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A Man Among Megafires

by Tyler Hayden

Last week, we were able to put out some fascinating stories for one of our special sections, Active Aging, compiled by our newly appointed Special Section Editor Tiana Molony. Though she started as one of our interns, she stuck with the team and has stepped up to handle issues we publish every year with a discerning and new eye.

What was your experience like becoming the Special Section Editor? What are some of your favorite parts of your new role? I interned with Arts, Culture, and Community Editor Leslie Dinaberg for nearly two years while completing my master’s degree, before transitioning into freelancing. I’d always hoped to take on a larger role at the paper, so I was thrilled to be named Special Section Editor. What I enjoy most about this role is shaping the stories we tell. How do you approach getting stories together that are fresh and exciting? I’m always on the lookout for story ideas, often turning to friends and family for inspiration. One of the biggest challenges is making sure the topics I choose haven’t already been covered in past issues. Before deciding, I check whether we’ve published on it before and if so, whether enough time has passed to revisit it with a fresh angle.

Are there any stories you’re working on now that you’re excited about? I’m excited about an upcoming Home and Garden profile on J. Woeste in Los Olivos, a beloved gardening shop. The owners have a fascinating story, and it’s been a joy to tell. As for other stories I’d like to write, that list is very long.

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by RYAN P. CRUZ, CALLIE FAUSEY, JACKSON FRIEDMAN, TYLER HAYDEN, ELLA HEYDENFELDT,

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Pride Fest Celebrates Its Roots

Chase Palm Park was colorful and loud for the Pacific Pride Foundation’s Pride Festival on Saturday.

Drag queens ate up their lip-syncing performances on the main, runwayshaped stage, dressed in creative, multicolored ensembles. Hundreds of people, couples, families, and pets looked on as performers strutted up and down the raised black platform, sang, and spoke poetry proudly. The park itself was full of food and drink vendors and a variety of community booths, including sexual health education, roller derby teams, and political activists.

“Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of access to be feminine,” said Cherry Von Illa, a drag artist who got her start at UC Santa Barbara. At the festival, Von Illa did an electric performance of “I’m Your Baby Tonight” by Whitney Houston.

“Being able to do drag actually helped me realize, ‘Oh, this is what I feel the most comfortable in,’ ” she said.

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This year is the foundation’s 50th anniversary, and in celebration, the festival’s theme was “Rooted in Pride: Embracing Our Past Empowering Our Future.” Julio C. Roman, the foundation’s executive director, explained that he wanted the theme to honor the members who paved the way for the organization, during less accepting times and through the HIV epidemic.

Pacific Pride is a small team, following the organization having to reduce its staff by half due to budget constraints in recent years, Roman added.

“Nevertheless, we are continuing to push forward and deliver to our community,” Roman said. “We will not get knocked off.”

Pacific Pride is definitely delivering the festival was joyful, sexy, and fun. More celebrations are planned for the foundation’s birthday later this year. Learn more at pacificpridefoundation.org

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County Declares Support for Laws on ICE Masks, ID

by Ryan P. Cruz

The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors declared its official support of two state bills calling for more transparency and accountability in federal immigration enforcement operations. The two pieces of legislation the “No Secret Police Act” (SB 627) and the “No Vigilantes Act” (SB 805) would ban federal agents from wearing masks on duty and require all federal, state, and local law enforcement officers to display identifying information at all times.

Federal immigration operations have been hitting California communities for the past several months, with the largest single-day operation coming on July 10, when several federal agencies arrived together in a joint raid of two Central Coast cannabis facilities in Camarillo and Carpinteria. In Carpinteria, a normally quiet beach town, chaos erupted after 10 workers were detained and hundreds of community members showed up in protest, eventually leading to armed federal agents deploying smoke grenades and rubber pellets on the crowd.

Community members packed the County Administration Building on July 15, voicing concerns about “indiscriminate” immigration arrests in Santa Barbara County neighborhoods and the highly militarized raids in Carpinteria. Supervisor Laura Capps

said one of the loudest messages that came from that meeting was the “terror felt from so many people” due to the fact that ICE officers were often masked and refused to identify themselves to the public.

“We have literally people that are ICE agents without identification, wearing masks, striking fear, and pulling people off the streets,” Capps said during this Tuesday’s meeting. “So, these two pieces of legislation are California’s attempt to rein that in.”

The two state bills are currently working their way through the state legislative process, and last week were passed through Assembly Appropriations before heading to a vote on the Assembly floor next week. Approval would require a two-thirds vote from each chamber, and would take effect immediately upon the signature of Governor Gavin Newsom.

Supervisor Steve Lavagnino pointed out that, due to the complications regarding jurisdiction, it would be difficult for any local or state agency to enforce either of the two laws. Still, he said he would vote in support of the bills because he said he felt that it was “sending a message” that needed to be heard.

Santa Barbara County Undersheriff Craig Bonner spoke from a local law enforcement perspective, explaining that Sheriff’s Office policy required that all officers be easily

identifiable to the public, except in specific circumstances such as SWAT team operations or active undercover work.

“We wear recognizable uniforms with badges, with our nameplates, [Velcro] name tapes, and our patches on our shoulders to identify who we are, not only as an organization, but as individual deputies and police officers,” Bonner said.

Bonner said he had spoken with representatives from the Department of Homeland Security and ICE, who offered a different explanation behind concealing agents’ identities.

“The reason they are wearing those masks the reason why they are reticent to allow themselves to be identified is because they are being followed, and they are concerned for their safety and the safety of their families,” Undersheriff Bonner said.

Julissa Peña, executive director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Center, had a different point of view from working with families and individuals facing deportation proceedings every day.

“These tactics instill fear, create confusion, and undermine accountability,” Peña said. “Families are left terrified, unable to even identify who is taking their loved ones away. The fact that federal immigration officers have been permitted to mask themselves and hide their identities has not

A jet bridge at the Santa Barbara Airport collapsed 8/26 while undergoing maintenance, according to airport officials. Emergency crews responded to the scene around 9:30 a.m., and airport staff confirmed that no passengers were on the bridge at the time. Lauren Gonzales, marketing coordinator for the airport, said the collapse occurred at Gate 2, which was already out of service. Two airport employees suffered minor, non-life-threatening injuries and were transported to Cottage Hospital, according to Gonzales. The airport said an engineer is currently inspecting the bridge to determine the cause.

The body of a surfer later identified as Vincent Ian Posner, 45, of S.B., was discovered 8/21 west of Refugio Beach. At 1:42 p.m., authorities received a report of a surfboard floating about 100 yards offshore near a kelp bed roughly three-quarters of a mile from Refugio, according to County Fire. There, rescue teams found Posner’s body “subsurface” attached to the leash of his surfboard, County Fire reported. He was brought by rescue watercraft to Refugio Beach, where emergency personnel pronounced him dead. The cause and manner of his death remain under investigation.

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Firefighters quickly stopped forward progress of a vegetation fire that broke out 8/22 west of Los Olivos along Highway 101, which was shut down for several hours in both directions due to the fire. Quickly dubbed the “Olivos Fire,” the fire burned approximately 10 acres before being stopped in its tracks around 70 minutes after its estimated start time of 2:40 p.m., according to County Fire spokesperson Scott Safechuck.

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Authorities are seeking additional witnesses or victims with knowledge of additional crimes that may have been committed by a Santa Barbara man accused of child molestation. The suspect, Vladyslav Romanovich Shylo, 19, has been charged with felony stalking, attempted criminal threats, contacting a minor with lewd intent, witness dissuasion, and misdemeanor child annoying or molesting, according to an announcement from the DA’s Office on Wednesday. The two victims in the case are 9 and 16 years old. Shylo pleaded not guilty to each charge on 6/23 and is being held without bail in S.B. County Jail. Shylo is also accused of violating felony probation for a prior conviction of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor. Witnesses or victims are encouraged to contact SBPD Detective Kelsea King at (805) 897-2341.

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Shelter to Close?

City Hall in Negotiations to Buy Cacique St. Homeless Shelter

by Nick Welsh

At a historic moment when the Trump administration is vowing to re-criminalize homelessness, hack back federal funding for homeless programs, launch clean-the-streets sweeps to eradicate homeless encampments, and strip many homeless adults purportedly ablebodied adults of their eligibility for government assistance, the owners and operators of Santa Barbara’s biggest homeless shelter located on the city’s industrial Eastside are throwing in the towel after a 10-year stint.

As of December 31, the statewide nonprofit PATH People Assisting the Homeless announced it will cease homeless service operations out of a former furniture warehouse located at 816 Cacique Street by the railroad tracks near MarBorg operations.

PATH executives confirmed reports that they’re in negotiations with top administrators at City Hall to buy the building. Neither side is willing to discuss terms or conditions, but the building is encumbered with a debt of $3.2 million and is bound by a covenant limiting its use to homeless shelter and services through the year 2049.

PATH with homeless operations in 25 cities took over the shelter in 2015 at a time its predecessor, Casa Esperanza, found itself under intense economic pressure and criticism from neighbors.

At the time, PATH promised to transform the shelter that had been run since 1998 as a flophouse-style warehouse to a philanthropically fundable operation that would provide programs designed to bring people off the streets and into housing.

For all its successes 700 clients over the years would become housed PATH’s path has been anything but smooth. After an initial honeymoon with neighbors, the shelter encountered chronic difficulty recruiting onsite managers and staff. Neighborhood criticism about ambient street activity returned. Homeless advocates complained about lack of access. Relations with City Hall perhaps the shelter’s chief sponsor and toughest critic went from strained to prickly to seriously fraught.

From the start, the shelter operated under a conditional-use permit approved by City Council, meaning shelter administrators had to submit to a gauntlet of Planning Commission and council reviews. And for all its programmatic improvements, PATH never established a pick-up-the-phone rapport so useful when dealing with the powers that be, whoever they are.

In 2024, city administrators put PATH on notice that they needed to come up with a “performance improvement plan.” City Hall stopped automatically donating $200,000 a year to the shelter but instead offered the same amount in exchange for a guarantee of seven shelter beds.

This year, city administrators opted instead to contract with the tiny home village on Santa Barbara Street owned by DignityMoves and operated by the Good Samaritan Shelter. DignityMoves posted a significantly higher housing placement rate, though its client base was perhaps not as challenging.

Perhaps it was the loss of those funds that PATH Senior Director of Communications Tyler Renner alluded to in a written statement. “Economic conditions and policy decisions have resulted in PATH operating at a deficit,” he wrote. “Without adequate public funding for the services we provide, it has become increasingly challenging to sustain operations.”

When PATH took over, the shelter functioned as a 200-bed operation during winter months and a 100-bed shelter the rest of the time. Under PATH, the shelter has shifted almost exclusively to a 100-bed operation. The majority of those beds was contracted by Cottage Hospital to provide desperately needed care for recently released homeless patients.

These patients were clients of the county’s departments of Behavioral Wellness, Housing and Community Services, and Probation, and these entities considered the interim bedspaces provided by PATH a godsend. Though this has provided a reliable funding stream for PATH, it was insufficient to cover costs, according to former shelter managers.

On a typical night, Behavioral Wellness patients, struggling with medium to severe mental health challenges, occupy 17 of PATH’s available beds; Cottage patients occupy nearly double that. In exchange, PATH is paid $65 a bed per night.

Should City Hall and PATH reach a deal over the sale of the building, it remains to be seen what entity will manage it. No request for proposals has yet been made, but the likely candidates are Good Samaritan, City Net, and New Beginnings.

Renner’s statement said that PATH will work to ensure “all of our guests have transition plans to other providers … so that they do not transition back to homelessness.” He added, “With nearly 1,000 people experiencing homelessness in the city, we encourage our local leaders to make the necessary investments to truly end this crisis.”

City Employee Arrested on Drug, Gun, and Child Porn Charges

ASanta Barbara city employee was arrested August 18 on a slew of felony charges, including possession of cocaine; possession of assault weapons; possession of extended-capacity magazines; and the possession, manufacture, and distribution of child pornography.

Dayton Aldrich, 34, is currently employed by the City of Santa Barbara as a community development program specialist. “Mr. Aldrich did mostly contract and budget management work for the City and had no interaction through his employment with children,” said city spokesperson Bryan Latchford, adding Aldrich has been placed on administrative leave pending processing of the charges.

At the time of his arrest, Aldrich who had no prior criminal record was also the board president of the Winchester Canyon Gun Club (WCGC). “Effective immediately, Mr. Dayton Aldrich is no longer qualified to serve as a member of the Board of Directors and has been voted off the Board,” said WCGC Vice President Paul McKenna in a public statement on August 20.

Aldrich previously worked for the District Attorney’s Office from 2015 to 2017, and again from 2019 to 2024 as a victim witness program assistant and a legal office professional, respectively.

In 2014, Aldrich applied to fill a vacant City of Goleta council seat, arguing for more

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after-school activities to prevent unsupervised children from doing “nefarious things.” In 2017, he was publicly recognized for his work with victims of elder abuse.

Aldrich is being held at the Santa Barbara County Jail on $1 million bail. At his August 20 arraignment, he pleaded not guilty. Attempts to reach Aldrich’s attorney for comment were not successful.

Tyler Hayden

Goletans Campaign to Save Trees

Agroup of Goleta residents has come out in opposition to the city’s plan to remove 17 large trees along Berkeley Road, starting a “Save Goleta Trees” campaign to prevent the removal scheduled for this week.

The removal of the trees is part of the City of Goleta’s Pavement Management Program to restore and resurface existing pavement to prevent further damage and extend its lifespan. Under Goleta’s municipal code, residents can typically appeal the removal of large trees to the Planning and Tree Advisory Commission. However, the city is bypassing this review due to special circumstances.

According to Goleta Community Relations Manager Kelly Hoover, the original plan was to save the 15 sweetgum and two Southern magnolia trees. But a city arborist’s inspection found that some trees had health issues or root systems that would be severely damaged by the planned pavement work. The city has now designated these trees as a “public health and safety hazard,” which, under municipal code, exempts them from the usual review process and allows for their removal.

The residents in opposition to the removal argue that the city’s own actions are directly contributing to the risk by damaging or removing roots and making the trees unstable. When the city began posting removal notices on the trees earlier this month, the

residents hired a separate arborist to provide an independent review. After a careful inspection, the arborist concluded that at least three of the trees “remain viable candidates for preservation.”

According to Berkeley Road resident Jeff Kuyper, “The removal of so many trees at once is going to change the look and feel of our neighborhood, eliminate shade, and destroy important bird habitat.” A major concern is the time it will take to replace the lost trees.

In response to the local complaints, Hoover added, “Although replanting was not originally part of this pavement project, city staff is preparing a replanting plan for Berkeley Road in response to these removals. This plan will follow the City’s Urban Forest Management Plan to ensure proper species selection, planting standards, and long-term maintenance.” The Urban Forest Management Plan stipulates the need to “establish a goal of replanting any failed tree within one year subject to site availability and adjacent property owner acceptance.”

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Kuyper acknowledged the city’s response, saying he was hopeful they could reach agreement on keeping the healthy trees. “These stately trees are irreplaceable, but if the least healthy ones must come down, then replanting now will help restore a beautiful tree canopy in the future.”

—Vince Grafton

State AG Scolds Sheriff

Sheriff Failed to Report Transfer of Jail Inmates to ICE, AG Says

Tby Nick Welsh

he California Department

of Justice (CDJ) took Sheriff Bill Brown quietly to task for failing to properly document the extent to which his department has been facilitating the transfer of undocumented jail inmates to federal immigration authorities over the past five years. The CDJ pointed to a troika of state laws written to limit cooperation between local law enforcement agencies and ICE, also known as Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

At issue are documents Brown submitted to the State Attorney General’s Office in accordance with what’s known as the state’s Values Act that consistently indicated that no transfers of any such inmates had taken place. But in documents Brown submitted to the County Board of Supervisors in accordance with what’s known as the TRUTH Act squarely contradicted that impression.

In public hearings and in written reports made available to the public, Brown provided detailed data enumerating how between 2000 and 2024, 37 undocumented inmates had been turned over to federal immigration authorities, as well as how another 126 could have been because of criminal histories sufficiently serious to allow their release under the terms of these state laws. (These 126 were not picked up only because ICE agents were not on hand at the time, and under state law, Brown is not allowed to hold them any longer than the terms of their sentences.)

Brown, who is on vacation and could not be reached for comment, has, according to Undersheriff Craig Bonner, justified this discrepancy because the term “transfer” has never been defined under state law. Bonner stated that among law enforcement professionals, the word has a highly specific meaning that does not apply to the actual facts of the situation. Both have insisted that ICE agents have been allowed only to “re-arrest” the undocumented offenders in the county jail and then only at the actual moment of their release.

On August 4, Brown received a letter signed by Chief Assistant Attorney General for California Danielle O’Bannon, notifying him these “re-arrests” qualify as “transfers” and requesting that he submit amended documents within 30 days. The real issue, O’Bannon said, was that County Sheriff’s Office is “required to comply” with state law and that the Attorney General is constitutionally required to ensure uniform and adequate enforcement of this law.

Triggering this unusual intervention by the state Attorney General was a complaint filed by Ethan Bertrand, administrative

officer for State Assemblymember Gregg Hart and himself an elected member of the Goleta School Board. “If the Attorney General isn’t getting reliable information from local law enforcement agencies,” Bertrand said, “then he can’t verify that these ICE transfers are legitimate. If the Attorney General doesn’t have the right data, it calls into question his ability to verify that the people being transferred are really committing these serious crimes. If other counties are doing the same thing, this could contribute to a significant undercount.”

Letter or no, Brown and Bonner both insist the definitional questions surrounding the word “transfer” still remain unresolved. But Brown in a letter dated August 8 agreed to comply anyway.

The bills passed by the state legislature shortly after Trump was elected to his first term typically known as SB 54 or the TRUTH Act attempted to restrict cooperation between ICE and local law enforcement agencies so as to not alienate the trust of the state’s large Latino and immigrant communities in their local police agencies.

Undersheriff Bonner said of the Attorney General’s letter, “This doesn’t change the process,” because the vast majority of inmates identified by ICE as being of interest to them still will not qualify as serious enough offenders to allow cooperation from local jailers. What is changing, however, Bonner said, is how ICE is now filing judicially signed arrest warrants, which, if granted, give Brown and other county sheriffs legal leeway to hold inmates for five days past their release date determined by their sentences. That’s huge.

Under existing state law, sheriffs are barred from holding inmates past the expiration time of their sentences to accommodate ICE. Already this year, ICE has filed 21 arrest warrants against undocumented inmates in county jail. Of those, 13 resulted in inmates being remanded to ICE custody. That’s more than twice the number six of the inmates released according to the method approved by the state, and this year, it’s already more inmates picked up than in any of the five previous years. n

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Reef Mortene, 19, of Studio City, was arrested on suspicion of rape of an intoxicated victim, forced oral copulation, and digital penetration, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The charges stem from a sexual assault reported at a wedding-themed fraternity party in April on the 6500 block of Cordoba Road in Isla Vista. After surrendering himself to the LAPD and being booked in jail, Mortene was released on $100,000 bail. The Sheriff’s Office believes other people witnessed the assault who have not yet come forward and encourages them to do so by contacting Detective Ellis at (805) 681-4150 or leaving an anonymous tip at sbsheriff.org/home/anonymoustip or (805) 681-4171.

Dillon Johnson, 37, of Santa Barbara, pleaded guilty on 8/19 to involuntary manslaughter, with special allegation that he personally inflicted great bodily injury or death, in connection with the fentanyl-induced overdose of Matthew Dyet, 30, on 4/29/22, according to the DA’s Office. The case marked the first time anyone was charged with murder in connection with a fentanyl overdose in S.B. County. While Johnson was not found guilty of murder, he pleaded guilty to multiple fentanyl and methamphetamine-related charges in addition to involuntary manslaughter. This case was the second time a defendant pleaded guilty to manslaughter for a fentanyl overdose in the county, the first being a co-defendant case in 2023, the DA’s Office said.

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The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors on 8/26 considered potential updates to its decades-old Open Space Element, part of the county’s General Plan that identifies and maps undeveloped areas and creates policies for their preservation. By January 1, 2026, the County must come into compliance with California’s Senate Bill 1425, mandating that cities and counties update their open space elements to address equitable access, climate resilience, and rewilding opportunities. Ultimately, the board voted 3-2 to adopt county staff’s “moderate” option, that addresses complying with the state bill and identifies rewilding and wildlife corridors opportunities across the county. It will require some additional staffing and $60,000-$80,000 in consultant services.

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In the shade of the Granada Garage’s solar panels, Santa Barbara congressmember Salud Carbajal and other clean-energy proponents criticized the Trump administration’s “big bad ugly bill” and its impacts on clean energy on 8/21. Joined by representatives of multiple industries and labor groups, Carbajal said thousands of jobs are at risk if tri-county cleanenergy projects lose funding and do not move forward. Additionally, he said, starting next year, households can be expected to pay $110 more in electricity bills annually, which could skyrocket to $400 in increased costs in just a few years. Read more at independent.com/energy n

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been for their protection, but rather to facilitate due-process violations while evading accountability for unlawful actions.”

Supervisor Joan Hartmann said that, in her view, “No name, no badge, no agency means there’s no way to hold someone accountable. That just opens up the door to potential abuse, and it creates a culture of impunity.”

Supervisor Bob Nelson was the only member of the board to vote in opposition to the county’s support of the two bills. He said he felt that the State of California had to accept “some responsibility for the level of chaos in the community,” and that he would prefer to work with the federal government and Trump administration toward solving some of the local problems.

The county’s declaration of support is just

its latest action in response to the community’s immigration concerns. Following the July 15 meeting, the board approved $345,000 in funding for the Immigrant Legal Defense Center. On July 18, the county sent a Freedom of Information Act Request asking the federal government to provide a timeline and locations of ICE activity in Santa Barbara County, names of those detained and reason for apprehension, and documentation of guidelines being followed by immigration officers.

The county also sent a request to ICE’s acting Director Todd Lyons asking that an ICE official appear in-person for a public hearing. The county has not received a substantive response to either request, though government officials told county staff that ICE is “searching for records.” n

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Boy Scouts Rescue Former Scoutmaster

Douglas Montgomery, 78,Was

Lost in Wilderness During Backpacking Trip That Became Test of Survival

by Ella Heydenfeldt

Agroup of Santa Barbara Boy Scouts hiking deep in the wilderness of the central Sierra Nevada came across a man who, by all appearances, wasn’t supposed to be there.

“He just looked like basically looked like a homeless guy,” said Scoutmaster MJ Hey. “He was struggling a bit.”

The Santa Barbara–based troop, Troop 26, was on day four of a seven-day backpacking trip through the Emigrant Wilderness, a part of Stanislaus National Forest that borders Yosemite National Park. Nine younger scouts, all around 12 years old, were accompanied by five adult leaders. They were carrying 40-pound packs, navigating through lakes and meadows, and practicing the same skills that generations of Scouts before them had been taught.

The man they found standing alone in a high-altitude meadow near Long Lake was not a stranger to those skills. His name is Douglas Montgomery. He’s 78. And he’s an Eagle Scout.

“I’m an Eagle Scout from Troop 10 in Burlingame,” Montgomery said in an interview with the Independent. “We took Scouts into the Emigrant Wilderness for about 20 years, starting in 1963. At one point, we had 95 Scouts in there.”

But this time, Montgomery wasn’t leading a trip. He was lost. He was on a 14-day backpacking trip that became a test of survival after he lost his pack. Without his backpack, he no longer had shelter, food, water, medication, or a way to communicate.

‘I HAD TO MAKE A DECISION’

The solo trip was supposed to be two weeks. He’d hired a horse to take him to Upper Emigrant Meadow Lake and planned to hike out toward Kennedy Meadows on a trail he hadn’t taken in 50 years.

At some point along the trail, Montgomery says he set his pack down to scout ahead. Then he couldn’t find it again.

“I checked and checked and checked and looked and looked,” he said. “It was very, very disconcerting not to be able to find it. But I had to make a decision at the last minute just to stop looking and get where I could save my own life, and that’s what I did.”

That night, with no gear, no tent, and temperatures in the low forties, Montgomery tried to stay warm in the only way he could: He buried himself.

“Close as I could get, I crammed myself between several lodgepole pines and covered myself with loam,” he said. “I kept myself busy all night, tweaking the loam over parts of my body that were exposed to the air.”

He didn’t sleep. “I complained about the cold out loud many times,” he added, “yelling out of the darkness.”

‘HE WAS VERY DISORIENTATED’

The next morning, when the sun came up, Troop 26 arrived.

Scoutmaster Hey said the scouts initially stopped and spoke with Montgomery and then called the adults over when they realized something was wrong.

“He didn’t have any equipment with him, didn’t have his backpack, just a pair of old trousers and his shirt, and he was pretty heavily cut up,” Hey said.

Hey and Assistant Scoutmaster Orin Rowe laid Montgomery in the sun to warm up. They gave him food, water, and electrolytes. “He literally couldn’t walk on his own,” Hey said.

Hey, trained in Santa Barbara Search and Rescue, made the call to initiate a helicopter rescue via Garmin InReach. The troop’s other adult leaders took the scouts on toward their next camp at Toejam Lake.

‘THEY HAD THE GARMIN’

Montgomery, who normally carries his own personal locator beacon, couldn’t call for help on his own. “I carry a personal locator beacon but that’s in my pack,” he said.

Thanks to Troop 26’s Garmin, within three hours, a California Highway Patrol helicopter arrived from Fresno.

“It took two full-grown men to kind of get him to the helicopter,” Hey said. “He was coherent, in better shape, his blood pressure was actually pretty high, and his heart rate was elevated but not scary.”

“Always lovely,” Montgomery said, when asked about the ride. “I love helicopters. I was in the Navy for four years a lot of helicopter experiences.”

He was transported to Kennedy Meadows. A deputy met him there. His niece drove out in his 1984 Volvo.

“I got in my ’84 Volvo and drove home the next morning,” Montgomery said.

THE TALES OF A SCOUT

The irony wasn’t lost on anyone an Eagle Scout and former Scoutmaster rescued by a troop of kids doing exactly what they’d been trained to do.

“It became a tremendous teaching point,” Hey said. “They were close enough to it, so it was very visceral for them. They really felt the reality of the situation and the seriousness.”

For Montgomery, the main takeaway is “how to protect yourself from hypothermia.” Luckily, Montgomery is a very experienced outdoorsman who knew how to do so. And as such, he provided the scouts with many great tales as they waited for the helicopter. “He was like one of these real characters … like out of a Forrest Gump movie,” Hey said.

Montgomery said he’s sea kayaked the waters off Greenland, Madagascar, Venezuela, British Columbia, Alaska, and Lake Superior. He’s paddled through French Polynesia and the Baltics. He’s cycled most of Europe, the Crimean Peninsula, South Africa, New Zealand, and the Andes. He’s backpacked Argentina, Chile, India, the Himalayas, and pretty much every moun-

tain range on the West Coast.

Montgomery also spent four years in the U.S. Navy as a JAG officer and served as a prosecutor aboard an aircraft carrier, the USS Coral Sea

Until his retirement in 1989, Montgomery was a practicing attorney and estate broker. Afterward, he did pro bono legal work for AIDS patients through 2001. He now lives in San Francisco with his partner, and when asked about slowing down, he just says he “does less backpacking, more kayaking.”

“Backpacking was my first love,” he said. “But once you learn how to live in the wilderness … and your backpacking skills become more challenged by age, you like stuff where you’re sitting down.”

Hence the kayaking. “His Kodiak-to-Chignik [sea kayaking] journey puts Jack London to shame,” Hey remarked.

When asked about whether Montgomery regrets the most recent adventure, he says he does not. He is, however, hopeful that his missing pack will turn up someday.

“My pack is a time capsule,” Montgomery said. “If somebody makes the same mistake I made and goes off the trail in the right place, they may find it. Maybe they’ll find it soon.” For now, it’s buried out there just like he was. n

PUBLIC NOTICE

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report

The City of Santa Barbara is seeking public comment on the Program Year 2024-2025 Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). The CAPER summarizes and evaluates previous achievements using Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME funds allocated by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing on the CAPER will be held on held before the City’s Community Development and Human Services Committee (CDHSC) Tuesday, September 23, 2025, at 6 p.m. in the David Gebhard Meeting Room, 630 Garden St.

The 2024-25 draft CAPER will be available for a 15-day public review period from September 8, 2025, through September 23, 2025. Written comments will be accepted during this period by email at HHS@SantaBarbaraCA.gov. Public comments will also be accepted during the public hearing. The draft CAPER will be available through the City’s Human Services/CDBG program website at https://santabarbaraca.gov/sites/default/files/2025-08/CAPER.pdf

Copies of the Draft CAPER will also be available at the following locations: Public Library Main Branch, 40 East Anapamu Street; and the City Clerk’s office, 735 Anacapa Street. For more information, contact the Housing and Human Services Division, at (805) 564-5461 or e-mail to: HHS@SantaBarbaraCA.gov.

Wildfire Climate

TheUCLA/UCSB study on California wildfires confirms that climate change is the major reason fires are becoming year-round events. While wildfires are natural events, climate change has intensified them, making them more frequent and more destructive.

As we read about wildfire, we need to make the connection to all the little fires and flames we produce every day by combusting coal, oil, and gas in the engines of our cars; in our home furnaces, hot water heaters, and gas stoves; in factories and power plants. It is the emissions from all this combusting that has put too much heat-trapping carbon in the atmosphere that overheats our planet, kills millions with its toxic pollution, and brings chaos to our climate.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Affordable, clean energy is readily available. Free, limitless, clean energy from the sun and wind is now the cheapest way to generate electricity.

The Trump administration, in league with the fossil-fuel industry, is determined to prolong the use of polluting fuels, but take heart, the transition to a clean energy future is inevitable and unstoppable.

—Robert Taylor, Montecito

Please Help

We are reaching out to our elected officials for immediate support. The Battistone Foundation properties, which comprise affordable lowincome apartments for 190 seniors, are currently up for auction. There is no guarantee that these apartments will remain affordable. They may be demolished to build more luxury condominiums.

As you know, Santa Barbara has a dire shortage of affordable housing. Press reports indicate that more than 3,400 people are on waiting lists for affordable housing, with an average five-year wait.

Many of us are longtime residents former nurses, librarians, teachers, veterans, UC Santa Barbara and S.B. City College staff, and more. Many of us helped build this community and are simply asking to remain part of it.

Some of us are in our eighties and nineties, with health conditions and no family nearby. Some of us are frightened. Where will we go?

We ask for your help in conserving these properties as essential housing for low-income seniors. Could the Battistone properties be purchased by the city Housing Authority?

Please do your best to connect with a nonprofit partner, with angel investors, or with another means of continuing the tradition of providing low-

Deaths in Gaza

On August 19, World Humanitarian Day, ShelterBox U.S.A. honored the lives of three colleagues in relief aid who were members of the Palestinian Agricultural Development Association, or PARC, with whom ShelterBox partners to deliver critical supplies into Gaza. They each were killed by Israeli airstrikes.

Haitham Juma was killed on June 2 while trying to obtain food aid to feed his family. Ahmad Sa’ad was killed, along with members of his family, in Gaza City on June 27. Batoul Abu Samra was killed on July 1, as were nearly her entire family.

In Gaza, the immediate priority is access to food and medicine. While ShelterBox’s emergency shelter aid is ready and waiting including enough tents to shelter thousands of people, prepositioned in Jordan ongoing restrictions prevent us from reaching those in need.

As we honor our colleagues’ memory, we continue to call for a permanent ceasefire, for all civilians to be protected, and for humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza.

—ShelterBox U.S.A. Team, S.B.

President of Peace?

Is President Trump the president of peace? Will this be his legacy? If actions speak louder than words, the answer is yes. The Nobel committee should take note.

President Trump earned the “Peace President” title via the Abraham Accords, staring down North Korea, ending America’s endless wars, and by restoring safety in America’s capital. Most recently, he is supporting a possible peace plan between Russia and Ukraine.

Whether the media, the left, and other leaders believe it or not, Trump is the only figure on the planet with both the will and credibility to bring Moscow and Kyiv to the same table.

Today, America and the world are stronger and safer as the result of a strong and resilient leader, namely Donald Trump.

—Diana Thorn, Carpinteria

John Martin 1930–2025 A Singular Man In

BY RALPH SIPPER

John Martin is no longer with us. He was my friend for 50 years and a sage teacher in more ways than one might imagine. What brought us together initially, of course, was books. He was an aspiring publisher in Los Angeles while I had just begun issuing rare-book catalogues in the Bay Area. We were both highly ambitious (and woefully undercapitalized).

John was born with a collector’s DNA in his genes. As a young man, he prowled the used bookstores of L.A. in a quest of first editions of authors whose work he admired. One of those authors was Charles Bukowski, who was eking out a hardscrabble living toiling as a postal service worker by day and writing poems and stories at night that were being published in obscure little magazines and alternative newspapers. John was earning $500 a month in his day job as the manager of an office supply company. He sought out Bukowski and made him an offer that was not refused. Bukowski would quit his job and write full-time for the publishing company that John wanted to establish. And he would be paid $100 monthly by his profligate patron. The rest, as they say, is history. What began as an iffy partnership would turn out to be a runaway success for two unlikely collaborators.

John found the seed money to establish his today-legendary Black Sparrow Press by selling his rare-book collection to the UCSB library for $50,000. Years later, Bukowski’s letters to John hundreds of them were added through our offices to that same local research institution.

The mid-1970s turned out to be the watershed years of our friendship with John and his wife, Barbara. In what I regard as a blissful confluence, my wife, Carol, and I and our young daughter had relocated to Santa Barbara shortly before they left the City of Angels for these balmy parts. Black Sparrow books, all of which were innovatively designed by Barbara, would now be printed here by a master craftsman, the late Graham Mackintosh, who also supervised the production of our catalogues. We discovered odd affinities that had taken place years before we met. For example, both of our only children were named for literary heroines theirs for Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie, ours for Shakespeare’s Cordelia.

I see those days as a literary Golden Age for Santa Barbara an energetic book hub in a pre-Internet time that disproportionately attracted book collectors, authors, librarians, literary critics, and booksellers from all over to a city whose population was then fewer than 100,000.

At the forefront of this renaissance was John, who maintained an unprepossessing profile despite the powerful magnetic field his aura generated. The Martins now lived in a spacious house in the Samarkand area. John worked out of a small, glass-sided office adjacent to a swimming pool that was enjoyed by others but not by its host who in swim trunks patrolled its perimeter, long net in hand, rescuing floating bees or fishing out the occasional fallen leaf or dead insect that had dared to sully his domain.

Since I am a bookseller and John a book collector, one might think our business dealings were one-sided. It is true that, over the years, I sold him much. I did, however, buy much more literary material from him than one might suppose. John was an amateur in the etymological sense of

the word a lover whose ardor can become contagious. I observed how this enthusiasm often converted the infidels with whom he was transacting into true believers. What was a deeply felt passion had its flip side a realistic approach to business that equipoised the yin and yang jousting within the confines of a complex being.

Mild-mannered as he was, John could assert himself when circumstances called for toughness. I remember a long-ago night at a poetry reading in Claire Rabe’s jazz club, Baudelaire’s, when John forcibly silenced a rowdy heckler who went limp in his outraged bear hug. But at heart, my friend was a softy. An example of his generosity: I once coveted a fairly valuable manuscript with a stiff asking price that he dangled before my eyes, only to see it abruptly gifted to me with this throwaway line: “Just take it, pal it’s only paper.”

But nothing, as we know, is forever. A decade after their arrival, John and Barbara moved to Santa Rosa, from which location Black Sparrow titles continued to be produced until 2002, when the rights to the books of Charles Bukowski, John Fante, and Paul Bowles were sold for mega bucks to a major New York publisher. The tent was now folding down but not before John made sure that the contracts of his less popular authors would be taken on by another publishing house, ensuring that their books (and subsequent income) would be continued. The princely sum that John exacted for this secondary sale was $1. Oh, and to sweeten the deal, he threw in the entire 100,000 Black Sparrow Books inventory.

As an adjunct to this blockbuster deal, I, a picky dealer accustomed to buying books one by one, found myself acquiring the 2,500 volumes that were John’s own publisher’s copies books inscribed to him by his authors. After all, to downsize is to be a realistic octogenarian. Not that I adhered to that wise advice.

Besides, saying no to John was never easy. n

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMISSION will hold a virtual public hearing starting at 9:00 am, Thursday, September 11, 2025

The Coastal Commission meeting will be a hybrid meeting occurring both in‐person and virtually through video and teleconference. Please see the Coastal Commission’s Virtual Hearing Procedures posted on the Coastal Commission’s webpage at www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html for details on the procedures of this hearing. If you would like to receive a paper copy of the Coastal Commission’s Virtual Hearing Procedures, please call 415‐904‐5202. The in‐person hearing will be held at Fort Bragg Town Hall, located at 363 North Main Street, Fort Bragg, CA 95437.

The public hearing will act on the following items of local interest:

Item Th8c: County of Santa Barbara Local Coastal Program Amendment No. LCP‐4‐STB‐25‐0017‐1‐Part D (Cannabis Odor). Public hearing and action on County of Santa Barbara’s request to amend the Implementation Plan/Coastal Zoning Ordinance (IP/CZO) portion of the certified Local Coastal Program to update cannabis regulations related to odor control, including new odor thresholds, Odor Abatement Plan requirements, compliance timelines, and procedures for minor permit changes.

Item Th8d: County of Santa Barbara Local Coastal Program Amendment No. LCP‐4‐STB‐25‐0018‐1 Part E (Telecommunication Facilities). Concurrence with the Executive Director’s determination that the request by the County of Santa Barbara to amend the Implementation Plan/Coastal Zoning Ordinance (LIP/CZO) portion of its certified LCP to update permitting requirements and development standards for commercial telecommunication facilities is de minimis.

Check the Coastal Commission’s website for the staff report and more meeting information at www.coastal.ca.gov/mtgcurr.html

obituaries

Michell “Mitch” G. de la Vega 10/08/1942-08/12/2025

Mitch was born in Santa Barbara, CA and passed away at age 82 comfortably at home in Buellton, CA.

Mitch, Papa, Grandfather, Baby, Brother, went by many names and loved his family so much. He had many friends in the community and whenever you were out with him he would get stopped by someone who wanted to say hello. He had a charismatic and dynamic personality. Although Mitch was small in stature, he was big in his generosity and compassion for others. In his lifetime he helped many people quietly, not seeking recognition.

classrooms and offices. His work was highly regarded. He continued his carpentry career at Westmont College, Devereaux, and The Battistone Foundation. In 1987, Mitch married Sharon Hull, and they eventually settled in Buellton, CA. They enjoyed travel, friends, golfing and life was good – they were happily married for 37 years!

Mitch continued participating in sports throughout his life, playing fast pitch baseball in Santa Barbara city league and began a lifetime love of golf in which he won many tournaments both at Santa Barbara Muni Course and later as a member of The Mission Club in Lompoc.

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otherwise go unsung.

Mitch attended Santa Barbara schools and was in the first graduating class at San Marcos High School in 1961. He was an all-around athlete and lettered in basketball, track, baseball, and especially football where he was known as “Mighty Mouse”. He is in the San Marcos High School Hall of Fame and also was voted Homecoming King with a full two page spread in the yearbook.

Mitch attended Santa Barbara City College where he continued to be a football superstar. He married his high school sweetheart, Sue Stauffer, in 1962 and settled in Goleta where they would raise their three children. In 1964 they bought their first home for $17,000 in downtown Goleta and soon after they welcomed their first daughter followed by twins, a boy and a girl. Mitch worked very hard and was a great provider for his family. For many years he held three jobs working days and nights. Eventually, he settled at Goleta Union school district and learned finish carpentry. He designed and made furniture and cabinetry for the

Mitch suffered a stroke in 2011, and despite many years of physical therapy, he was never able to regain his former active capabilities. However, Mitch was comfortable at home surrounded by family and could be found most days in his favorite recliner chair watching his favorite movies and sports on his 100” screen TV!  Recently he suffered another stroke and passed away one week later, on August 12, 2025. He was surrounded by love and care and family and friends were able to say their farewells.

Mitch is survived by his devoted wife Sharon (Soden, Hull), his daughters Cindy “Cyna” Naea (Sam Taylor) of Buellton, Jan “Skye” Taylor of Santa Barbara, and his son Joel de la Vega of New Mexico. He enjoyed three grandchildren, Jaclyn (Andberg) (Dorian) Simon, Hayley Andberg, and Alexander Andberg. He delighted in his two great granddaughters, Alana Argueta and Aurora Simon. He is also survived by his two brothers, Henry and Carlos de la Vega and was preceded in death by his parents, Amparo and Henry and his brothers, Fernando and Joseph de la Vega.

A Celebration of Life open house will be held on Saturday, October 11, 2025 from 1 to 5 PM at home in Buellton, 480 Riverview Drive. Donations may be made to Hospice.

obituaries

Catherine (Cathy) Elizabeth

Sanford

01/10/1931 – 08/08/2025

Cathy passed away on Aug. 8, 2025, surrounded by her family.  Family and Friends please join us in her Celebration of Life on September 4, 2025 @ 12 noon Palm Park Beach House 236 E Cabrillo Blvd Visit: Neptunesociety.com for full obituary.

RICHARD OLIVER SEVERSON

03/15/1936– 08/06/2025

The large Severson family that resided in Santa Barbara starting in the early 40’s has lost one of their own. Richard Oliver Severson passed away on Aug. 6, 2025, in Boise, Idaho. Richard was one of eleven children born to Oliver and Bernice Severson. Richard ”Dick” Severson was born in Los Angeles, Ca. on March 15, 1936. The Severson family, consisting of four children at that time, moved to Santa Barbara in April of 1943. The family eventually grew to ten children. Dick attended local schools including Garfield Elementary, La Cumbre Jr. High, and Santa Barbara High School. His first job was delivering the Santa Barbara Newspress to all the homes in the Oak Park area where the family lived. Growing up across the street from Oak Park gave the family a feeling that they owned the park. It was their front yard. While in high school he rode his small motor scooter every night, with his brown paper lunch bag between his teeth,

to UCSB where he worked. He graduated from S.B. High School in 1954 and soon after joined the U.S. Navy as a Signalman on the USS Kenneth Whiting, a seaplane tender. This was something that made him very proud. Upon returning to Santa Barbara after his two years in the Navy, much of his large family had moved to Whittier, Ca. Dick stayed in Santa Barbara and quickly found work in the grocery business. He married his first wife, Phyllis, in 1965 and moved with her to Sun Valley, Ca. After their divorce, he moved back to Santa Barbara and found employment with the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office. He married his second wife, Zee, and they made a home together in the Magnolia Center area. Dick was very attached to his cousins, the whole Weirum family, and when the Weirums moved to Boise, Id., Dick and Zee soon followed in 1976. In Boise, he served as an Ada County Deputy Marshal in the 4th district court for 24 years from 1977 to 2001.

Dick was an avid golfer and bowler his whole adult life. He also loved his cars and boats and motorcycles. His first car was a gift from his grandparents, Eric and Ruth Anderson, on his 16th birthday. A 1934 Chevy coupe. He had many “hot rods” and other “cool” cars over the years. His last car was a bright yellow 1929 Ford Roadster. On many occasions you could find Dick just east of Stearns Wharf with his ski boat, water skiing with all his friends in the Ski Club. Dick was very agile and strong like a circus performer. One trick he taught himself when he was very young was to ride his bicycle sitting backwards on the handlebars. This was a feat he could still do into his 70’s. He loved to make everyone laugh. He was one of the funniest people you’d ever want to meet. He always had a big smile on his face, and that deep down hearty laugh was very infectious. Dick was a thoughtful neighbor and made those around him feel loved. He also tried his skills with cooking on occa-

sion. One remembered meal was his spaghetti made with enchilada sauce. It was delicious. Also, he spent many mornings cooking up big helpings of Chorizo and eggs for everybody. He was good at whatever he tried.

He was also a huge Boise State Football fan. He wouldn’t miss a game, and he has a picture of himself in his yellow roadster parked on that bright blue stadium turf.

Dick’s ashes will be inurned in the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery. A military funeral with honors will be held on Sept. 25, 2025, at 2:00 PM. His epitaph will simply say, “Our Beloved Brother….You Gave Us Love and Laughter”. There will also be a memorial service for Dick at a future date at Oak Park in Santa Barbara. If all his family shows up, the park will be overflowing with tearful, happy people with lots of fun stories to tell about Dick.

Richard, as he liked to be called later in life, leaves behind his siblings Marilyn Severson Abel, Carol Severson Lux Gordon, Lynda Severson Herreid, Lynette Severson Nirenberg, Roger Severson, Rodney Severson, Janet Severson Culliton, Barbara Joyce Severson DeNecochea, and Dale Severson. Dick had no children of his own, but was blessed with 24 adoring nieces and nephews, including Karen Maassen whom he considered a daughter. Also loving Dick’s memory are his nieces and nephews Cheryl, Tim, Debbie, Randy, Shari, Bill, Rodger, Barri, Matt, Natalie, Ryan, David, Lars, Kevin, Jami, Kris, A.J., Eric, Robin, Kyle, and Abby. He also leaves behind numerous cousins and second cousins and great nieces and nephews and his good friends Rod and Pam Briggs. He was preceded in death by his parents Oliver and Bernice Severson, one brother, Duane, and two nieces, Patti and Jennifer. He was also preceded in death by his best friend and cousin, Ron Weirum.

Special thanks to the caregivers in Boise at The Cottages of Columbia Village and the Lighthouse Hospice. Your tender care for our

sweet Richard is very much appreciated.

All who knew him, loved him.

Margaret Baird French 10/31/1936-03/29/2025

Margaret Baird French, age 88, passed away with family by her side on Saturday, March 29, in Santa Barbara.

She is survived by her two children, Valerie (Michael) and Eric (Meredith), and five grandchildren, Kate, Colin, Alessandra, Liliana, and Melissa, who miss her dearly. She was predeceased by her parents, John and Maisie Baird, and her younger brothers, John and Chris.

Margaret was born on Halloween, October 31, 1936, in Renfrew, Scotland. She liked to say that the witches brought her. During her youth, she enjoyed playing field hockey and dancing. In 1956, she was crowned Miss Rothesay. That same evening, after the pageant, she attended a dance where she met Ian French for the first time who would later become her husband.

Margaret and Ian married in Canada and moved to Santa Barbara in 1962, drawn by Ian’s aerospace job offer at Delco Electronics. They soon welcomed their children, Valerie and Eric, and built a joyful life together filled with family trips to Scotland, days on Santa Barbara’s beaches and hiking trails, and the fellowship of the Unitarian church and de Benneville Pines retreats.

After Ian’s passing in 1982, Margaret worked at The

Tudor House and formed close friendships with "The British Crowd," enjoying Robbie Burns nights, dancing, and weekly lunches. Margaret was grateful for the love and care of Ely, her best friend and caregiver, and Zeff, her longtime friend of 40 years. Their family embraced her as one of their own, and they were her guardian angels in her final years.

She was deeply devoted to her children and grandchildren. Whether she was making art, reading books, throwing a ball, or shopping for twirl-worthy dresses, she delighted in spending time with them.

A gifted storyteller, Margaret shared tales of hope, joy, and resilience—her favorite being of singing songs in bomb shelters with her mother and brothers during WWII, while their father was away and bombs fell near their home. She had an extraordinary ability to find light in darkness, joy in simplicity, and laughter in everyday life. We will miss her stories, her listening ear, her sweet tooth, her beautiful cursive notes, her renditions of "Wee Willie Winkie," and most of all, her unconditional love and belief in us all to always do our best. Margaret now rests peacefully with her beloved parents, brothers, and husband. A memorial plaque has been placed at the base of the two palm trees on Shoreline Drive, overlooking the children’s playground where Margaret cherished spending time walking and playing with her grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, a charity Margaret deeply admired for its mission to fight childhood cancer.

Dale Figtree

05/14/1948 – 07/27/2025

Our Family and Community lost a very precious member. Dale Figtree, 77 of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully in her home on July 27th. Born on May 14th,1948 in Philadelphia. She is survived and cherished by two loving sisters, Ann Cherner and Robin Jones as well as her multitude of cousins, nieces and nephews.

An independent traveler in her 20’s she lived in Greece, Mallorca, London, New York and Florida. While living in New York City, Dale was diagnosed with an inoperable cancerous growth in her chest cavity at 27 years old. Her treatment included intensive radiotherapy that partially shrunk the tumor but left her with a damaged vocal cord and one lung with massive scar tissue.

At this point she was introduced to an extraordinary Doctor known for his work with patients who experienced healing mostly through radical food protocols along with ongoing traditional treatments.

Dale’s extraordinary healing journey is in her book, ‘Health After Cancer’. When she relocated to Laguna Beach a few years later, her complete focus was clear. Dale completed her PH’D in nutrition and her practice was launched to share what she personally experienced.

In the early 90’s when Dale joined her sister in Santa Barbara, she found her ‘Forever Home, growing Health Practice and Spirit Family’.

Dale Figtree was a muchneeded guide for the health and healing of our community and beyond. Her devoted nutritional practice made a difference to all who reached out. She will always

be loved and cherished by the countless lives she touched.

On September 05th you are welcome to join, A CELEBRATION of DALE’S Life, Music, Dance and Deep Spirit at SB UNITY, 227 E Arrellaga St. Doors open at 6:30pm. (Optional Potluck) Bring your dancing shoes and tissues for many, many tributes.

For information on her books and further history vist:DALEFIGTREE.com

Debbie Mitterer

0731/1953 – 08/16/2025

Debra Ann (Harris) Mitterer was born on July 31, 1953 in Corona, California, the daughter of Lester and Shirley (Wroot) Harris. She grew up in Corona and attended local schools, until 1967 when her family moved to Santa Barbara, California, where she graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1971.

She met her husband Don when they both worked at the Blue Chip Stamp Store in Santa Barbara. They were married August 4, 1973 at St. Raphael’s Catholic Church and enjoyed 52 years of marriage. Debbie spent most of her life as a very successful hair stylist. She worked at About Faces Salon and Mira Bella Salon, retiring in 2023. She gathered a loving and loyal group of clients.

Debbie’s main passion in life was her devotion to her husband Don and her two daughters Kerri (Mitterer) Moore and Lindsay (Mitterer) Briner. Debbie enjoyed camping with her family at Lake Cachuma, Lake Nacimiento and the Dunes at Pismo. Debbie also enjoyed cooking and entertaining her wide group of friends and family. Her backyard parties were legendary!

Earlier this year, Don, Debbie and Lindsay relocated to Prescott Valley,

Arizona. They bought a beautiful home there on a large piece of land.

Debbie is survived by her husband Don, daughters Kerri and Lindsay and her brother Jack (Bob Fenelon). She also leaves her three beautiful grandchildren, Dylan, Evan and Zoey.

There are no services planned at this time.

Russell Edward Mueller 09/30/1941-05/07/2025

Russell Edward Mueller, 83, a man of warmth, generosity, courage, and artistic talent, passed away peacefully at his home on May 7, 2025, surrounded by family and dear friends.

Born September 30, 1941, in Covington, Kentucky, to Edith and Edward Mueller, Russ grew up in Erlanger with his siblings. Athletic and active, he excelled at sports, lifeguarding in the summers, and playing basketball at Lloyd High School and later at Eastern Kentucky University.

After college, Russ served honorably in the U.S. Army, including a tour in Vietnam as a captain in explosive ordnance disposal, earning numerous commendations. He went on to a successful career with John Deere and New Holland, rising to Vice President and working across the U.S. and abroad, including two years in Sydney, Australia.

A lifelong sports enthusiast, Russ was an avid golfer, bridge player, skier, and college basketball fan. He passed his love of sports to his daughters, coaching many of their childhood teams. Travel with his beloved wife, Sybil, took him from African safaris to Antarctic cruises, and together they eventually settled in Santa Barbara, where they embraced the arts, supported local music and theatre, and enjoyed daily walks along the beach.

Russ was also a gifted woodworker and painter, creating award-winning pieces inspired by his travels and loved ones, many of which are treasured by family and friends today.

He is survived by his daughters Susan Winn (Tim) and Karen Mueller (Greg Spielman); stepsons Ronald Collett (Rié) and Mark Berger (Alison); grandchildren Lucy, Jimmy, Danielle, Naomi, and Kyle; sister Bonnie Mueller Hollowell; extended family; and many friends.

A celebration of life will be held September 27, 2025, at Maravilla. Details and RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/ RussMuellerCOL

Helen Grace Modugno 10/20/1922-08/02/2025

Helen was born near Paris Texas, the youngest daughter in family of seven. During World War II she worked at the Lockheed aircraft factory. After the war she got a job at a market in Sun Valley, California, where she met Ralph, the man she would spend the rest of her life with. Helen willingly converted to Catholicism and was a devout catholic for all of her life.

In 1962, they moved from San Fernando Valley to a brand new neighborhood in Goleta. Helen spent the rest of her life in Goleta, serving the community in a number of ways at St. Raphaels Church. Helen was always a women’s rights advocate and she fought hard to give women a bigger role in the

Catholic Church. At her 100th birthday, she was honored by the mayor of Goleta with a proclamation. Helen enjoyed her final days in the comfort of her home in Goleta. See a full illustrated obituary on Edhat.com Helen was predeceased by Ralph, all her siblings and her oldest son Jerry. She is survived by five of her six children, David, Jonathan, Susan, Janet and Thomas, plus eleven grand kids and eight great grand kids. A memorial mass will be on Friday, September 19th, 2025 at 11:00 AM at the Santa Barbara Mission.

Ross Stewart 08/01/1989 – 08/10/2025

Christopher Ross Stewart, born on August I, 1989, in Goleta, CA, passed away on August 10, 2025, in his hometown, Santa Ynez Valley, nine days after his 36th birthday, due to a motorcycle accident. He was a beloved son, brother, uncle, and friend to many. If you were lucky enough to know him, you knew he was a legend. He was a jack of all trades and a master of many. From the time he was a young child, he loved animals and was the father to his dog Alice, the two bucking horses he rescued, as well as the two cats he most recently saved just a few weeks ago. He was stubborn and opinionated. He had a wild spirit, a big heart, and always had time to help a friend. We will always love and remember C Stew and cherish the time we had with him.

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Robert B Pentecost "Bobby"

Bobby Pentecost passed away on June 11, 2025.

A celebration of Life for Bobby will be held on September 6, 2025, 12:00 noon at Tuckers Grove area 2. Please come and join his family and friends for lunch and remembrance.

James Michael Dishman 10/17/1949– 08/16/2025

James Michael Dishman, 75, of Solvang, CA passed away on August 16th, 2025. Born on October 17th, 1949 in San Luis Obispo, CA he was a devoted husband to Donna Dishman and a loving father to Sean Dishman and Nicole Oman.

From a young age, Jim had a passion for the arts and design - winning awards and scholarships in his youth. In the late 1960’s Jim attended the Brooks Art Institute in Santa Barbara, where his creative brain flourished. Watercolor became his medium of choice, and his beautiful landscapes of the Central Coast became his legacy.

His craftiness seemingly knew no bounds, and Jim loved making things. With an entrepreneurial spirit, and Donna by his side, Jim started Spectrum Designs, Inc. in Goleta where he designed and produced acrylic displays for local artists and businesses. Always trying to create, he also sold some bitchin’ 80’s acrylic jewelry he crafted out of the front office. Later, the business left acrylics and transformed into Spectrum Designs Medical, where he manufactured silicone medical devices, sold worldwide.

Jim was a sucker for the finer things in life. He loved family, golf, traveling, wine, cooking, jazz, river rocks, nature, photography, and an art gallery.

His vitality on Earth will be fondly remembered by his wife, children, and two grandchildren (Bennett and Clara Oman).

Joshua Jonathan Emery Blau 1968-2025

Joshua Jonathan Emery Blau passed away from kidney cancer in Santa Barbara, California, on July 23, 2025. He was surrounded by the family who adored him.

Josh was born in 1968 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where his father, Dr. Sheridan Blau (Professor Emeritus, Columbia University), had his first teaching position. He had two older sisters, Rebecca and Jessica. When Josh was two, Sheridan took a position in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He and his then-wife, the artist, Bonnie Blau, moved the family west.

As a little kid, Josh drove the neighbors mad, zooming his noisy Big Wheel down the sidewalk at post-pedestrian speeds and then dumping the orange and yellow plastic vehicle in random driveways where unsuspecting drivers would find it blocking their garage. His favorite place to visit was the Strawberry Patch, which was across a busy four-lane road. Riding low on that Big Wheel, he was once discovered at the road’s edge, calmly waiting for the traffic to clear.

Josh’s relentless quest for new terrain never vanished, and he frequently roamed off from the family who would get on their bikes and ride up and down the streets calling for him. He was often found high up a eucalyptus tree, or deep in the lemon orchard that abutted his childhood home. He was dropped off at the UCSB police station at age three, after a woman

who had taken the wandering child out for ice cream had finally decided to return him. His appearance at the police station wasn’t reported to the family immediately as the officer in charge thought he was saying his name was Sven. In fact, he was reporting his name was “Seven,” as Josh had renamed himself after his favorite people, numbers, and characters on Sesame Street. For years, if you asked him what his name was, he would say, “Joshua Johnathan Emery Ernie Bert Dug-Dug Gordon Susan Seven Six Blau.”

Josh was a polymath and his interests ran from literature, to art, to architecture, to history, to politics, to pop culture. He loved a good pop song, and could defend Justin Timberlake or Olivia Rodrigo to any band snob. Josh sang and danced in musical theater at Dos Pueblos High School and in the Santa Barbara Youth Theater. He continued to sing show tunes as an adult with his now 13-year-old daughter, Sonia—his greatest joy— who is also involved in musical theater.

After a gap year in France where he earned a French Baccalauréat, Josh went to Haverford College where he ran the film club and studied Urban Development. By his third year, Josh had tired of the classroom and decided to leave for a semester in Guatemala, where he enrolled in a three-month Spanish course. He was fluent after only a month, and so he took off to explore Central America, El Salvador in particular, where there was a civil war. Josh wrote a letter to his parents to tell them where he was going, but failed to drop it in a post box. As he hitchhiked, rode buses, and walked to El Salvador, his family desperately searched for him, just as they had when he was a little boy. Eventually, Josh turned up at the American Express office in Costa Rica, where he received one of many messages his parents had sent to every American Express office in Central America. By the time he joined the United States Foreign Service, Josh was speaking four languages. He quickly added Portuguese and was placed in the American Consulate in Rio de Janeiro where he lived with his future husband,

architect and designer, Alex Augusto Suárez. Following the Foreign Service, Josh went to work in international television. He was an executive at Fox Latin America and Fox Europe and lived with his husband in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Istanbul (where he learned to speak Turkish), Paris, and Barcelona. When their daughter, Sonia Juliette, was born, Josh and Alex moved permanently to Amsterdam where Josh picked up his next fluent language. Wherever they lived, Josh and Alex loved having family and friends visit. If Josh loved something, he wanted you to love it too, and he would give you any book or re-watch any show just to experience your happiness in discovering something that had brought him joy. One of his greatest frustrations in being sick was that he lost the strength to tour visitors all over Amsterdam, showing them— with the enthusiasm of a zealot— his favorite open market, museum, cheese shop, croissant shop, canal, bike ride, and café.

Josh was a leader in his field and worked easily with people in any language. Aside from work, family, friends, and his beloved daughter, traveling was Josh’s greatest love. He’d rather have spent money on experiences than things. Together, Josh and Alex visited every continent except Australia and Antarctica, and most major cities in the world. None of it was for show or ever posted on social media. These trips were about the authentic experience of seeing places, understanding the history and politics of each country, taking in the art, eating new foods, walking interesting streets, and getting to know new people. Josh was a true citizen of the world and felt at ease everywhere from Thailand, to Japan, to Peru, to Israel, to Jordan, to Spain, to Panama, to Morocco. Josh was planning trips with his husband and daughter even in the final stages of his illness, with the hope that something might change and they could catch a flight to a place they hadn’t yet seen.

When the doctors lost hope (though Josh still held on to the belief he might live a little

longer), Josh and his family flew to Santa Barbara where he wished to die. He asked his parents, sisters, nieces and nephews to be with him for his last days. He loved the ocean and was often called Dolphin Boy, so the extended family gathered in a home with windows that looked out to the sea. Even in his final weeks, Josh resisted giving in or giving up. He danced to George Michael; sang the entire soundtrack of Sound of Music one night; watched his daughter do TikTok dances; cried and laughed with his family and closest friends who visited; and continued to criticize whomever had loaded the dishwasher “the wrong way!”

Josh handed out as many nicknames as he’d had as a kid. Over the last few weeks of his illness, he used all those nicknames as he told every person he spoke to—even when he couldn’t open his eyes—that he loved them. He sent this text to a friend who was across the world and couldn’t make it to California: “[I’m] staying in the mind frame of gratitude: about life, my loved ones, the amazing life I’ve lived, the happiness I’ve had, the pain I’ve not had.”

Josh is survived by his partner and husband of 30 years Alex Augusto Suárez  and his daughter Sonia Juliette Blau Siegal of Amsterdam; his mother Bonnie Blau of Santa Barbara; his father Sheridan Blau and his father's partner Cheryl Hogue Smith of New York City; his sisters Rebecca Summers of Santa Barbara and Jessica Anya Blau of New York City; his nephews and nieces Satchel, Shiloh, and Hannah Summers of San Diego; and Madeline Tavis and Ella Grossbach of Brooklyn.

The world may appear the same without Josh, but for those who knew him, it never will be. Each new country, each surprising taste, each hour getting lost in an unknown city, and each moment of shared wonder will forever echo with the thought: Josh would have loved this.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Josh’s memory can be made to The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

A Man AmOng MEgafiRES

In New Book, Jordan Thomas Brings an Anthropologist’s Eye to the Los Padres Hotshots

by Tyler Hayden

It was a trip to a Maya community in southern Mexico that set anthropologist Jordan Thomas on the path to fire. He was skeptical of the idea that humans are inherently destructive to our environments, and he wanted to figure out how these indigenous people had sustainably managed their forests since the last Ice Age. What he found were flames.

When the weather was right, the Maya farmers set small fires (a version of what we now call “prescribed burns”) that would nourish the soil, promote plant growth, and increase the diversity of the forest. Without these carefully tended burns, the farmers told Thomas, the health of their food systems and the forest itself would be at risk.

Thomas was fascinated, and hooked. He read every book on fire that he could. He studied how it is an essential ecological part of nearly every landscape on Earth, from tropical jungles to arctic peatlands to the California coast, and how throughout history, it was wielded by native peoples to maintain the harmony of their environments.

That begged the question, as Thomas writes in his new book, When It All Burns: Firefighting in a Transformed World , “What did it mean that so much of the planet was now experiencing continental conflagrations?”

Not content to simply study the issue while pursuing his doctorate at UCSB and needing money to pay Santa Barbara rents Thomas joined the Los Padres Hotshots, an elite firefighting unit of the U.S. Forest Service. He was hardly a shoe-in, and trained for months to meet the physical demands.

When It All Burns follows Thomas and the hotshot crew on a brutal six-month

fire season in 2021, when record-setting fires raged across California, including the 18,000-acre Alisal Fire here in Santa Barbara County. The harrowing action sequences are interspersed with deep dives into the ecology, science, economics of fire.

To understand how fires evolved from regenerative tools of Indigenous communities to deadly infernos requiring militaristic suppression campaigns, Thomas begins with Spanish settlements in North America, where native Californians were enslaved and tortured and their traditional fires outlawed because they ruined grazing fields the colonizers wanted for their horses “burnt off by the heathens,” wrote an indignant associate of Junípero Serra.

The book, critically lauded by both The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, traces public policy and private interests all the way to the present day. It examines which stakeholders benefit from our current fire strategies which, perhaps unsurprisingly, are often corporations. In 2021, Thomas points out, the U.S. Forest Service purchased 50 million gallons of PhosChek a flame retardant developed by Monsanto at around $2.50 per gallon.

Thomas also lays bare the startlingly unfair labor practices faced by hotshots, many of whom are forced to turn to GoFundMe campaigns to cover medical bills. In one passage, Thomas recounts an incident where his crew saved a multimillion-dollar mansion from destruction. The owner tried passing out $100 bills as tips. One of Thomas’s fellow firefighters suggested he instead keep paying his taxes, or perhaps pay more taxes.

As the Gifford Fire crested 100,000 acres earlier this month, we spoke with Thomas by phone about his book, the fire-industrial complex, and how humans could one day reestablish their symbiotic relationship with flames. n

What kind of response have you gotten from the guys on your crew? Because you didn’t pull many punches when describing the ups and downs of the experience. When I was working on the book, that’s what would keep me up at night making sure I was doing justice to the hotshots. But overall, the response has been incredibly positive. The son of the first superintendent of the Los Padres hotshots in the 1940s reached out to me and said the book gave him a whole new appreciation for the work that his dad did. The New York Times and the L.A. Times can say whatever they want about it, but if it doesn’t resonate with the firefighters I’m writing about, that would invalidate it for me.

Did you know you wanted to write a book when you joined the Los Padres team? No. When I was part of the crew, that was my first and foremost duty. But since I was taking time off from my PhD to do this work, I had so much of the historical, ecological, cultural, and social context already. When we were up in Plumas National Forest in Northern California, I was thinking, wow, this fire intersects with history in really interesting ways the Gold Rush, the genocide of Indigenous people, and the first huge wave of fire suppression that came with that. My brain was already taking notes.

What do you want people to take away from this book? The first and I think a lot of people in California already have this intuition is that wildfires aren’t natural disasters. They are products of a series of choices that have been made by powerful people through time that we’re dealing with today. And the future of them will be dictated by the decisions we make now, largely politically, in terms of how we regulate the fossil fuel industry and roll out renewable energy to get a handle on climate change. The second is forest management. It is largely a labor issue, and I try to emphasize that in California, it is more or less a euphemism for controlled burning because so much of California needs fire. And what does controlled burning actually take? It takes people with the skills and expertise to do it. Across California around half the land is federal, so it really requires the federal government to invest in the labor the people to carry out these sorts of projects.

You drive home the point that planes and helicopters, which get a lot of public attention, don’t put out fires; they just slow them down. It’s the crews who ultimately put them out. Yeah, everyone gets excited when the air support rolls out, but I think that prevents people from understanding the issue is more complicated, and to get the upper hand [on wildfires], it will take providing better health care and compensation for these federal workers because, at the end of the day, they are the ones who are controlling these fires.

Why isn’t there more bipartisan legislation or at least recognition for this national need? Climate change is moving so fast it’s hard to keep up. The current job descriptions for hotshots and other wildland firefighters hours, pay, benefits were written in the 1980s. And it is widely accepted that we are living on a different planet than we were in the 1980s. You might encounter one megafire in your entire career back in 1980, but we fought four in 2021. And now there are millionacre fires.

There is also a pervasive right-wing opposition to public land that has persisted since the foundation of the United States Forest Service. There are powerful lobbying groups that benefit from the privatization of public land or at least from that land being under-resourced so that its management is contracted out, which opens up opportunities for extraction. One of the ways you do that is by opposing support for public land, which means opposing support for the public servants working on public land. There are a couple key Republican politicians involved in this, among them Congressmember Tom McClintock from California.

The same Tom McClintock from your book who voted against a living wage and affordable healthcare for hotshots, arguing “Wildland firefighting is hot, miserable work, but it is not skilled labor”? Precisely. And this feeds into one of my big objectives of the book, which is reimagining what we consider to be technology worth investing in.

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following is

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from When It All Burns:

One afternoon in September 2021, as a megafire burned through Sequoia National Forest, my hotshot crew marched into a grove of its ancient trees. In the crisp air of high country, the sounds of creaking wood and swishing pine muted our footsteps. Sequoias towered through the smoke. Their canopy closed hundreds of feet above. We moved between trunks the size of cabins, the bark grooved and red. Small squads dropped off from our crew of twenty, spreading along the ridge to prepare for the megafire hurtling toward us.

My own group peeled off near the top of the ridge to await orders. After fighting this fire for the past week, my knees ached, my blisters stung, and my head hurt. I was tired. I knew the other hotshots felt the same. They were chewing tobacco and sharpening their tools hybridized shovels, axes, and hoes with macho names: the Rogue, Pig, Chingadera. I set my chainsaw on the forest floor, removed my gloves, and, for the fifth time that day, pricked my thumb on the chain’s teeth to make sure they were sharp. The grove made me restless.

In the past two decades, wildfires have been doing things not even computer models can predict, environmental events that have scientists racking their brains for appropriately dystopian terminology: firenadoes, firestorms, gigafires, megafires. Scientists recently invented the term “megafire” to describe wildfires that behave in ways that would have been impossible just a generation ago, burning through winter, exploding in the night, and devastating landscapes historically impervious to incendiary destruction like the sequoia groves of California. Sequoias are among the oldest organisms in existence, with fire-resistant bark several feet thick and crowns that can recover when 90 percent is scorched. They even rely on fire to reproduce, as flames crack their cones so seedlings can germinate. Now, the same ecological force they once depended upon is pushing them toward extinction.

Sequoias’ lives are monuments of deep time. Their death would signify something else. If we could not hold this ridge against the megafire, the sequoias would become the largest torches on earth, carrying flames higher than the Statue of Liberty. After three thousand years of life, they would become charred monuments to a passing era, symbols of a violent future. By holding the ridge, I felt we were holding back a new, altered world. As I waited on the fireline with ash in my lungs, I still hoped this was possible. A figure appeared through the smoke, huffing toward us. I stood, worried our superintendent, Aoki, the leader of the Los Padres Hotshots, would catch us sitting. I relaxed when I recognized Jackson.

“Jack!” someone called.

“What’s the word?” another asked.

“Fellas,” Jack greeted us, loosening his pack to catch his breath. His face and beard were caked in dirt. “Cancel

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It’s becoming extremely difficult to keep hotshot crews fully staffed. Wildland firefighting across the United States is less than 75 percent right now because of all the uncertainty with DOGE and the administration cutting funds in the name of efficiency.

How long do hotshots typically last in the field? It’s changed with the slipping of compensation, as fire conditions have grown more extreme, and as jobs for the Forest Service have grown less competitive than jobs for Cal Fire and municipal fire departments. Before climate change started galloping along, people would stay in for five or 10 years to really gain that expertise. Nowadays a lot of time people only last one or two because it’s such brutal work for very low pay.

Talk to me about the cool reception you received from some communities who used to welcome U.S. Forest Service hotshots with open arms. It’s something that was happening in real time while I was on the crew. There was this shift all of the sudden where public agencies that have historically been viewed with a lot of trust, like the CDC, started being seen with so much skepticism. It’s really difficult for me to wrap my head around dismantling different institutions of the federal government by sowing public mistrust, making them less effective, which justifies defunding them even more, and so on.

With the current administration, we’re seeing these policies very starkly, but they’ve been building since the Regan movement in the 1980s with the deregulation of industry, the beginning of the gutting of the public sector, and the erosion of guardrails between the public sector, public policy, and transnational corporations.

One of the things I was trying to express what I was feeling on the fire line, which is that this shit is not abstract. Climate change is not some distant thing. People are feeling the effects right now. People are dying.

Somehow the fossil fuel industry and its political supporters have created this fake machismo around fossil fuels when, really, I can’t imagine anything more cowardly than supporting such a backward industry fueled by a couple billionaires at the expense of hardworking people on the fire line.

Did you think the Palisades and Eaton fires would perhaps spark more of these conversations? [Conversation] is great when you have a solid grasp of facts, but I think that also makes wildfires really prone to misinformation. Those fires were such a wild example of that because Trump was blaming water policies and Elon Musk was blaming DEI initiatives because the L.A. fire chief was a queer woman. It was a whole other level of cynicism.

And what does this all do at the end of the day? It keeps people from talking about climate change. It keeps people from talking about the fact that so many of the firefighters in there didn’t even have respirators or masks, they didn’t have health care, and they were breathing toxic urban fumes.

Your crew was pretty diverse in terms of race, upbringing, and political affiliation. What are some common characteristics among hotshots? It’s often assumed to be a high-end adrenaline job that attracts people who are addicted to risk. But when you actually get in these spaces, you see that there’s a lot of value placed on the opposite. You don’t want to be around risk takers or adrenaline junkies. You want to be around people who are really cleareyed and lead you into the least dangerous situations. The danger is more of a constant background noise that goes up and down, but the adrenaline spike is relatively rare, and it should be, because those are the positions you don’t want to be in.

It is very much a lifestyle, and you have to be committed to that lifestyle. It’s the ability to handle pain and work through it and maintain your commitment. You also need a sense of humor. It’s a way of dealing with the discomfort. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so much as I did with the hotshots. There’s a real levity that comes with being with such a tight-knit group of people.

Do you ever think about rejoining the Los Padres crew? I wouldn’t say I’m actually considering it. I scratch that itch by keeping my certifications up and helping with prescribed burns. There’s a whole subculture of former fire suppression workers, former wildland firefighters, who are using the skills and knowledge that they gained on the fire line to, as people like to say, get on the “good side” of fire. I’m

living in Boston now, so I’m getting to know fire in the northeast and getting involved with initiatives to put more fire on the ground. It’s hard to get away from fire. Once you’ve been around it a lot, it kind of attaches itself to you.

What was your biggest “aha” moment when researching the book? What really stood out to me is the information that’s in the public sphere about the origins of fire suppression. It’s usually talked about as a century of mismanagement by the Forest Service, starting in 1905 with its foundation.

That narrative erases the entire century and a half that preceded it in which fire suppression was occurring through the oppression of indigenous people. It wasn’t just some quirk or mistake that the Forest Service made. By the time the agency was founded, most fires had already been extinguished because they’d been criminalized, because indigenous people were lighting most of the fires in the American West. That narrative also short-circuits people’s imaginations for how we can safely bring fire back to California’s landscapes.

Prescribed burns often involve a whole mess of stakeholders. How do you get everyone on the same page? Right, there’s different interests and different approaches. State agencies like Cal Fire often burn to reduce fuel to reduce wildfire risk, while burns that are being led by California’s tribal people are often based on what ecosystems they want to cultivate, what plants they want to emerge. They’re often less concerned with scale than with ecological and cultural outcomes.

The very first fire regulations in the American West were instituted in Santa Barbara County in 1793 or 1794, when the first Spanish governor criminalized Chumash burning. So, fire has really been extinguished in Santa Barbara perhaps longer than anywhere else in the state, which makes it hard to tap into generational knowledge the way you can in Northern California, where colonialism came over a century later.

From your experience all over the state, how are we doing in Santa Barbara County in terms of collaborating for controlled burns? The Chumash Good Fire Project is a great initiative. I was also very impressed by the ranchers. Regulations in the 1980s made it much more difficult for them to burn, but they are really active and making a lot of effort.

I was also really impressed by Santa Barbara County public officials their understanding of fire, commitment to be involved in prescribed burns, and their real attempts to get fire on the ground, sometimes in spite of the gripes of constituents.

I was also encouraged by the public. I encountered very few people who are against prescribed burns. It seems to be widely understood in Santa Barbara that they are desirable and necessary.

The major issue in Santa Barbara County is viticulture and grape taint from smoke. It’s been a huge point of conflict. At this point the people involved with wine and the people involved with fire are so mad at each other that it’s really hard to even get them in the same room, let alone come together for a prescribed burn. There’s a lot of mistrust, and I think it’ll take some real humility on both sides to overcome that and figure out a way to give Santa Barbara County the kinds of fire it needs, while respecting the economic needs of everybody else, including the vineyards.

Where do you find signs of hope? I think you find hope where you find action real, legitimate hope, not naive optimism. It takes time to give these landscapes the kinds of fire that they need, which requires a couple of things. It takes an understanding of the ecosystems, but it also takes conversations with all the different people living in these landscapes what they want and what they need. And that brings people together, physically and socially, and causes them to communicate. I know that sounds really basic, but it’s fundamental.

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your plans, boys. We’re gonna be up all night.” Word had traveled down the chain of command that we were going to burn our line that evening.

We had spent six days building that line, working from sunrise to sunset, cutting a path through brush and hills, up a mountain ridge into high timber and finally to an old logging road. Wildfires cannot burn without fuel-grass, bushes, and trees and our line formed a fuel break, a continuous barrier of dirt that snaked around the mega-fire. When the conditions were right, we would set fire to its edges. The flames we lit would move toward the megafire and consume the fuel in its path. This is the fireline a dirt band that holds fire back from the world.

Now, we only had a few hours before the megafire would hit us a few hours to finish the line and set fire to the ridge.

“It’s gonna be a shitty burn,” Jack relayed. “We’ll be chasing spot fires all night.”

I asked if we had any safety zones, defensible spaces like meadows where we could survive if the fire got out of control. Jack hedged, chewing the corner of his mustache. “There’re some bulldozers trying to plow one near the peak,” he said. “The thing is, we’ll be going downhill. So, if this thing gets away from us, we’ll need to run to our vehicles and get out of here.”

“It’s a forty-five-minute drive out of the forest,” I noted.

“Yeah, hopefully we’ll get out.”

A radio crackled. Through the static came a gruff voice. Márlon was reporting from his lookout position. “The fire seems a little more extreme,” he said. “Threehundred-foot flames coming at us.”

Aoki’s laughter cut into the radio traffic. “Hoookay! Let’s get the rest of the line pushed through and get that burn goin’. ”

My group huddled in the trees in smoke and radio silence. We didn’t know where Aoki was or who he was telling to push the line. We often joked that he was a mountain spirit. Tall and willow thin, with black hair that fell to the small of his back, he moved with the smoke, drifting and reappearing through the trees. Aoki had turned fifty that season and was widely considered the most experienced hotshot in California a state that claims the most skilled firefighters globally.

Now, the megafire was throwing embers ahead of its advance, starting

smaller fires, spot fires, like raiding parties for an approaching army. Axel, a squad boss, called us toward one that was smoking in the valley below. If we let it grow, it would rush up and cross our line, igniting the forest behind us and trapping us in the path of the megafire. “If the fire gets behind us,” Axel said, “we’re fucked.”

Scrambling down loose rocks into the valley, we followed Axel’s shout and found the spot fire. It had grown to the size of a football field. We cut around it, choked with smoke. In the ringing silence that follows a chainsaw’s scream, I realized that the silence was becoming a roar, and the roar came from the megafire. It was close.

The dark understory of the forest began to glow, a vibration emanating from its depths, rising to the sound of a jet engine. The treetops groaned with wind created by the force of the megafire.

On the fireline, I rarely felt adrenaline. I experienced danger more as a pressure, a weight that never fully disappeared. As the danger grew, so did the weight. With the megafire roaring through the trees, I’d dropped my chainsaw and begun filing the saw’s teeth to new points. Now, the chainsaw shook in my hands.

“Listen.” Axel cocked his head with wild eyes and a feral grin.

“You hear it? Let’s get out of here.”

Axel led our escape, men sweating as the moon rose like a counterweight to the setting sun. A radio crackled, Aoki warning that the fireline was no longer safe and we should hurry down the ridge to our vehicles. I shouted to Axel, several headlamps ahead, that we were throwing away the past week of work. “It’s part of the job,” Axel replied. “You’ll get used to it.” His reply evoked a hotshot adage: You learn to let go of hope, or you get crushed

As we walked, our headlamps cast beams through clouds of smoke and dust, illuminating the trees around us like pillars supporting another world. Forced to retreat, I felt like we were abandoning that world. Just before reaching our vehicles, I stopped to look back at the megafire. It was a billowing column of shadow and light. Briefly, I doubted what I’d seen: through a gap in the trees, a lone flame rose and flickered above the rest.

Only a sequoia a tree that had coexisted with fire for millennia could carry flames so high.

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THURSDAY 8/28

8/28-8/31: PCPA Presents: Songs for Nobodies Award-winning actor and singer Bethany Thomas will take audiences on a one-woman journey that will feature songs such as “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “Crazy,” “Ain’t Nobody’s Business If I Do,” and more from legendary singers Judy Garland, Patsy Cline, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, and Maria Callas. Performances go through September 7. 8pm, Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. $25-$66. Call (805) 922-8313. pcpa.org/events

8/28-8/30: West Coast Premiere of Lies DramaDogs in partnership with PlayFest S.B. present the play, Lies, set in 1950 that follows a young and inexperienced Jewish lawyer who works for the New York public defender’s office who is asked to represent a female German American WWII radio propagandist, imprisoned for treason, for her parole hearing. The two-person play touches on themes such as forgiveness, retribution for the Holocaust, and how easy it was for Germans to slowly slip into fascism. Thu.-Fri.: 7:30pm; Sat.: 2 and 7:30pm. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. Student: $19; GA: $29. Call (805) 963-0408. centerstagetheater.org

8/28: Sunset Ska Party on the Rooftop Join on the roof for an unforgettable evening under the open sky with live music from local Reggae/Ska favorites Koalishon, cocktails (for purchase), dancing, and good vibes. 6-10pm. Kimpton Canary Hotel Rooftop, 31 W. Carrillo St. $20. Ages 21+. Call (805) 884-0300. finchandforkrestaurant.com/events

FRIDAY 8/29

8/29: Chumash Casino Resort Presents: Morris Day and the Time See this American funk rock band, created by Prince, known for tracks like “Jungle Love,” and “The Bird,” both from their 1984 third album, Ice Cream Castle, and 1990’s “Jerk Out” from their Pandemonium album. 8pm. The Samala Showroom, Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez. $49-$79. Ages 21+. Call (805) 686-3805. chumashcasino.com/entertainment

MARKET SCHEDULE

THURSDAY

Carpinteria: 800 block of Linden Ave., 3-6:30pm

FRIDAY

Montecito: 1100 and 1200 blocks of Coast Village Rd., 8-11:15am

SATURDAY

Downtown S.B.: Corner of 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., 2:30-6:30pm

(805) 962-5354 sbfarmersmarket.org

FISHERMAN’S MARKET

SATURDAY

Rain or shine, meet local fishermen on the Harbor’s commercial pier, and buy fresh fish (filleted or whole), live crab, abalone, sea urchins, and more. 117 Harbor Wy., 6-11am. Call (805) 259-7476. cfsb.info/sat

8/28-9/1, 9/3: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: East Valley Road with Plastic Harpoons, Pocketfox, Jacob Cole & the Contenders, Val-Mar Records, 6:30pm. $8-$10. Ages 21+. Fri.: (((folkYEAH!))) Presents: Twin Shadow, 9pm. $25. Ages 21+. Sat.: Mykal Rose with Rastan, 9pm. $35-$40. Ages 21+. Sun.: Hunter Hawkins presents: The Local Folk with Chris Beland and Ray Williams, 7pm. $10-$15. Mon.: An Evening with Afroman! 8pm. $50-$75. Ages 21+. Wed.: Jazz in the Bar with Tony Ybarra and Friends, 6:30pm. Free-$15. 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com

8/29: An Educating Conversation: The Latest Dispatch from the Santa Barbara Presidio Michael Hardwick, author of Spanish Arms & Armaments of the Presidios of California, and Jarrell Jackman, author of Santa Barbara’s Royal Presidio: The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of Spain’s Last Adobe Fortress, will join in a conversation to reveal the most recent findings of the connections of Santa Barbara and the other California presidios as well as other aspects of U.S. history. RSVP is required. 6-8pm. Santa Bárbara Mission Archive-Library, 2201 Laguna St. $50. Call (805) 682-4713, x131. sbmal.org/events PLEASE

8/29: UCSB A&L Movie Night at the Sunken Garden: Dog Bring low back chairs, breathable blankets, and a picnic to enjoy a live music set from DJ Darla Bea and connect with the team from S.B. County Animal Services followed by screening of 2022’s Dog (rated PG-13) that follows Army Ranger Briggs (Channing Tatum) and his Belgian Malinois named Lulu as they race down the Pacific Coast in hopes of making it to a fellow soldier’s funeral on time. 8:30pm. Sunken Gardens, S.B. County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa St. Free. Call (805) 893-3535. artsandlectures. ucsb.edu/events

8/29: Lost Chord Guitars Rupert Wates, 8pm. $20. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. 8pm. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com

8/29: Carhartt Family Wines Live Music 5pm. 2939 Grand Ave., Los Olivos. Free. Call (805) 693-5100. carharttfamilywines.com/eventscalendar

8/29: Carr Winery Barrel Room Sessions: The Rhythm Industrial Complex, 7-9pm. 414 N. Salsipuedes St. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 965-7985. carrwinery.com/event

8/29-8/30 M.Special Brewing Co. (Goleta) Fri.: Channel Five. Sat.: Walking CoCo. 6860 Cortona Dr., Ste. C, Goleta. 7-9pm. Free. Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

8/29-8/30: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: Spoonful. Sat.: House of Blues. Free. 634 State St. 8-10pm. Call (805) 308-0050. mspecialbrewco.com

8/30-9/1: Cold Spring Tavern Fri.: Xangie, 1:30-4:30pm. Sat.: Teresa Russell, 1:30-4:30pm. Sun.: Lenny Kerley Band, 1-4pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd. 1:30-4:30pm. Free. Call (805) 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com

8/30-8/31: Maverick Saloon Fri.: The Molly Ringwald Project, 9pm. Sat.: The Ripleys, 8:30pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. 8:30-11:30pm. Call (805) 686-4785. Ages 21+. mavericksaloon.com/eventcalendar

8/30-8/31: Hooked Bar and Grill Sat.: The New Vibe, 4-7pm. Sun.: John Lyle, 1-4pm. 116 Lakeview Dr., Cachuma Lake. Free. Call (805) 350-8351. hookdbarandgrill.com/music-onthe-water

8/30: Studio Bar & Soundroom Rainbow City Park, Bloodsugar, The Sweeps, Golf Sucks, 7pm. $10. Ages 21+. 28 Anacapa St. Call (646) 593-6616. tinyurl.com/Studio-Bar-Soundroom

8/30: Santa Ynez Cars & Coffee, Brunch & Music Maverick Saloon, Longhorn Coffee Shop, and Trattoria Grappolo invite car lovers with all types of cars to enjoy music, brunch (for purchase), and hang out with others who share your passion for wheels. 10am-2pm. Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free. tinyurl.com/Cars-Coffee-Brunch

8/29: Lobero LIVE Presents Tab Benoit: I Hear Thunder Tour 2025 Take in a night of blues from four-time Grammy-nominated artist Tab Benoit to hear songs from 2024’s I Hear Thunder and tracks from his vast catalog with blues from American blues band GA-20 to open the show. 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $46-$56; premium: $107. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org

8/29: State of the County 2025 Join the S.B. South Coast Chamber of Commerce for the 2025 State of the County to learn important updates and insights on the region’s future with featured speakers 2nd District County Supervisor and Chair Laura Capps, County Executive Officer Mona Miyasato, 1st District Supervisor Roy Lee, and Director of the UCSB Economic Forecast Project Peter Rupert. 3-5:30pm. Ritz-Carlton Bacara, 8301 Hollister Ave. Member: $100; non-member: $150. Email camden@sbscchamber.com tinyurl.com/State-of-County

MONDAY 9/1

9/1: Dine Out for Hunger Returns for Hunger Action Month Support S.B. County families facing food insecurity by ordering a specific menu item at participating restaurants or ordering takeout with a portion of proceeds to benefit the Foodbank of S.B. County through September 30. Visit the website for participating restaurants. Various locations. tinyurl.com/HungerAction-September

TUESDAY 9/2

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WEDNESDAY 9/3

9/3: Blue Whale Reading Series Luare-Anne Bosselaar and Christine Kravetz will host this poetry reading that will feature editor and writer of thirty books of poetry Christopher Buckley and former Poet Laureate of Ventura County with four collections of poetry Phil Taggart with a limited open mic after the readings. 5:30-7pm. Unity of S.B. Chapel, 227 E. Arrellaga St. Suggested donation: $5. tinyurl.com/BlueWhale-Reading

8/31: Free Contra Dance Dance to the sounds of the Rosin Sniffers

Labor Day is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievements of American workers that recognizes the many contributions workers have made to America’s strength, prosperity, and well-being. — U.S. Department of Labor

8/29-9/1:S.B. Studio Artists’ (SBSA) Open Studios Tour! This beloved Labor Day tradition will offer a look into the studios of 28 area artists from Montecito to Goleta. Tickets and tour maps will be available at the opening reception from 5-8pm today and throughout the weekend at SBCAW. Proceeds will benefit the Grace Fisher Foundation. S.B. Community Arts Workshop, 631 Garden Street. 11am-5pm. Children ages 12 and under: free; GA $25. Call (805) 280-9178. santabarbarastudioartists.com/tour

8/30-9/1: Labor Day Coastal Carnival at The Ritz-Carlton Bacara This festive family-friendly carnival includes face-painting, tie-dye, a magician, carnival games with prizes, and more. 11am-3pm. Ritz-Carlton Bacara, 8301 Hollister Ave. Free-$65. Call (805) 968-0100. tinyurl.com/Bacara-Carnival

8/31: Finch & Fork Labor Day Weekend Southern Brunch Join for chicken and waffles, shrimp and grits, gumbo, hushpuppies, biscuits and gravy, and more with a Bloody Mary bar, Micheladas, bottomless mimosas, and the perfect sound and vibes provided by DJ Darla Bea.11am-2pm. Finch & Fork, Canary Hotel, 31 W. Carrillo St. Prices vary. Call (805) 879-9100. finchandforkrestaurant.com/events

9/1: Lompoc Indivisible: Solidarity September Labor Day Kickoff Join this peaceful Labor Day demonstration in honor taking a stand for America’s working people and fair access to due process; protection of Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare; public education; health care; housing; and the right to vote. Make your own sign or choose from the sign loan library. Noon-2pm. North H St. and E. Central Ave. Free tinyurl.com/Indivisible-Lompoc

9/1: S.B. County Democratic Party’s Annual Labor Day Picnic! Join to celebrate the American labor movement and the fight for economic and environmental justice to create a better world free from prejudice, hatred, abuse, greed, and for the hardworking people who contribute to the community. There will be a barbecue, live music, and inspiring words from local leaders and elected officials. 2-4pm. Tucker’s Grove Park, 4800 Cathedral Oaks Rd. $45. Call (805) 965-8030 or email info@sbdems.org. tinyurl.com/Dem-LaborDay

SANTA BARBARA STUDIO ARTISTS 24TH ANNUAL OPEN STUDIOS TOUR

ABSTRACT ARTIST TRICIA EVENSON IS ONE OF 28 ARTISTS OPENING THEIR STUDIOS TO THE PUBLIC

THIS LABOR DAY WEEKEND

Art and connection these are two things you can find at the Open Studios Tour in Santa Barbara. The Santa Barbara Studio Artists (SBSA) are returning with their 24th annual Open Studios Tour this Labor Day weekend. This event offers a rare opportunity to meet local artists and step into their private workspaces. This year’s tour will feature 28 artists, whose studios will be open to the public and marked with yellow flags to guide the way.

One of the featured artists, Tricia Evenson, graduated with a BFA in Graphic Design from the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena and spent three decades as a creative director and designer for high-profile Los Angeles clients. Evenson is inspired by abstract artists such as Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, and Jackson Pollock. I had the privilege of interviewing Evenson in her own home studio, which is filled with both her and her husband Stan’s work. Her studio space and home reflects her nature-inspired style with animals, trees, lakes, etc., being the focus of her paintings. Though she experiments with various color palettes, her works tend to be vibrant and are inspired by natural landscapes and subjects. “I’m inspired by the ocean, water, sky, clouds, trees, and living things, everything from insects to elephants,” she said.

Evenson’s painting origins stemmed from her client-based design agency in Culver City as a graphic design artist. In 2012, she wanted to infuse her company with new life through self-directed painting and collage. Through this exploration of painting projects, she and her husband found an interest in fine art and moved to Portland, Oregon, to pursue that dream. “My journey has been from a 35-year career in graphic design, branding, and packaging to fine art, and I started as an abstract landscape artist, and then I started doing wildlife painting. Those are the two things I like doing the most. I also dabble in mixed media, collaging, and bringing different elements to painting. I’m always evolving, and I don’t stick with one thing too long,” Evenson said.

Evenson and her husband, Stan Evenson, moved to Santa Barbara in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Everything was pretty much shut down, but we started getting involved in creating art very soon after we moved here, and showing our art. I had a great opportunity to have a solo show within the first six months of being here at the Santa

Barbara Tennis Club gallery. Then we joined several different organizations, such as Santa Barbara Visual Artists, Santa Barbara Studio Artists, and Abstract Arts Collective. Our journey has been really wonderful since we landed here five years ago this month. We have found the art community to be extremely welcoming, non-competitive, and encouraging,” said Evenson.

Both Evenson and her husband are showcasing their art in their studio and home in the upcoming Studio Tours. “When people come to our studio, they get a two-for-one, and that’s really exciting, and I think it’s a good draw for people. We both decided to paint really large paintings this year so that we capture people’s imagination and attention. … I really like it when people ask questions about our art. I like to be able to speak to the art or ask a question back, like,‘What does it mean to you? What do you see in it? What does it make you think of or remember?’ I want artwork to be evocative, but mostly we just want to have fun,” she said.

In addition to painting, Evenson ventures into many different avenues of art, including writing. “I am writing a book in the finishing stages right now about how to live your most creative life, and how to unblock yourself from the conversations that have you get stuck in your life when the path could be

creativity,” Evenson said. She is co-writing this book with another artist from the Santa Barbara area, Carrie Clark-Kenny, and says that it will be in bookstores by the end of 2026. She describes writing as, “kind of like painting a painting, by bringing in a lot of things I know from different genres or different mediums, or just things I understand about art and design.”

Evenson said she is always inspired: “I think that’s the way I live my life. I’m an open person who is excited about new experiences. When I feel like I know something, I try to remember there’s so much I don’t know. So, I want to stay open. I listen; I keep my eyes open; I keep my heart open. I want to take in as much information from the world and the environment, and people I’m spending time with as I can, because all in all of those places I find inspiration. I think inspiration is always in front of us. We just have to stay open to it.” —Ella

Bailey

The Open Studios Tour runs Saturday, August 30-Monday, September 1, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, with an opening reception and preview exhibition on Friday, August 29, 5-8 p.m. at the Community Arts Workshop (631 Garden St.). See santabarbarastudioartists.com for tickets and details. This year’s proceeds will support the Grace Fisher Foundation, which connects individuals with disabilities to art, music, and dance.

NOTHING BYGONE ABOUT LARRY VIGON

FROM ICONIC ALBUM COVERS TO MUSEUM-QUALITY PAINTINGS, CREATIVITY FLOWS THROUGH THIS PROLIFIC ARTIST

Larry Vigon is one of the lucky ones. At just 7 years old, he had it all figured out he would spend his life making art.

Vigon’s parents supported his raw talent with lessons at home. His elementary school encouraged him by excusing him from math class so he could paint in the hallway, “which probably explains why my math skills aren’t what they should be,” he said. And many decades later, he’s still producing with the same curiosity and passion as that eager kid with a brush in his hand.

“Doing art is like breathing for me,” Vigon said. “If I’m not doing it, I don’t feel right.” Even though he’s 75, he feels as creative as ever, “Maybe even more so, because I’m always learning, always solving design problems,” he said. “And I’m still having too much fun.”

At Pasadena’s prestigious ArtCenter College of Design, Vigon honed his inherent gift into a marketable skill. He had his work cut out for him. He went from being a big fish in a small pond to a plankton in the Pacific. “I remember walking into the lobby on my first day and seeing the senior work on the wall and thinking, ‘What the hell am I doing? How did I get in here?’ ”

With a characteristic sense of purpose, Vigon set his sights on one day designing record covers. “I’ve been listening to music since I could turn on a radio,” he said. It was the first thing he did when he woke up, and the last thing he did before bed. “So, I always thought the best possible job in the world would be to design albums to combine my love of music with my love of art,” he said.

Upon graduation, Vigon hit the pavement, submitting his work to Los Angeles record companies, a few of whom had heard about the ArtCenter hotshot looking for a job. One day, he got a call from a creative director who asked if he had any experience in hand-lettering. “I said, ‘Of course!’ even though I didn’t,” Vigon said. But he pulled it off, and then some, collaborating with Captain Beefheart for the band’s Bluejeans

and Moonbeams album.

A few gigs later, Vigon found himself working for Fleetwood Mac. There was an element of fate to the union. Vigon’s current wife of 48 years, Sandra, had previously lived with the band’s founder, Peter Green. Green had even written a song about her: “Black Magic Woman.” “It was pretty funny,” Vigon said, “to listen to that song all those years and then marry the woman it was based on.”

Vigon’s design of the Fleetwood Mac record Rumours which went on to sell 40 million copies worldwide cemented his reputation in the rock and pop world and led to a steady stream of contracts with big-name acts, including Eric Clapton, Chicago, Counting Crows, Tom Petty, Bonnie Raitt, Frank Sinatra, Carole King, and many others.

Later in his career, Vigon dove headfirst into the realm of dream analysis, recording every dream he had with an accompanying illustration for 17 years. In another moment of serendipity, he met one of the last living analysts to study with the godfather of dream interpretation, Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. That ultimately led to Vigon overseeing the art direction of The Red Book, the definitive collection of Jung’s groundbreaking research.

Vigon certainly didn’t mind the financial success that came with such exposure, but it’s not what motivated him. It’s still not. “I’ve never really been driven by money,” he said. “For me, it’s always about the art…. Whether it’s a new client or I’m getting paid a fortune, if my name is on it, I give 100 percent to everything I do.” Over the years, that has included work for print, broadcast, and interactive media and encompassed every type of advertising client, from airports to vitamins. That personal ethos was on display over the summer when Vigon won the opportunity to design this year’s Summer Solstice poster a piece he called “Harlequin Dream Dancer” and develop the event’s new “Sun Drummer” logo. Organizers said his work “elevated” the branding of the annual parade and festival. Soon after, he helped lay out

the 2025 Fiesta poster, another aesthetic high point of local marketing.

“I wanted to do something for my new hometown,” explained Vigon, who moved from Europe to Santa Barbara six years ago after regular visits for much of his life. During his dream journaling days, and when the Miramar was $70 a night for an oceanside room, he came here often to paint. “I’ve always had this kind of love affair with Santa Barbara,” he said. “And we just couldn’t face another English winter.” Not long after arriving in town, Vigon taught a class at UCSB The Art of Journaling that happened to include a wealthy patron of the arts. She was so impressed by the depth and breadth of his portfolio that she made him an offer he couldn’t refuse. She wanted to sponsor the publication of a no-expense-spared retrospective of his career. “All artists need a patron, but few are fortunate enough to find one, much less have one choose you,” he said. “It was an incredible gift.” Serious Play, a two-volume tome, was published in 2022.

Even though Vigon’s 50-year career has been officially memorialized, that doesn’t mean it’s over. He’s currently working on a line of aquatic-themed paintings for an upcoming show at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, and he’s looking for other opportunities to share his stuff with the wider public. “You do your work, but unless the public sees it, it’s not really complete,” he said. “This is my way of giving back to the community and being in the world.” He’d also like to teach more.

“I’m always keeping my eyes open for inspiration,” Vigon continued. “Not necessarily another piece of art, but maybe a bird or a shadow. And I always keep a pad of paper next to me that I’ll go back through and say, ‘Oh, that’s interesting. Maybe I’ll develop that.’ I’ll probably die with a paintbrush in my hand.”

See larryvigon.com.

—Tyler Hayden

FREE PRESIDIO NEIGHBORHOOD

EVENT TOASTS SANTA BARBARA’S BOUNTY

“

Write what you know” is one of the most famous pieces of writing advice for a reason. Which is why Santa Barbara Poet Laureate (and longtime Santa Barbara Independent writer) George Yatchisin and Gunpowder Press are inviting community members to come learn more about the city’s unique Presidio Neighborhood in the hopes we’ll be inspired to write poetry about it.

This fun, free event, titled Poetry Grows Here: Presidio Neighborhood, begins at noon on Sunday, August 31, at Pico Adobe at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park with a poetry workshop led by Yatchisin. Next, participants will visit Rudy’s Mexican Restaurant for a tasty bite, Loubud Wines to sip a local sparkling wine, and The Space Su’nan Protection, Art & Cultural Education for a Chumash sweet treat.

This is all part of an inventive initiative by Yatchisin to put together a new Santa Barbara County–themed food and drink poetry anthology. Gunpowder is accepting submissions through September 30 from Santa Barbara County residents of any age. Topics for the “Santa Barbara Food & Drink” anthology include but are not limited to: farms, agriculture; fishing; native edible plants; vegetable gardens; farmers’ markets; ranching; vineyards, wineries, and distilleries in Santa Barbara County; labor, from farm laborers to chefs, bartenders, dishwashers, and more; cafés, bars, and restaurants; local specialty dishes; and home cooking, especially foods particular to Santa Barbara. This collection is limited to residents of Santa Barbara County and there is no fee to submit. See bit.ly/4mTepMk for more information about submissions.

“This anthology will attest to all that food and drink means to Santa Barbarans, and the ways that food shapes our culture and relationships,” writes Yatchisin.

Bring your walking shoes, a notebook, and writing implements and enjoy an immersive experience in the Presidio Neighborhood that will hopefully inspire you to create your own poetry about our community’s food and drink, and submit your work to the forthcoming Santa Barbara County food and drink anthology. —Leslie Dinaberg

Poetry Grows Here: Presidio Neighborhood takes place on Sunday, August 31, from noon to 2 p.m. at Pico Adobe at El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park (920 Anacapa St.). Free parking is available in the lot at 117 East Canon Perdido Street. To access the Pico Adobe, walk through to the back of the parking lot. The Pico Adobe is on the right, just before you reach the back of the Carrillo Rec Center Gym. Its courtyard is surrounded by an adobe wall. The event is free, but pre-registration is requested as capacity is limited. See presidioneighborhoodsb.com/ poetry-grows-here.

TWENTY YEARS OF NAKED SHAKES

THE TEMPEST BRINGS SHAKESPEAREAN MAGIC TO UCSB AND ELINGS PARK

Two decades ago, UCSB professor Irwin Appel began a project he called Naked Shakes minimalistic Shakespearian theater focused on language and acting rather than a dependence on extensive sets, costumes, and design elements. The inaugural performance was A Midsummer Night’s Dream, but the company hit its stride within this pared-down aesthetic in their second production, The Tempest, 19 years ago. This year, Appel brings The Tempest back to the stage, with performances lagoon-side at UCSB and in the Godric Grove amphitheater in Elings Park.

One of Shakespeare’s final plays, The Tempest is a story of magic and manifestation. Ringmaster Prospero, erstwhile Duke of Milan, is living quietly on a remote island with his daughter, Miranda. When Antonio, the brother who usurped Prospero’s throne, sails near the island with a band of kinsmen, Prospero uses his talent for sorcery to raise a maelstrom. The ship cannot withstand the brutal storm, and Antonio and his men are marooned on the island setting the stage for Prospero’s revenge.

“The Tempest was where the Naked Shakes idea came from,” says Appel. “Prospero says, ‘These our actors … were all spirits, and are melted into air’ and ‘the great globe itself … shall dissolve.’

The Globe. Shakespeare could have said ‘the great world’ or ‘the great earth,’ but he picked the name of his theater. And what happened? The Globe did ‘dissolve.’ ” Appel is referring to the London theater where Shakespeare produced work, which famously burned in a blaze caused by a stage cannon. Naked Shakes was born from the idea of theater after the globe dissolves the concept, explains Appel, that “we don’t have a single piece of wood or a button from a costume or anything like that.”

Naked Shakes is unique to UCSB’s performance courses in that much of the cast has little experience with theater. First created as a class, Naked Shakes is now part of UCSB’s Summer Start program, a “pre-semester” for incoming freshmen. The process, says Appel, is profound. “You get this huge group of young people together. Some of them have never done a play. And I’m thinking, your first cultural experience in college is going to be the way we do theater. I love that.” Appel directs the productions

Many of the Naked Shakes students don’t go on to study theater, but the challenges of performance (and the added language barrier of translating Shakespeare) creates the potential for a distinctive learning experience. While the class and the accompanying performance is designed to build actors, it’s also, says Appel, designed to build human beings. “One of the most important things is that it teaches empathy. You have to step into the shoes of somebody else…. I’m giving you this opportunity to feel what they feel and tell their story and share it. I take that very seriously.”

—Maggie Yates

See The Tempest at UCSB September 4-6 at 5 p.m. on the Commencement Green in front of the lagoon, free of charge, with no tickets necessary, or enjoy the performance at Elings Park September 11, 12, and 14. See bit.ly/41LjbTU.

ART ALFRESCO

SANTA BARBARA’S BEAUTY GOES WAY BEYOND THE OCEAN AND THE MOUNTAINS, WITH MORE THAN 200 PUBLIC ART WORKS IT’S ALMOST TIME TO START VOTING FOR YOUR FAVORITES!

As if you need another reason to get outside and enjoy the sunshine in Santa Barbara, from historic Hollywood romance of Dan Sayre Groesbeck to the tattoo art inspired line drawings of Chadillac Green, the aquatic visions of David Flores, the botanical imagination of Penelope Gottlieb, and so many more talented artists there are more than 100 public art murals in Santa Barbara, and another 100plus public sculptures, mosaics, and installations all within publicly accessible spaces which have been identified and are available to peruse on a new interactive Santa Barbara Public Art Map.

Creating this map was a collaboration between Sullivan Goss Gallery owner Nathan Vonk and Santa Barbara Beautiful boardmember Melinda Mettler, who created a document of our city’s murals in 2024.

This whole initiative is part of a community-wide campaign that aims to recognize and highlight the impressively diverse array of art that enriches the city’s public spaces, from murals to sculptures and beyond.

From September 4 to 24, community members are encouraged to visit as many public art works as they can and then vote for their favorites as part of the “100 Years of Santa Barbara Public Art” initiative, which will culminate with the announcement of the community’s favorite artwork during Santa Barbara Beautiful’s 2025 awards ceremony on September 28.

Voters will also be eligible to win one of a series of cultural arts prize packages with items such as a staycation at the Jeff Shelton–designed “El Zapato”; tickets to see performances at the Ensemble Theatre Company, the Santa Barbara Choral Society, the Lobero Theatre, The Granada Theatre, the SBIFF Riviera The-

and Lucky Penny.

and

Need an overview of some of the artists involved with public art around town? Sullivan Goss Gallery (11 E. Anapamu St.) has a show on view August 29–October 27 called The Muralists, which showcases a diverse group of artists from the past and present who have played a major part in creating Santa Barbara’s public art legacy. The artists included are: Adriana Arriaga, Phoebe Brunner, David Flores, Chadillac Green, Skye Gwilliam, Ruth Ellen Hoag, Alfredo Ramos Martínez (1871-1946), Margaret Matson, Brad Nack, Channing Peake (1910-1989), Matt Rodriguez, Miguel Rodriguez, Leslie Lewis Sigler, and Howard Warshaw (1920-1977).

The opening reception for the exhibition is September 4 (1st Thursday), and will also coincide with the first day people can start voting for their favorite public works of art.

The Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative in partnership with Santa Barbara Beautiful, Sullivan Goss, and Irene Hoffman Designs is at the helm of this project, with additional support from other community organizations, including the Santa Barbara Independent

There’s no better time than now to start exploring Santa Barbara’s vast, free public art landscape.

—Leslie

See sbartscollaborative.org/public-art-map for the PDF of the Murals of Santa Barbara guide and the interactive Santa Barbara Public Art Map.

LIVING

Indy Parenting

Here’s to the Cottage Pediatrics Wing

I’m a Santa Barbara superfan. And after my son’s emergency appendectomy over Fourth of July weekend, I’m a Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital superfan.

I lived in Santa Barbara during college, then left for a bigger city. I moved back to town in my mid-twenties, then left once again. But the pull to the land of 72-degree January beach days, Spanish tile roofs, and Backyard Bowls was so strong, I moved my husband and kids back to Goleta last September in time for our older child to start transitional kindergarten.

Especially the Air Hockey Table

by Dana Anderson

Since then, I’ve written about how my third stint here is my favorite stint. I feel at home in Santa Barbara for all the usual reasons: the very real necessity of keeping a swimsuit and towel in the car at all times, the absence of wrestling mittens and hats onto my kids in the winter, the June gloom that prevents summer from getting too hot, the zoo with a view…. I could go on, but I’ll spare you a list that anyone reading this already knows and anyone else would see by Googling, “What’s so great about Santa Barbara?”

The day after we attended a Fourth of July block party, my son started complaining of a stomachache. We gave him some ginger ale, and then, like any good Goleta parents, took him and his little sister swimming at Swell. He perked up enough to dive for sinkies and eat chicken tenders. But the next morning, when he was still in pain and refusing to eat, we took him to Cottage Urgent Care on Calle Real, which gets a shout-out for suspecting appendicitis and sending us straight to the ER.

Pulling up to the hospital on Pueblo, my husband said, “Wow, this hospital is almost as beautiful as the airport.” In what other town do you hear that?

My son, who is 5, was in pain but smiling widely as he sat in the hospital bed waiting for an ultrasound. Our first ER nurse gave him a bag filled with Star Wars goodies, then turned and gave my daughter a pink lovey and some attention, which she had been craving. Our second ER nurse was a surfer whom I knew vaguely from UCSB, a kind man who brought my daughter applesauce and my son some hospital-grade Band-Aids, in case he wanted to go swimming slightly sooner than recommended after his impending appendectomy.

That night, after a scan confirmed appendicitis, a surgical nurse wheeled my son up to meet the anesthesiologist and the pediatric surgeon. My son cried, alligator tears rolling down his cheeks as he wailed, “I’m scared!” My daughter placed her new pink lovey on her brother’s leg and said, “I hope this makes you feel better.” My husband and I turned our backs, hiding our own tears, then kissed him as he rolled away.

While we waited, we went to the hospital lobby, which is bright and beautiful and sells stuffed unicorns. We took our daughter’s new purple stuffed unicorn and yummier-thanexpected salads up to the surgery waiting room and played bingo, and within an hour, the surgery was complete and

my son was awake. He lapped up a cherry popsicle like it was water in a desert, and then we wheeled him down a long hallway a hallway full of paintings and sculptures that’s prettier than any hospital hallway has the right to be to pediatrics, where he would spend the next five days.

I’m one of those moms who sometimes fantasizes about getting a minor illness that forces her to stay in the hospital for a few days, drinking smoothies and watching TV in bed while someone takes care of me and someone else takes care of my children. I know, of course, that my son doesn’t share that fantasy and that he was confused, in pain, and would much rather be home (or, preferably, with his kindergarten friends at the little cove between Goleta Beach and UCSB, running from the waves). But as I looked around his hospital room, with a view of palm trees, a fountain, and the Spanish tile roof on the other side of the hospital, I thought: If he has to be in the hospital, this is the place to be. And if a parent Dad, in this case, because our daughter insisted that Mom be home with her has to sleep in a window seat in a hospital room, this is the window seat to sleep on.

If you ask my son about his least favorite part of being in the hospital, he would say: the pain when they ripped off the tape that was holding his IV. If you asked him about his favorite part of being in the hospital, he would say: nothing. But when pressed, he would say: air hockey.

My son’s room was the best one in pediatrics because it was next door to a recreation room. On his first full day, a child life specialist sat on the foot of my son’s bed and used doctor toys to explain his appendectomy and his recovery, using words a 5-year-old could understand. I was grateful, because the best I could come up with was, “The doctor cut open your stomach and cut out a thing that was making you feel sick,” a description I think made him feel sicker. Then she told him about the two playrooms in pediatrics: one with an array of toys, and the other with a lot of things including, most importantly, air hockey. She explained that

to get out of the hospital, he had to show the doctor that he could eat, drink, and walk around.

That first day, my son wouldn’t budge. But then the nurse reminded him of the air hockey table next door, and my husband reminded him of playing on a similar one at Bowlero. We all sighed with relief when my son swung his legs to the side of his bed, grabbed his dad’s hand, and shuffled next door while I wheeled his IV fluids.

By the fourth day, he didn’t even ask for help getting out of the hospital bed. He’d stand up himself, grab the IV fluid machine, and wheel it over to one of the two playrooms, or to the gorgeous third-floor patio. He ordered himself chocolate milkshakes and pepperoni pizzas and sat in the hospital recliner, coloring Spider-Man and PAW Patrol pages.

Before my son was discharged on day five, we took a final walk to the playroom. We said hi to the guitar players who play music for the kids every Thursday, and they broke into a rendition of “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed.” We saw the nurse who was with us our first day on the wing, who cheered at his progress. I asked my son if he was sad to go home. “Definitely not,” he said.

But two days later, when I showed him the hospital memory box I had made, with his admission bracelet, stuffed bear from the child life specialist, coloring books he had completed, and a few other mementos, he said, “Hold on, Mom!” He rushed over to his dresser, grabbed the kid-sized hospital gown we had brought home, and put it in the box: “I want to remember how cozy this was.” I put the box in his closet and spent the next 45 minutes trying to convince him to take his antibiotics, finally bribing him with a new toy. If only I had a nurse with me, I thought.

Of all the reasons to spend five days in the pediatric wing of a hospital, an appendectomy is a great one. We’re lucky to have a healthy boy, minus one appendix, and his healthy sister home now. We’re also lucky our kid’s hospital stay just happened to be at Santa Barbara Cottage. n

FOR VAQUEROS

With construction underway on campus for a new state-of-the-art physical education facility, the Santa Barbara City College football team will be doing some rebuilding of its own in 2025.

Rebuilding Is the Name of the Game This SBCC Football Season

by Victor Bryant

Numbers are way down for the Vaqueros, and depth will be a significant issue throughout the season, especially on the offensive and defensive lines. These issues are amplified by an extremely difficult schedule playing in the National Northern League, which is made up of some of the best junior college teams in the nation.

However, Head Coach Craig Moropoulos is determined to make the best of less-than-ideal circumstances.

“It’s always difficult when your competition is at such a high level,” Moropoulos said. “It puts an emphasis on depth, performance, and perseverance.”

The SBCC football team was rocked by an in-state tuition scandal last season that resulted in the entire athletic department receiving probation through September 2026. The team will not be eligible for postseason play until the probation is lifted.

The reality for this season is SBCC will be an underdog every week, and the desire to show other teams that they are able to compete is a motivational factor.

The Vaqueros will be breaking in a new quarterback, and freshman Cole Luekenga from Kuna High School in Boise, Idaho, is currently leading the pack.

Dos Pueblos High alum Ryan Marsh is also in the mix at quarterback as well as Jackson McPeak, who has a massive frame at 6'6" and 245 pounds.

Whoever ultimately claims the job will have a solid cast of backs and receivers on offense, but will be light on experience.

“It’s going to be brand new. Whoever plays, whoever is the starter is going to be new to the whole thing,” Moropoulos said. “You’ve got to rise to challenges; that’s part of the game.”

Wide receiver figures to be a position of strength for the Vaqueros as San Marcos High product Quinn Donnell as well as slot receivers Nate Jetter and Bailey Wurzer have all been excellent in training camp.

Donnell has blossomed into a fluid 6'3", 190pound athlete and is excited for the opportunity to compete.

“We are a lot lower on numbers compared to all of the other teams, so I think our goal is to go out there and try to prove that we can play with these harder teams,” Donnell said. “I think everyone wants to do as best as we possibly can.”

Defensively, Nicholas Navarre, a freshman defensive lineman from Vista del Lago High School in Folsom, California, was a standout in SBCC’s preseason scrimmage.

Redshirt freshman Nelson Smith is an athletic linebacker originally from New Zealand, but who went to high school in Washington, D.C. He figures to be a key contributor on defense.

“The scrimmages are good because you get a chance to see who is going to respond in that kind of situation and who is going to crumble,” Moropoulos said. “Those guys stood up to a lot of other guys.”

The Vaqueros will open the season at El Camino College on Saturday, August 30. Their home opener is the following Saturday, September 6, against Pasadena City, beginning at 6 p.m. n

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Demetria Estate Boosts Biodynamic Roots

Rhône-Focused Winery & Vineyard Hits Peak Stride After Nearly 20 Years

Avisit to Demetria Estate begins not with grapes or wine, but with sheep or rather, in a tiny shed, looking at maps at where the sheep are grazing across the property’s tumultuous hillsides, which are located a few turns off of Foxen Canyon Road.

“We’ve really been dialing in the sheep program,” says Director of Viticulture and Winemaking Ryan Roark, who started managing the 45 acres of vineyard in 2019 mostly Rhône varieties, more than half grenache and took over the cellar two years later. “It’s intentional habitat management,” he explained, in which each small zone is grazed for “a short duration with a big impact and lots of rest for the land.”

The sheep-as-centerpiece is not much of a surprise, for Demetria is one of the Central Coast’s biodynamic pioneers, having launched in 2006 by adhering to that ecosystem-aligned agricultural style. The use of livestock is one tenet of biodynamics and a critical part of fast-rising regenerative farming as well. Such methods, often intertwined, have become so popular that finding sheep to rent seasonally is nearimpossible now. So, Demetria built its own herd.

a renowned Napa Valley geologist named Jonathan Swinchatt. After harvests in Napa, New Zealand, and France’s Loire Valley, where he first learned about biodynamics, Roark found his way to Santa Barbara, working for Arcadian, Coastal Vineyard Care, and Andrew Murray, among others.

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The blue tape surrounding colored grids on the map shows how Roark is using more than 80 ewes to keep the underbrush down with their chomping and to fertilize the ground with their pooping. They sell some of the animals for meat to offset the costs of solar-powered electric fencing, supplemental hay, and food for the Anatolian Shepherd dogs that protect the flock. There’s an immeasurable benefit too, added Roark, explaining in his slight drawl, “They bring an energy to the place.”

So does Roark, a Marshall, Texas, native and Texas A&M grad who was drawn to wine through his uncle,

He launched his own brand, Roark Wine Company, in 2009, and was solely focused on that for about six years when he joined Demetria. His label lives on today, but it’s considerably smaller than when he was leasing five different vineyards. Attuned to rural life, deeply interested in nature-friendly farming, and known for a delicate touch in the cellar, Roark feels particularly well-suited for Demetria’s semi-wild setting and biodynamic-pioneer reputation. When I visited him there for the first time two years ago, he hoisted me onto the back of one of his horses and toured me through vines, past the wildflowers, and beneath mossy oaks. The property’s soils are pretty uniform, but the topography is anything but. “Our biggest variation between vineyard sections are slopes and aspect,” said Roark. Our horse ride quickly moved into the winery, tasting barrel samples from the blocks we’d just sauntered by. It was one of the more epic ways to experience a vineyard in full.

I became a fan of Demetria soon after it opened nearly 20 years ago, visiting on one of the early Sustainable Vine Wine Tours and learning for the first time about biodynamics from winemakers like Mike Roth (now of Lo-Fi) and Brandon Sparks-Gillis (now of Dragonette).

Set between the Santa Ynez and Santa Maria valleys it’s more like Alisos Canyon than any other sub-appellation the estate was part of the original Zaca Mesa ranch until a very young Andrew Murray and his family bought the property to pursue his wine dreams in 1990. (Murray’s dreams continue to come true just around the corner today.)

Fifteen years later, the Murrays sold the property to Sandra and John Zahoudanis, he a real estate investor who drew inspiration from his childhood farm near Mount Olympus in Greece. (They also briefly owned Ashley’s Vineyard in the Sta. Rita Hills.) Their son, Alexis Zahoudanis, signed on to manage the project full-time in 2019, and he’s now the primary owner-operator, since John died in 2020. (Sandra still lives on-site.)

In both 2023 and this past May, I tasted Demetria’s lineup over Industrial Eats pizzas, salads, and sandwiches with Alexis, Roark, and Emily Myers, who joined Roark as a winemaker in 2021 soon after he took over the cellar. A UCSB grad and tech sales refugee, Myers came to wine in 2018, working at Grassini and then Solminer. At Roark’s insistence, she launched her own tiny brand called Eislynn her middle name after starting at Demetria. “I got to work for and with wonderful people,” she said, “and I wanted to see what it was

like when it’s just me.”

During each lunch, we started on the Demetria grenache-based rosé (also featuring some cinsault and counoise) and the whites, which include mostly Rhône wines from the estate like Cuvée Papou, which was one of my first favorite white wines ever. But thanks in part to Roark’s experience, there’s also now some chardonnay from the Sta. Rita Hills and a sauvignon blanc under the name Pantheon Blanc. The reds follow a similar tack: mostly estate-grown grenache, syrah, mourvèdre, and blends thereof, but a few pinots from the Sta. Rita Hills and Santa Maria Valley as well.

As they replant parts of the 35-year-old vineyard including new grapes such as chenin blanc, cabernet franc, and assyrtiko, a nod to the Greek roots the team is also continuing to innovate in the cellar. For instance, after noticing that the low-yielding, roadside blocks of grenache made a rather intense wine, they started bottling that as O Dromos, which means “the road” in Greek.

That wine, as well as some of their other high-end bottlings such as the Agape, are dependent on what happens at harvest. “If the vintage doesn’t make it, we won’t make the wine,” said Roark. That will be particularly stark in 2024, as the Lake Fire was nearby, basically wrecking Demetria’s red grapes with smoke taint.

But they’ve planned releases accordingly, so Demetria will remain a popular place for weddings and private events. The estate also hosts plenty of fun gatherings for the public as well. It was vinyl day when I visited last May, with a deejay spinning everything from Patsy Cline to reggae. They host movie nights during the summer (Aug. 23, Sep. 27, Oct. 25), live music every Sunday, and a new craft market that debuts on August 24.

You’ll most likely still find Roark hanging out with the sheep, horses, and dogs like the 10 Anatolian puppies that were born in a cave this spring and were frolicking around on my visit. The overall vibe is very much natural and intuitive, but the Demetria team eagerly analyzes the impact of the sheep and the rest of their biodynamic approach in quantitative ways as much as possible.

Said Roark, “The scientific data validates our gut.”

See demetriaestate.com.

Dom’s Taverna Debuts Downtown

Dom’s Taverna, a new Basque restaurant in downtown Santa Barbara at 30 East Victoria Street, opened its doors last week. The eatery is not affiliated with Little Dom’s in Carpinteria. The newest restaurant from chef Dominique “Dom” Crisp known for helming celebrated Los Angeles restaurants The Lonely Oyster, Saso, Blue Plate Oysterette and L&E Oyster combines the flavors of the Basque region of Northern Spain and Southwestern France with locally sourced Central Coast ingredients. Together with partner Raj Nallapothola of Toronix Gourmet, Chef Crisp has transformed the former Trattoria Victoria space into a modern taverna that aims to be a gathering place for locals and visitors alike who want to experience the flavors of the Basque region.

“Opening Dom’s is an incredible adventure, both personally and professionally I cannot wait to welcome guests and offer them a gathering place with authentic flavors from the Basque country,” said Crisp. “We are thrilled to share our table and traditions with Santa Barbara.”

The restaurant features an all-day menu that highlights Central Coast ingredients reimagined through a Basque lens. Signature offerings include pintxos; wood-fired specialties, including whole fish Basquaise, white miso roasted oysters, Navarra-style bone-in Wagyu rib-eye, and Hope Ranch mussels; arroz negro; and Santa Barbara spot prawns.

Dessert offerings include the restaurant’s signature goxua, meaning “sweet” in Basque, an orange-liqueur-soaked sponge cake with a crème brûlée top; or the hedonistic Black Périgord truffle Basque cheesecake.

Dom’s Taverna is built around a bar, offering a selection of Spanish, Oregon, and California wines; vermouth; cider; beer; and craft cocktails intended to be paired with Basque dishes.

“Dom’s Taverna is more than a restaurant, and we deeply respect that this

space has been nourishing our Santa Barbara community for over 40 years,” said owner Raj Nallapothola. “We are grateful to be able to steward this storied location and continue celebrating our community, heritage, and the joy of sharing great food.”

Dom’s Taverna is open Tuesday, 5-11 p.m.; Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; and Sunday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., serving brunch. Visit domstaverna.com or @domstaverna on Instagram.

PASCUCCI ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS: Pascucci, which recently moved from lower State Street to near the Granada, has been serving customers for decades and is having an anniversary special during September. “Pascucci is so appreciative of our loyal clientele for supporting us for 32 years, and making our move to 1230-A State Street in the Arts District so amazing,” says owner Laura Knight. “Since we were busy with remodeling and moving, we didn’t get the chance to celebrate our 32nd anniversary, so we’re celebrating a little late! To thank our amazing customers, we will be offering 32 percent off our top 32 selling menu items from September 2-23. We hope to see you at our new location, just a few doors up from The Granada Theatre.”

BEAST TAQUERIA CLOSES: Here is a message from reader Tom S.: “Hi John, I swung by Beast Taqueria today, inside M. Special on State Street, during farmers’ market and saw that it’s closed. The staff says it’s permanently closed, unfortunately.”

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Mickey Flacks was a dogged advocate for affordable housing, among other progressive causes, so the Santa Barbara Independent launched the Mickey Flacks Journalism Fund soon after she died in 2020 to keep her work alive.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOG Y by

Rob Breszny

WEEK OF AUGUST 28

ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): In some Buddhist mandalas, the outer circle depicts a wall of fire. It marks the boundary between the chaotic external world and the sacred space within. For seekers and devotees, it’s a symbol of the transformation they must undergo to commune with deeper truths. I think you’re ready to create or bolster your own flame wall, Aries. What is non-negotiable for your peace, your creativity, your worth? Who or what belongs in your inner circle? And what must stay outside? Be clear about the boundaries you need to be your authentic self.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): Centuries ago, builders in Venice, Italy, drove countless wooden pilings deep into the waterlogged mud of the lagoon to create a stable base for future structures. These timber foundations were essential because the soil was too weak to support stone buildings directly. Eventually, the wood absorbed minerals from the surrounding muddy water and became exceptionally hard and durable, capable of supporting heavy buildings. Taurus, you may soon glimpse how something you’ve built your life upon a value, a relationship, or a daily ritual is more enduring than you imagined. Its power is in its rootedness, its long conversation with the invisible. My advice: Trust what once seemed soft but has become solid. Thank life for blessing you with its secret alchemy.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): In Inuit myth, Sedna is the goddess who lives at the bottom of the sea and oversees all marine life. If humans harm nature or neglect spiritual truths, Sedna may stop allowing them to catch sea creatures for food, leading to starvation. Then shamans from the world above must swim down to sing her songs and comb her long black hair. If they win her favor, she restores balance. I propose that you take direction from this myth, Gemini. Some neglected beauty and wisdom in your emotional depths is asking for your attention. What part of you needs reverence, tenderness, and ceremonial care?

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): In ancient Rome, the lararium was a home altar. It wasn’t used for momentous appeals to the heavyweight deities such as Jupiter, Venus, Apollo, Juno, and Mars. Instead, it was there that people performed daily rituals, seeking prosperity, protection, and health from their ancestors and minor household gods. I think now is a fine time to create your own version of a lararium, Cancerian. How could you fortify your home base to make it more nurturing and uplifting? What rituals and playful ceremonies might you do to generate everyday blessings?

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): In Persian miniature painting, entire epics are compressed into exquisite images the size of a hand. Each creation contains worlds within worlds, myths tucked into detail. I suggest you draw inspiration from this approach, Leo. Rather than imagining your life as a grand performance, play with the theme of sacred compression. Be alert for seemingly transitory moments that carry enormous weight. Proceed on the assumption that a brief phrase or lucky accident may spark sweet changes. What might it look like to condense your full glory into small gifts that people can readily use?

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In Andean cosmology, the condor and the hummingbird are both sacred messengers. One soars majestically at high altitudes, a symbolic bridge between the earth and heaven. The other moves with supple efficiency and detailed precision, an icon of resilience and high energy. Let’s make these birds your spirit creatures for the coming months. Your challenging but feasible assignment is to both see the big picture and attend skillfully to the intimate details.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the ancient Greek myth of Psyche, one of her trials is to gather golden wool from violent rams. She succeeds by waiting until the torrid heat of midday

passes, and the rams are resting in the cool shade. She safely collects the wool from bushes and branches without confronting the rams directly. Let this be a lesson, Libra. To succeed at your challenges, rely on strategy rather than confrontation. It’s true that what you want may feel blocked by difficult energies, like chaotic schedules, reactive people, or tangled decisions. But don’t act impulsively. Wait. Listen. Watch. Openings will happen when the noise settles and others tire themselves out. You don’t need to overpower. You just need to time your grace. Golden wool is waiting, but it can’t be taken by force.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1911, two teams tried to become the first humans to reach the South Pole. Roald Amundsen’s group succeeded, but Robert Falcon Scott’s did not. Why? Amundsen had studied with Indigenous people who were familiar with frigid environments. He adopted their clothing choices (fur and layering), their travel techniques (dogsledding), and their measured, deliberate pacing, including lots of rest. Scott exhausted himself and his people with inconsistent bursts of intense effort and stubbornly inept British strategies. Take your cues from Amundsen, dear Scorpio. Get advice from real experts. Pace yourself; don’t sprint. Be consistent rather than melodramatic. Opt for discipline instead of heroics.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A lighthouse isn’t concerned with whether ships are watching it from a distance. It simply shines forth its strong beams, no questions asked. It rotates, pulses, and moves through its cycles because that’s its natural task. Its purpose is steady illumination, not recognition. In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I ask you and encourage you to be like a lighthouse. Be loyal to your own gleam. Do what you do best because it pleases you. The ones who need your signal will find you. You don’t have to chase them across the waves.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1885, Sarah E. Goode became the fourth African American woman to be granted a U.S. patent. Her invention was ingenious: a folding cabinet bed that could be transformed into a roll-top desk. It appealed to people who lived in small apartments and needed to save space. I believe you’re primed and ready for a similar advance in practical resourcefulness, Capricorn. You may be able to combine two seemingly unrelated needs into one brilliant solution turning space, time, or resources into something more graceful and useful. Let your mind play with hybrid inventions and unlikely pairings.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I expect you will be knowledgeable and smart during the coming weeks, Aquarius. But I hope you will also be wise and savvy. I hope you will wrestle vigorously with the truth so you can express it in practical and timely ways. You must be ingenious as you figure out the precise ways to translate your intelligence into specifically right actions. So, for example: You may feel compelled to be authentic in a situation where you have been reticent, or to share a vision that has been growing quietly. Don’t stay silent, but also don’t blurt. Articulate your reality checks with elegance and discernment. The right message delivered at the wrong moment could make a mess, whereas that same message will be a blessing if offered at the exact turning point.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Liubai is a Chinese term that means “to leave blank.” In traditional ink painting, it referred to the portions of the canvas the artist chose not to fill in. Those unpainted areas were not considered empty. They carried emotional weight, inviting the eye to rest and the mind to wander. I believe your near future could benefit from this idea, Pisces. Don’t feel you have to spell everything out or tie up each thread. It may be important not to explain and reveal some things. What’s left unsaid, incomplete, or open-ended may bring you more gifts than constant effort. Let a little stillness accompany whatever you’re creating.

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Experience working in a confidential environment. Experience adjudicating a student conduct caseload with strict adherence to due process procedures. Outstanding interpersonal skills in working with college students; para‑professional counseling skills required. Strong analytical and computer skills for the collecting, coding and recording of disciplinary files. Outstanding administrative and organizational skills. Thorough knowledge of advising and counseling techniques. Strong knowledge of common University‑specific computer application programs and knowledge of University and departmental principles and procedures involved in risk assessment and evaluating risks as to likelihood and consequences. Thorough knowledge of Student Affairs / Student Life specialization. Skills in judgment and decision‑making, problem solving, identifying measures of system performance and the actions to improve performance. Abilities in project management, problem identification and reasoning skills. Ability to develop original ideas to solve problems. Notes: UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act Satisfactory criminal history background check. Budgeted Salary Range: $60,300 to $82,100/year. Full Salary Range: $60,300 to $103,900/year. 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 #75357

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COORDINATOR

ELECTRICAL & COMPUTER

ENGINEERING

Under general supervision of the Student Affairs Manager, the Graduate Admissions Coordinator is responsible for all admissions‑related duties and processes for the various graduate programs, including the BS/MS program. Tracks and ensures integrity of student files and information for over 900 applications per year. Responds to inquiries about the application process, program requirements and curriculum, financial support, fee waivers, provisional admission, deferrals, housing, and other related topics. Generates and prepares statistical reports for committees, Graduate Division, College of Engineering, and external agencies. Creates print and web‑based materials and maintains information within the department and Graduate Division’s admissions webpages. Responsible for admissions recruitment and all outreach efforts. Provides academic and financial administrative support for the graduate and undergraduate programs in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Provides routine academic advising services and progress checks for graduate students, and assists in various tasks related to the onboarding of incoming students. Reqs: Bachelor’s Degree in related area and / or equivalent experience / training. Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check; some overtime hours required during peak admissions season; UCSB Campus

Security Authority under Clery Act.

Hiring/Budgeted Salary Range:

$26.53 ‑ $33.05/hr. Full Salary Range:

$26.53 ‑ $44.92/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. Application Review begins 9/8/25. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #80689

GROUNDSKEEPER

MARINE SCIENCE INSTITUTE

Will assist with implementing restoration projects at field sites in the Santa Clara River floodplain (Santa Paula and Fillmore, Ventura County). Responsibilities will include identifying weed management issues, implementing established weed control techniques, and herbicide application while following required safety guidelines and regulations. Responsibilities will also include growing and installing native plants, installing irrigation, maintaining plantings to ensure survival and proper growth, and assisting with measuring plant growth/cover criteria. Employee may also assist with soil and hydrological modifications and general project tasks. Reqs: 1‑3 years Working with and knowledge of herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers. 1‑3 years Implementing weed control, including physical, mechanical, and chemical. 1‑3 years Operating machines and power tools. Extensive knowledge of and ability to implement a broad range of weed management tactics, including chemical, cultural, mechanical, and biological control. Ability to train new staff in these techniques. Proficient in using a range of heavy and light machinery and power tools to complete project tasks. Notes: 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. Budgeted Hourly Range: $25.20/hr Full Hourly Range: $25/hr. to $29.55/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 #80118

MANAGER OF

SERVICES & SURPLUS SALES

CENTRAL STORES

Provide recharge services to all campus divisions and departments by following workflows established with the computerized maintenance management software WebTMA. Staff supervised by the Manager of Furniture Services provide the labor, material, and equipment necessary to perform a variety of jobs for campus

clients, including but not limited to office reconfigurations, lab relocations, furniture installations, modular systems furniture modifications, heavy equipment receiving, and several related tasks at all University‑owned properties. Responsible for determining and obtaining the labor and equipment resources necessary to complete jobs, coordinate closely and effectively with customers and departmental staff, consult and advise department personnel on service needs and estimates, prioritize work scheduling, follow up and inspect work, and be flexible in dealing with shifting priorities and unforeseen challenges. This Manager and crew provide logistical support for the delivery, removal, donation, re‑sale or disposal of inventorial equipment, as well as furniture rentals and setup/ takedown for high‑profile University events including but not limited to Move‑In, Convocation, Parents & Family Weekend, Open House, Staff Appreciation, Commencement, Summer Conferences, and several other luncheons, receptions, and departmental events to achieve program objectives and to promote ongoing relationship building between students, staff, faculty, alumni and donors. The Surplus Sales duties are to support the administration of the campuswide disposition or transfer of excess University‑owned property, and specifically the Equipment Inventory Modification Request procedures and policies for disposing, transferring, recycling, or donating inventorial equipment. Responsible for the fiscal oversight of all Furniture Services & Surplus Sales functions, implementing workflows and processes with WebTMA, Oracle Financial Cloud, and point of sale systems to accurately account for revenue, expenses, and to ensure the financial solvency of the unit. Oversees both union represented career staff and student staff, and supervises both. Reqs: 2‑4 years oversight experience of a warehouse, stockroom, or similar shipping and

receiving center. Minimum of two years supervisory experience demonstrating the ability to coach and mentor staff. Forklift certification within 120 Days.

Notes: 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. Occasional travel may be required. Satisfactory criminal history background check. 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 #80700

MARKETING SPECIALIST ‑ LIMITED APPOINTMENT

ARTS & LECTURES

Under the supervision of UCSB Arts & Lectures’ Marketing Manager, the Marketing Specialist provides a broad range of administrative, marketing and event functions in support of Arts & Lectures. This position contributes to the marketing team’s implementation of innovative multi‑channel marketing strategies that drive both awareness of the organization and ticket sales for its individual performances, films, lectures and special events. Using independent judgment and maintaining a superior level of professionalism and initiative, the Marketing Specialist executes duties related to general marketing, graphic design, content creation, logistical planning, event staffing and administrative support. Reqs:

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience; 1‑3 yrs marketing analysis and data compilation; 1‑3 yrs administrative support in a professional setting; 1‑3 yrs general marketing, graphic design, content creation, logistical planning and website management. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a criminal history background check. Hiring/ Budgeted Salary Range: $28.88 ‑ $36/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 #80611

MEDICAL ASSISTANT‑ EMT/ CNA

STUDENT HEALTH

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PAINTER RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS

Responsible for performing skilled painting tasks for University owned Residential Halls/Housing and its related buildings at on and off campus locations as outlined below, and may be assigned other duties (including those in other craft areas) to accomplish the operational needs of the department. In compliance with HDAE goals and objectives, affirms and implements the department Educational Equity Plan comprised of short and long term objectives that reflect a systematic approach to preparing both students and staff for a success in a multi‑cultural society. Work in an environment, which is ethnically diverse and culturally pluralistic. Works effectively in a team environment. Reqs: 4+ years demonstrated work in the painter trade, showing multiple skills within the paint trade. Similar type apartment paintwork experience as well as paint applications to wood and stucco buildings. Knowledge and ability to perform interior and exterior wall repairs to various wall types such as drywall, wire lath, and plaster and stucco. Ability to safely erect, work on, and or operate scaffolding, high ladders, various lifts, power washers, airless and HVLP spray systems, and air compressors. Ability to meet critical timelines and work independently or in teams. Must have effective communication skills. Ability to interact as a team member with sensitivity towards a multicultural work environment. Ability to install and repair wall coverings, ceramic wall and floor tile. Ability to communicate and work well with others.

Notes:

May be required to work schedules other than 7:30AM ‑ 4:30PM Monday ‑ Friday, to meet the operational needs of the department. 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. For multi‑hire positions: Some positions filled under this posting may be required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies/procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Pay Rate/ Range: $44.90/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 #80023

PEST CONTROL TECHNICIAN

RESIDENTIAL OPERATIONS/FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Using Integrated Pest Management (IPM) techniques, the technician provides safe, effective, and efficient services to multiple locations. Services include the treatment of nuisance animals, insects, and weeds. Reqs: 1‑3 years experience performing Integrative Pest Management for a licensed business or public institution. nMust have the skills, knowledge, and ability to use the practices of Integrated Pest Management to provide safe, effective, and efficient pest management to various campus entities. Expert knowledge of the latest pest management techniques, including pest biology and identification, sanitation, exclusion, education, habitat modification, pest prevention building design, wildlife management, pesticide safety, and least toxic pesticides. Knowledgeable in techniques to solve pest problems in sensitive campus environments, including research laboratories, animal facilities, museums, and rare book collections, without affecting data or collections. Knowledgeable of county, state, and federal regulations regarding application, storage, and use of pesticides. Works independently in a responsible manner and cooperatively in a group setting. Must possess a valid California DPR Qualified Applicator’s License or Certificate Category A, or a California Structural Branch 2 license. Must also maintain licenses through the accumulation of the required CEU’s, respective to each license. Must be available to respond to emergencies, work on‑call, rotating swing shift and holidays. Notes: May work shifts other than Monday thru Friday in order to meet the operational needs of the department. Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Budgeted Hourly Range: $25.32 ‑ $29.09/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 status, protected veteran status, or other protected status under state or federal law.Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #48751

SHOW RUNNER (LIMITED APPT)

ARTS & LECTURES

Responsible for the on‑site production logistics management of all Arts & Lectures public events including films, lectures, performing arts and special events. Job functions

include: planning and organizing of event activities, including managing logistics such as facilities, audience management activities, concessionaires, caterers, and vendors, and facilitation of communication and services with speakers and facility maintenance staff; or provides technical support of these activities. Reqs: High School Diploma or GED. 1‑3 years of professional experience in large‑scale public event management and production. Notes: Satisfactory conviction history background check. CANRA (U13): Mandated Child Abuse Reporter. Required to hold a valid driver’s license, have a driving record that is in accordance with local policies/procedures, and/or enroll in the California Employer Pull Notice Program. Ability and willingness to work frequent evenings and weekends. This is a 100% time Limited appointment working less than 1000 hours for up to 6 months. The budgeted salary range: $71,600 to $99,500/yr. Full salary range: $71,600 to $127,400/yr. 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 # 80451

SR. COOK

CAMPUS DINING

Serves as a working supervisor performing skilled culinary duties and overseeing a kitchen area serving up to 1,500 meals per shift. Ensures that high standards of food quality, service, sanitation and safety are met according to Dining Services, University and Federal guidelines. Trains full time and student cooks in new culinary techniques, food and sanitation guidelines. Maintains efficient food preparation methods. Serves as a backup in the absence of the Department Head. Reqs: High school diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience. 1‑3 years of knowledge of and experience with advanced culinary techniques, including but not inclusive of sautéing, grilling, frying, steaming, preparing sauces and stocks. This includes experience working with commercial kitchen equipment and preparing large quantities. Or Equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for up to 8 hours per day.

Work hours/days may vary. Satisfactory criminal history background check.

Hiring/Budgeted Salary or Hourly

Range: $25.00/hr. ‑ $26.27 /hr. Posting

Salary Range: $25.00/hr. ‑ $26.79 /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 #79741

Primarily responsible for maintaining dining room floors, cleaning of restrooms and offices, periodic cleaning of windows, training, supervision and follow up nightly kitchen clean up, working as a liaison with the maintenance department for minor equipment repair and maintenance (carts, wheels, light bulb replacements, etc.), and overseeing shutdown building clean ups. Supervises part‑time student employees. Reqs: High School Diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience. 6 months of janitorial experience. Knowledge of safety and sanitation regulations

LEGALS

regarding proper storing of chemicals in a food environment, proper cleaning of janitorial closet, safe lifting and transporting procedures, and ability to train others in this area. Exhibits organizational skills sufficient to ensure timely completion of tasks. Communication skills sufficient to direct the work of others and interact successfully within a large staff, including part time student employees. Ability to understand, read and write English for the purpose of reading and creating special projects lists. Or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Notes: Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and work standing for up to 8 hours per day. Work hours/days may vary. Satisfactory criminal history background check. Hiring/Budgeted Hourly Range: $25.00/hr. ‑ $26.28/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 #80697

STARBUCKS ASSISTANT MANAGER

CAMPUS DINING

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LAURIE SUE CRISWELL No.: 25PR00417

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: LAURIE SUE CRISWELL

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

THE PETITION requests that (name): TRAVIS ZEHNTNER 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: 10/9/2025

AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: SB‑5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107; PO Box 93121‑1107 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 8/11/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: John Kenneth Dorwin PO Box 2011, Buellton, CA 93427‑2011; 805‑698‑0002

Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4 2025.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF: ROSE MARIE BELL No.: 25PR00414

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: ROSE MARIE BELL

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

THE PETITION requests that (name): SHANNON BELL 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: 10/2/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: FIVE SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107; PO Box 93121‑1107

ANACAPA DIVISION

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer 8/8/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Marilyn D. Anticouni; Attorney at Law, 1234 Santa Barbara Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑882‑9255

Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4 2025.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: EDNA E. BAUER No.: 25PR00429

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: EDNA E. BAUER

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: DENNIS P. IDEN in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION requests that (name): DENNIS P. IDEN 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: 10/09/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street PO Box 21107 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 8/18/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Brooke C. McDermott; Mullen & Henzell, L.L.P.; 112 E. Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; 805‑966‑1501

Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LINDA JANE BRYANT No.: 25PR00415

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of: LINDA JANE BRYANT

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: JOY E. MARGOLIS in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

THE PETITION requests that (name): JOY E. MARGOLIS 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: 10/09/2025 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. ANACAPA

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 8/8/2025 by Monica Buenrostro, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Andrew Miller; PO Box 5691, Santa Barbara, CA 93150; 805‑969‑4451 Published: Aug 28 2025. Sep 4, 11 2025.

BULK SALE

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Division 6 of the Commercial Code) Escrow No. NB‑L‑12570‑25 (1) Notice is

LEGALS (CONT.)

(3) The location in California of the chief executive office of the Seller is:

SAME AS ABOVE (4) The names and business address of the Buyer(s) are:

ZURICH HEALTHCARE PARTNERS LLC, 1645 W OGDEN AVE APT 618, CHICAGO

IL, 60612 (5) The location and general description of the assets to be sold are: FURNITURE, FIXTURES AND EQUIPMENT, LEASEHOLD INTEREST, LEASEHOLD IMPROVEMENTS, GOODWILL, TRADE NAME of that certain business located at: 33 WEST MISSION STREET, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101

(6) The business name used by the seller(s) at said location is: THE G SPA (7) The anticipated date of the bulk sale is SEPTEMBER 17, 2025 at the office of: PORTFOLIO ESCROW, 12 CORPORATE PLAZA DR., #12O NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92660 Escrow No. NB‑L‑12570‑25 , Escrow Officer: LISA EVANS (8) Claims may be filed with Same as “7” above (9) The last date for filing claims is:

SEPTEMBER 16, 2025 (10) This Bulk Sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2. (11) As listed by the Seller, all other business names and addresses used by the Seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the Buyer are: NONE . Dated: AUGUST 19, 2025 TRANSFEREES: ZURICH HEALTHCARE PARTNERS LLC, A CALIFORNIA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ORD‑4131676 SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT 8/28/25

FBN ABANDONMENT

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

FBN No.: 2025‑0001893

The following person(s) have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: Sun Coast Realty and/ or Sun Coast Property Management, located at 2115 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, in Santa Barbara County. The fictitious business name referred to above was filed in Santa Barbara County on August 14, 2001, File No. 2011‑0002537.

Full name of registrant abandoning the name: Sue Ann DeRose, 2115 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This business was conducted by: An Individual. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on August 8, 2025. Signed: Sue Ann DeRose. (SEAL) By: Joseph E. Holland, Deputy. County Clerk (SEAL). Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT

OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: IMPULSE INTERNET SERVICES, LLC: 6144 Calle Real Suite 200 Goleta, CA 93117 The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 4/26/2023 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. FBN 2023‑0001091. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Impulse Advanced Communications, LLC (same address) The business was conducted by an A Limited Liability Company. Registrant commenced to tranact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 1, 2006 Signed by: ANTHONY E. PAPA Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 8/13/25, FBN 2025‑0001932 E30. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CG INSIGHT GROUP, LLC: 1925 Robbins Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; CG Insight Group, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 28, 2024. Filed by: CHELSEA WANN/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 24, 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: 2025‑0001756. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

File No. FBN2025‑0001742

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. HILLVIEW FARM, 2. HILLVIEW FARMS, 3. SANTA YNEZ N.V. HILLVIEW FARM, 4. SANTA YNEZ N.V. HILLVIEW FARMS, 2445 ALAMO PINTADO AVE, SUITE 203, LOS OLIVOS, CA 93441 County of SANTA BARBARA SANTA YNEZ, N.V., 16255 VENTURA BLVD., SUITE 600, ENCINO, CA 91436; State of Inc./Org./Reg.: NETHERLANDS ANTILLES

This business is conducted by a Corporation

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 08/31/1979. SANTA YNEZ, N.V. S/ ANTHONY A. LEWINTER, CEO, This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/22/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/7, 8/14, 8/21, 8/28/25 CNS‑3946138# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CB PROJECTS: 440 La Lata Pl. Buellton, CA 93427; Chloe Alysse LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 16, 2025. Filed by: CHLOE DICKSON/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 8, 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: 2025‑0001602. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IMPACT4ED: 123 Bath Street, A6 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Sally A Kingston (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 1, 2025. Filed by: SALLY KINGSTON/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 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 E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001804. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LEARNING MADE CLEAR: 1400 Storke Rd #80005 Goleta, CA 93118; Joe D Isaacson (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: JOE ISAACSON with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 30, 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: 2025‑0001818. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE BIKINI FACTORY: 2275 Ortega Hill Rd. #B Summerland, CA 93067; Wardrobe Collective Corp 387 Barry Dr. Ventura, CA 93001 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: SUSANA MARIN/CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 30, 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 E63. FBN Number: 2025‑0001808. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: SHANE WILDE: 1023 N San Marcos Rd Santa Barbara , CA 93111; Shane Wilde Publishing LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 11, 2025. Filed by: NESHA

PATTISON/MEMBER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 11, 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: 2025‑0001749. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STATE ST BARBERS: 3118 State St Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Fernando Cobian (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 21, 2025. Filed by: FERNANDO COBIAN/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 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 E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0001718. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SILVER FIN

PLUMBING: 749 Firenze Pl., B Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Joshua T Fish (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 23, 2025. Filed by: JOSHUA

FISH/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 28, 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: 2025‑0001789. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STUFFED

ANIMALZ: 1460 W Highway 154 Santa Ynez, CA 93460; Amber Sexton (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 31, 2025. Filed by: AMBER

SEXTON with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on JuL 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 E4. FBN Number: 2025‑0001821. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TELEDYNE FLIR SOLUTIONS U.S.: 6769 Hollister Ave Goleta, CA 93117; Teledyne Flir Commercial Systems, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: MELANIE S. CIBIK/

SECRETARY with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 1, 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: 2025‑0001837. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OSCAR’S SPARKLING POOLS: 112 Saint Ives Place Goleta, CA 93117; Stefanie G. Salinas (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by:

STEFANIE SALINAS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 25, 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 E73. FBN Number: 2025‑0001768. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s)

is/are doing business as: WALKING WITHIN, WALKING WITHIN COACHING & BODYWORK, WALKING WITHIN COACHING, WALKING WITHIN BODYWORK, WALKING WITHIN MASSAGE, WORKING WITHIN: 7263 Georgetown Rd Goleta, CA 93117; Amorette Rk Getty (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2025. Filed by: AMORETTE GETTY with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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: 2025‑0001696. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THELIA GROUP: 590 E Gutierrez St Suite B Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Thelia Usa Inc (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Apr 7, 2021. Filed by: ROMAN DOUSSINEAU/VICE PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 4, 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: 2025‑0001841. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SESSER

CONSTRUCTION: 651 San Ramon Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Sesser Inc (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by:

JONATHAN SESSER/CEO/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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 E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001805. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OPEN GATE INTERFAITH CENTER: 430 Alisal Road #318 Solvang, CA 93464; Linda L. Palmer (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 1, 2025. Filed by: LINDA L. PALMER/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 1, 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: 2025‑0001834. Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRESENTS OF PARADIS: 310 E McCoy Ln, Unit 4F Santa Maria, CA 93455; Presents Of Paradis LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 22, 2025. Filed

by: CAROLINE WHITAKER/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2025‑0002014. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ENDY WELLNESS, ENDY: 3905 State Street, Suite 7‑303 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Endy Health, LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Feb 6, 2025. Filed by: JASCYLETTE AVILES/OPERATIONS MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2025‑0002022. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. FBN 2025‑0001770

The following person(s) is doing business as: MAX 2.0 Media & Security 5959 Mandarin Dr Apt N, Goleta, CA

93117, County of Santa Barbara. Max Salcedo, 5959 Mandarin Dr Apt N, Goleta, CA 93117

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/ Max Salcedo, Owner

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/25/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/14, 8/21, 8/28, 9/4/25 CNS‑3955379# SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STUDIO KO FLORALS: 1191 Grand Meadow Way Orcutt, CA 93455; Gyeonghye Ko (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 25, 2025. Filed by: GYEONGHYE KO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 30, 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: 2025‑0001814. Published: Aug 14, 21, 28. Sep 4 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CHAD’S CAFE: 216 W Cabrillo Blvd Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Palm Beach Restaurants Inc 316 West Cabrillo Blvd Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 19, 2025. Filed by: CHAD STEVENS/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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 E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001806. Published: Aug 14, 21, 28. Sep 4 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE NILSON REPORT: 2373 Emerson St. Summerland, CA 93067; HSN Consulting Inc. PO Box 50539 Santa Barbara, CA 93150 This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2020. Filed by: DAVID ROBERTSON/PRESIDENT with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 15, 2025. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk.

ORDINANCE NO. 25-04

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE AMENDMENT TO ZONING MAP FROM OFFICE AND INSTITUTIONAL (I-OI) TO BUSINESS PARK (I-BP) AND ADOPTING THE NOTICE OF EXEMPTION ON A 3.56-ACRE SITE LOCATED AT 6483, 6485, 6487, 6489 CALLE REAL KNOWN AS APN 077-160-055; CASE NO., 24-0007-ORD.

On August 19, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. at the Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta (“City”) conducted the second reading and adopted Ordinance 25-04 that would allow the site to be developed based on the underlying General Plan/Coastal Land Use Plan and zoning designations of Business Park (I-BP).

The City Council of the City of Goleta passed and adopted Ordinance No. 25-04 at a regular meeting held on the 19th day of August 2025, by the following vote: AYES: MAYOR PEROTTE, MAYOR PRO TEMPORE KASDIN, COUNCILMEMBERS KYRIACO, REYES-MARTÍN, AND SMITH

NOES: NONE

ABSENT: NONE

ABSTENTIONS: NONE

The Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption.

A copy of the ordinance is available at the City Clerk’s Office, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California, or by calling the office at (805) 961-7505.

Deborah S. Lopez City Clerk

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, Thursday, August 28, 2025

ORDINANCE

NO. 25-XX

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GOLETA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 17 (ZONING) OF THE GOLETA MUNICIPAL CODE TO IMPLEMENT GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENTS TO ENSURE CONSISTENCY WITH STATE PLANNING LAW AND DETERMINE THE AMENDMENTS TO BE EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CASE NO. 25-0001ORD)

On September 2, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. at the Goleta City Hall, 130 Cremona Drive, Goleta, California, the City Council of the City of Goleta will consider the second reading and possible adoption of a proposed ordinance that would amend Title 17 (Zoning) of the Goleta Municipal Code. The proposed amendments address food access and fire hazards and were prepared to align with recent amendments to the City’s General Plan / Coastal Land Use Plan. If adopted, the Ordinance will be effective 31 days from the date of adoption. Any interested person may obtain a copy of the proposed ordinance at the City Clerk’s Office, cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.gov or by calling City Hall at (805) 961-7505.

Deborah Lopez City Clerk

Publish: Santa Barbara Independent, August 28, 2025

LEGALS (CONT.)

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2025‑0001956. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: GUDGEON STEAM CLEANING, INC: 417 Santa Barbara Street, Suite B9 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Gudgeon Steam Cleaning (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jan 1, 2000. Filed by: TAMARA

GUDGEON/SECRETARY‑TREASURER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 8, 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: 2025‑0001889. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RODEO GALLERY: 11 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Rodeo Gallery LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: WALLACE PIATT/ CEO with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 E63. FBN Number: 2025‑0001965. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: 805 FIDUCIARY: 3425 Los Pinos Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Amber Rouleau PO Box 1108

Santa Barbara, CA 93102 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: AMBER ROULEAU/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0001974. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IMPULSE ADVANCED COMMUNICATIONS, LLC: 6144 Calle Real, Suite 200 Goleta, CA 93117; Aseva LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Design Review Board

Hybrid Public Hearing – In Person and via Zoom Goleta City Hall – Council Chambers 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, September 9, 2025, at 3:00 P.M.

ATTENTION:The meeting will be held in person and via the Zoom platform. The public may also view the meeting on Goleta Channel 19 and/or online at https://www.cityofgoleta.org/goletameetings

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing for the projects listed below, with the date, time, and location of the DRB public hearing set forth above. The agenda for the hearing, including how to participate virtually in the hearing via a Zoom link, will also be posted on the City website at least 72 hours before the hearing (www.cityofgoleta.org).

For Conceptual/Preliminary/Final Review:

Sutter Health Signage & California Environmental Quality Act

470 S. Patterson Avenue (APN 065-090-017) Case No. 25-0022-ZC/25-0027-DRB

ExtraSpace Self Storage Signage & California Environmental Quality Act 10 S. Kellogg (APN 071-090-082) Case No. 25-0023-ZC/25-0028-DRB

Site and Parking Lot Lighting & California Environmental Quality Act 5387 Overpass Road (APN 071-220-035) Case No. 25-0035-ZC/25-0039-DRB

Second-Story Residential Alterations and California Environmental Quality Act 7380 Belluno Drive (APN 077-391-024) Case No. 25-0016-LUP/25-0038-DRB

For Conceptual/Preliminary Review:

The Steward Hotel 3rd Story Additions and California Environmental Quality Act 5490 Hollister Avenue (APN 071-330-014) Case No. 23-0002-DPAM/23-0024-DRB

For Conceptual Review: Residential Addition and 2nd Story Deck and Setback Modifications 178 N La Patera (APN 077-192-019) Case No. 25-0024-DRB

PUBLIC COMMENT: Interested people are encouraged to provide public comments during the public hearing in person or virtually through the Zoom webinar, by following the instructions listed on the Design Review Board meeting agenda. Written comments may be submitted prior to the hearing by emailing the Planning and Environmental Review Department at PERmeetings@cityofgoleta.org. Written comments will be distributed to the Design Review Board and published on the City’s Meeting and Agenda page.

FOR PROJECT INFORMATION: For further information on the project, contact Mary Chang, at (805) 961-7567 or mchang@cityofgoleta.org. For inquiries in Spanish, please contact Marcos Martinez at (805) 562-5500 or mmartinez@ cityofgoleta.org. Staff reports and documents will be posted approximately 72 hours before the hearing on the City’s website at www.cityofgoleta.org

In accordance with Gov. Code Section 65103.5, only non-copyrighted plans or plans that the designer has given permission have been published on the City’s website. The full set of plans is available for review at the Planning Counter during counter hours or by contacting the staff member listed for the item 805-961-7543.

Note: If you challenge the nature of the above action in court, you may be limited to only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice or in written correspondence delivered to the City on or before the date of the hearing (Government Code Section 65009(b)(2)).

Note: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need assistance to participate in the hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505 or cityclerkgroup@cityofgoleta.org. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements. Publish: Santa Barbara Independent 8/28/25

listed above on Aug 1, 2025. Filed by:

ANTHONY E. PAPA/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 7, 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: 2025‑0001882. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: AUM I GOODNESS: 1216 Alta Vista Rd, Apt B Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Aum I Goodness LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: ELISABETH BAUM‑JONES/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 13, 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: 2025‑0001924. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LORING WINE

COMPANY: 308 N. 9th Street, Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93436; Loring Wine Company LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 29, 2006. Filed by: BRIAN LORING/ LLC MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 12, 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: 2025‑0001920. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN2025‑0001812

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

QUORUM HOSPITALITY, 1145

EUGENIA PLACE, SUITE 200, CARPINTERIA, CA 93013 County of SANTA BARBARA

SCM HOTEL OPERATING

COMPANY, LLC, 4965 PRESTON PARK BLVD STE 235, PLANO, TX 75093

This business is conducted by a limited liability company

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 25, 2025.

SCM HOTEL OPERATING

COMPANY, LLC

S/ TODD MOREAU, MANAGER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/30/2025.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/11/25

CNS‑3956010#

SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. fbn2025‑0001845

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as:

LOTUS NAILS LOUNGE & SPA 238 E BETTERAVIA RD STE B, SANTA MARIA, CA 93454 County of SANTA BARBARA

BEAUTY SPA 2024 LLC, 238 E BETTERAVIA RD STE B, SANTA MARIA, CA 93454

This business is conducted by a limited liability company

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 7/16/2025. BEAUTY SPA 2024 LLC

S/ CAM TRAM PHAM, MANAGING

MEMBER

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/04/2025.

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/11/25

CNS‑3955444#

SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: YELLOW BIRD MUSIC INC: 2600 De La Vina Street,

Suite F Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Yellow Bird Music Inc (same address)

This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 11, 2025. Filed by: ALEXANDRIA ADAMS/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 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: 2025‑0001694. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GOT BINNED: 2166 Hardinge St, Unit D Summerland, CA 93067; Nolan T Fuss PO Box 716 Summerland, CA 93067 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: NOLAN T FUSS with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 E66. FBN Number: 2025‑0001963. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUN COAST REALTY, SUN COAST PROPERTY MANAGEMENT: 2115 Garden Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Geoffrey A DeRose (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: GEOFFREY A DEROSE/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 8, 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 E72. FBN Number: 2025‑0001895. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE PREPARISTA: 314 W. Canon Perdido St., #11 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Jessica D White (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jul 31, 2025. Filed by: JESSICA WHITE/ FOUNDER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 7, 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: 2025‑0001874. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLEMENTINE ACADEMIE: 1828 Loma St, Unit B Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Jessica I Judd (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: JESSICA JUDD with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jul 14, 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: 2025‑0001664. Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN 2025‑0001881

The following person(s) is doing business as: Western Propane Service, 2326 Meredith Ln, Santa Maria, CA 93455, County of Santa Barbara. Superior Plus Energy Services Inc., 1870 S Winston Rd Suite 200, Rochester, NY 14618; New York This business is conducted by A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 06, 2025 /s/ Darren Hribar, Secretary This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/07/2025. Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk

8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/11/25

CNS‑3957511#

SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT

File No. FBN2025‑0001861

The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: IKES LOVE AND SANDWICHES, 1936 STATE ST. SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101; County of SANTA BARBARA ISP2 SANTA BARBARA LLC, 1936 STATE ST, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101; CA This business is conducted by Limited Liability Company

The registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Not Applicable. Michael Goldberg, CEO This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 08/05/2025

Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk 8/21, 8/28, 9/4, 9/11/25

CNS‑3848228# SANTA BARBARA

INDEPENDENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IK3DLAB: 1042 Arbolado Road Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Isaac C Kershiner (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 15, 2025. Filed by: ISAAC C KERSHNER/OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 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: 2025‑0001992. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ARTESANO KITCHEN: 2903 Verde Vista Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Maylinge A Perez This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 18, 2025. Filed by: MAYLINGE A PEREZ with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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 E73. FBN Number: 2025‑0001974. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME

STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GREEN LAMP LEARNING: 1920 Sycamore Canyon Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Veronika V Aleiner (same address) This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: VERONIKA V ALEINER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 4, 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: 2025‑0001849. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ZANIMISTIC EDITIONS: 1482 E. Valley Rd Ste 707 Montecito, CA 93108; Michael I Christie 800 W Ocean Avenue PO Box 0573 Lompoc, CA 93438 This business is conducted by A Individual Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: MICHAEL I CHRISTIE/FULL OWNER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 12, 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: 2025‑0001913. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BARIEAU, BARIEAU WINES, WATHEN CELLARS, WATHEN VINEYARD, WATHEN WINES, WATHEN WINE COMPANY: 1867 Lewis St Solvang, CA 93463; Holly Wathen Wine Company, Inc (same address) This business is conducted by A Corporation Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Sep 8, 2016. Filed by: BECKY GENE BARIEAU/ TREASUER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 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: 2025‑0001996. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: THE EDUCATED EDIT: 412 Corona Del Mar, Apt H Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Holly J Erassarret (same address) This business is conducted by A Individaul Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A. Filed by: HOLLY ERASSARRET with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 8, 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 E73. FBN Number: 2025‑0001896. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IMPULSE INTERNET SERVICES, LLC: 6144 Calle Real, Suite 200 Goleta, CA 93117; Aseva LLC (same address) This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Aug 1, 2025. Filed by: ANTHONY E. PAPA/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 20, 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: 2025‑0001998. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.

INVITATION FOR BIDS

INVITATION TO BID

The Turner Foundation is soliciting sealed bids for the a residential roof replacement project at the Lighthouse Apartment Community located at 1502‑1512 San Pascual Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The scope of work consists of but is not limited to: the removal of existing roofing materials and the installation of new composition shingles, underlayment, flashing, vents, and necessary wood repairs.

The Turner Foundation will receive sealed bids until September 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM for the proposed work at 360 S Hope Ave Suite C‑300 Santa Barbara, CA 93105 at which time and place all bids will be opened. For bids to be considered responsible contractors must attend a mandatory job walk at September 3th, 2025 from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM at the job site of 1502‑1512 San Pascual Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Contract documents, including specifications, may be obtained by visiting www.theturnerfoundation. com/ourcommunities or www. tricoblue.com or visiting 360 S Hope Ave Suite C‑300 Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Bids shall be accompanied by a bid

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: THE MILO: 202 W. Cabrillo Blvd. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; N Milo LLC 2349 Rickenbacker Way Auburn, CA 95602 This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company Registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on Jun 16, 2025. Filed by: BRIAN LARSON/MANAGER with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Aug 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: 2025‑0002005. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.

LEGALS (CONT.)

guarantee in the form of a money order, cashiers check, certified check or bank draft payable to the Sponsor, U.S. Government bonds, or a satisfactory bid bond executed by the bidder and acceptable sureties in an amount equal to five (5%) of the bid. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days after bid opening. All bidders will be required to certify that they are not on the federal Consolidated List of Debarred, Suspended and Negligible Contractors.

All bidders are required to be Public Works Contractors registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations. The contract documents required to accompany all bids (Certifications, bid bond, form of bid, etc.) shall be in an envelope which shall be clearly labeled with the words “Contract Bid Documents” and show the project identifications, name of bidder, name of project and date and time of opening.

All labor is required to be paid at a rate not less than the greater of the current

Federal Davis‑Bacon Prevailing Wage or the State of California Prevailing Wage Determination made by the California Director of Industrial Relations (published with bid documents).

Contracts awarded under these contract documents in excess of $150,000 shall be required to post a performance bond or equivalent security and a Payment bond for contracts over $25,000. The successful bidder will be required to furnish evidence of Worker’s Compensation and Liability Insurance in the favor and amount as required by these contract documents.

The successful bidder will be required to comply with all nondiscrimination laws and regulations pursuant to the provisions of these contract documents.

The Turner Foundation reserves the right to postpone, accept or reject any all bids as the Turner Foundation deems in its own best interest, subject to the terms and provisions of the contract documents.

For any additional information please contact Jasmine Salinas at (805) 730‑1200 or jasmine@ theturnerfoundation.com. INVITATION TO BID

$150,000 shall be required to post a performance bond or equivalent security and a Payment bond for contracts over $25,000. The successful bidder will be required to furnish evidence of Worker’s Compensation and Liability Insurance in the favor and amount as required by these contract documents.

The successful bidder will be required to comply with all nondiscrimination laws and regulations pursuant to the provisions of these contract documents.

The Turner Foundation reserves the right to postpone, accept or reject any all bids as the Turner Foundation deems in its own best interest, subject to the terms and provisions of the contract documents.

For any additional information please contact Jasmine Salinas at (805) 730‑1200 or jasmine@theturnerfoundation.com.

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: 10 S. Kellogg, Goleta, CA 93117. September 9, 2025, at 3:30pm.

petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court for decree changing name (s) as follows:

PRESENT NAME: MELINDA BURNS

PROPOSED NAME: LESLIE KREBS

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 September 29, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 118 E. Figueroa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Santa Barbara 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 07/25/2025, JUDGE Colleen K. Sterne. of the Superior Court. Published Aug 14, 21, 28. Sep 4 2025.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION

2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 4, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa St Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Santa Barbara 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 08/18/2025, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Aug 28. Sep 4, 11, 18 2025.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BARCLAY BRANTINGHAM, DECEASED

SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA

In re the matter of: Barclay Brantingham Revocable Trust

Dated January 14, 2016

Case No. 25PR00398

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above‑named decedent, that all

persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Santa Barbara County Superior Court, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, and whose mailing address is P.O. Box 21107, Santa Barbara, California 93121‑1107, and deliver pursuant to Section 1215 of the California Probate Code a copy to Wendy Brantingham, as successor trustee of the trust dated January 14, 2016 wherein the decedent was the settlor, c/o Jeff Daugherty, Esq., Laborde & Daugherty, 924 Anacapa Street, Suite 1‑T, Santa Barbara, California 93101, within the later of four months after August 7, 2025 (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with a return receipt requested.

Jeff Daugherty, Esq. Attorney for Wendy Brantingham Successor Trustee Laborde & Daugherty 924 Anacapa Street, Suite 1‑T

Santa Barbara, CA 93101

Published: August 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS In re the Matter of the: IRENE M. N. SAHYUN,. Deceased Melville R. V. Sahyun and Irene M. N. Sahyun. CALIFORNIA REVOCABLE TRUST dated August 26, 2014, and its First Amendment thereto dated April 11, 2024 Case No: 25PR00425

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above‑named decedent, that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 1100 Anacapa Street, Post Office Box 21107, Santa Barbara, California 93I21‑1107 and mail or deliver a copy to Melville R. V. Sahyun and Steven Carl Sahyun, as Co‑Trustees of the MELVILLE R. V. SAHYUN AND IRENE M. N. SAHYUN CALIFORNIA REVOCABLE TRUST dated August 26, 2024, and its First Amendment thereto dated April 11, 2024, of which the Decedent, Irene M. N. Sahyun, and the surviving spouse, Melville R. V. Sahyum, were the settlors and original trustees, at 1114 State Street, Suite 230, Santa Barbara, California 93101, as providied in Probate Code Section 1215 within the later of four

The Turner Foundation is soliciting sealed bids for the reconstruction of the asphalt parking lot at the Village Apartment Community located at 524 W Canon Perdido Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The scope of work consists of but is not limited to: pulverizing the existing asphalt in place; watering, regrading, and compacting the pulverized material to 95% compaction; installing 3 inches of new hot asphalt; rolling to smooth and compact; applying fog seal; repainting all existing parking lines and stencils; and resetting concrete wheel stops.

The Turner Foundation will receive sealed bids until September 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM for the proposed work at 360 S Hope Ave Suite C‑300 Santa Barbara, CA 93105 at which time and place all bids will be opened. For bids to be considered responsible contractors must attend a mandatory job walk at September 4th, 2025 from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM at the job site of 524 W Canon Perdido St Santa Barbara, CA 93101.

Contract documents, including specifications, may be obtained by visiting www.theturnerfoundation. com/ourcommunities or www. tricoblue.com or visiting 360 S Hope Ave Suite C‑300 Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

Bids shall be accompanied by a bid guarantee in the form of a money order, cashiers check, certified check or bank draft payable to the Sponsor, U.S. Government bonds, or a satisfactory bid bond executed by the bidder and acceptable sureties in an amount equal to five (5%) of the bid. No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days after bid opening. All bidders will be required to certify that they are not on the federal Consolidated List of Debarred, Suspended and Negligible Contractors. All bidders are required to be Public Works Contractors registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations. The contract documents required to accompany all bids (Certifications, bid bond, form of bid, etc.) shall be in an envelope which shall be clearly labeled with the words “Contract Bid Documents” and show the project identifications, name of bidder, name of project and date and time of opening.

All labor is required to be paid at a rate not less than the greater of the current Federal Davis‑Bacon Prevailing Wage or the State of California Prevailing Wage Determination made by the California Director of Industrial Relations (published with bid documents).

Contracts awarded under these contract documents in excess of

Marissa Garcia

Angela Beltran

April Davin

Eloy Badillo

Krista Ling

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.

NAME CHANGE

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME:BRINNA RITA PAGAN CASE NUMBER: 25CV04320

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

PETITIONER:BRINNA RITA PAGAN 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: BRIANNA RITA

PAGAN

PROPOSED NAME: BRIANNA RITA

CORREMONTE

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 September 24, 2025, 10:00 am, DEPT: 3, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O. Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93121‑1107, 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 07/26/2025, JUDGE Thomas P. Anderle of the Superior Court. Published Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION

TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: MELINDA BURNS CASE

NUMBER: 25CV04201

TO ALL INTERESTED

PERSONS: PETITIONER:MELINDA BURNS A

TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ALEXANDRIA ROCHELLE

SAROT CASE NUMBER: 25CV04856

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS:

PETITIONER:ALEXANDRIA ROCHELLE

SAROT 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: ALEXANDRIA ROCHELLE SAROT

PROPOSED NAME: ALEXANDRIA RACHEL ORTEGA

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 September 18, 2025, 8:30 am, DEPT: SM FOUR, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA 115 Civic Center Plaza Lompoc, CA 93436‑6967, LOMPOC 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 08/08/2025, JUDGE Jed Beebe. of the Superior Court. Published Aug 14, 21, 28. Sep 4 2025.

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: FAITHANN MARTI BOTTIANI CASE NUMBER: 25CV04610 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: PETITIONER: FAITHANN MARTI

BOTTIANI 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: FAITHANN MARTI

BOTTIANI

PROPOSED NAME: NATALIA CELINE

TAURA

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Notice of Hearing October 3,

HOUSING AUTHORITY OF THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA PUBLIC NOTICE BY REFERRAL PROCESS ONLY, FOR HOMELESS VETERANS THROUGH THE VASH PROGRAM

NOTIFICATION IS HEREBY GIVEN EFFECTIVE September 11, 2025 at 7:30 am.  The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara will be accepting Pre-applications for The Village Senior Development in Buellton for 1-bedroom units to establish a waiting list (by referral ONLY through the Veteran’s Administration (VA) through the VASH program.

Section 8 income eligibility is a requirement for all applicants.

This Public Notice is being published to ensure that individuals and interested groups are fully aware of this action.

The Housing Authority will accept applications for this program regardless of race, color, creed, sex, familial status, national origin, age, handicap, or other protected groups under State, Federal or local equal opportunity laws.

AUTORIDAD DE VIVIENDA DEL CONDADO DE SANTA BÁRBARA AVISO PÚBLICO

SOLO POR REFERENCIA PARA VETERANOS SIN HOGAR A TRAVÉS DEL PROGRAMA VASH

SE NOTIFICA QUE A PARTIR DEL 11 de septiember de 2025 a las 7:30 am., la Autoridad de Vivienda del Condado de Santa Bárbara aceptará pre-solicitudes para The Village Senior Development en Buellton para unidades de 1 dormitorio para establecer una lista de espera (ÚNICAMENTE por referencia a través de la Administración de Veteranos (VA) a través del programa VASH).

La elegibilidad de ingresos de la Sección 8 es un requisito para todos los solicitantes.

Este Aviso Público se publica para garantizar que las personas y los grupos interesados estén plenamente informados de esta acción.

La Autoridad de Vivienda aceptará solicitudes para este programa independientemente de su raza, color, credo, sexo, estado familiar, origen nacional, edad, discapacidad u otros grupos protegidos por las leyes estatales, federales o locales de igualdad de oportunidades.

LEGALS (CONT.)

(4) months after August 21, 2025, (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, sixty (60) days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code Section 19103. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Dated: August 13, 2025. Signed: John Gherini Attorney at Law. State Bar No 053591 1114 State Street, Suite 230 Santa Barbara, California 93101 Telephone

(805) 966‑4155 Email:, jfgherini@ gmail.com Attorney for Melville R. V. Sahyun and Steven Carl Sahyun, Co‑Trustees Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4 2025.

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Notice to Creditors

In re the Matter of the: HELEN G. MODUGNO, Deceased, Janet Dell and Jonathan Modugno Co‑Trustees of the MODUGNO FAMILY REVOCABLE TRUST dated July 3, 1996, and it’s First Amendment thereto dated September 28, 2010. Case No: 25PR00428 NOTICE TO CREDITORS Notice

is hereby given to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above‑named decedent, that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Superior Court, at 1100 Anacapa Street, Post Office Box 21107, Santa Barbara, California 93I21‑1107 and mail or deliver a copy to Janet Dell and Jonathan Modugno, as Co‑Trustees of the MODUGNO FAMILY REVOCABLE TRUST dated July 3, 1996, and its First Amendment thereto dated September 28, 2010, of which the Decedent, Helen G. Modugno, and her predeceased spouse, Ralph V. Modugno, were the settlors and

REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HASBARCO) will receive sealed proposals for Security Services (Mobile Patrol Services) and proposals for Security Services (Standing Guard Services) for HASBARCO-owned-and-managed properties located in Santa Barbara County, CA, until 2:00 p.m. on September 17, 2025, at 817 West Ocean Avenue, Lompoc, CA, or emailed to shereeaulman@ hasbarco.org. Proposals will be held in confidence and not released in any manner until after contract award.

Proposed forms of contract documents, including specifications, are available on the HASBARCO website www.hasbarco.org

The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara (HACSB) is inviting proposals for a Request for Proposal (RFP) from qualified candidates to perform Housing Quality Standards (HQS) inspections and administrative tasks related to scheduling inspections for units subsidized by the Housing Choice Voucher program located on the South Coast (Carpinteria to Ellwood). Interested companies are encouraged to submit proposals demonstrating their ability to deliver the services specified in the RFP.

The RFP package is available electronically by accessing it on our website at www.hacsb.org; or upon request by contacting the undersigned via email at ecapristo@hacsb.org; or at (805) 897-1039.

Proposals are due no later than 9:00 AM, October 6, 2025

Eddie Capristo, Leasing Analyst, Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara.

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT

NOTICE OF REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO PURCHASE THE DEED RESTRICTED UNIT LOCATED AT 2615 CASPIA LANE

Notice is hereby given that, on August 21, 2025 or as soon thereafter as the matter may be published, the Santa Barbara County Community Services Department has issued a Request for Proposals to purchase the deed restricted property located in an Unincorporated Area of Santa Barbara County, Assessor Parcel Number 005-700-008, for a total sales price of $160,800.

A complete version of the Request for Proposals may be provided by contacting Andrew Kish at (805) 568-3534 or akish@countyofsb.org, and may be found on the County website below: https://www.countyofsb.org/403/Units-Available-for-Sale

DEPARTAMENTO DE SERVICIOS COMUNITATIOS DEL CONDADO DE SANTA BARBARA

AVISO DE SOLICITUD DE PROPUESTAS PARA COMPRAR LA UNIDAD CON RESTRICCION DE ESCRITURA UBICADA EN 2615 CASPIA LANE

Se notifica por la presente que, el 21 de agosto del 2025 o tan pronto como sea publicado, el Departamento de Servicios Comunitarios del Condado de Santa Barbara ha emitido una Solicitud de Propuestas para comprar la propiedad con restricciones de escritura ubicada en una Área No Incorporada del Condado de Santa Barbara, Numero de Parcela del Tasador 005-700-008, por un precio de venta total de $160,800.

Una versión complete de la Solicitud de propuestas se puede obtener contactando a Andrew Kish al 805-568-3534 o a akish@countyofsb.org, y se puede encontrar en el sitio web del Condado a continuación: https://www.countyofsb.org/403/Units-Available-for-Sale

original trustees, at 1114 State Street, Suite 230, Santa Barbara, California 93101, as provided in Probate Code Section 1215 within the later of four (4) months after August 28, 2025, (the date of the first publication of notice to creditors) or if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, sixty (60) days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code Section 19103. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested. Dated: August 14, 2025. Signed: John Gherini Attorney at Law. (State Bar No. 053591) 1114 State Street, Suite 230 Santa Barbara, California 93101 Telephone (805) 966‑4155 Email:, jfgherini@gmail.com Attorney for Janet Dell and Jonathan Modugno, Co‑Trustees of the Modugno Family Revocable Trust dated July 3, 1996, and it’s First Amendment thereto dated September 28, 2010. Published: Aug 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

SUMMONS

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): TERI BAGGAO TUASON; ESTERINA BAGGAO TUASON; TERI BAGGAO TUASON and ESTERINA BAGGAO TUASON, Trustees of the TERI BAGGAO TUASON 2000 TRUST dated September 22, 2000; ESTERINA PROPERTIES and DOES 1 through 100, Inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): ANAHI CORIA JAIMES; TELMA PEREZ CARPIO; EVER GUEVARA CORIA by and through their Guardian ad Litem Anahi Coria Jaimes; JUAN E. GUEVARA CORIA by and through their Guardian ad Litem Anahi Coria Jaimes; EMILIANO JAVIER

GUEVARA CORIA by and through their Guardian ad Litem Anahi Coria Jaimes

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 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 Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov), 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. !ADVISO! 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 el 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 de 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 o 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):

VENTURA COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 800 South Victoria Avenue , Ventura, CA93009; CASE NO: (Número del Caso): 2024CUBC029145

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 que no tiene abogado es): Jonathan Nielson (805) 639‑8600; 4015 Mission Oaks Blvd., Suite B, Camarillo CA 93012 DATE (Fecha): 11/22/2024. Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Mari Soto, Deputy (Adjunto) Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

AMENDMENT TO COMPLAINT

VENTURA SUPERIOR COURT FILED 07/01/2025 Muller SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF VENTURA Limited Civil Case 12 800 SOUTH VICTORIA AVE. VENTURA, CA 93009’ PLAINTIFF/ PETITIONER ANAHI CORIA JAIMES, et al. DEFENDANT/RESPONDENT TERI BAGGAO TUASON, et al.

AMENDMENT TO COMPLAINT CASE NUMBER: 2024CUBCO29145 INCORRECT NAME (Requires order thereon) (c1 Plaintiff(s) having designated a defendant in the complaint by the incorrect name of TERI BAGGAO TUASON and ESTERINA BAGGAO TUASON, Trustees of the BAGGAO Tuason 2000 Having discovered the true name of the defendant to be TERI BAGGAO TUASON and ESTERINA BAGGAO TUASON, Trustees rn of the ERI BAGGAO UASON 2000 TRUS ate September 22, 2000 Plaintiff requests the complaint be amended by inserting such true name instead of such incorrect name wherever it appears in the complaint. Melinda Castro, ORDER Proper cause appearing, the above amendment to the complaint is allowed. Dated: 06/27/2026 PROOF OF SERVICE I am over the age of 18 years and not a party to this action. My business address is 4015 Mission Oaks Blvd., Suite B, Camarillo, CA 93012 On June 24, 2025, I served the foregoing document described as AMENDMENT TO COMPLAINT on the interested parties in this action as follows: Brian Noini 203059 Law Office of Brian Nomi 215 E. Daily Dr. #28 Camarillo CA 93010 briannomi@yarhoo.com Attorney for Teri Baggao Tuason XX BY EMAIL: I personally sent a true copy to

the addressee’s email address: I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct. Executed on June 24, 2025 at Camarillo, California. Melinda Castro Published: Aug 7, 14, 21, 28 2025.

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): GINA M. AUSTIN, an individual; AUSTIN LEGAL GROUP, a professional corporation, LARRY GERACI, an individual, REBECCA BERRY, an individual; JESSICA MCELFRESH, an individual;SALAM RAZUKI, an individual; NINUS MALAN, an individual; FINCH, THORTON, AND BARID, a limited liability partnership; ABHAY SCHWEITZER, an individual and dba TECHNE; JAMES (AKA JIM) BARTELL, an individual; NATALIE TRANG‑MY NGUYEN, an individual, AARON MAGAGNA, an individual; BRADFORD HARCOURT, an individual; SHAWN MILLER, an individual; LOGAN STELLMACHER, an individual; EULENTHIAS DUANE ALEXANDER, an individual; STEPHEN LAKE, an individual, ALLIED SPECTRUM, INCu a California corporation, PRODIGIOUS COLLECTIVES, LLC, a limited liability company, and DOES 1 through 50, inclusive

YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): AMY SHERLOCK, an individual and on behalf of her minor children, T.S. and S.S., ANDREW FLORES, an individual NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. 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 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 Website (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov), 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. !ADVISO! 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 el 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 de 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 o 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): San Diego County Hall of Justice 330 W. Broadway San Diego, CA 92101 CASE NO: (Número del Caso): 37‑2021‑0050889‑CU‑AT‑CTL

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 que no tiene abogado es): Andrew Flores; 945 4th Ave, Suite 412, San Diego, CA 92101. Tel (619) 356‑1556 DATE (Fecha): 12/29/2021. Clerk, by (Secretario) /s/ Elizabeth Reyes, Deputy (Adjunto) Published: Aug 21, 28. Sep 4, 11 2025.

TRUSTEE NOTICE

APN: 043‑ 152‑013 TS No: CA05000002‑23‑3 TO No: 250187865‑CA‑VOI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE (The above statement is made pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(1). The Summary will be provided to Trustor (s) and/or vested owner(s) only, pursuant to CA Civil Code Section 2923.3(d)(2).) YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED October 1, 2018. 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 PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. On September 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM, At the Main Entrance to the County Courthouse, Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps, as the duly Appointed Trustee, under and pursuant to the power of sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust recorded on October 2, 2018 as Instrument No. 2018‑0042164, of official records in the Office of the Recorder of Santa Barbara County, California, executed by HECTOR ALESSANDRO CABRERO, A SINGLE MAN AND CLAUDIA MCLAUGHLIN, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN AS JOINT TENANTS, as Trustor(s), in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, as nominee for ON Q FINANCIAL, INC. as Beneficiary, WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of sale, that certain property situated in said County, California describing the land therein as: AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SAID DEED OF TRUST The property heretofore described is being sold “as is”. The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 1809 SAN ANDRES ST, SANTA BARBARA, CA

secured by said Deed of Trust, with interest thereon, as provided in said Note(s), advances if any, under the terms of the Deed of Trust, estimated 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 obligations secured by the property to be sold and reasonable estimated costs, expenses and advances at the time of the initial publication of this Notice of Trustee’s Sale is estimated to be $516,100.80 (Estimated). However, prepayment premiums, accrued interest and advances will increase this figure prior to sale. Beneficiary’s bid at said sale may include all or part of said amount. In addition to cash, the Trustee will accept a cashier’s check drawn on a state or national bank, a check drawn by a state or federal credit union or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association or savings bank specified in Section 5102 of the California Financial Code and authorized to do business in California, or other such funds as may be acceptable to the Trustee. In the event tender other than cash is accepted, the Trustee may withhold the issuance of the Trustee’s Deed Upon Sale until funds become available to the payee or endorsee as a matter of right. The property offered for sale excludes all funds held on account by the property receiver, if applicable. 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. 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 visit the Internet Website address www.Auction.com or call Auction.com at 800.280.2832 for information regarding the Trustee’s Sale for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case, CA05000002‑23‑3. 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 NOTICE TO TENANT FOR FORECLOSURES AFTER JANUARY 1, 2021 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 800.280.2832, or visit this internet website www.Auction. com, using the file number assigned to this case CA05000002‑23‑3 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. Date: August 5, 2025 MTC Financial Inc. dba Trustee Corps TS No. CA05000002‑23‑3 17100 Gillette Ave Irvine, CA 92614 Phone: 949‑252‑8300 TDD: 711 949.252.8300

By: Loan Quema, Authorized

Signatory SALE INFORMATION CAN BE OBTAINED ONLINE AT www. Auction.com FOR AUTOMATED SALES INFORMATION PLEASE CALL: Auction. com at 800.280.2832 Order Number 115146, Pub Dates: 08/14/2025, 08/21/2025, 08/28/2025, SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDENT NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Trustee Sale No. 183073 Title No. 95531250‑55 YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST, DATED 10/01/2009. 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 09/24/2025 at 10:00 AM, Prime Recon LLC, as duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Deed of Trust recorded 10/08/2009, as Instrument No. 2009‑0061384, in book xx, page xx, of Official Records in the office of the County Recorder of Santa Barbara County, State of California,

executed by Ray Gusman, A Single Man. 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), Santa Barbara County Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, At the Main Entrance to the County Courthouse. 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 017‑430‑005 The street address and other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 10 Oak Street St #B AKA 10 Oak St B, 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: $285,008.43 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: 8/14/2025 Prime Recon LLC Prime Recon LLC. may be attempting to collect a debt. Any information obtained may be used for that purpose. By: Josh Bermudez, Authorized Signer Prime Recon LLC 27368 Via Industria, Ste 201 Temecula, CA 92590 (888) 725‑4142 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 (800) 280‑2832 for information regarding the trustee’s sale or visit this Internet Web site ‑ www.auction.com ‑ for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case: TS#183073. 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 Web site. 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 &quot;eligible tenant buyer, &quot; 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 (800) 280‑2832 for information regarding the trustee’s sale, or visit this internet website www.auction.com or auction.com/sbl079 for information regarding the sale of this property, using the file number assigned to this case

TS#183073 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. A‑4850710 08/21/2025, 08/28/2025, 09/04/2025