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Music Academy Wind Down

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5 Editorial We tip our sombreros to the SBPD for keeping the peace – but letting the party continue – at Fiesta; all should attend Shadows: An Original Musical at Center Stage, and Paul Clay’s “Just One Mike” featuring Mark Eddie at SOhO 6 Montecito Miscellany Katie McLean wins worldwide competition; Chris O’Donnell potential Montecito resident; Luisa and Fernanda Cameron launch new blog; State Street Ballet reception; Jeep Holden’s incidental party; “Chinese Chukkers” bash; Zachary Wood releases first album; MAW’s ambitious week; Oprah’s many hairstyles; Celebracion de los Dignatarios gala; Tony Martin passes 8 Letters to the Editor G. Hebert wishes the Golden Rule was taught in school; Darryl and Lynda Hickman praise Bob Hazard’s Caltrans coverage; Jerry Higgins wants to know where Glenn Miller disappeared to; Donna Christina Allison’s shingles opera; Dr. Craig Downen announces his retirement 11 This Week in Montecito MERRAG meets; Memphis chefs visit SB; The New Yorker discussion group; Santa Barbara Connection grand opening; Railway Days; Toy Crazy anniversary; Taste of the Vine & Auction fundraiser; MBAR meets; Michael Medved signs book; MA meeting; AWSSB event; US Navy and Marines salute; Cruisin’ Carp event; Peppers Day Center grand opening; Santa Barbara Republican Women, Federated lecture and luncheon; ongoing events Tide Guide Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 12 Village Beat Verizon appeal to be heard at Board of Supervisors; Toy Crazy’s one-year anniversary celebration; 3rd Annual Wine Down hosted by Friendship Center; 14 Seen Around Town Fourth annual SBIFF Silver Screen Bash; SBHM annual Fiesta party; MAW hosts carnival and concert for kids 21 Ward Connerly According to Ward Connerly, President Obama has brought change for the worse 23 On Finance How to structure your portfolio to mitigate impacts of inflation 27 Library Corner Summer Reading Program a success; adventure series begins 28 Book Talk  The Stories of John Cheever features 61 of John Cheever’s most well known short stories Coup de Grace  Against all odds, Larry Bishop survived for 52 hours hanging on a ledge with no food or water 30 Music Academy of the West James Gaffigan leads Summer Festival finale concert; final events of the summer 33 On Entertainment Be Good Tanyas play SOhO; Mark Eddie’s musical comedy act 35 Sheriff’s Blotter Man arrested for public intoxication; physical assault between family members at memorial servic 36 Your Westmont  Chemistry students may benefit from a $1M challenge grant; music students focus on worship leadership; new students take a hike before college 37 Trail Talk  Karen and Si Jenkins honored at pre-Fiesta party held at Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum 38 Calendar of Events Ongoing events; Seal plays Chumash; Jonathan McEuen performs in Carpinteria; One Night Stand art show; Patrick Landeza in Goleta; SpongeBob visits La Cumbre; SOhO presents “Gershwin & the Golden Age” 40 Guide to Montecito Eateries The most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing of all individually owned Montecito restaurants, coffee houses, bakeries, gelaterias, and hangouts; others in Santa Barbara, Summerland, and Carpinteria too 41 FitWise Tips on making long-term goals, and succeeding in them Movie Showtimes Latest films, times, theaters, and addresses: they’re all here, as they are every week 42 Our Town Montecito’s Old Spanish Days Flower Girls 43 Legal Advertisements 93108 Open House Directory Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito 44 Legal Advertisements 46 Classified Advertising  Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory  Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offere

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Editorial 

by James Buckley

A Walk On The Wild Side

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y first Fiesta experience wasn’t until the mid 1980s, but the crispest memory I have of that event was that State Street was jam-packed with partiers. And, those partiers walked (and admittedly, wobbled, woozed, and even swayed unsteadily from side to side) with open containers of adult beverages in one or both hands. “Viva La Fiesta!” was said, yelled, and slurred from Sola to Cabrillo as human masses enjoyed the unalloyed freedom of having a good time without fear of arrest or restraint from uniformed (or plainclothes) law enforcement officers, who seemed to be having just as good a time as everyone else. Fourth of July celebrations were as unrestrained. West Beach (in the mid‘80s) was a free-fire zone from the evening of July 3, when families and friends marked off and dug in for a day of serious drinking and firecrackering. Before it was all over on July 4, the smoke that hung over the beach was nearly impenetrable, created by the hordes of celebrants firing bottle rockets at each other from their fully furnished (with throwaway couches and chairs) trenches. The rockets were lit, of course, with embers from the giant fire pits within each enclave. That was then, however. A couple years later, gang members from Oxnard, Ventura, even Los Angeles got wind of the goings on and began infiltrating both events, causing dangerous mayhem. They terrorized families, drove drunk and fast on Cabrillo Boulevard, threatened and intimidated non or rival gang members and seemed always ready to start fights. Fortunately, the Santa Barbara Police Department, though at first slow to respond, was up to the task of taking on these miscreants. SBPD beefed up enforcement; plainclothesmen and women followed trouble makers and jumped on them at the first sign of conflict. The tactics worked splendidly, and last Saturday night I found myself on State Street once again, reveling in the celebratory atmosphere as a different kind of group – “gangs” – of fun-loving young ladies in six-inch heels and seven-inch miniskirts, along with young men dressed to impress (or not) wobbled and laughed from dance joints to pleasure palaces, from bars to restaurants along the lower part of State Street, thoroughly enjoying themselves. Families with kids in strollers and snugglies, and multi-generational groups joined in the fun, crushing cascarones (egg shells filled with confetti) on the heads of friends, fellow family members, and the occasional stranger. Real gang members, with their oversized white t-shirts, saggy oversized jeans, tattoos, bald heads and scowling faces, were nowhere to be seen. Police presence was highly visible but friendly, and crowd control was enacted with a minimum of pressure. Sobriety checkpoints for vehicles were set up at the periphery, and pedestrians who seemed unable to negotiate the sidewalks were detained until they could. We understand the necessity of reining in what had become an out-of-control party atmosphere by the late 1980s, though we remain nostalgic for the freedom of being able to walk down State Street with a glass of wine or bottle of beer. But, we applaud – editorially and personally – the efforts of the Santa Barbara Police Department for keeping the peace and helping make Fiesta a safe and fun event for all. Viva La SBPD!

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Yes indeed, these are the dog days of what has been another temperaturecontrolled, glorious summer. But, before you buckle down to get the kids ready for school, we encourage you to attend at least one of two upcoming events. The first is a show called Shadows: An Original Musical, set to play at Center Stage Theater at 7 pm Friday, August 17 and Saturday, August 18, created, written, directed (and acted) by Griffin Saxon and his best friend Zoe Serbin. Zoe and Griffin met in kindergarten at Montecito Union School and will be high school seniors come September. Jo Saxon, Griffin’s mom, informs us that this is the second show they have written together. “Their first show and their creative partnership,” she says, “were featured in the short film, The Evolution of a Spark, that Mike deGruy created for TEDxAmericanRiviera 2011.” Jo also reports that “just about half the cast and crew are MUS & Cold Spring alumni.” She does warn, however, that Shadows is rated 13 yrs+, as some of the material isn’t appropriate, because of language and content, for younger kids. Cast members include Jordan Lemmond, Katherine Bottoms, Cameron Platt, Mary Cusimano, Diego Rodriguez, Drew Janssen, Sophia Winnikoff, Nolan McCarthy, Lucia Nuechter, Carly Cummings, Marandah Field-Elliot,

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Santa Barbara’s Roxy Girl

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ontecito YMCA member Katie McLean is a girl in 9,000! The former Montecito Union and Santa Barbara High School student has just won a worldwide contest, which landed her a surfing holiday to Biarritz, situated on the Bay of Biscay in south western France and formerly a popular resort for the likes of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII. Surfer Katie, who describes herself as an artist, gallery owner, yogi, environmentalist and writer, also receives $5,000 in cash and, in October, goes on another trip to a secret international location described as “tropical and Third World.” She was one of three winners from around the globe, including Bali and Wales. Katie discovered the competition, thrown by Roxy Girl, the $400 million women’s line of the international surf apparel company, Quicksilver, on the company’s website earlier this year and had to submit a two-minute video, ‘The Sea Sets Me Free,” which was then judged by visitors to the company’s site. She was one of the final 24 girls to represent the Americas, acing out the competition when she made a second two-minute video “Sea and Be Inspired,” which garnered her the top slot after being viewed by a group of professional athletes. “I’m infused with a love of the surf and street cultures, and a desire to create my own path,” says Katie, who also studied art and design at Otis College in Manhattan Beach. “I saw the ‘Live the Dream’ contest on the internet and snagged a wild card spot. I was then one of the final ten and learned I’d won earlier this summer. I’m still in disbelief that I was chosen out of so many girls. “It’s absolutely crazy how many people know about my passions, work and life from my video submissions and how many people are continuing to follow my adventures on the Roxy blog. It has been an unreal journey.” Katie, who owns the three-year-old Latitude Gallery in the Funk Zone and is an avid trail runner in the mountains above our tony town, just returned from Biarritz and a side trip to Paris, and is leaving for Mexico later this month to help at clinics

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and elementary schools as part of the Wahine Project, part of Project Save Our Surf, headed by former world champion surfer, Montecito-based Shaun Tomson, and actress Tanna Frederick. In due course, Katie, who was Project Save Our Surf’s Surfer of the Month in June, also plans to launch a line of eco t-shirts, as well getting certified as a Pilates instructor. A busy girl, indeed... Potential Inhabitant Could NCIS: Los Angeles actor Chris O’Donnell be the next celebrity resident of our rarefied enclave? Chris, 42, a former Robin in two “Batman” films, was spotted outside Pierre Lafond in the Upper Village closely perusing the real estate brochures on the racks outside the popular deli. “He was really paying close attention to them, not just flicking through them,” says my mole with the martini. There is no doubt Chris, who has been starring on the CBS series for the past three years and lives in Pacific Palisades, would find Montecito an easy commute up the 101 for weekends with his family. I used to know his wife, Caroline, whom he married in 1997 – the daughter of Washington, D.C. sports Actor Chris O’Donnell, Montecito’s next celebrity resident?

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agent, Lee Fentress –, well when I was a regular visitor to the Tarratine Yacht Club in Dark Harbor, Maine. The couple now also has a home on Isleboro in Penobscot Bay. The twosome has five children – three sons and two daughters.... Sisters Bring SiS Back After a 12-month hiatus, Montecito sisters, Luisa and Fernanda Cameron, are back with their two-year-old quarterly fashion magazine SiS. But it will now be a blog rather than an electronic glossy. “The electronic magazine wasn’t allowing them to be as spontaneous as they wanted to be,” explains their mother, leather goods designer Kendall Conrad, who is married to commercial director David Cameron. “By transferring to the blog, it lets them post whenever the muse courts them. It also has video and song capability, which they couldn’t do with the magazine. The posts are on an ongoing basis.” Says Luisa, a Laguna Blanca student: “The blog will be full of things that inspire Fernanda and I. Places, food, music, art, film and fashion. It will be a visual archive of our lives and interests.” Sizzling Season The State Street Ballet’s new sea-

Montecito sisters, Luisa and Fernanda Cameron launch their new blog SiS

son promises to be a cracker, particularly with the addition of Russian dancer Sergey Kheylik, who studied at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy in Moscow and won the prestigious gold medal at the International Ballet Competition in Varna, Bulgaria, where previous recipients included Mikhail Baryshnikov and Fernando Bujones, both former principal dancers at New York’s American Ballet Theatre. “Sergey really is quite a find,” enthused the 18-year-old company’s director, Rodney Gustafson, at a reception at the Montecito home of Ellen Zissler. “His background is outstanding. He also received a scholarship from the Rudolph Nureyev Foundation to study at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School. “Within the last five years his companies have included Cirque Du Soleil, Los Angeles Ballet, the South

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LETTERS

TO THE EDITOR

If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA. 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to [email protected]

Time For The Golden Rule

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t is truly interesting how many mature local people agree that the public school system should make an important small change now. Because of the reality of the economic recession, a high percentage of both parents must work to pay the bills, etc. Historically, the Greatest Generation (1900-1930), was fortunate in that before Pearl Harbor, women did not work. Children were nurtured in their homes. There were greatly fewer distractions, such as television and the Internet, etc. From the beginning of their lives, boys and girls learned the foundations of American traditions: Honor thy Father and thy Mother; love thy neighbor as thyself; never lie, cheat or steal, etc. The international golden rule (do unto others as you would have them do unto you) was known by all and mostly followed. The high value of just a few minutes every school day will be amazingly great. America will soon be positively influenced by this necessary change.

These few minutes every day, say in home room, will make all the difference in a short time because attitude and higher scholarship will quickly result. Sincerely, G. Hebert Montecito (Editor’s note: Excellent idea, but until teachers’ unions go the way of the Dodo bird, the introduction of moral values and standards into public school classrooms will be verboten – J.B.)

The Fat Lady’s Gotta Sing

We are writing to thank Bob Hazard for the informative and comprehensive summing up he did of our Hermosillo neighborhood’s tussle with Caltrans, which has been going on for well over a year now. His editorial on “The Future of the Cabrillo Blvd-Hot Springs Interchange” (MJ # 18/25) was clear and concise and, I might

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add, extremely well written. We are both most appreciative for being recognized as part of the team that has brought us all to a positive step for Hermosillo Road and the Coast Village Road community. And, of course, we appreciate Mr. Hazard’s personal contribution to the positive outcome he describes in his piece. He was there with us, vocal and supportive, every step of the way and he deserves a good deal of credit. Stay with us, please. As you well know, “It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.” Darryl and Lynda Hickman Montecito

On Glenn Miller’s Whereabouts

I have recently had the pleasure of reading Julian Nott’s “UP and OUT” article in the Summer-Fall 2012 issue of Montecito Journal’s semi-annual glossy edition. In the article you note that the 1944 disappearance of Glenn Miller (over the English Channel) “was finally explained…” Although I have been (and remain) a longtime Miller fan, I was unaware that the mystery surrounding his disappearance had been resolved. I am hoping that, should he be willing, he would be so kind as to fill me in on the circumstances and details of the “deathbed revelation.” If you find the time, I would greatly appreciate a brief note. Sincerely, Jerry Higgins Santa Barbara (Dear Mr. Higgins: Thank you for your interest in my article. First let me say that I am a scientist and not a music historian. However, as I mentioned in my article, I find it infuriating that so many people choose to believe unlikely theories on almost any subject. If you Google the disappearance of Glen Miller, you will find theories on the subject ranging from the reasonable to the ridiculous. As I understand it, Glenn Miller’s disappearance was a mystery for a full forty years. Then Fred Shaw, who had been a Royal Air Force navigator in 1944, now in old age, announced that he had seen a small aircraft of the right sort brought down by unused bombs being abandoned over the North Sea by Lancaster bombers returning from an aborted air raid on Germany. He recorded his sighting in his logbook at the time. A number of people have subsequently looked at his claim, the evidence, and the records and it seems the consensus, at least among British experts, is that his story is probably accurate. It certainly makes sense to me: but you might like to investigate and let us all know what you find out in due course. All good wishes – Julian Nott)

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Singing For Shingles

Purely as a public service, I have written a grand opera based upon the scourge of shingles, entitled “Forza del Shingle-Oso,” with three dramafilled acts. Program note: if you have had Chicken pox, you can get shingles. Ask your doctor about the anti-shingles shot. The curtain rises as Don Antonio Shingle-oso (bass baritone) enters the village. He sings pui forte: “Lo transporto tutti persona infecto chicken poxio.” He then descends upon the innocent villagers, inflicting them with pain, followed by itching, followed by even more intense pain. Donna Marguerita sings her great aria: “O tremenda ithyscratchio e grande pena,” which she ends with a high C, as she is attacked with an electric prod held by Don Antonio Shingle-oso. Our hero, Tenor Marcello AntiShingle-shotio, enters a tiempo and comes to her rescue singing, “O salva suo nervoso tormento vicino sua waist-iono.” A solemn chorus follows: “Inoculoso siempre.” Then, members of the chorus, holding golden hypodermic needles chase the villagers around a maypole, singing, “Thisa hurtsa youa more than it hurtsa us-a.” The first non-profit performance will be given on top of the Taj Mahal roundabout at the compression of Cabrillo-Hot Springs-Old Coast Highway-Coast Village Road, as soon as the perfume from the Laguna across the way has finished wafting over our beautiful village-io. Addio Donna Christina Allison Montecito (Editor’s note: So far, no one among us has succumbed to this ailment; although you use satire to make your point, it is a point well taken. Shingles shots are relatively inexpensive, easy to administer, and can save many individuals the excruciating unpleasantness of the condition. – J.B.)

Good-Bye Dr. Downen

After forty-two years of practicing dentistry and twenty-four years practicing here as a partner in Montecito Dental Group, I have decided to retire. I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for your support, friendship, loyalty, and the privilege of providing your dental care. I would like you to know that my primary concern, once I made the decision to retire, was to locate a skilled and dedicated dentist with whom I felt comfortable entrusting your present and future dental care. After interviewing multiple dentists this past year, I am pleased to say 9 – 16 August 2012

that I have located that person in Dr. Cristopher Shepard. Dr. Shepard was born and raised in Salem, Oregon and attended the University of Nevada School of Dental Medicine on full scholarship, graduating in 2007. Since graduating, he has been a practicing dentist and the Dental Director in a well respected dental clinic in the Sacramento area. I know you will find Dr. Shepard to not only be an excellent dentist, but a friendly and caring person as well. I feel fortunate to have found such an experienced and capable dentist to assume the responsibilities of my practice. I have no doubt the transition will be seamless. The office staff (including my assistant Kathleen) will remain the same. Thank you again for your years of dedication to my practice. I know Dr. Shepard looks forward to meeting each of you, in addition to earning your trust in providing dental care for you and your families. Best wishes and kindest regards Dr. Craig Downen Montecito Dental Group (Editor’s note: Dr. Downen has been my dentist for the past 15 years or so and we indeed are going to miss him! – J.B.)

Yin and Yang

It’s actually quite liberating to get one’s comfort zone shaken up from time to time. It might even awaken some of us from the continuous deep snooze of our conditioned lives. Much more is at stake than a mere election in November, granted this one is more significant than previous ones. The bifurcation and hatred of multifragmented people has become more visible, urgent and more menacing throughout the globe, striking closer to home (i.e. the Colorado Batman massacre) in greater numbers of mindless chaos since World War II. With the global economy imploding, it doesn’t look like things are going to get any better anytime soon. The best solution I can think of is to heal ourselves: one soul at a time. If enough of us achieve balance and harmony, a critical mass of enlightenment would spread throughout the world. It means holding the tension between the warring opposites: Yin and Yang. Case in point: recently, I attended an artist reception in Summerland at Just Folk, a unique gallery with museum quality works of art. Upstairs in the sunshine-filled loft reminiscent of Vermont architecture, I discovered

something in the midst of a cluster of small flat wooden figures hanging on the far wall, a striking work by Howard Finster (1916-2001), combining image and words to illustrate Biblical texts, making each painting a sermon in its own right. The heading engraved on a wooden lamb simply leaped out at me: “Watch out for lambs with lions’ paws.” What a powerful (as well as visual) message for the collective liberal Yin energy (the feminine) to take to heart.  My gift to the community is to give complimentary Jungian Archetype readings every Wednesday at Alice Keck Park Memorial Garden, a living Claude Monet painting, where the ducks, turtles, and Koi reside. I’ll be on Turtle Island (across the Gazebo) from 4 pm to approximately 5 or 6 pm. It’s fun and painless. Come by and say hello. Leslie Nelson Montecito P.S. I keep forgetting to mention how adorable baby Deacon Buckley looked in his one-year-old birthday photo; please update every month! (Editor’s note: He’s now more than fourteen months old, is walking, has a small vocabulary, and gives a fist pump to one and all – TLB)

Civics 101

  Mr. Vance needs a  civics lesson! Marco Rubio was born in Miami, Florida and thus automatically is considered “native born” under the Constitution of the United States (“Marco Rubio No,” Letters to the Editor MJ # 18/29). The fact that  his parents did not become U.S. citizens until he was two years old has no effect on Rubio’s eligibility to become Vice President. To call the President of the United States “First Bastard” proves that Mr. Vance not only needs a  civics lesson, but that he also needs a lesson on how to respect the office of President of the United States and on how to  respect our country. Ernie Salomon  Santa Barbara (Editor’s note: For the record, Mr. Vance did not call President Obama the “First Bastard”; he noted that if the president’s father had been Frank Marshall Davis and not Kenyan Barack Obama, Sr., that would make the president the “First Bastard.” There is a difference, so we thought we’d point that out, even though the intimation seems both far-fetched and gratuitous. – J.B.) •MJ

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This Week in and around Montecito

SATURDAY AUGUST 11 Toy Crazy Anniversary Party Crafts, refreshments and snacks to celebrate the store’s first year in Montecito When: 11 am to 1 pm Where: 1026 Coast Village Road Cost: free

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SATURDAY AUGUST 11 Railway Days Join fans and hobbyists from all over for the third annual Railway Days to raise funds for the Parkinson Association of Santa Barbara (PASB). Operators from local railroad clubs will be running model trains all day, and see an impressive outdoor layout, modeled on the Southern Pacific Santa Cruz Division that covers approximately 12,000 square feet. Also on display, and featured in national model railroad magazines, the 1,500 square foot HO-scale indoor layout at the Siegel residence in Montecito is modeled after the Louisville and Nashville Railroads of eastern Kentucky Division circa 1971. When: Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 5 pm Where: 1143 Camino Viejo Cost: $5 suggested donation Info: 683-1326 or www.mypasb.org

THURSDAY AUGUST 9 MERRAG Meeting and Training Network of trained volunteers that work and/or live in the Montecito area prepare to respond to community disaster during critical first 72 hours following an event. The mutual “self-help” organization serves Montecito’s residents with the guidance and support of the Montecito Fire, Water and Sanitary Districts. This month: Terrorism and CERT. When: 10 am Where: Montecito Fire Station, 595 San Ysidro Road Info: Geri, 969-2537 Memphis Meets Margerum A group of Memphis’ top chefs will visit Santa Barbara August 9-11 to pair the smoke and spice of Memphis cuisine with the portfolio of wines made by local winemaker Doug Margerum. Over the course of the weekend event, three Memphis chefs, Felicia Suzanne, Andrew Ticer and Michael Hudman will prepare meals accompanied by wines from Margerum Wine Company, Happy Canyon Vineyards, and Cent’ Anni. Guests will experience the unique fusion of flavors at a variety of culinary events. When: August 9-11, various times and

places Info and tickets: www. margerumwinecompany.com Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker When: 7:30 pm to 9 pm Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

SATURDAY AUGUST 11 Santa Barbara Connection Grand Opening Shop for treasures from the finest estates in Montecito and Hope Ranch When: 845-4107 Where: 715 Kimball Avenue Info: 845-4107 Taste of the Vine & Auction Sansum Diabetes Research Institute hosts its popular fundraiser, the 11th Annual Taste of the Vine & Auction, at the QAD, Inc. headquarters on the bluffs in Summerland. Event proceeds support medical research to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes.  The event features a spectacular view, music by Society Jazz, and a live auction with auctioneers John Palminteri and Gabe Saglie. Attendees will be able to partake in food, fine wines and

handcrafted beer from over 40 of the Central Coast’s best purveyors. There will be a silent auction with items including vacation packages and wines. Rabobank, N.A. and Bialis Family Foundation are the Estate Sponsors. Other top sponsors to date include Nancy and Thomas S. Crawford, Jr., Alfred Mann Foundation, James and Amy Sloan, Montecito Bank & Trust, Boyd Communication and Linda Boyd, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, the Inserra family, the Coeta & Donald Barker Foundation, Angelina Trujillo M.D., Pacific Diagnostic Laboratories and the Henry W. Bull Foundation. Tickets are $75 in advance and $85 at the door if not sold out. For more information call Pamme Mickelson Windhager at (805) 682-7638 ext. 210 or purchase tickets on-line at www.sansum.org. When: 3 to 7 pm Where: 100 Innovation Place

MONDAY AUGUST 13 MBAR Meeting Montecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of Montecito When: 3 pm Where: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu Book Signing with Michael Medved Bestselling author and radio show host Michael Medved will broadcast his show live from the Reagan Ranch Center to honor the anniversary of the signing of the Economic Recovery Tax Act by Ronald Reagan. Light refreshments will be served. When: 12 noon to 3 pm live broadcast and open house; 3 to 4 pm book signing

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TUESDAY AUGUST 14 Montecito Association Meeting The Montecito Association is committed to preserving, protecting, and enhancing the semi-rural residential character of Montecito When: 4 pm Where: Montecito Hall, 1469 East Valley Road Cruisin’ Carp Enjoy the town of Carpinteria with the monthly event, “Cruisin’ Carp.” Stores along Carpinteria Avenue and Linden Avenue will offer specials and stay open late. When: 5 pm to 8 pm Where: Carpinteria Avenue and Linden Avenue   Peppers Day Center Grand Opening “World War II… My Way” is the topic of a panel discussion at the Peppers Day Center, a licensed day center for adults, taking place immediately before the grand opening event. The public is invited to these free of charge events, held in conjunction with the California Central Coast Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, and encouraged to bring children for these first-hand stories. The panel discussion will feature veterans of World War II who will recant their own personal stories of the war and the war effort. Seniors with stories to relate are asked to call (805) 698-9390. Refreshments will be served and a Q&A session will follow. Other events include Alzheimer’s informational presentations. When: panel from 1 to 3 pm, grand opening from 3 to 6 pm Where: 430 Hot Springs Road Cost: free Info: (805) 451-2222 or email [email protected]

MONDAY AUGUST 20 Lecture & Luncheon The leaders of two veterans groups critical of President Obama will speak to Santa Barbara Republican Women, Federated, at their luncheon at the Montecito Country Club. Retired Navy

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hard work of the planning committee: Arnie Parrish, Andrew Antone, Annamarie Kostura, Chip Willbrandt, Christopher Hatman, David Breed, David Edelman, Janice Bowie, Jason Patton, Jen Maklin, Jennifer Jaqua, Jessica Stampe, Kristi Marks, Mindy Denson, Sherry Stimatz, Susan EngDenbaars and Tyler Dobson. This fun and frolic was all for a good cause to benefit SBIFF’s free children’s education and community outreach programs. Executive director Roger Durling and board president Doug Stone are especially proud of this. One program is called “Field Trip to the Movies,” where children get to see a free movie and have a Q&A after with the director. It began in 2003 with 200 kids and is now showing to 4,000. Another program is the 10-10-10 Student Screenwriting & Filmmaking Competition that teaches high school and college students the art of filmmaking through a mentoring program with industry professionals. Festival passes and packages are currently 15% off. The 28th SBIFF will run from January 24 to February 3, 2013. That’s a wrap!

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Santa Barbara Historical Museum board president Marlene Miller with executive director Douglas Diller at the annual Fiesta party

Museum holds its annual fiesta party – this year is the 69th. What more Spanish place than the courtyards of the Historic Adobe (1836), the Covarrubias Adobe (1817) and the museum itself? This year the tables were resplendent in all the jewel tones of a gaily-colored serape. Greeting guests at the door were board president Marlene Miller and the new executive director Douglas Diller who is replacing the late David Bisol. Douglas stated, “These are exciting times for the Museum with

Old Spanish Days board members Angelique and Erik Davis on either side of El Presidente Ricardo Castellanos in the SBHM courtyard

record numbers of visitors, educational programming and recent nationally recognized exhibitions. I am confident that our team of professional staff will continue to enrich the lives of our community by making Santa Barbara history a relevant source of pride in this great city.” Douglas has many educational skills for the job as well as working closely with David for almost a decade. Also announced was the completion of funding for the future Edward Borein Gallery of Western American

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Art that will be permanently in the Historic Adobe and should be ready by summer 2013. Margaritas were de rigueur along with tequila tastings. Some of those adding to the atmosphere in fiesta finery were Karen and Si Jenkins, Leslie and Frank Schipper, Astrid Hammett, Alex Finkel, Charlene and Wayne Finkel, John Woodward, Terry Bartlett and Randy Fox, Diana and Ralph MacFarlane, Bill and George Burtness, Eleanor Van Cott, Michel and Johnathan Martin, and Sarah and Nathan Martin. Honorary co-chairs were Sally and David Martin. A sought after opportunity in the live auction was a Reagan Ranch Tour for four including lunch courtesy of the Young America’s Foundation. We were fortunate enough to do that recently and it was fascinating. Another was dinner and wine pairing for eight at the 200-year-old adobe on historic Rancho San Julian, donated by descendants of the founding de la Guerra family, Bill and Robin Poett. And what would a fiesta party be without the El Presidente Ricardo

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Castellanos and the Spirit of Fiesta Sabrina Ibarra? Famed flamenco dancer Timo Nunez dazzled with his authentic performance. The evening ended with dancing under the stars, but fiesta had just begun. Viva la fiesta!

Carnival of the Animals

The Music Academy of the West (MAW) campus resounded “with the sound of kids.” Montecito Bank & Trust (MB&T) hosted over 300 of them at MAW for a special performance of Carnival of the Animals. They were all attending various summer camps like United Way’s Fun in the Sun, the United Boys & Girls Clubs from Santa Barbara Westside and Goleta and the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara, The outdoor carnival part was in full swing when I arrived. MAW president/CEO Scott Reed was among the many painted faces. More kids were jumping rope, playing

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African Ballet Theatre and the Hong Kong Ballet. Sergey was even in Paramount’s film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and danced at Sting’s charity show at Carnegie Hall, performing onstage with Elton John, Bruce Springsteen and Lady Gaga.” Joining Sergey on the Granada stage will be Chilean Mauricio Vera, a longtime member of the Ballet of Santiago. Later this year, SSB will be making its Manhattan debut with The Secret Garden, as well as performing again with the Santa Symphony in Stravinsky’s Firebird. The new program will also include Beauty and the Beast and a show based on the works of singer Paul Simon, who, it is hoped, will be in the audience. Among those meeting the dancers were Arlyn Goldsby, Connie

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another hour to the delay. They arrived halfway through the polo game, but we fired up the barbecue again after the match. All in all, the event lasted almost eight hours. “Hopefully, barring any incidents, we’ll get them all up full-time next year!” Chinese Chukkers in Carp Despite ominous dark clouds and rain early in the day, the skies cleared for the Braille Institute Auxiliary of Santa Barbara’s 29th annual invitational polo match and benefit lunch. Nearly 200 guests attended the “Chinese Chukkers” bash at the Carpinteria club, chaired by Jo Thompson and Charlene Nagel, which raised around $100,000. Jake Klentner following in his father Justin’s stirrup-steps at the SB Polo Club

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THURSDAY AUGUST 16 American Wine Society Event  AWSSB announces its sixth event: “Syrah Cold Versus Warm Climate.” Explore a range of cooler climate and warmer climate Syrah varietals to understand the influence of climate on flavor. From the cool heights of Napa and Sonoma, to misty Mendocino County, and from sunny Paso Robles to various microclimate areas of the Santa Ynez Valley and surrounds, this tasting takes enthusiasts on a journey through flavor. Guest speaker at this event is Etienne Terlinden, winemaker at Summerland Winery. When: 6 pm to 8:30 pm Where: Oreana Winery, 205 Anacapa Street Cost: $30 for members, $40 for non-members, includes six flights and hors d’ouevres. Tickets: www.awssb.org SEAL Commander Ryan Zinke, who organized the super PAC Special Operations for America, and US Army veteran Joel Arends, chairman of Veterans for a Strong America, believe that Obama has politicized the Osama bin Laden raid and endangered the lives of SEAL Team 6 that carried out the raid. They believe that team members and their families were put at risk by being identified by the President for political purposes. Zinke, a Republican state senator from Montana, said his group also objects to deep military cuts and increases in health care costs to veterans. He retired from active duty in 2008 after serving 23 years as a Navy Seal. Capt. Arends and his organization are working against mandatory Pentagon budget cuts that would damage national security. He earned a Bronze Star while serving in Iraq and is currently a captain in the US Army Reserves. Both have appeared on Fox News. When: 11:30 am to 1:30 pm Where: 920 Summit Road Cost: $35 pre-paid or $40 at the door Info: [email protected]

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iPad Classes Bring your iPad and problems to Café Del Sol, to learn tips and tricks to get the most out of your iPad and iPhone and to have questions and answers from beginning users to advanced. First time users are especially welcome. When: Tuesdays at 1 pm Where: 30 Los Patos Way Cost: free Info: (805) 692-2005

Pick-up Basketball Games He shoots; he scores! The Montecito Family YMCA is offering pick-up basketball on Thursdays at 5:30 pm. Join coach Donny for warm-up, drills and then scrimmages. Adults welcome too. When: 5:30 pm Where: Montecito Family YMCA, 591 Santa Rosa Lane Info: 969-3288

Boy Scout Troop 33 Meeting Open to all boys ages 11-17; visitors welcome When: 7:15 pm Where: Scout House, Upper Manning Park, 449 San Ysidro Road

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Vintage & Exotic Car Day Motorists and car lovers from as far away as Los Angeles and as close as East Valley Road park in front of Richie’s Barber Shop at the bottom of Middle Road on Coast Village Road going west to show off and discuss their prized possessions, automotive trends and other subjects. Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Corvettes prevail, but there are plenty other autos to admire. When: 8 am to 10 am (or so) Where: 1187 Coast Village Road Info: [email protected]  •MJ

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n the interest of full disclosure, I did not vote for Barack Obama to be president. I must confess, however, that I shed a tear of happiness on election night in 2008. My joy stemmed from the fact that my country had done what seemed impossible when I began life as a “colored” child in Leesville, Louisiana on June 15, 1939. While I am a card-carrying Republican, I am not a partisan when it comes to presidential elections. There is simply too much at stake for the nation and for future generations than for me to be guided by strict partisanship in casting my vote for president. As I watched adults and children of all ages and ethnic backgrounds listen to Obama’s victory speech on election night with tears of joy on their faces, I could not help but be jubilant and proud to be an American citizen. My joy was reinforced when president-elect Obama and his family strolled to the stage and Mr. Obama gave the nation this uplifting rhetoric: “It’s the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Latino, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled – Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red States and Blue States: we are, and always will be, the United States of America.” These comments and the nation’s reaction to them caused me to question whether my instincts about Mr. Obama had been wrong and the collective judgment of the American electorate had been right. My belief in the possibility of a united American people, free from the debilitating influence of race, had never been greater. In the fullness of time, President Obama has given me every reason to embrace and reaffirm my judgment about him and the wisdom of my vote against him. Character is, perhaps, one of the most critical factors in a president. As citizens, we need to know whether the individual to whom we have entrusted the role of being the CEO of our corporation is trustworthy and credible. When he or she tells us something, can we accept it at face value? For my part, I have regrettably grown to question and approach with skepticism almost everything 9 – 16 August 2012

the president says. This is borne of the fact that he has been campaigning for reelection almost since day one of his administration – a fact which makes me believe that it is prudent to filter all of his comments through the screen of reelection politics.

politician will or will not do. For over three and a half years, the American economy has been suffering woefully. Through it all, President Obama has pursued the same stubborn course. And, when his policies have failed, he blames the failure on others: the Congress in particular. Finally, President Obama’s response to the criticism leveled against him for saying to entrepreneurs “you didn’t build that,” is that the criticism is “over the top,” and “taken out of context.”

President Obama has, as he promised, brought change to America; it is my view that the change has not been good

While President Obama talks a great game, results are often missing. Frequently, he does the exact opposite of what he promised or committed during his 2008 campaign, which leads one to wonder whether Mr. Obama has changed or we were deceived before his election. I have come to the regrettable conclusion that the American electorate was deceived. We were seduced into believing Mr. Obama is something he is not. The persona of openness and “transparency” and unification were all pledges designed to seduce us into voting for him. President Obama is like the rear view mirror that warns images are closer than they appear. In short, you can’t trust the mirror! I have been troubled since the campaign and especially after the election by Obama’s tendency to shift blame to former president George W. Bush and others for all that goes wrong in his domain. This is a flaw of character, it seems to me. A leader should man up. Worse, this generally soft-spoken man of moderate temperament and measured words is frequently guilty of behavior that is unbecoming of a leader. A leader of character does not allow one of his surrogates to accuse his opponent of being a “felon” and refuse to admit that he was wrong or to apologize when the allegation is proven to be inaccurate. Such a serious charge should not be casually made. What about the president’s policies? It is undeniably true that presidents are not fully responsible for the condition of the nation’s economy. It is equally true, however, that the American president has far more influence over the economy than he should have. It is dangerous for the nation to have our businesses and our lives hanging in the balance of what one

Actually, I believe Americans are putting the president’s comments in the context of the last nearly four years. He has been contemptuous of doctors, oil companies, banks, Wall Street, and now small business owners. This is the true context of his comments and the truth is that our president believes you can somehow hate employers but love employees. He has poor-mouthed the private sector with unrelenting fervor, support-

ed the “Occupy“ movement, which disrupted businesses all across the nation. This is, indeed, the “context.” I drove by a lemonade stand recently. Instead of telling the children how good their lemonade was, what if I said, “You don’t deserve the credit for this business, because the government built the sidewalk and provided the water for you to mix with the juice from your lemons.” Even if that were true, why should I deflate them so? That is what President Obama has needlessly done to the American entrepreneur. President Obama has, as he promised, brought change to America; it is my view that the change has not been good. The very reason many Americans voted for him – to unify the nation – is now among the reasons why it is crucial to remove him from office. He is terribly divisive. More than any other American president in my lifetime, he promotes the tribalization of the American people instead of its unification. Now, as I shed tears, they are not tears of joy. They are tears of sadness about the direction in which we are going as a nation. Wrong policies, character flaws, lack of leadership, failure to inspire, and inability to unify. Do we need more reasons to make a change? •MJ

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MB&T Janet Garufis asked the audience, “How many of you have been to a concert before?” Many hands went up. I surely didn’t get to do things like that in my hometown as a child. As United Way president Paul Didier told me, “We disguise learning as fun.” Nobody did that at my school either. Saint-Saens wrote Carnival of the Animals in 1886 for a soirée he was giving. The various animals were based on his different friends, which makes me wonder if they found the humor in it. The famous soprano Marilyn Horne, director of voice and vocal piano for the summer program at MAW, narrated the concert story. The orchestra was made up of all faculty except for one fellow (student). After listening and imagining all the animals from their sounds the children went outside for box lunches. A very successful first time venture for MB&T and MAW! MAW presents over 200 events during the eight-week Summer School and Festival. For tickets and information, call 969-8787. •MJ

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On Finance 

by Tim Hatton

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Navigating Around the Impact of Inflation

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ecently, I asked my clients their top three concerns regarding their investments. Most investors, I found, are very, very worried. Their primary concern, using the language of client responses, is that the economy is headed for a “crash” because of our mounting national debt. Are my clients’ worries rational, and if so, how does one manage their portfolio to avoid great monetary loss? Unfortunately, their worries are rational. But before I get into a few specifics about the national debt, I want to say federal deficit spending is not a new problem. Since 1971, the federal government has run a deficit more than 90 percent of the time. There are many views and opinions

$650 billion in spending cuts, and the tax bill of every American would have to increase 25 percent to raise $650 billion. What if we tax the wealthiest Americans? Even if every American who earned $1 million or more contributed all of their income – $727 billion in 2009, the federal government still would need to find another $573 billion to close the gap. What is the principal risk to investors from the national debt? The answer is inflation, which significantly reduces the purchasing power of your savings. Everything you buy, from bread to healthcare, will cost more. Moreover, what you believed to be enough money to retire on may be woefully inadequate.

Invest a percentage of your portfolio in high-quality fixed income equal to your age about the status of our national debt issue. To get an understanding of our debt problem, I recommend reading Comeback America by David M. Walker, former comptroller of the currency. Here are the facts from the Office of Budget and Management for this fiscal year: Federal government spending -$3.8 trillion Federal government tax revenue -$2.5 trillion Deficit -$1.3 trillion The federal budget can be broken into three parts: (1) discretionary programs, or basic government services, including defense, police, prisons, courts, transportation, education, energy, agriculture, and the like; (2) mandatory programs: Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security; and (3) interest on debt. What is concerning is that in fiscal year 2012, mandatory programs consumed $2.5 trillion – the same amount as the government’s entire revenue. The government had to borrow every cent to run the government and pay the interest we owe on the accumulated $16 trillion debt. What if we erased the $1.3 trillion debt with a $650 billion tax increase and $650 billion in government spending cuts? I can’t even begin to identify 9 – 16 August 2012

So we certainly have gotten ourselves into a fiscal pickle; what is a prudent way to structure portfolios to mitigate the negative impacts of significant inflation? First, I apply a rule of one of my investment heroes, the founder of the Vanguard group, Jack Bogle. Invest a percentage of your portfolio in highquality fixed income equal to your age. If you are 50, invest 50 percent in high-quality fixed-income mutual funds. Next, invest 10 percent in precious metals and 40 percent in stock mutual funds. Here are the specifics for a 50-yearold. Of course, there are many other personal factors to consider. So please use this model portfolio as a starting point. Fixed Income – 50% 5% Vanguard Treasury Inflation Protected Securities Fund (TIPS) – VIPSX 15% DFA One-Year Fixed Income – DFIHX 15% Vanguard Short-Term Investment Grade – VFSTX 15% Vanguard Intermediate-Term Investment Grade – VFICX Precious Metals – 10% 7.5% I-shares Gold Trust - IAU 2.5% I-shares Silver Trust – SLV Stocks 40%

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Montecito’s Zachary Wood debuts first album

album, Time Takes Days. Zachary, 19, a folk guitarist, singer and songwriter, who performed in the Summer Solstice Celebration in Alameda Park, started playing solo last year and performs only his own material. “My lyrics tend to describe nature and emotion, and kind of how they intertwine,” says Zachary. “When I was writing the lyrics for my album I was going through an awful breakup and then getting over it, so the lyrics kind of represent my reminiscing and longing in some of the songs, and then a gradual change into letting go and moving on.” Zachary, who took six months to produce his CD – mixing and mastering it at the Playback recording studio in our Eden by Beach –, will be playing songs from it at SOhO on August 21...

Academy Affairs The penultimate week of the Music Academy of the West’s summer festival was another cracker with the highlight being Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress at the Granada under voice program director and worldrenowned mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne, whose early career was nurtured by the Russian composer in the mid-1950s who loved making day trips here from Los Angeles. The ambitious first ever staging of the neo-classical comic production in Santa Barbara was under conductor Alexander Lazarev, former artistic director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theatre, who garnered rave reviews when he conducted the three-act work at the Opera National de Lyon in France. Featuring a libretto by poets W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman and stage direction by David Paul, a Juilliard faculty member who has directed concerts for the Metropolitan Opera, the star of the show was undoubtedly Canadian tenor and academy alumnus Adam Fisher as the pivotal character Tom Rakewell, who falls under the unfortunate devilish shadow of baritone Cameron McPhail, while his jilted girlfriend, played well by soprano Jessica Strong, waits impatiently in rural retreat. Gerard Michael D’Emilio, Sara Couden, Kate Allen, John Kapusta

Marilyn Horne notches up another operatic success

and Jeffrey Goble made up the rest of the more than capable cast, while kudos also goes to scenic designer Sandra Goldmark, costume designer Stephanie Cluggish and Scott WirtzOlsen for his lighting. Just 24 hours later at the First Presbyterian Church, Nicholas McGegan, the amusingly animated music director of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, used his baton to good effect with the Academy Chamber Orchestra in a concert of Bach, Haydn and Mendelssohn. Earlier in the week at Hahn Hall the three B’s reigned with a Tuesdays@8 performance featuring Bach, Bruch and Brahms. The 65th anniversary season concludes on Saturday with the Academy Festival Orchestra under James Gaffigan, chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, playing works by Ives and Mahler at the

Granada.... Coiffure Commentary Actresses are used to spending hours in the make-up trailer, being transformed into character. But former TV talk show titan Oprah Winfrey has found a shortcut – recently tweeting a photo of her vast selection of wigs on the set of her new film, The Butler. Montecito’s most famous resident plays Gloria Gaines in the historical drama – the first time she will appear as a character other than herself since Beloved 14 years ago – with co-stars Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Lenny Kravitz. The film tells the tale of a White House butler who serves eight presidents over the course of three decades. Hair is also on Oprah’s mind on the September cover of her self-titled O magazine, which features her showing off her natural hair in all its glory and her curves in a gown by Badgley Mischka. She believes altering your hairstyle can be liberating. “I even notice a change in my dogs when they get their summer cuts: they’re friskier and livelier, feeling more themselves once the weight of the hair is released,” she writes. And while she is a firm believer in change, Oprah, 58, says that the makeovers which are the most suc-

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Viva la Zoo KEYT-TV’s news team of anchors Joe Gehl, Paula Lopez and Shirin Rajaee, weatherman Alan Rose and senior reporter John Paliminteri were out in force broadcasting from the socially gridlocked Celebracion de los Dignatarios gala at Santa Barbara Zoo. So doting dad, police chief Cam Sanchez, was particularly interested to watch the monitor on the temporary set as his daughter, Victoria Sanchez, who recently moved here from KCOYTV in Santa Maria, did one of her first anchoring gigs on the ABC affiliate. “She’s very good!” he pronounced sagely. More than 2,400 suitably garbed guests surged on to the 30-acre grounds to check out the wine and food vendors, raising around $80,000, which is evenly split between Old Spanish Days and the zoo. Among those getting into the fiesta spirit were mayor Helene Schneider, Frank Hotchkiss, Salud Carbajal, zoo execs Rich Block and Dean Noble, Mindy Denson, Chris Lancashire, Colin and Sharon Friem-Wallace, and Kerrie Kilpatrick-Weinberg... On the Right Track Author Eric Goodman is clearly on the right lines with his debut book, Tracks. The 314-page award-winning

years to write.” A pregnant pause, indeed... Rest in Peace On a personal note, I mark the passing of vocalist and actor Tony Martin, the widower of the dancer-actress Cyd Charisse. I used to see the dynamic duo on occasion at Beverly Hills dinner parties thrown by philanthropists Jerry and Gail Oppenheimer and the late Della Koenig, widow of Erich Koenig, known as the Sugar King of Mexico, who lived just across from the Beverly Hills Hotel. Tony, who just died at the age of 98, sang with several post-war big bands and was touted in Hollywood as the new Clark Gable. He would often croon to his old records before dinner, while Cyd, who was getting increasingly deaf, would just nod along. Afterward, we’d all sing along to Judy Garland numbers with the Filipino staff in the Oppenheimer’s waterfall room. The twosome married in 1948 and their notably happy union of 60 years was one of Tinseltown’s longest until she died four years ago... Sightings: Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones and family noshing at Cielito in La Arcada... Drew Barrymore picking up a sandwich at the Three Pickles... Oscar winner Tommy Lee Jones checking out the Flying A studio exhibit at the SB Historical Museum

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Montecito resident Paul Clay is an Emmy Award winning TV writer-director whose career began as a 19-year-old stand-up comic at the famous Punchline Comedy Club in Atlanta Georgia nearly thirty years ago. He has since written for The Arsenio Hall Show, wrote and directed Designing Women and has written some four dozen television pilots. He has donated his time locally as an auctioneer and emcee for various non-profits and schools; in the past he often shared those duties with Kent Massey. Paul has produced and emceed a comedy series at SOhO off and on since 1998, which he calls “a labor of love.” Comics who’ve performed on the SOhO stage at the behest of Paul include Daniel Tosh,

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he Summer Reading Program ended last week. We had over 200 participants who read over 2,500 books! Don’t let anybody tell you children aren’t reading. Although the reading program is no longer happening, we have new children’s and teen books arriving every week, and there are lots of titles to choose from for fun, recreational reading. Many children have required summer reading, as well. Any titles we don’t have in the branch, we can request from elsewhere and have them brought to the Montecito Library for local pickup. Crane School students have a big goal of reading 10,000 pages over the summer in order to earn lunch out with head of school, Joel Weiss. We are also purchasing the titles for Battle of the Books 2013, and those should be on the shelves very soon. It was my pleasure to bring the summer reading program to the preschool program at the Montecito YMCA this summer. Run by Annie Fischer, this wonderful program nurtures the hearts and minds of some of our youngest citizens. We read about oceans, dinosaurs, pirates, the Olympics, camping and cowboys and cowgirls. We did some mighty fine readin’.

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We are launching a new series this month about adventure, and Julie Hall is kicking things off on Friday, August 24 by sharing her stories and photos of her trip to Burma this summer. Due to slow economic growth, much of the ecosystem and environment of Burma has been preserved. Almost 50% of the land is covered in forests. There are still some tigers and leopards, rhinoceros and elephants roaming freely. It is home to crocodiles and Burmese pythons. The infrastructure is poor with few paved highways and lots of energy shortages. Ninety percent of the world’s rubies come from Burma and yet there are economic sanctions and boycotts on Burmese products due to human rights violations and deplorable working conditions. Compulsory education ends at 9 years old. At a time when traveling to other parts of the world is relatively easy and somewhat commonplace, Burma is exotic and remains an unusual destination for most travelers. It will be an interesting presentation and Julie’s photographs are outstanding. Please join us for our inaugural event. 9 – 16 August 2012

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An anonymous donor has given the Montecito Library the gift of a sound system for our events held in the community hall. We look forward to using our new equipment at our event in August. While on the subject of acknowledgements, local businesses Here’s the Scoop, Tecolote and Toy Crazy were contributors to our Summer Reading Program. Participants in the reading program also received prizes from California Pizza Kitchen, LegoLand, Maritime Museum, Chocolate Gallery, South Coast Railroad Museum, Santa Barbara Gymnastics Club, Chaucer ’s, Bennett’s, Santa Barbara City Parks and Recreation, Ben and Jerry’s, Golf ‘n Fun and Apple Lane Farms. The quotation for this month comes from C.S. Lewis, “We read to know we are not alone.” Happy reading, everybody. •MJ

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Coup De Grace by Shelly Lowenkopf

A Likely Story

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n appropriate metaphor for the short story is the Fabergé egg. Each is a meticulous product of craft. Each is a glimpse into heartbreak of extraordinary and surprising extremes. By any standards, the short stories of John Cheever dramatize this metaphor. “These stories,” Cheever has written of them, “seem to be stories of a long-lost world… when you heard the Benny Goodman quartets from a radio in the corner stationery store, and when almost everybody wore a hat.” Cheever died in June of 1982. The radio from the corner stationery store has been replaced with a flat-screen TV. If anyone wears a hat these days, it is a clone of the baseball cap. But there are things that remain timeless, the Benny Goodman quartets and the short fiction of John Cheever among them. The Stories of John Cheever, from Knopf, contain 61 of his stories, which have achieved the same iconic status in this country as the similar-in-kind stories of Guy de Maupassant have reached in France. Say what you will about Cheever’s troubled personal life and his roaring need for recognition of his work; his stories resonate with the angst and unfulfilled longings of the middle classes and those of the upwardly mobile. My personal favorite, “Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor,” brings the unfulfilled yearnings of an elevator operator to the level of Greek tragedy. Many Cheever fans will have chosen “The Country Husband” to favor for its awl-like presentation of an unthinkable outcome between a mid-level executive and his babysitter. Not to forget Neddy Merrill, “a slender man – he seemed to have the especial slenderness of youth – and while he was far from young he had slid down his bannister that morning and given the bronze backside of Aphrodite on the hall table a smack, as he jogged to the smell of coffee in his dining room.” Merrill is the focus of “The Swimmer,” a story with a payoff as agonizing as the mournful skirl of bagpipes. Even as he wrote about his short story craft and its vision, Cheever betrayed the insisted-upon objectivity of many writers, snuggling instead into nostalgia for some of the things that once were, but as well for some of the things hoped for yet never realized. These were from a generation “who used to get stoned at cocktail parties and perform obsolete dance steps like ‘the Cleveland Chicken,’ sail for Europe on ships, who were truly nostalgic for love and happiness, and whose gods were as ancient as yours and mine, whoever you are.”

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by Grace Rachow Ms. Rachow notes that very few people live to read their obituaries. She aims to correct this unfortunate fact.

Life on the Ledge

Shelly Lowenkopf blogs @ www.lowenkopf.com. He is a visiting professor at the College of Creative Studies, UCSB. His Fiction Writers Handbook is due from White Whisker this September.

Thus “The Season of Divorce” presents a first-person narrative of a man who tells us, “We often find fault with the way we were educated, but we seem to be struggling to raise our children along the same lines, and when the time comes, I suppose they’ll go to the same school and colleges we went to.” As the title of another story will suggest, Johnny Hake, “thirty-six years old, stand five feet eleven in my socks,

[Cheever’s] stories resonate with the angst and unfulfilled longings of the middle classes and those of the upwardly mobile weight one hundred and forty-two pounds stripped, and am, so to speak, naked at the moment and talking into the dark” is about to get into a moral bind. “The Housebreaker of Shady Hill” is the landscape where, once again in a John Cheever short story, the unthinkable has come to pass. “A Miscellany of Characters That Will Not Appear” gives Cheever a postmodernist approach to storytelling. Number 2 on his list of seven inventive riffs: “All parts for Marlon Brando.” “O City of Broken Dreams” yanks us by the Brooks Brothers collar into the about-to-become topsy-turvy world of the Malloys. “When the train from Chicago left Albany and began to pound down the river toward New York, the Malloys, who had already experienced many phases of excitement, felt their breathing quicken, as if there were not enough air in the coach.” Cheever often used the first-person point-of-view to relate his narratives and these have a uniform strength, allowing us early on to know with whom we’re dealing. But he is no stranger to the omniscient narrative, a form where his powers allow us at first hand to eavesdrop of the young, the old, and the decline-to-state types, trying to sort out the mysteries in their pockets and their lives. •MJ

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hich is scarier? Clinging to the granite face of Dog Tooth Peak, or being interviewed on national TV? I’m lucky enough to know Larry Bishop, a man who’s done both and lived to tell the tale. My husband and I heard of our friend Larry’s ordeal the morning after his rescue. We were supposed to meet with him that day for a Toastmaster training. We called his mobile phone to make arrangements. Larry’s an unassuming fellow, but he does have a penchant for telling tall tales, so when he launched into a story about being on a ledge in the Sierra without food or water for two and a half days, we thought he was kidding, making a whopper of an excuse to skip the training that day. However, after Larry offered a few more details, how he misjudged the best way to descend the peak, how he’d been separated from his fellow backpackers because they didn’t feel like scrambling boulders up Dog Tooth that afternoon, how he’d fallen several times going down what turned out to be the steep side of the mountain, we began to realize his story was true. Still, Larry is the master of understatement. When he said he’d been stuck on a ledge, we imagined a comfy space where a guy could stretch out to rest and contemplate the best way out of a pickle. It wasn’t until a few days later when the story hit the national news that we realized the true gravity of his situation. If you Google “Lawrence Bishop, rescued hiker,” you’ll find over 250 news stories, which are mostly the same, but with varying details as to angle of the slope and how far he might’ve fallen if he hadn’t managed to cling to a ledge that would be better described as a six-inch outcropping on smooth granite. The traversable space below was fatally far down. He could not go up. His only choice was to somehow hang on and hope to be rescued. This he did for 52 hours, without sleep, without food, and without water. I read the stories, hoping for a clearer picture. Turns out Larry had taken a terrifyingly clear photo with his own camera that shows the toes of his hiking boots and unforgiving vertical rock below. In his interview with ABC News, he said, “This was the first time I’d had to ask myself just how much was I willing to endure to stay alive.” Larry is 64 years old. He’s an experienced hiker and in reasonable good

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health, but he’s at an age many consider elderly. So he had do draw on inner resources that are impossible to fathom. During his hours of facing facts with little hope, he wrote goodbyes to his wife and daughter in a pocket notebook. Meanwhile his backpacking companions hiked out to call for help. It’s challenging to find lost hikers even for the best search and rescue teams. There’s so much challenging terrain to cover. Larry knew that all too well. In the unlikely event rescuers showed up before he succumbed to dehydration, utter exhaustion and gravity, how on earth would they be able to get him out of his impossible, precarious position?

His only choice was to somehow hang on and hope to be rescued. This he did for 52 hours, without sleep, without food, and without water. Turns out the answer came in the form of a man with super powers, David Rippe, from the Fresno County Sheriff’s office, who defied gravity and somehow made it up the glassy slope with means to secure Larry from falling, and a helicopter positioned itself to lift them both off the mountain. Larry said, “This guy would put mountain goats to shame.” And the 30-year-old super hero would not accept credit without pointing to the rest of his team who also did heroic work. Larry was taken to a hospital in Fresno to be treated for dehydration and a few cuts and scrapes, and he’ll fully recover. Of course, he’ll never be the same. If our friend had not made it off that mountain, I’d write about the time he gave a speech where he brought the entire audience up front with him to demonstrate the vastness of the universe. I’d mention that he once lent me a book on quantum physics that I’m still reading. I’d brag how he made dynamite pumpkin bread every year for our Toastmaster club’s holiday potluck. I’ll save those tributes for another day and simply say I’m grateful Larry Bishop had what it took to survive, and I look forward to hearing just how he did it. •MJ 9 – 16 August 2012

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that the MWD property would be too expensive to lease. “There is a dire need for Verizon to maintain coverage in Montecito. In our view this is a good site because it doesn’t alter the architecture, there is already an established use, and there is no visual blight,” Higgins said. Higgins says that an estimated 30% of households are “wireless only,” meaning they do not have a landline for telephone use. “The amount of people coming onto the network necessitates additional sites,” he said. “Verizon would disagree with the sentiment that they are choosing the site based on finances. The primary objective is customer service,” Higgins said. He went on: “How many customers can we serve with the least amount of sites?” He said there is potential for Montecito to lose coverage if the new site is held up in litigation and appeals. “That would be doomsday for Verizon,” he said. He encouraged the committee to not make a decision based on health issues, given the FCC already has methodologies used to determine public safety. “Clearly the principal concern is the RF emissions. Unfortunately the Board of Supervisors cannot make a judgment based upon that. I think we are wasting our time to use that as a vehicle in supporting the appeal,” said Land Use Chair Dave Kent. The Land Use Committee based their support of the appeal on verbiage from the Montecito Community Plan, which states projects must not affect Montecito residents’ comfort, convenience and general welfare. The committee noted there could be possible harm to the business of the preschool, as several parents have threatened removing their children if the antennas are installed. Negative effects to property values were also noted. The committee would like to see Verizon reopen negotiations with the Montecito Water District, and would also like Verizon to work with the County to identify and authorize a temporary antenna location so there will be more time to find a more suitable site. If approved by the full board next week, the letter will be sent to the Board of Supervisors, to be considered during the August 21st meeting at 9 am.

Toy Crazy Celebrates One Year

Specialty toy store, Toy Crazy, located in Montecito Country Mart, celebrates its one-year anniversary with a Summer Craft event this Saturday, August 11. Owner Melissa Moore says the store has flourished since opening last summer. “It has exceeded our expectations,” she told us earlier

Melissa Moore, owner of Toy Crazy, celebrates the store’s first anniversary in Montecito

this week. Over the last year, Montecito Country Mart has undergone several changes, including remodeling and several store openings. “I just knew this place could be as successful as my other store,” says Moore, referring to her Brentwood location, located in Brentwood Country Mart, which is also owned by James Rosenfield. “It is the ‘Mom and Pop’ type stores that are best received by the community,” Moore said. The 1,150-sq-ft shop, which is packed wall-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling with toys, is the third location of Toy Crazy; the other two are located in Brentwood and Malibu. “This is my passion,” she says of her 22-year career in the toy business. She says she enjoys weeding through toys to find the “best of the best” for all ages. Ninety percent of the store’s offerings are specialty toys, while ten percent are mass-market brands including Barbie, Polly Pocket, Lego, and Hot Wheels. Moore also offers toys and products from local inventors, including FunK Shades, started by Montecito mom Candy Hedrick. Ms Hedrick started the polarized children’s sunglasses line for her daughter Katherine, who was born with a birthmark on her

left eye. The line is kid-friendly, with changeable charms that allow kids to personalize their glasses. “I just love being able to showcase talented, local people who’ve invented great things,” Moore says. Some of the items Moore offers include specialty wood toys, various games lines, European lines, and toys and games which, she says, encourage relationships between parents and children. The store also offers weekly storytelling every Wednesday at 11 am, and Allowance Day the first Sunday of each month. Kids can bring in their allowance and receive fifteen percent off their purchases. Moore, who has three children of her own, travels to the Montecito store every day to check in and be present. “We have been embraced by the community; I’d say it’s definitely working out!” she laughs. The store is known for its charitable contributions, and has participated with community organizations including Crane Country Day School, Montecito Union School, Cold Spring School, Montecito YMCA, The Oaks ParentChild Workshop, The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara, Our Lady of Mount Carmel School and more. The event to celebrate Toy Crazy’s first anniversary will take place this Saturday, August 11, from 11 am to 1 pm. Tables and chairs will be out on the courtyard patio, with crafts and games for kids of all ages. Snacks and lemonade will be served. Toy Crazy is located at 1026 Coast Village Road (805) 565-7696.

Friendship Center Hosts Annual Wine Down Friendship Center, the south coast’s only non-profit, fully licensed adult day services program, will host the

Flora Burnham, a long-time Friendship Center volunteer, at the very first Wine Down event in 2010

3rd Annual Wine Down on Friday, August 24, from 4 to 6:30 pm. All proceeds from the event will support Friendship Center’s program expansion efforts. Program director Justine Sutton tells us the casual yet festive event will feature ten local vintners. They include Buttonwood Farm Winery, Consilience & Tre Anelli, Cottonwood Canyon, Fess Parker Wines, Firestone Vineyard, Kalyra Winery, Pali Wine Company, and Palmina, Rusack, and Whitcraft Wineries. There will also be hearty hors d’oeuvres, and live music by Montecito Jazz Project, headed by Tom Towle. “This Friday after-work gathering will give guests a chance to enjoy a lovely summer evening and ‘wine down’ from the cares of the week,” Sutton said. The event will be held al fresco style in the Center’s courtyard. A small silent auction will offer gift baskets featuring high-quality wine and wine-related items. Friendship Center provides day services to aging and dependent adults with cognitive impairments, such as Alzheimer’s disease, other age-related health problems, and developmental disabilities. The program provides transportation, meals, activities, socialization, supervision and compassionate care. Both Friendship Center sites, in Montecito and Goleta, are accepting new members. Eligible veterans receive services at no cost. For more information, call Jackie Kennedy, Family Services Director, at 969-0859. Tickets for the Wine Down are $65 each, and can be purchased by visiting www.friendshipcentersb.org, or by calling 969-0859. Friendship Center is located at 89 Eucalyptus Lane in Montecito.  •MJ

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Music Academy of the West Summer Festival Finale

by Steven Libowitz

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ames Gaffigan has been at the Granada with an orchestra before. But that was in 2009, with the San Francisco Symphony, when he was the associate conductor to Michael Tilson Thomas, and as the understudy he really didn’t have much to do. He’s got his hands full this time around. As the leader of the final Academy Festival Orchestra concert on Saturday night, Gaffigan is charged with helping the non-piano instrumental fellows coalesce around a truly challenging program featuring Ives’ Three Places in New England and Mahler’s game-changing Symphony No. 1. Gaffigan, chief conductor of the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra since early 2010, has plenty of experience stepping in as a guest, having played similar roles with the Cleveland Orchestra, and the Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati, Houston, Indianapolis, Vancouver, Seattle, and New World symphonies. The concert is at 8pm Saturday night (Tickets cost $10-$48). It’s a good

James Gaffigan returns to the Granada to conduct the final Academy Festival Orchestra concert on Saturday, August 11

bet the orchestra will be ready, willing and able – at least if Gaffigan is able to accomplish even some of what he talked about over the phone last weekend. Q. Compare taking on student orchestras with working with professionals: What do you have to do differently? A. When young people at this level get together to make music, really

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interesting things can happen, more so than with professionals. Because they’re musical virgins, they’re starting from a blank slate – but at a very high level – and experiencing this music for first time. My greatest memories are from my time in youth orchestra. I had great conductors. I remember things they said in rehearsal even now. I can still recall what Jonathan Strasser with the InterSchool Orchestra said, word for word. It’s an amazing feat to get eighty people to play something together, to breathe together, and at this high level it’s really fun. They’re fresh, not cynical, and open-minded, like sponges ready to soak up information. Of course you’re lucky to get them at the end of the season, where they’ve been playing together for seven intense weeks. Yes, the end of the season is great. Most dangerous is the middle. There’s a drought; they lose their energy. At the end there are some people who want to go home; they’re kind of done. I remember being in Aspen for nine weeks, and it’s a long time. But I’m lucky because Larry Rachleff, my old teacher, was here the first two weeks. In my mind, he is one of the best trainers at this level. He’s brilliant with this age group. So it’s great he set the tone. They know each other, they have an identity, and they’re not so nervous to play in front of each other. I imagine a lot of the program, though, must be new to them. My guess is fifty percent might have played Mahler before, but more like ninety percent haven’t been exposed to the Ives. It’s an important role teaching them the repertoire. The boring way would be just to rehearse the entire ensemble all the time, put it together like a math problem. But Ives is about separate voices doing different things in different styles at the same time. So I think they’re going to have a real trip playing this music, and it’s perfect for them. Ives would have loved cell phones ringing in concert. He was drawn to chaos and would have thrived on our modern life. He was partial to the one guy who was a bit too drunk to play his part correctly. This music is a celebration of real life. Of the three pieces, one

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Can you talk about the Mahler? How do young orchestras get to the depths of his work? I think young people really relate to Mahler. It’s an emotional journey of ups and downs, schizophrenic changes of character, with quick episodic events… It’s sort of ADD music. It’s like channel surfing. [That said], Mahler 1 is the most calmly structured and classical of his symphonies. It’s very inspired by music of the past, and by nature and simple things. It’s not too complex like the 9th, not even close in harmonic language. So it’s a great one to start with. There’s a lot to talk about in this music, a lot of color and weight. All of these things we discuss in great music, you get to do all of it in fifty minutes. You’ve been described as having a “natural ease of conducting.” What exactly does that mean? I think it’s a publicist’s way of saying I have good technique that’s not forced. I think there are three types of conductors: ones who are very clear ones, extremely clear, about how they want to orchestra to play, which the musicians don’t always appreciate, because it’s boring. Then there are those who can’t explain what they want with clarity, but get the message across with their charisma. I see myself as between; I can be clear, but also be vague when that’s necessary, inspiring without spoon-feeding all the information with my hands. I think there’s nothing worse than a conductor who’s a control freak. Musicians have egos and personalities and they should show. Otherwise it’s like bad communism, or a dictatorship, and what’s the use?

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So then how do you communicate what you want to the students? How do you explain, “play with transparency,” for example? Let’s say the strings are playing with the oboe. I could tell them to use less pressure on the bow, or quicker speed, and their color changes immediately because there’s less weight on the strings. You can just say play softer, but it’s much better to let them use their imagination. So I might say, let the oboe play the dynamic he wants to do, and then we’re like a soft pillow for him to lie on. They want to use their brains to achieve it. Magical things happen when you use analogies in rehearsal… I remember when my Youth Orchestra played Mahler 9, there was the horn solo about dying, accepting death. The conductor asked her “Do you believe in God?” She said, “Of course.” And he said, “Well, make me believe in God.” I’ll never forget how the entire orchestra had shivers running down our spine. It’s fun to come up with these ways to create. That’s what music is about, bringing normal life to a more poetic level. The best compliment I ever got was from old musician in Cleveland, who told me “You remind me why I love music so much.” I’ve already used more space than I’m supposed to, but I have a feeling you’ll have a different take on this question: Symphonies have been facing tough economics in recent years. What will save classical music, and the symphony? The level of the orchestras is higher than ever. They’re all better, with more well-trained people. But the marketing is all wrong. The issue is not that people don’t like classical music or are bored. But it’s presented in the wrong way. Opera is very popular, and I think it’s because it’s very visual and dramatic, which works with our culture. With an orchestra, they need something to hold on to. People relate to people. We love sports because we see these characters up close and they become heroes, personalities we can relate to. I walk on stage, [bow, conduct] and walk off. What is that? The future should be more of a variety show, something more personable. I don’t know if it’s video footage of rehearsals, or instant replay, or something else. But we need to think about it in a much different way. But the music is great. If you pull someone off the street, give me ten minutes to talk about Mahler, give them a ticket and free babysitting, they’d be addicted. Seeing an orchestra live is unlike any musical experience. Audiences need to be educated, whether that means beforehand on the Internet or in preconcert lectures or conductors speaking from the podium 9 – 16 August 2012

during concerts. I know when I play at colleges, the most fascinating audiences are the non-musicians. They look it up on Wikipedia and know more about the music than some of the people playing it. Personally, I’m not a big fan of dressing up… and the seriousness. I don’t like it either. My dad told me he doesn’t go to the symphony because he doesn’t have a tuxedo! But it wasn’t always like that. Before Mahler, people were talking during the whole concert, it was much more interactive. Now it’s become about sitting still and silent, God forbid you cough at a quiet moment. I think we’ve gone in the wrong direction, but it’s getting better. That’s why kids’ concerts are so fun. They’re restless but when they hear something they like, their faces light up and they super focus… Even though my back is to the audience, I can always tell what’s going on. And there’s nothing better than an attentive audience.

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get it from, which is participating in life. That’s a complicated way of saying it’s more about diving back into life than exploring different music. It’s one form of a greater path. BGT is just one way of expressing myself. What’s changed in the dynamic since BGT got back together? Just that we’re different people. The dynamic isn’t really different, but we’ve all brought different things back with us. Maybe we haven’t changed at all.

Sam Parton, Trish Klein, and Frazey Ford of Canadian folk group the Be Good Tanyas, performing at SOhO on Tuesday, August 14

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he Be Good Tanyas, the female acoustic harmony trio specializing in decidedly American old-time blues-based folk music as if it were captured in a time capsule with only a slight modern edge, somehow hail from Vancouver, British Columbia. That’s hard to explain, but what is understandable is that Sam (Samantha) Parton, Frazey Ford and Trish Klein – who together play guitars, mandolins, banjos, bass and assorted other string things – are back together again after a two-year hiatus. The group has hit the road immediately on the heels of releasing a career retrospective album that also features two new songs. Ford talked about the coming and goings and the music over the telephone earlier this week in advance of BGT’s concert at SOhO Tuesday night.

Q. You made your own album, Obidiah, while BGT was on hiatus. Why did you decide to do a solo project? A. I’ve always had lots of different creative ideas. I had visions for things that were outside of BGT, and wanted to do something different for a while. But really the songs weren’t that different. Well, I wanted to do something by myself, although that’s not entirely true because Trish was involved. Working in a group is great but it was nice to be able to make all the decisions by myself and take it wherever I wanted to take it without considering what anybody else wanted, or making sure it fit with the BGT sound. It’s good to have freedom. 9 – 16 August 2012

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You talked about the BGT sound. How do you define it? You’ve been hailed as the saviors of old-time music. Is that how you see it? It seems like it’s just there. When you hear a mother and daughter from a certain culture singing together, it’s like it’s a big part of nature. BGT has always felt like a natural extension of that for me, my mom singing in that old style. It just flows through us like some kind of river. It’s got its own words and its own life. Whether we like it or not, it’s just there – something old and classic and familiar. Sometimes when I hear us playing, it seems like it could be any time or any woman anywhere. Speaking of listening to yourselves,

Can you talk about how the solo album has impacted your relationship with BGT – how it’s shown up in your songwriting, or what you’re taking back to the group? I made that album outside of the person I was in the band. It’s not like I was that different, but it was really more that to stay excited about music, I needed to take off from the ideas of what I was supposed to be doing – even though it ends up being similar. It’s important to stake my own ground, and approach songwriting in different ways. Now that I’ve come back, after exploring my own sound, I can appreciate the uniqueness of the BGT sound for what it is. I’ve returned more like myself and a little bit less constrained. So you have a renewed enthusiasm and have perhaps rediscovered who you are within the context of the group? I think I’m now back in a different way altogether. Drawing and painting and sculpture and mothering and music – none of it is really separated. I’m just a person who needs to explore different things to feel fresh with art in general. To come from a place that feels honest and real, and to have material to draw on that’s meaningful. When you make what you love into what you do, there’s a bit of a danger of losing where you

how was it to put out a retrospective album earlier this year? What came up? To look back on what you’ve done over the years, I generally don’t do that. I tend to just move forward and be in whatever phase I am in next. So it’s interesting to explore what we were ten years ago, and who we were. It’s been fun to see where it fits with where we are now. Do you still love to play the old songs? Yeah. I wouldn’t want to play them all the time or forever. But they are very close and dear to me. What is happening with BGT and new material? We’re writing lots of songs. I’m also currently working on another solo album, and after that there may be an album in the works for BGT. So I have to ask you about your singing style. Your own bio talks about your hard to decipher enunciation – “Usually, you can’t figure out what Frazey is singing (without) a lyric sheet.” It seems you wear it like a badge of honor. I think I care more about it now than I did when that was written. But I listen to a lot of music from earlier eras, where you can’t necessarily understand what they’re saying. But

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lutely brilliant in last weekend’s opera production of Stravinsky’s mostly serious morality tale The Rake’s Progress, show off their lighter side in the annual Cabaret on Thursday evening. The signature gala fundraiser features all of the vocalists – who received special coaching in musical comedy in the last week from Montecito’s own comic TV legend Carol Burnett – singing popular fare, and funny, from Broadway and beyond (6pm; Doubletree Resort; $300). A final Picnic Concert wraps up the music at Miraflores Friday night, as ensembles comprised of fellows perform works they’ve been polishing in recent weeks in a chamber setting (7:30pm; Hahn; $29) before the AFO concert closes out the season, Saturday at the Granada.  •MJ

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by Scott Craig Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Grant to Raise $1M for Student Research

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he John Stauffer Charitable Trust has awarded a $500,000 challenge grant to endow the  Westmont chemistry department’s  Summer Science Research Program. The trust will match each dollar donated to the program through 2017 until the college is able to endow the program with $1 million. “Summer research at Westmont with Professor Allan Nishimura taught me how to be a scientist and ultimately persuaded me to pursue my doctorate in physical chemistry at Stanford,” says Niva Tro, who has been teaching chemistry at Westmont for 22 years. “Because I was included as a coauthor on three of Allan’s publications, I was able to gain admission into the best chemistry graduate program in the country.” In Nishimura’s 31 years at Westmont, he has collaborated with about 80 different students, co-authoring 95 published manuscripts. “The grant secures the future of undergraduate research in the chemistry department at Westmont in perpetuity,” Tro says. “We manage to scrape our program together each year, but this grant puts it on secure footing and will even allow us to expand it a bit.” If fully matched, the grant will fund housing and stipends for eight to 10 student researchers each summer. Currently, the college has the funding for three to six student researchers. “Science is best learned through apprenticeship,” Tro says. “When students do real research in a small group with a faculty member, they experience science from the inside. That experience is invaluable.” The John Stauffer Charitable Trust, a private foundation based in Pasadena, was established in 1974 under Stauffer’s will. The trust directs its sup-

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Students will benefit from a grant allowing them to conduct summer research in a chemistry lab (credit: Brad Elliott)

port primarily to Southern California hospitals, universities and colleges. In recent years, the trust has emphasized grants to fund student research in chemistry and biochemistry at such colleges as Westmont, Occidental, Harvey Mudd and Pomona.

Students learn to rock climb during Inoculum

“I’m most looking forward to being in the wilderness withThe Westmont Choir performs at Trinity Episcopal Church (credit: Brad Elliott) out the constant interships available. Students will be able ruptions of technology: cell phones, to develop and refine their skills on email and Facebook,” Kelly says. “It’ll guitar and keyboard instruments, be a rewarding opportunity to think including a pipe organ. deeply, talk with students and sit in Students pursuing this program silence.” will have the opportunity to explore Students will read two books from experiences that might lead to careers Matthew Sleeth, Serve God, Save the as worship leader, minister of  music, Planet, and The Gospel According to the cantor, organist-choir master, director Earth: Why the Good Book is a Green Book. of music or liturgist. They will also read selections from “This new music emphasis will help Annie Dillard, N.T. Wright, David Loy students grow and build skills that and Richard Beck. The trek begins in will serve the church in many set- Bridgeport, California, and includes tings,” Shasberger says. an introduction to rock climbing and peak climbing along the way. “We learn what it means to be a human person – a biological organism with spiritual aspirations – in a Twenty first-year Westmont stu- world that seems to de-emphasize dents will meet on campus Thursday, both,” Fikes says. “We live intensely August 9, before trekking through and intentionally as a small commuthe Sierra backcountry north of nity, stepping aside from life’s busyYosemite.  Inoculum  is a 12-day ori- ness, to bring together our faith and entation program that introduces stu- thoughts before starting four years at dents to Westmont and earns them Westmont.” Sierra Treks coordinator and two units of academic and physical Westmont alumnus Dave Willis ’74, education credit. who created the program in 1974 and Faculty co-leaders Savannah Kelly, still oversees the mountain end of it, instructional services librarian, and says the experience can be a valuable alumnus Eric Meyer ’03, a doctoral one. “Participants get to know some candidate in theology at Fordham other students they can rely on during University, will lead one group. For the toughest first few weeks of school about a decade, Meyer has served as because of what they’ve done together a guide for Sierra Treks, the company in the mountains,” he says. “It helps that handles the outfitter and guide students learn to explore, enjoy and aspects of Inoculum. protect wilderness. We hope students Tom Fikes, professor of psychology and neuroscience, will lead a second will get past thinking that wilderness group of students. Eileen McMahon, is merely to be survived and finish associate director of biology, directs Inoculum feeling they’ve thrived in the wilderness,” Willis says. Inoculum this year. •MJ

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Schools of  Music  and the Westmont Curriculum Committee have approved a  music  major  emphasis in worship leadership. This new program, which is open to students from any church background, will begin in fall 2013. Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of  music  and worship, encourages students interested in a career in church  music  to explore the new emphasis. “This is our first new music major track in many years, offering a serious program of study for students interested in exploring the full breadth and depth of music ministry in the church,” Shasberger says. Students will study the practices of worship and the history of the church, including courses about arranging and producing  music  for a variety of contemporary and traditional church settings. There are also many intern-

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Story and photos by Lynn P. Kirst

Si and Karen Jenkins Honored at Fiesta Preludio

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ince its inception in 1924, Old Spanish Days has grown into a Fiesta that would astonish its founders as to the scope and scale of its events. The variety of offerings is now almost too numerous to count, and certainly too numerous for any one person to attend (except, of course, El Presidente, who puts in a marathon of appearances between May and August). So many people from the Santa Ynez Valley participate in Santa Barbara’s events (especially the parade, horse show and rodeo) that the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum is now hosting a party the weekend before the official start of Old Spanish Days. Appropriately called “Fiesta Preludio,” the museum’s fundraiser serves as a prelude party, and each year honors local people who have made significant contributions to the success of Santa Barbara’s annual celebration. This year ’s honorees were Santa

Karen and Si Jenkins were honorees of Fiesta Preludio, a preFiesta party held at the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum. Posing in the museum gallery where some of their personal mementos were on display, they stand next to mannequins dressed in their own Fiesta costumes from the 1950s.

A museum and travel professional, community volunteer, and lifelong equestrienne, Lynn Kirst is a fourth-generation Californian who grew up in Montecito; she can often be found riding or hiking the local trails

Husband-and-wife artists Sarah Chamberlin and Ben Bottoms passing Fiesta traditions to the next generation with Sarah’s great-niece, Amanda Browning

Former Montecito Trails Foundation board member Susie Simpson (left) and Leigh Layman sharing a happy moment at Fiesta Preludio Former museum board president Bill Reynolds and popular Santa Ynez horseman Joe Olla enjoy the gourmet fare at Fiesta Preludio

Barbara residents Si and Karen Jenkins, who have supported Old Spanish Days and its Fiesta rodeo for many decades. Their two Jedlicka’s Saddlery stores, one in Santa Barbara and one in Los Olivos, serve as unofficial headquarters for the equestrian community in both locations. Si and Karen have a long history of community involvement, and have dedicated years serving as directors on many non-profit boards, including the Montecito Trails Foundation. The Jenkins were also named Honorary Vaquero and Vaquera of Old Spanish Days a few years ago. The Fiesta Preludio event got started last summer, when the first honoree was beloved Hattie Feazelle, who passed away just six weeks after the party at 100 years of age. “It was wonderful to see such a great turnout of museum supporters and friends of Si and Karen Jenkins,” said Chris Bashforth, executive director of the Santa Ynez Valley Historical Museum. “This second annual Fiesta was one of the best attended summer fundraisers we’ve had here at the museum.” Guests were treated to a performance of flamenco dancing during cocktail hour in the museum’s courtyard. Whirling polka dot dresses worn by the young ladies from Zermeno Dance Studio pro-

vided a colorful counterpoint to attendees outfitted in fiesta finery and Western garb. Then the dinner bell called everyone to line up at the buffet for New York steaks with all the trimmings. Tables were arranged among the historic wagons in the museum’s Carriage House, brightly decorated with miniature piñatas filled with chocolate candies. Former museum board president Bill Reynolds served as the evening’s emcee, who started out by introducing Fiesta’s El Presidente, Ricardo Castellanos (the Jenkins’ son, Josiah Jenkins, will be El Presidente next year). Also introduced was Montecito’s well known vaquero Bruce Sandifer, as it was announced that he has been named Honorary Vaquero for the museum’s annual Vaquero Days coming up in November. Before rodeo announcer Hale Fletcher conducted the raucous live auction, guests were invited to the microphone to pay tribute to Karen and Si. Among those telling humorous stories and sharing memories were Jeanette Webber, rancher Willy Chamberlin, filmmaker Susan Jenkins, and longtime friends Alice and Joe Olla. Nearly 200 attendees helped the museum raise a net profit of $25,000, and included former El Presidente Anthony Borgatello and his wife Betty, Mary Jo England, Rick Layman, Tom and Denise Peterson, Donn and Daisy Tognazzini, and Shayna Rockwell. •MJ

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Ending this week Ventura County Fair – Just five days left for the county fair that’s closest to Montecito and by far the largest in the area, offering a huge assortment of displays, animal competitions, food and exhibit booths and, of course, nightly entertainment. Still to come, up-and-coming alternative band This Is She (August 8), the big-voiced 20-year veteran country singer Martina McBride (August 9), a gender-separated double-bill of 1990s funk and R&B with Boys II Men and En Vogue (August 10), and two days with the PRC Rodeo, direct from Santa Barbara’s Fiesta celebration (August 11-12). WHERE: 10 East Harbor Blvd., Ventura COST: $13 general, $12 children 6-12 & seniors 6299, free 5 & under and 100-plus INFO: 648-3376 or www.venturacountyfair.org.

Ongoing Free summer outdoor music – Concerts in the Park, one of Santa Barbara’s favorite free summer soirées, is

back and ready for action after a week off in deference to Old Spanish Days. Will the crowds still pack Chase Palm Park for music and frolicking with friends and family under the sun and stars when the series resumes August 9 with the 2012 version of Summer of Rock? Local Santa Barbara bands are featured, including False Puppet, Bad Jack, Brandi Lentini & Stolen Thunder. No question about the popularity of the music coming from next week’s act: Sgt. Pepper brings their rollicking Beatles tribute to Chase Palm Park on August 16 in the final show of the summer. WHEN: 6-8:30pm WHERE: Cabrillo Blvd. at Calle Cesar Chavez INFO: 897-1946 or www. sbparksandrecreation.com… Two of the biggest bands in the land, at least around these parts, close out the six-week Music at the Ranch series held out at the gardens around Stow House and Rancho La Patera. The veteran funk outfit Area 51 plays this Tuesday (August 14), while the even more venerable Spencer the Gardener closes out the series on August 14. WHEN: 5:307:30pm WHERE: 304 N Los Carneros

Ending this week Ojai Playwrights Conference – The play-development gathering in the sleepy mountain village is an intensive twoweek, in-residence workshop for writers to create and develop new works. Many plays developed at OPC have gone on to prominent productions at theaters throughout the United States and the world, from Broadway to the Mark Taper Forum and Goodman Theatre in Los Angeles, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, London’s West End and theaters in Asia and Africa. The conference culminates in OPC’s popular public performance series – now known as the OPC Summer New Works Festival. For its 15th anniversary, OPC is bringing back playwright Terrence McNally along with other established and up-and-coming playwrights Luis Alfaro, Liza Powell O’Brien, Robert Askins, Jennifer Haley, Matt Hoverman, with Stephen Adly Guirgis and Nikkole Salter on hand as “Writers In Residence.” The festival features nine events over five days, including two “Intersections” – bringing writers together with performers. August 8th’s No. 1 boasts Stephen Adly Guirgis, who specializes in chronicling the life of urban America, along with actors who have performed his work in New York and around the country, teamed with Father Greg Boyle and gang members from Homeboy Industries who will perform original pieces about the streets of LA. No. 2 on Thursday is an evening of women writers, singers, actors and story-tellers – including Ojai’s own Amanda McBroom and Charlayne Woodard – creating works about profound milestones in their lives (both 7:30pm; Matilija Auditorium, 703 El Paseo Rd.; $20). After six new plays workshops and other presentations, the festival and conference close with “And Away We Go,” the latest from McNally, whose works include Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, Lips Together, Teeth Apart and A Perfect Ganesh. This new piece is about life on the stage through time, as the action jumps from backstage in ancient Athens to a rehearsal at Shakespeare’s Globe, from Moliere’s Versailles Royal Theater to the first reading of a new play by Chekhov – with an unlikely stop in Coral Gables and the American premiere of Waiting For Godot along the way (4:30pm Sunday; Matilija; $25). For details, tickets and a full schedule, visit www.ojaiplays.org.  

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Saturday, August 11 Whose art is that anyway? – Now you can have a “One Night Stand” and feel good about it in the morning. The second annual fundraiser for Art From Scrap once again features artwork contributed by more than 200 artists from around the area and across the country. Each artist has created a single 9” x 9” work in any media and tonight they’re all up for grabs for the single price of $200. But there’s an element of surprise: none of the artwork is identified, as the artist’s name is revealed only after their work has been purchased. Food, live music and a silent auction make the evening fun even after you’ve made your selection. Among the artists contributing work for 2012: Charles Arnoldi, Ann Hamilton, Eric Beltz, Jeff Bridges, Gail Pine, Rick Garcia, Penny Mast McCall, David Florimbi, Mary Heebner, John Nava, Nicole Strasburg, Robert Dycus, Nancy Monk, Rob Reger, Leslie Lewis Sigler, Keith Fishman and Seyburn Zorthian. WHEN: 6:30-9:30pm (Hot Ticket admission at 6:30; regular 7pm) WHERE: Gallery 27, 27 East Cota Street COST: $25 in advance, $30 at the door for regular admission (Hot ticket $100/$125) INFO: 884-0459 ext. 17 or www.artfromscrap.org (list of contributing artists and more information at www. onenightstandafs.com)   Road, Goleta COST: free INFO: 6817216 or www.stowhouse.com Summer cinema series – “ROBOTS! SPACE ALIENS! BODY SNATCHERS! Science Fiction Film Classics of the 1950s,” the free film series from UCSB Arts & Lectures and the City of Santa Barbara, resumes its Friday night screenings this week, as the Santa Barbara County Courthouse Sunken Garden returns to its pristine condition after Fiesta weekend. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, considered the ultimate ’50s sci-fi flick, gets the honors. Conformity and paranoia mix in this chilling 1956 movie about a doctor in a small California town whose patients report their relatives have been acting oddly distant lately. The question of whether it’s a case of epidemic mass hysteria or something more sinister is resolved when the pod people (aka alien duplicates!) take over. Directed by Don Siegel (who went on to film Dirty Harry  and  Escape from Alcatraz). Next week brings famed flick Forbidden Planet, one of the influential movies of the golden age of sci-fi cinema, about a starship crew that goes to investigate the silence of a planet’s colony only to find two lone survivors with a deadly and perplexing secret. Loosely based on Shakespeare’s  The Tempest,  Forbidden Planet stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen and, of course, Robby the Robot. Fred M. Wilcox (of Lassie  fame) directed the classic that was Oscarnominated for special effects and features an innovative, all-electronic musical score that made film history. WHEN: 8:30pm Fridays, 7:30pm Wednesdays (series continues through August 24) INFO: 8933535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

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Thursday, August 9 Gray Seal – No more Heidi Klum and no more Santa Barbara Bowl or even the Granada for Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel, the four-time Grammy-winning British soul singer better known by just his first name. But there are still Kisses from Roses, Prayers for the Dying, Flying like an Eagle, and lots of other Seal hits and other songs to keep you from going Crazy. Opening this special Chumash Casino double bill is American soul singer Macy Gray. The wonderfully raspy-voiced and utterly creative American soul sister also played the Bowl back in those heady days of her debut album that featured the instant super hit “I Try.” But Gray’s artistry has never faded, and her latest, March 2012’s Covered, feature Gray’s winning interpretations of such pop classics as the Eurythmics “Here Comes the Rain Again,” My Chemical Romance’s “Teenagers,” Yeah Yeah Yeah’s “Maps,” and even Radiohead’s “Creep.” WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $55$95 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or www. chumashcasino.com

Saturday, August 11 Jammin’ in Carp – Ventura-raised Jonathan McEuen – the son of countrybluegrass legend John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) – hops the 101 North for a special concert at the Plaza Playhouse Theater, the old movie theater turned into a new venue for the performing arts. Although the evening is billed as an All-Star Jam, there’s no word on who the guests are as of yet, but it’s also a tribute to Jimmy Adams, the onetime Ventura mainstay whose out-of-

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Saturday, August 11 Slack’n off in Goleta – Guitarist Patrick Landeza is considered a leading exponent of the Hawaiian slack key guitar style despite being born in America and raised in Berkeley. His 2010 release, Ku`u Honua Mele, received the 2010 Hawaii Music Award in the slack key category, and was nominated for the Na Hoku Hanohano award (Hawaiian music’s equivalent of the Grammy), becoming the first release by a mainland artist to make it on the final ballot. Landeza was also the youngest recipient of the prestigious Kapalakiko Aloha Spirit award when he was 34. Landeza, who last performed at Song Tree back in 2004, appeared at Carnegie Hall in Listen for Life’s “Power of Eight” concert just last January. Now he’s back in town, sporting a new album, “Kama`alua,” that has been hailed as his strongest to date. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation, 820 N. Fairview COST: $15 general, free under 16 INFO: 403-2639 or www.SongTree.org nowhere song “I Think I’ll Go Down to the Ocean” was a hit for McEuen’s short-lived country duo project Hanna-McEuen. So expect some of Ventura and Santa Barbara County’s finest pickers and grinners in a show that also serves as the kickoff date for Jonathan’s “Neverending Bus Tour.” And seeing as McEuen has jammed with all our local favorites from Kenny Loggins to Michael McDonald and has build up quite a following among area musicians on his own, the night is sure to be a rocking good time no matter who drops by. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 4916 Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria COST: $20 INFO: 684-6380 or www.plazatheatercarpinteria.com

Sunday, August 12 Gershwin & the Golden Age – Back in the days when the tunes now known as the Great American Songbook were actually new, they were often heard in piano bars and nightclubs in downtown locales,

not relegated to oldies radio stations or saved for special jazz concerts. Tonight, soprano Deborah Bertling, tenor Gary Smith and pianist Renée Hamaty team up to bring the music from the Golden Age of Broadway to a downtown nightclub once again, featuring songs by composers George & Ira Gershwin, Lerner & Loewe, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. Hamaty was the music director for the now-defunct “Opera Under the Stars” series at Arts & Letters Café. Bertling, who has performed with Opera Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Theater, SBCC Theatre Group and Circle Bar B, was a frequent performer for the series, while Smith, cantor at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and a performing arts teacher at La Cumbre Junior High School, appeared regularly with Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club, 1221 State Street, upstairs in Victoria Court COST: $25 ($15 with dinner) INFO: 962-7776 or www.sohosb.com  •MJ

Saturday, August 11 SpongeBob goes shopping – SpongeBob SquarePants, the star of Nickelodeon’s hit animated TV series, brings his nautical and often nonsensical adventures onto dry land to an in-person appearance at La Cumbre Plaza. The costumed character will be visiting kids near Macy’s Court. Bring your camera to get your picture taken with the incurably optimistic and earnest SpongeBob, make a day of it with special promotions at participating stores and fun activities for the kids, or just stop by and soak up the happy with the never-mellow yellow character. WHEN: 11am-5pm WHERE: 121 South Hope Avenue COST: free INFO: 687-6458

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Musician-turned-comedian Mark Eddie brings his musical comedy act to SOhO on Wednesday, August 15

it doesn’t matter that much because you can still feel what they’re feeling. There’s a certain poetry that might not be the same if you actually could decipher the lyrics. Not that I’m proud of that. But it feels like I’m almost singing in a different language. To me it’s more important to be fully expressive in the sound of my voice that to have people understand what I’m saying. But it is evolving. I don’t sing as illegibly as I did back then. When I sing live it’s just what comes out.

Riffing in Comedy and Music

Imagine Al Green singing the letters of the alphabet with that warmly soulful voice to the melody of “Let’s Stay Together.” How about Neil Diamond as a grade school teacher, a big baritone blast of Dr. Seuss’ “Sam I Am” to the melody of “I Am I Said.” Or take a stroll to “Marijuanaville,” the hazy haven based on Jimmy Buffet’s melody for, well, you know. All of the above and a whole lot more come courtesy of one man, comedian-musician Mark Eddie. Or maybe that should read musiciancomedian. Eddie is a seasoned professional musician who toured for 14 years as a singer-songwriter and band member before turning full-time to comedy, so it’s no wonder his act is more like a funny pop concert than typical stand-up. “Somewhere along the line, I crossed over into comedy. I don’t remember exactly when or where,” Eddie said last weekend over the phone in advance of his appearance at SOhO Wednesday night as part of the club’s periodic One Mike Standing comedy series. “My shows were like coffeehouse performances, so there was lots of talking and storytelling. And I’d start joking around, a parody or two, wrote

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a few original songs, and then it snowballed into this guitar musical comedy act.” The song parodies – or at least poking fun at famous musicians’ sound, approach or reputation – are the backbone of his show. But he builds slowly in a sort of pseudo history of rock ‘n’ roll to get the act underway. “It’s a rhythm,” he explained. “I usually start out with a bunch of rock references, things people recognize right away. Then some observations about music itself and how far we’ve come. And then whenever I’m demonstrating types of songs, I’ll do a bar or two or whoever ’s song I’m talking about and change up the words. It can be a bit of an ADD process with me.” The riff on Green began much the same way. “I’d seen a box set on TV about ‘eighties’ hair bands, and the announcer made a comment that was completely stupid, something like ‘The monsters of rock, they taught us how to love!’ Say what? Motley Crue taught us how to snort cocaine from a hooker’s [behind]. It was Al Green who could take any song and make it sexy. Even the alphabet.” While Eddie counts fellow parodists “Weird” Al and his ilk among his influences, he’s also partial to Steve Martin and Martin Mull, predecessors who also married music and comedy, albeit much more successfully so far. And like his brethren, he said he generally only skewers musicians he respects. “Absolutely. Or at least most of the time. I do only pick on the ones that I love, because I don’t want to spend my time with stuff I don’t like listening to. Artists who have made a significant contribution are more fun, and more interesting to make fun of, and to find something uniquely interesting or funny. I mean, I didn’t do any Hansen jokes in the 1990s.” •MJ MONTECITO JOURNAL

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Sakana Japanese Restaurant 1046 Coast Village Road (565-2014)

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Bella Vista  1260 Channel Drive (565-8237) Cafe Del Sol  30 Los Patos Way (969-0448)

Stella Mare’s  50 Los Patos Way (969-6705)

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CAVA  $$ 1212 Coast Village Road (969-8500) Regional Mexican and Spanish cooking combine to create Latin cuisine from tapas and margaritas, mojitos, seafood paella and sangria to lobster tamales, Churrasco ribeye steak and seared Ahi tuna. Sunflower-colored interior is accented by live Spanish guitarist playing next to cozy beehive fireplace nightly. Lively year-round outdoor people-wat­­­­­ching front patio. Open Monday-Friday 11 am to 10 pm. Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 10 pm. China Palace  1070 Coast Village Road (565-9380)

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Giovanni’s  1187 Coast Village Road (969-1277)

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Los Arroyos  1280 Coast Village Road (969-9059)

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Little Alex’s  1024 A-Coast Village Road (969-2297)

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Lucky’s (brunch) $$ (dinner)  $$$ 1279 Coast Village Road (565-7540) Comfortable, old-fashioned urban steakhouse in the heart of America’s biggest little village. Steaks, chops, seafood, cocktails, and an enormous wine list are featured, with white tablecloths, fine crystal and vintage photos from the 20th century. The bar (separate from dining room) features large flat-screen TV and opens at 4 pm during the week. Open nightly from 5 pm to 10 pm; Saturday & Sunday brunch from 9 am to 3 pm. Valet Parking. Montecito Café  1295 Coast Village Road (969-3392) Montecito Coffee Shop  1498 East Valley Road (969-6250)

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Montecito Wine Bistro $$$ 516 San Ysidro Road 969-7520 Head to Montecito’s upper village to indulge in some California bistro cuisine. Chef Nathan Heil creates seasonal menus that include fish and vegetarian dishes, and fresh flatbreads straight out of the wood-burning oven. The Bistro offers local wines, classic and specialty cocktails, single malt scotches and aged cognacs. Pane é Vino  1482 East Valley Road (969-9274)

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Plow & Angel  $$$ San Ysidro Ranch   900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700) Enjoy a comfortable atmosphere as you dine on traditional dishes such as mac ‘n cheese and ribs. The ambiance is enhanced with original artwork, including stained glass windows and an homage to its namesake, Saint Isadore, hanging above the fireplace.  Dinner is served from 5 to 10 pm daily with bar service extending until 11 pm weekdays and until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

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Stonehouse  $$$$ San Ysidro Ranch 900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700) Located in what is a 19th-century citrus packinghouse, Stonehouse restaurant features a lounge with full bar service and separate dining room with crackling fireplace and creekside views. Chef Matthew Johnson’s regional cuisine is prepared with a palate of herbs and vegetables harvested from the on-site chef’s garden. Recently voted 1 of the best 50 restaurants in America by OpenTable Diner’s Choice. 2010 Diners’ Choice Awards: 1 of 50 Most Romantic Restaurants in America, 1 of 50 Restaurants With Best Service in America. Open for dinner from 6 to 10 pm daily. Sunday Brunch 10 am to 2 pm. Trattoria Mollie  1250 Coast Village Road (565-9381)

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Tre Lune  $$/$$$ 1151 Coast Village Road (969-2646) A real Italian boite, complete with small but fully licensed bar, big list of Italian wines, large comfortable tables and chairs, lots of mahogany and large b&w vintage photos of mostly famous Italians. Menu features both comfort food like mama used to make and more adventurous Italian fare. Now open continuously from lunch to dinner. Also open from 7:30 am to 11:30 am daily for breakfast. Via Vai Trattoria Pizzeria  1483 East Valley Road (565-9393)

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Delis, bakeries, juice bars Blenders in the Grass 1046 Coast Village Road (969-0611) Here’s The Scoop 1187 Coast Village Road (lower level) (969-7020) Gelato and Sorbet are made on the premises. Open Monday through Thursday 1 pm to 9 pm, 12 pm to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and 12 pm to 9 pm on Sundays. Jeannine’s 1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878) Montecito Deli 1150 Coast Village Road (969-3717) Open six days a week from 7 am to 3 pm. (Closed Sunday) This eatery serves homemade soups, fresh salads, sandwiches, and its specialty, The Piadina, a homemade flat bread made daily. Panino 1014 #C Coast Village Road (565-0137) Pierre Lafond 516 San Ysidro Road (565-1502) This market and deli is a center of activity in Montecito’s Upper Village, serving fresh baked pastries, regular and espresso coffee drinks, smoothies, burritos, homemade soups, deli salads, made-to-order sandwiches and wraps available, and boasting a fully stocked salad bar. Its sunny patio draws crowds of regulars daily. The shop also carries specialty drinks, gift items, grocery staples, and produce. Open everyday 5:30 am to 8 pm. Village Cheese & Wine 1485 East Valley Road (969-3815)

In Summerland / Carpinteria Cantwell’s Summerland Market 2580 Lillie Avenue (969-5893)

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Garden Market  3811 Santa Claus Lane (745-5505)

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Jack’s Bistro  $ 5050 Carpinteria Avenue (566-1558) Serving light California Cuisine, Jack’s offers freshly baked bagels with whipped cream cheeses, omelettes, scrambles, breakfast burritos, specialty sandwiches, wraps, burgers, salads, pastas and more. Jacks offers an extensive espresso and coffee bar menu, along with wine and beer. They also offer full service catering, and can accommodate wedding receptions to corporate events. Open Monday through Friday 6:30 am to 3 pm, Saturday and Sunday 7 am to 3 pm. Nugget  2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135)

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Padaro Beach Grill  $ 3765 Santa Claus Lane (566-9800) A beach house feel gives this seaside eatery its charm and makes it a perfect place to bring the whole family. Its new owners added a pond, waterfall, an elevated patio with fireplace and couches to boot. Enjoy grill options, along with salads and seafood plates. The Grill is open Monday through Sunday 11 am to 9 pm Sly’s  $$$ 686 Linden Avenue (684-6666) Sly’s features fresh fish, farmers’ market veggies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate Specials and vintage desserts. You’ll find a full bar, serving special martinis and an extensive wine list featuring California and French wines. Cocktails from 4 pm to close, dinner from 5 to 9 pm Sunday-Thursday and 5 to 10 pm Friday and Saturday. Lunch is M-F 11:30 to 2:30, and brunch is served on the weekends from 9 am to 3 pm. Stacky’s Seaside  2315 Lillie Avenue (969-9908)

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Summerland Beach Café  2294 Lillie Avenue (969-1019)

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Tinkers  2275 C Ortega Hill Road (969-1970)

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Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row Bistro Eleven Eleven  $$ 1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard (730-1111) Located adjacent to Hotel Mar Monte, the bistro serves breakfast and lunch featuring all-American favorites. Dinner is a mix of traditional favorites and coastal cuisine. The lounge advancement to the restaurant features a big screen TV for daily sporting events and happy hour. Open Monday-Friday 6:30 am to 9 pm, Saturday and Sunday 6:30 am to 10 pm. Cielito  $$$ 1114 State Street (225-4488) Cielito Restaurant features true flavors of Mexico created by Chef Ramon Velazquez. Try an antojito (or “small craving”) like the Anticucho de Filete (Serrano-chimichurri marinated Kobe beef skewer, rocoto-tomato jam and herb mashed potatoes), the Raw Bar’s piquant ceviches and fresh shellfish, or taste the savory treats in handmade tortillas at the Taqueria. It is located in the heart of downtown, in the historic La Arcada. Chuck’s Waterfront Grill  $$ 113 Harbor Way (564-1200) Located next to the Maritime Museum, enjoy

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some of the best views of both the mountains and the Santa Barbara pier sitting on the newly renovated, award-winning patio, while enjoying fresh seafood straight off the boat. Dinner is served nightly from 5 pm, and brunch is offered on Sunday from 10 am until 1 pm. Reservations are recommended.    Enterprise Fish Co.  $$ 225 State Street (962-3313) Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise Fish Company offers two-pound Maine Lobsters served with clam chowder or salad, and rice or potatoes for only $29.95. Happy hour is every weekday from 4 pm to 7 pm. Open Sunday thru Thursday 11:30 am to 10 pm and Friday thru Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm. Los Agaves  $ 600 N. Milpas Street (564-2626) Los Agaves offers eclectic Mexican cuisine, using only the freshest ingredients, in a casual and friendly atmosphere. Serving lunch and dinner, with breakfast on the weekends, Los Agaves features traditional dishes from central and southern Mexico such as shrimp & fish enchiladas, shrimp chile rellenos, and famous homemade mole poblano. Open Monday- Friday 11 am to 9 pm, Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 9 pm. Miró  $$$$ 8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort & Spa (968-0100) Miró is a refined refuge with stunning views, featuring two genuine Miro sculptures, a top-rated chef offering a sophisticated menu that accents fresh, organic, and native-grown ingredients, and a world-class wine cellar. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 6 pm to 10 pm. Olio e Limone Ristorante  $$$ Olio Pizzeria $ 17 West Victoria Street (899-2699) Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery featuring Italian food of the highest order. Offerings include eggplant soufflé, pappardelle with quail, sausage and mushroom ragù, and fresh-imported Dover sole. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence-winning wine list. Private dining (up to 40 guests) and catering are also available. It is open for lunch Monday thru Saturday (11:30 am to 2 pm) and dinner seven nights a week (from 5 pm). Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos have added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar inspired by neighborhood “pizzerie” and “enoteche” in Italy. Private dining for up to 32 guests. The Pizzeria is open daily from 11:30 am to close. Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro  $ 516 State Street (962-1455) The Wine Bistro menu is seasonal California cuisine specializing in local products. Pair your meal with wine from the Santa Barbara Winery, Lafond Winery or one from the list of wines from around the world. Happy Hour Monday - Friday 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The 1st Wednesday of each month is Passport to the World of Wine. Grilled cheese night every Thursday. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner; catering available. www.pierrelafond.com Rodney’s Steakhouse  $$$ 633 East Cabrillo Boulevard (884-8554) Deep in the heart of well, deep in the heart of Fess Parker’s Doubletree Inn on East Beach in Santa Barbara. This handsome eatery sells and serves only Prime Grade beef, lamb, veal, halibut, salmon, lobster and other high-end victuals. Full bar, plenty of California wines, elegant surroundings, across from the ocean. Open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday at 5:30 pm. Reservations suggested on weekends. •MJ

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Our Town 

by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a professional international photographer and journalist. Contact her at : [email protected]

Montecito’s Old Spanish Days Flower Girls

Flower Girl Chair Rhonda Henderson with Fiesta El Presidente Ricardo Castellanos at the top of the Santa Barbara Courthouse overlooking the Fiesta program in the Sunken Gardens

Montecito’s Fiesta Flower Girls at the SB Mission for dress rehearsal. Back row: Michelle Henderson (OLMC), Andrea Castellanos (OLMC), Pia Valtiera (OLMC) and Olivia Gordon (Crane). Front row: Maddi Feld (Cold Spring), Sophie Henderson (Laguna), Paulina Angeles (OLMC) and Avianna Gordon (Crane). (Not pictured: Quincy Spaulding, Alison Lilburn, Magdalena Amezaga, Maria Amezaga, Ashley LeCron, Emerson Werner, Julianna Forry, Riley Peterson and Sarah Peterson.)

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he Flower Girls for Fiesta have a 63-year history of being the official ambassadors for Old Spanish Days. Founded by Ruth Down Figg-Hoblyn, the girls would lead the parade handing out flowers (similar to a wedding ceremony procession). Tradition has it that former Flower Girls, called Las Senoritas, walk with and mentor the new girls. This year, the 120 Flower Girls aged 6 to 17 from over 41 area schools visited over 22 local retirement homes, stood on the Mission steps opening night of Fiesta at La Fiesta Pequena, greeted guests at Celebracion de los Dignatrios at the Santa Barbara Zoo,

and led the 82nd annual El Desfile De Los Ninos parade. These community service events have been annual traditions for years. Given the long history of Flower Girls, some current girls have relatives who passed on the tradition. This year, Montecito’s Andrea Castellanos, a student at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School, is the niece of El Presidente Ricardo Castellanos, whose family has been actively involved in Fiesta for three generations. Ricardo’s grandfather Yldephonso Poncho Osuna was the parade Grand Marshal in ’75, and two of his cousins are past El Presidentes: Michael Mendoza in

’90 and ’98 and Christie Gallagher in ‘03. Andrea became a Flower Girl in support of her uncle. Flower Girl Julianna Forry is also a student at Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and her grandmother – Mrs. Judith (“Judy”) Pahler-Borgatello – was a Flower Girl in 1957. Her son, Anthony Borgatello, was El Presidente in 2009.  The costs this year associated with the Flower Girls, such as the flowers, food at the various events, and the trolley for parade day, is covered first by the official Fiesta Flower Girl sponsor, MarBorg Industries. Additionally, Westland Floral Company in Carpinteria has donated all of the gerbera daisies for the retirement home visits the past two years, as well as all of the flowers for the children’s parade. Santa Barbara Trolley donated the trolley, and food was donated by Silvergreens and Anna’s Bakery.  Rhonda Henderson, Flower Girl Chair, joined the Old Spanish Days Board six years ago, when her daughter Michelle and niece Sophie joined the Flower Girl Program.  She explains, “As a board, we are dedicated to honoring and preserving Santa Barbara’s history, spirit, culture,

heritage and traditions. My personal goal continues to be to keep the program with one hundred participants and encourage young ladies to represent Old Spanish Days and our beautiful city of Santa Barbara.” For Ricardo, the mission this year is “for everyone to walk away with having experienced something that they had not experienced before. I believe Old Spanish Days carries a  very important place in our city’s history. We are charged with preserving our past. My message to everyone is to educate each other on our past and where we came from. This is how we carry on the traditions.” Montecito’s Flower Girls for 2012 are: from Cold Spring School Quincy Spaulding and Maddi Feld; from ELMES Alison Lilburn; from Laguna Blanca Magdalena Amezaga, Maria Amezaga, Sophie Henderson and Ashley LeCron; from MUS Emerson Werner; from OLMC Paulina Angeles, Andrea Castellanos, Julianna Forry, Michelle Henderson, Riley Peterson, Sarah Peterson and Pia Andrea Valtiera; and from Crane Avianna Gordon and Olivia Gordon. •MJ

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PUBLIC NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Sturgeon Investments, Sturgeon Properties, Sturgeon’s Property Investments, 1145 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Judy E. Sturgeon, 1145 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. William C. Sturgeon, 1145 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 26, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2012-0002182. Published August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Laguna Capital Management, 1225 Coast Village, Suite G, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Laguna Capital Management, INC., 1225 Coast Village, Suite G, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 20, 2012. This

statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2012-0002116. Published August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Complete Books + Payroll, 807 E. Figueroa St. #H, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Dennis Joseph Flatley, 807 E. Figueroa St. #H, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 25, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2012-0002168. Published August 1, 8, 15, 22, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Ponto Woodworking, 309 Palm Ave, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Kirk W. Ponto, 5814 La Goleta Rd,

Santa Barbara, CA 93117 This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 23, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2012-0002138. Published July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: W Glomb Design, 1119 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. Wendy Glomb, 1119 Alameda Padre Serra, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 18, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Jessica Armstrong. Original FBN No. 2012-0002094. Published July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing

business as: SB RV, SB RV Park, 1500 A Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. DCP Grey Goose I, LLC, 1500 A Chapala Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 19, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-0002100. Published July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Childtime Professional Nanny Placement, 300 E. Canon Perdido B-1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Childtime Professional Nanny Placement, LLC, 300 E. Canon Perdido B-1, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 10, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-0001994. Published July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: D & M Auto Detailing, 187 La Venta Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. David Almanza, 187 La Venta Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Marisela Almanza, 187 La Venta Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 9, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-0001981. Published July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Starr Spa Training, P.O. Box 20092, Santa Barbara, CA 93120. Lisa Ann Starr, P.O. Box 20092, Santa Barbara, CA 93120. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 2, 2012. This

statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Miriam Leon. Original FBN No. 2012-0001942. Published July 25, August 1, 8, 15, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: KG Business 1200 Toro Consulting, Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. Katrin Grienitz, 1200 Toro Canyon Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93108. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 9, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-0001982. Published July 18, 25, August 1, 8, 2012. FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT: The following person(s) is/are doing business as: Music By Bonnie & Company 3229 Calle Rosales, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Bonnie Hope, 3229

93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

SATURDAY August 11

If you have a 93108 open house scheduled, please send us your free directory listing to [email protected]

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1821 Fernald Point Lane 665 San Ysidro Road 1385 Oak Creek Canyon Road 1415 School House Road 1444 School House Road 1251 East Valley Road 1029 Monte Cristo Lane 2780 Torito Road 1345 Santa Clara Way 43 Alston Place

By Appt. 1-4pm 10-5pm 1-4pm 2:30-5:30pm 1-4pm 12-5pm 1-4pm 12-3pm 2-4pm

$5,950,000 $5,295,000 $4,750,000 $4,295,000 $3,260,000 $1,695,000 $1,675,000 $1,675,000 $1,165,000 $995,000

3bd/3ba 3bd/3.5ba LOT 4bd/4.5ba 5bd/5ba 3bd/2ba 3bd/2ba 2bd 2ba 2bd/2ba 3bd/4ba

Ron Dickman Marsha Kotlyar Joe Stubbins Peggy Olcese Wilson Quarre Theresa Johansing Randall Kempf Troy G Hoidal Joe Stubbins Farideh Farinpour

689-3135 565-4014 729-0778 895-6757 680-9747 729-6501 331-4389 689-6808 729-0778 708-3617

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945 Park Lane 1821 Fernald Point Lane 670 Hodges Lane 665 San Ysidro Road 1385 Oak Creek Canyon Road 1 Seaview Drive 302 Woodley Road 1415 School House Road 467 Lanai Road 2749 Sycamore Canyon Road 730 Arcady Road 451 Live Oaks Road 513 Crocker Sperry Drive 1134 Hill Road 2140 Veloz Drive 2198 Veloz Drive 751 Via Manana 850 Chelham Way 1860 Eucalyptus Hill Road 2775 Sycamore Canyon Road 2780 Torito Road 1029 Monte Cristo Lane 1345 Santa Clara Way 43 Alston Place 544-B San Ysidro Road 1220 Coast Village Road 213

2-4pm By Appt. 2-4pm 1-4pm 10-5pm By Appt. 2-4pm 1-4pm 2-4pm 2-4pm 1-4pm 2-4pm By Appt. 12-3pm By Appt. 2-5pm By Appt. 1-4pm 1-4pm 2-4pm 1-4pm 1-4pm 1-4pm 1-3pm 1-4pm 2-4pm

$8,700,000 $5,950,000 $5,875,000 $5,295,000 $4,750,000 $4,650,000 $4,495,000 $4,295,000 $4,195,000 $3,995,000 $3,595,000 $3,495,000 $3,495,000 $3,250,000 $2,995,000 $2,850,000 $2,300,000 $2,275,000 $1,888,000 $1,775,000 $1,675,000 $1,675,000 $1,165,000 $995,000 $867,000 $715,000

5bd/6ba 3bd/3ba 3bd/3.5ba 3bd/3.5ba LOT 3bd/3ba 4bd/6ba 4bd/4.5ba 4bd/5.5ba 5bd/3.5ba 4bd/4.5ba 3bd/2.5ba 4bd/4ba 2bd/2ba 4bd/4ba 4bd/5ba 1bd/1ba 5bd 4bd/3ba 1bd/1.5ba 2bd 2ba 3bd/2ba 2bd/2ba 3bd/4ba 2bd/1ba 2bd/2ba

C. Scott McCosker Ron Dickman Sandy Stahl Marsha Kotlyar Joe Stubbins Bob Lamborn Susan Pate Peggy Olcese Vickie Craig Marilyn Rickard Diane Randall Louise McKaig Bob Lamborn Paul Suding Sandy Stahl Dudley Kirkpatrick Bob Lamborn Sofie Langhorne Amy Baird Marilyn Rickard Troy G Hoidal John Comin Joe Stubbins Justin Corrado Brian Felix Mary Whitney

805-451-1721 689-3135 689-1602 565-4014 729-0778 689-6800 895-9385 895-6757 708-2468 452-8284 705-5252 637-4774 689-6800 455-8055 689-1602 403-7201 689-6800 805-689-5759 478-9318 452-8284 689-6808 689-3078 729-0778 451-9969 455-3669 689-0915

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SUNDAY August 12

9 – 16 August 2012

I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. – Alec Baldwin

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PUBLIC NOTICES ORDINANCE NO. 5590

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO: 3675 Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3675 for the Taxiways H, J and C Pavement Rehabilitation Project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Tuesday August 21, 2012 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “Taxiways H, J and C Pavement Rehabilitation Project, Bid No.3675.

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 28.12 (ZONE MAP) OF TITLE 28 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO THE ZONING UPON ANNEXATION OF ASSESSORʼS PARCEL NUMBER 059-160-017 LOCATED AT 4151 FOOTHILL ROAD, ASSESSORʼS PARCEL NUMBER 059160-021 LOCATED AT 675 CIENEGUITAS ROAD, AND ASSESSORʼS PARCEL NUMBER 059-160-023 LOCATED AT 681 CIENEGUITAS ROAD IN THE HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD

Project Elements include Pavement Removal, Taxiway Reconstruction and Taxiway Rehabilitation. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Insert improvements per plans and specs. The Engineerʼs estimate is $2,768,593.00. Each bidder must have a Class A (General Engineering) license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

There will be a non-mandatory/optional Pre-Bid Meeting scheduled for Thursday, August 2nd at 10:00 A.M. at 601 Firestone Road – Administration Office, Goleta, CA.

July 31, 2012.

The plans and specifications for this Project may be viewed online at CyberCopyʼs Website (www.cybercopyusa.com) under the City Of Santa Barbara Plan Room. To obtain a copy of the plans and specifications for this Project and become a registered plan holder, download a Bid Package Request Form from the City Of Santa Barbara Plan Room site above by clicking on the Project or by calling Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The Cityʼs contact for this project is the Project Engineer,Tartaglia Engineering, 805-466-5660. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the Cityʼs website at: http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/Business/Purchasing/Projects/.

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara, California.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

(Seal)

The proposed contract is under and subject to Executive Order 11246, as amended, of September 24, 1965, and to the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Federal Labor Provisions. All labor on the Project shall be paid no less than the higher of either the prevailing State wage rates established by the Director of the State of California, Department of Industrial Relations, or the prevailing Federal wage rates established by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager

The EEO requirements, labor provisions, and wage rates are included in the Specifications and Bid Documents. Each bidder must complete, sign, and furnish with his bid the "Bidder's Statement on Previous Contracts Subject to EEO Clause," a "Certification of Nonsegregated Facilities," and the "Assurance of Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Participation" as contained in the Bid Proposal. To be eligible for award, each bidder must comply with the affirmative action requirements which are contained in the Specifications. A contractor having 50 or more employees and his subcontractors having 50 or more employees and who may be awarded a contract of $50,000 or more will be required to maintain an affirmative action program, the standards for which are contained in the Specifications. Disadvantaged business enterprises (DBEs) as defined in 49 CFR Part 26 shall have the maximum opportunity to participate in the performance of contracts financed in whole or in part with Federal funds under this agreement. Consequently, the DBE requirements of 49 CFR Part 26 apply to this agreement. Women will be afforded equal opportunity in all areas of employment. However, the employment of women shall not diminish the standards of requirements for the employment of minorities. The airport has established a race neutral overall DBE participation goal of 1.9%.

ORDINANCE NO. 5590

STATE OF CALIFORNIA

) ) COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ) ss. ) CITY OF SANTA BARBARA )

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced on July 24, 2012, and was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on July 31, 2012, by the following roll call vote:

All solicitations, contracts, and subcontracts resulting from projects funded under this contract are subject to the foreign trade restriction required by 49 CFR Part 30, Denial of Public Works Contracts to Suppliers of Goods and Services of Countries That Deny Procurement Market Access to U.S. Contractors. The Aviation Safety and Capacity Expansion Act of 1990 provides that preference be given to steel and manufactured products produced in the United States when funds are expended pursuant to a grant issued under the Airport Improvement Program. For all Federally-assisted contracts, before award of the contract and within 5 days of the bid opening, the successful bidder will submit, in a format designated by the City, a list of all subcontractors who expressed interest in working on this contract. This form (49 CFR 26.11(c) – Bidders List) will list all subcontractors who submitted bids, successful and unsuccessful, on any portion of work described under this contract. Per California Civil Code Section 3247, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashierʼs check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

AYES:

Councilmembers Dale Francisco, Frank Hotchkiss, Grant House, Cathy Murillo, Randy Rowse, Bendy White; Mayor Helene Schneider

NOES:

None

ABSENT:

None

ABSTENTIONS:

None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on August 1, 2012.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder. GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

/s/ Gwen Peirce, CMC City Clerk Services Manager I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on August 1, 2012.

_____________________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M.

/s/ Helene Schneider Mayor

PUBLISHED DATES: Montecito Journal – August 1 and 8, 2012

Calle Rosales, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on July 13, 2012. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk. 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 Catherine Daly. Original FBN No. 2012-0002039. Published July 18, 25, August 1, 8, 2012. ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1402047. To all interested parties: Petitioner Taylor Chase Tatlock filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing

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name to Taylor Chase Andrade. 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 about must file a written objection that included 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. Filed June 26, 2012 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: August 23, 2012 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street,

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Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/25, 8/1, 8/8, 8/15 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1402392. To all interested parties: Petitioner Leila Radia Jirari filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Leila Radia Clark.



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 about must file a written objection that included the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to

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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO: 3672

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS BID NO. 3640

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3672 for the MILPAS AND CABRILLO PEDESTRIAN SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Wednesday, August 15, 2012, to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “MILPAS AND CABRILLO PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT, Bid No. 3672".

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 3640 for the La Colina Road Sidewalk Infill Project will be received in the Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101, until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, August 23, 2012 to be publicly opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office. Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager, Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, and shall be labeled, “La Colina Road Sidewalk Infill, Bid No. 3640".

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, and equipment necessary to construct and deliver the pedestrian safety improvements project, including but not limited to curbs, gutters, pedestrian refuge islands, flashing beacons, conforms, and sign relocation. This work includes and is not limited to mobilization, bonds, insurance, traffic control, concrete saw cutting, removal of hardscape, placing of asphalt concrete, clean up, public notices, and incidentals per the project plans and specifications. The Engineerʼs estimate is $45,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. The plans and specifications for this Project may be viewed online at CyberCopyʼs Website (www.cybercopyusa.com) under the City Of Santa Barbara Plan Room. To obtain a copy of the plans and specifications for this Project and become a registered plan holder, download a Bid Package Request Form from the City Of Santa Barbara Plan Room site above by clicking on the Project or by calling Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The Cityʼs contact for this project is Malinda Reese, Project Engineer, 805-897-1918. Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the Cityʼs website at: http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/Business/Purchasing/Projects/. Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts. Per California Civil Code Section 3247, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashierʼs check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal. A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder. GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA ___________________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. PUBLISHED: Montecito Journal August 1 & 8, 2012

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. Filed July 26, 2012 by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: August 30, 2012 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8

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The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and equipment necessary to complete the following: Install new curb-face sidewalk, curb, gutter, sidewalk access ramps, street trees, and retaining walls. The Engineerʼs estimate is $250,000. Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work in accordance with the California Business and Professions Code. The plans and specifications for this Project may be viewed online at CyberCopyʼs Website (www.cybercopyusa.com) under the City of Santa Barbara Plan Room. To obtain a copy of the plans and specifications for this Project and become a registered plan holder, download a Bid Package Request Form from the City Of Santa Barbara Plan Room site above by clicking on the Project or by calling Alex Gaytan, CyberCopy Shop Manager, at (805) 884-6155. The Cityʼs contact for this project is Keith Bazzell, Senior Engineering Technician, 805897-2512.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following matter will be heard by the Board of Supervisors of the County of Santa Barbara, on Tuesday, AUGUST 21, 2012 at 9:00 a.m. or shortly thereafter in the Board of Supervisorʼs Hearing Room, 4th Floor, County Administration Building, 105 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, California. A hearing to consider the Goolsby and Kay Appeal, Case No. 12APL-00000-00011, of the Montecito Planning Commissionʼs approval of a Verizon Wireless Facility at Montecito Switch Station located at 512 Santa Angela Lane in the Montecito area, APN 011-200-015 and 011-200-016, Case Nos. 12CUP-0000000007, First Supervisorial District. [12-00598] Please see the posted agenda, available on Thursday prior to the meeting for a more specific time for this item. However, the order of the agenda may be rearranged or the item may be continued. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Clerk of the Board at (805) 568-2240. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the Clerk of the Board to make reasonable arrangements.

Project Addendum notifications will be issued through Ebidboard.com. Although Ebidboard will fax and/or email all notifications once they are provided contact information, bidders are still responsible for obtaining all addenda from the Ebidboard website or the Cityʼs website at: http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/Business/Purchasing/Projects/.

If you challenge this project in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Board of Supervisors at, or prior to, the public hearing. G.C. Section 65009, 6066, and 6062a.

Bidders are hereby notified that pursuant to provisions of Section 1770, et seq., of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Contractor shall pay its employees the general prevailing rate of wages as determined by the Director of the Department of Industrial Relations. In addition, the Contractor shall be responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 of the California Labor Code relating to apprentice public works contracts.

Witness my hand and seal this 25th day of July, 2012.

Per California Civil Code Section 3247, a payment bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and prior to the performance of any work. The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashierʼs check payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the proposal.

Chandra L. Wallar CLERK OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS Russ Barker, Deputy Clerk

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and posted for: BID NO. 5172

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to award and prior to the performance of any work. The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set forth hereunder.

GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF SANTA BARBARA

DUE DATE & TIME: AUGUST 23, 2012 UNTIL 3:00P.M. Waterfront Custodial Services A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on August 16, 2012 at 9 a.m., at the Waterfront Center, located at 113 Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the specifications and field conditions. Bid Documents are available at the Purchasing Office and at the pre-bid meeting. Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and specifications.

William Hornung, C.P.M.

PUBLISHED: August 8 and 15, 2012 Montecito Journal

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1402662. To all interested parties: Petitioner Kathleen Marie LazardCronin filed a petition with Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara, for a decree changing name to Kathleen Marie Lazard. The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING OF THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Tuesday, AUGUST 21, 2012 In SANTA BARBARA The meeting starts at 9:00 a.m.

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 about must file a written objection that included 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. Filed July 6, 2012 by Penny Wooff, Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: September 13, 2012 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Published 7/18, 7/25, 8/1, 8/8

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Bidders are hereby notified that any service purchase order issued as a result of this bid may be subject to the provisions and regulations of the City of Santa Barbara Ordinance No. 5384, Santa Barbara Municipal Code, Chapter 9.128 and its impending regulations relating to the payment of Living Wages. The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40), ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race, religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award. ____________________ William Hornung, C.P.M. General Services Manager

Published: August 8, 2012 Montecito Journal

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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING (805) 565-1860 (You can place a classified ad by filling in the coupon at the bottom of this section and mailing it to us: Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA 93108. You can also FAX your ad to us at: (805) 969-6654. We will figure out how much you owe and either call or FAX you back with the amount. You can also e-mail your ad: [email protected] and we will do the same as your FAX). ESTATE/GARAGE SALE

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BLACK BABY GRAND PIANO Good condition, includes bench. $1,500 includes moving. Contact info: [email protected] CLASSIC CARS WANTED

Retired hobbyist would like to find a couple of old cars to play with. Please call Bob Fox. 805 845-2113. SPECIAL REQUEST

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Oriental Ayurvedic visiting healthcare. Acupuncture, herbs and nutrition, Specializing in anti-aging protocols. Andrew Wells, L.AC. 451-3935. Movement Matters- classes/1:1 sessions 760-612-5451 Gentle movements improve flexibility, balance; reduce strain and pain. Feel better, relax, improve activities. Laurie Wilson, RN,GCFP Feldenkrais® practitioner THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE Enhancement of Health, Fitness and Relaxation by a professional CMT. R.N. In the comfort of your home or suite. Seniors welcomed. Reasonable rates. 805 698-3467. I live in Montecito and would like to exchange massage with another local professional. Rather than uncomfortable painful bodywork, my style is a relaxing, sedative massage. In 1984, I graduated from the Swedish Over 25 Years in Montecito

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Institute in NYC, and am also CA certified. Lately I do more writing about how massage helps companion animals. I’m well versed using Cat Massage techniques for feline bonding and for soothing scared cats. Of course, I still enjoy frequent massage for myself. I don’t want to shop around and ‘hope’ for a good massage. I am looking for someone with a similar therapeutic style, with emphasis on soothing relaxation. I prefer combined deep and gentle effleurage and petrissage… a massage where the end feeling is comfort and rejuvenation. It’s not a luxury, massage is a necessity.  Maryjean Ballner 805-456-9169

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ITutor Beginning Ipad/Iphone tutoring for all ages by long-time SB school educator. Call Sunny Mello at 805-729-1427.

NURSE experienced, competent, certified will care for patients at home & any setting as needed. 805-453-1285

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Award-winning tutor in English! For teens or adults: composition, grammar, reading. 338-7219. Ask for Mr. James.

In-Home Senior Services: Ask Patti Teel to meet with you or your loved ones to discuss dependable and affordable in-home care. Individualized service is tailored to meet each client’s needs. Our caregivers can provide transportation, housekeeping, personal assistance and much more. Senior Helpers: 966-7100 CONSULTING/GUIDANCE/ COACHING

Mental Wealth coaching Services What is a Life Coach? The cornerstone of happiness is based on the fulfillment of your dreams and passions. I am here to help you obtain the necessary insights to realize your potential and become devoted to your purpose. I have over 25 years of experience, clinically and in private practice. Nancy Hewitt, MA Psychology 805-217-5938

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YOGERCISE YOGA + EXERCISE Experience bliss, strength & equanimity. www.yogercise.com

PERSONAL CHEF/CMA 25yrs. exp. Excellent references.; upbeat, caring personality. Able to follow prescribed diets + experienced w/private events. Willing to travel. Victoria 805-765-7774

Private Piano & Guitar Teacher with Montecito References for all ages & levels. Half off 1st month! Have fun playing the songs you like. Marti 805-220-6642 [email protected] www.martismusic.com

Reliable, detailed, quality home services Cleaning, errands, driving to apptments, family and pet care. Great rates. Cathy 617-5383 BOOKKEEPING SERVICES

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LOANS TO DOCTORS $250,000 to $1 million CASH. www.MediqFinancial.com 702-239-1013 BUSINESS COACHING

Bookkeeping/Tax Preparation/ Financial Services 17 yrs experience in businesses/ personal affairs. CTEC Tax preparation licensed. Your place of business/home or mine. Skilled in QuickBooksPro; Payroll Service, Sales Tax, Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable. IRS audits. Notary Public. Refs available upon request. (805) 766-2888 CLEANING SERVICES

Senior executive and successful entrepreneur will improve you management skills, analyze your business model, provide ongoing start-up support, design capital formation plan. Multiple local references. Clients receive a free copy of our book, “Successful Startups.” CALL 680 3031 FOR INTERVIEW

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Experienced caregiver to provide your with personal assistance, transportation, housekeeping & much more. Refs upon request. Ask for Diana 705-9431 HOUSEKEEPING SERVICES

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HOUSE/PET SITTING SERVICES

House or Pet Sitting provided by a local retired pastor and his wife. Seeking long or short term assignments. Email: afrench6@ cox.net or phone: (805) 569-5839. Professional, mature woman seeks housesitting or reduced 1-bdrm rental in

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4455 Via Bendita $18,650,000 Nancy Kogevinas 805.450.6233 A Landmark Estate in the most prestigious part of Hope Ranch designed by George Washington Smith features 5 bedroom main house, 2 guest apartments, staff quarters, guest cottage, & 5 car garage. www.HopeRanchEstate1.com

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