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NORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’S NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY > JUNE 20 - JUNE 27, 2019 > VOL. 20 NO. 16 > WWW.SANTAMARIASUN.COM AT THE MOVIES Dead Don’t Die: A slow mover [40] 1 Lens flare Central Coast photographers share their perspectives in the Sun’s annual Winning Images contest [12] County cannabis regs Botanical watercolors A bar like NEWS are already changing [9] ARTS at Flying Goat [36] EATS no other [42] JUNE 20 - JUNE 27, 2019 VOL. 20 NO. 16 ive us the most poignant, interesting image of something we have never seen before. That’s what we ask Central Coast photographers to submit to us every year in our annual Winning Images contest. Because a photograph Gcan captures a moment as unique as the individual who took it. Photographs can make you feel a certain way. They can reveal LONE SNOWBOARDER: Dawn Cerf won perceptions of the world that you’ve never thought to see before. In 2 first place in this year’s Winning Images other words, the images we receive are thought-provoking. But you Contest Open category. don’t have to take my word for it. See the winners for yourself [12]. Also this week, read about the new diesel regulations in store for California and one farm’s struggle to stay in compliance with the old regs [9], Santa Barbara County’s potential cannabis ordinance amend- ments [9], one artist’s botanical love affair with watercolors [36], Fossmalle Studio dancers’ return to the Santa Ynez High School Little Theatre [38], and why you haven’t lived if you haven’t been to HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE Hangar 7 in Lompoc [42]. 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Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) potential PG&E applauded the recently passed state budget in a statement she released on June 13, saying she power outages 4 supports the state’s focus on education, housing, Utility provider Pacifi c and disaster prevention and response. “At a time Gas and Electric (PG&E) when California has a strong economy and a Company announced that healthy surplus, we passed a budget today that it could shut off power in very carefully plans for our future while meeting huge swaths of California the challenges facing Californians today,” Jackson for days at a time in an attempt to prevent future wrote. “We have put away the largest reserves in wildfi res like the burns our state’s history, while providing record funding the company was blamed to our schools, increasing investments in early for in 2017 and 2018, care and education, in our community colleges and local businesses and and universities, and providing support for wildfi re health care providers are prevention and response.” Jackson wrote that she trying to prepare for the supports the inclusion of $2.4 billion to address potential blackouts. California’s housing and homelessness “crisis,” and “It’s really important for funding that will extend paid family leave from six us to let our community know that this is to eight weeks. The budget also includes funding something we’re preparing for the state’s growing senior population, including for,” said Jackie Ruiz, a $5 million to fund a program at the California spokesperson for the Santa Department of Aging to help older adults reduce the Barbara County Public risk of falls at home, a program Jackson said she Health Department. Ruiz said it’s diffi cult prioritized through Senate Bill 280, which is on its A DIFFERENT KIND OF PREVENTION: Fire crews battled Thomas Fire fl ames as they approached homes on Shepherd Mesa Road in Carpinteria during the early way through the state Assembly. “All of the funding to tell exactly how a days- morning hours of Dec. 10, 2017. prioritized in today’s budget helps California boldly long power outage would rise to meet its challenges while wisely planning for impact local hospitals and clinics, which rely on electricity to power during which local hospitals work through a be even more diffi cult for farmers to navigate in our future,” Jackson wrote. medical equipment—including oxygen three-day extended power-outage scenario. the future if things like diesel-fueled generators pumps and dialysis machines—that are vital About 66 health care facilities participated are completely banned. • Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham (R-San Luis to keeping patients alive. All hospitals in in the most recent drill, which Ruiz said was During extensive outages, Wineman said Obispo) opposed the recently passed state budget Santa Barbara County have generators and held in November 2018. In a debriefi ng after farmers and ranchers will have to fi nd new in a statement he released on June 13, saying the backup fuel stored, but Ruiz said it’s unclear last year’s event, Ruiz said health care industry ways to power their cooling and cold storage employees who participated said the experience facilities, where produce and meat have to be budget will do little to promote a healthy economy. how long that fuel would last during an helped them plan for power outage situations kept immediately after harvesting or butchering. “California has a middle class that is getting extensive power shutdown. The Public Health Department is working to they hadn’t previously considered. Electric irrigation pumps would also be shut squeezed out and left behind,” Cunningham wrote “So I think it was eye opening in that respect,” down during a power outage. in the statement. “This budget is the largest in help health care organizations plan for outages and the potentially unforeseen impacts as best Ruiz told the Sun.