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Incoming Students Westmont’s record-breaking local enrollment and historic firsts, page 39 27 AUG – 3 SEP 2026 | VOL 32 ISS 35 www.montecitojournal.net
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House Warming – Temperatures are flirting with triple digits and Montecito homes keep selling. Apparently nobody told the real estate market about Fogust. P.16
Mom, Interrupted – The kid is happy, college is exciting, and Mom is crying while buying eggs. Deann Zampelli discovers the complicated grief of the emptying nest. P.26
Shrine On – Come for the temples, stay for the soba. Leslie Westbrook wanders beyond Kyoto’s tourist trail and finds plenty worth worshipping. P.30
Remembering Pedro
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WITH FEELING
Friendship Center turns 50 with a family reunion, its first dementia care conference, and five decades of proving there is always a celebration in the wings (Story on P.5)
For decades, guests around Montecito asked the same question: “Is Pedro working today?” Now the community remembers the man everyone looked forward to seeing, page 14
Flapper’s Delight
Bobbed hair, bare gams, jazz, cigarettes, and cocktails. The flappers arrived in Santa Barbara and respectable society reached immediately for the smelling salts, page 18
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