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5 Editorial
Eight years after buying the hotel at the top of the Riviera, Orient-Express nearly
ready to re-open El Encanto
6 Montecito Miscellany
Fannie Flagg is Richards frst Classical Choice guest; Solana estate up for sale; Oprah
enjoys some downtime; Carolyn Amory throws bling bonanza; Jane Heller publishes
15
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book; Otto Laula celebrates 70
th
birthday; Tanksgiving at Rescue Mission; Lol
launch party; Montecito Bank & Trust bash; Youth Symphony concert; Elephants
Umbrella Fund update; Larry Hagman passes
8 Letters to the Editor
Katie Cusimano thanks the Journal; Dennis Franzs photo op; Bradley Dyruf sets the
record straight on that Alexis de Tocqueville quote; Edo McGowan shares road dust
facts
11 This Week in Montecito
Crafts at Montecito Library; Lol grand opening; SBMM photo exhibit; Simpatico
Pilates open house; Sharon Stockwell signs new book; Alliance for Living and Dying
Well flm showing; Service of Lessons and Carols; Garden Street Academy Holiday
Boutique; Te Tree Sunfowers book signing; Claudia McGarry brings book to
Tecolote; Casa del Herrero beneft; MA Land Use Committee meets; book signing at
Curious Cup; La Casa de Maria retreat
Tide Guide
Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the
beach
12 Village Beat
Montecito Fire Protection District votes on Tea Fire rebuilding; El Montecito School
at San Roque marks second year at new home; Grandparents Day and annual Turkey
Trot at Cold Spring; Montecito loses two notable women
14 Seen Around Town
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annual Pierre Claeyssens Military Ball; Santa Barbara Bank & Trusts Our Gang
travels to Avila Beach; rest in peace, Mandy
26 Book Talk
Joanna Rotte shares tips and anecdotes of Stella Adler in Acting with Adler
Ernies World
Ernies house is full, which can only mean one thing: the holidays have arrived
30 Your Westmont
Museum features Australian aboriginal painters; student-researchers new piece of
high-tech equipment
38 Guide to Montecito Eateries
Te most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing of all individually owned
Montecito restaurants, cofee houses, bakeries, gelaterias, and hangouts; others in
Santa Barbara, Summerland, and Carpinteria too
39 Sheriffs Blotter
Avery Anthony Morris charged with attempted murder; car broken into on Virginia
Road
40 On Entertainment
Ensemble Teatre Company presents Bell, Book and Candle; Punch Brothers mix
modern and bluegrass at Lobero
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42 Calendar of Events
UCSB quarter-ending concerts; 60th Annual Downtown Holiday Parade; Plaza
Playhouse Teater presents A Christmas Carol; Westmont Christmas Festival; Kids
Draw Architecture reception; beneft to support Rubicon women; Ojai Concert
Series 5th annual Holiday Season Concert; Flow State screening
44 Movie Showtimes
Latest flms, times, theaters, and addresses: theyre all here, as they are every week
45 93108 Open House Directory
Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito
46 Classifed Advertising
Our very own Craigslist of classifed ads, in which sellers ofer everything from
summer rentals to estate sales
47 Local Business Directory
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EDITORIAL Page 284
Welcome To The Orient-Express
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rank & Sheila McGinity hosted Orient-Express founder and El Encanto
restorer Jim Sherwood and his wife, Dr. Shirley Sherwood, at their
Montecito home recently. Jim is now chairman emeritus of the train and
hotel chain he founded and that singlehandedly redefined elegant travel. As
part of their visit, the McGinitys also hosted a private dinner party for a small
group of people at Birnam Wood to introduce the Sherwoods to some of their
friends. About twenty of us were regaled by both Jim Sherwood and his wife,
who is a force in her own right; she was one of ten people on a team that worked
with Sir James Black to develop and bring to market Tagamet, one of the best
selling drugs ever. Mr. Black went on to win a Nobel Prize in Medicine for that
work.
Jim Sherwood and Frank McGinity served in the U.S. Navy and were sta-
tioned together in Yokosuka, Japan in 1958, which is where Jim first became
interested in and learned about transport issues, military sea transport in the
first instance. Because of that experience, and upon resigning his commission
from the U.S. Navy, Jim moved to New York City and before long founded Sea
Containers, Ltd.
After being introduced at Birnam Wood by Frank McGinity, Sherwood
recounted how he came up with the idea of Sea Containers. In the navy, he
said, I had some experience dealing with the military sea transportation servic-
es in the Philippines, which could be described as running guns to Indonesia.
In those days, he explained, the U.S. government was supporting Sukarno.
He went on to add that the U.S. feared a Communist takeover of the region and
believed that Sukarno was the best chance of defeating that attempt.
After military service, Sherwood went to work for a U.S. commercial ship-
ping company and was stationed in France for the company. During his tenure
with them, he says he could see that the way the cargo was being handled and
shipped was out of date. All cargo in those days was laden by hand. Ships
would come into port and it would take a week or so to unload the cargo and
another week to load the ship again for a return trip. It required huge amounts
of labor, Jim observed. It was the most inefficient method of operating, he
continued, and I thought we could develop a concept of using containers that
could speed up the shipping operations.
Jim says he wasnt the first person to come up with the idea, and credits a
fellow named Malcolm McClain, a big trucking man in North Carolina for
innovating the idea and who came up with the first proper container ship, but
I was involved in a similar type of activity based in Europe.
Jim started the containerization operation for the shipping company he was
working for and it became a very successful operation. Then he thought to
himself that he could set up a company that would own the containers and
he could supply them to shipping lines all over the world. So, I got together
with a couple of my classmates (from Yale, from which he graduated), and we
pooled our resources I didnt have the money, but they did and started this
company called Sea Containers in 1965 (with $100,000, reportedly). He and his
former classmates bought a number of containers and were able to lease them
out; Sea Containers Ltd prospered and went public in 1969.
Dr. Sherwoods Legacy
Shirley, a longtime collector of botanic paintings (she has a degree in botany),
is one of the foremost collectors of contemporary botanic art in the world; she
now has a famous museum-gallery in Kew Gardens, London, called The Shirley
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magazines Intelligencer. He continues to make regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN, and
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And so it was with yours truly
when Fannie, a former actress and
comedienne, who wrote the best seller
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop
Caf, joined me in the studios of KDB
93.7 for the first taping of Classical
Choice.
The hour-long format spotlights not
only the classical, for which the Santa
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works from Broadway shows or major
Hollywood movies, chosen by guests.
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guest on TV game shows, particularly
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Great White Way and peppered her
nine selections with show hits, as well
as amusing anecdotes about many of
the singers.
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over the years and have known many
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your show is about personal taste, I
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during my life, which really reflects
it. I think this is a wonderful idea and
should appeal to a very broad demo-
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Joining us in the studio were Tim
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Messiah They sing seventy hal-
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boil an egg! cracked Fannie , The
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from
Tchaikovskys Nutcracker and Puccinis
O Mio Babbino Caro, a short but mov-
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in Merchant-Ivorys 1985 classic Room
With a View with two great dames,
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as Helena Bonham Carter from The
Kings Speech and Daniel Day-Lewis,
currently garnering rave reviews in
Steven Spielbergs Lincoln.
Alabama-born Fannies Broadway
choices were equally eclectic with
selections from Annie, Mame, Andrew
Lloyd Webbers Sunset Boulevard and
A Little Night Music, with music and
lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
All wonderful shows, all wonder-
ful singers, says Fannie. I particu-
larly loved Angela Lansbury in Mame
and Elaine Paige in Sunset Boulevard.
Both huge hits for them.
It all went very well, was the
judgment of Tim and Steve at the end
of the program.
You aced it! enthused Fannie.
Stay tuned...
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One of Montecitos most historic
and extravagant estates has come on
the market.
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mountains and the Pacific, was bought
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and they spent three years restoring
Richard Mineards
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Choice (photo cred-
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s one of two volunteer par-
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The Drowsy Chaperone at Santa
Barbara High School, I would like to
thank you for your generous cover
story (MJ # 18/46). You cant imagine
the delight of all the student perform-
ers to find their efforts appreciated by
your extensive article that dubbed our
production, The Best Show in Town.
Your support was key for us to
reach a wider audience who other-
wise might not have known about this
high-quality, entertaining show. While
selling tickets to the show on opening
night, I was asked by a local citizen,
Why dont you run ads in the local
newspapers to promote your shows?
She went on, I would love to come,
but I have no way of finding out when
theyre happening.
The answer to her question was
a simple one. This year, our theatre
department received $0.00 from the
SBHS budget. This has become the
sad reality for all performing arts at
the junior high and high school lev-
els. When there is no money, there
is no opportunity to pay local publi-
cations for advertising space. While
some periodicals and websites allow
a free calendar posting, very few pick
up the story and write an article or
review. The Montecito Journal, on the
other hand, provided SBHS Theatre
with outstanding coverage before and
during our run, free of charge.
Many of your readers might not
know that to purchase the copyright to
a production like The Drowsy Chaperone
costs an average of $3,000 per play.
With little to no financial backing,
that means we start each show with
a deficit. The majority of the fund-
ing for these shows comes from the
pockets of each cast members family,
fundraising and box office sales. Your
article helped fill more seats, which
means fewer cars for us to wash in the
future...
Thank you, MJ, for reporting on
what is right in our community and
for supporting (and promoting) local
high school performing arts. With
your continued support and support
from members of our community, we
look forward to bringing more qual-
ity shows to Santa Barbara. (Spamalot
opens April 26th!)
Katie Cusimano
SBHS Theatre Foundation Board
Member
www.sbhstheatre.com
(Editors note: What a nice letter. Thank
you for taking the time to write it. Your
daughter, Mary, was our cover girl on that
issue, as she sprayed her actor counterpart,
the irrepressibly stolid Spencer Glesby,
innumerable times in one of the funniest
scenes from the play. I loved everything
about The Drowsy Chaperone; Otto
Layman and the entire cast and crew
and musicians made it a memorable
event. We look forward to Spamalot in
April. Oh, and we should add that Family
Life a local monthly publication gave
your show a nice front-page story too, so
good on them. J.B.)
A new York Parade?
Hi guys. My wife, Joanie, and I
found ourselves in New York City on
Thanksgiving Day and while Joanie
went shopping I caught up on some
important reading (as you can see
from the photo(s) our daughter Tricia
took). There was some commotion
going on behind me as I read my copy
of Montecito Journal, but Im not sure
what it was. Something about Macys,
I think.
Anyway, thanks for the good read-
ing.
Yours,
Dennis Franz
Montecito
(Editors note: Theres always some-
thing going on in Manhattan, so you
probably didnt miss a thing J.B.)
Jim Alexander
For President
From what Ive recently heard,
youve got the God-inspired Southern
Evangelists to blame for the current
demise of the Republican Party. These
folks, its said, are the ones who gave
George W. his marching orders and
who overly influenced him.
An unproven historical point:
Scientific Americans James T. Rogers
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once theorized the South ended up
more religious (and with stricter laws)
than the rest of the country, because
the warm weather allowed for more
of the hell, fire and damnation, bible-
thumping, large open-tent revival-
type meetings.
For whats said to be objective info
on propositions and includes where
the major papers stand on issues, see:
www.ballotpedia.com: an interactive
almanac of state politics.
Lastly, for the next presidential race,
Im shunning all known candidates
and asking Jim Alexander to help
me form the GAGG Party: Generally
Grumpy About Government. Well
have Buddha run for the Chief
Executive, with Metta World Peace
as V.P.
Regards,
Ben Burned
Montecito
(Editors note: I take exception to the
possibility of Mr. Alexander running on
the GAGG Party ticket. After all, he has
no experience other than running a four-
man painting crew for the last 50 years.
Hes never been a community organizer
or agitator of any kind, except for that one
time he referenced last week when his arti-
cle on the Thirteen Ways To Tell Youve
Hired The Wrong Gardener caused him
a certain amount of grief. He is easy to
get along with and is a whiz with a paint
brush, so wed hate to lose him around
here. He writes a pretty darn good humor
column too. Besides, he has told me pri-
vately that if nominated he would not run
and if elected he would not serve. J.B.)
People Are Clueless
Anybody But Mitt was the buzz-
word from the start. Jon Huntsman
nailed it when he called Mitt (a fel-
low Mormon) a weathervane. In
Jungian terms, Governor Romney was
a performer, a chameleon who looked
the perfect part, a facade with every
hair in place, like a Hollywood set.
But when one walked through its door
nothing was there totally empty.
No inner convictions, like a spinning
weathervane. Steven Spielberg made
a movie starring Leo DiCaprio called
Catch Me If You Can, which depicts
this slippery archetype. The dirty little
secret is that this archetype (energy
pattern) falls on the yin (feminine)
side of the equation: someone who
needs the applause and approval of
the masses. Others of his ilk come to
mind: Tiger Woods, John Edwards,
Lance Armstrong, and, of course, Bill
Clinton. Bright, hard working, motor
always running; needing outside
approval above all.
The dominoes are already lined up.
Whenever the chasm between haves
and have-nots gets to such incred-
ible extremes, its always followed
by a Depression. The game is over
when only 370 American billionaires
(most of whom live in Manhattan, sans
Warren Buffett in Omaha) have the
equivalent wealth of the entire south-
ern half of the United States. The net
worth of 370 billionaires is equal to the
net worth of 150 million Americans.
In China, its even more bizarre and
extreme, and much more corrupt. As
the global economy continues to con-
tract and implode (just look at the
euro), the masses are already dem-
onstrating and taking to the streets in
alarming numbers. The BBC almost
daily shows what is unfolding. The
Islamists are lined up from Libya to
the other end, but Iran is the key. The
nuclear weapons will be deployed
there first.
Obama will be historically remem-
bered as our American Neville
Chamberlain. While strength is highly
provocative to the idealistic yin (fear-
based) feminine energy, weakness is
like blood-in-the-water to the sharks
(i.e. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea,
Pakistan, Turkey, and even India).
As a realist, I have been anticipat-
ing this outcome for the past eight
or nine years. I saw through the fake
Dot.com bubble and the housing run-
up to the Moon. Im only surprised
how stretched out this has been. Most
people dont have a clue.
Happy Holidays.
Leslie Nelson
Montecito
(Editors note: Three things. Firstly,
you suggest just look at the euro. We
did. Its hovering at 1.27-29 to the dol-
lar, pretty much what it was six years
ago. Secondly, you write that the masses
are already demonstrating and taking to
the streets in alarming numbers. Well,
yes they are, but those masses are
government employees and others on the
government teat, afraid theyll lose some
of the overly generous benefits theyve
been receiving. European governments
are trying some harder than others, no
doubt to rein in spending and over-
compensation, which is something the
U.S. should be doing but isnt. Thirdly, as
for Mr. Romneys qualifications: I believed
then and continue to believe that he was
and is exactly the right person at the right
time to have taken the nation in a different
direction before it is too late. He may have
ended up disappointing us dont they
all? but he really had the background to
do what is necessary, whereas the current
occupant is so beholden to public sector
unions, welfare recipients and the like,
that nothing much is likely to change in
that arena. We can simply look forward
to more pressure to raise more revenue
for more ineffective and wasteful spending
programs. J.B.)
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instrumentalists, together with the Laudate
Youth Chorus and the El Montecito
School Chorus present a traditional
Service of Lessons and Carols, with many
opportunities for the audience to join in
singing familiar Christmas carols
When: Friday, November 30 at 7 pm;
Saturday, December 1 at 2 pm
Where: First United Methodist Church,
305 East Anapamu Street
Info and RSVP:
www.providencehallsb.org/lessons
SATURDAY DECEMBER 1
Holiday Boutique
Garden Street Academy will host its annual
Holiday Boutique; the event is free, open to
the public and a family friendly affair. The
boutique will feature several unique vendors
with a wide variety of holiday gifts, an iPad
Mini raffe, lunch and scrumptious treats.
Proceeds from the event will beneft the
Garden Street Academy scholarship fund,
which helps to promote the schools vision
to offer a progressive independent school
experience to families who might not
otherwise have the opportunity.
When: 9 am to 2 pm
Where: Garden Street Academy,
2300 Garden Street
Book Signing at Curious Cup
Author Janet Lucy and Illustrator Colleen
McCarthy-Evans will sign The Three
Sunfowers, a childrens book
When: 1 pm to 4 pm
Where: 929 Linden Avenue Cost: free
Booksigning at Tecolote
Author Claudia McGarry will sign her
latest, Beignet and Grandpa Au Lait
When: 2 pm
Where: 1470 East Valley Road
Info: 969-4977
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29
Grand Opening
Pop-Up Shop Lol invites you to pop in to a
very special pop-up shop; to attend bring
a gently used winter coat to be donated.
As a thank you, guests will receive a $50
store credit.
The shop is Montreal-born brand Lol, a
lifestyle and active wear brand (stands for
Live Out Loud Everyday); this is the frst
store on the west coast, and second store
in the United States.
When: 5 pm to 8 pm
Where: 750 State Street
(de la Guerra entrance)
Photo Exhibition
Photographers extraordinaire Ernie
Brooks and Bob Evans selected over
ffty photographs of the Santa Barbara
Maritime Hemisphere (50 Nautical
Miles from SBMM) that best captured
the theme, Visual Elements, of the area.
Tonight, winners will be honored for their
contributions, with Brooks and Evans on
hand to present. The wine and cheese
reception is free; all photos are for sale
with 40 percent of the charitable donation
tax deduction proceeds benefting SBMMs
Educational Programs.
Where: Santa Barbara Maritime Museum,
113 Harbor Way
When: 5:30 to 7:30 pm, awards
presented at 6:15 pm
Holiday Open House
Simpatico Pilates opens its doors for a
community get together combined with an
art opening with photographer Michael
Fish Fisher
When: 6 pm to 9 pm
Where: 1235 Coast Village Road
Info: 565-7591
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30
Screening and Discussion
The Alliance for Living and Dying Well in
partnership with the Unitarian Society will
show four flms that explore the impact
of loss, aging, and mortality as well as
their fip side: a deep appreciation of
life. The facilitated discussion that follows
each showing encourages participants
to acknowledge unfnished business and
share their feelings. All screenings will
be held in the Parish Hall of the Unitarian
Society. The featured flm tonight: On
Golden Pond (1981). An elderly, brusque
English professor gains zest for life despite
growing forgetfulness as he reconciles with
his daughter. The flm features Jane Fonda
and Oscar-winning performances by
Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn.
When: 7 pm
Where: 1535 Santa Barbara Street

Service of Lessons and Carols
In what has quickly become an annual
tradition, Providence Hall singers and
(If you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito,
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30
Hill Barons Kitchen Book Signing
Sharon Stockwells new book, The Hill Barons Kitchen
is set in 1920s Santa Barbara. The book reveals tales
of passionate Chefs as they compete in the Medallion
dOro, crowning the greatest cuisinier in America. Follow
the freworks aboard an infamous gambling ship and
experience the opening of Santa Barbaras prized Biltmore
Hotel. Be entertained by the steady stream of notables,
from Lindbergh and Chaplin to starlets of the silver screen
who food the Santa Barbara social scene with excitement,
celebrity and scandal.
When: 4 to 6 pm Where: Tecolote Book Shop, 1470 East Valley Road
Info: 969-4977
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 29
Paper Crafts at Montecito Library
Come to a craft faire to create cards and
decorations for the winter holidays. All
materials supplied and open to all ages.
When: 3 pm to 5 pm
Where: Montecito Library,
Info: 969-5063
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Christmas at the Casa
Casa Blanca: An Evening of Christmas,
Candlelight & Cocktails beneftting Casa
del Herrero. Proceeds from the evening
beneft the stewardship and preservation of
this historic home, workshop and gardens,
which was named a National Historic
Landmark in 2009.
Guests can belly up to Steedmans
Bar designed as a replica of the rustic
Workshop, where guests can sip wine and
cocktails. Hors doeuvres will be served,
and live entertainment will be provided.
Mini-tours of the home and workshop will
be available.
Parking is available at El Montecito
Presbyterian Church with complimentary
shuttle service to the Casa.
Where: 1387 East Valley Road
Cost: $125 for members,
$150 for non-members
Tickets and info: 565-5653
TUESDAY DECEMBER 4
Montecito Association Land Use
Committee Meeting
The Montecito Association is committed
to preserving, protecting, and enhancing
the semi-rural residential character of
Montecito
When: 4 pm
Where: Montecito Hall,
FRIDAY DECEMBER 7
Book Signing at Curious Cup
Author Sarah Lynn reads and signs her
new childrens book 1-2-3 Va-Va-Vroom!
A Counting Book. A free matchbox car is
offered with purchase of book.
When: 4 pm to 6 pm
Where: 929 Linden Avenue
Info: sscheerger@yahoo.com
SUNDAY DECEMBER 9
Mindfulness Practice Retreat
A half-day retreat for calming the mind,
opening the heart and fnding peace
through guided meditations, including
Metta, (Loving Kindness) meditation. All
are welcome. Radhule Weininger,
MD, PhD, practices psychotherapy and
is a popular teacher of Mindfulness
meditation.
When: 2 pm to 5:30 pm
Where: La Casa de Maria,
800 El Bosque Road
Cost: donation
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by Kelly Mahan

A
t its monthly board meeting
last week, the Montecito Fire
Protection District board of
directors voted unanimously to allow
residents trying to rebuild their homes
lost in the Tea Fire to do so individual-
ly, rather than as a group. Residents of
Banana Road, specifically, have been
working with the District as a group,
because of access issues stemming
from the private road. We had been
trying to get them to improve the road
as a group, but now we will look at
each of their situations individually,
said MFPDs Geri Ventura.
The audience was full of victims of
the Tea Fire, which destroyed over 200
homes in 2008. Most were supportive
of the Boards decision to change its
approach to helping residents rebuild.
Fire Chief Chip Hickman called the
group dynamic problematic; sever-
al fire victims have not yet broken
ground on rebuilding their homes.
The District was scheduled to pres-
ent plans for Fire Station 3 to the
Montecito Planning Commission
this week, but in lieu of the elec-
tion of three new board members on
November 6 Abe Powell, Susan
Keller, and Gene Sinser the District
requested that the County continue
the hearing to January 16. The contin-
uance will allow the new board mem-
bers, who join incumbents Roy Jensen
and John Venable, to have more time
to consider all aspects of the new sta-
tion, to be located in the 2500 block of
East Valley Road.
El Montecito School
Located on the grounds of El
Montecito Presbyterian Church on
East Valley Road for over 50 years, El
Montecito School, founded in 1958,
marks its second year at its new home
in San Roque. During a tour of the
campus earlier this week, school
director Jeannine Morgan, who has
been at the schools helm since 1979,
told us about the independent school,
which she says was born and raised
in Montecito.
The school, which began as a parish
preschool, began adding elementary
grades in the early 80s, and by 2001
served students from preschool to 6th
grade. The school has outgrown both
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pus on Canon Perdido Street in Santa
Barbara, which they shared with the
Boys & Girls Club of Santa Barbara
for four years. Now, says Morgan, the
120-student school has found a beauti-
ful new home, located on the campus
of the San Roque Catholic Parish. The
school is a non-profit, non-denomina-
tional, Christian school.
El Montecito at San Roque moved
to its new campus during the sum-
mer of 2011, known as the sum-
mer of the great school shuffle. El
Montecito School moved to the San
Roque campus after San Roque School
(now Garden Street Academy) con-
solidated campuses on Garden Street,
while Providence Hall moved from
Micheltorena Street to Canon Perdido,
and Santa Barbara Middle School
moved out of the St. Anthonys prop-
erty. There are only so many places
that can accommodate a school, so this
was bound to happen, Morgan said.
The school keeps a small student-
teacher ratio, with most classes having
El Montecito School at San Roque marks its second year at its new home
School Director
Jeannine
Morgan with
first graders
Estella Wilson
and Maile
Merrick
P
ierre Claeyssens Veterans
Museum (PCVM) presented its
17
th
annual Military Ball, dedi-
cated to the greatest generation and all
veterans, at Fess Parkers DoubleTree
Resort. Five hundred people walked
through the very impressive entrance,
which had two army vehicles parked
there (one a WWII Army jeep named
Pierre), along with flags flying and
red, white and blue lights. Inside the
ballroom hanging from the ceiling was
a mass of flags from various services
and countries. The veterans were as
colorful as the dcor because of all the
medals they were wearing. Claeyssens
was a philanthropist born in Belgium
who remembered the Americans free-
ing them in World War I. He desig-
nated the seed money for a museum
to salute all veterans so they would
never be forgotten.
The evening began with a VIP recep-
tion and a dancing exhibition. The big
band sounds of Swing Shift reminded
me of the grand era of swing dancing.
We love to dance the night away each
year. There was a dance instructor to
teach the younger generation how to
swing dance and they too filled the
floor.
Co-founding directors Lt. John
W. Blankenship, USN (Former) and
his wife, Hazel, are in charge of the
museum and put together this event
every year. Following dinner, John
introduced Peter Bie, who called for
the U. S. Navy Color Guard. Posting
the colors always gives one a patri-
otic tingle. He told us, The Pledge of
Allegiance was written in 1892 after
the Civil War to help bring the coun-
try together. Captain Carolyn Alexa
Wagnild, U. S. Army, performed the
Missing Man Ceremony. She is a 2006
UCSB ROTC Distinguished Military
Graduate with 1,065 flight hours and
250 combat hours.
Brig. Gen. Fred Lopez, USMC (Ret.)
read a letter from the Commandant,
USMC and the band played the
anthems of each service. Colonel Jon
Fer, U.S.A.F. (Ret.) was the keynote
speaker and is a graduate of the United
States Air Force Academy. In his 54
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mission over North Vietnam, he was
shot down and became a POW in the
Hanoi Hilton for six years. I have been
there and cant even imagine being a
prisoner in that awful place right in
the middle of Hanoi.
Winners of the Greatest Generation
Award were Sergeant Major Robert
Forties and Private Arthur Petersen.
Robert was one of the paratroop-
ers who jumped into Normandy on
D-Day, June 6, 1944 and went on to
fight in Operation Market Garden in
Holland. Among many other medals
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Pierre Claeyssens Military Ball
SEEn Page 164
Brig. Gen Fred
Lopez (USMC)
(Ret.) with
Military Ball
co-founders
Hazel
and John
Blankenship
The Military
Ball entrance
at Fess Parkers
with Pierre,
the jeep, from
the Claeyssens
museum
Keynote
speaker
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museum
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Sergeant
Major Robert
Forties and
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Petersen at
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he has five Purple Hearts and has lived
in Santa Barbara since 1964. Arthur
parachuted with the 101
st
Airborne
into St. Mre Eglise, France on D-Day.
He too fought in Holland and also The
Battle of the Bulge in December 1944.
He has The Bronze Star and a Purple
Heart and has served his fellow vet-
erans through various organizations
since his return to Santa Barbara in
1945.
Hazel Blankenship told me,
Negotiations are in progress to
have the Veterans Memorial Building
(built in 1922) across from West Beach
become the Veterans Museum. To
build a world-class destination muse-
um is their dream. We all agreed we
are proud to be Americans and free-
dom isnt free.
Diablo Canyon
Santa Barbara Bank & Trusts travel
group, Our Gang, recently took a day
trip to Avila Beach to begin a tour
at the Pacific Gas & Power (PG&E)
Energy Education Center for a pre-
sentation of How the Plant Works. It
was a 12-mile drive into the plant site
where security reigned supreme. We
all had to have photo ID and get off
the motor coach while they inspected
it from top to bottom.
There are three tours available and
we took the general tour for first-
time visitors. This plant provides low-
cost clean electricity for three mil-
lion northern and central California
homes. Using uranium fuel we saw
a simulated pellet less than an inch
long, which is equal to 149 gallons of
oil, one ton of coal or 17,000 cubic feet
of natural gas. Five of those pellets
will serve a households electricity
needs for a year. Pretty amazing.
There are about 1,200 employees
and 200 outside contractors working
in the facility. The reactor operators
licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (NRC) receive simula-
tor training in a replica of the power
plants Unit l control room every five
weeks. Then we took a drive to the
used fuel storage facility where guides
explained how used fuel is safely and
securely stored.
Roughly 12,000 acres of scenic and
habitat rich land that are managed
by PG&E surround the power plant.
They are examples of the Pecho
Coast in its natural state. The trail
is a joint project of the California
Coastal Commission, Port San Luis
Harbor District and PG&E. There
are two hikes available, which are
docent-led. Call (805) 541-TREK for
information.
PG&E supports community rela-
tions with various programs like the
New Energy Academy, Right Minds
Scholarship Program, Partnering with
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For more details about tours, to
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We ended the day at the end of the
pier in Avila Beach at the Olde Port
Inn, a historic restaurant with charm
oozing from every plank. Begun in
1967 by a fisherman Barry Cohen
with $300 worth of cedar wood, it
has mushroomed into a favorite spot
packed with people. If ever youre up
that way, youre invited to drop in and
say hello.
Mandy
The photo of my Shih Tzu Mandy
was taken by Jim Buckley l4 years
ago. These many years later its time
to say goodbye. She will be missed
not only by Don and me but all the
strangers that smiled and petted her
because she was so cute. When we
married, Don learned to love her
as much as I and she adored him.
Because I valet park so often for
this column, many of the valet guys
knew her. She hated to stay home and
would rather wait in the car. Kevin
from Signature even called my car
the Mandy Mobile because she was
usually inside. If not, they wanted
to know where she was. There were
also her beach buddies her favor-
ite place to run every day. There
were groomers, dog sitters and all
the people that gave her treats at the
bank, post office and Occhialis. Her
job was to make people happy and
she did it well. She even passed her
pet therapy class at one year without
going to doggie school. How could
such a little dog leave such a big
hole in my heart? Well see you again
someday, our Mandy. Love, Lynda.
Dear little Mandy, or Bozo as I
called you sometimes. I am sorry that
I was not able to save you from the
ravages of a brain seizure that left
you paralyzed and not able to live.
You are in my prayers and an eight-
day candle will burn for you at Our
Lady of Mount Carmel Church to
carry our prayers to doggie heaven.
Godspeed on your final voyage, little
one. Your great protector. Don. MJ
Helen and Hugh
Smart with Mary
Moore on the
Diablo Canyon
excursion
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While none of the roughly 100,000 sq. f. of residential and
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the Francis Underhill property, which
was originally purchased by Forrest
Peabody of the Arrow Shirts family.
The house, which I have been invit-
ed to a number of times, boasts hand-
carved mahogany, European forged
bronze hardware, museum quality
mosaic tile floors, 18th century wall
sconces and 17th century French oak
paneling that originally belonged
to newspaper magnate William
Randolph Hearst.
It also boasts a guest and pool house,
a home theater, wine cellar, reflecting
ponds and endless terraces.
The couple, who also have homes in
Houston, Texas, and Montana half
of an old town with 20 properties
are selling the estate for $57.5 mil-
lion through Harry Kolb of Sothebys
International Realty.
Dont all rush...
The Quiet Life
Having spent much of her recent
time working on her eponymous TV
network, OWN, in Los Angeles and
wrapping up her latest film The Butler
in Louisiana, former talk show titan,
Oprah Winfrey, has been spending
some much deserved downtime at her
Montecito 42-acre estate, I note.
The 58-year-old media mogul has
been giving her 14.9 million Twitter
followers a glimpse of her lifestyle in
our rarefied enclave, particularly with
her five pet dogs, including her cocker
spaniel Sadie.
I love walking in the rain, tweets
Oprah. Another favorite thing!
Solana, the Montecito mega-mansion, now on the
market for $57.5 million
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pet pooches walking in the rain
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ichard passed away at his home in Carpinteria,
CA. on Monday, November 12, 2012. He will be
sorely missed by his family and many friends.
Born September 1, 1940, in Santa Barbara, Richard
grew up in rural Montecito.
During his youth he worked several part time jobs in
Montecito, onesetting up for conferences at the Mira-
mar Hotel, anotherdelivering the Santa Barbara News
Press. He also workeddowntown at the Santa Barbara
Star newspaper. Afer high school he enlisted in the
Marine Corps,training at Camp Pendleton, Bridgeport
and 29 Palms, California. Back in Montecito hepartnered in business with his
step-father Milt Tenold in a Coast Village Road Union Oil service station.
Richard became a frefghter with the Carpinteria-Summerland Fire District,
where he worked through the ranks forthirty-two yearsand retired in 1998 as a
Fire Captain.
He joined the Masonic Fraternity in 1978, and was Master of the Carpinteria
Masonic Lodge in 2000. He was an avid motorcycle rider, aviation enthusiast, car
collector and world traveler with his wife.
He is survived by his wife of thirty fve years Sheila (Cook); their son Stuart
Tomsen Tenold of New York City; his son Richard Scott Tenold, daughter-in-law
Amanda (Taylor) and grandson Brennan Shay of Oxnard, CA; his sister Marlene
Tenold of Girard, Ohio; cousin William Harrison of Ft. Bragg, CA; uncle Roger
Tomsen of Santa Barbara, CA; and many in-laws and cousins.
In addition to his parents Dorothea (Byers) and Richard Ward Tomsen, he was
preceded in death by his former wife Ann (Dunning); beloved step-father Milton
Tenold; aunt Millie (Byers); uncle Leroy Byers, and his Tomsen uncles George,
David, Gordon and Gene.
A graveside service will be held at the Carpinteria Cemetery, 1501 Cravens Lane,
on Saturday, December 1, 2012 at 2 p.m. A reception will follow at the Carpinteria
Masonic Lodge, 5421 Carpinteria Avenue, Carpinteria. In lieu of fowers, donations
may be made to Carpinteria Valley Historical Society or Santa Barbara Visiting
Nurse and Hospice in Dicks name.
TENOLD, Richard Stuart Dick
1940 - 2012
LETTERS (Continued from page 9)
northerly storm to clean out our com-
munitys byways. Bacteria and para-
sites have moved in recently, almost
unnoticed. Camouflaged to look and
live like the rest of us. The environ-
mental sensitivities are running high
among the locals during this time of
coming changes and we are looking
forward to an abundance of clean,
clear, honest water in the near future.
Bill Dalziel
Rosettas Pond
Montecito
(Editors note: The guessing around
here is that the recent rains werent
enough to flush your pond. But, its going
to be a good rain year, we suspect, Bill, so
hang in there! J.B.)
It Was not
de Tocqueville
In last weeks Montecito Journal, a
letter to the editor written by Mike
Stoker was printed, which contained
a quote purportedly written by Alexis
de Tocqueville in his book, Democracy
in America.
A search of the text of Alexis de
Tocquevilles work and further inves-
tigation shows that the quote was
not written by de Tocqueville, nor by
Alexander Tyler, (to whom it is also
frequently attributed).
The full text of Democracy in America
can be found here:
http://tinyurl.com/66jmgp
A Snopes page can be accessed
which discusses the quote as well as
others sent via email following the
2000 Presidential election. It can be
found here:
http://tinyurl.com/a5au9x
Long revered as an astute observa-
tion of early American society, gov-
ernment and politics, de Tocquevilles
work suggests that he looked upon
the relatively new American system of
democratic government quite favor-
ably, pointing out inherent benefits
and potential problems, but repeated-
ly praising the power and importance
of the individual citizen.
For Mr. Stoker to suggest that
de Tocqueville believed that citi-
zens exercising their right to vote to
express their own self-interest, would
inevitably lead to the collapse of our
American democracy, tells me that he
has either not read de Tocquevilles
writings or he would prefer to misin-
terpret them.
De Tocqueville did not write the
quote that Mr. Stoker attributed
to him, but in his introduction to
Democracy in America, he did write the
following:
I do not know whether I have suc-
ceeded in making known what I saw
in America, but I am certain that such
has been my sincere desire, and that I
have never, knowingly, molded facts
to ideas, instead of ideas to facts.
Bradley Dyruff
Santa Barbara
(Editors note: Yeah, we knew the quote
is not de Toquevilles, but since Mr. Stoker
included it in his letter and since he
did lose the election, we let it slide. The
statement has been variously attributed
to Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin,
Cicero, and a gaggle of other equally
prominent men. Im not sure it is a direct
quote from anyone other than someone
contemporaneous to this era who thinks or
thought it would give the statement more
authenticity if said or written by a long-
dead sage. However, if you dont believe
that citizens exercising their right to
vote to express their own self-interest,
would inevitably lead to the collapse of
our American democracy, you should
think again. The current and accelerat-
ing habit of citizens (or not) voting to
raise taxes on others and make payments
to themselves may very well lead to the
beginning of the end of our republic. An
amendment to the Constitution requiring
every citizen to suffer the consequences of
every vote would remedy that. J.B.)
Caruso Haircut Desired
Salud Carbajals credibility on the
Miramar deal (Miramar Update
MJ # 18/47) is questionable; Caruso
backed him with campaign funding.
As to the hotel itself: Caruso
should be forced to do what all other
investors have to do when they have
made a bad investment: take a hair-
cut! The net increase in income to
the county in giving Caruso millions
in taxes for 15 years is not as black
and white as Salud and Geis state
it to be.
The hundreds of workers at the
hotel will mostly be minimum wage
earners and thus fall within fed-
eral poverty level wage guidelines.
This will make them eligible for
Food Stamps, Section 8, Medicaid,
Unearned Income Tax Credits and
any other welfare program that
exists for poverty level wage work-
ers.
This is an industry that has priva-
tized its profits and socialized its
costs, much like Wal-Mart has done
with its mostly part-time work force.
Those Low Prices-Always! are sub-
sidized by the rest of us!
I would love to have all the Miramar
numbers and crank them to get the
true picture with the rebate and with-
out it.
Best,
Ernie Salomon
Santa Barbara
(Editors note: Im not sure if you are
suggesting that Wal-Mart not hire any-
one, or pay their employees an unsustain-
able wage. But, in any case, we believe
it is shameful that so much is available
to so many who are otherwise gainfully
employed. Without all these programs, life
would be immeasurably less expensive for
us all. J.B.)
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Highway Horror Show
This may be something not dis-
cussed in the 101 EIR: the impact of
road dust on human health when syn-
ergistically exacerbated by the influ-
ence of electro-magnetic fields from
adjacent high-tension power lines.
Organic dusts cause inflammato-
ry reactions in the tissues exposed.
This irritated tissue thus becomes
greatly responsive to pathogenesis
from pathogens found in the same
dust. The lung and the cells lining
the surface of the respiratory tract
are the primary area where this irri-
tation, hence pathogen interaction,
takes place. Many receptors have
been shown to react specifically on
the presence of microorganisms that
are ubiquitous elements in organic
road dusts.
There is a great variability in the
individual response to organic dusts.
Almost 50% of Caucasians are hypo-
responders to LPS exposure, and peo-
ple with alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency
are hyper-responsive to organic dust
exposure. The diseases resulting from
organic dust exposures include asth-
ma, allergy, hypersensitivity pneumo-
nitis and toxic pneumonitis (organic
dust toxic syndrome). The inflamma-
tion and the subsequent mechanism of
disease needs to be well discussed to
aid decision-makers, who require an
adequate background for ascertaining
public health impacts, hence roadway
design.
Toxicological studies including
human experimental exposures and
ex vivo studies of cells are described
need to be discussed within the EIR.
Of particular importance are cellular
reactions that are mediated through
the attachment LPS and (1,3)-d-glucan
to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) binding
protein, CD14 and Toll-like receptors.
The relation between protein release
and the gene activation needs review.
Because sewage sludge if often used
as compost along roadways and con-
tains not only pathogens but also their
genetic fragments (both antibiotic
resistant genes and virulence islands)
dust arising from a variety of sources
warrants further analyses within the
EIR. Sewage sludge and its compost
are often used as erosion control along
roadways. This material, when getting
onto the roadbed will become ground
by the traffic to become part of the
road dust.
Within this entrained dust, includ-
ing road dust are numerous constitu-
ents that may be considered as car-
cinogenic. Others are irritants. Then
there are the various pathogens (bac-
teria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa)
many of which may contain and thus
could transfer antibiotic resistance.
Other constituents of road dust also
adversely affect the functioning of the
respiratory system through allergic
reactions. That the respiratory tissues
are irritated merely opens those sur-
faces to increased risk from pathogens.
The process here is cyclic.
Within the heading of road dust
one finds, as mentioned above, tire
dust. This is material that is removed
from the tires as they contact the
road. The average amount of tire dust
lost annually through wear has been
estimated at 2.5 pounds per tire. Thus
a 4-wheel vehicle will lose about 10
pounds of rubber per year. Estimates
from Los Angeles put the aerosol load
from tire dust at about 10,000 pounds
per day. This is divided into micro-
scopic latex particles, many of which
will stay suspended for hours as they
waft around and then move down
wind. Many will reach the smallest
recesses of the lung.
There is also a tendency to place low
income-low cost housing along trans-
port corridors because of the reduced
property cost. Thus, the section of
society that might most often utilize
this type of housing may also overlap
with that portion of society that relies
heavily on publicly subsidized medi-
cal care.
Here, I would also like to argue
that transport corridors themselves
are actually stationary sources, and
thus could come under the purview
of APCD. What, logically, makes a
source stationary versus mobile? A
factory smokestack puffs out a pollut-
ant, thus comes under scrutiny. The
smokestack itself, if nothing is sup-
plied to produce a pollutant, is merely
an inert stack of brick and concrete. It
is the material brought into the factory
and combined within that factory that
makes the smokestack an issue. The
same logic can be applied to asphalt
and concrete roadways. Asphalt itself
is composed of rubber material, hence
its wearing releases rubber as well as
other materials that adversely impact
health. Rubber is a complex mixture
of toxins, reactive proteins and aller-
gens. Other materials brought into the
corridor contribute to the increased
air risk.
For example, under the greening
of government, the mandated pro-
curement of composted biosolids
(sewer sludge) for roadway mainte-
nance and erosion control brings in
large quantities of pathogens (many
of which are antibiotic resistant) and
respiratory irritants in the form of
lipopolysaccharides (the cell wall of
Gram negative bacteria which cause
violent immune reactions and are
a major portion of biosolids) and
liming chemicals. Additionally, for
areas irrigated with reclaimed sewer
water, there is enough evidence in
the scientific literature to raise ques-
tions about pathogen release and
down-wind aerosols. These released
pathogens, often containing resistant
genes, can pass this genetic infor-
mation to soil microbes. These soil
microbes then become lending librar-
ies for this genetic information. These
become part of the road dust and are
entrained to move down wind into
adjacent areas.
Then there are the deposits from the
vehicles themselves, tire wear, engine
derived materials, dust from breaks,
clutches, belt wear, and action of tires
on the road surface. Added to this
are the materials from the area that
fall out as dust, bacterial and fungal
spores or materials washed onto road-
ways, including right-of-way mainte-
nance materials such as pesticides.
All these materials, which form a
complex of irritants, are re-entrained
daily. Thus this mix, which is unique
to roadways, constitutes a station-
ary source of air pollution. Who is
responsible for an evaluation of this
source, and to whom does the regula-
tory responsibility fall? This question
should be answered within the EIR.
As is noted above, the impacts from
a variety of sources as well as their
combination with ozone constitute air
pollution and have adverse influences
on health. What, if any, are the limits
on the discussion of such combina-
tions within the EIR? If the EIR is not
able to discuss these issues, where is
the forum?
My credentials? A degree in medi-
cine from USC and a PhD in envi-
ronmental health, former Regional
Environmental Officer for the
Department of State, USAID to 22
nations in Africa.
Edo McGowan
Montecito
(Editors note: Yikes! It certainly is dan-
gerous to be alive, but we thank you for
bringing up some very interesting infor-
mation about our highways and especially
the toxic soup those of us that live and/
or work near them are exposed to daily.
J.B.) MJ
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12-16 kids per class. Weekly curricu-
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chapel classes, in addition to academ-
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character, curiosity, and compassion,
Morgan said. The campus has recent-
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technologically advanced classrooms,
music studios, a library, full kitch-
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areas and an organic garden. Every
Monday the school holds an assem-
bly and flag salute in the quad. The
school boasts 80 families with about
120 students.
A tour of the school will be held
next Wednesday, December 5 at 9 am.
Guests are encouraged to come check
out the campus, meet the teachers,
and observe the school.
El Montecito School at San Roque is
located at 3225 Calle Pion. For more
information visit www.elmoschool.
com or call 962-3091.
Turkey Trot
at Cold Spring School
Last Tuesday, November 20, dozens
of parents and grandparents flocked
to Cold Spring School for a com-
bined event: Grandparents Day and
the annual Turkey Trot. The event was
held to bring awareness to the Cold
Spring Foundation and Parent Clubs
mission to raise money to institute a
strings program in the schools music
department.
We wanted our grandparents to
hear our newly formed strings pro-
gram perform, said superintendent
Tricia Price. Grandparents were invit-
ed to hear third graders perform on
violin, hear the school choir sing, see
art and technology rooms on campus,
Event orga-
nizers Carrie
Randolph, Kim
Thomas and
Heidi Whitney
Bill and Janet Odle with granddaughters Marin,
Mia and Paylin Marcillac at the Grandparents Day
event
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and eat lunch with their grandkids.
This year, grandparents cheered
their students on during the Turkey
Trot, a long-standing tradition at the
school. Students from the Westmont
track team dressed as turkeys run
around the track, with Cold Spring
students racing after them, attempting
to pluck a feather from the turkeys
tail.
The Cold Spring Foundation and
the Parent Club have been working
together to raise money for child-size
violins at the school. The second and
third grade students have small group
violin classes with music teacher Mr.
Zecher. In January, the groups hope
to be able to purchase enough violins
for each second and third grader to
take a violin home to practice with.
Our goal is to increase the number
of violins, as well as develop a full set
of orchestra string instruments for the
upper classes, said Parent Club mem-
ber Jennifer Hall.
Anyone interested in supporting
the strings program at the school
can donate directly at 2243 Sycamore
Canyon Road or online at www.cold
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In Passing
In the past year, two notable women
with ties to Friends of the Montecito
Library, passed away. The follow-
ing obituaries were sent to us from
Friends board member Antonia
Robertson.
The passing of Margot Brownrigg
Reppy on September 14, 2012 sad-
dened the Board and Staff of the
Montecito Library. Margot and her
late husband, Judge William Reppy,
were supporters of the Montecito
Library since 1972, when they
moved to Santa Barbara County. The
Judge helped form the Friends of
the Montecito Library and served as
its president for many years. When
he died in 2005, the Friends of the
Montecito Library were the recipients
of a generous bequest from his estate.
Later that year, the library named
the Reppy Reading Room after the
family. Margot Reppy continued to
be an avid reader and supporter of
the library until a few months ago,
when she became ill. The generosity
of the Reppys has insured the future
strength of the library.
(Editors note: the following contains
excerpts from the New York Times)
June Breton Fisher of Santa
Barbara, California, passed away
unexpectedly on January 9, 2012.
Born in New York City on March 27,
1927, she was the daughter of the late
Henry Goldman, Jr. and Adrienne
(Straus) Goldman. A graduate of the
Brearley School, she attended Bryn
Mawr. After college she worked for
a fashion copywriter, then as a lyr-
icist, and also in public relations.
Mr. Breton, her first husband was
a Broadway actor who went on to
become a television producer and
director. They lived in Mamaroneck,
NY and Greenwich, CT.
She formed Ridgewater Partners
with her second husband, Maurice
Fisher. For many years they designed
and escorted luxury golf trips around
the world. Mrs. Fisher was an invet-
erate traveler, avid golfer, and enthu-
siastic bridge player. Her greatest
accomplishment was achieved while
she was in her 80s. What started out
as a story for family turned into the
book, When Money Was in Fashion:
Henry Goldman, Goldman Sachs,
and the Founding of Wall Street,
published in 2010. The book was a
biography of her grandfather, Henry
Goldman, the son of the founder of
Goldman Sachs. During the writing
of this book, Mrs. Fisher utilized the
Montecito Library on a weekly basis
to do historical research. She appre-
Turkey Trot
winners
Lucas Hatch
(first grade),
Maya
Mayashida
(first grade),
Elena
Thomas
(kinder-
garten)
and Dana
Whitney
(first grade)
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awarding 180 nonproft organizations
from Santa Barbara and Ventura
Counties a total of $1,000,000 to help
them continue their good work. After
10 years, that makes $10 million given
back to the communities where we live
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years recipients for their extraordinary
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She also showed photos in her
sprawling kitchen preparing her
Thanksgiving Day meal.
Bon appetit...
Bling Bash
Socialite Carolyn Amory threw an
event with many facets when she
hosted a lunch to promote internation-
al auctioneer Sothebys jewelry sale in
New York on Wednesday, December 5.
The bling bonanza features magnifi-
cent pieces that belonged to the late
cosmetics tsarina, Este Lauder, and
her daughter-in-law, Evelyn, who pio-
neered the Pink Ribbon breast cancer
research campaign.
Among the items on display at
Carolyns splendiferous Montecito
manse were a 22-carat diamond daz-
zler ring by Graff, a 20-carat yellow
diamond ring by Harry Winston and
the Windsor heart necklace, featuring
95 carats of diamonds and a 47-carat
yellow diamond by Van Cleef &
Arpels, which was worn by the Duke
of Windsors wife as a ring, notably at
Baron Guy de Rothschilds legendary
Proust Ball in 1971 at his magnificent
Chateau de Ferrieres.
Checking out the many carats on
the menu, which also included pieces
from the collection of New York social-
ite Jayne Wrightsman, were Betsy
Kaiser, Leslie Ridley-Tree, Susan St.
John, Hollye Jacobs, Hope Kelly,
Caroline Thompson, Melinda Mars,
Haddon Allen, Melanie Trent and
Eileen Mielko.
All monies raised from the Lauders
collection at the Manhattan auction
will benefit the Breast Cancer Research
Foundation.
Caregivers Survival Guide
Prolific Montecito author Jane Heller
has just published her 15th book,
Youd Better Not Die Or Ill Kill You: A
Caregivers Survival Guide to Keeping You
in Good Health and Good Spirits.
Jane, whose other tomes include
Name Dropping, Lucky Stars and
Princess Charming, has had nine of
The pearls have it! Leslie Ridley-Tree, hostess
Carolyn Amory and Betsy Kaiser at the Sothebys
jewelry lunch. (Photo credit: Caroline Thompson)
Let the Holidays Begin!
Ernies World
by Ernie Witham
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BOOK TALK
by Shelly Lowenkopf
Class Act
T
hey arrive from the far cor-
ners of the earth (actually Los
Angeles and other parts of
Santa Barbara) bearing gifts... Where
should I put my dirty laundry?
...and exotic treats... Anyone want
half an eggplant and goat cheese
taco I couldnt finish? ...and excit-
ing news... We may have run over
a skunk. Either that or there are rats
living in the engine compartment. We
parked in the garage to check it out.
Ah yes, the holidays are here.
My wife has been busy for a week
preparing enough food to feed the
World Boxing Federation and I have
been preparing extra bed air mat-
tresses that no longer have working
pumps. So my job has been to blow
and blow until all sound fades and I see
little white lights dancing in front of my
eyes, pass out momentarily, and then
try to inhale enough oxygen to reinflate
my lungs so I can finish. My wife also
makes me vacuum the entire house.
Before the holidays? Are you kid-
ding? Thats like mowing the battle-
field before Gettysburg!
This year the season started the day
before Thanksgiving as we celebrated
my granddaughter Ashleys twenty-
first birthday.
Shes twenty-one on the twenty-
first, Christy pointed out. That
makes it her golden birthday! A
statement like this means one thing:
theme party.
We brought gold tinsel, streamers,
stars, glitter, glue sticks, ribbon, bows
and sparklers, said Leila.
Try not to get anything on the
floor, I suggested, as I waded through
enough glitter to supply all the dance
troupes in Las Vegas.
Plus we have yards of gold mate-
rial for a backdrop for the photo, said
Carl. Theres always a photo. It usu-
ally involves multiple takes.
Charlie made a weird face!
Jessicas standing on my toe.
Jon kissed me. I need to touch up
my gold lipstick!
The flash didnt go off again.
There are also games. They start out
sedate enough with something like
Catch Phrase where teams guess
answers based on simple clues.
Its something you eat for break-
fast, I said, as the timer beeped faster
and faster.
Cold pizza!
Cheetos and beer!
Flan!
The timer goes: Bllllllaaaahhhh.
Actually, its eggs.
Eggs! Thats dumb.
No, flan is dumb.
I love flan.
Thats cause youre dumb.
Oh yeah, well you said Cheetos!
Cheetos are a breakfast staple!
I wanna be on a different team!
Once dinner is over and the serious
drinking begins, things start to pick up.
Thats when we look for more physi-
cal activities. Anything from indoor
full contact soccer to blind relay races
involving small animals. This year,
though, someone suggested a dance
circle. That seemed pretty mellow.
Is that as loud as the speakers go?
What?
Try hooking up the amp!
More reverb!
What?
In a dance circle, one person dances
into the middle and out again and
the next person has to dance into the
circle duplicating whatever the previ-
ous person did on the way out. Then
they make up a new step that the next
person has to duplicate.
Did I mention that some members
of the family are professional dancers?
Others are acrobats. Some are really
macho. Then others...
What the heck was that?
I call it the Ernie.
Right! You couldnt even duplicate
that and you did it. No wonder you
always need a chiropractor.
You give up then?
Not a chance. Someone put on
some heavy metal and lets make it
challenging.
The neighbors used to come over
occasionally to see what was going on
during our family holidays. Now they
just shutter the windows, barricade
the doors, and bring in their pets.
The good thing is that eventually we
run out of food, beverages, and energy
and everyone quietly retires.
This air mattress is flat!
Mine too!
Someone spilled something in mine!
I think thats just dog drool.
What are we doing tomorrow?
How about a nice family hike?
Great. I brought some climbing
ropes.
Ive got a couple harnesses and
extra crampons.
I heard theres been a hatching in
Rattlesnake Canyon.
Cool or we could go to Deadmans
Ravine or the Terror Creek Trail.
How about we make it like Survivor?
Great. Same teams?
No way!
I wonder what other families do for
the holidays? MJ
L
ike any art or craft, acting
requires some form of appren-
ticeship. But of all the arts and
crafts, with the possible exception of
wannabe writers, the qualities that
make a performer into a skilled and
confident actor are less understood.
In some cases the mere presence of
physical beauty or handsomeness are
seen as sufficient credentials, with
vague hints of the need for a diction
or elocution coach.
Early apprentice actors in America
had ample opportunities to learn on
the job as spear-carriers or messen-
gers in touring troupes or the fabled
platform of vaudeville. Then came
a major milestone in World Theater,
with significant repercussions that
have produced lasting effects. The
milestone was in the form of one man,
an actor and director associated with
the Russian stage. He was Constantin
Sergeyevich Stanislavski (1863-1938),
whose work and teachings were
brought to the United States by four
of his American students.
Simply put, Stanislavski taught
techniques emphasizing social and
psychological awareness. One of
his most famous American acolytes,
Stella Adler, did what successful stu-
dents in all disciplines do: She dis-
tilled techniques from her teacher,
blended them with her own observa-
tions and experience, then put them
to work as an actor and a teacher.
In Acting with Adler (Limelight
Editions), one of Adlers own stu-
dents, Joanna Rotte, has distilled the
essence of the Adler approach. In
five remarkable chapters, beginning
with The Development of the Actor,
Rotte shows the entrance require-
ments for students whod enrolled
in her school, what was expected
of them, and how their process of
discovery began. The chapter invites
comparison with an early Stanislavski
book, An Actor Prepares.
Chapter Two takes us into the
resources required of an actor, making
imaginative use of the actors inner
life, including ways to deal with ideas
and materials.
The third chapter focuses on physi-
ology of action, with acute stress on
ways in which non-verbal movements
convey complex ideas and responses,
helping us recognize some of the
actors tricks that hold us in the story,
rooting for the character or fearful of
the effects of a particular character on
the ones we do root for.
Chapter Four is an engaging
investigation of character, with sec-
tions detailing how to individualize,
heighten, and color the individual,
with intriguing hints on how to deal
with such types as The Aristocracy,
the Clergy, the Peasantry, and the
Middle Class.
In many ways the most intriguing
chapter of all, Chapter Five shows us
(and the actor) how to interpret the
text, using a process called action-
ing. What action does an actor pur-
sue to demonstrate intent? A condi-
tion, such as disliking someone or
being in love with someone cannot
be played; only action is playable.
Being hungry is a condition. Stealing
a French fry from a strangers plate in
a restaurant cannot only be played,
it demonstrates intent. The actor, as
a character helps reveal the theme of
the play through the actions he takes
in response to the circumstances.
The actor who is a real actor, by
Adlers standards, will ask, What can
I give the play? What can I contribute?
What truth can I find and reveal?
The dividend for the actor, she
maintains, is a growth in self-reve-
lation. That growth comes through
this work of understanding, which
helps the actor become what the actor
wants to become the artist/human
being.
Two of her more memorable stu-
dents were Marlon Brando and
Robert DeNiro. Adding to the list
are names of the stage and film such
as Harvey Keitel, Cybill Shepherd,
Anthony Quinn, and Elaine Stritch.
Among those who went from her
class into other aspects of storytelling
are director Sydney Pollack and cho-
reographer Jerome Robbins. Joanna
Rotte, who made this book a func-
tioning biography, went through the
Adler approach as a student, then an
actor, and chose the classroom as her
principal venue. She is professor of
graduate-level theater at Villanova
University.
This short, pithy book is like having
Stella Adler to guide us through ways
of seeing story, with the overall effect
of making the story we read or watch
on the screen or stage exponentially
more immediate and meaningful. MJ
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@ www.lowenkopf.
com. Lowenkopfs lat-
est book is The Fiction
Writers Handbook. His
short fiction, which has
appeared widely in the
literary and commercial
press, is featured in Love
Will Make You Drink and
Gamble, Stay Out Late at
Night, due in 2013.
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Sherwood Gallery of Botanical Art.
Her collection has traveled all over the
world including at the Smithsonian in
Washington, D.C.
The two were married in 1977 and
began traveling together. After she
and her husband became involved
in reviving the Orient-Express, she
wrote a book about it: The Return Of
The Worlds Most Celebrated Train; it
has been in print since 1983 and has
subsequently sold over 500,000 copies
in hard back and has been translated
into five languages.
The Brand new
El Encanto
The Sherwoods werent just visiting
with the McGinitys however. They
were here for more serious business:
the upcoming opening of their latest
hotel treasure, El Encanto, at the top
of Santa Barbaras Riviera.
Sherwood purchased El Encanto in
2004, and expressed amazement that
its been eight years and the place
is still not open, adding though that
you all know how difficult it is to get
permission to do anything in Santa
Barbara. He said too that one of the
reasons it does take so long to get
things done is that in order for him
to do anything he has to go through at
least ten different bodies.
But, El Encanto is finally, mercifully,
almost ready to accept paying guests.
A soft opening had been planned
for January or February of 2013, but
March is now the target date, with a
full public opening planned for May
or June.
Jim recalled what he was told by
the Planning Commission and the
Architectural Review Committee: We
could tear down the existing main
building and replace it, he said, but
it would have to have the same foot-
print as the existing hotel. In order,
for example, to create a larger ban-
queting area, his crew had to dig into
the hillside rather than expand the
footprint. But we now have space for
weddings and events, he says.
Sherwood became interested in El
Encanto when someone from the Bank
of America in San Francisco contacted
him and indicated that the owner,
Eric Friden, was interested in selling
the property. I wanted to get more
balance in our portfolio and felt we
were under-represented in the West
Coast of the United States, Sherwood
recalls, so he came to Santa Barbara
with his wife and stayed at El Encanto
and opened up negotiations with
Friden.
Ive always found in some of these
dealings in hotels that are privately
owned that the owners dont really
want to sell, Jim says, suggesting that
may have been the case with Friden,
who disappeared without warning
in the middle of their negotiations.
Nobody knew where he went, includ-
ing the manager, Sherwood says. I
dont know exactly what the situation
was, he adds, but Eric apparently
had an investment in Palm Springs
that was giving him problems. He was
called away to Palm Springs without
any notification to us. I took it that he
had changed his mind.
The Sherwoods continued on to
Tahiti and never heard from Eric.
Then, a few weeks later Friden died
as a result of a polo accident. When
Sherwood heard about it, he contacted
Fridens son and told him that he
had had discussions with his father
and that if he indeed wanted to sell,
that he, Sherwood, was interested in
purchasing the historic hotel and its
grounds. Sherwood didnt hear any-
thing for awhile, but when he did, the
two eventually made a deal for $26
million.
Sherwood originally guessed it may
take ten million dollars to spruce up
the property, but he was wrong by
a factor of seven. Costs have soared
to over $90 million. By the time we
are through, itll cost a million dollars
a room, Sherwood says. The price,
which seems high by normal stan-
dards, is apparently not uncommon
for prized properties.
The San Ysidro Ranch, Sherwood
relates, cost $2 million a room some
years ago. Ty Warner was report-
edly offered $900 million for the Four
Seasons in New York, which would
come out to $2.4 million per room.
The sale closed in November 2004
and work on the project began seri-
ously in 2006. Then along came the
2008 financial crisis. We had paid
$26 million, had already put another
$25 million into it and when the crisis
came we didnt know what to do. The
bank decided it wasnt lending any
money to anybody for anything. So,
we stopped work until about eighteen
months ago when the banks decided
they could lend money again.
A History
with Santa Barbara
Jim Sherwoods uncle was U.S. Navy
Vice Admiral William A. Glassford.
He was commander in chief of the
Yangtze River Patrol in the 1920s and
commanded a fleet in the South Pacific
in World War II. After his military ser-
vice, he retired to Montecito.
Jim grew up in Kentucky as Jims
father was employed by the Atomic
Energy Commission in 1947 to docu-
ment the development of the atomic
bomb. My father came [to California]
and dragged me along to Berkeley,
Jim recalls, and we spent three
delightful years there. I would come
down every summer to Santa Barbara
to visit my aunt Henrietta, and uncle
William, who lived in Montecito, so
that was my first contact with Santa
Barbara; Ive been in love with it
ever since. Interestingly, he notes,
it hasnt changed all that much since
then. He says he occasionally came
to Santa Barbara in connection with
his navy duties in 1957 and 58 as well.
By 1976, with the success of Sea
Containers, Ltd., he thought to him-
self that he had all his eggs in one
(Container) basket and that he and his
company ought to diversify.
We were operating in eighty coun-
tries, he says, and I wondered what
business we could upload alongside
our container business without get-
ting into a conflict with our custom-
ers. He thought maybe hotels would
be the answer. So in 1976, he recalls,
we made the plunge and bought
our first hotel the Hotel Cipriano,
in Venice. The purchase price was
900,000 British Pounds. We still own
it, he says with a big grin.
From that modest beginning, his
company went on a buying binge,
picking up other once famous and
elegant hotels such as the Grand Hotel
Europe in St Petersburg, Hotel Ritz
Madrid, Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape
Town, Copacabana Palace in Rio de
Janeiro and Maroma Resort and Spa
on Mexicos Riviera Maya. The com-
pany now also operates six luxury
tourist trains, two river cruise opera-
tions and the 21 Club, one of New
Yorks most iconic restaurants and
watering holes (it was a speakeasy
during the Roaring Twenties).
Reviving
The Orient-Express
The old Orient-Express [train]
stopped operating in 1977, and by
then it was rundown and a bit shab-
by, Sherwood recalls. One thing he
noticed, however, was the amount of
publicity its demise had created. He
surmised that if there was so much
publicity surrounding the old trains
death, and if he bought up the old
first-class cars and restored them and
started to run them again, primar-
ily on the route from London-Paris
to Venice (where, coincidentally his
Hotel Cipriano was ready and wait-
ing), maybe we could attract people
for the fun and the experience of rid-
ing in these original cars.
He guessed correctly. He re-intro-
duced the Orient-Express using the
original cars, all spiffed up and ready
for their second century of use to
great acclaim. That was thirty years
ago and, according to Sherwood, it is
more successful than ever.
As the hotel and leisure business
became bigger than marine shipping,
the two companies were split in 2000.
The shipping company was recently
sold to Chinese interests for two bil-
lion dollars. Orient-Express now has
about fifty properties under its impri-
matur.
On Site At El Encanto
As the evening ended, Jim Sherwood
revealed to the small gathering at
Birnam Wood that he and Shirley
would visit the site the following
Monday and invited this Montecito
Journal editor to come along with
them on the walk-around.
Construction is ongoing and in full
force as we arrive for our site visit
headed up by project manager James
Jones. There is little doubt that this
7-acre property is about to reclaim
its place as a jewel of the Central
Coast. Jones confirms our observation:
Were polishing the jewel and adding
the finishing touches, he says as we
settle down in one of the cottages to
inspect the elaborate blueprints and
plans.
The cottages (there are 92 keys
in all) feature wide verandas and
inviting patios, high ceilings inside,
wrought iron fixtures, large windows,
and many have views of the Channel
Islands and the ocean. The one- and
two-bedroom cottages have small
kitchens complete with microwave
ovens, refrigerator, ceramic sink, cof-
fee maker, and fireplaces. Rooms are
double-walled and virtually sound-
proof. Heating and cooling equipment
is centrally located on the property
and when one turns the heat or air-
conditioning on inside a room there is
absolutely no sound to be heard.
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The newer Spanish Colonial Revival
cottages dominate the southeast and
northeast portion of the property; the
older Craftsman cottages (some of
which have been moved) are clustered
in the center and at the north end.
All the rooms are connected via brick
pathways and footpaths surround-
ed by an abundance of stately palm
trees, drowsy oaks, elaborate eucalyp-
tus, delicate but gnarled olive trees
and other flora highlighted by sub-
tle lighting in the early evening and
night; waterfalls and streams stealth-
ily announce their presence with the
sound of running water, making the
walk from ones room to the main
hotel building or nearby pool among
barrel-tiled roofs, copper gutters with
glimmers of greenish patina, and
ocean views a rural adventure in the
middle of an urban island.
No automobiles intrude upon this
reverie, as all are parked in one of the
two underground parking areas, each
accommodating up to fifty cars. All
parking is done via valet service along
perimeter roads.
Breakfast, lunch, or dinner on ones
private patio with a glorious view of
the ocean and the Channel Islands is
on tap as a pleasant alternative for
many guests.
Cottages dont sport numbers; they
have names such as the Wishing Well,
Honeysuckle, Camellia, Ivy, Pepper
Tree, Palm, Olive Tree, etc.
Architecture and plantings have
combined to give the entire property
a contiguous feel. There is no delinea-
tion between old and new, or at least it
is very difficult to ascertain where one
ends and the other begins.
Jones gives high marks to Courtney
Miller, who heads up the Katie
OReilly Rogers landscaping team.
The lily pond, where generations
of Santa Barbarans merged to marry
in years past, has been brought back
to its former glory. All its iconic brick
pillars remain in place, and all the
bricks are original and exactly in keep-
ing with the original plans; the only
new ones may be under the surface,
as the pillars required a structural
retro-fitting with support connections
column to column to meet current
anti-earthquake standards.
Paths around the lily pond are made
of compacted soil, have a class-two
base, and are semi-permeable for
drainage. The pond has been com-
pletely resurfaced with a durable liner
and all mechanical systems are hidden
on the coping end of the brick.
The large old growth wisteria many
have fond memories of is still there
and has been completely retained.
All during construction the plant and
its heavy above-ground roots were
supported by scaffolding; cages were
assembled around it as outriggers
held everything in place before being
disassembled.
The antique clamshells are still used,
as is the small ornamental chandelier
outside; reclaimed boulders from the
site have been sliced to make a bridge
walkway. Planters are used as privacy
screens around the rooms and cottage
patios.
Structures have been cantered to
afford unobstructed view corridors
predominantly on the south ocean-
facing side of most of the buildings.
The builders took full advantage of
the topography of the site. There was
a lot of thought process that went into
orientation, says Jones.
These are not just rows of build-
ings, he adds. The buildings have
been placed in such a way that the
pathways meander through the prop-
erty and between the cottages and
other buildings. You dont feel you
are invading other peoples privacy
by strolling the grounds; you feel very
invited to do so.
As for the main hotel building, El
Encanto can now hold events for up to
220 people comfortably. As previously
mentioned, one of the ways they were
able to do that was by digging into the
hillside to expand the ballrooms size,
as keeping the same building foot-
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The artwork is used to preserve
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people, the oldest surviving culture
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our visitors will respond not only
to the beauty of these contemporary
art works but will learn something
about aboriginal history, the rela-
tionships between individuals and
families and the aboriginal peoples
relationship to the land, says Judy
L. Larson, Askew professor of art
history and director of the Westmont
Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. Each
painting describes a unique narra-
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owns that story.
According to Australian aboriginal
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defines nearly every aspect of their
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ceremony and even life itself.
While Western cultures often
focus on reproducing a visual
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through reduction distilling sto-
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points and lines. What is perhaps
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paintings are created not only as
representations, but as an outgrowth
of spiritual experience. The painting
emerges as a part of the Dreaming
itself.
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Westmont has installed a new
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)
spectrometer in the Whittier Science
Building thanks to a $383,000 grant
from the Fletcher Jones Foundation.
The new 400 MHz spectrometer,
which replaces a 300 MHz spec-
trometer that had reached the end
of its 14-year life expectancy, allows
researchers to peer into the molecu-
lar world and determine the struc-
ture of molecules.
The chemistry department is feel-
ing energized with the new spec-
trometer and a recent grant chal-
lenge match from the Stauffer
Charitable Trust to endow our sum-
mer research program, says Niva
Tro, Westmont chemistry profes-
sor. The new Fletcher Jones NMR
will be an essential tool in our vital
research program.
The spectrometer is housed in the
Fletcher Jones Foundation NMR
Laboratory on the second floor of
the Whittier Science Building. Since
1984, Fletcher Jones has given about
$1.3 million in grants for other
technology upgrades and research
equipment, which have enhanced
Westmonts biology, chemistry, engi-
neering and physics, and psychol-
ogy departments. The foundation
has also contributed $1.5 million
toward the endowment of the Gaede
Institute for the Liberal Arts and to
establish the rotating Fletcher Jones
Foundation Endowed Chair in the
Social Sciences.
The Fletcher Jones Foundation was
established in 1968 by Fletcher Jones,
cofounder of Computer Sciences
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business technology. Following his
untimely death in 1972, the founda-
tion received the bulk of his estate.
The primary mission of the founda-
tion has been and still is the sup-
port of private, independent degree
granting institutions of higher edu-
cation in California.
Kristi Lazar, assistant professor of
chemistry, has used NMR extensive-
ly and has published her research
in scientific literature. She uses the
NMR with students in organic chem-
istry laboratories to check the purity
of chemicals in protein synthesis
and purification. Westmont obtained
the current spectrometer when Lazar
was a student at Westmont. We used
the NMR frequently in class and
during my undergraduate research,
she says. When I entered graduate
school, I was able to use the NMR
there with little training, and I was
thankful for the time my professors
at Westmont invested to teach me
this invaluable technique. MJ
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and a relaxation area, along with, of
course, separate mens and womens
changing and dressing rooms.
Views from the main dining room
and the expanded outdoor dining
patio have been enhanced by an inge-
nious system of hedges that allow for
lowering the surrounding protective
fencing.
The new 25-ft x 57-foot pool mea-
sures over 9 feet at its deepest end.
Jones reports that while no one
has yet been hired, conversations are
ongoing between them and a noted
chef.
All in all, El Encantos 92 rooms add
an elegant and welcome dimension
to Santa Barbara and Montecito as a
destination.
We look forward to its Grand
Re-Opening.
A Final note
If you have $100 to spare, you
couldnt do better spending that
money by attending the upcoming
Debut & Fundraiser for the Diana
Basehart Foundation, committed to
Helping People & Their Pets Stay
Together.
Weve just about run out of space,
but you should know that part-time
Montecito resident Tipper Gore and
retired editor-in-chief of National
Geographic magazine Bill Allen have
each donated one of their framed pho-
tographs up for sale to the highest bid-
der for this worthy cause. The event,
hosted by Nancy Koppelman, will
feature a silent auction, wine, appe-
tizers, live music and special guest
Lydia Hiby, a world-renowned ani-
mal communicator.
If you cannot attend (the event takes
place Saturday, December 1, from
3 to 6 pm at the Montecito home
of Adam and Penelope Bianchi),
William Lamans Furniture, Garden
& Antiques at 1496 East Valley Road
will be donating a portion of sales on
December 1 to the Foundation, so stop
by before the event and peruse their
offerings.
For more information, go to: www.
basehart.org or call 805-222-4567. The
cost to attend is $100 and space is
severely limited. RSVP required by
November 30. MJ
Even as chair-
man emeritus, Jim
Sherwood (center)
knows what ques-
tions to ask reads
detailed plans eas-
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manager James
Jones looks on, ready
to answer (right);
Shirley Sherwood
(left) studies botani-
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hotel
Actors & Others For Animals co-founder Diana
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them optioned for film or TV, with An
Ex To Grind currently in active devel-
opment as a Fox feature film with
Cameron Diaz.
I describe the new book as a humor-
ous and compassionate work with
real world advice, says Jane, who
threw a bijou bash at the Alchemy Arts
Wellness Center organized by Mary
Sheldon, owner of Tecolote, the tony
tome temple in the Upper Village.
I hope it will be a supportive pal to
anyone going through this experience,
whether its dealing with a child with
autism or a parent with Alzheimers.
It is a combination of personal essays
about being married to a man with
Crohns Disease and interviews with
other caregivers and how they cope,
including Dear Abbys Jeanne Phillips
and award-winning actor Victor
Garber. There are sixty-five million
caregivers in America today.
It was tough to write. I really had
to pound the pavement. It took a year
to complete, but Im a quick study. My
challenge was to put a human voice to
a serious subject. It is very uplifting.
Jane is now working on her 16th
book, which will be a novel.
I have a title, but Im not saying.
Someone will steal it!
Ottos 70th
Caf Del Sols longest serving
employee, bartender Otto Laula, cel-
ebrated his 70th birthday in grand
style and where else but his longtime
eatery, just a tiaras toss from the
Andree Clark Bird Refuge.
A former attorney, he has worked
for owner Jack Sears for 22 years after
moving to our Eden by the Beach in
1971.
We had mutual friends and I asked
if there was a job available, says Otto,
a welcome presence during the day
and at Happy Hour, where he serves
me my regular libation, a margarita.
More than 100 regulars, relatives
and friends turned out for the boffo
bash, which featured Bob Long on a
grand piano singing a pulsating selec-
tion of 50s rock n roll hits, Ottos
favorite genre.
It was really great, he says. I felt
so blessed that everyone turned out to
wish me Happy Birthday!
As to retirement, Otto has no plans
whatsoever.
I love it here far too much!
Thanksgiving Tradition
One of the greatest joys of
Thanksgiving is helping out at the
Rescue Mission, a role I have taken on
for every one of the last five years I
have lived in this tony town.
It is not only an uplifting and hum-
bling experience helping the more
than 300 homeless who attend, but
makes me realize how truly lucky I
am, whatever the circumstances.
This year KEYT-TV morning anchor,
Beth Farnsworth, wife of evening
newscaster C.J. Ward, joined in the
event with their two daughters, Katie,
14, and Natalie, 12, and their friend,
Megan Hullander, 14.
It is so nice that everyone really
wants to pitch in to help those less
unfortunate, says Rolf Geyling,
executive director of the 47-year-old
charity. Peoples needs are increas-
ing, especially with women it seems.
Santa Barbara Junior High and
Franklin Elementary held canned
food drives and Boy Scout Troop 26
made pumpkin pies to accompany
the 100 turkeys that were roasted,
along with 170 pounds of potatoes, 84
pounds of cranberry sauce, 40 pounds
of stuffing and eight gallons of gravy.
It was definitely food for thought...
Jane Heller
publishes
her 15th
book and is
already at
work on her
16th
Rebecca
Weber, Richard
Mineards, Jill
Wallerstedt,
and Rolf
Geyling,
Rescue Mission
Executive
Director, on
Thanksgiving
(photo by
Priscilla)
Longtime Cafe Del Sol bartender Otto Laula cel-
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th
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The pop-up shop, which is featur-
ing its fall collection and new spring
trends, will be in place through
December 28 and is offering compli-
mentary fitness and yoga sessions...
Community Dividends Awards
Montecito Bank & Trust, found-
ed by ubiquitous local philanthro-
pist Mike Towbes, celebrated its
10th annual Community Dividends
awards at the Coral Casino by
handing out checks to 180 non-
profits.
Over the past decade, the financial
institution, which now holds more
than $1 billion in assets, has hand-
ed out a hefty $10 million to needy
causes.
This year there were 311 applica-
tions for help, including organiza-
tions with missions that serve the arts,
youth and education, social welfare,
and medical and health service sec-
tors.
This truly is my favorite event,
Mike, who launched his bank in 1975,
tells me. Hopefully, in due course,
depending on the economy, we can
give out more.
Among those checking out the live-
ly largesse lunch were Jonathan Fox,
Thomas Rollerson, Gina Tolleson,
Anne Towbes, Ron Gallo, Roger
Durling, Celesta Billeci, Rodney
Gustafson, David Grossman, Scott
Reed, Elsa Granados and Jennifer
Smith Hale...
Rob Lowe,
Isabelle Mille,
Sheryl Lowe,
Olaf and Eva
Guerrand-
Hermes,
Nicollette
Sheridan and
Lyndi Benson
check out the
new pop-up
store Lol (photo
credit: Blue
Caleel)
Amy Bassett,
Vincent Chen,
concert mas-
ter Sofiya
Prykhitko,
Music Director
Andrew
Radford and
Dan Kepl
(front) at
the Youth
Symphony
concert (photo
by Priscilla)
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Hahn Hall Hosts Youth Symphony
Santa Barbaras Youth Symphony,
under the guidance of music director
Andy Radford, put on an entertaining
show at the Music Academy of the
Wests Hahn Hall, a distinct change
from its usual venue at the Lobero
Theatre.
The transfer worked well, giving the
show a far more intimate feel as the
talented youngsters kicked off with
Mendelssohns Hebrides Overture
and Boccherinis Cello Concerto No. 9
in B-flat Major, with 16-year-old Texan
import, Vincent Chen, a student at
Dos Pueblos High School, showing a
confidence far surpassing his age in
his solo performance.
Mendelssohns Reformation
Symphony No. 5 wrapped the pro-
gram along with the overture to
Offenbachs opera Orpheus in the
Underworld.
A high note, indeed...
Elephants Umbrella Fund
Connie Speight, founder of Santa
Barbaras Elephants Umbrella Fund,
needs your help.
Having just splashed out a hefty
$23,000 on a 30-year-old pachyderm
in Laos, the charitys coffers are decid-
edly empty.
It had been used for logging and
was in very bad shape, says Connie,
who launched the organization, which
has rescued 15 elephants, ten years
ago.
They are in various sanctuaries in
Thailand and Cambodia, but theres
still a great need.
Last month, Connie visited the Khao
Yai National Park, three hours drive
from Bangkok, to check out the wild
elephants and in February will be in
Laos to see if she can save another
jumbo from a life of cruelty and pain.
There is one particular animal that
is in desperate need of rescuing, she
adds. It is covered in wounds, mal-
nourished and overworked, constant-
ly being beaten, but we dont have
the money to save her from this hor-
rible life she is being forced to lead. If
someone might donate the price of her
rescue, or at least half, we could save
this amazing and highly intelligent
gentle giant from abuse and put her
in a sanctuary where she will receive
vet care, good food, and peace and
contentment.
Connie will be holding a sale of
plants, pottery, jewelry and fashions
on Saturday and Sunday at her home
at 2121 Mt. Calvary.
A trunk show for a most worthy
cause...
Rest In Peace
On a personal note, I mourn the pass-
ing of veteran actor Larry Hagman,
who just left us at the age of 81.
I first met Larry and his Jacuzzi
designing wife, Maj, at the open-
ing of the Harley Davidson Cafe in
Manhattan in the early 90s and visit-
ed his Ojai aerie, appropriately named
Heaven, a number of times for charity
events.
Ill never get to Heaven, he once
told me. You should be more confi-
dent! I quipped.
After a 56-year career, which includ-
ed starring in two major long-running
TV series, I Dream of Jeannie and, of
course, Dallas, playing the scheming
J.R. Ewing, it seems appropriate he
died in the Texas metropolis with
his family and fellow actors, Patrick
Duffy and Linda Gray, at his side.
A colorful character who will be
much missed...
Sightings: Vituperative TV chef
Gordon Ramsay quaffing a Java jolt
at Starbucks on Coast Village Road...
Rapper Andre Nickatina at Baja
Sharkeez on State Street... Songstress
Katy Perry and her rocker beau, John
Mayer, in her vintage Mercedes con-
vertible checking out the Mission
Pip! Pip! for now
Readers with tips, sightings and
amusing items for Richards column
should e-mail him at richardmin
eards@verizon.net or send invita-
tions and other correspondence to the
Journal MJ
Larry Hagman passes on
Bella Vista $$$
1260 Channel Drive (565-8237)
Cafe Del Sol $$
30 Los Patos Way (969-0448)
CAVA $$
1212 Coast Village Road (969-8500)
Regional Mexican and Spanish cooking
combine to create Latin cuisine from tapas and
margaritas, mojitos, seafood paella and sangria
to lobster tamales, Churrasco ribeye steak and
seared Ahi tuna. Sunfower-colored interior
is accented by live Spanish guitarist playing
next to cozy beehive freplace nightly. Lively
year-round outdoor people-wat ching front
patio. Open Monday-Friday 11 am to 10 pm.
Saturday and Sunday 10 am to 10 pm.
China Palace $$
Giovannis $
Los Arroyos $
Little Alexs $
1024 A-Coast Village Road (969-2297)
Luckys (brunch) $$ (dinner) $$$
Comfortable, old-fashioned urban steak-
house in the heart of Americas biggest little
village. Steaks, chops, seafood, cocktails,
and an enormous wine list are featured, with
white tablecloths, fne crystal and vintage
photos from the 20th century. The bar
(separate from dining room) features large
fat-screen TV and opens at 4 pm during the
week. Open nightly from 5 pm to 10 pm;
Saturday & Sunday brunch from 9 am to
3 pm. Valet Parking.
Montecito Caf $$
Montecito Coffee Shop $
1498 East Valley Road (969-6250)
Montecito Wine Bistro $$$
516 San Ysidro Road 969-7520
Head to Montecitos upper village to indulge in
some California bistro cuisine. Chef Nathan Heil
creates seasonal menus that include fsh and
vegetarian dishes, and fresh fatbreads straight
out of the wood-burning oven. The Bistro of-
fers local wines, classic and specialty cocktails,
single malt scotches and aged cognacs.
Pane Vino $$$
Plow & Angel $$$
San Ysidro Ranch
900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700)
Enjoy a comfortable atmosphere as you dine
on traditional dishes such as mac n cheese
and ribs. The ambiance is enhanced with
original artwork, including stained glass
windows and an homage to its namesake,
Saint Isadore, hanging above the fre-
place. Dinner is served from 5 to 10 pm
daily with bar service extending until 11 pm
weekdays and until midnight on Friday and
Saturday.
$ (average per person under $15)
$$ (average per person $15 to $30)
$$$ (average per person $30 to $45)
$$$$ (average per person $45-plus)
MONTECI TO EATERI ES . . . A Gu i d e
Sakana Japanese Restaurant $$
Stella Mares $$/$$$
50 Los Patos Way (969-6705)
Stonehouse $$$$
San Ysidro Ranch
900 San Ysidro Lane (565-1700)
Located in what is a 19th-century citrus
packinghouse, Stonehouse restaurant features
a lounge with full bar service and separate
dining room with crackling freplace and
creekside views. Chef Matthew Johnsons
regional cuisine is prepared with a palate of
herbs and vegetables harvested from the on-site
chefs garden. Recently voted 1 of the best 50
restaurants in America by OpenTable Diners
Choice. 2010 Diners Choice Awards: 1 of 50
Most Romantic Restaurants in America, 1 of
50 Restaurants With Best Service in America.
Open for dinner from 6 to 10 pm daily.
Sunday Brunch 10 am to 2 pm.
Trattoria Mollie $$$
Tre Lune $$/$$$
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 $$
Delis, bakeries, juice bars
Blenders in the Grass
Heres The Scoop
1187 Coast Village Road (lower level)
(969-7020)
Gelato and Sorbet are made on the premises.
Open Monday through Thursday 1 pm to 9 pm,
12 pm to 10 pm Friday and Saturday, and
12 pm to 9 pm on Sundays.
Jeannines
Montecito Deli
Open six days a week from 7 am to 3 pm.
(Closed Sunday) This eatery serves home-
made soups, fresh salads, sandwiches, and its
specialty, The Piadina, a homemade fat bread
made daily.
Panino
1014 #C Coast Village Road (565-0137)
Pierre Lafond
516 San Ysidro Road (565-1502)
This market and deli is a center of activity
in Montecitos Upper Village, serving fresh
baked pastries, regular and espresso cofee
drinks, smoothies, burritos, homemade
soups, deli salads, made-to-order sandwiches
and wraps available, and boasting a fully
stocked salad bar. Its sunny patio draws
crowds of regulars daily. The shop also
carries specialty drinks, gift items, grocery
staples, and produce. Open everyday 5:30 am
to 8 pm.
Village Cheese & Wine

In Summerland / Carpinteria
Cantwells Summerland Market $
2580 Lillie Avenue (969-5893)
Garden Market $
3811 Santa Claus Lane (745-5505)
Jacks Bistro $
5050 Carpinteria Avenue (566-1558)
Serving light California Cuisine, Jacks ofers
freshly baked bagels with whipped cream
cheeses, omelettes, scrambles, breakfast bur-
ritos, specialty sandwiches, wraps, burgers, sal-
ads, pastas and more. Jacks ofers an extensive
espresso and cofee bar menu, along with wine
and beer. They also ofer full service catering,
and can accommodate wedding receptions to
corporate events. Open Monday through Fri-
day 6:30 am to 3 pm, Saturday and Sunday
7 am to 3 pm.
Nugget $$
Padaro Beach Grill $
3765 Santa Claus Lane (566-9800)
A beach house feel gives this seaside eatery its
charm and makes it a perfect place to bring the
whole family. Its new owners added a pond,
waterfall, an elevated patio with freplace and
couches to boot. Enjoy grill options, along with
salads and seafood plates. The Grill is open
Monday through Sunday 11 am to 9 pm
Slys $$$
686 Linden Avenue (684-6666)
Slys features fresh fsh, farmers market veg-
gies, traditional pastas, prime steaks, Blue Plate
Specials and vintage desserts. Youll fnd a full
bar, serving special martinis and an extensive
wine list featuring California and French wines.
Cocktails from 4 pm to close, dinner from 5 to 9
pm Sunday-Thursday and 5 to 10 pm Friday and
Saturday. Lunch is M-F 11:30 to 2:30, and brunch
is served on the weekends from 9 am to 3 pm.
Stackys Seaside $
Summerland Beach Caf $
Tinkers $
2275 C Ortega Hill Road (969-1970)
Santa Barbara / Restaurant Row
Bistro Eleven Eleven $$
1111 East Cabrillo Boulevard (730-1111)
Located adjacent to Hotel Mar Monte, the
bistro serves breakfast and lunch featuring
all-American favorites. Dinner is a mix of tradi-
tional favorites and coastal cuisine. The lounge
advancement to the restaurant features a big
screen TV for daily sporting events and happy
hour. Open Monday-Friday 6:30 am to 9 pm,
Saturday and Sunday 6:30 am to 10 pm.
Cielito $$$
1114 State Street (225-4488)
Cielito Restaurant features true favors of Mexi-
co created by Chef Ramon Velazquez. Try an an-
tojito (or small craving) like the Anticucho de
Filete (Serrano-chimichurri marinated Kobe beef
skewer, rocoto-tomato jam and herb mashed po-
tatoes), the Raw Bars piquant ceviches and fresh
shellfsh, or taste the savory treats in handmade
tortillas at the Taqueria. It is located in the heart
of downtown, in the historic La Arcada.
Chucks Waterfront Grill $$
113 Harbor Way (564-1200)
Located next to the Maritime Museum, enjoy
some of the best views of both the mountains
and the Santa Barbara pier sitting on the newly
renovated, award-winning patio, while enjoy-
ing fresh seafood straight of the boat. Dinner is
served nightly from 5 pm, and brunch is ofered
on Sunday from 10 am until 1 pm. Reservations
are recommended.
Enterprise Fish Co. $$
225 State Street (962-3313)
Every Monday and Tuesday the Enterprise Fish
Company ofers two-pound Maine Lobsters
served with clam chowder or salad, and rice or
potatoes for only $29.95. Happy hour is every
weekday from 4 pm to 7 pm. Open Sunday
thru Thursday 11:30 am to 10 pm and Friday
thru Saturday 11:30 am to 11 pm.
Los Agaves $
600 N. Milpas Street (564-2626)
Los Agaves ofers eclectic Mexican cuisine, using
only the freshest ingredients, in a casual and
friendly atmosphere. Serving lunch and dinner,
with breakfast on the weekends, Los Agaves fea-
tures traditional dishes from central and south-
ern Mexico such as shrimp & fsh enchiladas,
shrimp chile rellenos, and famous homemade
mole poblano. Open Monday- Friday 11 am to
9 pm, Saturday & Sunday 9 am to 9 pm.
Mir $$$$
8301 Hollister Avenue at Bacara Resort & Spa
(968-0100)
Mir is a refned refuge with stunning views,
featuring two genuine Miro sculptures, a
top-rated chef ofering a sophisticated menu
that accents fresh, organic, and native-grown
ingredients, and a world-class wine cellar. Open
Tuesday through Saturday from 6 pm to 10 pm.
Olio e Limone Ristorante $$$
Olio Pizzeria $
17 West Victoria Street (899-2699)
Elaine and Alberto Morello oversee this
friendly, casually elegant, linen-tabletop eatery
featuring Italian food of the highest order. Of-
ferings include eggplant souf, pappardelle
with quail, sausage and mushroom rag, and
fresh-imported Dover sole. Wine Spectator
Award of Excellence-winning wine list. Private
dining (up to 40 guests) and catering are also
available. It is open for lunch Monday thru
Saturday (11:30 am to 2 pm) and dinner seven
nights a week (from 5 pm).
Next door at Olio Pizzeria, the Morellos
have added a simple pizza-salumi-wine-bar
inspired by neighborhood pizzerie and
enoteche in Italy. Private dining for up to
32 guests. The Pizzeria is open daily from
11:30 am to close.
Pierre Lafond Wine Bistro $
516 State Street (962-1455)
The Wine Bistro menu is seasonal California
cuisine specializing in local products. Pair your
meal with wine from the Santa Barbara Winery,
Lafond Winery or one from the list of wines
from around the world. Happy Hour Monday
- Friday 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The 1st Wednesday of
each month is Passport to the World of Wine.
Grilled cheese night every Thursday. Open for
breakfast, lunch and dinner; catering available.
www.pierrelafond.com
Rodneys Steakhouse $$$
633 East Cabrillo Boulevard (884-8554)
Deep in the heart of well, deep in the heart of
Fess Parkers Doubletree Inn on East Beach in
Santa Barbara. This handsome eatery sells and
serves only Prime Grade beef, lamb, veal, hali-
but, salmon, lobster and other high-end victuals.
Full bar, plenty of California wines, elegant
surroundings, across from the ocean. Open for
dinner Tuesday through Saturday at 5:30 pm.
Reservations suggested on weekends. MJ
29 November 6 December 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 39 God not only place dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen Stephen Hawking
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VILLAGE BEAT (Continued from page 23)
ciated the support of the Montecito
Library staff.
Mrs. Fisher has left a generous
legacy of $25,000 to the Montecito
Library to be used for the purchase of
books, and this gift will be fulfilled as
designated by Mrs. Fisher.
The Board of the Friends of the
Montecito Library deeply appreci-
ates Mrs. Fishers donation which
will benefit all patrons, adults and
children alike. June Fisher was a
dear friend to many in our Montecito
community and continues to be
missed by her family and friends
and remembered at the library,
Robertson says.
An event honoring Judge and
Mrs. Fishers contributions to the
Montecito Library is currently being
planned by Friends of the Montecito
Library. MJ
Montecito
Library
supporter
Margot
Brownrigg
Reppy
passed away
September
14
June Breton
Fisher, 1927-
2012
compiled by Kelly Mahan from information supplied by Santa Barbara County
Sheriffs Department
SHERIFFS
BLOTTER
Attempted Murder Suspect Charged
On November 19, Avery Anthony Morris, formerly of Montecito, was trans-
ported to the Santa Barbara County Jail where he was booked on a warrant for
attempted murder for an incident that occurred on September 13. Morris struck
the victim, a 27-year old Santa Barbara resident, with a car following an argu-
ment at a party.
On September 13 at 10:41 pm, Santa Barbara Police and Fire personnel as well
as AMR paramedics responded to a call of a vehicle versus pedestrian hit-and-
run traffic collision on the 500 block of W. Gutierrez Street. Upon arrival the
victim was located lying in the street suffering from multiple serious injuries,
including a head wound, that required hospitalization.
The investigation indicates that Morris and the victim are acquaintances and
prior to the incident had been attending a party; Morris was asked to leave the
party after offending the host. Morris became angry at being told to leave and
started arguing with the host, which escalated to Morris threatening that he
had a gun and punching another partygoer as he walked by. Morris went to his
car and left the scene, repeatedly threatening that he had a gun and was going
to kill people at the party. He also repeatedly stated that he was a Blood gang
member. A few minutes passed and Morris sped down the street and struck the
victim, who was standing on the roadway. Witnesses stated that Morris tracked
the victim with his car and struck the victim as the victim attempted to dodge
the collision.
Morris was found to be on felony probation for resisting an officer by threat
or violence with his address of record being on Schoolhouse Road in Montecito.
When attempts were made to contact Morris at this location it was discovered
that he had moved without notifying the Santa Barbara County Probation
Department of his whereabouts. On November 6, SBPD detectives obtained an
arrest warrant for Morris for the crime of attempt murder with a bail amount
of $1,000,000.00. They developed information that Morris was in Pasadena and
on November 13, 2012 Morris was arrested at a residence there by officers from
the Pasadena Police Department and booked into the Los Angeles County Twin
Towers Jail.
Vehicle Break-in on Virginia Road
Friday, 23 November 9:32 am Deputy Johnson was dispatched to Virginia
Road regarding a theft from an automobile. The owner of the vehicle said he
parked his car in his driveway the night before, and when we returned the fol-
lowing morning he noticed the glove box was open. After further searching the
car, he realized a box containing shelf pulls was missing. The shelf pulls were
for a construction job the man was working on; 175 stainless steel pulls were in
the box. The value of the items are $3,080. A report was taken. MJ
PUBLIC NOTICES

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
NOTICE TO BIDDERS

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

BID NO. 5203

DUE DATE & TIME: DECEMBER 12, 2012 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Replacement and Installation of Hoist 4 Trolley Motor on
City Pier

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

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

Contractor must possess all valid licenses and certifications
needed for this work at time its bid is submitted and will
continue to hold during the term of the contract all licenses and
certifications required to perform the work specified herein.

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount
of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful
bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided
with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to
the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the
bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds
in the State of California.

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

____________________
William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: Nov. 28, 2012
General Services Manager Montecito Journal

CITY OF SANTA BARBARA
NOTICE TO BIDDERS

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

BID NO. 5202

DUE DATE & TIME: DECEMBER 13, 2012 UNTIL 3:00P.M.

Maintenance and Repairs at Fuel Sites

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

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

The City of Santa Barbara requires all contractors to possess a
current valid State of California General A contractors license
and applicable documents, certifications and licenses required
by any and all regulatory agencies governing AST and UST fuel
sites within the State of California. The company bidding on this
must possess the above mentioned licenses and be otherwise
deemed qualified to perform the work specified herein. Bids
submitted using the license name and number of a
subcontractor or other person who is not a principle partner or
owner of the company making this bid, will be rejected as being
non-responsive.

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

Bidders are hereby notified that a Payment Bond in the amount
of 100% of the bid total will be required from the successful
bidder for bids exceeding $25,000. The bond must be provided
with ten (10) calendar days from notice of award and prior to
the performance of any work. The bond must be signed by the
bidder and a corporate surety, who is authorized to issue bonds
in the State of California.

____________________
William Hornung, C.P.M. Published: Nov. 28, 2012
General Services Manager Montecito Journal

EnTERTAInMEnT Page 444
Ensemble Theatre Presents Bell, Book and Candle
On Entertainment by Steven Libowitz
F
ans of the 1960s-70s TV series Bewitched wont
want to miss Ensemble Theatres next show, a
revival of Bell, Book and Candle, the play that
spawned the hit series. Fans of another TV series of
an entirely different ilk, L.A. Law, have even more
reasons to go.
Susan Ruttan, who starred as the beleaguered
secretary Roxanne on the influential legal drama,
portrays Aunt Holroyd, a daffy, eccentric relative
who means well even as she fuddles along next to
Gillian, the young witch who falls for her mortal
upstairs neighbor. Ruttan talked about her role in
the romantic comedy, the play itself and her years
playing Roxanne, in an interview over the weekend.
Q. What drew you to the role?
A. Shes a prankster. Shes a witch, but a harm-
less one. She uses it for her own curiosity, to snoop
around. She even says, Not that Im all that good
for it. She has just a little bit of skill she uses for
her own advantage, because shes unashamedly self-
involved.
Is Gillians aunt Queenie similar to Samanthas aunt in
Bewitched?
Shes like aunt Clara in the TV show. Shes a little
befuddled. Things come out of her mouth that she
doesnt intend to say. But overall shes quite sweet.
One of the premises about witches in this story is that
theyre not able to fall in love or care about anyone
else other than themselves. But shes not a very good
witch, so shes able to be somewhat concerned about
other people.
This seems like a good transition to ask you about L.A.
Law, because Roxanne was a serious, well-meaning if
abused secretary, honest, often pragmatic if an idealist.
Which is very much the opposite of the aunt in Bell, Book
& Candle. She cared way too much about other people for
her own good.
Yes, and that caused her a lot of pain over the
years. I played Roxanne for seven and a half years
and eventually I grew to think of her as a good
friend. A friend you want to give advice to, but you
know shes not going to take it. I do still feel to this
day I could drop back into being her at a moments
notice. She was strong presence, and of course my
most enduring character, but Ive also played mur-
derers, baby killers, and lots of other different roles
since then As an actor, every character has a piece
of you. So, yes, Im a know-it-all, a busybody. I do
like to tell people how to run their lives and I always
want to know whats going on.
How about the reverse? What do you think you took
away from playing Roxanne for so long?
I think it was a learning experience. I have acted
on my emotions instead of my brain. Making those
mistakes through somebody else was very helpful
to me in curbing those impulses and thinking about
what I do before leaping. Not to say Im not a leaper;
I just do it a little more thoughtfully now.
What stands out most from those days, being on a huge
hit TV show?
There were amazing episodes, ranging from the
ludicrous (when Arnie and Roxanne fell out of the
ceiling) to the relationship with Dave, the mar-
riage, and the sadness of that. There were so many
moments. But Ive got to tell you that the best part
of the whole thing was the response of people
who loved the show and by proximity loved me.
Everybody was so kind. There was an episode
where Roxanne wanted a raise of $100, and Arnie
wouldnt give it to her. That caused so much uproar
all over the country. People wrote in saying, Give
her the money! People stopped me on the street
to sympathize, and others were even threatening
[actor] Corbin [Bernsen, who played Arnie]! It
evoked a very visceral response. And I did end up
getting the raise. For that group of people who were
the underdogs and felt taken advantage of, it was a
big victory.
Back to Bell, Book and Candle Unlike L.A. Law,
this isnt a well-known work. It doesnt get produced
much these days. Why is it worth reviving?
It seems like a very simple romantic comedy, just
with a little witchy basis. But the writer, who was a
gay Englishman in New York City when that was
not at all acceptable, came up with it in 1948, and
I think it has echoes of the McCarthy hearings, and
witch hunts in general. So it was about a secret cul-
ture that nobody knew about, people who hid out
and had secret meetings, cloaked in this lighthearted
romantic comedy. Regular theatergoers might not
realize that, but to me it was interesting to see how
he brought his personal life into the play without
actually addressing it Those looking for [a deeper
meaning] will see it, but its fine to enjoy it on a pure
entertainment level. What I want is for people to
have an enjoyable experience at the theater. I havent
done a play in a long time, and I had some moments
of sheer terror thinking, what have I gotten myself
into that I have to remember all these lines! But its
going to be a wonderful, fun time for the audience.
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR
CHANGE OF NAME: CASE No.
1414100. To all interested parties:
Petitioner Carol A. Liggett fled
a petition with Superior Court of
California, County of Santa Barbara,
for a decree changing name to
Carol A. Washington. The Court
orders that all persons interested in
this matter appear before this court
at the hearing indicated below to
show cause, if any, why the petition
for change of name should not
be granted. Any person objecting
to the name changes described
about must fle a written objection
that included the reasons for the
objection at least two court days
before the matter is scheduled to
be heard and must appear at the
hearing to show cause why the
petition should not be granted. If no
written objection is timely fled, the
court may grant the petition without
a hearing. Filed October 29, 2012
by Narzralli Baksh, Deputy Clerk.
Hearing date: December 20, 2012
at 9:30 am in Dept. 6, 1100 Anacapa
Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101.
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PUBLIC NOTICES

RESOLUTION NO. 12-076

A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA BARBARA DECLARING THE
INTENTION OF THE COUNCIL OF SAID CITY TO VACATE A CERTAIN PORTION OF
LOWENA DRIVE LOCATED ADJACENT TO ASSESSORS PARCEL NOS. 029-202-001 and
029-201-004 AS HEREINAFTER DESCRIBED, AND PROVIDING FOR THE HOLDING OF A
PUBLIC HEARING, THE POSTING OF REQUIRED NOTICES, AND THE PUBLICATION OF
THIS RESOLUTION

WHEREAS, the public Streets, Highways and Service Easements Vacation Law (herein referred to as General Vacation Procedure), as set
forth in Part 3 of Division 9 (Sections 8300et seq.) of the Streets and Highways Code of the State of California, as amended, provides both for
the power and method for the vacation of all or part of any City street or public service easement;

WHEREAS, The Santa Barbara Bowl Foundation (SBBF), Lessee of the Real Property owned by the County of Santa Barbara commonly
known as 1122 and 1130 North Milpas Street, Assessors Parcel Numbers (APNs) 029-202-001, 029-110-023 respectively, and the County
have jointly requested the vacation by the Council of a portion of Lowena Drive;

WHEREAS, at its meeting on January 31, 2012, the City Council conceptually reviewed the SBBF Box Office Plaza Project (Project) and
proposed vacation of Lowena Drive, and conceptually approved the project and street vacation;

WHEREAS, on November 1, 2012, at a regularly scheduled hearing, the City of Santa Barbara Planning Commission approved the Project,
subject to the City Councils final approval of an Order to Vacate Lowena Drive;

WHEREAS, by way of this Resolution the City Council hereby approves the initiation of proceedings to vacate that certain portion of Lowena
Drive that is presently open for street purposes but is not necessary for present or prospective public street purposes;

WHEREAS, the City makes no claim as to the underlying fee ownership of the portion of Lowena Drive as described;

WHEREAS, the City additionally makes no claim as to any underlying fee ownership, or any easement rights related to what is commonly
known as Cove Mound Drive on the County property; and

WHEREAS, said portion of Lowena Drive is not necessary for a non-motorized transportation facility.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY The Council of the City of Santa Barbara as follows:

Section 1. The City Council hereby elects to proceed herein under the General Vacation Procedure as amended.

SECTION 2. It is the intention of the City Council to vacate that certain street easement underlying the portion of Lowena Drive,
said portion of Lowena Drive being more particularly described as follows:

DESCRIPTION

Those certain portions of street easement known as Lowena Drive, in the City of Santa
Barbara, County of Santa Barbara, State of California, more particularly described on Exhibit
A, and generally depicted on Exhibit Map B attached hereto.

SECTION 3. The proposed street vacation is subject to the City Councils reserving and excepting from said vacation a public
service easement for existing utilities, consisting of water mains, sewer mains, gas pipelines, electrical transmission lines, communication
lines, cable television conduits, storm drain facilities, and other limited-use public easements for other than street or highway purposes.

SECTION 4. The time and place for hearing all persons interested in or objecting to the proposed street vacation shall be
December 4, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. at the regular meeting of the City Council to be held in the Council Chambers, City Hall, Santa Barbara,
California, said date being not less that fifteen (15) days from and after the adoption of this Resolution of Intention.

SECTION 5. The Public Works Director of said City is hereby directed, upon and after publication of this Resolution as hereinafter
provided, and in any event, not less than two (2) weeks prior to the aforementioned hearing, to cause notices of vacation to be conspicuously
posted along that easement hereinabove proposed to be vacated. Such notices shall:

a. Be posted not more than three hundred (300) feet apart, but at least three (3) such notices shall be posted;
b. Describe the portion of the street proposed to be vacated and include its lawful or official name by which it is commonly known;
c. State the time and place for the hearing of all persons interested in or objecting to the vacation; and
d. Refer to the adoption of this Resolution of Intention.

SECTION 6. The City Clerk is hereby directed, at least two (2) successive weeks prior to the hearing, to cause such Resolution to
be published twice in the Montecito Journal, a daily newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in said City, and hereby
designated for that purpose.

SECTION 7. The determinations, statements, descriptions, public hearings and directives above set forth are all to be in
compliance with the provisions of the General Vacation Procedure.

RESOLUTION NO. 12-076

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

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was adopted by the Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on
November 13, 2012, by the following roll call vote:

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

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTENTIONS: None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on November 14,
2012.

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

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing resolution on November 14, 2012.

/s/
Frank Hotchkiss
Mayor Pro Tempore

ORDINANCE NO. 5604

AN ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA BARBARA AMENDING SECTION 28.87.300 OF
CHAPTER 28.87 OF TITLE 28 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE
REGARDING LIMITATIONS ON NON-RESIDENTIAL
DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE CITY

The above captioned ordinance was adopted at a

regular meeting of the Santa Barbara City Council

held on November 20, 2012.

The publication of this ordinance is made pursuant

to the provisions of Section 512 of the Santa

Barbara City Charter as amended, and the original

ordinance in its entirety may be obtained at the

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

California.

(Seal)

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

ORDINANCE NO. 5604

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

I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was
introduced on November 13, 2012, and was adopted by the
Council of the City of Santa Barbara at a meeting held on
November 20, 2012, by the following roll call vote:

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

NOES: None

ABSENT: None

ABSTENTIONS: None

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereto set my hand and
affixed the official seal of the City of Santa Barbara on
November 21, 2012.

/s/
Gwen Peirce, CMC
City Clerk Services Manager

I HEREBY APPROVE the foregoing ordinance on November
21, 2012.

/s/
Helene Schneider
Mayor

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Dunkin Santa? Santa Claus, as always,
brings up the rear of the 60th Annual
Downtown Holiday Parade, but Olympic
gold medalist Kami Craig serves as the
years Celebrity Grand Marshal, leading the
array of marching bands, decorated foats
and spectacular performance groups down
State Street. Hopefully, Ms. Craig will dress
a bit warmer than she does when playing
water polo, the physical endurance/skill
sport she frst took up at age 12. Kami, a
local girl who won gold with the U.S. team
less than three months ago at the London
Olympics, won league championships as a
freshman at Santa Ynez High School and
as a junior at Santa Barbara High School.
She helped lead her team to a CIF title her
junior and senior years and was named
CIF MVP and All-American frst team as a
senior. She still holds the Santa Barbara High
School record for single-season goals (123)
and the most goals scored in one game (9).
Kami now plays professionally in Greece,
but also focuses her energy on public and
motivational speaking at area schools and
club teams. Dont miss the rest of the parade,
either, a cavalcade of color and sound,
complete with Christmas cheer and Santa
Barbaras own Holiday Prince and Fairy
riding in a horse-drawn carriage. WHEN:
6:30pm WHERE: State Street, from Sola to
Cota streets COST: free INFO: 962-2098
ext. 22 or www.santabarbaradowntown.
com
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Note to readers: This entertainment calendar is a subjective sampling of arts and other events taking place in the Santa
Barbara area for the next week. It is by no means comprehensive. Be sure to read feature stories in each issue that complement
the calendar. In order to be considered for inclusion in this calendar, information must be submitted no later than noon on the
Wednesday eight days prior to publication date. Please send all news releases and digital artwork to slibowitz@yahoo.com)
by Steven Libowitz

ONgOINg
UCSB Music With the
holidays approaching, its time
once again for the universitys
music department to roll out its
various ensembles for quarter-
ending concerts. First up on
Thursday, November 29, is the
Wind Ensemble fall concert
called Inspired, directed
by clarinet professor Paul
Bambach and featuring
the Santa Barbara premiere
of Elegy for Albinoni by Shelley Hanson and a variety of twentieth century
classics including Vesuvius by Frank Ticheli, Variations on a Shaker Melody by
Aaron Copland, and Romanian Dances by Bla Bartk. Also, Eric Whitacres image-
flled Cloudburst and Robert W. Smiths four-movement work inspired by Dantes
Divine Comedy The UCSB Chamber Choir and the UCSB Womens
Chorus present their joint concert complemented by Jon Nathans Percussion Ensemble
on Friday, November 30, at St. Anthonys Seminary Chapel (2300 Garden St.),
and this event also features music by Whitacre, as the chamber choir, conducted
by Michel Marc Gervais, will sing his works Sleep, Leonardo Dreams of
his Flying Machine, Water Night, and Cloudburst and well as Eric Barnums
Dawn. Michael Vitalino conducts the womens ensemble through a program of
seasonal works by German composers Kropfreiter, Lbeck, Koerpen and Distler
Saturday brings the UCSB Middle East Ensemble formal presentation featuring
special guest, Karim Nagi, a native Egyptian dancer, singer and choreographer
who is also a renowned drummer, DJ, and creator of Turbo Tabla and has released
four internationally distributed CDs of his unique brand of Arab House/Electronica
using acoustic instruments. The concert will feature a number of vocal solos by Karim
from across the region while Eric Ederer will lead the ensemble in performing two
Turkish pieces, including a popular song sung by the ensembles Giselle Garcia,
while the Ensembles Chorus will also perform three older songs and the Ensembles
Dance Company explores pieces from Egypt, Nubian, Spanish-infuenced, and Uzbek
cultures Monday also features a big cast of musicians as Christopher Rountree,
conductor, leads the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras in a program of varied
works The Ensemble for Contemporary Music makes its academic year debut on
Tuesday, presenting a program called Ticket to Heaven, which, in keeping with
the season, charts a path to spirituality. Jeremy Haladyna directs the outft in
performing Lou Harrisons The Perilous Chapel; Alan Hovhaness Upon Enchanted
Ground for fute, cello, large tam-tam and harp; and Per Norgards 1973 trio,
Spell, plus other works Finally the schools Jazz Ensemble and Combos wind up
the weeks musical menu on Wednesday (7:30pm) with Entirely Ellington: A Complete
Portrait of the Duke. Jon Nathan directs the six ensembles that will tour of the
world of Edward Duke Ellington, including such early pieces as Black and Tan
Fantasy, The Mooche, Black Beauty, Caravan and Perdido, the mid-period
classics Koko, Jack the Bear, and Rockin In Rhythm, and visit the Billy Strayhorn
collaboration with Take the A Train and Blood Count. WHEN: All concerts begin
at 8pm WHERE: Lehmann Hall, UCSB Campus (unless otherwise indicated) COST:
$15 general, $7 students INFO: 893-3230 or www.music.ucsb.edu

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Kids Draw Architecture
opening Celebrating a tradition
of more than 20 years, the Kids
Draw Architecture program brings
together professional architects and
artists with local children of all ages
to sketch signifcant Santa Barbara
County buildings and architectural
landmarks. This years sketch sessions
were held at the Santa Barbara Bowl, the Santa Barbara County Courthouse, and
the historic Acheson House. The youths drawings refect the architectural styles of
these beautiful historic buildings and gardens. Selected childrens drawings have
been compiled into the 2013 Kids Draw Architecture calendar, depicting Chaucers
Bookstore, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Book Den, and the Architectural
Foundation itself. Tonights reception is a festive holiday-themed event celebrating the
full exhibition; refreshments will be served. WHEN: Reception 5-7pm Friday; exhibit
on display through Jan. 11 WHERE: 229 East Victoria Street COST: free INFO: 965-
6307 or www.afsb.org
Christmas Carol in Carp We
dont know much about the production of
Dickens classic holiday fable playing at
the Plaza Playhouse Theater for the next
10 days, but were going to guess its not
as adventurous as the version produced
by Proximity Theatre last summer, which
featured the companys co-founder and
director Karina Richardson as the frst
female Scrooge. No doubt this offering
about the classic old miser who mends his
way after a series of visits from ghosts of
Christmas Past, Present and Future will be
of the more traditional variety, featuring an
all local cast under the direction of Asa
Olsson. Gene Garcia plays Scrooge,
Jim Robbins is Marley, John Thomas
portrays Bob Cratchit and Ian Thomas
plays Tiny Tim. And families will love that
tickets cost $12 max. WHEN: 7pm Friday
& Saturday and December 7-8, plus 2pm
Sunday and December 9 WHERE: Plaza
Playhouse Theater, 4916 Carpinteria
Ave., Carpinteria COST: $12 general, $7
children 12 and under INFO: 684-6380
or www.plazatheatercarpinteria.com
Westmont Christmas Festival
The choral concerts from the villages
Christian college are exceedingly
popular, so much so that this year the
public is being allowed to attend a free
dress rehearsal of the program the night
before the three-day festival begins. This
years performance, A Multitude of the
Heavenly Host, features the opening of
Francis Poulencs Gloria plus a host
of modern compositional voices from
Poulencs contemporaries Keith Getty,
John Tavener, John Rutter, Dan
Forrest and Dan Goeller, and, of
course, an array of traditional Christmas
carols. Westmonts ability in sharing these
heavenly hosts in word and music as
director Michael Shasberger puts it
makes it hard to secure tickets. So if the
three shows are already sold out, check
out the full dress rehearsal on Thursday,
Nov. 29, at 7:30pm (doors open at 7:15).
WHEN: 8pm Friday & Saturday, 3pm
Sunday WHERE: First Presbyterian Church,
21 East Constance Avenue COST: $10
general, $5 children under 17 INFO: 565-
7140 or www.westmont.edu/christmas_fs
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2
Rubicon beneft The late screenwriter
and novelist Nora Ephron and her sister,
writer and producer, collaborated on Love,
Loss, and What I Wore, based on the
book by Ilene Beckerman. Told through
a series of vignettes, the piece looks at
the important relationships, events and
issues in womens lives mother-daughter
relationships, frst dates, proms, weddings,
feelings about our bodies, health, and more
all viewed through the prism of clothing.
With its simple staging and modest nature,
the show has become a phenomenon with
women everywhere. Tonight, Rubicon
Theatre Company is presenting a single
star-studded performance of Love, Loss and
What I Wore to provide seed money for
the Micheline Sakharoff Fund for Women
Artists, a newly established fund to support
the work of women directors, designers,
actors and musicians at the theater
company. Described as a chick fick for
the stage, the pieces tales are narrated by
Gingy, a wise older woman who reminisces
about her outfts at milestones in her
life, complete with sketches of the styles.
With odes to black clothing, Madonna-
wannabe-attire, cowboy boots and outfts
that make mothers cringe, Love, Loss and
What I Wore is unabashedly girly, a story
about matters of the heart and matters
of the closet, as the New York Times put
it. Emmy and Tony-winning actress Tyne
Daly, and Amy Pietz and Amanda
McBroom star in Rubicons production
29 November 6 December 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 43 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think Niels Bohr
TUE, DEC 4 / 8 PM / UCSB CAMPBELL HALL
$25 general public / $10 all students
Presentation is part of Center Stage,
an initiative of the U.S. Department
of States Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Afairs, administered
by the NewEngland Foundation for
the Arts, in cooperation with U.S.
Regional Arts Organizations
Indonesias foremost hip-hop crew efortlessly
melds global and indigenous trance beats,
Indonesian pop and gamelan music, and
ancient Javanese poetry and literature.
(805) 893-3535
www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
Santa
Barbara
Debut

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2
National Geographic Live
The series featuring the world-
renowned photographer-explorers
of National Geographic makes its
Santa Barbara debut today with
Mattias Klum. The photographer/
flmmaker presents the illustrated talk
The Last Wild Places, focusing, as
the title suggests, on some of Earths
natural wonders, including Africas
Okavango Delta, Icelands glaciers and the rainforests of Southeast Asia. Youll
marvel at the beauty of the natural world captured in these striking new photographs
and high-defnition video from Klums most recent expeditions to the world remote
locations, and enjoy the photog/lecturers trademark humor, passion and optimism.
The latter might seem a surprise, as Klums journeys have led him to declare that we
must lighten our footprint on Earth in consideration of the legacy we will leave to
those who follow. But Klum, whose work documenting the planets biodiversity earned
him a medal from the King of Sweden, combines astute observations with concrete
solutions for sustainability. Other speakers in the new series include photographer
Annie Griffths on A Camera, Two Kids, and a Camel (Jan. 20), polar explorer
Brge Ousland on Adventures in Polar Exploration (March 3), and underwater
photographer Brian Skerry on Ocean Soul (April 7). WHEN: 8pm WHERE:
UCSBs Campbell Hall COST: $20 general, $15 youths 18 and younger INFO: 893-
3535 or www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5
Miller time If its early December, its time
for another adventure-ski flm from the master
moviemaker Warren Miller. Or rather, from Warren
Miller Entertainment, as the 87-year-old Miller
himself hasnt been involved since making the 55
annual entries from 1950 to 2004, including the
frst 38 as director. This years flm, Flow State,
hones in on that moment where mountain meets
the mind, the place of such singular focus and
connection with the environment that, as the flm
states, the faster you ride the slower time passes.
Host Jonny Moseley and world-class athletes Colby
West, Jess McMillan and David Wise, among
others, throw down some of the most impressive action that Millers company has
ever captured, taking viewers to the top of the worlds most striking peaks in Japan,
Norway, Austria and beyond. Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety takes on Alaskas
mighty Chugach, and Julian Carr bombs down Utahs famed Wasatch, among other
heart-stopping moments in this annual extravaganza for skiers and more vicarious thrill-
seekers. Tonights screening at the Lobero goes beyond the movie, offering attendees
passes to Heavenly, grab bags of goodies and more. WHEN: 8pm WHERE: 33 E.
Canon Perdido St. COST: $24 INFO: 963-0761 or www.lobero.com
directed by longtime associate Jenny
Sullivan, who helmed the show when it
ran for six box-offce breaking months at
the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles two
years ago. WHEN: 1pm WHERE: 1006
E. Main Street, Ventura COST: $85, or
$150 for VIP patrons, which includes a
pre-show champagne reception, premium
seating, a commemorative autographed
program and a post-show wine and hors
doeuvres reception with the actresses at a
private home INFO: 667-2900 or www.
rubicontheatre.org
Winter Solstice Concert The Ojai
Concert Series 5th annual Holiday
Season Concert boasts a bevy of artists
that recorded for the famed New Age
label Windham Hill. Pianist Liz Story,
singer and multi-instrumentalist Barbara
Higbie, and Celtic harpist Lisa Lynne
join forces, accompanied by world
futist George Tortorelli and multi-
instrumentalist Aryeh Frankfurter for
a concert to celebrate the season. The
ensemble has toured nationally for the
past 10 years to promote Windham Hills
series of Winter Solstice albums that
collectively sold more than eight million
copies. As expected, the camaraderie
produces both warmth and humor to go
along with the pristine performances at
one of the artists favorite times of the
year. The women of Windham Hill play
both classic and original holiday music
with uplifting, joyful and warm-hearted
repartee. WHEN: 7pm WHERE: Ojai
Valley Womans Club 441 East Ojai
Ave. COST: $20 in advance, $23 at
the door; kids under 15 free half price
at the door INFO: 665-8852 or www.
ojaiconcertseries.com MJ
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Now that you mentioned it, why havent
we seen you much, on either TV or the
stage? Were you busy with other things
or is it hard, as they say, to find roles for
women over forty, or something else?
Its all of that. I was a single parent
raising a son who had some learn-
ing disabilities and had to be there
to make sure he was taken care of in
school. He was my priority. I worked
enough to keep working, but I had to
be there for him. Now hes grown up
so it gives me the freedom to do what
I want to do. One of those things was
to get back into theater again. There
is a dearth of roles for woman over
forty. But I just need to keep doing the
things that make me feel creative. I
cant worry about how much I work. I
just want to be happy and feel fulfilled
with my own creative needs. This is
so much fun. Im so happy to be here.
Ensemble Theatre Company presents
Bell, Book and Candle at the Alhecama
Theater, 914 Santa Barbara Street.
Previews are Thursday-Friday, opening
night is Saturday, December 1. Show
time is 8pm Tuesday-Saturdays, 2 &
7pm Sundays, through December 16, plus
a 4pm matinee on Saturday, December
8. Tickets cost $40$65, with discounts
for seniors, students, young adults and
groups of 10 or more. Call 965-5400 or
visit www.ensembletheatre.com.
The new
Bluegrass Boys
Punch Brothers started life in 1995-
96 as the band for Chris Thiles solo
project How to Grow a Woman from
the Ground. He recruited his boyhood
musical friend, fiddler Gabe Witcher,
and then put together the rest of the
musicians from a pool of players both
he worked with or heard play. But it
didnt take long before the mando-
linist who had spent 15 years in the
Grammy-winning acoustic trio Nickel
Creek knew hed found a happy new
home.
Within the first ten seconds of
playing together, we realized we had
something more special than what it
started out to be, Witcher said over
the telephone earlier this week. By
the end of the day, literally, we were
all on the same page of wanting this
to be more than just the one record-
ing project. Within a week, we knew
we would be something that lasted,
that we were going to be a band that
collaborated, no longer Chriss hired
musicians. We were all just buzzing
and thought it was so much fun that
we had to go on.
Thus was born the group that has
turned acoustic music on its (happy)
ear, blending blazing skill at tradi-
tional bluegrass with an approach
both modern and ancient that has
variously been labeled hard-charging
string-band punk rock, modern classi-
cal, and Bill Monroes Bluegrass Boys
for the new millennia, to name just a
few.
The chemistry was born both of tim-
ing, genetics and upbringing, Witcher
said.
We all grew up at least partially
with the same canon, the same bunch
of records, the same musical idols,
he said. We played along with all the
same records, and have the common
understanding of what music does
and can do, and how we want it to
sound.
The basis, of course, was bluegrass:
all of the members have earned their
stripes with the traditional string band
music, Witcher, for example, having
won fiddle championships from age
4 to 14, when he retired. But the
bigger connection was a yearning for
something more.
We love all kinds of music and each
of us has different tastes, Witcher
said. We share a sense of wanting
to expand beyond what bluegrass is
or has been, a sense of adventure, a
desire to push the boundaries. Push
ourselves, too. See what this ensemble
could do, what kind of new sounds
we could get from our instruments,
find new textures, and a wider range
than what wed done before. So it was
a serendipitous union.
The results have been nothing short
of revolutionary. In just four years,
Punch Brothers released Punch,
which included Thiles ambitious
concept album, The Blind Leaving the
Blind, a 40-minute suite in four move-
ments that dealt with his divorce, as
well as a few band songs, and then
everything after that has been a pure
group effort. Antifogmatic features
some astounding instrumental inter-
play, while this years Whos Feeling
Young Now? veers in influence from
Swedish folk to punk to minimalist
Steve Reich, plus a wacked out and
woozy interpretation of Radioheads
Kid A.
EnTERTAInMEnT (Continued from page 40)
Mattie Hawkinson and Susan Ruttan star in
Ensemble Theatre Companys production of Bell,
Book and Candle (photo credit: David Bazemore)
29 November 6 December 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 45 [Humans] are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star Stephen Hawking
The songwriting happens when
we all get in a room together, a natu-
ral process where all of us listen and
respond, Witcher said. We throw
ideas around and see what works.
Every song has its own method. They
reveal to you how they want to be
written. The most important thing is
to all be together and listening to each
other.
Indeed, Hundred Dollars began
when banjoist Noam Pikelny worked
up a riff as the band exited the stage
after a concert, Witcher said. By the
time we got to the dressing room we
were all jamming along. We recorded
it with a cell phone and that was the
basis for the song.
The new album also evinces a step
toward addressing a rare complaint
that Punch Brothers are too heady
at the expense of the heart and gut:
More distracting than good, more
spectacular than engaging as one
critic put it. But Young find the
quintet moving past technical prow-
ess into more accessible songwriting.
Thats been our biggest challenge,
our task, our growth curve, Witcher
agreed. Trying to figure out exactly
how to balance those elements. Weve
leaned more heavily toward the cere-
bral side than toward soul, even if to
us it still had an emotional impact.
But you had to listen to it actively
Were united as a band in feeling that
you need both sides in order to stay
engaged and make the kind of music
we want to put out there. A main
goal on this album was to write songs
that could get your body moving and
engage your spirit. So I think were
getting better at disguising cerebral
stuff, like slipping in the vegetables
underneath the dessert.
Although theyre all veterans of
close to 20 years or more of making
music, the Punch Brothers are all just
in their mid-20s to early 30s, so its
scary to think about how far the pro-
gressive band can still progress.
Punch Brothers and opening act
Milk Carton Kids perform Tuesday
at 8pm at the Lobero Theater. Tickets
cost $40, and are available by calling
963-0761 or visiting www.lobero.com.
In what is likely a coincidence, fid-
dler Sara Watkins, Thiles former
bandmate in Nickel Creek, plays a
solo show at SOhO on Monday, the
night before Punch Brothers hit the
Lobero. A terrific fiddler in her own
right, Watkins, who started playing in
Nickel Creek at the age of eight, has
turned into a crafty songwriter and
also owns a lovely voice. She also usu-
ally brings along quite a few musical
colleagues. So it should make for quite
a one-two punch (pardon) of acous-
tic music. Elsewhere in pop, quirky
singer-songwriter Jill Sobule saunters
into SOhO on Sunday night, a few
hours after local blues-rocker Alastair
Greene plays a benefit show to raise
funds for his trip to a national com-
petition earned through a battle of the
bands contest last month. Headless
Households annual Christmas con-
cert takes place at Center Stage on
Monday. MJ
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