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27 Sep 4 Oct 2012
Vol 18 Issue 39
No Business Like Show Business
Jessica Hambright launches Santa Barbara
School for Performing Arts, p. 23
Village Beat
Montecito Fire Protection District candidate
forum draws big crowd, p. 12
Let the Election Begin
Endorsements pile up as November 6 nears;
our first: Abel Maldonado, p. 5

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 44 MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 48
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Forbes list of 400 richest
people in America replete
with bevy of Montecito Bs;
Salman Rushdie drops by
the Lieffs, p. 6
Mineards
Miscellany

EuropE ThE Way IT oncE Was
(and sTIll Is In slovEnIa)
A tour through Jerry Dunns new favorite European country
(story begins on page 37)
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5 Editorial
Abel Maldonado, Republican candidate for U.S.
Representative, 24
th
District, shares his stance on issues
6 Montecito Miscellany
Nine Montecito residents featured on Forbes richest
people list; Robert and Gretchen Lieff host reception
for Salman Rushdie; Karin Finell publishes book
on family tragedy; Hollye and Jeff Jacobs throw
tea party; SB Wildlife Care Network cruise; Nina
Terzians Lifes A Beach bash; Montecito Trails
Foundations 27th annual barbecue; Kirk Douglas
invited to St. Pauls Cathedral; Waxing Poetic grand
opening; Camerata Pacifica season opens; Funk
Zone fashion show; Rock of Ages at Granada; Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof at Center Stage; Endeavour flies low
over Montecito
8 Letters to the Editor
Joy Knapp questions readers memory; Susan Jackson
sad to see space program gone; Susan rushes to buy
fowers from Lynn; Keith Fricks take on Verizon
10 This Week in Montecito
El Montecito Early School panel; Cold Springs Move-
A-Ton; SBB&T throws Doggie Appreciation Day;
Artwalk 2012; MUS dads cook pancakes; Fall Open
House at Mediterranee; ArchitecTours 2012; Linda
Miller speaks at Lotusland; Curious Cup Banned Books
Celebration; Santa Barbara SCORE workshop; Alex
Sepkus trunk show; Arts of the Palette; Food and Wine
Safaris Octoberfest; Saks Fifth Avenue reception; Jog-a-
Ton at MUS; Cottage Health System seminar; La Casa
de Maria retreat; Family Care Network presents Taste of
the Central Coast
Tide Guide
Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to
take that walk or run on the beach
12 Village Beat
Montecito Association and Women League of Voters
co-sponsored MFPD candidate forum; frst annual
Coast Village Classic Car Show for Special Olympics;
new Friendship Center board members; Crane turns
85; Tom Pickett chosen as Chairman of the Board of
Trustees at LBS
14 Seen Around The World
Lynda and Dons European adventure continues
23 Coming & Going
Michael Towbes adds another award to his
crowded mantel; 23-year-old Jessica Hambright to
direct Once Upon A Mattress at La Cumbre Junior
High School
27 Book Talk
Tis Is How You Lose Her is the latest collection of short
stories from Dominican-American writer Junot Daz
30 Your Westmont
Mark L. Sargent installed as provost; Rick Ifand
to direct Eaton Program for Entrepreneurship and
Innovation
31 On Finance
Tim Hatton asks: is gold overpriced?
33 Sheriffs Blotter
Accident on 101; two thefts from vehicles on
Butterfy Lane
34 Seniority
Center for Successful Aging ofers peer counseling to
assist seniors
36 On Entertainment
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet makes local debut; Nebula Dance
Lab launches season; classical music around town; Kirk
Douglas flm tribute
37 The Curious Traveler
Jerry Dunn explores old-world, fairytale-like Slovenia
42 Our Town
Community Angels Networks September meeting; K-9
PALS annual Dog Festival approaches
44 Calendar of Events
Jazz at La Cumbre; Pat Metheny returns; Alison Krauss
and Union Station at Chumash; Crosby, Stills & Nash
play Bowl; Rhythmic Arts Project Beneft Concert; SOL
Food Festival; K-9 PALS Dog Festival; Mac Miller raps
at Bowl; Mr. Hollands Opus screening; Blues Society
hosts pianist Henry Gray; Arts & Lectures season opens
with Elvis Costello; Te Black Keys return to Bowl;
James Wapotichs presentation
45 Movie Showtimes
Latest flms, times, theaters, and addresses: theyre all
here, as they are every week
48 Guide to Montecito Eateries
Te most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing
of all individually owned Montecito restaurants, cofee
houses, bakeries, gelaterias, and hangouts; others in
Santa Barbara, Summerland, and Carpinteria too
49 Ernies World
Ernie and his wife venture to exotic Canadian Costco
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50 Real Estate View
Todays Heat score of 100 is 89% higher than last years
51 93108 Open House Directory
Homes and condos currently for sale and open for
inspection in and near Montecito
54 Classifed Advertising
Our very own Craigslist of classifed ads, in which
sellers ofer everything from summer rentals to estate sales
55 Local Business Directory
Smart business owners place business cards here so
readers know where to look when they need what those
businesses ofer
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Abel Maldonado For Congress
T
he former California Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado dropped
by Luckys recently during an informal visit to some of his potential
constituents in Montecito. We say potential, as Mr. Maldonado, a
Republican, is running against six-term U.S. Congresswoman Lois Capps, a
Democrat. The district (now the 24
th
) they are contending for has been reshaped
from what had been called (particularly by Ms Capps detractors) the Ribbon
of Shame. It was a specially drawn Congressional District that slithered up the
coast of California for nearly 400 miles, taking in most of the coastal zone from
Oxnard to Vandenberg.
Im in a hell of a race, Abel says with some seriousness as he sits down
at our table accompanied by three supporters, including Robert Eringer, a
Montecito resident who had taken it upon himself to ferry Mr. Maldonado
around our village and introduce him to various people that may be instrumen-
tal in forging a successful campaign.
Abel Maldonado looks to have the best chance of beating Ms Capps since she
first ran for Congress nearly 14 years ago after her husbands untimely death.
Mr. Maldonado is not a Tea Party Republican. He is a moderate Republican,
in the mold of perhaps the now much-missed Robert Lagomarsino. So, Tea
Party types can expect to be disappointed regularly by Mr. Maldonado. But,
there are some things about him worth considering, the most important being
that he and his family have built a $5-million farming business. That should
count on two fronts: the first, naturally, is that he has experience running a
small business in this state and is familiar with the roadblocks presented to such
entities. Secondly, he is also familiar with the EPAs rapidly encroaching power
and its abuse over the smallest matters concerning land use.
We are in a very, very competitive race, he says, probably one of the top
ten races in America. And, Im running at a time where I feel that there is no cer-
tainty for small-business owners in America and no confidence of the American
people in their government back in Washington. Washington, he concludes, is
completely broken.
Thats a common refrain, I suggest, and add that many people are pleased (as
am I) that Washington is not working, especially after seeing what working
has done to the economy between 2008 and 2010, with the passage of the vari-
ous Stimulus packages, bailouts, ObamaCare and the rest.
Actually, no, its not a common refrain for me, he responds, I believe it a
sixteen-trillion dollar debt nearly one hundred percent of GDP Weve lost
our [AAA] credit rating for the first time bailing out insurance companies and
banks I think this campaign is going to come down to two things: status quo
or a new direction. I bring that new direction.
I reminded Mr. Maldonado that many Tea Party types and conservatives,
such as his primary opponent Chris Mitchum, up until now have refused to
support Maldonados candidacy because of his vote to raise taxes as a legisla-
tor. His vote came in return, many claim, for his being appointed then-governor
Schwarzeneggers Lieutenant Governor, to fill a vacancy.
Well, look, he began to say before we were interrupted by a Maldonado
supporter who delivered in person his campaign contribution in the form
of a check.
I didnt do cartwheels, he continues after thanking his supporter, for that
budget in 2009. California was on the verge of bankruptcy. For the first time in
the history of our state, we sent out over two million IOUs on tax refunds. We
were on the verge of shutting down all our construction projects on the 5, the
Editorial
by James Buckley
EDiTORiAL Page 324
Abel Maldonado,
Republican candidate
for U.S. Representative,
24
th
District
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MiSCELLAnY Page 184
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anta Barbara is pulsing with
power and awash with wealth
if the latest issue of Forbes, the
New York-based fnancial magazine,
is anything to go by.
The bi-weekly glossy has just pub-
lished its eagerly awaited annual list
of the 400 richest people in America
and it is probably no coincidence that
Montecitos most famous resident,
former TV talk show titan Oprah
Winfrey, is featured on the cover,
along with 11 other mega-wealthy
individuals, including Microsoft mag-
nate Bill Gates, 56, and Berkshire
Hathaway guru, Warren Buffett, 82,
who are numbers one and two with
$66 billion and $46 billion respectively.
Nine on the list, compared to 11 last
year, live in or around our Eden by the
Beach, with Larry Ellison, 68, founder
of computer software company Oracle
who has three homes here topping
the list of locals at number three
with an estimated worth of $41 bil-
lion, a gain of $8 billion on 2011. He
also holds sixth place in the world
rankings.
Google honcho Eric Schmidt,
57, who bought comedienne Ellen
DeGeneres four-acre estate for $20
Harold Simmons
in the top 50 of
Americas wealthiest
individuals
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The best little paper in America
(Covering the best little community anywhere!)
T
he letter How to Decide
by David Evans (MJ#18/38)
makes me question his memory.
Eight years ago, I was better of than
I am today, but four years ago? Hes
kidding... fnancial institutions were
going under, home mortgages were
being foreclosed, the government
was still busy spending billions of the
three trillion dollars two unwinnable
wars were costing us... the only people
better of are the CEOs who walked
away with bonuses after concocting
ever rising loans that ended up with
owners owing more than their homes
were worth.
Really, I have yet to hear any
Republican admit how terrible the
G.W. Bush years were for the nation,
how horrible it is that we continue
spending money on defense instead
of necessary health care and decaying
infrastructure.
We no longer have a democracy
that works, as we need a 2/3 vote
to make any important changes. We,
the voters, have made horrible deci-
sions in the 21st Century. I wish we
could go back to the 1960s and follow
Eisenhowers advice to not let the
Pentagon make our countrys deci-
sions. If we had continued as we did
after World War II to spend money
on peace instead of wars (the United
Nations, the ship of Good Hope, aid
to needy countries) there never would
have been a 9/11, and we would be
a country such as the Scandinavian
countries, Switzerland, and Denmark
and it would be a far more peaceful
world.
Joy Knapp
Santa Barbara
(Editors note: Cant argue much with
your analysis. George W. did make a mess
in his second term, but I do believe many
Republicans will admit that publicly.
What many of us that consider ourselves
conservative also believe, however, is
that Mr. Obama took a bad situation and
made it worse. It may not look that way
now, but this printing-press policy of his
and Bernankes has surely put us firmly
on the road to ruination. Mitt Romneys
entire life has been one of fixing other
peoples problems with a minimum of fuss
and a maximum of success. J.B.)
Famous Fly By
It is so sad to see our space program
booted. My friend Sally Edmondson-
Trost took this photo outside Dako,
where she works at 1170 Mark Avenue
in Carpinteria. It is, of course, a photo
of the Space Shuttles last flight atop a
747 on its way to Los Angeles.
Susan Jackson
Montecito
(Editors note: Thank you very much
for sending this to us, as we missed its
passage. We look forward to hearing some
Palmer Jackson and the Mobile Homeboys
music real soon J.B.)
Flowers From Lynn
I saw that you published my
response to the Farmers Market com-
plaint (Letters to the Editor MJ #
18/38). I want to thank you for your
Editors note. I definitely see what
you are saying and would never want
Lynn to lose business because of the
little girls flower stand that is in
Montecito one morning a week. I do
empathize with her and anyone else
who may suffer financially due to that
stands location.
My frustration with the comments
made by Anonymous (Montecito
Farmers Market? Letters to the Editor
MJ # 18/36) were more about the arro-
gant tone behind her complaint. She
never once voiced concern for Lynn
or other vendors. She seemed only
concerned with having those stands
in her expensive neighborhood. She
also was quite rude when explaining
her conversation with the woman at
the Montecito Association. That was
the root of my problem with the com-
plaint. I appreciate your insight and
if Anonymous had put it that way to
begin with, maybe my reaction would
be different. I will definitely stop by
Lynns stand today and pick up a bou-
quet. I want to support anyone who is
working hard to make a living. I dont
discriminate. Thank you for your time
and have a great day.
Susan
Montecito
(Editors note: Always pleased to send a
The Shuttle Endeavour takes its one and only
fly-over along the Central Coast on its way to the
California Science Center in Los Angeles
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 9
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When: 3 to 9 pm Where: Mediterrane,
2500 Lillie Avenue, Summerland
Info: (805) 695-0910
ArchitecTours 2012
Fire-resistant building design, construction
and landscaping is the theme of this years
ArchitecTours presented by the Santa
Barbara chapter of the American Institute
of Architects. Dont miss this tour led by
the architects and construction teams,
demonstrating innovative fre-resistant
strategies to apply to your own home and
business. Eight residences will be toured,
with a festive after-party at Cielito Restaurant.
When: 9 am to 4 pm
Where: meet at AIA Santa Barbara,
229 East Victoria Street
Cost: $65 general admission; $55 for AIA
members, students, and seniors. Lunch is
included in the price.
Info and tickets: www.aiasb.com
or (805) 966-4198
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30
Curious Cups 2nd Annual Banned
Books Celebration
Curious Cup will be celebrating the freedom
to read by having the community read
banned books in front of the store every
hour the store is open during the entire
Banned Books Week. The shops owners
are asking individuals to join, by signing up
for an hour or more to celebrate the right to
read any book, anytime, anywhere.
The books featured during Banned Books
Week have been targets of attempted
bannings. While some books were
banned or restricted, in a majority of cases
the books were not banned, thanks to the
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 27
Positive Parenting Panel
El Montecito Early School presents
an opportunity to hear from a wide
range of professional educators and
parents on significant topics for all
ages. The panel includes moderator
and veteran El Montecito teacher
Ginger Ketzel, M. Ed; executive
educational consultant Mike
Dobreski; SBHS school psychologist
Juan Gallardo; kindergarten
teacher Veronica Gallardo; co-
founder of UCSBs Koegel Clinic
Dr. Lynn Koegel; early childhood
specialist Judy Osterhage; speech
and language pathologist Pam
Suess and clinical psychologist Dr.
Jordan Witt.
When: Thursday, September 27, 6:30 pm
Info: 969-3566
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28
Doggie Appreciation Day
Head to Santa Barbara Bank & Trust with
your furry friend for dog treats, giveaways,
and more
When: 11 am to 2 pm
Where: 1483 East Valley Road
Info: (805) 969-7712
Artwalk 2012
The Museum League of the Santa Barbara
Museum of Natural History presents its
25
th
annual Artwalk, featuring The Oak
Group. Enjoy a weekend of nature, live
music, food, wine, and fne art. All works
displayed at the show are for sale and
proceeds support museum programs.
When: Friday Artist & Patron Reception,
6 to 8 pm; Indoor & Outdoor Exhibition
Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm
Cost: Friday reception, $50 per person
(includes weekend pass to Indoor &
Outdoor Exhibition); Saturday and Sunday
$10 general admission, $9 museum
members, children under 12 free
Info and reservations: (805) 682-4711
ext. 181 or www.sbnature.org/tickets
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29
MUS Dads Pancake Breakfast
The entire family is invited to enjoy
pancakes, eggs and sausage made by
dads at Montecito Union School
When: 7:30 to 10 am
Where: 385 San Ysidro Road
Fall Open House
Mediterrane and California Wood Fired
Catering present Art in the Garden, a
fall open house. Enjoy wine tasting, wood
(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito,
please e-mail kelly@montecitojournal.net or call (805) 565-1860)
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29
Linda Miller to Speak at Lotusland
Linda Miller will present a talk titled Plants on Paper:
Masterpieces of Botanical Illustration at Lotusland. Ms
Miller will talk about the history of botanical illustration
focusing on several of the pieces in the current exhibition
in Lotuslands Pavilion. Titled The Plant Hunters: Botanical
Illustrations from the 16th to 19th Centuries, the exhibit is a
collaboration with Arader Galleries. A reception will follow.
Ms Miller has worked with antique prints for more than 25
years and is the curator of the Maximus Gallery at the Santa Barbara Museum of
Natural History. She frst became fascinated with these historical images in print
and bookshops while living in England and later owned Saville Fine Prints in Santa
Barbaras El Paseo, where she specialized in antique botanical prints.
When: 3 pm Cost: $25 for members, $35 for non-members
Info: www.lotusland.org; a confrmation and directions to Lotuslands Visitor
Entrance will be mailed upon receipt of your reservation
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28
Move-A-Thon at Cold Spring
School
The funds raised at this event
help support special assemblies,
playground equipment, teachers
wish lists and much more. The
children (with parental guidance)
are asked to collect fat donations
from sponsors: family, friends,
neighbors and businesses to name a few. All donations are tax deductible.
The Move-A-Thon is a circuit that consists of 11 different stations. Each station will
have kids completing events such as hurdles, sack hop, bucket tilts and more. The
children do as many circuits as they can for 20 minutes.
When: Teacher trike race begins at 12:30, followed by start times for students at
1:05, 1:30 and 2 pm Where: 2243 Sycamore Canyon Road Info: 969-2678
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efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers,
and members of the community to retain
the books in the library collections.
When: Sunday, September 30 through
Saturday, October 6
Where: Curious Cup Bookstore,
929 Linden Avenue
Cost: free
Info: (805) 220-6608
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3
From Concept to Reality
Santa Barbara SCORE will present a
complimentary workshop, Turn Your Idea
Into A Real Business, in the offces of the
Chamber of Commerce. This is the frst
in a series of monthly forums designed to
help local businesses and bring the skills
of SCORE counselors to the attention of the
small business community.
The speaker will be Paul Weiss, a long-
time entrepreneur and business-builder. Mr.
Weiss has created a number of successful
businesses in the mens apparel industry,
and is an expert at developing products
from inception to retail distribution. He
has created partnerships with brand
names such as Calvin Klein, Donna Karan,
Nautica, Lanvin, Fendi and Aquascutum.
Weiss will take a realistic look at the
challenges and rewards of bringing a
product to market.
There is no pre-registration and
refreshments will be served. Attendees will
be able to talk with a SCORE counselor
about their own small business concerns
after the presentation.
Santa Barbara SCORE is a local nonproft
that provides professional guidance and
information to small businesses in order to
strengthen the local and national economy.
SCORE offers confdential counseling,
workshops, publications and seminars
geared to the establishment and expansion
of small businesses.
When: 8 am Where: 924 Anacapa Street
Cost: free
Arts of the Palette
Chefs Nik Ramirez, Greg Murphy and
Brandon Hughes of intermezzo, bouchon
and Wine Cask will offer delicious small
bites created from fresh, local ingredients,
paired with wines from Margerum Winery
and complemented by farmstead cheeses
from Cest Cheese. You will hear the chefs
describe their choices of ingredients and
share their thoughts on the wine pairings
while you sample the bites. Inspired by the
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WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3
Trunk Show
For two days
only, A.H.
Gaspar, Jeweler
invites you
to an Alex
Sepkus trunk
show
When: 10 am
to 6 pm,
October 3 and
4
Where: 1213
Coast Village Road Info: (805) 969-6362 or www.ahgaspar.com
arts of the palette, both silent auction and
spot raffe drawings of art, wines and foods
will be available. All proceeds beneft the
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Kids
Farmers Market Program.
When: 5 to 8 pm
Where: Spanish Garden Inn,
915 Garden Street
Cost: $65 per person
Info and reservations: (805) 564-4700 or
www.foodbanksbc.org
THURSDAY OCTOBER 4
Octoberfest
Food and Wine Safari presents Octoberfest
wine dinner with King Frosch wines from
Germany. Meet German wine expert
Klaus Bellinghausen, founder of BBG
Wines. Klaus will introduce you to his high-
end, all natural King Frosch wines, and you
will sip everything from sparkling to red and
white, then taste his ice wine with dessert.
When: 6 pm
Where: Tydes Restaurant, Coral Casino
Cost: $85 per person
Info and reservations: enjoy@
foodandwinesafari.com or Elizabeth,
(805) 698-3426
Opening Reception
Saks Fifth Avenue invites you to meet
Patricia Crosby-Hinds, internationally
acclaimed artist. Enjoy light refreshments
and preview her latest collection of
abstract images. Ten percent of sales from
the evening (and from October 4 through
October 6) will beneft the John E. Profant
Foundation for the Arts.
When: 5 to 8 pm
Where: Saks Fifth Avenue,
1001 State Street
Info: (805) 884-5205
FRIDAY OCTOBER 5
Montecito Union School Jog-a-Thon
Beginning after lunch, the students will
participate in the jog-a-thon at various
times throughout the afternoon; funds
raised beneft PTA-sponsored programs
such as the Organic Gardening Club,
Artist in Residence, Art-At-Lunch and more
Where: 385 San Ysidro Road
Info: 969-3249
Luncheon and Educational Seminar
Cottage Health System presents a
complimentary, no-obligation luncheon to
inform individuals about how to leverage
real property into a philanthropic gift
and ensure quality health care for all.
Partner of Mullen & Henzell Joe Green
will be presenting. Seating is limited; pre-
registration is required.
When: 11:30 am to 1 pm
Where: Marmalade Caf,
La Cumbre Plaza
Cost: free
Info and reservations: (805) 879-8982
SATURDAY OCTOBER 6
Centering Prayer Practice Retreat
On the frst Saturday of each month La
Casa de Maria offers a mini-retreat day
for Centering Prayer practice. There
will be meditation walks, journaling,
refection and centering prayer practice.
Sr. Suzanne Dunn, Mark Benson and
Annette Colbert, share facilitating and
teaching.
When: 9:30 am to 1 pm
Where: 800 El Bosque Road
Cost: donation
Info: 969-5031
SAVE THE DATE
Cancer Center Walk/Run
The Cancer Center of Santa Barbara
and the Biltmore present the 20th Annual
Cancer Center Walk/Run, a 5K run or
walk or a 10K run (and Kids Fun Run)
When: Sunday, October 14; 10K Run
starts at 8 am, 5K Walk/run starts at 8:30
am, and Kids Fun Run is at 10 am
Where: Montecito Union School,
385 San Ysidro Road
Info/registration: www.ccsb.org
ONGOING
Design House & Gardens
Joining forces with the Junior League of
Santa Barbara, developers Joanie and
Dennis Franz invite the public to tour
this years Design House and Gardens
starting September 13, and every
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
until October 7. The roughly 6,000-sq-ft,
6-bedroom, 6.5-bathroom, shingle-style
estate boasts an additional 2-bedroom
cabana, swimming pool, covered bocce
ball court, outdoor gourmet kitchen, and
loggia with an additional outdoor wood-
burning freplace, among many other
attributes.
When: Every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and
Sunday until October 7; 10 am to 2 pm
Where: Parking will be at 2810 Via Real,
Summerland
Cost: $35 per ticket
Info and Tickets: www.sbdhg.com MJ
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Candidate Forum
Village Beat
by Kelly Mahan


O
n Monday, September 24,
close to 70 Montecito residents
attended the Montecito
Association and Women League of
Voters co-sponsored candidate forum
at El Montecito Presbyterian Church.
The forum served to give candidates
running for the Montecito Fire
Protection District Board of Directors
a platform in which to address the
neighborhood and share their views
on issues afecting the district.
On the November general election
ballot, Montecito residents will be
asked whether they want to increase
the MFPD board from three to five
members. At the same time, voters
will be asked to elect four of eight
candidates, in case the measure pass-
es. One incumbent, John Venable,
is not up for re-election at this time.
The candidates are Martha Collins,
Mindy Denson, Susan Keller,
Warner Owens, Abe Powell, Gene
Sinser, Peter van Duinwyk, and
MFPD incumbent Roy Jensen, who
has been on the three-member board
since 1975. All the candidates except
Jensen attended the forum; current
director Dana Newquist is not re-
running.
The candidates were given a list
of questions to prepare answers for
before the forum. They included such
topics as financial management expe-
rience, opinions on pension obligation
issues with the district, Fire Station 3,
wildfire preparedness practices, and
enforcing compliance with current
standards for fire protection. After the
prepared questions, members of the
audience were asked to submit ques-
tions for the candidates review.
Martha Collins, a resident who lost
her home in the Tea Fire, hopes to be
elected in order to improve district
transparency, and help manage its
budget. Ms Collins has been involved
with the district for the last four years
since the Tea Fire, helping the 13
families of Hyde Road in Montecito
negotiate with the district in order to
rebuild their homes. I was there, I
saw it, and it was like a tsunami, she
said of the Tea Fire. All we wanted
to do was get out in front of it. She
says her experience as a homeowner
forced to rebuild makes her a viable
candidate for the board.
Mindy Denson is a director on the
Montecito Association Board, and sits
on the boards of the Santa Barbara
Zoo and Santa Barbara Wildlife Care
Network. She told the audience that if
elected, she would push for the estab-
lishment of sub committees to look at
finance, governance, and community
outreach issues. Ms Denson supports
Fire Station 3 and its location, and
says there is room for negotiation
regarding the stations size, bulk and
scale.
Susan Keller, former MA direc-
tor and current Montecito Board of
Architectural Review board mem-
ber, said she believes MFPDs bud-
Seven of the
eight candidates
running for
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get needs to be organized. With the
increased cost of workers comp and
increasing pension obligations, Ms
Keller is in favor of bringing in finan-
cial advisors to clean up the districts
budget. She is also concerned about
building Fire Station 3, and is wor-
ried MFPD will not be able to afford
the building and maintenance costs.
There is a need for fiscal prudence,
strategic planning, and transparency,
she said. I have never backed away
from a challenge.
Candidate Warner Owens said that
vital services should be the districts
first priority. He said its clear that the
eastern portion of Montecito is under-
served, and he is in favor of build-
ing Fire Station 3. If elected, Owens
said he would place an emphasis on
defensible space, as well as wildfire
preparedness for the community.
Personally I am encouraged with the
candidates; there is a lot of depth and
scope of knowledge here, he said
about his fellow candidates.
Abe Powell is a third genera-
tion Montecitan. He is a part of
the Mountain Drive Volunteer Fire
Company, and helped evacua-
tion efforts during the Tea Fire. He
is also the director of relief services
for the Mountain Drive Community
Association, and has served as presi-
dent of two local nonprofits. Mr.
Powell emphasized response time,
and said although Fire Station 3 will
improve response time, the price tag
associated with building it may not
be the best use of funds. I want to
keep our response times low, and our
community safe, he said. You need a
board who understands what its like
to lose your home and rebuild.
Gene Sinser, who has been a
Montecito resident since 1996, has
held volunteer positions on the Santa
Barbara Grand Jury, and currently sits
on the Montecito Association Board of
Directors. Sinser said he believes the
biggest issue facing the district is the
budget, and he says his experience as
treasurer of the MA and as a business
owner makes him a valuable asset to
the MFPD Board. Mr. Sinser says he
hopes to learn from other fire districts,
and says he does not support the con-
struction of Fire Station 3.
Peter van Duinwyk, a member of
the MA board of directors, is a former
teacher. He is in favor of the third Fire
Station, and told the audience that
385 homes are still outside of the five-
minute response time MFPD is trying
to achieve within the district. He said
he would like to see new policies put
in place, including more defensive
measures by homeowners, more agile
fire equipment for the agency, and a
budget for technology and technique
studies. There is an awful lot of dis-
cussions which have to happen, he
said. The districts main purpose is to
protect life and property.
Attendees at the forum included
Fire Chief Chip Hickman, Operations
Chief Terry McElwee, MERRAG liai-
son and MFPD administrative assis-
tant Geri Ventura, current board
members Newquist and Venable, sev-
eral MA board members, MA presi-
dent Dick Nordlund, MWD board
member Darlene Bierig, Jeremy Tittle
representing First District Supervisor
Salud Carbajals office, and former
Montecito Fire Chief Kevin Wallace,
who retired in May.
The Montecito Association has
shown formal support for the increase
of board members for MFPD; they are
not expected to endorse any candi-
dates. Sue Burrows, chair of Montecito
Planning Commission and the mod-
erator of this weeks candidate forum,
said she would also not be formerly
endorsing any candidates. We will
have more info on all the candidates
on the Journals editorial pages in the
weeks leading up to the election.
The MFPD candidate forum was
recorded and is available to view at
www.newspress.tv.
Car Show Raises Funds
for Special Olympics
On Sunday, September 16, over
1,000 people came out to Coast Village
Road to support Special Olympics
Santa Barbara at a classic car show
along the business corridor. Over 110
old, new, exotic, antique, or restored
Over 1,000
participated in
the Coast Village
Classic Car Show,
benefitting
Special Olympics
Santa Barbara
(photo courtesy
SOSB)
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W
e crossed the Swiss border
to Lugano and checked into
Hotel Eden. It is situated
on Lake Lugano, half of which is in
Italy and the other half in Switzerland.
Today Lugano is known for its high-
powered banking and fnancial
services.
Switzerland is about the size of
the state of West Virginia or as Don
calls his home state, West by God
Virginia with seven million inhab-
itants. We all know Switzerland is
the land of cuckoo clocks, but they
were really born in the Black Forest of
Germany.
Our guide Igor told us, In
Switzerland, if you dont vote, you
are fined. The standard of living is
the highest in the world at $68,000.
The country stands alone and doesnt
belong to the EU, although they did
join the United Nations in 2002. There
are four languages spoken: German,
French, Italian and Ladin (a group of
dialects based in Latin and spoken in
the Dolomite area). Every house unit is
supposed to have a nuclear shelter, and
waiters are on full salary so tipping
has been abolished, although I dont
think it has. The Smart car is a Swiss
design, along with Mercedes Benz and
Swatch watches. The Red Cross began
in Switzerland thus came the Swiss
flag with its Red Cross emblem.
Just like in Heidi, cows with cow-
bells really do go up in the highlands
for the summer, but theres a new
twist: sometimes they are lowered by
helicopter in the winter. Did you ever
wonder how the holes get into Swiss
cheese? Youll be happy to know it
is bacteria passing gas. The Swiss
average 26 pounds of chocolate per
person a year. In the United States,
its only eight pounds. Daniel Peter
developed milk chocolate in 1875 with
the help of a neighbor named Henri
Nestle, a baby food manufacturer. In
1879, Lindt got into the act with his
smooth melting kind, which enabled
the founder of Hersheys to make
chocolate even more popular with his
mass produced candy bars.
The Matterhorn
Next on the itinerary was Bellinzona
with, oh no, another bloody castle.
But not just one, there are three over-
looking the town, which nestles in
the remains of the original defensive
walls. Today the town is a UNESCO
World Heritage site.
Then came my favorite part and
one Id wanted to see (not climb)
since I saw a movie in my childhood
Zermatt and the Matterhorn. Our
hotel room was as quaint, cute and
cozy as youd expect, with a view of
the great mountain. The village of
Zermatt is filled with good, modern
restaurants, but also filled with dilapi-
dated small barns, stables and storage
barns built between the 15
th
and 19
th

centuries, when shepherds had their
The Matterhorn as viewed from the village of
Zermatt, Switzerland
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sheep in the highlands for the sum-
mer.
The 14,000-foot Alpine giants
name is derived from the German
words Matte meaning meadow, and
Horn meaning peak. It is so steep
that only small patches of snow and
ice cling to it. Regular avalanches
send the snow down, which accu-
mulates on the glaciers at the base
of each face. Many visitors never get
to see the Matterhorn because of the
clouds, but we were lucky as there
wasnt even one in the sky. We took
Europes highest open-air cog train up
to the Gornergrat vista area at 10,132
feet, where we could see all 29 of the
four thousand meter high mountains
that surround the Matterhorn. I didnt
count. What a background for our
lunch on the deck. It wasnt ski time
yet, but people hiking were using the
trails.
Many mountaineers who have lost
their lives on the Matterhorn and the
surrounding mountains are buried in
the cemetery of the Anglican church of
St. Peters. There is also a memorial to
the mountain guides who were killed
in accidents in the Catholic cemetery.
Under a glass dome next to the village
church is preserved the broken rope
from the first ascent.
Borromeo islands
My second favorite stop of the trip
was Stresa on Lake Maggiore back in
Italy where we had views of the three
Borromeo Islands. We visited all three:
Isola Madre, Isola Bella and Isola dei
Pescatori. Isola Bella is private and
has a palace of 100 rooms. The family
lets the public visit 20 of them. They
live in Milan most of the year and
visit in the summer. Napoleon slept
here, they say. There is to be a fam-
ily wedding coming up between the
Borrameos and the Fiat Agnellis after
which these two will own 6% of the
Gross Domestic Product of Italy. Not
too shabby!
Imagine our surprise when we
were having lunch al fresco at Isola
dei Pescatori and a lady came up
to me saying, We know each other
from Transition House and the Mad
Hatter Luncheon in Santa Barbara.
The hometown connection half-
way around the globe was Kathryn
Dinkin.
Ernest Hemingway wrote Farewell
to Arms in the extremely ornate, gild-
ed and palatial Grand Hotel Des Iles
Borromees next to where we stayed in
Stresa. Many of the hotels were once
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The deck where
we lunched and
looked at the
mountains
Your reporter surrounded by the 29 four thou-
sand meter high mountains near the Matterhorn
The bread
guy coaxing
us to stop in
Zermatt
Riding Europes highest open air cog train up to
Gornergrat at 10,132 feet
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day. We walked the promenade many
times especially grateful for the 9/11
memorial they had erected in honor of
the United States. It read: The people
of Stresa in everlasting memory of
the victims of September 11, 2001.
Another statue along the way was a
curious one of our President George
Washington or as they say, Georgio.
I wonder who well run into on our
next journey. We havent been every-
where, but its on our list. Remember,
according to St. Augustine, The
world is a book and those who do not
travel read only one page. MJ
My chance meeting for a Santa Barbara connec-
tion, Kathryn Dinkin, in tiny Isola dei Pescatori,
Italy
The 9/ll memorial to the United States in Stresa;
note the six stars on the left side
Ernest Hemingway hung out here at the Grand
Hotel Des Iles Borromees in Stresa, Italy
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million five years ago, is valued at $7.5
billion, a gain of $1.3 billion on last
year, ranking him at number 45, just
four places ahead of peripatetic Texan
tycoon Harold Simmons, 81, who
flies between his 27-acre Montecito
estate, formerly the home of actor
Gene Hackman, and his Dallas man-
sion, whose wealth is estimated at
$7.1 billion, a drop of $2.2 billion from
2011.
Star Wars director George Lucas,
68, who owns a 1.7 acre oceanfront
home in Carpinteria, is number 120
with $3.3 billion, a slight increase on
last year, while Oprah, 58, is number
151 at $2.7 billion exactly the same
as 2011.
She shares the ranking with Dallas
Cowboys owner, Jerry Jones, 69, a
frequent visitor to our tony town
while his top ranked NFL team
pitches its summer training camp in
Oxnard.
Beanie Baby tycoon and hotelier, Ty
Warner, 68, owner of the San Ysidro
Ranch and the Biltmore, is valued
at $2.4 billion matching last year
making him 190 on the list, while
mall magnate Herb Simon, 77, has an
estimated worth of $2.2 billion up
from $1.6 billion in 2011 ranking him
at 218.
Cell phone innovator Craig McCaw,
63, who recently splashed out $35 mil-
lion on the worlds most expensive
Ferrari, is listed at 311 with $1.5 bil-
lion.
Closing off the list of local resi-
dents is Peter Sperling, 52, whose
father, John, founded the University
of Phoenix, Americas largest private
university, at 388 with $1.15 billion.
Missing from this years list is
Tom Barrack, 65, the polo-playing
founder of Colony Capital, which
owns Michael Jacksons former ranch
Neverland in Santa Ynez.
Undoubtedly, one of the biggest
losers was Facebook founder Mark
Zuckerberg, who lost nearly half his
fortune after the disastrous stock mar-
ket flotation. The founder of the social
network is now worth $9.4 billion,
having seen $8.1 billion vanish from
his personal worth over the last 12
months...
Reception for Rushdie
It may have been a fatwa-free zone
when Robert and Gretchen Lieff
opened the gates of their impressive
George Washington Smith estate to
host a UCSB Arts & Lectures invi-
tation-only bash for controversial
author, Salman Rushdie, but, with
the recent uprisings and deaths in the
Middle East, security was still para-
mount.
Indian-born Rushdie, 65, shot to
international fame in 1989 when a
death sentence a fatwa was issued
by Irans religious leader Ayatollah
Khomeini over his novel, The Satanic
Verses, which was accused of being
against Islam, the Prophet and the
Quran.
For nine years he lived under the
very real threat of being murdered
and was shuttled from safe house to
safe house with the constant presence
of an armed police protection team.
He used the alias Joseph Anton,
cobbled together from authors Joseph
Conrad and Anton Chekhov, hence
the name of his new 636-page auto-
biographical tome Joseph Anton: A
Memoir.
I was only told the minimum I
needed to know for my protection,
Rushdie, who was married to Padma
Lakshmi, host of the TV reality show
Top Chef for three years, told guests,
including Sara Miller McCune, Leni
Fe Bland, Anne Towbes and Nancy
Koppelman.
The British intelligence services are
pretty impressive. Blunt and plain-
spoken. I can only praise the nobil-
ity, loyalty and love of friends during
that most trying of times. The crisis
revealed an amazing camaraderie. My
friends became closer, most particu-
larly my fellow writer Christopher
Hitchens.
The prolific author, whose talk was
moderated by Kyoto-based essayist
and novelist, Pico Iyer a product of
Eton, Oxford and Harvard moved
permanently to New York in 2000,
where I would occasionally bump into
him at the achingly trendy downtown
eatery, Indochine.
More recently Rushdie, whose
fatwa was officially lifted in 1998, has
Richard
Mineards,
Salman
Rushdie,
and hosts
Gretchen
and Robert
Lieff at the
UCSB Arts
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Others at the exclusive literary bash
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and Patty DeDominic, Bill Cornfield,
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Due to the swelling of her brain
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to place her in an institution, but we
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Despite the toll on the family
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Stephanies recovery.
Fortunately, by chance, she heard
about the Marianne Frostig Center
of Educational Therapy in Pasadena,
which enabled the youngsters brain
to be reprogrammed, leading to the
regaining of her speech and some
motor skills.
I really thought it would all have a
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Karin wrote her first book, Good-Bye
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wrapping up her third project, tenta-
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Montecito twosome Hollye and Jeff
Jacobs hosted a tea party to mark
last weekends Avon Walk for Breast
Cancer, which had more than 2,000
participants over the two-day event
and raised a hefty $5 million.
Hollye, a breast cancer survivor who
writes the award-winning blog, The
Silver Pen, welcomed Carol Kurzig,
CEO of the Avon Foundation, which
moved the 39.3 mile walk the equiv-
alent of one and a half marathons
from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara
two years ago.
Since being founded in 1955, the
foundation has donated around $860
million worldwide, with the breast
cancer crusade launched in 1992.
Were now celebrating the cru-
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events are held in more than fifty
countries, including Brazil, China,
India, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia,
raising more than $450 million.
Breast cancer is diagnosed every
three minutes in America and 40,000
lives are lost annually.
At the end of this walk in Carpinteria,
which featured competitors from 40
states and Black Eyed Peas singer,
Fergie, more than $3 million was
immediately handed out to nine orga-
nizations, including USC and the
Cancer Center of Santa Barbara.
Among those joining in the quint-
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by professional tea specialist Dianna
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Thomas Rollerson, Silvana Kelly,
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n Tuesday September 25,
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to place upon what must be a very
crowded mantel. Mr. Towbes was
honored with a Paul Harris Award
presented by the Montecito Rotary
Club in front of over 100 attendees
at a luncheon at Montecito Country
Club. It is the third such award he has
received from various Rotary Clubs.
He took the occasion to explain
and encourage local philanthropy
and to admonish at at least three
of Montecitos resident billionaires
who, he said, give very little to this
community but should. Mr. Towbes,
who holds a BS in Civil Engineering,
went to Princeton as an undergrad
and attended graduate school at
MIT. He has been honored as Santa
Barbaras Man of the Year, been recipi-
ent of the News-Presss first Lifetime
Achievement Award, and been
named both Philanthropist of the
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that. J.B.)
Self-Serving Savior
Never one given to self-aggran-
dizing hyperbole, President Obama
proudly claims that one of his major
accomplishments in his first term of
office, is that he saved the auto indus-
try.
Really, Mr. President, the entire auto
industry?
Did you save Ford Motor Company?
Did you save Toyota?
Did you save Mazda?
Did you save Subaru?
Did you save Nissan?
Did you save Mitsubishi?
Did you save Honda?
Did you save Mercedes?
Did you save Porsche?
Did you save Audi?
Did you save BMW?
Did you save Volkswagen?
Did you save Volvo?
Did you save Saab?
Did you save Hyundai?
Did you save Kia?
Did you save Bentley?
Did you save Jaguar?
Did you save Lotus?
Did you save Rolls Royce?
Did you save Mini Cooper?
Did you save Land Rover?
Did you save Alfa Romeo?
Did you save Ferrari?
Did you save Fiat?
Did you save Lamborghini?
Did you save Maserati?
Did you save Citroen?
Did you save Peugeot?
No, Mr. President, what you actu-
ally did was dump billions of tax-
payer dollars into General Motors and
Chrysler, and then you handed the
companies over to the United Auto
Workers Union.
Finally, Mr. President, did you save
our Ambassador to Libya and three
other Americans from an organized,
pre-planned, 9/11 anniversary Muslim
terrorist attack on our Consulate in
Benghazi that you had been warned
might occur?
Don Michel
Montecito
(Editors note: You are right on, Mr.
Michel; see the next letter J.B.)
That Dog Wont Hunt
When Fred Thompson played the
District Attorney on Law and Order,
he frequently used the expression,
that dog wont hunt, which was
intended to convey that it wont
work.
In this election season, the Obama
campaign regularly claims the Chapter
11 Bankruptcy Reorganization of
General Motors was one of his many
successes. However, a close study of
the matter from a business or legal
perspective reveals, in my humble
opinion, that that dog wont hunt.
Why not? Although the American
automobile industry was in dire peril,
the Obama Administration circum-
vented basic legal standards of bank-
ruptcy and effectively bailed out the
unions, rather than GM itself. More
specifically, a major legal principle
underlying bankruptcy proceedings
is that all debtors similarly situated
should benefit from the same treat-
ment. This principle was complete-
ly usurped by the government in
favor of GMs union the United
Auto Workers and its affiliates. The
UAW recovered substantially higher
amounts than other, higher priority,
creditors. These unions are significant
allies of the President, and thus major
supporters of his campaign for a sec-
ond term.
The UAW received certain special
treatment by virtue of side-stepping
standard legal prerequisites, including
the following advantageous measures:
1) salaries and benefits remained sta-
tus quo in lieu of renegotiations to
better align with current standards; 2)
unsecured union creditors were paid
more than certain secured creditors;
3) GM was permitted to continue to
deduct previous losses when calculat-
ing its tax obligations and, 4) roughly
$1 billion was provided for pensions
of UAW members of the former parts
subsidiary Delphi, a company that
typically would not have been entitled
to any such funds.
It should be noted that the current
UAW worker earns an average of $70
per hour which includes wages, health
care, and pension benefits, where-
as, the average non-UAW American
worker earns approximately $30 per
hour, including these same benefits.
Typically, when a company becomes
insolvent, it is customary for the bank-
ruptcy trustee and the court to review
its existing most recently negotiated
labor contracts in order to re-align
them with current conditions by tak-
ing into consideration the companys
ability to continue as an economically
viable enterprise. In a conventional
proceeding, UAW contracts would
have received a reduction in wages
and benefits that would have put
them on par with other auto industry
workers, somewhere near $56-$58 per
hour including benefits. While conces-
sions for existing workers were mini-
mal the UAW did agree to modest cuts
for new hires.
Whether there is in fact a connection
or not between these expedient strate-
gies allowed GM in 2008 and 2009
and the re-election of the president in
2012, I believe it is vital to ask whether
these steps would have been taken
by the Obama Administration if the
unions had not been so important to
the Presidents re-election campaign.
Furthermore, while I admit that his-
torically Presidents have rewarded
their supporters with valuable leg-
islation, when possible, should we
applaud changing our bankruptcy
laws to enable the Executive Branch
of our government to intervene in pri-
vate enterprise, even under extreme
circumstances? I believe it is impor-
tant to challenge this kind of practice,
because once we condone the weak-
ening of one kind of basic law, future
administrations will be emboldened to
take other actions that could weaken
other laws under which our democ-
racy thrives.
It was jobs the President was trying
to save, surely a just and noble cause.
In 2009, GM had 91,000 U.S. employ-
ees. If all GM jobs were lost, as well
as those of its parts suppliers and car
dealers, the number would be approx-
imately 400,000, not the 1 million jobs
that Obama asserted as a justification
for the concessions made, and the
financial bonanza the unions received.
Normal Chapter 11 bankruptcy pro-
ceedings would not have caused all
these jobs to be lost. Certainly, GM,
its parts suppliers and dealers, would
have been able to remain in business
during an orderly reorganization.
It may have been prudent to keep
GM running when it first became
apparent that it had deep financial
problems. President Bush supported
the automakers with a total of $17.4
billion in aid, but the incoming Obama
Administration expanded the rescue
and also changed the rules. Steve
Rattner, who led Obamas automo-
tive task force, wrote in his 2010 book
Overhaul: An Insiders Account of the
Obama Administrations Emergency
Rescue of the Auto Industry that
without government financing, the
two companies [GM and Chrysler]
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would not have been able to pur-
sue a Chapter 11 reorganization. It
was President Obamas broad use of
authority during the reorganization
that sullied the rule of contracts and
established bankruptcy law.
The bailout of GM included approx-
imately $50 billion in TARP funds,
plus a payment of $30.1 billion in
consideration for the transfer to the
government of 60% of GM stock. The
U.S. still holds 500 million shares, a 32
percent stake, in GM. Since this hold-
ing is valued at roughly $11.6 billion
as of recent stock prices, the stock
would have to reach $53 a share for
the government to recover its invest-
ment made with taxpayer money.
In total, including the lost revenue
from allowing GM a tax exemption on
future profits of about $45.4 billion,
the Obama Administration actually
made a $100 billion investment in GM,
which may be difficult to recoup in
our current economic environment.
Upon my assessment of the gov-
ernments intervention to save
GM, it seems to me the Obama
Administration should not be flaunt-
ing this action as a success.
That dog wont hunt.
Susan St. John & Friends
Montecito
(Editors note: Nice work, Ms St. John;
you and your friends are to be congratu-
lated for your thorough research J.B.)
A Degrading Location
All the reporting concerning the cel-
lular phone facility sighting appears
to ignore the all-important back-story
concerning the loss of lease at the
QAD tower. Why did Verizon lose
its lease? Did it simply fail to ante
up? Who are the new tenants for the
tower or is the tower going to be dis-
mantled?
Montecito Fire and MERRAG
(Montecito Emergency Response &
Recovery Action Group) both operate
as sublets on that very same tower. It
is the supreme site in Montecito, as
it has a commanding line of sight
view to most of Montecito. This is a
requirement for short-range FM radio
communications, Cellular.
It is ironic that all the proposed
relocation sights are buried down in
Montecitos lush sub-urban forest,
which makes radio communications
difficult. The trees block the radio
signals. None of the proposed sights
can possibly achieve the radio com-
munications potential provided by the
QAD tower.
The roof of the Verizon switch station
is simply a convenience for Verizon.
They dont have to pay the owner
of the tower and they already have
access there to the Internet backbone.
The Internet backbone would have to
be extended to Casa Dorinda or the
MWD (Montecito Water District) facil-
ity. The MWD has a hillside pumping
station that would be a superior loca-
tion, but there is no Internet there and
it would be an expense to provide it.
Once the facility is installed on the
roof of the Verizon switch station,
customers will be complaining that
they dont have the cellular coverage
they did previously. Verizon is very
likely to be back at the table propos-
ing to install additional neighborhood
antennae, since they simply cant
reach all of Montecito from the switch
station. Can you spell NextGen?
Lets be clear, this is not an indict-
ment of NextGens proposal. Take a
look at some of their installs elsewhere
in town. They are well and tastefully
done. This is simply to say that the
science, art, and mystery of radio com-
munications are the same for Verizon
as they are for NextGen. If Verizon
degrades its capabilities by moving
from the QAD location they will have
to compensate.
Keith Frick
Montecito
The Feds
interest Rate Trap
Like the bad guys in an old cowboy
movie who get themselves trapped
in a box canyon trying to escape the
local posse, the Federal Reserve Bank
is pursuing interest rate policies that
in a few short years will make the
economy hostage to our debt.
Heres why:
In order to encourage investment
and economic growth, the Fed has
been keeping interest rates extraor-
dinarily low. However, these low
rates provide a perverse incentive for
Congress and the President to avoid
cutting the deficit. Over the next few
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Executives, along with a passel of
other honors.
When he stepped forward to
receive the award, Mr. Towbes, who
was accompanied at his table by
his wife, Anne, and his daughter
Carrie, began by observing that there
was probably no community of com-
parable size that gives more than
Santa Barbara, but it takes more
than wealth, he said, it takes a pro-
pensity to give.
He explained that philanthropy
wasnt part of some wealthy peoples
habits because they are new arriv-
als whose interests remain with the
area they came from; others simply
want to keep a low profile, and there
are some who have no philanthropic
interest at all. There are about six
billionaires, he adds, on the Forbes
400 list who live either full-time or
part-time in the Santa Barbara area,
and a number more whove passed
the billion-dollar mark who live here.
About half are generous and the other
half just arent. Thats the reason, he
intoned that [those of us that give
generously] are called the usual sus-
pects, and are called upon whenever
a need arises.
Michaels late wife, Gail, was a
dancer and performed regularly at the
Lobero. Towbes revealed that when
she passed away (in 1996), it was
around the same time the Lobero had
launched a major capital campaign,
and that her life insurance policy pro-
ceeds were donated to that effort; the
auditorium has been named in her
honor.
Individual philanthropy has been
strong for many years, he said, but
corporate philanthropy is just begin-
ning. He singled out Jordanos and
Venoco as instances of generous cor-
porate giving, along with, of course,
his own bank, Montecito Bank &
Trust. Towbes is a member of a small
group of individuals (it started with
half a dozen, but is now up to thirty-
five or forty members) that meet
regularly and have given nearly $75
million this year alone to various
charities and non-profits. Its been
going for about twenty years now,
Towbes notes. The group holds an
event each year called Partnership for
Excellence at the Doubletree, which
is always well attended; the most
recent was attended by some 450
members of the non-profit commu-
nity. The group, says Towbes, has
become a major institution in Santa
Barbara over the years.
Michael Towbes too has become a
major institution, and as CEO and sole
owner of Montecito Bank & Trust, in
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The Return of the naive
S
ome authors present their
narratives in voices and styles of
such commanding presence that
we almost forget to look deeper inside
for the thematic essence. Annie Proulx
and Elmore Leonard come to mind as
examples, where their voice and style
have us traveling through landscapes
we might not go of our own choice.
Because of their powerful voices, we
are inside the story before we realize,
and not until were in to stay do we
realize weve swum beyond the point
where we can see the coastline.
Another such writer is Junot Diaz,
born in the Dominican Republic, but
living in the U.S. (New Jersey) for
most of his life. Diaz was scarcely 30
when his short stories began appear-
ing in The New Yorker. His first col-
lection of stories, Drown, appeared in
1996, his most recent novel, The Brief,
Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, won the
2008 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
From his early appearances, Diaz
became recognizable for the brawny,
penetrating portrayal of Latino mi-
grs and for their reception in this
country. His narrative and dialogue
are vivid conflations of Spanish,
American English, street smarts, and
the brassy interior monologue of indi-
viduals with emotional connections to
the Dominican Republic.
The latest work from Diaz is another
collection of stories, This Is How You
Lose Her from Riverhead Books, fea-
turing Yunior, a character well known
to Diazs readers. Im not a bad guy,
Yunior tells us, as though he were try-
ing to convince himself of that fact. I
know how that sounds defensive,
unscrupulous but its true. Im like
everybody else: weak, full of mis-
takes, but basically good. Magdalena
disagrees though. She considers me a
typical Dominican man
Were only in for a paragraph, the
language has barely begun to heat up
to the point where, if I repeated it here,
you wouldnt see it and Id get com-
ments such as the ones Jim Buckley
appends to letters to the editor writ-
ten by political liberals. See, Yunior
continues, many months ago, when
Magda was still my girl, when I didnt
have to be careful about almost any-
thing, I cheated on her with this chick
who had tons of eighties free-style hair.
Didnt tell Magda about it, either
So now you know about Yunior. He
in large measure tells the truth, but
he is a nave narrator. Through many
of these stories, you in fact learn as
much through Yuniors naivet as you
learn from the events themselves. The
events invariably seem simple, but
bring us in close communication with
men and women who want to find
love, hang onto the love they have,
make some sort of meaningful contri-
bution to the process of life.
Yuniors relationship with his older
brother, Rafa, whose own search for
connection collides with a diagnosis
of leukemia, takes us down some of
the poignant streets Diaz experienced
when his own brother met cancer, then
explodes into a happy-families-are-all-
alike Improvised Explosive Device,
where Yunior, when he least expects
it, is hit in the face with a Yale padlock.
A twenty-eight-year-old woman
who runs a hospital laundry room
frequently brings her lovers laundry
to wash. When she delivers the cloth-
ing to his apartment, she cannot resist
the temptation of reading the letters
sent to him by his wife, back in the
Dominical Republic.
Yunior becomes involved with a
gringa well, several gringas. Yunior
wants to figure things out; he even
enrolls in colleges. A Dominican
couple with enough money to buy
a house, encounter racial and social
prejudices they hadnt anticipated.
Individuals earn enough money to
allow them to phone home to the
Dominical Republic.
There are nine stories in the collec-
tion, arranged in the conventional pat-
tern of the first, The Sun, the Moon,
The Stars, being a compelling yank
into Junot Diaz country, the last, The
Cheaters Guide to Love, being the
longest and most irrepressible. Years
later, that one begins, you wonder if
it hadnt been for your brother would
you have done it? Youll try to take
this last one down in a single sitting,
then come back to see what exqui-
site clues and nuances you may have
missed.
One of the many things Junot Diaz
seems to be saying here is that there
is a large measure of Yunior in all of
us, Dominicans and gringos alike.
This is good news for Yunior and
good news for us. We have things to
think about. MJ
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with participants boosting business
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shops. Im very pleased with the
turnout. Everybody seemed to have
a great time, said Orwin Middleton,
one of the organizers of the show. The
first annual event raised over $50,000
for the non-profit organization.
Cars and Coffee, the group respon-
sible for the villages weekly display
of classic cars along Coast Village,
partnered with the Special Olympics
organization to make the event hap-
pen. Dolores Johnson, Sara Spataro
and Monika Draggoo, along with
other car enthusiasts organized
the event, which featured Special
Olympics athletes in the 8 am open-
ing ceremony.
Awards were given to Michael
Howe for his 1947 Delahaye; he
received Most Unusual Car, Most
Elegant Car, and Best Foreign Car.
Dana Newquist won Best American
Car for his 1947 Pierce Arrow, and
Best Sports Car went to Michael
Hammer for his 1966 Shelby. Jim
Eckford was awarded the Michael
Armand Hammer Award for his 1933
Ford Race-style Roadster.
Funds were raised in a variety of
ways, including sponsorship by com-
munity organizations, donations, and
an auction of photographs by pho-
tographer Dan Hogan. Mr. Hammer,
a Cars and Coffee member, matched
many donations, making him the
largest contributor. He is ready to
do it again next year! Middleton
exclaimed.
Special Olympics Santa Barbara
provides opportunities for more than
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with intellectual disabilities to train
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since in Santa Barbara pursuing man-
ufacturing management, local govern-
ment, inventing, professional writing,
and an adjunct economics professor-
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W
estmont ofcially installs
Mark L. Sargent as
provost and dean of
faculty at a special convocation
Wednesday, October 3, at 10:30 am
in Murchison Gym. Speakers will
include Eileen McMahon McQuade,
vice chair of the faculty and chair of
the biology department; Jane Higa,
dean of students and vice president
for student life; former Westmont
president Stan Gaede; Carla
Sanderson, provost and executive
vice president at Union University;
Ron Mahurin, vice president of
the Council of Christian Colleges
and Universities; and members of
Sargents family.
Westmont will hold several free
public events in conjunction with
Sargents installation, including
a panel discussion on the theme,
Awakening the Moral Imagination,
on October 3 from 3:30-5:15 pm in
Page Multipurpose Room. Sargent
and Gaede will host the conversa-
tion that will include comments by
several faculty members.
Sargent and a few faculty col-
leagues will also host Reel Talk on
Tuesday, October 2 at 8:30 pm in
Porter Theatre, reflecting on vari-
ous cinematic scenes that have been
meaningful in their lives. Reel Talk,
sponsored by the Gaede Institute for
the Liberal Arts, gives the Westmont
community an opportunity to dis-
cuss challenging social, philosophi-
cal, or theological questions raised
in films. An American literature pro-
fessor, Sargent has also been a com-
mentator on film for National Public
Radio.
Ben Patterson, campus pastor, will
lead a time of prayer for Sargent Oct.
3 at 7:30 a.m. in Hieronymus Lounge
in Kerrwood Hall.
Sargent has worked in higher edu-
cation for more than 30 years and
the past 16 as provost of Gordon
College in Wenham, Massachusetts.
Previously, he was vice president
and chief academic officer at Spring
Arbor University in Michigan
and the associate dean at Biola
University in La Mirada, California.
He has served as a Fulbright schol-
ar at the University of Utrecht in
the Netherlands and been select-
ed as the national Chief Academic
Officer of the Year by the Council of
Independent Colleges.
Sargent earned a bachelors degree
at UC Santa Barbara and a mas-
ters and doctorate at Claremont
Graduate University. He is mar-
ried to Arlyne, who graduated
from Westmont, as did their son,
Daniel, who is currently pursuing
graduate studies in London. Their
daughter, Andrea, is a sophomore
at Westmont. Their oldest son,
Bradford, a graduate of Houghton
College and American University,
also lives in Santa Barbara.
Entrepreneur, Alumnus
Leads new Program
Rick Ifland 83, a successful entre-
preneur and private equity investor,
will direct Westmonts Eaton Program
for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
beginning November 1. He will also
teach business courses as associate
professor of economics and business,
a non-tenure-track position. During
his interim appointment, Ifland
will take a leave of absence from
the Westmont Board of Trustees and
Board of Advisors.
Drawing on his experience as vol-
unteer chairman of Westmonts Bright
Hope for Tomorrow Campaign,
Ifland will work to complete funding
for the Eaton Program and the Eaton
Chair in Economics and Business.
To fill the endowed faculty position,
Westmont will seek a distinguished,
effective leader with business experi-
ence and a passion for undergradu-
ate teaching who can strengthen the
economics and business program
and expand its global focus. Trustee
Emeritus David Eaton and his wife,
Carol, contributed the leadership gift
for the faculty chair.
I love the ministry of Westmont,
and I look forward to a more active
involvement with the academic
program, Ifland says. Westmont,
with its rich history and tradition
of combining academic rigor with
a deep Christian faith, stands at the
crossroads of faith and learning,
giving it an unmatched positional
advantage in engaging the business
world for eternal significance. We
have the opportunity, through the
Eaton Program, to demonstrate how
faith can inform and shape success-
ful businesswomen and businessmen
around the globe.
Rick is one of our most distin-
guished alumni, says President
Gayle D. Beebe. Hes been a faithful
board member Ill never forget how
he dropped everything to fly to Santa
Barbara the day after the Tea Fire to
help us with our recovery. Hell be a
terrific mentor for our students and
an effective networker in the Santa
Barbara business community.
Ricks considerable business expe-
rience and heart for the college will
benefit us as we develop plans for the
future of the economics and business
program, says Westmont Provost
Mark Sargent. I have been impressed
by how deeply he wants to serve our
students to mentor and advise them
as they chart their own journeys.
Professor Edd Noell, who chairs
the economics and business depart-
ment, is pleased to welcome Ifland.
As an alumnus, parent of Westmont
students, and member of the Board
of Advisors, Rick has faithfully dem-
onstrated a clear identity with our
mission to prepare students to be
thoughtful persons of integrity in
representing Christ in the fields of
economics and business, Noell says.
He brings valuable experience as an
entrepreneur and reflective scholar
in the legal and moral dimensions
of business. Were confident our stu-
dents will benefit from his work both
in the classroom and in building their
connections to the Santa Barbara busi-
ness community.
Ifland majored in economics and
business at Westmont and earned an
M.B.A. at the University of Kentucky
and a masters degree in international
law at Oxford University. He started
a company that transformed automa-
tion in the mortgage credit industry,
eventually selling it to a Fortune 500
company. He has since purchased 24
companies, improving and then sell-
ing 17 of them. Still active in seven
ventures as the general partner of
Oxford Holdings LLC, he plans to
engage students in his work, exposing
them to businesses as varied as con-
struction infrastructure, aeromedicine
and global research.
While excellence in business typi-
cally translates into making a profit,
Ifland also seeks to make a difference.
Hes led and established non-govern-
mental organizations to help the poor
in the Middle East and Africa and uses
his business experience to advise vari-
ous ministries.
Ifland met his wife, Neile Allen
Ifland 84, at Westmont, and their two
oldest children are graduates. Dani
Ifland Upton 07 stays home to care
for her toddler while expecting a sec-
ond child. Kirby 09 graduates from
Harvard Law School in 2013 and will
practice law in Kentucky. Crawford
15 just began his sophomore year at
Westmont.
Ifland looks forward to sharing
his passion for business with stu-
dents. Westmont changed my life,
he says, teaching me how to learn,
how to think and how to care. I want
to inspire students to embrace hard
work, avoid easy answers, seek daily
excellence and dive deeper into the
important things in life. MJ
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Entrepreneurship
and Innovation
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as the value of gold peaked
after an approximate six-fold
increase since 1999?
Gold may still be a wise purchase
given my biggest investment concern:
the Federal Reserves potential exces-
sive currency creation.
Money creation is complicated, but
simply, when a government spends
more than its tax revenue, it must bor-
row or electronically create money to
meet its obligations. Doing so may be
okay for awhile, but year after year of
printing money can have devastating
effects.
Primarily, it robs people of the pur-
chasing power of their savings. A cup
of coffee did once cost 25 cents, and
gasoline wasnt always around $4 a
gallon.
At its current approximate price of
nearly $1,700 an ounce, is gold over-
priced? No one really knows, but a
few calculations suggest the precious
metal may have room to move higher.
First however, a bit of history.
In July 1944, after the Great
Depression and World War II wreaked
havoc on the global monetary system,
730 delegates from all 44 allied nations
gathered in Bretton Woods, New
Hampshire. Their goal was to develop
monetary and financial guidelines for
all member nations in an effort to
facilitate more orderly global trade.
The chief feature of the Bretton
Woods system was each countrys
obligation to adopt monetary policy to
maintain the exchange rate by tying its
currency to the U.S. dollar. The agree-
ment further stated that U.S. dollars
were redeemable for an ounce of gold
at $35. Thus, we had a new gold stan-
dard: all currencies were tied to gold.
However, in the late 1950s and early
1960s, the government began spend-
ing significantly more than its tax
revenue. President Lyndon Johnson
escalated the Vietnam War and initi-
ated costly social-welfare programs,
including Medicare. President Richard
Nixon inherited and extended the obli-
gations. After unsuccessfully trying to
raise taxes to support the unpopular
war, both presidents continued to bor-
row heavily. The debt led to large
infusions of money into the economy,
which led to significant price increases
for goods and services and ultimately
a large trade imbalance.
The U.S. was spending far more on
imports than on exports. Consequently,
outsiders held large amounts of U.S.
dollars.
Foreigners, concerned that their dol-
lars would lose value relative to other
currencies, began converting dollars
to gold at an alarming rate. To stem
the depletion of U.S. gold reserves, in
1971, Nixon unilaterally terminated
convertibility of the dollar to gold, and
our current fiat currency was born.
What might the price of gold be
if we returned to a gold standard?
Applying the so-called Bretton Woods
formula today (U.S. Monetary Base/
U.S. Official Gold Holdings), the price
of gold would be $8,405 about five
times the current price.
There is no way to ascertain how rel-
evant the formula developed in 1944
is today. But applying it today does
highlight the last several decades
money creation and the fact that the
price of gold has lagged behind the
increase in money supply.
The following table provides anoth-
er perspective in support of the asser-
tion that the current price of gold may
not be too high.
The table shows that for approxi-
mately every 1 percent increase in the
monetary base, the price of gold also
rises 1 percent.
The monetary base will continue
to grow as the government attempts
to meet its obligations; weve added
more than $1 trillion per year to the
debt over the last four years. Its
almost guaranteed our total debt will
exceed $20 trillion in four years.
No one knows with certainty what
the future price of any asset will be,
however, there is good historical infor-
mation to draw upon that suggests the
current price of gold is not too high. MJ
At its current approximate
price of nearly $1,700 an ounce,
is gold overpriced?
Item Value On 1/1/1975 Value on 1/1/2012 Total growth Annualized growth
Ounce of gold $175 $1,560 791% 6%
Monetary Base $273 billion $2.197 trillion 703% 5.8%
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years, the combination of easy mon-
etary policy and Congresss natural
disinclination to cut programs will
quickly erase any short-term benefits
from the lower rates, dooming the
economy to decades of slow growth.
Or worse.
Short-term interest rates today are
one-fifth of what they were during
the depths of the Great Depression.
In addition, over the past 20 years,
Treasury has slashed the average
maturity of its borrowing by over
50%. A two-year treasury note now
yields .25% and a five-year note,
about .65%. Compared with 1990,
this means the cost to the govern-
ment of funding its current deficit has
dropped by about 90%. Borrowing
$1.2 trillion 20 years ago would have
added approximately $75 billion to
the nations annual interest expense.
Thats a huge sum even when gov-
ernment spending is over $3.5 trillion
a year. Now, however, funding that
same $1.2 trillion deficit costs less
than $8 billion annually, practically
free money for the President and
Congress. This certainly doesnt pro-
vide a significant incentive for them
to cut spending anywhere.
By 2015, the nations debt is likely
to exceed $18 trillion. Twenty years
ago, the annual cost of that debt
would have approached $1.1 tril-
lion. This equates to 100% of all cur-
rent Federal discretionary spending.
However, by dramatically cutting the
duration of its debt and relying on a
Federal Reserve Bank to keep inter-
est rates at all-time lows, this $18
trillion at todays rates and duration
will only raise annual interest costs
about $25 billion. For a President and
Congress accustomed to dealing with
trillion-dollar deficits this is peanuts
and certainly not a serious incentive
to cut favorite programs.
This is our Box Canyon. With
a national debt of $18 trillion and
climbing, the Fed will no longer be
able to keep rates low just to stimu-
late the economy; it will have to
keep rates low to protect the Federal
Governments solvency. At the same
time, it cannot allow significant
growth in the U.S. economy; that
would put upward pressure on inter-
est rates. With an $18-trillion debt,
a simple reversion to the mean in
interest rates would cause the annual
interest costs to the government to
become larger than all current discre-
tionary spending.
Many economists have suggested
that one way out of the Federal debt
problem is inflation. By inflating the
currency the Treasury can pay back
the outstanding debt with cheaper
money. However, with a debt of $18
trillion and growing, any hint of infla-
tion would cause interest rates to rise.
This in turn would increase the annu-
al interest costs to the Treasury and
increase the size of the deficit, which
would negate any efforts to reduce
debt size. There is the trap. The Fed
is forced into a position where it cant
encourage economic growth for fear
of rising interest rates. Nor can the
Federal Government provide fiscal
stimulus because any hint of eco-
nomic growth will lead to higher
interest rates and force the President
and Congress to make draconian cuts
in all discretionary programs.
The medium- and long-term con-
sequences of current Fed policy put
the U.S. economy on the same trend
line that Japan has been on for two
decades. With debt to GDP now over
200%, Japan cannot afford economic
growth or any hint of inflation that
might drive interest rates higher. If
interest rates that service Japans debt
approach 5%, Japan will be required
to spend 10% of its GDP just on its
national debt service. This is the U.S.s
future in just three years if the Fed
persists in keeping rates so low that
there is no incentive for the President
and Congress to stop their mad drive
into the box canyon of national eco-
nomic paralysis.
Gary C. Byrne, Ph.D
Montecito
(Editors note: Mr. Byrne is President
of Vesta Capital Partners, based in Santa
Barbara and we thank him for the cogent
explanation of current policy J.B.) MJ
405, and the 99. Prior to that vote, it was the first time I had ever done that.
He seems genuinely apologetic.
Im not going to Washington to raise taxes, he says. I just felt that at the
time, it was bankruptcy or keeping America going. Ill tell you this, I wasnt
raised to not pay my bills and I wasnt raised to bankrupt a government. And,
I thought at that time that me and five other Republicans and the leaders of my
party in both the Assembly and the Senate, said We need to do something, and
we did it in a stopgap, temporary way. It was only for eighteen months; after
that, those taxes are gone.
Abel grouses that he had been named Hero of the California Tax Payer by
Grover Newquists Americans For Tax Reform and boasts a 100% voting record
from the Federation of Independent Businesses. Ive had a great small family
business record, but people have taken that one vote [to raise taxes] and said,
There he is.
And why exactly does he want to go to Washington? Im going back there
to represent the 24
th
Congressional District, and the 24th Congressional District
wants more jobs; they want a better economy; they want a tax code that creates
jobs, not hurts jobs. They want to eliminate Dodd-Frank; I think the people of
my district want a fairer tax code; they want to lower the tax rate on individuals
and corporations, and they want to keep them lower to eliminate the uncer-
tainly in the small-business community.
How about the Affordable Care Act?
I think the Affordable Care Act needs to be repealed and replaced. I think
theres some things I like in it. The donut hole: I think it needs to be closed.
People with pre-conditions need to be helped, but to pass a 2,700-page bill and
call it a gamble, and say We have to pass it to know whats in it. And, to charge
somebody a 3.9% tax when they sell their house in Montecito, and to say that
if you make medical devices, were going to tax you 2.3% and to fine people. I
just dont think thats the way to go. I think we can replace it with something
thats bi-partisan and something that is good for America.
Regulatory Reform on the Agenda
Maldonado suggested allowing small-business owners the right to pool buy-
ing medical insurance for their employees, just as cities and counties do. They
use joint power agreements. Why cant small businesses? he wonders.
He also wonders: Why cant we buy insurance across state lines?
Why cant we have tort reform?
Why cant we have all these things in one bill?
Or have separate bills, but to have this one bill that nobody knows whats in
it, thats causing uncertainty for the economy isnt the way to go.
The choice is clear: if you love the track that Americas on, youll have that
opportunity. Shes been there for fourteen years.
If elected, I wondered, is there a committee Abel would like to get on?
Id like to be on the Commerce Committee and the Agricultural Committee,
he says. I want to be on a committee that helps the 24
th
Congressional District.
And, as for onerous regulations that he is personally familiar with: Just
about two months ago, he relates, Washington said my kids cant do chores
on the farm anymore. How could they come up with all those costly regula-
tions? I tell people if you love foreign oil youre going to love foreign food.
Because its getting harder to farm every day, and our local Congresswoman
hasnt done anything to help our family farmers or any small business owner
in this district. It just seems that everything we do is regulated. Im not against
a safe environment for farm workers and farmers but it gets to a point where
you cant operate any more. It costs too much.
What would his input be on the immigration issue?
I think we ought to have a situation like the one my father came to America
on. It was a temporary worker permit, and if you were a good temporary
worker and you paid taxes, and you worked hard, and you didnt get on entitle-
ment programs, it was renewed. My dad didnt know what an entitlement was
until he came to America. There are no entitlements in Mexico. You came here
to work, he stresses. If you couldnt work, you should go back to the country
you came from; you shouldnt be on entitlements.
What about the people here now illegally?
If they havent broken the law, if theyre working today and have a job and
have paid their taxes, if they dont have any felonies and theyre good work-
ers, then they ought to apply for a temporary worker permit. And, theyve got
to pay a fine for breaking the law. And, that fine could be paid in the way of a
community service.
Abel Maldonado will back the kind of leadership in the House of
Representatives wed prefer to see there, so we suggest we urge a vote for
Abel Maldonado as Californias U.S. Representative for the 24
th
District. MJ
EDiTORiAL (Continued from page 5)
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Crane School news
Montecitos Crane Country Day
School turned 85 on Wednesday,
September 25, making it one of the
oldest private elementary schools in
the Santa Barbara area. The school
is marking the milestone throughout
the fall, and officially kicked off the
festivities this past week with special
school-wide assemblies.
Former student and current parent
Sarah OBrien (class of 82) addressed
the students on Monday, sharing pho-
tographs and reflections on how the
school has changed since she attend-
ed three decades ago. OBrien said
she decided to move back to Santa
Barbara so that her children could
attend Crane.
Other speakers throughout the
week include Selden Edwards, for-
mer Headmaster and now a bestsell-
ing author, current head of school Joel
Weiss, and former beloved English
teacher Cathy Rose.
The celebration will continue
throughout the weekend of October
26 through 28 with decades reunion
parties on Friday evening, an All
Alumni reunion and softball game
on Saturday, October 27 and the cul-
minating event, the Annual Crane
Country Fair, a community-wide cel-
ebration now in its 19th consecutive
year. The Country Fair takes place
Sunday, October 28 from 10 am to 3
pm and will include game booths,
prizes, an obstacle course, a petting
zoo, a cake walk, a dunk tank, Country
Kitchen, Big Daddys BBQ, a bake-off
and much more.
Crane recently celebrated anoth-
er achievement: a total of 852,154
pages were read this past summer by
177 Crane students and 44 staff and
faculty, as part of the schools Summer
Reading Challenge. Students in grades
K-4 were challenged to read at least
750 pages while students in grades 5-8
were encouraged to read a minimum
of 1,000 pages. Eighth-grader Kate
Smith led the students for a second
year in a row, reading 25,200 pages.
For more information about the
school, visit www.craneschool.org.
Laguna Blanca news
Laguna Blanca School announced
last week that Tom Pickett has been
chosen as the new Chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the school. Pickett
has been a member of the Laguna
Blanca School Board of Trustees for
the past two years, previously serving
as its Treasurer and as a member of its
Finance and Executive Committees.
Pickett has experience in indepen-
dent school leadership, having served
on the Board of Trustees of Marymount
of Santa Barbara for seven years, lead-
ing the Board in his last two years of ser-
vice. Mr. Pickett has also served on the
Board of Directors for the Scholarship
Foundation of Santa Barbara for five
years, where he has served on the
Strategic Planning, Development, and
Personnel Committees.
Pickett completed the Executive
Program in Strategy and Organization
at Stanford Business School, and
holds an MBA from Harvard Business
School, a Bachelor of Science degree
in accounting from the University of
Virginia and various courses related
to initial public offerings and SEC
reporting. He is currently a consult-
ing Chief Financial Officer at True
Vision Systems. MJ
compiled by Kelly Mahan from information supplied by Santa Barbara County
Sheriffs Department, Carpinteria Division
SHERIFFS
BLOTTER
Rollover Accident in Montecito
Thursday, 20 September, 12:35 pm The Montecito Fire Protection District
responded to a vehicle accident on the southbound Highway 101 under the
Olive Mill overpass. Upon arrival firefighters found a single vehicle over-
turned. One occupant was out of the vehicle, the second occupant was pinned
inside. Firefighters extricated the second occupant at 12:59 pm; both patients
were transported to the hospital by ambulance.
Montecito Fire responded with one engine, a squad and a battalion chief
to the scene. Sent to assist were Santa Barbara City Fire, California Highway
Patrol, and American Medical Response.
The cause of the accident is under investigation by the CHP.
Tools Stolen from Butterfly Lane
Saturday, 22 September, 9:10 am Deputy Messmore was dispatched to
Butterfly Lane to speak to a resident about a theft from his vehicle. The man told
the deputy he parked his company-assigned truck in front of his residence the
night before, and the next morning he noticed the sliding bed cover to the truck
was open. Upon looking in the bed of the vehicle, he noticed his black tool bag
missing. He also noticed several nuts had been removed from the back rack on
the truck, indicating someone had attempted to remove it. The man valued the
tools in the bag to be worth close to $1000; the tools belong to his employer. A
report was taken.
Another Theft on Butterfly Lane
Saturday, 22 September, 10:20 am Deputy Johnson also responded to Butterfly
Lane on report of a smash & grab. The resident reported he had parked his
vehicle the night before, and upon returning in the morning he found the sun-
roof on his vehicle was smashed. Items missing from the vehicle included a
gym bag with towels and clothes, a Bluetooth earpiece, and a $10 gasoline card.
A report was taken. MJ
Tom Pickett is the new Chairman of the Laguna
Blanca Board of Trustees
Twenty-one Crane students and two teachers read over 10,000 pages this summer. These students will
be rewarded with lunch with Head of School Joel Weiss.
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 34 The Voice of the Village
SENIORITY
by Patti Teel
Patti is the director of
community relations
for Senior Helpers &
co-host of youngatheart-
radio.com. Contact her
at patti@pattiteel.com.
T
hroughout our lives, we take
pride in our independence. This
quest for self-reliance seems to
be built into our DNA and as every
mother can tell you, one of the frst
sentences that toddlers put together
is, I do it myself! Later, obtaining
a drivers license, moving out on
our own and fnancially supporting
ourselves are milestones that represent
our success and autonomy.
Due to increased longevity and
the aging process, many of us will
eventually experience losses that
could include the ability to manage
our financial affairs, to drive, and to
live on our own without assistance.
Understandably, these can be hard
pills to swallow. Many people experi-
ence deep grief when they lose the
ability to independently care for them-
selves. Oftentimes, they express a feel-
ing of being lost and powerless due to
an inability to fend off the unwelcome
changes that frequently accompany
aging. As their roles change from the
person who takes care of their family
to the one being taken care of, they can
experience painful feelings of mean-
inglessness, loss and depression.
In Santa Barbara, The Center for
Successful Aging offers peer counsel-
ing to assist other seniors who are
having difficulty with the challenges
of aging. Senior volunteers who have
participated in a special orientation-
training are also available to place
short check-in calls to any adult over
the age of 50 who may be homebound
or isolated, and who might greatly
appreciate a call from someone of
their own generation. Clients may
be referred by family, friends, social
workers, discharge planners, clergy,
and other organizations serving the
needs of the elderly of Santa Barbara.
Target clients include those who may
not have friends or family, who may
not be able to get out of the house eas-
ily, or those who could benefit from
knowing that someone in the commu-
nity cares about their well-being. This
service is provided free of charge.
Ram Dass, author of Still Here,
Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying,
believes that the sadness we often
experience later in life may be just part
of the Souls evolution. The despair
and depression can be a prerequisite
to what comes next. Ram Daas says,
There is a growing awareness in the
medical community that a lot of what
has been diagnosed and treated as
depression among older people may
instead be a natural process of reori-
entation. He believes that slowing
down can be an opportunity to reflect
upon the meaning of life and gives
us the time to recognize how we fit
into its flow. With acceptance of the
changes that aging brings, he says we
open ourselves to some of the richest
gifts that life has to offer. However,
as with any loss we may experience
throughout our lives, before we reach
a state of acceptance, we are likely to
go through a period of denial refus-
ing help that those closest to us firmly
believe is necessary.
Oftentimes, adult children are
the first to recognize and acknowl-
edge that their parents need help.
Understandably, because self-suffi-
ciency and independence are valued
so highly in our society, its very com-
mon for elderly parents to resist the
help when their children bring it up.
Janet Servatius, client services man-
ager of Senior Helpers, works closely
with seniors and their adult children.
She recommends that seniors who
are resistant to the idea of hiring a
caregiver do so for a month long trial
period. She finds that by the end of
that time, people are likely to have
overcome their initial resistance a
bond has formed and the senior usu-
ally recognizes how much easier and
happier their life has become.
Most people are more comfortable
giving help than receiving it. After a
lifetime of giving service to others, for
the first time in their lives, seniors may
find themselves on the receiving end. It
may be helpful for them to remember
how good it felt to be the giver and to
remember that the exchange can be a
gift to both parties. MJ
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addition to many other things, gives
away a million dollars every year at a
special Community Dividends lun-
cheon at the Biltmore.
On With The Show
Twenty-three-year-old Jessica
Hambright was born in the San
Fernando Valley but her parents
moved to Santa Barbara when she was
seven years old, so she considers her-
self a fully-fledged Santa Barbarian.
Jessicas mother, Janet Mizrahi, is a
professor at UCSB; her dad, Perry,
works in Los Angeles as a graph-
ic designer. Jessicas sister Caroline
lives in the Bay Area attending grad
school. Both girls went to Montecito
Union School and graduated from San
Marcos High School.
Ive gotta stay creative, Jessica
says as we sit down to discuss her
latest endeavor: The Santa Barbara
School of Performing Arts. I start-
ed off dancing at the Santa Barbara
Jazz Dance Academy (it is now Santa
Barbara Dance Art) with Steven
Lovelace, she recounts. The sum-
mer before that, she did Cats during
a six-week summer camp and per-
formed as the smallest kitten in the
class (she is barely five feet tall even
now). David Nelson choreographed
the show and it was performed at the
Center Stage Theater.
Jessica was one of those kids who
came early to help out and at the age of
eleven she proved herself invaluable
and became Steven Lovelaces assis-
tant. After her experiences there she
gravitated to Stage Left Productions
and was cast as Oliver in Oliver. At fif-
teen, she was teaching her own dance
classes on Saturday mornings with
four year olds. Serendipitous timing
found her working with former Cheers
writer-producer Cheri Steinkellner
at Montecito Union School; Jessica
appeared in the schools now nearly
legendary production of Fiddler On
The Roof. Cheri calls her the wunder-
kind.
Jessica was always interested in
how productions were run, and after
junior high she decided that produc-
ing was what she wanted to do. She
became head counselor at Stage Left
Productions and also began choreo-
graphing its performances.
UpStage Left sprung up for kids
who wanted to continue performing
but had moved out of the age limits
of Stage Left (up to 16). She was assis-
tant producer and choreographer for
a production of Rent at Santa Barbara
High School in the summer of 08.
That was followed by Chorus Line,
which she fully choreographed.
Jessicas most recent success was
as co-producer (along with Caroline
Ross, theater teacher at Goleta Valley
Junior High) of the virtually sold-out
performances of Our Town at Elings
Park (directed by Ms Steinkellner) this
past summer.
Jessica continues working at MUS;
she was hired by Pam McLendon to
choreograph last years sixth-grade
play, The Wizard of Oz, and shell be
back this school year under the tute-
lage of Pam Herzog. At Montecito
Union, you form friends for life,
Jessica observes, so many of my clos-
est friends now are from Montecito
Union, including Georgia Zeazin who
now lives and works in New York City.
Another is Chelsea Didier, whose
father is president of United Way and
is now living in Los Angeles doing
the acting thing. Jessica has been
Montecito real estate agent Marsha
Kotlyars administrative assistant for
nearly a year.
Which takes us to Jessicas and part-
ner Dauri Kennedys latest project: the
Santa Barbara School of Performing
Arts. The company, an after-school
conservatory, means that our stu-
dents are not just cast in a production
and were throwing it up on stage.
Most of them are learning about how
to be a performer. They are put into
a vocal class, a dance class, and an
acting class weekly. Mikie Cabrera
from Ventura is her choreographer
and Jessica will direct the upcoming
production of Once Upon A Mattress
on 1, 2, and 3 February at La Cumbre
Junior High, featuring performers in
the Rising Star Track of 9-to-12-year-
olds.
The conservatory consists of three
tracks: a Debut Track for 5- to 8-year-
olds led by Emily Jewell that meets
twice a week; theyll be produc-
ing 101 Dalmatians in December at
the Veterans Memorial Center on
Cabrillo Blvd, with a cast of 12; the
aforementioned Rising Star Track,
and the Repertoire Track for 13 to 21
year olds, which will perform Legally
Blonde, the Musical at the Lobero in
January (12 & 13).
Anyone interested in joining Jessica
and Dauri in the Santa Barbara School
of Performing Arts should email
info@sbschoolofperformingarts.com,
or call 805-708-8897 for more infor-
mation. MJ
Jessica
Hambright
and Cheri
Steinkellner,
along with the
rest of the cast,
receive applause
front and center
after a sparkling
production of
Fiddler On The
Roof at MUS
Jessica
Hambright,
co-founder
of the Santa
Barbara School
of Performing
Arts, will direct
Once Upon A
Mattress at La
Cumbre Junior
High School in
February
Cast of the
Big Stage
Production of
Hairspray at
the Lobero last
January
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 36 The Voice of the Village
U
CSB Arts & Lectures enviable
dance series which has
brought a slew of companies
to Santa Barbara for the frst time while
maintaining a connection with the
classics once again sets the bar high
in its season opening presentation.
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet a modern
company graced by athleticism,
power and inventive choreography
makes its local debut at the Granada
on Tuesday featuring a program that
boasts two commissioned pieces
alongside a modern classic. Executive
director Jean-Philippe Malaty
who along with artistic director Tom
Mossbrucker left Jofrey Ballet to
create the company out of (literally)
thin air in 1995 talked about Aspen
Santa Fes approach and growth in a
telephone interview earlier this week.
Q. What spurred the companys growth
once you decided to actually create one?
A. Its been very organic. Weve
grown it with the demand and sup-
port of community. It morphed over
the years through luck and serendip-
ity but also planning and vision. Our
greatest strength has been our ability
to adapt. A few years in, we realized
the dancers wed brought out from
New York City to help us get it started
were really inspired and wanted to
stay here and put roots in Aspen. As a
result they got better and better. Then
we attracted choreographers to create
work on us, young ones who started
here and then became successful and
famous. That in turned attracted more
choreographers because of our grow-
ing reputation.
Then you added Santa Fe.
Yes, Aspen is a very small commu-
nity, and cant support a full season.
But being able to pay our dancers
year-round was always an early goal.
Which is why we reached out to Santa
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driving distance. That doubled the
amount of performances, and allowed
us to become one of the few compa-
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Slovenia: The Way Europe Used to Be
by Jerry Camarillo Dunn, Jr.
I
started traveling to Europe in the
late 1960s and 70s, when airlines
were practically giving seats away
(they had new jumbo jets to fll) and
Europe was a bargain ($7 a night for a
pension in Rome). Not yet having been
trampled by tourist hordes, the people
were genuinely glad to see you. I
thought those days were gone forever,
and then I heard about Slovenia. Its
the way Europe used to be, travel
cognoscenti whispered, keeping their
discovery quiet.
When I told friends I was going,
theyd pause and say, So where
exactly is Slovenia? Id reply that its
a pocketsize country located south of
Austria and east of Italy. (Until 1991 it
was part of Yugoslavia, breaking off
after a ten-year war.) Although part
of Central Europe, Slovenia sounds
vaguely Eastern European. Even the
place names on its map look peculiar,
as if you were typing and your fingers
strayed off the home keys: Mount
Sneznik, Goriska Brda (can I buy a
vowel?), and my favorite, Ptuj, pro-
nounced ptooey
During a two-week visit, however, I
discovered that everything you didnt
know about Slovenia is wrong. Only
the size of Wales, Slovenia is big in
fascinating things to see. A lovely,
unspoiled country that joined the
European Union in 2004 and adopted
the Euro three years later, Slovenia is
clean, green, safe, and relatively inex-
pensive. English is widely spoken by
people under age 40. It has become
one of my favorite places on Earth;
here are some reasons why:
Just the right size: Ive made some
marathon drives across Europe, so I
Bled Castle is
all things a
castle should
be ram-
parts and
towers on a
rocky crag
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loved Slovenias small scale. If youre
in a hurry, you could eat breakfast
beside an alpine lake, have lunch in
the happening capital city of Ljubljana
(Loob-lee-yah-nah), and watch the sun
set over a plate of calamari in a tiny
Adriatic port with an Italian look.
But I wasnt in a rush. A sticker on
my rental car abbreviated Slovenia as
SLO. I liked that.
River deep, mountain high: The
first surprise I encountered was in the
Julian Alps, a jumble of jagged white
peaks, streams, and alpine meadows
set in northwestern Slovenia. The area
looks like Austria not a big surprise,
since that country is right next door.
The main resort town is Bled, which
sounds like a name from Dracula, but
looks more like a page torn from a
book of enchanted fairy tales: moun-
tains wreathed in mist, a lake with
white swans, a turreted castle on a
rocky crag.

I do: I walked up the footpath to
rugged Bled Castle and sat in the
courtyard, propping my elbows on
a stone battlement overlooking the
lake and thinking, What a romantic
spot! In fact, couples fly to Lake Bled
from around the world to get married
here. As if on cue, an elegant Tokyo
bride and groom arrived at the castle,
accompanied by giggling friends and
the sounds of an oompah band (accor-
dion alert). Everyone celebrated the
newlyweds with a lunch on the sunny
terrace.
Bled Castle is the countrys oldest,
first mentioned in 1101. Thick-walled
rooms hold a museum of weapons,
clothing, paintings, and coins from
the nations early historical periods:
Slovenian silver, Roman gold, medi-
eval bronze. But the main attraction is
the castles unforgettable view of the
lake below.
The couple from Japan had gotten
married earlier on a small island in
the center of the lake, where I saw a
church tower above a thicket of trees.
Visitors are ferried to the island in
boats that resemble gondolas (or they
row themselves, as I did with my wife,
Merry). After climbing steep steps to
the church, they admire its frescoes
and gilded Baroque altar. Like the
Japanese newlyweds, every visitor is
sure to do what pilgrims have been
doing since the Middle Ages pull a
rope to ring the Wishing Bell in the
tower, thereby guaranteeing that their
fondest desire will come true. It is a
fairytale place, after all.
Lake Bled borders Triglav National
Park, home of the nations highest
mountain, Triglav (9,400 feet), which
most Slovenians aspire to climb once
in life. The park is a popular arena for
adventure sports skiing, hiking, and
insane adrenalin-rush activities such
as hydrospeeding, which is basically
boogie-boarding down a swollen river
as it churns through a rock gorge.
Happily for lovers of the outdoors,
Slovenia is unspoiled; its rivers and
lakes are pristine, and more than half
the country is forested, making it one
of Europes greenest nations.
Bright lights: When its time for
a shot of city life, Ljubljana (pop.
280,000) is only an hours drive from
the mountains. As in many lands
once dominated by Communism, the
capital has a fringe of anonymous,
stark, block buildings that surround
a charming Old Town. In this ancient
core, built along a bend in the River
Ljubljanica, life is bright and sociable.
University students wheel around on
bicycles and chat at the tree-shaded
cafs that line both banks.
The main square, Presernov Trg, is
named for the nations favorite poet,
France Preseren. This 19
th
-century
romantic was prone to getting blotto
drunk and cheating on his wife, but
hes still beloved for advancing the
cause of Slovene national conscious-
ness and literature. The poet also got
a monument on the cobbled square,
which is bordered by a pink church
and the 1903 Centromerkur, the citys
oldest department store. Step inside
if you need anything from sewing
thread to a beach towel. The charm-
ing Art Nouveau interior looks like an
Alfons Mucha poster.
I strolled across the river on the Triple
Bridge designed by Joze Plecnik, the
Ljubljana architect and urban planner
who transformed the citys look in the
early 20
th
century. Ahead lay his mar-
ket colonnade, a curving white pavil-
ion that follows the sweep of the river
and has stalls selling vegetables, fruit,
and fish. Volunteers were manning a
table and handing out flyers to save
the citys stray cats and dogs. I bought
a T-shirt for the cause.
The right bank area is a maze
of narrow streets linking public
squares, all virtually Lilliputian in
scale compared to those in a capital
city like Rome. The town hall stands
on Mestni trg (Town Square), while
medieval Stari trg (Old Square)
bursts with caf umbrellas. After for-
tifying myself there with a pizza and
a local Zlatorog beer, I crossed the
Cobblers Bridge, where shoemak-
ers once set up their trading booths.
The capital,
Ljubljana,
winds along
the banks of
its namesake
river, past the
17th-century
Church of the
Annunciation
Ljubljanas oldest department store, the 1903
Centromerkur, has a stunning Art Nouveau inte-
rior
Popular Lake Bled is a
fairytale place, with its
island church and rug-
ged castle
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demand for national touring, and by
then the young choreographers we
had invited were now famous and
recognized around the world, which
got us into festivals like Jacobs Pillow.
So it really was very organic. We were
very good at taking on opportunities
when they presented themselves, seiz-
ing what was put in front of us.
Aspen Santa Fe has been known as a
choreographer incubator since the begin-
ning. How do you recognize a good, young
talent and know if he or she is right for the
company?
Because its our mission. We believe
in looking forward, not back for the
most part. The focus is to move the
art form forward, to look for talent
for tomorrow. We werent interested
in preserving classic work there are
many companies who can do that
much better than us. And being young
with smaller budget pushed us to look
at younger talent. We wanted artists
with a new vocabulary and expanded
ways of movement, things that would
make the dancers better, an experience
to grow.
One benefit of not having one voice,
a single choreographer, is diversity of
repertoire there are three ballets that
are very different on each program.
But that can make it hard to give an ID
as a company. So we have a stable of
choreographers who helped us build
the company and like to return. And
now we have a strong identity, so its
easy to recognize someone who is a
good fit, understands the aesthetic of
the company, the abilities and the look.
How would you define that aesthetic?
Its very much rooted in classical
ballet even though our taste is modern
dance no tutus or even pointe shoes.
But the technique is there and the
dancers trained that way. What hap-
pens is that things in contemporary
dance look the same these days, partly
through easy access of the Internet
and You Tube everyone is influenced
by others. So we look for a unique
vocabulary, someone with his or her
own vision. And our dancers are very
athletic; this is a town where everyone
skis and bikes and hikes. So we want a
choreographer who wants to make use
of that, and shares our emphasis on
visual, production values and lighting.
Now that the company is getting older,
how do you keep that fresh voice?
Thats the bigger challenge. At sev-
enteen, you cant help but find our
maturity, and there are expectations
that werent there before. Were going
to a place for a first time like Santa
Barbara who wants to see something
special. And we return to others over
and over again; its our sixth visit to
New York. So we have a reputation,
and were starting to feel the pressure
of age. Its not easy to stay true to
yourself and the vision that you have
and still deliver and meet expectations.
Sometimes we wonder where we will
find the next one, another fresh voice.
Maybe we just got lucky and wont
be able to keep it going. But on the
other hand, because of our reputa-
tion, we dont have to do all the seek-
ing out anymore. The choreographers
approach us, dancers want to join the
company, and they send stuff our way.
But we stay careful about not plan-
ning our future, because if we had
done that in the beginning, we would
never have gotten to where we are
now. We dont want to make long-
term plans. Having freedom and abil-
ity to move quickly let us survive in
the challenging economic times and
take advantage of what came our way.
We have to maintain that flexibility.
Can we talk about the Santa Barbara
program? Would you tell me about the
pieces?
We open with Square None by
Norbert De La Cruz, who was born
in the Philippines, grew up in South
Los Angeles and just graduated from
Juilliard School last year. Tom and I
happened to be there looking for danc-
ers, and this kid had choreographed a
little piece on his classmates as part
of his graduation project. We were
really impressed and surprised and
intrigued by the level of sophistica-
tion and craftsmanship. So we asked
him if he would create a full-length
work for us. It was his first ballet ever.
Square None has been a great suc-
cess. Because he spent a lot of time in
Los Angeles and went through jazz
schools theres a healthy dose of influ-
ence of hip-hop and jazz dance. The
piece is full of different concepts; its a
very fresh approach.
Jorma Elos Over Glow is from a
much more established choreographer.
We discovered him very early on also,
but hes now one of the most in-demand
in the world. Now were the smallest
company he works with. Its his fourth
ballet for us, and by now he knows our
dancers, their strengths and desires. So
I think he made a masterpiece for us. If
we had to select one piece to represent
us and what we stand for, this is the one
wed choose. He captured the sensibil-
ity, the poetry of the company and the
humor of the dancers.
In between is Ji Kylins Stamping
Ground, which is one of the few times
we look to the past. He was director of
Nederlands Dance in Holland and
in many ways was responsible for
defining what contemporary dance is
today; every choreographer is influ-
enced by his work one way or another,
whether they admit it or not. In a way
hes the common thread of the eve-
ning. Elo danced for him in Holland
for many years. The piece was made
in the early 1980s. So the program is
like three decades of dance, from the
original voice through its evolution.
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet performs 8pm
Tuesday, October 2 at the Granada Theater,
1214 State St. Tickets cost $35 or $45. Call
893-3535 or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.
UCSB.edu. Members of the company will
also conduct a Community Dance Class at
5:30pm on Monday, October 1 at Gustafson
School of Dance. 2285 Las Positas Rd.
Admission is $20 for dancers, $10 observ-
ers. Call the Santa Barbara Dance Alliance
at 966-6950.)
Devyn Duexs Dance
Directive
Devyn Duex worked all over Los
Angeles before moving to Santa
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Barbara in 2003 and hooking up with
the Motion Theatre and SonneBlauma
troupes, and later set her own work
on Fusion Dance and Daughters of
Zion, before forming her own dance
company just two years ago. Nebula
Dance Lab launches its second season
this weekend with three performances
of Re:Vision. The program includes
Duexs debut work for her own com-
pany, plus two by Emily Tatomer, all
focusing on a theme of conveying per-
ception, memory and sensation.
Duex talked about the company
whose early days are not unlike those
of the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet in that
new physical work is encouraged in a
company based in a small town and
discussed the program in a brief inter-
view earlier this week.
Q. The dictionary defines nebula as a
diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas,
visible as luminous patches or areas of
darkness. How does that apply to your
dance company?
A. The original idea was to create a
company for my own work. But after
getting pregnant, I realized I may not
always be the one creating the work.
There are so many choreographers
in town who dont have the opportu-
nity to get rehearsal space and delve
deeply into subject matter to create
something that will be produced. So it
turned into something that also serves
as support for emerging choreogra-
phers. Which means its really about
the energy created when more people
are pulled, kind of like a collection of
gasses that form, come together and
get even bigger and bigger, expanding
out into the community.
You were in town for seven years before
creating Nebula and now this is just your
second season. What is your vision for the
company?
Weve been happily surprised at
how far weve come so quickly. We
managed to produce our first show
in January. Now with this one I see
our future as building both the out-
reach and education elements, which
is a passion of mine I did my mas-
ters in creating revenue stream for
dance companies though education.
Theres a correlation in arts exposure
and increase in academics. As far as
the professional arm, weve already
booked Center Stage for a weekend in
October the next two years, and wed
like to tour around California, and
maybe beyond. But were new, so its
a matter of funding My big vision
is becoming a modern company that
pays the dancers salaries for the year
as their main job, and turns into a big
presence in the community. Its all
about collaboration: the dancers play
a role in what we develop. We all have
a piece of ourselves in the company.
Youre finally presenting one of your
own works in this years concert. Tell me
about Sand Into Glass.
It was fun to be behind the scenes
in the first show, but its great to get
my own voice out there. This work
premiered as a six-minute piece in
2008 with Fusion Dance and now its
built up to twenty-five minutes. There
are six sections, new music, and a
fuller story line Its about looking at
challenging situations, whether its a
loss of a relationship, or an addiction,
or even fertility issues, anything that
might be cyclical. How we go through
the experience and move forward once
you emerge. The idea was to hone in
on the emotional and physical con-
cepts. It came from my own personal
experience but its told in an abstract
way, universal enough to mean some-
thing and maybe awaken something
in the audience. Its very athletic, with
two different types of movement style
and techniques reflecting the two
sides of the personality of the main
character. Shes showing them to the
other six characters, and eventually it
comes together in the end.
Nebula Dance Lab presents Re:Vision
8pm Friday and Saturday, and 2pm
Sunday at Center Stage Theater. Tickets
are $18 general, $13 students. Call 963-
0408 or visit www.centerstagetheater.org
or www.nebuladance.org.
Classical Corner
The last time we saw the Chinese
pianist Lang Lang, he was showing
off his powerful prowess and deli-
Kaita Lepore,
one of the
performers
in Nebula
Dance Labs
Re:Vision
at Center
Stage Theater
(photo credit:
Devyn Duex)
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 41 Fanatics are picturesque; mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons Friedrich Nietzsche
WHATS NEXT?
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES PRESENTS
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES PRESENTS
CAMA PRESENTS
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES PRESENTS
GRANADA THEATRE CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS
UCSB ARTS & LECTURES PRESENTS
south of the border
EnTERTAinMEnT Page 524
cately intricate fingering via two
Beethoven concertos at the Granada
Theater backed by the Santa Barbara
Symphony as part of a special pre-
season concert arranged as a warm-up
to an international tour.
On Wednesday, the still young talent
(he turned 30 this year) returns to the
same venue as a solo artist opening
CAMAs International Series, which
usually features touring orchestras but
couldnt pass up a chance to present
the still somewhat polarizing pianist
once heralded as the hottest artist on
the classical music planet by The New
York Times. Spiked hair and leather
pants might contribute to his image,
but Lang Lang will press his magic
fingers to the keys for a challenging
program of classic pieces, including
three sonatas by Mozart (No. 5 in G
Major, K.283; No. 4 in E-flat Major,
K.282; and No. 8 in A minor, K.310),
plus four Chopin Ballades (No. 1 in G
minor, Op. 23; No. 2 in F Major, Op.
38; No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 47; and
No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52).
Also coming to the Granada via
CAMA this season: Philharmonia
Orchestra of London with for-
mer LA Philharmonic music direc-
tor Esa-Pekka Salonen at the podi-
um (November 16), the 93-year-old
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Bramwell Tovey with
Jon Kimura Parker at the piano
(January 27); the 94th annual visit
of the LA Phil with guest conductor
Charles Dutoit (who is departing as
Chief Conductor of the Philadelphia
Orchestra and is currently Artistic
Director and Principal Conductor of
the Royal Philharmonic), with cellist
Gautier Capuon and violist Carrie
Dennis (February 17); another recital
with 36-year veteran violin virtuoso
Anne-Sophie Mutter accompanied
by pianist Lambert Orkis (March 5);
and David Robertson conducting the
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra fea-
turing flutist Mark Sparks as soloist
(March 20). Tickets for Lang Lang
range from $38 to $103; season tickets
cost $150-$525.
CAMAs Masterseries of recitals
and smaller ensemble concerts at the
Lobero also gets going this month,
launching with guitarist Manuel
Barrueco on October 24, followed
by violinist Christian Tetzlaff on
February 11; Tafelmusik Baroque
Orchestra performing the music-cen-
tered multimedia show House of
Dreams from the creator of The
Galileo Project (March 12); and pia-
nist Andras Schiff performing Bach
(April 19). Single tickets cost $33 &
$43 ($48 & $63 for Schiff); four-concert
subscriptions are $110 or $150 ($135 &
$100 for International Series subscrib-
ers).
For details on any CAMA concerts
or ticket plans, call 966-4324 or visit
www.camasb.org.

The Santa Barbara Chamber
Orchestra also kicks off its new season
this week, and with it another dis-
count program to entice young con-
certgoers to hear the classical music
ensemble. SBCOs Free Concert Seats
for Families program which allows
students (ages 10-18) from any finan-
cial background to attend any of the
five regular season concerts with their
parents or guardians for free is in its
fifth season. Now young adults can
also get a good deal.
The new program is called sbcome-
s2u, a somewhat disingenuous name
since you still have to travel to the
Lobero to see the concerts. But the
program does offer heavily discount-
ed tickets only $14 each for patrons
ages 15-35, with a limit of two tickets
per person to each of the five perfor-
mances. And the seats are located all
over the theater; a website check ear-
lier this week showed pairs available
in both the 3rd and 7th rows in the
center section. The site, by the way, is
clearly aimed at the younger set; the
home page asks in big bold type r u
15-35? But dont take that to mean
that its okay to text during the con-
cert; catering to youth only goes so far.
On the other end of the spectrum,
SBCO is still offering its Supper Club,
which serves a hot buffet style dinner
out on the lovely Lobero Courtyard
before every regular concert. Wine,
beverages, dessert, tip and tax are all
included for $40 per person.
Getting back to the actual music,
Japanese maestro Heiichiro Ohyama
returns to conduct the Chamber
Thirty-year-old Chinese pianist Lang Lang is the
solo artist opening CAMAs International Series on
Wednesday (photo credit: SONY Classical)
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ur towns angels, aka the
Community Angels Network
(CAN), held their September
monthly meeting at the home of
member Nancy Giford, to lend
their support to the American Heart
Associations (AHA) program Circle
of Red, a society of women working
on the heart health of women locally
and nationally.
Presenting were El Encanto gen-
eral manager and Chair of the Go
Red For Women Luncheon Laura
McIver; Dr. Aragon, cardiologist and
Division Director at Sansum Clinic
and AHA Board President; AHA exec-
utive director Lisa Dosch; Business
Development Director of AHA Alysia
Hendricks and Joi Stephens, trustee
of the Board of the AHA.
Joi Stephens joined the board of
the American Heart Association after
her brother died at 45 years old of a
heart attack. She believes education
and early detection of heart disease
are crucial for surviving. Dr. Aragon
stressed the need for heart education
and detection in women, and also stat-
ed that a womans life expectancy is
around 81, and one third of womens
deaths are heart related.
The Circle of Red Luncheon, com-
ing up on Friday, February 8 at the
Bacara Resort, offers free echocardio-
grams to all who attend. The goal
of the American Heart Association is
to improve cardiovascular health by
twenty percent. Lisa Dosch mentioned
that one can log onto www.mylife
check.org and answer a question-
naire to find out about heart health
and what can be done to improve it.
She is also working with overweight
and obese kids, with educational pro-
grams for healthy eating in the Health
Futures program.
Current CAN members are: Rosalind
Gies Amorteguy, Nancy Gifford,
Michelle Greer, Kathy Hagen, Lisa
Ross, Nancy OConnor, Cherry Sadler,
Barb Toumayan, Celeste Turbeville,
Carrie Towbes, Karen Van Horn,
Nancy Wall, Peggy Wiley and Laura
Wyatt. CAN was founded in 2003 by
Celeste (Scheinberg) Turbeville. It is
a womens group interested in con-
tributing to local charities. The group
meets nine times a year and mem-
bers take turns hosting a charity of
their choice and giving the chosen
charity a donation. The organization
then does a presentation at the meet-
ing. The growing list of over 100 chari-
ties CAN has helped include: Academy
of Healing Arts, Boys and Girls Club,
Breast Cancer Resource Center,
CALM, Domestic Violence Solutions,
Friendship Manor, Hospice/Visiting
Nurses and Safe Kids.
K-9 PALS Annual
Dog Festival
Janelle Ward, K-9 PALS President,
talked with me last week about the
annual Dog Festival coming up on
Saturday, September 29 at Chase Palm
Park. The mission of K-9 PALS, an
all-volunteer, non-profit organization
founded in Santa Barbara in 2000,
is to provide veterinary care, sup-
port, adoption promotion, and advo-
cacy for the homeless and abandoned
dogs of Santa Barbara County, all in
an effort to eliminate euthanasia so
that every adoptable dog will have a
chance for a loving home. The festival
serves to raise much needed funding,
with all the money to go to the K-9
PALS Medical Fund.
For the event, 1000 tickets are sold
at $10 for prizes that are a minimum
of $150, such as brunch for four at the
Biltmore. Janelle explains, The Great
Ball Drop part of the dog festival was
the brainstorm of one of our board
members, Debbie Deem. Each ticket
sold has a number assigned to a ten-
nis ball. The balls are in a net that the
Santa Barbara Fire Department hoists
up and drops into a bin with holes in it.
All balls that make it through holes are
winners. The grand prize, a 16GB iPad
and $250 cash, is selected by a dog that
goes into the bin and pulls out a ball.
The event sponsors are Santa Barbara
Bank & Trust, Dermatology and
Allergy Clinic for Animals, Advanced
Veterinary Specialists, Created in
Santa Barbara, and Silvergreens. Over
60 local businesses have donated priz-
es for the Great Ball Drop.
I come from a family of animal lov-
ing people, and that love of animals
goes back for several generations,
remarks Janelle, adding, I have pho-
tos of all my grandparents and great
grandparents surrounded by their
dogs, horses, and cats. So there was no
way for me to me any different. I have
been involved in working with ani-
mal rescue and animal behavior train-
ing, shelters, rescue groups and vet-
erinary hospitals for over thirty-five
years. For more information, visit
www.k-9pals.org and on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/K9PALS. MJ
Presenters at
the September
Community
Angels Network
meeting: Alysia
Hendricks,
Laura McIver,
Dr. Aragon, Joi
Stephens and Lisa
Dosch
K-9 PALS ready
for their Saturday
Event are Rebecca
Foreman, Pam
Rochell, Peter
Banuelos, Janelle
Ward and Karen
Novak, with
doggies Sadie,
Abe, Cicely and
Carrera.
The angels of CAN:
(front row) Kathy
Hagen, Laura
Wyatt, Nancy
Wall, Rosalind
Gies Amorteguy,
Lisa Ross, Carrie
Towbes; (back row)
Barb Toumayan,
Peggy Wiley, Cherry
Sadler, Nancy
Gifford, Betty
Stephens (guest)
(not pictured:
Celeste Turbeville)
K-9 PALS President
Janelle Ward and
Karen Novak
behind the scenes
at the dog rescue
kennel with Doddle
the miniature
poodle and Pi, a
chihuahua mix
K-9 PALS volunteer Jeffrey Sondag with Phoenix
(photo credit: Kristen Hehnke)
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Nearby, appropriately, I happened
upon Butanoga, a boutique selling
handmade shoes and boots that are
so inventive think jewels, fur, and
feathers that theyre displayed like
works of art, arranged in tableaux
or suspended from the ceiling indi-
vidually.
Part of the new thinking in Ljubljana
can be found at the organic restaurant
that opened recently in the courtyard
of Ljubljana Castle. Elsewhere in town,
the new Museum of Contemporary
Art has opened in the Metalkova area,
a district with lively contemporary
art and music. (Its also home to the
popular Celica Hostel, where young
guests sleep in renovated prison cells.)
Ljubljana may date back to 50 BC,
when the Romans settled here, but
these days the city radiates youthful
energy and imagination.
Best cave ever: From the city I
drove south across the Karst, a lime-
stone plateau. Hidden beneath the
forest lies a subterranean wonder-
land. Guidebooks tout the Postojna
Cave, but its touristy, with a tram to
take visitors around. Instead, head
for Skocjan Caves, Slovenias cant-
miss natural wonder, home of the
worlds largest underground gorge.
As I walked through a rock hall
hung with stalactites, formations that
grow only half an inch per century, I
heard a low rumble somewhere ahead
the waterfalls of the Reka River
(literally, River River). Entering a
vast, echoing chamber, I edged along
a catwalk suspended off the rock wall.
Next I crossed the chasm on a dizzy-
ing bridge, 150 feet above the under-
ground river. Ahead of me, lanterns
glowed in the rising mist. I can close
my eyes today and see it like a remem-
bered dream.
Little bit o Italy: When they were
handing out coastlines, Slovenia got
short-changed, with just 24 miles of the
Adriatic Sea wedged between Croatia
and Italy. The highlight is Piran, a
vest-pocket port with red-tile roofs, old
churches, and a maze of alleyways.
I arrived on a sunny day. Kids were
happily getting soaked in the spray
of waves hitting the seawall. A sleek
mega-yacht bobbed offshore, its decks
dotted with uniformed crew and the
requisite bikini-clad supermodels. But
that was the only glam touch to be
seen. Piran has the charms of a seaside
haven like Portofino, but without the
glitz.
The town square (a marble oval,
actually) is named after composer
Giuseppe Tartini, who was born in
the house at No. 7. Nearby stands
the Venetian House, a local landmark
built in the 15
th
century and painted
vibrant watermelon red, with white
stonework around its pointed Gothic
windows. I began walking each day
to a caf on the square. The owner
would see me coming (well, okay, Im
67 tall) and dish up fresh coconut
ice cream my favorite by the time
I sat down. It was small-town friendli-
ness in action, a warmth typical of the
whole country.
One afternoon I wandered through
Pirans Maritime Museum. Roman
amphorae found in the nearby bay
are displayed under a glass floor lit
with blue light, as though undersea.
Upstairs are ship models dating to
the 1700s. Finely detailed right down
to their minuscule deck hatches and
thread rigging, they were originally
built for the instruction of future naval
officers and nautical engineers.
But what I liked best about Piran
was just wandering the tangle of
streets listening to music and voices
float from the tightly packed houses,
passing small gardens with grape-
vines trailing over the walls, seeing
laundry flap on lines outside lace-
curtained windows.
In the evening Id sit in a caf on
the narrow seafront promenade and
eat grilled calamari (less than $10 for
a full dinner), sip a cold Zlatorog, and
watch the passing summer parade: a
little boy chasing his dad with a squirt
gun, teenage guys strumming guitars
for admiring girls, old ladies gossip-
ing and laughing.
Along the seawall sat kids with
overturned cardboard boxes that dis-
played seashells for sale. One little girl
stood out from the rest because she
decorated her shells with little objects
to make art pieces. I chose a white
scallop shell topped with an angel
candle, and she gave me a big smile.
At home now, the seashell angel sits
on a shelf to remind me of that rarest
of rarities a European country still
innocent and unspoiled. This is the
way it used to be.
COMPASS POINTS
Visitor Information: Slovenian
Tourist Board: www.slovenia.info.
Travel, attractions, events, accom-
modations. Google weddings in
Slovenia for hotel wedding packages.
Getting Around: It makes sense to
travel by car, given the good roads,
the countrys small size, and the lack
of convenient public transportation
to some places youll want to see.
Pick up a rental car in Ljubljana,
Bled, and other locations. I booked
through Auto Europe; www.autoeu
rope.com.
WHERE TO STAY
Lake Bled:
Villa Bled was ex-President Titos
getaway, located 1 km. from town and
furnished in Communist chic style,
with stunning lake views, top service
and cuisine; E190-230; www.vila-bled.
com.
Hotel Golf is a newer hotel (i.e.,
minimal charm), but has a lake view,
swimming pool, and health spa; E78-
125; www.hotel-golf-bled.com.
Ljubljana:
The Grand Hotel Union Executive
is a 1905 Art Nouveau hotel with an
adjacent modern tower and a central
(yet quiet) location; E194-660; www.
gh-union.si.
The Antiq Palace Hotel occupies a
16
th
century mansion in the city center
and has 13 suites and apartments,
some with terraces; E135-550; http://
antiqpalace.com.
Piran:
Hotel Piran overlooks the seafront
promenade; E74-170 for rooms with
sea views; www.hoteli-piran.si/en. MJ
In Piran, on
the Adriatic
coast, the
main square
shows clear
influences
from nearby
Venice
TRAVELER (Continued from page 38)
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 44 The Voice of the Village
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Casino country Alison Krauss
collaboration with Led Zeppelin vocalist
Robert Plant produced the brilliant,
shimmering album Raising Sand and a
couple of tours together. But bluegrass-
folk purists were probably glad that an
attempted follow-up didnt take shape,
leading Krauss to return to Union Station,
the band she co-founded as a teenager
way back in 1987. The groups latest
album, 2011s Paper Airplane, was its
frst in seven years, and also perhaps
the most popular, opening up at No. 2
on the Billboard album chart. As well
it should, given that Krauss blessedly
evocative soprano still sounds as pure
as mountain spring water, one of the
most gorgeous vocal instruments in pop
music history, while her band remains as
tight as any in this or any genre. Now,
somehow the artist who has won 27
Grammys more than anybody in history
save for classical conductor Georg Solti,
is showing up with Union Station at the
Chumash Casino, at 1,500 seats far
smaller than the Santa Barbara Bowl,
her venue for her last two appearances
in town. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 3400
East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $75-
$135 INFO: (800) CHUMASH or www.
chumashcasino.com
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
Three Together Whats even more
astounding than the fact that David
Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham
Nash are still together and touring
regularly 43 years after their debut the
night before the original Woodstock
Music Festival is the knowledge that this
truly was a supergroup even back then.
In addition to being honored by the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame as part of CSN,
each has also been inducted separately
with the infuential bands they came from:
The Byrds, Buffalo Springfeld and The
Hollies, respectively. Sure, sometimes the
harmonies stray a bit, and the high notes
might be a bit of stretch, and there hasnt
been any new material for more than a
decade (1999 for a CSNY, 1994 for the
trio), but CSNs tight vocal arrangements
still send shivers down the spine and
trigger memories for anyone who knew
them the frst time around. And the Santa
Barbara Bowl is one of their favorite places
to play. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Santa
Barbara Bowl, 1122 North Milpas Street
COST: $42.50-$79.50 INFO: 962-7411
or www.sbbowl.com
TRAP-ped again The Rhythmic Arts
Project Beneft Concert supports the truly
astounding and soul-saving programs that
educates individuals with intellectual and
developmental differences using rhythm
as a modality to address basic life and
learning skills. Its also a heckuva show! In
its second year at the Lobero after several
at Girls Inc. in Carpinteria, TRAP has
stepped up with a lineup featuring Bonnie
Bramlett (of 1960s stalwarts Delaney
& Bonnie), Tata Vega, Rosemary
Butler (longtime backup singer for
Jackson Browne and other SoCal superstar
singer-songwriters) and Carl Graves
with special guests from Little Feat, Paul
Barrere and Fred Tackett, and hosted
by Edward James Olmos. Its a real
chance to do well by doing good. WHEN:
8pm WHERE: Lobero Theater, 33 E.
Canon Perdido St. COST: $50.50 general,
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ONGOING
Jazz at the Plaza The series of free jazz concerts on Thursdays at La Cumbre
Plaza continues this week with music from Down 4 The Count Vocal Jazz Quintet.
Each week also features artwork from a chosen artist (Sept. 27: hand-painted ceramic
tiler Susie Dunbar), focuses on a Plaza retailer who offers special discounts that
day (Sept. 27: J. Jill) and gives a percentage of proceeds to a chosen charity (Sept.
27: Santa Barbara Dance Institute). Optional wine tasting, featuring various area
vintners on a rotating basis, costs $15 (Bridlewood Winery on Sept. 27). Limited
seating is available on a frst come-frst served basis, so feel free to bring your own
chairs. Next week: music from Donna Greene & The Roadhouse Daddies, with
wine by The Winehound, Surfboard Cutting Boards artist Joel Hoffmann, Solstice
Sunglass Boutique as the featured retailer and nonproft Angels Bearing Gifts reaping
the rewards. WHEN: 5-7pm every Thursday through October 25 WHERE: 121 South
Hope Ave. COST: free INFO: 687-6458 or www.shoplacumbre.com/Events/jazz

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27
Methenys sax appeal Jazz guitar
alchemist Pat Metheny returns to town
sporting a new band that features a
saxophonist for the frst time in more than
30 years. The Unity Band, which is also
the title of Methenys new album, includes
recent partner Chris Potter on sax and
bass clarinet, Ben Williams on bass and
longtime Metheny collaborator Antonio
Sanchez on drums. The concert kicks
off the new season of Jazz at the Lobero.
Diane Reeves, Monterey Jazz Festivals
55th anniversary tour (which also
features Potter) and a double-bill of Brad
Mehldau Trio and The Bad Plus round
out the season. WHEN: 7pm WHERE:
Lobero Theater, 33 E. Canon Perdido St.
COST: $50 & $60 INFO: 963-0761 or
www.lobero.com
$105.50 VIPs INFO: 963-0761 or www.
lobero.com
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
SOL Food Festival Now in its third
year, the one-day community-created
festival is meant to raise awareness of
the Sustainable, Organic and Local food
systems of Santa Barbara County. The
goal here is to communicate the concept
that while food itself is something to
be celebrated, supporting a local and
regional food system is important for the
health of our bodies, our environment and
our economy. The festival covers every
aspect of food, from soil and growing
to cooking and compost, and festival
goers have the opportunity to participate
in demos, talks, workshops and other
activities that discuss how to get involved
in the movement to make our food system
more Sustainable, Organic and Local. All
the food vendors follow those practices
(including reasonable prices onsite) and
even the water is locally produced and
available for free, with butternut squash
curry, organic gluten-free pizza, corn
polenta with veggie ragu, and fresh wraps
among the offerings. Each food vendor
is paired with a local farm, allowing
you to observe and taste the connections
from feld to fork. Other activities include
music from Natalie D-Napolean and
Glendessary Jam. WHEN: 10am-6pm
WHERE: Plaza de Vera Cruz, corner of
Haley and Santa Barbara streets COST:
free INFO: www.solfoodfestival.com
Miller time Its looking pretty grim
for Pittsburghs baseball team to break
its 19-season streak of fnishing with a
losing record. But the city has produced a
popular rapper who was born the same
year the Pirates fnished above .500.
Malcolm James McCormick, better
known as Mac Miller, put out his debut
CD less than a year ago, but was already
a star due to a series of mix tapes and
YouTube videos (which have surpassed
165 million hits) that propelled his
popularity. A protg of fellow Pittsburgh
rapper Wiz Khalifa, Miller favors
psychedelic lyrics and has a penchant for
referencing marijuana in his lyrics. Now
hes appearing at the Santa Barbara Bowl,
the same outdoor venue that hosted Khalifa
last summer. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Santa
Barbara Bowl, 1122 North Milpas Street
COST: $33.50-$43.50 INFO: 962-7411
or www.sbbowl.com
Gray matter Next January, Henry
Gray will turn 88, representing the
number of keys on a piano, the instrument
he helped established as a mainstay in
Chicago blues. Grays more than seven
decades of experience includes stints
with Robert Lockwood, Jr., Billy Boy Arnold
and Howlin Wolf among many others,
including a recording with the Rolling
Stones. Guitarist Chris James and
bassist Patrick Rynn who themselves
have been playing together since 1990
comprise the backing band for the
venerable pianist, who will be appearing
under the auspices of the Santa Barbara
Blues Society. A transfer to the new Carrillo
Recreation Center means more room to
dance, and more comfort, too, as the
audience gets to enjoy the knee-saving
spring-loaded foor. Free BBQ snacks prior
to showtime. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 100
East Carrillo Street COST: $30 general
($40 VIPS, includes a free drink), discounts
for students and SBBS members INFO:
722-8155 or www.sbblues.org
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30
Elvis lives UCSB brought Elvis
Costello to a downtown theater for a solo
show just a few years ago, but this concert
promises to be even more exciting as the
venerable singer-songwriter who long since
left behind the New Wave appellation
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 45 A narcissist is someone better looking than you are Gore Vidal
ARLINGTON
1317 State Street - 963-4408
Courtyard Bar Open
Friday Only - 5:00 - 8:30
PASEO NUEVO
8 W. De La Guerra Pl. - S.B.
RIVIERA
2044 Alameda Padre Serra - S.B.
PLAZA DE ORO
371 Hi t chcock Way - S. B.
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877-789-MOVIE www.metrotheatres.com
Information Listed for Friday, September 28 thru Thursday, October 4
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Features Stadium Seating
618 Stat e St reet - S. B.
CAMINO REAL
Features Stadium Seating
CAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE
Hollister & Storke - GOLETA
FIESTA 5
Features Stadium Seating
916 Stat e St reet - S. B.
FAIRVIEW
Features Stadium Seating
225 N. Fai rvi ew - Gol eta
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Fri-Sun - 1:00 3:45 6:30 9:20
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FINDING NEMO (G)
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Fri & Tue-Thu - 7:30
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Fri & Tue-Thu - 7:15
Sat/Sun - 1:40 4:15 7:15
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RESIDENT EVIL:
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2:45 5:20 8:00
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Thursday, October 4
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Thu 10/4 - 1:00 7:00
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Fri-Sun -
1:10 2:30 4:00 5:20
7:00 8:15 9:50
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2:30 4:00 5:20 7:00 8:15
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Fri-Tue & Thu - 7:20
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Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:50
LAWLESS (R)
Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:10 6:45 9:20
Mon-Thu - 2:15 5:00 7:45
Wednesday, October 3
E. T.
THE EXTRA-TERRESTERIAL
Wed 10/3 - 7:00 - DIGITAL
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Fri-Sun - (PG)
12:20 2:35 5:00 7:30 9:45
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PITCH PERFECT (PG-13)
1:30 4:20 7:10 9:55
LOOPER (R)
1:40 4:30 7:20 10:10
DREDD (R)
6:50
1:20 4:10 9:40
Clint Eastwood (PG-13)
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE
1:00 3:45 6:30 9:10
END OF WATCH (R)
1:10 4:00 6:40 9:30
Philip Seymour Hoffman
THE MASTER (R)
Fri & Mon-Thu - 4:00 7:15
Sat/Sun - 1:00 4:00 7:15
Emma Watson....Ezra Miller
THE PERKS OF BEING
A WALLFLOWER (PG-13)
Fri-Sun -
1:15 2:45 4:00 5:20
6:45 8:00 9:20
Mon-Thu -
2:45 4:00 5:20 6:45 8:00
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Clint Eastwood....Amy Adams
Justin Timberlake (PG-13)
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE
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Philip Seymour Hoffman
THE MASTER (R)
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THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
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Fiesta 5 Camino Real
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in 2D: in 3D:
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October 24 - 7:00 - Metro 4 - DOUBLE FEATURE!
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - 50th Anniversary Event!
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October 4
1:00 pm
&
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7:00 pm
Metro 4
ARLINGTON
1317 State Street - 963-4408
Courtyard Bar Open
Friday Only - 5:00 - 8:30
PASEO NUEVO
8 W. De La Guerra Pl. - S.B.
RIVIERA
2044 Alameda Padre Serra - S.B.
PLAZA DE ORO
371 Hi t chcock Way - S. B.
Denotes SPECIAL ENGAGEMENT Restrictions
877-789-MOVIE www.metrotheatres.com
Information Listed for Friday, September 28 thru Thursday, October 4
METRO 4
Features Stadium Seating
618 Stat e St reet - S. B.
CAMINO REAL
Features Stadium Seating
CAMINO REAL MARKETPLACE
Hollister & Storke - GOLETA
FIESTA 5
Features Stadium Seating
916 Stat e St reet - S. B.
FAIRVIEW
Features Stadium Seating
225 N. Fai rvi ew - Gol eta
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
Fri-Sun - (PG)
12:00 2:15 4:40 7:10 9:25
Mon-Thu - 2:20 4:40 7:00
WONT BACK DOWN (PG)
Fri-Sun - 1:20 4:10 7:00 9:45
Mon-Thu - 2:10 5:00 7:50
FINDING NEMO (G)
Fri-Sun - 12:15 2:45 5:15 7:45
Mon-Thu - 2:30 4:50 7:15
END OF WATCH (R)
Fri-Sun - 1:40 4:20 7:20 9:55
Mon-Thu - 2:40 5:10 7:40
HOUSE AT THE END
OF THE STREET (PG-13)
Fri-Sun - 2:00 4:50 7:30 10:00
Mon-Thu - 2:50 5:30 8:00
WONT BACK DOWN (PG)
Fri-Sun - 1:00 3:45 6:30 9:20
Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:45 7:30
HOUSE AT THE END
OF THE STREET (PG-13)
Fri-Sun - 1:15 4:00 6:45 9:10
Mon-Thu - 2:30 5:00 7:45
FINDING NEMO (G)
Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:20 7:00
Mon-Thu - 2:10 4:30
RESIDENT EVIL:
RETRIBUTION (R)
Fri-Sun- 9:30 Mon-Thu- 7:15 SAMSARA (PG-13)
Fri & Tue-Thu - 7:30
Sat/Sun - 1:20 4:30 7:30
Mon - 6:30
THE INTOUCHABLES (R)
Fri & Tue-Thu - 7:15
Sat/Sun - 1:40 4:15 7:15
Mon - 6:45
RESIDENT EVIL:
RETRIBUTION (R)
2:45 5:20 8:00
Except Sat & Thu - No Shows!
Thursday, October 4
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
Thu 10/4 - 1:00 7:00
Restored - DIGITAL
LOOPER (R)
Fri-Sun -
1:10 2:30 4:00 5:20
7:00 8:15 9:50
Mon-Thu -
2:30 4:00 5:20 7:00 8:15
Playing on 2 Screens
DREDD (R)
Fri-Tue & Thu - 7:20
Wed - No 3D Show!
Fri-Sun -
2:00 4:50 9:40
Mon-Thu - 2:00 4:50
LAWLESS (R)
Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:10 6:45 9:20
Mon-Thu - 2:15 5:00 7:45
Wednesday, October 3
E. T.
THE EXTRA-TERRESTERIAL
Wed 10/3 - 7:00 - DIGITAL
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA
Fri-Sun - (PG)
12:20 2:35 5:00 7:30 9:45
Mon-Thu - 2:35 5:00 7:30 9:45
PITCH PERFECT (PG-13)
1:30 4:20 7:10 9:55
LOOPER (R)
1:40 4:30 7:20 10:10
DREDD (R)
6:50
1:20 4:10 9:40
Clint Eastwood (PG-13)
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE
1:00 3:45 6:30 9:10
END OF WATCH (R)
1:10 4:00 6:40 9:30
Philip Seymour Hoffman
THE MASTER (R)
Fri & Mon-Thu - 4:00 7:15
Sat/Sun - 1:00 4:00 7:15
Emma Watson....Ezra Miller
THE PERKS OF BEING
A WALLFLOWER (PG-13)
Fri-Sun -
1:15 2:45 4:00 5:20
6:45 8:00 9:20
Mon-Thu -
2:45 4:00 5:20 6:45 8:00
Playing on 2 Screens
Clint Eastwood....Amy Adams
Justin Timberlake (PG-13)
TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE
Fri-Sun - 1:30 4:15 7:00 9:35
Mon-Thu - 2:20 5:00 7:40
Joaquin Phoenix....Amy Adams
Philip Seymour Hoffman
THE MASTER (R)
Fri-Sun - 1:45 5:00 8:15
Mon-Thu - 2:10 5:10 8:15
SAMSARA (PG-13) Plaza De Oro
THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER
Paseo Nuevo on 2 Screens (PG-13)
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA (PG) in 2D
Fiesta 5 Camino Real
LOOPER (R) Metro 4 - 2 Screens & Camino Real
WONT BACK DOWN (PG) Fiesta 5 Fairview
PITCH PERFECT (PG-13) Camino Real
in 2D: in 3D:
in 3D:
in 3D:
in 2D:
in 2D:
in 2D:
in 3D:
in 3D:
in 2D:
in 2D:
BARGAIN TUESDAYS AT ALL LOCATIONS!
Showtimes - Before 6:00 pm - ALL SEATS - ALL SHOWS - $5.50
Showtimes - 6:00 pm and Later - Children....Seniors (60+) - $5.50 Adults - $7.50
3-D: add $3.00 Premium Charge to All Advertised Pricing
October 24 - 7:00 - Metro 4 - DOUBLE FEATURE!
FRANKENSTEIN & BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
November 15 - 7:00 - Metro 4
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD - 50th Anniversary Event!
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
October 4
1:00 pm
&
7:00 pm
Arlington
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
October 3
7:00 pm
Metro 4

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Canine corner The fourth annual K-9
PALS Dog Festival features pet products, lots
of dog contests including agility, police K9
demonstrations, animal welfare group, food
booths, music (by Tiffany and the Henderson
Brothers) and plenty of adoptable pets on
the premises. But the big draw is the annual
Great Ball Drop, a new twist on the prize
raffe in which 1,000 tennis balls that have
been adopted by hopefuls are hoisted into
the sky then released to fall onto a custom-
designed prize board. The grand prize is
an iPad and $250 gift certifcate. WHEN:
11am-3pm WHERE: Chase Palm Park,
323 E. Cabrillo Blvd. COST: free INFO: 570-0415 or www.k-9pals.org

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29
Opus 2 A beneft for music education in
the schools is hosting a special screening of
Mr. Hollands Opus, the classic Hollywood
flm that best exemplifes the link between
music and growth. Santa Barbara-based
actor Jay Thomas, who played Coach
Meister in the flm, joins screenwriter Patrick
Shean Duncan, who was nominated for
a Golden Globe for his script. There is no
offcial admission for the event, but guests
are asked to donate $20, which will directly
beneft the Music Programs in the Carpinteria
Unifed School District. Peter Bie will
moderate a discussion prior to the screening,
and there will be some one-of-a-kind items
available via raffe. WHEN: 7:30pm
WHERE: Plaza Playhouse Theatre, 4916
Carpinteria Ave., Carpinteria INFO: 684-
6380 or www.plazatheatercarpinteria.com
he acquired in the 1970s is presenting
2054 The Century Show. The idea
is that the concert may contain any song
hes written over his 35-year career, as
well as perhaps his future hits. Ever the
sardonic wit, Costello offered, Im playing
this show now in the unlikely event that
Im not around to perform the songs on
the appointed date. Whatever the set
list, the songs are never less than expertly-
crafted insights from one of the brightest,
most inquisitive and versatile minds in pop
music, as Costello has veered from New
Wave to Nashville, pop crooning to punk
shouting, string quartets to Burt Bacharach
and Beatle Paul McCartney. Not sure if
The Spectacular Spinning Songbook in
which audience members help determine
the evenings fare via a carnival-style
wheel is part of this tour, but Costellos
selection are likely even more attuned
to what we really want to hear. What a
way to kick off UCSBs new A&L season!
WHEN: 8pm WHERE: Granada Theatre,
1214 State Street COST: $35-$70 ($150
premium) INFO: 893-3535 or www.
ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu or 899-2222
or www.granadasb.org
Duo of duos A garage-rock revival
twosome would seem unlikely to be of
much interest to a boutique indie label
that specializes in roots music, classical
and jazz let alone the Grammys, but The
Black Keys have defed all expectations
since emerging from Akron, Ohio, a
decade ago. Dan Auerbach (guitar,
vocals) and Patrick Carney (drums)
toured and recorded almost endlessly,
leading to a record deal with Nonesuch,
and collaborations with famed producer
Danger Mouse. 2010s Brothers won three
Grammy Awards, last years Clash-and-T.
Rex-inspired El Camino topped critics
Top 10 lists (and hit No. 2 on Billboard),
and now the duo, augmented by a touring
quartet, is hitting the Santa Barbara Bowl.
Tegan & Sara, the Canadian indie duo
featuring identical twin sisters, opens the
concert. WHEN: 6:30pm WHERE: Santa
Barbara Bowl, 1122 North Milpas Street
COST: $58.50-$83.50 INFO: 962-7411
or www.sbbowl.com
Backcountry booster Santa
Barbara News-Press hiking columnist
James Wapotich who is an intrepid
backpacker and a Volunteer Wilderness
Ranger with the Forest Service presents
images and stories from his hikes in our
local mountains. The PowerPoint slideshow
with time for questions will include images
of our local backcountry from the San
Rafael and Dick Smith Wildernesses as
well as trails closer to home, and is a great
opportunity to learn more about our local
trails. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Karpeles
Manuscript Library, 21. W. Anapamu
Street COST: free INFO: 564-6946 or
www.songsofthewilderness.wordpress.com
Advertise in
Affordable. Effective. Efficient.
Call for rates (805) 565-1860
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 46 The Voice of the Village


ORDINANCE NO. 5594

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
BARBARA AMENDING CHAPTER 9.116 OF THE SANTA
BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO EMERGENCY
SERVICES.


The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a

regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council

held on September 18, 2012.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant

to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa

Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original

ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the

City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.


(Seal)


/s/_____________________
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager



ORDINANCE NO. 5594


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


I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced
on September 11, 2012, and was adopted by the Council of the
City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 18, 2012, by
the following roll call vote:

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

NOES: Councilmember(s) or None

ABSENT: Councilmember(s) or None

ABSTENTIONS: Councilmember(s) or None


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed
the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on September 19,
2012.

/s/
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on September 19,
2012.

/s/
Helene Schneider
Mayor



ORDINANCE NO. 5596

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
BARBARA APPROVING THE SALE OF THE SURPLUS REAL
PROPERTY LOCATED AT 309 WEST ORTEGA STREET (APN
037-113-007) TO RAQUEL MEDINA, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN,
IN THE HIGH BID AMOUNT OF $400,300.


The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a

regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council

held on September 18, 2012.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant

to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa

Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original

ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the

City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.


(Seal)


/s/_____________________
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager


ORDINANCE NO. 5596


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


I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced
on September 11, 2012, and was adopted by the Council of the
City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 18, 2012, by
the following roll call vote:

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

NOES: Councilmember(s) or None

ABSENT: Councilmember(s) or None

ABSTENTIONS: Councilmember(s) or None


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed
the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on September 19,
2012.

/s/
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on September 19,
2012.

/s/
Helene Schneider
Mayor



CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
NOTICE TO BIDDERS


NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received
by the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310
E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on
the date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened,
read and posted for:

BID NO. 5185

DUE DATE & TIME: OCTOBER 16, 2012 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

WESTSIDE CENTER LIGHTING IMPROVEMENTS

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on October 3,
2012 at 9:00 a.m., at the Westside Center, located at 423 W.
Victoria Street, Santa Barbara, CA, to discuss the
specifications and field conditions. Bid Documents are
available at the Purchasing Office and at the pre-bid
meeting.

Bids must be submitted on forms supplied by the City of Santa
Barbara and in accordance with the specifications, terms and
conditions contained therein. Bid packages containing all
forms, specifications, terms and conditions may be obtained in
person at the Purchasing Office or by calling (805) 564-5349, or
by Facsimile request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for
bid package and specifications.

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

The project is funded through a Community Development Block
Grant (CDBG). This is a federally-assisted project and Davis-
Bacon (DBRA) requirements will be strictly enforced. In the
event of a conflict between Federal Prevailing Wage
(Davis/Bacon Act) and Prevailing Wage,
Contractor/Subcontractor shall pay the higher of the two rates.

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a
current valid State of California C-10 Contractors License.
The company bidding on this must possess one of the above
mentioned licenses and be otherwise deemed qualified to
perform the work specified herein. Bids submitted using the
license name and number of a subcontractor or other person
who is not a principle partner or owner of the company making
this bid, will be rejected as being non-responsive.

The City of Santa Barbara affirmatively assures that minority
and disadvantaged business enterprises will be afforded full
opportunity to submit bids in response to this invitation and will
not be discriminated against on the grounds of age (over 40),
ancestry, color, mental or physical disability, sex, gender
identity and expression, marital status, medical condition
(cancer or genetic characteristics), national origin, race,
religious belief, or sexual orientation in consideration of award.

____________________
William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: Sept. 26, 2012
General Services Manager Montecito Journal

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business
as: Mesa Salsa Company, 848
Calle Cortita, Santa Barbara, CA
93109. Anne Altamirano, 848
Calle Cortita, Santa Barbara, CA
93109. This statement was fled
with the County Clerk of Santa
Barbara County on September 17,
2012. This statement expires fve
years from the date it was fled in
the Offce of the County Clerk. I
hereby certify that this is a correct
copy of the original statement on
fle in my offce. Joseph E. Holland,
County Clerk (SEAL) by Joshua
Madison. Original FBN No. 2012-
0002679. Published September
26, October 3, 10, 17, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as:
Nick Gosnell Tree Service, 228 W.
Victoria Street, Apt. 7, Santa Barbara,
CA 93101. Nicholas Alexander
Gosnell, 228 W. Victoria Street,
Apt. 7, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
This statement was fled with the
County Clerk of Santa Barbara
County on September 19, 2012.
This statement expires fve years from
the date it was fled in the Offce of
the County Clerk. I hereby certify that
this is a correct copy of the original
statement on fle in my offce. Joseph
E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by
Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-
0002714. Published September
26, October 3, 10, 17, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as:
Forever Beautiful Spa; Santa
Barbara Eyelash Extensions, 6
Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, CA
93109. Stephanie Gombrelli, 6
Harbor Way, Santa Barbara, CA
93109. This statement was fled
with the County Clerk of Santa
Barbara County on September 14,
2012. This statement expires fve
years from the date it was fled in
the Offce of the County Clerk. I
hereby certify that this is a correct
copy of the original statement on
fle in my offce. Joseph E. Holland,
County Clerk (SEAL) by Joshua
Madison. Original FBN No. 2012-
0002669. Published September
19, 26, October 3, 10, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as:
Sturgeon Enterprises; Sturgeon
Real Estate Investments;
Sturgeon Rentals, 1207 Diana
Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
Judy E. Sturgeon, 1207 Diana
Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
This statement was fled with the
County Clerk of Santa Barbara
County on September 17, 2012. This
statement expires fve years from the
date it was fled in the Offce of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that
this is a correct copy of the original
statement on fle in my offce. Joseph
E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by
Kathy Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-
0002672. Published September
19, 26, October 3, 10, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as:
The Blooming Thread, PO Box
2829, Lompoc, CA 93438. Ryan
Nicole Horton, 135 E. Cypress
Ave., Apt 6, Lompoc, CA 93436.
This statement was fled with the
County Clerk of Santa Barbara
County on September 4, 2012. This
statement expires fve years from the
date it was fled in the Offce of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that
this is a correct copy of the original
statement on fle in my offce. Joseph
E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by
Carol Kraus. Original FBN No. 2012-
0002559. Published September
12, 19, 26, October 3, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as:
Menu Cellars, 35 Industrial Way,
Buellton, CA 93427. A&SS LLC,
3215 Via La Selva, Palos Verdes
Estates, CA 90274. This statement
was fled with the County Clerk of
Santa Barbara County on August
17, 2012. This statement expires
fve years from the date it was fled
in the Offce of the County Clerk. I
hereby certify that this is a correct
copy of the original statement on
fle in my offce. Joseph E. Holland,
County Clerk (SEAL) by Kathy
Miller. Original FBN No. 2012-
0002393. Published September
12, 19, 26, October 3, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as:
CLEVERPIXEL; CLEVERPIXEL.
NET, 308 North N. Street, Lompoc,
CA 93436. Erik Schade, 308 North
N. Street, Lompoc, CA 93436.
This statement was fled with the
County Clerk of Santa Barbara
County on August 20, 2012. This
PUBLIC NOTICES
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 47 The future influences the present just as much as the past Friedrich Nietzsche


CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
BID NO: 5183

Sealed proposals for Bid No. 5183 for the ON-CALL SEWER
MAIN POINT REPAIRS FY13 will be received in the Purchasing
Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California 93101,
until 3:00 p.m., Thursday, October 4, 2012 to be publicly
opened and read at that time. Any bidder who wishes its bid
proposal to be considered is responsible for making certain that
its bid proposal is actually delivered to said Purchasing Office.
Bids shall be addressed to the General Services Manager,
Purchasing Office, 310 E. Ortega Street, Santa Barbara,
California, and shall be labeled, ON-CALL SEWER MAIN
POINT REPAIRS FY13, Bid No. 5183."

The work includes all labor, material, supervision, plant and
equipment necessary to repair and replace damaged sewer
pipelines utilizing traditional open trench excavation methods.
Currently, the City has three (3) sewer pipelines that are in
immediate need for repair. Additional sewer pipelines that
require immediate repairs are expected over the next several
months, as the City will CCTV approximately 25 miles of its
sanitary sewer system starting in January 2013. The City
intends to utilize this contract to perform on-call construction
services for these urgent repairs through June 2013. The
quantity of contingency bid items 4-7 (point repairs, point
repairs with service connection, point repairs with concrete, and
point repairs with service connection concrete) are an
estimate only for the purposes of bid comparison. The actual
quantities of these items of work may vary substantially from
the estimated amount. The Engineers estimate is $125,200.
Each bidder must have a Class A license to complete this work
in accordance with the California Business and Professions
Code.

To obtain a copy of the specifications for this Project, visit
Ebidboard.com to become a registered plan holder and
download a copy of the specifications. The Citys contact for
this project is Bradley Rahrer, Project Engineer, 805-560-7531.

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

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

Per California Civil Code Section 3247, a payment bond in the
amount of 100% of the bid total will be required from the
successful bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must
be provided within 10 calendar days from notice of award and
prior to the performance of any work.

The proposal shall be accompanied by a proposal guaranty
bond in the sum of at least 10% of the total amount of the
proposal, or alternatively by a certified or cashiers check
payable to the Owner in the sum of at least 10% of the total
amount of the proposal.

A separate performance bond in the amount of 100% of the bid
total will be required from the successful bidder. The bond
must be provided within 10 calendar days from the notice to
award and prior to the performance of any work.

The City of Santa Barbara hereby notifies all bidders that it will
affirmatively insure that in any contract entered into pursuant to
this advertisement, minority business enterprises will be
afforded full opportunity to submit bids in response to this
invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds
of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, sexual
orientation, political affiliations or beliefs, sex, age, physical
disability, medical condition, marital status or pregnancy as set
forth hereunder.



GENERAL SERVICES MANAGER
CITY OF SANTA BARBARA



William Hornung, C.P.M.


PUBLISHED:
Montecito Journal: Sept. 19 and Sept. 26, 2012


ORDINANCE NO. 5593

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
BARBARA APPROVING A FIVE-YEAR LEASE AGREEMENT
WITH ONE FIVE-YEAR OPTION WITH CLEAN SEAS, L.L.C. AT
A MONTHLY RENT OF $2,200, FOR APPROXIMATELY 1,800
SQUARE FEET OF WATER AREA ADJACENT TO MARINA 1-F
FINGER IN THE SANTA BARBARA HARBOR, EFFECTIVE
OCTOBER 18, 2012.


The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a

regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council

held on September 18, 2012.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant

to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa

Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original

ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the

City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.


(Seal)


/s/_____________________
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager


ORDINANCE NO. 5593


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


I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced
on September 11, 2012, and was adopted by the Council of the
City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 18, 2012, by
the following roll call vote:

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

NOES: Councilmember(s) or None

ABSENT: Councilmember(s) or None

ABSTENTIONS: Councilmember(s) or None


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed
the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on September 19,
2012.

/s/
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on September 19,
2012.

/s/
Helene Schneider
Mayor




ORDINANCE NO. 5595

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
BARBARA APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE AIRPORT
DIRECTOR TO EXECUTE A RESTATED LEASE AGREEMENT
NO. 12,037 DATED AUGUST 1, 1983, AS AMENDED, BETWEEN
SIGNATURE FLIGHT SUPPORT CORPORATION, A
CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, AND THE CITY OF SANTA
BARBARA ENCOMPASSING APPROXIMATELY 938,321
SQUARE FEET LOCATED AT 515 ROBERT MARXMILLER
PLACE AT THE SANTA BARBARA AIRPORT.


The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a

regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council

held on September 18, 2012.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant

to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa

Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original

ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the

City Clerk's Office, City Hall, Santa Barbara,

California.


(Seal)


/s/_____________________
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager



ORDINANCE NO. 5595


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


I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced
on September 11, 2012, and was adopted by the Council of the
City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on September 18, 2012, by
the following roll call vote:

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

NOES: Councilmember(s) or None

ABSENT: Councilmember(s) or None

ABSTENTIONS: Councilmember(s) or None


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed
the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on September 19,
2012.

/s/
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on September 19,
2012.

/s/
Helene Schneider
Mayor


statement expires fve years from the
date it was fled in the Offce of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that
this is a correct copy of the original
statement on fle in my offce. Joseph
E. Holland, County Clerk (SEAL) by
Carol Kraus. Original FBN No. 2012-
0002408. Published September
12, 19, 26, October 3, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as:
AJS Computer, 709 North E Street,
Apt 2, Lompoc, CA 93436. Adam
Curtis, 709 North E Street, Apt 2,
Lompoc, CA 93436. This statement
was fled with the County Clerk of
Santa Barbara County on August
7, 2012. This statement expires fve
years from the date it was fled in the
Offce of the County Clerk. I hereby
certify that this is a correct copy of
the original statement on fle in my
offce. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Dionne Ruiz. Original
FBN No. 2012-0002283. Published
September 5, 12, 19, 26, 2012.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as:
Hella Digital, 7901 Rio Vista Drive,
Goleta, CA 93117. Walter Klein,
7901 Rio Vista Drive, Goleta, CA
93117. This statement was fled with
the County Clerk of Santa Barbara
County on August 29, 2012. This
statement expires fve years from
the date it was fled in the Offce of
the County Clerk. I hereby certify
that this is a correct copy of the
original statement on fle in my offce.
Joseph E. Holland, County Clerk
(SEAL) by Kathy Miller. Original
FBN No. 2012-0002533. Published
September 5, 12, 19, 26, 2012.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No.
1413367. To all interested parties:
Petitioner Basilisa Figueroa fled
a petition with Superior Court of
California, County of Santa Barbara,
for a decree changing name of child
from Gissel Figueroa to Gissel
Figueroa Estrada. The Court
orders that all persons interested in
this matter appear before this court
at the hearing indicated below to
show cause, if any, why the petition
for change of name should not
be granted. Any person objecting
to the name changes described
about must fle a written objection
that included the reasons for the
objection at least two court days
before the matter is scheduled to
be heard and must appear at the
hearing to show cause why the
petition should not be granted. If no
written objection is timely fled, the
court may grant the petition without
a hearing. Filed September 14,
2012 by Terry Chavez, Deputy Clerk.
Hearing date: November 29, 2012 at
9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa
Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Published 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No.
1403387. To all interested parties:
Petitioner Lisa Bluma Dana fled
a petition with Superior Court of
California, County of Santa Barbara,
for a decree changing name to Lisa
Bluma Love. The Court orders
that all persons interested in this
matter appear before this court at
the hearing indicated below to
show cause, if any, why the petition
for change of name should not be
granted. Any person objecting
to the name changes described
about must fle a written objection
that included the reasons for the
objection at least two court days
before the matter is scheduled to
be heard and must appear at the
hearing to show cause why the
petition should not be granted. If
LEGALS Page 494
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 48 The Voice of the Village
Bella Vista $$$
1260 Channel Drive (565-8237)
Cafe Del Sol $$
30 Los Patos Way (969-0448)
CAVA $$
1212 Coast Village Road (969-8500)
Regional Mexican and Spanish cooking
combine to create Latin cuisine from tapas and
margaritas, mojitos, seafood paella and sangria
to lobster tamales, Churrasco ribeye steak and
seared Ahi tuna. Sunfower-colored interior
is accented by live Spanish guitarist playing
next to cozy beehive freplace nightly. Lively
year-round outdoor people-wat ching front
patio. Open Monday-Friday 11 am to 10 pm.
Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 10 pm.
China Palace $$
1070 Coast Village Road (565-9380)
Giovannis $
1187 Coast Village Road (969-1277)
Los Arroyos $
1280 Coast Village Road (969-9059)
Little Alexs $
1024 A-Coast Village Road (969-2297)
Luckys (brunch) $$ (dinner) $$$
1279 Coast Village Road (565-7540)
Comfortable, old-fashioned urban steak-
house in the heart of Americas biggest little
village. Steaks, chops, seafood, cocktails,
and an enormous wine list are featured, with
white tablecloths, fne crystal and vintage
photos from the 20th century. The bar
(separate from dining room) features large
fat-screen TV and opens at 4 pm during the
week. Open nightly from 5 pm to 10 pm;
Saturday & Sunday brunch from 9 am to
3 pm. Valet Parking.
Montecito Caf $$
1295 Coast Village Road (969-3392)
Montecito Coffee Shop $
1498 East Valley Road (969-6250)
Montecito Wine Bistro $$$
516 San Ysidro Road 969-7520
Head to Montecitos upper village to indulge in
some California bistro cuisine. Chef Nathan Heil
creates seasonal menus that include fsh and
vegetarian dishes, and fresh fatbreads straight
out of the wood-burning oven. The Bistro of-
fers local wines, classic and specialty cocktails,
single malt scotches and aged cognacs.
Pane Vino $$$
1482 East Valley Road (969-9274)
Plow & Angel $$$
San Ysidro Ranch
900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700)
Enjoy a comfortable atmosphere as you dine
on traditional dishes such as mac n cheese
and ribs. The ambiance is enhanced with
original artwork, including stained glass
windows and an homage to its namesake,
Saint Isadore, hanging above the fre-
place. Dinner is served from 5 to 10 pm
daily with bar service extending until 11 pm
weekdays and until midnight on Friday and
Saturday.
$ (average per person under $15)
$$ (average per person $15 to $30)
$$$ (average per person $30 to $45)
$$$$ (average per person $45-plus)
MONTECI TO EATERI ES . . . A Gu i d e
Sakana Japanese Restaurant $$
1046 Coast Village Road (565-2014)
Stella Mares $$/$$$
50 Los Patos Way (969-6705)
Stonehouse $$$$
San Ysidro Ranch
900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700)
Located in what is a 19th-century citrus
packinghouse, Stonehouse restaurant features
a lounge with full bar service and separate
dining room with crackling freplace and
creekside views. Chef Matthew Johnsons
regional cuisine is prepared with a palate of
herbs and vegetables harvested from the on-site
chefs garden. Recently voted 1 of the best 50
restaurants in America by OpenTable Diners
Choice. 2010 Diners Choice Awards: 1 of 50
Most Romantic Restaurants in America, 1 of
50 Restaurants With Best Service in America.
Open for dinner from 6 to 10 pm daily.
Sunday Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.
Trattoria Mollie $$$
1250 Coast Village Road (565-9381)
Tre Lune $$/$$$
1151 Coast Village Road (969-2646)
A real Italian boite, complete with small but
fully licensed bar, big list of Italian wines, large
comfortable tables and chairs, lots of mahogany
and large b&w vintage photos of mostly fa-
mous Italians. Menu features both comfort food
like mama used to make and more adventurous
Italian fare. Now open continuously from lunch
to dinner. Also open from 7:30 am to 11:30 am
daily for breakfast.
Via Vai Trattoria Pizzeria $$
1483 East Valley Road (565-9393)
Delis, bakeries, juice bars
Blenders in the Grass
1046 Coast Village Road (969-0611)
Heres The Scoop
1187 Coast Village Road (lower level)
(969-7020)
Gelato and Sorbet are made on the premises.
Open Monday through Thursday 1 pm to 9 pm,
12 pm to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and
12 pm to 9 pm on Sundays.
Jeannines
1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878)
Montecito Deli
1150 Coast Village Road (969-3717)
Open six days a week from 7 am to 3 pm.
(Closed Sunday) This eatery serves home-
made soups, fresh salads, sandwiches, and its
specialty, The Piadina, a homemade fat bread
made daily.
Panino
1014 #C Coast Village Road (565-0137)
Pierre Lafond
516 San Ysidro Road (565-1502)
This market and deli is a center of activity
in Montecitos Upper Village, serving fresh
baked pastries, regular and espresso cofee
drinks, smoothies, burritos, homemade
soups, deli salads, made-to-order sandwiches
and wraps available, and boasting a fully
stocked salad bar. Its sunny patio draws
crowds of regulars daily. The shop also
carries specialty drinks, gift items, grocery
staples, and produce. Open everyday 5:30 am
to 8 pm.
Village Cheese & Wine
1485 East Valley Road (969-3815)

In Summerland / Carpinteria
Cantwells Summerland Market $
2580 Lillie Avenue (969-5893)
Garden Market $
3811 Santa Claus Lane (745-5505)
Jacks Bistro $
5050 Carpinteria Avenue (566-1558)
Serving light California Cuisine, Jacks ofers
freshly baked bagels with whipped cream
cheeses, omelettes, scrambles, breakfast bur-
ritos, specialty sandwiches, wraps, burgers, sal-
ads, pastas and more. Jacks ofers an extensive
espresso and cofee bar menu, along with wine
and beer. They also ofer full service catering,
and can accommodate wedding receptions to
corporate events. Open Monday through Fri-
day 6:30 am to 3 pm, Saturday and Sunday
7 am to 3 pm.
Nugget $$
2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135)
Padaro Beach Grill $
3765 Santa Claus Lane (566-9800)
A beach house feel gives this seaside eatery its
charm and makes it a perfect place to bring the
whole family. Its new owners added a pond,
waterfall, an elevated patio with freplace and
couches to boot. Enjoy grill options, along with
salads and seafood plates. The Grill is open
Monday through Sunday 11 am to 9 pm
Slys $$$
686 Linden Avenue (684-6666)
Slys features fresh fsh, farmers market veg-
gies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate
Specials and vintage desserts. Youll fnd a full
bar, serving special martinis and an extensive
wine list featuring California and French wines.
Cocktails from 4 pm to close, dinner from 5 to 9
pm Sunday-Thursday and 5 to 10 pm Friday and
Saturday. Lunch is M-F 11:30 to 2:30, and brunch
is served on the weekends from 9 am to 3 pm.
Stackys Seaside $
2315 Lillie Avenue (969-9908)
Summerland Beach Caf $
2294 Lillie Avenue (969-1019)
Tinkers $
2275 C Ortega Hill Road (969-1970)
Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row
Bistro Eleven Eleven $$
1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard (730-1111)
Located adjacent to Hotel Mar Monte, the
bistro serves breakfast and lunch featuring
all-American favorites. Dinner is a mix of tradi-
tional favorites and coastal cuisine. The lounge
advancement to the restaurant features a big
screen TV for daily sporting events and happy
hour. Open Monday-Friday 6:30 am to 9 pm,
Saturday and Sunday 6:30 am to 10 pm.
Cielito $$$
1114 State Street (225-4488)
Cielito Restaurant features true favors of Mexi-
co created by Chef Ramon Velazquez. Try an an-
tojito (or small craving) like the Anticucho de
Filete (Serrano-chimichurri marinated Kobe beef
skewer, rocoto-tomato jam and herb mashed po-
tatoes), the Raw Bars piquant ceviches and fresh
shellfsh, or taste the savory treats in handmade
tortillas at the Taqueria. It is located in the heart
of downtown, in the historic La Arcada.
Chucks Waterfront Grill $$
113 Harbor Way (564-1200)
Located next to the Maritime Museum, enjoy
some of the best views of both the mountains
and the Santa Barbara pier sitting on the newly
renovated, award-winning patio, while enjoy-
ing fresh seafood straight of the boat. Dinner is
served nightly from 5 pm, and brunch is ofered
on Sunday from 10 am until 1 pm. Reservations
are recommended.
Enterprise Fish Co. $$
225 State Street (962-3313)
Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise Fish
Company ofers two-pound Maine Lobsters
served with clam chowder or salad, and rice or
potatoes for only $29.95. Happy hour is every
weekday from 4 pm to 7 pm. Open Sunday
thru Thursday 11:30 am to 10 pm and Friday
thru Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm.
Los Agaves $
600 N. Milpas Street (564-2626)
Los Agaves ofers eclectic Mexican cuisine, using
only the freshest ingredients, in a casual and
friendly atmosphere. Serving lunch and dinner,
with breakfast on the weekends, Los Agaves fea-
tures traditional dishes from central and south-
ern Mexico such as shrimp & fsh enchiladas,
shrimp chile rellenos, and famous homemade
mole poblano. Open Monday- Friday 11 am to
9 pm, Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 9 pm.
Mir $$$$
8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort & Spa
(968-0100)
Mir is a refned refuge with stunning views,
featuring two genuine Miro sculptures, a
top-rated chef ofering a sophisticated menu
that accents fresh, organic, and native-grown
ingredients, and a world-class wine cellar. Open
Tuesday through Saturday from 6 pm to 10 pm.
Olio e Limone Ristorante $$$
Olio Pizzeria $
17 West Victoria Street (899-2699)
Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this
friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery
featuring Italian food of the highest order. Of-
ferings include eggplant souf, pappardelle
with quail, sausage and mushroom rag, and
fresh-imported Dover sole. Wine Spectator
Award of Excellence-winning wine list. Private
dining (up to 40 guests) and catering are also
available. It is open for lunch Monday thru
Saturday (11:30 am to 2 pm) and dinner seven
nights a week (from 5 pm).
Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos
have added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar
inspired by neighborhood pizzerie and
enoteche in Italy. Private dining for up to
32 guests. The Pizzeria is open daily from
11:30 am to close.
Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro $
516 State Street (962-1455)
The Wine Bistro menu is seasonal California
cuisine specializing in local products. Pair your
meal with wine from the Santa Barbara Winery,
Lafond Winery or one from the list of wines
from around the world. Happy Hour Monday
- Friday 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The 1st Wednesday of
each month is Passport to the World of Wine.
Grilled cheese night every Thursday. Open for
breakfast, lunch and dinner; catering available.
www.pierrelafond.com
Rodneys Steakhouse $$$
633 East Cabrillo Boulevard (884-8554)
Deep in the heart of well, deep in the heart of
Fess Parkers Doubletree Inn on East Beach in
Santa Barbara. This handsome eatery sells and
serves only Prime Grade beef, lamb, veal, hali-
but, salmon, lobster and other high-end victuals.
Full bar, plenty of California wines, elegant
surroundings, across from the ocean. Open for
dinner Tuesday through Saturday at 5:30 pm.
Reservations suggested on weekends. MJ
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W
e are doing our frst house
exchange. Gilles and Rachel
are staying in our house
in Santa Barbara and we are staying
in their home in Qubec City. This
house swapping is a great program,
especially since my name comes up
occasionally on international hotel
computers as the guy who reflls the
mini bar bottles of gin with tap water.
Unfortunately, once again, our
scheduled flight time in Santa Barbara
was purely speculative. We did get to
meet the passengers from the 7:10 am
flight who were still there when we
rushed to our gate for the 8:02, now
known as the about 8:45 or so flight.
Fortunately, we had plenty of time in
San Francisco to connect to the Air
Canada terminal. We got there by a
small bus that drove along the edges
of the tarmac, under some roads, by
some odd infrastructure, behind a lot
of planes, and past other small buses.
It was like a tour of the back lot at
Universal Studios, only without the
fake shark and house that has been
in a million movies.
We arrived in our temporary new
home in Qubec two flights later at
about 11 pm. My wife suggested a
nightcap. I hunted around a bit and
found... a bottle of gin. See if the tap
water works, I told her.
The next day after several lattes,
croissants, baguette sandwiches and
glasses of vin rouge on rue Saint Jean,
the bill made a significant dent in
our Canadian money supply. So we
decided to head off to the historic site
of Costco Qubec. Gilles and Rachel
left us a car and a GPS system named
Samantha. She was a bit slow with her
directions so I missed my turn a few
okay fifteen times. Samantha was
simply telling me to take your next
three rights or lefts, basically send-
ing me in circles to try again. At one
point Samantha did ask: Does your
wife drive? Because we are running
out of daylight. And she did mutter
a few times in French something that
sounded like Sacr Bleu!
I like to go to foreign Costcos. Its
like you are home, but not really.
They had the five-dollar rotisser-
ie poulettes only they were seven
bucks Canadian and fromage gigan-
tique. But one thing different was that
they were giving out free samples of
Mexican beer trying to break into the
foreign market and give Moosehead a
run for its money no doubt. The beer
guy said a bunch of stuff in French to
which I said oui? and drank the little
sample, then he poured from another
bottle, said a bunch of stuff in French
to which I said oui? and drank the
sample. He laughed and I laughed
along with him in my best French tit-
ter. This went on for some time and I
thought we were really bonding. Then
my wife showed up and said:
Where have you been? Ive been
looking all over for you.
Anglais? my new friend asked.
Southern California.
He mumbled something that sound-
ed like: Sacr Bleu!
Tomorrow we are off to explore the
historic Old City section of Qubec on
foot. You can see a lot more on foot than
driving. Plus for some reason Samantha
the GPS refuses to start. A note on the
screen says she is feeling dizzy.
According to our travel guide,
Samuel Champlain landed in Qubec
in 1608 and founded New France.
Later colonists walled in the city to
protect it from invasion, which worked
until 1759 when the Brits decided they
should own all of North America,
took over Qubec and built their own
walled fortress. The city is still walled
in today. Interestingly, the cannons
face both the St. Lawrence River and
the city. Bit of a trust issue I guess,
as the French have been fighting for
control ever since. Even today there
is a separatist movement that wants
Qubec to become its own country. I
have enough trouble understanding
politics in the United States so I dont
know how to feel about this. One
thing that does worry me: I think its
the British who bring in the gin. MJ
We decided to head off to
the historic
site of Costco Quebec
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CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
NOTICE TO BIDDERS

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that sealed bids will be received by
the City of Santa Barbara Purchasing Office located at 310 E.
Ortega Street, Santa Barbara, California, until 3:00 p.m. on the
date indicated at which time they will be publicly opened, read and
posted for:

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DUE DATE & TIME: October 11, 2012 UNTIL 3:00 P.M.

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request to (805) 897-1977. There is no charge for bid package and
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General Services Manager Montecito Journal







no written objection is timely fled,
the court may grant the petition
without a hearing. Filed September 7,
2012 by Terry Chavez, Deputy Clerk.
Hearing date: October 25, 2012 at
9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa
Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Published 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No.
1413222. To all interested parties:
Petitioner Velia Razo fled a petition
with Superior Court of California,
County of Santa Barbara, for a
decree changing name of child from
Evan Nathaniel Ochoa-Razo to
Evan Nathaniel Razo. The Court
orders that all persons interested in
this matter appear before this court
at the hearing indicated below to
show cause, if any, why the petition
for change of name should not
be granted. Any person objecting
to the name changes described
about must fle a written objection
that included the reasons for the
objection at least two court days
before the matter is scheduled to
be heard and must appear at the
hearing to show cause why the
petition should not be granted. If no
written objection is timely fled, the
court may grant the petition without
a hearing. Filed September 10,
2012 by Terry Chavez, Deputy Clerk.
Hearing date: November 15, 2012 at
9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa
Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Published 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No.
1403426. To all interested parties:
Petitioner Mary Jane Kandler
filed a petition with Superior Court
of California, County of Santa
Barbara, for a decree changing
name to Jane Watkins Kandler.
The Court orders that all persons
interested in this matter appear
before this court at the hearing
indicated below to show cause, if
any, why the petition for change
of name should not be granted.
Any person objecting to the name
changes described about must file
a written objection that included
the reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the
matter is scheduled to be heard
and must appear at the hearing
to show cause why the petition
should not be granted. If no written
objection is timely filed, the court
may grant the petition without a
hearing. Filed September 7, 2012
by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk.
Hearing date: October 25, 2012 at
9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa
Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Published 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No.
1412971. To all interested parties:
Petitioner Vincent John Wester
fled a petition with Superior Court
of California, County of Santa
Barbara, for a decree changing
name to Nikolai Egorov. The Court
orders that all persons interested in
this matter appear before this court
at the hearing indicated below to
show cause, if any, why the petition
for change of name should not
be granted. Any person objecting
to the name changes described
about must fle a written objection
that included the reasons for the
objection at least two court days
before the matter is scheduled to
be heard and must appear at the
hearing to show cause why the
petition should not be granted. If no
written objection is timely fled, the
court may grant the petition without
a hearing. Filed September 7, 2012
by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk.
Hearing date: October 18, 2012 at
9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa
Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Published 9/12, 9/19, 9/26, 10/3
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAMES: CASE No.
1403433. To all interested parties:
Petitioner Sergio A. Hernandez
filed a petition with Superior Court
of California, County of Santa
Barbara, for a decree changing
name to Sergio Antonio Leor.
The petitioner also filed a petition
for a decree changing name of
Leah Anne Benson to Leah
Anne Benson Leor. The Court
orders that all persons interested
in this matter appear before this
court at the hearing indicated
below to show cause, if any, why
the petition for change of name
should not be granted. Any person
objecting to the name changes
described about must file a
written objection that included the
reasons for the objection at least
two court days before the matter
is scheduled to be heard and must
appear at the hearing to show
cause why the petition should not
be granted. If no written objection
is timely filed, the court may grant
the petition without a hearing.
Filed September 7, 2012 by Terri
Chavez, Deputy Clerk. Hearing
date: October 18, 2012 at 9:30
am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa
Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Published 9/12, 9/19, 9/26, 10/3
PUBLIC NOTICES
LEGALS (from page 47)
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 50 The Voice of the Village
T
he most reported real estate
statistic is the number of homes
sold. Certainly an important
statistic, yet in terms of present market
conditions, not terribly helpful as it
describes market conditions often
many months past. Determining
present market activity requires a
measurement using leading rather
than trailing data. Thus the Heat
Index tells us how Hot the market
is today by looking at Active Listings
homes presently for sale and Pending
Listings those under contract, but
not yet sold. And since demand varies
from month to month, todays Heat
scores are compared to those a year
ago.
The mathematical formula, for
those who like such things, is Pending
Listings divided by Active Listings
multiplied by 100. All data is derived
from the Santa Barbara Multiple
Listing Service and although not guar-
anteed, is uniformly deemed reliable.
So where is the Montecito single
family market today and which price
sectors, if any, are in most demand?
The Heat Index answers this question
by determining todays demand in six
price sectors: Under $1m, $1-2m and
going forward by $1m increments to
the high-end, $5m and above group.
Todays total Heat score of 100 is a
significant 89% higher than last years
score of 53. Equally impressive is that,
unlike last years scores where the
higher end struck out, today we are
seeing demand rotating to all price
sectors.
As the graph illustrates, the under
$1m group, a favorite of our buyers
Montecito Heat
Real Estate View
by Michael Phillips
Michael is the owner-
broker of Phillips Real
Estate, and is a Montecito
Planning Commissioner.
He can be reached at
969-4569 and info@
MichaelPhillipsRealEstate.
com
Camino Viejo
estate, listed
at $7.498m
Gourmet
kitchen of
the 6.6-acre
estate on
Camino Viejo
One of the romantic balconies included in the
estate on Sycamore Canyon Road
Home on
Sycamore
Canyon Road
listed at
$4.9m
Property on
Hot Springs
Road, listed
at $4.125m
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 51
for nearly five years now, continues to
lead the way by a huge margin. The
30% or so hit our homes have expe-
rienced has brought buyers of many
types to this price sector including the
venture capital folks, and they gener-
ally pay cash (which often comes with
a discount); these properties move
fast.
What hasnt moved fast and some-
times not at all, has been the high end.
Same 30% or so discount from prior
market highs, yet few takers. Take a
look, however, at the $4-5m sector.
Last year on this date the demand
was a familiar zero and today it is our
second strongest group with a score
of 15. And the very high end scored
as well.
In general we are seeing a height-
ened confidence among buyers at all
levels. Are they giving sellers what
they want? Not exactly. Yet we have
demand and a lot of it (a 48% increase),
and for the first time in a very long
time our average selling price is also
moving upward, increasing almost
20% over this date last year. MJ
If you have a 93108 open house scheduled, please send us your free directory listing to realestate@montecitojournal.net
93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 29
ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY
1821 Fernald Point Lane By Appt. $5,450,000 3bd/3ba Ron Dickman 689-3135 Sothebys International Realty
302 Woodley Road By Appt. $4,495,000 4bd/6ba Beverly Palmer 452-7985 Village Properties
2862 East Valley Road 2-4pm $3,950,000 4bd/7ba Grubb-Campbell 895-6226 Village Properties
875 Rockbridge Road 1-4pm $3,950,000 3bd/3.5ba Jake Ralston 455-9600 Prudential California Realty
1940 East Valley Road 2-4pm $3,495,000 6bd/7.5ba Sandy Stahl 689-1602 Sothebys International Realty
620 Oak Grove Drive By Appt. $2,350,000 3bd/3.5ba Randy Solakian 565-2208 Coldwell Banker Previews
160 Olive Mill Lane 2-4pm $2,095,000 4bd/4ba Ashley Anderson 618-8747 Prudential California Realty
667 Cold Spring Road 1-4pm $1,935,000 3bd/3ba Brian King 452-0471 Village Properties
1860 Eucalyptus Hill Road 1-4pm $1,888,000 4bd/3ba Charley Pavlosky 310-857-8922 Village Properties
116 Palm Tree Lane By Appt. $1,595,000 3bd/3ba Marsha Kotlya 565-4014 Prudential California Realty
100 Arroqui Road 1-4pm $975,000 3bd/2ba Jim Witmer 448-3291 Village Properties

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 30
ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY
1206 Channel Drive 12-3pm $10,500,000 3bd/2ba Maureen McDermut 570-5545 Sothebys International Realty
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EnTERTAinMEnT (Continued from page 41)
Orchestra for its opening concert on
Tuesday, dubbed 3 & One to encom-
pass the three divertimentos (two from
Mozart, one by Bartok) and one grosse
fuge (Beethovens challenging Op.
133). Violinist Saeka Matsuyama is
the soloist on November 27, playing
Bachs Concerto No. 2 in E Major,
BWV 1042 with Janacek, Grieg and
Martynov rounding out the bill.
Mozart, Magalif, Britten and Bridge
are the fare for the January 22 concert
featuring the SBCOs own principal
players as soloists. Violinist Kyoko
Takezawa plays Brahms D Major
concerto following Mendelssohns
Scottish symphony on April 16, and
the season closes on May 14 with
SBCO favorite Alessio Bax soloing on
Mozarts C Minor piano concerto after
the orchestra plays works by Rossini
and Schubert.
Regular single concert tickets cost
$50 or $55; full subscriptions are $180
or $210, with more discounts available
to new subscribers of any age.
Meanwhile, the SBCOs MEE
program (Musically Engaging
Experiences) is returning for anoth-
er season starting next month.
Conductor/educator Rob Kapilow
leads the two weekend extravaganzas
that pair a What Makes It Great?
event in which Kapilow dissects the
composition piece by piece before play-
ing the whole thing intact post-inter-
mission with a FamilyMusik concert
featuring a program geared toward
families. Bachs Concerto for Two
Violins gets the Kapilow treatment on
November 4, with PickleShoes Dance
Company (featuring current and for-
mer members of Pilobolus) joining the
SBCO on November 4 for Prokofievs
Peter and the Wolf. Beethovens
Violin Concerto meets Kapilows take
on Vivaldis Four Seasons on March
22 & 24. MEE concerts are $38 each,
or half off if you purchase all four in
conjunction with a regular SBCO sub-
scription.
For details, program notes or tickets
to any SBCO event, visit www.sbco.
org or call 963-2441.
Focus On Film
Whether portraying the intrepid hero
or the unscrupulous scoundrel, actor
Kirk Douglas has always embodied
the headstrong man, a true leading
man from the golden era of Hollywood
through indie films and into blockbust-
ers. Now UCSB Arts & Lectures and
the Carsey-Wolf Center are presenting
a seven-date film series paying tribute
to the 95-year-old legend who has lived
in Montecito for several decades via
screening some of his most captivat-
ing roles. The series kicks off Monday
with a special double feature pairing
the great 1949 boxing drama Champion,
which earned Douglas an Oscar nomi-
nation, with the Billy Wilder-directed
Ace in the Hole, featuring Douglas
as a gung-ho bull-headed reporter.
Detective Story (October 8), The Bad and
the Beautiful (October 15), Lust for Life
(October 22), Paths of Glory (October
29), and The Vikings (November 5) fol-
low before the series concludes with, of
course, Spartacus, featuring a free wine-
and-cheese reception at intermission
of the 1960 Oscar-winning epic that
helped break the Hollywood blacklist.
All the screenings take place at the
digitally endowed, acoustically shaped
Pollock Theater on campus. Tickets are
$10 each night. MJ
Champion is the first film in a seven-date series
presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures and the Carsey-
Wolf Center, paying tribute to Kirk Douglas
Pianist Alessio Bax closes the Santa Barbara
Chamber Orchestra season on May 14
27 September 4 October 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 53
birds getting snagged in them,
says Julia Parker, director of animal
affairs. Sometimes we have four a
day. Hopefully we can get notices put
up at Stearns Wharf and the Goleta
Pier warning of these problems and,
therefore, avoiding them.
Among the 92 guests checking out
the nautical bash were Chris and
Mindy Denson, Brett and Natalie
Hodges, Dana and Andrea Newquist,
Carey and Susan Rogers, Curt and
Sallie Coughlin, and Rick and
Christy Joy...
Lifes a Beach
Bubbly entrepreneur Nina Terzian
threw a Lifes A Beach bash at her
new oceanside mega manse which
would have put many a Malibu man-
sion decidedly in the shade.
The triple-level property was put to
good use as social gridlock reigned,
with Dolly Granatelli, who lives
just a tiaras toss away, popping by
to add to the too too tony throng,
which included Corinna Gordon,
Curt Pickering, Larry and Nancy
Koppelman, Milt and Arlene Larsen,
Diana MacFarlane, Debbie Kass,
Hollye Jacobs, Kim Kieler, Liz Banks,
Dan Encell and Paul Musgrove.
Buckets and spades were optional...
A Galloping Get-Together
Horses and riders were out in force
for the Montecito Trails Foundations
27th annual barbecue at the Montecito
Valley Ranch home of Hal and Mary
Coffin, after enjoying the pleasures
of the 300 miles of trails in the area,
which the popular organization tends
and keeps open.
A record 174 helped raise around
$40,000 for the cause, with Gail Young
chairing the equine bash.
For the second consecutive year,
two trail races were sponsored, with
short and long courses of six and ten
miles.
Silent auction items included
a bronze horse by Santa Barbara
sculptress Laurie Ballard and an
oil painting Red Desert by Karen
Bezuidenhout.
The bridle bunch included Jane
Burkemper, Dwight and Tina Coffin,
Maxi Decker, Allan and Nancy
Kaplan, John and Christy Venable,
and Robert Young
Kirks Invite
Although, at the age of 95, hell be
unlikely to make it, Montecitos Kirk
Douglas has, I learn, been invited to
St. Pauls Cathedral in London for
the memorial service for internation-
al crimper Vidal Sassoon, who died
from leukemia four months ago at the
age of 84.
More than 1,000 of the Beverly
Hills-based hairdressing tycoons
old friends have been invited to
Christopher Wrens imposing domed
edifice, the site of the wedding of
Prince Charles and Princess Diana in
1981.
They also include Michael Caine,
Terence Stamp and Mia Farrow,
whose hair Sassoon famously cut for
the film, Rosemarys Baby.
International snappers David
Bailey and Terry ONeill, ex-husband
of Faye Dunaway, have also been
asked, as well as fellow crimpers,
John Frieda, who has a global hair
care line, and celebrity snipper Nicky
Clarke.
As London fashion design icon and
Sassoons longtime friend Mary Quant
puts it so admirably: Isnt it wonder-
ful? He would be so thrilled. From an
East End orphan to St. Pauls Cathedral.
Hes outdone Charlie Chaplin!
Bijou Bash
Waxing Poetic, the jewelry and
keepsake retailer, opened its charm-
ing new Summerland branch at the
weekend with quite the crowd.
The rustic Lillie Avenue boutique
has been meticulously renovated
by Erich Riedl, with a 17th centu-
ry Madonna altar piece protectively
watching over the space for sister
owners, Patti and Lizanne Pagliei,
who opened their flagship store in Los
Olivos two year ago.
Among those checking out the bijou
bling boutique were Ned and Hillary
Doubleday, Arlene Montesano,
Palmer and Susan Jackson, Suzanne
Garrett, Heath Biddlecombe, and Jeff
and Hollye Jacobs...
In Other Words
Camerata Pacifica opened its 23rd
season in spectacular style at the
Music Academy of the Wests Hahn
Hall when it staged the world pre-
miere of a viola concerto In Other
Words by Chinese composer Huang
Ruo, commissioned by local twosome
Frank and Ann Everts to celebrate
their 50th wedding anniversary.
The three-movement, 23-minute
long piece featured Richard Yongjae
ONeill as solo violist, along with
nine other players, who, for the third
movement moved into the audito-
rium to play their instruments around
the theater.
ONeill also added vocals to the
quirky work, which received a stand-
ing ovation.
Tomasis Cinq Danses Profanes et
Sacres kicked off the show, along
with Berios Opus Number Zoo, an
amusing vocal piece.
Beethovens Septet in E-flat Major
wrapped the concert, which was taped
by KCET for broadcast on Thursdays
episode of Open Call.
Viewers will be getting a most
unusual treat...
Funky Fashions
Santa Barbaras Arts Fund benefit-
ted from fashionista frenzy in the
Funk Zone at the weekend during an
evening of art and music.
The event, dubbed The Equinox,
at the cavernous home of Goodman
Reed Motorcars, featured local
designer Lindsey Mickelson and
her CMD-Z line displaying innova-
tive screen-printed fashion, as well
as three jewelry designers, Jessali,
Priscilla & Aquila, and Emma Sirana.
Catherine Gee, the new executive
director of the Arts Fund, which is just
a tiaras toss across the road, is an old
friend of Mickelson since the days of
the RumbleSB arts collective, so it was
the perfect collaboration, benefitting
all concerned...
80s Rock
Nostalgia reigned when the three-
year-old Broadway show Rock of Ages
landed at the Granada, courtesy of the
Theater League.
The musical, with its focus on the
80s and groups like Journey, Bon Jovi,
Whitesnake and Twisted Sister, had as
its backdrop L.A.s Sunset Strip with
a sentimental tale about a popular
nitery considered ripe for demolition
and development, and, needless to
say, a love story about a couple chas-
ing their dreams.
It was an entertaining rock n roll
production that hit a high note...
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Although not a night on the tiles,
the production of Tennessee Williams
American classic Cat on a Hot Tin
Roof at Paseo Nuevos Center Stage
Theater, directed by Moosie Drier,
was a sultry night to remember.
Tina Arning positively sizzled
in the role of Maggie, mining the
script for all it was worth, while Tom
Schanley, as the drunken former foot-
ball star, captured the pivotal part
particularly well.
Mitch Carter as Big Daddy was
larger than life, while Rosemary
Alexander as Big Mama played her
role to the hilt.
It was the purr-fect evening...
Significant Endeavor
What a spectacular and historic
treat it was to see the space shuttle
Endeavour fly so low over Montecito
last week, piggybacked on top of a
NASA Boeing 747.
After 25 missions and logging near-
ly 123 million miles in flight
during 4,671 orbits, it was the
final airborne journey of the
space agencys three remain-
ing shuttles.
The 75-ton vehicle will be
making its way in due course
to the California Science Center
in Los Angeles, where it will go
on display October 30.
It was a once in a lifetime
moment not to be missed!...
Sightings: Actor William
Daniels picking up his Java
jolt at Pierre Lafond... Actress Julie
Bowen of ABCs Modern Family check-
ing out Vons... Christopher Lloyd
noshing at Olio e Limone
Pip! Pip! for now
Readers with tips, sightings and
amusing items for Richards column
should e-mail him at richardmin
eards@verizon.net or send invita-
tions or other correspondence to the
Journal MJ
MiSCELLAnY (Continued from page 21)
Arlene and Milt Larsen with host Nina Terzian at
her Lifes A Beach bash (photo by Priscilla)
Veteran actor
Kirk Douglas
invited to
Vidal Sassoon
memorial
in Londons
St. Pauls
Cathedral
Checking out the Funk Zone fashion show were Arts
Fund board members Steve Hiatt, Nancy Gifford, Joanne
Holderman and Shirley Dettmann
Waxing Poetic CEO Patti Pagliei, veep Lizanne
Pagliei, and product designer Stephanie Kheder at
the grand opening celebration
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1-630-248-4042
Debi Helm
MUNYON & SONS
ESTATE LIQUIDATORS
PROFESSIONAL ESTATE
SALE SERVICES
SINCE 1977
www.munyonandsons.com
PH: 805-402-0350
Dramatically boost
your investment
income in virtually
any kind of market.
ETFs yielding 6% plus capital gains.
International funds with a 4% yield
paid out monthly.
F.T. Fereday
805-896-4584
ft@feredayconsultants.com
ART
CLASSES
beginning to advanced
681-8831
classes@rivierafinearts.com
Excellent Cook/Animal Caretaker/Personal
Trainer desires to Xchange services for
guesthouse.
Pls contact julie@ 452-1122
SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL
HOPE RANCH Old world charming cottage.
4bd/3.5ba with studio, light & spacious rooms,
hardwood foors, freplace, large private yard
with mature trees & rose garden. $5500/mo.
Negotiable. 805 967-5150 msg.
WOODWORK/RESTORATION
Ken Frye Artisan in WoodThe Finest Quality
Hand Made Custom Furniture, Cabinetry &
Architectural Woodwork. Expert Finishes &
Restoration Impeccable Attention to Detail.
Montecito References. lic#651689
805-473-2343 ken@kenfrye.com
HANDYMAN/CONSTRUCTION
Home Repairs. Highly skilled and knowledgeable.
Creative and effcient. I will save you money! I do
service calls. Fix-its to Remodels. Licensed. Multi
skilled 25 yrs exp. Doors, Windows, Roofs, Plumbing,
Carpentry, Electrical, Hardscape, landscape, Decks,
Waterproofng, Just Ask. Call Eric DeCook (805)
450-3290 Eric.DeCook@yahoo.com
GARDENING/LANDSCAPING/TREE
Estate British Gardener Horticulturist
Comprehensive knowledge of Californian,
Mediterranean, & traditional English plants. All
gardening duties personally undertaken including
water gardens & koi keeping. Nicholas 805-963-7896
High-end quality detail garden care & design.
Call Rose 805 272 5139
www.rosekeppler.com
PAINTING SERVICES
Quality painting at an affordable price for all your
painting needs. Drywall-texture repairs, faux-fnish.
Lic#852361. Jim 886-6605.
STEVEN BROOKS JEWELERS
Custom Design Estate Jewelry
Jewelry Restoration
Buyers of Fine Jewelry, Gold and Silver
Confidential Meeting at Your
Office , Bank or Home
SBJEWELERS@GMAIL.COM (805) 455-1070
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