NORTHERN SANTA BARBARA COUNTY’S NEWS AND ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY > JULY 11 - JULY 18, 2019 > VOL. 20 NO. 19 > WWW.SANTAMARIASUN.COM AT THE MOVIES Disturbing, shocking [28] 1 This year’s short-story contest winners prove that wordiness is for the birds [8] Cuyama gets grant Los Olivos is in Old Town ups ante on NEWS for water issues [7] ARTS full bloom [24] EATS comfort food [31] New SMAT & BREEZE Schedules JULY 11 - JULY 18, 2019 VOL. 20 NO. 19 revity is the soul of our annual 55 Fiction short-story contest, and we invite readers from far and wide to pick up their pens to submit their tiny tableaus. Our judges this On Monday, July 15, 2019 year—including Arts Editor Caleb Wiseblood and Senior minor changes wiall be made to BREEZE B Staff Writer Glen Starkey and Staff Writer Karen Garcia from our Route 100. sister paper, New Times—read through the best of the submitted 2 stories to name the winners. At times, we channeled Hunter S. BIRD IS THE WORD: Fifty-five words are just enough for our contest winners to Thompsbird, cynicism and cigarette in hand (metaphorically, of take flight. · Breeze Route 100. Servicing the Lompoc course), to find the juiciest juxtapositions, the most diminutive Transit Center. denouements, and the shiniest similes. Enjoy! [8] Also this week, read about a state environmental grant that will help Cuyama residents craft a plan · Breeze Route 100. 6:20 a.m. trip from to save their groundwater [7], a lawsuit demanding that Lompoc change the restrictions on where sex offenders can reside [10], Los Olivos’ newest exhibition that puts summer on display [24], and Santa Maria to Lompoc changed to 6:10 Old Town Kitchen and Bar—the best place to find gooey, down-home comfort food [31]. a.m. to allow for transfers to the COLT Andrea Rooks, BUS service. associate editor · Breeze Route 200. No change. · . 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RCFE# 425802104 www.santamariasun.com • July 11 - July 18, 2019 • Sun • 3 BIZ SPOTLIGHT 10 BRIEFS SCREENSHOT COURTESY OF THE U.S. FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION to create a new youth safety Cunningham tables e-cig task force in Lompoc, Political Watch marketing bill for stricter which will join similar task forces in South County and • On June 27, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an anti-vaping legislation Santa Maria. opinion blocking a controversial question asking for According to a 2019-21 It’s been several months since Assemblyman a person’s citizenship status from appearing on the draft budget presented Jordan Cunningham (R-San Luis Obispo) 4 to Lompoc City Council 2020 census. Many critics of the U.S. Department introduced a bill in December 2018 that aimed to in June, gang violence of Commerce’s plan to add this question believed deter e-cigarette use among minors by prohibiting in the city is increasing. it would prevent immigrants from participating in “deceptive e-cigarette marketing” geared toward During fi scal year 2017-18, the census because of the fear of deportation. children. That bill has since been tabled, and now Gov. there were 53 gang-related Cunningham is including its provisions in a more Gavin Newsom released a statement on the day assaults and homicides in robust and stringent anti-vaping bill. of the court’s ruling supporting its decision. “The the city. This increased to 65 On July 2, Cunningham announced the Supreme Court did their job today, but the fi ght gang-related violent crimes introduction of Assembly Bill 1639, which includes during fi scal year 2018-19. continues,” Newsom said. “Every person counts. If strict steps that make it more diffi cult for teens “Law enforcement in Californians do not participate in next year’s census, and children to get their hands on electronic [Lompoc] has dedicated the Trump administration wins.” Offi cials with the tobacco and nicotine products. s i g n i fi c a n t e f f o r t s city of Santa Maria and Santa Barbara County told “The Federal Food and Drug Administration towards reducing the has called the rise in teen vaping an epidemic,” the Sun in May that they were concerned that this violence, but current Cunningham said in a press release. “Like question could lead to inaccurate counts locally. resources are limited epidemics of the past, this one deserves a robust Ensuring an accurate count is important because it and there is no existing and focused public policy response. I believe this collaborative entity to affects how much funding local jurisdictions receive bill will help curb the rise of teenage vaping and be address that violence,” from the federal government for various city, county, positive for public health.” a staff report from the and state services. Despite the court’s ruling, The number of U.S. high school students who Santa Barbara County President Donald Trump and his administration reported e-cigarette use increased by 78 percent Board of Supervisors July between 2017 and 2018 alone, according to the are trying to fi nd a way to add the question to the MARKETING MANIA: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has criticized the e-cigarette 9 meeting states. 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey. Numbers census. “We are absolutely moving forward, as we industry for specifi cally marketing to teens, using brightly colored boxes reminiscent of kid- At the July meeting, among middle school students rose by 48 percent.