moving to Santa Barbara on her wedding day.

Her first job in Santa Barbara was in the Seaside Oil accounting department, where she met lifelong family friend Mary Louise Days. In her career as an adminis trative assistant and bookkeeper,

Paula is survived by her chil dren Anna Kammer (Dan Fal lorina), John Kammer, Regina Kammer (Jason Munkres), and her grandchildren Calia and Weston Kammer. A private memorial service will be held in Santa Barbara in October. A memorial service is planned for spring 2023 at the Mauro family plot in St. John Cemetery, Middle Village, New York.

Donations in Paula’s memory can be made to your favorite charity.

Good night, Mom. Lahko noč!

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The City of Santa Barbara has two vacancies for Civil Service Commissioner. This is a volunteer position appointed by the City Council to serve on a panel of 5 commissioners. The Civil Service Comission hears and determines appeals involving the suspension, removal or dismissal of classified City employees. Though duties are primarily related to disciplinary hearings, the Commissioners must be qualified electors of the city of Santa Barbara. Application and additional information regarding this exciting opportunity are available using the QR Code. Applications are due by October 10, 2022.

Fall’s Cultural Harvest

A Vast Bounty of Treasures Hits Santa Barbara Stages This Season

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Charley Crockett’s Neo-Classic Country Hits the Arlington

Forsome of us 805-ers, who might be a bit behind the hipster curve, our first exposure to the neo-classic country sensation Charley Crockett came on the airwaves of the San Luis Obispo public radio station KCBX last year. The airplay rotation occa sion was a promotional warm-up for Crockett’s big show in the San Luis Obispo venue Alex Madonna Expo Center last November.

His proudly retro yet distinctively now-ish approach to songwriting and production triggered a certain delicious cultural-historical mindmelt, especially for those of us favoring “classic” country over the mod ern stuff piped over the country airwaves. Touches of archival blues, old school soul, Ray Charles–style, and pinches of Paul Thorn–like drawl and irony are among the other features in the San Benito, Texas–born Crockett’s special musical world.

On Sunday night, Crockett makes his debut splash as a headliner in the picturesque expanse of the Arlington Theatre, and in the highprofile position as opening event of the UCSB Arts & Lectures season. In some way, the choice of Crockett as season launcher may seem a brave maneuver for the series, tipping the curatorial hat toward an art ist relatively little-known in the usual A&L circles. In another way, the timing is ripe, catching a distinctive artist in a strong career upswing. He recently interviewed on NPR and is landing in finer venues around the land. Take the Arlington, for one.

As heard on Crockett’s latest, The Man from Waco his 11th album in just seven years, mostly on the Thirty Tigers label Crockett doesn’t fit easily in the fixed format of our day. As one sign of old times, the title song “The Man from Waco” is a murder ballad, a genre Crockett has proudly worked in before in his large and story-filled songbook. Essentially, he’s a man too proudly out of time and passionately historyrooted for the modern country radio format, who sneaks into the Americana world on his own terms, and with a sound tipping its hat to sounds of yore.

In addition to Crockett’s healthy stock of original solo albums, including Welcome to Hard Times and Music City U.S.A. within the past two years, he has channeled his allegiance to past heroes and

trailblazers under the pseudonym Lil’ G.L. The latest entry in that series is this year’s country music tribute Jukebox Charley, bowing to such pioneers and personal influences as Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, and Tom T. Hall.

From that album, on his version of the Roger Miller hit “Where Have All the Honest People Gone?” Crockett circles around to his own story when he sings:

The people in this city call me country

Because of how I walk and talk and smile

Well, I don’t mind them laughing in the city

But the country folks all say I’m citified

The fighting men may say that I’m a coward

Because I never push no one around

Gentle people call me trouble maker

’Cause I’ll always fight and stand my ground

Funny I don’t fit

Where have all the honest people gone?

Needless to say, Crockett is a square peg in contemporary Nashville’s round-holed “Today’s Country” scene. On his song “Music City U.S.A.,” in a mantra-like refrain swaddled in pedal steel riffs, he sings, “I shouldn’t have come here in the first place / ’Cause folks here don’t like my kind.”

That said, a growing fan base and critical hosannas are nudging Crockett’s profile ever higher, in a grassroots-y fashion. Among his fans is a major hero, Willie Nelson. In an interview last week, Crockett was in New York City the morning after having opened for Nelson in the legendary SummerStage series in N.Y.C.’s Central Park.

Reflecting on his much humbler days as a musician in the city, as a struggling busker, Crockett, now 38, can appreciate the upward mobil ity of his destiny, then to now. “Fourteen years ago,” he recalls, “I played on the street here and in the subways, on platforms and subway cars, and in Central Park. I would wander down along the edge of the park,

coming down from the Met, and cut over into the park. There were pretty good musicians holding down a lot of the best spots. So I started playing under bridges initially in the park, made a little money doing that.

“The money was a little better last night,” he laughed.

Opening for Nelson in Central Park was akin to a dream come true for Crockett, beyond just the N.Y.C. nostalgia connection. “What could be better for some body from South Texas like myself?” he enthuses. “Willie paved the way. When you’re on the street corner hustling for change, you’re not thinking that you’re gonna be talk ing with Willie Nelson. He’s one of the best singers, too. You can learn a lot from him. His phrasing approach is really special.”

After his long haul as a road dog and prolific recording artist over the past seven years, in his studio, Crockett is in a paydirt period. Does he feel a particular satisfaction and sense of vindication these days?

“We’re thrilled. I definitely can feel the change,” he says, but adds, “Am I satisfied? I don’t know. I always want to see what’s over the next hill. I always want to go to the next town and play again.”

For Crockett’s dense fall itinerary, the “next towns” include Santa Barbara (where he last played opening for Sean Hayes at SOhO in 2016), the iconic Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival in San Francisco, a run in Europe, and landmark country music settings of Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium and the Austin City Limits festival.

Crockett explains that October’s run of shows in smaller cities, such as ours, is part of a grander plan as the stakes rise. “We’ve been staying out of a lot of the big cities that I was overplaying for years.” Playing in places like Santa Barbara and Ashland, Oregon, is, he says, “a buildup for the headline tour that’s coming in Novem ber. And those are some of my favorite areas. Santa Bar bara has a very Northern California kind of attitude that always stuck out in Southern California. I love L.A., but I love to leave L.A., too.”

Remarkably, Crockett’s slow but steady upward trajec tory has come about through an unusually organic pro cess of getting his name and sound out. A man out of time with an out-of-sync, DIY sense of how to navigate his way in the music world, Crockett speaks half-derisively about “the words ‘marketing strategy.’” For a long spell, he explains, “the only source of getting the word out was the live show. Word of mouth is the hard way of getting out there, but I’m proud of it. I’m still doing that.”

And there was another off-the-radar marketing con cept he deployed. “I bought some billboards. It was just a harebrained idea that I had because I always wanted to do that when I was a hobo. Oh man, I mean, they were 75 percent off. And, you know, you’d buy one and you pay for 30 days and it stayed up, would expand for four months, because nobody was buying them.”

He commemorates the billboard adventure on the song “Name on a Billboard,” on The Man from Waco, a clever, winking snub of showbiz follies: “Think I’ll buy some things / I can’t afford, hey, look / My name’s on a billboard.”

Meanwhile, back in Manhattan last week, Crock ett brought up a very recent encounter with the music machinery now eager to tap into his growing reputation. “I was in a business meeting in Midtown yesterday,” he says, “and hearing the phone ringing all the time. I was talking to these guys who run this big company, and they’re nice gentlemen. But they were trying to convince me to do a record deal with them or something. The guy asked me if I’d ever been to New York before.

“I said, ‘Yeah, I probably played 30 shows here in the last seven years. On top of that, I played the street by the train cars.’ He could have read my Wikipedia page for 10 minutes before I showed up.”

Had the record company man read Crockett’s Wiki pedia page, he would have learned a few things about the man and the artist, and the twain between them. He would have learned that Crockett, reportedly a

descendant of Davy Crockett, grew up with his single mother in a trailer park in Texas and summering with his uncle in New Orleans. He leapt into music at 19, picking up on shards of the American music history he would end up emulating through samples in contemporary hip-hop tracks.

As if following a template for “classic country” trouba dours, Crockett roamed and hopped freight cars, play ing on the streets in America and Europe. Frustrated by his lack of success or stability in music, Crockett landed in Northern California, working in such then-dubious modes of employment as “ganja” farms “way out in the mountains of Lake County, one county inland from Mendocino County.” (Crockett explains that while work ing as an “itinerant farmer,” he became obsessed with Robert Johnson, beyond his “Delta blues” mythology.)

Like Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, and others in coun try annals, he also fell afoul of the law and was convicted of a felony. In 2015, he returned to Texas and to his musi cal calling in earnest, releasing his debut album A Stolen Jewel. From that point forward, things fell into place, with a lot of hard work and dauntless touring, deepening his songwriting skills and honing his artistic identity.

Especially for artists who rely on the road life for their livelihood and even a sense of belonging and direc tion the pandemic lockdown and live music inter ruptus factor had a major impact. Crockett says, “It’s something that we all have had to contemplate, in the whole world. I was working so hard for so long. All of a sudden, in that first summer, we didn’t play at all, even the back door kind of country chitlin’ circuit that I came up on. Even that was closed for a few months.

“I’ve been going so hard for so long, here in New York City or in New Orleans, or San Francisco, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Asheville, North Carolina, high Rockies, up and down the California coast. I moved around those towns for years as an itinerant and up and down those highways. When I finally got my first agent, he worked me harder than anybody. I was on the road basically 300 days a year, and I did that for the last half-decade. The motel was the furthest I could see ahead, being able to get enough sleep, get on the highway, get dressed, get ready for that show and do it all over again.

“All of a sudden, in that summer, there was not the option to do that at all. Most everybody was shelved and shelving their albums and postponing them, but we just put one out Welcome to Hard Times.

“I had written it before the pandemic start to finish in about a month in that late winter, right before the pandemic hit, I wrote the record and then recorded it in South Georgia. We found out that South by Southwest was canceled, and South by Southwest is not an event that gets canceled. When we found out about that, I said, ‘Oh, shit, man, ain’t nothing gonna be like it was.’”

Among the personal hard times alluded to on 2021’s Welcome to Hard Times was the singer’s open-heart sur gery in early 2019, replacing a valve with a prosthetic model made of cow tissue. Although the album was writ ten and recorded before global COVID-infected “hard times,” the album’s themes projected a resonance natu rally touching an expanding body of listeners.

“I always write from a very personal place, even if I’m telling stories, or coming up with fictional characters. It’s all kind of based on my life, and Welcome to Hard Times was just something I had been feeling, being somebody that was kind of working in the shadows from street corners, and the highways. All those visuals, particular songs, that album, that message of ‘welcome the hard times’ was a place or an idea. It resonated for where I was and where it got me. I think people heard that and it spoke to the times.

“Art and artists can shape times, but the time shapes the art, and then people gravitate toward it.”

Clearly, Charley Crockett’s own gravitational pull as an artist is on the up and up.

The Curtain Is Up for Arts & Lectures

Thisyear’s A&L season kicks off in down-homey fashion and on American cultural soil, once removed, with Charley Crock ett’s neo-retro country and soul eloquence, but the varied and multicultural contextual fabric of the series opens up quickly and expands into a myriad of events through May. Four days after Crockett, the cultural topography shifts eastward to Ukraine, when the modern yet indigenous ensemble known as DakhaBrakha lands at The Granada Theatre on Thursday, October 6.

Its Santa Barbara debut comes amid a fairly whirlwind touring schedule for the group, which had gained acclaim and momentum in the so-called “world music” scene, prior to Ukraine’s tragic entry into the world’s attention and news cycle at the hands of Putin’s aggression. In the current agitated atmosphere, the group’s popularity has given them something of a Ukrainian cultural ambassador status around the world.

Founded by theater director Vladyslav Troitskyi in 2004, DakhaBra kha is a unique, progressive yet tradition-tapping ensemble that weaves a fluid, genre-crossing, and border-crossing sound with elements of experimentalism and contemporary theater in the mix. At times, the group’s atmospheric music can resemble something by Sigur Rós, if the Icelandic soundscapers merged with Eastern European kinfolk. The ranks of DakhaBrakha’s touring musicians include Marko Halanevych, Iryna Kovalenko, Olena Tsybulska, and Nina Garenetska, all of whom also contribute to the resonant vocal textures in the music and who play an assortment of indigenous and western instruments.

Suffice to say, DakhaBrakha also boasting the coolest hats imag inable will usher forth a sound and sensation unlike anything the Granada has yet hosted.

Leading up to the Granada performance, Santa Barbara’s ongoing 1st Thursday Art Walk program downtown (5-8 p.m.) will aid and abet the cause with a special “Ukraine Fest.” Outside the Granada a space now suited to special events and concerts thanks to the pedestrian-only sta tus on State Street there will be a free presentation of dancers, cultural artifacts, and a concert of bandura (a Ukrainian zither-like instrument) music by the Ukrainian musician Siuzanna Iglidan, a prelude to the acclaimed visitors from Kyiv inside the venue.

If Crockett and DakhaBrakha serve as this “post-pandemic” A&L season’s welcome-wagoners, the calendar quickly locks into gear, real izing with a renewed intensity the long-standing and deep mission of A&L’s broadly sweeping agenda, spanning regions of culture and contemporary issues.

For its jazz allotment this year, A&L has bumped up the heat. We will get the perennial visit from Wynton Marsalis, as expected though

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Layering, fragments, appropriation, cutting, higher cribbing, collage, and what artist Marshall Brown has called “creative miscegenation,” are all part of the crucible in which familiar themes are recast in art and literature. Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Lethem joins artist, Urbanist, Princeton University Professor of Architecture, and criticalthinking futurist Marshall Brown in a conversation about what Lethem termed the “Ecstasy of Influence.” This event is part of the opening celebration of the exhibition The Architecture of Collage: Marshall Brown, on view October 2, 2022 – January 7, 2023. Book signing to follow.

The Curtain Is Up for Arts

Opera Goes Grand at the Granada

Following Adaptive Pandemic Seasons, Opera Santa Barbara Launches Season with Tosca

It can be said that over the last two-plus years of perilous times for culture in Santa Barbara, opera has been down but never out. Under the intrepid and resourceful guidance of Opera Santa Bar bara’s head, Kostis Protopapas, opera has gone to the drive-in and into various humbler and alternative side routes, and finally returned in grand form to the Granada with La Traviata in June.

On Saturday, October 1, at The Granada Theatre (note 6 p.m. start time), the company returns to its operatic grandeur mode, launching its new season with the beloved Puccini opera Tosca. This new production, directed by Layna Chianakas and featuring mezzosoprano Eleni Calenos and tenor Adam Diegel in lead roles, kicks off a full October-to-May season of Italian, American, and Wagnerian opera fare, in a time still lined with cultural vulnerability but also high hopes. Among the creative and proactive measures being put into place this season are the “You Decide!” flexible ticket pricing, single performances to reduce overhead, and free tickets for high school students.

In a recent interview, Protopapas addressed the aforementioned high hopes, new plans, and the vexing complexities of running an opera company during and beyond the pandemic.

You have braved the pandemic struggles beautifully, with a great resourcefulness and creative lateral thinking. Do you view the 2022-23 season as a true “return to regular programming,” after two seasons of reinvention? The 2022-23 is a logical continuation of what came before. The period between March 2020 and June 2021 restricted some of the things we could do but opened the door to other things. We were forced to experiment, and we are stronger for it. What never changed was our passion for great music theater and for building a strong bond with our community.

You ended last season with a classic Italian opera, La Traviata, and you launch this sea son with Tosca almost fitting in its operawithin-opera structure. What is Tosca’s place in

standard operatic repertoire? Tosca is my favorite Puccini opera: It is taut, cinematic, and has glorious music. It also lovingly pokes fun at the opera itself, which I believe is one of the reasons it’s so popular. Deeper down, it explores the relationship between the artist and the world around them. Mario, a painter and Tosca’s lover, is an artist with a strong political conscience. Tosca finds out the hard way that art does not shield you from reality. Art and history are inseparable, and we forget that at our peril. Living for art and love alone is not possible.

Are there new elements or period settings involved in this particular production? I’m really excited about what we’re doing with this production. We’re combining period costumes and props with digital projections and film sequences. Tosca feels like a movie under any circumstances, so introducing the film element feels natural. We’re going for a production that feels modern without disturbing the period setting or imposing any concept of modernism.

Your four-opera season seems nicely bal anced Tosca with the lesser-known Italian opera, Rossini’s La scala di seta, Jack Perla’s An American Dream from the contemporary corner, and the next Wagnerian Ring installment. In a way, it’s a more conventional season compared to the adventurous turns of last season, but also attentive to the importance of being diverse. Was that your thinking in the programming pro cess? We always go for a mix of classic and traditional. Since every opera is different, the balance shifts a bit one way or the other from season to season. We put together seasons that balance out in terms of periods, languages, financial realities, and, most importantly, represent who we and our community are at any given time.

As the only full-time professional opera company between Los Angeles and San Francisco, a big part of our mission is to present strong productions of the classics, both for the people who love them, and for those who would otherwise never see them.

To read the full interview, go online at independent.com/operasb.

this time in small group form versus his usual Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra big band. The list also includes artists who, incidentally, all appeared at last week’s Monterey Jazz Festival Matthew Whitaker, the latest incarnation of the Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour, and Artemis, the all-female band of increasing acclaim.

In classical music news, another returning A&L regular of global currency is Yo-Yo Ma, appearing this season in tandem with imminent collaborators, pianist Emanuel Ax and violinist Leonidas Kava kos. Piano mastery is a subplot this year, from the populist celebrity Lang Lang to the poetic genius Víkingur Ólafsson. New music has a respectable stake in the program as well, from the local debut of the renowned Parisian Ensemble Intercontemporain (a film-music evening featuring the vintage film The City Without Jews) to the final installment of the Doppelgänger series by the strikingly fine Danish String Quartet (also an A&L favorite), to Sō Percussion (recently savored in its Music Academy of the West concert) in a program built around composer-performer Caroline Shaw

A&L’s thicket of offerings spans many disciplines and issues. The always-strong dance component (a special interest for A&L head Celesta Billeci) opens with SW!NG OUT on October 8 and goes on to include such notable dance world figures/ companies as the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Company, Ballet Preljocaj, Ballet Hispánico, and the Mark Morris Dance Group

No less important is the “L” word in the Arts & Lectures equa tion. The lecture tradition was led for many years by the formidable veteran Roman Baratiak until his recent retirement after more than 40 years in the erudite trenches, and the series continues apace after the change of the guard. The series starts with David Gergen on October 11 at the Granada and moves forward with visits from Maria Ressa, Nina Totenberg, Siddhar tha Mukherjee, and others, and a return of the fascinating series of interviews with semi-local writer Pico Iyer

Plenty of other offerings this season, including some still in the plan ning and booking stage, will make up the A&L’s bounty of options, in concert and beyond. Once again, the season brings artists, intelligentsia, and figures of international renown to Santa Barbara, broadening our outlook and making our mid-size city a more cosmopolitan and worldly place to live.

To launch it all, we have a Sunday-night special in store: neo-classic country of a high, arty-twangy order.

Get Stoked for Jack Johnson’s Doubleheader

UCSB-Educated Surfer-Songwriter Returns to Santa Barbara Bowl

Evenif he spends most of his time in Hawai‘i these days, Santa Barbara still considers Jack Johnson our own surfing-songwriting son. He studied film at UCSB, played Del Playa keg gers in Isla Vista, and owns a home near the Montecito shoreline, where he lived when the town was more sleepy than chichi. If you’re a UCSB grad of a certain era, he may even be your friend, or a friend of a friend, or at least an up-close anecdote that you use to impress otherwise never-been-that-close fans of his mellow, campfire-perfect music.

Like so many friends, it’s been a while since we’ve all connected, thanks to COVID. But Jack’s back, preparing to play two nights at the Santa Barbara Bowl next week, Octo ber 4 and 5, his first time on our largest stage since 2018.

The doubleheader featuring opening sets by his Hawaiian friends Ron Artis II and Thunderstorm Artis comes on the heels of his latest album, Meet the Moon light, which was produced by Blake Mills and came out in June. His ninth studio album but the first in five years, Moonlight doesn’t sound a whole lot different from his past works, at least to my ears. But the joy in Johnson is becoming familiar with the lyr ics and melodies over time, as they slowly worm into your consciousness and pull at your conscience.

I’m pretty certain I watched his band Soil in my I.V. daze, but I’ve officially been a fan since his first album, Brushfire Fairytales,

when we met at his rented house to write my first of what would be many articles about this emergent legend. Backstage hang ing at an early Coachella, connecting over strawberries at Fairview Garden, judging a Halloween Gong Show at Restaurant Roy (him a gorilla, me The Dude), and watching my young son dance onstage at the Bowl next to Johnson are just a few of the anecdotes I’ve collected over the years.

We texted a bit during the depths of the pandemic on the night he played one of those Together at Home concerts on television, and again more recently, when our mutual buddy Chris Potter who was Johnson’s freshman-year room mate at UCSB came down with crazy cancer. (Johnson had a ticket to come to the Friend ship Paddle for Potter until sick kids kept him at home.)

Last week was the first real interview we’ve done in a long time, and it was great to hear him sound as confident, com fortable, and contemplative as ever. We talked about stoking out a longtime fan in Boulder, how sweet it was to tour with reggae legends Ziggy Mar ley and Santa Davis, and the

different ways that he writes his songs. They can come quick his Goleta-based keyboardist Zach Gill might create a loop, and Johnson can lay down lyrics pulled in part from conversations they overheard from hotel balconies on break days. Others are more meditative, as in the case of Moon light’s first track, “Open Mind,” whose melo dies and lines were circling around his head for a long time before they landed in a song.

“By the time I put it out to the world, it’s not like I’m trying to teach anyone a lesson or suggest you do something different,” he told me. “I found a way to express some thing that makes sense to me. When the songs work, it’s because you put your finger on something that someone thought about but hasn’t been able to express. When you’re lucky, it touches on something that’s in the social conditions of our time.”

What follows is a condensed and stream lined version of our conversation.

What was COVID like for you in Hawai‘i? If I rewind and go back through the mindset of the whole thing, there were stressful times, like anywhere else. Hawai‘i had its own thing going on. So much of the food is shipped in; people were worried about the food getting here.

The beautiful outcome was how much the community came around to support ing local farmers and figured out ways to get more locally grown food. I’ve talked to farmer friends who say that, post-pandemic, it’s stayed that way since, with more farmers markets and CSA boxes. That was one good thing.

We had a lot of family time. Our teenag ers were forced to chill out with us during certain periods. We played a lot of board games.

I started writing a lot of music, just because I was around the house a lot more. I ended up putting out this new record.

Did you see the news about your friend Yvon Chouinard giving Pata gonia away to support environ mental causes? I love that Yvon is forward-thinking enough to not just look for the best option, but to invent a new way to go about things. Hopefully other people will be able to use that blueprint. He’s done that a lot through his whole life. We went on a surf trip together one time. It’s funny to call him a friend. He’s more of a hero.

Has your career made a meaningful impact on climate change? It’s hard to know if what you’ve done has had a posi tive or negative outcome when you do all the math. We’re touring, and there’s no way around having an environmental footprint when you’re flying to another continent and all the people are driving to your shows. All the byproducts add up.

We’ve always tried to do our best to mitigate the negative impacts, like run ning trucks on biodiesel and giving fans the option to do carbon offsets. That, we can calculate.

But it’s not just making the negatives as few as possible. How do we do positives? It’s all about the nonprofit groups we work with in every town.

It’s not just the money we raise, but these nonprofits get a lot of new young members. People invest in them and stay involved afterward and keep coming to events. I’ve talked to people who started volunteering with the groups because of the shows, and now they’re on the staff working with the groups years later. It’s nice to know when you leave a town that you didn’t just off set the carbon footprint but that the show has a reverberating positive impact on the community.

With so many popular songs but also a new album, how do you approach the set list? That’s an interesting

challenge. I enjoy playing the ones that I can tell are moving the people who came to the show that night.

When we play “Better Together” most nights to close, it’s a nice way to end the night. That song is always gonna have a certain impact with most people know ing the words. There’s a certain energy you arrive at, which is a beautiful part of the live experience.

The new songs, even if a few people love them, not everyone is going to know them. You have to get your mind right for that and not expect a similar reaction, but it’s still worth trying.

I would get every Fugazi record that came out, and if I went to a show and they didn’t play the new ones? [He’d be pissed.] So I think about the people who want to hear the new ones.

And then there’s deep cuts on all the old records, and there might be one or two peo ple [for whom] that song means everything to them. If we get a request, even a random one early in the day, we’ll try to honor it.

Do you like doing doubleheaders?

Earlier in my career, the double nights were scary to me. If one went really good, then you have to do another one. And how many people are coming to both shows?

Now we really enjoy the double nights. It gives us a chance to play a bunch of older songs. We’ll still play some of the same songs

both nights, but we mix it up and try things that we didn’t do the night before.

You must be playing a lot of the same songs over and over. Do you still find it a fulfilling life to be playing music?

I really do love it. Balance is key. I wouldn’t be able to tour every summer. There are some people who do, and music for them is probably similar to what surfing is in my life. It’s what they want to do all the time.

What makes it really so lucky is that the guys in the band are my friends. When we’re not on tour, we’re still making each other laugh. Zach [Gill] in particular we’re soul buddies, born on the same day. It’s great to be on stage together, whether failing or succeeding.

There’s a song on the new record called “Costume Party,” where I play some beer bottles. Some nights, I just fail. I can’t quite hit the bottle right. It looks so dumb. I’ll look at Zach, and your friend is watching you fail in front of 20,000 people, and then I play worse because I’m laughing at that.

Whether it’s one of those moments when things are going as bad as they can go, or when Zach is doing a solo on the Wurly and he has 20,000 people with their hands over head, and that’s your best bud. That keeps it exciting and fun.

I’m lucky to tour and have my family with me and the guys on stage. You’re always with your loved ones that way. n

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This long-anticipated homecoming concert features local legend Heiichiro Ohyama and three handpicked classical music luminaries – Benjamin Beilman (violin), Lucille Chung (piano), and Edward Arron (cello) – performing selected works by Dvořák and Fauré.

“Duhon brings the craft of a master short story writer to his songs and in doing so creates a series of skillfully rendered vignettes.” – The LA Beat with Haley Johnsen

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COVID-19 VENUE POLICY

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.

THURSDAY 9/29

9/29: Hollister Avenue Old Town Interim Striping Project Commu nity Workshop Learn about the find ings from past traffic and parking studies and about this project that could change the number of vehicle lanes, prioritize and calm traffic, improve bike safety, imple ment collision-reduction measures, and more. The community can provide input to this precursor to the Hollister Avenue Complete Streets Corridor Project. 6-8pm. Goleta Community Center, Rooms 1 and 2, 5679 Hollister Ave., Goleta. Free tinyurl.com/GoletaWorkshop

9/29: Lecture: Sigmund Morgen roth, Collector & Patron of the Arts

Peter Lackner, professor emeritus, former director of theater, and chair of the UCSB Theater and Dance Department, will discuss Sigmund Morgenroth (1874-1963) in conjunction with the exhibition Gods, Glory & Spirituality: Historical Fictions of the Sigmund Morgenroth Collection of Renaissance Medals and Plaquettes, on view through January 22, 2023. 5:30-7pm. UCSB, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, 552 University Rd. Free. Call (805) 8932951 or email events@adamuseum.ucsb .edu museum.ucsb.edu/news

9/29: Brewmaster Dinner with Kevin Ashford and La Paloma Enjoy a five-course meal that will include local rockfish ceviche and oak-grilled champion chicken, guided by chef Jeremy Tummel from La Paloma Café paired with Figueroa Mountain brewmaster Kevin Ashford’s favorite brews. 6:30pm. Figueroa Moun tain Brewing Co., 137 Anacapa St. $80. Ages 21+. Call (805) 324-4461 or email santabarbara@figmtnbrew.com tinyurl .com/BrewmasterDinnerSep29

9/29: Curated Collective Presents Pop-Up Night Market Shop from 15 local artisans and enjoy eats from Aegean Taverna while listening to area musicians Luminesse and Ben Betts. 5-9pm. Stik N Stuk Creative Studios, 118 A Gray Ave. Free. Email hello@curatedcollectivesb .com. curatedcollectivesb.com/ events-1

FRIDAY 9/30

9/30: Flashback: ’80s Prom Night

Find inspiration from the movie Flash dance, Madonna, Dynasty, and MTV and

dance to the sounds of early hip-hop, goth, hair metal, and more. 6:30-11pm. Backstage, 409 State St. $40. Ages 21+. Call (805) 9574111 or email tin@sbeventhorizon.com. tinyurl.com/80sPromParty

9/30: Get the Led Out Experience the Philadelphia-based group that will deliver a high-energy Zeppelin concert with an honest, heart-thumping intensity. 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $39-$106. Call (805) 963-0761or email boxoffice@lobero.org. lobero.org/whats-on

SATURDAY 10/1

10/1: DIY Piñatas All ages are invited to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month by making your own piñata! All materials will be provided while supplies last. 11am-noon. Library Lab, Eastside Library, 1102 E. Mon tecito St. Free. Call (805) 963-3727 or email librarypr@santabarbaraca.gov. tinyurl.com/PinataDIY

FARMERS MARKET SCHEDULE

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

10/1: Opera S.B. Presents Tosca This political thriller, set in Rome around 1800, takes place in less than a 24-hour period and follows Rome’s diva Floria Tosca; her lover, Mario Cavaradossi; and the corrupt Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia. 6-8:15pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $79-$219. Call (805) 899-2222 or email info@operasb.org. Read more on p. 23. ticketing.granadasb.org/17049

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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

10/1: ME Sabor Dance Studio: Baila Conmigo Celebrating Our Latino Culture This 2nd Annual End of the Year Showcase will highlight dances in salsa, bachata, folklórico, flamenco, aerial, and more! 7pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. $20. Call (805) 705-7939 or email mesabor dancestudio@gmail.com. mesabordancestudio.com/ danceevents

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Shows on Tap

9/29, 10/1: Eos Lounge Thu.: Ciszak, 9pm. $6.18. Sat.: Eli & Fur, 9pm. $18.54. 500 Anacapa St. Ages 21+. Call (805) 5642410. eoslounge.com

9/29-10/2, 10/5: Lost Chord Guitars Thu: Secret Emchy Society, 7:30-9:30pm. $10. Fri.: Gandy Dancer, 8-11:30pm. $10. Sat.: Jeffrey Halford and the Healers with Mike Hellman, 8-11:30pm. $10. Sun.: Songwriter Showcase, 8-10:30pm. Free Wed.: Mare Wakefield & Nomad, 7:30-9:30pm. Free. 1576 Copenha gen Dr., Solvang. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com

9/29: Pearl Social Paradise Kings,

9/30-10/1: Uptown Lounge Fri.: The Trio, 5-7pm; Brandon Kinalele, 7:3010:30pm. Sat.: DJ Ian, 8pm-midnight. 3126 State St. Free. Call (805) 845-8800. uptownlounge805.com/events

10/1: Hook’d Bar & Grill The Last Great Decade, 4-7pm. 116 Lakeview Dr. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/ music-on-the-water

10/1: La Cumbre Plaza Bruce Holmes, noon-1:45pm; Natalie Wattre, 2:15-3:45pm. 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. Call (805) 687-6458. shoplacumbre.com/events

10/1: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Walking CoCo, 6-8pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

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10/1: Pearl Social Val-Mar Records and A Smooth Exchange, 9-9:30pm. 131 Anacapa St., Ste. B. Free. Call (805) 284-0380. pearlsocialsb.com/happenings/

10/3: The Red Piano Ray Jaurique Trio, 7:30pm. 519 State Street. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com/schedule

10/4-10/5: S.B. Bowl Concert Tue.-Wed.: Jack Johnson, 6:30pm. $67$97. 1122 N. Milpas St. Call (805) 962-7411. sbbowl.com

10/1: Benise: Spanish Nights Feel the passion and grace of flamenco combined with fiery Spanish guitar as Benise, backed by a stage full of musicians and elaborately choreo graphed dancers, takes the audience on a musical journey through Spanish flamenco, Cuban salsa, Parisian waltz, and drumming. 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $33.50$97.50. Call (805) 963-0761or email boxoffice@lobero.org. lobero.org/whats-on

10/1: Free Nature Play Day / Día de juegos gratis en la naturaleza Wilderness Youth Project, Storyteller Children’s Center,

The Oaks Parent-Child Workshop invite the

such as fiber arts, fire by friction, and earth paints.

comunidad a participar en habilidades basadas en la tierra, como artes de fibra, fuego por fricción,

pinturas de tierra. 10am-1pm. Oak Park, 638 W. Junipero St. Free Email sharon@wyp.org. tinyurl.com/NaturePlayDay

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THE10/1: Hidden City Studios Presents Top Talent Showcase Listen to live sets from some of S.B’s best musicians and singers from shows like The Voice with headliner Elliott Lanam, surprise guests, and giveaways. 7pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $20-$30. Ages 21+. Call (805) 962-7776. Read more on p.41. sohosb.com/events

10/1-10/2: DramaDogs, A Theater Company, Presents Collected Sto ries by Donald Margulies Follow the story of Ruth Steiner (E. Bonnie Lewis), a professor and lauded writer of short stories who hires graduate student Lisa Morrison (Felicia Hall) to be her assistant and then becomes her rival in this play about ownership, consent, appropriation, and the ethics of taking artistic license. Sat.: 2 and 7pm; Sun.: 2pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. $20-$25. Call (805) 963-0408. centerstagetheater.org/shows

10/1-10/2: 36th Annual Avocado Festival: Back to the Roots Cel ebrate all things avocado with more than 75 music acts on four stages, and food booths and drink, a guacamole contest, the Expo Tent, the Ferris wheel, and more. Sat.: 10am-10pm; Sun.: 10am-6pm. 800 Linden Ave., Carpinteria. Free. Call (805) 684-0038 or email info@avofest.com avofest.com

SUNDAY 10/2

10/2: S.B. Woman’s Club Succulent Sale Shop from potted succulents of all shapes and sizes created by members and beaded wire trees, seashell and sea glass vases, pots, pumpkin harvest centerpieces, and kokedama plantings (Japanese style of potting up plants in a ball of moss). 1-4pm. S.B. Woman’s Club Rockwood, 670 Mission Canyon Rd. Free Call (805) 682-4546 or email office@sbwc .com. sbwomansclub.com

10/2: S.B. Sister Cities ME & US Celebration Celebrate the collaboration between Sister Cities S.B. and Kotor, Mon tenegro, with performances by the young musicians from both the U.S. and Kotor and more. 4pm. Music Academy of the West, 1070 Fairway Rd. Free independent.com/events/meus

10/2: Mujeres Makers Market Shop and support talented local makers and women creatives, artisans, vintage resellers, and more. 10am-4pm. Presidio de Santa Bárbara, 123 E. Canon Perdido St. Free. Email info@mujeresmakersmarket.com mujeresmakersmarket.com/events

10/2-1/7: Parallel Stories: A CrossDisciplinary Conversation and BookSigning with Marshall Brown and Jonathan Lethem In conjunction with The Architecture of Collage: Marshall Brown, on view through January 7, 2023, award-winning and New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Lethem will join artist, urbanist, Princeton University professor of architecture, and critical-thinking futurist Marshall Brown in a conversation about what Lethem termed the “Ecstasy of Influence,” followed by a book signing. 2:30-3:30pm. Mary Craig Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. $5-$10. Call (805) 963-4364. tickets.sbma.net

MONDAY 10/3

10/3: Hula Hoop Dance Class Drop in or take the entire series of these classes designed to challenge each level of hooper, focusing on a new style such as chest hooping, knee hooping, extension variations, transitions, and more! Hoops will be provided. 8-9pm. UCSB Campus, 2320 Rob Gym. Drop-in: $10; class: $40-$84. Email santabarbarahoopcollective@ gmail.com. register.recreation.ucsb.edu

10/3: Exhibition: Art as Activism The UCSB MultiCultural Center presents this exhi bition featuring UCSB student artists and their work that highlights counternarratives to fear, hurt, and hate with work that centers on joy

and allyship in the QTBIPOC communities and to foster discussions around diversity, equity, inclusion, social justice, and belong ing. The exhibition will show through December 3. 10am. MultiCultural Center Lounge, UCSB. Free. Call (805) 893-8411. mcc.sa.ucsb.edu

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Chaucer’s Author Talk

and Book Signing: Deborah Holt Larkin Author Deborah Holt Larkin will talk about and sign her book A

Lovely Girl: The Tragedy of Olga Dun can & The Trial of One of California’s Most Notorious Killers, which chron icles the local story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California. 6pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/event

TUESDAY 10/4

10/4: Seminar: The Top 10 EstatePlanning Mistakes Join nationally recognized estate planning and elder law attorney Julianna Malis and Realtor Terri Dimond to learn how to protect your family from losing their inheritance. 10:30amnoon. Mulligan’s Café, S.B. Golf Club, 3500 McCaw Ave. Free. Call (805) 709-0934 or email TerriDimond@bhhscal.com tinyurl.com/PlanningSeminarOct4

10/4-10/5: Pianos on State Ama teurs and professionals are invited to enjoy a collaborative and interactive musical experience that takes place during Arts and Humanities month in October. Pianos will be available for musical exploration, impromptu play, and group performances all day and night through October 23. Downtown S.B., State St. Free piano sonstate.com

WEDNESDAY 10/5

10/5: Wharf Wednesday Concert: Down Mountain Lights Start the night with a firing from the historic cannon, shop merchant specials, and take in the 1970s grooves mixed with current hits from local band Down Mountain Lights. 5-7pm. Stea rns Wharf, 217 Stearns Wharf. Free stearnswharf.org/events

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PARTICIPATING VENUES

SBIFF’S SB FILMMAKER SCREENING SERIES, SBIFF Education Center, 1330 State Street

ENGEL & VÖLKERS, 1323 State Street, 805-342-0227

SANTA BARBARA FINE ART, 1321 State Street, 805-845-4270

MAUNE CONTEMPORARY, 1309 State Street, 805-869-2524

LONETREE, 1221 State Street, Suite 24, 805-892-7335

DOMECÍL, 1221 State Street, Suite 7, 805-324-4971

UKRAINE FEST CULTURAL CELEBRATION, 1214 State Street, 805-899-2222

10 WEST GALLERY, 10 West Anapamu Street, 805-770-7711

SULLIVAN GOSS – AN AMERICAN GALLERY, 11 East Anapamu Street, 805-730-1460

THE BOOK DEN, 15 East Anapamu Street, 805-962-3321

CHANNING PEAKE GALLERY, 105 East Anapamu Street, 1st Floor, 805-568-3990

CRUSH BAR & TAP, 1129 State Street, Suite A, 805-770-8077

SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF ART, 1130 State Street, 805-963-4364

FAULKNER GALLERY - MAIN, 40 East Anapamu Street, in the SB Public Library, 1st Floor

FAULKER GALLERY - EAST & WEST, 40 East Anapamu Street, in the SB Public Library, 1st Floor

GALLERY 113, 1114 State Street, La Arcada Court #8, 805-965-6611

WATERHOUSE GALLERY, 1114 State Street, La Arcada Court #9, 805-962-8885

ACE RIVINGTON, 1106 State Street, Suite A, in La Arcada, 805-560-1580

TAMSEN GALLERY, 911.5 State Street, 805-705-2208

STATE STREET PROMENADE MARKET, 800 Block of State Street

FREQUENCY WINE COMPANY, 804 Anacapa Street, 805-770-3069

SANTA BARBARA HISTORICAL MUSEUM, 136 East de la Guerra Street, 805-966-1601

PASEO NUEVO GAME NIGHT, De La Guerra Place, 801 State Street

IDYLL MERCANTILE, 703 Chapala Street

HELENA MASON ART GALLERY, 48 Helena Avenue, 805-341-0419

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10/1:

2nd Annual All Dons Reunion 2022 All S.B. High School alumni are invited to celebrate one of the oldest schools in California by browsing tents with memorabilia from each decade, tours, live music, food trucks and a BBQ, face painting for the kids, and a silent auction to raise funds for the SBHS Alumni Association. 11am4pm. S.B. High School, 700 E. Anapamu St. Ages 5 and under: free; ages 5-12: $5; adults: $20. Email sbhsalumniassoc@gmail.com. sbdonsalumni.com

10/1-10/3, 10/5: 4th Annual The Artist’s Table Art Show Take in plein-air, landscape, figurative, and still-life paintings from 15 celebrated area artists and curated by Diane Waterhouse. Proceeds from art sales support will support the museum’s work to connect people to nature. The exhibit shows through October 9. Sat.-Mon., Wed.: 10am-5pm. Fleischmann Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Natural History, 2559 Puesta del Sol. Free-$18. Call (805) 682-4711. sbnature.org/visit/calendar

10/1: 13th Annual ArchitecTours 2022 Get your tour brochure and/or app with maps and take a self-guided tour of the best architectural projects in S.B. from residential to commercial buildings and historic building renovations. Five percent of ticket sales will go toward the Architectural Foundation of S.B. Tour: 10am-4pm; party: 4-6pm. Various locations. Members/students: $25; GA: $75-$85. tinyurl.com/ArchitecTours2022

10/1: 6th Annual Heart of New House Luncheon This event will honor Gordon Guy, who recently passed away from cancer, for his many years of service to New House S.B. (men’s sober living since 1955) with proceeds going toward scholarships for men who are trying to change their lives, as well as other operational needs. 11:30am-1:30pm. Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd. $100. Email steve.olsen@mccormix.com sbnewhouse.org

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Summer Vibes in Paso and S.L.O.

I’ve been wanting to check out a show at Vina Robles Amphitheatre since it opened in 2013, and somehow, despite numerous wine tasting trips to Paso Robles and an early pandemic visit to see the extremely cool outdoors-among-the-vines Field of Light exhibit at Sensorio, I never managed to make the 125-mile trek until a special deal at Hotel S.L.O. caught my eye.

A Musical Journey up the Coast

The Summer Vibe package includes a stay in one of Hotel S.L.O.’s hipster-chic rooms ours featured a king-size bed, private balcony, cozy sitting area, walkin rain shower, and playful yet sophisticated decor that would have been right at home on the pages of any design magazine. There’s definitely a vibe to newer hotels the boutique Skyview Los Alamos has it too where each room has a seemingly unique style, and it almost feels like you’re a guest in someone’s home as opposed to a standardized corporate environment. There’s also an environmentally friendly bent to Hotel S.L.O. that I approved of, including key-card light con trols (so you can’t accidentally keep on the lights when you leave the room), refillable water bottles with easy filling stations around the hotel, and cleverly worded options to “refresh” your room without wastefully laundering your towels and linens unless you need that.

Our room was paired with access to a luxury box suite at Vina Robles Amphitheatre, a mere half-hour away from Downtown San Luis Obispo, even in Friday afternoon traffic. The concert venue is beautiful, nes tled in a picturesque hillside, with all 3,300 seats within 150 feet of the stage (the Santa Barbara Bowl has 4,500 seats, to give you some idea of perspective), including general admission lawn seating up top.

It was the perfect perch to watch The Offspring show, among a super-enthusiastic sold-out crowd. We enjoyed beer and wine (the amphitheater is on the Vina Robles Winery property after all), as well as surprisingly good wood-fired pizza and other snacks. Our VIP spot also gave us entry through the spacious

tasting room, access to the lovely private winery patio with comfy chairs and fire pits, special parking, another menu of food and wine pairing options, and best of all, VIP restrooms.

As The Offspring rocked their way through their lively set list of familiar, mostly ’90s punk hits, and when lead singer Dexter Holland quipped, “In Paso, they sing like angels and curse like sailors,” the crowd willingly obliged. This was definitely not their first Paso Robles rodeo, as lead guitarist Noodles shared with me earlier in the day: “We are looking forward to playing the Vina Robles Amphitheatre this time because the last time we played there, we played on a makeshift stage at the fair [which was coincidentally going on the same weekend]. Halfway through our set, they moved a whole herd of cattle right underneath the stage. The dust and the smell were somethin’ else! Thanks for all the great wines, Paso.”

The wines were indeed pretty great. While Paso is well-known for its hearty cabernet sauvignon, I was impressed by the whites at our tasting at Vina Robles Vineyards the next day. The 2021 sauvignon blanc was the perfect summer brunch wine, with citrus notes and a nice acidity, and the 2021 vermentino, an Italian white you don’t see as often on the Central Coast, was subtly delicious. The food at the Bistro at Vina Robles was also quite good. The crab cakes with chipotle citrus aioli paired perfectly with the vermentino and the castiron cookie (warm chocolate chip, topped with vanilla ice cream and praline walnuts) was a delightful capper to our meal.

Hotel S.L.O.’s Summer Vibe Special runs through October, with upcoming shows at Vina Robles Amphi theatre like Eddie Vedder and Earthlings on October 5, George Lopez on October 14, Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band on October 15, and Chelsea Handler on October 21. Along with the musical fun, the hotel is located within an easy walking distance of loads of shops, bars, and restaurants, as well as attractions like Bubblegum Alley, the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, and Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa.

For more information and to book the Summer Vibe Special, call (805) 235-0700 or visit hotel-slo.com.

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Yellow Bird Music Sings On COURTESY

Eminent Domain Couldn’t Sink Beloved De la Vina Street Studio

Yellow Bird Music recently celebrated its 20th anniversary in its new home at 2600 De la Vina Street, just a few blocks away from the original location where the music studio laid its roots over the past two decades. Yellow Bird Music is a small, independently owned business that offers music and performing arts classes for young chil dren.

In August, the City of Santa Barbara claimed four properties along De la Vina by eminent domain to repair an old bridge over Mission Creek. Some, like Marty’s Pizza, chose to permanently shut down.

However, having already muscled through the pandemic, owner Alexandra Adams wasn’t going to let Yellow Bird Music go down so easily. She took the notice from the city as an opportunity to spread the studio’s wings and really expand on what it can offer.

“There have been some challenges, but we’re still alive,” Adams said.

Throughout the pandemic, Adams was able to keep the business afloat by shifting her services online and offering private lessons. She said she was fortunate to be part of such a supportive community, who relied on her teachings during the period of intense uncertainty. It’s that same community that Adams is counting on to carry Yellow Bird Music through its next chapter.

Following her dream of spreading a passion for music and per forming arts she’s had since she was a little girl, Adams opened Yellow Bird Music in 2002 after graduating from UCSB. Her lessons include exploring instruments and songs from around the world and creating playlists for families to enjoy at home.

The kids who grew up with Yellow Bird in its early days are now leaving their own nests and following their own dreams, with some even pursuing careers in music. Moving from its original location was bittersweet for Adams and the families she’s served, but she’s looking at it as a new beginning.

“I really believe that everything happens for a reason and for the best and that’s kind of what happened,” Adams said. “It ended up being okay. We’re still gonna do music, and we’re gonna do it brighter and better than before.”

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Santa Barbara, CA Diabetes along with age, smoking, exposure to chemotherapy, post surgical and motor vehicle accidents are all risk factors for peripheral neuropathy. Diabetes is the largest cohort, making up nearly 60% of all peripheral neuropathy cases. Among diabetics, up to 50% have measurable evidence of peripheral neuropathy but no symptoms. Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy is the most common long term complication of Diabetes. This can progress from sensory complications to leg/foot ulcers and ultimately gangrene and amputation. Nerve fibers affected with neuropathy include large nerve fibers which are principally associated with numbness and small nerve fibers seen with pain and burning symptoms.

In order to effectively treat your neuropathy, three factors must be determined.

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We can objectively measure the severity of deficit in both small and large nerve fibers prior to start of care.

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The treatment to increase blood flow utilizes electronic cell signaling delivering modulating energy wavelengths at both low and middle frequencies. The signaling improves cell-to-cell communication among small nerve fibers.

The cell signaling therapy is like watering a tree. The treatment will allow the blood vessels to grow back around the peripheral nerves and provide them with the proper nutrients to heal and repair. It’s like adding water to a tree and seeing the roots grow deeper and deeper.

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.

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Kunin Chenin Blanc: Magan Kunin’s 2020 Natural Chenin Blanc from the Jurassic Park Vineyard was processed like a red wine, the white grapes spending three weeks on their skins. “It’s a super-fragrant and clean and delicious skincontact wine from the oldest chenin vines in the county,” she said. “We love our sparkling version and our traditional ferment, but this raw expression demonstrates what an amazing site Jurassic Park truly is for chenin.”

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Barbara County wines are on a tear right now, garnering repeat accolades from the most important voices in the industry. “I have been a big admirer of these wines for some time,” wrote Antonio Galloni of Vinous after tasting more than 800 wines recently. “Best of all, Santa Barbara wines remain, inexplicably, largely undis covered by both consumers and the wine trade.” Similar sentiments are uttered by Jeb Dunnuck, Wine Spectator, and Wine Advocate, while Wine Enthusiast continues to heap on the praise.

The latter magazine, where I also work, named Santa Barbara the Wine Region of the Year in 2021 and Greg Brewer as Winemaker of the Year in 2020. Just this month, Wine Enthusiast nominated Douglas Margerum as the 2022 Winemaker of the Year and Nicholas Miller of Bien Nacido fame as Wine Executive of the Year, and already announced the American Wine Legend Award for Bill Foley, who started his ongoing wine world takeover with Lincourt.

Babcock Picpoul & Carignan: “Picpoul is a very rare grape in California,” said Babcock, who’ll pour his 2020 Gracious. “What little of it there is, is turning out to be very interest ing.” He’s also serving both his Status Crow and Opportunity Knocks cari gnans. “With carignan, it’s all about the enigma of making great wine from a historically cantankerous grape,” he said. “Both of these wines accentuate the new diversity in Santa Barbara County wine growing.”

Bien Nacido Grenache: “Normally available exclu sively for our wine club members and tasting room visitors, this is not a wine that one can buy at a store or try at a restaurant,” said marketing director Tommy Gaeta. “For that reason, we are excited to let a broader audience of wine lovers sample this exceptional wine. Both the recent 2019 and 2020 vintages were recognized with 94-point scores by Wine Enthusiast, so this is a wine not to be missed.”

Cambria Chardonnay: “We can’t wait to show case our Katherine’s Vineyard Signature Col lection Chardonnay,” said Jill Russell. “This wine showcases our own rooted chardonnay vines that date back to 1971.”

LaBarge Albariño: “It is the only albariño planted in the Sta. Rita Hills, and we only make 175 cases of it per year,” said Pierre LaBarge IV. “It is a wine that tastes like the ocean, yet has depth and roundness of fruit to back up the laserlike acidity.”

Samsara Chardonnay: “I’m still obsessed with chardonnay,” said Matt Brady, who’s pouring his 2020 Cuvée d’Inspiration from the organically farmed Francesca Vineyard. “We only produced three bar rels, and it’s everything I love about the Sta. Rita Hills: balance, acidity, mineral ity, weight, mouthfeel, and big flavors.”

Strange Family Sparkling: This bubbly focused Sta. Rita Hills estate will pour their 2019 Blanc de Noirs. “Made in the traditional méthode champenoise, this Blanc de Noirs is made from 100 percent pinot noir and displays subtle notes of citrus, almond, and a touch of bri oche on the palate,” said managing director Diane Dreyer. “With bright acidity, tiny bubbles, and zero percent dosage, this sparkling wine rivals a fine champagne!”

Tercero Gewurztraminer: “There is very little gewurztraminer remaining in Santa Barbara County, and that is a true shame,” said Larry Schaffer, who’ll pour his 2021 vintage of The Outlier. “This variety adds to the reality that not only can we grow dozens and dozens of different grape variet ies here due to soil and climate diversity, but we can do so very, very well.”

That’s quite a change from when Bryan Babcock landed here in the early 1980s. “Not all of the wines coming out of Santa Barbara County were compelling honestly, some were substandard,” he said. “But 40 years later, there is a new status quo, as the quality and diversity of Santa Barbara County wines are now making the single biggest impact on the American food and wine scene. It’s mind-boggling.”

With everyone riding high, and the pandemic finally settling down low, the first Santa Barbara Vintners Festival since 2019 comes at an ideal time on Saturday, October 8. With nearly 60 wineries pouring and 30 food purveyors serving gourmet bites at the Old Mission Santa Inés in Solvang, the afternoon can serve as an epic introduction to the region, a visceral reminder of its excellence, or just a forum for celebrating Santa Barbara’s ongoing rise.

Here are some of the interesting wines to search out at the fest.

Donnachadh Pinot Noir & Chardonnay: Owner Drew Duncan will share his new line of Sta. Rita Hills bottlings of pinot and chard, which feature whimsical labels and are more affordable than his estate wines (though he’ll also pour estate gamay and syrah). “This will be their public debut,” said Dun can. “We wanted some wines that were younger-drinking and approachable but that still offered a lot of depth and nuance. We think these ’21s deliver on that.”

Grimm’s Bluff Cabernet Sauvignon: “Fruit for our Contango Cabernet is harvested exclusively from our head-trained blocks,” said general manager Jeff Chaney, who’ll pour the elegant 2018 vintage, which comes from just four top barrels. “These blocks are grown with abso lute minimal intervention and offer the most honest window into the unique terroir of Grimm’s Bluff, showing a striking balance of juicy new world fruit and graphite-driven minerality.”

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Checo’s Mexican restaurant, which I first reported about last February, has opened at 6578 Trigo Road in Isla Vista, in the for mer home of Mojo (which moved to 6530 Seville Road), 805 Kabob, Lovin Oven Mediter ranean Bakery & Café, Café Int’L, and 913 other establishments since USCB opened its current campus in 1949. “This is a Central Mexican res taurant,” says chef and partner Sergio “Checo” Ortega. “We’re from Central West. I’m from Michoacán, which defines the influence. Every thing is made from scratch. We make our own tortillas. Every salsa is from scratch. Rice, every meat this is what Mexican food is to me. We have another restaurant in Santa Ana called Che co’s Bar & Grill.” Checo’s has a tortilla machine in the back where you feed in the dough, so they are always serving fresh tortillas. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Call (805) 869-2209.

ALMA MATTERS: Here is a report from the school that was Restaurant Guy’s alma mater during the Mesozoic Era: Santa Barbara High School is having their second ever All Dons Reunion on Saturday October 1, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. There will be food trucks: Mr. Softee, Kona Ice, USofE Cof fee Truck, Milpas Taqueria, and a BBQ serv ing Tortas by the Football Team. Also included are school tours; class tents; a merchandise marketplace with different school clubs selling their wares; an auction including items from Dons Athletics, a painting from alum Jeremy Harper, and voice lessons from alum JR Rich ards of Dishwalla; entertainment from the band, cheer squad, dance team, and choir; and the long-awaited unveiling of the new Bossie the Cow at 1 p.m. Tickets are $20 for adults. See sbdonsalumni.com.

MINT CHIP RETURNS: Rite Aid, home to the $1.99 per scoop Thrifty Ice Cream, has announced that their most popular flavor, mint chip, has returned after a two-month absence. I am told that there was a supply issue with the chocolate chips that held back production.

LE CAFÉ STELLA CLOSING SEPTEMBER 30: Here is a mes

sage to you from Philippe Rousseau, owner of Le Café Stella at 3302 McCaw Avenue: “Last call!

After calling the Le Café Stella location home for the past 22 years, we will be shutting our doors on Friday September 30, to make room for great new tenants. We are looking forward to seeing you for last call from 4-8 p.m. We have enjoyed serving you and creating long lasting memories; Café Stella will be missed by so many. We thank our staff for their dedication and hard work in making Le Café Stella so successful over the years. We will miss all of your familiar faces and remember all the events and gatherings held at Le Café Stella. Brass Bear, a local Funk Zone staple, will soon occupy the space. Thank you all for many wonderful years, Le Café Stella Family.”

ROSEWOOD MIRAMAR BEACH COCKTAIL SERIES: The Manor Bar, Rosewood Miramar Beach’s hide out for handcrafted cocktails, presents the CoAuthor Cocktail Series celebrating women in literature. The guest series at 1759 Jameson Lane in Montecito will feature spirits profession als, including Christina Veira of Bar Mordecai (ROKU Industry Icon in 2022’s inaugural 50 Best North America, appearing September 30, 6-10 p.m.), Alba Huerta of Julep (2022 James Beard award winner for Outstanding Bar Program, appearing October 7, 6-9 p.m.), and Julie Reiner of Clover Club (Helen David Lifetime Achieve ment Award at Tales of the Cocktail 2022, appearing January 16, 6-9 p.m.). Each guest will share a selection of cocktails from their respec tive establishments, along with original drinks developed in collaboration with Rosewood Miramar Beach’s director of bars, Nils Schabert.

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Sculptor Rod Lathim’s piece “Sondheim’s Sunday” also piques curiosity. Made using neon lights and a French horn, the art ist’s description of the piece calls the work a “marriage” of music and light, and the blending is a “magical process.” Lathim also collaborated with visual artist and Carpinte ria local Chris Gocong to create pieces like “Bowie,” an acrylic portrait of David Bowie that is lit up by a neon lightning bolt across his face, displayed in the loft space located above the venue’s foyer.

Valuable artwork and carefree attitudes comfortably coexist at the Helena Mason Art Gallery, a laid-back venue space in the Funk Zone. Before opening in May, co-owners Natalie and James Sanchez worked for more than two years to make the former storage space into what it is today.

“It needed some love,” Natalie said. “Our vision was to keep its Funk Zone roots while elevating the space to host art shows and offer it as a hip new event space in the heart of the Funk Zone … it’s not done yet.”

Situated on the corner of Helena Avenue and East Mason Street, “This building has been in my husband’s family for decades, with a history of tenant artists and a place to host dinner events paired with wine or even distillery tastings,” Natalie said.

And the homegrown foundation of the gallery doesn’t stop at it being locally owned and operated. Almost everything from the art to merchandise to the curatorial work is sourced from creators in and around Santa Barbara.

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view through October 31 and inspired by local pop art, visitors can walk through the gallery’s wide, garage-like entrance and immediately encounter works by wellknown artists Andy Warhol, John “Crash” Matos, and Yoshitomo Nara. The people behind the collection tie the otherwise global string of works back to Santa Barbara in an exhibit put together by local curators Tedde Minogue and Ashley Woods Hollister from HR Hollister.

What really pops, though, is the collection’s variety of work from local artists like Wallace Piatt, known by the arts community as Wallace. His 2022 Dunk series, a col lection of canvas paintings that puts a dramatic, popculture spin on retro Nike sneakers, draws the viewer’s eye toward the foyer’s back wall. The artist uses spray paint and house paint to cre ate his contemporary, pop-

Noise is not what Santa Barbara is known for, especially when compared to its big-city neighbors, or considering the Bowl’s 10 p.m. curfew.

But that doesn’t mean that S.B. is lacking in musical talent or boisterous energy. This small town has a community dedicated to keeping its music scene alive and loud. Elliott Lanam of Hidden City Studios is part of that community, and he’s orchestrated an event to push Santa Barbara’s local talent into the limelight and turn up the volume downtown.

“Imagine doing four different clients a day for the last 10 years; so many people come through here,” Lanam said, explaining his work as the owner of Santa Barbara’s most prolific recording studio. “We have so much talent in Santa Barbara, and I thought it would be cool to put them together in one show.”

Also worth a look is an explosively col orful graffiti wall, a remnant of the years before the gallery was conceived that is rumored to contain the famous Andre the Giant stencil from Obey, the work of graffiti artist Shepard Fairey. Whether the stencil featured has such famous provenance or not, the graffiti mural alone makes the gallery worth a visit. With two collections and a few parties already under their belt, the momen tum for Helena Mason shows no signs of slowing down. Gallery hours are FridaySaturday, 2-6 p.m. and by appointment. See helenamasonartgallery.com for more infor mation.

Books and art come together when S.B. Reads kicks off on Thursday, October 6, at 5:30 p.m. at the S.B. Central Library. Pick up a free copy of The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin at the S.B. Reads arts show Through Many Windows: A World Reimagined, featuring work by local artists that captures their visions for their own world, or another possible future world, and their answers to the question “What if?” Meet the artists and hear them reflect on their work. Refreshments will also be provided.

The Santa Barbara Public Library hosts the S.B. Reads program every year, offering one title to the community with the goal that everyone will read the same book at the same time, sparking engagement and conversations about the themes in the book and how they relate to our lives.

What Lanam is calling Santa Barbara’s Top Talent Event will jam-pack a range of musical talent onto one stage on Saturday, October 1, at SOhO. Various singers, guitarists, trombone players, sax players, and keyboardists all based in Santa Barbara will perform, including Will Breman from The Voice, flamenco guitarist Tony Ybarra, and Lanam himself.

“It’s meant to be a thank-you to the music community of Santa Barbara, which is not only my clientele but the locals, the people who love music and attend shows,” Lanam said. “I really want it to be focused on our community. Although things may be looking rough or grim recently, it’s important to know that there’s still positivity, there’s still family, and there’s still love being spread throughout this town.”

When taking into account that multiple successful musicians from Katy Perry to Jack Johnson to Rebelution have roots here, it’s hard to ignore Santa Barbara’s influence on the music scene at large. And the local talent keeps coming. Thanks to music lovers like Lanam, the community can be sure it will not go unnoticed.

Santa Barbara’s Top Talent Event takes place at SOhO Restaurant and Music Club (1221 State St.) Saturday, October 1, at 7 p.m. Tickets are available for purchase at sohosb.com.

The Fifth Season a critically acclaimed, Hugo Award–winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution that is set in a world of cataclysmic natural disasters where a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter is the subject of a four-week virtual book club devoted to an in-depth reading of the book. It is also the Indy Book Club pick for October, with an online discussion taking place on Wednesday, October 26, 6 p.m., on Zoom. Register at tinyurl.com/indybookcluboct.

Additional events include a science fair, a night of music, and a Spanish language program. For a complete schedule of S.B. Reads events taking place throughout October, visit library.santabarbaraca.gov/ classes-events/sb-reads-2022

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY by Rob Breszny WEEK OF SEPTEMBER

ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Poet Susan Howe describes poetry as an “amorous search under the sign of love for a remem bered time at the pitch-dark fringes of evening when we gathered together to bless and believe.” I’d like to use that lyrical assessment to describe your life in the com ing days or at least what I hope will be your life. In my astrological opinion, it’s a favorable time to intensify your quest for interesting adventures in intimacy; to seek out new ways to imagine and create togetherness; to collabo rate with allies in creating brave excursions into synergy.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): Social reformer Frederick Douglass (18171895) had a growlery. It was a one-room stone cabin where he escaped to think deep thoughts, work on his books, and literally growl. As a genius who escaped enslavement and spent the rest of his life fighting for the rights of his fellow Black people, he had lots of reasons to snarl, howl, and bellow as well as growl. The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to find or cre ate your own growlery, Taurus. The anger you feel will be especially likely to lead to constructive changes. The same is true about the deep thoughts you summon in your growlery: They will be extra potent in helping you reach wise practical decisions.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): “Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind,” wrote Gemini poet Gwendolyn Brooks. I love that advice! The whirlwind is her metaphor for the chaos of everyday life. She was telling us that we shouldn’t wait to ripen ourselves until the daily rhythm is calm and smooth. Live wild and free right now! That’s always good advice, in my opinion, but it will be espe cially apropos for you in the coming weeks. Now is your time to “endorse the splendor splashes” and “sway in wicked grace,” as Brooks would say.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): “Don’t look away,” advised novelist Henry Miller in a letter to his lover. “Look straight at every thing. Look it all in the eye, good and bad.” While that advice is appealing, I don’t endorse it unconditionally. I’m a Cancerian, and I sometimes find value in gazing at things sideways, or catching reflections in mirrors, or even turning my attention away for a while. In my view, we Crabs have a special need to be self-protective and self-nurturing. And to accomplish that, we may need to be evasive and elusive. In my astrological opinion, the next two weeks will be one of these times. I urge you to gaze directly and engage point-blank only with what’s good for you.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): Tips to get the most out of the next three weeks: (1) Play at least as hard as you work. (2) Give yourself permission to do anything that has integrity and is fueled by compassion. (3) Assume there is no limit to how much generous joie de vivre you can summon and express. (4) Fondle and nuzzle with eager partners as much as possible. And tell them EXACTLY where and how it feels good. (5) Be magnanimous in every gesture, no matter how large or small. (6) Even if you don’t regard yourself as a skillful singer, use singing to transform your self out of any mood you don’t want to stay in.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the coming weeks, you should refrain from wrestling with problems that resist your solutions. Be discerning about how you use your superior analytical abilities. Devote yourself solely to manageable dilemmas that are truly responsive to your intelligent probing. P.S.: I feel sorry for people who aren’t receptive to your input, but you can’t force them to give up their ignorance or suffering. Go where you’re wanted. Take power where it’s offered. Meditate on the wisdom of Anaïs Nin: “You cannot save people. You can only love them.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh was born under the sign of Libra. He said, “The root-word

‘Buddha’ means to wake up, to know, to understand; and he or she who wakes up and understands is called a Bud dha.” So according to him, the spiritual teacher Siddhar tha Gautama, who lived in ancient India, was just one of many Buddhas. And by my astrological reckoning, you will have a much higher chance than usual to be like one of these Buddhas yourself in the coming weeks. Waking up will be your specialty. You will have an extraordinary capacity to burst free of dreamy illusions and murky mis apprehensions. I hope you take full advantage. Deeper understandings are nigh.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I invite you to be the sexiest, most intrigu ing, most mysterious Scorpio you can be in the coming weeks. Here are ideas to get you started. (1) Sprinkle the phrase “in accordance with prophecy” into your conver sations. (2) Find an image that symbolizes rebirth and revitalization arising out of disruption. Meditate on it daily until you actually experience rebirth and revitaliza tion arising out of disruption. (3) Be kind and merciful to the young souls you know who are living their first lifetimes. (4) Collect deep, dark secrets from the interest ing people you know. Employ this information to plan how you will avoid the trouble they endured. (5) Buy two deluxe squirt guns and two knives made of foam rubber. Use them to wage playful fights with those you love.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There’s an ancient Greek saying, “I seek the truth, by which no one ever was truly harmed.” I regard that as a fine motto for you Sagittarians. When you are at your best and brightest, you are in quest of the truth. And while your quests may sometimes disturb the status quo, they often bring healthy transformations. The truths you discover may rattle routines and disturb habits, but they ultimately lead to greater clarity and authenticity. Now is an excellent time to emphasize this aspect of your nature.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s imagine you are in your office or on the job or sitting at your kitchen table. With focused dili gence, you’re working on solving a problem or improving a situation that involves a number of people. You think to yourself, “No one seems to be aware that I am quietly toiling here behind the scenes to make the magic hap pen.” A few days or a few weeks later, your efforts have been successful. The problem is resolved or the situation has improved. But then you hear the people involved say, “Wow, I wonder what happened? It’s like things got fixed all by themselves.” If a scenario like this happens, Capricorn, I urge you to speak up and tell everyone what actually transpired.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): To honor your entrance into the most expansive phase of your astrological cycle, I’m calling on the counsel of an intuitive guide named Nensi the Mercury Priestess. She offers the following advice. (1) Cultivate a mindset where you expect something unex pected to happen. (2) Fantasize about the possibility of a surprising blessing or unplanned-for miracle. (3) Imagine that a beguiling breakthrough will erupt into your rhythm. (4) Shed a few preconceptions about how your life story will unfold in the next two years. (5) Boost your trust in your deep self’s innate wisdom. (6) Open yourself more to receiving help and gifts.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20): Author Colin Wilson describes sex as “a craving for the mingling of consciousness, whose symbol is the mingling of bodies. Every time partners slake their thirst in the strange waters of the other’s identity, they glimpse the immensity of their freedom.” I love this way of understanding the erotic urge, and recommend you try it out for a while. You’re entering a phase when you will have extra power to refine and expand the way you experience blending and merging. If you’re fuzzy about the meaning of the words “synergy” and “symbiosis,” I suggest you look them up in the dictionary. They should be featured themes for you in the coming weeks.

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who serves as a member of the management team within Residential & Community Living. R&CL is responsible for the well‑being and development of over 11,000 residents and manages the placement services for all students and families who live in university housing. R&CL operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and has on‑call staff available every day of the year. The team is responsible for 330+ student staff, $7.3 million operating budget and an annual major maintenance budget of $100,000. Under the direction of the Associate Director, the AD utilizes an equity mindset as they serve as the primary supervisor for an area comprising of 2,000‑3,000 residents living in one of 4 campus neighborhoods. Directly supervise 3‑5 professional staff, and oversees an additional 3‑5 professional staff and 20‑40 RAs. Work with their staff to ensure effective management of a student conduct and students of concern case load consisting of students living within their community. Reqs: Master’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.

At least 5 years work experience in University Housing, or a combination of University Housing and Student Affairs. Experience supervising full‑time professional staff. Experience leading and modeling practices that foster equity and inclusion in a diverse community of residents, student staff, and professional staff.

Experience managing high level conduct and mental health cases.

Track record of infusing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion principles into daily work. Ability to work collaboratively with colleagues throughout a large, multifunctional department. Commitment to creating communities where residents feel a deep sense of belonging. Familiarity with or experience working within a Residential Curriculum model.

Experience working with multiple types of student populations (grads, transfers, family, traditional).

Demonstrated skills in formal assessment techniques & the ability to train and oversee assessment practices by staff. Experience working in a large public institution.

Notes: Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Salary commensurate with experience.

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.

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responsibilities encompass IHC administration, support services, technical support services, contract and grant management, purchasing and financial management, staff personnel, facilities maintenance and renovation, and safety programs. Long‑term planning in the areas of financial management. Owing to the complexity of the funding lines for the IHC, the BO must successfully engineer the effective and proper expenditure of IHC funds in ways that most efficiently utilize the funds for the intended purposes and in a timely fashion. Must independently solve problems requiring interpretation of a wide variety of federal, state, system‑wide and campus policies. Identifies and analyzes critical factors and variables in the projection of program and staff development based on changing needs in the Center’s mission to support faculty and graduate research. In consultation with the Director and Associate Director, is responsible for developing and implementing operating policies and procedures as they relate to overall Center goals and objectives. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or training. Financial management and forecasting experience.

Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $68,700‑$78,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 10/5/22. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job # 42849

policies of the University and funding agencies. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent training and/or experience. 1‑3 years experience independently developing research proposals/ awards related to contract and grant management. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $62,300 ‑ $82,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 39707

department payroll expenses. General areas of responsibility include: Ensures compliance with UC payment and income accounting procedures. Creates, maintains and analyzes financial and historical trend reports. Monitor compliance to Terms and Conditions for vendor blanket agreements. Assists with developing financial content for agreements and documents pertaining to Operations to accurately reflect service/product value versus cost of product or service rendered. Reqs: Associate’s Degree in related area, or equivalent experience and training. 1‑3 Years experience in AP, AR, billing and collections, or equivalent combination of training and experience Demonstrated budgetary and fiscal management skills. Strong communication, analytical, spreadsheet, and computer skills. Excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize work in order to meet continual deadlines while making allowances for interruptions.

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Job #42133

FINANCIAL ANALYST

RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS

Provides management, leadership, and expertise pertaining to fiscal functions to the Associate Directors, Director and Managers. These functions include fiscal management, income and recharge accounts, billing and administration, payroll expenses and development of accounting systems for a budget in excess of 18 million dollar. Monitors departmental S&E and Payroll budgets; prepares reports and cost analyses; reviews monthly financial statements and analyzes spending patterns; oversees

Must be detail oriented with a high degree of accuracy. Responsible for managing all financial transactions on departmental operating budgets.

Maintains current knowledge of policies of the University; Accounting, Travel, Purchasing and Business Services. Demonstrates flexibility in learning, interpreting, and adapting new policies and procedures.

Maintains effective communication and individual working relationships with the Associate Directors and other HDAE Units. 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. $34.16 ‑ $35.58/ 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

FINANCIAL ANALYST

TRANSPORTATION AND PARKING SERVICES

Supports Transportation & Parking Services by performing investigative research and analysis of cash management practices, training requirements, and reconciliations. Assures that all PCI‑SS (Payment Card Industry Security Standards) are followed and adhered to for all transactional functions throughout the department in audit and reconciliation processes. Advises TPS management on implementing solutions and performing necessary training on cash management and policies/procedures. Performs research with the goal of identifying training needs for services/systems within the Department including the units of Permit, Event, and TAP Sales as well as Citation payments. Works with the management team to establish appropriate internal financial audit processes and practices. Conducts ad hoc financial analysis and/or reporting for a wide variety of projects and systems. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in related area or equivalent experience and training. AP/AR and general ledger experience or equivalent experience and training. Experience with computer applications, such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and any other related financial software.Experience reviewing, processing, and approving standardized financial data and

CONTRACTS & GRANTS/FINANCIAL MANAGER

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

BUSINESS OFFICER INTERDISCIPLINARY HUMANITIES CENTER

The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) is a center serving the humanities, fine arts, and the humanistic social sciences. Under the general direction of the IHC Director, the Business Officer (BO) is responsible for the full range of administrative management functions of the IHC. Management

Directs and supervises the departmental financial affairs including financial administration, purchasing, contract and grant administration, gift processing and administration, personnel and payroll management and accounting and personnel systems development. Independently manages the financial administration of all research funds totaling over $58 million. Includes signature authority for all funds, proposal preparation, reconciling and analysis of financial reports, including monitoring and analyzing expenditures and spending and assisting principal investigators (PIs) with strategic planning, spending trends, and financial forecasting; provides specialized reporting, as needed. Advising faculty of proper university guidelines regarding financial matters. Establishes procedures and develops standards for the operation of financial functions to ensure that high service standards and audit requirements are met, including record retention. Responsible for compliance issues pertaining to the financial execution of awards. Prepares cost projections and other reports for extramural funds. Incorporates changes to new systems/business practices into current workflow. Maintains current knowledge of contract and grant

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transactions. Strong analytical skills with experience in making and communicating data‑driven insights. Strong interpersonal skills, attention to detail, organizational skills, effective verbal and written communication skills, sound judgment and decision making. 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. $26.39 ‑ $28.65/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 10/03/2022. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 42831

relationship, anticipates needs before being told, understands priorities and sets deadlines accordingly, is engaged and committed to the goals of HDAE. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree and/or equivalent experience and training. Minimum of two (2) years experience providing executive level support and/or supervision. Strong experience providing a full range of high‑level independent administrative support combined with proven skill to coordinate complex activities and use independent judgment to organize and prioritize office functions.

orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Application review begins 10/6/22. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 42994

hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Open until filled. Job #40952

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DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCE

Responsible for managing all aspects of the two graduate programs (M.S. and Ph.D.) in a variety of emphases in Earth Science. Acts as department liaison to the Graduate Division. Assures that graduate students meet the academic, teaching and research requirements of both the department and the university. Identifies problems, suggests solutions, and develops procedures for graduate affairs. Advises approximately 50 students on all aspects of the graduate program. Administers and tracks annually block grant funds, TA allocations, recruitment funds, gift funds, and university policy and procedural information to graduate students, faculty, staff, applicants and potential applicants to the graduate program. Coordinates graduate recruitment, admission and orientation. Creates and manages a computerized database for all graduate student records. Reqs: High school diploma or GED. Ability to use various programs (Excel, Word, Google) to complete required tasks.

Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.61 ‑ $26.32/ 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. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu

Job # 40859

Ability to anticipate the needs of management. Ability to adapt to a wide range of leadership styles. Ability to use discretion and maintain confidentiality. Strong analytical / problem‑solving skills. Experience analyzing and identifying problems, independently resolving discrepancies with ability to recommend solutions, contributing effectively to support organizational objectives. Strong skills in researching and synthesizing large amounts of data for preparing sound and relevant proposals / analyses. Skill in independently researching, compiling, organizing, interpreting and selecting data and materials from various sources.

Ability to accurately interpret and implement policies and procedures and effectively communicate and disseminate information. Ability to develop clear, concise, and accurate reports and recommendations for management. Proven ability to multi‑task with demanding timeframes. Proven organizational, office management, project management and administration skills. Extensive organizational, analysis and decision‑making skills to continually prioritize between long and short term needs, to tolerate rapid shifts in direction and competing demands and constant requests for priority changes from a variety of sources, keep track of ongoing projects and tasks simultaneously and meet multiple concurrent deadlines. Notes: Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $62,300‑$89,900/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 10/20/2022. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 43174

PROCESS DEVELOPMENT ENGINEER ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER ENGINEERING NANOFABRICATION FACILITY

Under the general direction of a Project Scientist, the engineer will develop new fabrication processes and establish process control on a variety of nanofabrication research tools in the facility, including thin film deposition, inductively coupled plasma etching, and projection lithography. Develops new or improved fabrication processes, with priority given to processes that will impact the largest number of users in the facility and new equipment characterization. Performs direct hands‑on processing jobs for internal and external users of the facility, developing or repeating fabrication processes as needed. Provides engineering advice and guidance to faculty, graduate student researchers and external researchers. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience and/or training. 4‑6 years experience with all aspects of cleanroom wafer processing.

Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check $90,000 ‑ $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.

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Job # 42340

SAFETY SPECIALIST‑ ACCIDENT

PREVENTION

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representative with the ability to communicate effectively and professionally with diverse student and family clientele. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others as a team. 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. $22.07 ‑ $26.89/ 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 #35853

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Provides administrative support to the Workforce Administration (WFA) Unit and the HR department including UCPath Position Management, identifying data discrepancies and following‑up up with campus departments requesting the correction, reviewing, triaging, and answering WFA ServiceNow tickets, sending campus‑wide Service Milestone program, conducting research for service credit accrual, gathering and copying any and all documents responsive to a subpoena, and providing other HR administrative support as necessary.

Reqs: High School diploma and/or equivalent certification/ experience/ training. 1‑3 years Experience with Microsoft Suite, Google Suite, and Zoom. Requires good verbal and written communication skills, active listening, critical thinking, multi‑task and time management skills. Requires interpersonal skills to provide guidance to other personnel.

Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.81 ‑ $26.00/ 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

PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHER

POLICE DEPARTMENT

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Under the direction of the Industrial Safety Program Manager, develops, implements, manages, and identifies needs for a diverse set of campus‑wide occupational health and safety programs, including but not limit to: Driving Safety, Fall Protection, Theater & Performance Safety, Ladder & Scaffolding Safety, Aerial Lifts, Trenching & Shoring Safety, and Heat Illness Prevention. Additional areas of responsibility include performing job hazard and personal protective equipment (PPE) assessments, developing and providing training and technical information, performing audits and compliance inspections, generating reports and corrective action notifications, providing injury prevention program assistance, implementing injury prevention strategies, and monitoring injury trends on campus. Serves as a Certified Specialized Equipment Operator and Driver Safety instructor for campus. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and / or equivalent experience and training. 1‑3 years developing, implementing, and/ or managing safety programs. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. Must maintain valid CA DL, a clean DMV record and enrollment in DMV Pull‑Notice Program. Must be able to work some evenings and weekends. Must be willing to work with and respond to emergencies (on and off‑hours) involving potentially hazardous materials. $68,700.00 ‑ $95,000.00/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 10/06/2022. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 43048

STUDENT AFFAIRS COORDINATOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Provides academic and instructional support for all undergraduate and graduate programs in the department of Mechanical Engineering. Provides administrative support, including, but not limited to: planning department events, graduate recruitment, and other outreach activities; quarterly course coordination, course evaluation coordinating and processing, managing department articulation process, and ordering program and instructor supplies. Assists the Student Affairs Manager with advising enrolled and prospective students on all aspects of their academic experience. Responsible for the coordination of all Disabled Student Program accommodations, which requires substantive knowledge of University, College, and departmental policies and procedures and the ability to interpret from various academic and administrative offices. Assists with the preparation and maintenance of digital and print materials, assistance with social media platforms to connect with students, alumni, and community members to promote the department, and department website maintenance. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area or equivalent experience and/ or training. Note: Satisfactory conviction history background check. $24.81 ‑ $28.57/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Opent until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 42601

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LEGALS

LEGAL NOTICESTO PLACE EMAIL NOTICE TO LEGALS@ INDEPENDENT.COM

ADMINISTER OF ESTATE

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: DAVID HERMAN PAYNE NO: 22PR00407

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of DAVID HERMAN PAYNE.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Deena L. Lockhart in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that (name): Deena L. Lockhart 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 examiniation 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: 10/06/2022

AT 9:00 AM, DEPT. 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: Deena L. Lockhart, J. Dan Lang & Associates, 5743 Corsa Avenue, Suite 213, Westlake Village, CA 91362; (818) 991‑7700, dan@jdlang.com.

Published September 15, 22, 29 and October 6, 2022.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LUCILLE GENTRY LAFOND NO: 22PR00465

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of LUCILLE LAFOND, LUCILLE G. LAFOND, LUCILLE GENTRY LAFOND.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Samuel W. Lafond in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that (name): Samuel W. Lafond 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 examiniation 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: 11/10/2022

AT 9:00 AM, DEPT. 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: Connor C. Cote, Esq., 222 East Carrillo Street, Suite 207, P.O. Box 20146, Santa Barbara, CA 93120‑0146. (805) 966‑1204

Published September 22, 29, October 6, 2022.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ROBERT RYAN BAPTISTA NO: 22PR00431

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of ROBERT RYAN BAPTISTA

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: Mary Kathleen Baptista in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that (name): Mary Kathleen Baptista 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: on 10/13/2022 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: L. Donald Boden, Griffith & Thornburgh, LLP, 8 East Figueroa Street, Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 805‑965‑5131.

Published September 15, 22, 29 and October 6, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA ALLIANCE FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION, 624 W Carrillo St, Santa Barbara CA 93101, Uffizi Order, (same address), SB ACT, Alliance for Community Transformation, ACT. This business is conducted by a Corporation. SIGNED BY RANDY GOETZ, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 31, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002164. Published:

September 8, 15, 22, 29, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: STUDIO DDK, 2023 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, Deborah D Karpinski (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. Signed by Deborah D Karpinski, Owner/ Operator. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 15, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002303. Published September 22, 29, October 6, 13, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLESSINGS ABOUND, 4598 Camino Molinero, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Laurie Gross (same address); Laurie Gross Studios. This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY LAURIE GROSS, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 8, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002234. Published: September 29, October 6, October 13, 20, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: JEANNE CERAMICS 1225 W Valerio Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Courtney J Reilly (same address); This business is conducted by an individual.

SIGNED BY COURTNEY REILLY. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 19, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E54. FBN Number: 2022‑0002325. Published: September 29, October 6, October 13, 20, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: ROYAL INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS, 2363A Thompson Avenue, Santa Maria, CA 93455; Consolidated Electrical Distributors, Inc.1920 Westridge Drive, Irving, TX 75038. This business is conducted by a corporation.

SIGNED BY DAVID T. BRADFORD, VICE PRESIDENT, SECRETARY. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 21, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002346. Published: September 29, October 6, October 13, 20, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SCHOOLEY MITCHELL OF SANTA BARBARA ‑ MCCOY, 546 Owen RD, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Principled Business Solutions, Inc. (same address). This business is conducted by a corporation.

SIGNED BY MITCHELL MCCOY, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 20, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002337. Published: September 29, October 6, October 13, 20, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MONSOON FLORA, 5393 Agana Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Bryce R Augustine (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY BRYCE R AUGUSTINE, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 22, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002363. Published: September 29, October 6, October 13, 20, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: MOUSE POUCH, 5055 University Dr, Santa

Barbara, CA 93111; Purdy Made Inc (same address). This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY RYAN PURDY, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 1, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002181. Published: September 29, October 6, October 13, 20, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: ADV COMMUNICATION, 235 Winchester Dr., Goleta, CA 93117; Ammanjah M DeVries (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY AMMANJAH DE VRIES. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 14, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002290. Published: September 29, October 6, October 13, 20, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CENTERLINE COMMUNITY, 710 West Sola Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, CA 93101; Centerline Counseling (same address). This business is conducted by a limited liability company. SIGNED BY JENNIFER TUCKER, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 6, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002212. Published: September 29, October 6, October 13, 20, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRIGHTSTAR CARE SANTA BARBARA/SANTA YNEZ, 510 Castillo Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sirena Del Mar, LLC (same address); This business is conducted by a limited liability company. SIGNED BY SHARON HOLLAND‑PEREZ, OWNER/ DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 17, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002064. Published: September 15, 22, 29, October 6, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRIGHTWATER MEDIA, 402 Venado Dr., Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Jon Manning (same address); Julie Livingston (same address). This business is conducted by a married couple. SIGNED BY JULIE LIVINGSTON, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on September 8, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002232. Published: September 15, 22, 29, October 6, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: PARK VIEW RENTAL, 410 Covington Place, Goleta, CA 93117; Sylvia E King (same address); Terence S Hurt (same address). This business is conducted by a married couple. SIGNED BY SYLVIA E KING. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 30, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002151. Published: September 15, 22, 29, October 6, 2022.

NAME CHANGE

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MARIA FRANCISCA AMELITA PAZ LANTZ, CASE NUMBER: 22CV03215 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A

petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: MARIA FRANCISCA AMELITA PAZ LANTZ

TO: MARIA LANTZ LEVITT

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 28, 2022, 10:00 AM, DEPT 4, Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 9/08/2022, Donna D. Geck, Judge of the Superior Court. Published September 22, 29, October 6 13, 2022.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

CASE NO. 22CV03343

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara

Petition of: Ourania Kalontoros AKA: Laraine, Kalonturos, Lurania K. Topakas, Ourania, K. Topakas, Ourania K. Topakas, Lurania Topakas, Lurania Kalonturos, Ourania Kalonturos for Change of Name

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Ourania Kalontoros filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Ourania Kalontoros to Ourania Lurania Kalonturos Topakas Ourania Kalontoros, aka, Laraine Kalonturos aka, Lurania K. Topakas aka, Ourania K. Topakas aka, Ourania Topakas aka, Lurania Kalonturos aka, Ourania Kalonturos to Ourania Lurania Kalonturos Topakas

The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Notice of Hearing: Date: October 28, 2022, Time: 10:00 am, Dept.: 4

The address of the court is 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Santa Barbara Independent Date: 09/08/2022

Donna D. Geck Judge of the Superior Court BSC222207 9/29, 10/6, 10/13, 10/20/22 CNS‑3624828#

SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: TEASHA ANN BERMAN, CASE NUMBER: 22CV03183

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: TEASHA ANN BERMAN

TO: TEASHA ANN ROSENFELD THE COURT ORDERS that all persons

LEGALS (CONT.)

interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING OCTOBER 27, 2022, 8:30 AM, DEPT SM 4, Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, 312‑C East Cook Street, Santa Maria, CA 93454, Cook Division. A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 8/29/2022, Jed Beebe, Judge of the Superior Court, Published September 15, 22, 29, October 6, 2022.

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (PERSONAL INJURY OR WRONGFUL DEATH)

CASE NUMBER: (NUMERO DEL CASO): 20CV00235

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 931211107 Anacapa Division.

To: Camilla Meldahl, aka Camilla Mehdahl, an individual

Plaintiff: Marshall R. Bernes, an individual seeks damages in the above‑entitled action, as follows:

1. General Damages, b. Emotional distress $5,000,000.00; 2. Special damages, c. Loss of earnings (to date) $5,000,000.00, d. Loss of future earning capacity (present value) $5,000,000.00, e. Property Damage $5,000,000.00, i. Other (specify) Lost income, incidental, and consequential damages $5,000,000.00; 3. Punitive damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of (specify) $10,000,000.00 when pursuing a judgement in the suit filed against you.

Date: April 30, 2021, Stephen A. Jamieson

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES

(PERSONAL INJURY OR WRONGFUL DEATH)

CASE NUMBER: (NUMERO DEL CASO): 20CV00235

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 931211107 Anacapa Division.

To: Camilla Meldahl, aka Camilla Mehdahl, an individual

Plaintiff: Marshall R. Bernes, as Trustee of the Marshall R. Bernes Family Trust, seeks damages in the above‑entitled action, as follows:

1. General Damages, b. Emotional distress $5,000,000.00; 2. Special damages, c. Loss of earnings (to date) $5,000,000.00, d. Loss of future earning capacity (present value) $5,000,000.00, e. Property Damage $5,000,000.00, i. Other (specify) Lost income, incidental, and consequential damages $5,000,000.00; 3. Punitive damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of (specify) $10,000,000.00 when pursuing a judgement in the suit filed against you.

Date: April 30, 2021, Stephen A. Jamieson

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (PERSONAL INJURY OR WRONGFUL DEATH)

CASE NUMBER: (NUMERO DEL CASO): 20CV00235

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa St. Santa Barbara, CA 931211107 Anacapa Division.

To: Camilla Meldahl, aka Camilla Mehdahl, an individual

Plaintiff: Elinor Fisher, an individual seeks damages in the above‑entitled action, as follows:

1. General Damages, b. Emotional distress $5,000,000.00; 2. Special damages, c. Loss of earnings (to date) $5,000,000.00, d. Loss of future earning capacity (present value) $5,000,000.00, e. Property Damage $5,000,000.00, i. Other (specify) Lost income, incidental, and consequential damages $5,000,000.00; 3. Punitive damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of (specify) $10,000,000.00 when pursuing a judgement in the suit filed against you.

Date: April 30, 2021, Stephen A. Jamieson

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES (PERSONAL INJURY OR WRONGFUL DEATH)

CASE NUMBER: (NUMERO DEL CASO): 20CV00235

Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107 Anacapa Division.

To: Camilla Meldahl, aka Camilla Mehdahl, an individual

Plaintiff: Judith Dannett, an individual seeks damages in the above‑entitled action, as follows:

1. General Damages, b. Emotional distress $5,000,000.00; 2. Special damages, c. Loss of earnings (to date) $5,000,000.00, d. Loss of future earning capacity (present value) $5,000,000.00, e. Property Damage $5,000,000.00, i. Other (specify) Lost income, incidental, and consequential damages, $5,000,000.00; 3. Punitive damages: Plaintiff reserves the right to seek punitive damages in the amount of (specify) $10,000,000.00 when pursuing a judgement in the suit filed against you.

Date: April 30, 2021, Stephen A. Jamieson

SUMMONS

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER: (NUMERO DEL CASO): 22CVO1717

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): FUNYAS MASIH; NSP TRANSPORTATION INC. (a business entity, form unknown); TORI ANNE THORNBURGH; and DOES 1 AND 25, inclusive

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE):

JOYCE DONALDSON

NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center

ORDINANCE NO. 22-__

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, APPROVING A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT SETTING THE TERM OF THE FINAL DESIGN REVIEW BOARD APPROVAL TO 25 FUTURE PARKING SPACES TO THE TERM OF THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND ACCEPTING AN EASEMENT FOR 35 PUBLIC PARKING SPACES AT 420, 430, & 490 S. FAIRVIEW AVENUE, CASE NO. 21-0002-ORD

At the meeting of the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) held on September 20, 2022, the City Council considered and conducted the first reading of an ordinance that would approve a Development Agreement (DA) to dedicate 35 parking spaces for public parking in Old Town in exchange for the City to agree to a term of the final Design Review approval of 25 new parking spaces to be the term of the Development Agreement (20 years).

On October 4, 2022, at Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, and on the virtual platforms made available on the City’s website and as posted on the City’s agenda for the October 4, 2022 meeting, the City Council will consider the second reading and possible adoption of this ordinance that would approve a Development Agreement (DA) to dedicate 35 parking spaces for public parking in Old Town in exchange for the City to agree to a term of the final Design Review approval of 25 new parking spaces to be the term of the Development Agreement (20 years).

If adopted at the above-mentioned meeting, the Ordinance will take effect 30 days following such adoption by the City Council.

Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org or by calling City Hall at (805) 9617505.

(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una

carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Sue respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no pueda pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia,org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes del California , (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cual quier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuer o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y direccion de la corte es); South County Court Division, Santa Barbara Superior Court‑Civil, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):

Warren B. Treisman, Esq., 7183 Navajo Road, Suite I, San Diego, CA 92119; (619) 583‑1900

DATE: (FECHA) 5/4/2022 Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/Johnny Aviles, Deputy (Adjunto)

ORDER FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS OR CITATION

ATTORNEY OR PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY (NAME AND ADDRESS): Warren B. Treisman 7183 Navajo Road. Suite i San Diego, CA 92119

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara, CA 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Plaintiff: Joyce Donaldson Defendant: Funyas Masih, et al.

Moving Party Plaintiff, Joyce Donaldson filed their application for an order for publication on July 15, 2002. From the application and supporting evidence it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that an order

for service by publication is permitted pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 415.50.

IT IS ORDERED that service of the summons, citation, notice of hearing, or other document(s) in this action shall be made upon defendant, respondent, or citee Tori Anne Thornburgh by publication thereof in Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation published at Santa Barbara County, California, and that said publication be made at least once a week for four successive weeks.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that, if the address of the party to be served is ascertained before the expiration of the time prescribed for publication of the summons, the moving party shall forthwith mail to the party to be served a copy of (1) the summons, citation, notice of hearing, or other document(s) identified above, (2) the complaint, petition, or motion for which notice is being served by this order, and (3) this order for publication. A declaration of this mailing, or of the fact that the address was not ascertained, must be filed at the expiration of the time prescribed for the publication.

Dated: 7/15/2022

Judge of the Superior Court Thomas P. Anderle

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Design Review Board

Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers (Electronically and Telephonically) 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117

Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at 3:00 P.M.

ATTENTION: The Virtual Meeting is held pursuant to Assembly Bill (AB) 361. The meeting will be Virtual because meeting in person would present imminent risks to the health or safety of attendees. The public may only view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https://www.cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings and not in Council Chambers.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct an Electronic public hearing on the date set forth above to consider the following projects:

Conceptual/Preliminary/Final Review

US Bank Signage 299 N Fairview Avenue (APN 077-170-04) Case No. 22-0045-ZC

Mariscos Signage 5892 Hollister Avenue (APN 071-052-014) Case No. 22-0036-ZC

Yardi/Ekwill Fowler Development Agreement 420, 430, 490 S Fairview Avenue (APNs 071-130-057, 071-130-062, 071-130-061) Case No. 21-0002-ORD

Foodbank Improvements 80 and 892 Coromar Drive (APN 073-150-012) Case No. 22-0003-SCD

Commercial Paint Alterations 315, 326, 336, 346 Bollay 320 and 340 Storke Road (APNs 073-100-019, 073-100-020, 073-100-021, 073-100022)

Case No. 22-0016-DRB/22-0071-ZC

Dahl Patio and Deck 451 Kings Way (APN 069-511-009) Case No. 22-0032-LUP/22-0016-DRB

IN LIGHT OF THE CITY’S NEED TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETINGS AND TELEPHONICALLY DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, written comments may also be submitted as instructed above or via email to the DRB Secretary, Mary Chang at mchang@cityofgoleta.org or by electronic means during the Public Hearing (date and time noted above), provided they are received prior to the conclusion of the public comment portion of the Public Hearing. Instructions on how to submit written comments during the hearing will be available on the City’s website: https://www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/news-and-updates/government-meeting-agendas-and-videos.

PUBLIC COMMENT: This hearing is for design review only. All interested persons are encouraged to participate in the public hearing electronically (by phone) as described above.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The items in this notice include new and continued items from prior meetings. All persons wanting to review any project applications may do so by contacting City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review at (805) 961-7543. The Agenda, staff reports and project plans will be available approximately one week before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org.

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