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A two-woman theatrical performance acclaimed for its raw honesty and insightful portrayal of womanhood, Mouthpiece follows a woman over the course of a day as she struggles to find her voice. Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Feminist Studies and the UCSBPresented Women’s Center in association with the UCSB Department of Music

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Leonidas Kavakos, violin Enrico Pace, piano Fri, Jan 25 / 7 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 $10 UCSB students “Kavakos’ tone has the character of striking high-grade silver sinew, ever beautiful, graceful and unbreakable.” – Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Program

Beethoven: Violin Sonata No. 4, op. 23 Prokofiev: Violin Sonata No. 1, op. 80 Bartók: Rhapsody No. 1, Sz. 87 Enescu: Vioin Sonata No. 3, op. 25

Sat, Jan 26 / 3 PM / UCSB Campbell Hall $20 / $14 children (12 & under) “Black Violin upends cultural and musical stereotypes… an unexpected blend of classically trained musicianship and hip-hop beats and inventiveness.” The Miami Herald Classical music meets hip hop in the groundbreaking duo Black Violin and their Classical Boom Tour, blurring the lines between genre and race with its unique, family-friendly fusion of groove and strings.

Presented in association with the UCSB Department of Music and Saint Barbara Greek Orthodox Church Montreal-based Cirque Troupe

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“The right blend of dance and circus, theatre and spectacle.” The Guardian (U.K.) “Motion and emotion lifted to hypnotic heights.” The Boston Globe

Tue, Jan 29 / 8 PM / Campbell Hall Tickets start at $25 / $15 UCSB students Embodying her gospel-singing father’s voice and her Cherokee/Choctaw mother’s culture, Redbone’s magnificent vocals blend with her band of some of NYC’s finest blues and jazz musicians for “a brilliant collision of cultures” (The New Yorker). The folk and country sounds of her childhood and the eclectic grit of her teen years come together in a masterful mix of folk, country, Piedmont blues, gospel, bluegrass, soul and traditional American Indian music. Presented in association with UCSB American Indian Student Services and the UCSB American Indian Student Association

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Through astonishing acrobatics, aerial stunts and dynamic dance movement, the artists build an intergenerational bridge between past and present, then and now. “The collective virtuosity of this troupe is something to see – and, crucially, to feel” (The Boston Globe).

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THE WEEK.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 LIVING.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 My Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

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What’s the most fun part about sales? The toughest? The most fun part is helping local businesses reach our readers and being a part of their business and marketing campaigns. I also love being able to proudly talk about the amazing product that all of my colleagues work tirelessly to create. The toughest part is trying to embrace my inner creativity to assist with ad development. Give us your elevator pitch. Advertising in the Santa Barbara Independent is the greatest investment for local businesses because it parallels the efforts of all businesses in Santa

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Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

FILM & TV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Movie Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

SPORTS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 ODDS & ENDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology . . . . . . . 58

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NEWS BRIEFS CITY Santa Barbara’s Styrofoam ban went into effect on 1/1, six months after the City Council approved an ordinance prohibiting the distribution and retail sale of expanded polystyrene food and beverage containers. Examples include, but aren’t limited to, foam cups, plates, clamshells, bowls, trays, and coolers. Exempt are items holding foods prepared or packaged outside Santa Barbara and then sold within the city; trays holding raw meat and fish; and products made from Styrofoam but encased in a more durable material, like surfboards, life preservers, and craft supplies.

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he unveiling of an artfully custom American flag marked the one-year anniversary of the 1/9 Debris Flow. Honoring first responders, the Stars and Stripes rendition, which measures roughly 6' x 9', was created from salvaged firehose by John Carrillo (pictured, center, with Chip Hickman and Kevin Taylor of Montecito Fire), who served as a Santa Barbara city firefighter for 22 years.

Montecito Bank & Trust purchased the flag in support of the Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation and has loaned it to the Santa Barbara County Courthouse for public viewing through February 9. “Being in the spotlight is something I’m not used to,” Carrillo said. “But this is a great cause; I really appreciate what the foundation is doing.” In related news, a candlelight vigil was held

Wednesday evening after press time to honor the 23 victims. The event— event Raising Our Light: An Evening of Remembrance in Montecito — opened with remarks from community leaders at Lower Manning Park. The procession walked down San Ysidro Road to All Saints-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church for a bell ceremony and cups of soup. For more coverage, go to independent.com. —Keith Hamm

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Santa Barbara Municipal Airport closed out the year with a passenger count of 723,297, the highest it’s been since 2008. The year-over-year uptick was noteworthy, too, with the passenger count 10.3 percent higher in November 2018 than it was in November 2017. Like other small to mediumsized airports around the country, Santa Barbara’s had struggled in recent years with low numbers as carriers consolidated their fleets around bigger hubs. The new figures are a significant turnaround for the self-sustaining enterprise operated by the city. The airport — the 13th largest in the state — now hosts five carriers with 26 daily departures to nine nonstop destinations.

COUNTY Two storm systems dropped welcome inches of rain across the county between Saturday and Monday. At South County’s greatest water source, Lake Cachuma, 1.29 inches fell, bringing the reservoir up by 153 acre-feet to 31 percent capacity. The highest rain total was at Tecolote Canyon along State Route 154 with 4.64 inches. The water plume Sunday night brought more rain than the night before, though Saturday’s short-lived downpour hit 0.82 inches in 30 minutes at the Santa Monica Mountains’ Deals Flat, leading to mud and debris flows at Pacific Coast Highway and the canyons burned in November’s Woolsey Fire. “The storm door is open,” National Weather Service forecasters stated on Tuesday, predicting rainfall every two to three days for the coming week. Every two years, the people living without a regular roof over their heads are counted in a person-by-person Homeless Point-in-Time Count throughout Santa Barbara County. More volunteers are still needed to help with this year’s census, scheduled for Thursday, 1/24, 5-8:30 a.m. For information, go to liveunitedsbc.org. In 2017, 1,489 people were counted, compared to 1,454 two years before. Of the most recent tallied, 931 people were in the South County, and 558 were in North County. The largest number, 790, called Santa Barbara home, while 338 were in Santa Maria and 219 in Lompoc. The information gained through the count not only informs county officials of housing needs locally, but it also helps get funding from federal Housing and Urban Development for both housing and medical care. n

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Marin claimed Supervisor Das Williams said the county would add funding, but Williams’s aide Darcel Elliott clarified that though Williams had sent a request letter to the cities involved, none had responded. Money, as well as locations and staffing, is the perennial problem. In an email sent by Hayes and Julia Hamilton, the minister at the Unitarian Church, which was the first shelter location and now acts as the fiscal sponsor for Freedom, they state their shelters in five cities opened 145 times so far in the 2018-19 season. According to the National Weather Service, through the end of March, about seven nights of 35 degrees or less could be expected, as opposed to roughly 26 nights at 40 degrees. —Jean Yamamura

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ver the past three years, Direct Relief has dispatched 66 tons of medical supplies to Yemen, which is now in the throes of a protracted humanitarian crisis spawned by an equally protracted civil war. The last shipment was sent in November, and the next is set for the coming weeks. Complicating the deliveries are the lack of an international airport in Yemen capable of accepting such shipments and the collapse of a viable medical infrastructure by which such supplies could be meaningfully distributed. “About half of Yemen’s health facilities have disappeared,” said Dan Hovey, a logistics and delivery specialist for Direct Relief. For the past four years, Yemen has been torn by civil war, with Houthi Shia rebels controlling the north and remnants of the previous regime controlling the south, buttressed by a coalition of forces spearheaded by Saudi Arabia. Any deliveries Direct Relief makes to the southern port of Aden must pass muster with both factions. “It’s a logistical nightmare, is what it is,” said Hovey. Direct Relief is working with two organiza-

tions in Yemen, Yemen Aid and Save the Children. According to the United Nations and other entities monitoring the conflict, 18 million of Yemen’s population of 28 million are experiencing food insecurity; of those, 8.4 million are facing serious hunger issues. Save the Children estimates 85,000 children may have died from acute malnutrition between April 2015 and October 2018. The ceasefire brokered just last month, Hovey said, has yet to bear much fruit. He heard reports of sheling taking place just days after it was signed. The plight of Yemen has gained significantly more media attention since Washington Post columnist and longtime Saudi commentator Jamal Khashoggi was dismembered at the direction of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman. Bin Salman has led the charge against insurgents in Yemen, contending that they are agents of Iran and ISIS. Bin Salman’s growing international disfavor has generated more criticism of the United States’ support to the Saudi military campaign. — Nick Welsh

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t’s far more than a face-lift that’s now in the works for the Eastside’s Ortega Park; it’s a total transformation. How much it will all cost and how it will be paid for remain multimillion-dollar questions. But for right now, City Parks czar Jill Zachary and her lieutenant Rich Hanna have just secured support from the City Council to dream very big dreams for the intensely used but troubled park. To flesh out those dreams, the council gave Zachary the green light to spend $410,000; of that, $270,000 will come from the general fund and will pay the design costs. Among the key components will be a new multipurpose field made out of artificial turf; natural turf fields, the council heard, have to lie fallow four months out of every 12 just to recuperate to a safe playing state. Replacing the small pool now on the site will be a much bigger facility that can accommodate lap swimming, aquatics instruction, and a waterslide. The basketball courts will be replaced with new courts, and, in addition, there will be ping-pong tables, bocce courts, and beanbag-toss areas. The other major addition will be a skateboard park, the city’s second. There will be night lights to accommodate nighttime play on the courts and field; there are none now. Considerably more parking would be provided, and the whole park will be fenced. Driving these plans are a combination of factors: the gentrification of nearby neighborhoods, district elections, but most dramatically, the high number of times city police are called to the park in response to complaints. Last year, there were 435. “Crazy things go on at that park,” Zachary said after Tuesday’s council meeting. “Really crazy things.” For example, the Ortega Park bathrooms featured prominently in a rape trial now taking place. Police are frequently called to deal with the loud, the drunk, and the sometimes intimidating; AMR (American Medical Response) is often called in response to drug overdoses.

But it’s also a park that gets intensely used by legions of weekend soccer warriors and the families who gather to watch them while perched comfortably under large picnic umbrellas. The park’s barbecue area has long provided a home away from home for those without living rooms or backyards of their own in which to congregate. In other words, Ortega Park has long been a rich and messy mix. Efforts to quell its wilder elements have proved fruitless. One of the more problematic figures — at least from the police perspective — showed up at one of the several community outreach meetings for the park’s redesign and reportedly gave it his blessing. He has declined, however, to find another place to hang out. Zachary and Hanna were delicate when addressing the council, but their strategy is clear; the most effective way to change the park’s personality profile is to attract more kids and more families. That’s done by giving them more things to do. Compared to the intense and busy proposal the council reviewed, the current park is spare and laconic. Some attending Tuesday’s council meeting worried the cure may prove worse than the problem. Architect Jeff Shelton exalted the park’s improvisational opportunities where anyone can create a makeshift soccer field by parking two bikes on the grass as makeshift goals. The idea of putting a fence around the park, Shelton found profoundly offensive. “It seems like everyone has lost their minds,” exclaimed Shelton. “We’re going to build a public park and fence it off?” With the council’s blessing, Zachary can now hone the plans into something more specific. With environmentally vetted and approved plans, she explained, her department will be poised to take advantage of any number of funding opportunities. She estimated the final park plan could cost in n the neighborhood of $15 million.

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down-home food at down-home prices accompanied by a million-dollar view —the newly created Beachcomber of Santa Barbara will begin operations later this year, promising a more upscale but still casual vibe. With no objections, the Santa Barbara City Council approved a contract for a new restaurant operator — who runs the ¢ of Crystal Cove—to anchor Beachcomber the Cabrillo Pavilion once construction on the pavilion’s major upgrade finishes. (When it became clear the prior operator’s days were numbered two years ago, supporters twice packed council chambers, demanding he be given first shot.) Despite a major outreach effort, only three operators GOLETA expressed interest in running the restaurant space, Ave and only two submitted 5757 Hollister applications for the contract. Neither was based in Santa Barbara. Discouraging greater interest was the high entry fee—the ability to finance $1.5 million in remodeling costs

—plus rents twice as high as the East Beach Grill paid. Where the Grill paid City Hall $150,000 a year, the new operation will be paying a minimum of $260,000, but probably anywhere from $300,000 to $500,000. (Those revenues will be used to augment funding for city recreational programs.) While the East Beach Grill served breakfast and dinner five days a week, the Beachcomber will serve dinners, too, plus stock beer, wine, and mixed drinks. A snack bar will still be provided, as will BBQ facilities, but the interior will be significantly expanded with a greater emphasis placed on the sit-down dining trade. Prices will go up. Where the East Beach Grill charged $10 for fish-and-chips, the Beachcomber in Crystal Cove charges $18. City officials insist that the price differential will be significantly less when it comes to pancakes and that costs will be comparable to 10 other restaurants now operating along Cabrillo Boulevard. The new operation is expected to open sometime this fall. —Nick Welsh

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he City of Santa Barbara Housing Authority has materialized as the latest knight in shining armor hoping to save La Casa de la Raza from itself and its longfestering woes. On paper, the deal is simple enough: The Housing Authority would loan the community center up to $1.5 million to pay off its current debtors and lien holders. Later, La Casa would transfer ownership to the Housing Authority. Ultimately, the Housing Authority envisions constructing 30-50 units of low-income affordable rental housing. In such a scenario, the building would have to grow by two to three stories. A certain amount of space would be set aside for La Casa to continue some operations in some form. The history of La Casa de la Raza’s financial problems is anything but simple, and any solution will encounter serious complexities along the way. The building—an old commercial warehouse — lies in the city’s floodplain. Any major reconstruction effort will

have to address that reality; most likely, the existing structure would have to be scrapped and rebuilt, and serious effort would have to be taken to preserve the building’s defining tower and the historic murals inside. La Casa is not currently zoned for housing, but for manufacturing. A zoning change is a major undertaking. More complex still are the lienholders themselves. Tomas Castelo, the first president of La Casa, is owed $800,000, having bailed out La Casa on multiple occasions for failing to pay its mortgage. Castelo and La Casa’s current board could not enjoy more poisonous relations. Castelo has successfully blocked the board’s effort to declare bankruptcy, arguing in court that the board was not legally constituted because it was not elected by a vote of the shareholders. It’s been decades since La Casa’s “shareholders” have been engaged in any way at all. The first community meeting to discuss the plan takes place January 17. —Nick Welsh

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How do you feel about the new Democratic, socalled “radical members”? I welcome everyone. I think it’s great to have different points of view and a diversity of opinions. I think we will find our common ground and coalesce into a platform and policies that serve our entire country. So I feel good about it.

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Enough with corruption, enough with the erratic behavior and the complicit nature of Congress with this president.

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No, make that a national emergency. Craft beer brewers, we are just now finding out, can no longer get their new concoctions to market because of the president’s decision to shut down the federal government over The Wall. That turned off the lights on a special branch of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives responsible for clearing new brews for takeoff. IPAs will be especially hard-hit by the shutdown. That’s because IPAs are inherently undrinkable unless you happen to savor the flavor of a mildew-infused basement. The only thing that’s kept the IPA bubble from bursting—other than nitrogen, of course, for a smoother, more velvety feel — has been the perpetual quest for jarringly inventive new flavor combinations bestowed with insufferably clever names. This matters deeply because the economic stability of Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone rests on the frothy bedrock of the IPA trade. Given that the Funk Zone has become the tail wagging the dog of Santa Barbara’s economic prosperity, we are all deeply affected. Mr. Trump, you know this means war. One might have thought we’d have been more outraged that the Federal Emergency Management Agency — which just spent $100 million hauling away the sand, mud, and boulders after last year’s Montecito nightmare

—was forced to notify its armies of private contractors they would no longer be getting paid. Or perhaps because new stock offerings, the lifeblood of Santa Barbara’s investor class, would be curtailed because the Securities and Exchange Commission has gone indefinitely dark. Or because the Department of Housing and Urban Development found itself forced to send out letters to landlords renting to Section 8 housing voucher recipients, asking them to please not evict their tenants. All this for a wall? I don’t really get it. A crisis? The number of illegal entries into the United States from the southern border is as low as it’s been in 30 years. That’s an emergency? Yes, some crimi-

nals do cross the border illegally, but a very small number. Study after study continuously shows natural-born Americans are far more likely to break the law, violently or otherwise, than immigrants. Before the speech, administration spokespeople repeatedly argued the wall was necessary because 4,000 known terrorists had entered the United States illegally via the southern border. When news outlets effectively demonstrated the actual number was only six, even Trump spokesperson Kellyanne Conway conceded the point. She dismissed the matter as an “unfortunate misstatement” and no mention of it was made Tuesday night. It’s worth noting that Trump obliquely referred to the brutal 2015 slaying of Lompoc resident Marilyn Pharis in his national

address on Tuesday night. That crime was indeed horrific, and one of Pharis’s assailants was, in fact, in this country illegally. Her

other assailant happened to be a red-blooded American citizen. Trump was quick to note

the former but conspicuously neglected to mention the latter. There’s no shortage of real national emergencies for which an infusion of $5.7 billion might make a genuine difference. To state the obvious, 400,000 people have died from opioid overdoses between 1999 and 2017. Imagine if Al-Qaeda had inflicted such damage; we’d have carpet-bombed the entire Middle East three times by now. Instead, we’ve talked the problem to death and the body count keeps going up. In 2017, the number of opioid deaths was six times higher than it was in 1999. Why don’t we build a giant wall around Purdue Pharmaceuticals? For other emergencies, it’s not so obvious where we might build a wall. But they are really obvious emergencies. In 2008, there were 5.7 million Americans with Alzheimer’s; back then, a new case developed every 71 seconds. Today, that’s accelerated to a new one every 65 seconds. By 2050, it will be every 33 seconds. Or try diabetes on for size: Right now, we have 30 million people with diabetes. Ten years ago, that number was 20 million. Right now, we’re spending $327 billion to “fight” diabetes. By 2030, that number is projected to be $622 billion. Diabetes isn’t just about daily insulin injec-

tions; too often it’s about getting your limbs amputated. Or to get more obvious and closer to the bone, how about wildfires? In California alone, we had 8,527 wildfires last year. That’s 102 dead people and 1.8 million acres up in smoke. Ten years ago, it was four dead people and 452,000 acres. I don’t know where you build a wall to stop wildfires, but I can do the math well enough to understand that’s a big jump: $5.7 billion could go a long way making people safer. And to belabor the obvious even further, who do you think is going to care for all the people with Alzheimer’s and diabetes? Who

do you think does it now? Based with what I’ve seen with my own two eyes, a very large percentage of the people providing actual hands-on care come from other countries. I make it a point not to ask about their legal status. It’s an impossible job. I’m just grateful someone is doing it. Trump has become to the body politic what an aneurysm is to the brain. In any number of countries, someone like that could be removed by a simple vote of no confidence. In the United States, we rely on the more difficult process of impeachment, normally reserved for high crimes, misdemeanors, and the occasional blow job. Maybe in the meantime Republican Senators will grow a pair. Or maybe the aneurysm will have an aneurysm. One has to have hope. Otherwise, there’s a whole lot of IPAs collecting dust down in the — Nick Welsh Funk Zone.

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ot only did the author of the January 3 Clear the Air column strike at the heart of the global climate issue, but Robert Sulnick hit the underlying issue that fuels everything from capitalism run amok to getting that street pothole repaired. Two billion people were on this planet when I was born (and I’m not that old), which wasn’t too long after a war that killed 63 million. We’re now over seven billion, barreling toward eight. Earth is still the same size. We’ve used or trashed much of our life-supporting resources. We are too prolific and successful as a species for our own good — and everything else’s. The answers to this particular “heart” problem do not lie in religion, whose doctrines, including reproduction, were propounded when the Earth’s population was a tiny fraction of today’s. Nor are answers found in our political system, which runs on the old caveman idea of combat and conquest. With too many on the planet, all the usual problems of living, cooperating, and creating together are magnified billions of times. It’s up to us, our children, and generations beyond to think logically and limit our numbers before the world limits them for us as in the past through war and death. And that is never a —M. Entéra, Montecito creative experience.

Oil Trouble and Jobs

era Energy, one of three companies proposing oil production near Santa Maria, touts using “best [environmental] practices.” Accidents happen all too often. As a geologist in the $30-billion-per-year environmental consulting industry, 90 percent of my job consists of monitoring and cleaning up contaminated groundwater and soil from “accidental” leaks, spills, and improper disposal of oil, gas, and other toxic chemicals. Yes, a couple thousand feet of sediment are between the oil-bearing rock and the Santa Maria groundwater basin; however, blowouts can happen anywhere along the 6,000 feet of well casing. Geologic pathways (cracks) can form both above and below the oil. Both scenarios are heightened by Aera’s plan to use high-pressure steam injection drilling methods and by utilizing old wells whose casings are even more likely to fail. This month marks the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill. With renewables on the rise and the electric vehicle industry growing by over 50 percent per year, we don’t need this oil to add greenhouse gases to our heating planet.

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—Camille Collett, S.B.

xxon Petroleum (aka Aera Energy) has spent millions to convince media and community organizations of its project benefits. It pretends it has a

spotless regulatory compliance record, a record I know from 32 years as a hazardous material regulator in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties working with Exxon, Greka, Shell, and other oil companies. The project is a quantum increase of oil extraction compared to previous lower-impact projects in Cat Canyon. Our county needs to produce more clean and safe energy and produce less oil and gas. The first thing to do, when we find ourselves trapped in a hole of resource and climate degradation, is to stop digging.

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—Larry Bishop, Buellton

ocal 114, the county’s United Association of Plumbers & Pipefitters, takes great pride in the integrity of its members’ work and appreciate employers that do the same, such as Aera Energy. In planning for the redevelopment of East Cat Canyon, Aera has demonstrated a commitment to excellence, including the capabilities and safety of workers on its project. We share that commitment and back it up with extensive worker preparation, training, and support, which ensure that the project will employ a safe, skilled, and highly trained workforce. We are proud to be associated with a project that will generate locally produced energy, at a facility built by local labor that will create local jobs going forward. —Michael G. Lopez, Buellton

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Keith Joseph Forster 07/01/33-12/12/18

Born and raised in Sacramento, Keith was the oldest child of Joseph and Maria Forster, immigrants from Austria and Germany. He attended local Catholic schools and about 1948 he enrolled in St. Anthony's Seminary in Santa Barbara to begin the long preparation towards becoming a Franciscan priest. In 1958, he was struck down with spinal meningitis, causing him to become blind. He took a year off from studies to attend Braille Institute in Los Angeles where he learned Braille, mobility and living skills. He returned to Santa Barbara to continue his studies and was ordained into the Order of Friars Minor in 1961. The rest of Keith's adult life can be divided into three chapters: Chapter 1- Keith's first assignment as a Catholic priest was at St. Mary's Church in Stockton, CA where he served as assistant pastor and county jail chaplain. He was a supporter of the Civil Rights Movement and Farm Workers Movement. He was also a leader in the Cursillo Movement in California, Oregon and Nevada. Later on, he taught theology at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. He took great interest in the progressive theologians of that time and began questioning his vocation. He had also fallen in love with Nancy Wagner of Stockton and decided to get married in 1971. Chapter 2- Keith and Nancy moved to San Diego where Keith was accepted into the Master's program at San Diego State University to become a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor. He completed the degree in 1973 and was immediately hired by the State of California, Bakersfield District. He served the blind and disabled clients in three counties for eleven years. The couple bought their first home and enjoyed their years there. But the coast was calling. Chapter 3-Keith took early retirement in 1984 and a move to Santa Barbara took place. He and Nancy purchased a home on the Westside (before the prices got too high). Keith kept busy in retire20

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ment. He converted the garage into a woodworking shop where he designed and made many pieces of furniture for their home and for others. He was a volunteer teacher of woodworking at Braille Institute for 20 years. He also volunteered at the Community Kitchen for many years. The couple enjoyed traveling in the U.S., Mexico, Canada, Europe and the Orient. They enjoyed worshiping with St. Anthony's Community and Keith was called on to serve the Community as a married priest for the past sixteen years. He continued reading and studying the progressive religious writers and theologians to expand his spiritual growth. He was a wisdom elder, sharing his knowledge with others as spiritual advisor and counselor. He was a member of the Steering Committee for the Word and Life group for many years. Keith was known for his kindness, compassion and wonderful sense of humor. He will be missed by many. Keith is survived by his loving wife, Nancy; his brother, Robert Forster (Sue); his sister, Marylin Nielsen. He was a devoted uncle and great-uncle to many nieces and nephews. A Celebration of Keith's Life and Memorial Mass will take place on Sunday, January 13, at 9:30a.m. at St. Anthony's Chapel, 2300 Garden Street, Santa Barbara. Memorial gifts may be made to: Eyeshine, P.O. Box 117, Goleta, CA 93116 (eyeshine.org) or Sarah House, P.O. Box 20031, Santa Barbara, CA 93120.

Harriet Burke 08/17/31-12/27/18

Harriet Burke passed away this past week with her family and friends surrounding her, telling jokes and stories of life and family. She left us on her terms, believing: “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well-preserved body, but rather to skid sideways, chocolate in one hand, a margarita in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming, WOO HOO, What a ride!" Harriet Frances Ziegler was born August 17, 1931, in Long Beach

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California to Harry and Gertrude Ziegler. Harriet is an alumna of St. Anthony High School, Long Beach Community College, and graduated from Antioch University in Santa Barbara at the age of 61. In 1953 Harriet met and fell in love with Chuck Burke. Their whirlwind romance brought them to marriage in 1954 and their love sustained them for 53 years. They moved throughout Southern California, arriving in Santa Barbara in 1961, which they found to be a perfect place to raise their five children. Harriet encouraged her children to explore their skills and passions, be it art, gymnastics, Scouting, or 4-H. In 1973 Chuck and Harriet attended a Marriage Encounter weekend - a Catholic retreat for married couples. They enthusiastically started facilitating encounters, helping establish the program in many other areas by traveling to Fresno, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, Hawaii and the Philippines giving weekend retreats and training new teams and priests. Over 2000 couples benefited from Chuck and Harriet’s wisdom, faith and wit. They led by example, demonstrating the living quality of a marriage; they touched the lives of many by sharing communication skills and ways of living a committed, Christian marriage and life of faith. Harriet co-authored a book, People, Promise and Community with three colleagues which was an aide for intergenerational gatherings to talk about faith, life, and community. In her years at St. Mark’s as a Pastoral Associate and Campus Minister, Harriet encouraged equality and validated that all ages could learn from one another. An accomplishment of which she was most proud was encouraging UC Santa Barbara to found a Chair in Catholic Studies in the Religious Studies Department. The intention was to foster the exploration of the historical, cultural, and sociological backgrounds of Catholicism in order to promote mutual understanding among people of different beliefs and cultures. Harriet and Chuck gave the lead gift and worked tirelessly to raise funds to make this Chair a reality. Chuck was the love of Harriet’s life. Together they built a oneof-a-kind family of 5 children, 10 grandchildren, and 10 great-grandchildren who Harriet described as “a great help and inspiration throughout her life.” Harriet loved to travel and trips often included up to four generations. Family gatherings were legendary and all family members knew that they were

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welcome to invite others to join in any of their festivities. Chuck and Harriet’s motto was “Our door, our table, our arms are always open.” Harriet leaves her children, a son, Tim (Dana) Burke, Kathy Scheidemen, Mo (Jeff) Lovegreen, Bettie (Steve) Wenke, and Tricia (Kevin) Peters; and ten grandchildren, Elijah Scheidemen and Nathaniel (Miles) Burke (father, Jay); Jennie (Troy) Aguilera, Kristen (Andy) Diehl, Daniel (Ali) Burke, Anna (Josh) Lo, Piper Lovegreen, Ryan (and fiancée Emily), Bryce and Kaiya Peters, ten great-grandchildren, and a niece, Mary Ann Aufderheide. A two-time survivor of breast cancer, Harriet donated her time and money to support cancer research as well as multiple charities and social justice organizations. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to: The Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Santa Barbara (PFLAG), Pacific Pride Foundation, Safe Parking Program (Santa Barbara New Beginnings Counseling Center), or Catholic Church of The Beatitudes. Services will be held Saturday, January 12th at 11:00 a.m. at Catholic Church of The Beatitudes located at 2101 State Street.

Elizabeth “Betty” Whitney

retired and they moved to Santa Barbara to live the rest of their days traveling, reading, and playing golf. Sadly, Marv passed just two years into retirement in 1977, forcing Betty to reimagine her life as a widow. While she never remarried, Betty embraced a life of travel (visiting every continent except the poles), supporting the arts, and education (establishing scholarships and enabling many of her relatives to attend college). Betty was whip-smart; generous with her spirit, time, and support; had a good-natured sense of humor; and was progressive in her outlook on a world that had changed so much since she was a girl. At 102 she was preceded in death by many of her loved ones including her daughter Ann, and siblings Bob and Harriet. Her memory will live in her son Scott, her three grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren, and the families of her siblings. She requested no service, choosing for her ashes to be scattered at sea. Anyone who wishes to commemorate her life may donate to one of her favorite charities including The Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Art Museum, or Planned Parenthood.

Thomas Cooper 03/14/33-12/25/18

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Elizabeth “Betty” Whitney, a 43-year resident of Santa Barbara, passed away peacefully on November 15th at her home. She was 102 years old. Although she was older than many of us may live to be, she had a knack for making and keeping friends, many several decades younger than her. She earned her teaching degree from Temple University and taught kindergarten, which ignited a lifelong love and support of education. In 1942 she married Marvin Greene Whitney, an engineer one year her junior, and a few years later they adopted two children, Ann and Scott. As Marv ascended the corporate ladder, they relocated to the southern California in 1953, settling in Altadena until 1975 when Marv

Thomas Cooper born, March 14, 1933, in Indiana transitioned to heaven on December 25, 2018. He was 85. Tom served as a US Marine doing aircraft engine repair on an aircraft carrier around 1951 off the coast of Korea. Later, he worked as a construction superintendent for H.L Brian & Associates and built a home with his wife Donna in Santa Barbara. They also lived in Lompoc. He loved family, camping, dancing, RV’ing, faith, volunteering for the Lompoc police, and playing cards. Tom is survived by his children Carrie, Rick, Vicki, Bob, Patti and Chrisi. His wife Donna and two children Randy and Rusty preceded him. A celebration of life will be held at Maravilla Retirement Center club house in Santa Barbara January 26th at 2 pm. Contact nystromc22@msn.com for details.

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Mark G. Campbell 67, a resident of Shasta Lake City, CA, passed away surrounded with family and love on December 20, at Shasta Regional Medical Center. Mark fought a battle against cancer he could not overcome. Mark is preceded in death by his father Gilford Campbell, mother Georgia Campbell, and sister Christine Campbell. He is survived by his wife of 47 years Jan Campbell, his daughter Amber Dunlap, her husband Thomas Wyrick, grandson Layton Dunlap, granddaughter Crosby Dunlap, daughter Renee Back, her husband Jason Back, grandson Jacob Back, and granddaughter Kaysie Back, brother Rodney Campbell, his wife Barbara, brother Barry Campbell, his wife Mari, brother Kevin Campbell, brother Matt Campbell, and sister Emily Shaw. All of whom will miss him dearly. Mark was born in Santa Barbara, CA on August 28th, 1951. He attended schools in Santa Barbara where he graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1969. In 1971, Mark met Jan in Santa Barbara and by 1976 they started a family. Amber and Renee, twins, were born in February of 1976, these three ladies were the light of Mark’s life. Mark, Jan and the girls lived in Lompoc, CA, where Mark was a construction worker by trade, until 1988 when they relocated to Redding, CA. Mark decided to pursue a career as an Architectural Draftsman. His love of architecture and numbers led him to go further and work as an HVAC Engineer where he worked with ME Systems Engineering until 1997, when he had to leave due to health issues. In December 1990, Mark and Jan bought a home in Shasta Lake City, where Jan will reside with her beloved dog, Zippy. In 1996, Mark was diagnosed with congestive heart failure. Mark waited on the heart transplant list at home, and in the hospital, for three and a half years, until he finally received a match. In June of 1999, he received a heart transplant. Due to the generosity of a complete stranger, Mark was able to spend the next 19 years with his family. Being able to see his daughters become married and start families of their own, was the greatest gift

To submit obituaries for publication, please call (805) 965-5205 or email obits@independent.com anyone could have given us all. Mark was nicknamed the “Comeback Kid” due to all of the health issues he had overcome. No one has ever fought harder than our Comeback Kid. Mark will be missed more than imaginable. He was the biggest supporter of his grandchildren whether it was sports, education, or hobbies. Mark insisted each one of the grandchildren call and give him an update after every event. This is what kept Mark’s will to overcome illness so strong for so long. RIP Mark - Husband, Dad and Pop, we love you with all of our hearts. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to www. donatelife.net, in honor of Mark Campbell.

and cycling. Ken’s other passion was the love and devotion he felt for his family. He is survived by his Domestic Partner, Dale Van Mill, his daughter, Taylor, son Tell, daughter in law Inga and 5 siblings, David, Freeman, Carol, Diana and John. Rest In Peace Kenny, we love you. Donations can be made in his honor to Serenity House Hospice in Santa Barbara.

Evans of Santa Barbara. The family would like to offer a special thank you to Sharon and Don Miller, Gloria's neighbors, who were of a great help to Gloria in her final moments and days. They are truly angels among us. Also a special thanks to her Hospice nurses and aids. A private celebration was held at her home with her loving friends. We will miss you Mom!

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Ken Payne was a gentle, loving man with an easy smile and quick to laugh. He was the most professional sales person ever. His customers became his friends and came back year after year to buy cars from him. He took a picture of every person in front their new vehicle. He also posted each picture in his office. Ken’s motto was “I love this business” and he truly did. Ken sent postcards to past customers with quips and interesting/funny sayings written on them. Ken got up every morning and put on one of his monogrammed shirts and with a smile on his face went to work, a career spanning 42 years. Ken had a love affair with cars from his teenage years at Flintridge Prepatory High School and had a ‘63 Chevy Nova II right to the end. He loved car and air shows, as well as the Bonneville races. Ken was intensely interested in politics and current events. Ken was very patriotic and spent his 4 year military career in the Air Force, where he achieved the rank of Captain. Ken and his Domestic Partner, Dale traveled often. Ken had 2 passions. One was his dedication to exercise and fitness. He had a daily routine of sit ups, push ups and walking or running. During college at Rollins he was on the water ski and rowing teams. He was a badminton champion during his military career and enjoyed tennis

My loving mother, Gloria Ann Evans, left this world on December 6, 2018 at the age of 92, at home in Las Vegas. Gloria was born in Mt. Clemons, Michigan on October 12, 1926. She is preceded in death by her loving and fun loving husband Ralph Evans. In 1961 the family migrated to California with many other GM/Delco families when they opened a facility in Goleta. They shared many happy times with Delco families in Goleta in the La Patera area, and were founding members of The Danceros, a dance club that had quite a few members. Gloria was past President of the Goleta Boys Club Auxillary, and was instrumental in bringing Joan Crawford to Goleta for the grand opening of the Cinema Theater, for a benefit for the Goleta Boys Club. Gloria had a lifelong passion for home decorating, and therefore, the family was often moving to new homes when a complete home redecoration was completed. Gloria was a long time office manager at North American Weather Consultants (NAWC) , and stayed with them to their move to Salt Lake City. After the birth of their grandson Joel, they returned to the Santa Barbara area where Gloria worked at Raytheon for a number of years before retiring and relocating to Las Vegas. Gloria was a beautiful and talented woman. She loved to shop, decorate, and laugh! She was a master seamstress, excelled at needlepoint, crocheting and any other craft she found interesting. She always had several projects in progress, even until the end. She spent many happy times with her circle of friends in Las Vegas, playing bingo and bunco. Gloria leaves behind her sons, Robin Evans (wife Maureen) of Santa Barbara and Scott Evans of Las Vegas, and her grandson, Joel

knew him. We wish to thank the staff at Casa St. James for their attentive care. (No services are planned @ this time.)

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Albert Meyer

Al passed away peacefully on the morning of December 20th. His journey began on October first 1922 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Upon graduation from High School, Al attended Dartmouth College in New Hampshire for a time, to be followed by a stint in the Armed Forces as a Naval Aviator. Just as he was preparing to head overseas, the war ended and it was back to civilian life. It was at this point, Al headed out to sunny Southern California and enrolled at UCLA. It wasn't long before he was attracted to broadcasting, thanks to the NBC Radio Institute in Hollywood where he began taking classes. It was around this time he met Leona, and they married a short time later. The year was 1948 when word of a new radio station in Santa Barbara reached the institute. Al and Lee drove north one weekend and located KIST on the fifth floor of the Balboa Building where they dropped off a resume. Facing stiff competition, there was little optimism of being hired. Nonetheless, a call came shortly thereafter with a job offer to work at Harry Butcher's brand new facility. Al spent two years there, then proceeded across the street to KTMS, where he remained for the next thirty years. It was in 1951 that son David was born and the family moved into a new home on The Mesa. The birth of second son Glenn, (now deceased) followed in 1954. Al always had a great passion for fishing and treasured his annual trek to the High Sierras with fellow members of Suburban Kiwanis to which he belonged for over forty years. His friendly, easy-going approach to selling radio advertising garnered him many friends in the local business community. Al will be sorely missed by all who

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Friday Tyrone Hampton was born on August 18, 1954 in Pensacola, FL to Wade Hampton and Willie Jean (Cole) Hampton. He co-founded Peace of Wisdom Ministries in Santa Barbara, CA. As president of the Board, he directed the ministry, activities and films via the Santa Barbara African Heritage Film Series. During a time when African Americans were fighting for Civil Rights, Friday, was involved in numerous protests, marches and sit-ins within his Alabama community. Mr. Hampton served in the United States Army as a Service Coordinator, receiving a National Defense Service Medal, an Expert Badge in Combat Training and an honorable discharge. He worked for the U.S. Defense Contract Audit Agency in Los Angeles, CA where he received numerous service awards including over 10 Years of Government Service, as an Equal Employment Officer and as a liaison between the community and the Long Beach Police before locating his family to Santa Barbara, CA. In our community, Friday became the Director of Computer Services for the Unity Shoppe, developing residents in job and computer training. He was known for encouraging and inspiring many people. Minister Friday is survived by his wife Rev. Gwendolyn Hampton; son Emmett Wade (Deji); daughter Starla; father Wade Hampton (Willie Jean deceased); two brothers; one sister, three sister-in-laws; grandchildren: Deja, Kristofer, and Devin; and a host of aunts, uncles, nephews, and nieces. Friday had two sons, Christopher Wesley Hampton (infant) and David Sterling (23) and two brothers that preceded him in death. Friday went home to be with the Lord on Thursday, December 21, 2018 in Santa Barbara, CA. A memorial is planned for Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 1pm. Veronica Springs Church, 949 Veronica Springs Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.

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Eileen Louise Gerngross, 98, passed away peacefully on November 16, 2018 at her home in Santa Barbara. Born on July 17, 1920 in Norfolk, VA, Eileen was the only child of Anne Louise and Carl William Fleischer. She grew up on Willoughby Spit in Norfolk, playing on the beach and doing well in school. In 1933 she weathered one of the most damaging hurricanes to hit the Eastern Seaboard but her family house survived - only the roof blew off the porch. After high school, Eileen worked and attended William and Mary College until the war broke out and she joined the WAC and got a job in NYC. After the war she attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute, now Virginia Tech, and earned a BS in Chemistry. Her beloved halfbrother, Eugene, helped her with expenses using his earnings from the Merchant Marine. It was here she met her future husband, John Eugene Gerngross, on a blind date. They married in 1948 and moved to Chicago where Eileen got a job as a chemist on the Manhattan Project at Argonne National Labs. She worked for three years helping support the family while John finished his PhD course work. She loved singing and during her spare time she joined the local church choir and continued to pursue this lifelong passion for the next 50 years in many forms and places. In the early 50’s Eileen and John moved to upstate New York for work and they started their family there. Son John was born followed by daughter Joanna four years later and Eileen’s life focus shifted to them. Frequent moves took the family to Washington, DC, rural Baltimore, Tarzana, CA and finally suburban Boston during the turbulent late 60’s and early 70’s. In 1981, after an early retirement, Eileen and John sold their house, purchased a sailboat in Maine and took off on a six-year sailing adventure that took them thousands of miles up and down the U.S. East Coast and through22

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out the Bahamas. They had many fun adventures, lots of family visits and the occasional adrenalinecharged moments. It was a special time in their lives. After selling the boat, they moved to California in 1989 to be near their grandchildren. Eileen was a devoted grandmother and was always available at a moment’s notice to care for them. She loved going to Switzerland to see her daughter, granddaughters and extended family. A prolific reader, Eileen could always be counted on to gift quality books on every occasion. She was never one to let a conversation lapse into silence and always had something interesting to say at the slightest hint of a lull. Known for her keen observation skills and quick wit, she kept everyone on their toes and many a riotous laugh could be heard coming from her room at the retirement community. Eileen’s bright and tenacious spirit always stayed with her. Her strong and engaging personality shone brighter than ever as life’s challenges mounted. She deeply missed her late husband but was truly grateful for all the love and support given her by the constant stream of family and caregivers during her latter years. She will be dearly missed. Eileen was predeceased by her husband of 66 years, John, and is survived by her loving family including her children John, Jr. and wife Cheryl Doty of Santa Barbara; Joanna Louise Hediger and husband Joe of Ibach, Switzerland; grandchildren Emily Gerngross, Lilian Dutoit, Anna Gerngross, and Melanie Dutoit; step-grandson Austin Gibson. Memorial donations may be made to the Valle Verde Scholarship Fund through the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara.

Ada Mary Babine 09/02/27-11/28/18

Ada Mary Babine (b. September 2, 1927) died at Serenity House, Santa Barbara, on November

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28, 2018, after a brief illness. She was the fourth of five children of Albert Matlack and Anna Walker. Born in Wilmington Delaware, she moved with her family to Ramona in rural San Diego County at a very young age, and spent her early years on the family’s turkey farm there. She attended Whittier College and then received training as a medical lab technician, and worked in that capacity until 1948, when she married Walter Joseph Babine, a WWII veteran. They had five children together, and moved to Santa Barbara in 1958. Ada returned to school and graduated in 1963 from UCSB with a degree in Elementary Education. She spent the next 40 years teaching K thru 4 and training teachers for the Goleta Union School District and the Santa Barbara Joint Unified School District. She worked in her later years as a substitute teacher and did not retire fully until well into her 80s. Her commitment to the highest ideals of teaching inspired generations of Santa Barbarans. An avid backpacker, she led her family on many trips into the Santa Barbara backcountry, the Sierras, and Big Sur, and these trips with family and friends continued until she was in her 70s. Her love for nature and commitment to the environment found expression in the Sierra Club, which she joined in 1958. She served as chairman of the Santa Barbara Group, was on the executive committee of the Los Padres Chapter, and was the Sierra Club’s representative to the Naples Coalition. She was also active in the Audubon Society and the Santa Barbara Natural History Museum, where she served for a time as president of the Museum League. Ada gave generously of her time to the local community. She was a charter member of the Pearl Chase Society, treasurer of the Mesa Neighborhood Association, and on the board of the Architectural Foundation. She was a member of the Citizen’s Planning Association and the Unitarian Society. A skilled watercolorist and oil painter, she worked as an organizer of Art Walk for ten years. Ada’s love for her family and friends was legendary. She was an enthusiastic hostess, and created wonderful Sunday and holiday meals, which were always memo-

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rable and intellectually engaging events. She cast a wide net in her community over her six decades of residence, and will be missed by a large and diverse community of friends. Ada was predeceased by her siblings and by her daughter Catherine. She is survived by her children David, Anna, Walter Joseph, Jr., and Sarah, and by her loving granddaughters Alana Bailey and Lily Hays. A memorial service will be held at the Unitarian Society of Santa Barbara (1535 Santa Barbara Street) on Saturday, January 26, 2019, at 1 p.m.

Charles Edwin “Chuck” Williams 11/27/29-12/16/18

Chuck peacefully passed on December 16, 2018. He is now reunited with his wife Joan, in heaven. Chuck began his journey through life in Detroit Michigan on November 27th 1929. He was the 8th and last child of Fred and Carrie Williams. In 1951 Chuck and his wife followed his older brother Stan out west to the San Fernando Valley where he learned the construction trades. They were both happy to live in a place that didn’t require a snow shovel. By 1960 Chuck was ready to go out on his own so he packed up his family of six and moved to Santa Barbara and started his own construction company. Chuck left his mark on many buildings in Santa Barbara County throughout his career as a Contractor. He was a member of El Montecito Presbyterian Church for over 50 years and sang in the Choir. He was involved with the

Presbytery Homes of Southern California sitting on the board of directors for many years. Chuck was an active and passionate Freemason. He was a member of Santa Barbara Lodge 192 and countless other Masonic bodies. He was a faithful blood donor and was a member of the gallon club several times over. One of his other passions was flying. Joan got him lessons for his 45th birthday. He flew up until he was 80 years old when he reluctantly relinquished his license. Together they saw much of the United States up in his plane. Chuck was happiest when he was helping others. All you had to do was ask and he would be there ready to help and if it involved building or fixing something that was even better. Chuck leaves behind his two sons, Mark and Chick and three daughters, Barbara (Sam Licata), Suzi (David Schwartz), Barbara (Willy Hughes), nine grandkids and nine great grandkids. His family and friends will dearly miss him. His family would like to thank everyone at Mission Villa for the loving care they gave to Chuck. You truly were a blessing to him and all his family those last several months. A service celebrating Chuck’s life will be held Saturday February 9th at 2:00 pm at the Santa Barbara Masonic Lodge, 16 East Carrillo Street. Santa Barbara.

Robert Sheffey Preston III 1953-2018

Robert Sheffey Preston III, died on Thanksgiving 2018 in Solvang of early onset Alzheimer’s. He was 65. Born in Richmond, VA, Bob spent over 35 years working as an investment manager, specializing in clean energy technologies. A true gentleman, we will miss his laugh and exuberant sense of play. He is survived by his wife, Sarah and his children, Hallie, Claire, and Robbie, whom he adored and three grandchildren. A celebration of Bob’s life will be held on Saturday, January 19, at All Saints Church in Pasadena, CA.

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floor-to-ceiling mirrors, floor-to-ceiling sliding-glass doors. Dancers moving in light, fully absorbed in striving to achieve what Carla is asking them to do: create beautiful lines, be expressive of the music, be “natural” and genuine. Carla Moseley taught young students the art of ballet in Santa Barbara for more than 60 years, imparting her love of ballet to many children, some who went on to dance, others who carried the lessons impressed upon them into their lives. “She created an environment for all of us girls growing up that was not just ballet but such beauty and magic. For that, our souls are etched in that light that Carla gave us. She taught us about the art of not just ballet but life, the discipline of the details and how they affect the big picture,” said Chloe Bidwell, a former student. As a young girl, Carla studied ballet in Fullerton with, among others, Roselle Frey, Bronislava Nijinska, and later Olga Fricker and Sheila Darby. There, she was introduced to the Cecchetti method of teaching ballet. She progressed all the way through the teacher certification exams to earn her Licentiate Certificate. While she was studying and training, she married Harold Moseley, moved to Santa Barbara, and had five children. At first, Carla taught in local elementary schools after school, hauling her portable record player and records around (as well as several young children). Once the studio at her home was finished, she taught in the large, light-filled space in Montecito for over 20 years. At night, after classes were over, she would spread out huge pieces of canvas on the studio floor and paint for her students’ productions the necessary theatrical backdrops, unbelievable in their scale and perspective—redwood forest, castle, California hillside, Greek temple, flower forest, seashore (the rats ate that one!). In the morning, the backdrop in progress would be folded up and classes resumed. Onstage, in the theater lights, the backdrops were revealed to be magical creations. For “Tales of Mother Goose,” one of the ballets created in her Montecito studio, a 16-foot-high book on the stage was replete with pages that turned, each painted by Carla on the floor of her studio. In Carla’s approach to ballet and to life, nothing was worth doing unless it was done the very best it could be done. That may seem like a cliché, but for Carla, everything had to be completed to artistic perfection; at times that meant last-minute touches to painted sets as the theater audience was being seated. She was most interested in teaching and coaching young dancers to be the best dancer they could be — “Do it again … and again … and again. … Yes, that is so beautiful!” Coveted words. She was driven to pass her knowledge and love of ballet to her students, never viewing the teaching as a business, but always as an art. At the urging of a former student, she opened a studio in Westlake Village, when the area was just begging to flourish. She installed a hardwood floor and floor-to-ceiling mirrors, and she traveled there every week to teach her loyal students. The commute became too difficult over time, the studio was closed, and the hardwood floor came back to Santa Barbara. After 20 years of teaching, raising children, creating original ballets for the stage, and undergoing life changes, Carla built a new house and studio on

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Park Lane, again with a floor of gleaming hardwood, floor-to-ceiling mirrors and doors, and light pouring through. Here, one of her lifelong dreams was fulfilled: raising and milking goats. From the barre, the dancers could look out the window and see the goat house, the chicken pen, and the extensive gardens and rock walls she had built. The recession hit; another life change was required. The school moved to the Music Academy of the West, in Abravanel Hall, becoming the Montecito School of Ballet, where I joined her in teaching. A new generation of students passed through her tutelage. New original ballets were created: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter Rabbit, and Les Patineurs (The Skaters). Costumes were creations made by hand; sets were sometimes scavenged from the storage shed at the bottom of the Music Academy grounds; the Lobero Theatre became home for productions twice a year. And there was always the drive to make whatever she touched the “most beautiful, the most perfect.” Stagehands dreaded to see her coming, as she would have them “move that tree a little to the left. No, move it all the way over to the other side of the stage. No, it belongs back over there,” and with long pauses for consideration of the artistic merit of each move! The Music Academy remodeled Abravanel Hall into Hahn Hall, a music-only space, and the Montecito School of Ballet moved “downtown.” A new studio was constructed in a building on Gutierrez Street, with a Marley floor (sadly, not hardwood), mirrors partway up the 20-foot-high walls where a vaulted ceiling fills the studio with light. Other teachers joined the school—teaching jazz, contemporary, hip-hop, flamenco. Carla continued to teach at this studio until six months before she passed away on January 12, 2018. She was my mother, and every day is touched and illuminated, sometimes by only a passing glimpse, by her. When I find myself involved in creative endeavors, in household tasks, I remember her— her laugh, her joy in her grandchildren. How I wish I could share the fact that I now have a granddaughter. Her passion for creating and appreciating beauty and having it fill her life is a goal I strive for, as well as her strength, her courage, and her ability to pern severe, with gratitude.

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y everyone’s admission, the first harvests of blue agave on the Gaviota Coast have been a bit clumsy. Unlike plucking fruits, picking vegetables, or mowing grains — activities that are familiar enough to the everyday Californian farmer — these sharp-spined, sturdy cacti are much more bizarre beasts. Their fibrous leaves must first be severed with a spade-like tool called a coa, and then the shallow, spindly roots are hacked away to release the piña. That oversized, pineapple-looking orb — which can grow as big as 150 pounds, although these early ones are only a third that size — is then chopped into chunks that will later be cooked, mashed, juiced, fermented, and distilled into liquor. It’s backbreaking work, especially when you don’t really have anyone to teach you the way, and the three harvests that have happened so far at La Paloma Ranch in the foothills above Refugio State Beach have been peppered with plenty of laughter, speculation over proper technique, and severely poked butt cheeks. (“Harvest” is itself a clumsy word: Only five piñas have been unearthed in total so far.) The inexperience extends from the growing—these first agaves surprised everyone by maturing and shooting their flower stalks much sooner than the 7-10 years expected — to the processing, as the men down the coast at Ventura Spirits who’ve mastered the distillation of grain and fruit are perplexed by how to best convert these cacti into booze. Of course, a steep, slightly silly learning curve is only natural when it comes to the first crack at a new crop. Agave, as most everyone knows by now, is the basis for Mexico’s famed tequila, one of the most soughtafter liquors in the world. But tequila— tequila which can only be made from Agave tequilana, aka blue agave, in Jalisco and a few surrounding states in Mexico—is merely an intensely regulated version of mezcal. That’s the name for spirits distilled from more than three dozen species of agave throughout Mexico, from the massive Agave mapisaga (which grows 14 feet tall and wide) to the more diminutive Agave potatorum, whose two-foot-wide piñas are turned into coveted $150 bottles labeled “Tobala.” So when it comes to turning agave into alcohol, Mexico enjoys a firm head start over California. The indigenous Mesoamericans came first, making a fermented, beer-like beverage called pulque from agave for at least 1,000 years. There’s a sliver of research that suggests distillation may have occurred prior to Spanish contact, but the dominant belief is that it was the conquistadors of the 1600s who first started making liquor out of the plant when they grew thirsty for brandy. The tradition was professionalized over the next two centuries, primarily by the Cuervo and Sauza families. In 1974, the Mexican government protected and regulated the “tequila” name, much like France owns “Champagne,” and did the same for “mezcal” in 1994. The country is vigilant in their defense of those monikers, and purists are probably smirking to learn that their neighbors to the north are embarking on a grand agave experiment. La Paloma’s owner, Eric Hvolboll— whose family has tended to this slice of land for more than Hvolboll 150 years — is the first to admit the whole thing could completely fail. “It might just be a lark and we don’t continue it,” he said. “But we won’t know for a number of years.” What no one is laughing about here in California, though, is the potential that agave presents for the Golden State’s drought-parched,

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fire-prone landscape. The plants use far less water than avocados or citrus, thrive in marginal soils where little else will grow, and are so naturally waterlogged that they can stop a wildfire in its tracks. Doug Richardson witnessed that firsthand behind his Toro Canyon home during the Thomas Fire of 2017, which couldn’t penetrate the line of cacti that he planted. “Driving around Santa Barbara all these years, I’ve seen so many clumps of agave that are suitable for making distilled spirits just growing out on their own,” said Richardson, a longtime farmer, former SBCC professor, and landscape contractor in Carpinteria who’s fast becoming the prophet of North American agave. “I thought, ‘This is something we should look into.’ And I am definitely someone who really enjoys the distilled spirit form of agave in mezcal and tequila.”

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“That’s mapisaga—it just thrives in California,” says Doug Richardson one morning at his nursery, which sits near the polo fields under the charred Carpinteria cliffs. He’s excitedly showing off the many species of agave that he’s collected and propagated in recent years, including this one, a preferred pulque variety in Mexico. “Look at the offshoots,” he continues. “It’s just prolific.” Widely known as “The Banana Man” for the 15 years he farmed that tropical fruit at La Conchita in the 1980s and ’90s, Richardson is no stranger to exotic species. Raised in Manhattan Beach, he came to the University of California, Santa Barbara, to study geography but got caught up in farming while reviving an old apple orchard atop Kinevan Ranch off of San Marcos Pass, where he lived during college. “I’m pretty much a self-taught agricultural guy, but I’ve been doing it continuously since I was about 18 — I just had my 70th birthday,” said Richardson, whose salt-and-pepper, shoulder-length hair and tanned, ever-outdoors skin looks at least 10 years younger. Among other accomplishments in his landscaping career, he served as chair of Santa Barbara City College’s Environmental Horticulture Department in the early 2000s and built the school’s ag library. “It is just a consuming passion,” he said of his decades in the dirt. As concerns came up over how much water his bananas and more popular crops like avocados required, Richardson started investigating more sustainable plants and tuned into the potential of agave

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about a decade ago, just as the current drought was about to begin. Today, his Drylands Farming Company sells and plants agave, prickly pear (40 different types and every color in the rainbow), and erosioncontrolling vetiver grass, as well as native and edible plants, mainly as landscaping for small residential projects. But calls about the agave from more commercially minded entities are steadily increasing, with inquiries from all over California as well as Arizona and Texas. Most want to plant the coveted blue weber variety, but Richardson now knows that that species is very susceptible to frost. “It’s fairly tender,” said Richardson. “In California, there are not a lot of places where you can grow that, and where you can, the land tends to be pretty expensive, and a lot of time there is not a lot of water available.” So he’s expanded his nursery to include more than 20 other agave species that are suited for distillation yet a bit more robust, like Agave arroqueño or Agave espadin, the most popular mezcal source. “Because I have researched this agave so long and so deeply, I know there are agave species well-suited for making distilled spirits that are much more cold-hardy and can be grown over a much wider geographic range,” he said. “That’s impacting what agave species I grow in my nursery.” He’s also tuned into archaeological research from the Southwest that indicates the indigenous people of Arizona and New Mexico were farming agave, much like their neighbors in Mesoamerica. “Agave growing for humans is by no means simply a Mexican phenomenon,” said Richardson, and he notes that more production in the United States would help defuse some of the pressure currently on native agave species in Mexico, some of which are being foraged into extinction. (There are nonalcoholic applications for agave as well: Its syrup is a popular sugar alternative, its fibers have been used for millennia, and Richardson knows of a young man making surfboards from the stalks as well.)

COVER STORY But it’s the low-water-use and fire-prevention aspects that have him most jazzed, as he sees agave and prickly pear as potential lines of defense around orchards and foothill neighborhoods, whether or not anyone uses them to make liquor. “When we can have plantings strictly of agave and prickly pears, they will not burn,” he said. “It would take unusual circumstances for the fire to penetrate into a succulent planting like that.” He’d heard anecdotes and seen post-fire evidence for years, but he finally watched it with his own eyes as the Thomas Fire stopped at his cacti in Toro Canyon, where he lives on the property of renowned architect Barton Myers. “I’ve seen it over and over again,” he said. “Now I’ve tried it, and I believe in it.” He’s quietly built his nursery and now sells quite a bit of agave, including an acre that he put on Olive Mill Road in December, among other small Montecito plantings, and many large plantings scheduled for later this year. He’s become the go-to source in the whole country right now, as potential competitors in the wholesale nursery industry are slow to adapt. “Nobody is sticking their neck out there to grow a large quantity of plants unless they know the market is there — otherwise they’re just spending money,” he said. “I’ve stuck my neck out and grown all these plants. But I don’t sell any plants until a guy like Eric comes along and has that vision.” The human history of La Paloma Ranch goes back to the Chumash times, when the land was used as a fishing camp by Santa Ynez Valley villagers in the summertime. It served as the westernmost grazing land for Mission Santa Barbara’s cattle, was granted to the Ortega family in 1841, and 25 years later became home to the Orellas, whose ancestor Andres de Cota first crossed the property as part of the Portola expedition in 1769. In 1901, Josefa Orella de Erro christened the northern portion of the ranch La Paloma (“the dove”), and the following year built the ranch home that still stands. As is typical of ranches across California, the owners of La Paloma Ranch, which is about 750 acres, have explored a wide range of agricultural enterprises, from the initial cattle herds (which more or less persisted until 2016’s Sherpa Fire burned all of the fencing) to walnuts, lima beans, tomatoes, barley, and garbanzos in the early parts of the 20th century. In the 1960s, Elizabeth Erro Hvolboll (who died last year at age 87) planted avocados, and about 55 acres of those trees remain today. “Farmers are some of the most innovative people around and have been for thousands of years,” explains Eric Hvolboll, Elizabeth’s son, who grew up in Santa Barbara but spent much of his childhood on the ranch. “The best ones are smart and not afraid to try new things.” He and his sister, Janet Erro, have continued the property’s evolution by planting agave, four types of coffee, and argan trees, a Moroccan species whose nut oils are primarily used for cosmetic products. They’re also about to bring back sheep for the first time in more than a century. The agave idea was sparked by three college kids who came to La Paloma Ranch a few summers ago to learn the value of hard work under ranch manager John Kleinwachter. A building contractor by trade — originally from Southern California, but a Colorado and Washington State resident since college — Kleinwachter landed on the Gaviota Coast about EL JIMADOR BLANCO: Neither much of a nine years ago to pursue farmer nor drinker, La Paloma Ranch manager his wife’s dream of living John Kleinwachter, (pictured with Vinnie the dog) on a horse ranch. About finds himself as one of California’s first jimadors, five years ago, after strikthe Mexican name for agave harvesters. ing up a relationship with continued on p . 28

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One day, he asked the trio of college kids what they should plant next, and they blurted out agave. “Fundamentally, they didn’t have a clue of what it took, but for college kids, it was basic: Let’s plant some agave and make some booze,” recalled Kleinwachter with a chuckle. “They had no idea it was gonna take 7-10 years.” He was soon in touch with Richardson, and in 2015, they planted the first 1,000 agave plants on a rocky spot near the main house. Every year since, they’ve put in another 750 or so, and now have about 4,000 plants, with plans to continue the plantings for 10 years. That would give the guys at Ventura Spirits a steady annual supply with which to build a real market for the agave spirit. For a former contractor who never thought he’d ever live in California again — and isn’t much of a drinker at all — this agave project is proving to be a fascinating career and lifestyle twist. He cites his relationship with Hvolboll as a primary reason for sticking around, but he also feels a deep connection to the property. “To me, it’s a privilege,” said Kleinwachter. “Whether you’ve been here for 100 years or 10, we’re all passing through, and we’re stewards of the land. Hopefully what we do here is gonna make this place better and manage the resources appropriately with a consciousness that is legitimate. That’s a real gift for me to be here.”

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the Hvolbolls, he took charge of Rancho La Paloma operations. “I don’t know much about agriculture, but I know how to solve problems,” explained Kleinwachter. “I knew I could do this.”

Taking cues from the farm-to-table ethos that dominates today’s culinary and winemaking worlds, Ventura Spirits launched in July 2013 with a promise to function as part of the agricultural chain. “You go where the farmers are and where the surplus produce is, and you use what’s salvageable,” says cofounder Anthony Caspary, whose distillery is in the basement of an industrial warehouse complex that’s surrounded by oil rigs between Ventura Avenue and Highway 33. “That’s what motivates us.” Raised in Woodland Hills but educated at New York’s Hamilton College and the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he got an MBA and master’s in industrial product design, Caspary sees a number of strategic advantages to the Ventura Spirits approach. It’s made them part of the broader farming community, and it’s provided steady access to key ingredients. But most importantly, he explained, “You gave this built-in product differentiation, this built-in terroir that you don’t necessarily get making bourbon in a state that doesn’t grow corn.” Their first release included vodka made from Oxnard strawberries, gin flavored by native botanicals like yerba santa and osha root, and an unaged prickly pear brandy. “It was the closest thing we could get to cactus spirit,” said Caspary of the latter. “We felt like it was such a good fit for Southern California, which is a fairly serious tequila market.” Appreciating their ethic, Richardson introduced Caspary to the La Paloma crew, and Caspary got his hands on his first piña at the end of August. He used the sous vide process, cooking the starchy chunks in a water bath, and then forced it to ferment. The result,

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DISTILLER CREW: The Ventura Spirits team includes, (from left) James Greenspun, Henry Tarmy, Andrew Caspary, and Anthony Caspary, who’s leading the agave spirit project. “Making booze is not really that hard, but this is really hard, and that’s cool,” he said.

which he unveiled for a small crowd during the second harvest in November, was a clean liquor, like a very light blanco tequila. For the second batch of three piñas, he steamed them for 60 hours, and the result was more flavorful. He’s working on the third batch right now but hopes he has at least two good years of trials before a real harvest comes in. “They are very long, frustrating fermentations for us,” he said. “The normal fermentation kinetics you expect from grain or fruit don’t really seem to apply to agave mash.” There’s no Tequila Making for Dummies manual, and distilling, it turns out, is not as collaborative as the beer and wine worlds. “There is a certain conviviality in the business, but it’s very competitive,” said Caspary. “People are pretty guarded about what they do.” There’s even less intel because almost no one else is really pursuing agave spirits in California right now, though Caspary knows of some others, like vintner Ryan Carr, who are also interested in the possibility. “There aren’t a lot of people who know how to farm these things; there aren’t a lot of people who know how to harvest them,” said Caspary. “We’ve gotten bits here and there on how to process them from people who are associated with La Paloma, but for the later stages of production, we’re totally flying blind.” And he loves that. “I’m incredibly excited about it,” he said. “For me personally, this is a challenge that I haven’t really ever experienced on the production side of distilling. Making booze is not really that hard, but this is really hard, and that’s cool.”

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Though Ventura Spirits may wind up being the first to sell a steady product in a few years, they are not the first California distillers to attack agave. That was back in 2005, when J.B. Wagoner grew agaves in the hills west of Temecula and produced a product he wanted to call Temequila. The Mexican authorities quickly jumped on the name for being too close to “tequila,” and the American government wouldn’t approve the name. For that and other reasons, the brand didn’t last long.

More recently, a tequila aficionado named Craig Reynolds has served as the connective tissue for some planning and production projects — and it’s his coa that the La Paloma folks are using too. While working as a staffer in the state legislature for decades, Reynolds also volunteered for a nonprofit called Project Amigo, which provides scholarships to students in Colima, Mexico. In 2006, Reynolds helped start a fundraising initiative in which the project grew and then distilled mezcal, which hit the market under the Dos Volcanes name in 2015. (It was a one-off project, but he still has plenty to sell.) Bitten by the bug, Reynolds wondered what it would take to start doing so in his home state. “I’d always somewhat jokingly said that the California water wars would be resolved somewhat if folks would start growing something other than water-intensive crops in the desert,” said Reynolds, who worked as chief of staff for two state senators for much of his career. “We should be growing agave and making tequila instead of growing almonds and sending them to China.” So he started planted agave near his home in Yolo County, built his own roasting pit, and began talking to the folks at St. George Spirits in Alameda, who are considered the godfathers of California craft distilling. They’d already distilled a spirit from agaves that were imported from Mexico, so Reynolds enlisted their services to work with a Lake Elsinore agave grower named Mark Carlston. He brought his agave to Reynolds’s pit, where they roasted it and then sent it to the St. George facility, which produced what everyone thought was a tasty spirit, although not enough to sell commercially. “It was really just a research and development project,” said Reynolds. “We at least convinced anyone who asked that it was definitely a viable thing, that you could make a really yummy California-grown, -cooked, -processed, and -distilled mezcal, regardless of what you call it.” He hopes that proof of concept will help get past the current chicken-and-egg situation, in which growers don’t want to plant agave because no distillers have the equipment to continued on p . 31

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FIRE BREAK BOOZE: Last month, Berkeley “Augie” Johnson planted about an acre of agave on the site of his former Olive Mill Road home, which was destroyed in the 1/9 Debris Flow. He hopes to plant much more around the area and make an agave spirit brand called Fire Break.

process and no distillers want to invest in equipment because no one is growing it. “My goal was just to get people past the idea that agave won’t grow here and that it won’t make good spirits,” said Reynolds, who plans to make another batch this spring with his Yolo County agaves. “I think we’ve proven both. It’s still completely in its infancy, but they are starting to do it at a scale that’s getting pretty big and could supply a number a craft distilleries in a couple years with a considerable amount.”

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If you happened to drive down Olive Mill Road in Montecito the Saturday before Christmas, you may have spotted trucks offloading small, bluish cacti into the heart of the mudslide impact zone. This is where Berkeley “Augie” Johnson is planting a small crop of agave on the site of his former home, which was destroyed by the 1/9 Debris Flow. A recently retired executive from Corning, Johnson has endured a particularly painful string of tragic luck, as his son, Nick, drowned in a 2014 water polo training accident at Santa Barbara High. But he’s ebullient as ever about growing agave throughout Montecito’s fire and mudslide zones. “The land here is really ideally made and conducive for agave growing,” said Johnson, who hopes to establish 20-30 acres a year in hopes of getting to 500 acres. He plans to brand the resulting distilled agave spirit as “Fire Break.” Part of the motivation is personal. “I always loved tequila and always thought it would be neat to have a tequila company in some form or fashion,” said Johnson. “I am a big believer in Central Coast manufacturing. That’s what I am trying to create and build.” But the primary push is communityWe can use it as oriented, as he sees the a form of rising drought-tolerant, firefighting power of agave from the ashes. as a symbolic response to the region’s recent —Berkley “Augie” Johnson woes. “We can use it as a form of rising from the ashes,” said Johnson, who’s enlisted the services of the surviving members of the Benitez family as well, hoping to help them heal from losing much of their family to the mudslide. “The idea of creating a defensive position out of agave seems pretty cool. What a neat, natural way of doing it. And it tastes good in five years too!” Richardson sold Johnson the agave and was on hand to plant it, with high hopes that there’d be much more work like this in the years to come. Earlier in December, at the third-ever harvest at La Paloma, the agave evangelist was sounding as optimistic as ever. He’d just driven north on 101 through all of the vineyards that line the freeway from Buellton to Salinas. “I can see a future where we have thousands and thousands of acres of agave,” said Richardson while looking out toward the ocean, the rows of agave streaking into the hills behind him. “I wouldn’t doubt it at all.”

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10-16 “Landscape no. 0211” by Sol Hill

SUNDAY 1/13 1/13: Redrawing the Bound Boundaries: Rachel Cusk The author behind the Outline Trilogy will be interviewed by Andrew Winer, fellow writer, friend, novelist, and chair of Creative Writing at UC Riverside, followed by a book-signing. 2:30pm. Mary Craig Auditorium, S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. $5-$10. Call 884-6457. Read more on p. 49. sbma.net

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Please Join us for an opening reception Januar y 11 at 5:30

ALSO ON VIEW: Vest Pocket Pictures: Julius Shulman A Day’s Labor: Portraits by John Sonsini ¡Chicanismo!: The Sanchez Collection Common Bonds: Artists and Architects on Community

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1/12:

Dance into the New Year! Art Without Limits and the Beatrice Wood

Center for the Arts are co-presenting this show featuring exhibiting and performing artists, including Derrick Curtis and Yulia Malyuta (dance), Elite Henenson (photography), Sol Hill (metagraphs), Tom Pazderka (painting/site-specific sculpture), and Andi Schoenbaum (abstract painting). The show runs through February 23. 2-5pm. Beatrice Wood Ctr. for the Arts, 8585 Ojai Rd., Ojai. Free. Call 646-3381. awolsb.org

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songwriter Tyrone Wells opening. Kids HelpHelp ing Kids, an entirely student-run nonprofit organization based out of the AP Economics classes at San Marcos High School, donates all proceeds raised directly to disadvantaged children. 7pm. The Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $34-$254 (visit the website for VIP prices). Call 899-2222. granadasb.org

1/12: IMPROVology All ages are welcome to join in a live, family-friendly mashup of science and comedy with worldclass improv comedians and animal experts. 7-9pm. S.B. Zoo, 500 Niños Dr. $12-$18. Call 962-5339. sbzoo.org

1/12: Arts Fair Students are invited to experience the arts through a showcase of invention and creativity, featuring the opportunity to record a song or a story, create an instrument, build a marker bot, and create a geometric sculpture. 10am-noon. Garden Street Academy, 2300 Garden St. Free. Call 680-1536.

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1/12: Magic Tree House AdvenAdven tures Head out on an exploration to

1/12: Thoreson 30-Minute Decathlon & Youth Triple In honor of national

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Maison is an all-day celebration to benefit the Maison des Jasmins, a transition house in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, for orphan young women to complete their education. Zumba with Josette Tkacik: 11:15am; CarCar rillo Recreation Ctr., 100 E. Carrillo St.; $15. Drum Circle with Jerry Zacarias: 3pm; free-$10. Matthew Doohan, The BramBram bles, and Jason Campbell and the Drive: 7pm; $20. Center Stage Theater, 751 Paseo Nuevo. Call 963-0408.

stunning 6,000 acres of protected reserve, normally closed to the public, in a guided morning hike with knowledgeable docents or an informative midday lecture and nature walk with UCSB professor Bruce Tiffany. Preregistration is required. 9am-2pm. Sedgwick Reserve, 3566 Brinkerhoff Ave., Santa Ynez. Suggested donation: $10-$20. Call 686-1941.

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1/12: Haiti Girl Power: Music for the Maison Music for the

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class Decathlete, 1967 Pan American Games bronze medal winner, and La Colina teacher David Thoreson, decathletes will attempt the 10-event, 30-minute challenge created in the 1970s followed by a 30-minute, three-event challenge. Participants and spectators are invited after to the reunion luncheon at Thorrington Field. RSVP online. 10am-12:30pm. Thorrington Field, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Rd. Free. Ages 7-13. santabarbaratc.com

some of the many places Jack and Annie have visited on their travels in the Magic Tree House book series. Make your own journal and camera to document your adventures. There will be science, exploraexplora tion, and crafts for all ages. 2-3:30pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 564-5602.

Volunteer Opportunity

1/13: Studio Sunday In this studio session you will reimagine Manual Álvarez Bravo’s “Calabaza y caracol” (“Squash and Snail”) by colorizing a black-and-white detail from the photograph in chalk pastel and adding a snail sculpted in primary-colored modeling clay. 1:30-4:30pm. Family Resource Ctr., S.B. Museum of Art, 1130 State St. Free. Call 884-6457. sbma.net 1/13: Ekphrastic Poetry: Writing Workshop with Jodie Hollander Join inter-

nationally known writer Jodie Hollander as you study examples of celebrated poems that respond to or were inspired by art and then be led through a variety of writing activities inspired by the art, ultimately leading to a draft of an original poem. No experience is necessary. Registration is required. 10am2pm. SBCAST, 513 Garden St. $50.

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1/13: National Geographic Live: Bertie Gregory: A Wild Life Wildlife photographer, filmmaker, and host of National Geographic’s wild_life with Bertie Gregory will share stories of camping with wolves in Vancouver, pursuing peregrine falcons in London, tracking leopards in the streets of Mumbai, and more. 3pm. Campbell Hall, UCSB. $10-$20. Call 893-3535. Read more on p. 47. artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

1/13: Janis Mann The S.B. Jazz Society presents this award-winning jazz vocalist and her trio for an exciting performance. 1pm. SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State St. $15-$25. Ages 21+. Call 962-7776.

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1/13: Art Hour: Self-Portraits Kids will love learning about the famous selfportrait artist Frida Kahlo as they make their own self-portraits with provided materials. 2-3pm. Island Rm., S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Ages 5-12; children younger than 8 need adult supervision. Call 564-5638. sbplibrary.org

MONDAY 1/14 1/14: Science Pub: Sundowner Winds in Santa Barbara Take part in

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Opening Reception: Vexed: The East L.A. Chicano Punk Scene The

photographs in this exhibit are drawn from the Chicano Punk Rock Collection in the Special Research Collection’s California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives and express the anger and feelings of marginalization of the Chicanx through their DIY punk aesthetic in mid-1970s East L.A. The exhibit shows through January 31. 6pm. MultiCultural Ctr. Lounge, UCSB. Free. Call 893-8411.

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a fun conversation with Dr. Leila M. V. Carvalho, professor of geography at UCSB, as she explains why sundowners occur, how unique they are, and the importance of observations and forecasts to increase resilience to wildfires in our region. 6:30-8pm. Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant, 18 E. Ortega St. Free. Call 682-4711 x170. sbnature.org

TUESDAY 1/15 1/15: Nadie This 2017 documentary tells

music guitarist David Bromberg, and master guitarist Larry Campbell will perform a show steeped in American music traditions. Nashville-based guitarist Jordan Tice will open the show. 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $36-$46; VIP: $106. Call 963-0761. lobero.com

1/15: Self Care as Parents This parenting seminar with PCI Certified Parent Coach Claire Cetti will explore the four components of self-care: spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical. Learn how to find time for selfcare, what it means, and how taking care of yourselves can benefit your children. 6:157:30pm. Kidaru Playcenter, La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free. Call 682-7400.

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WEDNESDAY 1/16 1/16: Cup of Culture: Crazy Rich Asians This contemporary romantic comedy, based on a Kevin Kwan’s New York Times global best seller, follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) to Singapore to meet her boyfriend’s wealthy family. 6pm. MultiCultural Ctr. Theater, UCSB. Free. Rated PG-13. Call 893-8411.

the story of love and deception in the Cuban mcc.sa.ucsb.edu/events revolution, seen through the eyes of ostracized Cuban writer Rafael Alcides, who was initially mesmerized by all its possibilities. Writer, director, and co-producer Miguel Coyula and actor and co-producer Lynn Cruz will join moderator Cristina Venegas (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) for a post-screening discussion. A reservation is recommended in order to guarantee a seat. 7-9:15pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Free. Not rated. Call 893-5903. carseywolf.ucsb.edu

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1/16: Homelessness in S.B. County, Civic Forum At this

panel and discussion hosted by the Central Library and League of Women Voters of Santa Barbara, experts will inform the public on the new Home for Good S.B. County coordinated entry system, including street outreach, emergency shelter, and housing, and discuss local data, long-term solutions, and volunteer opportunities, including the 2019 Point in Time Count on January 24, with 1/15: David Bromberg, Larry Camp- sign-ups currently available at common bell & David Hidalgo: The American groundsbc.org. Noon-2pm. Faulkner Gallery Crossroads Trio Los Lobos guitarist David East, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call 564-5621. sbplibrary.org Hidalgo, American bluegrass and country

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01 14 2019 Free and open to the public.

Santa Barbara Human Resources Association

Marc Dollinger

San Francisco State University

Santa Barbara Human Resources Association presents

Black Power, Jewish Politics: Reinventing the Alliance in the 1960s Special Introduction by Professor Jeffrey C. Stewart, Professor of Black Studies and author of The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press), winner of the National Book Award in Biography (2018). Professor Dollinger’s most recent book takes a new and different look at Jewish involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, showing how American Jews leveraged the Black Power movement to increase Jewish ethnic and religious identity in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Join us as we explore neverbefore-seen historical documents that reveal a story that’s been hidden from view for over half a century. With so much contemporary interest in Black Lives Matter and larger questions of race and justice, we’ll explore a fascinating and surprising Jewish past.

Mental Wellness in the Workplace Presented by Derrick Selb, MFT Join Derrick Selb, Director of Counseling Services at PathPoint, as he helps us to:

• Learn to recognize the importance of workplace mental health, the impacts of both poor and positive mental health on employees and employers

• Identify and respond to mental health concerns that arise in the workplace

• Understand local mental health resources available to employees and employers

Monday January 14, 2019 7:30 p.m. Hillel, Isla Vista

• Establish a clearer understanding of how to create a work environment that promotes positive mental health When:

Books will be available for purchase and signing after the talk.

For further information contact: Richard D. Hecht Maeve Devoy ariel@religion.ucsb.edu maeve@cappscenter.ucsb.edu (805) 893-2317

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This Weekend!

Shows on Tap 1/10-1/13, 1/15:

Friday, January 11 at 6:57 PM Sharp

SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: Rose Sings Ronstadt. 7:30pm. $18-$20. Fri.: Stevie Nicks Illusion. 8:30pm. $10. Sat.: Man Man. 9pm. $15-$18. Ages 21+. Sun.: Larry

Rock & roll music impresario Hale Milgrim is back with another carefully-crafted film collage featuring legendary musical artists from the 60’s to present, performing rarely seen (and quite magical) collaborations including Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Roy Orbison, Bruce Springsteen and hundreds more!

Pattis, Alisa Fineman & Kimball Hurd. 7pm. $15. Tue.: The Brother Brothers. 8pm. $12$15. 1221 State St. Call 962-7776. sohosb.com

Rose Sings Ronstadt

Tickets $20. General Admission. Come early for refreshments and memorabilia sale at 6:03 PM.

1/10, 1/12-1/13: Dargan’s Irish Pub & Restaurant Thu.: Dannsair. 6:30-8:30pm. Sat.: King Bee. 8:30pm-11:30pm. Sun.: Irish Jam Session. 4:30-7pm. 18 E. Ortega St. Free. Call 568-0702. darganssb.com 1/10-1/12: The Endless Summer Bar-Café Thu.: Jim Rankin. Fri.: Dave Vignoe. Sat.: Nax. 5-8pm. 113 Harbor Wy. Free. Call 564-1200. 1/10-1/12: M.Special Brewing Co. Thu.: O.n.E. 6-8pm. Fri.: Flannel 101. 7-9pm. Sat.: Golden Impalas. 6-8pm. 6860 Cortona Dr., Bldg. C., Goleta. Free. Call 968-6500. mspecialbrewco.com

Bill Frisell When You Wish Upon A Star

1/11-1/12: The Brewhouse Fri.: One Two Tree. Sat.: Sean Wiggins and the Lone Goat. 8pm. 229 W. Montecito St. Free. Call 884-4664. 1/11: Carr Winery Barrel Rm. OutOfTheBlue. 6-8pm. 414 N. Salsipuedes St. Free. Ages 21+. Call 965-7985. carrwinery.com

TUESDAY! JANUARY 15

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24

Don’t miss an unscripted evening of discovery and musical virtuosity by three American music masters.

“Unforgettable themes are reconfigured with ingenuity, wit and affection by Frisell and a terrific group.”- Jazz Times

1/11-1/13: Cold Spring Tavern Fri.: Sydney Kovacs. 6-9pm. Sat.: Jim Rankin; 1-4pm. Paradise Road; 5-8pm. Sun.: Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan;

1/12: Eos Lounge Washed Out. 9pm-1:30am. 500 Anacapa St. $15. Ages 21+. Call 564-2410. eoslounge.com 1/12-1/13: Figueroa Mountain Brewing Co. (Los Olivos) Sat.: Oddly Straight. Sun.: Matt Sayles. 3-6pm. 2363 Alamo Pintado Ave., Los Olivos. Free. Ages 21+. Call 694-2252 x343. figmtnbrew.com

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1:15-4pm. Teresa Russell and Cocobilli; 4:30-7:30pm. 5995 Stagecoach Rd.

Free. Call 967-0066. coldspringtavern.com

1/12: The James Joyce Ulysses Jasz. 7:30-10:30pm. 513 State St. Free. Ages 21+. Call 962-2668. sbjamesjoyce.com

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

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Welcome Bodie! Bodie Liam Cherry-Morden, born at 2:16 a.m. on January 1, was the first Santa Barbara County birth of the year. In 2018, over 2,000 babies were born at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. From the Birth Center, to the Mother Infant Unit, to Cottage Childrenâ€™s Medical Center, our staff is privileged to provide care and compassion to children in all stages of their lives.

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RESCUED: Conservator Christina Bean (left) and Stephanie Glatt, director emerita at La Casa de Maria, go over some of the photos salvaged following the 1/9 Debris Flow.

The Conservation Ballad A Conservator Reflects on the 1/9 Debris Flow

n the beginning of February 2018, a few weeks after the Montecito debris flow, I was contacted about a few people looking to conserve six things rescued from the mud. I proposed a free assessment day, where people could bring anything they wanted to the Montecito Library, and I would help where I could and give out resources and contacts for other conservators with different specialties. I soon realized that there was a huge mold problem everywhere. I shouldn’t have been surprised. Mud and debris blanketed the town, creating a micro-environment where items could not dry out — the perfect breeding ground for mold and insects. Families had few options for help, so I created another. The following week I began calling other conservators, did by Christina Bean some research, and decided to try a project that had never been done before — conservation support on a community basis. I felt it was a project that was desperately needed, and since I had just spent the last three years finishing my master’s in conservation from Camberwell College of London and a fellowship at UCLA Library, I had the time to devote to the work. Besides, my family was from here, and I wanted to use what skills I had to help. First I called the Fowler Museum’s Christian De Brer, who had run similar remediation programs. Freezers, he said, were needed immediately. He recommended contacting Martin Container. They agreed to put two freezers on hold at an extremely deep discount. One freezer could go to the Sheriff ’s Office, and the other had to be located somewhere in Montecito. I called Sherman Hansen of Santa Barbara County Parks. He put me in touch with Abe Powell, the man who had become the go-to guy for most volunteer recovery projects and one of the prime organizers of the Santa Barbara Bucket Brigade, a group of ordinary people who, working with donated funds, had been digging through the mud. Abe immediately recognized the need for a conservation service but soon realized there was no power source in Montecito that could handle such large freezers. The Bucket

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Brigade offered to rent necessary generators, and because of that incredibly generous act, I was able to accept Westmont College’s offer to park the freezer on its campus. The project also received seed funding from Congregation B’nai B’rith to acquire the first wave of supplies and the Montecito Center for Preparedness, Recovery and Rebuilding, a county group run by Ben Romo, offered free studio space. Now I only had to wait for Abe to fire the generators up. It was then that Abe asked a question that surprised me. “Are you worried about heading up a project for months to help people you’ve never met?” “Oh, no,” I answered without thinking. “I did humanitarian aid work in Kosovo after the war, so this should be old hat.” My answer startled us both. He had not known about this part of my early life, and I rarely talked about it with strangers. I had spent nine months in that terrible war zone with my family in 1999, handing out aid packages and running team logistics, an experience that left me with complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD). After Kosovo I had found it hard to volunteer helping people elsewhere. But I had spent years getting better, and since I was going to be helping objects and not people, I was confident this was something I could do. I officially started accepting drop-off objects on March 8, and I was soon flooded with items. I was grateful for volunteers and my previous database experience because those two things were essential to the survival of the project. Over the next few weeks, the relationship between 805 Conservation and the Bucket Brigade became more formalized. They became our nonprofit umbrella and provided the rest of the funding, so I could just focus on the objects. From the very beginning, I wanted the project to be free for the public with no restrictions on what people could bring. Since this was Bucket Brigade’s feeling as well, it just confirmed the synergy of our working groups. My specialty is paper-based objects, but every type of object came my way. Fortunately, conservation as a profession is obsessed with sharing knowledge, and I quickly found a group of conservators with different specialties who were happy to help. They guided me through textiles, metal pieces, ceramics, paintings, and stuffed animals.

Having no restrictions on what could be brought worried everyone, and I was asked, “Shouldn’t there be limits to prevent people taking advantage?” But I had faith in the families. And they proved me right. Every family self-edited what they brought. Understanding that the service was free actually made them choose carefully. As the project went on and the work piled high, families would bring me snacks and drinks in the hot afternoons. They would bring me supplies if they noticed I had been running low and would occasionally do small tasks, like taking out my trash. And I got many, many hugs. But the project began to wear on me as the objects increased from 6 to 7,000. Remember how I said that my C-PTSD wouldn’t be a problem because I was helping objects and not people? Well, it turns out that fixing objects does help people. I had no comprehension of the impact it would have or the bond it would forge between us all. Going through a family’s personal belongings is a free fall into family memories, and they would tell me the stories that went with the objects. Over time my general concern for strangers became a deep caring for friends. I did get stressed out, and I struggled with exhaustion. I still had good boundaries, however, and wasn’t having panic attacks, so I didn’t think my C-PTSD had been triggered. The crisis counselors from California Hope 805 suggested what I was experiencing was compassion fatigue. Dr. Charles Figley defined compassion fatigue as a “state experienced by those helping people or animals in distress; it is an extreme state of tension and preoccupation with the suffering of those being helped to the degree that it can create a secondary traumatic stress for the helper.”

‘Going through a family’s personal belongings is a free fall into family memories.’ It was a light-bulb moment for me. The heart has endless reserves to care about people, but the body and mind need a bit of patience and understanding while they catch up. And I hadn’t been giving myself any time or space to do that. So, if you are going to help with disasters in your own community, look up compassion fatigue and use the prevention techniques to help yourself and others. Caring begets caring, and through this project I was fortunate to join a chain that wound throughout the entire community that worked to support survivors and responders alike. My fellow nonprofits, volunteers, and the families who sought my help all collaboratively gave me everything I needed to finish out the work and safely return the objects to those who loved them. This project has been one of the best of my life. I know I will carry the connections formed, the love felt, and the stories told with me for the rest of my life.

Christina Bean has decided to stay in town and start her own paper conservation studio under 805 Conservation.

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Experience a day in the life of a Pacifica Graduate Institute student. This oneday introduction showcases the distinctive educational features of our masters and doctoral programs in depth psychology, mythology, and the humanities.

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the Research Library. Learn how to navigate the admissions and financial aid processes to make graduate school a reality. Receive a waiver for Pacifica’s $75 application fee.

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ove her or hate her, Gloria Allred is the master of her own message. So whether you’re going up against the powerhouse attorney in court — or interviewing her for a column — don’t think for a minute you’re going to control the conversation. The auteur of the Dramatic Press Conference, Allred is best known for defending women’s rights — particularly on cases with a tabloid stench about them. She represented Nicole Brown Simpson’s family during the 1995 OJ trial, called for a child-endangerment investigation against Michael Jackson after he infamously held his baby out over a hotel balcony, and filed suit against the “Octomom” for exploiting her octuplets. Prone to perpetual outrage and red power blazers, she has rep- Gloria Allred will speak at the Lobero resented women speaking out against Tiger Theatre on January 17. Woods, Anthony Weiner, Charlie Sheen, convicted wife-killer Scott Peterson, and Princess Diana’s boyfriend Dodi Fayed. She’s been parodied on South Park, The Simpsons, and Saturday Night Live, and been labeled “the ambulance chaser of feminism” by The Atlantic. Incredibly, when I spoke with the Los Angeles–based lawyer last week, she blamed the media for the attention it heaps upon her celebrity cases. “It’s really more a statement of the times in which we live,” said Allred, 77, who will speak at the Lobero Theatre on Thursday, January 17, at 7:30 p.m. “The tabloids focus on the cult of celebrity and the victims that they hurt. Today it’s mainstream press as well.” In truth, though, some of Allred’s cases have had a huge, culture-shaping impact on equality. She got the L.A. County Sheriff ’s Department to stop shackling women prisoners while they give birth, sued the Boy Scouts of America for excluding girls, and got the Miss Universe pageant to reverse its decision disqualifying a transgender contestant. She filed one of the first sexual-abuse cases against Catholic priests and fought it for 23 years. And she won the right for same-sex couples to marry in California. (Allred did that!) Interestingly, both she and fellow feminist jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg were the subjects of popular documentaries released last year. But where RBG revealed the Supreme Court justice to be sober, measured, and self-possessed, Seeing Allred exposed Gloria in all her aggressive, outspoken, email: starshine@roshell.com unflinching glory. “What’s the alternative?” she told me, when I asked where her chutzpah came from. “You have to fight power with power. Women are never going to get anywhere by just going along and getting along and being shy and withdrawn. To win real change, you have to be bold.” There’s a moment in the documentary when Allred recalls decisively adopting the ballsout, fearless persona that would become her calling card. “Sometimes shock value helps to accomplish the goal,” she told me, “to get people to think about what it is you’re proposing.” Don’t misunderstand, though; her passion for women’s rights isn’t manufactured—it comes from personal experience. Both in Seeing Allred and in her autobiography Fight Back and Win, she shares the story of having been raped at gunpoint while on vacation in her mid-twenties. She was pregnant as a result and, as it was years before Roe v. Wade, she had a back-alley abortion, which became infected. She wound up hospitalized, where a nurse told her, “This’ll teach you a lesson.” Allred, who has recently represented women claiming to have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump and Bill Cosby, said she’s proud of the women who have come forward in record numbers to report sexual assault as part of the #MeToo movement. “I call this the Age of Empowerment for Women,” said Allred, who credits litigation with a good chunk of that empowerment. “It isn’t just about money. It’s about justice, a reckoning, and helping her go on with her life. It helps these women transform from victims to survivors, and some become fighters for change.” Fighting for change, I learned, is a full-time job. Allred spoke to me during the Christmas holiday, but she explained she doesn’t really do “vacations.” “There’s a war on women,” she said. “I didn’t create the war — I’m just defending those being attacked. There are going to be consequences for hurting women.” And with that, Allred said our conversation was over. So it was.

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Everything You Need All Day at Café Ana

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COUPLE ON THE CORNER: Katherine Guzman Sanders and Julian Sanders spent two years renovating the old Coffee Cat into Café Ana, which is now serving gourmet toasts (below) and many other breakfast, lunch, and dinner options, crafted by Chef Ryan Whyte-Buck.

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But the upscale all-day café is finally here, and we should all be thankful it’s Café Ana. It took more than two years for wife-and-husband owners Katherine Guzman Sanders and Julian Sanders to renovate the former Coffee Cat location. “Restaurant construction — always a joyful experience,” quipped Guzman Sanders sarcastically, before adding more seriously, “That bought us plenty of time to finetune the concept.” The result is one of those chic spots like you may find in Melbourne or Brooklyn. In fact, Chef Ryan Whyte-Buck comes to Café Ana from a job at all-day café Golda in Bed-Stuy. “Great coffee, food, and wine” is how Guzman Sanders explained the formula. “You can get everything you need all in one place.”

Not that the now refreshingly Nordic, much brighter spot — the cleverly enlarged windows enhance views of the County Courthouse and Public Library — will be the same from hour to hour. Breakfast is counter service, but dinner is sit-down, with reservations. “We have had the privilege of working at some luxury places,” said Guzman Sanders, who once interned for this newspaper. “But service doesn’t have to suffer in a café. We are injecting better service into the casual experience.” Plus, the food has a creativity and elegance befitting a chef who’s worked at hotspots in both New York City and Portland, Oregon. A house-made yogurt might not seem too surprising on a breakfast menu, but here it comes with mulberry birdseed granola, açaí, and miso-honey. During lunch and dinner, their housemade pâté will make Francophiles weep with joy. Then there’s a daily carta de musica, a sandwich of sorts on the thinnest of breads (crackers, practically) that comes from Sardinia originally and was beloved by Anthony Bourdain. It’s striking the range of flavors Whyte-Buck accesses, from the Pacific Rim to the entire Mediterranean, especially as he’s sort of coming home: He grew up in Ojai and admits that his first job as a teen was as a pretzel cook at Mrs. Fields in the Ventura Mall. “Our goal is to do everything to a T like you’d do in a James Beard Award–winning restaurant,” Whyte-Buck asserted, “but make it approachable and fun.” Katherine’s husband, Julian Sanders, has a grander first-job story: Out of college, he landed a spot at Little Nell in Aspen, Colorado. “It’s got the biggest Burgundy collection in the United States,” Sanders explained, “and that stuck.” After many other positions, including time at Wine + Beer in the S.B. Public Market, the certified sommelier is happily in charge of Ana’s beverage program. “The list is definitely international, starting small, and will grow,” he explained. While the name sounds like a shout-out to a relative, especially for a family-oriented business—Julian’s father, Richard, is a silent partner, and artwork by his mother and brother adorn the walls—the Ana is really just short for its location at the corner of East Anapamu and Anacapa. “It’s got this familiar ring,” said Guzman Sanders. “But it’s rooted in where we are.” 1201 Anacapa St., 888-0262, cafeanasb.com

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you know that the Lebanese restaurant on East Sister Restaurant Canon Perdido Street presents the perfect ambiance for warm summer nights, featuring a popular outdoor patio strung with lights, heated by bonfires, and buzzing with BY BAILEY EMANUELS conversation. But when the colder, wetter nights of winter come around, Zaytoon’s summer vibe isn’t so alluring. That’s what drove the owners to open Mezza Thyme on the restaurant row of East Cota Street. The new restaurant is Zaytoon’s “perfect complement,” according to the bartender, Daisy Gomez. Pairing small bites with cocktails, Mezza Thyme refers to patrons as “guests,” rather than “customers,” she explained, because they want all who walk through their doors to feel taken care of, exemplifying the Middle Eastern tradition of welcoming all visitors without question. Once inside, guests are encouraged to sit wherever they like, and that first-come, first-served basis simplifies things for both the staff and guests. It also emphasizes the kind of atmosphere that Mezza Thyme is seeking to achieve: one characterized by class and elegance but wrapped in comfort, humility, and approachability. The interior is inviting — dim, warm, and cozy with small, ornate chandeliers providing most of the light. The light-blue velvet lining on the bar paired with the lowlit atmosphere gives the feel of a very Prohibition-era speakeasy, providing a great way to escape chilly nights and enjoy a comfortable, delicious bite paired with a fresh cocktail. The food meets the standards set by the atmosphere, one characterized by sophistication and precision of flavors. The traditional Lebanese items — from small bites like sambosik, a fried mozzarella and feta cheese stick, to the more filling shawarma sandwich — are made freshto-order, with most of the ingredients sourced from the farmers’ market, held every Tuesday around the corner on State Street and every Saturday down the block at Santa Barbara Street. Each guest is greeted with complimentary hummus and pita bread, freshly baked from the oven, warm,

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wrote that vegan restaurant Fala Bar, which has a location at 7751½ Melrose Avenue in West Hollywood, announced that it is coming to Santa Barbara in July or August of last year. When I contacted them for an update, they confirmed that they would be opening this winter but wouldn’t disclose the address. Well, reader Jennifer just spotted a coming-soon sign for Fala Bar in the Santa Barbara Public Market at 38 West Victoria Street, so I guess the news is out! Visit falabar.com. YELLOW BELLY HAPPY HOUR: Co-owner Tracy Clark tells me that Yellow Belly restaurant at 2611 De la Vina Street is now open for happy hour every

Monday-Friday, 4-6 p.m. Call 770-5694 or visit yellowbellytap.com. RENAUD’S SERVING DINNER: Renaud’s Patisserie &

Bistro at 1187 Coast Village Road has added dinner to the menu. Renaud’s offers fast-casual fine dining and patio seating. The dinner menu was created by new executive chef Owen Hanavan, formerly with Barbareño (downtown) and Bottlest Bistro in Buellton. Dinner is available 6-9 p.m. Call 324-4200 or visit renaudsbakery .com. CALIFORNIA TACOS AND TAPROOM IN I.V.: Reader Ted

let me know that California Tacos and Taproom, which has two locations in Solvang and one in Buellton, is expanding from the valley to the sea, opening at 956 Embarcadero del Norte in Isla Vista, the former home of Grilled Cheese Truck, Santa Ynez Burrito, Kogilicious, Korean BBQ House, and Berrilicious. Owner and UCSB alumni Alex Uribe has upgraded the location substantially with an enhanced outdoor seating area and added televisions, a dozen brews on tap, and more. California Tacos and Taproom is open daily from 11 a.m.-midnight. Call 770-8226 or visit californiatacos.net. KAPTAIN’S CLOSES: Kaptain’s Firehouse BBQ, which

opened at 6545 Pardall Road in Isla Vista in February 2013, has closed its doors. Owner Michael “The Kaptain” Gould continues to operate at events, serving micro-brews, cold brew coffee, grilled wings, ribs, and corn. MUSHROOM FEST IN LOS ALAMOS: Los Alamos is hold-

ing its inaugural Mushroom Festival January 25-27. Winemaker Stephen Bedford of Bedford Winery has hosted a mushroom celebration for the past 12 years, but the entire town is getting into the fungus celebration in 2019, including Pico, Bob’s Well Bread, Plenty on Bell, Charlie’s, Full of Life Flatbread, Valley Fresh, and Bell’s. Terramonary Porcelain Dinnerware will also be creating mushroom-themed tie-dye T-shirts, and expert Bob Cummings will present as well. See lovelosalamos.com.

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or readers of Alfred Lansing’s gripping book, Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage, the island of South Georgia is known as the place where explorer Ernest Shackleton and five of his crew members found rescue in 1916 after spending months stranded in Antarctica when their ship was crushed in an ice floe. While a saving grace for Shackleton and his team, South Georgia Island was a sinister place for sea mammals; it served as the “southern capital of whaling stations” from 1904 to 1966, processing more than 175,000 cetaceans during its blood-soaked run. However, these days, thanks to conservation efforts, the British overseas territory is flourishing with animal life, including most of the planet’s fur seals, myriad whale species, and as many as 100 million seabirds. It was on South Georgia Island that filmmaker Bertie Gregory spent months capturing the now-thriving flora and fauna for the second season of his National Geographic digital web show, wild_life. Gregory is particularly proud of this one, which is subtitled Resurrection Island. “It’s this amazing bounce-back story,” the U.K. native told me over the phone from deep in a Peruvian jungle, where he is currently filming a project for the BBC. “[It’s a] tiny little island in the middle of the South Atlantic covered in millions of penguins and seals and albatross and all kinds of sea birds. You’d think that it was a place that was untouched by time, but in actual fact, humans destroyed it. But then we kind of realized the error of our ways, and we protected it. Wildlife is in a lot of trouble all around the world. [But it’s one of the] few examples to show that actually if we do contribute enough resources to something we do care about, it is possible for nature to bounce back, and I think that that’s pretty exciting.” Gregory’s road to Nat Geo filmmaker was a short one. Enamored of animals since

childhood, filmmaking was born of that interest. “I found frogs really weird when I was younger because I was obsessed with wildlife,” he said. “And I realized that if I took pictures and a video of what I was seeing, it was a really good way of explaining where the hell I’d been when I just disappeared by myself for hours on end. It was pretty cool to get people excited about things that I was excited about.” At age 17, Gregory won a spot in the United Kingdom’s 2020 Vision Project, which selected 20 wildlife photographers under 20, assigned them each a location, and tasked them with capturing British fauna. Gregory was designated urban wildlife and came away with a portfolio filled with snaps juxtaposing architecture and animals. His affiliation with Nat Geo began in 2014. The day after graduating from the University of Bristol with a degree in zoology, the budding filmmaker flew to South Africa to assist photojournalist Steve Winter, who was doing a piece on leopards. “I realized we were having all these amazing wildlife encounters, most of which would never see the light of day because the story is two years’ work that goes into basically 10 still photographs. I started shooting lots of video,” Gregory explained. “My job then morphed from being Steve’s assistant to still being his assistant but always shooting these TV shows. The first one was on leopards. The second one was on jaguars.” Gregory eventually pitched his own proposal to National Geographic: filming Vancouver Island’s illusive coastal wolf. The result was Gregory’s wild_life, a 16-episode program and National Geographic’s first online wildlife series. He spent three months on the Canadian island hoping to get a glimpse of a wolf, which, after spending tedious days in a hide, seemed nearly impossible.

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“It was my first solo project for National Geographic. To have all of that support and backing and then be on the brink of failure—it was pretty scary,” said Gregory. “I guess what motivates me to sit and wait is that that’s the only way often to film a particular animal behavior. By sitting there, you might get to see something that no one else has ever seen before. It’s more stubbornness that keeps me there. Everyone always says, ‘To film wildlife, you need to be patient.’ I think that’s bollocks. I’m not patient.” His tenaciousness paid off, however, as he eventually captured the wolf on film. Since wild_life’s 2016 debut, Gregory has continued to tour the globe, shooting in exotic locales. A particularly memorable shoot was filming jaguars in Brazil with Winter. “I think it was 44 days we spent on the river looking to try and get a jaguar hunting one of these caiman,” he said. “And we saw jaguars every day, but to actually see one doing what we needed it to do was a long wait. We saw two hunts, and the first hunt happened behind a bush. So there was a lot of cursing. The second time it nailed one right out in the open and pulled it up the riverbank, and it was for sure the most incredible display of power by anything that I’ve ever seen. But the fact that we spent 44 days looking for it made it extra, extra special.” On Sunday, January 13, Gregory will be in Santa Barbara as part of UCSB’s Arts & Lectures’ Nat Geo lecture series. What’s on the agenda? “How I got into it, adventures, and what I’m working on at the moment,” he said. “And I can promise animals doing cool things and lots of shit jokes. So, if you like [those things] … then come along.” — Michelle Drown

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LAGUNABLANCASCHOOL At Laguna Blanca School, students have found that an event with “ideas worth spreading” is also an event worth repeating. That’s why they chose to bring TEDx LagunaBlancaSchool, which began in January 2018, back for another inspiring year. The daylong event is an independently organized TED conference where up to 20 speakers present on a specific theme. Last year, with the theme “Evolve,” the inaugural event featured 16 speakers and attracted more than 550 attendees. But on January 29, TEDxLagunaBlanca School is going in a different direction. What makes TEDxLagunaBlancaSchool different from other TEDx events is that the entire production is planned and run by students. At Laguna Blanca, upper school students can take TEDx as a class; this is where the event is planned. Based on skills and interests, the group divides into six sub-teams — Executive Production, Design, Curation, Operations, Publicity, and Business Development— each of which is charged with a specific Development task. With support from faculty guides Anna Alldredge and Alison Armstrong-Branch, these teams accomplish everything from designing the stage set to managing a complicated budget and organizing professional-quality audio and visual coverage. The resulting media are then shared around the world. Teachers at the school agree that the program has had an enormous impact. It is an exciting day for the whole school community, and it feels like a special occasion. The theme that the TEDxLagunaBlancaSchool student team chose for this year is “Uncharted.” Expect amazing speakers like Alison Teal, named the “Female Indiana Jones” by Time magazine, and Jen Bricker, an experienced acrobat and aerialist born without legs. Tickets are available online now at tedxlagunablancaschool.com/shop, and you can follow @tedxlagunablancaschool on Instagram for more updates. Join Laguna Blanca’s faculty, students, and parents on Tuesday, January 29, for a fully engaging TEDx experience that will blow them away and into “uncharted”territory. — Paige Levinson

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Barbarans will get a chance to hear what a true innovator of English prose sounds like in the flesh. I got a preview of what to expect from Cusk when I met her for cof coffee on a recent rainy Saturday in the Funk Zone. What follows are some highlights from a splendid conversation about what really matters in contemporary writing. For a longer version of this interview, see independent. com/cusk. com/cusk The Outline trilogy is famous for the preponderance of free indirect discourse — reported speech that’s more often sum summarized by the narrator than rendered within quotation marks. Yet you still have sig significant use for the standard speech markers indicating that someone is speaking. What’s your criteria for deciding when and how to include phrases like “he said” and “she said” in your sentences? It’s a musical approach;

it’s a motif, a sound home. This river of people speaking can get very far from the source. Sometimes a person will be talking about something somebody else told them that somebody else told them, and so you keep sounding that sort of note of “he said, she said.” To anchor things back to the present moment in which the words are ostensibly being spoken. Yes, that’s part of it. Right now I’m working on a collection of essays from the past 10 years. It’s going through copy editing at the moment, and it’s funny, because I find I’m back fighting for no more speech marks. The copy editor is trying to put them in because there’s this assumption of a standardized way of distinguishing between something being spoken and something not being spoken. As I’m going through, and crossing out all the changes [where speech marks have been introduced by the copy editor], it’s made me realize that I have almost a mystical system for when I put them in and when I leave them out. So it’s not like, “Oh, you forgot.” Please tell your editors that at least some of your readers are getting pleasure from the choices you are making. In a lot of articles about the trilogy, the pull quote is that your narrator is so opaque or reserved or neutral that you are the poster child for a “no more character” movement of some kind. Is that accurate? It is something I’m interested in — the idea of character and what that idea might actually represent, and I

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think what it might represent is something that can be endlessly reincarnated. Character can recede and then emerge again. You know, what was character in the First World War? The idea of bringing a certain concept of character to that subject for me raises questions. People writing historical novels about the First World War are trying to create characters in a situation in which human life is utterly worthless. If what you are attempting to describe is hundreds of thousands of people being mown down — where’s character there? Then there’s the idea of character as the building block of a novel. I don’t know whether that model has died of its own weakness, or whether it’s been misused so badly that I for one have become reluctant to employ something that I perceive as part of the big problem of fiction, which is fiction as an exercise in dealing with exceptions rather than the rule. That’s what the idea of the novel has come to — the exceptional, the idea of the one-off thing that happened — and so character has become a form of that, in the sense that there’s ordinarily one character who is more important than all the other people in the book.

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NEW TV SHOWS FOR 2019 ANGELS AND DEMONS: David Tennant (left) and Michael Sheen star in Amazon Prime’s new series Good Omens, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

ny article purporting to offer advice for must-see television in 2019 should begin with one simple announcement: THE FINAL SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES AIRS IN APRIL!!! Now that we got that out of the way, let’s turn our attention to what else is landing on our most popular streaming sites this next orbital trip around the sun. Forecasts indicate we’ll be ringing in the 2020s with the era of Peak Television still in full stride. Original series premiere, old favorites return, and that blurry line between auteur television and long-form cinema gets less and less defined. Here’s a quick look at a few of the most anticipated small-screen offerings on Amazon Prime, Hulu, and Netflix in 2019.

American war machine, is a rollercoaster of comedy and tragedy. A faithful adaptation of Heller’s vision has always needed more space than a mere two hours can afford, and George Clooney, with his proven comedic chops (he’ll be playing the aptly named Lieutenant Scheisskopf) and his keen eye for political critique, seems the perfect candidate to captain Heller’s story across a six-part series on Hulu.

Netflix: Netflix looks forward to another year of likely dominance over its streaming competitors. In January, the streaming service will premiere a reboot of the beloved Carmen Sandiego series, featuring voice work from Gina Rodriguez (Jane the Virgin) and Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things). In the summer, Stranger Things will pick up where it left Amazon Prime: In addition to a second help- off with a third season of its lovable outcast adolescents trying to right the ing of American Gods coming Upside Down. Netflix will also to Starz this spring, fans of Neil continue its trend of hosting Gaiman’s myth-bending imagimore prestige feature films with nation can whet their appetites the much-anticipated Martin with a new series adaptation of Scorsese picture, The Irishman, Good Omens, a novel Gaiman which has the legendary director cowrote with that other minister reteaming with a stacked bill of of fiction magic, Terry Pratchett. his greatest wise guy collaboraArmageddon draws nigh for tors, including Robert De Niro, life on Earth, but Aziraphale Joe Pesci, and Harvey Keitel. (Michael Sheen), an angel, and by T.M. Weedon Another big swing in the presCrowley (David Tennant), a tige department for Netflix will demon, in a misfit cosmic friendship if there ever was one, are saddened to be Ava DuVernay’s new dramatic miniseries, see it go and join forces to stave off the end The Central Park Five. Similar to the critical of times just a wee bit longer. In what is so far and box-office success BlacKkKlansman from Amazon’s most auspicious announcement Spike Lee, DuVernay’s series is an archeofor the New Year, Good Omens bodes to be a logical drama that attempts to illuminate raucous, colorful adventure, equal parts Brit- America’s disheartening present by finding its corollary in the past. ish humor and apocalyptic action. The director of the MLK biopic Selma and Hulu: Hulu is making big bets on comedy in the social justice documentary 13th turns 2019, with PEN15 premiering in February her camera to the Central Park Five case of and then Catch-22 airing in April. From the 1989, where five black teens were wrongteams of Lonely Island and AwesomenessTV, fully convicted for the assault and rape of a PEN15 is an adolescent comedy starring white female jogger. The five youths were cocreators Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, imprisoned until 2002, when DNA evidence who play 13-year-old versions of themselves, proved their innocence. The case received a circa 2000. The trailer suggests Lady Bird resurgence of attention during the 2016 presimeets Big Mouth, with a deadpan zaniness dential campaign in light of then-millionaire that distinguishes this coming-of-age comedy playboy Donald J. Trump’s full-page advertisement in all the major New York papers from both of its predecessors. Speaking of predecessors, George Cloo- of the time, calling for the reinstatement of ney’s new series adaptation of Catch-22 has the death penalty as a punishment for the some pretty formidable ones of its own. Based accused. As recently as 2016, Trump stood on Joseph Heller’s satirical WWII novel, firm in his position and doubted the innowhich was then adapted as a film by Mike cence of the five teens who were cleared of all Nichols in 1970, Catch-22 is tried-and-true wrongdoing over a decade earlier. So far, it has material. The sprawling madcap novel, which not been announced who, if anyone, will be n lampoons the absurdity of the bureaucratic playing Trump in the series.

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The Upside (125 mins., PG-13) Bryan Cranston, Kevin Hart, and Nicole Kidman star in this remake of the 2011 French film The Intouchables, which is based on the life of wealthy businessman Philippe Pozzo di Borgo, who became a quadriplegic following a paragliding accident. Camino Real/Metro 4

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PREMIERES A Dog’s Way Home (96 mins., PG) Author W. Bruce Cameron turns screenwriter for this family-friendly story about a dog who treks 400 miles to be reunited with her owner. Ashley Judd, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Edward James Olmos star. Fairview/Fiesta 5

Bumblebee (114 mins., PG-13) Bumblebee gets his own film for this sixth installment of the Transformers franchise. A prequel to 2007’s Transformers, the story picks up when the Autobots are prepping to leave their homeland and meet up on Earth. But only one makes it—B-127, aka Bumblebee. Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena star. Camino Real/Fiesta 5

Glass (129 mins., R) M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Split) wrote, produced, and directed this film, which picks up where Split left off. Bruce Willis stars as David Dunn, who pursues the Beast (James McAvoy), who becomes entangled with Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), a k a Mr. Glass. Camino Real/Metro 4 (Opens Fri., Jan. 17)

On the Basis of Sex (120 mins., PG-13) Mimi Leder (Deep Impact, Pay It Forward) helms this biopic that explores Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life and early Supreme Court justice cases. Felicity Jones, Armie Hammer, and Justin Theroux star. Fairview/Paseo Nuevo

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a&e | FILM & TV CONT’D FROM P. 53 Escape Room (100 mins., PG-13) This psychological thriller sees six strangers invited to an escape-room competition that, unbeknownst to them, has deadly booby traps hidden in each room. Camino Real/Fiesta 5 The Favourite (120 mins., R) Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz star in this historical dark comedy/drama set during the reign of England’s Queen Anne in the early 18th century. A tangled love triangle emerges between Anne (Colman), Abigail Hill (Stone), and Sarah Churchill (Weisz) that leads to treachery and betrayal. Fiesta 5

O Green Book

(130 mins., PG-13)

Green Book is an uncommonly welltold tale of bodyguard Tony Vallelonga (Viggo Mortensen) and classically trained pianist Don Shirley (Mahershala Ali), thrown together on a concert tour through the Deep South in 1962. Dr. Donald Shirley was a child prodigy, Russian-trained, and imbued with a dignity that suffered under the shortening of his name to “Don” by his record label. The film’s greatest transformation comes from Mortensen, who put on 25 pounds before the film began and added another 20 while playing Tony Vallelonga, aka Tony Lip. His son Nick Vallelonga wrote the script, holding off until after Don Shirley had died, as requested. It’s a restraint that Green Book plays with so well that the usually blasé Santa Barbara film audience couldn’t help but erupt with applause at film’s end. (JY) Paseo Nuevo

The Mule (116 mins., R) Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this crime drama about an aged horticulturist and Korean War vet who is arrested for transporting $3 million in cocaine for a Mexican cartel. Based on Sam Dolnick’s New York Times piece “The Sinaloa Cartel’s 90-Year-Old Drug Mule,” the film also stars Bradley Cooper, Dianne Wiest, and Andy Garcia. Paeo Nuevo

Ralph Breaks the Internet (112 mins., PG)

In this sequel to 2012’s Wreck-It Ralph, six years have passed and the aging steering wheel controller on the Sugar Rush game console has broken. The machine is unplugged, and it’s up to Ralph and Vanellope von Schweetz to find a replacement steering wheel on the internet before the game is shut down. Fiesta 5

O Roma

(135 mins., R)

Alfonso Cuarón has painted a masterpiece. The rightfully acclaimed Mexican director, behind Y Tu Mamá También, Children of Men, and Gravity has gone deeper and more personal with Roma, a profoundly artistic achievement and a poignant tale drawn from his own childhood in 1970s Mexico City. Shot in luminous black-and-white and with echoes of lyrical Fellini films and neorealism, Cuarón has given the world a rare glimpse into Mexican life, with special compassion for the beloved indigenous protagonist, Cleo (Yalitza Aparicio), and women’s issues. Dare we say the Film of the Year? (JW)

Riviera (Sat.-Sun., Jan. 12-13)

If Beale Street Could Talk (117 mins., R)

➤ O Shoplifters

Director Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) brings James Baldwin’s eponymous novel to the big screen. KiKi Layne stars as Clementine “Tish” Rivers, whose husband, Alonzo “Fonny” Hunt (Stephan James), is jailed for a crime he didn’t commit. Tish is intent on clearing her husband’s name before their baby is born. The Hitchcock

Winner of this year’s Palm d’Or award at Cannes, this remarkable film by Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda is a deft, delicately rendered family saga film of a very different sort. Kore-eda has created a humanistic, compassionate, and complex window on a cobbled-together but loving family unit living in poverty in Tokyo, with borrowed children saved from squalid lives, and taught the art of shoplifting or forced to make money in a chaste strip club. Even so, an underpinning of love complicates both the characters’ relationships and our own acceptance of the questionable faux family tapestry. Touches of neo-realism

Mary Poppins Returns (130 mins., PG) Rob Marshall (Chicago) directs this sequel to the 1964 classic film. Set in the 1930s, two decades after the original, Mary Poppins (Emily Blunt) is needed by the Banks kids, now grown but who recently suffered a great loss. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Ben Whishaw, and Emily Mortimer also star.

(121 mins., PG-13)

(though in a film made with care and polish) and picaresque slices of life intersperse with heart-warming vignettes, as well as harsh reality checks and moral comeuppances. Shoplifters is emotionally powerful in quiet, unexpected ways. Riviera (JW) Spider-Man: Into the SpiderVerse (117 mins., PG) Marvel Comics presents this computeranimated film in which Miles Morales (voiced by Shameik Moore) becomes Spider-Man and crosses paths with his counterparts from other dimensions in order to stop a threat to reality.

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DOCUMENTARIES DARK MONEY

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➤ O Vice

(132 mins., R)

Adam McKay’s Vice may be the most pornographic film of the year that has nothing to do with sex. One part biopic of former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney (Christian Bale), one part satire of the past half century of American politics, there are plenty of moments in Vice where one might be inclined to look away (and perhaps can’t). The film sutures an array of disturbing content, including footage from the 9/11 attacks, torture scenes from the “War on Terror,” and a lingering vision of an anesthetized Dick Cheney mid-heart transplant. The VP’s cold, dead heart lies on a metal slab; his chest cavity is empty, awaiting a fresh occupant. Even for those who might find this negative portrait of Cheney and his politics cathartic, watching Vice feels like vice indeed. Part of this emerges from Christian Bale’s convincing performance as Cheney. Bale’s portrayal doesn’t exactly humanize the shadowy, “almost a ghost” VP. Rather, it disturbingly depicts how the head-hanging bureaucrat could lovingly support his lesbian daughter after her coming-out without ceasing to be a partisan reptile. Other cast members provide equally stunning renderings, including Steve Carell as Donald Rumsfeld and Amy Adams as Lynne Cheney. Sam Rockwell’s portrayal of George W. Bush as a reformed frat boy is pure pleasure, and maybe even a bipartisan one. Vice is intense, but it ultimately passes the litmus test of compelling biographical film: One walks out of the theater wanting to confirm whether multiple scenes were actual news footage. (KM) Paseo Nuevo

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WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? Friday, Jan 11 - 2:30pm

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RBG

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HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING Saturday, Jan 12 - 7:30pm

ON HER SHOULDERS Sunday, Jan 13 - 2:30pm

COMMUNION

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THE DISTANT BARKING OF DOGS Monday, Jan 14 - 12:00pm

MINDING THE GAP

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OF FATHERS AND SONS Monday, Jan 14 - 7:30pm

FREE SOLO Tuesday, Jan 15 - 2:30pm

WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? Tuesday, Jan 15 - 7:30pm

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Mary Queen of Scots (125 mins., R) Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie star as cousins Mary, Queen of Scots, and Queen Elizabeth I, respectively, in this historical fiction about 1569’s Rising of the North, in which northern Catholic nobles unsuccessfully attempt to depose the Protestant Elizabeth and replace her with Catholic Mary. The Hitchcock

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LORDS OF THE RINK: Pictured here practicing at Goleta’s Ice in Paradise, San Marcos High’s Sam Alen and S.B. Junior High’s Sage Kerst will be among 12 couples competing in the intermediate pairs division of the 2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Saturday, January 19.

“We don’t sell dreams; we look for realistic opportunities,” Elizabeth said. Cedric, a native of France, remarked, “It takes two to three years to reach the level [Alen and Kerst] have done in one year.” They did it by practicing six days a week. “We’re both brandnew to this,” Alen said. “We’re learning from our coaches.” They will compete with a three-minute program at Detroit. They went through it last week, beginning with Alen lifting his partner over his head. “She’s 100 pounds,” he said. “I can bench press 180.” Then there were the throws, Sam sending Sage spinning. “It was a little scary at first,” she said. Her least favorite part was the death spiral. “It hurts my hand, and it’s hard to make it look good.” Other moves were the side-by-side double loops and double flips. Each was hard enough to execute individually, and they had to time them to be perfectly in sync. Practice continued after they completed the program. Cedric told them to do five jumps together, and he added, “Good luck.” Sam countered, “There is no luck in skating. You do it or you don’t.” Kerst said fifth place would be a good showing in the nationals. “Most of our competitors have been skating together over six years,” she said. “There’s a brother and sister who’ve been doing it for eight years.” Sam declared, “I’m shooting for the podium [top three].”

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a two-day competition that consists of 10 events spread over five to six hours each day. An insanely speeded-up version, the Thoreson 30-Minute Decathlon, will take place Saturday, January 12, at Westmont College’s Thorrington Field. Among the brave athletes who will attempt to move from the 400-meter sprint to the 110-meter hurdles to the discus throw to the pole vault— vault at a pace of three minutes per event —are Curtis Beach, a former NCAA indoor pentathlon champion from Duke; Olympic bobsledder Evan Weinstock; and Sharon Day-Monroe, a two-time Olympian in the women’s high jump and heptathlon. They will go off individually every three minutes starting at 10 a.m., and they will have 30 minutes to get to the starting line for the 1,500-meter run, the last event. The craziness is being conducted in memory of Dave Thoreson, a former Westmont athlete who invented the 30-minute decathlon. Thoreson, remembered as a creative PE teacher at La Colina Junior High, died in October 2018. Following the decathlon, the Santa Barbara Track Club will hold a 30-minute challenge of three events for young athletes n ages 7-13 at 11 a.m.

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FAST-FORWARD DECATHLON: Only the most diehard fans of

track and field have the patience to sit through a decathlon,

JOHN ZANT’S GAME OF THE WEEK 1/16: High School Boys’ Basketball: Santa Barbara at San Marcos The Dons gave San Marcos their best shot last year, but the Royals swept the Channel League and won the CIF 2A championship with an all-senior starting lineup led by 68 Jackson Stormo, now at Pepperdine. A year later, Santa Barbara returns most of its starters, including 68 junior Bryce Warrecker and senior guard Jackson Hamilton, and the Dons have improved from seven wins all last season to 17 entering this week. Senior guard Beau Allen has been playing big for San Marcos. First place will be at stake next Wednesday as both teams got off to a 2-0 start in the league. 7pm. Maury Halleck Gym, San Marcos High, 4750 Hollister Ave. $4-$6. Call 967-4581.

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t was a scene that could hardly have been imagined a few years ago. On an ice rink in Goleta, a pair of Santa Barbara teenagers skated through a program of lifts, throws, side-by-side jumps, and a death spiral to the music of The Mask of Zorro. Sam Alen and Sage Kerst, having advanced through regional and sectional competitions, will be among 12 couples competing in the intermediate pairs division of the 2019 U.S. Figure Skating Championships on Saturday, January 19, in Detroit (9:30 a.m. Pacific time on nbcsports.com). Alen is a 17-year-old junior at San Marcos High. Kerst, 13, attends Santa Barbara Junior High. They spend most of their other waking hours at Ice in Paradise, which has proved to be a boon to devotees of skating, from recreational beginners to hockey players, ever since it opened near the Camino Real Marketplace in November 2015. “This is pretty much my home,” said Alen, whose introduction to ice skating began at the opening of the facility. He previously had participated in gymnastics and ballet dancing. Once he slid on blades, there was no looking back. “He’s a rink rat,” observed Larry Bruyere, general manager of Ice in Paradise. Not only did the rink give him large doses of exercise, Alen noted, but it also was one of the healthiest places to be during the Thomas Fire in December 2017. “The air was clean because of the filters,” he said. Kerst has practiced figure skating since she was 5 years old in Arizona. She had to go to Ventura County to skate when she first moved to Santa Barbara, but just a few months later, Ice in Paradise ended her commuting days. Terry Tonius, a longtime skating coach in Southern California, is the Ice in Paradise director of skating. He discovered Alen when he was a raw beginner. “He’s a hard worker,” Tonius said. “It’s not the easiest sport. There’s a surge of interest after the Winter Olympics, but when people get on the ice, they realize, ‘I’m not sure I can do this.’” Tonius brought in one of his former students, Elizabeth Laignier, and her husband, Cedric Laignier, to work with the figure skaters. The Laigniers retired after a decade as touring professionals in cruise-ship ice shows. They met on the Explorer of the Seas in the Caribbean in 2011. They have settled here with their year-old son, Jonathan. “He will grow up on this rink,” Tonius said. The coaches put Alen and Kerst together just over a year ago. Neither had any experience in pairs routines, and for them to qualify for this month’s nationals was a longshot.

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WEEK OF JANUARY 10

ARIES

CANCER

LIBRA

CAPRICORN

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Computer-generated special effects used

(June 21-July 22): If you grow vegetables, fruits, and grains

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1557, Welsh mathematician Robert

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1984, singer/songwriter John Fogerty released a new album whose lead single was “The Old Man Down the Road.” It sold well. But trouble arose soon afterward when Fogerty’s former record company sued him in court, claiming he stole the idea for “The Old Man Down the Road” from “Run Through the Jungle.” That was a tune Fogerty himself had written and recorded in 1970 while playing with the band Creedence Clearwater Revival. The legal process took a while, but he was ultimately vindicated. No, the courts declared, he didn’t plagiarize himself, even though there were some similarities between the two songs. In this spirit, I authorize you to borrow from a good thing you did in the past as you create a new good thing in the future. There’ll be no hell to pay if you engage in a bit of self-plagiarism.

in the 1993 film Jurassic Park may seem modest to us now. But at the time, they were revolutionary. Inspired by the new possibilities revealed, filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, and Peter Jackson launched new projects they had previously thought to be beyond their ability to create. In 2019, I urge you to go in quest of your personal equivalent of Jurassic Park’s pioneering breakthroughs. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may be able to find help and resources that enable you to get more serious about seemingly unfeasible or impractical dreams.

on an acre of land, you can feed 12 people. If you use that acre to raise meat-producing animals, you’ll feed at most four people. But to produce the meat, you’ll need at least four times more water and 20 times more electric power than you would if you grew the plants. I offer this as a useful metaphor for you to consider in the coming months. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should prioritize efficiency and value. What will provide you with the most bang for your bucks? What’s the wisest use of your resources?

LEO

TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20): I’m a big proponent of authenticity. I

almost always advise you to be yourself with bold candor and unapologetic panache. Speak the truth about your deepest values and clearest perceptions. Be an expert about what really moves you, and devote yourself passionately to your relationships with what really moves you. But there is one exception to this approach. Sometimes it’s wise to employ the “fake it until you make it” strategy: to pretend you are what you want to be with such conviction that you ultimately become what you want to be. I suspect now is one of those times for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The students’ dining hall at Michigan

State University serves gobs of mayonnaise. But in late 2016, a problem arose when 1250 gallons of the stuff became rancid. Rather than simply throw it away, the school’s Sustainability Officer came up with a brilliant solution: load it into a machine called an anaerobic digester, which turns biodegradable waste into energy. Problem solved! The transformed rot provided electricity for parts of the campus. I recommend you regard this story as a metaphor for your own use. Is there anything in your life that has begun to decay or lose its usefulness? If so, can you convert it into a source of power?

(July 23-Aug. 22): Modern kids don’t spend much time

Recorde invented the equals sign: =. Historical records don’t tell us when he was born, so we don’t know his astrological sign. But I’m guessing he was a Libra. Is there any tribe more skillful at finding correlations, establishing equivalencies, and creating reciprocity? In all the zodiac, who is best at crafting righteous proportions and uniting apparent opposites? Who is the genius of balance? In the coming months, my friend, I suspect you will be even more adept at these fine arts than you usually are.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There’s a modest, one-story office building

at 1209 North Orange Street in Wilmington, Delaware. playing outside. They have fun in natural environments More than 285,000 businesses from all over the U.S. claim only half as often as their parents did while growing up. it as their address. Why? Because the state of Delaware has In fact, the average child spends less time in the open advantageous tax laws that enable those businesses to save air than prison inmates. And today’s un-jailed adults massive amounts of money. Other buildings in Delaware get even less exposure to the elements. But I hope you house thousands of additional corporations. It’s all legal. will avoid that fate in 2019. According to my astrologi- No one gets in trouble for it. I bring this to your attention cal estimates, you need to allocate in the hope of inspiring you to hunt more than the usual amount of time for comparable situations: ethical HOMEWORK: I’ve gathered to feeling the sun and wind and loopholes and workarounds that all of the long-term, big-picture sky. Not just because it’s key to your will provide you with extra benefits horoscopes I wrote for you: bit.ly/ physical health, but also because and advantages. YourGloriousStory2019 many of your best ideas and decisions are likely to emerge while you’re outdoors. SAGITTARIUS

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book is a

collection of fables that take place in India. Three movies have been made based on it. All of them portray the giant talking snake named Kaa as an adversary to the hero Mowgli. But in Kipling’s original stories, Kaa is a benevolent ally and teacher. I bring this to your attention to provide context for a certain situation in your life. Is there an influence with a metaphorical resemblance to Kaa: misinterpreted by some people, but actually quite supportive and nourishing to you? If so, I suggest you intensify your appreciation for it.

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): People in the Solomon Islands buy many

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): NASA landed its robotic explorer

Opportunity on Mars in January of 2004. The craft’s mission, which was supposed to last for 92 days, began by taking photos and collecting soil samples. More than 14 years later, the hardy machine was still in operation, continuing to send data back to Earth. It far outlived its designed lifespan. I foresee you being able to generate a comparable marvel in 2019, Virgo: a stalwart resource or influence or situation that will have more staying power than you could imagine. What could it be?

goods and services with regular currency, but also use other symbols of worth to pay for important cultural events like staging weddings and settling disputes and expressing apologies. These alternate forms of currency include the teeth of flying foxes, which are the local species of bat. In that spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I’d love to see you expand your sense of what constitutes your wealth. In addition to material possessions and funds in the bank, what else makes you valuable? In what other ways do you measure your potency, your vitality, your merit? It’s a favorable time to take inventory.

PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20): Virginia Woolf thought that her Piscean

lover Vita Sackville-West was a decent writer, but a bit too fluid and effortless. Self-expression was so natural to Sackville-West that she didn’t work hard enough to hone her craft and discipline her flow. In a letter, Woolf wrote, “I think there are odder, deeper, more angular thoughts in your mind than you have yet let come out.” I invite you to meditate on the possibility that Woolf’s advice might be useful in 2019. Is there anything in your skill set that comes so easily that you haven’t fully ripened it? If so, develop it with more focused intention.

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With a feeling of tearing in her chest, Michele rushed to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital where she learned she was having a heart attack leading up to cardiac arrest. If she hadn’t made it to the hospital quickly, she wouldn’t have survived. Within 30 minutes, Dr. Michael Shenoda intervened and saved her life. Dr. Shenoda is an interventional cardiologist affiliated with the Cottage Heart & Vascular Center.

– Michele Mallet

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Today, Michele is back to work as a hairstylist and enjoying yoga, running trails and eating healthy.

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TO OUR COMMUNITIES. Because we care for our neighbors.

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A career at Cottage Health is an experience in caring for and about the people who call our coastal area of California home. Our not-for-profit health system identifies closely with the communities we serve and has a long tradition of providing area residents with highly personalized, clinically excellent care. Patients aren’t just patients here – they’re neighbors. Be there for them through one of the openings below.

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Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Non-Clinical

Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital

• Admin Assistant, Employee Health & Safety

• Access Case Manager

• Admin Assistant, Nursing Admin

• Birth Center

• Cook

• Cardiac Cath Lab

• Data Analyst

• Cardiac Telemetry

• Environmental Services Rep

• • • • • • •

• Clinical Nurse Specialist, NICU

• Environmental Services Supervisor

• Clinical Resource Nurse – Surgery (Weekends/Baylor)

• EPIC Beaker Analyst, Lead

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital

• Educator

• EPIC Cupid Analyst Sr.

• Emergency

• EPIC Optime Analyst Sr.

• Employee Health

• EPIC Revenue Cycle Analyst Sr.

• Hematology/Oncology

• Food Services Rep

• Med/Surg Float Pool

• Inventory Tech, Luma

• MICU

• IT Business Analyst Sr. – Oracle

• Mother Infant

• Librarian

• NICU

• Reasonable Accommodation Consultant

• Operating Room

• Research Coordinator, RN

• Orthopedics

• Research Department Coordinator

Semiconductor Industry Experience A Plus

• Peds

• Research Finance Analyst

• PICU

• Room Service Server

Benefits Include: Paid vacation, annual bonus

• Pulmonary, Renal, Infectious Disease

• Security Officer – FT Nights

• SICU

• Teacher II

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Call Scott at 965-5205 or email scott@independent.com. EOE m/f/d/v.

Nursing

• Admin Assistant, IT Applications

• Surgical Trauma

• EPIC Beaker Analyst Sr.

• Sous Chef

Certified Phlebotomist Technician – FT/PT CLS, Core Lab – Nights Lab Assistant Outreach Connectivity and Strategy Coordinator • Sales Support Representative • Sr. Sales Representative

• Medical Social Worker • MRI Tech

• Medical Assistant Back Office

• Occupational Therapist

• Patient Care Tech

• Physical Therapist II

• Patient Transporter – PD

• Radiology Tech – PT

• Pharmacy Tech – PD

• Sonographer – PD

• Surgical ED Coordinator

• Speech Language Pathologist II

• Unit Care Tech

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital

• Unit Coordinator

• Materials Tech – PT

• Utilization Case Manager – PD

• RN, Med/Surg – PD, PT • Security Officer – PD Weekends

• Utilization Review Nurse

Director, Patient Access Director, Planning and Analysis Financial Analyst – General Accounting HIM Manager Manager, Denials and Utilization Review Manager, Patient Access Manager, Payroll Manager, Revenue Cycle Engineering Philanthropic Coordinator Sr. Revenue Integrity Analyst

• • • •

• Cardiovascular RN

• Surgical Tech II

• • • • • • • • • •

Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories

• CT Tech – FT

Clinical

Occupational Therapist – PD Physical Therapist RN, ICU RN, Surgery Surgical Tech – FT

Cottage Business Services

Allied Health

• Telemetry

• • • • •

CCRC Associate Family Consultant – PT Driver – PT Lifeguard – PD Personal Care Attendant I Physical Therapist – PD Prospective Payment System Coordinator Speech Therapist – PD

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We offer an excellent compensation package that includes above-market salaries, premium medical benefits, pension plans, tax savings accounts, rental and mortgage assistance, and relocation packages. What’s holding you back?

Please apply online at jobs.cottagehealth.org. Candidates may also submit a resume to: Cottage Health, Human Resources, P.O. Box 689, Pueblo at Bath Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93102-0689 Please reference “SBI” when applying. EOE

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ALCOHOL & DRUG COUNSELOR

STUDENT HEALTH Provides counseling and therapeutic services to undergraduate and graduate students. Involves services such as individual and group counseling and psychotherapy, crisis intervention, clinical consultation services for a range of conditions including substance use and co‑occurring disorders, anxiety, depression and relational issues. Demonstrates high level of clinical cultural competency and ability to work in highly collaborative manner with a diverse client group. Develops and communicates treatment plans, provides crisis intervention/ management and emergency services as required. Offers clinical consultation to staff and faculty and identifies and coordinates referrals and resources. Provides a full range of prevention, intervention and recovery services, including outreach, education and training to staff, faculty and students. Reqs: Must be currently licensed in California without restrictions as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Licensed Clinical Psychologist or Licensed Professional Counselor OR must be eligible to receive license within two years of hire. Must have Master’s degree in counseling, psychology, social work, or related field. Notes: Fingerprint background check required. Credentials verification for clinical practitioner. Mandated reporting requirements of Child Abuse and of Dependent Adult Abuse. Student Health requires that clinical staff must successfully complete and pass the background check and credentialing process before employment and date of hire. Must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patient care areas during the influenza season. Must have a current California Marriage and Family Therapist license at all times during employment in order to practice and function in this clinical role. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. This is a 100% 12‑month career position. Student Health is closed between the Christmas and New Year’s Day holidays. Some evening hours and occasional weekend hours required. $53,200‑$66,492/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply inline by 1/22/19, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job #20190005

CAMPUS FIRE MARSHAL

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH & SAFETY (EH&S) Serves as the Designated Agent of the State Fire Marshal’s office for campus fire safety. Manages, supervises and coordinates the activities of the UCSB Fire Prevention Division (FPD). The FPD is responsible for campus

INVESTIGATIVE ANALYST

TITLE IX & SEXUAL HARRASSMENT POLICY COMPLIANCE OFFICE Serves as the primary contact and intake person for all initial reports of sexual harassment, sexual violence and Title IX concerns and complaints. As the first point of contact to clients, acts with the requisite interpersonal sensitivity to deal effectively with often distraught and confused students, staff and faculty. Independently assesses new complaints to determine if appropriate for scope of this office and forwards information to Director and investigative staff for further review and response. Assists the Director and investigative staff in the complaint investigation process by procuring contact information, conducting initial outreach to complainants, if known,

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compliance with federal, state, and local fire and life safety codes and regulations. It is part of the UCSB Office of Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S). The CFM reports to the Director of EH&S. In support of the duties and responsibilities of the FPD, the CFM represents the campus at UC system wide Fire Marshal meetings and at meetings and conferences with campus, local, state and federal authorities. Maintaining accurate records, budget information, supporting documentation, and analyzes reports and inspections as required. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree in an equivalent or related discipline (Engineering, Fire Prevention, Fire Technology, Safety, etc.). Minimum five years recent full‑time experience performing a combination of fire prevention inspections, fire protection systems inspections, plan reviews and construction inspections in a California, local or state entity responsible for fire and life safety code and regulation enforcement. Experience with and knowledge of fire and life safety applications of local, state, and federal laws, codes, regulations, standards, specifications and policies, including California Health and Safety Code; Title 8, 19 and 24, California Fire and Building Codes: and NFPA standards. Must meet Office of the State Fire Marshal requirements for approval as a Designated Campus Fire Marshal, or be able to successfully complete the requirements within one year of employment. Notes: Fingerprint background check required. Meet Office of the State Fire Marshal requirement for approval as a Designated Campus Fire Marshal within one year of employment. Must pass a pre‑employment physical examination and be medically qualified to wear self‑contained breathing apparatus. Must be willing to work with and respond to emergencies (on and off‑hours) involving fire and potentially hazardous materials, and participate in a 24‑hour, on‑call, emergency response program. Must be willing to occasionally work after hours and/or on weekends. $76,100‑$115,000/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 1/22/19, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20190007

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and upon response, assigning cases to the investigative staff. Assists in the preparation and distribution of final reports. Oversees and maintains complaint filing system, composed of active and inactive complaint files, numerous confidential reports, UCSB and other campus policy information. Reqs: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience. Minimum 1 year of demonstrated expertise and skill in exercising independent judgment in the assessment, and response of discrimination or harassment concerns. Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills. Demonstrated ability to prioritize, multi‑task, and handle multiple assignments in short time periods. Demonstrated ability to handle confidential, sensitive and complex information and matters with composure, mature judgment and utmost discretion. Note: Fingerprint background check required. $64,500‑$70,500/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For primary consideration apply by 1/22/19, thereafter open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs. ucsb.edu Job #20180676

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: LISA STECKER Case No.: 18PR00557 To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of LISA STECKER A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: MARGARET FOX in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara THE PETITION for probate requests that: MARGARET FOX be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 01/10/2019 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority

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may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: Jeffrey B. Soderborg. Adrienne K. Miller, Esq. Attorney at Law, APC, 1633 Erringer Road, Suite 205 Simi Valley, CA 93065 (805) 522‑1640 Published Dec 27 2018. Jan 3, 10 2019.

FBN ABANDONMENT STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME The following Fictitious Business Name is being abandoned: DAC VIDEO at 2019 State Street, Santa Barbara CA 93101; The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 08/1/2018 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original file no. 2018‑0002182. The person (s) or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: PAM BRANDON at 905 W Mission St. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County onDec 20, 2018. I hereby certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by Jazmin Murphy, Published: Jan 3, 10, 17 and 24, 2019

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: C2I FILM, CREATE 2 INSPIRE FILM at 405 Corona Del Mar Apt. 5, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Angelica Yasmin Espinoza (same address) Omar Alejandro Espinoza (same address) This business is conducted by a married couple Signed: OMAR A. ESPINOZA Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 27, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva. FBN Number: 2018‑0003259. Published: Jan 03, 10, 17, 24 2019.

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1 Backtalk 5 Order on an order 9 Lion in the Narnia books 14 Feel certain 15 Barely grilled 16 Link’s “Good Mythical Morning” partner 17 Star of the BBC’s “Luther” 19 Shaw of the Big Band Era 20 Reconfigure a hard drive 21 Royal ball 23 Beliefs, for short 24 Morsel at the bottom of a fastfood bag 25 Citrus-flavored dessert (with something parked in the middle) 28 Portrayer of Ned on “Game of Thrones” 29 Word after bad or Dad 30 Quiz option 33 Chicken giant 36 Controversial agribusiness letters 39 Place for avians to thrive (with something parked in the middle) 43 Tack on 44 “Stargate Universe” actress Levesque (OK, fine ... the mom from “Family Ties”) 45 No longer fooled by 46 Show starter? 48 Over again 51 “Darlin’” classic kids’ song (with something parked in the middle) 55 Biol. or anat. 58 “___ in every garage” 59 Conservational prefix 60 Rowan Atkinson character (or a clue for 28-Across)

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62 Carl who hosted the original “Cosmos” 64 Modern urban vehicles whose brand names have been parked in the middle of the three theme entries 66 Supreme Court Justice Kagan 67 Internet explorer? 68 Part of 61-Down 69 Element tested for in home inspections 70 One-named Sao Paulo-born athlete 71 Japanese buckwheat noodle

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1 Flat-bottomed rowboat 2 Conjunctions seen with a slash 3 Word inevitably used in a stereotypical Canadian impersonation 4 Do the butterfly 5 Franklin with the 1982 album “Jump to It” 6 Jimmy Kimmel’s cousin who makes frequent appearances on his show 7 “Day” observed the last Friday in April 8 Bubble tea tapioca ball 9 “Altar” constellation 10 Piercing cry 11 Tutorial opener, maybe 12 “One Day at ___” 13 Big bomb trial, briefly 18 Business letter encl. 22 Actress Phillips 26 Blog post 27 ___ Lisa 28 “Hold on a ___!” 30 Gp. before the gate

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31 Totally cool 32 In one piece 34 What a QB tries to gain 35 Great buy 37 Got together with 38 He-bear, to Hernando 40 Croupier’s collection 41 “What ___ About You” (mid-2000s WB sitcom) 42 Sudoku grid line 47 Monsieur de Bergerac 49 “I give!” 50 100 cents, in Cyprus 51 It fires electrodes 52 Florida city home to John Travolta 53 Freeze, as a windshield 54 Western law enforcement group 55 “___ evil ... “ 56 Native Trinidadian, maybe 57 Prefix for gram or Pot 61 Heat measurements, for short 63 Photog Goldin 65 Disney collectible ©2018 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@ jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill to your credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Reference puzzle #0909

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SUMMERLAND INN at 2161 Ortega Hill Road, Summerland, CA 93067; Hwei Mei Lu Ko (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: HWEI MEI LU KO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 19, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2018‑0003216. Published: Jan 03, 10, 17, 24 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: M & M CONCRETE CONTRACTOR at 311 Verano Dr #60 Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Juan Carlos Davalos Orozco (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 13, 2018. 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2018‑0003182. Published: Dec 20, 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ASSISTED HOME HEALTH at 302 N. Milpas Street Suite 101 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Assisted Home Recovery, Inc. 72 Moody Court Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 14, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0003192. Published: Dec 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10, 17 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: OFFROAD. NET at 6073 Paseo Palmilla Goleta, CA 93117; Colby Hill (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Colby Hill Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 11, 2018. 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2018‑0003160. Published: Dec 20, 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HAUNTED MOUNTAIN at 120 Ocean View Carpinteria, CA 93013; Matthew Todd Campos (same address) Eran Olivas P.O. Box Summerland, CA 93067 This business is conducted by an General Partnership Signed: Eran Olivas Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 12, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva. FBN Number: 2018‑0003178. Published: Dec 20, 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: TERI MALINOWSKI PROJECT MANAGEMENT at 414 Olive Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Teri Harmon Project Management 3375 Foothill Rd #233 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 This business is conducted by an CorporationSigned: Teri Malinowski, CEO Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 12, 2018. 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 Margarita Silva. FBN Number: 2018‑0003177. Published: Dec 20, 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LUBOVE, LUBOVE TALENT AGENCY, LUBOVE M A N A G E M E N T, LUBOVE MODELING AGENCY at 511 E. Gutierrez Street Suite A Santa Barbara, CA 93117; Scott Roush 1020 Bath Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Paul Vertsekha 38 La Calera Way Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by an General Partnership Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 11, 2018. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2018‑0003161. Published: Dec 20, 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAGE AND SMITH at 1367 Danielson Rd Unit A Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Nora Lieber (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 03, 2018. 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 Tara Jayasinghe. FBN Number: 2018‑0003107. Published: Dec 20, 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BEEF JERKY EXPERIENCE at 485 Alisal Road #198 Solvang, CA 93463; Crisp High Five, Inc. 42652 71st Street W Lancaster, CA 93536 This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 14, 2018. 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 Adela Bustos. FBN Number: 2018‑0003196. Published: Dec 20, 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: STA. RITA HILLS VENTURES at 3290 Wild Oak Road Lompoc, CA 93436; Ryan Paul Reyes (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 17, 2018. 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 Sandra E. Rodriguez. FBN Number: 2018‑0003203. Published: Dec 20, 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: EARTHKNOWER STUDIO at 225 W. Figueroa St. Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Robert F. Adams (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 17, 2018. 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 Sandra E. Rodriguez. FBN Number: 2018‑0003204. Published: Dec 20, 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SBHUB, SCALABLE BUSINESS HUB at 4063 Via Zorro Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Alexandra Loos (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: ALEXANDRA LOOS Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 20, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2018‑0003224. Published: Jan 03, 10, 17, 24 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: GABBY’S CLEANING COMPANY at 202 Marbella Way Santa Maria, CA 93454; Gabriela Janice Palacios (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Gabrela Janice Palacios Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 30, 2018. 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 Mary Soto. FBN Number: 2018‑0003103. Published: Dec 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10, 17 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ELLWOOD MONTESSORI at 7391 Freeman Pl. B Goleta, CA 93117; Jean Marie Driskel (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Nov 29, 2018. 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 Sandra E. Rodriquez. FBN Number: 2018‑0003092. Published: Dec 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10, 17 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SIMON & ASSOCIATES at 649 Pilgrim Terrace Drive Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Manny Ayala 7427 San Bergamo Dr. Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 14, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0003195. Published: Jan 10, 17, 24, 30 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALTA VISTA PAINTING at 2015 Castillo St. Apt 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Elmer Burgos Rodrigues (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 19, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2018‑0003223. Published: Dec 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10, 17 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: CLASSIC RESTORATIONS, DENT EXPERTS at 20 S Kellogg Ave #D Goleta, CA 93117; David Gerard Boytis 7587 Sea Gull Dr Goleta, CA 93117 This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 03, 2019. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2019‑0000027. Published: Jan 10, 17, 24, 30 2019.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ASSISTED HOSPICE CARE at 302 N. Milpas Street Suite 101 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Assisted Home Care, Inc. 72 Moody Court Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 14, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0003193. Published: Dec 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10, 17 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ASSISTED HEALTHCARE SERVICES, ASSISTED HOME HEALTH at 302 N. Milpas Street Suite 101 Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Staff Assistance, Inc. 72 Moody Court Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 This business is conducted by an Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 14, 2018. 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 Connie Tran. FBN Number: 2018‑0003191. Published: Dec 27. 2018. Jan 03, 10, 17 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ROCKET BOY TV at 1491 Camino Rio Verde Santa Barbara, CA 93111; Michael Mongold (same address) This business is conducted by an Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 21, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2018‑0003252. Published: Jan 03, 10, 17, 24 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/ are doing business as: CLEVER PUNCH CO. at 1117 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Christina Jade Flogerzi 872 Highland Dr. Unit 2 Santa Barbara, CA 93109; Jeffrey Lee Flogerzi (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 02, 2019. 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 Sandra E. Rodriguez. FBN Number: 2019‑0000013. Published: Jan 10, 17, 24, 30 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: PRIDE CONSTRUCTION at 589 Via El Cuadro Santa Barbara, CA 93111; JD Ruvalcaba, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 03, 2019. 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 Christine Potter. FBN Number: 2019‑0000030. Published: Jan 10, 17, 24, 30 2019.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: RUIZ CLOTHING, RUIZ MAINTENANCE & LANDSCAPE at 150 Magnolia Ave Apt A Goleta, CA 93117; Rebeca Ruiz (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 21, 2018. 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 Jazmin Murphy. FBN Number: 2018‑0003253. Published: Jan 10, 17, 24, 30 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: FITNESS IMPACT at 3885 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Fitness Impact, Inc. 4175 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93110 This business is conducted by a Corporation Signed: Marianna Sarkisova Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Dec 28, 2018. 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 Mary Soto. FBN Number: 2018‑0003261. Published: Jan 10, 17, 24, 30 2019. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BRICKY’S MERCANTILE at 5676 Encina Road Goleta, CA 93117; Allyson T Chavez (same address) This business is conducted by a Individual Signed: Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on Jan 02, 2019. 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 Sandra E. Rodriguez. FBN Number: 2019‑0000010. Published: Jan 10, 17, 24, 30 2019.

NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF CHLOE JADE MADILL ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 18CV05877 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: CHLOE JADE MADILL TO: CHLOE JADE KATSUYAMA HOKE 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. NOTICE OF HEARING Feb 20, 2019 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this

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county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Dec 07 2018 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 20, 27 2018. Jan 3, 10 2019. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF MATHILDE WOLFF ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 18CV06193 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: MATHILDE WOLFF TO: MATHILDE WOLFF CHABERT THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING March, 06, 2019 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Dec 20, 2018 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Jan 3, 10, 17, 24 2019. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF LAUREN MARIE KRUSZYNA ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 18CV05696 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: LAUREN MARIE KRUSZYNA TO: LAUREN MARIE KRUSZYNA WILLIAMS 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. NOTICE OF HEARING Feb 06, 2019 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Dec 07 2018 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Dec 20, 27 2018. Jan 3, 10 2019. IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF YOUYA YAN ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE NUMBER: 18CV05430 TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior court proposing a change of name(s) FROM and TO the following name(s): FROM: YOUYA YAN TO: CARRIE YAN 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. NOTICE OF HEARING Jan 30, 2019 9:30am, Dept 6, Courthouse, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 A copy of

this order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated Nov 16 2018 by Pauline Maxwell, Judge of the Superior Court. Published. Jan 10, 17, 24, 30 2019.

PUBLIC NOTICES SUPERIOR COURT FOR THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ANACAPA DIVISION Estate of JOHN A. ERNEST, Decedent Case No. 18PR00344 NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE (PROBATE CODE §§10300, 10304) Department 5 (Hon. Colleen Sterne) 1. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, subject to confirmation by this court, on January 4, 2019, at 10:00 a.m., or thereafter within the time allowed by law, MARK WATSON as administrator of the estate of the above‑named decedent, will sell at private sale to the highest and best net bidder on the terms and conditions stated below all right, title, and interest of the decedent at the time of death and all right, title, and interest that the estate has acquired in addition to that of the decedent at the time of death, in the real property located in Santa Barbara County, California. 2. This property is commonly referred to as 638 Sutton Ave., Santa Barbara, California, assessor’s parcel number 035‑060‑015, and is more fully described as follows: THOSE PORTIONS OF LOT 140 OF THE OUTSIDE PUEBLO LANDS OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, IN THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, DESCRIBED IN PARCELS AS FOLLOWS: PARCEL ONE: BEGINNING AT THE MOST WESTERLY CORNER OF CLOCK 199, AS SHOWN ON THE OFFICIAL MAP OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, AND RUNNING THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG THE SOUTHWESTERLY LINE OF SAID BLOCKL 155 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID LINE OF SAID BLOCK 75 FEE; THENCE AT RIGHT ANGLES SOUTHWESTERLY 76 FEET; THENCE AT RIGHT ANGLES NORTHWESTERLY 75 FEET; THENCE AT RIGHT ANGLES NORTHEASTERLY 76 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL TWO: BEGINNING AT A POINT ON THE SOUTHWESTERLY LINE OF BLOCK 199, AS SHOWN ON THE OFFICIAL MAP OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA, DISTANT THEREON 155 FEET SOUTHEASTERLY FROM THE MOST WESTERLY CORNER OF SAID BLOCK, SAID POINT OF BEGINNING BEING ALSO THE MOST NORTHERLY CORNER OF THE TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED IN THE DEED TO MARIE SMITH, ET CON., DATED NOVEMBER 2, 1942, AND RECORDED IN BOOK 566 AT PAGE 263 OF OFFICIAL RECORDS OF SAID COUNTY; THENCE NORTH 48B30’ WEST ALONG SAID SOUTHEASTERLY LINE OF SAID BLOCK 30 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 41B30’ WEST 120 FEET; THENCE NORTH 37B30’ EAST 63.34 FEET TO A POINT IN THE SOUTHWESTERLY LINE OF SAID SMITH TRACT OF LAND; THENCE NORTH 48B30’ WEST ALONG SAID LAST

MENTIONED LINE 15.56 FEET TO THE MOST WESTERLY CORNER THEReOF; THENCE NORTH 41B30’ EAST 76 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. PARCEL THREE: AN EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS OVER THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY: BEGINNING AT A POINT IN SAID BLOCK 199 AT THE MOST SOUTHERLY CORNER OF THE PROPERTY CONVEYED TO GLADYS MARLOW FOUTS BY DEED DATED AUGUST 29, 1941 AND RECORDED IN BOOK 531, PAGE 193, OF OFFICIAL RECORDS OF SAID COUNTY; THENCE FROM SAID POINT OF BEGINNING NORTH 48B30’ WEST 125 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTHEASTERLY LINE OF DE LA GUERRA STREET; THENCE SOUTH 41B30’ WEST ALONG SAID LINE OF DE LA GUERRA STREET 15 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE SOUTH 48B30’ EAST 131.06 FEET TO AN ANGLE POINT; THENCE NORTH 87B30’ EAST 83.88 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE NORTH 48B30’ WEST 20.85 FEET TO A POINT; THENCE SOUTH 87B30’ WEST 63.34 FEET OF THE POINT OF BEGINNING. 3. The property will be sold subject to current taxes, covenants, conditions, restrictions, reservations, rights, rights of way, and easements of record, with any encumbrances of record to be satisfied from the purchase price. 4. The property is to be sold on an “AS‑IS” basis, except for title. 5. The personal representative has given an exclusive listing to Jeff Oien, Village Properties (Cal BRE# 00852118), 1436 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Tel: 805‑896‑1824; email: jeff@villagesite.com. Contact the listing broker for showings and disclosures. 6. Bids or offers are invited for this property and must be in writing and can be mailed to the office of Jeff Oien, Village Properties,1436 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Tel: 805‑896‑ 1824; email: jeff@villagesite.com, or delivered to Jeff Oien personally, at any time after the first publication of this notice and before any sale is made. 7 The property will be sold on the following terms: Cash, or cash to a new loan, the terms of such credit to be acceptable to the undersigned and to the court. The estate shall pay only such real estate broker’s commissions and in such amount as allowed by the Court out of the proceeds of the sale. 8. Taxes, rents, operating and maintenance expenses, and premiums on insurance acceptable to the purchaser shall be prorated as of the date of confirmation of sale. Examination of title, recording of conveyance, transfer taxes, and any title insurance policy shall be at the expense of the purchaser or purchasers. 9. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. 10. For further information and bid forms, contact Jeff Oien, Village Properties (Cal BRE# 00852118), 1436 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Tel: 805‑896‑1824; email: jeff@villagesite.com. Jeffrey B. Soderborg, Cal Bar #264666 BARNES & BARNES 1900 State Street, Suite M Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 687‑6660 Attorneys for MARK WATSON, Administrator for of the Estate of JOHN A. ERNEST. Published Dec 20, 27 2018. Jan 3, 10 2019. EXTRA SPACE STORAGE will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery Drive, Goleta, CA

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McDonald’s Conditional Use Permit Case No. 18-098-CUP 1146 South Fairview Avenue; APN: 071-051-025 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Zoning Administrator of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing on the date set forth below to consider the following case: Case No. 18-098-CUP: A hearing on the request of Rick Anderton, agent for McDonald’s USA, LLC, property owner, to consider Case No. 18-098-CUP for a Conditional Use Permit for signage at the South Fairview McDonald’s pursuant to Article I, Section 35-20 of the Goleta Municipal Code; and for acceptance of a categorical CEQA Exemption pursuant to Section 15311 of the Guidelines for the Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The property includes a 3,700-square foot McDonald’s fast food restaurant with a drive-through, 61 parking spaces and associated landscaping. The property is zoned Retail Commercial (C-2) and has a General Plan Old Town Land Use Designation. The proposed signage consists of four (4) directional signs related to the existing McDonald’s drive-through on the property. HEARING DATE AND TIME:

Tuesday, January 22, 2019, at 1:30 PM

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Goleta City Hall, Conference Room 2 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117

PUBLIC COMMENT/ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The proposed project and staff analysis, including proposed CEQA exemption, may be reviewed at the City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review Department, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117. All interested persons are encouraged to attend the public hearing and to present written and/or oral comments. All letters should be addressed to Planning and Environmental Review, City of Goleta, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117, to the attention of Brian Hiefield, Associate Planner. Letters, with two copies, must be received by Planning and Environmental Review on or before the date of the hearing or can be submitted at the hearing. APPEALS PROCEDURE: The action of the Zoning Administrator may be appealed to the City Council within 10 calendar days following final action. If you challenge the City’s final action on this project 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 special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements. Publish:

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93117 January 31, 2019 @ 3:30PM Bruce Curtis Goodwin Personal Michael Calles Personal Alice He Personal Luxmercantile Household John Biehl Clothes, Kit stuff, Surf boards Abel Igbinoba Bags and misc items Marlin Switalski Boxes, Promotional items 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.

address, email) and send comments to Mr. Bob McDonald, Carpinteria Valley Water District, 1301 Santa Ynez Ave., Carpinteria, CA 93013; Phone: (805) 684‑2816 x112, E‑mail: bob@cvwd.net. CVWD will hold a scoping meeting on January 24, 2019 at 5:00 – 7:00 p. m. at the Carpinteria Veterans Memorial Building, 941 Walnut Ave in Carpinteria. This scoping meeting provides an opportunity to offer input into the scope and content of the EIR. The meeting format will be an open house from 5:00 ‑ 7:00 p.m., with a brief presentation about the project beginning at 6:00 p.m. This notice, an Initial Study, and additional details on the CAPP can be accessed online at: http://www.cvwd.n et/water_ info/projects.htm Published Jan 10, 17 2019.

NOTICE OF Preparation and Scoping Meeting for Environmental Impact Report (EIR) Carpinteria Valley Water District (CVWD) is the lead agency under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) in preparation of an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the Carpinteria Advanced Purification Project (CAPP). CVWD is working in partnership with Carpinteria Sanitary District (CSD). The CAPP would be located in the City of Carpinteria, California, and a small portion of unincorporated County of Santa Barbara. The CAPP would consist of construction and operation of an advanced water treatment plant, conveyance pipelines, injection and monitoring wells, ocean outfall modifications, and other facilities to produce advanced treated water for groundwater recharge, storage, and potable reuse. The CAPP would inject recycled water into the Carpinteria Groundwater Basin for future recovery and reuse. This Notice of Preparation for the CAPP is available for public comment from January 7, 2019 through February 8, 2019. Please provide contact information (name,

WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD; SPECIAL NOTICE OF LAWSUIT (Pursuant to Labor Code section 3716 and Code of Civil Procedure section 412.20 and 412.30) WCAB No. 11488066 To: DEFENDANT, ILLEGALLY UNINSURED EMPLOYER: APPLICANT, Juan Barreto DEEFENDANTS, Concrete & Pavers Specialist NOTICES 1) A lawsuit, the Application for Adjudication of Claim, as been filed with the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board against you as the named defendant by the above named applicant. You may seek the advice of an attorney in any matter connected with this lawsuit and such attorney should be consulted promptly so that you response may be filed and entered in a timely fashion. If you do not know an attorney, you may call an attorney reference service or a legal aid office. (See telephone directory.) 2) An Answer to the Application must be filed and served within six days of the service of the Application pursuant to Appeals

Board rules; therefore, your written response must be filed with the Appeals Board promptly; a letter or phone call will not protect your interests. 3) You will be served with a Notice(s) of Hearing and must appear at all hearings or conferences. After such hearing, even absent your appearance, a decision may be made and an award of compensation benefits may issue against you. The award could result in the garnishment of your wages, taking of your money or property or other relief. If the Appeals Board makes an award against you, your house or other dwelling or other property may be taken to satisfy that award in a non‑judicial state, with no exemptions from execution. A lien may also be imposed upon your property without further hearing and before the issuance of an award. 4) You must notify the Appeals Board of the proper address for the service of official notices and papers and notify the Appeals Board of any changes in that address. TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT YOUR INTERESTS Issued by: WORKERS’ COMPENSATION APPEALS BOARD Name and address of Appeals Board: WCAB Santa Barbara 411 E. Canon Perdido Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Name and address of applicant’s attorney: Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101; FORM COMPLETED BY: Benjamin P. Feld, Esq. Ghitterman, Ghitterman & Feld, 418 E. Canon Perdido St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 Telephone No.: (805) 965‑4540. NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served: as the person sued under the fictitious name of: Concrete & Pavers Specialist. Published: Dec 27 2018. Jan 3, 10, 17 2019.

Target Building & Shopping Center Overall Sign Plan Case No. 18-116-OSP 6861 & 6865 Hollister Avenue; APN: 073-100-033, -034, -035 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Zoning Administrator of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing on the date set forth below to consider the following case: Case No. 18-116-OSP: A hearing on the request of Andy Neff, representative for MGP XII KB GOLETA, LLC, property owner, to consider Case No. 18-116-OSP for an Overall Sign Plan at the Target Building & Shopping Center pursuant to Article I, Section 35-10 of the Goleta Municipal Code; and for acceptance of a categorical CEQA Exemption pursuant to Section 15311 of the Guidelines for the Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The subject site consists of three parcels totaling 8.8 acres. The three parcels are zoned Retail Commercial (C-2) and are designated for Community Commercial uses (APN 073-100-034) or for Regional Commercial uses (APN 073-100-033 and 035) within the General Plan. The existing development consists of 134,490 total square feet of development and 488 parking spaces. The proposed signage consists of the following types and quantities: 1. Identification Monument (1) 2. Temporary Initial Lease Period Banner Signs 3. Retail Tenant Wall Signs (18) a. Four (4) on Target building and Fourteen (14) on shop building. 4. Under Canopy Blade Signs (13) 5. Pick-up Order Beacon (1) 6. Tenant Entry Information Window Graphics 7. Building Address Signs The proposed Overall Sign Plan (OSP) provides for integrated signage across the site. As part of the request a modification is being requested to allow for two freestanding signs. One (1) center identification sign along Hollister Avenue and one (1) pick up order beacon sign with the western parking area on the interior of the development. HEARING DATE AND TIME: PLACE:

Monday, January 22, 2019, at 1:30 pm Goleta City Hall, Conference Room 2 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117

PUBLIC COMMENT/ ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The proposed project and staff analysis, including proposed CEQA exemption, may be reviewed at the City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review Department, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117. All interested persons are encouraged to attend the public hearing and to present written and/or oral comments. All letters should be addressed to Planning and Environmental Review, City of Goleta, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117, to the attention of Joe Pearson II, project planner. Letters, with two copies, must be received by Planning and Environmental Review on or before the date of the hearing or can be submitted at the hearing. APPEALS PROCEDURE: The action of the Zoning Administrator may be appealed to the City Council within 10 calendar days following final action. If you challenge the City’s final action on this project 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 special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at (805) 961-7505. Notification at least 72 hours prior to the hearing will enable City staff to make reasonable arrangements. Publish:

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130 Cremona Drive, Suite B Goleta, CA 93117 Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 3:00 P.M. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Design Review Board (DRB) of the City of Goleta will conduct a public hearing on the date set forth above to consider the following new project:

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PUBLIC COMMENT: This hearing is for design review only. All interested persons are encouraged to attend the public hearing and to present written and/or oral comments. All letters should be addressed to City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, CA 93117 or email to mchang@cityofgoleta.org. Letters must be received by Planning and Environmental Review no later than 24 hours prior to the DRB meeting. Materials received after this time may not be reviewed prior to the DRB meeting. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: The item in this notice is a new item. The DRB agenda may also include items continued from prior meetings. All persons wanting to review any project applications may do so by contacting City of Goleta, Planning and Environmental Review at (805) 961-7543. The Agenda, staff reports and project plans will be available approximately one week before the hearing on the City’s website at www. cityofgoleta.org. Publish:

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