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ConversationsSBCC President Dr. Andreea Serban was forced to step down; now we present her

side of the story, p. 13

Village BeatDick Thielscher, named Montecito’s

“Citizen of the Year,” to be honored on Beautification Day, p. 11

On EntertainmentIt really does run in the family; 94-year-old Kirk Douglas prepares to honor son,

Michael Douglas, p. 44p

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR, P. 10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 40 • GUIDE TO MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 42

The Commandos vs. The Snakes: First Annual Café Del Sol Beach Volleyball Tournament set for this

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MUS is once again the number-one performing elementary school in

Santa Barbara County; Bob Hazard explains why (story begins on page 5)

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Re-Elect

City CouncilFRANCISCODale

Experienced LeadershipFor four years, I have successfully forged compromises

at City Hall on controversial issues from marijuana

dispensaries to housing density in the general plan update.

I will continue to lead the way with common sense

priorities, to focus expenditures on what really counts, and

to protect the beauty and small town charm of our great city.

Public SafetyAs your Councilmember, public safety is my top priority. Over the last decade, the

number of police officers steadily declined. This year, I successfully led the effort to add

four new police officers to the force. The police need the staff and the tools to do their

job. Putting more police officers on our streets is vital to keeping our community safe.

Fiscal ResponsibilityPrevious City Councils had dangerously depleted our fiscal reserves just as we were

heading into the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. As your fiscally

responsible Councilmember I have changed our course. I voted against pay raises we

couldn’t afford, directed sound fiscal management of our city’s dollars, and negotiated fair

union contracts that protect taxpayers.

Call, e-mail, or visit our website:

5 Editorial Detailed look at Montecito Union School: what makes it excel, who makes it hum, and the

parents who help make it work

6 Montecito Miscellany Montecito writer appeals case with prince of Monaco; Wendy Weeks’ unlucky travel

streak; Café Del Sol hosts volleyball tournament; Universal Life Church gains famous

follower; Dale Kern’s Indian Feast; record 300 tickets sold for Summerland Winery’s wine

club party

8 Letters to the Editor Sheena Berwick still seeks answers regarding future fate of proposed Hermosillo off-

ramp; Dana Newquist on Dr. Andreea Serban’s forced resignation; M. Kerrigan suggests

healthy food choices needed in Montecito; Pharmacy Oak hanging in there; Patrik

offers “thanks”

10 Community Calendar Music for kids at Curious Cup; Creek Week; Erin Balint shows off art; MBAR meets;

Montecito Union School Board meeting; City Council candidates at Jaff urs Wine Cellar;

lecture and luncheon at MCC

Tide Chart Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach

11 Village Beat Kardashian wedding discussed at MA meeting; Dick Th ielscher chosen Citizen of the Year;

temporary road closures proposed; San Ysidro Path update

13 Conversations SBCC’s Dr. Serban gives her side of the story of her resignation

14 Seen Around Town Zoofari Ball XXVI’s Moroccan theme sparkles; two-day Santa Barbara Studio Artists Open

Studios Tour; Santa Barbara Kennel Club puts on impressive dog (but no pony) show

26 Book Talk Lowenkopf explains why George Pelecanos’ “The Cut” deserves spot on first page of

The New York Times’ book review section instead of in the ‘back-of-the-bus mystery

section’

29 Ernie’s World A harrowing tale of Witham’s visit to the dermatologist, complete with news of a rash of

wizard-shaped skin growths

Local People Jean Volmar is one of those valuable resources that Santa Barbara and Montecito depend

upon

30 Sheriff’s Blotter Car broken into at Cold Spring trailhead; fatal collision on Highway 101

31 Seniority No matter your age, Santa Barbara has plenty of programs to keep one mentally and

physically active

34 The Way it Was Two Santa Barbara family histories during WWII are highlighted, one being Hattie

Beresford’s own

35 Your Westmont U.S. News & World Report gives the college its highest ranking; and the powerful Keck

Telescope aims toward the heavens Sept. 16

36 State Street Spin Dentist Kathleen McClintock wins Mastership Award; MacMechanic will take your old

fl oppies; Rare showing of Picasso and Pals; Damn Right I Grew Up In Santa Barbara

37 Montecito Diary Breast Cancer Resource Center to hold fundraising gala at Montecito Estate

40 Calendar of Events Tears for Fears plays Chumash Casino; Henry VIII at the Metro; ¡Viva el Arte de

Santa Bárbara! opens at Karpeles Manuscript Museum; Ann Randolph’s one-woman

show at Center Stage, Phineus and Ferb come to life at the Granada, IMAX fi lmmakers

share secrets

41 On Entertainment Adrian Spence discusses upcoming Camerata Pacifi ca season; Circle Bar B Dinner Th eater

wraps up season; pop and rock groups play Santa Barbara’s smaller venues; Kirk Douglas

awards son Michael this year at SBIFF

42 Guide to Montecito Eateries Th e most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing of all individually owned Montecito

restaurants, coff ee houses, bakeries, gelaterias, and hangouts; some in Santa Barbara,

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43 Movie Showtimes Latest fi lms, times, theaters, and addresses: they’re all here, as they are every week

45 Real Estate View A roundup of the properties sold this summer in Montecito

93108 Open House Directory Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito

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Montecito Union School: A Community Treasure

To the delight of their parents, some 452 fortunate students, aged fi ve through 12, have marched off to attend kindergarten through sixth grade at Montecito Union School, arguably one of the fi nest elementary schools

in the United States.Montecito is blessed with two equally respected public elementary schools:

Montecito Union and Cold Spring Elementary (K-6 with 165 students). Local school choice is further enriched by top-notch private schools like Laguna Blanca Lower School (K-5), Crane Country Day School (K-8), and Our Lady of Mount Carmel School (K-8). Today’s focus is on Montecito Union School (MUS).

The Team at the TopWe sat down recently with Tammy Murphy, School Superintendent; Nick

Bruski, Chief Academic Officer; David Williams, Dean of Students; and Virginia Alvarez, Director of Business at MUS. The first thing you notice about Ms Murphy is her energy and enthusiasm. She is a lifetime educator who has spent 26 years helping children and 20 years as an administrator. She is open and accessible, a good listener, an accomplished communicator and a team builder with a demonstrated track record of success.

While both Murphy and Bruski are beginning their second year at MUS, Alvarez is a 10-year MUS veteran who says that the level of satisfaction among the faculty, the students and the parents is the highest she has ever experienced. The former position of school principal has been restructured into two separate roles – a Chief Academic Officer (Nick Bruski) and a Dean of Students (Dave Williams). Bruski will focus on curriculum and faculty development; Williams, a former computer technology teacher who has spent 20 years as an assistant principal, will focus on student discipline and day-to-day school operations. Says Alvarez, “This is the right structure for the right time in our district.”

Student PerformanceOf the 117 elementary schools in Santa Barbara County, last year MUS

was ranked #1 in the 2011 Academic Performance Index (API), scoring an impressive 960 out of a possible 1,000 points, edging out Mountain View at 958 points as #2 and Cold Spring at 951 points as #3. So, what are Montecito Union’s secrets to success and how can they be applied to other schools?

“MUS is different,” Bruski says. “We believe in education of the whole child, including reading, math, language, history, social studies, science – and arts, music and physical education. To teach nutrition, we grow our own food in an organic garden. Our real challenge is not memorization, but to teach children critical thinking skills. At the same time it’s important for kids to retain a sense of creativity and flexibility when it comes to new ways of think-ing and complex problem solving.”

California’s Standardized Testing and Reporting Program, known as STAR testing, measures student performance in grades 2 through 11 in English and language arts, math, science and history. The statewide average for math pro-ficiency is 48%; at MUS 89% of students score at the Proficient or Advanced levels. In science, the state average proficiency is 54%; at MUS, it is 96%.

The children who attend MUS tend to be the offspring of relatively affluent college-educated parents who place a premium on educational achievement. They pay high property taxes to locate within the Montecito Union school district. Parents donate time and energy to attend Board meetings, actively engage in parent-teacher conferences and volunteer for classroom duty.

Nearly all children speak a common language: English. Only 22 of the 452 students are enrolled in English language learning; about half are Hispanic with the rest from scattered countries around the world. None of the children are undernourished. Most live in two-parent households. Students are expected to do their reading and homework assignments. Specialists are available for those who need extra help or fall behind. Classes are small enough for teachers to know every child personally, averaging only 17 students per teacher. There are 27 classrooms, all equipped with flat-screen TVs, document cameras, visual pre-

Editorial by Bob Hazard

Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club

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Miscellanyby Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York to write for Rupert Murdoch’s newly launched Star magazine in 1978; Richard later wrote for New York magazine’s “Intelligencer”. He continues to make regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN, and moved to Montecito four years ago.

MISCELLANY MISCELLANY Page 18

Despite a U.S. District Court ruling last month that Montecito writer Robert

Eringer is unable to pursue his mammoth two-year lawsuit against the 800-year-old nation state of Monaco under America’s Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act, his Santa Barbara legal eagle, Brigham Ricks, is appealing the decision.

“After assessing Judge Gary Feess’ findings carefully, we’ve decided to file a notice of appeal,” says Robert, 56, who is suing for $540,000 in back salary and severance as 52-year-old Prince Albert’s spymaster for five years.

“Very little case law exists on sov-ereign immunity,” he explains. “Our case may break new ground and set a precedent for future situations in which U.S. citizens are not paid after providing a commercial service, under contract, to a sovereign state.

“We feel that the nature of my agree-ment with Prince Albert and Monaco as an independent contractor pro-viding a commercial service, should not fall under the Foreign Sovereign Immunity Act. We believe appellate judges may ultimately see it our way.”

Coinciding with the latest legal maneuver, the new issue of Forbesmagazine delves into the David ver-sus Goliath battle with a feature by New York writer Kai Falkenberg, who describes it as a saga, “airing lots of royal dirty laundry.”

So far, she notes, His Serene Highness’s legal team has focused 13 lawsuits on Robert, whom the Palace in Monte Carlo describes as “a shakedown artist,” with even Albert breaking his silence on the matter last month in an interview with Monaco Hebdo magazine, painting his antago-nist as “a bitter person who spews

his venom and resentments on the Internet.”

Under pressure, Robert has delet-ed several posts from his well-read blog – mostly alleging corruption – that particularly irritated the Palace. Robert was even threatened with imprisonment for using his Monaco Intelligence Service badge on the site, eringer33.com. The suit and blog, says Falkenberg, paints the son of the late Prince Rainier and Princess Grace as “a hapless ruler with an insatiable libido, surrounded by manipulative sycophants.” Meanwhile the Palace declines to respond to the “vulgar and libelous allegations.”

Monaco’s strict bank-secrecy laws and lack of income tax have long lured wealthy expats to the 482-acre postage-stamp-sized country, wedged between France and Italy, offering pri-

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The best little paper in America(Covering the best little community anywhere!)

Thanks for your thoughtful editorial (“Down With The Hermosillo Plan” MJ # 17/36),

and especially your wise call for a unifi ed Montecito position opposing the beach exit from the 101 north at Hermosillo. I do sympathize with Montecito Association (MA) president Richard Nordlund feeling disheartened when he works long volunteer hours for the community and fi nds his efforts are misunderstood. And, in the gracious spirit of unity you have called for in the editorial, I do forgive him for saying in his reply to my letter that I had “completely distorted the facts.” While that sounds like accusing me of lying, which is something I abhor, I believe distorting facts is counter-productive when there is a record to support the truth. So, if I may be permitted to defend my good character, and at the same time report some promising developments, I offer the following:

Fighting to retain the character of the lower village calls for dealing with difficult realities. Caltrans has a state-wide policy of no left-lane 101 exits. They have made this unequivocally clear. We would all be happy if the left lane off-ramp were to remain, and we should argue for that all the way to the governor, but Caltrans has rejected it. Given that, what then is MA’s position to protect Coast Village Road from the chaos of the 101 exit? On the record, none. The fallback option cited in September last year and this August’s board meetings was the Hermosillo exit. To be fair to President Nordlund, in a phone call after my letter was published in the Journal, he told me he was shocked when Bob Short said that the Transportation Committee had decided the Hermosillo exit was the best option for all of Montecito. We were shocked, too, because Mr. Short had promised us that he would not support the Hermosillo exit.

But, in spite of this, there is hope that the lower village might not be thrown under the buses, trucks, RVs and lines of cars peeling off the free-way. The breakthrough options come as a result of singular efforts made by residents representing the Coast Village Road neighborhoods. These efforts began in February when J’Amy Brown and Martha Siegel with the assistance of Supervisor Salud Carbajal asked Caltrans to give rep-resentatives of the residents of the lower village a presentation of the latest off-ramp options. At the end

of the meeting, the standing-room-only crowd that packed the Montecito Community Hall unanimously opposed the Hermosillo exit. Mr. Nordlund did not arrange this meeting. In July, Martha, Sybil Rosen and J’Amy invited Dick Nordlund to come to a meeting being held at Sybil’s home. So, Mr. Nordlund did not arrange this meeting either. At a follow-up meeting with Caltrans, Santa Barbara County officials and MA, which Sybil was allowed to attend, Caltrans said they were including in the EIR two other options called Modified F and M which included an alternative to the Hermosillo exit.

The MA Transportation Committee isn’t supporting this alternative because of the lengthy construction time and cost of bridges at Cabrillo and Hot Springs. Yes, no doubt the Hermosillo exit would be easier to push through in the short term. But it will be a drastically bad lifelong deci-sion for the lower village.

We need to get it right. There won’t be another chance to go back and fix the disaster.

Sheena BerwickMontecito(Editor’s note: It seems to us the best

solution is one that has been proposed: extending what is now the Hermosillo exit all the way to Cabrillo-Hot Springs, where it will feed into the existing roundabout. That is the only way – short of leaving the left-hand Cabrillo exit alone – that the lower village will the spared. – J.B.)

An Open Letter to SBCC

The following letter was sent to Members of the Board of the Santa Barbara City College and Foundation, and forwarded on to the Montecito Journal.

“Dear members of these distin-guished Boards:

Background:

Previously, I sent all members of the Board a Letter that gave some infor-mation as to my profile and that of the Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation (Barker Foundation).

I find it fulfilling to serve on several boards in our great community; Barker Foundation, Montecito Fire Protection District (MFPD), Santa Barbara Alzheimer’s Association, Sansum Diabetes Research Institute, and the Murphy Automobile Museum. A con-sequence of holding a Board position

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is having to ask difficult questions. But, that is my job!

Using experiences from those Boards and others that I have served previously, has helped me compre-hend the myriad complexities that a Board Member needs to understand in order to function in an orderly and logical manner. The same is true in managing a business.

I am not here to criticize, refute, debate, analyze, make offers, or take them away.

My mission is to carry out the mis-sion of Donald and Coeta Barker, pro-tect their integrity and preserve their money.

Admittedly, I have little knowledge of the inner workings of Santa Barbara City College.

Even though I have served on the Barker Foundation Board for nine years, going back to Peter MacDougall’s administration at SBCC, my job is to carry out the wishes that were once those of Coeta Barker when she was alive. Coeta rele-gated those obligations to her Trustees upon her passing.

The Direction of the Barker Foundation is now in the hands of myself and four other Trustees.

Concerns:

Being a Board member of the MFPD for the past nine years, I find the learning curve immensely steep, even today. Like SBCC, there are so many issues that involve land use, employees, State, Federal, and Local law, Licensing, contracts, agreements, emergencies, and a plethora of other topics. To assist the MFPD Board in all that we contend with and adjudicate, we employ Price, Postel & Parma as legal consul due to their depth in legal matters armed with 140 attorneys.

Because of the many factors, it is beyond my comprehension how new Trustees could have the base needed to make such an action as the one that was made in “closed session” to termi-nate the tenure of Dr. Andreea Serban.

Also, Dr. Serban has a contract that needs to be satisfied by both parties. By the time that contract is final-ized and another President is chosen to serve, as much as $1,000,000 will be spent. Knowing additional budget cuts are looming, it is difficult for me to justify the college spending resourc-es if not necessary. Perhaps a better solution would have been to allow Dr. Serban complete her contract through June of 2014, saving needed dollars and avoiding turmoil.

Other consequences:

SBCC has been a very well respect-ed college. It got that way due to its great leadership, including Dr. Serban’s presidency. When searching for a replacement for Dr. Serban, why would any applicant feel comfort-

able applying, knowing the action the Board had taken on Dr. Serban?

Fundraising:

A major function of any President is to be an ambassador for the orga-nization. People talk. My affiliation with SBCC with respect to the Barker Foundation has given me ties to other Foundations and individuals that give to SBCC. It is my understanding that there are several Foundations and major individuals that have removed their support of the College due to the current Board’s action against Dr. Serban. If true, the consequence may reach tens of millions of dollars over time.

Manner:

How the termination of Dr. Serban was executed was the most egregious act.

I have disagreements with my Fire Chief almost daily. Exchanges are meant to be constructive and usually are. Those disagreements never have stirred my need to fire the Chief. He is doing a good job!

Dr. Serban’s career has been destroyed by your Board. There surely were disagreements with how she managed the college, but could you have looked at other remedies?

No matter what side you come from on this issue, I see a college in tur-moil. Our future is in the hands of our youth. We that are in positions of authority and policy, need to very careful of our actions so that youth can succeed.

Respectfully submitted,”Dana NewquistMontecito

Jobs in the Twilight Zone

On September 8, I listened to an un-rerun-forgettable tele-prompted speech beamed directly from the twi-light zone. The Dear Leader said sev-eral times that Congress needs to “...pass this bill right away...” so busi-nesses can grow and thrive, so rich people like Warren Buffet can pay as much tax as his secretary, so $1 trillion can be cut from federal spending by Christmas, so people in South Korea can buy Fords and GM autos (what if the only vehicle they were allowed to purchase is the Chevy Volt?) .

He kept referring to “...this bill...” but it seems that Google hadn’t posted any sites which actually contained the bill. How can Congress be asked to pass something that doesn’t yet exist? Are we following a Pied Piper of Hamlin into a dimension, not only of sight and sound, but also of mind...? Is that the “signpost” up ahead? Are we hoping and changing according

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

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

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

Health & Wellness TalkSan Ysidro Pharmacy’s Steve Hoyt, R.Ph, speaks on bio-identical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT), stress effects on hormone balance, and achieving optimal dosing.When: 7 pm to 9 pmWhere: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley RoadCost: Free (no reservations required)Info: 805-969-2284

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Discussion Group A group gathers to discuss The New YorkerWhen: 7:30 pm to 9 pmWhere: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road

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MTF Annual BarbequeMontecito Trails Foundation holds its Annual Barbeque at Hal & Mary Coffi n’s in Montecito. Bikers, hikers, and equestrians are welcome. Hikes and rides in the morning, BBQ lunch with drinks, entertainment, dancing and silent and live auctions in afternoon.When: 9 am to 3 pmWhere: Montecito Valley RanchCost: $50 in advance, $55 at the door (members); non-members $70; children 12-and-under, freeInfo: 805-969-3514 or www.montecitotrailsfoundation.org

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Music ProgramBaby Rock! is a new music program that encourages young children to sing, dance and play along to a combination of original songs, contemporary music and classic rock. Using music to provide an interactive learning experience, kids and parents rock out with children’s instruments alongside professional musicians and performers, learn about a new letter each week, watch puppet shows, enjoy musical storybook time and more. Free demo classes today. When: 10 am newborn - 18 months, 11 am for children 18 months to 4 yearsWhere: Curious Cup Bookstore in Carpinteria, 929 Linden AvenueInfo: Samantha Eve [email protected] or448-3553Website: www.babyrockmusic.org

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17

Creek WeekMontecito Association is taking part in Santa Barbara County’s annual clean up of local beaches. Creek Week kicks off on Saturday September 17 and continues through Sunday, September 25. Cleanup activities on Butterfl y Beach will take place on September 17 from 9 am to noon. Meet at the beach stairs next to Coral Casino. Bring your own bag or bucket, and reusable gloves. Biking or walking to the event is encouraged. On Thursday September 22, at 8 am, Montecito Association and local biologist John Storrer will take a nature walk along San Ysidro Creek via Ennisbrook Trail. Meet at the trailhead on San Leandro

Lane just west of Crane School. Call Montecito Association at 969-2026 for more information.

Art ExhibitErin Reinecke Balint presents “Current iPhoneography” at Porch on Santa Claus Lane. The exhibit runs until October 23. Reception: 2 pm to 5 pmWhere: 3823 Santa Claus LaneInfo: 684-0300

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19

MBAR MeetingMontecito Board of Architectural Review seeks to ensure that new projects are harmonious with the unique physical characteristics and character of MontecitoWhen: 3 pmWhere: Country Engineering Building, Planning Commission Hearing Room, 123 E. Anapamu

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 20

MUS School Board MeetingWhen: 6 pmWhere: Montecito Union School, 385 San Ysidro RoadInfo: 969-3249

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 21

Meet the Candidates Santa Barbara City Council candidates Randy Rowse, Dale Francisco and Michael Self will be honored at a wine reception at Jaffurs Wine CellarWhen: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm Where: 819 E. Montecito StreetCost: $200 per personRSVP: Chris Collier, 618-2950

(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, please e-mail [email protected] or call (805) 565-1860)

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22

Lecture & Luncheon Montecito-Hope Ranch Republican Women’s Club host “Refuse to be a Victim” lecture with speakers Terry McElwee from Montecito Fire Protection District and Lori Boehm with the American Red Cross. Tips will be given for personal safety inside and outside the home. When: 11:30 am to 1:30 pmWhere: Montecito Country Club, 920 Summit RoadCost: $25 prepaid, $30 at the doorContact: Debbie Saucedo at 969-4808

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At this month’s Montecito Association Board meeting, Undersheriff Jim Peterson

took heat from board members and audience members regarding the wedding of Kim Kardashian, which took place last month in Montecito.

Peterson, along with Lieutenant Dave Brookshire, explained that the Sheriff’s Department was working with the event planner’s private secu-rity team as well as CHP and Santa Barbara Police Department. Deputies were placed both inside and out-side the event, including Sheriff Bill Brown, who attended the wedding in a tuxedo. “This was a good thing for us, because we had a contact inside the event handling any type of inci-dent that could occur,” Peterson said.

Montecito Association board mem-ber Bob Short accused the Sheriff’s Department of hiding the details of the event from the county and com-munity. “It seems to me it was egre-gious the way you treated the rest of the county,” Short said. “We didn’t hide any information,” Peterson responded. A neighbor who lives next to the estate said she was upset with paparazzi in front of her home and the way sheriff’s deputies treated her when she was trying to access her own home. She also said the fact that Sheriff Brown attended the wedding in a tuxedo was “bizarre and inap-propriate.”

Former MA president Diane Pannkuk, who was in the audience at the board meeting, equated the Kardashian wedding to the large event Oprah Winfrey held four years ago in support of then presidential candidate Barack Obama. “I was assured at that time this type of miscommunication would not happen again,” she said, adding that neighbors were not noti-fied about the event. “I’m concerned that Montecito will be the go-to place for big splashy weddings. We need to protect this community,” she said. “I want to see a plan in place so I know my peace and security is protected.”

“At this event as in any other event, you are going to have people who feel that their peace is being disturbed,” Peterson said. “Frankly, we don’t change procedures depending on the size of the event.” Over 20 calls came into dispatch regarding loud music at the 400-person wedding; it was turned off at midnight.

After a heated discussion, Peterson said the good thing that comes out of this is the inherent need to commu-nicate with all agencies in the future. He will be part of a group meeting with the Board of Supervisors at a

later date to discuss the event and its consequences.

Dick Thielscher Citizen of the YearBeautification Chair Mindy Denson

announced the 2011 Citizen of the Year: Dick Thielscher. Dick has a lengthy list of community involve-ments, including serving on the MA board for several years and serving on the General Plan Advisory Committee for six years. He also served on the Montecito Planning Commission for four years, and currently sits on the MA Land Use Committee and the Homeowners Defense Fund. Dick, who graduated from Stanford in 1957 and moved to Montecito in 1964, has raised three kids with his wife, Judy. “I’ve made a couple of great deci-sions in my life, including marrying my wife, and moving to Montecito,” he tells us. “It truly is a very special place!”

Beautification is scheduled for Saturday, November 5, and as in years past will feature breakfast catered by Montecito Country Club, music by Glendessary Jam, hot dogs and five-alarm chili served up by Montecito Fire Protection District firefighters, and homeowner awards. The festivi-ties commence in the Upper Village Green at 9 am.

Community CornerDana Newquist discussed with the

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Salud Carbajal and Caltrans to have the dead pine tree, which is decorated each year for the holidays, removed. Newquist asked for continuation of maintenance on the corner by the Beautification Committee and also for donations to help purchase a replace-ment tree.

“Kids squeal every year when we are decorating that tree, it is a tradi-tion,” Denson said. The plan is to plant the tree in memory of former Montecito Fire Chief Don Hathaway, who passed away in July. There is also talk about erecting a rock wall or some type of sign welcoming people to Montecito.

Community ReportsFire Chief Kevin Wallace reported

several lightning strikes in the back country which have started at least five fires in the past few days. He also reported that design work is continu-ing on Fire Station 3, which will be built on East Mountain Drive; plans will be presented to the MA Land Use Committee on October 4.

Chief Wallace is retiring May 31 of next year; he said the Fire Board is actively looking for his successor.

Lieutenant Brookshire had the crime reports for Montecito: in addition to “smash-and-grabs” continuing at local trail heads, there was trespassing at Montecito Water District. Executive Director Victoria Greene reported that there has been vandalism on the signs in the Hedgerow District; Brookshire said he would look into having more patrols in the area.

Montecito Union School superin-tendent Tammy Murphy reported that MUS ranked number one in the county in standardized testing. Cold Spring School ranked number three.

Road ClosuresIn an effort to lessen liability, the

county is proposing that two creek crossings in Montecito be closed tem-porarily during wet weather. The Road Commissioner is requesting that the creek crossings at East Mountain Drive and Bella Vista Drive be gated; the gates would be closed and locked during rain to reduce falls by hik-ers, pedestrians, and bikers. “We are against this,” says Chief Wallace, who has concerns over delays of fire equip-ment during emergencies.

The temporary closures would con-tinue until new bridge crossings are built, which is not expected for anoth-er five years. The proposal comes in the face of recent lawsuits by people who have slipped and been injured on mossy rocks on the creek crossings; the Board of Supervisors will hear the proposal in October.

The Association board voted to send a letter to the BOS asking for denial of the temporary road closures. They suggested better signage and educa-tion as alternative ways to reduce liability.

History ArchiveAs reported here last week, MA

president Dick Nordlund reported to the board the need for a new history archive. He is in talks with Supervisor Carbajal to possibly acquire a ranger house in Manning Park to be used for both a history archive and also a Sheriff’s substation. Diane Pannkuk, who lives in the area, opposed the idea, saying that loss of an on-site ranger would increase crime and van-dalism at Montecito Union School, Manning Park, and at residences on School House Road. She suggested Westmont College would be a better place to house historic memorabilia, and ascertained that the MA Board should instead help fight to keep a ranger on site, something the county is hoping to do away with amid bud-get concerns.

“We are looking at all types of dif-ferent sites,” president Nordlund said.

Hot Springs LatestHot Springs Canyon campaign

coordinator Leslie Turnbull report-ed there is still $1.75 million left to raise to bolster the efforts of the Land Trust of Santa Barbara, which is rais-ing $8,650,000 to acquire the 462-acre Hot Springs Canyon property. The deadline to meet the fundraising goal is December 15. Turnbull said she has been working with local founda-tions and individuals, but that the recent stock market fluctuations have hurt efforts. “Everybody is supportive but unable to be committed in their efforts,” she said. However, she and Land Trust executive director Michael Feeney remain hopeful the communi-

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The Zoofari Ball is one of the pre-mier fundraisers of the year. The Zoo is a private, nonprofit organization with an annual operating budget of $8.6 million and receives neither tax-based nor regular governmental sup-port. The entire Ball’s proceeds go to support the animals. See you at the wildest place in town!

Open Studios TourRecently, the buzz around town

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The shop had on display a SBSA exhibit of 38 leading artists who would be opening their studios for the public to peruse. This was a two-day event wherein for the price of a ticket you received a map with all the locations marked reaching from Montecito to Isla Vista. So much art, so little time! It might take a week to see them all. There was also a program showing a sample of each artist’s work with e-mail addresses to make choosing which to visit a bit easier.

In 2002, when SBSA founding mem-ber Dorothy Churchill Johnson and others came up with the idea of artists banding together for an Open Studios Tour, it was a unique one. She noted, “We sought to revive the tradition of patrons visiting artists in their studios and we wanted to promote Santa Barbara as an arts destination.”

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British writer Somerset Maugham famously branded the principality “a sunny place for shady people.”

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Wendy Weeks’ WoesInveterate traveler Wendy Weeks,

who has been sating her wanderlust for the past six years, has been doing much of it for free of late.

British-born Wendy, a former dancer, who lives with her disabled husband, Rollin, in our Eden by the Beach, was traveling back from London to Los Angeles on American Airlines last year, but got stuck for a week because of volcanic ash from a massive eruption in Iceland that grounded much of the European air-line systemt.

“I noticed that passengers from British Airways were being given vouchers for the hotel and food and, after writing to American, I eventu-ally wheedled a $800 voucher out of them for another flight, which I used to fly to England again this year to catch a ten-day Baltic cruise from Southampton.”

But, again, all was not to go smooth-ly with the trip on the appropriate-ly named MSC Opera, a 59,000-ton, 1,712 passenger liner, turning into the voyage to nowhere when all the generators failed, leaving it floating aimlessly for two days after stops in Amsterdam, Stockholm, Helsinki and St. Petersburg.

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“I used the rest of the trip to visit friends in Bournemouth and Bristol, which is where I’m from originally, so it wasn’t too horrendous.”

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Let The Games BeginCafé Del Sol, the popular eatery

and watering hole by the Clark Bird Refuge, is holding its first epony-mously named beach volleyball tour-nament.

East Beach is the venue on Saturday at noon when two teams, the Sand Commandos, coached by Gary Cummins, and the Sand Snakes, under the athletic tutelage of Jim Clive, will vie for the brass Cafe Del Sol Sears Perpetual Volleyball Championship Trophy, named in honor of Jack Sears, the bustling nosheteria’s 75-year-old owner.

“We’ve been talking about this for several months,” says Trish Davis, who helped organize the event with her husband, Bill, and the two coach-es.

There will be five players on each team, varying in age from their 20s to their 70s, including restaurant employees Kyler Barbee and James Brandeland, retired attorney Marv Bauer, Wendy Lewis, Steve Crawford and Maria Borden.

“Many of them have been playing for thirty years or more. A few were also East Beach Nooners, so called because they used to play at midday,” adds Trish.

“Our main concern is that, after so many years in the shade of the bar,

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You May Kiss The Bride (And Like It)Santa Barbara songstress Katy

Perry’s British comic husband, Russell Brand, who once revealed he was addicted to sex, has become a lot closer to God.

The 36-year-old comedian has just become a minister with the Universal Life Church and is now licensed to marry, bury and preach.

Brand, who recently starred in the flop remake of the Dudley Moore clas-sic “Arthur,” has already tested his skills by marrying a couple at one of his stand-up gigs.

“Russell has had a total turnaround since he met Katy, as her parents are super religious,” says a friend. “He’s been reading a lot of theological texts, especially by the Maharishi, and he wanted to take it further.

“With the Universal Life Church anyone can get ordained online and Russell did it as a half-jokey, half-serious thing. When he talked about it at his gig, one couple stood up and said they wanted him to marry them.

“Unfortunately, the words he used during their service can’t be repeated as they were somewhat unorthodox. But it was one hundred percent legal.”

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Wendy and Rollin Weeks traveling on a dime, or even less

Volleyball veterans Gary Cummins and Jim Clive with Bill and Trish Davis


to a script that only Rod Serling could have imagined?

Dale LowdermilkMontecito(Editor’s note: Keep guessing, Dale,

you’re bound to come up with the answer, eventually; when you do, of course, we expect you’ll enlighten us – TLB)

A Search for Healthy Food

What Montecito really needs with these vacant buildings around the Vons shopping center is a health-food res-taurant, i.e., a Sojourner, Natural Café or Zookers type restaurant. When my wife and I want to get a healthy din-ner here in Montecito, there really is nowhere to go that offers the kinds of menu choices of the restaurants I spoke of above. If I had the capital I would go for it, but I don’t. However, I certainly hope someone will one of these days, because I can’t see how this would not be successful. I think where the old Tsunami and Kai restaurant were would be an excellent spot.

Here’s to your health.M. KerriganMontecito(Editor’s note: Not a bad idea, Mr.

Kerrigan, especially since Montecito Natural Foods is right next door – TLB)

Good News for Pharmacy Oak

The good news: the oak tree behind the Pharmacy is getting more leaves by the day. Yay! Thanks for printing my letter (“Loves The New Leaves” MJ # 17/35). I got lots of encourage-ment, as we all love that tree. Lots of people were so nice and cheerful and encouraging to me for writing.

On another subject, though, I think we need to change a few things to keep Montecito the way we love it.

Helicopters, leaf blowers, lawn mowers and edgers rule. All those people who wrote all those rules that keep Montecito rural did not predict

helicopters. (How could they?) They didn’t predict gas-powered leaf blow-ers, or gas-powered lawnmowers and edgers either. Noise and gasoline pol-lution. They could not predict. How lovely is this: the Japanese used palm fronds to rake leaves, the most beau-tiful sound in the world. The Mexican palm fronds were the rakes. I will never forget the sound.

One gas-powered leaf blower in one hour pollutes more than one car driving 300 miles, and that doesn’t count the noise… that is just the air pollution. Don’t believe me? Google it. Not many people really know that. But that is true. Leaf blowers and lawnmowers are somehow exempt from the pollution restrictions.

I think at the very least, helicopters need to have a higher height limit. I see them going along the coastline, and I swear they will take out a flock of pelicans. I live next door to Oprah, and they are so hideously loud, and so perilously low, I am sure they do take out many nests of our migratory hooded orioles in the palm trees. There are a great many nests of hooded orioles in Oprah’s palm trees. She and her staff work with me and try to protect them in every way.

The paparazzi helicopters scare the daylights out of my chickens. This is noise and wind pollution that should not be permitted. If they are not allowed to land, why are they allowed to hover 60 feet off the ground? You have no idea how loud and destruc-tive they are. Branches and bird nests are thrust to the ground; it is revolt-ing, and is a huge disturbance to our treasured wildlife all over Montecito; in addition the 40-acre preserve next to us. What do you think a heli-copter does to monarch butterflies? They have not one shred of a chance of survival with that velocity above them when they are clinging to the eucalyptus leaves. Real estate agents may be guilty as well. We desperately need height restrictions for helicop-

LETTERSLETTERS (Continued from page 9)ters here.

The most recent Reality Show (called a wedding) had the biggest flood of helicopters and probably the worst impact on our local wildlife. This is prime nesting season for our local migratory birds as well as the birds who stay here. Those helicopters blew baby birds out of their nests, and with their nest. I saw them on the ground, with the mothers desperately trying to feed their babies who were not fully feathered.

I was completely revolted and disgusted that our representatives did not protect our village from this onslaught. It was disgusting. Who in the heck should be in charge of restricting this kind of thing? Are we powerless? We have no way to pro-tect ourselves and our nature against this kind of thing?

I am astonished.At the wedding itself, not one of

our many florists, not one of our local party rentals, not one of our local tent people, musicians, none were used; nothing was local. Everything came from L.A. I believe had somebody local been involved, the destruction could have been mitigated.

I am outraged. And the noise pol-lution created by the Kardashian wedding is an embarrassment to our community. Our quiet and rural community was totally ravaged by the celebrity onslaught allowed and encouraged by our local politicians.

Shame. And Shame on the Sheriff. Proud of yourself? You should be ashamed of yourself.

For what reason was a residence allowed to be rented for a week – a week – to be the “set” for a reality show? If there isn’t a law, let’s make one. Soon.

We need to get some restrictions in place; in my opinion, or we will lose our lovely atmosphere, our rural ambience, and most of all, our nature and our peace and quiet. Quiet is the new luxury. We sure lost it during the K wedding.

I hope we get some laws in place, and prevent neighbors from renting out to reality shows for the day, or even worse, for the week.

The whole thing made me sick.Penelope BianchiMontecito(Editor’s note: I believe helicopters are

restricted to 100 feet; we feel your pain, but as for new restrictions and regula-tions, all we can say is be careful what you wish for – TLB)

Thanks AgainJust wanted to say thank you for

supporting the arts (“Bach 2 Rock Live” Coming & Going MJ # 17/36).

It’s people and businesses like you

that make Montecito a great place to live.

Patrik MaianiMontecito Music & Arts

Prayers May HelpTo Mrs. Penelope Bianchi and

the thousands of tree lovers in Montecito:

I join you in your concern for the oak tree that has been mishandled at the Pharmacy, Mr. Gunner, the owner, assured me he followed all the recommendations made by the county. Nevertheless, whoever was hired to protect the tree did not do a good job. So, what you have is a handsome ancient tree on the verge of death, struggling to make a recovery. My suggestions were made (to prune the tree hard and give it a massive deep feeding) in order to increase its chances to recover. This species of oak has a very hard time recovering without a function-ing leaf system. Remember: it’s an evergreen oak, but because miscal-culations were made – too much of the root system was destroyed – the tree defoliated, a typical error.

Now, there is still a root system that is viable, but if the tree were reduced in size, the chances of recov-ery would be greater.

That was the premise of my diag-nosis and cure for this disaster, which, I might add, my company – TLC Trees – has done hundreds of times, with great success. But, this is not my tree to work on. I was only hoping that those in charge would take some action to increase its chance of revival. Mrs. Bianchi believes praying will be enough, and I hope she is right. And if she is, I will be happy to sub-contract her for a few projects I’m working on.

Pruning trees is easy; making sick and injured trees recover is very challenging and complicated. And I only wish it was as easy as praying. As of now, I’m using this new-fan-gled invention of experience and sci-ence in my work. Go to my site: tlctrees.com, to see the results of what forty years experience can achieve.

Gene TyburnMontecito

Thanks for the Write-up

Just wanted you to know how moved and pleased I am in the write-up you did a couple of weeks ago. Thank you so very much for keeping the presence of small businesses like mine in the news so the community remembers we are here for them!

Thank you and all at the Journal for your great work.

Kim PhillipsMaison K •MJ

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15 – 22 September 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 21There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it – Maya Angelou

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CONVERSATIONSCONVERSATIONS (Continued from page 13)It was at the new board members’ urging that Dr. Serban was removed as president, or at least asked rather forcefully to resign.

We’ve had occasion to converse with Dr. Serban during her three-year tenure as SBCC President and, while her announced departure did not come as a great surprise – the new board members had openly and repeatedly expressed their dissatisfac-tion with Dr. Serban –, it did seem rather precipitous.

Montecito Journal believes Dr. Serban is a competent, judicious, responsible and effective executive who found herself on the wrong side of a number of delicate issues favored by an influ-ential group of individuals. We also believe the negative press she received during her tenure was unwarranted and that she should have a forum to air her side of what transpired after the election of the new board mem-bers and the circumstances that led to her early departure. Here then, is an edited transcript of a conversation we held with President Serban:

Q. Before we get to the heart of the mat-ter, there are some achievements you are proud of that occurred under your watch. Would you care to elaborate?

A. I am enthusiastic about and pleased with the many and sig-nificant achievements reached with the College’s excellent faculty and staff during my three years as Superintendent-President.

In February 2009, we obtained Hispanic-serving institution status. As a result we could apply for Title III and V federal grants. In September 2010, for the first time in the history of the college, we obtained a Title V federal grant of $3 million, which has allowed SBCC to launch the Express to Success program, to make it possible for stu-dents to move a lot faster through remedial education. Seventy percent of students who come to the college are not college ready. They cannot read or write English at the college level, or do math at the college level.

In April of 2011, we were rated in the top ten percent of community colleges nationwide by the Aspen Institute. We were invited to submit an applica-tion to compete for a million-dollar prize. I led the team that worked on the application to advance the college to the next phase of this competition. The application was completed and submitted on June 17, 2011. Based on this application, an Expert Selection Committee selected ten finalists and will publicize each finalist institu-tion’s achievements broadly this fall. SBCC was selected as one of the 10 finalists based upon how much stu-dents learn, how many complete their programs on time, and how well stu-dents do in the job market after gradu-ating. Aspen will conduct a site visit to

SBCC at the end of September. Based upon additional evidence gathered during that site visit, a Prize Jury will announce in December at a highly visible event in Washington, D.C., a winner of the top Prize ($700,000) and two or three runners up (which will each receive $100,000-$150,000).

SBCC, as verified in the most recent comprehensive accreditation visit and

through the numerous awards and recognition obtained in the last three years, is in excellent fiscal condition, contains a broad array of noteworthy and innovative educational programs, and highly participatory governance practices.

When you became president and you looked at continuing education, knowing that going forward budgetary restraints were about to possibly curtail the growth of some of these programs, what did you find?

There were two aspects. One, that there are state regulations in place that clearly outline what conditions need to be met for a college to claim state funding for continuing education courses. We had a number of courses that did not meet these criteria. Dr. Ofelia Arellano, Vice President of Continuing Education since February 2009, conducted a review, and found that a large number of the existing Continuing Education courses did not meet all the criteria for claiming state funding.

Such as?For example: In order to claim state

funding for a continuing education course, the course must have an out-line of record which contains specific components prescribed by the state, this course outline of record needs to be reviewed and approved locally by the college curriculum advisory com-mittee, then by the college Board of Trustees and then by the state. There has to be actual instruction happen-ing and the course must meet for a minimum number of instructional hours. The course needs to fit into cer-tain categories approved by the state. There were courses that we had in continuing education that didn’t meet these criteria.

Dr. Arellano communicated with

staff from the State Chancellor’s Office, which guides all community colleges in California, and worked with them to develop a plan for bringing the SBCC continuing education courses in compliance with the state regulations. SBCC was given a grace period to complete the work to bring in compli-ance those courses which did not meet the criteria for state funding. Secondly,

there was the issue of state budget cuts. In 2009/2010, we received an addi-tional budget cut specifically targeted on reducing the number of enrollments at SBCC for which the state would pro-vide funding.

There is a mythology out there in the public that the more enrollments we have, the more money we get from the state. That’s not true. Every community college gets a cap of how

many enrollments they are funded for. If you enroll more people than that, it’s on your dime. So, when our fund-ing for enrollment in 2009/10 was cut by $2.6 million, we canceled about 90 sections in continuing education in order to reduce our enrollment. It is as a result of the analysis which was undertaken to determine which continuing education classes to cancel in fall 2009 that Dr. Arellano and her staff discovered that certain continu-ing education courses that were in place did not meet the criteria for receiving state funding.

Can you give us an example of a course that didn’t meet the state’s criteria?

For example, “BBQ’s and More,” “Soup, Salad & Dessert,” “Cake Decorating (Beginning and Advanced),” “Celebrate Spring,” “Chinese Cooking,” “Fresh Dishes from Vietnam,” “Indian Vegetarian,” “Salute to Sushi,” and a variety of other cooking, jewelry, and ceramics courses didn’t meet the requirements for state funding. In order to continue offering these courses there were sev-eral options: either the college would subsidize the cost of these courses from reserves, or start charging a fee to cover the cost, which actually is the case in other community colleges


“What I do believe is that being fiscally responsible in a time of diminishing resources steps on too many toes and

touches too many personal pocketbooks. It’s easy to be fiscally responsible when resources are plentiful because we are not

forced to reduce anything, per se.”


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Turbans, saris, dhotis and dupattas reigned supreme as guests, including Sander and Ginny Vanocur, fashion designer Luis Estevez, Betty Barrow, Beverley Jackson, Tab Hunter and Allan Glaser, tucked into the abun-dant menu of curries, chapatis, biry-ani, korma and kulcha.

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Gathering of the Foodies

Social gridlock ruled when the 30th annual Taste of the Town at Riviera Park Gardens attracted around 1,000 gourmands and oenophiles and raised a record-breaking $120,000 for the Arthritis Foundation.

“After three decades all records are being broken!” said an exuberant Richard Yates, who co-chaired the bustling bash with Tina Takaya, his partner in the popular State Street eat-ery, opal, and Jennifer Jaqua.

“It’s the community’s original tast-ing event,” Richard added, “and keeps evolving in a very positive way.”

For the second consecutive year, 150 VIP guests, paying $500 each, participated in the Connoisseur Circle five-course Florentine gourmet lunch, prepared by Italian chef Fabio Vivani, who starred in Bravo’s TV series “Top Chef” and also worked as personal chef for actor William Shatner.

Santa Barbara culinary wizard Michael Hutchings, who owned the popular Waterside until selling it in 1993 to eventually do catering and private consulting, is the only chef who has been involved with the event every year for the past three decades and was presented with a plaque to mark the occasion.

KEYT-TV anchor C.J. Ward was master of ceremonies at the event, which attracted 80 purveyors of food and wine displaying their wares.

Pat’s Polo MatchHotel tycoon Pat Nesbitt threw

open the gates of his sprawling Summerland estate, Bella Vista, to host the Summerland Winery’s sev-

enth annual wine club party in aid of the Summerland School and, for the first time, the Dream Foundation.

Nearly $200,000 has been raised since the event was first launched by the winery’s Turkish owner, Nebil “Bilo” Zarif, and this year a record 300 tickets were sold.

A polo match between a Summerland team, captained by Pat, and a Santa Barbara quartet, led by Ben Soleimani, kicked off the popular event, ending in a draw.

Silent auction prizes included hotel stays at New York’s Plaza Athénèe, Laguna Niguel’s Ritz-Carlton, and Shutters and the Casa Del Mar in Santa Monica, while the live auc-tion, conducted by actor Alan Thicke and KEYT-TV commentator John Palminteri, offered stays at the Biltmore, a skiing trip to Beaver Creek, Colorado, and lunch for six with res-taurateur Lisa Vanderpump, star of the Bravo TV series “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.”

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Block Party SummerSanta Barbara’s Arts Fund hoped

to raise $15,000 from a preview bash for the 22nd annual Individual Artists Awards, which honored James Petrucci, James Hapke and Geoffrey Hahn.

Neill Ablitt, known for his construc-tion of the quirkily designed 53-ft-high Ablitt House, emceed the event, which attracted 150 guests, including Robert and Christine Emmons, Christopher Lancashire and Mary Beth Larkin, and Chaucer’s owner, Mahri Kerley.

“It’s the second time we’ve had a block party rather than just a gallery reception,” says Nina Dunbar, the fund’s executive director. “We wanted to attract more people and it seems to have worked.”

One of the auction items, a week-long stay at an English country cot-tage, went for $3,000, boosting the coffers considerably...

Raising Funds and FriendsTo celebrate its second anniversary,

the Girlfriends Club, an auxiliary of Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara, par-tied the night away at Cabana Home, the interior design kasbah owned by Steve and Caroline Thompson.

The “friend raiser” was for 150

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MISCELLANY MISCELLANY (Continued from page 19)

guests including Mindy Denton, Paige Beard, Lois Rosen and Anne Luther.

“The group was created to blend networking and friendship oppor-tunities and also raise monies for much needed funds,” says Charles Caldwell, director of advancement at the non-profit. “We hope it will grow accordingly, with a target of 250 mem-bers in due course”...

Mar Monte MakeoverThe newly minted Hyatt Santa

Barbara would appear to be in good hands.

The former Mar Monte, which is undergoing a $9 million renovation under its new Chicago-based owners, is being managed by Londoner, Barry Prescott, who formerly worked at the 280-room Hermitage Hotel in Monte Carlo.

The oceanside hostelry, built in 1931, now has a new pool area, as well as a new lobby, and 119 rooms, out of 171, have been totally refurbished.

“The makeover should be complet-ed by March,” says Barry, who feels Montecito is vastly more preferable than Monaco.

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Other California hot spots, such as Beverly Hills, Atherton, Rolling Hills and Belvedere, are among the top ten, as well as Manhattan and Alpine, New Jersey, a short drive across the Hudson on the George Washington Bridge.

Montecito’s 93108 ZIP code is listed at number ten, with an average house price of $3.1 million...

A Royal Exhibition Record numbers of visitors have

flocked to Buckingham Palace this summer to see the Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding dress on dis-play for the first time.

More than 354,000 people have lined up to walk through the pal-ace doors since the exhibition, featur-ing the Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen dress, opened in July.

It is expected final ticket sales will total a hefty $14 million.

With entry a remarkable 20% up from last year, proceeds will be put toward Prince William and Kate’s wedding charity fund...

Sightings: Actor Jack Scalia emcee-ing the Navy League gala at the Coral Casino... Steve Martin checking out Stacky’s Seaside in Summerland... Former CBS Evening News correspon-dent Jeff Greenfield breakfasting at Jeannine’s on Coast Village Road

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Readers with tips, sightings and other amusing items for Richard’s column should e-mail him at [email protected] or send invita-tions or other correspondence to the Journal •MJ

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Next year I’m going to make time to do some studio touring. If you would like information, call 280-9178 or go to www.SantaBarbaraStudioArtists.com.

The Dog Days of Summer

Each year on the last weekend in August, some fifteen hundred dogs of more than 150 breeds and their own-ers, trainers and handlers descend on Earl Warren Showground for a bark-ing and wagging good time. The Santa Barbara Kennel Club (SBKC) has done it again. The arena was blanketed in grass instead of dirt, and motor homes were everywhere. In addition, shop stalls were set up where one could buy anything a pampered pooch could desire.

I had to leave my dog, Mandy, at home since it was too hot for her in the car and she’s never learned how to run around in a circle while a han-dler makes sure her grooming is per-fect and her tail is up. And she has a crooked tooth.

Joking aside, it is an impressive event. This year SBKC had a new category: the Foreign Bred Showcase.

The dogs may actually have traveled from a foreign country or just been bred there. This year’s winner was a Kerry Blue Terrier from Wales who answers to the name Chelsey.

It may not be Westminster, but Santa Barbara must be credited not only with one of the most magnificent set-tings available for the dog fanciers, but also one of the oldest and most prestigious of shows. The first was in 1919 and today the SBKC Dog Show draws contestants from around the world. •MJ

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SBKC Dog Show judges Dr. Richard Meen and Dr. Reeve Newson with handler Bill McFadden and SBKC president Abbe Shaw along with the best of foreign bred Chelsey

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a buzz of excitement through the American literary culture, and caused readers and writers of mystery fi ction to indulge the same rowdy celebrations seen when hometown teams win the World Series or Super Bowl.

The review, submitted by Eudora Welty, the much respected short story writer and novelist, effectively called a Santa Barbara writer forth to bestow a laurel wreath upon him, elevating his work to the status of literature. The book was “The Underground Man.” The author was Kenneth Millar, writ-ing as Ross MacDonald.

At the time, Millar’s publisher, Alfred Knopf, was able to boast of the extraordinary number of Nobel laureates it had published. Millar had earned a PhD in literature. He taught in a university. Mysteries were emerg-ing as more than plot-driven puzzles or mindless beach reading.

These elements seemed for a time to square with the notion of the mystery novel being literature. But the aca-demic and critical tides began reform-ing, notwithstanding Millar now being ranked with Hammett and Chandler, further notwithstanding the arrival on scene of Robert Parker, another PhD in literature, who’d done his thesis on Chandler and was moved to take up writing about the fictional career of that Boston private detective, Spenser, instead of teaching literature at uni-versity level.

How easy it was and still is for the tide to come in again, burying the two archetypal story types, mystery and alternate universe, under the sea of condescension and smirk. Maverick critics and adjunct university faculty who posited genre fiction as literature are seen as the same kinds of traitors

to literature as FDR was regarded a traitor to his class for such transgres-sions as Social Security and those satanic acronyms, WPA and, gulp, NRA. The waxing tide of revisionism has arrived in time for the arrival of George Pelecanos’ new crime novel, “The Cut” from Little Brown.

“The Cut” is Pelecanos’ 17th novel, all of which have in one way or anoth-er had at least one premature death, which is to say, murder. They have all been about some overt violation of the law, as it is generally understood to exist in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Temptation to stray into criminality, guilt, lead characters who make big mistakes, and the strength of family ties are other thematic pres-ences in “The Cut,” which makes it by any definition a crime novel, thus shelved in the mystery-suspense sec-tions of bookstores and libraries. This

also means it is likely to be reviewed, not as Eudora Welty reviewed Ken Millar, on page one of The New York Times’ book review section, as gen-eral fiction, which a book presumably has to be in order to be considered literature, but in the back-of-the-bus mystery section.

What’s wrong with this picture? For the past several years, in addi-tion to producing his previous novel, “The Night Gardener,” Pelecanos has been involved in writing and produc-ing “The Wire,” arguably one of the most memorable and durable televi-sion dramatic ventures ever. In the topsy-turvy landscape of legacy pub-lishing, where some authors speak more from experiences of returns than actual sales, Pelecanos has not only

produced another novel, he has intro-duced Spero Lucas, a new series char-acter, who starts the series by making two monumental mistakes.

Within the tight engagement of story in “The Cut,” Lucas, a 29-year-old combat veteran from the Iraq deba-cle, has ventured into investigations for a high-powered defense attorney, and developed the more troublesome sideline of “reacquiring” lost prop-erty, which, after a 40% commission, is returned to its owner. Any number of lines are crossed when Lucas takes on an assignment from a drug dealer (“I swear, Spero. Nothing beyond weed. No crank, no meth, certainly no heroin or, you know, coke.”) who has sud-denly had a number of shipments stolen.

Of course there are murders. Of course Lucas is fired from the job. Of course he stays on the job as a matter of principal. Then surprises begin appearing – and you do have to watch for them – when Lucas, while delivering a handsome sum of money to the seemingly helpless wife of a man in prison, fails to notice impor-tant clues. Surprises arise when cops begin appearing where and how they should not. Surprises emerge when

connecting links can be seen between the behavior of highly principled cops and former military of equal conscience and principal. Surprises appear when Lucas goes to his adop-tive mother’s home for dinner, and when he takes flowers to his adoptive father’s grave. Is there a finite end to the surprises? If so, not until surprise comes to Lucas from a second-year law student, with whom he is having a casual sexual relationship.

Some of the few reviews I’ve seen equate “The Cut” to high marks for authentic dialogue, for a memorable summer read, and for believable char-acters. No words about the effects of serving in the military during war-time on returning veterans, much less much commentary about the social

striations in and about Washington, D.C., the festering effects of racism at all levels of professional life, including professional crime, nor any notice of what it is to be a young person try-ing to find a satisfying approach to career at a time of flux and political fragmentation.

To say that George Pelecanos has a superb ear for contemporary speech and social issues only begins to raise subjects that lead to discomfort. To detail some of the many instances where his wry senses of humor and irony are demonstrated border upon the unforgivable reviewer’s trespass into spoiler information.

To say that “The Cut” dramatizes analogs of the kinds of moral con-frontations and decisions that in some large measure define contemporary life would raise it above the brand-ing and marketing jargon of sum-mer beach read, suspense thriller, and “crime writing at its gutsy best,” would become elephant-in-the-living-room talk. But that is precisely the point. The real elephant in the liv-ing room is our national nervous-ness at equating insightful portrayals of believable characters in plausible moral dilemma as literature. •MJ

George Pelecanos’ crime novel, “The Cut,” introduces a memorable new series character, Spero Lucas

To say that George Pelecanos has a superb ear for contemporary speech and social issues only begins to raise

issues that lead to discomfort


ty will pull together to buy the historic property, which will be given over to the U.S. Forest Service.

The next Montecito Association Board Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 11 at 4 pm.

San Ysidro Pathway Update

Earlier this month work began on the federally funded pathway along the west side of San Ysidro Road from North Jameson Lane to Montecito Union School. Over the weekend D-Kal Engineering contractors extri-cated the largest tree to be removed as part of the project, a camphor tree between La Vereda Road and San Leandro Park Road. “It was a large tree but had significant decay,” said a D-Kal spokesperson on the job site.

On Monday, crews were busy dig-ging up the remnants of the tree and using an on-site wood chipper. Flagmen directed traffic along the road, and the bike lanes on both sides of the street were closed.

The spokesperson told us this is the only “major” tree to be removed; once the work gets past La Vereda Road there is already a neighbor-maintained pathway with no other obstacles, he said.

The meandering path includes con-struction of a decomposed granite pathway, drainage improvements, curb cuts, and landscaping, and is funded by a Safe Routes to School grant. The cost of the 3,150-ft path is expected to be $321,910.

Construction hours are 7 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday.

Westmont Warriors On Sunday, October 2nd from 2 pm

to 4 pm, Jo and Willard Thompson will host a tea to introduce the new Westmont Warriors Women’s basket-ball team and the Adopt-A-Warrior program. The Thompsons, who have been staunch supporters of the Westmont Women’s basketball team, helped launch the Adopt-A-Warrior program last year.

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D-Kal crews dig up remnants of a camphor tree which was removed over the weekend on San Ysidro Road

Willard and Jo Thompson and

their “adoptee,” Westmont senior

center Lisa Peterson


across the state that offer such courses. Another option, which needed more time, was to fundraise to cover the costs. So, in the spring of 2010, I brought to the board of trustees an analysis recommending that a number of these courses start being charged a fee, just for the direct costs only.

What did these courses cost?Before, they were free of charge to stu-

dents. The only fee that was charged is what is called the materials fee. For example, in the ceramics course, students would pay for the clay they used, but the tuition was free. We did a thorough analysis of what our direct costs were and so, for example, the new charge for a jewelry class would have been $150 per student for a 10-week course, three hours per week. We actually looked at other commu-nity colleges and our college had the lowest fee or no fee compared to other colleges. For example, an SBCC course such as the 30-hour “Picture Framing for Beginners” course, we were charg-ing only a $25 materials fee. The same course – only six hours, not thirty hours – at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, is almost $100. We looked at many colleges up and down the state. We are actually quite unique with the variety of courses we offer in continuing education – like ceramics, jewelry, painting – that are completely free to students, except for the mate-rials fee. These courses are not free, of course, they are subsidized by the college. Over the years, the college has heavily subsidized the continuing education division.

Before I became Superintendent-President, I had heard that continuing education programs were presumably a money-maker for the college, but nothing could be further from the truth. Actually, based on an analy-sis conducted by the Controller, in 2007/08 the continuing education division was in deficit of $1.6 million.

What would an instructor be paid for a thirty-hour Continuing Education course?

Instructors in Continuing Education are all adjunct, except for four indi-viduals, but there is a longevity fac-tor. On average, an instructor for a lecture hour in the continuing educa-tion division, is paid about $55 per hour, a lab hour is $45-50. However, I learned that there were some indi-viduals who were paid at the instruc-tional pay rate of about $50 per hour, basically, to open the classroom door, to make sure the proper supplies were in the particular room. This is clerical work which paid at a faculty rate of about $50-plus an hour for a level of work that, really, was not instructional work. It didn’t make sense to pay someone fifty dollars, sixty dollars an hour just to make

sure the room is open and that the supplies are there. So we changed that starting in 2009/10 to pay an hourly rate of about $14 per hour for this type of work. This is the hourly rate for short-term hourly workers who are not faculty. Well, there were many people upset because of that. It touched their pocketbooks. That cre-ated a segment of individuals who were extremely unhappy.

There was some controversy about the parent-child workshops too, correct?

I think, unfortunately, much has been said that was not accurate about the reasons for the actions we have taken. There are four Parent-Child

Workshops: Oaks, Lou Grant, Starr King, and San Marcos. The Parent-Child Workshops are 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporations which are not run or owned by SBCC. They are independent from the college and have their own Boards which con-sist of parents whose children are in the daycare centers. The relation-ship between SBCC and the parent-child workshops goes back decades. It is sort of an organic relationship that evolved over time and was all done informally. I actually tried to find documentation as to what agree-ments were made between the col-lege and the workshops; there were none. We developed the first writ-ten memorandum of understanding between the college and each of the four Parent-Child Workshops in July 2010 after more than a year and a half of work and dialogue.

The issue came to light because there are four faculty-directors of the workshops, paid by SBCC at full-time rate, the same as the full-time tenured credit faculty, working full-time with these parent-child workshops. One of them retired in 2009 and this was one of the reasons to look into the respon-sibility of the college relative to the parent-child workshops.

The relationship is that a parenting continuing education course is taught at each of these workshops by a fac-ulty member who is one of our faculty, called the director. The students of this course are the adults, the parents who have children in the parent-child workshops. Theoretically, individu-als who do not have children in the daycare centers could enroll in this parenting course, but that hardly ever happens.

And being a “director” of the parent-child workshop would be their sole func-tion?

Well, no. That’s the thing. Not only did they teach the parenting non-cred-it course, but basically, they were run-ning the operation. They were doing the administrative work for running these workshops, which are daycare centers. There is a lot of adminis-trative work: filing paperwork with Social Services to maintain the day-care center license, making sure adults working with the children have TB tests, making sure the supplies are there; everything that’s involved in running a daycare center. So their work was part teaching this non-

credit continuing education parenting course, and part of their work was to do the administrative work for the Parent-Child Workshop.

Based upon opinions from outside legal counsel – Mary Dowell – and our own internal counsel – Sue Ehrlich, Vice President of Human Resources and Legal Affairs – they both told me this is a problem, because while it’s okay to pay someone to teach a course, for which we claim state fund-ing, it’s not okay to use college funds to pay for work that basically benefits a 501 (c) (3) corporation. I was told this is a gift of public funds, and it hurts the 501 (c) (3), because they may lose this status since they are being gifted by another entity. And it hurts the college: it uses the college’s money for something the college is not paid for by the state. And, it is not legal.

To recap, the College is not respon-sible and cannot use public money to subsidize the costs – personnel or other costs – related to running the parent cooperative preschools (par-ent-child workshops). This includes any administrative duties required to run these daycare centers. The State does not reimburse the College for administrative work done to run the daycare centers, which are licensed under each individual parent-child workshop.

So based on that, in good faith, we met with the boards of each work-shop, made up of parents whose chil-dren are there. We met and discussed what would be a fair and legal way to continue this partnership. After an arduous process that lasted about a year and a half, we developed a mem-orandum of understanding that says, basically, the college will continue to

pay this individual for the instruction-al component. However, if the parent-child workshop wants to keep these people full time to do what they used to do, and continue to do, then each would need to reimburse the college for that component of salaries and benefits that relates to the administra-tive workload of each director.

Well, there was major upheaval. From the four directors, our own fac-ulty teaching there, to parents, past and present, including some of SBCC’s current and past faculty and staff and current and former elected officials in town, who have had their children in the four Parent Child Workshops.

What are the actual dollar costs involved?

First of all, an individual doing this kind of work is making as much as $115,000 in salary and benefits, and they only work nine months a year. Most people who run a daycare cen-ter in Santa Barbara full time, twelve months a year, make $40,000 to $50,000 at most. Second, the parents paid, at the time, less than $200 per child per month for daycare – five days a week, from 9 am to 12 noon. [Equivalent] daycare in Santa Barbara per month, per child, is at least $800.

There are two reasons why the fee was so low. One, is because the college was actually paying the director for running this daycare center, so they were able to do a lot of the administra-tive work but be paid by the college. Second, it is true that the parents vol-unteer; part of the concept is that each parent volunteers one morning per week to help with the operation and assist with the care for the children: being there to play with the children, supervising, making sure they are safe. So, while it is true that the par-ents’ volunteering contributed to this low fee, more important was that the college was paying for a significant part of the work needed to run this operation.

Basically, current parents, former parents, and prospective future par-ents who may have benefited from the parent-child workshops became extremely upset…

You were really rocking the boat here…Yes, I guess so.

How much more would it have cost parents if you were able to implement your plan?

The idea, if fully implemented, was that the college would pay sixty-seven percent of the salary of one instruc-tor – the instructional component –; the other third would have to have been covered by the parents. We even offered a transition period: for the first year (2010-11), we said, “Okay, we

CONVERSATIONS CONVERSATIONS (Continued from page 21)


“People with personal interests really have become very vocal and maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that they

will fight for their personal interests and pocketbook”

15 – 22 September 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 29There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you – Maya Angelou

Ernie’s World by Ernie Witham

For more contagious laughs, pick up a couple of Ernie’s book: “A Year in the life of a ‘Working’ Writer” available at bookstores

and online at erniesworld.com)

There’s a funny line in the movie, “City Slickers,” when Daniel Stern, during a tirade of

complaints to Billy Crystal and Bruno Kirby about life on the open trail herding cattle, ends with something like: “…and I’ve got this rash!”

This thought came to me as I was sitting in the waiting area in the der-matology department at the clinic. There were a number of other people sitting there looking uncomfortable and I’m sure, like me, wanting to throw down their magazines, whip off some clothing and scratch like an old coon dog. But of course that’s a no-no. With the power of suggestion one scratch could lead to a free-for-all and in no time we could end up with a small mountain of flaked-off skin parts. Then maintenance would have to be called and it would be so loud with that industrial vacuum cleaner going that we might not hear our names called and be here for hours.

Speaking of suggestion, I’ve heard that during the Hippie years when LSD was popular, there were cer-tain things you did not do to some-one who was tripping. For instance, you didn’t say: “Wow, what’s that awful smell?” Or: “Did you see the size of that rat that just scurried under your chair?” Or: “Wow, man, what’s wrong with your face?” Other things you didn’t do included yawn-ing excessively, constantly clearing your throat and, of course, scratching relentlessly. Because once you started any of these things, the power of sug-gestion took over and no one could stop. To this day some old Hippies still have flashbacks… excuse me (yaaawwwnnnn, a-a-a-hem, yaaaw-wwnnnn, a-a-a-hem, yaaawwwnnnn, a-a-a-hem).

Today’s clinic experience actual-ly started in the crowded elevator. Because I can’t stand the deafening silence of anonymity, I asked the guy next to me: “So what are you in for?”

“Colonoscopy,” he whispered.“First time?”“Yes.”Others in the elevator nodded

knowingly.“It’s not bad if you don’t twitch.”“Yes,” a women said, “best not to

move suddenly when that probe is… probing.”

The guy twitched a bit and a look of panic crept across his face.

“Um bummer, man,” another guy said under his breath.

He twitched again. And again. And

again.I quickly changed the subject to

ease his mind. “The good thing is between not eating for twenty-four hours and that stuff they make you drink the night before you usually lose a few pounds.”

“I thought you drank the stuff in the morning?” the guy squeaked out.

“What?”“Oh my.”“That’s cutting it close.”This caused an animated discussion

about the myriad problems associ-ated with not being completely ready for the procedure. When the elevator stopped, the guy rushed out and ran twitchingly toward the restroom.

“Good luck,” we yelled after him.“Hope he gets a doctor with a sense

of humor.”“No kidding.”A lab technician got on the eleva-

tor. I asked her: “So, see anything unusual today?”

“Well,” she said, as the others leaned in closer. “We removed a wart from a kid’s hand that looked a little like Harry Potter.”

“Do you still have it?”“I wish, but no, the kid wanted to

keep it for show and tell.”“Did you at least get a picture of

it?”She pulled out her cell phone.

“Wow,” we all said.“The strange thing is that it just

popped up overnight and it’s the fourth one we’ve seen this month. There seems to be a bit of a wart epidemic going around.” Instantly, we all began checking our digits. I thought for sure I felt a small bump on my left thumb.

The elevator stopped again and she got off. “Anyone for dermatology?” A guy held the door.

“Ah, me,” I said. “Remember,” they said, “scratch-

ing only makes it worse. No matter how bad it itches, you should avoid scratching.”

So that’s what I was doing. Sitting in the dermatology waiting room not scratching. Thinking positive thoughts like how great it would be to jump into an ocean filled with oint-ment then lay on a blanket covered in anti-itch cooling gel.

“Mr. Witham? This way please.”I started to follow her toward one of

the small exam rooms then I stopped, lifted my right arm, and scratched like crazy. It was pure mayhem as the door closed behind me. •MJ

The Power of Suggestion

Local People by Joanne A. Calitri

Joanne is a published documentary photographer and jour-nalist since 2000; for your Our Town news story email her at

[email protected]

From Montecito to Mbita, Kenya

There are many people in Santa Barbara and Montecito that never seek personal acclaim,

but who are vital to the smooth working of the myriad non-profi t organizations that call our area home. Jean Volmar is one of those people. She “just does things” without any fanfare, and is dependably available when a need arises.

Jean has been in the Santa Barbara area since 1958, having moved here from Chicago with her mother. She worked in various non-profit orga-nizations, spending 12 years as a grant writer in the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, The Boys & Girls Clubs and Family Services from Carpinteria to Goleta.

Her current work is for The Outhwaite Foundation, established as a gift to the residents of Santa Barbara County by the late June Outhwaite, owner of the Miramar Hotel before it was sold to Studio 54 entrepreneur Ian Schrager. The June G. Outhwaite Charitable Trust oper-ates as a private foundation sup-porting charitable organizations in Santa Barbara County. Jean even helps area organizations write their grant requests to the Foundation. The history of the Miramar is on the Foundation website. It starts with the Doulton farm in 1875, the progression of guest houses, the Miramar Railroad Station, and the pier for yachts.

Many know Jean’s husband, Clark, who owns Clark Motors, a Luxury Import Automobile Specialist, whose business also supports 11 local non-profits. Jean met Clark through her love of “fast, upscale cars, and the couple has been together since 1984. She helps Clark judge car shows; in her spare time, she is an avid scuba diver.

Jean maintains her shape and ener-gy by taking World Dance classes with Janet Reineck, whom she met through the Search Dog Foundation, where Janet is the Development Director.

“I’ve been taking fitness classes for over ten years,” Jean says, “and I tell everyone that World Dance is the most fun I’ve had in all the classes I’ve taken. Janet [Reineck] has so much energy; the music and dance steps are great, plus, it’s the best workout I have all week.” Janet donates part of her class pro-ceeds to Women International, and a new Kenya project with the Santa

Barbara Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care. Although not involved with the Kenya project currently, Jean hopes to have time in the future.

The Kenya project is helping an orphanage in the village of Mbita, Kenya. The funds they raise sup-port the village, send women to nursing school, grow food and help the village to help itself. World Dance members also support a vil-lage community in the highlands of Guatemala. Their October 29 “Thriller” dance event, which we covered last year in the Montecito Journal, will be dedicated to raising funds for this project.

To learn more, you are invited to visit The Outhwaite Foundation website: www.outhwaitefoundation.org. For more information on World Dance, please visit: www.worlddancesantabarbara.com. •MJ

Community treasure Jean Volmar makes things happen whenever the need arises… which is often


compiled by Flora Kontilis from information supplied by Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department, Carpinteria Division

SHERIFF’S BLOTTER

Cold Spring Trailhead Hit AgainThursday, 1 September, 4 pm – Deputy Lampe was contacted by a female hiker

at the Cold Spring trailhead on East Mountain Drive. The hiker reported a theft from her vehicle. She stated that she parked her vehicle at the Cold Spring trail-head at 3 pm that day; the victim proceeded up the trail and returned to her vehicle at 4 pm. At this time she discovered that her driver’s side window had been smashed and that two bags were missing from her car. The stolen items included a gym bag containing miscellaneous clothes and jewelry: the victim estimated the contents in the gym bag valued at $500 for the bag and clothes combined, and $175 for a gold bracelet and watch in the bag. The victim’s purse was also missing from the vehicle; her purse contained several credit and debit cards.

The victim also reported to the deputy that she remembered seeing a suspi-cious vehicle driving back and forth several times when she parked her car. A report was taken.

Fatal Collision on Southbound 101Monday, 12 September, 2:30 am – A man was driving his vehicle southbound on

the US 101, just north of Casitas Pass Road. The driver came to a slight curve in the roadway when his vehicle drifted to hit the center divider; his vehicle then spun out of control across the southbound lanes before coming to a stop in the middle lane. Immediately after his vehicle stopped, another vehicle driven by a Camarillo woman rounded the same turn. The woman did not see the stopped vehicle with enough time to avoid hitting it. She struck the left side of the man’s stopped vehicle. The man driving the first vehicle suffered fatal injuries from the collision; the woman driving the second vehicle is reported to have only minor injuries. Authorities suspect that alcohol was a factor in the man’s initial collision. A report was taken. •MJ

Academy of the West, the program pairs a women’s basketball player with a community member or fam-ily interested in supporting and get-ting to know the student athletes. Supporters “adopt” a girl and form a mentorship through email, meals, activities and other outings. “It’s a way for the girls to connect to the community and for Montecito resi-dents to connect to Westmont,” says head coach Kirsten Moore said.

The Adopt-A-Warrior program asks that adopters pay $1000 to sponsor a player for the entire school year, but any donation will help. There are opportunities for shared “adop-tions,” and there is flexibility, Mrs. Thompson says.

Adopt-A-Warrior participants are granted annual membership into the Warrior’s Court, the alumni and support network for the Women’s Basketball Team, and are given a sea-son pass to home games with reserved seating. They are also granted mem-bership to the Westmont College President’s Associates. Money donat-ed goes directly into the team’s schol-arship fund.

“We are going to have an amaz-ing team and season this year,” Mrs. Thompson tells us. “We have great new captains, two new recruits and a 6’2” girl from Turkey!” she says.

“Everyone is excited about how the team is shaping up.”

To get involved or for more infor-mation contact Kirsten Moore, 985-6968 or email [email protected]. To attend the Tea at the Thompson’s home, call Jo at 565-7676.

All Saints by-the-Sea Welcomes a New Year

by Flora Kontilis On Thursday September 8, the fac-

ulty of All Saints by-the-Sea Parish School welcomed parents and stu-dents for an open house. The meet-and-greet styled event aimed to famil-iarize new and returning students for the upcoming year’s teachers and classrooms. Fellow teacher Padric Davis says, “The day is really to help with the transition for our new students. The children are young, so it’s tough breaking away from mom and dad when they first come. This gives them the opportunity to see that coming to school is fun, safe, and inviting.” All Saints by-the-Sea Parish School has up to 85 students from ages 2 to 5.

The upcoming school year began Monday, September 12. Students complete the four-year pre-k system upon advancing each classroom; each year that the students move up a

level, their curriculum builds on the already taught lessons. Davis says this process encourages repetition and familiarity for the students.

“Some of our teachers have been here for as many as twenty years,” Davis told us. “Some teachers have taught their students’ parents or siblings. So we like to keep things close.” Classroom settings mirror the friendly vibe: there is a 6-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio, which Davis says encourages interactive learning in small groups.

Parents are encouraged to stay actively involved in making up the Enrichment Committee; each month

these parents organize a theme to fol-low. “It starts in December, and then each month the committee highlights a special cultural theme. For instance, in March we bring in Irish dancers for St. Patrick’s Day. The Enrichment Committee is just another way we try to instill new things in the students’ learning,” Davis says.

And throughout the school’s 50-year operation, faith has held high importance in the curriculum. Faculty and students attend Episcopal mass once a week.

For more information visit 83 Eucalyptus Lane, call 969- 4771, or email [email protected]. •MJ

VILLAGE BEAT VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 27)Teacher Padric Davis welcomes one of her students for the new year; with her is two-year-old Madison Transki

Free Talk at Montecito Library

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When you were a kid, do you remember the excitement you felt at the start of a

new school year? You can revive that feeling of excitement and anticipation by heading back to school – no matter what your age.

If you are retired, the ideal time to take classes may have arrived.

During the college years, most of us took required classes to obtain a degree and launch our careers. There was little time left over to explore other subjects and hobbies. During the next phase of life, we were busy work-ing and raising our kids.

But retirement opens a window of opportunity – you may finally have the time to explore subjects that inter-est, inspire, or simply tickle your fancy. Unless you are interested in earning a

degree, there are no requirements to fulfill other than your own personal satisfaction. And Santa Barbara has a vast array of classes to satisfy the varied palette of its residents. Check out the lifelong learning programs described below.

Continuing Education at SBCC

A large percentage of the classes are geared toward adults ages 55 and up, but all adults are eligible to enroll. If you’ve always wanted to learn to play the ukulele, are interested in navigat-ing the Medicare maze, or are pas-sionately curious about the spiritual

mysteries of our universe, you’ll find the instruction you’ve been seeking. Class categories include art, garden-ing, health topics, literature, writing, music, performance arts, finance, business, psychology and communi-cation. Adult Ed has two campuses: the Schott Center at 310 W. Padre, and the Wake Center at 300 N. Turnpike. In addition, The Omega Elderhood Program for older adults offers classes

at various Senior Centers throughout the Santa Barbara area. You can pick up a schedule and register for classes in person or online at www.sbcc.edu/cc. Classes started this week (687-0812).

Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara offers an eclectic selection of classes for seniors including car-dio dance, puzzles and games for the brain, sit & stretch, bridge for beginners, t’ai chi, Yiddish, Doo-Wop, yoga, guitar, and private comput-er tutoring. Classes are held at the Bronfman Family JCC, 524 Chapala Street, and are open to all. www.JewishSantaBarbara.org (957-1115).

It’s Never Too Late to Learn

SENIORITYby Patti Teel

Patti Teel is the com-munity representative for Senior Helpers, providers of care and comfort at a moment’s notice. She is also host of the Senior Helpers online video show. www.santabarbaraseniors.com. E-mail: [email protected].

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.

~ Henry L. Doherty

Road Scholar combines travel with learning, offering educational adven-tures throughout the U.S. and world-wide. Local experts take travelers on cultural excursions, study cruises and behind the scenes learning opportuni-ties. To see a list of programs, dates and prices, go to www.roadscholar.com.

VISTAS Lifelong Learning is a non-profit membership organiza-tion which holds peer-led discus-sions, seminars, occasional lectures and social activities. Details about the organization and membership infor-mation are online at vistaslifelonglearning.org. Vistas membership pic-nic provides an opportunity to learn about upcoming classes. Please call for information (967-6030).

The City of Santa Barbara Parks and Recreation Department

For a small fee, adults over fifty can join the Active Adults Club. This entitles them to take Stretch and Tone Classes three days a week and line dance once a week. In addition, members have access to the Carrillo Street Gym for table tennis and weight conditioning. There are two locations: the Carrillo Recreation Center, 100 East Carrillo Street, and the Louis Lowry Davis Recreation Center, 1232 De la Vina Street (564-5418).

The Montecito YMCA, located at 591 Santa Rosa Lane, offers a number of fitness classes geared specifically for active older adults (969-3288). •MJ


pay eighty percent of the director’s compensation and the parent-child workshop reimburses the college for twenty percent.”

How many parents are involved?There are about eighty to a hundred

twenty parents for each of the four parent-child workshops; it’s about four hundred children.

What would that have come down to?It would have meant, on average,

about fifty dollars more per month – from about $200 per month per child to up to no more than $250 per child per month. It still would have been a great deal for the parents, but we could justify it. From my perspective, I thought I was doing the right thing because I was following the legal advice I was being given. I thought it was what was best for the college and how we use the resources of the col-lege and taxpayers’ money.

I was actually personally surprised of the tremendous negative reaction and the interpretation that somehow I am attempting to destroy the parent-child workshops. First of all, I couldn’t close them. They are not college pro-grams. Parent-child workshops are independent entities. We could have pulled out of the partnerships, since there were no formal agreements with them. That was not the intention at all. I value these programs, but we need to involve the college in a legal and appropriate way.

There were other problems in these partnerships that required a clear delineation of responsibilities between the college and the Parent Child Workshops.

Such as?Around March 1998, a parent vol-

unteer submitted medical bills to the board of Starr King for injuries alleg-edly suffered when the lid to a rab-bit cage failed to remain open dur-ing cleaning and came down upon her head, neck and shoulders. The parent-child workshop board accept-ed these bills up to a point and paid them from its treasury. When the Starr King Board refused to accept more claims from this parent volunteer, the volunteer filed a claim against the College. The total cost to the College

was approximately $20,000 when this matter was settled in 2000. A clear written agreement between the College and Starr King would have assisted the College in avoiding this claim entirely or provided for indem-nification of the College by the parent-child workshop’s insurance.

Do you have another example?San Marcos Parent-Child Workshop

did some alterations to their play-ground that were not considered by the Santa Barbara School District to be ADA (Americans with Disability Act) compliant at the higher standard that

the SBSD negotiated as resolution of a litigation. SBSD expected SBCC to pay to bring that playground into this higher level of compliance. Again, that is not the obligation of the College.

Parents whose children participate in the parent-child workshops pay fees that are established and collected by their boards, not by the College. The fees are used to pay for some of the operational costs such as facility main-tenance and materials for the children. On occasion, some of the parents fall

behind paying the fees. Also every so often there are disciplinary problems with parents or children. Because the relationship between the College and the workshop had not been clear-ly and formally defined, when such problems occurred there had been discussions about who should deal with the disciplinary issues: SBCC or the parent boards.

Because the College collects full-time equivalent students (FTES) and state funding for the parent educa-tion class, the parent education class taught at the workshops need to be open to anyone who can benefit from it. We are an open access community college. Three of the four workshops have a long waiting list. While there is a process for children to be placed on the waiting list for the preschool, the issue of true open access to the parenting education class still needs to be fully addressed.

There was an election; four new board members replaced four incumbents. You apparently found yourself at odds with the new board, and you’ve come to an agree-ment to leave…

We’ve signed a final agreement.

Many believe this situation will not work in your favor, going forward. You’ve said previously that you’re too young to retire and too old to start over. So, where do you find yourself? Is there something you can say about your situation and where you’d like to go?

First of all, I am disappointed that the working relationship with the new board majority hasn’t translated into what I hoped it would have become,

which was an effective CEO/board relationship that worked for the benefit of the college. When I took this job in June 2008, I did so with the full com-mitment and conviction that I would be here for the next twenty years as the president of the college. I was fully committed, so it is a great disappoint-ment that we have come to this point.

That being said, I love the College, the people and the community. Santa Barbara has been home to my hus-band and me since 1999. This is the place where I have had many reward-ing personal and professional achieve-ments, made great friends, became a U.S. citizen, bought our first house in the U.S. and felt a true sense of belonging and accomplishment. I am proud and passionate about SBCC, our mission and the significant and beneficial impact we make on the lives of many every day.

This situation will most certainly have an impact on my future career that is unpredictable, because this is a very unusual situation and I’m not aware of any other community col-lege where something like this has happened in this particular fashion. So, it has created a precedent that is quite unique.

I hope that my record of accom-plishment and my professional record will make the case for me as I look at other opportunities. I’m forty-three years old and have a lot to give in my professional career.

Much of what happened at SBCC is the result of an extremely difficult economic crisis in which a commu-nity college must somehow juggle the need for sustaining current programs with the reality of shrinking monetary and other resources. I plan to use my experience at SBCC, and the extreme reaction from some groups to my efforts to do the best thing for the College, as a true learning experience.

The fiscal crisis is not going to go away any time soon, so these chal-lenges I have dealt with at SBCC are endemic throughout the community college system in California. I believe this adverse experience, like the dif-ficulties I used to face as a child or young adult in my native land follow-ing my American dream, will make me a very strong candidate for future employment at the same and even higher or different policy-making lev-els in the field of community college education.

I also believe this was a unique situation and plan to move on and persevere, and to find a new position knowing that I can be proud of my accomplishments, and the stronger fiscal and other positions in which I left SBCC as a result of my work.

How did it go so wrong between you and the new board so quickly?

Well, that is a loaded question.

CONVERSATIONS CONVERSATIONS (Continued from page 28)

“What is the priority of the college? Is it to educate students to get a degree, to be able to transfer to a four-year

institution, to get the skills to get their first job and have a future? Or, is it to help individuals, many retired, who

find themselves in a position where they depend upon these continuing education classes to make a living?”

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It assumes, first, that things went “wrong” between me and the new board, and second, that it happened “quickly.”

I have lost a lot of sleep at night trying to understand the interests of the new board members so I could build a dialogue, as I thought I always had, over differences in viewpoints on the important challenges facing the College.

Moving into the second assumption behind your question, that something went wrong “quickly,” I have no idea. There isn’t enough information to judge whether this difference in goals and philosophy took place overnight, or over the course of several months. What I do believe is that being fiscally responsible in a time of diminishing resources steps on too many toes and touches too many personal pocket-books. It’s easy to be fiscally respon-sible when resources are plentiful because we are not forced to reduce anything, per se. And we have done this for too many years: when budgets were good, when the economy was good, no programs were cut. We were always adding more and more. Well, it’s simply not possible. Being fiscally responsible in the current environ-ment is about cutting, reallocating, reducing and somebody’s personal interest will be touched.

When such decisions, caused in part by our State’s budget crisis, result in changes in long-term practices expe-rienced and expected by a constituent group, there will unavoidably be indi-viduals and groups who are dissatis-fied. People with personal interests really have become very vocal and maybe it shouldn’t be surprising that

they will fight for their personal inter-ests and pocketbook.

Going back to some of the courses in continuing education like cooking, and some jewelry and ceramics that have become fee-based and we were proposing to turn more of them to fee-based. There were students taking these classes who came and spoke at board meetings under the heading of “Hearing of citizens.” Recognizing that that they had been taking this class for twenty-five years, several classes, because that’s how they are able to make a living in Santa Barbara.

They use college resources: the kilns are very expensive to run, to produce pottery or ceramic things they can sell and make a living. While we can all appreciate that the cost of living in Santa Barbara is high, at a time when funded enrollments by the state are decreased, what comes first? What is the priority of the college? Is it to educate students to get a degree, to be able to transfer to a four-year institu-tion, to get the skills to get their first job and have a future? Or, is it to help individuals, many retired, who find themselves in a position where they depend upon these continuing educa-tion classes to make a living? When resources are plentiful, we can afford to do both, but that is not the case any-more. The core mission of the college is to educate the students to either get a two-year degree, transfer, or prepare for a job.

You’re okay with Continuing Education programs, correct? As long as they are paid for?

Yeah. We wanted to charge a reason-able fee – no more than $100 to $150

per person for a ten-week course. These are reasonable fees. Some cours-es would have fees as low as $20 or $30 per person for a ten-week course, depending on the course. Look at the UCSB Extension. Look at other com-munity colleges up and down the state, and see how much they charge for fewer hours of a similar course. We are extremely unique in having so many older-adult-oriented courses in

arts, ceramics, painting, all of this has been free of charge to students, sub-sidized by taxpayer resources. Again, in good times we can afford it. Now, it’s a time of shrinking resources and the primary mission of the college needs to come first. A year ago we have started for the first time in the history of the college a scholarship program for Continuing Education students who have a financial aid and need help to pay for the tuition for fee-based classes. Fewer than 50

people applied for these scholarships each term.

Not to mention that we receive priorities from the state: career tech-nical education, transfer education, remedial education, credit education. And, we are a state institution. We need to strike a balance between the needs of the local community and the demands of the state. I personally felt very strongly that we should fulfill the

core mission, which is to provide the credit education for those individu-als who are still to build a future for themselves when they are twenty or twenty-five, or, they find themselves in the unfortunate situation of being laid off later in their careers and they need to retrain to find a new job.

We need people to get jobs again and we as a college have an important function to play in that.

Thank you, Madam President. •MJ

Curriculum Vitae

Andreea Serban is an only child and was born in Romania dur-ing the Soviet era (1968); her father was an economist. He

passed away in May 2003; Andreea’s mother, who worked in the medical field, died six months earlier. Dr. Serban became Superintendent-President of SBCC on June 2, 2008. She was selected through a national search. Thirty-seven individuals applied for the position. Dr. Serban came to SBCC from South Orange County Community College District in Mission Viejo, CA, where she was Vice Chancellor of Technology and Learning Services. She knew SBCC well, having joined the college in 1999 as its first Director of Institutional Assessment, Research and Planning, followed by Associate Vice President for Information Technology, Research and Planning, a position she held until 2006.Dr. Serban also held administrative and faculty positions at University of Redlands in Redlands, CA, Rockefeller Institute of Government in Albany, NY, State University of New York System Administration in Albany, NY, Institute for Educational Sciences and University of Bucharest in Bucharest, Romania.She received a Ph.D. and a Master of Science in Higher Education Administration from University at Albany, State University of New York and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from University of Bucharest.

“Lifelong learning through continuing education is important but there’s a difference between lifelong learning and using

college resources for personal interests”


When Pauline Thompson and her husband moved to Santa Barbara from Colorado in

the late 1970s, she was so enthralled with their new hometown that she wrote a book, Santa Barbara: How to Discover America’s Eden. Pauline’s growing-up years were far from paradisiacal; she grew up in London during World War II.

In 1939, with WWII and fears of imminent widespread bombing and gas attacks, the British government put into effect “Operation Pied Piper,” a plan to move children from the cit-ies to the comparative safety of the countryside. In three days, more than three million children and a handful of adult chaperones, mostly teachers, had been evacuated. Pauline was one of those children.

She writes, “On September 1, 1939, my mother had to take me to Paddington Station, one of the big London terminals, to join my class-mates from St. James School. We stood on the platform, each clutching a cardboard box containing the recently issued gas mask and a little suitcase. Tied to a buttonhole on each child’s coat was a luggage label to identify each one.

“Finally the train arrived and a flood of tears from both adults and children ensued as parents parted from their children… It was a day-long jour-ney we took to arrive at St. Austell, Cornwall, a remote area where the government figured Hitler’s bombers would never venture.

“Each child was billeted with a local homeowner who had not volunteered but had simply been ... advised how many evacuees they could expect. Parents had to deposit a fee for their children’s keep at their local post offic-es weekly and the host family could collect the money in St. Austell. It was a very difficult situation on both sides.

“While some were lucky and were made so welcome they stayed until 1945, others found the opposite. My mother came for me in three months and brought me back to London.”

Pauline was not alone in her return. When the expected bombing raids did not materialize, children began drift-ing back to the city. By January 1940, 75% had returned.

As children returned to the city, a few schools reopened. Pauline writes, “I rode on the Underground to an

My grandfather’s vegetable wagon and the horse that the Nazis tried to confiscate (Dutch photos cour-tesy of Hattie Beresford)

Pauline Thompson in Hertford where she later sought shelter from the bombing in London (photo courtesy of Pauline Thompson)

The Way It Was

by Hattie Beresford

Growing Up In War Time

Ms Beresford is a retired English and American his-tory teacher of 30 years in the Santa Barbara School District. She is author of two Noticias, “El Mirasol: From Swan to Albatross” and “Santa Barbara Grocers,” for the Santa Barbara Historical Society.

WAY IT WAS WAY IT WAS Page 38

sentation systems and white boards, plus a state-of-the-art computer lab. In the 4th through 6th grades, students have access to individual computers on a one-on-one basis.

MUS students live in safe neighbor-hoods free of violent crime. Cell phone usage is prohibited during school hours. MUS is a tobacco-free, drug-free workplace for teachers and staff. Disruptive behavior in the classroom is rare. Problems of anger manage-ment, rampant absenteeism, boredom and lack of individual attention are virtually non-existent. Only 18 MUS students qualify for the free federal lunch program; most bring a lunch or purchase one from the Mobile Café. Nick Bruski, who is completing his Doctorate from UCLA, was formerly the principal in Oxnard at Rio Rosales Elementary School where half of the 570 children in the K-5 school were on the free lunch program.

Report cards for all students are issued three times each year. Homework is required beginning with 30 minutes per day in the first grade; 30 to 45 minutes in second and third grades; and 1.5 to 2 hours for fourth, fifth and sixth grades.

Teacher AccountabilityIt is the teacher in the classroom

who will have the greatest impact on a child’s social and academic achieve-ment. The average teacher has taught at MUS for 18 years, compared to an average tenure of 10 years in other California elementary schools.

According to Murphy, “Good teach-ers want to come to this culture. What’s not to like? We have a unique work-place. There is ample opportunity for professional growth. We can and do attract the best teachers in the state.” Performance measurement and teach-er evaluations are critical to success, because it is impossible to efficiently manage what you can’t measure. For the first time last spring, a compre-hensive survey of 48 questions was sent to parents to provide feedback on instruction and overall school perfor-

mance. Ninety-six percent of parents were either extremely satisfied or sat-isfied. While pleased with the parent’s strong support, teachers and staff are focused on continual improvement in the school’s culture of exceptionalism.

Bruski spends time in the classroom with every teacher 8 to 10 times a year. Formal evaluations are conduct-ed with tenured teachers once every two years, and more often for non-tenured teachers. For all new teachers in California, tenure starts after two years.

One-third of MUS teachers will be eligible for retirement in the next few years. Fortunately, MUS does not have to rely solely on attracting new teachers who have limited experience. Says Bruski, “We get applications from experienced teachers from all over California whenever an opening occurs.”

Teachers are all members of the California Teachers’ Association (CTA) union. They are under contract to MUS to provide 184 days of ser-vice per year at a guaranteed salary. Mandatory union dues set by CTA of $67 a month per union member are deducted from each teacher’s earn-ings by the school system. The present teachers’ union contract was renegoti-ated and approved by the Board on May 12.

Last year, Bruski, Murphy and 26 teachers attended a five-day educa-tional summit at Harvard University with 300 professionals from around the world exploring “best practices” in visible thinking. Since then, the MUS Educational Foundation has funded another 10 MUS teachers to attend classes at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Attendance at summer classes at Columbia University for nine teachers has also boosted teach-ing skills in reading and literacy.

Culture of Exceptionalism

The vision for the Montecito Union School District is to make the Montecito Union School a place where students love to learn, teach-ers love to teach, and parents are engaged as partners in the intellec-tual and personal development of their children.

California has almost 10,000 pub-lic schools in 1,000 school districts, educating some 6.2 million students. “The difference,” says Bruski, “is that MUS has the passion and dedication of students, parents, teachers and admin-istrators to be the best we can be. As a California Distinguished School, MUS has the best of all worlds: involved, engaged parents; the best students in the state; an exceptional faculty; and adequate resources, readily available. When you are at the top, the challenge is still ‘continuous improvement’.”

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Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College

Your Westmont

Westmont Soars in U.S. News Rankings

by Scott Craig

Westmont leapt nine spots in this year’s ranking of the best liberal arts colleges

according to U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges, 2012 Edition.” Of the nation’s 252 liberal arts colleges, Westmont fi nished tied for 90th, its highest ranking as a national liberal arts college. It’s also the third straight year Westmont has ranked in the top 100.

Only seven other liberal arts colleg-es in California appear in the top 100: Pomona (4th), Claremont McKenna (9th), Harvey Mudd (18th), Scripps (29th), Occidental (37th), Pitzer (42nd) and Thomas Aquinas (71st) Colleges.

Westmont is just one of two lib-eral arts colleges among the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) in the top 100, and the only one in California to be listed in the first tier. Westmont moved into the third tier in 2000, into the second in 2003 and into the top tier in 2005. In 1985, Westmont tied for seventh in Regional Liberal Arts Colleges, the first time the college was ranked.

Westmont moved up in the 2012 rankings in the areas of undergradu-ate academic reputation, smaller class

sizes, improved SAT scores and the percentage of freshmen who gradu-ated in the top 10% of their high school class.

“We’re pleased to be recognized as one of the top liberal arts colleges in the nation,” says Silvio Vazquez, Westmont dean of admission. “But more important than the ranking, I hope we can assist students through the application process to identify the college that’s right for them.”

Last month, Forbes magazine recog-nized Westmont in its 2012 America’s Top Colleges list, which includes 650 institutions. Westmont ranks 76th, up from 81st last year. Nine other California colleges and universi-ties appear in the top 100: Stanford (5th), Claremont McKenna (12th), California Institute of Technology (13th), Pomona (23rd), Scripps (41st), Harvey Mudd (44th), UCLA (55th), Santa Clara University (57th) and UC Berkeley (70th).

Viewing to Feature E.T. Star Cluster

Stargazers will enjoy seeing globu-lar clusters, planetary nebulae and

open clusters on Friday, September 16th, during Westmont’s free monthly viewing of the stars. The college’s powerful Keck Telescope, a 24-inch reflector, is housed in the observatory between the soccer and baseball fields. The viewing, held in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit, begins about 7:30 pm, and lasts sev-eral hours, weather permitting. In case of inclement weather, please call the Telescope Viewing Hotline at (805) 565-6272 and check the Westmont website to see if the viewing has been canceled.

The moon will rise at 9:15 pm and will be 85% illuminated, drowning out some celestial objects with its glow. But Tom Whittemore, Westmont physics instructor, says we’ll have a chance to see a number of objects before then, including the Owl Cluster, NGC 457. “Surprisingly bright at 9,900 light-years and in the Perseus arm of our galaxy, it looks like an owl with its wings outstretched,” he says. “The owl has two bright eyes, with one that shines with a warm, golden glow. Some people see E.T. in this cluster of 80 to 100 stars, so it’s also known as

the E.T. Cluster.”Two globular clusters will be near

the top of the sky, including the Great Globular Cluster, M13, and the often-overlooked globular cluster, M92. “It’s illustrative to show these two globular clusters, one after the other, to the public because of the closer concen-tration of stars in M92 as compared to M13,” Whittemore says. “They each lie about 26,000 light-years away.”

Members of the public may also be able to spy planetary nebulae, such as the Ring Nebula, M57, and the Blinking Planetary, NGC 6826. “The Blinking Nebula is so named because when viewed through a small tele-scope it appears to blink or disappear as the observer scans the eyepiece,” Whittemore says. “This is because the nebula is faint compared to the inner relatively bright, white dwarf star. When viewed directly, the star is easily visible through the cones of the eyes, while the faint, outer nebula is seen with peripheral vision using the more sensitive rods of the eye. I showed this one to a small group of folks at the August viewing, and they really liked it.” •MJ

U.S. News & World Report selects Westmont as 90th best in nation

Westmont opens the doors to its observatory for a free public viewing S ept. 16


A big congrats to local dentist Dr. Kathleen McClintock, who recently received the 2011

Mastership Award by the Academy of General Dentistry. This is no small achievement as less than one percent of the 100,000 dentists in America have earned this distinction, and now we can lay claim to one of our very own here in Santa Barbara.

A native gal, Kathy is a graduate of Bishop Garcia Diego High School and UCSB. (Many boomers in Santa Barbara grew up knowing one of the McClintock girls: Diana, Darlene, Norma, Cindy, or brother Mark.) When she opened her office in 1983, Kathy McClintock was the very first female dentist in the fair city of Santa Barbara.

Dr. McClintock was honored with this award after completing more than 1,100 hours of continuing education. Kathy has trained with renowned cli-nicians in virtually every related field: orthodontics, endodontics, periodon-tics, advanced cosmetic techniques, prosthodontics, and anesthesia. Dr.

McClintock even holds a license for oral sedation.

In her other spare time (remember, she runs a full-time practice 9 am to 6 pm), Kathy served as past President of Santa Barbara-Ventura County Dental Society, and she also founded

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What to Do with Floppy Disks

Ever wonder what to do about grandpa’s important – but very old – computer files? You want the infor-mation, but the files are too ancient to be read by any machine since the new millennium. But you can’t bear to throw them out; they are the only records you have.

Mike Bishop over at MacMechanic was telling me he has been doing a lot of interesting recovery work for estates. It seems people are clearing out their parents’ homes and finding mom or grandpa has important information, memoirs, or even books they have written and saved on old zip drives or even floppy disks (remember those?).

MacMechanic not only has all the super-duper latest computers, but more importantly for these situations, it has all the original Macs. Yes, thoseMacs. Mike’s staff has lovingly nick-named an early Macintosh 512 model “Frankenstein,” and they have every other old Mac-osaurus as well. At any rate, it is fantastic to find we have this resource, because now any important files and writings saved on any such old Macintosh format: disks, drives, etc., can be opened and saved onto a current and more relevant format (CD, for example).

Rare Showing of Picasso and Pals

Mo McFadden informed me about an intriguing art exhibit this week that lasts all of three days. It opens Friday the 16th at the Karpeles Museum and is running just through this weekend. It’s entitled “Picasso & The Secret Muse,” which sounds sufficiently art-sy-fartsy, but the title simply does not do it justice.

The hosts of the exhibit, Mr. Leslie James & Ms Diane Stevenett, have a display of never-before-seen works by Picasso, Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec, Barque, Matisse, and Renoir. Fantastic. Friday’s opening reception is from 6:30 to 10 pm and will have an informal forum at 8:30 – just a conversational Q and A with Leslie, Diane, and Cherie Peake (widow of Channing) on the themes surrounding

the paintings and artists.But wait; there’s more. If you were

charmed by the movie “Midnight in Paris” (where the American travels back in time to relive Paris in its ear-lier golden eras), you will have an extra appreciation for the next bit. Included in this exhibit are unknown portraits of writer Max Jacob, artist Marie Laurencin, aeronaut Sanchos-Dumont, poet Apollinaire, Fauvist Dufy, Picasso and other historic fig-ures as seen through the eyes of their secret muse, American born Fernand “Gaston” Longchamp.

When Longchamp was just a little tyke of five, he played under the tables in the Parisian cafés of the late 1890s, while he listened to the conversations of artists and anar-chists, inhaled the perfume of Sarah Bernhardt, and admired the braids of Suzanne Valadon.

Look what happens when you expose kiddies to art! At seven years old, Longchamp was already clean-ing Renoir’s brushes and by the time he was a teen, he was hanging out with Picasso’s bande of bad boys at the Bateau Lavoir, and before he turned 20, he was painting scenes for Stravinsky’s Firebird with Marc Chagall. Since Longchamp is tradi-tionally recognized as a foremost American set designer (i.e. the Met), it will be a delight to see his impres-sionistic and expressionistic portraits capturing the personalities of this interesting era.

Besides the original works and por-traits exhibited, you’ll also find his-toric and intimate illustrated letters, articles and photographs. This is a one-time exhibition lasting only three days, located at the Karpeles Museum at 21 West Anapamu, Friday night 6:30–10pm, and Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon to 4pm.

Santa Barbara is Buzzing about:

A page on Facebook called ”Damn Right I Grew Up In Santa Barbara.” If you were in high school here dur-ing the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s, you will discover all the friends, relatives of friends and memories of your wonder years growing up in Santa Barbara. This is a hoot. Every topic is up for grabs: the old bands, the oil spill, skateboarding down Romero Canyon, MESA rats, the PE program at La Colina where you were ranked & judged by the color of your gym shorts (boys only), favorite old bars starting with Rockies (186 comments follow) which storm drains were good for exploring, and a tribute to the golden era of art at SBHS with favor-ite art teachers Tony Askew, Kasia Stefankek and Loren Nibbie. Have I piqued any memories? If you are on Facebook, check it out. •MJ

15 – 22 September 2011 MONTECITO JOURNAL 37There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic, because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing – Maya Angelou

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who has no living family, would seem to be facing metastatic breast cancer on her own. But after her first diag-nosis of breast cancer in 2007, Ocean’s doctor urged her to visit the center. Ever since then, Ocean has been a regular at the center, attending week-ly support groups and helping other women who are newly diagnosed.

“I’m always so delighted to be here. It’s my lifeline – it’s my home,” said Ocean, who was diagnosed with a cancer re-occurrence in 2009, and is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatments. Ocean feels so strongly about the staff at the center that she credits them with keeping her alive through her difficult battle with breast cancer.

“The best medical care will fall short without emotional care. I do feel I’m alive because of the Breast Cancer Resource Center,” she said, as tears welled up in her eyes and she got a hug from a staff member. “They have been my family. This isn’t a job. This is a labor of love.”

Ocean is one of over 500 people, both cancer patients and their fami-lies, who visit the center each year. Located in a charming Victorian cot-tage at 525 West Junipero Street, the center is just down the street from Cottage Hospital. It was founded in 1997 with the mission of transform-ing people’s lives through support and education about breast cancer. In addition to creating support groups, the center offers alternative therapies such as Reiki treatments and guided meditation free of charge to breast cancer patients.

“I think the center has really blos-somed in the last fourteen years,” said Silvana Kelly, the center’s executive

director who also had breast cancer ten years ago. Other key staff mem-bers include Rae Ann Bird, the pro-gram director, Judy Blanco, a peer counselor and Chris Emanuel, a pro-gram coordinator for a new free mam-mogram program.

I Screen, You ScreenProviding support and education

is expensive, so the center, which is a non-profit organization, must raise money for its efforts. Later this month it will hold its biggest fundraiser of the year, a gala called “Think Pink.” The benefit will be held at a private estate in Montecito on Saturday, September 24, from 5 to 8:30 pm, and will feature overflowing pink champagne and an all-pink dessert table. Co-chairs of the “Think Pink” event are Rachael Stein and Dinah Calderon. Merryl Brown Events is planning the gala.

The gala’s honorary co-chairs

are Leslie Ridley-Tree and Hollye Jacobs, who herself was diagnosed with breast cancer almost a year ago and has been chronicling her journey through surgery, chemotherapy, radia-tion and recovery on a blog called Brookside Buzz, www.brooksidebuzz.com. “The Breast Cancer Resource Center is an extraordinarily special place,” Jacobs said.

For those looking for an outfit to wear to the “Think Pink” gala, Susan Pitcher’s stores dressed and ready on Coast Village Road are stocked with pink clothing and jewelry; earlier this month, Pitcher held a cocktail party during which she donated a portion

of the proceeds to the center. In addition to providing support

services to patients, the center has started a new program to encour-age women to receive mammograms. Called “I screen, you screen, we all screen,” the program provides free mammogram screening to Santa Barbara county residents.

For more information about the Breast Cancer Resource Center, call (805) 569-9693 or visit www.bcrcsb.org. Tickets and sponsorship oppor-tunities are still available for the September 24 “Think Pink” gala and can be obtained by calling the center. •MJ

The Breast Cancer Resource Center is located in a Victorian cot-tage at 525 W. Junipero St., near Cottage Hospital

Kate Ocean is a breast cancer patient who also volunteers her time at the Breast Cancer Resource Center

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elementary school until I was eleven and then took a long bus ride to the higher school, Burling School for Girls. Libraries were open and I was an avid reader, spending happy hours with such popular books as Bambi and My Friend Flicka.

“In our free time, we played games such as hopscotch and bouncing a tennis ball against a wall, but first thing in the morning we hunted for shrapnel souvenirs lying in the streets from the previous night’s battles. Kensington Gardens, later the home of Princess Diana, was two blocks away and offered a playground com-plete with seesaw, swings, maypole, jigsaw, etc. I often went there with my little fox terrier and sailed a toy yacht across the Round Pond.”

In the late afternoons, sirens warned people to take shelter and many slept on platforms of the Underground sta-tions. Those with means purchased a Morrison shelter, which was a rein-forced steel table under which to sleep, and others were lucky enough to afford an Anderson shelter, which looked like a little Quonset hut. Pauline’s family initially took refuge in a tiny earthen cellar underneath her father’s restaurant. Later they acquired a Morrison.

From the flat roof of their building they could see the sky, red with the reflection of the many fires consum-ing the embattled city. She writes that they watched “the V-1 ‘buzz bombs’ silhouetted against the sky, hoping they would pass out of sight and not land where we were when the engines stopped. Sadly one of them fell on a tall apartment building only a block away, which demolished it and killed my 9-year-old Aussie playmate, Toya.”

In the fall of 1944, the Germans began sending V2 rockets to London and the Coburg Court Hotel, in front of which she and her mother had waited for the traffic light to change a few moments before, was turned to rubble. Her mother had had enough. “Next day,” writes Pauline, “she and I were off to her sister’s at Hertford, Hertfordshire, a town until then untouched by bombing. A few days after our arrival, a V2 fell on the local cinema…”

Holding On In HollandThree hours after midnight on May

10, 1940, a Nazi blitzkrieg hit the Low Countries. When Dutch resis-tance to the invasion proved strong, Hitler ordered a massive bombing of Rotterdam that killed 800 civilians, injured several thousand, and wiped out the core of the city. My Tante Nel and her parents watched the fiery skies and heard the thundering blasts from their home on a canal in Rijswijk, several miles distant.

That same evening, all Dutch troops were ordered to stop fight-ing and German troops moved in to occupy the country, which they ruled with an iron fist. Hitler’s policy of Schrecklichkeit (frightfulness) was intended to break the people’s will to resist, but Dutch stubbornness assert-ed itself and a strong resistance move-ment developed.

My teenaged parents were dating when the Occupation started. They remember Nazi soldiers conducting house-to-house searches for contra-band items such as radios. My uncle was picked up off the streets one day, thrown into a truck, and transported to Germany where he worked string-ing telephone and electric lines. When he complained about the lack of food, they beat him.

The Nazis commandeered whatever they needed from the civilian popu-lation. My grandfather was a green grocer who relied on his horses to pull the wagon through the streets of Den Haag. When the district Nazi commander wanted a horse to pull his carriage, he sent a few of his men to collect my grandfather’s. It would

have been a disaster for the family, except my mother was home at the time and quick-thinking.

“Nay,” she said, “you don’t want this ugly old horse. Around the corner is a woman who has a beautiful black horse that will pull the vehicle with style.”

The soldiers, thinking to please their superior, commandeered the neigh-bor’s thoroughbred riding horse. When they hitched the temperamen-tal filly to the conveyance, however, she pitched a fit and kicked the cart to pieces. Our family income was saved but the neighbor never spoke to them again.

My father was allowed to continue his education to become an aeronauti-cal engineer at the technical school in Haarlam and had a student pass that kept him out of the work camps in Germany. Upon graduation in 1944, the pass expired and he had to stay off the streets and hide from the Germans, whom he believed wanted to send him to Germany to work in an aircraft factory. As it turned out, the admin-istrator of the school had burned all records of the students’ existence. His actions saved his students, but he was sent to a concentration camp.

Often my father would hide in the hayloft of my grandfather’s stable, reading books and occupying himself by taking correspondence courses in Spanish, business administration and market analysis. A small round win-dow in the loft provided him with light.

Once, when he was at his own fam-ily’s home, soldiers came looking for contraband and young workers. His mother quickly hid him in the narrow space between the floor of their flat and the ceiling of the one below. He heard the soldiers walking above his nose. After they had left, my grand-mother couldn’t get the floor panel

open. Sure he was suffocating, she started screaming for an axe. Luckily, cooler heads prevailed and they pried him out.

The last six months of the war were a time of privation as food and fuel became scarce. Fuel was so limited that my father, who was staying with my mother’s family, had the bright idea of bringing the cook stove into the living room so they could boil the water for turnips and tulip bulbs (which formed the mainstay of their diet), and at the same time heat the house. The steam, unfortunately, peeled the wallpaper from the walls.

Many people died of starvation or exposure during this time. My grand-mother would portion out the food to the family and then take her plate to the downstairs’ neighbor who had no food whatsoever. When she returned, her shamed family would each donate a portion from their plates to her.

In his memoir my father wrote, “On March 3, 1945, I woke up early Sunday morning and saw about 36 American bombers flying very low over our house and then the ground started to rumble as bombs were fall-ing all over the place. One fell not far from our home and another destroyed a hospital nearby.” The planes, aim-ing for the part of town from which German rockets were being launched, had been directed incorrectly. My Tante Nel was severely injured and almost lost her leg in the bombing.

“In April,” my father continued, “there was a kind of armistice and the allied planes came flying low with the bomb bay doors open, this time drop-ping food packages in lieu of bombs. On May 5, 1945, the war was over and the Canadians and free Dutch forces entered our town. For weeks there were big celebrations and street danc-es at night everywhere.” The night-mare, they believed, was over; news from the concentration camps had yet to reach them. •MJ

WAY IT WAS WAY IT WAS (Continued from page 34)

When my father still had his student pass, he and my mother could take little outings like this one to the “dierenpark,” a sort of zoo

A Delft tile from 1945 commemorates the end of German occupation in Holland on May 5. The slo-gan says that Netherland will rise from the dead and the design symbolizes Holland rising like the sun as the floodwaters of war recede and reveal that the country still exists.

After the war, my father joined the Dutch Royal Air Force and was sent to Indonesia for two years. His dream of becoming a pilot was dashed when it was discovered that he was colorblind to red and green.

My father poses in shorts and hand-knit wool socks in the jungles of Indonesia in 1945


THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15

‘Shout’ it out – In the space of one week, the Chumash Casino updates from Hall & Oates – the Philly duo that played the Samala Showroom last Thursday – to tonight’s concert with British duo Tears For Fears, adding a decade and crossing the pond in the process. “Songs From the Big Chair” helped usher in the MTV era in 1985, and we have no doubt that the sensationally catchy synth-pop band still shout, want to rule the world, and sow the seeds of love. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 3400 East Hwy. 246, Santa Ynez COST: $35-$75 INFO: (800)CHUMASH or www.chumashcasino.com

Oh, Henry – The popular Shakespeare’s Globe London Cinema Series concludes with the theater company’s critically acclaimed production of “Henry VIII,” the last of four classic Shakespeare titles presented this summer. Captured in 2010 from the prestigious and internationally renowned Globe Theatre in London, “Henry VIII” won rave reviews all around England. “It represents the theatre at its very best and makes for a joyous spectacle,” said the Sunday Telegraph. “Dominic Rowan plays the title role with charisma and vitality and Miranda Raison makes a beguiling Anne Boleyn. Shakespeare has seldom been performed with more verve.”As with each of the monthly hi-def screenings, today’s show includes a special 20-minute behind-the-scenes feature providing insights into the working of the Globe today, a historical perspective, the

reconstruction process, and interviews with the actors and creative team (the original open-roof theater, made of wood-and-thatch was built in 1599 by Shakespeare’s playing company and was destroyed by fi re in 1613 during a performance of “Henry VIII” when a cannon used for special effects misfi red). WHEN: 6:30pm WHERE: Metro Theatre, 618 State St. COST: $15 INFO: www.fathomevents.com

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17

Phineas + Ferb = Phun – The gang from Disney Channel’s animated television comedy series come to life as “Disney’s Phineas and Ferb: The Best live Tour Ever!” brings musical madness and hilarious hijinks to the stage of Granada. On TV, Phineas Flynn and his English stepbrother Ferb Fletcher are perpetually on summer vacation, concocting some sort of grand new project which also intersects with a subplot featuring Perry the Platypus (“Agent P”) acting as a secret agent to fi ght an evil scientist named Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. So that’s exactly what you’ll see on stage, too, with escapades so awesome that even perpetually annoyed big sister Candace can’t help but join in the fun! Hey, it took creators Dan Povenmire and Jeff “Swampy” Marsh more than 15 years developing the series before Disney signed on, so can you blame them for trying to branch out beyond the video screen? WHEN: 4 & 7pm WHERE: Granada, 1214 State St. COST: $23-$43 INFO: 899-2222 or www.granadasb.com

C ALENDAR OF EVENTSNote to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa Barbara area this 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 prior to publication. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to [email protected] and/or [email protected]

by Steven Libowitz

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Viva ‘Viva’! – Salsa, ranchera, son jarocho, mariachi and more traditional music from South of the Border are headed our way as the ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Bárbara! begins its 2011-12 season of weekend family events. The program – a consortium of the Marjorie Luke Theatre, the Guadalupe Cultural Arts & Education Center, Isla Vista School, and UCSB Arts & Lectures – brings free music and dance representing important traditions to neighborhood venues, schools and

community organizations throughout Santa Barbara County. The new season kicks off with Chino Espinoza y Los Dueños del Son, Los Angeles’ hottest salsa orchestra, fronted by Costa Rican vocalist Mirley Espinoza, aka “Chino El Sonero,” and his brother Cesar, a master timbalero. Trombones and fl ute add heat and spice to the great percussion and vocals. Chino, the former lead singer of L.A.’s popular salsa band Son Mayor, has recorded with Bobby Rivas, Bolivia, Mojaditicos and Pete Escobedo and toured accompanying Celia Cruz, Eddy Santiago, Rey Sepulveda, Tito Puente Jr. and Tito Gomez, to name just a few. Also an actor, Chino appeared most recently in the PBS series, “American Families,” and stars in the very popular Dr. Pepper commercial with Mexican artist Thalia.Coming later this season: Valente Pastor, the three-generation Los Soneros del Tesechoacán (who rarely tours the U.S.), half-a-century-old mariachi band Los Camperos de Nati Cano, and Grandeza Mexicana Folk Ballet Company. WHEN: 7pm Friday, 7:30pm Saturday, 7pm Sunday WHERE: Friday, Isla Vista School, 6875 El Colegio Rd., Goleta; Saturday, Guadalupe City Hall Auditorium, 918 Obispo St., Guadalupe; Sunday, Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Jr. High, 721 E. Cota St. COST: Free INFO: 893-4979 (I.V.), 343-2939 (Guadalupe), 884-4087 ext. 7 (Luke)

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16

Picasso & The Secret Muse – Take an artistic journey of original work by Picasso, Modigliani, Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse and Renoir with hosts Leslie James and Diane Stevenett that features unknown portraits of Max Jacob, Marie Laurencin, Apollinaire, Dufy, Picasso and many other historic masters seen through the eyes and works of their secret muse, American-born Ferdinand “Gaston” Longchamp. Gaston’s parents – his mother was French and his artist father was of Cayuga-Iroquois Indian descent – moved the family to Paris after the U.S. Army’s 1890 massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee. Some of the original works exhibited in this brief show include historic and intimate illustrated letters, articles and photographs including one letter from the hand of Leonardo da Vinci. WHEN: Opening Reception 6:30-10pm Friday, exhibit open 12noon-4pm Friday through Sunday WHERE: Karpeles Manuscript Museum, 21 West

Anapamu Street COST: Free (donations accepted) INFO: 895-5121

African beats – Less than two weeks after Sally Barr and DRI teamed up to raise awareness and funds to fi ght hunger in Africa, Friends of Woni Kenya International Inc. present a “Well-a-bration” Concert at The Marjorie Luke Theatre to raise money for water distribution for two newly completed water wells in poverty stricken areas of Kenya. The evening of blues, jazz, R & B and more includes performances by Lois Mahalia, Gina Eckstine, the R & B Bombers, Omar Arreola with special guest percussionist Miguelitio Leon, and others. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: Marjorie Luke Theatre at Santa Barbara Junior High, 721 E. Cota St. COST: $25 general, $15 ages 15 & under INFO: 967-3146 or www.friendsofwonikenya.org

IMAX @ SMHS? – Well, in a word, no. The proprietary big-screen format isn’t coming to San Marcos High School. But seven-time Emmy award-winning underwater IMAX fi lmmakers Howard and Michele Hall are coming to campus tonight to share their passion, vision and hope for our ocean planet. The fi lmmakers behind “Into the Deep,” “Island of the Sharks,” “Deep Sea 3D,” “Coral Reef Adventure,” “The Living Sea” and most recently “Under the Sea 3D” have dedicated their lives to creating captivating underwater marine programs, and tonight will take the audience behind the scenes to learn about the challenges of producing IMAX 3D fi lms while traveling the globe with a 1,300-pound underwater camera. The presentation, a benefi t for Santa Ynez’s Our World of Oceans, will include large screen projection of the Hall’s

images and video sequences. WHEN: 6:30pm (doors open 6pm) WHERE: San Marcos High School Theater, 4750 Hollister Avenue COST: $20 general, $15 youth 16 & under in advance, $25 & $18 at the door ($50 VIP tickets include priority seating and a World of Oceans T-shirt) INFO: 688-2718 or www.ourworldofoceans.org

More Picasso – The Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth co-organized “Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912,” an intimate exhibition featuring approximately 15 paintings and 25 prints conceived by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso during one of the most prolifi c and intensely experimental exchanges in the history of art. The presentation is the fi rst to dwell on a selection of the paintings, as well as nearly all of the prints produced during these two critical years, to demonstrate the visual point and counterpoint that fed into the invention of the revolutionary art form now known as Analytic Cubism. Two exhibits at the museum close tomorrow: “New Faces of the Collection,” which celebrates the range of themes, styles, and approaches to the contemporary photographic portrait while exploring the introspective nature of portraiture; and “Distilled Moments: Still Lifes from the Permanent Collection.” WHEN: Saturday through January 8, 2012 WHERE: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1130 State Street COST: $9 general, $8 seniors, $6 students & ages 6-17, free under 6 (free on Sundays) INFO: 963-4364 or www.sbmuseart.org


Camerata Pacifi ca launches its 22nd season this weekend with a pair of concerts at Hahn Hall

on Friday, and once again, over the course of the season, the chamber music ensemble will be challenging audiences with rarely-heard works, including a couple of commissioned premieres and pieces from lesser-known composers. The initial concert wastes no time in establishing the ground rules, moving from Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in C-sharp minor directly to Crumb’s Vox Balaenae for 3 Masked Players, Electric Flute, Electric Cello and Amplifi ed Piano, one of the most polarizing pieces in the repertoire, before closing with two highly percussive works, De Mey’s Musique de Table for Percussion and Reich’s Sextet for Percussion and Keyboards.

Founder, artistic director and flut-ist (he’s even playing this weekend) Adrian Spence discussed the program and the ensemble’s mission earlier this week.

Q. Over the last few years, things have stabilized both with Hahn Hall and having all the core players in place, although you still seem to be tweaking the roster. How has stability helped shape your approach?

A. First of all, Hahn is one of the best halls I’ve seen anywhere. I love it and so do the musicians... (As far as stability) it’s affected it in a big way. The ensemble is in place. It’s not really getting tweaked, it’s just getting added to as I find players who are appropri-ate to what we do. What that means is I’m programming to an idea of the individual characters as opposed to a few years ago where the emotional construct of the program came mostly from the pieces of music. Now it’s equal proportions, the character of Camerata players and the program-ming. When I’m reviewing a piece of music I can imagine what it will sound like with our crew playing it, which is very different. So it’s influenced the programming a lot.

Speaking of that, how much do the per-formers influence what you program, in terms of having a say in what they play?

Everybody has something they want to play. The door is always open. Sometimes it takes two or three sea-sons to integrate their choices in a program. I have the overarching idea of the season’s architecture, but there’s constant dialogue between us... What also happens is when I meet players I want to have involved, I program things for them to play. That’s why we’re doing more percussion, because

of Ji Hye Jung, and oboe, which comes from working with Nicholas Daniel.

Which brings me to wonder: how have you tried to shape Camerata Pacifica in your own image, if that’s even a fair ques-tion?

Maybe I’m not the person to answer that. But having said that, I think for good or for bad, one of the strengths is that it’s all not decided by commit-tee. It’s just me. You know where I’m coming from. If you don’t like what we do, you’re never going to. But if you do, you know what you’re going to get. There’s a consistency there that isn’t normally available via committee or part-time work. My commitment is to the art form, and I try to strike a balance, taking into consideration the tolerances of the audiences. The object is to create a community and bring people along with us.

How has the audience changed over the years, as they’ve grown and come on this journey?

We’ve discovered and attracted peo-ple with open minds. The last person I’m looking for is the so-called music lover. That’s a misnomer. That usu-ally means someone with a mindset of knowing what they want. The object here isn’t to have live performances of CDs. What we’re doing is creating something where every moment is dif-ferent. We try stuff. It may or may not work. We want the intellectually curi-ous. That defines the Camerata audi-ence. They want to lean in, ask ques-tions, and challenge me if they think I haven’t got it right. It’s one of the most dynamic audiences I know.

So then what is your approach to pro-gramming, from within each concert, to a season, to the ensemble over time?

What I’m trying to accomplish in general is the idea of the “liveness” of the performance experience. It’s become a very two-dimensional path in the last half century, as audiences lost the ability to receive and partici-pate in live performance. Glen Gould said he gave it up because he didn’t

I know I’m drinking myself to a slow death, but then, I’m in no hurry – Robert Benchley

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 Air Randolph launching at CST – In her new one-woman show “Loveland,” San Francisco-based writer-actress Ann Randolph – known for her outrageous physical comedy, inspired monologues, hilarious characters, and poignant storytelling – takes the audience along with her on her fl ight of fancy. The framework is actually a cross-country fl ight in which she embodies several characters, including Frannie Potts, an overly enthusiastic, often self-righteous, sexually charged misfi t overwhelmed by grief. Then there’s the uptight businessman next to her and the trying-to-be-in-control fl ight attendant, the pilot (who is the subject of some sexual fantasies), and, eventually, her mother, who she’s mourning (although Randolph’s

real mom is very much alive). In what’s been called a true tour-de-force, she stumbles from outrageous confrontation and awkward confusion to glimpses of mystery, tragedy and beauty. Reviewers have raved, including Mel Brooks, who termed her “a comic genius – I haven’t seen so much talent in one person,” he added, “since I married Anne Bancroft,” and one who noted: “At a tight seventy minutes, no time is wasted; the show is quick, hilarious, absurd, and beautiful. A veteran performer, she has an astonishing wit and an amazing sense of grounded humanity in all of her characters.” WHEN: 8pm Friday and next Thursday, September 22 WHERE: Center Stage Theater, upstairs at Paseo Nuevo Mall (Chapala St. entrance) COST: $25 INFO: 963-0408, www.centerstagetheater.org or 965-0228

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 Rock Paper Scissors – The latest exhibit at Art For Scrap reveals how 13 assemblage artists interpreted the theme of the centuries-old hand game also known as roshambo. Colleen Kelly, Carol Kemp, Dave King, Dan Levin, Lauretta Lowell, Syd McCutcheon, Jill McCutcheon, Judy Nilsen, Bob Ott, Mary Price, Alf Ramirez, Ron Robertson and Dug Uyesaka used the game as a starting point – literal, lateral or symbolic – then created new art, with some surprising results. WHEN: Reception 5-7pm Saturday; exhibit on display 10am-2pm Tuesdays-Saturdays (10-6 Thursdays), through October 22 WHERE: 302 East Cota Street COST: Free INFO: 884-0459 ext. 13 or www.artfromscrap.org

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21

‘Tales’ spans the years – There’s only about a 50-year gap in the ages of tonight’s performers in the second concert of the current Tales From The Tavern series at the Maverick Saloon. Opener Ruby Jane Smith (who goes by her fi rst two names professionally) won’t reach her 17th birthday until November, but she’s already played at the Grand Ole Opry (the youngest fi ddler ever), toured and recorded with Willie Nelson and Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson, and has performed at Austin City Limits (she’s at the festival again just before coming to Santa Ynez), not to mention released four recordings, the fi rst when she was just 11. The fi ddler-singer-songwriter-guitarist has a voice and chops that belie her age, with a

mature, old-soul approach to progressive bluegrass and country music that compels attention.Meanwhile, Butch Hancock, also appearing tonight, at 66 remains one of the premier progressive Texas singer-songwriters, a clever composer who is also a master of metaphor and judiciously-employed irony to express a world-weary view that keeps him outside of the country mainstream. Born in Lubbock, Texas (birthplace of Buddy Holly and so many country-rockabilly greats), Hancock is also a member of The Flatlanders, but is best enjoyed solo, where his musings range from traditional waltzes to bitingly satiric country-rock. WHEN: 7:30pm WHERE: 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez COST: $33 INFO: 688-0383 or www.talesfromthetavern.com •MJ

Camerata Pacifica Season Begins

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.

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Cafe Del Sol $$30 Los Patos Way (969-0448)

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

China Palace $$1070 Coast Village Road (565-9380)Montecito’s only Chinese restaurant, here you’ll fi nd large portions and modern décor. Take out available. (Montecito Journal staff is especially fond of the Cashew Chicken!) China Palace also has an outdoor patio. Open seven days 11:30 am to 9:30 pm.

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

Los Arroyos $1280 Coast Village Road (969-9059)

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

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

Montecito Café $$1295 Coast Village Road (969-3392)

Montecito Coffee Shop $1498 East Valley Road (969-6250)

Pane é Vino $$$1482 East Valley Road (969-9274)

Peabody’s $1198 Coast Village Road (969-0834)

Piatti Ristorante $$$516 San Ysidro Road (969-7520)

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M O N T E C I T O E AT E R I E S . . . A G u i d e Plow & Angel $$$San Ysidro Ranch 900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700) Enjoy a comfortable atmosphere as you dine on traditional dishes such as mac ‘n cheese and ribs. The ambiance is enhanced with original artwork, including stained glass windows and an homage to its namesake, Saint Isadore, hanging above the fi replace. Dinner is served from 5 to 10 pm daily with bar service extend-ing until 11 pm weekdays and until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

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

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

Stonehouse $$$$San Ysidro Ranch900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700)Located in what is a 19th-century citrus pack-inghouse, Stonehouse restaurant features a lounge with full bar service and separate dining room with crackling fi replace and creekside views. Chef Jamie West’s regional cuisine is prepared with a palate of herbs and vegetables harvested from the on-site chef’s garden. Recently voted 1 of the best 50 restaurants in America by OpenTable Diner’s Choice. 2010 Diners’ Choice Awards: 1 of 50 Most Romantic Restaurants in America, 1 of 50 Restaurants With Best Service in America. Open for dinner from 6 to 10 pm daily. Sunday Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.

Trattoria Mollie $$$1250 Coast Village Road (565-9381)

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

Via Vai Trattoria Pizzeria $$1483 East Valley Road (565-9393)

Delis, bakeries, juice bars

Blenders in the Grass1046 Coast Village Road (969-0611)

Here’s The Scoop1187 Coast Village Road (lower level) (969-7020)Gelato and Sorbet are made on the premises. Open Monday through Thursday 1 pm to 9 pm, 12 pm to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and 12 pm to 9 pm on Sundays. Scoopie also offers a full coffee menu featuring Santa Barbara Roasting Company coffee. Offerings are made from fresh, seasonal ingredients found at Farm-ers’ Market, and waffl e cones are made on site everyday.

Jeannine’s1253 Coast Village Road (969-7878)

Montecito Deli1150 Coast Village Road (969-3717)

Open six days a week from 7 am to 3 pm. (Closed Sunday) This eatery serves home-made soups, fresh salads, sandwiches, and its specialty, The Piadina, a homemade fl at bread made daily. Owner Jeff Rypysc and staff deliver locally and cater offi ce parties, luncheons or movie shoots. Also serving breakfast (7am to 11 am), and brewing Peet’s coffee & tea.

Panino 1014 #C Coast Village Road (565-0137)

Pierre Lafond516 San Ysidro Road (565-1502)This market and deli is a center of activity in Montecito’s Upper Village, serving fresh baked pastries, regular and espresso coffee drinks, smoothies, burritos, homemade soups, deli salads, made-to-order sandwiches and wraps available, and boasting a fully stocked salad bar. Its sunny patio draws crowds of regulars daily. The shop also carries specialty drinks, gift items, grocery staples, and produce. Open everyday 5:30 am to 8 pm.

Village Cheese & Wine 1485 East Valley Road (969-3815)

Whodidily Cupcakes1150 Coast Village Rd (969-9808)

In Summerland / Carpinteria

The Barbecue Company $$3807 Santa Claus Lane (684-2209)

Cantwell’s Summerland Market $2580 Lillie Avenue (969-5894)

Corktree Cellars $$910 Linden Avenue (684-1400)Corktree offers a casual bistro setting for lunch and dinner, in addition to wine tasting and tapas. The restaurant, open everyday except Monday, features art from locals, mellow music and a relaxed atmosphere. An extensive wine list features over 110 bottles of local and inter-national wines, which are also available in the eatery's retail section.

Garden Market $3811 Santa Claus Lane (745-5505)

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

Nugget $$2318 Lillie Avenue (969-6135)

Sly’s $$$686 Linden Avenue (684-6666)Sly’s features fresh fi sh, farmers’ market veg-gies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate Specials and vintage desserts. You’ll fi nd a full bar, serving special martinis and an extensive wine list featuring California and French wines. Cocktails from 4 pm to close, dinner from 5 to

9 pm Sunday-Thursday and 5 to 10 pm Friday and Saturday. Lunch is M-F 11:30 to 2:30, and brunch is served on the weekends from 9 am to 3 pm.

Stacky’s Seaside $2315 Lillie Avenue (969-9908)

Summerland Beach Café $2294 Lillie Avenue (969-1019)

Tinkers $2275 C Ortega Hill Road (969-1970)

Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row

Andersen’s Danish Bakery &Gourmet Restaurant $1106 State State Street (962-5085)Established in 1976, Andersen’s serves Danish and European cuisine including breakfast, lunch & dinner. Authentic Danishes, Apple Strudels, Marzipans, desserts & much more. Dine inside surrounded by European interior or outside on the sidewalk patio. Open 8 am to 9 pm Monday through Friday, 8 am to 10 pm Saturday and Sunday.

Bistro Eleven Eleven $$1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard (730-1111)Located adjacent to Hotel Mar Monte, the bistro serves breakfast and lunch featuring all-American favorites. Dinner is a mix of tradi-tional favorites and coastal cuisine. The lounge advancement to the restaurant features a big screen TV for daily sporting events and happy hour. Open Monday-Friday 6:30 am to 9 pm, Saturday and Sunday 6:30 am to 10 pm.

Ca’ Dario37 East Victoria Street (884-9419) $$A bustling trattoria located one block off State Street, owner Dario Furlati’s namesake eatery is known for its fresh pasta, savory meat and fi sh entrées, and daily and seasonal specials. Black and white photos of famous Italians line the walls; Dario, who hails from Lake Como, recently added a full bar menu in addition to a wine list featuring Californian and Italian wines. You have to try the the brown butter and sage ravioli, Ca’ Dario’s signature dish. Open every-day at 11:30 am until 10 pm (Sunday: 5 pm until 10 pm). Reservations strongly suggested.

Café Luck $$$18 East Cota Street (962-5393)One of just a handful of restaurants in Santa Barbara featuring mostly French cuisine, Café Luck afi cionados report that the eatery’s Short Ribs (when available) are the standout item worth waiting in line for. Other favorites include Duck Confi t with frisee, mushroom and potato chips, Bouillabaisse, and even the Café Luck Burger with Gruyere & Bacon. Open Sunday through Thursday from 4 pm until 11 pm; Friday and Saturday until midnight.

El Paseo $$813 Anacapa Street (962-6050)Located in the heart of downtown Santa Bar-bara in a Mexican plaza setting, El Paseo is the place for authentic Mexican specialties, home-made chips and salsa, and a cold margarita while mariachis stroll through the historic restaurant. The décor refl ects its rich Spanish heritage, with bougainvillea-draped balconies, fountain courtyard dining and a festive bar. Dinner specials are offered during the week,


. . . E AT E R I E Swith a brunch on Sundays. Open Tuesday through Thursday 4 pm to 10 pm, Friday and Saturday 11:30 am to 10:30 pm, and Sunday 10:30 am to 9 pm.

Enterprise Fish Co. $$225 State Street (962-3313)Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise Fish Company offers two-pound Maine Lob-sters served with clam chowder or salad, and rice or potatoes for only $29.95. Happy hour is every weekday from 4 pm to 7 pm. Open Sunday thru Thursday 11:30 am to 10 pm and Friday thru Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm.

The Harbor Restaurant $$210 Stearns Wharf (963-3311)Enjoy ocean views at the historic Harbor Restaurant on Stearns Wharf. Featuring prime steaks and seafood, a wine list that has earned Wine Spectator Magazine’s Award of Excel-lence for the past six years and a full cocktail bar. Lunch is served 11:30 am to 2:30 pm Monday-Friday, 11 am to 3 pm Saturday and Sunday. Dinner is served 5:30 pm to 10 pm, early dinner available Saturday and Sunday starting at 3 pm.

Los Agaves $600 N. Milpas Street (564-2626)Los Agaves offers eclectic Mexican cuisine, us-ing only the freshest ingredients, in a casual and friendly atmosphere. Serving lunch and dinner, with breakfast on the weekends, Los Agaves fea-tures traditional dishes from central and south-ern Mexico such as shrimp & fi sh enchiladas, shrimp chile rellenos, and famous homemade mole poblano. Open Monday- Friday 11 am to 9 pm, Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 9 pm.

Miró $$$$8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort & Spa (968-0100)Miró is a refi ned refuge with stunning views, featuring two genuine Miro sculptures, a top-rated chef offering a sophisticated menu that accents fresh, organic, and native-grown ingredients, and a world-class wine cellar. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 6 pm to 10 pm.

Moby Dick Restaurant $$220 Stearns Wharf (965-0549)Sitting right on Stearns Wharf, Moby Dick of-fers fi sh, lobster, clam chowder, fi sh and chips and a plenty more. A great place to watch the sun set over the ocean. Open 7 days a week from 7 am to 9 pm.

Olio e Limone Ristorante $$$Olio Pizzeria $ 17 West Victoria Street (899-2699)Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery featur-ing Italian food of the highest order. Offerings include eggplant souffl é, pappardelle with quail, sausage and mushroom ragù, and fresh-imported Dover sole. Wine Spectator Award of Excellence-winning wine list. Private dining (up to 40 guests) and catering are also available.Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos have added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar inspired by neighborhood “pizzerie” and “enoteche” in Italy. Here the focus is on artisanal pizzas and antipasti, with classic toppings like fresh moz-zarella, seafood, black truffl es, and sausage. Salads, innovative appetizers and an assort-ment of salumi and formaggi round out the

menu at this casual, fast-paced eatery. Private dining for up to 32 guests. Both the ristorante and the pizzeria are open for lunch Monday thru Saturday (11:30 am to 2 pm) and dinner seven nights a week (from 5 pm).

Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro $516 State Street (962-1455)The Wine Bistro menu is seasonal California cuisine specializing in local products. Pair your meal with wine from the Santa Barbara Winery, Lafond Winery or one from the list of wines from around the world. Happy Hour Monday - Friday 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The 1st Wednesday of each month is Passport to the World of Wine. Grilled cheese night every Thursday. Open for breakfast, lunch and dinner; catering available. www.pierrelafond.com

Renaud’s $ 3315 State Street (569-2400) Located in Loreto Plaza, Renaud’s is a bakery specializing in a wide selection of French pas-tries. The breakfast and lunch menu is com-posed of egg dishes, sandwiches and salads and represents Renaud’s personal favorites. Brewed coffees and teas are organic. Open Monday-Saturday 7 am to 5 pm, Sunday 7 am to 3 pm.

Rodney’s Steakhouse $$$633 East Cabrillo Boulevard (884-8554)Deep in the heart of well, deep in the heart of Fess Parker’s Doubletree Inn on East Beach in Santa Barbara. This handsome eatery sells and serves only Prime Grade beef, lamb, veal, halibut, salmon, lobster and other high-end victuals. Full bar, plenty of California wines, elegant surroundings, across from the ocean. Open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday at 5:30 pm. Reservations suggested on week-ends.

Ojai

Maravilla $$$905 Country Club Road in Ojai (646-1111)Located at the Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, this upscale eatery features prime steaks, chops and fresh seafood. Local farmers provide fresh produce right off the vine, while herbs are har-vested from the Inn’s herb garden. The menu includes savory favorites like pan seared diver scallops and braised beef short ribs; dishes are accented with seasonal vegetables. Open Sun-day through Thursday for dinner from 5:30 pm to 9:30 pm, Friday and Saturday from 5:30 pm to 10 pm. •MJ

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like the “one-takeness” of it. But that’s what I do like: I want to lean into this moment and have the audience be with us. It’s a shared community expe-rience, between composer, performer and the audience, and it’s incomplete without any piece of that trilogy. That means you have the responsibility to contribute with active listening, with being stretched and trusting in the programming and the performance. That’s what I’m trying to illuminate. The idea from the start was to develop an audience used to listening to music that they hadn’t heard before.

In terms of a season, I expect to significantly challenge the audience at least once or twice a season. If we did it every program it would be exhausting, and not pleasant. I’m sure some people think I’m less successful in striking that balance, but what I want is for you to come on a journey with us. I don’t mean to sound like a clichéd actor, but really, we want you to laugh and cry, engage fully, share in the moment music, which at times can be completely whimsical. Sometimes there’s great artistic value in being cute or pretty, and at other times it’s a much more significant program that requires your mental and intellectual commit-ment and effort. If you don’t feel a little discomforted or tired, we haven’t been performing properly or you haven’t been listening properly.

Which brings us to this first concert, where Crumb’s piece “Voice of the Whale” is coming back after fifteen years. It was polarizing then, wasn’t it?

It is an unusual program in that there are lights and amplification and even some choreography. The Crumb is an incredibly significant piece of music. It speaks to much bigger issues of man and our place on the planet. It’s very 21st century in terms of our awareness of who we are and our responsibility regarding climate change. He was very aware of man’s place in the ecosystem and he addressed these issues on a very holistic and spiritual, elemental level. It’s been fifteen or sixteen years since we played it, and since then I’ve had our audience listen to a lot more difficult things. So I think they will have a much better view of it... The program starts with the Rachmaninoff, an overture that declares, ‘Here we are,’ then the Crumb is followed by the De Mey that reminds us we have the capacity as humans to smile and laugh. The Reich sextet is a joy and a triumph, just ebullient. It gets a rhythmic energy going that doesn’t let up and finishes with a stunning climax. I can’t wait.

(Camerata Pacifica performs at 1 & 7:30 pm Friday at Hahn Hall on the campus of the Music Academy of the West. Tickets and season subscriptions are available by calling 884-8410 or vis-iting www.cameratapacifica.org.)

The Play’s The Thing Circle Bar B Dinner Theater’s final

production of its 40th season – which consists of re-mounted plays repre-senting each of the organization’s four decades – comes to a close with the 2000s offering, A. R. Gurney’s popu-lar, profound and hilarious “Sylvia.” This time around, the show features a reunion of the original cast, includ-ing Brian Harwell, Jean Hall, Rodney Baker, and Tiffany Story as Sylvia, the dog, all of whom played those roles in 2004. Harwell and Hall play Greg and Kate, who have relocated to Manhattan after raising a family in the suburbs for 20 years, and are now facing empty nest syndrome and other relationship and career crossroads. The “fur flies” when Sylvia, a streetwise Labradoodle that Greg picks up in the park, becomes Kate’s rival for his affection and atten-tion, putting the marriage in jeopardy and everything in disarray before a compromise is reached that satisfies all.

Story, who earned an Indy Award for her role in CBB’s “The 1940’s Radio Hour,” has appeared in more than 60 area productions, including Indy Award-winning turns in “Anton in Show Business,” “The Laramie Project” and “You Can’t Take it With You” at SBCC’s Theater Group. Harwell has played at CBB consistently for nearly a decade, winning an Indy for “I Hate Hamlet.” The show opens Friday, then plays 8 pm Friday & Saturday nights and 2 pm Sundays (dinner served one hour earlier), through October 30. Details and tickets at 967-1962 or www.circlebarbtheatre.com.

PCPA’s Theaterfest concludes its ambitious 2010-2011 season with the groundbreaking musical “Caroline, or Change,” created by Tony Kushner (“Angels in America”), who wrote the book and lyrics, and Jeanine Tesori (“Shrek the Musical”), who composed the score. Featuring music rang-ing from blues to Motown, spiritu-als and klezmer, the work is about political change, social change, and plain ol’ pocket change that usually leaves audiences changed as well. The musical, which won a slew of awards on Broadway, winds up its run in Santa Maria this weekend, while the Solvang season continues with the cur-rent American premiere production of “My Fairytale” -- featuring songs by Stephen Schwartz – at the Festival Theater through September 25.

Pop TartsTom Freund and Ben Harper met at

Pitzer College in Claremont, and even put out a duo album called “Pleasure and Pain” together in 1992. But where Harper went on to create a sizable audi-ence for himself as a solo act, Freund joined the Austin-based roots-rock band The Silos as their bassist before releasing his own solo CD in 1998. He’s put out five more critically acclaimed

albums since then, including the most recent, “Collapsible Plans” (to which Harper produced and contributed sev-eral instrumental touches) and played on records by Graham Parker, Brett Dennen and even Mandy Moore. TV and a couple of movies have found some of Freund’s honest, incisive songs that often take panoramic left turns, but mainstream audiences haven’t yet, which is why you can still see him at SOhO in a special 6 pm show on Thursday, Sept. 15.

Old Man Markley, an unexpected amalgam of punk rockers and blue-grass musicians based in Los Angeles – where they’ve opened for every-one from NOFX and Bad Religion to Wanda Jackson and the Devil Makes

Three – has been around for three years, putting out its debut CD, “Guts ‘N Teeth,” at the beginning of the year. The septet makes its Santa Barbara debut in a New Noise-sponsored con-cert at Velvet Jones on Friday.

Saturday brings Austin’s The Gourds back to Sings Like Hell at the Lobero hot on the heels of their Vanguard Records debut, “Old Mad Joy,” released just this past Tuesday. The CD, produced by Larry Campbell at the historic Levon Helm Studios, features the distinct styles of its three songwriting leaders (not unlike the Band), covering a wide array of approaches from witty and ironic to wistfully spiritual and genres that also eerily recall John Hiatt, another for-mer SLH favorite. Nearly non-stop coast-to-coast touring has made the band an even tighter outfit, capable of gripping roots rock and adventurous Americana. Opener Lynn Miles is an accomplished Canadian singer-song-writer who won the 2003 Juno Award.

SOhO’s second monthly “Get Amped” fundraiser Sunday, which raises money to upgrade the equip-ment at the restaurant-music club, fea-tures wine and beer tasting, BBQ grub cooked by owner Bob Hansen, and music by Teka, Santa Barbara Flash Mob, Kinsella, Jesse Rhodes, Dylan Schmidt and the Rhythm Souls, Beer 30, Khasy Modisette, and Calle Real... Elsewhere, singer-songwriter Tim Easton and Johnny Corndawg share the bill in a Club Mercy show at Muddy Waters on Monday, Brooklyn-based Kevin Devine plays a New Noise date at the same venue on Wednesday, and

Portland’s chamber pop ensemble Loch Lomond headline at the Mercury in Goleta next Thursday, with LA-based psychedelic folksters Paladino open-ing, in what might be the best bet of the week.

Montecito at the Movies“It Runs in the Family,” the 2003

feature film that starred three gen-erations of the acting Douglas fam-ily several years ago, would be an apt subtitle for this year’s 6th annual Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film from the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. In an evening sure to be filled with emotion, Kirk, who suf-fered a stroke at age 79 fifteen years ago, will be presenting the honor to his

son, 66-year-old Michael, who battled late-stage throat cancer just last year. One has to think the moment will be much more touching than when the elder Douglas bestowed the award on such stars as John Travolta, Ed Harris, Quentin Tarantino and Harrison Ford in previous years. Michael, a double Oscar winner (as producer of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and actor in “Wall Street”), got his act-ing start in theater out at UCSB. The black-tie gala dinner that serves as a fundraiser for SBIFF takes place at the Biltmore on October 13. Get tickets and details at www.sbfilmfestival.org.

In more SBIFF news with ties to our village, the already prestigious festival will launch its first ever acquisition pro-gram during the first weekend of the 2012 fest, a new direction spearheaded by Montecito resident Doug Stone, the new president of the SBIFF board and a principal of Traction Media, a Los Angeles-based film production and sales company. The program, slated for January 27-29, will allow the acquisi-tions community easy, industry-friend-ly access to select films screened at the festival. Is SBIFF taking a run at Sundance? Time will tell... Meanwhile, veteran SBIFF programming director Candace Schermerhorn, who held the post for seven of the last 10 years, has moved on to produce a documen-tary film already in development. The new programming manager is Michael Albright, who has documentary expe-rience (including Jean-Claude and Christo’s HBO film “The Gates”) and is currently pursuing his PhD in Film and Media Studies at UCSB. •MJ

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The Kirk Douglas Award for Excellence in Film

ceremony will be a fam-ily affair as Kirk presents

the award to his son Michael at the Biltmore

on October 13


Montecito Sold

Real Estate View by Michael Phillips

Michael is the owner-broker of Phillips Real Estate, and is a Montecito Planning Commissioner. He can be reached at 969-4569 and [email protected]

Summertime and the selling was easy. Well, perhaps relatively easy even for those fortunate

sellers who successfully, although often slowly, enticed our shy buyers to fall in love. Yet, indeed compared to last summer (which, looking back, now seems somehow quiet and stable), Montecito sellers enjoyed a considerably better summer than last. For one thing, the percentage of the asking prices realized increased from last summer’s 92% to this summer’s 94%, for which sellers were most likely very grateful. Overall, sales were up a healthy 13% over last summer and for the year we are up a very respectable 21%.

In the last two weeks of August, eleven Montecito sellers closed escrow. The highest price realized was for an iconic, 3600-sq-ft, 1922 George Washington Smith in the Andalusia style in excellent condition on just less than an acre of lush landscape in the Hedgerow on Ramona lane. It features four bedrooms as well as a separate guest room and bath, plus an outdoor room with a spa and built-in barbeque. The seller attempted $4.350m in early ‘05 and withdrew after 40 days on the market. It was relisted nearly a year ago for $4.150m and closed escrow on the 31st at $3.875m.

In the Birnam Wood golf commu-nity, a striking, sophisticated contem-porary designed by the talented and local architect Jerry Goodman, also

closed escrow on the 31st. Built for the sellers in 1990, it has three bed-rooms with a dual master suite, high ceilings with an open floor plan, and strong views from every room. It also has a swimming pool and a three-car garage, all adjacent to a lake featur-ing a fountain in the center of it on the ninth fairway. Although there is more to pay after close of escrow at Birnam, it sold very close to its $3.2m asking price at $3.150m after 105 days on market.

Four homes sold in our red hot $1-2m sector. On Middle Road near Coast Village is a late ‘80s Spanish style three-bedroom on half of an acre, with a second floor master with ocean views sold in one day at $1.6m, just below its asking price of $1.695.

Located very near MUS on San Ysidro Road, a 2800-sq-ft Spanish style mid ‘70s four-bedroom on one acre listed 80 days ago at $1.895m sold for $1.555m.

On Pepper Lane off Cota Lane below East Valley between Hot Springs and San Ysidro, a Moody Sisters 3bd/3ba

cottage on a quiet and serene less-than-an-acre lot built in 1930 was offered as a short sale 45 days ago and just closed for $1.35m.

On Sierra Vista Road off Barker Pass, walking distance to Cold Spring School, a late ‘70s in excellent con-dition two-story with three upstairs bedrooms and an unobstructed, close mountain view on 1.3 acres was listed 85 days ago at $1.525m. It closed on the 30th for $1.1m.

After over a year on the market, a 2500-sq-ft two-level ‘60s style four-bedroom also walking distance to CSS in good condition on Chelham Way off Upper Sycamore Canyon sold for $750k. It was first offered at $1,055m.

On East Valley Road where Romero Canyon enters from the North just before Orchard, a circa 1945, 2bd/2ba with mountain views on 0.14 acres sold in a Trust sale in average condi-tion in 153 days for $825k, originally listed for $895k.

The condo market also had a very good summer. Sales were up a sur-prising 85% compared to last summer,

and the average sale price increased 17%. Two properties on Coast Village Road just closed escrow. A 1,356-sq-ft designer-dressed 2bd/2ba with ocean views brought $747k, and a bank-owned 1,230-sq-ft two-bedroom-plus-den sold for $535k.

Overall sales are up and new escrows are way up. Encouraging yes, yet prices are not advancing, and we have yet to see a serious rotation to the upper end of our market. Only eight of this summer’s 62 sales were over $5m.

However, international buyers (those with permanent residences out-side the U.S.) are having no trouble stepping up. They increased their pur-chases of U. S. property by 24% this year, says the National Association of Realtors, and they like California a lot with 12% of purchases here. They came from 70 countries, yet four (Canada, Mexico, China, and U.K.) accounted for a bit over half the trans-actions. Although, given that the aver-age price paid was just $315k, it is safe to assume that not many found a property here in Montecito. •MJ

Iconic 1922 George Washington Smith home on Ramona Lane was the summer’s highest price realized at $3.875m

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY1372 Oak Creek Canyon By Appt. $13,500,000 6bd/10ba Bob Lamborn 689-6800 Sotheby’s1473 Bonnymede Drive By Appt. $5,450,000 3bd/3ba Nancy Kogevinas 450-6233 Prudential California Realty730 Arcady Road 1-4pm $3,850,000 4bd/5ba Diane Randall 452-2799 Sotheby’s1319 Plaza Pacifi ca By Appt. $2,895,000 3bd/3ba Nancy Kogevinas 450-6233 Prudential California Realty2516 Sycamore Canyon 2-4pm $2,149,000 4bd Francoise Morel 252-4752 Coldwell2150 E Valley Road By Appt. $1,700,000 4bd/3ba Jason Streatfeild 280-9797 Prudential California Realty83 Seaview Drive By Appt. $1,395,000 2bd/2ba Joyce Enright 570-1360 Prudential California Realty1128 Oriole Road 1-3pm $1,150,000 3bd/5ba Doug Van Pelt 637-3684 Prudential California Realty1944-C Jameson Lane 1-3pm $565,000 3bd/2ba Madhu Khemani 252-0625 Prudential California Realty

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 18ADDRESS TIME $ #BD / #BA AGENT NAME TELEPHONE # COMPANY1372 Oak Creek Canyon By Appt. $13,500,000 6bd/10ba Bob Lamborn 689-6800 Sotheby’s700 Lilac Drive 1-4:30pm $4,300,000 3bd/3ba Joe Stubbins 729-0778 Prudential California Realty730 Arcady Road 1-4pm $3,850,000 4bd/5ba Lisa Loiacono 452-2799 Sotheby’s2117 Forge Road By Appt. $3,750,000 3bd/3.5ba Bob Lamborn 689-6800 Sotheby’s2957 East Valley Road 2-4pm $3,475,000 4bd/4ba Sandy Stahl 689-1602 Sotheby's2030 Creekside Road 1-4pm $2,995,000 4bd/5.5ba John Comin 689-3078 Prudential California Realty2516 Sycamore Canyon 2-5pm $2,149,000 4bd Ryan Strehlow 705-8877 Coldwell455 Nicholas Lane 2-4pm $1,995,000 4bd/2.5ba Barbara Gallagher 689-5785 Prudential California Realty2240 Sycamore Canyon Rd 1-4pm $1,750,000 4bd Yanet Solis 617-8531 Coldwell2150 E Valley Road 2-5pm $1,700,000 4bd/3ba Jason Streatfeild 280-9797 Prudential California Realty733 El Rancho Road 2-4pm $1,685,000 3bd Joan Wagner 895-4555 Coldwell733 El Rancho Road 2-4pm $1,685,000 3bd Joan Wagner 895-4555 Coldwell727 Alston Road 2-4pm $1,475,000 3bd/3ba Robert Johnson 705-1606 Prudential California Realty83 Seaview Drive By Appt. $1,395,000 2bd/2ba Joyce Enright 570-1360 Prudential California Realty1511B E Valley Road 1-4pm $1,270,000 2bd/2ba Brook Ashley 689-0480 Prudential California Realty85 Depot Road 1-4pm $1,100,000 3bd S Clyne/L Clyne 450-0852 Coldwell654 Circle Drive 2-4pm $875,000 4bd/2ba Isaac Garrett 729-1143 Prudential California Realty


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