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Miles Davis and John Coltrane Centennial
Tue, Jan 27 / 7:30 PM / Granada Theatre
“For an hour the audience sat spellbound by a display of focused virtuosity that was so extraordinary it shouldn’t have been possible.”
The Times (U.K.)
Wed, Jan 28 / 7 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall A Next Generation Jazz Legacy Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane
“Drawing on her formidable range of vocal color, DiDonato captures the drama within each song, and across the cycle.”
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“With their staggering technique and freewheeling genre-crossing, it’s hard not to be swept up in the force of their contagious energy.”
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“Liu can do the impeccable glitter, but his playing is more than pyrotechnics. It is powerful, polished, and emanates from a disciplined mind.”
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Emily – No Prisoner Be
Thu, Feb 5 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre
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Winner of the International Chopin Piano Competition Bruce Liu
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Program includes: Ligeti, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel, Albéniz and Liszt
Camille Pissarro, Apple Harvest, 1888
Camille Pissarro was one of the first successors of Georges Seurat’s groundbreaking Pointillist method. Created during Pissarro’s short-lived but pivotal period, Apple Harvest marks a point of departure from his more familiar Impressionist approach. It is a study in harmony on every level: between people and the land, form and balance, color, and movement. Upon closer observation, you may notice the slightly crooked tree and a constellation of pure red, blue, green, pink, lavender, orange, and yellow that re-create the dazzling light of the afternoon sun in the French countryside. Pissarro worked on this picture for two full years, producing over 100 drawings and studies of every figure and detail. This work is now on view as part of The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art.
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Our Senior Writer Matt Kettmann seen here during his early days at the paper about 25 years ago is asking for your help to celebrate the Santa Barbara Independent’s 40th anniversary in 2026. “We want to toast ourselves by toasting the rest of the community,” said Kettmann, who started as an intern in the spring of 1999. “We are looking for businesses or organizations that are also celebrating their 40th birthdays (or older) as well as people who were born in 1986. And we really want testimonials from readers, advertisers, and other fans who have good, fun, meaningful, or otherwise insightful things to say about what the Indy has meant to them over the decades.” To fill out a survey, see independent.com/40thcelebrations or just send your thoughts to birthday@independent.com. And watch out for special events and issues in the months to come!
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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra returns to Santa Barbara once again under the baton of its esteemed Music Director Emeritus for Life, Riccardo Muti. For more than five decades, Maestro Muti has been a commanding presence on the world’s concert stages, shaping the sound of leading orchestras and opera houses as one of the last of the great Italian maestros in the tradition of Toscanini.
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Seven-time Grammy®-winning pianist Emanuel Ax returns to Masterseries with a fascinating program centered on the theme of fantasy. A champion of both the core repertoire and new music, Ax showcases the depth and warmth that have made him one of the most beloved artists of our time.
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undreds gathered in downtown Santa Barbara on Monday for a morning of events celebrating the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., concluding with a keynote address from a member of the King family.
The celebration, which was hosted by the Martin Luther King Jr. Committee of Santa Barbara (MLKSB), began with a series of speeches and performances at De la Guerra Plaza. The crowd then marched up State Street to the Arlington Theatre for an additional program, featuring Congressmember Salud Carbajal, California Senate President Monique Limón, and Dr. King’s daughter-inlaw, Leah Weber King, who called upon the audience to build community and “embrace service as a way of life” and spoke about continuing Dr. King’s fight and keeping hope in difficult times.
This year’s theme came from a quote by Dr. King: “We need leaders not in love with money, but in love with justice; not in love with publicity, but in love with humanity.”
“It’s a very high bar to hit,” State Assemblymember Gregg Hart said, reflecting on the theme. “It’s a powerful reminder, and I think it’s a stark contrast to what we are see-
ing today in Washington from the Trump administration.”
Many speakers and attendees made parallels to recent political events. “This past year has brought an avalanche of troubling headlines,” said Congressmember Carbajal.
“ICE’s brutal and terrorizing tactics, a worsening healthcare crisis, and a skyrocketing
On Friday night, Santa Barbara’s environmental community packed into a place aptly named the Hub not to be persuaded, but to align, and, by design, to do so “upliftingly.” The People’s Hearing on a recently released federal offshore drilling project drew a packed room of students, elders, tribal leaders, elected officials, business representatives, and a celebrity advocate.
Hosted by the Environmental Defense Center, the People’s Hearing centered on a draft offshore oil and gas leasing plan released in November by the U.S. Department of the Interior that would reopen much of California’s coastline to new offshore drilling. The proposal includes six leases that will be opened to bidding off the Pacific Coast beginning as early as 2027, despite decades of opposition from California communities and officials. This meeting at the Hub was part of a 60-day comment period that closes January 23. The Environmental Defense Center is coordinating with a broad coalition of national organizations to submit a collective sign-on letter opposing the plan.
The sheer range of people in the room young and old, lawyers and fishermen and even the Cheers star Ted Danson reflected the depth of Santa Barbara’s attachment to its coastline. A longtime ocean
advocate, Danson joked that he has often become the public-facing spokesperson for ocean issues, using his platform to pull scientists onto larger stages. He spoke about learning to pair emotion with expertise “heart with science” and about choosing persuasion over anger. “You fight with love and you remind people of what’s at stake.”
Elected officials then joined the chorus.
Congressmember Salud Carbajal called the federal plan “reckless” and unnecessary, pointing to Santa Barbara’s lived experience with oil disasters, including the 2015 Refugio spill, which occurred during his tenure on the Board of Supervisors.
“We are here tonight to say together, unequivocally, our coastline is NOT for sale,” Carbajal said. “Some places are just too damn special to put at risk.”
Assemblymember Gregg Hart framed the moment as both familiar and urgent, recalling visiting oil-slicked shores as a child after the 1969 spill, while County Supervisor Laura Capps pointed to November 2026 as a critical inflection point not just for offshore drilling, but for political leadership more broadly.
“This is a people’s hearing,” Capps said. “And the people have shown up.”
By the end of the night, the speakers reflected the room itself: a Patagonia repre-
cost of living not to mention the violation of the civil rights of so many. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed and discouraged at times, but we must remember the legacy of Dr. King.”
—EmilyVesper
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IATSE Local 600, the union representing KEYT’s anchors, producers, directors, journalists, and editors, held a press conference outside City Hall on 1/16 to discuss what the union called stonewalling from the news station’s Missouri-based parent company. “For nearly a year, our union has tried to negotiate a fair contract with our parent company, News-Press & Gazette, but time after time again, they have refused to pay us a living wage and hire enough people to keep us running,” said Owen Pratt, a news producer. Many of the employees make $18 an hour or less, he said. The union is seeking a raise to $23.12 per hour.
Roughly 4,800 In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) caregivers for elderly, blind, and disabled individuals in S.B. County secured a pay bump in a new three-year contract approved by the Board of Supervisors last week. The county first raised IHSS wages to $19.07 per hour this January, an increase of $0.40; future increases include another dollar in March, and then $20.40 or $3.50 above minimum wage effective 7/1/27. While short of its $22-an-hour goal, the union still celebrated the gains, which also included strengthened benefits, it said in a statement.
A 65-year-old man was pronounced dead 1/16 after being found unresponsive at Alameda Park, according to the Santa Barbara Police Department. Police, fire, and paramedics were dispatched at approximately 10 a.m. to the park, where the man was located “lying on the ground near a bench on the south side of the park,” police said. According to SBPD, the man was unresponsive and did not have a pulse when first responders arrived and attempted life-saving measures. “At this time, there are no indications of foul play,” SBPD said. The man’s identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
sentative spoke of economic dependence on clean coastlines; fishermen described climate impacts on their livelihoods; students from UCSB and local high schools invoked their futures some acknowledging they came for the issue, others joking they came “because you might just be a fan of Ted Danson.”
—EllaHeydenfeldt
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A 19-year-old Isla Vista resident was arrested 1/8 on child pornography charges following a month-long investigation by detectives, the Sheriff’s Office announced 1/14. The investigation began when detectives received a tip in December from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The suspect, Levi Crabtree, a resident of the 800 block of Camino Pescadero, was booked at the Main Jail for a misdemeanor charge of distribution, production, or possession of obscene material involving minors and later released after posting $10,000 bail. “This investigation is ongoing,” the Sheriff’s Office said. “There is no information at this time indicating local victims.” n
F-bombs were dropping like flies up on the fourth floor of the county administration building early Friday afternoon where the county supervisors and their staffs meet and work. County Executive Officer Mona Miyasato had just sent out the press release announcing that she was stepping down after 12 years at the helm of a $1.7 billion governmental operation.
Miyasato announced she’s stepping down this July, just after the supervisors are legally mandated to sign what promises to be an exceptionally painful budget document. The county is looking at $66 million in projected budget shortfalls over the next 10 years, mostly fueled by state and federal cuts. With an unprecedented 225 executive orders signed by President Donald Trump in just the first year of his second presidential term, what passes for the county’s safety net could soon find itself in tatters.
One out of every three county residents, she said at a recent state of the county address, relies on Medi-Cal for health care.
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Of those, 33,000 may no longer be eligible for medical care under new White House eligibility rules barring those with what the Trump administration describes as being of “Unsatisfactory Immigration Status.” And of those, 7,500 currently are enrolled with one of the county’s five health care clinics.
While Miyasato’s two predecessors in the executive office possessed a rare knack for stirring the pot and roiling the waters, Miyasato seemed uncommonly graced with an infectious calm. During her tenure, the county government was hit by the Thomas
Fire, the attendant debris flow that killed 23 people, COVID and all its deadly and polarizing disruptions, the thick secondhand smoke caused by the George Floyd killing, the much-hyped gold rush of cannabis, homelessness, the housing crisis and the state’s mandated solutions to it, pension reform, and the persistent financial demands imposed by the need for yet another new North County jail as mental health advocates and criminal justice reform supporters relentlessly pushed for more humane but cheaper solutions. To the extent the county as a government and community weathered these storms with a collective spirit of “resilience,” Miyasato’s coolheaded competence and hard work clearly helped.
In response to alleged anti-Semitism on UCSB’s campus dating back to 2023, former student body president Tessa Veksler is suing the university and the UC Board of Regents, alleging they failed to protect her from discrimination and abuse and even sided with hostile protesters who opposed her.
The new lawsuit, filed in December 2025, states that Veksler suffered months of harassment while she was a student at UCSB. It was catalyzed by a post on her personal Instagram account about the October 7, 2023, attacks by terrorist group Hamas that killed 1,200 people in Israel.
After that, Veksler a daughter of Soviet Jewish refugees faced a “months-long campaign” of harassment from students who labeled her as a “Zionist” and accused her of supporting genocide, according to the lawsuit. In February, 2024, signs were plastered around the on-campus MultiCultural Center, where Veksler’s office was located. Handwritten messages included “Zionists not welcome,” and the more-targeted “You can run but you can’t hide, Tessa Veksler!”
MultiCultural Center and promises from the University to investigate the incident. However, Veksler told the Independent in May 2024 that the administration failed to hold anyone accountable.
The lawsuit accuses the University of violating Veksler’s rights under equal protection laws and of religious discrimination. One of the costs, the complaint claims, was the full education she paid for, as she had to “avoid large swaths” of campus during the 2023-24 school year to dodge harassers. She is seeking damages and injunctive relief and is demanding a jury trial.
Kiki Reyes, a spokesperson for UCSB, said the university cannot discuss specifics of individual cases, but that “the campus engages in outreach and offers resources and support services to students in addition to conducting investigations.” She said that the university police department also meets with students who report issues to develop individualized safety plans.
Veksler claims that she first alerted administrators to her ongoing harassment in December 2023 but they responded slowly or not at all. The signage eventually did result in the temporary closure of the
“UC Santa Barbara condemns antiSemitism in the strongest possible terms,” the university said in an official statement. “Anti-Semitism and discrimination, including any efforts to intimidate or harass members of our community, has absolutely no place on our campus.”
—CallieFausey
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The Santa Barbara City Council chamber filled quickly last week and kept filling as parents, campers, counselors, and community members lined up to defend Lobster Jo’s Camps, a long-running youth program recently dropped from the city’s waterfront.
Lobster Jo’s Camps, founded and operated by Joseph Evers, were informed earlier this month that the city’s Parks and Recreation Department would not renew their recreation contract, citing “program safety.” City officials have since declined to elaborate on the specific reasons for the decision.
The notice sparked an immediate response from families who rely on the program for low-cost, outdoor childcare and who said they were blindsided by the cancellation.
“I was informed of the termination in a brief notice that didn’t cite any reason,” Evers wrote in a letter to the City Council. “But when I reached out for specifics, I was told it was because of ‘program safety.’ ”
Evers said that explanation conflicted with his experience working with Parks and Recreation staff over the past five summers. According to Evers, Lobster Jo’s has grown from a small program he launched while attending UCSB into a large-scale operation serving thousands of children, staffed largely by UCSB students and alumni.
“Throughout that time, I maintained strong working relationships with Parks and Recreation coordinators, site leads, and front-line staff,” Evers wrote. “Their feedback to me was consistently positive, and many expressed pride in the quality and spirit of the programs we were delivering.”
Evers added that staff members who worked with the camps daily later told him they were neither consulted nor informed before the decision was made.
At Tuesday’s meeting, multiple parents said Lobster Jo’s stood out not only for safety, but for affordability a point repeated throughout the afternoon.
“It’s always the one camp she [his daughter] is stoked to go to … she has done all the camps,” said Danny Shepherd, an emergency physician and medical director for Santa Barbara’s 9-1-1 EMS
agency. “Many camps are like day-one registration, they’re filling up. We don’t have enough camps in town for Lobster Jo’s not to be a part of that community.”
Several children also spoke at the lengths of safety that Evers goes to, such as repeatedly enforcing swim tests.
“It’s taught me a lot about safety precautions around the ocean,” said Maverick Borlson, a five-year veteran camper. “Even though Jo knows me and knows that I can swim very well … he always makes everyone take the swim test.”
Parents and counselors referenced life jackets, color-coded swim groups, and constant supervision details they said were visible to anyone passing by the public beach where the camp operates.
“I respectfully challenge that assertion,” Evers told the council during his allotted time. “Outdoor recreation programs operate fully in the public eye.”
Evers noted the camp operated within overlapping emergency jurisdictions, near a heavily trafficked bike path, and under constant parental observation.
Several speakers asked why, if safety concerns existed, they had never been communicated or addressed through corrective action rather than termination.
“If there’s a concern about safety, I’d like to know what the issue is specifically,” Shepherd said.
Despite the overwhelming public support, there has been no final verdict contradicting the current suspension of the camp. Councilmembers acknowledged the volume of comment and concern but did not debate the matter, which was not listed as an agenda item.
In an email response to the Independent, Parks and Recreation Director Jill Zachary wrote that the decision followed “a routine evaluation of programmatic and operational needs” and that the city is “not at liberty to discuss the specifics related to contract determinations made by staff and the City Attorney.”
The department has not indicated whether alternative programming will replace Lobster Jo’s Camps at the waterfront this summer, nor whether Evers will be offered an opportunity to revise or appeal the decision.
On February 10, 2026, the Board of Supervisors (Board) will conduct a public hearing to consider the adoption of the Environmental Justice (EJ) Element. The Board will consider the following:
The EJ Element is a new state-mandated general plan element that focuses on addressing the needs of EJ Communities (EJCs). The EJCs in the County include Casmalia, Cuyama, New Cuyama, Ventucopa, Garey, Sisquoc, Los Alamos, and Isla Vista. The proposed EJ Element includes numerous policies, objectives, and actions designed to address the EJ-related needs of EJCs.
In accordance with state law, the proposed EJ Element (22GPA-00000-00003) is designed to:
Reduce unique or compounded health risks in EJCs through the reduction of pollution exposure and improvement of air quality;
Promote access to public facilities, healthy foods, safe and sanitary homes, and physical activity;
Promote civic engagement in the public decision-making process; and,
Prioritize improvements and programs that address the needs of EJCs.
The EJ Element is exempt from CEQA per State CEQA Guidelines Sections 15061(b)(3).
The Draft EJ Element as well as additional information is on the project webpage: https://www.countyofsb.org/794/Environmental-Justice-Element. Please contact the project manager, Zoë Carlson at carlsonz@countyofsb.org or 805-568-3532 with any questions about the project.
The hearing will take place at 9:00 A.M. on Tuesday, February 10, 2026 at: Board of Supervisors Hearing Room
Joseph Centeno Betteravia Government Administration Building, 511 East Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria, CA 93454
For current methods of public participation for the hearing, please see page two (2) of the posted agenda. The posted agenda will provide a more specific time for this item. However, the order of the agenda may be rearranged, or the item may be continued.
The board letter, including attachments, and the posted agenda will be available on the Thursday prior to the hearing at https://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx#current under the hearing date, or contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240 for alternative options.
Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, American Sign Language interpreters, sound enhancement equipment, and/or another request for disability accommodation may be arranged by contacting the Clerk of the Board by 4:00 pm on the Friday before the Board meeting. For information about these services, please contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240 or at sbcob@countyofsb.org.
If you challenge the project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Board of Supervisors at, or prior to, the public hearing
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
2025 General Ordinance Amendment Package
Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Board of Supervisors Hearing Room County Administration Bu ilding, Fourth Floor 105 East Anapamu Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Hearing begins at 9:00 A.M
On February 3, 2026, the County Board of Supervisors will conduct a public hearing to consider the 2025 General Ordinance Amendment Package to the County Land Use and Development Code, Montecito Land Use and Development Code, the Coastal Zoning Ordinance, and Chapter 35B, Montecito Growth Management Ordinance. The Boar d of Supervisors will consider the following:
Amendments to the Land Use and Development Code (Case No. 25ORD-00009), Coastal Zoning Ordinance (Case No. 25ORD-00010), the Montecito Land Use and Development Code (Case No. 25ORD-00011), and Chapter 35B, the Montecito Growth Management Ordinance (Case No. 25ORD-00013) to:
o Repeal the Montecito Growth Management Ordinance pursuant to State law requirements;
o Add provisions for Art, Garden, and Architecture Tours in the Coastal Zone and Montecito Community Plan Area;
o Clarify the applicability of structures that are permitted as an Agricultural Enterprise Use in the context of Development Plan requirements;
o Implement revisions in State law pertaining to Density Bonus provisions;
o Clarify and simply existing procedures, requirements, and definitions; and
o Correct minor errors and omissions.
Finding these amendments exempt from environmental review under CEQA Guidelines Sections 15061(b)(3) and 15265.
For additional information, please email the project manager Corina Martin at martinc@countyofsb.org.
For current methods of public participation for the meeting of February 3, 2026 please see https://ca-santabarbaracounty.civicplus.pro/2836/Board-of-Supervisors-Methods-of-Particip or page two (2) of the posted agenda. The posted agenda will provide a more specific time for this item. However, the order of the agenda may be rearranged, or the item may be continued. Staff reports and the posted agenda are available on the Thursday prior to the meeting at https://santabarbara.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx under the hearing date or contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240 for alternative options.
Attendance and participation by the public is invited and encouraged. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, American Sign Language interpreters, sound enhancement equipment, and/or another request for disability accommodation may be arranged by contacting the Clerk of the Board by 4:00 p.m. on the Friday before the Board meeting. For information about these services please contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240 or at sbcob@countyofsb.org.
If you challenge the project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Board of Supervisors at, or prior to, the public hearing.
The City of Goleta will serve as the official host city for one of this year’s World Cup contenders. One international team which has yet to be revealed will be staying at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara and holding practices at UCSB Harder Stadium in preparation for the World Cup matches starting in June.
The Goleta City Council unanimously granted approval for a contract outlining the partnership between the city and one of the World Cup teams, which includes an agreement for the city to provide safe escort for daily practices and team events. The contract will be finalized prior to the summer tournament and could include potential community events with the international team, which will be revealed in the coming months.
The partnership came to be after FIFA officials reached out to the City of Goleta to gauge interest in hosting one of the participating teams. Goleta City Manager Bob Nisbet said he was invited to a meeting along with City Councilmember Luz Reyes-Martín in December to discuss logistics of hosting a team for a major sporting event.
Nisbet said that FIFA was working on a tight deadline, and officials were eager to
lock in an agreement with the City of Goleta as soon as possible. The city called a special council meeting to consider the contract on January 13.
While Nisbet could not reveal which team would be staying in Goleta, he outlined the general details of the partnership. The team and staff would all be staying at the Bacara and would have complete access to the facilities at Harder Stadium, including locker rooms and meeting areas. The safety responsibilities would be split, with the Bacara providing security at its property, UCSB handling safety at the stadium, and the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Office providing escort between both areas.
The city’s contract includes the allotment of a maximum of $100,000 to account for the escort, community engagement, and any other events or costs that come out of the partnership with the team.
UCSB representative Johnny Whallon said the university was in daily communication with the team that will likely be staying in Goleta, and the country’s representatives have been very supportive of the city’s ideas to host community events leading up to the World Cup matches. —Ryan P.Cruz
Agrueling three-month rape trial ended Friday with the offender briefly escaping custody after the jury announced his guilt.
Arian Eteghaei, a 23-year-old former UCSB student who now faces decades in prison, managed to break free from sheriff’s bailiffs as they were escorting him across Figueroa Street between the two downtown Santa Barbara courthouses. Eteghaei was shackled at the hands but not the feet.
Wearing a suit and shouting profanities, Eteghaei ran one block west to State Street before he was tackled by bailiffs and held down by bystanders.
Moments earlier in the courtroom, his attorney had argued that Eteghaei, already out on bail, should remain free until his sentencing on April 8. The attorney said Eteghaei originally from Dublin, California, and a former soccer standout was not a flight risk or a danger to the public. The judge disagreed and ordered him remanded into custody. It is unclear what new charges Eteghaei may face after the incident.
Eteghaei was arrested in 2021 while he was freshman studying biology at UCSB. He was initially charged with sexual assault on three women. Once his case was publicized, three more victims came forward.
Many of the women testified against Eteghaei at the trial, including an ex-girlfriend, who said he raped and assaulted her during a prom-themed party at his Isla Vista apartment. In a highly unusual move, Eteghaei took the stand in his own defense, claiming the sexual encounters were consensual.
“The victims in this case showed remark-
by coming forward, reporting the crimes, and taking the stand to testify during this lengthy trial,” said District Attorney John T. Savrnoch. “Their courage made it possible for the jury to hold the defendant accountable for his actions.” Savrnoch said Eteghaei “faces a potential sentence of 30 years to life in state prison.”
While the 12-person jury deadlocked many of the charges against Eteghaei, it ultimately found him guilty of sexual penetration of a foreign object and domestic violence battery against one victim, and forcible rape of another.
For years, Santa Barbara Superior Court executives have sought to improve security at the downtown buildings. They’ve lobbied the Judicial Council of California for funds to construct a new facility primarily to eliminate the need to escort defendants along public sidewalks and across Figueroa Street but the required money, an estimated $103 million, has not yet materialized.
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Arecent “audit” conducted of overtime policies in the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office revealed that the top overtime earner in the department made $170,000 in overtime last year on top of the $103,000 that was his base salary. No explanation for how that could happen was included in the audit prepared by the county Auditor Controller’s office in response to escalating overtime hours clocked by sheriff’s deputies and corrections officers.
In 2018, the department’s total overtime was $11.1 million; last year, it was $21 million. Every year, the supervisors are asked to shell out additional dollars to cover these growing costs. The audit suggests that employees are taking advantage of the contract their unions negotiated to maximize the number of hours qualifying for overtime, by substituting paid sick or vacation leave hours for regular work hours and then making up the rest of their work week with hours that can be billed at time-and-a-half overtime rates. This practice, while hardly unique to Santa Barbara, accounts for $5.9 million of the departmental overtime cost this year.
The audit found that nearly 25 percent of all workdays worked triggered overtime billing. Twenty-four managers exempt from overtime reportedly racked up $715,000 in “Extra Help” job assignments. Twentynine sheriff’s employees took home more than $1,000 per pay period in overtime, and 84 out of 184 new hires onboarded in the past two years worked more than 500 hours
in overtime during those two years.
Sheriff Bill Brown responded with a sharply worded letter stating he was “extremely disappointed” by the audit, saying it fails to take into consideration how at times public safety officers need to be available 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Insufficient staffing, he cautioned, puts employees, inmates, and the public at greater risk of injury death and legal liability. He also said the audit was not really an audit, nor did the auditors check their initial findings with his department or with Human Resources.
With jail construction and operations eating up increasingly greater percentages of the county’s general fund looking at a 10-year shortfall of $66 million county administrators and supervisors have grown increasingly impatient with last-minute surprises. The matter is scheduled to go before the Board of Supervisors on February 10.
—Nick Welsh
October 2025 came and went without the much-heralded new train service through Santa Barbara County that was supposed to add a north- and southbound Metrolink train. Instead, a similar service is now being proposed through Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner, the Santa Barbara County Association of Government (SBCAG) directors learned on January 15.
SBCAG’s Aaron Bonfilio explained that during summer 2025, the Los Angeles–San Diego train agency LOSSAN learned that a switch to Metrolink would require a whole new set of agreements with the owner of the railroad tracks: Union Pacific (UP). But, because UP was in the middle of buying the Norfolk Southern a deal that would connect the company from the West Coast to the East Coast the earliest the company could begin to review any agreements was in the first quarter of 2026.
That delay had a domino effect at LOSSAN, which had received a $27 million grant from the Federal Railroad Administration early last January. The funds were to restore train service back to pre-COVID pandemic levels, the managing director for LOSSAN, Jason Jewell, told the SBCAG board. That included a new train set coming from Northern California new rolling stock that LOSSAN could use to expand Pacific Surfliner service to Goleta and San Luis
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The current proposal is a northbound train that would leave L.A. Union Station at 5:13 a.m. and stop at Santa Barbara at 8:11 a.m.; the southbound train would depart San Luis Obispo at 12:12 p.m., going through Goleta at 2:33 p.m. and Santa Barbara at 2:57 p.m. Each train would make the usual stops at smaller stations such as Guadalupe, Bonfilio said.
Jewell added that this is only a one-year pilot project, while future service depended on funding through the state budget or Washington, D.C.
Bonfilio noted that approval from the state is needed and that the final negotiated plan will likely come back to SBCAG in February. —Jean Yamamura
READ IT AND R.I.P: We’re all born naked, but I’m not so sure we all die that way. I know the Bible says so, and for the sake of Frank Frost, I’m hoping the Bible which Frank could read in ancient Greek, Greek, German, French, and some Italian got it right.
Frank died just a couple of weeks ago at the age of 96 in the Mission Canyon home he built in the early 1970s that included an old-school hot tub. God help anyone trying to get in it with their clothes on. Frank then a UCSB professor of ancient antiquities was scornful of inappropriate modesty
In 1972, Frank ran for a seat on the county Board of Supervisors. With the 1969 oil spill still in the rearview mirror, Frank campaigned as an in-your-face no-growther. Improbably but perhaps inevitably he won.
That election marked a tectonic shift in Santa Barbara politics. Along with Frank, that year brought another historic win by Jim Slater. Both men would shake up the Board of Supervisors then under the political hegemony of the good-old-boy, Chamber of Commerce, oil industry, and developer wing of the GOP.After Frank and Jim, the genie wasn’t getting back in that bottle.
During his time in office, 1972 to 1976, anyone looking for Frank could often find him at More Mesa, a popular nude beach up the Goleta coast. I bring up all this nudity for gratuitously non-gratuitous reasons
Even before Frank could be sworn in, he
and his wife, Amanda, were approached by a charming Montecito swag man, Phil Regan, working for an out-of-town developer named Said Halimi. Halimi wanted to transform More Mesa into an exclusive, gated community called Tyrolean Village with 750 homes, an 18-hole golf course, and tennis courts.
His bag man Regan was a former New York City cop who had found fame in Hollywood B-movies as the “singing cop” thanks to his exceptional tenor voice. He had even sung at Harry Truman’s presidential inauguration, but somewhere along the way, he switched horses and became a supporter for Republican candidates, such as Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. And for Said Halimi.
Regan invited the Frosts to his Montecito home, where he offered Frank $5,000 and lucrative consulting contracts for Frank’s friend Ken Palmer.
Really, $5,000?!
Clearly, Phil Regan had no clue.
Frank Frost was one seriously accomplished badass. His father, who died when Frank was a child, was a Standard Oil executive and a big-ticket philanthropist for the San Francisco and National orchestras when not hanging out at the elite Bohemian Club.
Frank liked to lie, “I had a tendency never to finish anything and sometimes never even start it.” The truth is that by the time he graduated high school at age 16, he knew his way around all 88 piano keys. He attended a number of colleges including the Virginia
Military Institute hopped freight trains, and hitchhiked across the country. In 1951, he joined the army, maybe to rebel or maybe, as his wife later said, learn how “to be a man.”
Is there a difference?
Frank saw military action in Korea. He was shot at and shelled, and dodged hand grenades. Later, he was ordered to the Nevada desert, where an atom bomb was detonated 4,000 feet from his 10-foot-deep hole. Afterward, he traipsed across the molten sand transformed into crunchy glass globules to ground zero, holding a meter reader that calibrated ambient radiation levels. He was a human guinea pig testing how much soldiers could absorb and still keep fighting.
Frank eventually got his BA at UCSB in 1955 and his PhD in history at UCLA, and later returned to Santa Barbara to help build UCSB’s history department. In 1953, Frank’s mother, Eugenia, for whom the word “formidable” was invented, had moved to Mission Canyon with his brother, a classical composer. She quickly became a force within local Democratic circles who had money and knew how to organize campaigns. His sister, an accomplished painter, stayed up in San Francisco’s North Beach, palling around with beatniks, like Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac
Five thousand dollars? Really?
As a musician, Frank could play anything in any key just by ear. He knew thousands of songs by heart Gershwin, Cole Porter, the whole American Songbook, but also jazz like
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As a scholar, Frank was an expert on ancient Greece. He was also a marine archeologist who explored underwater ruins in the Aegean Sea. During the Vietnam War, Frank an old-school, anti-Commie, yellow-dog Democrat was among the last to denounce the war. Eventually, his mind changed by the cumulative weight of so much government deceit
Really, $5,000?
Frank and his friend Ken Palmer arranged a sting with the sheriff and the district attorney to nail Phil Regan. It was high drama and the stuff of newspaper headlines. Palmer wore the wire; Frank played along. The singing cop got arrested, convicted, and sentenced to two years behind bars. Halimi was never charged for lack of evidence.
Frank Frost’s legacy? Among other things, More Mesa got saved. With the taint of such obvious corruption, even the majority of supervisors who supported the project voted against it. Today, it still functions as a nude beach.
Did Frank have any thoughts about the afterlife? “I am a Christian, a reader of the gospels (in Greek), and a believer in the values taught by Jesus,” he wrote me in an email in 2021. “But I am also an atheist,” he added, “reluctant to blame one single entity for all the messiness of our planet.”
A human being protecting a god in which he does not believe? You don’t get much more magnanimous than that. Some might even call it grace.
Thanks, Frank. —Nick Welsh
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How do we even know what to believe anymore?
As a media literacy educator, that’s the question I hear most often.
You may remember me as the columnist who wrote about parenting, couplehood, and hot takes on cultural phenomena like cuddle parties. But five years ago, while watching a misinformed mob storm the U.S. Capitol, I realized that as a people, our collective sniff test for dishonesty is plumb busted.
by STARSHINE ROSHELL
Since then, I’ve studied how information is created, spread, consumed, and controlled. I’ve spoken to hundreds of students about what fuels influencers, helped thousands of community members sort fact from fiction, produced an online course on recognizing misinformation, and even met with lawmakers to plead for media-literacy legislation.
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What all of them want to know: In a post-truth world, how do we figure out who to trust?
As kids, we’re promised: The truth is all that matters. “Just tell the truth, sweetheart, and no one will get in trouble.” The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth shall set you free … right?
But in a nation where vaccine rates are dropping even as eradicated diseases resurface and claim lives, and GenAI lets anyone whip up compelling deepfake videos, it’s tough to pluck the truth from the torrent of propaganda the absolute Niagara of ideological evangelism flooding us every day, from every channel.
Our president’s mouth consistently erupts in rubbish an MO sustained by a press trained to uphold their own balance and objectivity über alles. We all heard the Commander in Chief say that Haitian immigrants were eating pets (false), and that Tylenol is linked to autism; it’s not. This month, he told us we hadn’t seen with our own eyes, from multiple angles an ICE agent kill a Minneapolis woman for no reason.
And it’s getting worse. Rather than pinpoint a “Lie of the Year” as it’s done for the 15 years prior, fact-checking org PolitiFact simply named 2025 The Year of the Lies because “the volume and severity of the inaccurate claims was just overwhelming.”
Deception goes by many names: Gaslighting. Fibs. Fake news. Alternative facts. Spin. Doublespeak. Disinformation. But a lie by any other name still smells like bullshit. And we’re going to shovel through it together, friends.
In this new column, we’ll learn how to think critically about the information we’re fed, and to find and vet trustworthy sources. We’ll poke holes in our own cozy media bubbles and discover how factcheckers put statements to the test. And we’ll finally figure out how to engage and tolerate family members whose news sources have made them, respectfully, whacka-frickin-doodle.
Look, I have strong feelings on this topic (okay, on most topics). But I’m also curious, fascinated, and still slightly more hopeful than terrified. I’ll get things wrong sometimes I’m not immune to lies well told. But I promise my blunders will be misinformation (the ignorant, accidental kind), not disinformation (the deliberate, diabolical kind). And I trust you’ll let me know when I flub; you’ve never been shy before! In a no-cap world, friends don’t let friends spew codswallop. If we’re connected on social media, you know I’ll call out your balderdash, too. (#Sorrynotsorry, Mom!)
I don’t want to live in a world where half my neighbors operate from and invest in an entirely different “truth” than I do or one where the word truth lives between quotation marks. And I know you don’t, either. Because nobody wants to be misled, and not a single human being thinks lying is how we improve as a species.
But sometimes it’s profitable. And expedient. Increasingly, it’s also the most direct route to a sloppy, slippery power grab.
So, we all need to be informed. Shielded. Armed, even. Because as George Orwell said in his eerily prescient 1984, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
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Stability in today’s housing market is fragile. Most people live paycheck to paycheck. There is little room to prepare for disaster.
Rent, utilities, food, transportation keep climbing and consume everything we earn. Then something happens. A medical emergency, a job disruption, a family crisis, a rent hike, a no-fault eviction. Suddenly, the ground shifts. The home we depended on is gone.
We quickly learn that our savings are nowhere near enough. First and last month’s rent. Security deposits. Application fees. Pet deposits. Thousands of dollars required up-front.
We are forced to confront a painful truth: Many communities have become places only the wealthy can remain. Longtime residents are pushed out. Workers essential to the city can no longer afford to live in it.
So, what choices remain? Quit your job and move somewhere cheaper? Leave behind family, doctors, school, and community ties? Start over with nothing?
At this moment, survival thinking begins. The car in the driveway becomes a possible shelter. A motorhome begins to look like a solution: a bed, a bathroom, a kitchen, and refrigeration. The basics of human living. And yet, even this is often criminalized.
Why can cities not designate land for people to live in vehicles or motorhomes as legitimate affordable housing? A properly designed community, built and maintained through sweat equity and resident participation, could provide safety, sanitation, stability, and dignity and protect from constant displacement and punitive enforcement.
Housing does not solve every problem. But without it, every problem becomes harder to survive.
—Nancy McCradie, S.B.
My husband and I are rapid responders and community patrol volunteers with the 805 UndocuFund and SBResiste. We traveled from Santa Barbara to Santa Maria in December to support our neighbors through visibility and lawful observation.
Around 4 p.m. that day, we immediately recognized a threat: a black van with heavily tinted windows, long antennas, and a barely visible cage in the back. It had no identifying markings but it was ICE. We followed at a safe distance, recording and observing. The driver noticed.
At one point, he pulled alongside us phone to his ear, staring us down and smiling then drove into a CHP office on Carlotti Drive. We parked nearby. The van pulled out and parked directly in front of us. Moments later, three CHP vehicles pulled up behind
us with lights flashing. The ICE agent greeted the CHP officers warmly, smiling. A CHP officer asked for my husband’s license, telling us he was being detained. A “federal agent” had called to report a suspicious vehicle following him home from work.
I explained that we were lawfully observing and that following a vehicle at a safe distance is not a crime. The officer insisted we had “crossed a line,” though he could not say which one.
Minutes later, the van drove away. Another officer returned the license and told us we were free to go.
California law is clear: Local law enforcement is not supposed to assist in federal immigration enforcement. Yet what we witnessed was collaboration, using detentions as a tool to help immigration agents evade community observers.
Local law enforcement must remember the oath they took and who they serve. Because right now, the message is clear: They are serving ICE, not the communities they claim to protect.
—Jessica Ramirez, S.B.
As of last week, 1,430 people have been taken from the tri-counties. Here’s what we can do:
• Volunteer as a bilingual dispatcher/operator for the Rapid Response program.
• Volunteer as a driver for people scared to leave their house.
• Volunteer with the people preparing and delivering meals.
• Donate money to the families that have lost one of their own.
The 805 UndocuFund provides $1,000 to each family who lost a member. This immediate support prevents landlords from evicting families that have lost a breadwinner. There aren’t enough dollars after 144 people were taken from Santa Maria. One missed rent check is all it takes for a family to become homeless.
Please help close this gap at 805undocufund.org/ donate —Max Rorty, Goleta
¶ Last week’s In Memoriam for Lou Cannon should have given his date of death as December 19, not December 12.
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BY EMILY ABRAHAM
It takes a rare spirit shaped by deep love, resilience, and an unwaveringly positive outlook to create not just one but many communities that call one another family. Kyle McKittrick was that rare spirit. To know Kyle was to know kindness, compassion, humor, and an effortless ability to make people feel seen. Throughout his life, Kyle left an extraordinary and lasting impact on every community he touched.
Kyle Edward McKittrick was born on June 19, 1986, in Pleasanton, California, to Diane and Jim McKittrick. Four years later, he proudly became an older brother to Marc McKittrick, a role he embraced fully. Reliable, protective, adventurous, and deeply loyal, Kyle set the tone for a lifelong bond between the two one rooted in trust, love, and brotherhood beyond comparison.
Kyle attended Amador Valley High School, where his energy and curiosity were boundless. He immersed himself in sports and the outdoors, including soccer, baseball, wrestling, swimming, diving, and fishing. There were no limits to Kyle’s aspirations or his willingness to try something new.
At 20 years old, Kyle moved from Pleasanton to Santa Barbara, where he began studies at Santa Barbara City College and quickly found his place within the local service industry. Through his work at Sandbar, Pierre Lafond, and Shalhoob’s, Kyle didn’t just build a career he built community. Known for his warmth, humility, and instinctive ability to connect with people from all backgrounds, Kyle became a beloved presence throughout Santa Barbara and Montecito.
In 2018, Kyle experienced a traumatic spinal cord injury that changed his life forever. What followed was a profound demonstration of his character. Through years of recovery and adaptation, Kyle displayed extraordinary resilience, determination, and grace. Supported fiercely by his parents, brother, extended family, and friends, Kyle reclaimed his independence and became a powerful source of inspiration to others.
Kyle found new passion and purpose through peer mentorship, adaptive recreation, and wheelchair rugby known affectionately as “murderball.” He formed lifelong friendships across the country, most notably with the Vegas Highrollers and the Northridge Knights, and became a respected teammate, competitor, and leader. His involvement with Cottage Rehabilitation further allowed him to serve others as a peer mentor, offering hope and guidance to those newly injured.
Grounded in faith, family, and strong values instilled by both the McKittrick and Cereghino families, Kyle always lived by “family first.” He was service-oriented, eclectic, and a true jack-ofall-trades standing for strength, transition, and growth. Whether walking or rolling into a room, Kyle had a magnetic presence, commanding attention with his smile, charm, and authenticity.
Kyle also shared a profound bond with his dog, Bailey, whom he rescued and raised from a puppy. Bailey was a constant companion and source of comfort, especially following his injury. Though her passing in 2025 deeply affected him, those who loved Kyle find comfort in believing they are now reunited.
In his final year, Kyle found the love of his life, Emily Abraham. The two met through the Triumph Foundation, where Kyle’s role as a mentor and motivator brought them together. Their relationship was filled with laughter, partnership, and shared purpose an “inter-able” couple who embraced life fully and joyfully.
Kyle passed away peacefully on December 14, 2025, surrounded by love. His legacy is not defined by tragedy, but by courage, connection, and an unshakable zest for life. As those who loved him know well, energy does not disappear it only changes form. Kyle’s energy lives on in his family, his friends, and the many communities he helped build. Services will be held on February 7. A Catholic Mass will take place at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church at noon, followed by a Celebration of Life from 2-6 p.m. at The Factory, 616 East Haley Street, Santa Barbara. Those wishing to attend are asked to RSVP to mckittrick1214@gmail.com
Donations in Kyle’s honor can be made to Triumph Foundation, a nonprofit organization that provides peer mentorship, resources, equipment, and adaptive recreation to individuals with paralysis across Southern California and beyond.
Kyle is survived by his parents, Jim and Diane McKittrick; his brother, Marc McKittrick; his sisterin-law, Caterina Scordato; his life partner, Emily Abraham; and a large, loving extended family of aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Kyle’s life was a gift and his impact will be felt for generations.
Roy Rosales 1941-2026
Roy Rosales passed away at his home on the morning of January 1, 2026, comforted by love, leaving behind a legacy of service, dedication, and deep connection to family, friends, and community.
Roy was shaped by his years growing up in Santa Barbara. He attended Franklin Elementary School, Santa Barbara Junior High and High School. He told stories of those younger days, time spent at Laguna Ball Park, fishing off the pier, car cruising with his buddies, hunting with his uncles, working at Johnson’s Packing House where he met his future wife, Donna, and enjoying the simple freedom of youth in Santa Barbara. He served in the Marine Corps from 1959 to 1963. Returning from the Corps after being stationed in Kodiak, Alaska, he was an electronics technician for the Santa Barbara Unified School District. He attended Allan Hancock College and graduated from the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Academy in 1970. He served 25+ years in law enforcement with the Sheriff’s Department. His professional journey also included training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. In retirement, he volunteered with the Solvang Visitor Center and as a safety and security volunteer with the American Red Cross following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans in 2005.
Home and family meant everything to him. With the help of many of his friends, he and his wife designed and built a house on More Mesa in 1972 where they raised two children. He eventually retired to a beautiful property in Los Alamos in 1995.
He enjoyed working out at the gym, as well as running and participating in 5-10k races and marathons. He found peace and adventure in nature, especially while visiting several National Parks. Zion and hiking
Angel’s Landing held a special place in his heart. He also loved weekslong camping trips throughout the western United States and Canada with his family every summer, boating on Cachuma Lake, riding his motorcycle, driving his red Ford truck and spending time at his homes in Mesquite, Nevada, and Los Alamos.
Roy was a 15-year member of the American Legion Orcutt Post 534. As a member of the Bent Axles Car Club of Santa Maria, he had a lifelong passion for cars, restoring them with precision and being awarded many times for his talent. He created replicas of his 1955 Pontiac Starchief and his Mother’s car, a 1955 Ford Crown Victoria. He enjoyed watching professional baseball and football games and going to Las Vegas for NASCAR races. Time spent barbecuing, reading, watching classic movies, listening to country music, trying out golf, lunches with friends and sharing stories with loved ones were among his greatest joys.
He held a special devotion to his Mother, Amalia (Molly Munoz) Silva, and Sister, Margaret Rosales. He is survived by his children Robert Rosales (his partner Carrie Van Beurden), Charlene Rosales (her partner Kevin Dye), their Mother Donna Rosales, his Aunt Josephine Lopez, Cousin Georgetta Lucero, and many other cousins and relatives. He joins family members in heaven including his Mother’s siblings, Teresa Boardman, Ramona Lopez, Antonia Munoz, Buena Ventura Munoz, Raymond Munoz, and Stepfather Antonio Silva. His faith guided him throughout his life, grounding him in gratitude, compassion, and love.
Roy will be deeply missed and remembered for his humor, strength, and generous heart. A service will be held at Noon on Saturday, January 24, at The Chapel of San Ramon, Forest Route 10N06 (on Foxen Canyon Road), Santa Maria, California, followed by a gathering nearby at Rancho Sisquoc Winery. Guests are encouraged to take US 101 to Route 154, and to follow Foxen Canyon Road to the Chapel and Winery. Continued
02/01/1933 – 12/21/2025
Mary “Lorrene” Halleck passed away peacefully on the Winter Solstice this year. She was born on February 1, 1933, to Edward and Marie (Ureel) Bergmann in Camas, Washington.
Lorrene grew up embracing the simple joys of life in the Pacific Northwest. She worked alongside her parents and younger brother, Marvin, in the family tree farm and large vegetable garden, enjoying swims in the lake for fun. Lorrene worked in the local movie theater and paper mill to earn extra money. Twirling a homemade baton, she discovered a passion that shaped her young life and led to her becoming the majorette in her high school band.
Encouraged by a school counselor, Lorrene pursued higher education and became the first in her family to attend college. She studied Education at Western Washington University. While in college, she earned the honor of lead majorette for the university band and proudly performed in Portland’s Rose Parade. It was on the field that she caught the eye of the school football star, Maury Halleck. They fell in love and were married in the summer of 1955.
The newlyweds moved to Santa Barbara, settling first on the Mesa and later to the foothills of Santa Barbara. Lorrene taught elementary school at Franklin and Adams Elementary until becoming a mother in 1959. From that point on, she devoted herself wholeheartedly to her family, supporting her husband throughout his coaching career at San Marcos High School and creating a loving and joyful home for her four children. Lorrene and Maury loved returning to the Pacific Northwest during the summers, spending time at Hood Canal shrimping and gathering oysters along the beach,
while also enjoying visits with family and friends. Lorrene was known for her selflessness and generosity to both her family and friends. No visitor ever left her home without a small gift, often homemade jam, cookies or fresh lemons. No one loved to laugh more than Lorrene, treating everyone to her contagious giggle.
Lorrene is survived by her four children—Brad (Denise) Halleck, Kevin (Laura) Halleck, Maurene (Sean) Donner, and Brian (Wendy) Halleck, along with 12 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren. Lorrene will be deeply missed and forever remembered for her generosity, warmth, and enduring love for her family.
Funeral services will be held on February 12 at San Roque Church at 10:30 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, those that wish to honor Lorrene’s life we encourage you to donate to Santa Barbara Hospice as they were so kind, caring and loving of our mom. Donate at https://www. hospiceofsb.org/
Phillip Joseph DiBartolomeo 05/10/1964-01/13/2026
“Surf’s Up! The waves are gnarly at Rincon” – a phrase our beloved son, brother, husband, father, and friend can no longer say. He lost his battle with the flu and pneumonia on Jan 13th in the MICU at SB Cottage Hospital.
Phil was born in Connecticut, but moved to Santa Barbara with his family in 1968, later graduating from Santa Barbara High School and Pepperdine University. This is where he developed his passion and purpose for the ocean and surfing. He tried various jobs and skills, but opening his surfboard shop, Rippin Stix, became his focus until his untimely death.
Phil married Andrea Moreno in Santa Barbara in 1991 and had two wonderful children, Adam and Lily, in
1995 and 2001. He remarried to Kathy Jo “KJ” Watson in 2005, with whom he moved to Oxnard to live out much of his life.
Phil always marched to a different drummer; skeptical and often misunderstood others, but stood firm for the ones he loved. He found happiness and salvation in the ocean, on the beach, and in tending to plants and animals he would bring home.
Phil is survived by his mother, Erica; his brother, Raymond, sister-in-law, Dana, and nephews, Brody and Owen; his children, Adam and Lily; the mother of his children, Andrea; his wife, KJ, and her extended family; and many close relatives on Long Island, NY.
Viewing will be held on January 22nd at Welch-RyceHaider (450 Ward Drive, Santa Barbara) from 9:30 am, with a service from 1-3 pm.
Matthew Bradstreet James 06/17/1968-12/21/2025
Matthew Bradstreet James, 57, beloved brother, uncle, and friend, passed away surrounded by peace and love in his home in Ventura, California, on December 21, 2025. Matthew succumbed to complications from lymphoma after having beaten the disease in 2021. In his remission, and motivated by a new lease on life, Matthew made significant changes to his life and lived some of his best years. This included moving with his two cherished cats from the Bay Area to Ventura for a warmer and more relaxed lifestyle that would also be closer to family; traveling to India and the United Kingdom; and attending many rock concerts and professional sporting events. In Ventura he found a wonderful and supportive community and loving caregivers.
Matthew was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 17, 1968, the youngest of four boys. His family moved to
California when Matt was four years old, all piled in the back of a VW Squareback for a memorable trip across the country. The family settled in Palo Alto, California, where Matt grew up attending local schools, including his favorite, Mid-Peninsula High School. He was often seen riding his bike and loved spending time with his dog, Charlie. He would frequently come home from the local library with a stack of books and remained well-read throughout his life. Matthew went on to take classes at Foothill College and worked in the hotel and restaurant industries. He embarked on many adventures, including running the Bay to Breakers in San Francisco with his father and hiking across England on the Pennine Way with his oldest brother. Matthew enjoyed collecting memorabilia, including first edition books, the complete writings of Marx and Engels, signed photographs, and posters from favorite bands, including signed copies from X and the Descendents.
His life took a positive turn when he joined Alcoholics Anonymous in his early thirties, and he ultimately and proudly achieved 21 years of sobriety. His AA family, both in Northern California and Ventura, was a great pillar of support and friendship. Matthew regularly attended AA meetings and conferences, and he contributed to the successful journey of others through sponsorship and mentorship.
Matthew was predeceased by his parents, George and Beverly James, and his brother Alexander James. He is survived by two brothers, Christopher (Kristin) and Geoffrey (Jodie) James, and ten nieces and nephews: William, Anne, Phoebe, Calvin, Luke, Margaret, Adelaide, Peregrine, Jennifer, and Leslie, all of whom he loved dearly. The family wishes to thank his amazing support team, including his devoted caregiver and friend, Pamela Owens, who offered loving care to Matthew for the past three years and throughout the final days of his life.
There will be a public visitation on Friday, January 9, 2025, from 10-1 pm at McDermott-Crockett & Associates Mortuary, 2020 Chapala
Street in Santa Barbara. Matthew will be buried near his brother Alex at Mt. Whitney Cemetery in Lone Pine, California. A memorial is being planned for the spring in Ventura, California.
Lawrence R. Linn 09/15/1940-12/18/2025
Our beloved Larry, husband, father, grandfather, brother, friend and community member, passed away peacefully at home with his family on December 18 of heart failure.
Larry was born in Los Angeles but lived most of his life in Santa Barbara. He went to UCSB in 1958, where he joined ROTC and Delta Tau Delta fraternity. After graduation in 1962, he served in the U.S. Army as a Military Police Captain in Europe from 1962 – 1965. He was proud of his men for safely transporting President John F.Kennedy to the Berlin Wall in 1963.
Larry joined the Santa Barbara Association of Realtors in 1969 and began a successful and much enjoyed career serving clients throughout Santa Barbara County. He continued to be a member of the Association at his passing in December.
He married Annie Truman in 1984 and began a life of 41 happy, unforgettable and loving years together. He loved traveling and camping with Annie, riding his bike and swimming, and walking Kelli, his Jack Russell.
Larry is survived by Annie, his daughter Sheryl and wife, Sandy, and his son David and wife, Stefanie and his children Savanah, Tanner and Kendal; and his brother Robert Linn and his wife Carmel and family.
Larry will be remembered always for his love of family and community, and his many devoted years of care and service to all he knew. A private celebration of life is planned for later in the spring.
Brook Ashley 03/31/1947– 01/10/2026
Brook Ashley, beloved wife, mother and grandmother passed away [date] at her Santa Barbara home at age 78. Born into a theatrical family in New York City on March 31, 1947, Brook made her Broadway debut at the age of 7 and starred in many television dramas during that medium’s “Golden Age” while also hawking a variety of products from mouthwash to muffins in regional and national commercials. It was a balancing act encumbered by 12 years attendance at a NYC girls’ school called The Brearley, which Brook described as “Dickensian.” Two extraordinary godmothers—the incomparable actress Tallulah Bankhead and the photographer/children’s author Dare Wright—anchored Brook’s chaotic childhood with invisible filaments of security. Tallulah taught Brook the elements of voodoo by showing her how to stick dressmaker pins into a magazine cover of Senator Joe McCarthy. With her other godmother, Brook helped set up scenes with a doll and two teddy bears that Dare Wright photographed for her 1957 best-selling children’s book “The Lonely Doll.”
Brook’s first marriage during her sophomore year in college produced the love of her life, a beautiful, brilliant red-haired daughter named Brett.
Moving to Montecito with Brett in 1988, Brook found her niche as a Realtor on Coast Village Road. She also served as a US Board member of the international animal advocacy charity Born Free and on the Regional Advisory Board of the Anti-Defamation League. Brook was President of The Santa Barbara International Film Festival as its reputation rose from local to international recognition and taught tae kwon do karate in Carpinteria. Her biography “Dare Wright and The Lonely
Doll” was published in 2019. She is survived by her loving husband John Ogilvie, her adored daughter Brett Wilbur of Carmel and Brett’s three children--granddaughter Isabelle and grandsons Emerson and Caden--along with John’s children Brandon, Daryn and Alix and their families.
Donations in Brook’s memory may be made to SPARK Rescue Santa Barbara and The Jewish Federation of Santa Barbara.
Arrangements entrusted to McDermott-Crockett
Mortuary
Gary E Carpenter 02/19/1944– 10/19/2025
Gary E Carpenter passed away on October 19, 2025, at his home. He was predeceased by his mother, Elzabeth Carpenter (Judge), and father, F. Staley Carpenter. He is survived by his wife, Cathy Carpenter; his son, Chase Carpenter; his stepdaughter, Anne Gard; grandchildren Kaden and Cooper Gard, Lucas and Evelyn Carpenter; and his brothers, Robert and David Carpenter.
Born on February 19, 1944, in Pasadena, Mr. Carpenter was raised in Newhall and graduated from William S. Hart High School in 1961. He earned a degree in Finance from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. During college, he cofounded the band The YoungFolk, which performed on The Red Skelton Show, Hullabaloo, and Liberace Show and other notable venues. They made an album with United Artists before disbanding in 1968.
That same year, his family relocated their ranch to Ventura County, where Mr. Carpenter became the third-generation manager of Carpenter Squab Ranch. He traveled extensively throughout the world and was an avid tennis player for over 45 years, participating in clubs across Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. He was known for his storytelling and
ability to connect with others. His latter years were spent mostly with family and his grandchildren.
Services will be private with family and close friends.
Milton “Richard” Hegeman 09/24/1935 – 01/02/2026
Born into a Navy family in San Diego, young Richard soon found himself moving to Vallejo where he joined a local swim team. This started his lifelong love to be on, near or in the water. In swimming, he broke record after record, finally holding four AllAmerican 50- and 100-yard freestyle records and being ranked in the top 10 swimmers in the nation. Later, Richard would be inducted into the Vallejo Sports Hall of Fame for swimming.
After junior college, Richard attended the California Maritime Academy (CMA) where he continued swimming, while adding water polo and boxing to his schedule. CMA was a very handson Academy taking him to many parts of the world on their training ship, The Golden Bear. Richard graduated with a degree in Marine Engineering and a US Coast Guard License as a third Engineer.
Following his military service in the Navy, Merchant Marines, and Naval Reserve, Richard accepted a job as a Diving Engineer with AC Delco Sea Operations, a General Motors (GM) division based in Goleta California. Soon he would be working side by side with two of his CMA classmates, Dave Schiefen and Lloyd Sorensen. The Three Amigos would end up spending their careers together traveling the world on government projects, including Cannikin, AzorianCIAs Russian sub recovery, SWTR, Sea Spider, and many others. Their travels took them to Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, Greenland, Alaska, Hawaii, and many other remote places. The work
consisted of many undersea projects installing equipment of various types. Dave and Richard were the two pilots for the company’s submersible, DOWB, Deep Ocean Work Boat.
In 1983, GM closed their Sea Operations Division. Richard was one of the 14 founders that established MariPro and continued to provide their expertise in this niche underwater field. As the new company grew, they were able to hire an amazing group of divers, engineers, and others. He led by example, was creative in finding solutions, and considered MariPro part of his “family”. Over the years, all of the Hegeman kids would be employed by MariPro.
Summers were spent camping at his beloved OFRC in the Redwoods, playing tennis, diving for Abalone, canoeing, kayaking, introducing his grandkids to the “Garbage Monkeys”, swimming across the river to Mud Island and the rope swing, enjoying conversations with friends, and telling stories around the campfire. Count yourself lucky if you ever heard a story from Richard!
Other wonderful vacations included camping at El Capitan; family gatherings in Pismo Beach; visiting their timeshare on the Las Vegas strip; Church Youth trips to Mexicali, Yosemite, Colorado River, and white water rafting; Great White Shark diving with his sons in Guadalupe, Mexico; a dive trip with Jean Michele Cousteau; trips with friends to Fiji; and participating in the Honor Flight trip to Washington D.C. with other Veterans, including his son Jim.
His love for the beauty beneath the sea sparked his interest in underwater photography. After he retired from MariPro in 2000, he pulled all his underwater photos together and decided to put them on cards to give away. Many afternoons were spent with a Hegeman family assembly line taping photos onto cards and adding Richards personalized stamp to the back.
Richard was active in his church, Emanuel Lutheran. He attended worship services, Men’s Bible Study, assembled books in Braille, and provided his underwater photo note cards for the Jail Outreach program.
We remember Richard for his stories, humor, willingness to serve, attention to detail, loyalty, strong work ethic, joy for life, and dedication to his family and friends. His Mother used to tell him, “My love for you is as vast as the Ocean”. He shorted this sentiment to “Oceans of Love”, which became his signature saying.
He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Yvonne, and his kids Cindy Thompson, Myndi Hegeman, Sandi Marting (Paul), James Hegeman (Melissa Hamilton), David Hegeman (Tracie Tunnell). Also, by his Grandkids and Great Grandkids, who adored their Papa; Nicole Blankenship (Nick), Brooke Sulaitis (John), Kenan Marting (Carolyn), Selah Marting (Abe Musto), Sophia Hegeman, Savanna Kim (Jun), Kai Hegeman, Alex Hegeman, Kori Blankenship, Levi Blankenship, Linden Sulaitis, and Lainey Marting.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, January 31, 2026, at Emanuel Lutheran Church 3721 Modoc Rd, Santa Barbara, followed by a lunch reception in the church hall. There will be another Celebration this summer for Northern California family and friends.
Instead of flowers, donations can be made to Paws For Purple Hearts San Diego where Granddaughter Selah is Program Instructor. Paws For Purple Hearts is a non-profit that offers Canine-Assisted Warrior Therapy, Service Dog Placement with Veterans, and Facility Dog Placement for the VA. Donations can be sent through Venmo @ PawsForPurpleHeart PPH – please include “San Diego” in the subject to route donations directly to the San Diego location. Checks can be made out to Paws for Purple Hearts San Diego, and mailed to 1022 W Morena Blvd, Suite H, San Diego, CA 92110. You may also consider a charity of your choice in memory of Richard.
by Matt Kettmann | photos by Ingrid bostrom
Picture the iconic Santa Barbara garden, the kinds that occupy our public spaces and private places alike, whether working-class yards on the Westside or magnificent spreads in Montecito.
There are palm fronds, aloe spines, and agave spears, flashes of color often orange, plenty of purple and sage-like scents, reminiscent of a romp through the surrounding chaparral. The selected species are droughttolerant, hardy, and often native, at least to our climate, yet sometimes Seussian and hard to find anywhere else a mashup of Botanic Garden and Lotusland, with a sprinkling of Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden for good measure.
This distinctive plant palate dates back to the early days of Santa Barbara as an American city, when horticultural heroes such as Francesco Franceschi and Joseph Sexton introduced Mediterranean trees and shrubs from around the world in the 19th century. Their choices were embraced by the well-traveled wealthy who settled into sprawling sea-view estates and championed by civic-minded folks such as Ralph
Stevens, Lockwood de Forest, and Edward Orpet, who spread them around parks and promenades.
Santa Barbara’s ensuing affinity for these plants only proliferated to the point of ubiquity over the recent decades, with examples now in every neighborhood, lining most of our streets and parking lots, composing the visual backdrop for many of our lives. And that modern prevalence, it turns out, is largely due to one reason: a wholesale nursery called San Marcos Growers, operating under the radar to most of us in the heart of Goleta Valley’s sprawling suburbia for nearly 50 years.
Under the direction of Randy Baldwin since 1981, San Marcos Growers became the preferred place to find all sorts of plants, whether you ran a landscape design firm that worked for institutions or a retail nursery that sold to everyone else. The plants Baldwin helped select, propagate, and promote from those that grew naturally in our mountains to cacti from Mexico and euphorbia from Madagascar filtered down to our playgrounds and homes, so much even tiny apartments sport such succulents on the windowsill.
But that’s coming to end as San Marcos Growers sells off the rest of its bounty this month. The nursery business is never easy, and increasing regulations paired with higher costs of everything are only making it harder. That’s not what killed San Marcos, though. Business remains brisk to this dwindling day, with calls coming in and orders going out to customers as far away as the Bay Area and San Diego.
The death blow in this case was development, mandated by Sacramento to battle the state’s housing crisis, leaving local governments little leeway to say no. Soon, the rare trees of San Marcos will be replaced by hundreds of homes in fact, combined with the adjacent property, there will be nearly 1,500 new units built on less than 40 acres in the next couple of years.
No one can debate the need for more places for more people to live, especially here in southern Santa Barbara County. Indeed, many of the employees of San Marcos epitomized the problem, traveling from places such as Lompoc every day to work. And it’s hard to deny that this part of town is not an ideal place for such dense development squeezed between the major thoroughfares of Hollister Avenue and 101, next to existing shopping centers, schools, and bus stops.
But this story is not about quibbling what we gain. It’s about what we lose when San Marcos and Randy Baldwin are gone.
There’s the allegorical loss, of course, in the never-ending global battle that pits open space, farmland, and nature against the rising tide of humanity that consumes every square inch we can. Whether the change of San Marcos which sat on the impending development frontlines for nearly two decades feels like a win for economic fairness or a loss for our agricultural history is up to each individual to decide.
The irrefutable loss, however, is not up for debate. The end of San Marcos means the very real disappearance of actual plants, a diminishing of horticultural information, and a fading network of international connections that turned this humble patch of flat ground into one of the most important botanical centers on our planet.
Whether the everyday citizen ever experiences what that means remains to be seen, but it’s happening across California, as other important nurseries close, bigger ones consolidate, and the menu of available plants shrinks. For those who work in the landscaping industry that is to say, professionals who design, restore, and maintain the planted part of our world the end of San Marcos is being felt as a generational cataclysm.
“People are wondering where they’re going to get these things going forward,” Baldwin told me last month as trucks crammed into his small parking lot to clamor for the remaining plants. “There’s a bit of fretting in the landscape industry.”
That humility is in part what makes Baldwin the beloved figure he is among peers. Of the dozen professionals I spoke to for this article most of whom have been coming to San Marcos since the earliest days words such as “devastating” and “huge hole” were frequently employed. They fear that the progress made by San Marcos on mastering sustainable, native, and downright stunning species from around the Mediterranean corners of the world will peter out, making Santa Barbara and many parts of California look more similar to everything else.
The end of San Marcos is by no means the end of Baldwin, who’s only 69 years old and plans to maintain his critically valuable website, which, incidentally, was probably the first nursery website ever when it launched in 1996. But he’s being mourned alongside the property nonetheless.
His good friend John Greenlee, the man who made ornamental grasses a keystone to sustainable gardening, believes that San Marcos Growers thrived due to a number
of factors, including perfect timing, as it opened right when much of California was being built out.
“But the heart and soul of the reason is because of Randy Baldwin, a most brilliant plantsman,” said Greenlee, who was based in Los Angeles for decades and now works out of the Bay Area. “It’s more than just a nursery. It’s the entire essence of it all. It can’t be duplicated. There will never be another San Marcos Growers. Randy Baldwin is a national treasure. It’s truly, truly, truly the end of an era.”
That era began in 1979, when Jim and Marcia Hodges purchased the land and hired the City of Santa Barbara’s arborist Dave Gress to build a nursery. Jim and Gress volunteered for Santa Barbara Beautiful together, and realized that, in order to carry on the region’s tradition of unique trees, they needed a place to grow them.
Jim died suddenly before they really ever broke ground, but Marcia and Gress preserved. In 1980, they hired a S.B. City College horticulture grad named Lynn Kravitz to head up propagation a job she held until retiring in 2015 and the next year Gress dialed up Baldwin, who’d been working at La Sumida’s upper State Street nursery after graduating from UCSB. He was hired on that phone call.
“I broadened the palate,” said Baldwin of his impact. “I was really interested in California natives at the time, and I grew to love plants from other places, Australia and South Africa primarily. Then we got into succulents heavily.” He collaborated with the S.B. Botanic Garden on natives, with UC Santa Cruz on Australian plants, with the Huntington Garden on cacti and succulents, among other breeding programs.
“People just started coming to me,” said Baldwin. “Everyone thought I was pulling from the wild. I did some of that, but the majority was someone saying, ‘You should be growing this.’ Gradually, we just got a name for growing unusual plants.”
Many of those were “loss leaders” attractive to small, influential sets of landscape artists, though not particularly lucrative. “It helped to grow some common stuff alongside of them,” explained Baldwin, who built a fleet of five trucks including two semis that delivered to many thousands of accounts across California.
“He nurtured a lot of plants we may have never seen in the landscape around here,” said Billy Goodnick, who started visiting San Marcos as a “dirtbag” gardener before serving as the City of Santa Barbara’s landscape architect for 22 years. “He was the beta tester.”
Hired by the Botanic Garden herself in 1981, Carol Bornstein recognized Baldwin was “a remarkable plantsman” from day one, and she worked with him extensively on expanding the commercial availability of native California plants. “He was always interested in trying something new,” she said, even though a lot of them didn’t work out. “A lot of nurseries are focused on the tried and true, and just crank them out because they know they’re gonna sell. San Marcos Growers has a reputation of being on the cutting edge, no pun intended.”
They made plenty of progress together in peppering gardens with plants that would have once grown there naturally, but both lament that natives still have yet to take off as much as they should. “All you have to do is drive around Santa Barbara and see how many gardens have zero percent native plants,” she said. “It’s pretty disappointing to people like me and Randy. We still have a long way to go.”
At least people are increasingly aware that species popularized by San Marcos are good for wildlife too. “People want plants that support butterflies, bumblebees, birds…,” said Bornstein. “That has made a tremendous impact on the mixture of plants now being grown in more definitive numbers.”
Aside from untouched nature and farms, most every plant you see in the developed world made its way through a wholesale nursery at some point. That goes for park bushes, school lawns, street trees, freeway dividers, parking lots, the awesome yard on your block, and even the rundown yard on your block.
For an industry that’s basically invisible to most of us, it’s incredibly pervasive and powerful. In 2024, the overall nursery business was the second-largest agricultural producer in Santa Barbara County, amounting to more than $124 million bested only by strawberries. Wine grapes, by comparison, barely eclipsed $70 million.
If you’re a landscape designer, you get inspiration and plan projects around what a place like San Marcos offers. If you’re a landscape contractor, you buy those plans from San Marcos. If you’re a gardener whose client wants a new tree, you go to San Marcos. If you own a retail nursery, like Terra Sol or La Sumida, you buy your plants from places like San Marcos to sell to the rest of us.
The everyday Santa Barbaran’s primary interface is through retail nurseries. They’re visited weekly by roving wholesalers who bring samples in the back of pickup trucks, from which a manager can select plants to be delivered later. That usually works fine, but sometimes the delivered plants aren’t quite as pretty as the samples.
For Santa Barbara’s public-facing plant dealers, San Marcos could save your weekend sale. “I could go over to San Marcos any day of the week, hop on a cart, basically drive through a giant candy store, and cherry-pick what I wanted,” said Mike Tully, the co-owner of Terra Sol. “Instead of a tiny pickup truck, I have a giant nursery.”
Sometimes, landscape pros need something in a pinch. “I can check with San Marcos and have that for them in two hours,” said Tully. “To be able to fulfill orders on that type of turnaround has led to dynamic customer service.”
What will retailers like him do going forward? “Now, I am pretty much looking to San Diego County to get a lot of the material that I used to get in the blink of an eye from San Marcos,” he said. “We’ll still be able to fill our shelves, but there is quite a bit of unique plant material that may not be findable from other growers in the future.”
San Marcos is not the only significant wholesale nursery closing in California right now. Tree of Life in San Juan Capistrano, founded in 1980, closed last month, and Griggs Nursery in Watsonville which had taken over the historic Suncrest Nursery that shuttered in 2023 announced last week that it will close this year. Meanwhile, smaller wholesalers are being consumed and consolidated by larger companies at the same time. There are still plenty of respected nurseries from Goleta to Carpinteria pros are especially hopeful that West Covina on More Mesa might fill some of the coming void but none currently offer the breadth of San Marcos.
A veteran of landscape architecture in Santa Barbara since 1969, Bob Cunningham cofounded Arcadia Studio in 2000, and it quickly became the largest firm in town. The firm employs a full-time staffer to track down plants for their projects, and that job just got much harder.
“Randy has probably hundreds of varieties that other growers don’t want to touch because there isn’t enough market for them,” said Cunningham. “Their closure is certainly having a big impact on us and other designers who don’t simply rely on what’s easily available but try to include a lot of creativity in our designs. There are just so many plants that are simply not grown because they’re not commercially viable.”
Amid building a repository of physical specimens and running a near-statewide shipping network, Randy Baldwin somehow found time to build what’s believed to be the first nursery website in the country, if not world. That was in 1996, after he and Brian Hodges the son of the farm’s founders had created a digital database of inventory, which is now appreciated as one of the most significant reference guides to Mediterranean plants anywhere.
To his surprise, smgrowers.com rose to the top of horticulture inquiries on the internet. “All of the sudden, people were reading our stuff of course, they’re plagiarizing our stuff, too,” laughed Baldwin, who was quickly asked to give talks on how other nurseries could do the same. “It became one of our main sales people essentially.”
Its impact was felt far beyond Santa Barbara. When Eric Arneson and Nahal Sohbati who moved to Santa Barbara to found Topophyla Landscape Design in 2018 were in college in San Francisco, the website was a constant presence. “San Marcos was a huge resource on what plants grow where,” said Arneson. “Even before we knew it was in Santa Barbara, we referred a lot to its catalogue of information.”
That continued when they worked for firms big and
small, and it was only when they lived a couple of miles away in Goleta that they discovered San Marcos was in their backyard. As they designed properties from Hollywood to Healdsburg, the nursery became a source for about 90 percent of their plants, and the website remains a critical tool.
“That’s invaluable for our industry,” said Sohbati, whose day trips to the nursery where pros could grab a cart and rove the grounds independently sparked their most innovative concepts. “It became part of our design process.”
“It really got us spoiled. It’s hard to go to other nurseries now,” said Arneson, who’s dismayed that he will now have to rely more on larger, out-of-town nurseries. “When you shop at San Marcos, you’re spending that money locally. It’s directly benefiting the economy around you.”
Baldwin is pledging to keep the website alive, and he’s continuing to update it as you read this. Numerous institutions, from Berkeley to Pasadena, are offering to host the site, which he wants to ensure is free to use and free from advertising, though he knows referral income could keep it viable.
The website’s generous, highly insightful spirit is essentially the online avatar of Baldwin the human. He served (and still serves) on countless boards, both local and national; steadily donated coveted cultivars to institutions and fundraising causes; and regularly hosted “Field Days,” where plantspeople from all across the state would converge to listen to guest speakers, tour the grounds, and discover new species for their projects. Whenever he received a question about this or that plant in this or that setting, his responses were revelatory, and he readily provided contacts for specialists if needed.
“As anyone knows who has ever asked him a plant question, even a seemingly simple little plant query, the answer you get back is often worthy of a master’s thesis,” said Jeff Chemnick, who’s worked at Lotusland since the 1990s and owns Aloes in Wonderland on the backside of the Riviera. He gave that comment during a speech at the last-ever field day in October 2024, which was called the Last Dance Party. “I don’t know where he gets the time to run this empire, maintain the website, schmooze everyone silly, and still have the time to so thoroughly research and reply in detail, and I mean great detail.”
While the experimental nursery era may be fading these days across California, Baldwin’s information is keeping the fire alive for those who light more torches.
“It’s really as much of a horticultural and botanical institution as it is a nursery,” said Paul Mills, who looked forward to
meeting Baldwin when he was young and then worked with him constantly since he started at Lotusland in 1995. “The amount of knowledge and information they have amassed and openly shared has fed generations of young people.”
He sees Baldwin’s fingerprints everywhere. “I can spot a San Marcos Growers landscape anywhere in town,” said Mills. “The influence is huge.”
In mid-December, one week before San Marcos Growers held its final normal day of operations, Baldwin walked me around the property, home to the most magnificent and curious plants in Santa Barbara and far beyond.
There’s our region’s largest magnolia, flood of succulents, towering canary palm and Queensland kauri trees, specimens such as the strawberry tree and Brazilian cedar that now line our roadways, and, well, far too many species to scribble in a notebook, especially as he rattles off names in Latin. Most of what remains will be destroyed by the development.
Baldwin, who became a partner in the business in 1990, lives in a small, old home on the back of the property with his landscape contractor wife, Heide, whom he met through the industry. They raised their son and daughter there graduates of the adjacent El Camino School and were in the process of picking which of their thousands of personal plants to move to the home they own but have never lived in a couple miles away.
He was nostalgic, of course, but I also sensed relief. “Personally, I’m ready,” Baldwin told me as we wandered past silvery pineapple relatives and gargantuan agaves. “The Hodges gave us the opportunity to make a really good run at this. I’m not bitter at all.”
The hardest part is letting go of more than 50 employees, some of whom have worked there as long as he has. “I have been doing this planting work all my life,” said production and propagation manager Delfina Martinez, who started in 1982. She lined up a new job at Windmill Nursery in Buellton, which is only 15 minutes from her home in Lompoc compared to the 45- or so minutes she’d drive both ways to San Marcos for the past 44 years. She was still charging away that day, not quite prepared to say bye.
“It’s been great working here,” she said. “I will miss everything. I know we’re not going to find another one like San Marcos.”
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THURSDAY 1/22
1/22: CWC Classics: Sunset Boulevard See a screening of the 1950 classic, Sunset Boulevard, directed by Billy Wilder, which follows a struggling screenwriter (William Holden) who becomes entangled with a decaying silent-era icon Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). A post-screening discussion will follow. 7-9:45pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Free Call (805) 893-4637. carseywolf.ucsb.edu/events
1/22: Boogie for Our Bodies Space-Themed Disco Wear an out-of-thisworld costume for a silent disco outside, a regular deejay indoors, and dancing everywhere. This Planned Parenthood fundraiser will support the fight for reproductive freedom for all and feature a raffle, costume contest, and more. 6:30pm. Ages 21+. Wildcat Lounge, 15 W. Ortega St. $25. Ages 21+. Email riley.dewitt@ppcentralcoast.org. tinyurl.com/Boogie-Bodies-Jan22
1/22: Chaucer’s Book Talk and Signing: Jim Wilke Author, former curator of technology at the Autry Museum of the American West, and consulting historian Jim Wilke will talk about and sign copies of his book, Frontier Comrades: From the Fur Trade to the Ford Car, which examines six accounts of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender lives on the frontier of the American West, from the fur trade era to the automobile age. 6pm. Chaucer’s Books, 3321 State St. Free. Call (805) 682-6787. chaucersbooks.com/events
1/22: Loquita’d Dry-Licious Dinner with Pentire Join for a four-course dining experience featuring bold, alcohol-free pairings from Pentire with each course matched with a nonalcoholic cocktail designed to complement Loquita’s vibrant, seasonal cuisine. 6-9pm. Loquita, 202 State St. Call (805) 880-3380. tinyurl.com/Loquita-Dry-Licious
1/23: The Santa Ynez Valley (S.Y.V.) Concert Series Presents Tak ács Quartet The world-renowned Takács Quartet — Edward Dusinberre (violin), Richard O’Neill (viola), Harumi Rhodes (violin), and András Fejér (cello) — will perform a program of works by Beethoven, Dvořák, and celebrated composer Nokuthula Ngwenyama. 7pm. St. Mark’sin-the-Valley Episcopal Church, 2901 Nojoqui Ave., Los Olivos. $25. Call (805) 705-0938. tinyurl.com/Takacs-Quartet-Jan23
SATURDAY 1/24
THURSDAY
Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 2:30-6:30pm
FRIDAY
Montecito: 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Rd., 8-11:15am
SATURDAY
Downtown S.B.: Corner of State and Carillo sts., 8am-1pm
SUNDAY
Goleta: Camino Real Marketplace, 10am-2pm
TUESDAY
Old Town S.B.: 500-600 blocks of State St., 3-6:30pm
WEDNESDAY
Solvang: Copenhagen Dr. and 1st St., 2:30-6:00pm
FISHERMAN’S MARKET
SATURDAY
Rain or shine, meet local fishermen on the Harbor’s commercial pier, and buy fresh fish (filleted or whole), live crab, abalone, sea urchins, and more. 117 Harbor Wy., 6-11am. Call (805) 259-7476. cfsb.info/sat
1/24: Sweet Home Santa Barbara-The Doublewide Kings Take in a fun, guitar-centric, rowdy, nostalgic trip back in time with the Doublewide Kings (George Friedenthal on keys, Claudia Taylor on flute, and Bill Flores on pedal steel, saxophone, and other instruments) with funds supporting the Marjorie Luke Theatre. 7:3010pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. $30-$95. Call (805) 884-4087. luketheatre.org/events
BY TERRY ORTEGA
1/22-1/23,1/26: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: Sam Blasucci Band (of Mapache) with Mia Wilson, 8pm. $18-$22. Ages 21+. Fri.: CAMA, 6pm, $10.; Funk It Up with Area 51! 8:30pm, $15-$18. Ages 21+. Mon.: Lucinda Lane with Paper Moon, 7:30pm. $10-$15. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
1/23-1/24: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: Dead Set 805. Sat.: Hardcastle. 634 State St. 8-10pm. Free Call (805) 308-0050. mspecialbrewco.com
1/23: M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) The New Vibe. 6860 Cortona Dr., Bldg. C., Goleta. 7-9pm. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com
1/24: Big Blues from Texas: Billy F. Gibbons and the BFG Band Billy Gibbons, best known as the centerpiece of ZZ Top, and his BFG band, Chris “Whipper” Layton on drums and Mike “The Drifter” Flanigin on the Hammond B3 organ, will bring their blend of hard rock and boogie rock to S.B. 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $60-$95; premium: $150. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org
SUNDAY 1/25
1/25: Yin-Quiry: Yin Stillness with Mindful Inner Work Anyone navigating stress or transitions or looking for deeper inner clarity are invited to this three-hour therapeutic workshop that will integrate Yin Yoga, meditation, and guided psychological inquiry to learn to recognize patterns, soften protective responses, and cultivate insight with compassion. 2:30-5:30pm. Yoga Soup, 28 Parker Wy. $50. Call (805) 965-8811. tinyurl.com/Yin-Quiry
1/23-1/24: Maverick Saloon Fri.: The Molly Ringwald Project, 9pm. Sat.: Robert Heft, 8:30pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Call (805) 686-4785. Ages 21+. mavericksaloon.com/eventcalendar
1/24-1/25: Cold Spring Tavern Sat.: The Winetones. Sun.: Xangie. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. 1:30-4:30pm. Free Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com
1/24: Hook’d Bar and Grill T-Bone Ramblers, 2-5pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-onthe-water
1/25: Longoria Wines Live music, 3-5pm. 732 State St. Free. Email info@ longoriawine.com longoriawines.com/events
1/26: The Red Piano Church on Monday: Morganfield Burnett, 7:30pm. 519 State St. $5. Call (805) 358-1439. theredpiano.com
1/23: Carr Winery Brian Kinsella & Friends, 7pm. 414 N. Salsipuedes St., Santa Barbara. Free. Call (805) 9657985. Ages 21+. carrwinery.com/events/
1/24: Marjorie Luke Theater The Doublewide Kings, 7:30pm. $33-$95. 721 E. Cota St. Call (805) 884-4087. luketheater.org/events
1/26: Lucinda Lane, Paper Moon at SOhO Enjoy a night of the “IndieBossaJazzTwang” sound of Nicole Lvoff (voice) and Joe Woodard (guitars, songs) a k a Lucinda Lane, who released their first album, Summer Is Over, last year. Swinging jazz band Paper Moon will open the show. 6:30pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $10-$15. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com
TUESDAY
1/27: CWC Docs: Pistachio Wars See the 2024 documentary Pistachio Wars, which follows journalist Yasha Levine as he investigates a small-town water deal and uncovers a hidden side of California’s health-food industry and reveals the billionaires who dominate California’s pistachio industry but, more importantly, own much of the state’s water. A post-screening discussion with filmmakers Yasha Levine and Rowan Wernham will follow. 7pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Free. Call (805) 893-4637. carseywolf.ucsb.edu/events
WEDNESDAY
1/28: Presentation and Talk: The Astonishing Tale of Ludmilla and Thad Welch This illustrated presentation and talk by historian Hattie Beresford will share the story of starving artists Ludmilla and Thaddeus Welch, who arrived in S.B. in 1905. Here, they continued to paint, and Ludmilla established herself as a valued member of the S.B. Art Colony, painting landscapes and historic adobe structures. 5:30-6:30pm. S.B. Historical Museum, 136 De la Guerra St. Free-$20. Call (805) 963-4364. sbhistorical.org/events
1/23: Janeane Garofalo See spoken-word performer, actress, activist, and comedian Janeane Garofalo for wellinformed opinions, unflinching honesty, and sarcastic take on life today with social and political commentary. 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $34.25-$61.25. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org
1/23: Felipe Esparza: At My Leisure Tour Felipe Esparza, stand-up comedian, actor, and the first Latino to win NBC’s Last Comic Standing, out with the 2025 Netflix special Raging Fool, will bring the funny as
“Matteo is the evolution of fusion guitar; his breathtaking technique is a marvel to behold. He’s the evidence that the evolving spirit of guitar players is firmly intact.” – Steve Vai
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“Hits like ‘American Pie’, ‘Vincent’, ‘Castles in the Air’ and the beautiful ballad ‘And I Love You So’ all share the same elusive component that makes them timeless.” - Irish Examiner
The GRAMMY® winning bandleader, conguero, and percussionist is among the most influential percussionists in jazz.
Famed Columnist Dan Walters Speaks About The Hottest Political Topics Facing CA Today
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“Four decades after her new-waif debut, Suzanne Vega retains her knack for lucid reflections and crisp music to match ... Her voice remains both knowing and observant.” – Rolling Stone
“An exhilarating display of musical ability and technical dexterity.” – All About Jazz
“… the technique, intellect and imagination that guitarists strive for over a lifetime.” – JazzTimes
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“Sheer physical energy and beauty.”
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The National Dance Company of the Republic of Guinea Les Ballets Africains
Fri, Feb 6 / 7:30 PM / Granada Theatre
“[Jlin creates] something frenetic and physical but also heavy with emotion, like chamber music breaking out on the dance floor.”
Stereogum
“Third Coast Percussion is blurring musical boundaries and beguiling new listeners.” NPR
Special Double Bill Taj Mahal and Patty Griffin
Tue, Feb 17 / 7:30 PM / Arlington Theatre
“A multi-instrumentalist wizard… While often described as a blues musician, he’s more of an international griot.” Datebook on Taj Mahal
“Sometimes with tenderness, with family and loss, sometimes with fierce poignant critique, her wordplay is profound, challenging and unrivaled.” – Robert Plant on Patty Griffin
West Coast Premiere of New Piece by Jlin Jlin + Third Coast Percussion
Thu, Feb 19 / 8 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall
“Tiler Peck’s dancing is distinguished by its musicality, speed and precision.”
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Only West Coast Performance Two Nights! Two Programs! Ballet Festival: Jerome Robbins Curated by Tiler Peck
A Joyce Theater Production
Tue, Mar 3 & Wed, Mar 4 / 7:30 PM / Granada Theatre
It all started out as a “reverse surprise party” for his friends.
When Hank Azaria the six-time Emmy Award–winning actor probably best known for voicing several characters on The Simpsons turned 60, he told his friends he was getting a Bruce Springsteen tribute band for the party. But the surprise was on them when Azaria appeared onstage to perform as The Boss, backed by a professional band and singing his heart out for an hour and a half.
“I totally fell into this rabbit hole of obsessing over a vocal impression, which is sort of what I do for my career, off and on,” said Azaria in a phone interview. “And I’ve never had more fun, because I love this music so much and have such nostalgia for it. I kind of had to learn to sing along the way for real in order to not blow my voice out. Then one thing led to another, and we just started gigging. And I just love it.”
What started out as a birthday show in April 2024 led up to the band (with Tim Basom, Evan Harris, Alden HarrisMcCoy, Hannah Juliano, Dustin Kaufman, Jeff Koch, Adam Kromelow, and Christian Nourijanian) making their public debut in August 2024. The sold-out event marked the official launch of The EZ Street Band as a touring act and began the group’s journey to bring audiences an authentic Springsteen experience. Since then, they’ve taken the show on the road, with all net proceeds going toward the Four Through Nine Foundation (4thru9.org), founded by Azaria and his wife Katie and committed to social justice, education, and addiction recovery.
Azaria and The EZ Street Band will be in our neck of the woods at the Chumash Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom on Friday, January 30.
A longtime Springsteen fan, Azaria whose films include Quiz Show, Heat, The Birdcage, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Godzilla (1998), and Pretty Woman said, “I’ve been imitating the way Bruce talks since I was a teenager. I tried to sing like him, too. I discovered that I have a deeper voice than Bruce naturally. So, whenever I tried to sing along to the recordings, I couldn’t reach his high notes but there’s a thing in music that I didn’t know called, you can lower the key a little. So, we did that. But now, actually, part of the fun
and the challenge of it is, over the last two years, my key has been creeping up, and now I sing some songs in Bruce’s key, and some only a half-step below, which is because I’m practicing, and also, the closer you get to Bruce’s key, the more it sounds authentically like Bruce.
“So, it’s almost like a video game. I’m almost unlocking levels. And I really enjoy that.”
With an acting career that’s quite busy with The Simpsons on its 37th season, as well as multiple films, another TV show (The Artist), a book, and a one-man show in the hopper, Azaria said, “This band is my favorite thing to do. It keeps me fairly busy. We’re kind of at a point where we’re having to turn down gigs. I would do more, but I have a 16-year-old son and he’s about to start applying for college, and I kind of
need to be around the home front. Otherwise, I’d grab my wife and hit the road.”
As a longtime Springsteen fan, Azaria said he is always working to improve and wanting to do him justice. “Most people of a certain age growing up on the East Coast, Bruce is just part of your life, whether you like it or not. … I’m from that classic rock era. I love so many of those bands. Bruce was always at the top of my list, like he was for a lot of people.
“Somehow, with Bruce, you feel like he’s singing about you to you, very personally, which is a gift. Not all great artists have that. … Some actors have that too, where not only are they amazing, but you feel like you’re their best friend somehow in their performance. Bruce has that quality; his songs play a movie in your head. He’s such a brilliant storyteller that I think, more than a lot of other artists, you get transported into his songs in a way that some other artists, even those you love, don’t quite do.”
Was he worried about Springsteen’s reaction to the tribute band?
“I worried a lot about that. I worried at first, he’d feel it was a parody in some way,” said Azaria. “I wanted a project that is almost beyond the loving homage. It’s really a performance based on loving; It’s like an expression of what he actually really meant to me my whole life.”
Through a mutual friend connection (“a crazy story through a dentist buddy of ours”), Azaria said, “I actually got this really incredibly sweet video from Bruce, basically blessing us and saying he thought we were doing a really good job and that we should keep going.”
Azaria got that message when he was on a plane. “I started to cry. The guy sitting next to me thought I was nuts. I showed him. I was like, ‘Look, it’s Bruce. It’s Bruce.’ And I cried for about three days after I got that.”
—Leslie Dinaberg
Gazing over the 107-year-old classical music presenter CAMA’s impressive roster of world-class orchestras and classical artists ushered into Santa Barbara over the decades can’t help but invite awe. And among the more recent, renewed jewels in the CAMA legacy crown is an ongoing relationship with one of America’s greatest orchestras, the Chicago Symphony, which makes its way back to The Granada Theatre on Friday, January 23.
Fairy’s Kiss, and a different kind of Ravel piece the crowd-pleasing splash of the crescendo exercise Boléro, with the vision of Bo Derek dancing in some heads.
When Muti came to Santa Barbara with the Chicago Symphony back in 2017 the group’s first appearance here in 30 years he touched on sensitive global dynamics and the bonding universal power of music. He had recently performed in Israel and, a few months later, in Iran with Italian musicians. “This was almost impossible when we started to prepare,” he said, “to put the idea on paper, the idea of friendship with Iran, because I had been in Israel before. Iran and Israel are, as you know, strong enemies. But through the music, I was able to make music with Iranian musicians together with the Italian musicians.
Founded in 1891, the Chicago Symphony takes its rightful place in what is considered the “Big Five” list of prominent American orchestras along with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. (Arguably, the formidable and courageous Los Angeles needs to be added to the list, making it a “Big Six.”) Notably, all five on the list have passed through Santa Barbara courtesy of CAMA.
Once again, the Chicago Symphony will be led on this two-week winter tour out west by the eminent maestro Riccardo Muti. Although his tenure as music director lasted from 2010 through 2023, he returns in his current role as Music Director Emeritus for Life. Currently, the orchestra awaits the installment of 29-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä as its new music director, starting in 2027.
“This is what the governments around the world still don’t understand completely, that music and culture is one of the most important weapons that the western world including the United States has, and should be promoted around the world, just to underline that the United States is not only what many people perceive, as a nation of power. It is also a nation of great culture and great possibilities democratic possibilities.”
With his Emeritus status, Muti brings a deep conductor-musician rapport to the task of leading the group. In 2023, as part of his farewell tour, Muti led a riveting program featuring Beethoven’s toorarely performed Symphony No. 8 and Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. On Friday, he leads a program of Brahms’s Symphony No. 4, Stravinsky’s “Divertimento Suite” from The
Years later, amid a harsher era in America, his sentiments ring like idealistic, hopeful words.
The Chicago Symphony/CAMA connection is getting to be a habit, and the welcome mat is ever out for this stellar ensemble.
—Josef Woodard
Recent theatrical encounters with acclaimed trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard in town affords us a tidy snapshot of his layered artistic profile. Two years ago, he appeared at the Arlington Theatre in the fiery band led by Herbie Hancock a gig Blanchard has periodically had in the recent chapter of Hancock’s career.
And in 2001, he appeared at Hahn Hall, but in absentia. His groundbreaking opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones premiered as part of Metropolitan Opera Live in HD streaming program, with Blanchard’s rich background as a composer for film (for Spike Lee and many others), TV, and now dipping into the opera world.
When Blanchard returns, live, to Santa Barbara on Tuesday, January 27, at The Granada Theatre as part of the UCSB Arts & Lectures season, he will be returning to his original form, as himself, a potent player and bandleader who also makes music for music’s sake. His previous Santa Barbara landings have found him as bandleader, at the Lobero, and as side ally with Dianne Reeves and the Monterey Festival All-Stars.
In the case of the upcoming Granada show, he is also making music for the timely cause of paying tribute to this year’s lofty centennial jazz legends Miles Davis and John Coltrane. Those promethean jazz pioneers briefly connected including on Davis’s historic Kind of Blue followed different stylistic paths, but shared a bold impulse to continually evolve. And both have left indelible imprints on jazz in their wakes to this day, in terms of their respective instruments and musical characters.
As an added bonus, the trumpet/tenor sax majesty of its tribute subjects will have its “roles” played by Blanchard and the commanding tenor player in
his own right, Ravi Coltrane, the son of John and Alice Coltrane.
In an interview, Blanchard spoke about his longstanding willingness to stretch beyond expectations and creative comfort zones, which took him into the opera world a rare move for a jazz musician with the newsworthy Fire Shut Up in My Bones production on the holy ground of the Metropolitan Opera in 2021, and the opera Champion (written in 2013 and premiered by Opera Theatre of St. Louis, as did Fire).
The double-header marked the first time a composer has had two operas in successive years at the Met since Richard Strauss.
“I’m all about the challenges,” Blanchard told me, on the phone from a restaurant in New Orleans, where he was born and lives with his family, “and trying to do something creative. For me, it’s a means of growing and constantly trying to find new things, new ways of expression. And hopefully, for the listener, it will be a little different experience. You have all of my heroes to blame for that,” he laughs. “Look at Miles Davis and even Ornette Coleman. Max Roach, too. None of those guys just rested on their reputations. They were constantly changing, constantly evolving.
“Another thing I admire about those guys is that they were socially conscious. I think that’s what art is. It’s a reflection of our culture, from which it was created, or which we exist in. You can never separate those things. Music for the sake of just music, to me, is ok, but it’s not something that truly interests me. Art in general, is supposed to be an expression of our daily experience.”
—Josef Woodard
Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane perform the Miles Davis and John Coltrane Centennial on Tuesday, January 27, 7:30 p.m., at The Granada Theatre (1214 State St.). See bit.ly/3YKuF8n.
Next Tuesday, January 27, the U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) will play a soccer match against Chile on historically hallowed ground.
UCSB’s Harder Stadium was the launch pad for the champions of the first Super Bowl and the first FIFA Women’s World Cup.
In 1967, the Green Bay Packers spent a week running drills on the unfrozen turf of UCSB’s recently built football stadium before decamping to Los Angeles, where they demolished the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl I.
by John Zant
In 1991, after UCSB had dropped football and Harder Stadium was on its way to becoming “Soccer Heaven,” the USWNT held a training camp and played a game on the West Coast for the first time. On October 19, they dazzled a crowd of 3,274 one of the largest in the national team’s first six years of existence by scoring a 10-0 victory over the UCSB women’s team.
“It was an awesome event,” said Aaron Heifetz, then a UCSB assistant coach and a publicist for the program after watching such legendary players as Carin Jennings, Michelle Akers, April Heinrichs, and Mia Hamm ring up the goals.
A month later, the Americans went to China and fought their way past Sweden, Brazil, Japan, Germany, and Norway to become world champions. Their achievement was not widely known at the time, as U.S. television ignored the tournament. Fans like Heifetz had to scour newspapers to read that Jennings, who had scored 102 goals as a UCSB player from 1983-86, received the Golden Ball award as the outstanding player of the first Women’s World Cup.
In 1994, Heifetz landed a job with U.S. Soccer Communications, preparing for the prestigious men’s FIFA World Cup. It was a heady time for the 1989 UCSB graduate. He had led a frugal life with Gaucho women’s head coach Tad Bobak, who often slept in the office because his yearround home was in Santa Monica.
“I went from UCSB, making $3,000 a year, directly to the World Cup men’s team in a World Cup year that we’re hosting,” Heifetz said.
A year later, he became press officer for the women’s national team. It was a contract job at first, with modest expectations. “Amazingly, in 1995, we set a record
for largest domestic attendance for a USWNT match at 6,145 at a high school stadium in Texas,” Heifetz recalled. At the 1995 Women’s World Cup, hosted by Sweden, the Americans finished in third place behind Norway and Germany.
There was a change in the outlook after Atlanta hosted the first Olympic women’s soccer tournament in 1996. The attendance at the University of Georgia for the gold-medal match a thrilling 2-1 U.S. victory over China was 76,481.
“The Atlanta crowd inspired US Soccer to redo the bid for the 1999 World Cup,” Heifetz said. “We decided to use larger stadiums.”
That led to the iconic 1999 Women’s World Cup final at the Rose Bowl 90,000 spectators, the U.S. and China exchanging forays into overtime, Brianna Scurry’s save, and Brandi Chastain’s winning penalty kick.
“It was on front pages across the country,” said Heifetz, who was director of communications for the tournament. “It changed women’s sports in America forever.”
Every time since, when an Olympics or World Cup comes along, America turns its eyes to the soccer women. They finished as champions in the Games of 2004 (Athens), 2008 (Beijing), 2012 (London), and 2024 (Paris); and the World Cups of 2015 (Canada) and 2019 (France).
That brought their haul to nine global championships. Heifetz has been with the team for eight of them, often visible among the players as they celebrate on the field.
“Germany is next with three [world titles],” Heifetz said. “All the wins are special because it’s so freaking hard to do. It takes so many people behind the scenes, so many things that have to go right. It’s the championship of the freaking world.”
The Paris Olympics title was remarkable, Heifetz said, coming as it did after the 2023 World Cup in New Zealand, where an aging USWNT was knocked out in the Round of 16. With a young roster and a new coach, Emma Hayes, the Americans went 6-0 and outscored their opponents, 12-2.
“That was one of the most incredible achievements in women’s soccer history,” Heifetz said. “Not only was the team down emotionally and soccer-wise, Emma came in, and in her 10th game won the Olympic gold medal.”
With the 10th FIFA Women’s World Cup coming in 2027 in Brazil, this is a significant year of preparation
for the USWNT. While training in Southern California, they will face off against Paraguay on Saturday in Carson before coming to Santa Barbara for their first match here since 1991. The friendly against Chile will also be their first international match here.
Watching from across the country (the match will be televised on TBS) will be Carin Jennings-Gabarra, who would have become a household name for her performance in the 1991 World Cup if women’s soccer had the notoriety it does now.
The former Gaucho has coached women’s soccer at the U.S. Naval Academy for the past 33 years. Her journey started as an unstoppable youth player in Southern California and reached maturity in college. In a recent telephone interview, Jennings-Gabarra said, “The basis for my future success, skills, leadership, character was all that I learned on and off the soccer field at UCSB.”
As a member of the national team during its early years, she said, “I was just fighting to get a jersey to fit me, to get there safely when we go on trips. Today, things are different, the styles of coaching, strength coaches, nutritionists, technological stuff.
“We had high expectations for ourselves as a team,” she continued. “That’s what drove us. We had to show you. I don’t believe in comparing teams, but one thing about our national team [is that] our mentality never wavers. It cares deeply.”
She was excited to return to Harder Stadium in 1991, Jennings-Gabarra said, and next week, “I know the crowd will be fantastic and the players will enjoy being there.”
by Ella Heydenfeldt
Ever marched more than five miles in a day while playing a professional instrument in uniform in the rain?
Welcome to the Rose Parade, where La Cumbre Junior High Band Director Charles Ortega rang in the New Year one music-laden step at a time.
Ortega was one of a select group of music educators from across the country chosen to perform with the Saluting America’s Band Directors (SABD) ensemble during the internationally televised New Year’s Day tradition in Pasadena. The honor recognizes band directors for their commitment to students and excellence in music education … and it placed Ortega on one of the most visible stages in the country.
“It was an empowering experience to be a part of such a distinguished and dedicated group of music educators,” Ortega said. “There were band members in their twenties marching alongside members in their eighties and everything in between. It was like a five-day educator conference in motion. Every player is an established musician and band director for a program 360 programs represented.”
For Ortega, the parade was a fullcircle moment. While it was his first time marching with the band directors’ ensemble, it was his second Rose Parade overall the first coming 35 years ago as a 19-year-old member of the USC Trojan Marching Band.
“I was 19 then. I’m 55 now,” he said, laughing. “It was really nice to reconnect with people I marched with back in 1990.”
The SABD ensemble involved more than just a ceremony. Ortega and his fellow directors rehearsed for months, memorizing music ahead of time and gathering for intensive practices at Glendale College and Arcadia High School in the days leading up to the parade. They also had to endure the elements.
“We rehearsed in the rain,” Ortega said. “They gave us ponchos, but the Rose Parade is insistent that nobody wears ponchos in the actual parade. We ripped them off right before we started
marching, and then we got soaked.”
The parade route stretches five-anda-half miles, but Ortega said the day itself totals closer to 10 miles of walking from staging to the route and beyond.
“It’s like a full day at Disneyland,” he said, “but wrapped into about three hours. And you’re playing an instrument the whole time.”
The adrenaline definitely helps.
One of the most moving moments came off-route, when the ensemble performed “Amazing Grace” for honorees connected to the Donate Life float.
Beyond the parade itself, Ortega’s selection reflects years of dedication to music education. He spent 11 years teaching at Santa Barbara High School before joining La Cumbre Junior High, where he has taught for nearly a decade.
As a junior high band director, Ortega said the enthusiasm of his students is what keeps him inspired. “They’re eager,” he said. “They want to do well. They just kind of eat up knowledge.”
La Cumbre Principal Bradley Brock said Ortega’s Rose Parade appearance is both a personal milestone and a powerful example for students.
“This is really Charlie’s life’s work,” Brock said. “Yes, he’s a band director during the day, but this is his life as a musician, as an artist. It’s really a capstone of a remarkable career and an inspiration to his students.”
The look and taste of the food at Manifattura speaks all for itself.
Focaccia whose crunchy outside shines as much as the soft inside floats. Tiny eggs of burrata wearing floppy white berets, their creaminess cut by delicately bitter olive oil. Boats of eggplant roasted to silk, overflowing with a sweet-sour mash of tomato and pine-nut agrodolce. Crunchy meatballs, their innards wispy, their sauce a mustardy salsa verde. Silky cacio e pepe, slaked in a pungent pepper-parm that almost hurts your mouth.
by Matt Kettmann | Photos by Ingrid Bostrom
But aesthetic appeal is just the intro to each item’s tale. “I want to make sure every dish has a story behind it,” said Brian Dodero, the chef and co-owner of the new lower State Street restaurant. “Some you don’t see that often, and we’re bringing them back to the main stage.”
The focaccia, called “pizza” bianca, comes from a slow, cold ferment that’s baked daily. The “super, über-fresh” burrata is flown in from Puglia weekly, landing at LAX on Mondays and delivered on Tuesdays. The eggplant is inspired by Sicily’s caponata in which poor villagers used affordable veggies rather than the fish preferred by aristocrats while
the meatballs are Roman, packed with beef shank that’s boiled then fried. “It’s a crispy little meatball with salsa verde that’s vibrant and bright,” he explained.
As for the peppery pasta? “There are some dishes that shouldn’t be touched, like cacio e pepe,” said Dodero of this ancient sustenance for wandering shepherds. “There’s nothing you can do to that.”
Though certainly modernized, the cuisine is an ode to Italy’s cucina povera, the peasant cooking that’s birthed a global fare found everywhere from Toronto to Tokyo. “These dishes really are the backbone to Italian cuisine,” said Dodero, who studied in Florence and returns to Italy to explore more every year. “But they started because the people only had these ingredients.”
Being constricted by external realities also defines the origins of Manifattura, which opened on the 400 block of State Street in October. Chapter one was set around the corner on West Haley Street at Aperitivo, where the Santa Barbara–raised Dodero and his business partner, Milan-born Andrea Girardello they met years ago while working at the Four Seasons Biltmore in Montecito first struck pastapowered gold.
Despite launching in the sliver of a space at the start of the pandemic, Aperitivo thrived due to a still-popular, prepareat-home pasta club and continued packing its limited seats due to a small but constantly shifting menu that developed steady, somewhat rabid fans. “We’ve packed them in as much as possible,” said Dodero. “It’s a drive for people to feel like you’re part of something. That’s how Aperitivo became a lively place. People are happy to wait outside.”
Somehow, Dodero prepared everything in the most limited of kitchens, minus even the stove and oven that we take for granted at home. Girardello’s eye-opening wine list and racy range of spritzes certainly helped, supporting the original intent for Aperitivo to be a simple wine bar.
Manifattura’s opening as a full-fledged restaurant is enabling Aperitivo to shine as a proper enoteca, whether you’re waiting for your dinner table there, enjoying a quick sip and bite, or making an entire evening of it.
“We brought it back to its original intent,” said Girardello, who’s passed off daily management of the space to longtime wine professional Lindsey Reed. “She gives you a wine education when you come. It’s not just drinking a glass of wine.”
Reed serves mom-and-pop producers from Europe alongside a “Local for Locals” by-the-glass selection from Central Coast producers using lesser-known varieties, like Whitcraft’s 2016 lagrein, with proceeds going to the Santa Barbara Foodbank. There’s also now an “Aperitivo Hour” from 3:30 to 5 p.m. with free olives, truffle chips, and peanuts.
Explained Reed, “Aperitivo now has the opportunity to grow into what it was always intended to be: a European wine bar with a warm atmosphere serving the same innovative dishes.”
Aperitivo is open Tue.-Sat., 3:30-7:30 p.m.; 7 W. Haley St., (805) 869-2937; aperitivosb.com; @aperitivo_sb
“It took off way more than expected,” said Girardello, who worked for upscale hotels in London, Maine, and Florida before landing at the Biltmore in 2008. He’d always wanted to open his own enoteca, serving small bites and international pours, but never found the right community to appreciate the concept.
“Because of the wealth and the world travelers and the general community here, I thought Santa Barbara was the best place to do it,” he said. “It’s very cultural compared to a lot of places in California and the United States.”
But Aperitivo surged beyond basic-wine-bar right away, becoming a dinner hotspot thanks to constant creativity and consistent quality. “What we found through Aperitivo is that, one, people like fresh pasta and, two, they like a menu that’s small and specialized but also changes more frequently than most restaurants,” said Dodero. He quickly realized that they needed a second, bigger place with a proper kitchen, laughing, “Cooking with an induction burner and panini press is fun, but I was ready to move on.”
State Street wasn’t on their wish list until this location which has been a parade of restaurants (Urkeb, Taza, Pace, Lettuce B. Frank, etc.) over the past couple of decades popped up just a few steps from Aperitivo. The landlord was a fan, so when they made an offer, the lease was signed on the same day. Then came more than 20 months of remodeling, permitting, and staffing up before opening on October 23. They’ve been packed ever since, too busy even for restaurant writers to get a table without significant advanced planning.
“The literal translation is ‘manufacturing,’ ” said Girardello of the name “Manifattura,” which recalls the Italian tradition of handmade clothing that’s praised for every fabric, stitch, and detail. A similar care goes into the restaurant’s menu, which is more than double the size of Aperitivo’s but will still shift seasonally, albeit at a slower pace than weekly.
“With a full kitchen, we can offer more pasta,” said Dodero, whose team will occasionally run protein entrees as specials and is now also making desserts such as baba au rhum. “But we are still keeping the menu smaller so that people can really focus on the ingredients and the craft of what we’re doing.”
Girardello is the wine and numbers guy, the latter of which may be more important than ever today. “My goal, especially in this economy and climate, is really to stay affordable,” he said. “I see that as a winning recipe. Even wealthy people are not looking to spend hundreds of dollars on wine. I don’t want to be stingy on the pour. I don’t want it to feel like you’re being robbed if you order another glass of wine.”
As he floats across the dining room, saying hi to regulars and meeting new friends, Girardello’s gentle, welcoming manner is critical to Manifattura’s mood. “I don’t want this to be a transaction; I want it to be personal,” he said. “I want people to be recognized. I want to feel that they have an experience.”
Dodero, meanwhile, is polishing off more pasta biographies. The Tagliatelle degli Umarelles reflects the Emilio Romagna region’s wealth of meats and cheese, working beef, pork shoulder, pancetta, mortadella, prosciutto, parmesan rind, and trebbiano wine into a white ragù that takes more than five hours to come together. Umarelle is the word for a person who stands with their arms behind their back and watches the world go by all day just like the cook who observes this sauce.
Then there’s the Pasta di Pizzaioli, made from Grana Arso flour, which comes from what’s left after a wheat field is harvested and then burned. “Workers would come back and pick up what burned and turn it into flour,” said Dodero, who tops the crust with stracciatella, ’nduja, and tomatoes. “If a pizzamaker came up with a pasta dish, this would be it. It’s the poor man’s food.”
Manifattura is open Tue.-Sat., 5-9 p.m.; 413 State St.; (805) 504-1405; manifatturasb.com; @manifattura_sb
Cooperative winemaking facilities are how Santa Barbara County blossomed as a wine country in the early days, as dozens of vintners who are famous today learned their craft together at places such as Central Coast Wine Services in Santa Maria. Though that landmark cellar center is no longer, smaller co-op wineries still persist in typically urban corners of our region, allowing winemakers both established and emerging to share equipment and cut costs while helping each other along the way.
A prominent example today is Easy Street Wine Collective in Buellton, which Etienne Terlinden of Cordon Winery developed in 2014 after taking over the property from Arthur White of the brands Arthur Earl and Alexander Wayne. “Easy Street was built for people who want to make great wine, not just own a winery,” explained Terlinden. “It’s about shared knowledge, shared tools, and a community that genuinely wants to see each other succeed.”
It is now home to nearly a dozen brands, from tiny projects like Jim Schlegel’s twobarrel brand Calm Down Jim to larger labels such as Larry Schaffer’s Tercero and Andrew Figge’s Figge Family, to veterans such as Karen Steinwachs, who just recently moved her Seagrape Wine Company to Easy Street.
on the wine itself rather than the cost and complexity of running a standalone facility.
On January 31, for the third year in a row, the collective will open its doors to the public for an “openbottle open house” featuring numerous brands, music, and food.
I asked Easy Street tenant Jason Scrymgeour, proprietor of Bocce Ball Wines and Clean Slate Wine Bar in Solvang, a few questions about the facility and event.
How did your own winery get involved there? Bocce Ball Wines was essentially born at Easy Street. Without Etienne Terlinden’s encouragement and guidance, and the insight and support of the other winemakers, Bocce Ball Wines simply would not exist.
What’s the advantage of a collective like this? Producing wine in a shared setting lowers the barriers for small, independent winemakers while raising the overall level of craftsmanship. The facility offers shared resources like tank rentals and crossflow filtration, making professional-grade tools accessible to small producers. By sharing equipment, space, and resources, producers can focus their time and energy
Just as important, the shared environment fosters collaboration. Winemakers are constantly exchanging ideas, tasting each other’s wines, and offering insight during critical moments of the winemaking process. We’ve created a culture where experience is shared and everyone benefits.
Any disadvantages? A shared winemaking facility requires flexibility, communication, and mutual respect. Scheduling around winemaking activities, storage space, and bottling is more complex when multiple producers are working simultaneously. Winemakers need to be highly organized, which is not always their strongest trait, especially during the stress of harvest.
How does this party differ from a usual wine event? Guests can expect a behind-the-scenes wine experience rather than a traditional tasting event. The Easy Street Open House takes place inside a working production facility, allowing attendees to taste wines in the exact space where they’re made, surrounded by tanks, barrels, and the winemakers themselves.
Unlike most wine festivals, wines will be available for purchase at the event. If guests find a wine they love, they can take home a few bottles directly from the source. Combined with food from Chef Melissa Scrymgeour of Clean Slate Wine Bar and live music from a full band, Keith Cox and Different Strings, the day is designed for some serious fun.
The Easy Street Wine Collective Open House is on Saturday, January 31, noon-3
Drover’s Doughnuts has opened a new location at 5745 Calle Real in Goleta, taking over the former Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf space. The shop marks the third outpost for the locally owned business, which began in Buellton and later expanded to Solvang.
Owner Loren Ollenburger said the Goleta opening had been in the works for some time and officially began with a first day that exceeded expectations. “This morning was very exciting,” Ollenburger said. “We had a line out the door for a couple hours straight.” He noted that much of the early traffic came from families stopping by after youth sports practices. “That’s what it’s all about,” he said. “We want to be part of the community and building new memories for families and friends and kids.”
Drover’s Doughnuts has been operating since 2019, starting in Buellton before opening the Solvang location in the summer of 2025. The Goleta shop follows the same general model, with a full doughnut case offering more than 20 flavors daily. Many of those flavors rotate monthly and are sometimes tied to seasons or regional ingredients. Ollenburger pointed to past examples such as a blackberry syrah doughnut as a way the menu reflects the surrounding wine country and agricultural landscape.
In addition to doughnuts, the Goleta location includes a full espresso bar using Groundwork Coffee, a Los Angeles–based roaster the company has partnered with across its locations. The menu also extends into savory offerings, including breakfast sandwiches built on what the shop calls “toasted dough,” a baked, unsweetened doughnut available plain or with everything seasoning. “It’s lighter than a bagel,” Ollenburger said, describing one of the shop’s most popular items.
Drover’s Doughnuts is open seven days a week. Weekday hours run from 6 a.m. to 4 p.m., with weekend hours from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., including Sundays.
YETZ’S DELI CLOSES: Reader Gerardo D. also tells me that he stopped by Yetz’s Deli at 901 Embarcadero del Mar in Isla Vista and that it was closed. GD said he asked staff at neighboring Yetz’s Bagels and they confirmed that it is shut down. I didn’t see anything official about this online, so I stopped by as well and the doors were closed but it appeared normal inside except for the tables being stacked, so I also spoke to a staff member at Yetz’s Bagels next door and he confirmed that Yetz’s Deli is no longer in business. Yetz’s Deli opened in March 2025 in the former home of PokeCeviche.
S.B. FOOD CONNECTION ON MILPAS CLOSES: Santa Barbara Food Connection has closed at 900 North Milpas Street. “Although this chapter has come to an end, we would love to continue welcoming you at our other location, Downtown Eats at 634 State Street,” says the eatery.
BISTRO AMASA STARTS LUNCH SERVICE: Bistro Amasa, which recently opened inside the Upham Hotel at 1404 De la Vina Street, has started lunch service. Lunch hours are Wednesday-Sunday, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Bistro Amasa’s lunch menu is organized around a compact selection of share plates, salads, bowls, and sandwiches rather than an extensive list of options. The opening items are simple, including bread with butter and marinated olives, before moving into salads that combine greens with ingredients like walnuts, apples, cured meats, and house-made dressings. Several lunch bowls anchor the menu, built on grains such as farro or quinoa and paired with proteins including smoked salmon or marinated chicken. Sandwiches make up the heart of the lunch offerings, with choices that range from prosciutto and tomato to steak, oyster mushrooms, and a classic cheeseburger. Dessert options include gelato and an affogato-style espresso dish.
(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Master astrologer Steven Forrest understands you Aries people well. He says that the riskiest strategy you can pursue is to constantly seek safety. It’s crucial for you to always be on the lookout for adventure. One of your chief assignments is to cultivate courage especially the kind of brave boldness that arises as you explore unknown territory. To rouse the magic that really matters, you must face your fears regularly. The coming months will be an ideal time for you to dive in and celebrate this approach to life.
(Apr. 20-May 20): You are an ambassador from the material world to the realm of spirit and vice versa. One of your prime assignments is the opposite of what the transcendence-obsessed gurus preach. You’re here to prove that the flesh is holy, pleasure is a form of prayer, and the senses are portals to the divine. When you revel in earthly delights, when you luxuriate in rich textures and tastes and scents, you’re not being “attached” or “unspiritual.” You’re enacting a radical sacred stance. Being exuberantly immersed in the material world isn’t a mistake to overcome but a blessing to savor. May you redouble your subversive work of treating your body as a cathedral and sensual enjoyments as sacraments.
(May 21-June 20): Everything that’s meant for you is trying to find its way to you. Here’s the problem: It can’t deliver the goods if you’re in constant motion. The boons trying to reach you are circling, waiting for a stable landing spot. If you keep up the restless roaming, life might have to slow you down, even stop you, so you’ll be still enough to embody receptivity. Don’t wait for that. Pause now. Set aside whatever’s feeding your restlessness and tune into the quiet signal of your own center. The moment you do, bounties will start arriving.
(June 21-July 22): Artist Louise Bourgeois said, “I am what I do with my hands.” I will adapt this declaration for your use, Cancerian: You are what you do with your feelings. You are the structures, sanctuaries, and nourishment you create from the raw material of your sensitivity. It’s one of your superpowers! I understand that some people mistake emotional depth for passive vulnerability. They assume that feeling everything means doing nothing. But you prove that bias wrong. You are potentially a master builder. You can convert the flood waters of emotion into resources that hold, protect, and feed. I hope you will do this lavishly in the coming weeks.
(July 23-Aug. 22): Admiring writers often say that the Balinese people have no traditional word for “art.” Making things beautiful is woven into everyday life, as if everything should be done as beautifully as possible. I aspire to carry out this approach myself: infusing ordinary actions with the same care I’d bring to writing a story or song. Washing dishes, answering emails, and walking to the store: All are eligible for beauty treatment. I highly recommend this practice to you in the coming weeks, Leo. It’s true that you’re renowned for your dramatic gestures, but I believe you also have an underutilized talent for teasing out glory from mundane situations. Please do that a lot in the coming weeks. For starters, make your grocery list a poem.
(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some American Indigenous cultures have “potlatch” ceremonies. These are elaborate gift-giving rituals where hosts gain prestige by generously and freely bestowing their riches on others. Circulating wealth, instead of hoarding it, is honored and celebrated. Is that economically irrational? Only if you believe that the point of resources is individual accumulation rather than community vitality. Potlatch operates on a different logic: The purpose of having stuff is to make having stuff possible for others. I invite you to make that your specialty in the coming months. Assume that your own thriving depends on the flourishing of those around you.
(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sufi poet Rumi wrote about a “treasure in ruins.” He meant that what we’re searching for may be hidden in places where we would rather not look. Your life isn’t in ruins, Libra, but I suspect you may have been exploring exciting locations while shunning mundane ones that actually hold your answers. What do you think? Is that possible? Just for fun, investigate the neglected, ignored, and boring places. Try out the hypothesis that a golden discovery awaits you in some unfinished business or a situation you feel an aversion to.
(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your capacity for intensity is your superpower. I love it, I celebrate it, and I hope to keep nurturing it in you for as long as we’re both here. But not everything deserves the full force of your passionate engagement. Some things are meant to be touched lightly, held loosely, and released easily. The question isn’t whether to feel deeply that’s who you authentically are but whether to act on every deep feeling as if it were sacred revelation. Some emotions are weather patterns passing through, not permanent truths requiring upheaval. These are especially key understandings for you to act on during the coming days.
(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As I have promised you a million times, I will NEVER exaggerate. And though you may wonder if the statements I’m about to make are excessive and overblown, I assure you they are not. The fact is, dear Sagittarius, that everything you have always wanted to enhance and upgrade about togetherness is now possible to accomplish, and will continue to be for months to come. If you dare to dismantle your outmoded beliefs about love and deep friendship every comforting myth, every conditioned response, every inherited instinct you will discover new dimensions of intimacy that could inspire you forever..
(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Renaissance painting, chiaroscuro refers to the use of strong contrasts between light and dark. It’s a technique that enhances the sense of depth. I believe your life may be in an intense chiaroscuro phase. As your joys grow bright, your doubts appear darker. As your understanding deepens, your perplexity mounts. Is this a problem? I prefer to understand it as an opportunity. For best results, study it closely. Maybe your anxiety is showing you what you care about. Perhaps your sadness is a sign of your growing emotional power. So, find a way to benefit from the contrasts, dear Capricorn. Let shadows teach you how to fully appreciate the illumination.
(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are a spy from the future. Thank you for your service! I love to see your boldness as you smuggle innovative ideas into a present that may or may not be ready for them. Your feelings of alienation are sometimes uncomfortable, but they are crucial to the treasure you offer us. You see patterns others miss because you refuse to be hypnotized by consensus reality. Keep up the excellent work, please. May you honor your need to tinker with impossibilities and imagine alternatives to what everyone else imagines is inevitable. You are proof that we don’t have to accept inherited structures as inevitable.
(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Your unconscious mind is extra communicative, dear Pisces. Hooray! Take advantage! Pay attention to weird images in dreams and songs that linger in your head. Be alert for seemingly random thoughts as they surface. Bypassing logic, your deep psyche is trying to show you ripe secrets and provocative hints. Your duty is to be receptive. So, keep a journal or recording device by your bed. Notice which memories rise up out of nowhere. Be grateful for striking coincidences. These are invitations to tune in to meaningful feelings and truths you’ve been missing.
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The Events Support Specialist provides support for events by assisting with client needs, staffing, and advice on audio‑visual media needs and capabilities based on the event and venue. Sets up all aspects of event including a variety of audio, video, computer, projection, and lighting equipment. Serves as additional staffing for event support. Works with the department and campus network
administrators to ensure network connectivity, as needed, for events. Assists Video Services staff with audio, video, computer display and lighting elements of video production. Works with repair and maintenance staff to ensure that equipment is working properly and reliably. Supervises and trains student assistants in the field to support events. Meets with clients and other staff to confirm schedules and client requirements. Advises on equipment purchases.
Reqs: Associate’s Degree required in related area and/or equivalent experience/training; 1‑3 yrs work experience in related area and/or equivalent experience/training. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check; mostly night and weekend work; this position requires a very flexible schedule, based on event needs. Most events take place during the afternoons, nights and weekends, but must also be available to support events throughout the day. Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range: $29.50 ‑ $31/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #83686
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Under the general supervision of the Associate Dean, the Instructional Design Specialist collaborates with subject matter experts, instructors, and Program Managers to design and develop high‑quality courses, workshops, and programs across multiple formats, with a focus on accessibility, andragogy, and UCSB academic policies. They manage all aspects of course development within the Canvas LMS—from initial planning to final delivery—ensuring alignment with institutional standards, ADA compliance, and curriculum committee approvals. The Incumbent also provides training and ongoing support to PaCE instructors and staff to ensure effective course planning, delivery, and alignment with learning outcomes. They develop and maintain training materials, contribute to instructional documentation, and help implement consistent standards and branding for online courses. Additionally, they stay current with emerging trends and tools in online education, support the adoption of new technologies, and assist in onboarding and training both new and current instructors and staff. Further, they coordinate course and instructor evaluations across PaCE programs to support continuous quality improvement. They ensure courses meet PaCE standards for presentation, branding, and instructional best practices and work with program staff to prepare courses in advance of launch. In collaboration with Associate Deans and program teams, they address areas for improvement, support instructor development, and contribute to ongoing discussions on instructional quality. Finally, the Instructional Design Specialist collaborates with Web, Program Teams, and Program Support to ensure course and program
descriptions are accurate, up‑to‑date, and stylistically consistent. They regularly review and revise web content and related materials to maintain a clear and cohesive voice across all platforms, supporting effective communication with prospective students and stakeholders. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and/or equivalent experience/training; 1‑3 yrs Experience maintaining a professional relationship with learners, instructors/faculty, and vendors and other staff; Working knowledge of instructional design principles and learning strategies, including needs analysis, backwards design, learning outcomes and assessment design, and instructional approaches, including lecture, discussion, activities, projects, etc.; Working knowledge of major Learning Management Systems (LMS), their principles and limitations; Working knowledge of video production, as applicable its use in current instructional design; Working knowledge of adult learning theories and education methodologies; Working knowledge of e‑learning strategies, including but not limited to courses (e.g., processes and technologies, etc.), and ability to lead effective online and in‑person classroom experiences; Demonstrated analytical skills to conduct analysis of course effectiveness and develop recommendations, demonstrating organizational and problem‑solving skills; Proficiency in planning, resourcing, and monitoring effective design life cycles of training and other learning and performance solutions to support Professional and Continuing Education programs; Proficiency in analytical, verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, collaboration, and negotiation skills; Ability to work cooperatively with others and independently, both synchronously and asynchronously; Demonstrated project management skills and the ability to establish a production calendar; Punctual, conscientious about completing tasks, and demonstrated a sense of responsibility. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check.
Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range:
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Performs a variety of custodial tasks and other related duties. Handles all heavy lifting and moving tasks, the moving of all furniture out of classrooms, offices, labs, and the replacement of all furniture. Required to perform custodial duties in zone, and campus‑wide as necessary. Reqs: Ability to perform heavy manual tasks and follow oral and written instructions. Ability to perform a variety of unskilled manual tasks; and perform other related duties as required. Notes: Visual acuity: Eyesight correction to 20‑20. Depth perception: Average depth perception. Hearing: Ability to effectively hear and
comprehend oral communication. Sense of smell: Ability to distinguish smells of various chemicals used in the cleaning process and to detect odors emanating from potentially hazardous conditions. Problem solving skills: Ability to understand and apply University and Department policies and procedures to specific situations. Ability to exercise sound judgment in solving problems. Working under pressure: Will assist emergency clean‑up projects, maintain closet inventory of equipment and supplies, and maintain work assignment to department standards. Ability to accomplish work within deadlines; may handle more than one project at a time. Working with others: Needs to be able to work effectively in a team environment and needs to receive and follow instruction from supervisors. Ability to read, write and follow oral and written instructions in English. May be required to wear an UCSB‑provided uniform. Required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies and procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Hiring/ Budgeted Hourly Range: $25.26/hr. Full Salary Range: $23.35 to $32.66/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #83629
Schedules work requests, leads job duties, and reviews finished work orders to ensure the crew is following the workflows established with the computerized maintenance management software WebTMA. Job duties include but are not limited to office and lab relocations, furniture installations, modular systems furniture modifications, heavy equipment receiving and delivery that requires special handling, setup/takedown of rental furniture and equipment for large and small public events, pickup and the donation, re‑sale, or disposal of inventorial and surplus property, as well as several related tasks at all University‑owned properties. Consults with campus departments and the Manager to provide details on labor, material, and equipment resources required for job estimates. Responsible for coordinating and leading job requests and all administrative and operational workflows in the absence of the Manager. Reqs: Use of basic tools, moving equipment including pallet jacks and motorized forklift; warehouse management; staff management including student staff; and project and special events management. Ability to read, write and perform basic arithmetic calculations. Advanced mechanical aptitude. Ability to effectively prioritize tasks; may also prioritize work for lower level incumbents. Ability to adapt to changing priorities. Solid interpersonal skills to enable effective interactions with faculty, staff, and students. Proficient in Google suite applications. Basic proficiency with database software and work order management systems. Demonstrated skills in interpersonal communications;
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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF: JACQUELINE A. TOCCI No.: 25PR00565
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: JACQUELINE A. TOCCI
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name):
JUDY M. PAULINO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 01/29/2026 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. ANACAPA
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the
California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 10/31/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: John A. Berryhill;Miller & Berryhill LLP; P.O. Box 5691, Santa Barbara, CA 93150; 805‑969‑4451 Published: Jan 8, 15, 22 2026.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: NICHOLAS BROWN No.: 25PR00642
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: NICHOLAS BROWN A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: GABRIELLE TAYLOR in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): GABRIELLE TAYLOR be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 03/12/2026 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB 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. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 12/23/2025 by Nicolette Barnard, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Denise Pritchard; Schinner & Shain, LLP ; 96 Jessie Street, San Francisco, CA 94105; 415‑369‑9050. Published: Jan 8, 15, 22 2026.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: ANDREW TODD SHUPE No.: 26PR00001
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: ANDREW TODD SHUPE
A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: DEAN LIPSITZ in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): DEAN LIPSITZ 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: 03/12/2026 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB 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. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 1/7/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Seth P. Shapiro, Esq.; 300 E. Esplanade Drive, Suie 850, Oxnard, CA 93036; 805‑981‑8555. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29 2026.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: THOMAS WAYNE
TOURVILLE No.: 25PR00539
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: THOMAS WAYNE TOURVILLE, THOMAS W. TOURVILLE A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: JOHN EDWARD TOURVILLE in
the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.
THE PETITION requests that (name): JOHN EDWARD TOURVILLE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.
THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.
THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 02/05/2026 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB 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. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 12/18/2025 by Nicolette Barnard, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Mark B. Stephen; 1230 Coast Village Cir, Ste K, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; 805‑963‑0434. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29 2026.
NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE OF KATHERINE DILLON AKA KATHERINE DILLON OHARA
CASE NO. 25PR00606
To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of:
KATHERINE DILLON AKA
KATHERINE DILLON OHARA A Petition for Probate has been filed by JON FREDERIK PYZEL in the Superior Court of California, County of SANTA BARBARA. The Petition for Probate requests that JON FREDERIK PYZEL be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The Petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.
A hearing on the petition will
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CNS‑4001152# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BIG SNORER: 3325 Manzana St Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Jackson P Elliott (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 13, 2025. Filed by: JACKSON PAUL ELLIOTT/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 17, 2025. 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: 2025‑0002870. Published: Dec 31 2025. Jan 08, 15, 22 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DEVEREUX CALIFORNIA: 6980 Falberg Way Goleta, CA 93117; The Devereux Foundation 444 Devereux Drive Villanova, PA 19083 This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Mar 21, 1945. Filed by: EVAN M. BARKER. ESQ./ASSOCIATE GENERAL COUNSEL with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 17, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. Joseph E. Holland,
Santa Barbara County on Dec 08, 2025.
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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0002747. Published: Dec 31 2025. Jan 08, 15, 22 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT
The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DOG GYM: 5142 Hollister Avenue #607 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Mads Cantu, LLC (same address)
This business is conducted by A Limited
Liability Company commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Nov 23, 2025. Filed by: MADELINE CANTU/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2025. 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: 2025‑0002831. Published: Dec 31 2025. Jan 08, 15, 22 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PEMBERLEY
ESTATE COFFEE & TEA: 449 Cannon Green Drive Apt D Goleta, CA 93117; William E Cunningham (same address)
This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 22, 2025. Filed by:
WILLIAM E CUNNINGHAM/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 22, 2025. 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 E49. FBN Number: 2025‑0002905. Published: Dec 31 2025. Jan 08, 15, 22 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALIGN
REHABILITATION CENTER SPEECH, SWALLOW & COGNITION: 20 Walnut Lane Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Chasity D Roberts (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 15, 2025. Filed by: CHASITY
ROBERTS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 18, 2025. 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: 2025‑0002884. Published: Dec 31 2025. Jan 08, 15, 22 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: TRUBOND: 17 Conejo Road Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Fludity Group 1187 Coast Village Road Suite I, PMB#276 Santa Barbara, CA 93108 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: AUTUMN SHELTON/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 18, 2025. 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: 2025‑0002886. Published: Dec 31 2025. Jan 08, 15, 22 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CHEERS LIQUOR: 7320 Hollister Ave, #2 Goleta, CA 93117; Fadel & Abir Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 12, 1997. Filed by: FADEL MAIDA/OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 17, 2025. 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0002864. Published: Dec 31 2025. Jan 08, 15, 22 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MONTECITO
SPIRITS COMPANY: 411 E Montecito Street 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Charron Favreau S.P.C. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A.
Filed by: KURT CHARRON/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County
on Dec 09, 2025. 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: 2025‑0002768. Published: Dec 31 2025. Jan 08, 15, 22 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PAPE KENWORTH
PACELEASE: 1322 White CT. Santa Maria, CA 93458; Pape Trucks, Inc 355 Goodpasture Island Road Eugene, OR 97401 This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 01, 2007. Filed by: LANCE JORGENSEN/ CFO/VP OF FINANCE with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 26, 2025. 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 E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0002731. Published: Dec 31 2025. Jan 08, 15, 22 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN2025‑0002788
The following person(s) is doing business as: Central Coast Picklers, 671 Daniel Dr, Santa Maria, CA 93454, County of Santa Barbara. Bradley Luton, 671 Daniel Dr, Santa Maria, CA 93454 This business is conducted by An Individual.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not Applicable /s/ Bradley Luton, Owner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 12/10/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 12/31/25. 1/8, 1/15, 1/22/26 CNS‑3992769# SANTA BARBARA
INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA YNEZ VALLEY CONCERT SERIES: 1111 Chapala St Ste 200 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Foundation (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: JACKIE CARERRA/PRESIDENT & CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 19, 2025. 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: 2025‑0002896. Published: Dec 31 2025. Jan 08, 15, 22 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE SNIFF AND SNACK SHACK: 1300 E. Airport Ave. Lompoc, CA 93436; Dustin D Forrest (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 21, 2025. Filed by: DUSTIN D FORREST/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 29, 2025. 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 E35. FBN Number: 2025‑0002940. Published: Jan 08, 15, 22, 29 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MEGHAN BIEDERMAN INTERIORS: 306 W De La Guerra St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Meghan Biederman (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Nov 21, 2025. Filed by: MEGHAN BIEDERMAN/INDIVIDUAL with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 21, 2025. 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: 2025‑0002674. Published: Jan 08, 15, 22, 29 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CONEJO VALLEY AIR: 2550 Azurite Circle. Newbury Park, CA 91320; Conejo Services, LLC, CONEJO VALLEY APPLIANCE REPAIR, CONEJO VALLEY APPLIANCE, CONEJO
VALLEY SOLAR, SOLAR SOLUTIONS, CONEJO VALLEY MECHANICAL, CONEJO VALLEY HEATING, CONEJO
VALLEY REFRIGERATION, CONEJO
VALLEY HEATING AND AIR, CONEJO
VALLEY AIR CONDITIONONING AND HEATING, CONEJO WATER HEATERS, CONEJO TANKLESS, CONEJO VALLEY WATER HEATERS, CONEJO HEATING, CONEJO VALLEY TANKLESS, CONEJO
VALLEY HEATING & AIR CONDITIONING, PLUMBING AND ROOTER, CVHA PLUMBING AND ROOTER, CONEJO
VALLEY SOLAR SOLUTIONS, CONEJO
VALLEY PLUMBING AND ROOTER, CONEJO VALLEY INSUATION, CVHA PLUMBING, LOCAL ROOFS.COM, LOCAL.ROOFS, CONEJO VALLEY HOME SERVICES, CONEJO SERVICES, CONEJO SERVICES HEATING & AIR, PLUMBING & ROOTER AND ELECTRICAL, CONEJO SERVICES HEATING & AIR, CONEJO SERVICES HEATING & AIR, CONEJO SERVICES ELECTRICAL & GENERATORS, CONEJO SERVICES INSULATION, CONEJO VALLEY HEATION & AIR CONDITIONING, PLUMBING & ROOTER AND GENERATOR, CONEJO VALLEY GENERATORS, CONEJO SERVICES PLUMBING AND ROOTER, CONEJO SERVICES PLUMBING AND ROOTER, CONEJO HEATING, AIR, PLUMBING AND ELECTRICAL, CONEJO VALLEY AIR WINDOWS, CONEJO ELECTRICAL AND SOLAR, CONEJO VALLEY ELECTRICAL, CONEJO VALLEY ROOFING AND SOLAR (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: GARY SOLTANI/CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 23, 2025. 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 E35. FBN Number: 2025‑0002914. Published: Jan 08, 15, 22, 29 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: DLIKESCOACHING: 5142 Hollister Ave, #4011 Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Demelza Shaefer (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 17, 2025. Filed by: DEMELZA SHAEFER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 22, 2025. 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0002902. Published: Jan 08, 15, 22, 29 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KM WALKER
DESIGN: 2963 Valencia Dr Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Kristen M Walker (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2026. Filed by: KRISTEN WALKER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 9, 2026. 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: 2026‑0000069. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BOYATT CARDIOLOGY: 101 W. Arrellaga Street, Suite 5 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jason E. Boyatt, M.D., INC 4085 Lago Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: JASON E. BOYATT/ SECRETARY with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2025. 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: 2025‑0002833. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLEAR INTERIORS, CLEAR ENGINEERING, CLEAR DESIGN: 525 garden Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Clear Architecture Corp. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious
business name or names listed above on Jan 6, 2026. Filed by: LESLIE
THOMPSON/OFFICE COORDINATOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 9, 2026. 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: 2026‑0000067. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BLANCO SMILE STUDIO: 1292 Coast Village Rd Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Cadavid And Feusier Dental Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 1, 2025. Filed by: DANIELA CADAVID/VICE PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 9, 2026. 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 E24. FBN Number: 2026‑0000059. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: DIOJI K‑9 RESORT & ATHLETIC CLUB: 7340 Hollister Avenue. Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Dioji, Inc. 315 Meigs Road Suite A #651 Santa Barbara, CA 93109 This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Sep 1, 2014. Filed by: BRYCE WENDEL/
PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 5, 2026. 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: 2026‑0000009. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: LITTLE MOMENTS CALENDARS: 4358 Modoc Road, F. Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Tara C Rengifo (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Nov 18, 2025. Filed by: TARA RENGIFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 18, 2025. 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0002877. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SHENNIE SMITH AND ASSCOIATES THERAPY GROUP: 30 W Mission St. Suite 4. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Shenandoah Smith, Marriage And Family Therapist, Inc. This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 19, 2024. Filed by: SHENANDOAH SMITH/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 23, 2025. 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: 2026‑0002921. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SUNSET HOME HEALTH SERVICE: 321 Arboleda Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Jacklyn C Stevens (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: JACKLYN CATALINA
STEVENS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 1, 2026. 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 E73. FBN Number: 2026‑0000007. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CONEJO SERVICES ROOFS, CONEJO SERVICES ROOFS AND GARAGE DOORS, CONEJO SERVICES ROOFS, POOLS AND GARAGE DOORS: 2550 Azurite Circle Newbury Park, CA 91320; Local Roofs LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company commenced
to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: GARY SOLTANI/CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 7, 2026. 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: 2026‑0000033. Published: Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: YOUR TRAVEL CENTER INC, MONTECITO VILLAGE TRAVEL: 3329 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Your Travel Center Inc (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 11, 1984. Filed by: GEANA BIELENDA/CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 8, 2026. 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: 2026‑0000055. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT
File No. FBN 2025‑0002951
The following person(s) is doing business as: Cuyama Cattle Company, 2211 Castro Canyon Rd., New Cuyama, CA 93254, County of Santa Barbara. Russmith Partners LLC, 2211 Castro Canyon Rd., New Cuyama, CA 93254; CA This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not Applicable /s/ Mart G Smith IV, Manager This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 12/30/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12/26 CNS‑4002382# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PILATES CULT: 11 W. Figueroa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Pilates Cult Inc. 151 Sierra Vista Rd Montecito, CA 93108 This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on
Jan 8, 2026. Filed by: ALISSA DISALVO/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 9, 2026. 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 E49. FBN Number: 2026‑0000063. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE CALIFORNIAN, THE CALIFORNIAN OF SANTA BARBARA, SANTA BARBARA CONVALESCENT HOSPITAL: 2225 De La Vina St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; California Convalescent Hospital of Santa Barbara Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 13, 2013. Filed by: HALEY ANDERSON/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 6, 2026. 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 E49. FBN Number: 2026‑0000022. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BOYATT CARDIOLOGY: 101 W. Arrellaga Street, Suite 5 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jason E. Boyatt, M.D., Inc. 4085 Lago Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: JASSON E. BOYATT/ SECRETARY with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 15, 2025. 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: 2026‑0000022. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GIRL IN THE MEADOWS: 213 San Napoli Dr. Goleta, CA 93117; Michelle D Wheelus (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 29, 2025. Filed by: MICHELLE WHEELUS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 31, 2025. 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: 2026‑0002958. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: PAPE KENWORTH PACLEASE: 1322 White Ct. Santa Maria, CA 93458; Pape Truck Leasing, Inc. 355 Goodpasture Island Road Eugene, OR 97401 This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 1, 2007. Filed by: LANCE JORGENSEN/CFO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 22, 2025. 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: 2026‑0002910. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MPATH THERAPY: 5020 Alvarado St. Carpinteria, CA 93013; MPATH MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPY PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION PO Box 924 Carpinteria, CA 93014 This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 7, 2026. Filed by: MATTHEW CHARLES CHUNG/CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 7, 2026. 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: 2026‑0000030. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN2026‑0000032 The following person(s) is (are)
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LOMA LINDA LANDSCAPING: 4400 Carpinteria Ave Carpinteria, CA 93013; Guadalupe Ortiz Villegas PO Box 3091 Santa Barbara, CA 93130 This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Dec 7, 2025. Filed by: GUADALUPE ORTIZ VILLEGAS/INDIVIDUAL/SOLE PROPRIETOR with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 6, 2026. 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: 2026‑0000020. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
PUBLIC NOTICE
Air Quality Regulatory Measures that May Be Adopted or Amended in 2026
State law (Health and Safety Code §40923) requires the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District (District) to publish a list of rules and regulatory measures scheduled for consideration each year. These rules are proposed in order to implement state and federal mandates to reduce air pollution in Santa Barbara County. Before the adoption or amendment of any rule, the District publishes a notice in a local newspaper and holds a public hearing to accept comments from affected businesses and other interested parties.
The following rules are tentatively proposed to be adopted in 2026: Rule Title
Asbestos Demolition and Renovation
The following rules are included in case adoption or amendment is needed during 2026:
Rule Title 102 Definitions 201 Permits Required 202 Exemptions to Rule 201 339 Motor Vehicle and Mobile Equipment Coating Operations 1001 National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP)
If you would like to check on the status of a rule, please visit the District’s website at www.ourair.org/rules-and-regs/ For more information, contact Tim Mitro at (805) 979-8329.
doing business as:
GUFI, 1500 Corsica Dr, Santa Maria, CA 93455 County of SANTA
BARBARA
GIBSON UNITED FUTURE
INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED, 1500 Corsica Dr, Santa Maria, CA 93455
This business is conducted by a Corporation
The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A.
GIBSON UNITED FUTURE
INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED
S/ ROBERT GIBSON, PRESIDENT, This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 01/07/2026.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12/26
CNS‑3997038# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: MEGHAN BIEDERMAN INTERIORS: 306 W De La Guerra St Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Meghan O Biederman (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 28, 2025. Filed by: MEGHAN BIEDERMAN with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 14, 2026. 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: 2025‑0000103. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: BONYTA BEAUTY: 924 Anacapa St. Suite 3A1 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Julianna Ruiz (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual commenced to transact business under the fictitious business
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NOTICE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY RATE INCREASE REQUEST SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY’S (SOCALGAS) ADVANCED METER INFRASTRUCTURE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM APPLICATION TO THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (CPUC) APPLICATION FILING A.25-12019.
name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2026. Filed by: JULIANNA RUIZ/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 14, 2026. 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: 2026‑0000101. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SANTA BARBARA DOJO: 177 S Turnpike Road Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Goleta Dojo LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Memebr commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: MELODEE
MEYER/MANAGING MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 14, 2026. 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 E71. FBN Number: 2026‑0000099. Published:
36 therms per month would see a rate increase of approximately $5.10 per month. This increase will be phased in beginning 2027 through 2033. The actual impact will vary based on usage, baseline territory, and other factors.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
An administrative law judge will hold hearings, consider evidence, testimony, and public comments before drafting a proposed decision on this application. CPUC Commissioners will then vote on a final decision at a public meeting.
CONTACT CPUC
Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: BEYOND ZEBRA INC.: 1443 East Washington Bouldard Suite 641 Pasadena, CA 91104; Beyond Zebra Inc. PO Box 4300 Burbank, CA 91503‑4300 This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 16, 2001. Filed by: THERESE YAMATE/ PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 26, 2025. 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 E71. FBN Number: 2025‑0002934. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SHALHOOB BEER COMPANY, SHALHOOB MEAT CO: 220 Gray Ave Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Santa Barbara Style Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Nov 17, 2025. Filed by: JOHN SHALHOOB/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 22, 2025. 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 E24. FBN Number: 2025‑0002904. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THE MULTIFAITH INTIATIVE: 1129 State Street 15 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; The Interfaith Initative of Santa Barbara County 1129 State Street 15 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by A Corporation commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 10, 2026. Filed by:
MAHOMED KHAN/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 16, 2026. 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 E49. FBN Number: 2026‑0000121. Published: Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MISA MIELE MANDIGO KELLY NUMBER: 25CV05015
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: MISA MIELE MANDIGO
KELLY A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
PRESENT NAME: MISA MIELE MANDIGO
KELLY
PROPOSED NAME: LOLANI PUU KOLENC
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 February 9, 2026, 10:00 am, DEPT: SB 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101, ANACAPA DIVISION
A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 12/29/2025, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Jan 8, 15, 22, 29 2026.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MEGANN ELSIE DROST NUMBER: 25CV07481
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: MEGANN ELSIE DROST
A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
PRESENT NAME: MEGANN ELSIE DROST
PROPOSED NAME: MEGANN ELSIE
hearing. Notice of Hearing March 4, 2026, 10:00 am, DEPT: 3, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St 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 01/09/2026, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026.
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: NATALIE SARAH GAIKWAD
NUMBER: 25CV07869
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: NATALIE SARAH GAIKWAD
A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows: PRESENT NAME: NATALIE SARAH GAIKWAD
PROPOSED NAME: NATALIE SARAH
JOSHI RAVADE
Section 8 Administrative Plan. Proposed amendments will be posted on the Housing Authority’s website at www. hacsb.org. Interested parties may also request a copy by calling the Housing Authority’s main office at 805‑965‑1071. Should you wish to comment on the proposed changes please submit comments in writing 808 Laguna St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101, or via email to Perla Vega at pvega@hacsb.org, by Feb. 27, 2026. Public comment will also be accepted on March 4th during the regularly scheduled Housing Authority Commission meeting.
PUBLIC NOTICES
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE
WHAT IS BEING REQUESTED?
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NOTICE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY RATE INCREASE REQUEST SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY’S (SOCALGAS) ADVANCED METER INFRASTRUCTURE REPLACEMENT PROGRAM APPLICATION TO THE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION (CPUC) APPLICATION FILING A.25-12-019.
WHAT IS BEING REQUESTED?
SoCalGas is requesting an increase in revenue of approximately $3,700 million over the life of its Advanced Meter Infrastructure Replacement (AMIR) Project, beginning as early as 2027, which would provide for a planned, systemwide replacement of SoCalGas’s existing AMI system which is reaching end of life and becoming obsolete.
You can read more about the utility’s request and make public comment by visiting apps.cpuc. ca.gov/c/A2512019. For questions about participating in CPUC matters, you can contact the Public Advisor’s Office at: Phone: 1-866-849-8390
Email: Public.Advisor@cpuc. ca.gov Mail: 505 Van Ness Ave. San Francisco, CA 94102 WHERE CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION?
If you have questions about SoCalGas’s request you may contact them at: SoCalGas
Gregory Healy, Regulatory Case Manager GHealy@socalgas.com 555 West Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
HOW WOULD THIS IMPACT
THE AVERAGE RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMER?
If the request is approved, the average residential customer using
A copy of the Application and any related documents may also be reviewed at https://www.socalgas. com/regulatory/cpuc
LIEN SALE
EXTRA SPACE STORAGE, on behalf of itself or its affiliates, Life Storage or Storage Express, will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery Drive, Goleta, CA 93117. 02/03/2026 at 3:30 PM
Yuxuan Sheng
The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures.com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction.
Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC LIEN SALE
Business and Professional codes 21700
Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that a public lien sale of the following described personal property will be held online at StorageTreasures. com from 10AM on 02/02/2026 to 10AM on 02/09/2026.
The household and personal property is stored by Brian Ricardo Sanchez in Unit #46 at Honor Storage ‑ Bond Self Storage located at 719 Bond Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
The household and personal property is stored by Alicia St Rose in Unit #17 at Honor Storage ‑ Bond Self Storage located at 719 Bond Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
This notice is given in accordance with the Provisions of Section 21700 et seq of the Business & Professions Code of the state of California.
NAME CHANGE
AMENDED
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 February 13, 2026, 10:00 am, DEPT: 4, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101, SANTA BARBARA‑ ANACAPA
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 12/15/2025, JUDGE Donna D. Geck of the Superior Court. Published Jan 8, 15, 22, 29 2026. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: WILLIAM NASH BLANKENSHIP NUMBER: 25CV07919 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: WILLIAM NASH
BLANKENSHIP A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows: PRESENT NAME: WILLIAM NASH BLANKENSHIP
PROPOSED NAME: WILLIAM NASH KONIG
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
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 March 2, 2026, 10:00 am, DEPT: 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St 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 01/08/2026, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterne of the Superior Court. Published Jan 15, 22, 29. Feb 5 2026. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: KC RAY MISSOFF NUMBER: 25CV07885
TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:
PETITIONER: KC RAY MISSOFF A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:
PRESENT NAME: KC RAY MISSOFF
PROPOSED NAME: KC RAY GOODWIN
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 February 27, 2026, 10:00 am, DEPT: 4, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101, ANACAPA DIVISION
A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated 01/07/2026, JUDGE Donna D. Geck of the Superior Court. Published Jan 22, 29. Feb 5, 12 2026.
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara (HACSB) will hold a public hearing for a proposed significant amendment and substantial deviation/ modification to its HUD approved Annual Plan. The public hearing will occur on Wednesday March 4, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. HACSB is proposing revisions to its
To satisfy the owner’s storage lien, PS Retail Sales, LLC will sell at public lien sale on January 30, 2026,the personal property in the below‑listed units. The public sale of these items will begin at 08:00 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated. For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified. PUBLIC STORAGE # 25714, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 324‑6770 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 2204 ‑ Houlihan, Kevin; 2407 ‑ Thomas, Christopher; 4005 ‑ Conn, Shannon; 4210 ‑ Lopez, Amalie; 6344 ‑ Parra, Melissa; A152 ‑ Richey, Dwalette; A194 ‑ Conn, Shannon; A379 ‑ Adams, Laurel; A412 ‑ Hassanpour, Babak; A487 ‑ Blackmon, Christine; A488 ‑ Hassanpour, Babak PUBLIC STORAGE # 75078, 7246 Hollister Ave, Goleta, CA 93117, (805) 961‑8198 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 185 ‑ Burian, Susan; 381 ‑ Kennedy, Kim; 413 ‑ chandler, gavin; 505 ‑ Souza, Jacqueline PUBLIC STORAGE # 75079, 5425 Overpass Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93111, (805) 284‑9002 Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 090 ‑ Robbennolt, Kelly; 450 ‑ Burian, Susan; 479 ‑ Macdonald, Lindsay Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card‑no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax‑ exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Retail Sales, LLC, 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244‑8080. 1/22/26
CNS‑4004215# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Sections 21700 through 21716 of the Business & Professions Code, Patterson Plus Self‑Storage, will sell at public sale, the following delinquent occupant’s(s’) stored contents, by competitive bidding ending on February 5, 2026 at
22 th day of January 2026.
PATTERSON PLUS SELF‑
STORAGE (805) 964‑4097
For bidding technical questions ‑ Storage Treasures (480) 397‑6503
PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to Sections 21700 through 21716 of the Business & Professions Code, Patterson/101 Allstore Self‑Storage, will sell at public sale, the following delinquent occupant’s(s’) stored contents, by competitive bidding ending on February 5th 2026 at 11 am. Property has been stored by the occupant(s) and is located at Patterson/101 Allstore Self‑ Storage, 98 North Patterson Avenue, Santa Barbara, California 93111. Competitive bid auction available online only at www.storagetreasures.com The property being sold is described as:
Unit #H523 – Wendy Woodside
Purchases must be picked up at the above location and paid for at the time of purchase with cash or credit card only. All purchased goods are sold as is, where is, and must be removed at the time of sale. The sale is subject to prior cancellation in the event of settlement between Owner and Occupant(s). Dated this 22nd day of January 2026.
PATTERSON/101 ALLSTORE
SELF‑STORAGE (805) 964‑0924
For bidding technical questions ‑ Storage Treasures (480) 397‑6503 SUMMONS
SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): 25CV00194
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): JULIO IGNACIO LOPEZ, AN INDIVIDUAL, AND DOES 1 THROUGH 10, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): IVER CAPITAL CORPORATION
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 (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 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación. Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación 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 telefónica no lo protegen. Su 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 más información 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 más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia. Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a 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 de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose 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 cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión 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 dirección de la corte es): SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 312‑C EAST COOK STREET, BLDG E, SANTA MARIA, CA 93454
The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): ALI NABAVI, COASTAL CREST LAW FIRM, APLC, 24310 MOULTON PKWY, SUITE O‑1007, LAGUNA WOODS, CA 92637 949‑751‑6788
DATE (Fecha): 1/10/2025
DARREL E. PARKER, Clerk (Secretario), by ERIN JOSIE, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL)
NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served 1/22, 1/29, 2/5, 2/12/26 CNS‑4000775# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT
TRUSTEE NOTICE
LOAN NO.: EWL6860 ‑ Papadaki & Polizzi TS no. 2025‑11434 APN: 067‑082‑005 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 3/15/2023, UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on 1/28/2026, at 1:00 PM of said day, At the main entrance to the County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Ashwood TD Services LLC, a California Limited Liability Company, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to the power of sale conferred in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Hariklia Papadaki, an unmarried woman, and Paul Polizzi, a married man as his sole and separate property, as joint tenants recorded on 3/28/2023 in Book n/a of Official Records of SANTA BARBARA County, at page n/a, Recorder’s Instrument No. 2023‑0008662, by reason of a breach or default in payment or performance of the obligations secured thereby, including that breach or default, Notice of which was recorded 9/8/2025 as Recorder’s Instrument No. 2025‑0027408, in Book n/a, at page n/a, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, lawful money of the United States, evidenced by a Cashier’s Check drawn on a state or national bank, or the equivalent thereof drawn on any other financial institution specified in section 5102 of the California Financial Code, authorized to do business in the State of California, ALL PAYABLE AT THE TIME OF SALE, all right, title and interest held by it as Trustee, in that real property situated in said County and State, described as follows: Lot 23, Tract 10086, per Map, Book 54, Pages 28, 29 and 30 of Maps. The street address or other common designation of the real property hereinabove described is purported to be: 869 Via Campobello, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. The undersigned disclaims all liability for any incorrectness in said street address or other common designation. Said sale will be made without warranty, express or implied regarding title, possession, or other encumbrances, to satisfy the unpaid obligations secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest and other sums as provided therein; plus advances, if any, thereunder and interest thereon; and plus fees, charges, and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of said obligations at the time of initial publication of this Notice is $301,296.01. In the event that the deed of trust described in this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is secured by real property containing from one to four single‑family residences, the following notices are provided pursuant to the provisions of Civil Code section 2924f: NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder’s office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER:
The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee’s sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has
been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call 916‑939‑0772 or visit this internet website www.nationwideposting.com, using the file number assigned to this case 2025‑11434. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not be immediately reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call 916‑939‑0772, or visit this internet website www.nationwideposting.com, using the file number assigned to this case 2025‑11434 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid, by remitting the funds and affidavit or declaration described in Section 2924m(c) of the Civil Code, so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. Dated: December 31, 2025 Ashwood TD Services LLC, a California Limited Liability Company Christopher Loria, Trustee's Sale Officer 231 E. Alessandro Blvd., Ste. 6A‑693, Riverside, CA 92508 Tel.: (951) 215‑0069 Fax: (805) 323‑9054 Trustee’s Sale Information: (916) 939‑0772 or www.nationwideposting.com
NPP0483157 To: SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT 01/08/2026, 01/15/2026, 01/22/2026
TRUSTEE SALE No. 184994 Title No. 250357316 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 01/05/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On 02/11/2026 at 10:00 AM, PRIME RECON LLC, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 01/14/2005, as Instrument No. 2005‑0003819, in book xx, page xx, of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of SANTA BARBARA County, State of California, executed by OSCAR HERNANDEZ AND ZAHIDA CARRERA, HUSBAND AND WIFE AS COMMUNITY PROPERTY WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO HIGHEST BIDDER FOR CASH, CASHIER’S CHECK/CASH EQUIVALENT or other form of payment authorized by 2924h(b), (payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States), AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE COUNTY COURTHOUSE, SANTA BARBARA COUNTY COURTHOUSE, 1100 ANACAPA STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101. All right, title and interest conveyed to and now held by it under said Deed of Trust in the property situated in said County and State, described as: FULLY
DESCRIBED IN THE ABOVE DEED OF TRUST. APN 017‑222‑ 007 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 126 SOUTH CANADA STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93103. The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein. Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum of the note(s) secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said note(s), advances, if any, under the terms of said Deed of Trust, fees, charges and expenses of the Trustee and of the trusts created by said Deed of Trust. The total amount of the unpaid balance of the obligation secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of the Notice of Sale is: $1,026,833.17 If the Trustee is unable to convey title for any reason, the successful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The beneficiary under said Deed of Trust heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused a Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located. Dated: 12/27/2025 Prime Recon LLC By: Jorge Rios‑ Jimenez, Authorized Signer Prime Recon LLC 27368 Via Industria, Ste 201 Temecula, CA 92590 (888) 725‑4142 Prime Recon LLC may be attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose. FOR TRUSTEE’S
SALE INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: (844) 901‑0998 OR VIEW
OUR WEBSITE: https://salesinformation.prime‑ recon.com NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property.
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call (844) 901‑0998 for information regarding the trustee's sale or visit this internet website ‑ https://salesinformation.prime‑ recon.com ‑ for information
regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case: TS#184994. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet website. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale.
NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an “eligible tenant buyer,” you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an “eligible bidder,” you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase. First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call (844) 901‑0998 for information regarding the trustee’s sale, or visit this internet website https://salesinformation.prime‑ recon.com for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case TS#184994 to find the date on which the trustee’s sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee’s sale. Third, you must submit a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee’s sale. If you think you may qualify as an “eligible tenant buyer” or “eligible bidder,” you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. NPP0482987 To: SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT 01/08/2026, 01/15/2026, 01/22/2026
¢/kWh from 24 92 ¢/kWh to 24 96 ¢/kWh The actual impact will vary based on usage, baseline territory, and other factors.
Additional Information
An administrative law judge will hold hearings, consider evidence, testimony, and any public comments received before drafting a proposed decision on this application CPUC Commissioners will then vote on a final decision at a public meeting.
You can read more about the SCE’s request and make public comment by visiting https://apps.cpuc.ca.gov/c/A2601005 For questions about participating in CPUC matters, you can contact the Public Advisor’s Office at Public.Advisor@cpuc.ca.gov, 1-866-849-8390, or 505 Van Ness Ave., San Francisco, CA 94102 Please reference A.26-01-005 in any communication with the CPUC.
Questions About the Request
For questions about this application, please contact SCE at (800) 655‐4555, or via email at case.admin@sce.com. The mailing address: Case Administration
Southern California Edison Company
A.26‐01‐005– IQP Application
P.O. Box 800 Rosemead, CA 91770