A Show to Remember

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A SHOW TO
REMEMBER
The SBHS production of Chicago isn’t just good, it’s terrific, and it
features teenage actors of such exceptional talent you’ll remember
their performances years from now. At $15 a ticket, you can’t
afford to miss it ($10 for students). (story on page 5)
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5 Editorial
Otto Layman and a cast and crew of SBHS students stage Chicago
6 Montecito Miscellany
Carol Kosterka creates iCall4Help app; Oprah’s auction a success; Michael Douglas
and Catherine Zeta-Jones reconcile; Drew Barrymore’s house sells; Blue Tavern to
open on State Street; Reza Aslan reception at the home of James and Patricia Selbert;
Kendall Conrad opens pop up shop; Chowder Fest breaks records; Kyoko Takezawa
wows at MAW; CAMA kicks off season; Mai Anh exhibit at Kim Kieler Gallery;
brooch formerly belonging to Ganna Walska auctioned off; sightings
8 Letters to the Editor
Affordable care act might not be aptly named; Dan Seibert sends in “fogbow”; Leslie
Nelson compares politics to nature; consider donating to a foodbank; claim that senior
day care is causing dangerous traffic congestion; Joe Rution forwards a clarification;
theory on government shutdown; New York Times gets it wrong; missive on water issues
9 Village Beat
Beautification Day; update on Montecito Union School; Ghost Village Road; Girl
Scouts field trip; La Casa de Maria hosts retreat and conference
10 This Week in Montecito
Trunk shows at Julianne and Jenni Kayne; yarn show at SB Arts; art exhibit at Ca’
Dario Annex; Food and Wine Safari; SB Rose Society presentation; Veterans Day
speaking event at Casa Dorinda; Coast 2 Coast Collection celebrates two years; Opus
One Wine Dinner; Dallas Clark signs new book; meet Frank & Eileen, designers
at Bonita; Sedgwick Reserve hike; annual Mesa Artists Studio Tour; Cocktails &
Conservatives meeting at Café Del Sol; MA meets; Bonita hosts Ladies Night Out;
Get it Done Today! event; MUS food drive; MERRAGE meeting; LBS presents The
Crucible; New Yorker discussion group; ONWARD grand opening; CALM fundraiser;
book signing at Tecolote
Tide Guide
Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach
14 Seen Around the Country
Lynda hops on a 1940-’50s passenger train rail car to visit Portland, Oregon
23 Sheriff’s Blotter
Driver’s License and credit cards stolen from health club on Santa Rosa Lane; stolen
checks from mailbox on Hot Springs Road; entry into residence in Summerland;
Montecito Fire Report
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
26 Coming & Going
Dr. Benjamin Carson speaks at Fess Parker’s Doubletree at the fourth annual
Providence Fall Forum
28 Our Town
Our annual coverage of Montecito’s ghoulish Halloween festivities
31 On Entertainment
Marcy Stonikas stars in Opera Santa Barbara’s production of Tosca; Wesley Stace
brings variety show to UCSB; Theater League presents Million Dollar Quartet at
Granada; theater happenings around town
32 Ernie’s World
Ernie continues his adventures up north with a visit to Butchart Gardens in British
Columbia
34 State Street Spin
Oprah’s sale of the century; the new Victoria Theater
35 Trail Talk
Veterans Day Tribute to Lieutenant Edwin Ramsey
36 Your Westmont
Art classes receive high-tech equipment; women’s soccer and volleyball teams wrap
up stellar regular seasons; student musicians offer classical performances; college hosts
conference for potential teachers
37 Costume Contest Winners 2013
Winners announced of Here’s the Scoop’s annual Halloween costume contest
40 Legal Advertising
42 Calendar of Events
Films around town; Veterans Day weekend festivities; SBMA events; 1
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Thursday;
Sleeping Beauty at Chumash; Kimberly Ford visits Song Tree Concert Series; Vince
Marcello’s Q&A panel at Adderley School; Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt play Chumash;
Ryan Bingham sings at Tales From the Tavern
44 Real Estate
Mark Hunt spotlights four attractive Montecito homes that have had recent price reductions
45 93108 Open House Directory
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46 Classified Advertising
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47 Local Business Directory
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A Show To Remember
I
caught Otto Layman’s Santa Barbara High School musical production of
Chicago last Friday night. And, it was terrific. It was better than terrific. It
was overwhelmingly good. I didn’t simply “enjoy” the show, I was bowled
over by it, riddled with glee, sumptuously entertained, jubilantly absorbed…
you get the picture.
Let’s start with the performers: Let’s start with, say, Camille Umoff, who takes
on the role of Velma Kelly (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones in the movie version).
Camille was Nancy in Janet Adderley’s Santa Barbara Youth Ensemble Theater
production of Oliver! at the age of eleven. She is now thirteen and a freshman…
a freshman!... at SBHS. Camille has already developed the vocal power of a vet-
eran Broadway singer, the acting chops of a seasoned professional, and a stage
presence so self-assured that all I can fathom is she was either born onstage or
has been living backstage unbeknownst to her parents and/or teachers for so
long that she simply feels right at home amid the moving furniture, the live
orchestra, curtains going up and down, endless rehearsals, and the cacophony of
set-building. That there is an audience at the other end of the dark on some nights
is purely coincidental. When she appears at the beginning of the show belting
out “All That Jazz,” backed up by John Douglas’s onstage orchestra, dancing
and singing with the well-rehearsed troupe of chorus girls, well, let’s just say the
audience became aware early on that it was in for a sizeable treat.
Sable Layman is an older, wiser, more mature performer than Camille. She’s a
sophomore. She is also Otto Layman’s daughter, so while she may not have been
born backstage, she is probably more familiar with Oscar Hammerstein than she
is with Justin Bieber. Sable plays Roxie Hart, the innocent-but-guilty would-be
nightclub star with a lover and a gun. She follows “All That Jazz” with a lively
coquettish version of “Funny Honey,” during which she explains why she shot
Fred Casely, and why her husband, Amos, should take the blame. Her perfor-
mance as a marionette with Billy Flynn pulling the strings in “We Both Reached
for the Gun” is a tour de force of synchronized mannequin manipulation.
Aaron Linker is Amos Hart and when the young Mr. Linker finishes sing-
ing “Cellophane Man,” and before walking offstage turns to the audience and
says, “I hope I haven’t taken up too much of your time,” we absolutely believe
he means it, that he’s not acting. Aaron’s was a subtle but stellar performance.
Grant Bower plays Billy Flynn, the lawyer-who’ll-win-your-freedom-for-
five-thousand-bucks. He’s a sleazy, dapper, egotistical nightmare of a man who
happens to be the best defense lawyer in town and knows exactly how to steer
a jury and the press in his client’s direction. Grant plays him to his sleaziest,
smarmiest best.
Mary Cusimano, now a senior (one of only a handful), is Mama Morton,
the matronly orderly in charge of her fellow prisoners. When she sings “When
You’re Good to Mama, Mama’s Good To You,” and proves it by cadging ciga-
rettes, perfumes, stockings, and other treats for the girls in exchange for cash,
well, we know once again that we are in the hands of a real talent. Mary played
The Lady Of The Lake in last year’s hugely entertaining Monty Python’s Holy
Grail, and delivers an equally powerful performance as Mama Morton.
Space limitations compel me to wrap it up, but other standouts include
Rio Salazar as the amoral, impressionable, and gullible gossip columnist
Mary Sunshine; Hailey Simmons is a refreshing presence as Go To Hell Kitty,
Andrew Gutierrez is an appropriately arrogant Fred Casely, all the performers
in the Cell Block Tango (“He Had It Comin’”), including Hailey Turner, Ciara
Tolliver, Libby Sestak, Mae Pendergast, Claudia Fanaro, and Hailey Simmons
(how the heck Otto and choreographer Christina McCarthy coax these kinds
of performances out of 13-, 14-, and 15-year-olds is a veritable mystery), should
take separate bows for their exhilarating and precise performances. I’ve prob-
ably left some people out who deserve honorable mentions, but let it be known
far and wide that Chicago is playing at the SBHS Theatre, 700 East Anapamu
Street (888-979-3667) this Thursday, Friday, Saturday, November 7, 8, and 9, at
7 pm, and again on Sunday, November 10, at 2 pm.
You’d be a fool to miss it. •MJ
Editorial
by James Buckley
How the heck Otto Layman and choreographer Christina
McCarthy coax these kinds of performances out of 13-, 14-,
and 15-year-olds is a veritable mystery
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law that might have a negative impact
on the powers that be, their staffs, or
their buddies or contributors, a magic
wand is waived and the provision
disappears (at least as it affects them).
I’m for waiving a magic wand
and having the yokels who thought
this law was a good idea disappear
instead.
Tariq Kadri
Montecito
(Editor’s note: Seventeen years ago,
Tariq and his wife, Maxine, were involved
in a one-vehicle accident that left him
paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair,
and Maxine barely able to speak or walk.
Both have managed to make the best of
the horrific ordeal they went through and
continue to go through. – J.B.)
Over The Fogbow
Here’s something I haven’t seen
before: a “fogbow” off Butterfly Beach!
Dan Seibert
Santa Barbara
A Synchronistic
Phenomenon
A renaissance of the birth of a third
party system is taking place not just in
the USA, but also in Britain, France,
and Italy.
The old cronies of both extremes –
elitist politicians who have become
entrenched in Washington and have
made laws that harm the public, while
excluding themselves from any of the
consequences – simply have to go.
The Tea Party represents the bright-
est and most outspoken people who
want their voices heard, not ignored.
They uphold the Constitution and
the values of self-actuated men and
women who believe in freedom of
individual rights more than anything
else, unlike the status quo of those
who have long outlasted their elected
office and are concerned only with
self-preservation above all.
Jon Stewart of The Daily Show bril-
liantly displayed the gridlock as Team
Incompetence versus Team Nihilism.
The interview Stewart conducted with
Kathleen Sebelius guarantees next
year’s Emmy win! It was simply bril-
liant. (I encourage MJ readers to look
it up on his website). Stewart openly
stated in his sheepishly affable man-
ner that Sebelius was lying to him. He
ended the interview by betting that he
could download “every single movie
ever made” before she could success-
fully log onto the ObamaCare site.
I have a profound affinity and rev-
erence toward nature. It’s my best
teacher. MJ readers might enjoy PBS’s
new series entitled Earthflight. The
first episode deals with the flock of
Snow Geese and the solitary Bald
White Eagle, and reveals in nature
how the two extreme political parties
interact with each other in congress.
The beautiful flock of Snow Geese
is a perfect metaphor for the collec-
tive Democrats who cooperate as a
single unit, not knowing where one
starts and another ends. They cooper-
ate with each other for survival needs
and take care of their wounded or frail
(their equivalent of the weakest link in
the chain).
When a solitary eagle flies over-
head looking for a weak or sepa-
rated goose to feast upon, a panic
of waves instantly cause the entire
flock of geese to take flight, creating a
wondrous “blizzard-of-snow effect,”
which is amazing to behold! How
they manage not to collide with one
another is absolutely amazing. The
eagle is, of course, the competitive
Republicans.
While yin and yang are always at
war with each other, the Tea Party rep-
resents a new archetype that combines
the two in holistic balance and har-
mony. While the feminine yin equals
the body (chakras below the belt),
the masculine Yang equals the head
(chakras above the neck). The Tea
Party is the spirit that functions from
the intellectual neo-cortex, the crown
chakra (i.e., infinity).
May Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Dr. Ben
Carson, and Rick Perry prevail in
restoring our country to its former
glory when wiser men of principle
and enlightenment ruled our noble
nation!
Leslie Nelson
Montecito
Food For Thought
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distressed.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Not So Affordable Health Care Act
T
he “Affordable” Care Act seems
to be the story of the news cycle,
but most of the news is focused
on the failure of the website. Perhaps
some attention should also be focused
on the substance of the law. It is sup-
posed to be caring and compassionate.
Really?
Is that why those of us with chron-
ic healthcare needs and those who
suffer catastrophic health setbacks
are having our taxes increased? We
have thousands of dollars of medi-
cal expenses necessary for daily life
that are not reimbursed by insurance.
These include the deductibles on our
health insurance, co-pays, non-pre-
scription medicine and supplies, and
skilled and unskilled nursing help,
among many other things.
In the past, we could at least deduct
the cost of much of this from our
income taxes. This made it a bit eas-
ier to afford to live independently. In
order to fund the new law, the thresh-
old after which one may deduct medi-
cal expenses was raised from 7.5 per-
cent of income to 10 percent, making it
much more difficult and expensive to
fund an already difficult lifestyle.
Why would anyone think it is com-
passionate to increase the taxes on
the sick and disabled? I thought the
idea was to help make care better and
more affordable, not to further burden
those who are struggling. Perhaps the
powers that be would rather see us
all as wards of the state rather than
as individuals trying to lead indepen-
dent and productive lives. Perhaps it
was also compassionate to impose a
new tax on medical devices so those
of us who need to purchase them can
support the cost of health insurance
for those who don’t need them.
I understand from my insurance
agent that there is also a new tax
coming next year on health insurance
premiums. Now that’s a brilliant way
to bring down the cost of health insur-
ance! I suggest the yokels who voted
for and support these provisions try
living in my un-walked-in shoes and
see if they still think that these are
good ideas.
Whenever there is a provision of the
A muted gray “fogbow” (as opposed to a full-
spectrum rainbow) appeared over Butterfly Beach
one fine recent morning, and Dan was there to
capture it
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Beautification Day Recap
Village Beat
by Kelly Mahan


H
undreds of Montecito resi-
dents turned out to the
Upper Village Green on
Saturday, November 2, for Montecito
Association’s annual Beautification
Day. The volunteers, donning their
bright orange shirts, could be seen
traversing Montecito’s beaches and
streets, picking up trash and litter,
before honoring several Montecito
homeowners and Citizen of the Year
Jean Von Wittenburg.
MarBorg provided a dumpster at
the Village Green for volunteers to
fill up with garbage, while volunteers
collected the trash in big, reusable
buckets, in an effort to keep the event
“green.” As always, Dana Newquist
drove his antique fire engine around
town to pick up volunteers and their
collected garbage.
Beautification awards were given
to Elizabeth and Jonathan Raith,
homeowners on San Ysidro Road who
Beautification
Day chair Cindy
Feinberg and
Montecito
Association
Executive Director
Victoria Greene
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Brokaw’s book The Greatest Generation,
resident Nelson Howard aims to bring
a sense of happiness and recognition to
a significant number of Casa Dorinda
residents who served in WW2; speaking
event followed by cocktails
When: 4 pm
Where: Casa Dorinda Auditorium,
300 Hot Springs Road
Info: 969-8047
2
nd
Year Anniversary Celebration
Meet Vietri founder Frances Gravely
and enjoy a special reception and trunk
show to celebrate the 2
nd
year anniversary
of Coast 2 Coast Collection in La Arcada
When: reception Friday, November 8
from 5 to 8 pm; anniversary celebration
continues during store hours November 8,
9, and 10
Where: 1114 State Street, Suite 10
Info: (805) 845-7888
or www.C2Ccollection.com
Opus One Wine Dinner at Bella
Vista
Winemaker Michael Silacci joined
Opus One in March 2001 as director
of viticulture and enology and became
winemaker in January of 2004, taking on
responsibility for all aspects of vineyard
management and winemaking. Prior to his
appointment at Opus One, Mr. Silacci spent
six years as winemaker at Stag’s Leap Wine
Cellars, one year as winemaker at King
Estate in Oregon, and six years at Beaulieu
Vineyard. He also made wine in France and
Chile. Mr. Silacci holds a master’s degree in
viticulture from the University of California,
Davis in addition to undergraduate degrees
in enology from the University of California,
Davis and the Institut d’Oenologie at the
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7
Julianne Trunk Show
Julianne hosts Janis Provisor Jewelry; 10% of
all purchases to benefit Angels Foster Care
When: 10 am to 6 pm
Where: 525 San Ysidro Road
Info: www.janisprovisorjewelry.com
Jenni Kayne Trunk Show
Jenni Kayne hosts Hoorsenbuhs, a line of
fine jewelry
When: noon to 5 pm
Where: 525 San Ysidro Road, Suite H
Info: 309-0550
Yarn Show
Come see how yarn is spun on a wooden
spinning wheel. Local fiber artist Randy
Meaney will spin fiber from local ranches
into beautiful yarns, and sell yarns,
patterns, and finished goods
When: November 7-10
Where: Santa Barbara Arts,
1114 State Street, Suite 24
Info: 884-1938
First Thursday Art Exhibit
The paintings of John Baran, Cynthia
James, Lisa Pedersen, and Jacky
Winter will be on display as part of
Santa Barbara’s First Thursdays; drinks and
nibbles will be provided
Where: Ca’ Dario Annex,
31 Victoria Street
When: 5 pm to 8 pm
Food and Wine Safari
La Vigne Winery joins Four Seasons
Resort the Biltmore for a special wine
dinner. Michael Barreto, winemaker at
La Vigne, will discuss his technique and
pour wines during the reception. Also
meet Zina Miakinkova, “the cheese
lady,” who is soon to become one of the
first Fromagers in our area. Joining the
Biltmore’s executive chef, Alessandro
Cartumini, is new Biltmore chef, Grant
MacDonald.
When: 6 pm
Where: Biltmore, 1260 Channel Drive
Cost: $110 for five courses and wine
Info and RSVP: Elizabeth, (805) 698-3426,
or [email protected]
Romancing the Rose
Santa Barbara Rose Society presents
Frederique Lavoipierre, Education
Program Manager of the Santa Barbara
Botanic Garden, who will speak about
“Plants to Attract Beneficial Insects.”
When: 7 pm for refreshments and
socializing; program begins at 7:30 pm
Where: Louise Lowry Davis Center,
1232 De La Vina Street
Cost: free
Info: 963-8215
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8
Casa Dorinda’s Greatest Generation
Taking its origin from Armistice Day, now
celebrated as Veteran’s Day, and Tom
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9
Mesa Artists Studio Tour
Twelve artists, whose output includes
abstract, representational, landscape,
and figurative work in watercolors,
pastels, oils, acrylics, and other
media host annual Mesa Artists
Studio Tour, opening their homes for
a pre-holiday exhibit and sale.
Follow red balloons and signs to
enjoy the art of Karin Aggeler,
Deborah Breedon, Sarah
Carr, Liz Downey, Ron Freese,
Morgan Green, Bill Hull, Cree
Mann, Margaret Nadeau,
Cathie Smith, Ellen Yeomans, and Erin Williams.
When: Saturday and Sunday, 11 am to 4 pm
Cost: free
Map and info: www.santabarbaramesaartists.com
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9
Book Signing
Tecolote Book Shop hosts the official launch of
Dallas Wenner Clark’s new cookbook, Andria’s
Harborside, Secret Recipes of a Santa Barbara Icon.
A percentage of the proceeds from the book sale
benefits the Breast Cancer Resource Center.
When: 3 to 4 pm
Where: 1470 East Valley Road
Info: (805) 708-3777
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Université de Bordeaux.
Silacci will give a lecture at the reception
(with hors d’oeuvres) before a four-course
pairing menu prepared by Biltmore
executive chef Alessandro Cartumini.
Seating is limited.
When: reception 6 pm, dinner 7 pm
Where: Bella Vista Restaurant,
1260 Channel Drive
Cost: $265 per person
Reservations: 565-8232
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9
Meet the Designer
Meet Audrey McLoghlin, designer of
clothing company Frank & Eileen, at Bonita
in Summerland; nibbles and coffee “with
an Irish flair” will be served
When: 1 to 5 pm
Where: 2330 Lillie Avenue
Info: 565-3848 or www.
bonitasummerland.com
Sedgwick Reserve Hike
The rugged Santa Ynez Valley is the setting
for a series of monthly interpretive hikes and
nature activities open to the public each
fall on the 6,000-acre UCSB Sedgwick
Reserve. Three hikes with varying themes
such as geology, landforms, Sedgwick
panoramas, plants and animals, or birds
will be conducted, with hiking levels of
easy, moderate, or strenuous. These hikes
are approximately two to three hours each
and are followed by the opportunity to
picnic with your own lunch at the Reserve.
In addition to the hikes, other activities such
as a tour of the newly-renovated old barn,
the new observatory, the pond, and the
new Tipton House, as well as a set up for
painters at the pond, and the use of a bocce
ball court are all planned for those who
don’t want to hike and would like to just
enjoy the Reserve attractions while the hikes
are being conducted. Reservations required.
When: 8:30 am
Cost: $10 per hiker, or $15 per couple or
family suggested donation
Info and RSVP: [email protected]
or 686-1941, extension 3
MONDAY NOVEMBER 11
Cocktails & Conservatives
Complimentary appetizers and Happy
Hour-priced drinks will be available for
those that are Republican, Democrat, or
Independent wishing to share thought-
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Montecito Association Meeting
The Montecito Association is committed to
preserving, protecting, and enhancing the
semi-rural residential character of Montecito
When: 4 pm
Where: Montecito Hall,
1469 East Valley Road
Ladies Night Out
Every Tuesday from November 12 to
December 17, Bonita in Summerland
hosts Ladies Night Out, Sip & Shop Trunk
Show, featuring designers, surprise guests,
nibbles, wine, music, art, and fashion.
This Tuesday, find your perfect jean fit with
Genetic Denim and Taylor Campbell,
denim expert.
When: 1 to 5 pm
Where: 2330 Lillie Avenue
Info: 565-3848 or www.
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WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 13
Get it Done Today!
A community-wide event to encourage
people to start or complete an advance
health care directive. Professional
counselors, notaries, and trained
volunteers (English- and Spanish-
speaking) will be available at sites
from Carpinteria to Goleta to facilitate
the process. The sponsoring agency
is the Alliance for Living and Dying
Well. ALDW, a collaboration of Santa
Barbara area agencies, seeks a seamless,
compassionate continuum of end-of-life
care. It fosters learning and healing
through discussions of our mortality, and
it promotes practical planning, such as
advance health care directives.
Confirmed sites for Get it Done Today! are:
Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care, Hospice
of Santa Barbara, Sansum Clinic (Pesetas
Lane), Cottage Hospital, Community
Church of Carpinteria, and Goleta
Presbyterian Church.
When: time varies by location, call for info
Info and registration: 845-5314
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14
Food Drive at MUS
To benefit Santa Barbara Foodbank,
donations can be left in the school’s
parking lot in the morning during drop off.
Items needed include baby food, cereal,
pasta, peanut butter, rice, soup, and
canned goods.
When: 8:15 am to 8:30 am
Where: 385 San Ysidro Road
MERRAG Meeting and Training
Network of trained volunteers that work
and/or live in the Montecito area prepare
to respond to community disaster during
critical first 72 hours following an event.
The mutual “self-help” organization serves
Montecito’s 13,000 residents with the
guidance and support of the Montecito
Fire, Water and Sanitary Districts. This
month: Light Search and Rescue.
When: 10 am
Where: Montecito Fire Station,
595 San Ysidro Road
Info: Geri, 969-2537
The Crucible
Laguna Blanca School presents The
Crucible, by Arthur Miller
When: November 14, 15, and 16, 7 pm
Where: 4125 Paloma Drive
Tickets and info: 687-2461 x 217
Discussion Group
A group gathers to discuss The New Yorker
When: 7:30 pm to 9 pm
Where: Montecito Library,
1469 East Valley Road
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15
ONWARD Grand Opening
Celebrate the grand opening of new
boutique ONWARD, featuring fine home
furnishings, art, and design, and enjoy
food by Chapala Farms
When: 6 to 8 pm
Where: 1233 State Street
Info: (805) 324-4337
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16
Calm at Heart
Join CALM for a completely new event at
the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club.
Make music with the Figureheads in your
finest jeans and jewelry under the harvest
moon. The event includes a music-making
experience, gourmet tasting stations,
libations, and dancing under the stars.
When: 6 pm
Where: 3375 Foothill Road
Cost: $200 per ticket
Info and Tickets: Lori Goodman at
[email protected] or (805) 965-
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recently re-landscaped their front yard
with sustainable shrubbery and herbs.
Montecito Water District was also hon-
ored, with board member Jan Abel
accepting the award on the district’s
behalf. MWD beautified the corner
of Barker Pass and Sycamore Canyon
where a water pump was installed in
2011; a pedestrian-friendly footpath
was also constructed. El Montecito
Verde, the condominium complex
on Fairway Road, was honored for
sustainable commercial landscaping.
Homeowner Jim Ochs was awarded
the Charming Cottage Award for his
East Pepper Lane cottage.
First District Supervisor Salud
Carbajal presented Jean Von
Wittenburg with the award for Citizen
of the Year. Jean is an original mem-
ber of the Montecito Association’s
Beautification Committee, and she is
credited with organizing an annu-
al clean-the-community barbeque,
which has since turned into the pop-
ular Beautification Day event. Jean
has also sat on the MA board for an
unprecedented 12 years! She thanked
Citizen of the Year Jean Von Wittenburg with First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal and Beautification
Chair Cindy Feinberg
Charming Cottage Award winner Jim Ochs accepts award from Cindy Feinberg at this year’s
Beautification Day
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the committee and Supervisor Carbajal
for the recognition.
Cindy Feinberg chaired the event
and hosted the awards ceremony,
after which volunteers were treated
to a lunch of Montecito Fire Protection
District’s five alarm chili and hot dogs,
with chocolate chip cookies made
by the Beautification Committee.
Montecito Country Club provided the
continental breakfast in the morning,
while Peter Clark provided the enter-
tainment with bandmate Maitland
Ward; Peter sang his original “We
Are Montecito, 93108” song. Art made
from scrap adorned the tables at the
event, made by local school children
in an effort to teach them how to reuse
and recycle.
Montecito Union
Updates
Last week, the Montecito Union
School board announced that former
Montecito Association president Peter
van Duinwyk has been elected to the
school board. Van Duinwyk, who has
grandchildren who attend the school,
will join the board at their next regular
meeting, on Tuesday, November 19.
In October, the board held a special
meeting to discuss perceived issues
that had been circulating on the cam-
pus. Dozens of parents and teachers
gathered in the auditorium to meet
with the board, which planned the
meeting to offer parents and teachers
an opportunity to voice concerns.
Over the past three years, parents
have been concerned about signifi-
cant teacher and staff turnover at the
school, which coincides to the time the
school has been under the leadership
of superintendent Tammy Murphy.
“There is a lot of misinformation cir-
culating,” said board president Gwyn
Lurie, who said Mrs. Murphy inher-
ited a school culture that was lax on
school mandates and requirements.
“She had a lot of work to do coming
in, and there were a lot of expecta-
tions,” Lurie told us. Murphy was
brought into the school in 2010, and
charged with implementing the then-
new strategic plan, which focuses on
student achievement, global perspec-
tives, adapting to technology, upgrad-
ing the facilities and grounds, nur-
turing staff, and sustaining financial
stability.
Since Murphy came on board, doz-
ens of staff members have left the
school for various reasons. Chief busi-
ness official Virginia Alvarez says the
retirements are not out of the ordinary,
Montecito firefighters manned the grill and answered fire safety questions from residents at this year’s
Beautification Day
Dana Newquist and his antique fire engine
Peter van Duinwyk, former Montecito Association
president, will join the Montecito Union School
board of trustees
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y husband has been romanc-
ing the rails ever since his
granddaddy was a boiler-
maker at the round house of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O)
in Benwood, West Virginia, and his
father was a secretary for the general
manager of the western division of
the B&O in Wheeling, West Virginia.
And so our adventure on LA Rails
(a group of privately owned vintage
rail cars) began for the inaugural run
of “The Portland Vino Train.” A long
way to go for a taste of wine, but cer-
tainly unique.
What’s easier than a short drive to
our train depot with long-term park-
ing at a bargain $2 per day and board-
ing 1940s-‘50s passenger train rail cars
that have been refurbished to their
original grandeur? Amtrak attached
these cars to the end of their regular
Coast Starlight train and away we
went north to Portland, Oregon.
The club lounge and dining car is
named the Overland Trail, originally
built for the Southern Pacific railroad
in 1949. There are two sleeper cars
with the I Love Lucy berths, room-
ettes, and bedrooms. One is the Pacific
Sands built in 1950 for the Union
Pacific Railroad. Ours was called the
Salisbury Beach and was built for the
Boston and Maine railroad in 1954. We
had a bedroom, albeit it was tiny – or
teeny tiny – but complete with toilet,
sink (which you could fit in if you
didn’t eat too much supper), and an
upper and lower berth that were very
cozy to sleep in listening to the train’s
rhythm. The shower was down the
hall. There was a large window in our
room with another across the passage-
way. The scenery was great.
There were cocktails and dinner for
the 30 travelers and then we had to
decide who got the upper berth. I’ll
let you guess. We left Santa Barbara
at 12:40 pm and arrived in Portland
the next day at 3:32 pm. What’s really
cool is our rail cars were dropped off
at the siding of the Portland train sta-
tion and they were our hotel during
our stay.
We knew two of the passengers,
Montecitans Sally and Bob Beckham.
We had business friends (Melinda
and Dean Mars introduced us) meet-
ing the train and Sally and Bob joined
us. First on our sightseeing tour was
a must-see trip to the “City of Roses,”
Portland’s famous rose gardens. It
doesn’t disappoint. The roses came in
all shapes, sizes, varieties, and colors.
Portland is considered to be one of
the most eco-friendly, green cities in
the world known for its parks and
fountains.
It’s also known for its Rose Festival,
or Portland’s Party, dating to 1907
with as many as half a million specta-
tors gathering for the “Grand Floral
Parade.” But don’t think Pasadena!
It’s much more hometown than that.
We walked across the drawbridge
(there are ten bridges and an eleventh
being built) from the train station
Romancing the Rails and Portland Perks
Seen Around
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The Overland
Trail club
lounge and din-
ing car built for
the Southern
Pacific railroad
in 1949
Conductor Bill Hatrick with the director of the
South Coast Railroad Museum in Goleta, Gary
Coombs. Bill and his wife, Debbie, own the
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to the coliseum where our reserved
parade seats were waiting. One of
our favorite entries was the “One
More Time Around Again” marching
band. The band is made up entirely
of former high school, college, and
military marching band members, 500
strong, who range in age from 18 to
near 90. The majorettes had put on a
few pounds and all had put on a few
wrinkles, but they were full of energy
and fun. It is believed to be the larg-
est permanent marching band in the
world and has appeared as far away
as St. Petersburg, Florida, debuting
in 1985.
Another favorite was the party ani-
mal – a potato loving alligator named
after Reser’s Fine Foods’ founder, Al.
It’s been more than 60 years since
Grandma Reser perfected her potato
salad recipe in her small farmhouse
kitchen. Today, Reser’s restaurant still
serves it along with a variety of com-
fort food. All the natives told us how
lucky we were because the sun was
shining, saying, “It always rains on
our parade.”
Wine and Dine
One of the main treks all of the pas-
sengers and crew wanted to take was
to Voodoo Doughnut with lines out
the door in the Pearl District down-
town. The doughnuts are quirky cre-
ations of sugar and dough that garner
rave reviews. The boxes are pink and
tout, “Good Things Come in Pink
The party ani-
mal alligator Al
Reser who loves
the potato salad
grandma used
to make that is
still being served
at Reser’s Fine
Foods
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Boxes.” I thought good things come in
blue boxes from Tiffany!
Another famous landmark is
Powell’s Books, which takes up an
entire city block, and shopping is tax-
free in Oregon.
One of the highlights was a lun-
cheon cruise aboard the Portland
Spirit on the Willamette River, which
runs through the city. It was very
classy with live music streaming from
a grand piano and a delicious lunch.
Speaking of food, you eat well in
Portland.
One memorable place was Jake’s
Grill located in The Governor Hotel,
which is on the National Register of
Historic Places. Avant-garde architect
William Knighton capped the decade
by designing the hotel in 1909. Over
the intervening years the mosaic floor
was buried under seven layers of car-
pet, but it has been restored and is
now the floor of Jake’s Grill. Grills
were the rage when women wore
Gibson Girl dresses, boys wore knee
pants and men wore whiskers. Jake’s
aims to recall the spirit of the first
decade of the twentieth century. On
New Year’s Eve, 1910, the Oregonian
reported that 50,000 people thronged
the streets and “in the grills, every
table was occupied.” And the food is
equally as tantalizing.
Another was Paley’s Place, which
is owned by Kimberly Paley, the
daughter of local lady Jo Ann Brown.
The restaurant was located in a neigh-
borhood inside a charming Victorian
house, which was surprisingly con-
temporary once you stepped inside.
The menu was also very gourmet
with escargot and sweet breads being
among some of what we ordered.
One of the more memorable din-
ners I’ve ever had was at Wilfs, which
is located in the train station build-
ing (but is privately owned with a
separate entrance) and literally just
a few feet from our train cars. It
used to be the railroad commissary in
the olden days. Now it’s a high-end
elegant eating place. There was live
jazz, high-backed red plush chairs,
Steak Diane prepared at our table
and impeccable service. There doesn’t
seem to be many places left that cook
at the table. At one of my favorites
in Naples, Italy, they made spaghetti
carbonara at the table until one night
a tablecloth caught on fire. That was
the end of that.
One day we boarded a bus to take
us to the wine country just outside
Portland. Turns out pinot noir is the
grape of choice in this region – the
cool climate being just right for this
grape. We passed by dozens of winer-
ies as we traveled through the coun-
tryside. We ended up in McMinnville,
home of the Evergreen Aviation and
Space Museum. That’s where Howard
Hugh’s “Spruce Goose” can be seen.
There’s something for everyone, even
if you’re not a total aviation buff. To
keep tourists coming, the town of
McMinnville has preserved 100 old
buildings on its main street. On a
former trip, we stayed at a wonder-
ful bed and breakfast and strolled the
area.
We kept hearing “keep Portland
weird,” but I didn’t find anything
too weird going on except the annual
nude bicycle race (ouch) which was to
begin at 10 pm the day we were leav-
ing. So sorry I can’t report on that and
have no photos.
Our Portland train trip could have
been titled “Days of Wine and Roses”
in the fifties.
Los Angeles is home to a number of
unique vintage railcars from the ‘40s
and ‘50s. The individual owners have
made them available for charter by
groups, or you can join one for a pub-
lic trip. They are based at Los Angeles
Union Station. A fun one we’ve done
is the day trip to San Luis Obispo
where you pack up your bread, cheese
and wine and enjoy the scenery. For
information, call 877-4 LA-Rail (877-
452-7245) or log on to www.LARail.
com. •MJ
Street art in
Portland in front
of the train sta-
tion and Wilfs’
green awning at its
entrance. Our train
cars were on the
siding behind.
Bob and Sally Beckham boarding the Portland
Spirit for our lunch cruise
7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 17 For better to come, good must stand aside – Carl Jung
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and presented a slide show show-
ing the breakdown of staff turnover
in the last four school years. Prior
to the current administration team,
which includes chief academic officer
Dr. Nick Bruski and new dean of
students Monica Hammonds, teach-
ers had been asking for a retirement
bonus during labor negotiations, but
the request was rejected. In 2009, 17
staff members said goodbye, eight of
whom were part-time instructional
assistants, which have the highest
turnover rate due to the low hours.
Five of those employees left due to
retirement. In 2010, the first year of
the new administrative team, nine
employees left, two of whom retired.
During the second year of the
current administration team, the
Montecito Teachers Association
(MTA) once again tried to negoti-
ate a retirement bonus. The board
approved the bonus, which was in
effect for two school years: 2011-12
and 2012-13. Teachers were given
$15,000 to $25,000 depending on years
of service at MUS. “The approval of
the bonus was a way of thanking the
teachers for their service,” Alvarez
explained. The first year of the bonus,
seven teachers retired, and the second
year, seven more teachers took advan-
tage of the bonus.
“Logically, the majority of retire-
ments would take place during these
two years. Of the staff members that
retired, the average years of service
to MUS was twenty five years, and
the average age of the retirees was 65
years old,” she went on to explain.
Several retired teachers spoke at the
meeting, telling parents in attendance
that they did not feel forced out, and
were grateful about the retirement
bonus. Lurie told us later that all the
teachers who have recently retired
have been back as both substitute
teachers and long-term subs. “That
says a lot about the environment in
which they left,” she said.
Many parents at the meeting chose
not to speak after Ms. Alvarez’s pre-
sentation. Others voiced concerns that
the meeting, which was to be a forum
in which parents could have questions
answered, was not planned well, and
that they felt like the board spent a
significant portion of the allotted two
hours outlining the various roles of
the board, rather than focusing on the
issues. “It was a good learning experi-
ence,” Lurie said about the format.
Lurie says she plans to host more
communication-type meetings in the
future, but in the meantime, the board
members are implementing office
hours, to be held on Monday morn-
ings before the Tuesday evening board
meetings. “That way, parents can see
the agenda, and then come talk to us if
they have questions,” Lurie said. The
tentative plan for office hours is 8:30
am to 9:30 am, in the teachers’ lounge.
For more information, visit www.
montecitou.org.
Ghost Village Road
Thousands of area residents tra-
versed Coast Village Road last week to
celebrate Halloween. Business owners
and their staff passed out candy and
treats, while costumed kids and their
parents made their way down Ghost
Village Road, organized by the Coast
Village Business Association.
Here’s the Scoop owners Bob and
Ellie Patterson once again held a cos-
tume contest, which encourages cre-
ative, handmade costumes. Turn to
page 37 to see this year’s winners.
Suerta Raring dresses as “milk & cookies”
Montecito Pet
Hospital Dr.
Dawson and his
staff, along with
Montecito Journal
mascot, Drake, on
Ghost Village Road
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Systems in Los Angeles and worked
with a developer for more than one
and a half years to advance the idea,
but they were unable to bring it to
completion.
“Then I was lucky enough to
connect with Jack Kustanowitz at
Mountain Pass Technology, who com-
pletely redid the code and gave me a
working app in just three months. My
assistant, Audrey Sotnikov, was also
extremely helpful in the process.”
iCall4Help is a globally enabled
safety app that keeps users and loved
ones safe in case of an emergency by
turning an iPhone into a lifesaving
device.
“With this emergency app, users
can easily call for help whenever they
need it – and in case they can’t call for
assistance, the app does it automati-
cally, notifying family, friends, neigh-
bors, co-workers or doctors immedi-
ately and simultaneously,” explains
Carol. “You can also share your loca-
tion via GPS.
“With the ‘Check on Me’ feature,
the user sets a time for an activity to
be completed and at the end of that
time is prompted by the app to con-
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respond to the alert with an ‘I’m OK,’
the pre-set contacts are instantly noti-
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For more info on this innovative
lifesaving device check out Carol’s
website www.icall4help.com.
Oprah’s Auction
Former TV talk show titan Oprah
Winfrey’s auction of her household
furnishings at the Santa Barbara Polo
Club at the weekend, as I predict-
ed, was a feeding frenzy, with prices
going through the roof for many of
the lesser items of the 574 lots on offer,
driven up by the 3,000 personal shop-
pers attending the event, as well as the
bidders online and on the phone.
Rather resembling the Jackie O auc-
tion at Sotheby’s in New York in 1996,
which I covered for ABC Network
News, the bidding bore absolutely no
correlation whatsoever to the goods
on offer, especially when Oprah her-
self joined auctioneer Frank Kaminski
to help sell the first few lots after get-
ting some advice from her longtime
friend, Gayle King, a co-host on CBS
This Morning show.
An early standout of the trend to
come was a small print of a TV Guide
cover photo featuring Oprah, which
had a pre-auction estimate of $200 to
$400, but eventually sold for ten times
the estimate at $3,000, while a paint-
ing expected to go under the hammer
for $300 to $500 went for 12 times the
top amount.
Even a simple nondescript teapot,
valued at $100, was bid up to $1,000.
And this didn’t include the buyers’
premium of 20 percent to Kaminski,
the Beverly Hills auctioneers, conduct-
ing the celebrity grabfest for Oprah’s
household goods from her homes in
our rarefied enclave, Chicago, Maui,
Hawaii, and Indiana.
Earlier in the week before the three
days of previews, Oprah was spot-
ted doing a photo shoot for her O
magazine at the club and was a sur-
prise guest at the VIP party in the
clubhouse the night before the mega
sale, explaining her attendance had
been a last minute decision because
she had wanted to see the students
from Janet Adderley’s Santa Barbara
Youth Ensemble Theatre perform
numbers from the musical version of
her 1985 Steven Spielberg film The
Color Purple.
She was clearly impressed by what
she saw, inviting the talented young-
sters to sing with the likes of Beyonce,
Tina Turner and Diana Ross at her
Colin Cowie-designed 60th birthday
bash at her 42-acre estate in January,
I can exclusively reveal, where guests
are expected to include Tom Cruise,
John Travolta and Julia Roberts.
Oprah also brought along a former
student of her girls leadership acad-
emy in South Africa – now studying
at Stanford – where all the proceeds
from the auction – around $600,000 –
will go...
Back Together
I’m delighted to hear that former
Montecito resident, Oscar-winner
Michael Douglas, has reconciled with
his Welsh actress wife, Catherine
Zeta-Jones.
The tony twosome and their two
children, Dylan and Carys, went trick-
Oprah Winfrey with
Janet Adderley’s
students at the
auction VIP party
(photo credit: Cristi
Egenolf)
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or-treating near their family home in
Westchester, New York, last week after
a brief summer separation from their
long partnership.
“Catherine was Snow White, Dylan
was a Hobbit and Carys was a kind
of flapper,” Michael, 69, told ABC
morning show hosts Kelly Ripa and
Michael Strahan.
The pair celebrate their 13th wed-
ding anniversary on November 18.
Drew’s Abode Sells
Actress Drew Barrymore’s
Montecito estate, which has been lan-
guishing on the market since she put
it up for sale in May for $7.5 mil-
lion, has obviously benefitted from the
$600,000 price cut, which I reported in
this illustrious organ in September.
Now, I hear, the 76-year-old, 2.3-
acre, 6,258-sq-ft six-bedroom property,
just a tiara’s toss from Law & Order
producer Dick Wolf’s mega manse,
which she bought in June 2010 for
$5,705,000, has been sold for $6.35
million, still giving the Charlie’s Angels
star a sizable profit on her investment.
The mother of one, who gave birth
to her first child, daughter Olive,
thirteen months ago, married her art
consultant husband, Will Kopelman,
on the property in June last year with
celebrity guests including Cameron
Diaz, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett
Johansson and Jimmy Fallon.
My mole with the martini says the
couple wanted to move the prop-
erty quickly so they can focus on
purchasing a four-bedroom duplex on
Manhattan’s Park Avenue.
Drew, who is pregnant with her
second child, also has an aerie in the
Hollywood Hills, which she bought
eleven years ago for $4,350,000, near
fellow actress Hayden Panettiere...
Blue Tavern to Open
After the unexpected shuttering of
the former Anchor Woodfire Kitchen
next to the Indigo Hotel on State
Street, just a short jog from Stearns
Wharf, the 90-seater hot spot is re-
opening later this month as the Blue
Tavern under award-winning chef
Ricardo Zarate, featuring quintessen-
tial Californian fare.
It is Zarate’s fourth eatery in con-
junction with his business partner,
Drew Barrymore sells Montecito home for $6.35
million (seen here in 50 First Dates)
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7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 20 • Tui Voici oi rui Viiiaci •
LETTERS (Continued from page 8)
into the lucrative pediatric day-
care business. The downside of
this is the over-crowding of our
streets and parking lots, now not
only on Sunday. Formerly, the
traffic up and down Hot Springs
near Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Church was impeded by parkers
on both sides only when services
were conducted. Now it is daily
and all day.
I have written to and been
fobbed off by a succession of
pastors at Mount Carmel, one of
whom had the gall to tell me that
parking issues were the business
of the nuns. Having been well
educated by nuns for eight years
in St. Lucy’s school in Chicago,
I can attest to their great wis-
dom, but I have never met one
who specialized in traffic con-
trol. When is the Montecito
Association or the California
Highway Patrol going to step in
and correct this potentially dan-
gerous problem?
William Santoro, M.D.
Montecito
(Editor’s note: This is the first
we’ve heard of the problem you note.
We’ll do a little research, ask a few
questions, observe a few afternoons,
and get back to you via this column
or in the editorial. Thank you. – J.B.)
Understand
The Risks
A few weeks ago, you kind-
ly published a letter I sent in
(“More on the Money Man,”
MJ # 19/41) that was a skepti-
cal take on an article about a
Montecito investment advisor
(Cover Story, MJ # 19/39). You
noted to me that you had not
understood my point. I just ran
across a note I had sent some-
body a while back in a similar
vein, which may clarify.
My point is that people
feel excessively and even danger-
ously secure by the long-running
past success and respectability of
advisors, to whom they turn for
expertise and entrust their money.
They consistently fail to fully
appreciate the risks.
Here’s the note:
In a recent letter, a writer
expressed resentment at the vili-
fication of Dimon, the J.P. Morgan
CEO for a hedged financial bet
that may have lost the bank two
billion dollars. In the letter, the
writer says: “I for one would feel
much more comfortable going
to sleep at night knowing that
Jamie Dimon or folks of his quali-
fications were watchdogs over the
assets of this country.”
Really?
And just what are those quali-
fications?
After this bank fiasco became
apparent, Dimon came out on
national news and credited the
blunder to his bank being reck-
less, negligent, foolish, and a few
other such startling admissions.
Now, why would a CEO – of a
bank, of all things – cop to such
damning characteristics among
his trusted financial institution’s
shortcomings?
The answer is fairly obvi-
ous. His only alternative was to
admit a truth even more damag-
ing to him, as well as the under-
pinnings of other financial estab-
lishments: that the risk manage-
ment strategies (the penchant
for which he was so highly tout-
ed) are based on fatally flawed
assumptions.
This is not big news. It had been
pointed out by others, including
Nassim Taleb in his best-selling
Black Swan, that a few years ago,
the giant hedge fund Long-Term
Capital Management similarly
“exploded,” leading to Federal
Reserve intervention. That fund’s
risk management strategies were
based upon the “expertise” of a
couple of economists on its board
(Scholes & Merton), whose meth-
od had recently earned them the
Nobel Prize in economics. (What
could make you feel more secure
than that?) Their flawed method-
ology later lost the firm $4.6 bil-
lion.
Yet, we continue to entrust
our wealth to these bigheaded,
cocksure (or warm and cud-
dly) geniuses that steadfastly
indulge in the illusion that their
brilliant algorithms and past track
record can succeed in predicting
the unpredictable (and “hedging”
our way to greater wealth).
Joe Rution
Santa Barbara
(Editor’s note: Hmm. It seems to
me that Mr. Dimon has run afoul
of government agencies because the
folks who ran a bank his company
acquired – a purchase made at the
behest of the U.S. government – were
“reckless, negligent, and foolish,”
not he or his staff. A clarification is
probably called for and who better
to clarify the issue than Mr. Ralph
Iannelli who, we assume, will read
this letter and our response and offer
some elucidation that makes sense.
We await his missive. I do agree, too;
I for one would sleep better at night
knowing Mr. Dimon or Mr. Cronin
– Montecito’s Money Man – were in
charge of the U.S. financial system.
Your underlying assumption seems
to be that Mr. Bernanke is doing a
fine job and that his likely replace-
ment, Janet Yellen, will continue in
the same vein. At least that is what
we believe you are indicating, but we
could be wrong. – J.B.)

The “Shutdown”
Revisited
Did anyone wonder how they
got all those signs printed and
distributed far and wide, includ-
ing to all the national parks and
cemeteries overseas only eight to
ten hours after the government
shut down? Take a look at this
from someone who wanted to
remain anonymous:
“I have worked in the govern-
ment on and off for 40 years.
During that time, I became quite
familiar with requisitions, bid-
ding, awarding contracts, etc.
It is a time-consuming process
with bean counters and pencil-
necked bureaucrats every step
of the way. The simplest request
takes months, not days or hours.
“In less than 8 hours of the
shutdown, miraculously, profes-
sionally printed 3x4-foot signs
appeared all over the country
in the tens of thousands saying,
‘this [park, facility, etc. with cus-
tom logos] closed due to govern-
ment shutdown.’ There has not
been a government shutdown
in 17 years. These signs were
designed, specifications were
determined, signs were then req-
uisitioned, bids were posted and
vetted, government contracts
were awarded. The materials
were then ordered, and the signs
manufactured and then distrib-
uted via U.S. mail or freight
companies.
“This shutdown was orches-
trated and planned well in
advance at least 6 to 8 months
ago. Millions of tax dollars were
appropriated and spent in this
process. There is a paper trail a
mile long leading directly to the
White House.”
Marty Temple
Huntington Beach
Times Wrong Again
When Ronald Reagan won the
Republican nomination for gov-
ernor of California in 1966, The
New York Times called the GOP’s
decision one that went “against
all counsels of common sense and
political prudence.” That com-
ment probably deserves to go
down in history as one of the
most spectacularly wrong politi-
cal assessments ever to appear in
a newspaper.
Name Lost In Transit
Santa Barbara
(Editor’s note: Well, that’s a good
one, but it doesn’t really compare
with Princeton Professor Irving
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. 5282

DUE DATE & TIME: NOVEMBER 20, 2013 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Carpet Removal and Installation at Two Locations

A MANDATORY pre-bid meeting will be held on November
12, 2013 at 9:00 a.m., at the Public Works Parking Lot,
located at 630 Garden Street, Santa Barbara, CA, to
discuss the specifications and field conditions.

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 City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a
current valid State of California C-15 Contractors License.
The company bidding on this must possess one of the above
mentioned licenses at the time bids are due 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.

Bidders are hereby notified that 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
with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to
the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the
bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds
in the State of California.

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: Nov. 6, 2013
General Services Manager Montecito Journal

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. 5284

DUE DATE & TIME: NOVEMBER 20, 2013 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

FIVE NEW 2014 POLICE PATROL VEHICLES

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.

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: November 6, 2013
General Services Manager Montecito Journal

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Wet Thoughts
There are two critical intertwin-
ing aspects of water: water quality
(safety) and water quantity (supply
of the fluid). In continuance of the
dialogue started by a letter to the
editor from Carolee Krieger (“Very
Expensive Water,” MJ # 19/42), the
following is offered. While the sub-
ject of this letter is water quality,
I will discuss quantity because one
bears upon the other. These issues
are coming together more frequently
now. We have critical public health
issues failing to be discussed by state
agencies – issues that are based on
diminishing supplies of water.
Recently, Ray Suarez, anchor on
the PBS NewsHour, discussed the
critical public health factor fac-
ing this nation: antibiotic-resistant,
essentially unstoppable pathogens.
We as a nation are facing dimin-
ishing supplies of viable antibiotics
while at the same time facing increas-
ingly unstoppable antibiotic resistant
pathogens, or “superbugs.” That lack
of drugs coupled with unstoppable
pathogens will affect surgeries, as
there is the development of more
and more post-surgical infections and
infections from needle biopsy tissue
samples for diagnosing prostate can-
cer. Superbugs are now in our water
supplies. That goes in through the
mouth, through the intestines, then
leaves via the rectum, and includes
the establishment of antibiotic-resis-
tant organisms on the tissue walls.
When a needle biopsy is undertaken
to check the prostate, that needle
goes through non-sterile tissue and
can carry resistant bacteria deep into
the prostatic tissue.
This is an increasing problem.
Ms. Krieger brings us a timely dis-
cussion on diminishing water sup-
plies and warns us to be wary of
the California Department of Water
Resources (DWR), as well as the local
politicians. The DWR, while being
supported by your hard-earned tax
dollars, actually works for indus-
try. This is what is called “clientele
captured,” that is, a governmental
agency moving into a non-action
mode favoring a politically powerful
lobby of interests. The DWR is sup-
posed to represent the people, but its
loyalties are badly misplaced. Large
water interests get water through
highly subsidized political avenues
that are carefully coveted. Governor
Schwarzenegger, while in office, ear-
nestly tried to shift this unequal and
inequitable balance on the cost of
water. He convened a small internal
group to seriously look at the costs of
water and the unequal distribution
of usage, costs that greatly favored
big interests. At the meeting was the
DWR. By that afternoon, following
that internal closed session meeting,
the phone was ringing off its hook
with pressure from these big inter-
ests. The idea for equitable water
costs went nowhere.
Then there was the “paper water”
issue when the big water agencies
and the big users tried to artificially
inflate the availability of water. One
large metropolitan center at the base
of this state bought into paper water
rather heavily, and now to make up
for that political blunder, its politi-
cians are trying to convince its citi-
zens that “toilet to tap” makes good
drinking water. That might be a major
public health blunder based on cur-
rent inadequate public health stan-
dards. There are serious pathogens
coming through in recycled water.
Back in 1982, the Wastewater
Research Division, Municipal
Environmental Research Laboratory,
U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency documented that sewer
plants generated antibiotic-resistant
microbes. Sewer plants were shown
by that study as one of the prin-
cipal sources of antibiotic resistant
organisms now found in the nation’s
water supplies. For political reasons,
that entire report and all records of
its existence were removed from the
Environmental Protection Agency’s
(EPA) database. I had the library
contractors for EPA do a high-level
search for this report or any ancil-
lary notes and they reported back
that it did not exist. I had received a
copy of it from a well connected col-
league. In 2006 at the Environmental
Law Conference in Yosemite, vari-
ous papers were delivered. One ses-
sion was to contain some interesting
insight into this area of non-action by
regulators. The topic was pharma-
ceuticals in water. Of particular inter-
est was the analysis of the federal
Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) by
one of the EPA drinking water toxi-
cologists. His delivered paper ended
with the following: “Bottom line on
almost all of the ‘emerging’ contami-
nants that have attracted attention:
It will be a long time, if ever, before
they are regulated under the SDWA.”
With that in mind, when might the
EPA begin to address the issues of
antibiotic resistance or resistant genes
found in the nation’s water supply?
Can the industry move ahead absent
correcting this and if in doing so, how
will it deal with resistance besides
just ignoring it?
Now, as to the Twin Tunnels dis-
cussed by Mrs. Krieger. This allows
more northern California water to
be brought south. She mentions the
inequity of usage and costs that cur-
rently exists between users. She notes
that districts like Montecito will again
be stuck subsidizing the powerful.
But, there is another serious ingredi-
ent needed in this discussion: pub-
lic health. The sewage effluent from
several municipal sewer districts
upstream in the Sacramento region
empties into that water supply and
thus, especially the multi-antibiotic
resistant genes, may make it to our
kitchen taps.
You might wonder how this is
possible with proper sanitation and
water quality laws. The key word
here is “proper.” The antibiotic resis-
tant genes come through antiquated
designs in the nation’s sewer plants
and water treatment plants. Absent
new engineering design, this will be
replicated if we spend billions on
U.S. infrastructure blindly. This infra-
structure debacle happened once
before back in the mid-1970s when
billions of tax dollars were given by
EPA as grants to cities to improve
their sewer plants. The congressio-
nal record of the time is replete with
congressional complaints to the EPA
for misspending that money. But,
you see, the EPA is a clientele cap-
tured agency, a taxpayer supported
but wholly owned subsidiary of the
water industry, especially the sewer
industry, not a creature answerable
to Congress. Don’t believe that? I
suggest you read Charles Duhigg’s
water series that came out in The New
York Times.
As to antibiotic resistant genes
(ARGs). These are small packets of
viable bacterial DNA. Since these
are information packets, they can
and do effect change within bacte-
ria, including the bacteria in your
own gut biota, making pathogens
out of otherwise benign bacteria, and
doing so in a single step. Again,
the level of pathogens, ARGs and
other contaminants are inadequately
considered by the current standards
that control water. Control of ARGs
is critical to the solutions for the
problem of expanding community
acquired resistance. Additionally,
unlike pathogens, ARGs are mere
gene fragments, but are easily taken
up by bacteria and incorporated into
their genetic structure, thus creating
pathogens of non-pathogenic com-
mon background microbes in but a
single step. Thus, water sets up a
situation for transfer into the human
intestinal tract and is picked up by
the gut biota where they are rapidly
multiplied. They become long-stand-
ing additions.
This happens also in sewer plants
but at industrial quantities. Bacteria
and pathogens that might never
meet in nature are thrust together
in the confines of a sewer plant.
The genes are exchanged and then
released into the soup of the efflu-
ent. The genes are not live cells, but
mere genetic fragments, and thus are
not affected by ultraviolet radiation
or chlorine, which are the princi-
pal disinfectants of sewer process-
ing. In fact, the use of UV can and
does improve the pathogenic status
of some bacteria, as does chlorine.
Because of the small size of these
genetic fragments, many of the filter-
ing systems used in water treatment
are not tight enough for exclusion.
Thus, colleagues in academia study-
ing this situation are noting that the
most sophisticated sewer plants in
the nation are spewing out antibi-
otic resistant genes into the nation’s
water supplies. This is still essential-
ly ignored by state and federal regu-
latory agencies. These colleagues are
also finding these antibiotic resistant
genes now in drinking water. The
water quality standards do not even
mention this, and the antiquated
tests used ignore these facts. If we
bring more northern water, we also
bring in more resistant pathogens.
What can we do to stem this?
Heed what Ms. Krieger says; go
to the hearings and speak up. Ask
embarrassing but hard questions and
see the confusion as politicians try to
spin their way out of uncomfortable
situations. It is your family’s health
that is at stake.
Dr. Edo McGowan
Montecito •MJ
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Credit Cards Stolen
Sunday, 13 October, 9:30 am – Deputy Gallaher contacted a woman who
stated her driver’s license and credit cards had been stolen from a health club
on Santa Rosa Lane in Montecito. The day before, she had put her clothing in a
locker at the club and went swimming. She returned to find that a coin purse,
containing the cards and license, had been taken from the pocket of her pants.
The woman, who admitted she did not lock the locker, canceled her credit
cards. A report was taken.
Mail Fraud on Hot Springs Road
Thursday, 17 October, 12:30 pm – Deputy Amjadi responded to a home
on Hot Springs Road in Montecito for a report of stolen checks. The victim
stated that the day before, her bank had called her to inform her someone
had attempted to cash a credit card check in her name. The victim believed
the checks were stolen from her mailbox; they are delivered on a monthly
basis. The woman’s account number was changed, and she opened a
secured post office box to avoid such incidences in the future. A report
was taken.
Residential Burglary in Summerland
Monday, 21 October, 8:06 pm – Deputy Johnson was dispatched to Ortega
Hill road in Summerland on report of a residential burglary. The victim
told the deputy she had returned home the prior evening from vacation.
While she was gone, her father had been by the residence to care for her
cats. The last day of her vacation, her father was unable to locate the cats
in the residence. He observed an open window with the screen off, but
assumed the cats fell into it and knocked it off. When the woman returned
home, she put the screen back on, and noticed pry marks near the screen
opening. There was nothing missing from the residence, but the victim
filed a report. •MJ
Dehydrated Hiker Assisted
Sunday, 20 October, 12:54 pm – E92, SQ91 and B914 responded to a hiker suf-
fering from dehydration on the Cold Spring Trail. Los Padres Forest, Search
and Rescue personnel and a Santa Barbara County Helicopter assisted in the
response. E92’s firefighters located the patient, and after a thorough assessment
determined the patient was well enough to walk down the trail with firefighter
assistance.
Mobile Home Fire in Carpinteria
Monday, 21 October, 12:35 pm – E91 responded to assist Carpinteria-Summerland
to battle a structure fire in the San Roque Mobile Home Park, in the 5700 Block
of Via Real. •MJ
Montecito Girl Scouts
Montecito’s Girl Scout troop spent
last Tuesday, October 30 visiting for-
mer Girl Scouts in Montecito in an
effort to learn about leadership and
opportunities. Annabelle Brownell,
the troop leader, formed the troop,
which is made up of twelve Montecito
Union School girls, four years ago.
“The Girl Scout program was an
important influence on my life as a
child and I was anxious as a mother
to have my daughter try it,” Brownell
says. The troop is a co-op troop, which
means that every mother has also
trained as a leader and co-leads. Each
mother-daughter team leads one
meeting each year. “The girls get the
most value from this format, as they
feel a strong sense of ownership for
their meeting and the troop,” Brownell
said. “My hope is that apart from the
leadership and practical skills they
learn from the program, that they
always have fond memories of their
meetings in Manning Park and the
bonds they made during their ele-
mentary school days.”
The leadership program the girls
are working on has three intentions:
discovering a sense of self, connect-
ing to their community, and taking
actions to advocate and inspire action.
The Junior Girl Scouts learn about the
many roles that are open to them in
the world; last week’s field trip took
them to Montecito Union School to
learn from a teacher who is a for-
mer girl scout, and to Montecito Pet
Hospital, where both female veteri-
narians are also Girl Scout alumnae.
La Casa de Maria
Hosts Peter Russell
From November 15 through 17, La
Casa de Maria in Montecito will host
a retreat and conference featuring
Peter Russell, a fellow of the Institute
for Noetic Sciences and the Findhorn
Foundation.
Participants of the retreat will
explore the mysteries of conscious-
ness. Russell, who was educated at
Cambridge University in mathemat-
ics and theoretical physics, became
increasingly interested in the myster-
ies of the human brain and traveled to
India to study meditation and eastern
philosophy. Today, his principle inter-
est is the deep, spiritual significance of
the times we are passing through.
Russell has written ten books on
the subject, including The Global Brain
Awakens, Waking Up in Time, and most
recently, From Science to God. He has
also appeared and spoken at hundreds
of conventions, television shows, and
radio programs in the United States,
Canada, Europe, and Japan.
The workshop will be held from 7:30
pm on Friday, November 15 to 1 pm
on Sunday, November 17. The cost is
$375 per person and includes lodging,
meals, and tuition. Commuter rate is
$275 and does not include lodging.
For more information, visit www.
lacasademaria.org. La Casa is located
at 800 El Bosque Road in Montecito.•MJ
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Stephane Bombet, following the suc-
cess in Los Angeles of Mo-Chica, Picca
and Paiche, all taking inspiration from
Zarate’s Peruvian heritage.
“By utilizing local Santa Barbara
seafood and produce on our menu,
Blue Tavern will offer our guests a
new way to experience Peruvian cul-
ture in a relaxed environment,” says
Bombet.
Food for thought...
Reception for Reza
James and Patricia Selbert opened
the doors of their sprawling Montecito
home to host a lunch for New York
Times best selling author Reza Aslan
before he spoke at Campbell Hall, part
of the popular UCSB Arts & Lectures
series.
Aslan, 40, who studied as UCSB
and Harvard, wrote Zealot: The Life
and Times of Jesus of Nazareth and No
god but God: The Origins, Evolution
and Future of Islam and conducted a
lively question and answer session
with guests, who included Robert
Weinman, Mahri Kerley, Linda
Hedgepeth, Sheila McGinity, Mark
Juergensmeyer, Celesta Billeci,
Fred Steck, Carla Hahn, Nicole
Woodhouse and Natalie Orfalea, one
of the sponsors...
Kendall’s Pop Up Shop
When it comes to attracting a stel-
lar crowd, former model and fash-
ion designer Kendall Conrad always
causes quite a stir.
And so it was when Kendall,
daughter of late author and SB
Writers Conference founder Barnaby
Conrad, opened her first pop up
shop at the Montecito Country Mart
featuring her purses and handbag
collection, which has been featured
in Vogue.
Kendall, who already has stores in
the Brentwood Country Mart and on
the achingly trendy rue Abbot Kinney
in Venice, is now thinking of making
her temporary store here a permanent
location in due course.
“I think it may be the perfect fit
given so many of my clients live here,”
says Kendall.
Michael Smith, son of Anne
Towbes, provided the music for the
bustling champagne fueled bash
which attracted the likes of Kim and
Tammy Hughes, Gina Tolleson,
Arlene Montesano, Corinna Gordon,
Blue Caleel, Olaf and Eva Guerrand-
Hermes, Patty and Guy de Gramont,
Jennifer Zacharias, Kimberly
Phillips, Amanda Masters, Anthony
Slayter-Ralph, Priscilla Woolworth,
Pat Nesbitt, Jim Rosenfield, Beverley
Jackson, Stephanie and Dewey
Nicks, and Jean-Claude and Susie
Benarrosh…
Chow Down on Chowder
The annual Chowder Fest at the
Montecito Country Club, benefitting
the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa
Barbara County, goes from strength to
strength.
This year’s fourth annual event,
which attracted a record turnout of
more than 400 people, raised $45,000,
nearly 50 percent more than last year.
“It easily exceeded our estimates
and has become a great success since
its launch,” says executive director,
Ellen Goodstein. “It’s now a staple on
the calendar.”
Chuck’s Waterfront Grill won the
grand prize from the 18 entries based
on a unanimous decision by the three
judges, Jamie West of Casa Dorinda,
Michael Hutchings and George
Yatchisin, restaurant reviewer, with
Lazy Acres the most creative.
The La Cumbre Country Club was
the people’s choice winner.
More than 20 eateries and ten winer-
ies participated in the popular event...
Tantalizing Takezawa
Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra,
which is celebrating its 35th anniver-
sary this season, certainly left the best
for last when it flip flopped the pro-
gram at its debut concert at the Music
Academy of the West’s Hahn Hall.
Japanese violinist Kyoko Takezawa,
who appeared here in April play-
ing Brahm’s Violin Concerto in D,
was an absolute whirlwind on her
1704 Stradivarius performing Barber’s
Violin Concerto, the American com-
poser’s first commissioned work in
1939, which ends with a breakneck
finale.
Mendelssohn’s work Symphony
No. 1 in C minor, which was meant
to wrap the entertaining show, was
brought forward as the second piece
Patricia
Selbert, Reza
Aslan, Mark
Juergensmeyer,
Celesta Billeci,
Natalie Orfalea,
and James
Selbert at the
reception for
Aslan (photo by
Priscilla)
Heiichiro
Ohyama cel-
ebrates his 30th
anniversary as
conductor
Susan Murray,
George
Yatchisin, Phil
Kirkwood,
Kaity Swanson,
Kaelon Horst,
Brett Beckner,
Michael
Hutchings, and
Jamie West at
the Chowder
Fest (photo by
Priscilla)
Adam Glassman,
Stephanie Nicks,
Jim Rosenfield,
Jennifer Smith Hale,
and Dewey Nicks
at Kendall Conrad’s
pop up shop in the
Montecito Country
Mart (photo credit:
Mike Gardner)
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Peter Warlock’s An Old Song for Small
Orchestra.
Conductor Heiichiro Ohyama, who
is celebrating his 30th anniversary lead-
ing the ensemble, has got the five-con-
cert season off to a wonderful start...
CAMA Kicks Off
CAMA kicked off its 95th
International Series at the Granada
with the return of the 87-year-old
Estonian National Symphony
Orchestra under artistic director
Neeme Jarvi, one of the world’s most
respected conductors.
Jarvi, who is also music director
emeritus of both the Residentie Orkest
Netherland The Hague and the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, launched the
performance, appropriately enough,
with Estonian musician Arvo Part’s
1977 work “Cantus in Memory of
Benjamin Britten,” written a year after
the British composer’s death.
Finnish composer Jean Sibelius’
Symphony No, 5 in E-flat Major
wrapped the first half with Brahms’
Symphony No. 2 in D Major conclud-
ing the entertaining concert...
Masses Meet for Mai
Social gridlock reigned at the Kim
Kieler Gallery when more than 230
guests turned out for the opening of
an exhibition of 15 new paintings by
Vietnamese artist Mai Anh, whose
work is on the walls of a number of
Montecito collectors, including Ivan
and Genevieve Reitman and Bill and
Sandi Nicholson.
“I first met Mai in Hanoi in 1998
and was captivated by her mes-
merizing paintings,” says Kim. “I
brought her work to Santa Barbara
and sales have exceeded expecta-
tions. We have had five exhibitions
over the years.”
Checking out the new show were
Jack and Inga Canfield, Johnny and
Jodi Goldberg, Julia Wynn, Nina
Terzian, Corinna Gordon, Glen and
Alison Leopold, Barry Samuels and
Dan Wright...
Big-Ticket Brooch
A 96 carat Van Cleef & Arpels dia-
mond brooch that formerly belonged
to Polish opera singer Ganna Walska,
who owned Lotusland, is coming
up for sale at Sotheby’s in Geneva,
Switzerland, next Wednesday.
The jewel, which features a fancy
vivid yellow diamond, was shown at
a major retrospective by the famous
jewelry company.
“The brooch is the perfect dem-
onstration of how a great jeweler
can emphasize the beauty of a spec-
tacular stone by transforming it into
a unique piece,” says David Bennett,
chairman of Sotheby’s jewelry divi-
sion in Europe. “The historic dia-
mond, which is of an extraordinary
size for an antique-cut briolette,
comes back on the market after forty-
two years. It is a fabulous bespoke
piece of jewelry.”
The brooch, in the form of a Bird
of Paradise in yellow gold set with
yellow and white diamonds, emer-
alds and a cabochon sapphire, has the
96.62 carat diamond suspended from
the bird’s beak. It can also be detached
and worn as a pendant, while the
bird’s wings also detach to form a
pair of earrings and the tail can also be
transformed into a brooch.
The unique piece has a pre-sale esti-
mate of $8 million...
Sightings: Rob and Sheryl Lowe
noshing at Trattoria Mollie... Peter
Noone picking up his Java jolt at
Pierre Lafond... Don Johnson and his
family checking out the crowd at Ca
Dario
Pip! Pip!
Readers with tips, sightings and
amusing items for Richard’s column
should e-mail him at richardmin
[email protected] or send invita-
tions or other correspondence to the
Journal •MJ
Thanh LeTrung,
Mai Anh, Dan
Wright, Kim
Kieler, and
Travis Lee at
the art exhib-
it (photo by
Priscilla)
Ganna
Walska’s
multi-mil-
lion dollar
brooch goes
under the
hammer in
Switzerland
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MONTECITO UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT
Notice of Vacancy and Provisional Appointment
A vacancy on the Governing Board of the Montecito Union School
District was created on September 6, 2013 due to the resignation of
Mrs. Mary Morouse.
In accordance with Education Code section 5091, Mr. Peter van
Duinwyk was provisionally appointed to the Governing Board on
October 29, 2013.
Unless a petition calling for a special election, containing a suffcient
number of signatures is fled in the offce of the Superintendent
of Schools of the County of Santa Barbara within (30) days of the
provisional appointment, it shall become an effective appointment.
Coming & Going
by James Buckley
The Doctor Was In
W
hatever you may think of
Dr. Benjamin Carson, M.D.,
retired Director of Pediatric
Neurosurgery at John Hopkins in
Baltimore, Maryland, his speech and
demeanor at February’s National
Prayer Breakfast was one for the his-
tory books. He took on the imple-
mentation of the Affordable Care Act
and denounced its then upcoming
introduction, and subtly railed against
a tax system that he deemed retrogres-
sive and unfair, announcing support
for a flatter, more universal tax rate.
All of which may not sound terribly
brave until one learns that President
Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle
Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden
were sitting nearby, just feet away
from the podium as Dr. Carson spoke.
He began his speech by reading
four short biblical texts, three from
Proverbs and one from 2
nd
Chronicles,
but it was, after all, the Fellowship
Foundation National Prayer Breakfast,
so quoting from the Bible didn’t seem
untoward. But, when he said, “It’s not
my intention to offend anyone,” that
should have been a warning. “I have
discovered,” he continued, “however,
in recent years, that it’s very difficult
to speak to a large group of people
these days and not offend someone.”
Knowing and nervous laughter fol-
lowed. “What we need to do is start
talking about things, talking about
things that are important.”
Coincidentally, Dr. Carson’s
keynote speech at Fess Parker’s
Doubletree in front of an overflow
crowd of 700 or so at the beginning
of the fourth annual Providence Fall
Forum was given under the auspices
of Providence’s theme of “Engaging
Ideas of Consequence,” or put another
way: “talking about things that are
important.”
Providence Hall is now a kindergar-
ten-through-12
th
-grade school, after its
merger this past summer with Santa
Barbara Christian School. Its new
name is Providence, a Santa Barbara
Christian School. Its current student
body of over 200 allows each class-
room to enjoy a 9-to-1 students-to-
teacher ratio, the lowest of any private
or independent school in the Santa
Barbara area. Its board of directors
include Kathy Ireland and Dr. David
Winter, former president of Westmont
College in Montecito.
At the National Player Breakfast,
and as President Obama glowered in
back of him, Dr. Carson told a little
story about “bald” eagles. “They’re
not really bald,” he said. They’re called
bald eagles because their heads are
piebald, meaning they feature patches
of two different colors. Piebald was
shortened to “bald,” but in any case,
the reason they can fly so high, he
suggested, “is because they have two
wings: a left wing… and a right wing.”
Dr. Carson suggested that the
Creator had already figured out the
best system of taxation, and that was
tithing. God doesn’t care what the per-
centage was, Dr. Carson speculated,
what is important was proportionality,
the idea that everyone pays the same
percentage. “If you make ten billion
dollars, then you owe one billion dol-
lars,” Carson explained. “And, if you
make ten dollars you owe one dollar.
People say that isn’t fair, that the one
billion dollars doesn’t hurt the guy
who just made ten billion, but the idea
shouldn’t be to hurt anyone. After all,
he just came up with a billion dollars!”
His mother was one of 24 chil-
dren and was just 13 years old when
she married Dr. Carson’s father. She
had only a third-grade education
and raised Dr. Carson and the rest of
her children as a single mother after
divorcing her husband, who turned
out to have been a bigamist and had
another family. She required her sons
to read two books a week and to
write a book report on each. “She
couldn’t read, but we didn’t know
that,” Carson smiles. “She put check
marks and highlights and stuff…”
Carson says he hated it at first but
came to “enjoy reading those books,”
because between the covers he dis-
covered he “could be anybody,” “do
anything.”
The Roman Empire’s
Fate
Back to the subject at hand, Dr.
Carson commented that the U.S. may
be on its way to the same fate as
ancient Rome.
“[Rome was] very powerful,” he
noted. “Nobody could even challenge
them militarily, but what happened?
They destroyed themselves from
within. Moral decay, fiscal irrespon-
sibility. They destroyed themselves.
If you don’t think that can happen to
America, get out your books and start
reading… but you know, we can fix
it.”
Next, he went after the deficit, which
he called “a big problem. Think about
it,” he said. “Our National Debt –
$16.5 trillion dollars – you think that’s
not a lot of money? I’ll tell you what:
count one number per second... You
know how long it would take you to
count to sixteen trillion? 507,000 years
– more than a half a million years to
get there. We have to deal with this.
“Here’s a parable,” he continued:
“A family falls on hard times. Dad
loses his job or is demoted to part-
time work. He has five children. He
comes to the five children; he says,
‘We’re going to have to reduce your
allowance.’ Well, they’re not happy
about it, but he says, ‘except for John
and Susan. They’re special. They get
to keep their allowance. In fact, we’ll
give them more.’ How do you think
that’s going to go down? Not too
well.”
That’s about the time President
Obama stopped looking at the back of
Dr. Carson’s head and simply looked
down at his hands, never applaud-
ing anything the doctor had to say.
He became even more unsettled as
Dr. Carson outlined his own plan for
“affordable” health care.
“Here’s my solution,” he opined.
“When a person is born, give him a
birth certificate, an electronic medical
record, and a health savings account
[HSA], to which money can be con-
tributed, pre-tax from the time you are
born to the time you die. When you
die, you can pass it on to your family
Dr. Benjamin Carson was keynote speaker at this
year’s annual Fall Forum
In 2007, the Providence Hall board of directors asked former Westmont College president Dr. David
Winter (pictured here with a small group of Providence students) to fill in “for a few months” while they
searched for a more permanent headmaster. Those few months turned into three years. Dr. Winter,
who is legally blind, having lost his sight more than a decade ago and has since retired but still serves
on the school’s board, led the audience in prayer.
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members so that when you’re eighty-
five years old and you’ve got six dis-
eases, you’re not trying to spend up
everything. You’re happy to pass it
on, and nobody is talking about death
panels.
“For the people who are indigent,
who don’t have any money, we can
make contributions to their HSA each
month because we already have this
huge pot of money. Instead of send-
ing it to a bureaucracy, let’s put it into
HSAs. Now they have some control
over their own health care and what
do you think they’re going to do?
They’re going to learn very quick-
ly how to be responsible. When Mr.
Jones gets that diabetic foot ulcer, he’s
not going to the emergency room and
blowing a big chunk of it. He’s going
to go to the clinic. He learns very
quickly that he gets the same treat-
ment. In the emergency room they
send him out. In the clinic they say,
‘now let’s get your diabetes under
control so that you’re not back here in
three weeks with another problem.’
That’s how we begin to solve these
kinds of problems. It’s much more
complex than that, and I don’t have
time to go into it all, but we can do
all these things because we are smart
people.”
Something Important
To Say
During a question-and-answer ses-
sion earlier, Dr. Carson responded to
the question of how many doctors
may drop out of the profession by say-
ing he didn’t know, but he “had yet to
meet a doctor who was happy about
the prospect of ObamaCare.”
When I asked how much time and
thought he had devoted to writing
his speech at the National Prayer
Breakfast, especially in light of the
knowledge that the president, the
president’s wife, and the vice presi-
dent would be present, he answered:
“Well, first of all I was shocked when
I was asked, because I had done it fif-
teen years earlier and I wasn’t aware
that anyone had done it twice. So, I
inquired whether anyone had done it
twice and they said, ‘Yes. One person
had.’ And I said, ‘Who was that?’ and
they said ‘Billy Graham.’ And, I said,
‘That’s pretty good company.’
“But I knew at that point that the
good Lord had something he wanted
me to say. I didn’t know what it was,
but I kept praying; I kept writing
stuff down for months. But I didn’t
know until the morning of the Prayer
Breakfast what I was going to say.
“I wasn’t particularly concerned
that the president was going to be
there, because I knew it was some-
thing that the good Lord wanted
me to say. And, it has resonated so
tremendously among people across
this nation. And, every place Candy
and I go, there are huge enthusiastic
crowds. It lets me know that there are
a lot of people out there who actually
do have common sense. The problem
is that they’ve all been beaten into
submission. So, really the next task is
to give people courage. Because the
secular progressives’ modus operandi is
to keep the majority silent, and if they
can keep them silent while they com-
pletely change society, then they’ve
done their job. They’ve won.”
To kick things off, Providence stu-
dents sang “America, The Beautiful,”
which coincidentally is also the name
of Dr. Carson’s latest book, the first
one he has written with his wife,
Lacrena “Candy” Carson.
Dessert was already on everyone’s
plate well before 7 pm, and included
Providence faculty’s favorite lemon
cheesecake, a small slice of Sonya
Carson’s favorite pecan pie (Sonya
is Dr. Carson’s mother), corn cake
drizzled with dark chocolate (called
the first daughters’ after-school treat,
a reference to Hadley and Chloe
O’Neil, Headmaster David O’Neil’s
kids, and Keara and Noelle Rutz,
SBCS’s Head of School Chris Rutz’s
daughters), Providence lunch-break
brownie, Dr. Greg Olsen’s midnight
snack (a couple pieces of cheese and a
half-dozen grapes), a small apple, and
an airline-sized bottle of Bailey’s Irish
Cream. Production of all the desserts
was overseen by Executive Chef Kirk
DeLong.
Benjamin Carson, M.D., was born
in Detroit, Michigan on September
18, 1951; he has an older broth-
er, Curtis. Benjamin attended Yale
(mostly working his way through
college), graduated with a B.A.
in psychology and received his
Doctor of Medicine Degree from the
University of Michigan. Residency
in neurosurgery at John Hopkins
University followed, and he was
named head of pediatric neu-
rosurgery at the age of 33. His
groundbreaking work in separat-
ing conjoined twins is legendary. A
biography, called Gifted Hands, was
made into a movie, in which Cuba
Gooding, Jr. played Dr. Carson.
Benjamin Carson has endowed over
6,000 students in grades 4 through
11 via his Carson Scholars Fund, and
since the year 2000, nearly 100 Ben
Carson Reading Rooms, designed
to encourage young readers, have
been established in 12 states.
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Taking On Tosca
On Entertainment
by Steven Libowitz
Steven Libowitz has
reported on the arts and
entertainment for more
than 30 years; he has
contributed to Montecito
Journal for over ten
years.
M
arcy Stonikas is sitting
across from me at a patio
table outside Weinman Hall
at the Music Academy of the West
during a break from Opera Santa
Barbara’s rehearsal of Puccini’s Tosca,
for which Stonikas is making both her
role and OSB debut.
Was there something missed during
our interview, I wondered, like maybe
her dog is named Tosca?
“My dog’s name is Jude, after ‘Hey
Jude’,” the soprano says. “So I have
alternative [musical] interests. It’s not
just opera.”
Really? Wow, would she sing a few
bars of the Beatles’ classic?
But before I can even begin to say,
“I’m kidding,” she laughs and says,
“Sure. That’ll be ten dollars.” Then
throws her head back and laughs
some more.
A sparkling personality. A strong
sense of self. An incredible voice. Even
though I’d heard only 15 minutes at
the tail end of the afternoon rehearsal
it was easy to see why Christopher
Larkin, who is directing OSB’s Tosca,
is mightily impressed.
“She’s going to be a superstar,”
Larkin says a few minutes later while
Stonikas finishes munching on cheese
and crackers. “No doubt about it.”
Given that Stonikas never even con-
sidered singing opera until college,
that’s quite a prognosis.
“I was doing musical theater and
I thought I was going to school for
singing jazz. That was my passion,”
Stonikas says. “To be frank, I didn’t
sound like other jazz singers. But I
didn’t realize it.”
Not until she happened to drop in
on an opera at Oberlin College while
she was there for an audition.
“The girl who was starring looked
exactly like me,” Stonika recalls. “And
she sounded exactly like me. So I had
this epiphany. My mind was blown!
I’d been doing the wrong music for all
those years.”
If Stonikas got a late start, she quick-
ly made up for lost time. After college
– she was a vocal fellow at the Music
Academy in 2001 – roles began com-
ing fast and furiously. Recent parts
include Turandot at Seattle Opera,
Strauss’s Salome at Utah Opera, and
Leonore in Beethoven’s Fidelio at both
Seattle Opera and at the Volksoper in
Vienna, Austria. Just this year alone,
she won the Leonie Rysanek Award at
the George London Foundation Vocal
Competition and First Prize in the
Wagner Division of the Gerda Lissner
International.
Now, there’s Floria Tosca, one of the
most famous roles in opera repertoire
and the centerpiece of Puccini’s iconic
tale of love and betrayal that blends a
historical political thriller with a pas-
sionate love story.
“The music is so wonderful you
can’t get it out of your head,” Stonikas
says. “And it’s such a good story that
it draws everyone in. It transcends
language and time and knocks down
all the barriers people might have
about opera.”
But maybe the best part of the role,
Stonikas says, is that Tosca is an opera
singer.
“I don’t have to act at all. I feel
really comfortable living in her world,
except maybe for the turmoil, but
she’s very me.”
So how to deal with the conflict and
drama?
“I just try to have a real reaction to
everything that happens, as if it were
happening to me, personally, at that
moment,” Stonikas says.
That kind of inner turmoil and
trouble? Seems unlikely for Stonikas.
Superstardom isn’t even on her mind,
and the compliments just make her
blush.
“My goal is to have a career and
make my living singing,” she says.
“But that’s where it stops.”
Opera Santa Barbara launches its 20th
anniversary season with Tosca at 7:30pm
Friday, November 8 and 2:30pm Sunday,
November 10 at the Granada Theatre,
1214 State Street. Tickets cost $28-$188.
Call 899-2222 or visit www.granadasb.
org.
Santa Barbarans actually have three
chances to see Tosca this weekend: the two
OSB performances at the Granada, plus a
simulcast screening in a late addition to
the Met’s Live in HD Series. Luc Bondy’s
controversial production, hosted by Renée
Fleming, stars Patricia Racette and
will be screened live at 9:55am at the
Arlington Theatre on Saturday, November
9, just across State Street. For tickets and
information, call 963-4408.
No Harding in Stace’s
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Wesley Stace had believed that his
Christopher Bengochea and Marcy Stonikas as
Cavaradossi and Tosca in Opera Santa Barbara’s
production of Tosca (photo credit: Kevin Steele)
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Ernie’s World
by Ernie Witham
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A
fter experiencing vampires,
Native Americans, and
huge moss-covered trees in
Washington’s Olympic National Park
and Rain Forest, we ferried back to
Victoria, British Columbia, and were
having a much-deserved drink at the
famous Empress Hotel.
“This tequila tastes like tea!”
“It is. Hence the name ‘High Tea.’”
“Guess that would explain why we
got cookies instead of nachos.”
“Those are biscuits – as in tea and
biscuits. What are you reading?”
“Horoscope. Today’s says we’ll be
going on a wild adventure.”
“Well, I don’t normally agree with
those things, but it’s true. Tomorrow
we are going to Butchart Gardens.”
“Butchart Gardens! The amusement
park with all the roller coasters? Cool!”
“No, that’s Busch Gardens. Butchart
Gardens is world-renowned for its
thousands and thousands of flowers
and unique shrubs on more than 50
acres. It has been in bloom for more
than one hundred years!”
My wife was so excited, I decided
any further comment such as stabbing
myself with a dessert fork would not
be wise, so I gulped down the rest of
my tea and daintily rubbed my sleeve
across my mouth. “Can’t wait,” I said.
The first thing I noticed upon arrival
at Butchart Gardens was that the park-
ing lot was enormous and the rows
were all marked with signs of animals.
We were in camel row.
“You sure there are no rides? A
Ferris wheel maybe? Tilt-a-whirl?
Bungee jump?”
“Nope. But it says in the brochure
they get a million visitors a year,” my
wife said.
“Seriously?”
I want to take a moment here to
state that I do like flowers, shrubs, and
trees. I’m not some kind of anti-nature
rube that doesn’t know a rose from a...
nother type of flower.
“Look at the size of these gerani-
ums,” I said loudly so that everyone
would know there was a classy guy in
the house, er, garden.
“Those are hydrangeas,” my wife
whispered.
“Look at the size of these hydran-
geas,” I said loudly.
“They have an amazing sunken gar-
den here,” my wife said.
“Is that because of all the rainfall?”
“Ah, no.” She seemed ready to
explain it, then just said: “This way.”
I have to admit that the sunken
garden alone was worth the price of
admission. The most amazing part is
the fact that the whole thing used to
be a pit.
“Did you know,” I asked my wife,
while reading the large placard out
loud, so everyone could once again
know I was a class ass, er, act, “that
Robert Butchart was a pioneer in the
cement industry? And in 1904 he
developed this quarry and built a
cement plant on Vancouver Island –
which even if it’s open for tours I don’t
think we’ll have time to visit. Dang
it.” I’m sure my wife could see the
sadness in my eyes. “When the 1906
earthquake leveled San Francisco, he
made a fortune supplying cement to
rebuild it. Kind of the fall and rise
business plan.”
“So you like the place?” my wife
asked – one of those trick questions. A
yes answer could mean visiting every
garden in the Western and Eastern
world. A no could mean the same
thing of course, but without the after-
culture-glow romance part. “Right,”
I said.
“Says here his wife, Jennie, who was
the company’s chemist and helped
establish a family home nearby, decid-
ed when the limestone deposit became
exhausted, she could make the gigan-
tic pit into a garden. Kind of like you
did with our back patio on numerous
occasions.” I started to develop callus-
es and a sore back just thinking about
it. “I’m betting Robert missed many a
Sunday afternoon football game.”
“I’m glad you are so interested,
really, but do you have to take photos
of every square inch? We still have the
Italian, Rose, and Japanese sections to
visit.
“There’s more?! I mean, great, only
I’ll bet you’d like a beer break.”
“Actually, that sounds great.” Wow.
I just never know sometimes.
Three hours and several hundred
miles later we headed back for the car.
“I guess we’ve done ‘everything’ in
Canada now, huh?” I said.
“All except the Royal British
Columbia Museum,” she said. “We
have to get there early tomorrow. I
hear it takes all day to see everything.”
“After-culture-glow,” I kept telling
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career was going anywhere around
30 years ago. It was just a way to
pay tribute to Bob Dylan and the
earlier folk icon while adopting a
disguise for a career Stace admitted
he thought “would tank.”
By the same token, Stace’s latest
album – along with a second career
as a novelist whose books have sold
well under his real name – led to the
demise of the JWS alter ego. The aptly-
named Self-Titled is the singer-song-
writer’s most personal album, mostly
a trip down the memory lane of his
younger man’s years, and two songs
even have characters addressing him
as “Mr. Stace.” “So it was ludicrous
not to call myself Wesley Stace if that’s
how I referred to myself in the songs,”
he explained.
Now, Stace is coming to Santa
Barbara to perform for the first time in
many years, decades perhaps, and it’s
under another role of his multifaceted
career: as the creator and centerpiece
of a variety show called Cabinet of
Wonders, in which Stace enlists musi-
cians, writers, and performers from
other genres to join him onstage for
a show that has become popular via
distribution on NPR.
Stace talked about Self-Titled, Cabinet
of Wonders and more over the phone
from his Philadelphia home last week.
Here are excerpts.
Q. Why now for being so autobiograph-
ical and looking backward?
A. It wasn’t an aesthetic decision. I
was on the road with a book tour and
not at my highest grade of energy or
fitness – in fact, I had the flu. I was
stuck in hotel rooms with just my
guitar, and writing, and out popped
all these songs. I think they were a
form of therapy, or at least comfort. It
wasn’t conscious to reminisce. It’s just
what fell out of me.
I wrote the lyrics incredibly quick-
ly. There are no clever puns or jokes.
No adjectives. Very little descrip-
tion, except what was happening
to me at the time. The melodies
were quick, too, to fit in with the
simplicity of the words. It was just,
“I remember that. Let’s see what
comes up.”
The new album also has a much more
quiet feel, a stripped down approach.
The new songs were quite intimate,
and when I performed them, they
were very low down in my register,
and I sang very quietly. I realized there
wouldn’t be room for the normal clut-
ter of bass and drums, my usual bit
of power pop despite the fact that I’m
basically a folkie... So I paid attention
to songwriters I love from the seven-
ties: Duncan Brown, Colin Blunstone,
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reate music and learn about how
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and events; she can be
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The Oprah Auction Event
State Street Spin
by Erin Graffy de Garcia
T
he yard sale of the century was
at the Santa Barbara Polo Club
as accoutrements from Oprah
Winfrey’s estate went up for auction.
What a weekend!
A tent city was designed and cre-
ated by Glenn Novack of The Tent
Merchant. Inside the auction tent, a
Friday night pre-party event started
out with jazzman Peter Clark lay-
ing down a smooth groove along
with bassist John Orland and gui-
tar guy Maitland Ward. There were
a lot of compliments on the food
fare by Tammy Kronen, starting with
the beautiful display. Then, the tasty
passed hors d’oeuvres, which usu-
ally only last the first 25 minutes of
an event, were being grabbed (by me)
well into the second hour, so there
was no running out of delicious food.
(And did I mention all those minia-
ture chocolate cupcakes?)
Janet Adderley brought children
from her School for the Performing
Arts to sing a medley from The Color
Purple. Holy smokes… could those
kids sing. I don’t mean just the ener-
getic but off-pitch musical enthusi-
asm of youngsters. I am talking about
little kids, ages about 6 to 10, most
of whom were soloing, and all on
pitch! On microphone! (Even hold-
ing it correctly.) They were phrasing
intelligently and in harmony. And one
tiny singer – about seven or so – was
belting a gospel-style descant over the
rest of the troop. We’re talking musi-
cally sophisticated training.
When Oprah entered the room, the
crowd basically went berserk. She
came out from the throng and thanked
each child personally amid a flutter of
shutters as parents instantly “clicked”
with her. She then decided that she
wanted to book the Adderley students
to sing for her 60
th
birthday.
Oprah explained the importance of
her eponymous Leadership Academy
for Girls founded in 2002 in South
Africa. She said that more than 140
of her “daughters” have graduated
and now attend universities across the
United States from Smith and Vassar
to Stanford. The proceeds from the
auction will support the college fund
for these girls.
Kaminski Auctions from Boston
came with a whole fleet of auction-
eers, spotters, and crew. There was
one entire battalion on computers in
a row at the back operating like field
marshals. Most of the items already
had internet bids, so they were start-
ing at or over the range listed in the
catalogue.
Oprah started Saturday morning
as a guest celebrity auctioneer along
with professional Frank Kaminski.
Her presence, her signature, and her
stories pushed the items way over the
expected price. Two banners for The
Color Purple went for $4,100 and $6,000.
“I will sign them personally to you!”
Oprah exclaimed. A steamer trunk with
a catalogue appraisal around $2,000
sold for $8,500. A ceramic teapot worth
$50? It went for $1,000.
When a precious doll in an antique
carriage was brought out, Oprah had
seller’s remorse. “I can’t sell this. I
love this doll! Oh... I shouldn’t do
this. But I want to keep it.” The crowd
cheered her on, saying, “Keep the doll.
Don’t sell it! Keep it, keep it!” They
loved Oprah, her down-to-earthiness,
and her generosity. She kept it.
But the event was a success and
certainly put Kaminski on Santa
Barbara’s radar, earning over $600,000
for Oprah’s girls.
Ensemble’s New Home
This weekend, the curtain lifts on
the restoration and reconstruction of
the “New Vic,” replacing the old Vic
Theatre at Victoria and Chapala.
The New Vic will be the new home
of Ensemble Theatre Company, Santa
Barbara’s only professional theatre
company. Founded over thirty years
ago, it is now under the award-win-
ning artistic direction of Jonathan Fox,
who will be leading the company into
a whole new level of professional the-
atre here.
A lot of credit for the vision goes
to Montecito resident Derek Westen,
who serves as co-chair along with
Leni Fe Bland for the campaign for
the New Vic.
Of course, I know this is not a one-
man or a two-person endeavor, but
one that requires a dedicated board
and good team of volunteers and sup-
porters. But I also sense the fine hand
of Derek’s indefatigable passion and
thoughtful, well reasoned approach to
his undertakings.
A local boy whose parents immi-
grated to Santa Barbara from Austria
back in 1939, Derek remembers grow-
ing up with artists, musicians, and
even architect Lutah Maria Riggs at
home, so this perhaps qualifies his
exceptional interest in the arts, aes-
thetics, and in the town.
What I was so delighted with – really
blown away by – was the thoroughness
and thoughtfulness that went into the
design of this new theatrical gem.
As for aesthetics, remember the
beautiful stained glass windows in the
building? They saved them, restored
them, and figured out how to light
them with fiber optics while keeping
it dark inside the theatre. Even the city
was impressed with how intelligently
the design preserved all the historic
coolness of the building while provid-
ing theatrical everything.
There are 299 seats with carefully
considered and arranged sightlines.
They ingeniously reconfigured the
bathroom space, lobby space, front-
of-theatre space, and dressing rooms.
There is even a loading dock from
the parking lot (possibly an act of God
made that happen). The front of the
stage has adjustable levels, ADA stage
accessibility, and assisted listening.
The catwalks actually create stabil-
ity for the building, and there is now
fly space and pipes for lighting, drap-
ing, and scene changes.
The New Vic, which opens this
weekend with a gala celebration,
now joins the “three sisters” (Lobero,
Granada, and Arlington) in the down-
town theatre family. This perfect little
intimate theatre will be available for
other performing groups at extreme-
ly reasonable rates. What a fabulous
resource!
Jonathan Fox directs Ensemble
Theatre’s new season in the New Vic
with Sondheim’s A Little Night Music,
starring Stephanie Zimbalist and
Piper Laurie, December 5 through
the 22.
But don’t get your tickets before I
do, as I have a good suspicion this
might sell out. •MJ
Yours truly from the
Montecito Journal
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Friday night pre-party
at the Oprah Winfrey
estate auction and
opened for the morning
auction on Saturday
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A
s Veteran’s Day is upon us,
one former military officer
who particularly loved horses
is especially worthy of a special trib-
ute. Edwin Price Ramsey started life
in the Midwest in 1917, but died in
Southern California earlier this year.
His lifespan comprises a fascinating
history that is worthy of a book, and
indeed became one, titled Lieutenant
Ramsey’s War: From Horse Soldier to
Guerrilla Commander. First published
in 1990, Ramsey’s autobiographical
account was written with Stephen J.
Rivele. Even for those who are not
enamored with military history, it’s a
page-turner that’s hard to put down.
Ed Ramsey characterized his
Kansas boyhood as one of restless
youth, “marooned in Wichita,” where
he was a steady customer of the
town’s bootlegger during Prohibition.
Ramsey’s increasingly abusive father
clearly suffered from mental illness,
culminating in suicide after he was
arrested for nearly shooting his wife.
Closely aligned in the defense of their
mother, Ramsey and his sister Nadine
wrested the gun away from their
father, who hanged himself in his jail
cell a few hours later.
Without a positive father figure to
emulate, Ramsey “stumbled through
a wanton, manless youth,” highlight-
ed by visits to an uncle’s Illinois farm
where he could ride horseback all
day. Ramsey’s wise mother, noting
his love of equines and his interest in
martial arts, suggested to her son that
he enroll in the Oklahoma Military
Academy (OMA), “a West Point of
the prairie with a righteous love for
military tradition embodied in the
horse.”
While studying at OMA in the late
1930s, Cadet Ramsey learned to con-
trol his emotions, which he viewed
as a weakness, and studied military
history. He eloquently wrote in his
book: “The cavalry was elite, the
crown of the service. Its history was
the schema of the nation. The cav-
alry had been born of the Revolution,
opened the frontier, fused the Union,
and conquered the West. America
was made on horseback, carved by
mounted soldiers; our identity as a
people was dictated from the saddle.”
At OMA, students were required
to learn the sport of polo, a prospect
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A Veteran’s Day Tribute to Lieutenant Edwin
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TRAIL TALK
A museum and
travel professional,
community volun-
teer, and lifelong
equestrienne,
Lynn Kirst is a
fourth-generation Californian who grew up
in Montecito; she can often be found riding
or hiking the local trails
Lieutenant Edwin Ramsey astride his loyal mount,
Bryn Awryn, the brave cavalry horse was assigned
to Ramsey when he first reported for duty in
the Philippines and carried him through many
battles, including the 1942 fight at Morong, where
Ramsey led the last mounted cavalry charge in
American military history
that Ramsey viewed “with a distain
informed by ignorance.” But Ramsey
soon became addicted to the game,
with its combination of discipline and
danger that appealed to the reckless
side of his nature. After graduating
from OMA three years later, Ramsey
enrolled in the Oklahoma University
(OU) law school, mainly because OU
had a polo team.
Ramsey’s polo-playing educa-
tion came to an end when his sister
Nadine, an exceedingly independent
young woman and pilot of note who
had secretly learned to fly as a teen-
ager, was involved in a near-fatal
plane crash in San Diego. Ramsey left
school and nursed his sister back to
health in California while their moth-
er stayed in Kansas, where she had
established a career in the new field
of dermatology. The close-knit fam-
ily determined that she could be the
most effective breadwinner, support-
ing her now young-adult children
during Nadine’s months of recovery.
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equipped Wacom Cintiq lab, giving
art students access to professional-lev-
el equipment. The 22 Cintiq 22HDs,
graphics tablets that allow users to
draw directly on the LCD display
surfaces, will be used in Westmont’s
digital painting, design, and graphic
design courses.
Scott Anderson, associate professor
of art, began the process of acquir-
ing the new equipment five years
ago. A $25,000 gift from the June G.
Outhwaite Charitable Trust, a $22,000
grant from the Alice Tweed Tuohy
Foundation, and $5,000 from the
Emelco Foundation made the pur-
chase of the Cintiqs a reality.
“While I knew it was possible we
could find the funding, there was still
that rush of adrenaline that comes
with seeing a long-held dream come
true,” Anderson says. “The students
are also extremely excited – I am
guessing that enrollment for Digital
Painting this spring will be at an all-
time high.”
The Cintiqs allow students to draw
and paint imagery directly to the com-
puter, using professional-grade soft-
ware such as Adobe Photoshop and
Corel Painter.
“It has become the hardware
peripheral of choice for professional
illustrators and digital artists across
the globe, and is used heavily at ani-
mation studios such as Disney and
Pixar,” Anderson says.
“A bonus element is how it impacts
recruiting for our department – the
equipment speaks for itself, but it also
shows Westmont as an innovator in
technology, and prospective students
respond very positively to that.”
Warriors
Make Playoff Plans
The No. 3 Westmont women’s soc-
cer team captured a first-round bye
and a semi-final match at home in
the upcoming Golden State Athletic
Conference Championship. The
Warriors (14-0-3, 8-0-2 GSAC) open
the tournament at Thorrington Field
on Friday, November 8, at 2 pm
against either Biola, Vanguard, San
Diego Christian or the Master’s. The
Warriors secured the number-two
seed in the tournament by beating No.
10 Vanguard (14-3, 7-3) 1-0 on Nov. 2.
No. 8 Concordia (14-0-3, 9-0-1
GSAC) edged out Westmont to claim
its first GSAC Championship in
program history. Westmont, which
had two ties, tied Concordia 0-0
after two scoreless overtime periods
on October 15 at Westmont. In that
match, Concordia tallied 17 shots to
Westmont’s 10, though each team had
five shots on goal.
The Westmont women are enjoy-
ing one of their finest seasons since
2003 when former head coach Mike
Giuliano led the Warriors to their
third straight national championship.
This year’s squad features strong
performances by sophomore forward
Kelsey Steck (7 goals) of Valencia
and senior midfielder Alison Hensley
(5 goals) of Huntington Beach.
Goalie Lindsey Smith, a senior from
Pleasanton, has been nearly perfect,
facing more than 100 shots and allow-
ing just six goals.
Westmont is expected to host an
opening round game in the NAIA
National Tournament that begins
Saturday, November 23. The nation’s
top 16 teams then travel to Orange
Beach, Alabama, for a single-elimina-
tion tournament December 2-7.
The No. 14 Westmont women’s vol-
leyball team (19-6, 5-5 GSAC) ends
its regular season with two home
games, Tuesday, November 12, against
Vanguard and Saturday, November
16, against Hope International, both
at 7 pm. The women jumped out
to their best start in Warrior histo-
ry, winning their first 12 games. In
2002, the Warriors won their first eight
games, finishing in the NAIA National
Tournament quarterfinals.
The national volleyball tournament
begins November 23. Eventually, a
field of 36 teams will make their way
to Sioux City, Iowa, December 3-7.
Junior Madison Serrano has led the
Warriors’ attack. She has 280 kills, and
senior Ciara Turner has 198 kills.
Student Musicians
Showcase Talents
Westmont student composers,
vocalists and instrumentalists perform
in several concerts this November. All
performances are free and open to the
public.
The new works of student compos-
ers highlight the Composers Concert
on Friday, November 8, at 8 pm in
Deane Chapel.
The Westmont Orchestra, under
the direction of Michael Shasberger,
Adams professor for music and wor-
ship, will showcase patriotic songs at
the Veteran’s Day Orchestra Concert
on Sunday, November 10, at 2:30 pm
in First Presbyterian Church, 21 East
Constance Ave.
Workshop to Inspire
Future Teachers
More than 40 area high school stu-
dents interested in a teaching career
will attend a workshop, “Let’s Talk
Teaching,” Thursday, November 7,
from 9 am to 2 pm at Westmont’s
Page Hall. The event is sponsored by
the Westmont Education Department,
Westmont Admissions and Partners
in Education. For more information,
please contact Michelle Hughes,
assistant professor of education,
[email protected] or 565-6257.
Kelly Choi, 2013 County Teacher
of the Year and Dos Pueblos High
School mathematics teacher, will
welcome students and discuss the
role that teachers play in society.
The day includes Westmont student-
teacher led workshops, opportuni-
ties to learn about college admis-
sions, a tour of Westmont’s campus,
and lunch.
“This is a great opportunity for the
Westmont Education Department to
inspire the next generation of teach-
ers,” says Michelle Hughes.
The students are from six area
schools, including Carpinteria,
Rincon, San Marcos, Dos Pueblos, and
Santa Barbara high schools, as well as
the Garden Street Academy. •MJ
Scott Anderson, associate professor of art, and art
major Briana Stanley using the new Cintiq graph-
ics tablets
7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 37 Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others – Virginia Woolf
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this contest on originality and creativity, not the most expensive costume or the best costume made by their par-
ents. We look for kids that have thought of and made the costume themselves. There were many great costumes
this year and the choices as always are difficult. This year, there were 79 entries in the contest, and we handed out close
to 1,500 “Worms n Dirt Trick or Treats.” These photos, plus eight Honorable Mention photos, will be displayed on the
Scoops Art Wall for the month of November. •MJ
First Place: Frances Carlson, Age 9,
Laguna Blanca. Dressed as Cotton Candy,
complete with paper handle hat. Frances
made her “cotton candy” with pillow stuff-
ing and taped the layers to herself. We
heard she wouldn’t let her dad help her
with the taping and told him, “I have to
do it all by myself to get my picture on
Scoop’s wall.” Her mom said she had pic-
tures of Frances spray painting her “cotton
candy” with pink cotton candy paint.
Second Place: Ava Morouse, Age 13,
Crane Country Day. Dressed as a pink
iPhone. We loved all the individual apps
that Ava had on her costume. When we
asked her how she chose her apps, she
said, “I chose the ones that I thought
would be easiest to cut out and glue.” The
honesty of kids! Well, we loved her origi-
nality.
Third Place tie: Frankie Harmon, Age
12, Montecito Union. Dressed as Flo from
the Progressive commercials. Frankie
thinks the character Flo is very distinct
and funny, and this was her inspiration
and interpretation. She actually sewed
together two wigs to create Flo’s signature
“bump” hairdo. She even painted the
Progressive logo on the apron she wore.
Great job!
Third Place tie: Jack Morouse, Age 11,
Montecito Union. Dressed as the Duct
Tape Man. Jack’s costume was very simple
and clever. He bought bright purple and
silver duct tape and completely covered
his suit jacket, pants, and hat in purple
duct tape. He added a silver hat band and
stripe down the side of his pants. He even
made a purple and silver tie to coordinate
and complete his costume. The guys espe-
cially loved his “suit.” We didn’t realize
until after we talked to Jack that Ava was
his sister. Creativity must run in the family.
by Bob and Ellie Patterson, owners of Here’s the Scoop
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Jim Croce even, and how they made it
that the band didn’t intrude, though
the music was lush and full. That was
my blueprint.
How much impact has writing novels
and other stories had on the songwriting?
Did that affect this record?
It was pointed out to me that the
novels take care of some of the more
intellectual business. This freed my
music to be more openly emotional.
That wasn’t my theory, but I actually
buy it. A friend said that and I think
it’s shrewd... I really grapple with the
novels, [working] to have the char-
acters develop into something that’s
bigger two hundred pages down the
road than what I came up with when
I had the idea originally. It takes a lot
of intellect to make it work... So when
I come back to my guitar, it affects
my urge to do the same thing in my
songwriting. And it becomes easier to
have things like “Letting Go,” which
is nothing but pure emotion.
How would you describe Cabinet of
Wonders for those who haven’t heard it?
The idea was that I write novels
and make music and say silly stuff
between the songs. So I’d get proper
comedians to be properly funny, and
find musicians I know or ones that I
love and tell them and ask them to do
the show. That’s how we got Aaron
Neville and Rosanne Cash before.
Would you talk about the artists and
performers we’ll see in S.B.?
We have a lot of regulars, people who
are really good at doing it. So I started
with Eugene Mirman and he got [fel-
low comedians] Bobcat Goldthwait
and Kurt Braunohler because they
live in L.A. Writer Matthew Specter
(American Dream Machine, That
Summertime Sound) is a very good
friend and he lives out there too. Carl
Newman of the New Pornographers
is a regular, as are Alec Ounsworth (of
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah) and Dean
& Britta have done it a few times.
We’ve got a lot of old friends. Then
there’s Ned Doheny, who had amaz-
ing albums on Columbia in the seven-
ties, and I’m a huge fan. I just emailed
him and he said yes.
It’s a variety show, so people can
come to see one act and hear another,
and think it’s fantastic. Everything on
the show is great, that’s my guarantee.
Because, you know, I pick them.
With books, articles, teaching, albums,
and Cabinet, how do you know where your
ideas should go?
At home it’s me against a computer
screen. It doesn’t matter, because I just
sit there and work. And it’s all a part
of the same project. Which is why it’s
all Wesley Stace now.
UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Wesley
Stace’s Cabinet of Wonders at 8pm
Wednesday, November 13 at Campbell
Hall. Tickets cost $25-$35. Call 893-3535
or visit www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.
edu.
Gridlock on the Boards
There’s way too much worthy
theater opening this week in Santa
Barbara, and way too little space. But
we’d be remiss not to at least mention
the shows that are coming to town,
area debuts one and all.
Out of the Box’s very timely pro-
duction of Carrie: the Musical – given
that the movie remake just hit theaters
late last month and the fact that teen
bullying is all over the news – brings
the re-worked, re-imagined version
of the much-maligned adaptation
of Stephen King’s gripping book to
Center Stage Theater. OOB’s black box
version scales back the special effects
in favor of a focus on the story of the
awkward teen outcast with a power-
ful gift driven to devastating fury.
(November 7-17; info at 963-0408 or
www.CenterStageTheater.org.)
Genesis West marks its 15th season
with Wallace Shawn’s The Designated
Mourner November 8 -December 7 in a
site-specific production at McDermott-
Crockett Mortuary. In a rave, The New
York Times described the three-char-
acter play about intellectuals pitted
against a totalitarian government as
“the post-mortem of someone who is
technically still alive, administered by
the corpse itself.” (Info at 969-5637or
genesiswest.org.)
UCSB’s Theater Dept. kicks off its
2013-14 season with Caryl Churchill’s
Top Girls, directed by Anne Torsiglieri,
who was an understudy in a 2008
Broadway production of the time-
jumping triple-role rumination on
women’s roles (November 8-16; info
at 893-7221 or theaterdance.ucsb.edu).
Bill Egan directs Pvt. Wars, a com-
edy about three GIs recovering from
Vietnam War injuries on the terrace
Wesley Stace’s variety show Cabinet of Wonders
stops at UCSB on Wednesday, November 13
7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 39 Time is an illusion; lunchtime doubly so – Douglas Adams
KCRW presents
Andrew Bird with The Handsome Family
THU, NOV 21 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL
Drawing on infuences from American roots
music to his classical training, Bird creates
densely layered soundscapes with his violin, a
looping pedal, guitar and glockenspiel.
Rick Steves
Lessons from a Lifetime of Travel
MON, DEC 9 / 8 PM / GRANADA THEATRE
Tickets start at $20 A Granada facility fee will be added to each ticket price
Steves explains how, by traveling thoughtfully,
we can take home the greatest souvenir: a
broader perspective.
WED, NOV 20 / 7:30 PM / CAMPBELL HALL
$15 / $10 UCSB students & youths 18 & under
A six-senses experience of art, adventure, culture
and the environment in an exciting program of
short flms, animation and digital media.
Blind Summit Theatre
The Table
WED-FRI, NOV 6-8 / 8 PM / CAMPBELL HALL
“Theater, puppetry, whimsy, mischief,
eye-hand-brain coordination and total
brilliance.” Chicago Sun-Times
(Mature content)
Featuring Eugene Mirman, Dean & Britta,
Bobcat Goldthwait, Alec Ounsworth
(of Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah) and others
WED, NOV 13 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL
Adventurer Featured in the 2012 Banf Mountain Film Festival
Tim Cope
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic
Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
MON, NOV 18 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL
$15 / $10 UCSB students
Winner: Banf Mountain Festival Best Adventure Travel Book 2013
Community Partner:
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www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
Community Partner:
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But once Nadine was back in an air-
plane and World War II was on the
horizon, 23-year-old Ed decided to
enroll for active duty, and was posted
as a second lieutenant to the 11
th

Cavalry Regiment near San Diego,
one of the few cavalry units that had
not traded its horses for motorized
vehicles.
His love of horses and polo spurred
Ramsey to volunteer for transfer
to the Philippine Scouts of the 26
th

Cavalry, known as “the country club
of the army” with “the best polo
team in the service.” The fact that
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had
ordered families of American dip-
lomats and servicemen to return to
the United States in late 1940 didn’t
seem to phase Ramsey, nor the fact
that the army was accepting only
bachelor officers. He shipped out
of San Francisco for Honolulu, and
admired the huge American naval
fleet at Pearl Harbor before continu-
ing on to Manila. The morning after
his arrival, Ramsey was assigned
the horse that would carry him into
history – a chestnut gelding named
Bryn Awryn.
Things changed quickly when the
Japanese Imperial Army invaded the
Philippines in January of 1942, just
weeks after their deadly bombing of
Pearl Harbor. The 26
th
Cavalry was
ordered to delay the enemy’s over-
land advance on Manila’s strategic
harbor, and soon the horrors of war
made polo games seem like a distant
dream.
It was in Morong that Ramsey
first made military history, when he
led a platoon of 27 mounted scouts
into what seemed like a deserted
village. Suddenly under attack by
an advance troop of Japanese infan-
try, Ramsey spotted hundreds more
Japanese soldiers wading across
a nearby river, headed straight
towards them. Vastly outnumbered,
Ramsey ordered an old-fashioned
cavalry charge, instinctually know-
ing the shock of galloping horses
carrying riders with guns blazing
was their only chance for survival.
It was the last time the legendary
battle cry of “Charge!” was ever offi-
cially used in United States military
history.
The cavalry charge worked, and
then the small platoon held their
position under heavy fire until rein-
forcements arrived five hours later.
In the meantime, General Douglas
MacArthur’s senior field command-
er, General Jonathan Wainwright,
was able to successfully withdraw
endangered troops, saving many
lives.
The American-led battle victory
was a short-lived success, howev-
er, as the Japanese continued their
relentless march for the next several
weeks, culminating in the surrender
of Bataan. By then, all of the horses
of the elite 26
th
Cavalry, including
Ramsey’s mount Bryn Awryn, had
been slaughtered to feed starving
American and Filipino troops. Only
by a strange twist of fate – being
cut off from his unit – did Ramsey
and a few other officers escape the
notorious Bataan Death March. They
retreated into the mountains on over-
grown jungle trails, where they con-
nected with rebels and organized
the growing Philippine resistance.
Not trained in guerrilla warfare,
the American officers relied heavily
on advice contained in a book they
found on the subject… written by a
Chinese author named Mao Tse Tung.
Ramsey eventually became the
leader of the Philippine guerrilla
force that numbered 40,000 soldiers,
operating with rudimentary com-
munications equipment and guns
taken from dead enemies, who
included not only the Japanese, but
also the Communist guerillas known
as Huks, short for Hukbalahap.
The Americans managed to smug-
gle intelligence information out to
Australia during a two-year period
that was integral to MacArthur’s
triumphant return to and retaking
of the Philippines. MacArthur per-
sonally awarded Ed Ramsey the
Distinguished Service Cross for her-
oism in combat. Ramsey was also
awarded 15 other medals by the
United States and the Philippines,
including the Silver Star with
Cluster, the Bronze Star, and the
Purple Heart.
By 1945, when MacArthur’s Sixth
Army arrived in Manila, Ramsey
had endured several injuries, assas-
sination attempts, near starvation,
and an emergency appendectomy
with only a bottle of rum for anes-
thesia. When he checked into a state-
side military hospital, he was diag-
nosed with malaria, acute malnu-
trition, amoebic dysentery, general
nervous collapse, and he weighed
93 pounds. Nursed back to health,
Ramsey left the military in 1946 with
the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He
enjoyed an extraordinary post-war
business career in Asia in interna-
tional trading, even befriending sev-
eral Japanese military leaders. He
later lived in Los Angeles with his
family, where he held the title of Vice
President for the Far East at Hughes
Aircraft Company. He died of natu-
ral causes, just two months shy of his
ninety-sixth birthday.
Lieutenant Ramsey was buried
in June with full military honors
at Arlington National Cemetery in
Virginia. Although his final resting
place is thousands of miles from
Manila, his memory is still carried
close in many Filipino hearts for
his efforts to ensure their liberation
from a foreign enemy. •MJ
TRAIL TALK (Continued from page 35)
7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 40 • Tui Voici oi rui Viiiaci •
ORDINANCE NO. 5638


AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
BARBARA REPEALING SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE
CHAPTER 8.04 AND ADOPTING A NEW CHAPTER 8.04
ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE 2013 EDITION OF THE
CALIFORNIA FIRE CODE, AS PUBLISHED BY THE
CALIFORNIA BUILDING STANDARDS COMMISSION,
INCLUDING APPENDIX CHAPTER 4 AND APPENDICES B,
BB C, CC AND H OF THAT CODE, WITH LOCAL
AMENDMENTS

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

October 29, 2013.

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. 5638


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


I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

was introduced on October 22, 2013, and was adopted by the

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

October 29, 2013, by the following roll call vote:

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

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTENTIONS: None


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on

October 30, 2013.



/s/
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager


I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

October 30, 2013.



/s/
Helene Schneider
Mayor

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ORDINANCE NO. 5639

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
BARBARA AMENDING SANTA BARBARA MUNICIPAL CODE
CHAPTER 22.04, ADOPTING BY REFERENCE THE
CALIFORNIA STATE BUILDING CODES AND OTHER
RELATED CODES; ADOPTING LOCAL REVISIONS TO
THOSE CODES; AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NUMBER
5536.

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a regular

meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council held on

October 29, 2013.

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. 5639


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


I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance

was introduced on October 22, 2013, and was adopted by the

Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on

October 29, 2013, by the following roll call vote:

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

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTENTIONS: None


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my

hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on

October 30, 2013.



/s/
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager


I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on

October 30, 2013.



/s/
Helene Schneider
Mayor

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RESOLUTION NO. 13-088

A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF SANTA BARBARA DECLARING ITS
INTENTION TO AMEND THE TEN-YEAR
EXCLUSIVE FRANCHISE FOR CITYWIDE SOLID
WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL SERVICES
IN THE CITY GRANTED BY THE CITY TO
MARBORG INDUSTRIES, INC., A CALIFORNIA
CORPORATION ON FEBRUARY 12, 2013 BY CITY
ORDINANCE NO. 5608.

WHEREAS, On December 13, 2011, the City Council of
the City of Santa Barbara directed the Finance Director to
enter into sole source negotiations with MarBorg
Industries, Inc. (“MarBorg”) for a Citywide Solid Waste
Franchise Agreement;

WHEREAS, the City staff and MarBorg subsequently
reached agreement on the terms for a new ten-year
Citywide municipal solid waste franchise and the
proposed franchise was duly noticed for a public hearing
in accordance with the public noticing requirements of City
Charter section 1401 for a public hearing on February 5,
2013;

WHEREAS, the terms of the new City/MarBorg solid
waste franchise were approved by the City Council on
February 5, 2013 and the required City ordinance,
Ordinance No. 5608, was introduced on that date and duly
adopted by the Council on February 12, 2013 –
hereinafter referred to as the “Franchise”;

WHEREAS, the City staff and MarBorg now understand
and agree that a revision and clarification is appropriate
with respect to an exhibit of the Franchise which
establishes the municipal solid waste diversion
requirements and goals mandated by the Franchise;

WHEREAS, the City and MarBorg desire to amend the
Franchise to reflect a clarification of the MarBorg
municipal solid waste diversion requirements;

WHEREAS, Section 1401 of the Charter of the City of
Santa Barbara requires the City Council to publicly declare
its intention to grant or amend a franchise and to state the
character of the franchise amendment and the terms and
conditions under which the franchise will operate, and to
fix a specific date and time where persons having an
interest in the franchise agreement may be heard by the
City Council, and any objection to the franchise
agreement may be expressed.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA AS
FOLLOWS:

SECTION 1. Pursuant to Section 1401 of the City
Charter, the City Council of the City of Santa Barbara
declares its intention to hold a public hearing on Tuesday,
November 19, 2013 at 2:00 pm in the City Council
Chambers of the Santa Barbara City Hall located at 735
Anacapa St., Santa Barbara, CA 93101 to consider
amending the existing ten-year franchise with MarBorg
Industries, Inc. for solid waste collection and disposal
services Citywide with respect to diversion requirements.

SECTION 2. Any and all persons having an interest in
the proposed franchise amendment or any objection to the
proposed franchise amendment will be heard by the City
Council on that date, and any objection to the franchise
amendment may be expressed at such hearing prior to a
City Council determination on the franchise amendment
and the possible introduction of an ordinance authorizing
the amendment to the franchise.

SECTION 3. The terms and conditions of the proposed
franchise amendment are generally described in the
attached Exhibit “A” dated October 29, 2013.

SECTION 4. In accordance with Section 1401 of the City
Charter, the City Clerk is hereby directed to publish this
Resolution (along with the attached exhibit) at least once
within fifteen (15) days of its adoption in the official
newspaper.


FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as: L.R.
Peterkin Residence for the Elderly, 234
Uhlan Court, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
Julius JR Peterkin, 1134 East Haley
Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103. This
statement was filed with the County Clerk
of Santa Barbara County on October 28,
2013. This statement expires five years
from the date it was filed in the Office of
the County Clerk. I hereby certify that this
is a correct copy of the original statement
on file in my office. Joseph E. Holland,
County Clerk (SEAL) by Andrea Luparello.
Original FBN No. 2013-0003290.
Published November 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as: Bee
Limo, 225 W. Los Olivos Street, Apt
#7, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Cuneyt
Aci, 225 W. Los Olivos Street, Apt
#7, Santa Barbara, CA 93105. Nancy
Paulinski, 230 E. Anapamu Street,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk of Santa
Barbara County on October 23, 2013.
This statement expires five years from
the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Jan Morales. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003240. Published
October 30, November 6, 13, 20, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT OF
ABANDONMENT: The following
person(s) have abandoned the use of
the Fictitious Business Name(s): Retro
Republik, Inc.; Santa Barbara Bikes
To-Go; The Santa Barbara School of
Cooking, 119 Cedar Lane, Santa Barbara,
CA 93108. Retro Republik, Inc., 119
Cedar Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93108.
This statement was filed with the County
Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October
21, 2013. This statement expires five years
from the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. Original
FBN No. 2010-0000667. Published
October 30, November 6, 13, 20, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as: SB
Bikes To Go, 128 Oliver Road, Santa
Barbara, CA 93109. Asi Ventures LLC,
128 Oliver Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93109.
This statement was filed with the County
Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October
21, 2013. This statement expires five years
from the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003205. Published
October 30, November 6, 13, 20, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as
Virtuosa Pilates & Fitness, 1482 E.
Valley Road, Suite 311, Santa Barbara, CA
93108. Tasha C. Holmstrom, 18 Calle
Capistrano, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.
This statement was filed with the County
Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October
22, 2013. This statement expires five years
from the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003221. Published
October 30, November 6, 13, 20, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as Santa
Barbara Solar Consultants, 1 N. Calle
7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 41 I love deadlines; I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by – Douglas Adams
MONTECITO PLANNING COMMISSION
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

DATE OF HEARING: NOVEMBER 20, 2013

PLACE: SANTA BARBARA COUNTY ENGINEERING BUILDING
123 EAST ANAPAMU STREET
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101

The Montecito Planning Commission hearing begins at 9:00 a.m. The order of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the
Montecito Planning Commission. Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support or in opposition to the projects.
Written comments are also welcome. All letters should be addressed to the Montecito Planning Commission, 123 East Anapamu Street,
Santa Barbara, California, 93101. Letters, with nine copies, and computer materials, e.g. PowerPoint presentations, should be filed with the
secretary of the Planning Commission no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Friday before the Montecito Planning Commission hearing. The
decision to accept late materials will be at the discretion of the Montecito Planning Commission.

Maps and/or staff analysis of the proposals may be reviewed at Planning and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara,
California, 93101 a week prior to the public hearing.

If you challenge the projects (12LLA-00000-00001, 13ORD-00000-00009, or 13ORD-00000-00010) in court, you may be limited to raising
only those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Montecito
Planning Commission prior to the public hearing.

* This is a partial listing of the items to be heard at the Montecito Planning Commission Hearing of November 20, 2013. Previously noticed
Case Nos. 13ORD-00000-00009 and 13ORD-00000-00010 (2013 General Package Ordinance Amendments) were continued to this hearing
from the hearing of October 16, 2013. See previous notice for full descriptions of this item. If you have any questions, call Planning and
Development at (805) 568-2000.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this hearing, please contact the Hearing
Support Staff (805) 568-2000. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the hearing will enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable
arrangements.

Post-Construction Storm Management Requirements Briefing Montecito
Joy Hufschmid, Project Clean Water Manager, Public Works Department (805) 568-3373
Cathleen Garnand, Project Clean Water, Public Works Department (805) 568-3561

The Public Works Department, Project Clean Water, will provide information to the Montecito Planning Commission regarding the final post-
construction storm water management requirements adopted by the Regional Water Control Board for the Central Coast.


12LLA-00000-00001 Robinson Lot Line Adjustment Mountain Drive
13NGD-00000-00010 Anne Almy, Supervising Planner (805) 568-2053
Alex Tuttle, Planner (805) 884-6844

Hearing on the request of Steve Fort, agent for the applicant, to consider Case No. 12LLA-00000-00001, [application filed on January 6,
2012] for approval of a Lot Line Adjustment in compliance with Section 21-90 of County Code Chapter 21 and Section 35.430.110 of the
Montecito Land Use and Development Code to adjust lines between three lots of 0.57, 10.88, and 1.71 acres to reconfigure into three lots of
8.26, 3.01, and 1.88 acres, on property located in the Resource Management (RMZ) and 3-E-1 Zones; and to adopt the Negative Declaration
(13NGD-00000-00010) pursuant to the State Guidelines for Implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act. As a result of this
project, significant but mitigable effects on the environment are anticipated in the following categories: Aesthetics, Air Quality, Biological
Resources, Cultural Resources, Fire Protection, Geologic Processes, Land Use, Noise, and Water Resources. The ND and all documents
may be reviewed at the Planning and Development Department, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara. The ND is also available for
review at the Central Branch of the City of Santa Barbara Library, 40 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara. The application involves AP Nos.
013-040-040, 013-040-041, 013-010-017, located on Mountain Drive west of the intersection with Cold Springs Road, in the Montecito area,
First Supervisorial District.

MONTECITO COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION
RECORDING SECRETARY (568-2000)


1
RESOLUTION NO. 13-088
Terms and Conditions to be Amended
October 29, 2013

I. Section 2A of Exhibit 4 is revised to read:

MarBorg will increase the annual percentage of
Source-Separated Recyclable Material, Greenwaste
and Foodscraps collected in Carts, Cans, Dumpsters,
scheduled Roll-Off Boxes and compactors for all
Customer classes by at least 0.3% per Contract Year
during the first five Contract Years.

II. Section 2C of Exhibit 4 is revised to read:

MarBorg will be deemed to be in compliance with the
Minimum Diversion Requirement Citywide provided that
the following equation yields a value of greater than or
equal to 0.3% for any given Contract Year throughout
the first five Contract Years:

(Annual Diversion Rate Citywide at the end of the
Current Contract Year minus the Baseline Diversion
rate) / (Total Number of Contract Years since July 1,
2013)

Initial compliance with the Minimum Diversion
Requirement Citywide will be calculated 24 months
after the Effective Date and every twelve months
thereafter for the five-year compliance period.

RESOLUTION NO. 13-088


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


I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing

resolution was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa

Barbara at a meeting held on October 29, 2013, by the

following roll call vote:

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

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTENTIONS: None


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set

my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa

Barbara on October 30, 2013.


/s/
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing resolution

on October 30, 2013.



/s/
Helene Schneider
Mayor



Cesar Chavez, Santa Barbara, CA 93103.
Robert Brandt Golden, 433 El Sueno
Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. This
statement was filed with the County Clerk
of Santa Barbara County on October 21,
2013. This statement expires five years
from the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Miriam Leon. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003214. Published
October 30, November 6, 13, 20, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT OF
ABANDONMENT: The following person(s)
have abandoned the use of the Fictitious
Business Name(s): Hardrock Oil, 133 E. De
La Guerra Street, Suite 157, Santa Barbara,
CA 93101. Charlie Rushton, 3663 San
Remo #5D, Santa Barbara, CA 93105.
This statement was filed with the County
Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October
25, 2013. This statement expires five years
from the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Danielle Gomez. Original
FBN No. 2011-0003352. Published
October 30, November 6, 13, 20, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as Vesta
Properties, 1070 Veronica Springs Road,
Santa Barbara, CA 93105. David A.
Rivette, 1070 Veronica Springs Road,
Santa Barbara, CA 93105. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk of Santa
Barbara County on October 16, 2013.
This statement expires five years from
the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003175. Published
October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as
Heart And Sugar, 2140 Quail Canyon
Road, Santa Maria, CA 93455. Bruce
Thompson, 2140 Quail Canyon Road,
Santa Maria, CA 93455. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk of Santa
Barbara County on October 16, 2013.
This statement expires five years from
the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Eva Chavez. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003178. Published
October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as Third
Act Senior Planning, 330 W Highway
246, SPC 48, Buellton, CA 93427.
Francesca Loporto, 330 W Highway
246, SPC 48, Buellton, CA 93427. This
statement was filed with the County Clerk
of Santa Barbara County on October 21,
2013. This statement expires five years
from the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Carol Kraus. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003199. Published
October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as Vista de
Santa Barbara, 6180 Via Real, Carpinteria,
CA 93013. Millennium Housing, LLC,
20 Pacifica Suite 1470, Irvine, CA 92618.
This statement was filed with the County
Clerk of Santa Barbara County on October
9, 2013. This statement expires five years
from the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003082. Published
October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as Grace
Interfaith Ministries; Project Michael,
PO Box 1011, Nipomo, CA 93444.
Universal Life Church of Equality,
INC, 800 South Broadway, Ste. 207,
Santa Maria, CA 93454 . This statement
was filed with the County Clerk of Santa
Barbara County on October 16, 2013.
This statement expires five years from
the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Dionne Ruiz. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003163. Published
October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as T3
Property Management, INC, 998
Fredensborg Canyon Road, Solvang, CA
93463. T3 Property Management,
INC, 998 Fredensborg Canyon Road,
Solvang, CA 93463. This statement
was filed with the County Clerk of Santa
Barbara County on September 30, 2013.
This statement expires five years from
the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Gabriel Cabello. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003012. Published
October 23, 30, November 6, 13, 2013.
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT: The following
person(s) is/are doing business as
Systema Fitness, P.O. Box 1933, Goleta,
CA 93116. Sergei Onishenko, 331
Pacific Oaks Road, Goleta, CA 93117. This
statement was filed with the County Clerk
of Santa Barbara County on October 10,
2013. This statement expires five years
from the date it was filed in the Office of the
County Clerk. I hereby certify that this is a
correct copy of the original statement on
file in my office. Joseph E. Holland, County
Clerk (SEAL) by Hector Gonzalez. Original
FBN No. 2013-0003102. Published
October 16, 23, 30, November 6, 2013.
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No. 1438323.
To all interested parties: Petitioner Maria
Elena Perez filed a petition with Superior
Court of California, County of Santa
Barbara, for a decree changing name of
child from Paul Anthony Perez to Paul
Anthony Iniguez. 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 October 9, 2013, by Terri Chavez,
Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: November
20, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100
Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Published 10/23, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No.
1438373. To all interested parties:
Petitioner George Downing Abel filed a
petition with Superior Court of California,
County of Santa Barbara, for a decree
changing name to Odiseo Rhamses
Quintín. 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 October 22, 2013, by Nancy Spicer,
Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: December
18, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100
Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Published 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No.
1418908. To all interested parties:
Petitioners Jason Heyman and Matthew
Fratus filed a petition with Superior Court
of California, County of Santa Barbara,
for a decree changing name of child from
Violet Isabelle Fratus to Violet Isabelle
Heyman-Fratus. 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 October 29, 2013, by Terri Chavez,
Deputy Clerk. Hearing date: December
4, 2013 at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100
Anacapa Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
Published 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20
7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 42 • Tui Voici oi rui Viiiaci •
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7
Say YES to 1st Thursday –
Downtown Santa Barbara’s monthly
arts-and-culture self-guided tour often
takes note of the season, and you
know winter’s just around the cor-
ner when the YES Store returns to
town. The nation’s longest running
artisan holiday cooperative kicks off
its annual showcase with an open-
ing night party at its location for
2013 at 629 State Street. At Divine
Inspiration Gallery, there’s an art-
ist reception for the opening of its
holiday group show featuring the oil
pastel land/seascapes by Kit Boise-
Cossart, photography by Carrie
Dawn, and plein air paintings by
Gerry Winant. More Christmas
cheer can be had at Marshalls Patio,
where the Prince & Fairy Art Contest
invites kids 6-10 years old to enter
an original work in the annual art
contest. Winners of the contest will
be chosen to participate in the 61st
Annual Downtown Holiday Parade
on December 6, which the Downtown
Organization also produces. Also
on the entertainment front, Animal
Cracker Conspiracy presents a tale
about a lowly debt collector who
undergoes a spiritual transforma-
tion while under the management
of a tyrannical overseer. The com-
pany employs toy theater, table-top
puppets, objects, and stop-motion
animation and film for the multi-
dimensional performance reminiscent
of the dystopian elements of George
Orwell’s novels, which is this month’s
presentation from Forum Lounge
at the Museum of Contemporary
Art. Meanwhile, just downstairs at
Paseo Nuevo Center Court, our State
Champion Drum Line, aka the San
Marcos High School Royals Marching
Band, will churn out fun and funk
on snares, tenors, bass drums and...
trash cans. The kids will thrill to the
color guards flags a’twirling and may
even be invited to pick up sticks and
drum along. Back on the visual arts
front, nationally renown landscape
architect Isabelle Greene displays
intimate sketches and paintings on
the walls at Pacific Western Bank,
while Viva Oliva shows the striking-
ly vibrant abstract expressionist acryl-
ic paintings of local artist Niki Lunn
– which you can enjoy while sam-
pling the diverse collection of olive
oils and balsamics. Other “pairings”
include abstracts and a few images
of flora by Scott Burchard along
with sips of the fruit of the vine at a
new 1st Thursday venue, Taste Wine
Bar. WHEN: 5-8pm WHERE: Lower
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa
Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement
the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the
Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to [email protected])
by Steven Libowitz

FOCUS ON FILM
– After a soft opening with a free program of
mixed shorts out at UCSB’s Multicultural Center
on Thursday, OUTrageous!, the Santa Barbara
Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, presents its 22nd
annual program at the Metro 4, the same
downtown multiplex that hosts SBIFF. The roster
features plenty of movies that should appeal
to audiences beyond the LGBTQ community,
including Pedro Almodóvar’s latest comedy
I’m So Excited; Pit Stop, which won critical
plaudits at Sundance; The Love Part of This,
which has a local connection; and Brazilian
director Bruno Barreto’s Reaching for the
Moon. As with SBIFF, some directors will be
on hand to conduct post-screening Q&A’s,
and there’s even a couple of panel discussions and a Saturday night party.
WHEN: Thursday-Sunday WHERE: MCC on campus at UCSB; Metro 4,
COST: Festival pass $50, individual screenings $10 INFO: 963-3636 or
www.outrageousfilmfestival.org... The Pollock Theater at UCSB’s Script-to-
Screen series continues with a showing of Risky Business next Thursday,
November 14. The film represented the breakthrough role for then 20-year-
old actor Tom Cruise, and was also Paul Brickman’s first feature film.
The theater’s Sony 4k Projector should give the 30-year-old film its big
screen due. The writer/director will hold an extensive post-screening Q&A
with the audience. WHEN: 7:30pm COST: $10 INFO: 893-5903 or www.
carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock/script-screen

VETERAN’S DAY
– Pierre Claeyssens Veteran’s Museum
& Library has arranged a full weekend
of activities to honor and celebrate all
American servicemen from our long
history of wars, even events for sports
enthusiasts, including sanctioned full
and half marathons expected to draw top runners from the world over,
and a free concert and the annual parade. You can cheer on the runners
at the final leg, dubbed the “Veterans Mile,” which will be decorated
with American flags and campaign flags from all the conflicts of the 20th
century as well as military vehicles in a static display, from 9:15am-12noon
Saturday at Shoreline Park to SBCC’s La Playa Stadium. Saturday night
brings the 18th annual Military Ball to Fess Parker’s Double Tree Resort
and features a dance exhibition, live music, three-course dinner, dancing,
souvenir photos, and special salute to the Korean War Veterans. The
keynote speaker is Karl Marlantes, an author, businessman and highly
decorated Marine veteran who served two tours in Vietnam. The annual
Veteran’s Day Parade starts at 12noon Sunday at Sola & State Streets and
ends, appropriately, at the Veterans Memorial Building, 112 W. Cabrillo
Blvd. A fly-over of helicopters and vintage military aircraft will announce the
start of the parade, which also features WWII re-enactors and participants
from the local veterans chapters. The weekend wraps up with a free concert
at First Presbyterian Church featuring a one-hour program of patriotic songs,
soloists, choirs and speakers. All events except the ball ($125) are free.
INFO: 966 -1660 or www.pierreclaeyssensveteransmuseum.com
State Street and environs COST: free
INFO: www.santabarbaradowntown.
com/about/1st-thursday
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8
‘Beauty’ of a ballet – Normally
this time of year when you think of
a classic ballet by Tchaikovsky, what
comes to mind is The Nutcracker. But
Sugar Plum Fairies and Snow Queens
are nowhere to be found in Sleeping
Beauty, the composer’s other famous
ballet, which comes to the Chumash
Casino via the Moscow Ballet. You’ll
marvel as 40 of the world’s top danc-
ers perform Olympic-worthy leaps,
lunges, and pirouettes to one of
Tchaikovsky’s finest scores, and thrill
to the 200 beautifully hand-detailed
costumes and stunning backdrops.
And while the wee ones should steer
clear of the slot machines and table
games, children 8 and over are wel-
come tonight. WHEN: 8pm WHERE:
Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 East
Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $35-
$55 INFO: (800) CHUMASH (248-
6274) or www.chumashcasino.com
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9
Ford’s no Edsel – These days,
very few local band get to play at
the Song Tree Concert Series, as
the monthly acoustic music series
has drawn interest from folkies and
other string bands from around the
land far and wide. For that matter,
you don’t usually hear jazz at the
church site, either. But this month is
special, because singer Kimberly
Ford is coming back and she has
a new band in tow. The vocalist
whose resume includes stints at sev-
eral jazz festival has put together a
new group that features three stellar
area players – keyboardist George
Friedenthal, bassist Randy Tico,
and guitarist-violinist Lee Rollag –
who themselves have backed some
of the biggest names in music. Their
varied backgrounds and innate grasp
of stylistic nuance have given birth to
this unique blend that floats seamless-
ly from jazz to rock, to bluegrass and
beyond. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE:
Live Oak Unitarian Universalist
Congregation, 820 N. Fairview
Avenue, Goleta COST: $15 INFO:
403-2639 or www.SongTree.org
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10
Teen screen scene – Vince
Marcello – writer of Disney’s smash
hit Teen Beach Movie and director
of the new American Girl movie,
American Girl Blanche – is coming
to town and he’s bringing along
some of the American Girl movie
stars. Ysa Penarejo, Alex Peters,
and Kerris Dorsey will be joining
Marcello for a Q&A panel to talk
7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 43 I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer – Douglas Adams
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GET ARTY
– Santa Barbara Museum of Art hosts
several special events this week, including a
couple not normally found inside the walls of
an art museum. Aside from hosting its usual
1st Thursday open house on November
7 – with swing dancing performances and
lessons on its corner of Anapamu and State
– the museum is hosting two trunk shows
at the same time. Mata Ortiz pottery is
named after a small village in northern Chihuahua, Mexico where more than
450 potters in a tiny village of 2,000 residents create their unique pots with
origins that trace back to the ancient Paquimé people who lived in Casas
Grandes from 1130 to the mid-1400s. Traditional Native American jewelry
maker Linda Deremo’s signature style incorporates customary technique
into contemporary design elements. Her collection includes one-of-a-kind
pieces created through silversmithing and traditional bead work, and can be
found throughout Southern California in art shows, Native American Powwow
gatherings, and cultural-related corporate events. (5-8pm, Museum Store)...
Thursday also brings more “Pop-Up Opera” from Opera Santa Barbara, just
26 hours before the company opens its season with Puccini’s Tosca half a
block away at the Granada (see On Entertainment column for more on the
opera). The repertoire features soprano Jessica Julin singing arias and
songs from Tosca and other works that complement the Delacroix and the
Matter of Finish exhibition and the museum’s permanent collection impromptu
style in the galleries (5:30-7:30pm)... On Sunday, the museum’s free Studio
Sunday on the Front Steps offers a hands-on opportunity to interact with the
current Delacroix exhibit, with SBMA Teaching Artists helping youngsters
paint a version of Delacroix’s “Collision of Arab Horsemen” (1:30-4:30pm)...
Finally, the museum’s chamber music concert series kicks off Wednesday
with Meccorre String Quartet offering a program that is also inspired by the
Delacroix and the Matter of Finish exhibition, with the ensemble praised for its
breathtaking performances, flawless technique, and visionary interpretations.
The quartet will play Beethoven’s Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2;
Schumann’s Quartet in F Major, Op. 41, No. 2; and Haydn’s Quartet in B
minor, Op. 33, No. 1 (7:30pm; Mary Craig Auditorium; $19). WHERE:
1130 State Street INFO: 884-6430or sbma.net.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12
Gotta Lovett – You’d never think two solo
singer-songwriters could turn the generic hall that
is the Chumash Casino’s Samala Showroom into
what felt like the porch of a country home – or
at least an intimate theater. But the camaraderie
and shared experiences of Lyle Lovett and
John Hiatt transcended the venue – if not time
itself – when the two appeared a couple of years
ago. Back then it seemed like an unlikely pairing
– the convention-busting Nashville-bred Lovett
who veered from traditional country to near
big band jazz meeting Americana-meets-blues-
at-the-Mississippi Delta rocker Hiatt – but it turned out they had much more
in common than one would have imagined. Now that the troubadours are
that much older and wiser – not to mention having a bunch of these type of
shows under their belts – we’d expect that much richer of an evening when
they meet up again tonight armed with only acoustic guitars and their award-
winning army of songs (4 Grammys for Lovett, 11 noms for Hiatt) for a one-
off at UCSB’s Campbell Hall. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: UCSB’s Campbell Hall
COST: $75 INFO: 893-3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
about behind-the-scenes happenings
and offer pointers for aspiring young
actors and singers. The event also
features a silent auction with a selec-
tion of prizes including a walk-on
role in the next American Girl movie.
Proceeds benefit Santa Barbara Youth
Ensemble Theater’s upcoming produc-
tion of Les Miserables, which is slated
for the Lobero Theatre next spring.
WHEN: 2-4pm WHERE: The Adderley
School in Santa Barbara studio, 316
State Street COST: INFO: 899-3680
or (310) 230-1184 •MJ
7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 44 • Tui Voici oi rui Viiiaci •
T
here is still a serious lack in the inventory of available homes for sale in
Montecito. That said, there are many homes that have been on the mar-
ket a few months or more. This does not mean these homes are not well
priced, nor does it mean there is anything wrong with them. They just haven’t,
for various reasons, sold quickly.
The homes I’m featuring today all have positive aspects to them, and all offer
a variety of features and selling points that buyers should find attractive.
The one thing the following homes have in common is that they all have had
a recent price reduction.
790 Ladera Lane – $1,995,000
This home is on a unique corner,
(.94 of an acre) lot, in eastern edge
of Montecito that offers access from
both Ladera Lane and Hidden Valley
Lane. The single-level, three-bedroom,
three-bath home has recently been
remodeled and is located in a country-
like setting. The home’s flexible floor
plan, bright and airy rooms offer easy
indoor-outdoor living. There is a very
nice office-sitting area off the master
suite that has floor to ceiling windows looking out over the property. The back-
yard faces south and is very private and replete with verdant landscaping and
patios.
French doors from most rooms lead to the backyard, which offers moun-
tain views and peeks of the ocean and islands as well... This property origi-
nally came on the market not long ago, priced at $2,250,000 and was recently
reduced to the current asking price of $1,995,000. This home is located in the
Summerland and Carpinteria School District and includes a two-car garage and
off-street parking for guests.
640 Randall Road – $2,290,000
This classic Montecito Ranch-styled
home is located on a secluded lane
near the Upper Village, on the moun-
tain side of East Valley Road. The
home, resting on 1 +/- acre of land,
has not been on the market in decades.
The house includes three bedrooms
and three bathrooms in just over 3,200
square feet as advertised. The property
runs from street in front to creek in
back and is surrounded by oak and
pine trees. Mature gardens with winding paths, a lawn, and open patios offer
private outdoor entertainment areas. The circular driveway and two-car garage
offer parking for owners and guests. This property was originally offered for
sale at $2,490,000 and is located in the Montecito Union School District.
Reduced and Ready to Sell
Real Estate by Mark Hunt
Mark and his wife, Sheela Hunt, are real estate agents. They live in Montecito with their daughter Sareena,
a student at SBHS. His family goes back nearly one hundred years in the Santa Barbara area. Mark’s
grandparents – Bill and Elsie Hunt – were Santa Barbara real estate brokers for 25 years.
115 Oak Tree Place – $3,995,000
This 5,200-sq-ft Montecito Valley
Ranch home is located off the intersec-
tion of Sheffield and North Jameson
Lane in Montecito. The home for sale
is on 1.33 acres, and features a 5-bdrm,
5-bth Mediterranean country villa
(built in 2006) with setting and moun-
tain views. The property also includes
a charming guesthouse on a small hill
with separate driveway access on the
property. The home is well appointed
with attention to details, and offers an eat-in kitchen with adjoining family
room, a library, formal living & dining rooms & impressive main floor master
suite.
A three-car garage, patios & manicured lawns complete the landscaped
and well-tended grounds. The home is within the Montecito Valley Ranch
Association gated community and homeowner association fees are $136 per
month. This property was recently listed at $4,495,000, so it has experienced a
significant price reduction and is in the Montecito Union School District.

603 San Ysidro Road – $5,795,000
The upper village of Montecito,
above East Valley Road, near Picacho
Lane, Park Lane or San Ysidro Road, is
a cherished area for local Real Estate.
There are just a few streets to choose
from, with very few homes on the mar-
ket at any given time under $5 million.
This is an area of homes mostly in the
$4 million to $16 million-and-up range.
This Spanish-Mediterranean home
at 603 San Ysidro Road for instance,
is built on 1.44 creekside acres, and is
adjacent to a 9-acre Picacho estate that
is on the market right now for $27 mil-
lion.
The house is situated up a creekside
lane, just up the hill from the upper vil-
lage markets and shops. Built in 2006 and designed by architect Mark Kirkhart
through his local firm, Design Arc, the main home includes four bedrooms
(three up, one down) and five and a half baths. The living room has the feel-
ing of Ty’s lounge at the Four Seasons Biltmore (replacing the ocean front view
there, with the lovely setting here). There are distant ocean peeks to enjoy, an
oak-studded south-facing yard and walled manicured grounds. Soaring ceil-
ings indoor meet with French doors leading to private patios, and outdoor
entertainment areas.
The detached guesthouse has a look similar to that of the San Ysidro
Ranch’s Stonehouse restaurant. This guesthouse provides a retreat (includ-
ing a peaceful, gently sloping, natural-looking water feature), for the home’s
owner, visitors and extended family. This property was recently on the market
at $5,950,000.
•••
For more information on these properties please consult your Realtor. If you are not
working with anyone feel free to contact me directly – [email protected] or call/text
805-698-2174 and visit my website www.MontecitoBestBuys.com to see my best buy
picks for top Real Estate opportunities in Montecito. •MJ
Recently remodeled 3-bdrm, 3-bth Ladera Lane
home is on the market at $1,995,000
This home on Randall Road is private, quiet, and
a short walk to either Pierre Lafond or the nearby
grounds of La Casa de Maria
Your own “Under The Tuscan Sun” home at Oak
Tree Place is now available for under $4 million
This elegant Spanish-Mediterranean on San
Ysidro Road is in the heart of Montecito’s Golden
Quadrangle
7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 45 I don’t need time; I need a deadline – Duke Ellington
ENTERTAINMENT (Continued from page 38)
of an Army hospital. Shows at the
Plaza Playhouse in Carpinteria run
November 8-17. (Info: 684-6380 or
www.plazatheatercarpinteria.com.)
He’ll Do Anything
For Cash
Scott Moreau had already played
Johnny Cash in a musical called Ring
of Fire before he was cast as the singer
in the current national tour of Million
Dollar Quartet. And that’s not even
counting the two years he spent on
the road with MDQ as the understudy
for the Cash role, or the countless
open mikes where he sang nothing
but Johnny Cash.
Then there’s the Cash tribute album
called Home Of The Blues Moreau
recorded at the legendary Sun Studios
– which is the setting for MDQ – and
released just a few months ago. So it
wouldn’t be an overstatement to say
Moreau is a bit of a Cash fanatic.
“It just came out of nowhere and
it’s a little hard to explain,” admitted
Moreau, who was raised in Maine, not
exactly Cash’s heartland. “I’d heard
his music as a kid, and I liked it, but I
wasn’t really into country.”
But then one summer while he was
working at a record store between
summer stock shows, he heard
American Recordings, Cash’s 81st
album, which came out in 1994 and
ushered in a whole new sound for the
veteran singer-songwriter.
“I just went crazy,” Moreau recalled.
“I got the newer albums, and when
they didn’t come out fast enough, I
went back and bought the older stuff,
and the rare and hard to find things. I
kind of amassed a giant vinyl collec-
tion of his music, everything from 45s
to LPs and even 78s. Anything I could
get my hands on.”
Moreau’s obsession involves more
than merely Cash’s music, he said.
“It begins there, of course.
Regardless of the direction, he always
had a very distinct sound. But you can
also use his life as a model, often of
what not to do. But he also had a very
dynamic personality. He stood up for
what he believed in: Native American
rights, soldiers. Those dichotomies
made him so interesting. He was
never afraid to speak his mind, and
make music that wasn’t popular. He
wanted to do his own thing, and I take
inspiration from that.”
Right now, of course, the thing
that Moreau is doing is portraying
Johnny Cash in MDQ, which kicks off
the new season of Broadway at the
Granada this week. The action takes
place on a single day at Sun Studios
when Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley,
Jerry Lee Lewis, and Cash really did
jam together for an afternoon at Sam
Phillips’ legendary Memphis record-
ing studio.
The true story begins with Perkins,
fresh off of writing “Blue Suede
Shoes,” booking the studio to record
songs with Lewis, a newcomer who
was set to play piano. Cash came
in to talk about a new contract with
Phillips, while Presley, soon to be a
superstar, stopped by to show off a
new girlfriend. A jam session for the
ages ensued.
Million Dollar Quartet takes just a
few liberties with the facts in the
show, which is performed without an
intermission, and features a bevy of
well known songs including “Who Do
You Love?”, “Long Tall Sally,” “I Hear
You Knocking,” and “Whole Lotta
Shakin’ Goin’ On.”
“It’s like a rock concert and a his-
tory lesson put together,” Moreau
said. “They really did pass the guitar
around and hang out and play music.
The cool thing about the show is that
it also gives you a little bit of back
story for each of the artists. They were
all poor kids from the mid-South who
took a big chance, drove to Memphis
and tried to get Sam Phillips to hear
their music and record their songs.
You get glimpses of their early life,
see what Elvis was like at twenty-one,
and Johnny Cash at twenty-four.”
Of course, we’re actually seeing
Moreau playing Cash at 24, but with
this actor there might not be much of
a difference.
“I did a lot of my own research,
watched concert films and videos
to get the mannerisms down. I read
a lot of books about him. You only
get a snapshot in the show, but to
me, the more I know about him –
what he ate for breakfast, or how he
talked to his friends – it gives me a
better perspective on the character
as a whole.
“I hope people see that what I’m
doing is not only entertaining, but
also appropriate. I’m trying to pay
him the highest tribute I can.”
Million Dollar Quartet plays at 8pm
Tuesday and Wednesday, November 12
and 13, at the Granada, 1214 State Street.
Ticket prices start at $38. Call 899-2222
or www.granadasb.org. •MJ
Adam Black | VP, Senior Loan Officer
805.452.8393 | [email protected]
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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9
ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY
910 Buena Vista Drive 12-3pm $5,995,000 4bd/4.5ba Peggy Olcese 895-6757 Sotheby’s International Realty
927 Coyote Road 2-4pm $2,990,000 3bd/3.5ba Francoise Morel 252-4752 Coldwell Banker
2080 East Valley Road 1-4pm $2,625,000 5bd/4.5ba Andrew Petlow 680-9575 Sotheby’s International Realty
640 Randall Road 2-4pm $2,190,000 3bd/3ba Maureen McDermut 570-5545 Sotheby’s International Realty

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10
ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY
1685 Fernald Point Lane 1-3pm $26,000,000 6bd/6ba Bob Lamborn 689-6800 Sotheby’s International Realty
610 Cima Vista Lane 1-3pm $11,880,000 6bd/6ba Wayne Barker 637-2948 Village Properties
859 Picacho Lane 1-3pm $10,000,000 6bd/10ba Ron Madden 284-4170 Village Properties
2375 East Finney Street 1-4pm $8,950,000 4bd/4.5ba Adam McKaig 452-6884 Sotheby’s International Realty
1206 Channel Drive 1-4pm $7,980,000 3bd/2ba C. Scott McCosker 687-2436 Coldwell Banker
36 Hammond Drive By Appt. $6,850,000 4bd/4ba Bob Lamborn 689-6800 Sotheby’s International Realty
1130 Channel Drive 1-3pm $6,300,000 4bd/3ba Alan M. Chierici 680-0501 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
910 Buena Vista Drive 12-3pm $5,995,000 4bd/4.5ba Peggy Olcese 895-6757 Sotheby’s International Realty
670 El Bosque Road 1-4pm $4,295,000 4bd/5.5ba Jake Ralston 455-9600 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
1090 Toro Canyon 1-4pm $3,825,000 5bd/4.5ba Scott Westlotorn 403-4313 Coldwell Banker
1696 East Valley Road 2-4pm $3,395,000 5bd/5.5ba Sandy Stahl 689-1602 Sotheby’s International Realty
482 Woodley Road 1-4pm $3,000,000 4bd/4ba Brian King 452-0471 Village Properties
636 Cowles Road 1-3pm $2,795,000 5bd/3.5ba Lisa Loiacono 452-2799 Sotheby’s International Realty
2080 East Valley Road 1-4pm $2,625,000 5bd/4.5ba Andrew Petlow 680-9575 Sotheby’s International Realty
30 Alston Place 2-4pm $2,295,000 4bd/2.5ba Dan Johnson 895-5150 Sotheby’s International Realty
850 Chelham Way 1-4pm $2,275,000 5bd/5ba Brad Merritt 450-6522 Coldwell Banker
790 Ladera Lane 2-4pm $1,995,000 3bd/3ba Andrew Templeton 895-6029 Coldwell Banker
2891 Hidden Valley Lane 1-4pm $1,995,000 4bd/3ba Kathy Hughes 448-4881 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
1170 High Road 1-4pm $1,795,000 3bd/3ba Steve Richardson 689-5759 Coldwell Banker
811 Alston Road 1-3pm $1,795,000 3bd/2ba Sara Guthrie 570-1211 Coldwell Banker
265 Rametto Road 1-4pm $1,750,000 4bd/3ba Teddy Meyer 451-4321 Coldwell Banker
190 Cedar Lane 1-4pm $1,650,000 3bd/3ba John Holland 705-1681 Sotheby’s International Realty
87 Depot Road 1-4pm $1,399,000 3bd/2.5ba Inessa Black 689-8607 Keller Williams Realty
36 Canon View Road 2-4pm $1,350,000 2bd/2ba Robert Johnson 705-1606 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
1035 Coyote Road By Appt. $1,199,000 1bd/1ba Julie Angelos 403-5566 Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
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TUTORING SERVICES
PIANO LESSONS Kary and Sheila Kramer are
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the Music Academy of the West. Now accepting
enthusiastic children and/or adults.
Call us at 684-4626.
WRITING FICTION? Best-selling author and
longtime instructor for Adult Ed and SB Writers’
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Excellent references (check Amazon books).
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POSITION AVAILABLE
HELP WANTED – Hair stylist. Montecito Salon has
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Individualized service is
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7 – 14 November 2013 MONTECITO JOURNAL 47 I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues – Duke Ellington
with excellent references needs 4-5 bedroom
home now. $7500/month.
Please call Janet @ 805 448-1974.
Professional woman with excellent local
references seeking peaceful and private studio
cottage or guesthouse.
Please call (805) 722-7400.
SEEKING COTTAGE/GUEST HOUSE in
Trade-out
I am looking to rent a small cottage/guesthouse
in Montecito where I can create my own flower
gardens. I am willing to trade out the rent for
gardening, property watching services, au pair &
housework.
Good references.
Gary (805) 364-4851
Retiring RN/MBA seeking quiet place to live in
your backyard cottage or carriage house or nice
room in house.
Please call Nancy @ 650-787-1951.
SHORT/LONG TERM RENTAL
CARMEL BY THE SEA vacation getaway.
Charming, private studio. Beautiful garden patio.
Walk to beach and town. $110/night.
831-624-6714
Lovely, fully furnished 2 bedroom plus office, 2
bath home. D’Alfonso Spanish style. SB / Lower
Riviera. Views
$3,000./mo. No pets, please!! Available Dec.
2013. Prefer long term...805-705-9879
OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT
1205 COAST VILLAGE ROAD
For Sublease – Rate reduced high visibility
2,665sf office or service retail reserved parking.
Call Michael Martz
805-898-4363
Hayes Commercial Group
PAVING SERVICES
MONTECITO ASPHALT & SEAL COAT,
•Slurry Seal• Crack Repair• Patching• Water
Problems• Striping• Resurfacing• Speed Bumps•
Pot Holes • Burms & Curbs • Trenches.
Call Roger at (805) 708-3485
WOODWORK/RESTORATION SERVICES
Ken Frye Artisan in Wood
The Finest Quality Hand Made Custom Furniture,
Cabinetry & Architectural Woodwork
Expert Finishes & Restoration
Impeccable Attention to Detail
Montecito References. lic#651689
805-473-2343 [email protected]
GARDENING/LANDSCAPING/TREE
SERVICES
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
HAULING SERVICES
Deardorff Hauling
$12/hr I will clean your property up and haul
away your trash. You pay the dump fees.
805 636-3177.
CEMETERY PLOTS
Cemetery plots for sale (up to 5).
Santa Barbara Cemetery, Vista de la Cumbre.
24K each.(market price 27k). Discount if more
than 1. (310) 472-6091.
VOLUNTEERS WANTED
Hearts Therapeutic Equestrian Center
employs the power of the horse to enhance the
capabilities of children and adults with special
needs in Santa Barbara. Join our volunteer team
and make a difference in someone’s life. To lean
more, visit www.heartsriding.org
964-1519.
Do you love Reagan history? The Reagan
Ranch Center is seeking volunteers who would
be interested in serving as docents for the Exhibit
Galleries. Docents will have the opportunity
share the history of President Reagan and his
“Western White House.” For more information or
to apply, please contact
Danielle Fowler at 805-957-1980
or [email protected].
LOCAL BUSINESS DIRECTORY (805) 565-1860
Live Animal Trapping
“Best Termite & Pest Control”
www.hydrexnow.com
Free Phone Quotes
(805) 687-6644
Kevin O’Connor, President
$50 off initial service
Voted
#1
Termite Inspection 24hr turn around upon request.
Got Gophers?
Free
Estimates
BILL VAUGHAN 805.455.1609

Principal & Broker DRE LIC # 00660866
www.MontecitoVillage.com
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Broker Specialist In Birnam Wood
Active Resident Member Since 1985
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SANTA BARBARA INTERIOR DESIGNS
Cherie Larose De Lisle
OWNER, LEAD DESIGNER
805-636-5373
Santa Barbara:
La Cumbre Plaza
121 S. Hope Ave.
Fr|days 3-7pm
inside the mall
8aturdays 11-2pm
Sears Upper Parking Lot
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for S1 off
any ¡tem
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3.5” x 2”
Conner D Rehage
Financial Advisor
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1230 Coast Village Circle
Suite A
Montecito, CA 93108
805-565-8793
ART
CLASSES
beginning to advanced
681-8831
[email protected]
1464 E. Valley Rd. Montecito, CA 805-969-1357
Professional car maintenance and repair you can trust!
Eva Van Prooyen, MFT
Psychotherapist
1187 Coast Village Road Suite 10-G
Santa Barbara, CA 93108
(805) 845-4960
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 50105
Santa Barbara, CA 93150
LIC#: 43829
• Morning Starters and Other First Courses •
Fresh Squeezed OJ or Grapefruit Juice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$
5/7.
Bowl of Chopped Fresh Fruit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9.
Chilled Jumbo Asparagus Vinaigrette. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.
Grilled Artichoke with Choice of Sauce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.
Burrata Mozzarella, Basil and Ripe Tomato . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.
Today’s Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.
French Onion Soup, Gratinée with Cheeses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.
Matzo Ball Soup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.
Lucky Chili . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.
• Eggs and Other Breakfast Dishes •
Eggs Served with choice of Hash Browns, Fries, Sliced Tomatoes, Fruit Salad
Classic Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$
18.
with Julienne Canadian Bacon and Hollandaise
Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.
Wild Mushroom and Gruyere Omelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.
with Herbs
Smoked Salmon and Sautéed Onion Omelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.
with Sour Cream & Chives
Home Made Spanish Chorizo Omelet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.
with Avocado
Small New York Steak 6 oz, and Two Eggs Any Style . . . . . . . 21.
Corned Beef Hash (made right here)
and Two Poached Eggs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.
Huevos Rancheros, Two Eggs Any Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.
Tortillas, Melted Cheese, Avocado, & Warm Salsa
Brioche French Toast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.
with Fresh Berries and Maple Syrup
Waffle Platter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12.
with Fresh Berries, Whipped Cream, Maple Syrup
Smoked Scottish Salmon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.
Toasted Bialy or Bagel, Cream Cheese & Olives, Tomato & Cucumber
Mixed Vegetable Frittata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.
with Gruyere
• Sandwiches •
With choice of Hash Browns, Fries, Mixed Green, Caesar Salad, Fruit Salad
Lucky Burger, 8 oz., All Natural Chuck or Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$
20.
Choice of Cheese, Home-made French-Fried Potatoes, Soft Bun or Kaiser Roll
Grilled Chicken Breast Sandwich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17.
with Swiss and Garlic-Basil Mayo on a Kaiser Roll
Sliced Filet Mignon Open Faced Sandwich, 6 oz. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.
with Mushrooms, Home-Made French-Fried Potatoes
Hot Pastrami or Hot Corned Beef . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.
on a Kaiser Roll or D'Angelo Rye
Reuben Sandwich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18.
with Corned Beef, Sauerkraut & Gruyere on D'Angelo Rye
Old Fashioned Tuna Melt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.
• Salads and Other Specialties •
Wedge of Iceberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
$
10.
with Roquefort or Thousand Island Dressing
Caesar Salad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10.
with an All Natural Grilled Chicken Breast or Three Large Grilled Shrimp . . . 20.
Seafood Louis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.
Crab, Shrimp, Avocado, Egg, Romaine
Grilled, All Natural Chicken Breast Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.
Farm Greens, Goat Cheese, Roast Peppers, Pine Nuts & Sun Dried Tomatoes
Charred Rare Tuna Nicoise Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27.
Lucky’s Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.
with Romaine, Shrimp, Bacon, Green Beans & Roquefort
Cobb Salad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.
Tossed with Roquefort Dressing
Chopped Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15.
with Arugula, Radicchio, Shrimp, Prosciutto, Cannelini Beans & Onions
Sliced Steak Salad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22.
with Arugula, Radicchio and Sautéed Onion
Fresh Santa Barbara Abalone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28.
with Beurre Blanc (4 pieces)
Sauteed Tofu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19.
Japanese Vinaigrette, Green Onions, Shiitake Mushrooms, Spinach
Fried Chicken Fingers and Fries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16.
All White Meat, with Spicy Chili Mayo
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