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National Donut Day City of Santa NEWS-PRESS SPECIAL REPORT
Local residents and businesses celebrate a pastry that’s earned its own day
Barbara tackles homelessness Effort under way to move unhoused people off the streets Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of News-Press stories on homelessness in Santa Barbara.
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More articles on homelessness will appear next week in the News-Press.
The city of Santa Barbara is launching an all-out comprehensive effort to move homeless persons off the street and into transitional housing. The goal is to also provide help for those with mental health and addiction issues. A Santa Barbara City Council Ad Hoc Committee on Homelessness has explored
these issues over the past 12 months, gathering information, listening to homeless experts, and talking to city staff and various stakeholders. The committee, consisting of Councilmembers Eric Friedman, Kristen Sneddon and Mike Jordan, recently unveiled a series Please see HOMELESS on A6
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Former sex crimes prosecutor concerned about Santa Barbara Unified School District A selection of sprinkle doughnuts grace Eller’s Donut House in Santa Barbara.
By LIAM HIBBERT
Joggers take flight Friday during the National Donut Day run from the rabbitHOUSE, the rabbit running apparel company’s corporate office in downtown Santa Barbara.
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With the smell of doughnuts and coffee in the air, Santa Barbara was out and about on Friday and celebrating with some unlikely early June sun. It was National Donut Day. And people celebrated the pastry in all sorts of unique ways, although mostly by eating them. “Happy to get some doughnuts later and some coffee. Big doughnut guy,” declared Ian Mickool after an early morning run with Santa Barbara’s own rabbit running apparel company. (The business doesn’t capitalize its name.) “It was nice to see some sun today,” Mr. Mickool told the News-Press. “It was a good Please see RUN on A7
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By ANNIKA BAHNSEN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
With the recent settlement of $950,000 over a victim in a child sexual abuse case against Santa Barbara Unified School District and former teacher Matef Harmachis, many families reportedly have noticed a concerning pattern in SBUSD. Audry Nafzinger — a sex crimes prosecutor with over 29 years of experience, the former supervisor of the Sex Crimes division of the Ventura County District Attorney’s office and a Santa Barbara resident — has spent a great deal of professional and personal time working to protect the vulnerable. She said she has recognized a major problem within SBUSD and
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believes it is time to make some changes. “From years of witnessing local abuse incidents play out in the press, at board meetings, and in speaking with victims and their parents as a private citizen, several facts have arisen which are indisputable, systemic, and appear to undermine survivors, while protecting the ‘institution’,” Ms. Nafzinger told the News-Press. Sheridan Rosenberg, a Santa Barbara resident who has been tracking cases such as the Matef Harmachis case, told the News-Press that many families believe that the case involving Mr. Harmachis was handled improperly within the district
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Audry Nafzinger discusses district after $950,000 settlement
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