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NORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’S NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY > SEPTEMBER 20 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 > VOL. 19 NO. 29 > WWW.SANTAMARIASUN.COM AT THE MOVIES White Boy Rick: Undercover kid [30] 1 District showdown Santa Maria and Lompoc candidates for city council prepare for first district elections [8] BY JOE PAYNE BLM considers fracking Blues masters jam at Romantic-realistic painter NEWS on the Central Coast [7] MUSIC Cold Spring Tavern [23] ARTS explores identity [26] SEPTEMBER 20 - SEPTEMBER 27, 2018 VOL. 19 NO. 29 hile national politicos fret over the race for Congress, local representatives and candidates are vying for coveted city seats. And in the case of Santa Maria Wand Lompoc, the race for city council is colored by a voting system new to both cities: district elections. For this week’s cover story, I spoke with incumbents and candidates VOTING ZONES: District-based elections alike to hear their platforms and why they hope to win a district 2 come to Lompoc and Santa Maria for seat on their respective city councils [8]. the first time this year, with incumbents Also this week, the Bureau of Land Management considered working to protect their seats from areas to frack and drill on the Central Coast [7], a legendary energized challengers. blues duo performs regularly at a historic location [23], a local painter explores identity with a romantic-realist style [26], a Santa Barbara author explores death HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE and dying in a new book [28], and get a taste of some elevated tacos in Lompoc [34]. 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RabobankAmerica.com HancockCollege.edu/Promise 9/20 – m I’m neutral. 9/27 m District what now? 4 • Sun • September 20 - September 27, 2018 • www.santamariasun.com BIZ SPOTLIGHT 10 | SCHOOL SCENE 1 1 BRIEFS FILE PHOTO BY JOE PAYNE had been contaminated with Founder of Flutes Across semen. Political Watch the World indicted on child It is unclear if that • Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) faced criticism in investigation was related mid September after reports that she had received a letter sex charges to current charges against in late July regarding an alleged attempt at sexual assault by The founder and leader of a music program Zeretzke. Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh against a that contracted for years with Santa Ynez Zeretzke was arraigned on 5 then-unnamed accuser. Feinstein’s critics among Democrats Valley’s Circle V Ranch Camp was recently the indictment Sept. 13 in and liberals chastised her for not sharing the letter initially indicted and charged with several sexual crimes United States District Court in with the Senate Judiciary Committee and for sending it to against children. downtown Los Angeles, and the FBI only after reports of the letters existence began to John Zeretzke, a former Ventura-based music Rhoades said he was released make headlines, whereas Republicans and conservatives on Sept. 17 after family and questioned the timing of the allegation and Feinstein’s teacher who founded Flutes Across the World, an educational program he led for years at Circle friends paid his $20,000 bail. decision to forward it to the FBI. On Sept. 13, Feinstein Among other conditions, issued a brief statement acknowledging the letter, but that V Ranch Camp, was arrested Sept. 13 by the U.S. Zeretzke is on electronic “the individual strongly requested confi dentiality,” and she Postal Inspection Service and the Los Angeles wanted to “honor that decision.” After the accuser, California County Sheriff’s Department, according to a monitoring, and Rhoades college professor Christine Blasey Ford, came forward press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Offi ce. said his trial date is tentatively and revealed her identity to The Washington Post, Feinstein The fi ve-count indictment alleges that in scheduled for Nov. 6. issued another statement, saying, “It has always been Mrs. November 2015 and continuing into May —Kasey Bubnash Ford’s decision whether to come forward publicly. For any 2016, Zeretzke, 60, attempted to persuade a woman, sharing an experience involving sexual assault— 15-year-old girl to have sex with him online, and Lompoc Police particularly when it involves a politically connected man allegedly sent the girl multiple sexually explicit with infl uence, authority, and power—is extraordinarily photos of himself via Facebook. diffi cult. … I hope the attacks and shaming of her will stop Chief gives update and this will be treated with the seriousness it deserves.” In February 2017, Zeretzke, allegedly Feinstein joined Senate Judiciary Democrats in signing a persuaded another minor to produce child on homeless triage letter to White House Counsel Don McGahn requesting the pornography. Later that year, the indictment center FBI reopen Kavanaugh’s background investigation and a claims that Zeretzke traveled to the Philippines— letter to Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to postpone where he often donated musical instruments to Just a few days after opening the scheduled confi rmation vote pending a Senate hearing children through Flutes Across the World—with an emergency shelter for CIRCLE V RANCH: John Zeretzke, founder of Flutes Across the World, leads Circle V Ranch campers through a fl ute crafting session in August 2014. Zeretzke was on the matter. Grassley postponed the vote and scheduled the