Tesla HQ
‘Toast to Women in Wine and Food’
Company’s global engineering and AI headquarters opens in Palo Alto - A5
Annual Women Winemakers Celebration to be held in Santa Barbara - B1
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ShelterBox USA president visits Ukraine
Our 167th Year
Winter storm slams county
Kerri Murray talks to the News-Press about Ukrainians’ resilience Editor’s note: This is the second part of a News-Press series about efforts to help Ukraine as the second year of the Russian invasion begins. By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR
Kerri Murray experienced air raids during her recent visit to Ukraine. And she was in the emergency shelters during those raids anywhere from 40 minutes to two hours or more at a time. “I felt the fear and the terror they (the Ukrainians) went through,” said Ms. Murray, the president of Santa Barbarabased ShelterBox USA. “It was difficult to sleep
UKRAINE: ONE YEAR LATER most of the time I was there. You just don’t know where the next air raid siren is going off,” Ms. Murray told the NewsPress Wednesday by phone from Krakow, Poland, after her second visit to Ukraine since the Russian invasion began a little over one year ago. Please see UKRAINE on A7
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Sailboats and other smaller watercraft are thrown around Friday in the rough, choppy water off East Beach in Santa Barbara.
By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Giant trees fell, the wind blew fiercely, and the rain kept coming on a Friday that saw a brief tornado warning and a much longer warning about flash floods. Winter weather conditions continue to be forecast for Santa Barbara County through today. Conditions include extreme cold temperatures, snow at higher elevations, continued wind, localized flooding, and isolated thunderstorms that are possible countywide. There was a brief tornado warning Friday morning at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Additionally, boats struggled against the choppy water off East Beach in Santa Barbara. There was also a flash flood warning for Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, which is scheduled to expire at 6 p.m. today. And a wind advisory expired at 1 a..m. today. The winter storm brought down large trees. Late Friday afternoon, a big stone pine tree fell down on East Anapamu Street near Nopal Street in the area of Santa Barbara High School. Anapamu Street had to be closed between Alta Vista Road and Nopal. Up north, an approximately 80-foot by 100-foot tall tree fell at approximately 11:43 a.m., causing major damage to a residence in the 200 block of Deer Run in Santa Maria. Injuries were sustained. Please see WEATHER on A6
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Two Santa Barbara locals — Spread Goodness founder and host Lisa Lang and TV Santa Barbara Executive Director Erik Davis — hold up awards their organizations won during The WAVE Awards of the Alliance for Community Media Western Region Conference and Trade Show at the Mar Monte Hotel Ballroom.
Best of the West A large stone pine tree falls Friday onto East Anapamu Street near Nopal Street during heavy rainstorms, causing the closure of Anapamu between Alta Vista Road and Nopal near Santa Barbara High School. A massive rainbow on Thursday provides a colorful view to drivers trudging through rush hour on Storke Road in Goleta.
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By CALEB BEEGHLY NEWS-PRESS CORRESPONDENT
Producers from California, Nevada, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico and Arizona gathered Thursday to recognize excellence in community media programming. Rory O’Farrell, manager of Tahoe Truckee Media, hosted the awards ceremony at the Mar Monte Hotel in Santa Barbara, saying, “(The programs] were inspiring to watch … really keeping with the values of our organization.” According to Mr. O’Farrell, Alliance for Community Media values free speech, seeks to represent underserved voices and does not prioritize competition. In doing so, ACM hopes to promote greater
civic engagement through its community media. The awards were part of the ACM’s multi-day conference and trade show in Santa Barbara, and one of the event’s hosts was TV Santa Barbara, which picked up some awards of its own at Thursday’s ceremony. There were 17 award categories, such as Best Documentary and Best Narrative Film, and two final Best of Show awards. In each of the award categories, an award was presented to the best community producer, professional producer and student producer. The first Best of Show award (community or student producer) went to Jabreel Green for his Please see AWARDS on A6
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Alliance for Community Media presents WAVE awards to TV Santa Barbara and others
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