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NORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’S NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY > NOVEMBER 8 - NOVEMBER 15, 2018 > VOL. 19 NO. 36 > WWW.SANTAMARIASUN.COM AT THE MOVIES Bohemian Rhapsody: 1 Magnifi co [32] GRAPES AND GRADES Allan Hancock College wines hit local shelves, gaining critical acclaim and industry attention [10] BY ANDREA ROOKS County busts massive Hear who won Local painter creates NEWS unlicensed pot grow [9] MUSIC at the NTMAs [24] ARTS stirring still lifes [29] Can I crash In need of Skilled on your couch for awhile? Nursing Care? Ask us about our Ask for us, Country NOVEMBER 8 - NOVEMBER 15, 2018 VOL. 19 NO. 36 Foster Program Oaks Care Center, t takes a lot of skills to get a 91 score from Wine Enthusiast, but FOSTER • SPONSOR • VOLUNTEER • DONATE that’s exactly what the Allan Hancock College viticulture and Anyone can help! a name you can trust! enology program enjoyed in a recent issue of the magazine. The community college winemaking program doesn’t just have a If you have room in your heart I reputation among sippers, but also the young people looking to and home to foster a home- less pet, we need you! So enter the Central Coast wine industry and get a hands-on approach AG 102: Agribusiness students at Allan many dogs, cats, bunnies and to everything, from growing the grapes to crushing and fermenting 2 Hancock College, including Alfredo horses are needing rescue, Award Winning them. For this week’s cover story, Sun proofreader Andrea Rooks Delacruz (pictured), can enroll in more and the way we are able to Care with spoke with Hancock staff, students, and the reviewer who’ve all than a dozen viticulture and enology give them a future depends Award Winning Best Senior Living classes to try their hand at everything upon our amazing volunteers Commitment Community helped put Hancock’s wines in the spotlight [10]. from harvest to winemaking operations and foster homes. Cheyenne, Also this week, Santa Barbara County law enforcement to sales and marketing. pictured, needed medical eradicated a record number of unlicensed pot plants [9], intervention, lots of love and Guadalupe works to change a city ordinance after public complaints [9], the New Times Music cuddles, and plenty of food to save her life. A warm and loving foster home made Awards celebrates the winners and a 10-year anniversary [24], Jan Howard shows her landscapes all the difference in the world to her. If you would like to and still life work in Orcutt [29], author Christopher Meeks will give a live reading [30], and a join our winning team of foster parents and volunteers, local serves pre-portioned food with her business Sexy Eats [34]. please contact us for more information and learn how Joe Payne, you can save a life today! managing editor Photo by Jayson Mellom > Cover Design by Alex Zuniga www.centralcoastspca.org NEWS MUSIC Email: [email protected] News Briefs ........................................................4 Music listings .................................................. 24 John Henning, Ph. D. 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We’re here to help you stop trippin’ over it and get rid of it! m Marketing and sales. m Drinking the wine. (805) 736-9696 807 East Chestnut Ave, Lompoc Enter your choice online SantaMariaSun.com lompocautorepair.com at: SantaMariaSun.com 2 • Sun • November 8 - November 15, 2018 • www.santamariasun.com 3 www.santamariasun.com • November 8 - November 15, 2018 • Sun • 3 BIZ SPOTLIGHT 12 | SCHOOL SCENE 1 2 BRIEFS and “do everything we can to maintain Carbajal holds House seat for economic opportunity and jobs on our Central Political Watch Democratic majority Coast,” Carbajal said. “We now are in a position where we can • Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) won her bid for re- Cheers fi lled the small downtown Santa actually get things done,” Carbajal said. “For the election on Nov. 6 according to preliminary results with 54 Barbara restaurant as Rep. Salud Carbajal past two years we saw nothing but division, we percent of the votes in California. Her challenger, progressive (D-Santa Barbara) climbed a staircase to address didn’t see much transparency, and we didn’t see 4 state Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles), won 45 percent the crowd just after he was projected to win much things getting done. The few things that of the vote. “Now I go to the Senate with 25 years under my California’s 24th District for the U.S. House of we saw getting done were for the wealthiest 1 belt with a great constituency to represent,” Feinstein said Representatives for a second time on the Nov. 6 percent in this country. during her election night victory speech. “This state—the election night. “So it’s high time we now start moving fi fth largest economic power on Earth, over 40 million Supporters, Democratic Party organizers, forward programs, legislation that take care of people, bigger than 21 states and the District of Columbia and state and local representatives there had a our working middle-class families,” he added. put together—needs strong representation.” The results lot to celebrate, Carbajal told the crowd, as their —Joe Payne in Santa Barbara County closely mirrored those statewide, party won back a majority in the House from according to the county, with 42,674 votes (54 percent) for the Republican Party currently led by President Feinstein and 34,929 votes (45 percent) for de Leon. Donald Trump. Soto and Waterfi eld take Santa “What it means is that we fi nally have Maria City Council race • Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) beat out Republican challenger the tools and the checks and balance on an administration that has worked for the past John Cox by nearly 20 points, or 1.3 million votes, to serve Santa Maria’s fi rst-ever district City Council two years to promote corruption and division as California’s next governor after Gov. Jerry Brown fi nishes election was one for the history books, and instead of bringing us together,” he said. “We his last term in the offi ce. According to semi-offi cial election in a hard-fought, nail-biter of race, two polar fi nally have the tools … to investigate, to ask night results from Santa Barbara County, Newsom won 57 opposite candidates both managed to land seats questions, and to make things more transparent. on the council. percent, or 51,549 votes across the count, whereas Cox won This is going to be great for our country.” Despite hopes—and fears—that the city’s RETURNING TO WASHINGTON: Rep. Salud Carbajal 42 percent, or 37,704 votes. According to results released on election new district-based voting system would churn (D-Santa Barbara) spoke before supporters and Democratic night, Carbajal held his seat with more out high marks for left-leaning candidates, Santa • State Assemblymember Monique Limón (D-Santa Barbara) Party organizers and representatives in Santa Barbara on than 96,000 votes across the entire 24th Maria voters clutched tightly to the status quo was re-elected handily by voters in the 37th State Assembly election night, Nov. 6, thanking them for their support and District, which includes Santa Barbara and on Nov. 6, voting in incumbent Councilmember votes that will return him to a second term in the U.S. House District, which includes South Santa Barbara and West SLO counties as well as portions of Ventura Etta Waterfi eld by a vast margin in District 4, of Representatives. Ventura counties, on election night Nov. 6. Across the Santa County. Republican challenger Justin Fareed, and barely pushing rookie candidate Gloria Soto Barbara County portion of the district, Limón won 83 percent a businessman