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Celebrate the Holidays in Santa Barbara!

Jake Shimabukuro

Christmas in Hawai'i

Thu, Dec 1 / 7 PM / Granada Theatre

“If everyone played the ukulele, the world would be a better place.”

– Jake Shimabukuro

Drawing on signature favorites, a vibrant catalog of holiday classics, and selections from his recent album, Jake Shimabukuro’s merry live show

Mariachi Sol de México

José Hernández’ Merry-Achi Christmas

Wed, Dec 7 / 7 PM / Arlington Theatre

“Mariachi

One of the world’s foremost mariachi groups, Mariachi Sol de México incorporates elements of Las Posadas alongside traditional Christmas carols in this festive musical tribute to Mexico’s holiday traditions.

Granada event tickets can also be purchased at: (805) 899-2222 | www.GranadaSB.org www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu | (805) 893-3535

Arlington event tickets can also be purchased at: (805) 963-4408

Special Thanks

is the heart, the soul and the passion of Mexico.” – José Hernández

How do you think more con servative-minded folks will react to psychedelics entering the mainstream? How would you respond to their concerns?

“New” things are always scary, change is always uncomfortable, and, of course, haters are always going to hate. But these are real tools increasingly supported by real medical professionals, and we have a large population of people in this world who need some real help with their mental health. To deny the potential benefits of psychedelics simply because you don’t understand them, fear them, or, worse yet, are stuck living with a closed-mind that would be a major disservice to yourself and your com munity. Good things happen when we are open to the unknown.

What would you say to someone considering using psychedelics for medicinal purposes? Do it the right way. Find a trained professional to work with. Identify your explicit intention for pursuing psychedelic-assisted therapy and commit to the process. As I wrote in the pages of the Independent a long time ago, “Fate favors the bold.”

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UCSB Academic Workers Join Statewide Strike

Unionized Picketers Demand End to Unfair Labor Practices, Better Wages and Benefits

age of about $24,000 annually; the unions are calling for a base annual salary of $54,000 for all grad workers and a $70,000 salary for postdocs. In negotiation, the UC proposed adjusting salary scales and hourly wages for each bargaining unit, which includes initial increases in the range of 4-8 percent and additional, annual increases ranging from about 3-6 percent in each subsequent con tract year.

For reference, UC’s proposal would mean that in the first year of the contract, that aver age annual wage for student workers would only increase by an estimated amount of $960 to $1,920.

HOUSING

A public workshop will be held 11/17 in the County Planning Commission Hearing Room at 6 p.m. to discuss potential housing sites in the county’s unincorporated areas, which are being explored as options to meet the state’s Regional Housing Needs Allocation of 8,001 units by 2031. An interactive map recently released by the county Planning and Development Department shows sites that range from parcels deep in the Santa Ynez Mountains to areas as far south as Casitas Pass and include Santa Barbara Juvenile Hall and Glen Annie Golf Course, which could account for more than 1,500 new units of housing combined. Full story at independent.com/ housing-element-workshop.

The sound of beating drums, hundreds of shuffling feet, and various impassioned chants such as “U-C-S-B keeping us in poverty!” rang out across the UC Santa Barbara campus as a mobile picket line marched through the university’s grounds on Monday, marking the first day of the largest walkout in the history of U.S. higher education.

As the strike entered its third day Wednes day, picketers have not indicated any sign of lost momentum. Tuesday’s rallies across UC campuses asking the University to resume bargaining after administrators said they would not return to the table until Wednesday proved successful, according to a union press release. Starting at 2 p.m., parties discussed benefits related to green, alternative transportation, which seems to be progress toward the bargaining in good faith both sides of the picket line claim they want to engage in.

Various acts in support of the strike have occurred over the past two days, including professors canceling classes and truck drivers refusing to cross picket lines to deliver pack ages, the union’s update stated.

Striking employees at UCSB make up about 3,100 of the total 48,000 academic workers represented by the United Auto Workers union (UAW) including teach ing assistants, postdocs, academic student employees, graduate student researchers, academic researchers, readers, tutors, and more from all 10 campuses of the Univer sity of California protesting against 28 alleged Unfair Labor Practices committed by the University. According to union representa tives, these alleged unlawful practices have interfered with the union’s ability to bargain effectively for a better contract to meet the cost of living, among other proposals.

Progress toward a contract that satisfies both parties has been slow-going; more than a year has gone by since they first took their seats at the bargaining table. The union claims that the UC further “thwarted” that progress by failing to meet its legal obliga tions in the bargaining process, by “making unilateral changes to…working conditions without negotiating, [refusing] to provide necessary information for negotiations, and obstructing the bargaining process.”

The UC denies the allegations that they have engaged in illegal labor practices.

“The strike is not about wages; the strike is about the University’s behavior, which is pre venting us from being able to work with them in good faith,” said Evan Plunkett, a post doc at UCSB and the postdoc unit chair for UAW-5810. “One of the main goals, across all units, is the elimination of rent burden. But right now, and for the indefinite future, the goal is to get the UC to work with us. Negotiations are ongoing, but some progress has been made in the past week that gives us some hope that they are starting to under stand what is going on and what is at stake.”

According to the union’s website, “92% of Graduate Workers and 61% of Postdoctoral Scholars are rent-burdened,” meaning they pay more than 30 percent of their income for housing. In addition, membership surveys by UAW found that “40% of Graduate Work ers report spending more than half of their income on rent.” Considering Santa Barbara’s current housing crisis, that burden can weigh heavily on UCSB’s academic workers.

“The rent burden is eating up about 55 per cent of my paycheck right now,” said Misa Nguyen, a graduate student and TA for Greek mythology at UCSB, who said she had to skip meals and keep her heater off to make it through one particularly rough month.

The UC’s student workers make an aver

A significant majority of the teaching and research at UC is performed by academic workers. Nguyen mentioned that, officially, TAs are only expected to work about 20 hours per week; during grading season and midterms, however, they have put in a far greater amount of time to meet their work load. “This quarter, I had to grade 80 student papers in two weeks, on top of teaching and everything else,” she said.

Class cancelations for UCSB students have already begun, and while the exact impact and spread of this interruption on students is unclear, multiple undergrads have reported classes, and especially TA-taught sections, being mothballed. Faculty across the board have shown support for the strike, but instruction in the humanities appears to be more susceptible to cessation in solidar ity; various political, environmental, writing, foreign language, and social science courses have reportedly been called off.

In response to inquiries about continued instruction, UCSB issued a statement say ing, “Most classes have recently completed their midterms. The University is continuing negotiations with the union and is planning for finals to take place as scheduled.”

However, some undergraduate students, like CCS biology major Lauren Jennings, have already taken certain finals off their schedules. Jennings said that her Feminist Studies professor is supporting the strike by canceling class for the remainder of the quar ter, and recently announced that Jennings and her classmates would not be taking their final exam.

With finals season just a few weeks away, further interference with instruction and research seems inevitable as picketing work ers prepare to keep the strike going until their requests are met. Many TAs will not be around to teach or grade, so it’s possible that more exam plans could be adjusted or canceled.

“We are willing to bring the University’s functions of education and teaching to a halt. We are willing to stop classes, to stop lectures. We are willing to withhold grades; that is

The Goleta Planning Commission voted 11/14 to send the Heritage Ridge housing project to the City Council for approval. Though Commissioner Elrawd MacLearn stated he’d rather see more space in the two-acre park for active sports like soccer, the park was approved overall with improved trails, a cultural tot lot, and some active areas. The park is surrounded by 332 apartments, 228 at market rates. The remainder, 104, are slated to be affordable to low- and very-low-income veterans, seniors, and families, as well as holding two manager units. Though Red Tail Development and the Towbes Group are the developers, the county Housing Authority will finish the affordable homes and purchase them by June 2025.

COMMUNITY

The remains of a diver were recovered 11/11 in an underwater cave system near Painted Cave on Santa Cruz Island, the Sheriff’s Office announced 11/14. The remains were transported to the Sheriff’s Office Coroner’s Bureau, where, according to a Sheriff’s statement, “Coroner’s detectives plan on utilizing rapid DNA to confirm the identity of the decedent with anticipated completion next week,” at which point next of kin will be notified. The Sheriff’s Office noted that the remains were recovered near the same spot where missing Port Hueneme diver Ryder Sturt, 34, was last seen alive in November 2020.

A male pedestrian was struck and killed by a car while crossing Highway 101 in Santa Barbara early 11/11. The man was hit on the northbound side of the freeway by an Uber passenger vehicle near the Patterson Avenue freeway entrance around 1:50 a.m., according to County Fire spokesperson Scott Safechuck. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. All northbound lanes of the 101 were closed for approximately five hours, reopening shortly before 7 a.m., according to Caltrans. The California Highway Patrol is investigating the death.

COURTS & CRIME

AT&T settled with prosecutors statewide for $5.9 million regarding hazardous materials violations, including in Santa Barbara County, due to unreported batteries at cell-phone towers and other facilities, DA Joyce E. Dudley announced 11/15. The settlement is the largest amount ever awarded statewide for this kind of environmental violation. Most of the sum, $5,650,000, will go to civil penalties. From that

COUNTY Animal Services Shares Shelter Data

they have all of the accurate data to make those decisions and form those opinions,” said Sarah Aguilar, Animal Services’ new director.

October’s report compares shelter operations between 2021 and 2022, includ ing changes in animal intakes, adoptions, foster care, transfers to partnering agen cies, and animal control officer calls. According to Aguilar, some of the most impressive changes include an increase of more than 1,000 volunteer hours given to shelters, with 1,766 hours contributed by 131 volunteers this year, as well as a 259 percent increase in foster placements from last year.

The gaps between the bars of Santa Barbara County Animal Services’ metaphorical cage have widened. With the addition of new, monthly data reports alongside summaries of major highlights from the Animal Services’ director, community stakeholders will have a better look at animal care and operations across the county’s multiple shelters.

“We want to ensure that the community knows what we’re doing with … pets that are entrusted to us, that they understand how their taxpayer dollars are spent, that they have an opportunity to provide feedback to us about what they would like to see, and that

But not everything our county shel ters do can be boiled down to numbers and trends. To accompany the monthly reports, the new Director’s Summary con tributes narrative updates about the paws and people behind shelter walls. “Every animal and person we come in contact with has some kind of story,” Aguilar said.  Aguilar explained that the reports are not just to highlight what the shelters are doing right but to also find ways they can improve and expand their services, such as potentially increasing shelters’ hours of operation to include Sundays. “It’s not just a, ‘Hey, here’s all the things we did that are amazing,’ ” Aguilar said, “but it’s also, ‘Here’s the opportunities that exist, in terms of the things that we want to work on,’ and really laying out an honest explanation of what’s happening.”

Read more at independent.com/animalservices-reports.

The mathematic equation to emerge from the updated results of last Tuesday’s Santa Barbara County election is that Democratic candidates were automatically guaranteed about 60 percent of the vote, no matter how experienced or inexperienced they were. Republican candidates, in turn, took home about 40 percent, regardless of any lack of campaign cash or experience.

What makes this striking is that Demo crats make up only 50 percent of registered voters, with declined-to-states and Republi cans making up the rest. For example, Dem ocratic Congressmember Salud Carbajal a three-term incumbent won 60.97 percent of county votes with his opponent Dr. Brad Allen winning 39.03. For the 37th Assem bly seat, county supervisor and Democratic Party stalwart Gregg Hart won 59.29 percent while his Republican opponent, Mike Stoker, took 40.71 percent. Long-term City College trustee incumbent Marsha Croninger a moderate Democrat won with 79.9 per cent, and Charlotte Gullap-Moore a firsttime candidate backed by the party won by 61.4 percent.

Gabe Escobedo a Democrat Party player and city planning commis sioner won a three-way race for the Santa

Barbara Unified school board with 60.2 percent, and Rose Muñoz backed by the Democrats won with 80 percent in a two-way race. In the Goleta school dis trict, cultural conservatives Caroline Abate and Christy Lozano posted 39 percent and 25 percent, respectively, while their Demo cratic-backed opponents Richard Mayer and Emily Zacarias took 60.4 and 62.9 percent, respectively.

Perhaps the biggest nail-biter of the night involved Carpinteria’s Measure T, which would have required another election to approve a plan to build a new downtown hotel on a public parking lot. The votes in all races are still being tallied, but as of the last posting, Measure T was trailing by 72.

Carpinteria councilmembers Gregg Carty and Al Clark both first-term incum bents were forced to run against each other because of redistricting. Clark, an unapologetic slow-growther and a reg istered Democrat was decisively ahead of Carty. Otherwise, all bond measures, par cel taxes, bed tax increases and sales tax increases on the ballot passed, including a one-cent sales tax increase for the City of Goleta. As of Tuesday, November 15, 12,330 votes were still uncounted. Nick Welsh

Up to 160 Deaths over Two Years

Based on still preliminary analysis, as many as 160 homeless people could have died in Santa Barbara County over 2019 and 2020. Broken down by year, 2019 could have witnessed 76 homeless deaths, and for 2020, the number could be 84.

These numbers remain somewhat raw and uncooked, according to county epide miologist Ralph Barbosa, who heads the annual homeless mortality count and cau tioned the numbers could be considerably lower by the time the final report goes to the county supervisors in February. It turns out that determining whether someone was homeless at the time of their demise is far more challenging than it might appear at first blush.

“It seems so simple, right?” Barbosa said. “But it’s not.”

Many of the federal privacy protections regarding the dissemination of medical information also apply to dead people, mak ing it challenging and time-consuming for the seven-bean salad of government agen cies involved in homeless mortality reviews to share information. Also, Barbosa noted, federal agencies have multiple definitions for what constitutes “homelessness.” One has to do with housing and another pertain ing to medical conditions. Some of the indi viduals suspected of having been homeless may simply have ended their lives estranged and alienated from their next of kin.

Initial accounts of where bodies are found on the railroad tracks, in an encampment, or in a shelter, for exam ple often prove anecdotal, sketchy, and inaccurate.

“It’s not just a box the coroner can check,” Barbosa added.

In fact, he said, sometimes the coroner will use the phrase “transient” to describe homelessness; other times, the same word will be used to describe a decedent going from one location to another destination.

In Santa Barbara County, people like

Barbosa have been tracking the number and circumstances of homeless deaths since 1989. Joining him in this are representatives from the county’s major hospitals, home less outreach agencies, the Public Guard ian’s office, the Sheriff’s Office, the Social Services Department, and the Department of Behavioral Wellness.

Homeless deaths are tracked in part because of federal requirements imposed on government agencies that take govern ment funds to provide homeless health care. It’s also used to determine whether enough doctors, nurses, and medical professionals are being deployed in the right numbers at the right locations.

How and where someone dies might be of epidemiological significance, but again, Barbosa stated, the cause is not always obvious. “Does your next of kin know everything about your immediate medical history?” he asked.

The numbers reported thus far, he said, are consistent with numbers released “at this stage of the process” and do not indicate a big jump. The real question, he said, is what happens to the numbers during the next 30 days of winnowing and vetting. In 2017, the county reported 44 homeless deaths. In 2016, it was 44; in 2015, 40; and in 2014, 32.

Typically, about 80 percent of the dece dents are males, the vast majority White, and the average age in the lower fifties. Over the years, the number of veterans rep resented in this population has fluctuated from 15.6 percent to 2.5 percent, but mostly has hovered about 9 to 10 percent. Like wise, slightly less than half died outdoors. Typically, the largest number of deaths has occurred during winter months.

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With Santa Barbara entering a cold snap, the county’s system of emergency shel ters operating out of various churches throughout the county has now been activated and will remain on alert until next March 31. Nick Welsh

NEWS BRIEFS

CONT’D FROM P. 9

amount, $613,479 goes to the Santa Barbara County DA’s Office and $110,625 to County Environmental Health Services. Another $250,000 will be used as a Supplemental Environmental Project to the CUPA Forum Environmental Protection Trust Fund.

Jerry Boylan pleaded not guilty once again in the manslaughter case against him in the deaths of 34 people aboard the Conception charter boat. In an arraignment held 11/11, he pleaded not guilty to a new charge of gross negligence occasioned by his public defenders’ successful motion to dismiss the first complaint. He had also pleaded not guilty to the original negligence allegation. Boylan faces 10 years in prison if convicted of the new criminal charge. The trial is scheduled for 12/20 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.

S.B. man Elias Maldonado, 35, was arrested 11/10 for allegedly attempting to kidnap a young girl in Carpinteria on 11/7, according to Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Raquel Zick. According to the Sheriff’s Office, the incident occurred around 4 p.m. on the

5500 block of Carpinteria Avenue near the entrance to the bike path. Using the description of the suspect provided by the victim, authorities identified and tracked down Maldonado to a motel on the same block. He is currently being held on $150,000 bail at the Main Jail facing charges of attempted kidnapping of a child under the age of 14 and obstructing a peace officer, as well as his outstanding warrant for domestic violence and false imprisonment.

Five youth inmates at the juvenile hall in Santa Maria attempted to escape the facility on 11/9, injuring a probation staff member and destroying property in the process, according to the County Probation Department. Following several failed attempts by Probation personnel to get the situation under control, the Sheriff’s Office Special Operations Response Team was called in and removed the five youth from the upper tier of the unit, where they had barricaded themselves in, placing them into secure cells under Probation custody. The staff member was taken to the hospital with minor injuries, and none of the youth were reportedly injured in the incident. n

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going to be our biggest weapon, because the grading deadline is December 14,” Nguyen said. “We have massive undergraduate sup port to understand why we have to withhold grades.”

One UCSB undergraduate student, who requested to be referred to as JD, was on the picket’s sidelines with Food Not Bombs, a student organization that prepared food for protesters and is planning on doing so for the remainder of the strike.

“A lot of the TAs are saying, ‘I really do want to teach, but I have to strike,’ because they need to make a living,” JD said. “... A lot of peoples’ financial aid … [relies] on their grades. … Despite the fact that financial aid students like me risk losing their finan cial aid, I haven’t heard any undergraduate students say anything negative about the strike.”

UCSB faculty also seems to be generally supportive of the strike, across the various disciplines. A group of professors and other faculty members dressed in regalia and holding signs in solidarity were greeted by their students as they marched alongside them.

Charmaine Chua, an assistant professor in the Global Studies department at UCSB, said she came back to campus from sabbati cal to show her support and mobilize fellow faculty members “to help them understand

their ability to cancel classes,” and remind them that they have “the legal right to respect the picket line, which is guaran teed under HEERA,” the Higher Educa tion Employer-Employee Relations Act.

“I was a grad student not so long ago,” Chua said. “I experienced what our grad uate students are experiencing, which is poverty wages making it really hard for them to do what they want to do: study to become faculty. … It wouldn’t be pos sible to teach large lectures without grad workers; it wouldn’t be possible to con duct research without student research ers. The UC underpays these workers, despite the fact that they are essential to the University.”

In response to the strike, the UC issued the following statement: “Our campuses have been preparing to mitigate the impact of any strike activity on our students by ensuring, to the extent possible, continuity of instruction and research. This includes encouraging departmental and academic units to provide additional support and resources to students for learning. Addi tionally, campuses will be prepared for contingencies should a strike interfere with the conclusion of the academic term.”

In the latest update by the UC, they stated that they have proposed to the UAW enlisting the assistance of a third-party, neutral mediator so they can “achieve a compromise.” Furthermore, they said, fol lowing negotiations through the weekend, the resulting, current University proposal “would set the standard for graduate employee support among public research. It is important to note that our graduate student employees work strictly on a parttime basis while earning their graduate or doctoral degree, and that compensation is just one of the many ways in which they are supported as students during their time with the University.”

In response to UC’s new proposal to shift to mediation, UAW 2865 President Rafael Jaime said, “At this point, the prior ity should be round-the-clock bargaining in good faith, as opposed to switching to a mediation process. We remain willing and able to meet with the University on an ongoing basis to reach a

The final plans for Ortega Park’s estimated $14 million makeover are nearly “shovel ready,” according to Project Manager Justin Van Mullem, who revealed the latest updates during a community event hosted by the City of Santa Barbara at the Eastside park’s Welcome House over the weekend.

An overall plan was approved through the city’s Planning Commission more than a year ago, but in that time, city staff have held sev eral community meetings to nail down specific plans for the murals, swimming pool, and proposed skate park. On Saturday, the city’s Parks and Recreation Department held one final open house to gather public input on the final touches and provide an update on the pro jected timeline for completion.

The city missed the previous round of federal grants, but Van Mullem said that project planners “want to keep the project moving, so we can get in line for the fund ing that’s on its way.”

“We want to be shovel ready,” he said. “There are a lot of other grants for parks out there currently.”

In the latest draft, the city dropped the controversial concrete-and-steel fencing proposed in the previous set of plans, opt ing instead to keep the common areas of the park open at all hours; the new artificial turf field, swimming pool, and skate park areas will be gated and closed after normal park hours.

Van Mullem added that there are still “a thousand little decisions” to make, includ ing where to place tables, benches, and bar becue pits to best serve the neighborhood residents, but the city is looking forward to finding funding and ultimately starting construction sometime in 2024.

According to the latest draft site plans, here are a few of the park’s biggest pieces that have been set in stone:

Murals: Twelve of the park’s most historic murals will be relocated, re-created, or “reenvisioned” using updated and more accurate imagery in collaboration with local artists and student groups, in the same spirit as when they were first painted decades ago. As many as 12 all-new murals will also be commissioned throughout the park.

‘All Wheels’ Park: After a study of the land under Ortega Park found that the water

table wouldn’t allow the skate park to be built any deeper than four feet, the city decided to redesign the spot as a more accessible “all wheels” park to welcome bikes, scooters, roller-bladers, and skat ers of all types. The 12,200-square-foot park will have sections with smaller, kidfriendly obstacles and several “zones” for each wheel type to prevent collisions.

Aquatics Area: The new swimming pool will now be nearly seven times larger than the current pool and was expanded from the originally proposed four lanes to six 25-yard lanes with starting blocks, allowing for competitive swim meets to be held at the park for the first time in its history. The large pool will be 7.5 feet deep and open for lap swimming, water aerobics, and swim lessons, along with availability for competitive swimming activities for local clubs. An “aquatics slide” will be the first of its kind in the city, and a “splash pad” wading pool will serve as an approachable introduction to water play for children.

Turf Field: A full-size, multi-sport, artificial turf field with all-new lights will allow for pickup games and organized leagues to use the space with a permit as late as 10 p.m. The 92,700-square-foot turf field will be easier to maintain and more long-lasting than the current grass field and will remain fenced off after hours to prevent unpermit ted play and additional wear and tear on the surface.

Community Plaza/Open Space: In the latest draft, the city removed many extra ele ments bocce ball courts, bean bags, and Ping-Pong tables to make room for more open and flexible space. Now, the park has more than 33,000 square feet of “community space,” including a plaza, play area, open grass, and a new basketball court. n

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Ask Not for Whom the Flea Bites Opinions

COLLECTIVE AMNESIA: Usually I go out of my way to avoid arguments with Sherlock Holmes. But on the question of coincidence, I might have to make an exception. Where the likes of Sigmund Freud and C.J. Jung were all agog about the pivotal role of coincidence in human affairs synchronicity, they preferred to call it the fictional 19th-century super sleuth was famously contemptuous. “Rarely,” Holmes told his brother Mycroft when asked about the matter, “is the universe so lazy.”

I raise the issue because last week, I found myself covering two totally disjointed news stories that just happened to be joined at the hip by the ghost of John Valentine Stahl, another one of the most important wheeler dealers in Santa Barbara’s modern political history that nobody’s ever heard of.

The first involved the nasty show down far from resolved between feuding factions of the South Coast’s enviro camp over a proposed stretch of bike lane 4,000 feet long somewhere alongside Modoc Road. The other involved ExxonMobil’s decision to sell off its entire Santa Ynez operation three offshore platforms, a massive onshore pro cessing plant, and a 123-mile stretch of pipe line that’s been shut down since 2015, when part of that pipe sprung a 4,000-barrel leak, thus shutting down America’s biggest oil company in one of the richest oil-producing counties on the planet for the last seven years.

But for Stahl, it’s uncertain whether there

ever would have been an oil pipeline through which the oil companies could have pumped their black gold in the first place. Back in the day, Exxon and the rest of the industry insisted that God intended them to ship their oil via tankers. Pipelines, they argued, were strictly for sissies and atheists

And but for Stahl, there absolutely would never been a bike path built that connects UCSB to Modoc Road following along an invitingly flat and meandering creekside pathway. Proponents of the new trail of which I am one insist this proposed new pathway would connect a key missing link for what would otherwise be a 20-mile con tinuous system of intertwined bike lanes linking UCSB to Montecito.

To underscore the obvious, without Stahl, there wouldn’t have been a necklace in place to add these necessary pearls.

Naturally, Stahl’s name was not invoked once in any of these deliberations. I would discover by accident reading the obituaries section of the Independent, it turns out that Stahl died just months before, in June of this year.

Coincidence?

I knew Stahl well enough only to say I did. He was one of those shrewd guys who could see around corners. As much sinner as saint he would later work for the oil indus try and private developers Stahl  had one of the great cynical chuckles that called to mind small glasses of amber liquids

It would be an exaggeration to say that Stahl singlehandedly yanked political power away from the Good Old Boys who had con trolled the board of supervisors from time immemorial and handed it to the South Coast liberal-environmental majority that’s been so dominant with a few significant hic cups since the 1970s.

But only slightly. When a politically outspoken young attorney then still new to town named Jim Slater allowed himself to be talked into run ning for Third District Supervisor back in 1971, it was John Stahl a one-time frontcounter planner for the County of Santa Barbara who ran his successful campaign. Fueled by the newly minted  Isla Vista voting bloc 18-year-olds had just been given the right to vote Stahl and Slater won the Third District. At the same time, a UCSB antiqui ties professor named Frank Frost shattered the Good Old Boys ceiling in the First District These were the good old days when Frost felt the need to wear a wire to meetings with developers one famously would be sent away on bribery charges and Slater brought his tape recorder to meetings with developers’ representatives.

Stahl didn’t just get Slater elected. He ran Slater’s shop as his consigliere. When Slater became a judge, Stahl took over running the campaign of his successor, a brilliant young veterinarian and ardent slow-growther named Bill Wallace. Wallace, who served

five terms, would become the center force of the most formidable political machine ever assembled in Santa Barbara. Stahl also served as Wallace’s chief of staff for a time.

While working for both Slater and Wallace, Stahl waged war on Exxon and the whole oil industry. Later  however, he joined that indus try, working for the company that installed the very pipeline that many years later would spring so huge a leak in 2015.

It was while working with Slater, Stahl got the idea for the UCSB bike path. It was the ’70s; cycling became the environmen tally cool thing. There was an energy crisis. Stahl, a Lompoc boy and the son of a project manager who helped build Lake Cachuma, was comfortable with the dozer jockeys at public works departments. He knew where the money was hidden. He knew right-ofways and flood-control maps. So endowed, he got the first half of the UCSB bike lane built under Slater’s watch; and finished the job under Wallace’s.

Today, it’s known as the Obern Trail. If the proposed new bike lane is ever built, it should be named after Stahl. If it doesn’t get built, it’s because stupid mistakes were made early on that inflamed the opposition. If Stahl had been involved, those mistakes would never have happened.

But getting back to coincidences, I’ll take Albert Einstein over Sherlock Holmes. “Coin cidence,” Einstein wrote, “is God’s way of stay ing anonymous.”  —Nick Welsh

1/9/1927 - 11/1/2022

races. Many summer weekends found the family and friends at Lake Nacimiento enjoying the camping, boating and waterski ing. After his retirement Chuck and Barbara found a joy for cruising and they explored the world on at least 35 cruises.

Chuck passed away at the ripe old age of 95 after a life well spent doing what he loved.

Chuck was born in Santa Bar bara on January 9, 1927, the only child of Lawrence and Wealthia Stevens. He was raised in a house on Haley Street next door to his Grandmother Brancie Stevens. He played with his cousin Reg Lathim and told many stories of their antics growing up. Chuck spent many weekends with his father traveling to various remote areas of the West coast collecting bird eggs which would later become part of the egg collection at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. This experience gave Chuck a knowledge and appreciation of birds that he carried throughout his life.

Upon graduating from Santa Barbara High School Chuck enlisted in the Navy where he was trained as an airplane mechanic. He appreciated the opportunity to travel to various parts of the United States and Europe as well as work on the aircraft carrier USS Randolph. After his discharge he used that training, and his father’s knowl edge in the same field, to become an auto mechanic, ultimately spending the majority of his career at Tom Williams Oldsmo bile/Cadillac. In fact, he contin ued to change the oil in his own cars into his 90’s.

Chuck spent his bachelor years bowling, exploring photogra phy, boating and waterskiing. Waterskiing led him to meeting Barbara Rogers at West Beach one day in 1957. They spent their early years together waterskiing, going to boat races, enjoying Fiesta and spending time with friends. They married in 1960 and welcomed daughter Sharon in 1961. Eventually they pur chased a brand new house on the Mesa after Barbara’s house where they were living in Montecito burned in the Coyote Fire. They had a son, Mark, who died as an infant in 1965. In 1966 their son Bruce was born. Chuck enjoyed spending his two weeks of vaca tion each year driving the family station wagon, and eventually a small motorhome, to various locations throughout the west and we have fond memories of camping and seeing many beautiful parts of the country.

Thanksgivings were often spent at Lake Havasu going to boat

Chuck’s greatest passion, however, was volleyball. He learned the sport playing at the YMCA with his father and he and Barbara played whenever they could. Wednesday nights were always volleyball nights at McKenzie Park followed by dinner at Char West, Peterson’s Drive-In or Taco Bell. Sunday mornings were volleyball days as well. They also played in the evenings at Santa Barbara Junior High and in co-ed City Leagues through the Santa Barbara City Recreation Department. Eventu ally, Sharon and Bruce were old enough to play with them and learned the game from their parents. Chuck enjoyed watch ing volleyball as much as he did playing. His summer weekends were filled attending beach vol leyball tournaments and his evenings were often spent at UCSB or one of the local high schools watching the game he loved. He and Barbara especially enjoyed being able to watch their children, and then their grand children, play and grow to love the game as well. Chuck played regularly at East Beach until he was 87 and then continued to go to watch his many volleyball friends play until he suffered the stroke that led to his passing shortly after.

Chuck was preceded in death by his son Mark and by his wife Barbara. He leaves behind his daughter Sharon Estabrooks, her husband Phil Estabrooks and grandsons Kyle and Sean as well as his son Bruce Stevens, his wife Tracy Stevens and grand daughter Taryn and grandson Tanner. Everyone loved Chuck. He had a great sense of humor, was kind and friendly to every one, and only got angry when he was stuck in traffic or his vol leyball team missed serves. His grandchildren loved spending time with him and listening to his stories. Sharon and Bruce appreciate all that he was able to provide for them through his hard work and his fun hobbies. We would like to thank Right At Home and all of their caregivers who helped Chuck stay in that Mesa home until the end. Per Chuck’s request there will be no services.

Recycle Explained

A story on NPR makes me ask if all the plas tic I’ve collected and sorted into recycle bins over all these years end up in the landfill anyway?

—Luciana Mitzkun Weston, S.B.

Editor’s Note:  Leslie Wells, who heads Resource Recovery for Santa Barbara County, replied: Plas tics with numbers #1 and #2 are highly recyclable (and valuable). Large rigid #5 is also recycled. In general, plastics #3 through #7 (excluding the large #5s) have always been problematic. Those are “plas tic film,” and the reason why several communities, including the county, and the state passed singleuse plastic bag bans, as well as clam shells often used for food in grocery stores or to-go containers.

Parklet Realities

I n response to recent articles decrying parklets and outdoor dining on State Street, and detail ing one restaurateur’s opinion, we in the restaurant community who have had very different experi ences, feel it is time to tell the other side of the story. Most of us would submit that the reality is much different than what this one operator has expressed.

First and foremost, the city and restaurateurs with parklets have been working together for many months to define an interim plan for State Street outdoor dining operations while we transition to the new Master Plan the State Street Advisory Committee and our consultant firm MIG will come up with around the end of 2023.Countless meet ings have addressed the issues raised in this recent article and active solutions are being implemented right now, for instance, cleanliness under parklets.

Here is what two parklet owners found when moving or downsizing their parklets:

Opal downsized 20 feet from their first parklet and found nothing but dirt and a few leaves underneath the removed areas. The Little Kitchen found the same when temporarily moving theirs. We cannot speak for parklets not well-maintained but would submit most would have a similar experience.

Regarding homeless behavior issues: Clay Hold ren, of Holdren’s restaurant, found these issues vir tually completely eliminated after State Street was closed to automobiles and parklets were allowed to offer outdoor dining.

Are there fewer business-oriented lunch din ers on State Street, post-pandemic? Yes, as many employees still haven’t returned to their offices.

Regarding the complaint that everyone has gone to the Funk Zone: Actually, the vibrant atmosphere created by outdoor dining on State Street now has a similar attraction as the Funk Zone. This has in turn enhanced the vibrancy of Santa Barbara as a whole.

Since concerns about parklets are being addressed and outdoor dining is wildly popular with locals and visitors alike, outdoor dining will certainly be part of the completed Master Plan. We urge that the sensible course is to maintain outdoor dining on parklets until the interim period is over, rather than removing them and the cultural and economic vitality they have restored to State Street.

We recognize there are things to improve; busi nesses and the city have already been hard at work making things better and will continue to do so until we graduate to the Master Plan that will hold the key to our city’s future vitality.

The full version of this letter is online at independent.com/opinions

—Richard Yates and Tina Takaya, Owners, Opal restaurant and bar

For the Record

¶ In our story on staffing shortages at the Sheriff’s Office a few weeks back, we note that only 1-2 per cent survive all the tests and evaluations, not 1-2 percent of those who take the initial mental and physical tests. Sheriff Brown stated there was a false national narrative that cops were racist, not that they were killers. Regarding inmates released over a 59-day period, the correct number was 91, not 98, and only concerned those found incompetent to stand trial, not among the general population.

Brown said that the jail created its own competency restoration program because it takes so much lon ger to get inmates into Patton, a state psychiatric hospital for those facing serious criminal charges. The jail’s restoration program takes roughly half as much time as Patton’s.

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obituaries

Fredda B Meisel

2/23/1935 - 11/3/2022

community and Santa Barbara was the “village” she would build and nourish over her lifetime.

Fredda Doris Blechman was born in Coatesville, Pennsylvania on February 23, 1935, and had a very challenging childhood. In this understatement lies the core and essence of Fredda’s great tenac ity and power in giving to others through her dedication to kindness and positive action.

and grand children, Melody Meisel Klein (Steven), Alex (Dr. Jacqui Drobis Meisel, and children Mat thew and Joshua), and Ben (chil dren Lea and Sophia Meisel). A celebration of her life will occur at a future date, and in lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation to the Alpha Resource Center of Santa Barbara. https://alphasb.org/ donate

into Mirasol Montessori School, incorporating music instruction into her curriculum via the Suzuki Method. Elvira was an educational pioneer ahead of her time. Always child-centered, Elvira believed the learning environment should promote freedom for chil dren to explore materials of their choice.

Fredda Meisel has passed away after a brief illness in which, over a few weeks, she charmed a bevy of health care providers and hospice angels. Her journey here complete, Fredda expressed “looking forward to the next journey”, to reunite with her lifetime soul mate, Dr. Harris “Bubs” Meisel, as previously agreed, “right up there” on the third star of Orion’s belt.

Dr. Harris & Fredda came to Santa Barbara in 1965 when Har ris became the Founding Medical Director for the Memorial Rehabili tation Hospital, now Cottage Reha bilitation Hospital. The couple were an inseparable pair of swans, grace fully navigating life with warmth and friendship throughout the Santa Barbara community. Their successes were many, with their greatest tri umph being a 68 year relationship of enduring love that produced three children (Melody, Alex and Ben, and 4 grandchildren (Matthew, Joshua, Lea and Sophia).

Fredda was the radiant engine, and power plant of the family, as well as to many in the community, all of us fortunate to be graced by her caring, her humor and her dedication to a positive outlook both tenacious and unwavering.

During her almost 60 years in Santa Barbara, Fredda relished her volunteerism and board participa tion in many organizations: Santa Barbara Scholarship Foundation, Santa Barbara Youth Theater, Valle Verde (and the Meals on Wheels program), and the Junior League of Santa Barbara, where she helped to establish Public / Educational TV for the Central Coast as Founding President of Santa Barbara’s KCETTV Affiliates. She was ever involved as a supportive partner to Harris and the Rehabilitation Institute at Santa Barbara, with boots on the ground and a smile on her face befriending all.

Fredda Meisel colored outside the lines, and endeavored to give and give and give in ways passionate, silly, thoughtful, mischievous, strategically heartfelt, impetuously loving, and ever self effacing. Her appetite to bring joy or comfort to others was insatiable. And as she neared her exit from this life, she seemed to grow more radiant and brazen in fulfilling her task of mak ing others share in joy.

During her last few weeks, her chil dren were privileged to hear time and again, “your mother was so important to me,” and “she was like a second mother to me.” She was an artist at bringing people together in

At an early age she found the power of her own voice through writing. In 1949, at the age of 14 she wrote scripts and hosted a radio show, “Get Ready for Freddy-Tips for Teens,” using the media format to give diverse student voices a venue to share common values. Her goal was to further understanding and diversity in her community and to help foster integration of black and white students in local schools.

In 1959 the couple moved to Harris burg where Fredda joined WHP-TV to host the Romper Room genre, “Aunt Mary’s Birthday Party,” while Harris entered a medical intern ship nearby. Aunt Mary’s television career ended shortly after Fredda sipped a sponsor’s chocolate milk on live TV, and promptly threw up as a result of morning sickness.

The pregnant Meisels left Penn sylvania in 1960, and went to the Navajo reservation, where Harris’s Public Health Service deployment brought them to the Shiprock Pub lic Health Hospital in Farmington, New Mexico. Fredda gave birth to Melody and 11 ½ months later to Alex. The newborns received the honor of a Navajo Ceremonial “Sing” to celebrate their births, and the family developed deep, lifelong, friendships in the Diné community.

In 1963 Harris became the Chief Resident in Rehab Medicine at Stanford University, and in 1965 the family moved to Santa Barbara where both Fredda and Harris worked to establish the Memorial Rehabilitation Hospital that would eventually become what today is the Cottage Rehabilitation Hospital Santa Barbara.

While raising a family, and working with many organizations, Fredda also had a passion for cooking, creativity and contesting. She was a marketing wordsmith who would enter contests and sweepstakes with clever recipes and targeted strate gies. She won trips to Montreal, Australia, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Singapore and China, and was a successful business in the eyes of the IRS. She took great pride in laughing with family members who received surprise “consolation prizes” in their mailboxes, after Fredda would enter their names into competitions without their knowing.

Unconventional, warm, loving and a strident force for good, Fredda will be missed. She was an OG “influencer” and made sure that before she left this life, she got one last voting ballot signed, sealed and delivered.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Dr. Harris Meisel, and she is survived by her children,

Elvira Gomez de Tafoya passed away on Sunday, November 6, 2022 in her home surrounded by her daughters at the age of 87. She was born on September 2, 1935 in El Paso, Texas and was the youngest of five children. Elvira attended and graduated from El Paso High, then attended Texas Western University, majoring in Spanish Language & Literature. Elvira then attended graduate school at the University of the Americas in Mexico City com pleting a Master Degree in Spanish Literature.

Prior to getting married, Elvira focused on community service; teaching, and volunteering in her community and went on several missionary trips through the Catho lic Church. She spent a significant amount of time working with the Tarahumara of Copper Canyon and several indigenous communities in Chiapas, teaching and translating alongside her missionary work.

In 1974, Elvira and her late husband, Edward, moved to Santa Barbara, where they made their home and raised their children, Gabriela and Xóchitl. She was a trained Montes sori teacher and believed that chil dren learn best in an environment that has been prepared to enable them to do things for themselves.

With Montessori’s vision, Elvira was the founder and executive director of Marisol Montessori School where she created a TK/Kinder program that embodied a wonderful learning environment for children to explore materials of their choosing. Mirasol Montessori School included a dual language environment where Span ish was spoken alongside English. She included her love of the violin

Elvira was a life-long educator and taught at a number of local institu tions, including the Adult Educa tion Program for SBCC, Oxnard City College, Laguna Blanca, Santa Barbara High and completed her teaching career as a Spanish teacher at Dos Pueblos High School. While at DP, she was an excellent teacher whom all of her students passed the AP Spanish language exam the last years of her career.

Elvira believed deeply in com munity service. She was an active member of Our Lady of Mount Car mel Church and the Old Mission Santa Barbara Parish volunteering for decades as a lecturer. As a selftaught violinist, Elvira cherished her time as a member of the Santa Barbara City College Orchestra, with whom she played for over 30 years. Another joy for Elvira was as a volunteer for Old Span ish Days. She loved seeing all the horses in El Desfile Histórico and served as a volunteer announcer for that parade, beginning in the early 90’s. She was well known for her announcements and commentary in both English and Spanish. She was a true consummate lover of art and music and loved attending live clas sical concerts weekly.

Since 1975, Elvira researched, organized, produced and directed Pablo Del La Guerra’s version of “La Pastorela” performed throughout Santa Barbara including the Presi dio, various churches, family homes and Los Prietos Boys Camp. La Pas torela is one of the Santa Barbara’s oldest and most beautiful Mexican Christmas traditions dramatizing the epic battle between good and evil, in rhyming Spanish verse per formed by community members. The play invokes elements of spec tacle, comedy and fantasy and most important, Christ’s redemption of man through the lens of traveling Shepherd. Elvira, with her beloved pastores, performed this through out Santa Barbara from 1975 every Christmas holiday until her retire ment in 2018. La Pastorela was a joy merging many of her passions of Spanish language, her strong Catho lic faith, the Arts and giving back to her community.

She also loved her local library and believed that libraries are one of the best supports for democracy in America. She believed that knowl edge should be free for all commu nities, all people, so she volunteered with the Friends of the Eastside Library for over three decades to support their fundraising efforts for programs unavailable through regular agency sources. Through her work as “the Eastside Library book lady” she helped raise funds for programming such as storytelling,

library materials and various free classes for children and parents for her cherished Eastside Library. One of Elvira’s greatest joys was being a grandmother. In her retire ment she took care of her two grandchildren – Ysabella and Eddie; taking them on daily visits to the park and the Santa Barbara Zoo, to concerts, and cello lessons. She enjoyed cooking with them, often using lessons from her Montessori background to include her grand children in meal prep. There was always a lesson for young minds, whether helping measure ingredi ents or cutting vegetables for soup. Elvira was a strong, fierce, smart and exceptional woman who loved her family, culture and always wanted to go beyond expectations breaking barriers and glass ceilings. She was a true lover of education and master teacher, constantly learning herself and supporting her students, seeing their highest poten tial. Elvira is survived by her two daughters; Gabriela Dodson and Xóchitl Tafoya, and their spouses; Steve Dodson & Nicole Koger as well as her beloved grandchildren Ysabella and Eddie Dodson. A funeral mass will be held for Elvira on Thursday, November 17th at 1 PM at the Old Mission Santa Barbara. In lieu of flowers please consider a donation to the Friends of the Eastside Library or Planned Parenthood.

Danica was granted her angel wings on November 6, 2022.  Her final days were spent surrounded by family and friends that Danica had positively impacted throughout her short, yet very memorable happy life.

She attended Hollister Elementary School, La Colina Junior High, and graduated San Marcos High School in 2021.  She was a sophomore at SBCC majoring in Psychology for transfer.

Danica is survived by her loving parents, Arnold and Judith, her sister Elle, grandmothers, uncles, aunts, and lots of cousins. Danica, your sweet memories will always be forever in our hearts.

obituaries

Karen Crate Wimberly 10/26/2022

emotional battles that came along with her diagnosis. Throughout her ordeal, Karen never lost her irrever ent sense of humor and playful wit.

On Wednesday, October 26, 2022, Karen Crate Wimberly (née Karen Marie Crate), loving mother, grand mother, and friend passed away in Austin, Texas. She was 74. Karen is survived by her loving sons, Cory, Mac and Daniel and her grand children, Hudson, Cael, Wilder, and Mars. Karen will also be dearly missed by her brothers Thomas and Daniel, sisters Mary and Therese, and a wealth of close friends too numerous to count.

Karen was born in Joliet, Illinois to John and Rosemary Crate. She attended St. Patrick’s grade school, Saint Francis Academy, and went on to earn a Bachelors and Master’s degree in education from Northern Illinois University. After a brief stint in administration, Karen moved into the classroom where she felt she could make a greater difference in students’ lives. She taught ele mentary school in Romeoville and represented her teacher’s union as a negotiator until moving to Santa Barbara, California in 1987. Karen worked for the California State Dis ability Insurance Office until 2011. Not one to settle down, Karen spent her retirement years on the go. She completed a regular circumnaviga tion of the United States moving from Nevada to New Mexico to Texas to Florida to Illinois to Indi ana to Michigan to California. She visited her far-flung family and friends and enjoyed swimming, boating, skiing, and cards with them. She also enjoyed exploring new places–Hawaii and Italy were two of her favorites.

In her time at home, she loved getting together with friends for a drink by the ocean, walking, quilt ing, gardening, and attending yoga. She was a long time member of her book club and often planned to be home just for the meetings. She was also committed to her work for the Assistance league of Santa Bar bara, Las Aletas Auxiliary. She was especially committed to ‘Operation School Bell Goleta’ in which she would take needy children shop ping for clothing, books, backpacks, school supplies, and toiletries.

In early January 2022, Karen was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and spent these past months fight ing the numerous physical and

Karen’s ability to bring laughs and smiles to the people around her was one of the reasons she was so loved and appreciated. Karen had an unbelievable ability to make friends and bring people together, even in the last phases of her life. The num ber of people who came to visit her this past year was a testament to the meaning and impact she had on so many lives.

In honor of Karen, please visit a friend or make a new one. If you can do so on a patio or over a cock tail, it would be ideal.

Karen’s celebration of life is Sunday December 11, 2022 at 11:00am-12:00 noon at the Carousel House at 223 East Cabrillo Boulevard in Santa Barbara. She wanted people to wear bright colors and share their favor ite stories of her. She was adamant that it truly be a celebration of her.

All her family, friends, and acquain tances are invited. Please RSVP at https://everloved.com/life-of/ karen-wimberly/funeral/.

on the basketball court. Friends recall his prowess on the basketball court and football field, talents later passed down to his sons and grandson.

Raphael attended Westmont College in Montecito before heading north to San Francisco State University on a basketball scholarship. He trans ferred to Long Beach State Univer sity and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physical therapy. During his career, Raphael worked as a physical therapist, most recently as a fitness instructor at Gold’s Gym.

At 19, Raphael celebrated the birth of his first child, Raquel Odile, named after her Father. His second child, Shante, came a little later. He subsequently met his wife, Joanie, and her daughter, Cryshauna McKee. They became partners, marrying in Las Vegas and celebrat ing the birth of three more children, Raphael Cortez, Ramon Marquez, and Raliccia. Unfortunately, Joanie preceded Raphael in passing away. Raphael’s descendants brought his greatest joy as he doted on four grandchildren from his daughter, Raquel, including Justice, Jayah, Joyous, and Jermelle. He enjoyed Raphael Cortez’s children, Ramelo, Raphael, Cortez Amir, and Ayiah; Ramon’s child Julian, and Raliccia’s children, Christopher and Legacy. Raphael loved, cheered, and praised their efforts.

Raphael spent the last 11 years of his life as a partner with Josephine Pereyra. They lived in Santa Bar bara, enjoying visits with family, friends, and church. As a man of faith, Raphael found tremendous comfort from life’s tribulations in his Roman Catholic faith. As a result, he became close to Father Dan Lackie and other faith work ers serving Mission Santa Barbara, which honors all people in the spirit of St. Francis.

In addition to his children, grand children, and partner, Raphael is missed by many aunts and uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends who cherish him.

Jane Endacott 1946 - 2022

Raphael suddenly passed away from a heart attack at age 61 on October 30 while at his Santa Barbara home. He was born into a large family well known for their kindness, acts of community service, and support of Santa Barbara’s African American and Latino communities.

Raphael stood regal in stature, and reigned as his family’s King of Hearts. Raphael, known to child hood friends and family as Big Wayne, attended McKinley Elemen tary School and graduated from Santa Barbara High School. As a Don, he was known for his abilities

The viewing will be November 17 630pm at Mcdermott-Crockett & Associates mortuary, 2020 Chapala St, Santa Barbara, CA 93105

The funeral service will be Novem ber 18 11am Old Mission Santa Barbara, 2201 Laguna St, Santa Bar bara, CA 93105

Jane passed away unexpectedly November 3, 2022, from compli cations following surgery. Even though pneumonia took her away from us, her generous, fun, and lov ing heart will continue to shine on. Jane moved to Santa Barbara as a UCSB student and never left. Her walks along the beach and in the many beautiful neighborhoods of SB were a constant in her life. After a brief teaching career, she went into the legal field and was a parale gal for almost 50 years. She will be missed not only by her colleagues at Mullen and Henzel, but many oth ers in the legal community. She was instrumental in starting the Parale gal education program at UCSB. Always adventurous, Jane took two months off in 1980 to be a Colo rado River guide, where she made lifelong friends. When invited to a dude ranch, she took riding lessons for six weeks, breaking her finger when her horse was spooked. That did not deter her! Later, Jane’s pas sion for travel took her to the pyra mids in Egypt, Christmas markets in Germany, and many other coun tries over many years. A lifelong learner, Jane was an avid reader and started two book clubs, both still active (one ongoing for 37 years). She read cookbooks like they were novels, and we all benefitted from her studies: she absolutely loved entertaining her friends with elabo rate dinners, from signature cock tails to a special dessert. She loved her law firm’s holiday cooking com petition, winning after discovering the secret ingredient for guaranteed votes: bacon. Family gatherings will not be the same without Jane in the kitchen!

She was a treasured sister to Linda McClain (Jeff), aunt to Greg (Kate) and Darren McClain, great aunt to Scott and Ian McClain, and beloved daughter to her adopted mother-inlaw, Esther McClain. Family, friends and colleagues could depend on her sunny company and charming conversation. She was a bright light in too many lives to count. Memorial arrangements are in progress and will occur in early 2023. To be updated with details when they are decided you may contact Linda at lindamcclain@ me.com. If so inclined, donations may be made in Jane’s honor to the Central Branch of the Santa Barbara Library, The Breast Cancer Resource Center, Santa Barbara, or Animal Shelter Assistance Program (ASAP Cats). We hope that her

Barry Allan Kitnick passed away in Santa Barbara, CA on September 28th, 2022 after a long illness. Barry was born in Philadelphia, PA on July 25th, 1943. He is survived by his beloved wife Jill, with whom he shared his life for over 45 years; his sons Alexander and Zach ary (Daisy); his brothers Steven (Marilyn), Dean (Victoria), and David (Romy). He is also survived by nephews Eric (Kate), Craig (Sophia), and Ben (Shannon), nieces Sara, Emma (Zach), and Abby (Dylan). Barry grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and graduated from Van Nuys High School; L.A. Valley College, where he earned his Associate of Arts; and San Fernando Valley State College (now C.S.U.N); where he received a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology. He earned his Master of Arts in African Area Studies from U.C.L.A. Barry served in the Peace Corps in Liberia in the late 1960s. Upon his return, with his love of art and business acumen, Barry opened Gallery K in West Hollywood, CA, where he exhibited African Art. In his early thirties, Barry became one of the youngest Sr. Appraisers and worldrenowned experts of African Art, and was noted for his ability to rec ognize “the real thing.” He was also involved with the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at U.C.L.A. and contributed to the museum in many ways over the years. After seven trips to Vietnam, Barry amassed a unique collection of shamanistic art, leading to a catalogue entitled: “How to Make the Universe Right: The Art of the Shaman from Viet nam and Southern China.” Barry will be remembered for the love he shared with his family, his gen erosity, philanthropy, and sense of humor. He lived an amazing and honorable life. Barry was preceded in death by his parents Earl and Marjorie “Margie” and his brother Dennis Kitnick. A private memorial will be held at a later date. Dona tions can be made in Barry’s honor to the Hospice of Santa Barbara, CA., Inc. www.hospiceofsb.org May his memory be for a blessing.

obituaries

8/26/1950 - 11/6/2022

2/29/1944 - 11/21/2022

wife, Judy. They had a deep and soulful connection, and were a dynamic balance, harmonizing each other. They shared a love of music (they knew how to cut a rug!), and they had a favorite campground in the eastern Sier ras where they would sit, side by side, for a couple of weeks reading through the crates of books they took with them.

He was surrounded by family and friends at the time of passing. He suffered from a rare brain disease called Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

He was born on August 26, 1950 in Los Angeles, the son of John Richard Bixby and Alice Patricia Bixby. Jonathan was the oldest of four children.

Jonathan lived all his life in California. After graduating high school in 1968, he attended UCSC and graduated with a BA in Psychology.

He then taught grammar school for five years before moving back to Santa Barbara for good.

Jonathan found his real passion – dancing- in high school. Dur ing this time he met his longtime dance partner, Sylvia Sykes.

They would go on to be known as “Jonathan and Sylvia”, and together, they took the Southern California Lindy Hop and Balboa scenes by storm.

They danced on Dick Clark’s American Bandstand, learned from the greats of the swing dance world, competed for decades all around the world, and became a part of Santa Barbara’s fabric by bringing the joy of swing danc ing to thousands through their dance troupe and popular dance classes from 1979 into the new millennium.

During this time, he also worked at the family business, The Fire side Mart, for a few years, but he loved nothing more than danc ing and teaching, especially in his beloved Carrillo Ballroom until the beginning of the Covid Pandemic.

Jonathan’s parents preceded him in death. Jonathan is survived by his siblings Mary Bixby of Beaver ton, Oregon, Steve Bixby (Teresa) of Grangeville, Idaho, and Susan Bixby Congleton Moore, (Chris) of Perry, Utah and 9 nieces and nephews, and his beloved cats (“girls”), Louise and Lucy.

There will be a private memorial for Jonathan, invite only, remon Saturday November 19, 2022.

Steve Pearce was born on Febru ary 29, 1944, outside of Hespler, Ontario in Canada, to Mary and Donald Pearce. In 1955, the Pearce family moved to a home on Cliff Drive in Santa Barbara, where Steve was able to ride his bike all around the open space of the Mesa, for at that time the area was sparsely developed, and where he played in the WWII bunkers located where the Mesa Shopping Center is today. His first job was at a nearby pharmacy where he swept up at the end of the day. By 1956, he was working at Santa Barbara Boat Rentals in the har bor. His intrigue with being on the water started at age six during a transatlantic voyage to Ireland, at age 12 he gained access to boats, and for over 3 decades he worked on the water.

People close to Steve often found comfort in his ability to listen. He could simplify the most compli cated of situations in just a few words. Steve’s ability to hear and understand challenges presented by life, allowed for him to support many in our community when he worked as a counselor at Project Recovery, and Cottage Hospital. Steve was well known for his accomplished conga drum play ing. In his 20s and 30s, Steve could be found driving a Jaguar XKE with his congas lashed to the luggage rack. In his 40s he took up running and would run 10 miles each day. Steve took up bike riding in his 50s. He would ride from his Carpinteria home to UCSB and back when he took, as well as, taught classes there. His favorite loop was going to Ojai via Hwy 150 and returning along Hwy 1. An easy day was a ride up Gobernador Canyon.

Steve was rarely seen without a book within arm’s reach. Witty and subtle describes his humor. One could tell when he was up to something by the twinkle in his eye, a grin, or the slightest change in his tone of voice. He was kind. From his years living on the ocean, he was able to read the sky and predict what the weather would do in the next couple of hours, and days. He was prag matic, and valued the power of the Universe.

His true delight in life was his

Steve unexpectedly passed away at home in Carpinteria on Novem ber 21, 2021. He is survived by his sister, Marny Pearce Smith; his daughter, Sara Killen; stepchil dren: Kathy Gregory, Tom Polous, and Karen Latter; two grandchil dren; six step-grandchildren, and one step-great-grandchild.

Wilda

Terrence Hughes 11/2/2022

Guadalupe Sandoval passed away at his home on Friday November 4, 2022 at the age of 95.

Guadalupe, a native of Santa Bar bara, was born on December 12, 1926. He served in the Navy and received an honorable discharge. He became a skilled carpenter, contractor and an avid fisher man who spent his weekly trips at Cachuma Lake.

He is preceded in death by his great grandson Oscar Reyes Jr. and his great granddaughter Kayla Rodriguez.  He is survived by his wife Alice, sisters Vera Qurioga, Rosa Gar cia, daughters Elizabeth Rodriguez(Sandoval) and Helen Torres(Sandoval), sons Lupe San doval, Joe Sandoval, and daughter Isabel T. Larsen, grandchildren Larry Rodriguez, Renee Rodri guez, Lisa Torres, Richard Torres, Francisco Torres, great grandchil dren, Gaberial Rodriguez, Ange lina Reyes, and Anthony Reyes. A gravesite service will be held on Monday November 21, 2022 at 11:00am Calvary Cemetery with a reception at Harry’s Restaurant after the service.

Wilda graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1946. Home of where she met the love of her life “Sasha” Irvine. They were married at Montecito Pres byterian Church in 1950. Their marriage lasted an adventurous 65 years.

She was a wonderfully involved mother to her children Gail, Craig and Wendy. The Irvine family lived an exciting life under the “silver bridge” near Steven’s Park.

Wilda’s fun family expanded beginning in 1979. Wendy mar ried Butch Phillips and added Jac lyn and Brett. Gail married Jerry Gray adding Aaron and Carly, to make four grandchildren she

enjoy.

In 2009 the era of great grandsons began for Wilda. Kainan, Krew and Kove Gray, sons of Aaron. Brixton and Owen Schmiess, sons of Carly and Andy. Walker, Grant and Hayes, sons of Brett and Kara.

“Coco” loved the energy and entertainment these 8 provided. Sash and Wilda loved to travel both near and far. From 16 cruises, elder hostels, Palm Springs or camping they made friends and memories around the globe. Always generous, Wilda loved to take her entire family on vacations.

Wilda’s interests were many and varied. To name a few, Nu Pi Delta Chi sorority, First Pres byterian Church, Antique Club, Peabody PTA, Santa Barbara Riding Club, Knitting Bags, Bible Study Fellowship and was an avid volunteer.

After a long full life, Wilda will be missed by many!

Preceding her in death, were her parents, brothers, niece Janie and husband Sash. Wilda is survived by her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

If desired, donations could be made to Santa Barbara First Pres byterian Church or any charity that benefits animals.

A celebration of Wilda will be held graveside, November 21, 2:00pm, Goleta Cemetery 44 S. San Antonio Road.

He was a loving husband to his wife, Brooke, and a best friend to many. Known to everyone as “Tee” or “Uncle Tee”, he enjoyed BBQing and spending time with his friends and family, dancing, riding his bicycle and motor cycle around town and of course attending the football games of his beloved 49ers.

Terrence was a lover of life, he always had a smile on his face, his love language was cracking jokes about you or with you; there was never a dull moment with him. His laugh was contagious, and he had the ability to make anyone feel welcome with his big hugs and big heart.

Terrence will be greatly missed by all that knew and loved him, but his spirit will no doubt live on in this town that has been home for his entire life.

He is preceded in death by his grandfather Douglas Richardson, grandmother Mary L. Hughes and his grandfather Willie D. Hughes. He is survived by his wife, Brooke Hughes, his mother Vir ginia Hughes, his father Dennis “Ray” Hughes, grandmother Patty Sue Richardson, brother Shawn Hughes (Samantha), sis ter Taishoree Hughes (Octavio), nephew Kameron Avila, nieces Nevaeh Hughes, Kendall Avila and Samaria Hughes as well as many aunts, uncles, cousins and extended family.

Because Terrence was so well known, the family has opted to hold a private funeral service for close family and friends on Thurs day, November 17th.

The family appreciates the out pouring of love and support they have received, should you wish to donate, a Go Fund Me page has been set up in his name.

Arrangements entrusted to Pueblo del Rey Funeral Services

How do you put finite words to an infinite man? Take Einstein, Beethoven, Ringo, Leibowitz, Rod denberry, Krupa, Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, James Bond, Glen Miller (the list goes on and on), and throw in a huge dol lop of Peter Pan and you got Chris Story. In his early forties, he attended a classical concert, looked up at the conductor, and said “Hey, I wanna do that!” and so he did. He was prac tically self-taught, and note that this was well before the internet or YouTube. He formed the West Coast Symphony and all its offshoots; 55 years of concerts ensued. Truly, the only time he cried was when he thought about how beautiful classical music was. There absolutely needs to be a plaque in his name on those courthouse steps for the more than five decades of free concerts he gave during Fiesta and the Fourth of July. Orchestras aren’t cheap!

Perpetually happy, of course he served as board president of The Optimist Club. He’d tell his angsty daughters, “See every problem as an opportunity!” and then, in a high-pitched voice, say, “Wheeeeeeeeee!” Nobody sang a better ren dition of “On the Sunny Side of the Street” than he.

A kid at heart and a creature of habit, he’d have half a grapefruit every single morning and two Oreo cookies every single night. He considered Carrows and IHOP fine dining. Like Buddy from Elf, he loved food, especially if it involved sugar. He would be the first at the table, with his napkin fixed like a bib gotta protect that tie as if to say, “Let’s get this party started!” He was not a fan of anything spicy. Mild salsa was too much. He told the story of a wedding reception he attended that served all Japanese food. He took a huge spoonful of green tea ice cream. Nope it was, in fact, wasabi. Can’t get any spicier than that! He almost had a coronary!

He believed in moderation in everything except for sci-fi. We think his mind was so far beyond this time and place that science fiction made the most sense to him.

He was the original Trekkie, and we will chal lenge anyone who doubts that. We had to bolt out of many a restaurant, practically bringing the plates with us, because “Star Trek is about to start!” He had a dream goal to build a Star Trek: Enterprise hotel/park in Las Vegas. Blue prints were drafted, and Gene Roddenberry was “on board.” Growing up, there were times when he was driving five screaming girls in the sta tion wagon, with Mom yelling “Shut up!” and blindly batting at them, and we’re sure Scotty was “beaming him up” as he air-conducted sym phonies in his head.

At 78, he was the only person over 13 in line for Disney’s first virtual-reality ride, and, looking like a kid at Christmas, he was clearly the most excited. He called everyone “Kiddo” and “Tiger” or “There he is!” when he couldn’t remember your name. He could do anything that took brain power. He was a composer, pianist, drum mer, actor, singer, financier. He could speak a lot to a little bit of every language and loved meeting foreigners to practice with. Of course, he could tell them a joke in their native tongue.

He was an avid tennis player and even played his fair share of cricket. He was brilliant at bridge, chess, and gin, letting his daughters win often, but not always, to keep them sharp. He was the Limer ick King. We had to save many a person from being “limericked to death” by him a classy gentleman who could tell a dirty joke that would have the queen cackling. Jokes he could tell, one after the other for hours, with pitch-perfect timing. What a massive vault his mind was.

He wore three-piece suits to picnics, barbecues, and pool parties because he learned somewhere that “Ya gotta dress for success.” As he got older, we finally talked him into sweat suits for casual events. In his white Adidas, he looked more like a rapper and delighted in doing his best Snoop Dogg impersonation: leaned back, arms folded high, and a De Niro pout.

Costumes, oh, how he loved costumes, and he loved his kids in costumes. He literally beamed with joy watching his kids perform and was always their number-one fan. His tips for improvement were always spot-on. He told Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats, with complete sincerity, that he should turn down his guitar because you couldn’t hear the horn section. Guess what he was right.

Whether he was gracing the stage with his first wife, Dorothy, at the Lobero (sharing the limelight with Charlton Heston); entertaining the masses with his wife of 43 years, Barbara; or taking the show on the road with wife Candi, life was a stage, and oh boy did he love it!

He was always humble and didn’t have a mean bone in his body. When Mom told him he had to discipline his daughters, he’d put on his best gruff voice and bellow, “You girls better shape up or ship out!” He’d then turn to Mom, smiling from ear to ear, and ask, “Was that good!?”

“Kill ’em with kindness!” was his mantra.

“Worry is interest on trouble not yet due.”

“Don’t waste time with the ribbon clerks; go to the top.”

And a favorite: “The first hundred years are the worst.”

He saw life as a game, and every morning, he leapt out of bed to play! Sitting there drinking his coffee, which was all milk and sugar, he’d tell his kids that you can create anything you want. Even going into a packed parking lot was grounds for manifestation, as he always “created” an empty spot.

Possibly the original inspiration for FOMO, Chris wanted to do everything. “Why not?” he’d say.

He was the sixth of eight Christopher Storys, and from the three we know and love, we can say they are savants, one and all. Chris Story VI walked, talked, and breathed the power of positive thinking and instilled that in his adoring kids. There will never be a person like him. Ever.

He taught us every day to look at the world with wonderment and stars in our eyes. To find in every moment the utter joy of life and the glee to be had.

How incredibly lucky were we that we got to walk with him for as long we did on his fantastic and incredible journey. Suffice it to say, we are a bit jealous of Heaven now.

The Psychedelic Surge

Riding a Wave of Medical Promise, Magic Mushrooms and Other Hallucinogens Have Gone Mainstream

Labor Day weekend was hot this year throughout California. Historically hot. In the name of survival, many thou sands of Golden Staters flocked to the beach. I was no exception and found myself on the shoreline with an extended group of friends and acquaintances, all of us firmly in our middle age, coupled up, and raising young fami lies. There, we had good food and good drinks, along with umbrellas, surf boards, an air of sun block, and stoked kids galore.

It was a full-on beach blanket bingo vibe, save for one little wrinkle there were no less than two different types of psychedelics involved. That’s right; the Montecito mainstream has officially turned on and tuned in to the fast-growing psy chedelics-as-medicine movement.

“I use small amounts of mushrooms a couple times a week,” said one mom. “I find that I am a happier, more energized person. And way more patient with my kids.”

Another offered, after swallowing a small, brown capsule of psilocybin, “I’ve been off SSRIs for almost a year now and have never felt more stable as an adult. Only once did I accidentally take too much and feel kinda messed up.”

A third chimed in, “My brother has dealt with depression ever since 9/11. It’s not uncommon for a career firefighter like him. Since using mush rooms and working with a therapist, he is a new man. I mean, my whole family notices it.”

One of the dads walked over, helped himself to one of the psilocybin pills, and said, “I’ve used small amounts of LSD while at work. Micro-dose size, I guess, because I have never felt much more than a strong cup of coffee. It’s great for my creativity and helping me blast through my to-do list.”

I sat back on my towel and marveled at the scene. These were all good, successful, educated, and generally sober, lawabiding people. Wholesome, if you will. The majority had avoided any real drug use in their youth save for drinking and occasional cannabis consumption, and yet, here they were, using small amounts of illegal psychedelics while hanging out with family and friends on a holiday weekend. More to the point, they weren’t dosing to alter reality and catch a buzz; they were doing it in pursuit of a happier, healthier life.

SET AND SETTING

The use of psychedelics as medicine is, of course, nothing new. Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was discovered in a pharmaceutical company’s lab some 80-plus years ago by the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann. In short order, that company, Sandoz (now known as Novartis), began shipping the sub stance to doctors all over the world for free in hopes of best figuring out how to use it in a clinical setting.

Long before this, native cultures from around the world employed naturally occurring entheogens (another term for consciousness-expanding drugs) such as magic mushrooms (psilocybin), peyote, and ayahuasca as part of their religious

ceremonies, coming-of-age rituals, and medicinal modali ties. So vast and varied is this practice of using psychedelics as more than a mere intoxicant that even our own federal government famously pursued them as both a medicine and a weapon in the middle part of the 20th century.

Some of the brightest minds from around the world in the field of psychology saw psychedelics as a potent and emerging therapeutic tool until widespread illegality was established in the early 1970s. In fact, the case for hallucinogens as medicine, albeit one with certain risks, has long been louder and more established than that of cannabis. Even the term “psychedelic” was coined by a clinical psychologist, Humphry Osmond, and presented with wholehearted support in front of the New York Academy of Sciences in 1957.

Despite all of this, most reading this article likely have many negative talking points at the ready about these types of drugs. Such was the potency of the anti-psychedelic campaigns dur ing the last decades of the 20th century and the early years of the aughts. Who among us doesn’t have a story about that kid from high school who took too much acid and still thinks they are a glass of orange juice? They cause personality disorders. They make you go insane. They destroy your nervous system. They make you believe you can fly. These views, though largely unsupported by science, came to dominate the mainstream narrative. As a result, the concept of psychedelics as a tool for health was all but forgotten save for a few underground activist doctors, certain religious practitioners, and lifelong devotees

who cut their teeth during the early years of the movement.

And so it went until 2000, when Johns Hop kins University, the famed East Coast hotbed of medical innovation and professionalism, quietly garnered regulatory approval from the federal government to once again begin researching with psychedelics. In 2006, led by Dr. Roland Griffiths, they published a now-famous paper about the safety and lasting benefits of a single dose of psi locybin. In the 15 years since, they have published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers on the topic, looking at everything from addiction and depres sion to PTSD and the often-crippling existential dread associated with a terminal diagnosis. Again and again they have found psychedelics, when administered in a professional setting with proper patient screening, to be a safe, non-addictive, and effective course of treatment for a wide range of afflictions and conditions. The university is currently in the process of using clinical trials to further investigate the use of psilocybin and other psychedelics for things like Lyme disease, Alzheimer’s, opioid addiction, anorexia, obses sive compulsive disorders, and anxiety. And they aren’t alone.

There are now robust programs at Columbia University in New York, Imperial College Lon don in the U.K., the Usona Institute in Wisconsin, Stanford, Yale, Washington State, the University of São Paulo, the University of Zurich, the University of Copenhagen, etc. In fact, here in the States, psychedelics are already slow-stepping toward medical legalization and wholesale decriminaliza tion in places like Massachusetts, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., while Oregon, and, as of Election Day two weeks ago, Colorado have already given the okay to medical usage.

For our part, here in California, both Santa Cruz and Oak land have already decriminalized psilocybin in the name of medical benefit, and a decriminalization bill in the state senate, SB 519, was narrowly approved in 2021 before being shelved in the full assembly this past August so that additional research could happen. The author of the bill, State Senator Scott Wiener of San Francisco, has promised to bring it back in 2023. All of this is to say that there is no doubt that a worldwide movement is underway.

But the real inflection point for the mainstream, when average people truly started to get interested and start their own psychonaut-styled health interventions, came in 2018 when author, journalist, and influential thinker Michael Pol lan published a book in which he personally explores the benefits of several illegal, consciousness-expanding drugs. How to Change Your Mind was a New York Times number-one best-seller for months on end and has since become a wildly popular series on Netflix.

It was also about this time that the concept of “microdosing,” the practice of consuming a very small, sub-clinical amount of a substance like LSD or psilocybin, became trendy in the tech world and beyond as a tool for creative problemsolving, increased productivity, and a means for enhancing your neural plasticity. Stories soon followed in the Wall Street

Journal, Fast Company, the New York Times, The Economist, and Wired magazine.

To anyone paying attention, it quickly became clear that psychedelics were no longer exclusive to the counter-culture. A population that was already obsessed with bio-hacking and improving human performance had merged with a much larger group that was suffering badly from pandemic-esque lev els of poor mental health, stress, and wide-ranging traumas. Illegality be damned, a wellness revolution was at hand.

THE S.B. SCENE

Now, it needs to be said that I am no unknowing neophyte in the realm of psychedelics. Far from it. I explored with things like acid and mushrooms and MDMA during my college years. It seemed a good complement to the educational expansion for which my liberal arts school was charging top dollar. In my experience, there was nothing particularly uncom mon about this phase of my life.

But when some grave health problems landed in my lap in my mid-thirties, including an advancedstage, incurable cancer diagnosis, I returned to the realm of psychedelics with full awareness of the work that was underway at Johns Hopkins. I sat with pey ote in the wake of my cancer news to help me see a path toward survival. And, when I was expecting my first child a few years later a wild mind-fuck for a guy with a terminal disease who also happened to lose his own dad at a relatively young age I used LSD to help confront my fears and rewire my think ing around the topic of parenthood.

I have since used micro-dosing practices to explore my boundaries of professional creativity, and just this past year, when I decided to enroll in a potentially life-changing clinical trial for my can cer at Stanford University, I once again returned to intentional LSD use in the lead-up to help create new neural pathways in my mind so that I might be able to better receive the experimental medicine and not focus on its undeniably toxic nature. I have zero doubt that all of these decisions have served me well and have gone a long way toward helping me stay alive and vital to this day.

Now, if you look around the greater Santa Bar bara landscape these days, it soon becomes obvi ous that, once again, there is nothing particularly uncommon about my exploration of psychedelics, this time as a tool for better mental health and/or spiritual renewal. For years, there have been private ceremonies hosted throughout the South Coast for folks interested in working with a shaman or spirit guide or some such keeper of psychedelic wisdom. Substances like peyote, ayahuasca, 5-MeO-DMT (a compound derived from the Colorado River toad), and kambô (a psychedelic secretion from the Ama zonian giant leaf frog) have all been pretty common place among certain social scenes and alternative medical communities. Phrases such as “plant medi cine,” or simply, “the medicine” or “the toad” have crept into our collective vernacular.

This, however, has recently evolved to include a wide variety of decidedly less clandestine events. There was a well-attended psychedelic speaker series featuring all sorts of experts from the field, including doctors and neuroscience researchers, held at the Unity Unitarian Church on Santa Barbara Street in the months before COVID. There have been regular, invite-only meetings among licensed therapists and

psychologists and assorted other individuals who are interested in the topic. The group gathers at a private residence off the 154 on a bimonthly basis to discuss the latest research and share insights and experiences.

The Santa Barbara Ketamine Therapy clinic opened on North La Cumbre Road in 2021 and is already planning an expansion to a bigger space this winter so it can better accommodate customer demand. And then there is the aforementioned pro liferation of DIY patients, many of them exploring the potential of micro-dosing psilocybin or LSD without any formal and/or professional support.

It is not uncommon for pills or dropper bottles of medicine to be available via places like Instagram or Reddit and for it to arrive at your house packaged like it was meant to be sold in a store. The majority, however, is still sourced from chemists and mush room growers via real-life social networks, word of mouth, and friends of friends. This loose affiliation of drug providers, though still mostly illicit, is rapidly becoming less and less informal as more certified psychedelic guides, “Trip Sitters,” and professional therapists are being licensed by reputable institutions like UC Berkeley.

“It is impossible not to be enthused by the research that has come out. And it’s just as hard not to be excited for what is coming next,” says Lisa Ben son, a board-certified psychologist with 25 years of experience in private practice here in Santa Barbara. “Whether it’s anxiety, depression, or PTSD or addic tion, healing is often a slow process. As clinical prac titioners, we have the tools to help but, unfortunately, it takes a lot of time, a lot of resources, and a lot of effort. Psilocybin really seems to speed things up…. It is not unheard of for someone to have a major breakthrough after only one session.”

In fact, so impressed is Benson by the potential of psychedelic medicine that she recently applied to the professional certification program at San Francisco’s California Institute of Integral Studies. The ninemonth course would give Benson the tools to better prepare her patients for using psychedelics and, most importantly, to support them during the experi ence and help them integrate it afterward. “This is really powerful stuff that we are seeing happen,” she explains. “It is exactly what I’ve always wanted for my patients, but it is able to happen with so much more efficiency.”

Modern science breakthroughs have made it pos sible to image the brain and measure neural activity in remarkable ways. This has opened the door for doctors and researchers to better understand the mechanisms by which psychedelics are working. Benson and others in the field point specifically to the circuitry in the brain known as the “defaultmode network” as the hard evidence of psilocybin’s efficacy.

“The default-mode network is over-active when someone is experiencing anxiety or depression or the ill effects of trauma,” Benson says. “[Psychedel ics] quiet that overactivity and brings a person into the here and now…. It drops beneath the filters we use on a regular basis to survive, and connects you to a deeper sense of being, to compassion and grati tude, and love.”

The latter sounds exactly like the way my friends at the beach were talking about their experiences. “Psychedelics are giving me hope,” sums up Benson. “Hope that we will be able to better deal with this really sick world we are living in.”

A PSYCHEDELIC SOCIAL CLUB

Jacob Tell knows about the intersection of art and culture and business. The S.B.-based creative agency and business strategy company, Onira com, which he cofounded in 2001, is a formidable force, working with clients like Jack Johnson, the Santa Barbara Bowl, and Proyo Ice Cream. “I learned long ago that life isn’t a straight line,” says Tell. “Things often come back around and can offer profound experiences and benefits if you keep your mind open.” It was this mindset that led Tell and his team to be early allies for the legal marijuana industry and, now, psychedelics. “My goal with District 216 is to help this new culture that is emerging,” he explains. “We can’t think about the future in creative and hopeful ways if we are stuck in a default mode of thinking.”

To be clear, District 216 isn’t a new client of Oniracom’s. It’s Tell’s big, new idea for growing community and helping facilitate creative innova tion, two things that have always been at the heart of what he does best. Specifically, District 216 is a membership-driven, private social club aim ing to connect people around the four pillars of art, music, cannabis, and psychedelics. The goal is to create a multi-faceted “edu-tainment” net

work for creatives, business leaders, venture capitalists, and Web 3.0 developers. Think panel discussions, curated speakers, art and music shows, fun-focused social mixers, and genre-bending incubation for ideas. It is both a physical and virtual town square, a place for free thinkers to come together and exchange insights and information.

“We aren’t handing out mushroom chocolates. Far from it,” says Tell. “We are creating a safe space where we use the psy chedelic values of intention and integration to explore ideas.” It is like a counter-culture version of the internationally known Soho House Members’ Clubs but with the ability for members to co-create events and use Oniracom’s extensive production facilities as a sort of co-working space. “We are just getting started, but already it feels like we have something special on our hands,” Tell says. “I am excited to see where it goes.”

See District216.com.

KETAMINE AS A CURE

exceedingly safe user profile, it has become a popular and legal psychedelic ther apy for a broad range of afflictions, help ing with everything from chronic pain and depression to anger disorders and PTSD.

“It is so real, this mystical/medical space we are working in. There is no doubt that it is the future,” says Dr. Remi Drozd, the owner of the Santa Barbara Ketamine Clinic. A classically trained physician with more than 15 years of experience as an ER doctor, Drozd is a relatively new convert to the world of psychedelic medicine. Like so many in the space, he had a personal experience that changed his views on the topic. “Working in the ER, I often would see patients that I could never really help. They were dealing with underlying issues, things like poor mental health stuff or addiction, problems that I just didn’t have the tools to effectively address. I could never get to the root cause,” says Drozd, who opened his clinic in downtown Santa Barbara last year. “I’d be lying if I said it wasn’t frustrating.”

However, after participating in a psilocy bin trial at Johns Hopkins and later receiv ing ketamine-assisted therapy himself, Drozd saw a new way to think about helping his patients. And then, while on sabbatical and traveling in Yellowstone National Park with his family, he read The Ketamine Papers by Dr. Phil Wolfson, and the hook was set. “Honestly, I never thought about changing my career like this, but here I am. The evi dence was too loud to ignore.”

Medically legal since the middle part of the 20th century, ketamine is an afford able prescription drug that has historically been used as a form of anesthesia. However, thanks to the drug’s dissociative powers and

Though dosing and sequencing varies on a case-by-case basis, the general prac tice of ketamine-assisted therapy looks like this: A patient comes to the clinic, either self-referring or at the suggestion of their therapist or psychologist or primary care doctor. Dr. Drozd meets with the patient and tries to get a more complete picture of what is motivating them, establishing their intentions for the therapy. There is a modest amount of somatic work done followed by breath work and, if necessary, an additional screening with a psychotherapist on the clinic’s team.

At the next appoint ment, the ketamine is administered via an intramuscular injection, and the experience lasts roughly 45 minutes with a doctor or nurse nearby the entire time. Accord ing to Drozd, the typical protocol calls for six ses sions of ketamine and six corresponding “integra tion sessions” with one of the licensed therapists at the clinic, all of it spread out over an eight-week period. “Absolutely, we see long-lasting, cognitive changes in the majority of our patients,” explains the doctor. “It’s amazing what an almost-apocalyptic shutdown of your ego can accomplish when you set an intention and pair it with a well-trained talk therapist.”

To learn more about ketamine therapy and Dr. Drozd’s practice, head to santabarbaraketamine .com.

THE ACCIDENTAL QUEEN OF PSYCHEDELIC SUPPORT

can’t just go around talking about them.’ But the science behind it is superb and I had seen too many good things happen. It was time to speak up.” And, after watching her terminally ill husband, Michael, get transcendent benefit from a DMT trip as well as her own therapeutic experiences using psychedelics to help heal some deep traumas from her childhood in Paraguay, that is exactly what she did.

Lopez founded the nonprofit orga nization EntheoMedicine, built out an impressively thorough and easy-to-use educational website on all things psy chedelic, and started working to bring psychedelic luminaries, researchers, and practitioners to speak in Santa Barbara. The speaker series, which her company Spiritual Safari Media produced, ran in 2018 and 2019 at S.B.’s Unity Church and was the first of its kind on the South Coast, enjoying widespread popularity and offer ing many their first experience with seri ous conversation about the benefits of psychedelics. But COVID stopped the momentum of the in-person events and Lopez ultimately had to pivot. She doubled down on her website and almost immedi ately saw traffic grow exponentially.

The Michael Pollan effect, from both his book and his Netflix series, coupled with the dynamic mental health implica tions of COVID and the related periods of isolation that people had to endure, ramped up interest in psychedelics in a way that few saw coming. People, not just from the Santa Barbara area but from all over the country, were hungry for info and guidance on how best to proceed. “It’s almost like people needed permission or something to explore. And they saw me, a normal woman who runs a successful company and the caregiver to a sick partner, and I was safe. I could provide that permission, even though that was never my intention,” opines Lopez.

THE FUTURE IS NOW

“I am an advocate for psychedelics. I can’t help it,” explains Santa Barbara’s Jacque line Lopez, a 57-year-old professional event organizer and business marketing whiz. “I mean, it wasn’t that long ago that I thought to myself, ‘What are you thinking, Jackie? These are Schedule I drugs. You

In June of this year, Lopez started the Psychedelic Hotline, a place where people can book free, 15-minute consultations with her to help begin their journey with psychedelic medi cine. She counsels them on all the potential options and works to connect people with medi cal professionals and therapists working in the space. She says demand for her services has increased fourfold in recent months. “Look, I still have my day job. I don’t do the psyche delic stuff as a business or for money. It’s just something I believe in and want to support and see grow.” Says Lopez, “We are just scratching the surface on what conscious ness is all about and the potential [of psy chedelics]. It is an exciting thing to be a part of.”

Learn more at entheomedicine.org.

The Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara is pleased to introduce the most advanced digital PET/CT scanner to the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center, the first of its kind in our community.

Our dedication to bring stateof-the-art technology to the Central Coast is just one example of our enduring commitment to excellence and to our community— now and for the future.

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PHS landlords have shi ed their thinking and rented to over 1,000 homeless people, including families with children, veterans & veteran families and individuals.

Breaking the Stigma of Homelessness!

Partners in Housing Solutions helps people who are experiencing homelessness to secure and retain permanent housing through our network of private landlords.

What PHS o ers, “levels the playing eld” for those that have struggled to stay housed in a very competitive rental market. By o ering additional rental support, incentives, hotline, and loss prevention, a landlord can consider PHS candidates with con dence. -Krystal- PHS Landlord

“With the help of PHS I was able to do what I needed to do for me and my son, so he can have a brighter future.”

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City Net has had positive experiences working with Partner’s in Housing. We are impressed with their ability to advocate for our clients’ tenancy and promote client choice in the housing navigation process. ey have created many long lasting relationships with landlords and partnering agencies through responsive communication and problem solving. eir niche in housing navigation has lled in the gaps that some traditional street outreach programs cannot always ll-- and for that, our outreach teams are grateful.

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Partners in Housing Solutions is only six years old but is doing perhaps one of the hardest, yet most impactful things for the homeless, helping house them.

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11/17: The Couture Pattern Museum Insider Series: Look Inside Couture Take a look at four 1957 couture dresses and learn about steel bones, corselettes, waist-stays, and petticoats and the materials used during the golden age of couture. Workzones, Paseo Nuevo 2nd Floor, 351 Paseo Nuevo. $25. Email contact@couturepattern museum.com couturepatternmuseum.com/ events

11/17: Chumash Maritime His tory: Past, Present, & Future Sto ryteller and researcher Chumash Elder Puchuk Ya’ia’c (Alan Salazar) will share stories and his knowledge of the history of the ocean plank canoes known as tomols. 7-9pm. S.B. Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Wy., Ste. 190. Free-$20. Call (805) 962-8404 or email info@sbmm.org sbmm.org/santa-barbara-events

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11/17: Trail Talks: The History of Rincon Point: From the Chumash through the Surfers Join area writer Vince Burns for a talk about his and Stephen Bates’s book Rincon Point (Images of America) about the Queen of the Coast and one of the premier surfing spots in the world with a rich history. 6:30-7:30pm. Faulkner Gallery, S.B. Central Library, 40 E. Anapamu St. Free tinyurl.com/RinconTrailTalk

11/17-11/18: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, or, The Night They Missed the Forest for the Trees The S.B. Junior High Performing Arts Club and State Street Ballet’s Library Dances present this unique adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Follow teen agers, fairies, workers, royalty, and a grand prankster as they collide in the forest on a summer night. 7pm. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 721 E. Cota St. $5-$10. luketheatre.org/events

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11/17-11/20: UCSB Department of Theater and Dance Presents The Gov ernment Inspector Enjoy Nikolai Gogol’s satire of small-town corruption in this hilari ously relevant story of greed, corruption, and stupidity of the Imperial Russian government. Thu.-Fri.: 7:30pm; Sat.: 2 and 7:30pm; Sun.: 2pm. Hatlen Theater, UCSB. $13-$19. Call (805) 893-2064. theaterdance.ucsb.edu

11/17-11/19: SBHS Theatre Presents

Film Screening and Discus

sion: Altiplano Watch 2009’s Altiplano (Not Rated), which was shot in the high-altitude landscapes of the Andes Mountains of Peru and follows residents of an Andean village who find their community devastated by toxic mercury contamination from a nearby mine. A pre-recorded discussion between writer/ director team Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens, and moderator Stephen N. Borunda (Film and Media Stud ies, UCSB) will follow the screening. 7-9:45pm. Pollock Theater, UCSB. Free. Call (805) 893-4637. carseywolf.ucsb.edu/events/

11/17: County of S.B. South Coast Housing Element Workshop Learn about the County’s housing element process and discuss solutions to local housing chal lenges. Attend in person or view virtually. Spanish translation will be available. 6pm. S.B. County Planning Commission Hearing Rm., 123 E. Anapamu St. Free tinyurl.com/SBHousingWorkshop

11/17-11/19: SBCC Theatre Arts Department Presents The Importance of Being Earnest The talented SBCC students will perform Oscar Wilde’s funny and engag ing comedy about three couples navigating love with a little deception, flattery, and witty dialogue. Directed by Katie Laris. Thu.-Fri.: 7:30pm; Sat.: 2pm. Jurkowitz Theatre, SBCC West Campus, 969 Cliff Dr. $10-$18. Call (805)

The Crucible This modern retelling of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, about the Salem witch trials in Massachusetts during 1692-1693, will have a modern retelling with added choreography while still keeping true to the original plot and narrative. Thu.-Fri.: 7pm; Sat.: 2 and 7pm. S.B. High School Theatre, 700 E Anapamu St. $10-$25. Call (805) 966-9101 x5209 or email sbhstheatreboxoffice@gmail .com. sbhstheatre.com/tickets

11/17: Opening Reception and Panel

Discussion: Barry Berkus This exhibition will feature the collection of local architect Barry Berkus. Insights and discussion into Berkus’s life and collection will be discussed with Jeffrey Berkus, Dane Goodman, and Tony Askew. 4-6pm. Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art, 955 La Paz Rd. Free. Call (805) 565-6162 or email museum@westmont. edu. westmont.edu/berkus

Shows on Tap

Shows on Tap

11/17-11/20, 11/23: Lost Chord Guitars Thu: World Jazz Guitarist Ethan “Emaginario” Margolis, 7:30-9:30pm. Free Fri.: Alan Satchwell Jazz Trio, 8-11:30pm. Free Sat.: The Pollen Collec tive, 8-10:30pm. $10. Sun.: Arwen Lewis, 8-10:30pm. Free; suggested donation: $5. Wed.: Brandon Johnas, 7:30-9:30pm. Free; suggested donation: $5. 1576 Copenhagen Dr., Solvang. Ages 21+. Call (805) 331-4363. lostchordguitars.com

11/17-11/18, 11/20, 11/23: SOhO Restaurant & Music Club Thu.: The Living Room Jam hosted by Jason Libs, 8pm. $10. Fri.: ENT Legends Present: Duckwrth with Elujay, 8pm. $22. Ages 18+. Sun.: The Elemento’s Project with Special Guests, noon-3pm. $10. Wed.: The Hansen Family Songfest, 7pm. Free 1221 State St. Call (805) 962-7776. sohosb.com/events

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11/18-11/19: M.Special Brewing Co. (S.B.) Fri.: Moneluv, 8-10pm. Sat.: Goodlanders, 8-10pm. 634 State St. Free Call (805) 968-6500. mspecialbrewco .com

11/18-11/20: Maverick Saloon Fri.: Dusty Jugz, 8:30-11:30pm. Sat.: Deanna D’Amico White, noon-4pm; Indigenous, 8:30-11:30pm. Sun.: Sam Mitchell, noon4pm. 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez. Free Ages 21+. Call (805) 686-4785.

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11/18: Pali Wine Co. Live music. 6-8pm. 116 E. Yanonali St., Ste. A-1. Free Ages 21+. Call (805) 560-7254. urbanwinetrailsb.com/events

11/18: Uptown Lounge The Trio, 5-7pm. 3126 State St. Free. Call (805) 845-8800. uptownlounge805.com/events 11/21: The Red Piano Teresa Russell and Tom Buenger, 7:30pm. 519 State Street. Free. Ages 21+. Call (805) 3581439. theredpiano.com/schedule

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Art From Scrap Block Printing Workshop Carve original designs on rubber blocks to create single color prints in this hands-on workshop for adults taught by Rachel Palmer just in time to create holiday cards or wrapping paper. 6-8pm. Art From Scrap, 302 E. Cota St. $30. Call (805) 884-0459 or email jill@exploreecology.org. exploreecology.org/event

Yellowman, and more. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Life Rolls On Foundation. Visit the website for pass information. Fri.: 7pm through Sun.: 11:30pm. Live Oak Camp, 4600 CA-154. reggaeonthemountain.com

11/18: Daughtry at Chumash This Grammy-nominated American rock band formed by lead vocalist Chris Daughtry will bring their Dearly Beloved tour to the Samala Showroom. 8pm. Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 E. Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez. $59-$89. Ages 21+. chumashcasino.com/entertainment

11/18: Hello S.B. Productions Presents An Evening Honoring Spencer the Gardener Celebrate a special night of music and story, and enjoy the sounds of Spencer Barnitz that span a career that started in the 1980s with his heartthrob band of towheads, The Tan. Footage from this live event will be included in an upcoming documentary about Spencer Barnitz. 7pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $36. Call (805) 9630761 or email boxoffice@lobero.com lobero.org/whats-on

11/18: Presentation and Book-Signing: Mike Ritter and John Ogden Meet and talk with and get your books signed by author Mike Ritter and publisher John Ogden, includ ing Ritter’s recently released book with Jack McCoy, GRAJAGAN – Surfing in the Tiger’s Lair: 1972-84, about the early days of discovery at Grajagan (East Java, Indonesia) one of the crown jewels of surfing and the site of the world’s first surf camp. 6-8pm. S.B. Maritime Museum, 113 Harbor Wy., Ste. 190. Free Call (805) 962-8404 or email info@sbmm.org sbmm.org/santa-barbara-events

11/18: LCCCA 3rd Anniversary Art Walk La Cumbre Center for Creative Arts invites you to enjoy live music and more at Elevate, Fine Line, and Illuminations Galleries. 5-8pm. La Cumbre Plaza, 121 S. Hope Ave. Free lcccasb.com/events

SATURDAY 11/19

11/19-11/20: The S.B. Symphony Presents Wisdom of the Sky, Water, Earth This program will offer a symphonic and visual homage to our region’s centuries-old Chumash heri tage from area composer and preservationist Cody Westheimer. Nir Kabaretti will conduct this repertoire that will deliver a deeply moving and moody tribute. Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. Granada Theatre, 1214 State St. $35-$175. Call (805) 899-2222 or email boxoffice@granadasb.org Read more on pg. 41 ticketing.granadasb.org/events

11/19: S.B. Music Club Concert Award-winning violinist Sofia Malvinni will perform a program titled Masterworks for Violin Solo and works from Johann Sebastian Bach, Eugéne Ysaÿe, and Niccolò Paganini. 3pm. First United Methodist Church, 305 E. Anapamu St. Free. Call (805) 964-3211. sbmusicclub.org

11/19: Doublewide Kings This S.B.-based band will bring a brand-new musical and visual concert experience that will include original material, classic rock favorites, special guests, and other surprises. 8pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. GA: $50; VIP: $71; Gold Circle: $100. Call (805) 963-0761. lobero.org/events

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11/19: Film Screening: Gratitude Revealed, An Epic Journey 40 Years in the Making The S.B. Permaculture Network presents Gratitude Revealed, a new film by Louie Schwartzberg, director of Fantastic Fungi, with images of the natural world and extraordinary stories of luminaries such as Norman Lear, Jack Kornfield, Dr. Christine Carter, and more. A Q&A with Louie Schwartzberg will follow the screening. Marjorie Luke Theatre, 6:30-9pm. 721 E. Cota St. $10. Call (805) 962-2571. tinyurl.com/GratitudeRevealed

Native People through the Lens of Edward S. Curtis

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Miller’s 73rd annual ski and snowboard film, Daymaker, will take you on a journey to British Columbia’s Mona shee mountains to Greece’s Olympus mountains and to Alaska and beyond. 7:30pm. Lobero Theatre, 33 E. Canon Perdido St. $21-$38. Call (805) 963-0761 or email boxoffice@lobero.org. lobero.org/events

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Influenced by the pictorialist movement of the early twentieth century, Edward S. Curtis set out to create a photo and ethnographic record of Indigenous peoples living in Western regions from the Mexican border to Alaskan shores. 100 years later, Indigenous people still contend with “Indian” stereotypes that are consequences of Edward Curtis’s vision. This exhibit endeavors to present his breathtaking photogravures within the context of American colonialism.

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Nature living

From Africa with Love

Andrew Antone and his husband always knew they wanted to go on an African safari for their honeymoon. And when they finally got the chance last March, after COVID put the kibosh on earlier plans, Antone was sure he would take a lot of pictures. He bought some new equipment and rented an extra-long lens so he’d be ready for anything.

New Photography Book Contributes to Zoo’s Conservation Programs

What Antone, a musician, designer, and the cre ative director of a Santa Barbara software company, didn’t realize at the time was that the stunning images he’d capture of wildlife through the grasslands and waterways of Kenya, Botswana, and Tanzania would turn into a 456-page coffee table book and exhibition at the Santa Barbara Zoo. “I had absolutely no plans to do anything like this,” he said recently. “But when we started looking at the images, I really began seeing something that needed to be shared.”

AFRICA’s arresting stills of lions, leopards, ele phants, giraffes, zebras, and other creatures, many of them highly endangered, were born out of love, Antone explained. “Love for animals, love for travel, love for life.” But their real value, we went on, is the consciousness he hopes they generate around pres ervation as the continent’s fragile ecosystem faces the constant threats of climate change, poaching, and habitat destruction. “In a couple generations, this could all be gone,” he said.

A member and donor of the Santa Barbara Zoo for more than 15 years, Antone is a big supporter of its world-class conservation and education programs. In fact, 50 percent of the proceeds from the book and limited-edition giclées from the show will go directly to those efforts. One of the more rewarding parts of the trip, Antone went on, was seeing his husband, Patrick who started volunteering at the Zoo when he was 12 and is now an employee basking in his element.

Every day of their two-week trip was packed with adventure, Antone said. They’d wake up at 5:30 and be in the open-air jeeps by 6:30, planning their routes around the animals’ behavior. Elephants, he explained, were the easiest to photograph. “They’re just so majes tic,” he said. “Everything they did felt like they were posing for the camera.” Cape buffalo and hippos were the trickiest.

But never was there any barrier between him and his subjects. “To be less than six feet away from and look into the eyes of these animals in their natural, unadulterated habitat, was an experience that can’t be communicated in words,” Antone said. “My hope is the book offers a foray in that experience.”

Antone was similarly struck by the attitude of the people he encountered in his travels. “They’re stewards of the land,” he explained. “There’s a lot we can learn from their mentality they aren’t the ones who are destroying their backyard.”

If AFRICA can help foster a similar awareness over the fragility of this unique place, Antone said, he’ll be happy. Because the question hasn’t yet been answered: “How are we going to protect this world?”

AFRICA can be purchased at the Santa Barbara Zoo Gift Shop or online at Amazon.com.The exhibition runs until January 31, 2023, at the Santa Barbara Zoo Discovery Pavilion.

Welcome to the World Cup

If they hope to advance out of Group B this month, the Americans need the three points for a victory against Wales, Ybarra said.

The exclusion of high-scoring Javier “Chicharito” Her nandez from Mexico’s roster does not sit well with Ybarra, who thinks another attacking player, Raúl Jiménez, lacks match fitness.

France won the 2018 World Cup and has two dynamic players in Kyrian Mbappé and Karim Benzema. Germany and Spain will try to reign over the same group. The Nether lands, another European power, cannot be discounted.

How about an African team Senegal? Morocco? And, oh, Canada finished ahead of Mexico and the U.S. in qualify ing.

“Things are so crazy in the world,” said Raúl Gil, who will welcome fans to his Westside restaurant, El Zarape. “Why not in the World Cup?”

HERE IS THE ARLINGTON THEATRE’S SCHEDULE:

• U.S.A. vs. Wales, Monday, Nov. 21, 11:00 a.m.

• Netherlands vs. Ecuador, Friday, Nov. 25, 8:00 a.m.

• U.S.A. vs. England, Friday, Nov. 25, 11:00 a.m.

• France vs. Denmark, Saturday, Nov. 26, 8:00 a.m.

When the men’s World Cup comes around every four years, Santa Barbara is usually ready for a rollicking summer party. But this year’s month-long soccer tour nament, featuring 32 countries from all corners of the globe, conflicts with school and work schedules and competes with the NFL and NBA. It’s because of the fierce summer heat in Qatar, a controversial choice as the host country in more ways than one.

Because of the time difference, it will be more of a show for coffee sippers than beer drinkers, although it’s been claimed that a pint of Guinness is a nutritious breakfast. The earli est matches in the first round will start at 2 a.m.; the latest, including all three U.S.A. matches, kick off at 11 a.m.

Qatar will play the opening game against Ecuador on Sunday, November 20, at 8 a.m., followed by two weeks of competition within eight groupings of four, with the top two in each group advancing to the knockout rounds. It will be a week before Christmas when the champions raise the trophy on December 18.

There will be an epicenter of intense fandom on West Ortega Street in downtown Santa Barbara, where the redoubtable Press Room, the self-described World Cup headquarters, sits across from Dargan’s Irish Pub. The Press Room will be open for every match, as it was in 2002 when it was the only bar on the West Coast to screen the matches from Japan and South Korea in the middle of the night. Dar gan’s plans to open an hour before 8 a.m. and 7 a.m. games.

The Press Room, inhabited throughout the year by Eng lish Premier League fans, will be teeming when England faces off against Iran at 5 a.m. Monday, and when England faces the United States the following Friday. “We’re going to be slammed,” proprietor James Rafferty said.

There will be plenty of room up State Street at the Arlington Theatre, which announced it will put seven firstrounders and all the knockout matches on the big screen.

Admission will be free, with the concession stand and bar selling food and beverages.

Between Santa Barbara’s own sophisticated soccer fans and international visitors Rafferty once logged patrons from 35 different nations over the course of a World Cup there should be plenty of interest.

The eventual champion will likely be one of the seven countries that previously won the trophy an eighth titlist, Italy, did not qualify this year Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Germany, Spain, and Uruguay.

Rafferty would like to see England, with steady Harry Kane and young Jude Bellingham, go all the way. Peter Moore, founder of the Santa Barbara Sky FC pro team slated to play in 2024, also is pulling for his native England but said, “I’m old enough to remember more than 50 years of heartache,” since England won its only crown in 1966. Moore expects Argentina to make a strong showing with Lionel Messi, “the best player of the generation,” taking his last shot at the title.

Rudy Ybarra, Santa Barbara’s first homegrown profes sional player and longtime coach, agrees that Argentina is formidable because of Messi’s supporting cast, but he sees Brazil winning its sixth World Cup with a cast of “nine attacking players” led by Neymar.

Gustavo Argredano and his wife, Maria Licon, both played soccer, and they are used to waking up at 4:30 a.m. to watch a game from Europe. “The World Cup unifies us,” Licon said. “For three weeks, we can forget about problems.” They would like to see a new champion Portugal, with Cristiano Ronaldo; or South Korea, with Son Heung-min. “Once the ref blows the whistle, they never stop running,” Gustavo said.

Bernard Hicks grew up in Brooklyn an avid basketball player and fan, but when he moved here and became the athletic director at the Westside Boys & Girls Club, the kids taught him to appreciate the skills of soccer. “It’s my second favorite sport,” he said. “It’s basketball with your feet.” Hicks looks for the stars like Messi and Ronaldo to come up big in Qatar.

Team U.S.A.’s chances are “slim and none,” Rafferty said, but Ybarra likes the youth of the team, with a true star in Christian Pulisic, although they should be stronger in 2026 when the World Cup comes to the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

• Argentina vs. Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 26, 11:00 a.m.

• Spain vs. Germany, Sunday, Nov. 27, 11:00 a.m.

• U.S.A. vs. Iran, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 11:00 a.m.

• All Round of 16 (Dec. 3-6), Quarterfinals (Dec. 9-10), and Semifinal matches (Dec. 13-14).

• Third-Place Match (Dec. 17, 7 a.m.) and Final (Dec. 18, 7 a.m.).

END OF THE ROAD: The college soccer season came to a dis appointing end for UCSB. Two late-season losses at UC Riverside including a 1-0 setback in Saturday’s Big West championship match cost the Gauchos (10-4-6) a berth NCAA men’s tournament. They had a 2-1-1 record against the rest of the tournament field, including a 3-1 win over No. 8–seeded Oregon State. Noting that UCR is matched against Portland, with the winner going to Oregon State, Gaucho forward Finn Ballard McBride said, “I feel we could have gone far in the tournament.” Ballard McBride scored 13 goals, ranking him fourth in the nation, but UCR denied him Saturday. The senior from Sydney will be pulling for Aus tralia’s Socceroos in the World Cup. He’s hoping France, the favorite in their group, will be the latest defending champion to underperform.

IN THE HUNT: Several area teams are still experiencing postsea son success. Westmont College women’s soccer (14-0-3) is bound for the NAIA championships after defeating Ottawa (Arizona) 2-1 in the Golden State Athletic Conference final. The Warrior volleyball team (22-6) also received an NAIA invite. Bishop Diego High’s football team (9-3) will play a CIF Division 3 semifinal game on Friday (Nov. 18) at Upland after upsetting previously unbeaten El Modena, 31-21. SBCC expects to receive a bid to a community college football bowl game (Nov. 26 or Dec. 3); the Vaqueros (9-1) reeled off nine consecutive victories and claimed an outright American Pacific League title by shellacking Santa Monica last Satur day, 65-27. UCSB women’s volleyball is still in season; the Gauchos (14-2 in the Big West) will host a showdown against Hawai‘i (15-1) on November 25.

FOOD & DRINK

Crafting Healthier Edibles

When California voters legalized cannabis for rec reational purposes in 2016, Katherine Knowlton was a culinary school grad living in San Fran cisco, where she worked as a food stylist and recipe developer.

“I was super pumped up about cannabis becoming legal, but I couldn’t really eat any of the edibles,” said Knowlton, whose “gut health challenges” made her avoid refined sugars. “Everything was gummy and everything else was chocolate. They were just candy.”

the shelves there,” said Knowlton of the popular Mis sion Street dispensary and sold out in six days. Happy Chance is also available at the Sespe Creek Collective in Ojai, and, as of last month, for home delivery from Carpinteria to Isla Vista.

“It’s been overwhelmingly positive,” she said of the initial response. “But it’s a long road ahead and there’s a lot to do to spread awareness.”

she felt her restaurant career had peaked. “There was no more going up,” she recalled.

She was well aware that many people just bought mar ijuana products to get high, but Knowlton knew many others using it as part of their wellbeing regime, tapping into cannabis to help with relaxation and sleeping (like her) or for the plant’s anti-inflammatory properties. “All of these gummies are putting sugar or corn syrup, which are inflammatory, together with cannabis,” she said. “It’s a counterintuitive thing.”

Add to that concerns over nebulous sourcing and even scarier ingredients, like titanium dioxide, and Knowlton decided to start experimenting with her own edible recipes at home. Using a food processor and dehy drator, she tested more than 125 combinations of highquality fruits, spices, nuts, root vegetables, and Medjool date sugar to develop a final series of fruit bite recipes. She then tested infusions from about 10 different can nabis extract companies, finally settling on the fasteracting, nano-emulsion, solventless rosins developed by Green Rush Alliances in Santa Barbara, where Knowlton had moved in 2018.

After pandemic delays, Knowlton released her brand Happy Chance this summer, offering three flavors of a “healthy, low-dose alternative to the modern-day gummy.” They were unveiled at The Farmacy on July 19 “It was a massive win for us to be able to land on

She’s hosted demos at each dispensary, offering free, non-dosed samples of the strawberry-turmeric, blue berry-cinnamon, and mango-lime flavors to customers. Most have not seen edibles in Happy Chance’s fruit-bite form: The squishy squares taste and act like suspended jam, able to either be quickly chewed or slowly melt in your mouth. “People immediately assume that it’s a gummy,” she explained. “But when you have a non-medicated sam ple in front of you, you realize that it’s not a gummy, that it’s actually real food.”

The lower dose 2.5 milligrams of THC per tiny cube, compared to mind-bending gummies with 10mg or more is a selling point for those seeking a mel low and managed experience. The same goes for the nano-encapsulation, which can elicit effects in just 15 to 30 minutes, depending on an individual’s metabolism and tolerance. (Traditional edibles can take an hour or more.) Combined with the organic ingredients and colorful packaging which features a very content bear plopped on the ground customers seem okay with paying the $30 per package, which is a bit higher than popular edibles in the $12 to $20 range.

That lazy bear is directly tied to the brand name. “Happy Chance is a real place in the mountains of North Carolina,” said Knowlton, explaining that it was the name of her grandfather’s farm, where visitors were greeted by the sight of a wooden bear hugging a tree. Growing up in Charleston, South Carolina, she hung out a lot with her grandpa, whom everyone called “Big Dad,” enjoying the extensive Sunday dinners he made from scratch ingredients.

“He was one of the biggest influences on me in the kitchen,” Knowlton said. “From a very early age, I always

A 2014 road trip to California lured her 26-year-old self to San Francisco, where a human resources job for a private equity firm revealed that office life wasn’t right for her either. Her mom encouraged cooking school as a way to meet people, and Knowlton chose the San Francisco Cooking School, which paired six months of intensive classroom instruction with externships in real kitchens.

“It was very, very hands-on,” said Knowlton, who learned to butcher lambs, build wood fires, gather huck leberries, and forage seaweed near Point Reyes in order to make kelp noodles. “That very much instilled in me that it does matter where our ingredients come from. I really learned the value of cooking for optimal health and well-being.” She found satisfaction in making her own food rather than buying it off of a grocery store shelf, a feeling further cemented by her externship at Lilo Lilo Yacht Club.

During a trip back to Charleston, she ran into former high school classmate Nathan Garrison at a Christmas party. He had co-founded a shark deterrent magnetic technology company called SharkBanz and was living in Santa Barbara. They fell in love, and then she fell in love with the creative culture of Santa Barbara too.

“Santa Barbara is a place that breeds entrepreneurs,” she said, referring, among others, to Nathan as well as his brother, Tucker Garrison, who runs the superfood company Imlakesh Organics. “There are so many amaz ing people in this community doing their own thing. I wanted to be part of that too.”

She hopes Happy Chance makes people care about what’s in their cannabis, much like we do with other foods and drinks. “It’s starting a new conversation around edibles, and spreading awareness that cannabis can be a better-for-you product,” Knowlton explained. “People do want it. They just don’t know it’s available yet.”

See eathappychance.com and eathappychancedelivery.com.

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athletes

Sasha Vujačić’s Aleksander Wines

Sasha Vujačić stepped to the free-throw line with 11.7 seconds remaining in Game 7 of the 2010 NBA finals and the Lakers clinging to an 81-79 lead over their arch-rival Boston Celtics. Under the most immense pressure that the game of basketball can offer, Vujačić calmly knocked down both shots, putting the game out of reach and forever etching his name in Lakers lore.

L.A. Lakers Star Now Making

Paso Robles Bordeaux Blends

“I recognized the magnitude of that moment and the precious opportunity to bring the team one final step closer towards finishing our long season in the way we imagined we would: with a hard-fought victory against our historical rivals, the Boston Celtics,” Vujačić said. “That moment will live on forever in my mind and heart.”

With his playing days behind him, Vujačić turned his attention toward a new passion: wine making. Founded with the 2010 vintage, his Paso Robles–based wine brand, Aleskander, produces Bordelaise red blends, typically releasing just two bottlings each vintage. (Aleksander is Vujačić’s real first name, which is commonly shortened to the nickname Sasha.) Unlike most other wine labels created by public figures from other NBA star brands by Dwyane Wade to hip-hop vintners like E-40 and Snoop Dogg to Hollywood-pow ered efforts by actors like Kurt Russell and Cam eron Diaz Aleksander is the fruit of a collective family effort.

Vujačić became interested in wines during the early years of his professional basketball career. His father, Vaso, was exploring the wines of the northeastern Italian region of Friuli and learning about the diverse practices, approaches, and tradi tions that determine the quality and character of a wine. As Vaso shared his profound appreciation for wine with his son, they began to entertain the idea of producing a wine that would reflect their

palates and express their international roots.

“Slovenia boasts a strong wine culture and is recognized as an important producer of wines specific to the area,” said Vujačić of his heritage. “Slovenia’s viniculture and its proximity to afflu ent bordering wine countries such as Austria and Italy enables people from that part of the world to develop a varied and sophisticated palate.”

Vujačić and his family have found the Central Coast to be the ideal spot for a thriving winery. “Paso Robles offered the ideal growing condi tions and soil for the Old World–style Bordeaux blend we had always imagined,” Vujačić said. “The neighboring area and the property that hosts our winery today also met the needs and preferences of the family. In short, it was love at first sight.”

Vujačić will be introducing his Aleksander wines to Santa Barbara County on Friday, November 18, when Nella Kitchen & Bar in Los Olivos will host an intimate dinner featuring cur rent and library releases. Attendees will have the opportunity to rub shoulders with the two-time NBA champion while enjoying several vintages expertly paired with a multi-course meal curated by Nella’s Executive Chef Luca Crestanelli.

“We were introduced to Chef Luca of Nella by our great friend Roberto Facciolla from Toscana Ristorante in Brentwood,” Vujačić said. “With Chef Luca, we planned a special wine dinner event hosted by Nella for an evening of perfect pairings.” Tickets are $145 and can be booked at tinyurl.com/aleksanderwinedinner

“My basketball and winemaking careers bear many similarities,” said Vujačić, who also played with the Nets, Clippers, Knicks, and numerous international teams until his final season in 2018. “While everyone loves a good win and a good wine, these are only possible with an honest behind-the-scenes commitment to the pursuit of excellence. A strong work ethic, the prioritization of collective effort, and loyalty to one’s vision are crucial to success in both worlds. Both basketball and wine bring people together in meaningful ways.” See aleksanderwine.com.

L’antica Pizzeria da Michele has opened at 1031 State Street, the former home of Embermill, Aldo’s, and the Cop per Coffee Pot, the latter occupying the address from 1927 to 1982.

Italian entrepreneur, restaurateur, and owner Francesco Zimone who opened the first U.S. outpost of the 152-year-old Naples brand in Hollywood in 2019 is dedicated to sourcing and highlighting Santa Barbara–based vintners, locally grown produce, and fresh seafood.

“We are thrilled to expand our Naples footprint with the opening of our second California location in Santa Barbara a city we are proud to embrace as our new home,” says Zimone. “Our cozy new loca tion is equally on par with the authentic flavors diners could expect whilst eating in Italy, without having to leave this beau tiful beach town. I for one, have fallen in love with the Mediterranean-style architecture of the city, and hope that our Naples style dining will add to Santa Barbara’s already rich and diverse dining community. With a dream to continue to share the treasured 152-year-old Italian recipes and sense of genuine hospitality and place, we look forward to welcoming the Santa Barbara community with open arms this season.”

Head Pizzaiolo Michele Rubini includes the original recipe for the Naples original Neapolitan pizza, along with a selection of house-made pastas, salads, barley-fed steaks, an on-site salumeria, and a more laid-back and casual lunch menu featuring paninis, pastas, salads, and more. Menu highlights include Gnocco Fritto (deep-fried pizza dough stuffed with burrata, prosciutto, and arugula; $19), Diavola Pizza (imported tomatoes, fior di latte, pecorino, spicy salame, and Calabrian chili; $28), Spa ghetti Nerano (house-made spaghetti, fresh zucchini, parmigiana, pecorino, and basil; $25), and Maccheroncini Car bonara (maccheroncini, guanciale, egg, and pecorino; $28).

The new downtown dining destina tion has a 60-seat tree-covered courtyard with views of State Street, indoor din ing, and bar seating for an additional 40 guests, as well as sidewalk-adjacent seat ing accommodating 20 guests. Hours are

Tuesday-Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. (counter service lunch), 4-6 p.m. (takeout only), and 6-9 p.m. (full-service dinner). Call (805) 770 8055 or visit damicheleusa.com

OAT BAKERY OPENS IN GOLETA: Oat Bakery, which opened at 5 West Haley Street five years ago, has opened a new location at 231 South Magnolia Avenue in Goleta, the former home of Goodland Kitchen and Market. Old Town Goleta’s newest eatery boasts a front-of-house seating area and 1,700-square-foot kitchen. Oat will now be able to fulfill larger whole sale orders, including partnerships with several Southern California companies such as Moon Juice and Flamingo Estate. Along with their complete original bread menu, Oat’s new Goleta location offers “by-the-slice” toast options topped with whipped butter, Comté cheese, and more, as well as Scandinavian breakfast and lunch options. The new bakery also has a front-of-house fridge with graband-go items, a coffee bar, and space for customers to sit and enjoy their bakery goods. Hours are Wednesday-Saturday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Starting in January, 2023 Oat’s Goleta location will also be open Sundays 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Visit oatbakery.com.

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JERSEY MIKE’S SUBS OPENS IN NOLETA:

Jersey Mike’s Subs, with more than 2,300 loca tions nationwide, has opened at 199 South Turnpike Road next to Lighthouse Cof fee and Vons. Franchise owner Stephen Youlios and Kyanna Isaacson are hold ing a grand opening and fundraiser until Sunday, November 20, to support San Marcos High School. “We’re very excited to open our third location in the Santa Barbara area,” said Isaacson. “We cherish our relationships with our local schools. This newest store gives us an even greater ability to provide our schools with the resources they need.” Guests can place orders in-store or for pickup through the website or through the Jersey Mike’s app. Additionally, delivery is available in most areas through the Jersey Mike’s app or through third-party delivery partners. Curbside pickup is available for orders placed in Jersey Mike’s app. Hours are 10 a.m.-9 p.m., seven days a week. Call (805) 259-3482 or visit jerseymikes.com.

LOCAVORE SYMPHONIA, AT THE GRANADA THEATRE

to save the West Mesa of the San Marcos Foothills from develop ment in 2021. The plight of the land was something that reso nated strongly with me. My late father and I were deeply involved in the fight to save Ellwood in the 1990s. I lent my services as a short -form filmmaker and made a series of videos one actually incorporating a string orchestra, in a way a precursor to this new piece.

Nir and I have talked about doing a nature-themed original piece for a while and Nir men tioned the idea of honoring the Chumash. I called Marianne and Ernestine and asked them if they’d be interested in col laborating. They are presenting the piece, and are essentially “soloists” in the orchestra.

L I F E

BEYOND BINGING WITH MEDIAPATHPODCAST

The Santa Barbara Symphony segues from the multi-sensory spectacular of last month’s Carmina Burana sea son-opening splash to a calmer demeanor this weekend (November 19-20). Maestro Nir Kabaretti leads us into the staple fare of Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor (with Alessandro Bax at the piano), Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, and Jean Sibelius’ Valse Triste

This weekend’s most intriguing feature, however, is locavore by nature, on more than one front: the world premiere com mission of Wisdom of the Sky, Water, Earth, by Cody Westheimer, who grew up in Goleta and played in the Symphony’s Youth Sym phony and heard the orchestra play his first orchestral work at age 17. He then headed to Los Angeles and established a career as composer for film, television, and such other multimedia projects as nature documenta

ries, a specialty of his.

Now back in town, we connected with Westheimer to get the bigger picture of his soon-to-born brainchild.

You spoke at the Symphony season preview at the Lobero and talked about it still being in a gestation stage. Will this be one of those ink-stillwet premieres, worked on up to the deadline? With any premiere, the ink always will feel wet, I think. Deadlines force us to commit, but I’ll always be second-guessing things like “Should I have doubled that line with clari net?” Once I knew what I was doing and was confident, it almost felt like the piece wrote itself at times.

Can you explain how the Chumash and nature elements entered the creative process? I met [Chumash natives] Marianne [Parra] and Ernestine [Ygnacio-DeSoto] while fighting

Which composers had a strong impact and influence on you, and this piece? I absolutely love the music of Toru Takemitsu. … I’m deeply influenced by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland. And a shout out to Toshiro Yoshimatsu, Arvo Pärt, and, of course, my hero in high school and still now John Williams.

Has technology enabled the prospect of scoring remotely as in Santa Barbara, say more than ever before? Technology is a huge part of the process these days. It’s why I created my “studio backpack” and my little pet project “Free Range Composing.” The truth is that we as composers have always been remote. My wife Julia Marie Newmann and I have his/hers studios here in Santa Barbara, but also when we were in L.A., there were clients across town that we’d email clips to.

I can’t imagine not living here now that I’ve been back for a few years. I’m still honey mooning with the Santa Barbara life.

—Josef Woodard

READY TO HANG SHOWCASES CREATIVE DIVERSITY OF HUNDREDS OF LOCAL ARTISTS

’Tis the season to buy local art. The work of dozens of painters, photographers, and artists of all sorts will be on view at one of our region’s largest showcases on Saturday, November 19, from 4-7 p.m. at Community Arts Workshop (CAW), 631 Garden Street. Open to all kinds of art, Ready to Hang is a one-day pop-up show where all pieces have to fit into a 12"x12" space.

“I don’t think there’s a better way to get a sense of the ‘now’ of our arts scene than this show,” says Casey Caldwell, managing director of CAW. This year’s third annual show also marks the homestretch of CAW’s capital campaign, which has just $100,000 left for its $2 million goal. All artists are all donating 30 percent of their proceeds to support the work of the nonprofit Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative, whose largest project is creating CAW as a vital

space for artists to create and share their work.

“The range of work takes the breath away,” says Caldwell. “We have works from some of Santa Barbara’s best-known artists, sharing walls with artists for whom this is their very first show.”

In its first year, Ready to Hang exhibited 418 pieces of art by more than 200 artists. Up to 450 pieces are anticipated this year.

“It’s one of the biggest art shows of the year, but also one of the most intimate, a real celebration of our community’s creative diversity,” says Nathan Vonk, owner of Sullivan Goss Gallery and the exhibit sponsor. The show is free and open to the public.

For more information, visit sbcaw.org/hang.

No matter what the delivery format is (radio, TV, webcasts, streaming services, podcasts), there’s always a hunger for deep conversations about meaningful subjects.

Media Path Podcast co-hosts Fritz Coleman and Louise Palanker use their weekly shows as an opportunity to flesh out the subjects that they find interesting and compelling everything from pop culture to politics.

They recently released their 112th episode featuring award winning documentarian Joyce Chopra, author of Lady Director: Adventures in Hollywood, Television and Beyond, and Jan Perry, Executive Director of Shelter Partnership, which helps provide essential needs to the unhoused in Los Angeles.

A veteran radio producer, comedian, and filmmaker who spends about half of each week in Santa Barbara, Palanker began podcasting in 2005. Media Path is her fifth podcast. She and Coleman are old friends — with a shared mastery of topical comedy — but he had to retire from his almost 40-year career as a weatherman for NBC for them to be able to partner on what she calls “the podcast of my dreams.”

Since launching in the summer of 2020 with an episode focused on their shared obsession with Turner Classic Movies, Media Path has covered the gamut, from Donald Trump and Russia, to true crime, reality TV and music. The show has found a special niche with what Palanker describes as “baby boomer favorites” like the Happy Days trifecta (Marian Ross, Henry Winkler, Anson Williams), Peter Noone, Cindy Williams, Johnny Whitaker and Marty Croft, among others.

One of the things Palanker loves is reading a book and “then getting to ask all the questions. That part is really, really fun for me. … We’re really enjoying learning more and going on these discovery journeys.”

As for the delivery method, which includes an impressive visual component on the YouTube version, “podcasting has become the streaming media of audio you can get what you want, when you want it. It’s there for you when you’re ready. You can press pause … and you can pick it up where you left off. … People can curate exactly what interests them. And that’s kind of exciting,” Palanker says. For more information, visit mediapathpodcast.com.

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ANIMALS ON OUR BRINK, AT THE WILDLING

Things That Make You Go ‘Ooh’ at the Zoo!

ZooLights is at the Santa Barbara Zoo through January 15, 2023.

As implied in its name, the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature in Solvang takes conscientious aim at nature in its element, generally focusing on art about the natural and animal world. Something slightly different is afoot with artist Hilary Baker’s fascinating exhibition Wildlife on the Edge. A Los Angeles native, now based in Ojai, Baker sidesteps the natural world, per se, and deals in her clever, cagey artistic language with the uncomfortable intersection of wild animal life and urban/suburban spaces. The show gains relevance at a time when weather and drought conditions are driving wild animals into human-occupied areas, including Santa Barbara.

A bear lurks in a 7-Eleven parking lot. A mountain lion evokes both languid sensuality and potential peril outside the suave, now-defunct Parisian Room in Los Angeles, and a bat perches above the Hollywood Bowl, unimpressed. An implied question in Baker’s show: Which is the intruder, resident animal life or human-imposed developments on once unspoiled land?

Baker’s art often crosses boundaries between abstraction and represen tation, with wit and an actively imaginative palette in tow. In her recent Predators series, she uses her minimalist, hard-edged graphic style to put these creatures in our face while creating a visual filter and scrim. Hints of a Spartan, cartoonish ambience distance us from the prickly reality of wild animals in the backyards, side yards and border regions of our urban comfort zones.

Baker’s taste for ironic juxtapositions adds layers of witty references to her imagery in the series, as seen in the comic relief of “Red-Tailed Hawk, Van Nuys Drive-In,” with the avian subject as accidental moviegoer during the ripe cinematic moment of Janet Leigh’s shower scream scene in Psycho. “High Voltage” banks on the high-contrast, visually striking image of a woodpecker and a high voltage warning on a utility pole, with its implied sense of danger.

L.A.-based landmarks are seen in new perspectives, through these impervious creatures’ eye views. An albino mantis is seen in the historic (and frequent movie location) Bradbury Building downtown, while Simon Rodia’s folk art shrine Watts Tower plays backdrop to an Anna’s hummingbird, aloft and aflutter.

In what qualifies as good nature-reclaiming news, “Burrowing Owl, LAX” showcases the abandoned town of Surfridge, adjacent to LAX and now “a haven for California creatures.” “Pocket Mouse, Camp Pendleton” depicts a captive breeding program for endangered species. Hope hangs on by its claws, in the wild and in the town.

Wildlife on the Edge: Hilary Baker is on view at the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature in Solvang (1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang) through March 6, 2023. For more informa tion, visit wildlingmuseum.org.

Lions and tigers and bears and lights! Families will want to check out the thousands of hand crafted, silk-covered lanterns now aglow with more than 50,000 LED bulbs for the Santa Barbara Zoo’s new ZooLights installation. Featuring pen guins, peacocks, lions, tigers, elephants, butterflies, birds, and more, these larger-than-life animal and wildlife scenes light up the nights from 4:30-8:30 p.m. through January 15, 2023.

Illuminating not just the Zoo but the community spirit this holiday season, this Insta-friendly exhibit

has multiple interactive areas perfect for fun and photo ops. Select dates will also include photos with Santa.

—Leslie Dinaberg

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit sbzoo.org/zoolights/.

Family Music Business, Back at the Lobero

In the beginning, or near the begin ning, there was the ’70s-born aggregate known as “The Section,” a group of versatile studio musicians who, like the earlier generation of Los Angeles studio players, the ’60s-based “Wrecking Crew,” lent their skill and impeccable feel to countless acts and stars. All these years later, a new mon iker and enterprise have come into being out of the ashes of “The Section,” now bearing the friendly band name The Immediate Family. The band will pay a return visit to the Lobero Theatre on Sunday, November 20, after making a splash in that venue earlier this year. Its members guitarists Danny Kortchmar and Waddy Wachtel, bassist Leland Sklar, drummer Russ Kunkel and new addition, singer-songwriter Steve Postell have graced a vast host of albums and stages with the likes of Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Brown, Warren Zevon, James Taylor, Carole King … and the list goes on, and on.

Reconnecting and branding with the trappings of an active new project, The Immediate Family has gotten busy in the past two years. They released a new EP in May, Live from Telefunken Soundstage, and

have a forthcoming album. Their story has also been recently told in music doc form by director Denny Tedesco, the son of famed studio guitarist Tommy Tedesco, and who aptly also made the fine doc The Wrecking Crew

Dropping in early 2023, the first full album by the band is fittingly called Skin in the Game as in, they still have said skin, after all these years. For a sampling, check out the album’s first single, “The Toughest Girl in Town,” a sharp reworking of the tune by the quirky Los Angeles band Sparks. Sparks the clever Mael brothers gives the song an electronic new-wave spin and irony in its original version, from their 1988 album Interior Design. Circa 2022, The Immediate Family cleans it up real good, with the foursquare rock-pop values and the guts ’n’ sheen quality that is their coveted stock-in-trade, continuing into a new chapter all their own.

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit lobero.org.

ARIES

(Mar. 21-Apr. 19): Virginia Woolf wrote a passage that I suspect will apply to you in the coming weeks. She said, “There is no denying the wild horse in us. To gallop intemper ately; fall on the sand tired out; to feel the earth spin; to have positively a rush of friendship for stones and grasses there is no getting over the fact that this desire seizes us.” Here’s my question for you, Aries: How will you harness your wild horse energy? I’m hoping that the self-possessed human in you will take command of the horse and direct it to serve you and yours with construc tive actions. It’s fine to indulge in some intemperate gal loping, too. But I’ll be rooting for a lot of temperate and disciplined galloping.

TAURUS

(Apr. 20-May 20): “The failure of love might account for most of the suffering in the world,” writes poet Marie Howe. I agree with that statement. Many of us have had painful episodes revolving around people who no longer love us and people whose lack of love for us makes us feel hurt. That’s the bad news, Taurus. The good news is that you now have more power than usual to heal the failures of love you have endured in the past. You also have an expanded capacity to heal others who have suffered from the failures of love. I hope you will be generous in your ministrations!

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20): Many Geminis tell me they are often partly awake as they sleep. In their dreams, they might work overtime trying to solve waking-life problems. Or they may lie in bed in the dark contemplating intricate ideas that fascinate them, or perhaps ruminating on the plot developments unfolding in a book they’ve been reading or a TV show they’ve been bingeing. If you are prone to such behavior, I will ask you to minimize it for a while. In my view, you need to relax your mind extra deeply and allow it to play luxuriously with non-utilitarian fan tasies and dreams. You have a sacred duty to yourself to explore mysterious and stirring feelings that bypass rational thought.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22): Here are my two key messages for you. (1) Remember where you hide important stuff. (2) Remem ber that you have indeed hidden some important stuff. Got that? Please note that I am not questioning your urge to lock away a secret or two. I am not criticizing you for wanting to store a treasure that you are not yet ready to use or reveal. It’s completely understandable if you want to keep a part of your inner world off-limits to certain people for the time being. But as you engage in any or all of these actions, make sure you don’t lose touch with your valuables. And don’t forget why you are stashing them.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22): I know I don’t have to give you lessons in expressing your sensuality. Nor do you need prods and encouragement to do so. As a Leo, you most likely have abundant talent in the epicurean arts. But as you prepare to glide into the lush and lusty heart of the Sensuality Sea son, it can’t hurt to offer you a pep talk from your fellow Leo bon vivant, James Baldwin. He said: “To be sensual is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.”

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Many Virgos are on a lifelong quest to cul tivate a knack described by Sigmund Freud: “In the small matters, trust the mind. In the large ones, the heart.” And I suspect you are now at a pivotal point in your efforts to master that wisdom. Important decisions are looming in regards to both small and large matters. I believe you will do the right things as long as you empower your mind to do what it does best and your heart to do what it does best.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Social media like Facebook and Twitter feed on our outrage. Their algorithms are designed to

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stir up our disgust and indignation. I confess that I get semi-caught in their trap. I am sometimes seduced by the temptation to feel lots of umbrage and wrath, even though those feelings comprise a small minority of my total emotional range. As an antidote, I proactively seek experiences that rouse my wonder and sublimity and holiness. In the next two weeks, Libra, I invite you to culti vate a focus like mine. It’s high time for a phase of minimal anger and loathing and maximum reverence and awe.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scorpio author Sylvia Plath had a disturbing, melodramatic relationship with romance. In one of her short stories, for example, she has a woman character say, “His love is the twenty-story leap, the rope at the throat, the knife at the heart.” I urge you to avoid contact with people who think and feel like that as glamorous as they might seem. In my view, your romantic destiny in the coming months can and should be uplifting, exciting in healthy ways, and conducive to your well-being. There’s no need to link yourself with shadowy renegades when there will be plenty of radiant helpers available.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I like Sagittarian healer and author Caroline Myss because she’s both spiritual and practical, compas sionate and fierce. Here’s a passage from her work that I think will be helpful for you in the coming weeks: “Get bored with your past. It’s over! Forgive yourself for what you think you did or didn’t do, and focus on what you will do, starting now.” To ensure you make the most of her counsel, I’ll add a further insight from author Augusten Burroughs: “You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will because you can only live in the past inside your mind.”

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19): How would you respond if you learned that the $55 T-shirt you’re wearing was made by a Haitian kid who earned 10 cents for her work? Would you stop wearing the shirt? Donate it to a thrift store? Send money to the United Nations agency UNICEF, which works to protect Haitian child laborers? I recommend the latter option. I also suggest you use this as a prompt to engage in leisurely meditations on what you might do to reduce the world’s suffering. It’s an excellent time to stretch your imagination to understand how your personal life is interwoven with the lives of countless others, many of whom you don’t even know. And I hope you will think about how to offer extra healings and blessings not just to your allies, but also to strangers. What’s in it for you? Would this bring any selfish benefits your way? You may be amazed at how it leads you to interesting connections that expand your world.

.AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian philosopher Alfred North White head wrote, “The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.” He also said, “Every really new idea looks crazy at first.” With these thoughts in mind, Aquarius, I will tell you that you are now in the Season of the Silly Question. I invite you to enjoy dreaming up such queries. And as you indulge in that fertile pleasure, include another: Celebrate the Season of Crazy Ideas.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-Mar. 20): We all love to follow stories: the stories we live, the stories that unfold for people we know, and the stories told in movies, TV shows, and books. A dispro portionately high percentage of the entertainment indus try’s stories are sad or tormented or horrendously painful. They influence us to think such stories are the norm. They tend to darken our view of life. While I would never try to coax you to avoid all those stories, Pisces, I will encour age you to question whether maybe it’s wise to limit how many you absorb. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to explore this possibility. Be willing to say, “These sad, tormented, painful stories are not ones I want to invite into my imagination.” Try this experiment: For the next three weeks, seek out mostly uplifting tales.

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Notes: Satisfactory criminal history background check. UCSB Campus Security Authority under Clery Act. The Legal Services Advisor shall not practice law or provide legal advice of any kind. This is a 75% time position. $68,475‑$78,937/Yr. at 75%. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 44253

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Professional Expectation/Attitude Standard/Customer Service Promotes customer service programs in the Grounds unit to residents/clients. Completes job duties in a manner that demonstrates support for Housing and Residential Services. Reqs: Minimum of three years experience in grounds maintenance or equivalent experience. Must be able to follow oral/written instructions. Ability to perform minor repairs on small equipment. Some knowledge of irrigation and drip systems. Experience with the use of tractors, small lawn mowers, edgers, power sweepers, roto‑tillers and chainsaws. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others as a team. Must have effective communication skills. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. Mon‑Fri 7:00am‑3:30pm. $18.93/ hr.‑$22.20/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 44227

of current Windows operating system, office productivity software, and standardized workstation to provide tier two support to Admin Services IT technical staff. Maintains regular end user communication with strong ability to maintain effective client and colleague rapport. Reqs: BS/BA degree or equivalent combination of experience and training. 4‑6 years experience providing technical leadership in windows system administration and support, information system implementation and support, systems analysis, network management, patch management, and troubleshooting. Note: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in DMV Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. $72,340.39‑ $100,827.78/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Application review begins 11/29/2022. Job #45355

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Certification with one of the following agencies required; American Association of Medical Assistants (AMA), California Certifying Board of Medical Assistants (CMAA). Applicants without a proper certification will not be considered. Notes: Credentials verification completed and passed before employment and date of hire. Mandated reporting requirements of Child & Dependent Adult Abuse. Satisfactory background check completed and passed before employment and date of hire. To comply with Santa Barbara County Public Health Department Health Office Order, this position must provide evidence of annual influenza vaccination, or wear a surgical mask while working in patience care areas during the influenza season. Any HIPAA or FERPA violation is subject to disciplinary action. This is an 11‑month position with 4 weeks of furlough taken during quarter breaks and summer months. Days and hours are M‑F, 7:45am‑4:30pm (may be required to work TH evenings until 7:00pm). $23.97/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb. edu Job # 43395

Demonstrated ability to work effectively with others as a member of a team. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull‑Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. $26.39‑ $34.90/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https:// jobs.ucsb.edu Job #44905

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Under the direction of the Associate Director of Project Management for Housing, Dining, & Auxiliary Enterprises (HDAE), the Procurement Analyst will serve as the Program Manager for Residential Operations and will collaborate with the HDAE department leaders to manage their respective operational affairs through Residential Operations. Prepares annual and projected budgets for routine and recurring programs, track expenses, and schedules as they relate to programs. Initiates agreements for services and has authority to make purchases within a defined dollar limit.

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1‑3 years experience working with higher education or government or equivalent combination of experience.

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Directs 2‑4 camera event location shoots at various sites on campus and around the community. Configures and runs webcast and streaming for events. Edits programs for later broadcast locally and on UCTV in a timely manner. Sets up and operates all aspects of television studio as needed. Supports various Field Cart tapings, which include live recording, webcasting, lecture capture,and video conferencing. Trains students in all aspects of production workflow. Assists Production Manager in coordination and operation of two in‑house video conferencing facilities. Reqs: Directing experience within a multiple‑camera environment including the setup of cameras, audio mixers, video switchers, etc. Experience in one‑camera remote shoots including the setup of camera, lights, microphones, etc. Fluent with entire Adobe Production Suite software, including: Premier, After Effects, Encore, Audition, Photoshop, Illustrator, and Media Encoder. Experience in editing video programs for broadcast with working knowledge of digital editing software. Notes: Satisfactory completion of a conviction history background check. Flexible work schedule including nights and weekends. $29.23 ‑ $31.02/hr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 39190.

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A HEARING ON THE PETITION will be held in this court as follows: 12/15/2022 AT 9:00 a.m. Dept: 5

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, 1100 Anacapa Street, P.O Box 21107 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.Darrel E. Parker, Executive Officer Date: 10/17/2022

By: April Garcia, Deputy. Attorney for Petitioner: Jeffrey B. Soderborg, 1900 State Street, Suite M, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; (805) 687‑6660.

Published November 3, 10, 17, 2022.

Proof of Service by Mail by Christie A. Gabbert.

Served: Angelica Edwards.

NOTICE OF

PETITION TO ADMINISTER

ESTATE OF: WILLIAM CARPER POEHLER AKA WILLIAM C. POEHLER & WILLIAM POEHLER

NO: 22PR00531

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both WILLIAM CARPER POEHLER AKA WILLIAM C. POEHLER & WILLIAM POEHLER.

A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: PAMELA M. POEHLER in the Superior Court of California, County of Santa Barbara.

CLASSIFIEDS | PHON E 805-965-5205 | ADVERTISING@INDEPENDENT.COM

THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that (name): Pamela M. Poehler be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examiniation in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The Independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING ON THE PETITION WILL BE HELD IN THIS COURT AS FOLLOWS: 1/05/2023

AT 9:00 AM, DEPT. 5, SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA, located at 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. Anacapa Division.

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR OR A CONTINGENT CREDITOR OF THE DECEDENT, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58 (b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE‑154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Steven A. Jung, Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, 1021 Anacapa Street, 2nd Floor, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 (805) 882‑1443.

Published November 3, 10, 17, 2022.

Proof of Service by Mail

The Served: Pamela M. Poehler, Trustee of the William and Pamela Poehler Living Trust

Lillian G. Poehler

Christopher G. Poehler

Heather K. Poehler

Mary Lynn Mallen

FBN ABANDONMENT

STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS

NAME The following Fictitious Business Name : 805 DEFENSE IS BEING ABANDONED at 1233 Richelle Lane, H, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; The original statement for use of this Fictitious Business Name was filed 06/3/07/2021 in the County of Santa Barbara. Original File no. 2021‑0001660. The persons or entities abandoning use of this name are as follows: Amber Paresa, 1233 Richelle Lane, H, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Elizabeth Bryson, 323 West Montecito Street, Apt C, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Leana Gutierrez, 121 West Pueblo Street, Apt 7, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. The business was conducted as a general partnership. SIGNED BY AMBER PARESA, OWNER. This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 10/07/22, FBN2022‑0002505, E47. hereby

certify that this is a correct copy of the original statement on file in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL). Published: October 27, November 3, 10, 17, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: 805 DEFENSE, 1233 Richelle Lane, H, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Amber K Paresa (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY AMBER PARESA, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 7, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2022‑0002506. Published: October 27, November 3, 10, 17, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: CHRP DIAGNOSTIC, 4551 Oak Glen Drive, Unit F, Santa Barbara, CA 93110; Kevin C Haeberle (same address), Lindsey N Haeberle (same address). This business is conducted by a married couple. SIGNED BY KEVIN HAEBERLE, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 18, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002564. Published: October 27, November 3, 10, 17, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ACADEMIC EQUITY CONSULTING 1821 Gillespie Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; Mary Bucholtz (same address) This business is conducted by an individual.

SIGNED BY MARY BUCHOLTZ.

Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 19, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002581. Published: October 27, November 3, 10, 17, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: BYB REAL ESTATE,1290 Coast Village RD, Santa Barbara, CA 93108; Brisaly Y Balderas, 451 Cannon Green Dr., Apt G, Goleta Ca 93117. This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY BRISALY BALDERAS, INDIVIDUAL. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 3, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002460. Published: October 27, November 3, 10, 17, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: JHZ INVESTIGATIVE SERVICES 5662 Calle Real #349, Goleta, CA 93117; James H Zbinden, 5731 Stow Canyon Rd., Goleta, CA 93117. This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY JAMES ZBINDEN. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 24, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E49. FBN Number: 2022‑0002603. Published: October 27, November 3, 10, 17, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: PACIFIC BUILDERS at 1128 Chino Street, A, Santa Barbara, CA 93101; RLS Pacific Builders, Inc. (same address) This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY RUBEN LOPEZ SOLIS, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 12, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN

Number: 2022‑0002529. Published: October 27, November 3, 10, 17, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HUNTER ENTERPRISES at 4700 Stockdale Hwy, Ste.120, Bakersfield, CA 93309; Hunter‑Dooley Family Investments LLC (same address). This business is conducted by a limited liabilty company. SIGNED BY KENNETH H. HUNTER, III, MANAGER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 26, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002643. Published: November 3, 10, 17, 23, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: HOSPICE OF SANTA BARBARA, 2050 Alameda Padre Serra, Suite 100, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Hospice of Santa Barbara, Inc. (same address), Compassionate Care Center, Compassionate Care of Isla Vista, Compassionate Care of Santa Barbara County, Compassionate Care of Carpinteria, Compassionate Care of North Santa Barbara County, Compassionate Care of the Central Coast, Compassionate Care of Goleta, Compassionate Care of Santa Barbara, Compassionate Care of the Santa Ynez Valley. This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY DAVID SELBERG, CEO. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 24, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2022‑0002617. Published: November 3, 10, 17, 23, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: TRUST TRANSFER ACCOUNT at 2921 Holly Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93105; Michael G Vilkin (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY MICHAEL VILKIN, MANAGER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 26, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002632. Published: November 3, 10, 17, 23, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: SANTA YNEZ VALLEY THERAPY at 85 West Highway 246, Suite 140, Buellton, CA 93427; Kathryn EM Fleckenstein (same address) This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY KATHRYN EM FLECKENSTEIN. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 24, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002609. Published: November 3, 10, 17, 23, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: ALFREDO’S MOVING & DELIVERY at 283 Ellwood Beach Dr, Goleta, CA 93117; Fredy Lopez (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY FREDY LOPEZ. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 3, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E49. FBN Number: 2022‑0002463. Published: November 3, 10, 17, 23, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person (s) is/are doing business as: RIVIERA WINE COMPANY at 59 Industrial Way, Buellton, CA 93427; Margerum Wine Company, Inc. (same address). This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY DOUGLAS MARGERUM, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 24, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland,

NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS FOR THE GOLETA VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER SEISMIC RETROFIT PROJECT DR 4308 (CIP NO. 9067)

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“City”) invites and will receive sealed Bids up to but not later than 2:00 P.M. on 13 December, 2022 via electronic transmission on the City of Goleta PlanetBids portal site which can be accessed at the CITY website link below, and will be publicly opened and posted promptly thereafter. Copies of the Contract Documents and Specifications are available from the CITY, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 upon payment of a $50.00 non-refundable fee if picked up, or payment of a $60.00 non-refundable fee, if mailed or no payment to CITY if obtained from the CITY website at http:// www.cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/view/city-bid-opportunities. Bids shall be valid for a period of 90 calendar days after the Bid opening date.

The City of Goleta (“City”) will select a single qualified Contractor to perform a structural retrofit of Goleta Valley Community Center. The work includes all labor, material, supervision, and equipment necessary to construct and deliver a finished GOLETA VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER SEISMIC RETROFIT PROJECT – DR 4308 (CIP NO. 9067). The scope of work includes all work described in the construction documents, but is not limited to the following: Anchorage and strengthening of existing wood diaphragms and truss connections to existing concrete walls; extent of all existing “sprung” floor locations to be verified in field; patch & paint interior drywall and new exterior plaster; provide seismic bracing for non-structural elements; remove existing roofing in its entirety down to the existing plank sheathing, remove all existing roof crickets and built-up areas prior to installing new structural sheathing; provide new roofing system; repair deteriorated and damaged rafter tails and exposed wood elements; extend roof drains to drain into existing planter including selective demolition entrance planter; remove existing skylight and replace on a new curb; interior painted mural at the east wall of the Dining Room shall not be disturbed; removal of floor finishes as required to install new boundary and floor nailing; reinstall carpet following repairs; fully cooperate with all City agencies and others who might be working within the premise of the proposed project site; contractor to obtain building permit(s) from the City’s Building and Safety Division. Contractor shall pay for the permit fee. Plans have been approved by the Building and Safety Division; install electrical power and water connections for all contractors use. Provide and install one toilet, fencing with green screening around the construction site and dumpster/laydown area (if needed, with prior approval of location from City Engineer). Contractor is not permitted to use the existing restrooms, kitchen, or break rooms in the Goleta Valley Community Center building during the course of the construction.; the contractor is responsible to familiarize themselves with the existing utilities and electronic systems inside and outside the building project to facilitate their work on this project; the contractor is responsible for providing all required insurance, bonds, schedule of values, construction schedules, monthly updated schedules, attending weekly Owner, Architect, Contractor meetings, submitting monthly invoices, certified payrolls, three sets of closeout binders; contractor shall maintain during construction and provide final asbuilt drawings at completion of project; no excavations (such as for landscaping planters) directly adjacent to perimeter walls are permitted. The contract period is Ninety (90) Calendar Days.

A mandatory pre-bid meeting for this project is scheduled on November 29, 2022, at 2:00 P.M. at the Goleta Community Center, 5679 Hollister Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117.

This Structural retrofit scope of work of this project is funded by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP) funds. Contractor is required to comply with all necessary reporting procedures as outlined in the granting agency guidelines.

Bids must be submitted on the City’s Bid Forms. Bidders may obtain a copy of the Contract Documents from PlanetBids. To the extent required by section 20103.7 of the Public Contract Code, upon request from a contractor plan room service, the City shall provide an electronic copy of the Contract Documents at no charge to the contractor plan room.

No bid will be accepted, nor any contract entered into, without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractor’s current registration with the Department of Industrial Relations to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the Department of Industrial Relations for the duration of the Project. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the contractor registration requirements mandated by Labor Code Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1 shall not apply to work performed on a public works project that is exempt pursuant to the small project exemption specified in Labor Code Sections 1725.5 and 1771.1. This Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations. In bidding on this Project, it shall be the Bidder’s sole responsibility to evaluate and include the cost of complying with all labor compliance requirements under this contract and applicable law in its Bid.

Pursuant to sections 7000 et seq. of the Business and Professions Code, each Bidder must hold an active license issued by the California Contractors State License Board throughout the time it submits its Bid and for the duration of the contract in the following classification(s): Class A (general engineering contractor) or Class B (general building contractor). The Bidder or a listed Subcontractor must also hold an active Class C-22 (asbestos abatement) license. A Class C-7 (low voltage systems) license is required if scope of work affects existing or new low voltage systems. If the Bidder holds a Class B license, the Bidder (if it will self-perform the demolition work) or a listed Subcontractor must hold a Class C-21 (building moving/demolition) license. In addition, the Bidder or a listed Subcontractor must hold all applicable State certifications from the California Contractors State License Board and any necessary registrations from the Division of Occupational Safety and Health at the Bid Deadline. Substitution requests shall be made within 35 calendar days after the award of the contract. Pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 3400(b), the City may make findings designating that certain additional materials, methods or services by specific brand or trade name other than those listed in the Standard Specifications be used for the Project. Such findings, if any, as well as the materials, methods or services and their specific brand or trade names that must be used for the Project may be found in the Special Conditions.

City shall award the contract for the Project to the lowest responsive, responsible Bidder as determined by the City from the BASE BID ALONE. City reserves the right to reject any or all bids or to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bids or in the bidding process. Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk (805) 961-7505 or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

For further information, contact Matthew Fore, General Services Director at mfore@cityofgoleta.org.

CITY OF GOLETA

Deborah S. Lopez, City Clerk

Published: Santa Barbara Independent: November 10, 2022, and November 17, 2022

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County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002612. Published: November 3, 10, 17, 23, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: COOPER COLLINS SMITH REALTY,18 Canon Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105;

Cooper & Smith Inc (same address).

This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY NATALIE COLLINS‑SMITH, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 4, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it

was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002717. Published: November 10, 17, 23, December 1, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: LA VISTA

PROJECT NO. 9111

130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, City of Goleta, CA

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“CITY”), invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids via electronic transmission on the City of Goleta PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 P.M., Monday, December 5, 2022, and will be publicly opened and posted promptly thereafter. Copies of the Contract Documents and Specifications are available from the CITY, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 upon payment of a $50.00 nonrefundable fee if picked up, or payment of a $60.00 non-refundable fee, if mailed or no payment to CITY if obtained from the CITY website at http://www. cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/view/city-bidopportunities.

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plantings and equipment necessary to construct and deliver the specified JONNY D. WALLIS PARK NEIGHBORHOOD PARK SPLASH PAD AND IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT NO. 9111. Work includes the construction of a new splash pad, seat walls, fencing, basketball court surfacing, installation of prefabricated shade structures, installation of security cameras, fencing and all project associated clearing, grubbing, grading, asphalt, concrete, drainage, utility connection, fencing, signage, irrigation and landscape work. The contract period is one hundred (100) Working Days.

Deadline to submit Requests For Information (RFI) electronically to jplummer@ cityofgoleta.org is 5:00 pm on Monday, November 21, 2022. A Pre-Bid Meeting is not scheduled for this project.

Bidders must be registered on the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit the bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted. The bid must be accompanied by a bid security in the form of a money order, a certified cashier’s check, or bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety, made payable to CITY. The bid security shall be an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total annual bid amount included with their proposals as required by California law. Note: All bids must be accompanied by a scanned copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. The original security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed or submitted to the office of the City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, in a sealed envelope and be received or postmarked within three (3) City business days after the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered. The sealed envelope should be plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID SECURITY FOR JONNY D. WALLIS PARK NEIGHBORHOOD PARK SPLASH PAD AND IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT NO. 9111.”

The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship employment standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required. The CITY hereby affirmatively ensures that all business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration leading to the award of contract.

A contract may only be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder that holds a valid Class “A” Contractor’s license, or specialty licensing in accordance with the provisions of the California Business and Professions Code. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR for the duration of the Project. Failure to provide proof of the contractor’s current registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by CITY to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the CITY to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk (805) 961-7505 or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

For information relating to the details of this Project and bidding requirements contact JoAnne Plummer in writing at jplummer@cityofgoleta.org.

CITY OF GOLETA

Deborah S. Lopez, City Clerk

Published: Santa Barbara Independent: November 10, 2022, and November 17, 2022

CONSULTING, 1020 La Vista RD, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. Stephanie K Ochoa (same address) This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY STEPHANIE OCHOA, PRESIDENT. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 31, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002678. Published: November 10, 17, 23, December 1, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

The following person(s) is/are doing business as: 101 DELI, 130 N Calle Cesar Chavez, #22, Santa Barbara, CA 93103; Angie M Park, 2053 Mandrill Ave, Ventura, CA 93003. This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY ANGIE M PARK, OWNER. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 21, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E47. FBN Number: 2022‑0002592. Published: November 10, 17, 23, December 1, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person(s) is/are doing business as: SAMANTHA HARRIS, 2635 State St, Apt. T3, Santa Barbara 93105 This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY SAMANTHA HARRIS. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 31, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002677. Published: November 10, 17, 23, December 1, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person

(s) is/are doing business as: HAWT HANKS 7083 Del Norte Drive, Goleta, CA 93117; Nathan Van Etten(same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY NATHAN VAN ETTEN Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October 26, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002638. Published: November 10, 17, 23, December 1, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: ROBERT CHESTER THOMAS at 38 San Mateo Avenue, Goleta, CA 93117; Robin L Thomas (same address); Elizabeth C. Alix, 5081 Amberly Place, Santa Barbara, CA 93111. This business is conducted by copartners. SIGNED BY ROBIN L THOMAS, COPARTNER. Filed by the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 01, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002694. Published: November 17, 23, December 1, 8 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: TOOTH & PEN, 654 Ivy LN, Solvang, CA 93463; Michael C Ray (same address). This business is conducted by an individual. SIGNED BY MICHAEL RAY. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 9, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002752. Published: November 17, 23, December 1, 8, 2022.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person (s) is/are doing business as: STEVE’S AUTO REPAIR, 254 East Highway 246, Buellton, CA 93427; Buellton Garage, 320 Central Ave, Buellton, CA 93427. This business is conducted by a corporation. SIGNED BY JENNIFER HURNBLAD, CFO. Filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on November 1, 2022. This statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the Office of the County Clerk, Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by E30. FBN Number: 2022‑0002690. Published: November 17, 23, December 1, 8, 2022.

NAME CHANGE

IN

Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

DATED: OCTOBER 19, 2022, THOMAS P. ANDERLE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. PUBLISHED OCTOBER 27, NOVEMBER 3, 10, 17 2022

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: ANDREI ALEKSANDROVICH PERVOV NUMBER: 22CV03903

THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE

FOR CHANGE OF NAME: CASEY KENDRICK ALBERT‑HALL CASE NUMBER: 22CV03848

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: CASEY KENDRICK ALBERT‑HALL TO: CASEY ALBERT HALL.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING DECEMBER 7, 2022 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: ANDREI ALEKSANDROVICH PERVOV TO: ANDREI ALEXANDER.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING DECEMBER 5, 2022 10:00 AM, DEPT 5, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper

LEGALS (CONT.)

of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

DATED: OCTOBER 19, 2022, THOMAS P. ANDERLE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. PUBLISHED OCTOBER 27, NOVEMBER 3, 10, 17 2022

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: TRACY ROCHESTIE, CASE NUMBER: 22CV03587

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: TRACY ROCHESTIE TO: TRACY PEREGRINE. THE COURT

ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING NOVEMBER 28, 2022 10:00 AM, DEPT 5, SANTA BARBARA

SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: October 14, 2022, Colleen K. Sterne, Judge of the Superior Court. Published October 27, November 3, 10, 17 2022

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME: LEANDER DEAN LOVE‑ANDEREGG, 1338 Portsuello Avenue, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. CASE NUMBER: 22CV03635

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: LEANDER DEAN LOVE‑ANDEREGG TO: LEANDER DEAN LOVE ANDEREGG. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING NOVEMBER 30, 2022, 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition.

DATED: AUGUST 16, 2022, THOMAS P. ANDERLE, JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT. PUBLISHED OCTOBER 27TH, NOVEMBER 3, 10,17 2022

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION TO SHOW CAUSE

FOR CHANGE OF NAME: SIMONE CAMILLE BYERS CASE NUMBER: 22CV04172

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: A petition has been filed by the above named Petitioner(s) in Santa Barbara Superior Court proposing a change of name(s) FROM: SIMONE CAMILLE BYERS TO: SIMONE CAMILLE BELAMOUR.

THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear

before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING DECEMBER 28, 2022 10:00 AM, DEPT 3, SANTA BARBARA SUPERIOR COURT HOUSE 1100 Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101, Anacapa Division. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published in the Santa Barbara Independent, a newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county, at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition. Dated: November 08, 2022, Thomas P. Anderle, Judge of the Superior Court. Published November 17, 23, December 1, 8, 2022

PUBLIC NOTICES

EXTRA SPACE STORAGE will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6640 Discovery Drive, Goleta, CA 93117.

November 30, 2022 at 3:30 PM

ROBBIN PARRA queen bed, crib, boxes

VICTORIANO PEREZ Cleaning materials, clothing, furniture etc.

JASON JOHNSON Personal items, mainly books. Boxes. SAMANTHA CAREY 5x10

GUY BERFIELD Boxes, furniture etc ROBERTO CATALAN personal Kaci Prati

Household CHRISTINE BARRIOS bags boxes tv couches

SAMANTHA CAREY boxes

The auction will be listed and advertised on www.storagetreasures. com. Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

EXTRA SPACE STORAGE will hold a public auction to sell personal property described below belonging to those individuals listed below at the location indicated: 6250 VIA REAL, CARPINTERIA, CA 93013

NOVEMBER 29, 2022 AT 12 PM

TIMOTHY ORTIZ‑ Bicycle, Boxes, Shoes, Totes, Power Tools, Tool Box, Entertainment Center, Cooler.

PATRICK CASEY ‑ Restaurant Equipment, Coke Machine, Sink.

EVELYN BENTON‑ Bags, Shoes, Totes, Blankets, Lamp.

ROGER HINKLEY‑BOXES, Totes, Train Set, Vacuum, End Table.

MONIQUE CORDERO‑ TV, Bags, Boxes, Clothes, Totes, Wicker.

CHERIEKA MORGAN

GOSSETT‑ Couch, Entertainment Center, Table, TV, Books, Boxes, Totes, Desk.

HALEY HOME‑ Beds, Totes, Fan, Screen, Christmas Tree Stand Wheel.

LAWRENCE BRENNEN, JR‑ Bicycle, Sink, Curio Cabinet, Chandelier, Musical, Instrument Cart.

CHERRY POST‑ Table, Bags, Books, Boxes.

AMANDA FROST‑ Bicycle, Boxes, Totes, Rain Stick.

CHERRY POST‑ Boxes.

JUAN CARLOS‑ TV, Bags, Bicycle.

MARIA FRAGOSO‑ Dresser, Bicycle, Boxes, Totes, Bike Cart, Trophies, Kitchen Items, Stroller, Fan, CD’s.

SUSAN SEMBER‑ Chair, Mattress, Boxes, Wall Décor.

KARL CAMERON ‑ Boxes, File Cabinet, Power Tools, Shelves, Totes,

Power Strips, Helmet, Toaster Oven.

JAMES STEVENSON‑ Shells, Boxes, Net, Shelves, Household Goods.

MARIA RAPTIS‑ Bed, TV, Bags, Books, Boxes, Bedframe, Yarn, Cooler, Duffle Bag.

SUSAN JOSEPHSON‑ Bed, Chair, Mattress, Table, Bags, Boxes, Totes, Pictures, Files, Clothes.

RUSSELL SHEPPEL‑ Chair, Table, Bags, Boxes, Totes, Sports Equipment, Pinball Machine.

SALLY BARTON‑ Chair, Couch, Dresser, Table, VCR, Boxes, Bags, Pictures, Clothes, Painting.

THE AUCTION WILL BE LISTED AND ADVERTISED ON WWW.

STORAGETREASURES.COM.

Purchases must be made with cash only and paid at the above referenced facility in order to complete the transaction. Extra

Space Storage may refuse any bid and may rescind any purchase up until the winning bidder takes possession of the personal property.

SUMMONS

SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL)

CASE NUMBER: 22CVO3135

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): CATHERINE OTTESSON, MARIA M. MADELINE GRAND, RICHARD R. ROMERO, DANA FACTO, TRUSTEE OF THE BARBARA ROMERO REVOCABLE TRUST, DELPHINA ABBOTT, GAIL GORTON, MARK A. WILSON, SAM HOLROYD, JOHNNY WILSON, BARBARA J. ROMERO, GERALDINE ROMERO, TIMOTHY WILSON, PAULINE ZUNIGA, LOUISE CONNOLLY, TONY, ROMERO SOTO, RUSSELL LOPEZ, JIMMIE LOPEZ, ROBERT ROMERO LOPEZ, FAMONA ORTEGA, ARNULFO (ARNOLD), P. LOPEZ, MARGARET LOPEZ WILSON, VICKY HULL, ANNETTE LOPEZ, DONNA LOPEZ, KAREN LOPEZ GREENLEE, JUANITA VILLA JAUREGUI, MERCED ALCASAS ROMERO, TRINIDAD VILLA, NATALIE ROSE GARCIA, KENNETH VILLA, LEONARD VILLA, CHRISTINA CURTIS, ROBERT ANDREW ‘BUCK’ COTA, MCCORMICK, PATRICIA FALCON (MCCORMICK), THOMAS G. COTA, MARCIA COTA, JEFFREY COTA, JILL COTA, AND DOE DEFENDANTS 1‑50 IDENTIFIED AS ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE, OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: (LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): SUSAN ESTELLE JANSEN NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You

can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self‑Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion.

Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO despues de que le entreguen esta citacion y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no lo protegen. Sue respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y mas informacion en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte. ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no pueda pagar la cuota de presentacion, pida al secretario de la corte que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podra quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www. lawhelpcalifornia,org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes del California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cual quier recuperacion de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuer o una concesion de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: (El nombre, la direccion y el numero de telefono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es):

Superior Court for the State of California, County of Santa Barbara, 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is

LAW OFFICES OF PAUL R. BURNS, P.C., 2700 GIBRALTAR ROAD, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105 805 708 7144

DATE: (FECHA) 8/15/2022 CLERK, BY (SECRETARIO) /S / YULIANA RAZO, DEPUTY (ADJUNTO).

ORDER GRANTING EX‑PARTE APPLICATION FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS, CASE NO. 22CVO3135 Paul R. Burns, Esq. (SBN 230509)Solange D. Sanjueza (SBN289365)

LAW OFFICES OF PAUL R. BURNS, P.C. 2700 Gilbraltar Road Santa Barbara, CA 93105 paulburnslaw@gmail.com

Attorneys for Plaintiff: Susan Estelle Jansen

SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA ‑ ANACAPA

Santa Barbara, CA 1100 Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101

PLAINTIFF: SUSAN ESTELLE JANSEN V.

CATHERINE OTTESSON, MARIA M. MADELINE GRAND, RICHARD R. ROMERO ... AS ALL PERSONS

UNKNOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO.

DEFENDANTS.

ORDER AFTER APPLICATION FOR PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS

On reading the filings and evidence consisting of Plaintiff Susan Estelle Jansen’s Application for Order for Publication of Summons and Declaration of Paul R. Burns, Esq.,

it satisfactorily appearing to me therefrom that Defendants:

CATHERINE OTTESSON, MARIA M. MADELINE GRAND, ET AL

Cannot with reasonable diligence be served in any other manner specified in Sections 415.10 through 415.4 of the California Code of Civil Procedure, and that the defendants are a necessary parties to this action.

IT IS ORDERED that the Summons be served on the above named Defendants by publication in SANTA BARBARA INDEPENDANT, which is a local newspaper of general circulation in Santa Barbara County, California,

NOTICE INVITING SEALED BIDS FOR THE

hereby designated as the publication most likely to give Defendants actual notice of the action, and that the publication be made once a week for four successive weeks.

FOR GOOD CAUSE SHOWN: IT IS SO ORDERED:

DATED: 10/14/22

HONORARY COLLEEN K. STERNE JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT

COMMUNITY GARDEN, SAN JOSE CREEK MULTI-PURPOSE PATH, AND ARMITOS PARK IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT NOS. 9007 AND 9084 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, City of Goleta, CA

PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Goleta (“CITY”), invites sealed bids for the above stated project and will receive such bids via electronic transmission on the City of Goleta PlanetBids portal site until 3:00 P.M., Monday, December 5, 2022, and will be publicly opened and posted promptly thereafter. Copies of the Contract Documents and Specifications are available from the CITY, 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117 upon payment of a $50.00 nonrefundable fee if picked up, or payment of a $60.00 non-refundable fee, if mailed or no payment to CITY if obtained from the CITY website at http://www. cityofgoleta.org/i-want-to/view/city-bidopportunities.

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plantings and equipment necessary to construct and deliver the specified COMMUNITY GARDEN, SAN JOSE CREEK MULTI-PURPOSE PATH, AND ARMITOS PARK IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT NOS. 9007 AND 9084. Work includes construction of a new community garden with raised garden beds, outdoor classroom, outdoor picnic area with pizza oven, installation of new playground equipment and surfacing material, constructing ADA accessible walkways, ramps and curbs, construction of the multi-purpose path and all project associated clearing, grubbing, grading, asphalt, concrete, drainage, fencing, signage and landscape work. The contract period is one hundred (100) Working Days.

Deadline to submit Requests For Information (RFI) electronically to jplummer@ cityofgoleta.org is Monday, November 21, 2022. A Pre-Bid Meeting is not scheduled for this project.

Bidders must be registered on the City of Goleta’s PlanetBids portal in order to receive addendum notifications and to submit a bid. Go to PlanetBids for bid results and awards. It is the responsibility of the bidder to submit the bid with sufficient time to be received by PlanetBids prior to the bid opening date and time. Allow time for technical difficulties, uploading, and unexpected delays. Late or incomplete bids will not be accepted. The bid must be accompanied by a bid security in the form of a money order, a certified cashier’s check, or bidder’s bond executed by an admitted surety, made payable to CITY. The bid security shall be an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total annual bid amount included with their proposals as required by California law. Note: All bids must be accompanied by a scanned copy of the bid security uploaded to PlanetBids. The original security of the three (3) lowest bidders must be mailed or submitted to the office of the City Clerk at 130 Cremona Drive, Suite B, Goleta, California 93117, in a sealed envelope and be received or postmarked within three (3) City business days after the bid due date and time for the bid to be considered. The sealed envelope should be plainly marked on the outside, “SEALED BID SECURITY FOR COMMUNITY GARDEN, SAN JOSE CREEK MULTI-PURPOSE PATH, AND ARMITOS PARK IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT NOS. 9007 AND 9084.”

The Project is subject to compliance monitoring and enforcement by the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) per California Labor Code Section 1771.4, including prevailing wage rates and apprenticeship employment standards. Affirmative action to ensure against discrimination in employment practices on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion will also be required. The CITY hereby affirmatively ensures that all business enterprises will be afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this notice and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or religion in any consideration leading to the award of contract.

A contract may only be awarded to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder that holds a valid Class “A” Contractor’s license, or specialty licensing in accordance with the provisions of the California Business and Professions Code. The successful Bidder will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond each in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract Price. Each bond shall be in the forms set forth herein, shall be secured from a surety company that meets all State of California bonding requirements, as defined in Code of Civil Procedure Section 995.120, and that is a California admitted surety insurer.

Pursuant to Labor Code sections 1725.5 and 1771.1, all contractors and subcontractors that wish to bid on, be listed in a bid proposal, or enter into a contract to perform public work must be registered with the DIR. No Bid will be accepted nor any contract entered into without proof of the contractor’s and subcontractors’ current registration with the DIR to perform public work. If awarded a contract, the Bidder and its subcontractors, of any tier, shall maintain active registration with the DIR for the duration of the Project. Failure to provide proof of the contractor’s current registration pursuant to Labor Code Section 1725.5 may result in rejection of the bid as non-responsive.

Pursuant to Public Contract Code section 22300, the successful bidder may substitute certain securities for funds withheld by CITY to ensure performance under the Contract or, in the alternative, request the CITY to make payment of retention to an escrow agent.

Any protest to an intended award of this contract shall be made in writing addressed to the City Clerk prior to the award. Any protest may be considered and acted on by the City Council at the time noticed for award of the contract. To request a copy of the notice of agenda for award, please contact the City Clerk (805) 961-7505 or register on the CITY’s website (www.cityofgoleta.org).

For information relating to the details of this Project and bidding requirements contact JoAnne Plummer in writing at jplummer@cityofgoleta.org.

CITY OF GOLETA

Deborah Lopez, City Clerk

Published: Santa Barbara Independent: November 10, 2022 and November 17, 2022

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