Celebrating 50 Years of Beautification!
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Mirella Zunica Olson by Bird of Paradise Celebrating 50 years of beautification! Santa Barbara Beautiful Annual Awards Presentation Sunday, September 27, 2015 Hahn Hall, Music Academy of the West •Santa Barbara, CA The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is proud to join with Santa Barbara Beautiful in congratulating the 2015 award winners for their ongoing dedication to the beautification of our community. Visit SBMA’s exciting upcoming exhibition: Looking In, Looking Out: Latin American Photography October 18, 2015 – February 14, 2016 2 A Message From The President P ON ENTERING AND TAKING YOUR SEATS IN THIS program is currently on hold due to the drought.) I’m particularly Ufinely CrAfted SpACe tHAt iS HAHn HAll (a past proud of the efforts of our organization in instilling an interest in award winner), take a moment to realize that Santa Barbara is a trees and the environment through our Arbor Day book donations special place whose beauty has been created by generations who have to local schools and public libraries and a scholarship program been dedicated to creating, preserving, and enriching its wonderful for Santa Barbara City College students pursuing education in environment. horticulture. At this annual Santa Barbara Beautiful Awards this year, through our Community Grant program, Ceremony we have gathered to honor those who make Santa Barbara Beautiful funded several noteworthy our community special and to celebrate an important projects such as the Milpas Community Association’s “yes milestone in our organization’s history. We Celebrate We Can!,” Braille institute’s torrey pine replacement, la 50 years of beautification! All around you are those who Cumbre Junior High School foundation’s landscape and have participated in some way in making Santa Barbara entry to their performance art center, the Bicentennial beautiful or in supporting those who make it a healthy, Friendship (Dolphin) Fountain renovation, and Youth living, creative environment for everyone to enjoy. interactive’s State Street post Card Murals. in honor of For 50 years Santa Barbara Beautiful has been our 50th anniversary, Santa Barbara Beautiful approved building a legacy of community beautification. In a $50,000 grant to the Santa Barbara Community Arts 1965, Catherine Adams, Mayor don MacGillivray, Workshop Gates. pearl Chase, and others started to actively care about Jeanette Casillas I am proud of our Board of Directors, as their energy, how the community presented itself—in its street trees, architecture, commitment, and dedication are just some reasons why Santa landscape design, and gardens. Since that initial urge to beautify Barbara Beautiful is 50 years strong. A big “thank you!” to the emerged, what started as a trend has grown into a lifestyle. Awards Committee who has made this evening so special: Co-Chairs Today, as we celebrate our golden anniversary, we can look Jo Ann Mermis and ricardo Castellanos, as well as dana Morrow back and can be proud of how far we have come and look forward at RoadShow Media. I also want to thank the many hours provided to continuing our tradition of beautification and community by our amazing property Award Judges who included community collaboration for years to come. leaders, art historians, real estate professionals, architects, landscape Dedicated to encouraging community engagement and inspiring architects, and planners, as well as our talented group of voice-over volunteerism and grassroots involvement in beautification, Santa narrators. I would also like to thank our generous sponsors for Barbara Beautiful has helped to realize a number of noteworthy helping to make this evening possible. projects and programs this year through beneficial partnerships and And, finally, congratulations to all of this year’s Award Winners. funding support with multiple organizations. You have made a difference in this beautiful place. This spirit of collaboration is evident in our continued participation in Downtown Santa Barbara’s flag program and the I — Jeanette Casillas Madonnari italian Chalk festival. (funding for the City Street trees President, Santa Barbara Beautiful 2015 Santa Barbara Beautiful Board of Directors Robert F. Adams, Ginny Brush, Stacey J. Byers, Jeanette Casillas, Ricardo Castellanos, Tim Downey, Jacqueline S. Dyson, Suzanne Fairly, Randy Figgins, Christie Gallagher, Donnis Galvan, David Gress, David Jacoby, Patti Jacquemain, Lori Kari, Kate Kurlas, Duke McPherson, Suzanne Mellichamp, Jo Ann Mermis, Kerry Methner, Desmond O’Neill, Deborah Schwartz, Leslee Sipress, Carol Terry, Mark Whitehurst, and Steve Windhager. 3 CalBRE: #01206734 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2015 AWARD WINNERS! We appreciate all your efforts to keep Santa Barbara beautiful. WE KNOW WHAT A WONDERFUL PLACE THIS IS. WE LIVE HERE. We are a locally-owned company, with deep roots, and a deep love and knowledge of our special home. Our passion is sharing it all with newcomers and locals alike. We love giving back to the community, and all of our agents are passionately involved with local organizations and charities. We proudly represent the following areas: Santa Ynez Valley, Goleta, Hope Ranch, Santa Barbara, Montecito, Summerland, Carpinteria, and Ojai. 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We recommend that buyers make their own inquiries. 4 The 2015 Awards Program Jeanette Casillas, President’s Welcome John Palminteri, Master of Ceremonies Introduction of Honored Guests Mayor Helene Schneider Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, Poet Laureate Award Presentations Griswold Award for philanthropy: Jean Kellogg Schuyler Presented by Salud Carbajal, First District Supervisor, Santa Barbara County Historic Revitalization Commercial Sign president’s Award: Sonos Presented by Jeanette Casillas, President, Santa Barbara Beautiful Single Family Estate Public Open Space The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden native Choice Award: Virginia L.T. Gardner Presented by Steve Windhager, Ph.D., Executive Director, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Hugh Petersen Award For Art In Public Places Multi-family residence Architectural Feature City of Santa Barbara Arts Advisory Committee’s Business in Art Award: Marc and Laurie Recordon, Hotel Indigo Santa Barbara Presented by Ginny Brush, Executive Director, SB County Arts Commission Single Family Residence Commercial property playa de Santa Barbara Award for environmental Stewardship: Gaviota Coast Conservancy Presented by Deborah L. Schwartz, Treasurer, Santa Barbara Beautiful Champagne Toast Hahn Hall Plaza 5 Keeping Santa Barbara Beautiful. Helping the beauty shine through in an already outstanding city is a mission that brightens and energizes the whole community. Congratulations to all of the individuals and businesses being honored here tonight, and to Santa Barbara Beautiful for 50 years of local beautification. 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Sonos makes its Sonos has found its feet locally and is contributing to presence known, in part, with Santa Barbara's vibrant community in various ways, including its work culture philosophy. employing more than 400 people in downtown Santa Barbara. At its core, the team works to While its visual and economic footprint is big and beautiful, shift expectations and redefine realities, thus a hi-tech giant Sonos’ programs support reducing their carbon footprint. locates its headquarters in Santa Barbara, occupying a series Understanding that the Santa Barbara lifestyle is about of commercial retail warehouses at the center of downtown, relationship with the natural world as well as fun in the sun, rather than Silicon Valley. Sonos encourages its employees to commute via bicycle, and the company, founded in 2002 by John Macfarlane, Craig even pays its employees to buy new bikes and gear via its earn- Shelburne,