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DECEMBER 5 - DECEMBER 12, 2019 VOL. 20 NO. 40 uadalupe, one of the state’s oldest cities, is seemingly too often forgotten. Past the wind-whipped fields of strawberries, visitors and locals alike are transported back in Gtime as they meander the historic main drag. But the coastal town of 7,000 residents, gateway to the famed dunes, is growing— if not by leaps and bounds, then at least by long-awaited and well-planned steps. The Pasadena Homes development is bringing 2 WORK IN PROGRESS: Craig Smith, 800 homes, 200 of which are already built. With those homes, regional manager for Pasadera Homes city leaders are hoping for an influx of commercial development in Guadalupe, strolls past a house in and its attendant sales tax and property tax dollars. This week, progress. He estimates the project will Staff Writer William D’Urso talks with the Pasadena developer, take another four or five years to complete. Guadalupe’s current and former leaders, and its business owners to paint a picture of where the city’s been and where it’s headed next [10]. Also this week, learn why some Santa Maria mobile home residents are still not completely satisfied with the city’s model lease program [7], read about a program that connects homeless female veterans with tiny homes [8], view some wintery landscapes in Solvang Antiques [26], prepare yourself for the Melodrama’s annual holiday productions [27], and get the scoop on a new shop offering all the sweet treats worth screaming about [30]. Andrea Rooks associate editor
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RIEFS PHOTO BY WILLIAM D’URSO S C P W H 2A In a 24-10 vote on Nov. 21, the H Central Coast farmers are looking for an answer to labor shortages, and U.S. Congressman C approved a bill that calls for Salud Carbajal is determined to give it to them. decriminalizing cannabis at the federal level. In The Santa Barbara Democrat held a roundtable 5 addition to removing marijuana from the Controlled with farmers and other local representatives of Substances Act, the Marijuana Opportunity agriculture in San Luis Obispo on Dec. 2. He was Reinvestment and Expungement (MORE) Act, there to discuss the Farm Workforce Modernization authored by U S R N D N , Act, a bill that recently passed the House Judiciary would require federal courts to expunge prior Committee, 18-12. It now awaits consideration marijuana convictions. So far the Senate has taken on the fl oor of the House, where Carbajal said it’s no action on a companion bill, which was introduced currently receiving broad bipartisan support—26 Democrats and 23 Republicans. by S K H D C . The bill still Across the Central Coast, yields fl uctuated a has various House committees to work through, but little in 2018 as the labor market, following the G F G N , a group of Santa country’s low unemployment rate, constricts. Barbara County cannabis industry leaders, applauded In SLO County, the yields largely boomed while the judiciary committee’s decision. In a statement the Santa Barbara County saw a decrease in its ag group released on Nov. 25, S R production. According to the Santa Barbara County said the group is eager for the bill to be taken up in the Ag Commissioner’s offi ce, the county’s farms and Senate and other House committees. “It is our hope ranches grossed just more than $1.5 billion, a 4.9 that House and Senate leaders will confi rm our belief percent decrease compared to 2017. LA OR UESTIONS: Brent Burchett (pictured standing), the executive director of the San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau, that hemp and cannabis are well within the scope of SLO County agriculture hit more than $1 billion in 2018, according to county numbers, a 12 percent introduces U.S. Congressman Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara, sitting to the right of Burchett) to a group of local farmers and traditional agriculture and as such are ‘Right to Farm’ jump over the previous year. That bump, in part, agriculture industry representatives during a Dec. 2 roundtable about modernizing the country’s current guest-worker laws. commodities,” she said. came from a strong year for wine, which saw a 3 percent price increase, an 8 percent yield increase, in workers and their families who are already in “We think this is of great importance to the • On Nov. 22, G G N appointed 20 and profi ts of $276 million. the country. Santa Ynez Valley, but also the whole county,” people to serve on the state’s new E C Labor, however, dominated conversation at “The bigger piece is we have a lot of workers Hartmann said during the meeting. P C and advisory committees designed to the recent roundtable, a focal point of the act the who are ready to come here that we can’t During the meeting, Lompoc City recommend changes to various aspects of the state’s congressman is helping to move through the U.S. physically process,” Burchett said. “I think a lot Councilmember Jim Mosby questioned whether early childhood system. On the same day, Newsom House of Representatives. of this is a challenge not unique to agriculture, the SBCAG board plans on creating similar also announced that a new E C A He described the labor element of the act and any time you have a tightening in the labor committees for other highways in the county. He as a “restructuring” of the H-2A guest-worker R team will develop a statewide master plan market, you see that trickle down to agriculture.” pointed out that Highway 1 near Lompoc has had program already in place. He called the current At the roundtable Burchett and area farmers for early learning and care. “Every child in our state its share of accidents as well. system—which restricts employment to seasonal expressed worry the bill has an uphill political Fourth District Supervisor Peter Adam should have the resources and support they need to labor and requires several stages of applications battle. While it enjoys bipartisan support in the questioned the need for specifi c committees in live happy and healthy lives,” Newsom said in a press and paperwork—as “onerous.” House, Carbajal stopped short of promising general, rather than the same level of attention to release. “We are bringing together experts from diverse The topic of the H-2A program has a history anything in the Senate. He said he expects there all roadways in the county. backgrounds to create a master plan for early learning of creating heated debate and discord in the will be Republican senators willing to back the “I’m failing to see a need for a committee on and care that will be rooted in lifting up California’s community. In 2016, a house in Nipomo, which bill, but it’s coming into play during an election that highway, we should be aware of the hot spots children and families today, tomorrow, and into the was part of a project to keep 112 strawberry year that’s expected to widen already deep countywide,” Adam said. future.” According to the press release announcing farmworkers lodged during their H-2A partisan divides. Despite this questioning, Mosby and Adam these appointments, the council will hold at least employment, went up in fl ames. Owners Greg and “Farmers are going to continue to have both voted in favor of creating the committee Donna France of Mar Vista Berries abandoned the four public meetings annually and release a formal problems with labor. This won’t be a magic along with the rest of the board. plans after the apparent act of arson. bullet,” Burchett said. report every year. C O O , a professor at The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is also The House bill would seek to bring in more But Carbajal said this bill could be a small C S U C I , and looking for ways to improve the safety on county guest workers and would dedicate 40,000 green step toward immigration solutions and could roads. During the meeting, CHP offi cer Jonathan S F , director of the C cards to doing so. Carbajal hopes it will hit the represent a blueprint for other bills serving other A P S L O , will both serve fl oor early next year. industries. He said he’s already heard interest from NEWS continued page 6 on the council. First the legislation would allow workers, whether representatives of the retail industry. they’re already in the country or not, to obtain legal But the key to this bill, he said, is to get • The S C S working status. But it would also allow them, down something, anything through that the WeekendWeather held an emergency meeting on Nov. 26 to ratify the the line, to apply for permanent residence, also farmers can use. called Lawful Permanent Resident status. county’s local emergency proclamation regarding the “Is it a perfect bill? No. Is it a good bill? “Democrats usually pursue the ultimate, which Cave Fire, which burned more than 4,000 acres in the Yes,” Carbajal said. “Perfect is the enemy of is citizenship,” Carbajal said. “Republicans are good.” Microclimate Weather Forecast Santa Ynez Mountains near Highway 154. According always reluctant to go there.” — i ia rso Dave Hovde to a county press release, this proclamation is a step Area farmers have long sought to stabilize KSBY Chief Meteorologist local governments take when dealing with signifi cant their agricultural workforce despite protests and incidents. This ensures all county resources are open concerns from some area residents. While some L Thursday Friday to dealing with the fi re and other supporting activities. sectors, like dairy, maintain largely steady needs, This local proclamation is also necessary to request other types of farming—including the Central DUI , the governor to declare a state of emergency, which Coast’s specialty crops of strawberries and wine makes state funds available to response and recovery grapes—fl uctuate. That fl uctuation means a need for seasonal laborers, who may not always be Weeks after a mother and her two efforts. As of Dec. 2, G G N had not yet available on short notice. children died in a car crash on Highway ➤ ➤ announced a state of emergency proclamation. Brent Burchett, executive director of the San 154, the Santa Barbara County Association COASTAL High 63 Low 51 COASTAL High 63 Low 48 INLAND ➤ High 60 Low 42 INLAND ➤ High 62 Low 44 Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau, said that of Governments (SBCAG) unanimously • In a Facebook post on Nov. 25, A among many farmers there’s consensus. established a committee to examine ways to C R S L O named “It’s something every farmer wishes they could make the roadway safer. Saturday Sunday New Life K9s as the 35th District’s nonprofi t of the get stability on,” he said. “I hear it repeatedly that At SBCAG’s Nov. 21 meeting, 3rd month for November. In the post, Cunningham said the we can’t get enough workers.” District Supervisor Joan Hartmann said organization, which is based in San Luis Obispo, trains Many farmers fi nd the H-2A program limited, the committee, which is made up of local offi cials from different jurisdictions, plans service dogs and provides them to military veterans Burchett said, and that it prevents them from hiring workers based on sometimes unpredictable to meet for the fi rst time on Dec. 16 at the and fi rst responders for free. “Service dogs have needs. But the Farm Workforce Modernization Veterans Memorial Building in Solvang. COASTAL ➤ High 61 Low 45 COASTAL ➤ High 61 Low 43 proven to reduce suicides, enrich the owner’s personal Act would streamline the process. Carbajal said it Hartmann said that following the crash INLAND ➤ High 62 Low 43 INLAND ➤ High 63 Low 38 relationships with others, reduce homelessness, and would reduce the paperwork down to one form, on Oct. 25, her offi ce was inundated with More rain on the way Friday into the weekend, decrease the need for medications,” Cunningham said allow workers to stay year-round for growers who emails looking for answers to the number of please get an updated forecast from our KSBY weather app or KSBY.com. in the post. ❍ need more than seasonal labor, and grandfather accidents that occur on the roadway.
www.santamariasun.com • December 5 – December 12, 2019 • Sun • 5 SIXTEENTH ANNUAL NEWS [email protected] Santa Paws FILE PHOTO BY JAYON MELLOM NEWS from page 5 Pet Photos! Gutierrez the board about a program CHP started in October 2018, then ran through the December 14th ONLY end of September, called Safe On All Roads. This program, which was funded through a from 10-4 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration New! Photos can be grant, enabled CHP to deploy additional officers downloaded at full resolution in parts of the county to patrol roadways for for no extra charge! impaired drivers on major highways and run 6 educational outreach events on the dangers of driving while impaired. Silent Auction & Huge Raffl e Gutierrez said that throughout the duration of Free ticket with this program, the number of victims injured and every photo killed in DUI-involved collisions in the county purchased was lower than in previous years. However, there Only was a sharp increase in late August and September, $10.50 during which time 29 people were killed or injured, as funding for the program ran out. “As soon as we had no more hours and we couldn’t put those extra patrols out, our numbers shot through the roof, unfortunately,” Gutierrez said. The CHP plans to apply for the grant funding again to continue the program during the agency’s next fiscal year, Gutierrez said. SETTLING: Santa Maria City Council unanimously agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by two men hurt in a car crash involving a city —Zac Ezzone police officer in 2016. at Teenager injured in Lompoc the plaintiffs and resolve the case,” Watson said. Santa Barbara County Third District City Public Information Manager Mark van de Supervisor Joan Hartmann, who has hosted shooting Kamp told the Sun that the city has agreed to pay meetings to discuss a proposed location for $400,000 to the people who filed the lawsuit and an Aegis Treatment Center, recently urged the Around 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 2, a teenager was their attorneys. company to look for another location. shot near the 500 block of North L and M streets Officer Michael Wheeler rear-ended a “Today, I met with representatives from Aegis, 1954 S Broadway Suite F, in Lompoc. vehicle carrying Bob Sell and Joel Hutchison on the company that proposed the clinic site in Santa Maria, CA 93454 Following the incident, a family member Proceeds to benefi t homeless pets Broadway Street near Enos Drive after traffic Vandenberg Village,” Hartmann said in a Nov. 27 transported the juvenile to the Lompoc Valley came to a sudden stop. Van de Kamp said press release. “In this meeting, as I have before, I Central Coast SPCA Medical Center to get treatment for the gunshot Wheeler was responding to a call and looking raised the myriad of concerns that the community PO Box 2952 Orcutt, CA 93457 • www.centralcoastspca.org wound. The teenager was then transported to at suspect information displayed on a computer has described about the suitability of this site.” A 501c3 Non-Profi t Organization a different hospital via helicopter, according inside his car when traffic ahead halted. The The company had submitted a conditional to a news release from the Lompoc Police officer slammed on his brakes before striking Sell use permit application for a location at 3769 Department. As of Dec. 2, the juvenile was in and Hutchison’s vehicle. Constellation Road, which, Hartmann’s office DON’T stable condition. According to court documents, Sell and said, has since been withdrawn. ADOPT SHOP! The department couldn’t be reached for Hutchison filed a complaint—seeking damages Hartmann’s chief of staff, Jefferson Litten, told additional details prior to the Sun’s press time. for loss of wages, medical expenses, property the Sun that Hartmann had been in contact with WWW.SBCPHD.ORG/AS This most recent shooting continues the trend damage, and general damage suffered as a result Aegis during the process and had expressed her of a violent year for the city of roughly 44,000 of the crash—in Santa Barbara County Superior concerns. The company had been searching for ADOPT ME! people. There have been seven homicides in the Court on April 3, 2017. In December 2018, a jury other options for weeks. city since January, in addition to an increase in found that the city should pay Sell and Hutchison In the release, Hartmann said methadone violent crimes overall. $420,000 to cover these damages. clinics are effective resources for those suffering Please Give Me On Oct. 12, Erik Villa Vargas was shot and Van de Kamp said the city appealed this from addiction, but the site under consideration killed near the 700 block of North F and G ruling, contesting the extent of personal injuries was not the right one. a Forever Home! streets. Two other victims were injured in the both Sell and Hutchison suffered in the car crash. Aegis is the largest outpatient treatment center shooting. Police arrested Raymond Ramon Vega, Although, he said, the city has always accepted in California, according to its website, treating who pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted responsibility for the accident itself and paid the more than 9,200 people for opioid addiction to murder, and other charges on Nov. 26. full amount for the vehicle damages. heroin and painkillers. It has 31 clinics in the A month prior to these shootings, Marlon In March 2019, a judge lowered the amount state, including one in Santa Maria, where it Brumfield, a solider visiting home while on leave of damages to about $385,000, but this included held an open house in early November to help from Germany, was killed near the intersection other expenses bringing the total to close to educate the public on its treatment methods and of Ocean Avenue and A Street on Sept. 8. The $450,000, City Attorney Watson said. The city benefits to the communities in which its clinics police arrested suspect Francisco Gutierrez filed an appeal following this ruling. are located. Ortega, who pleaded not guilty to murder and a Not wanting to continue dragging out this case Opioid addiction has swept the nation on a street gang activity charge on Oct. 17. through an appeals process, the city and plaintiffs rising tide of opioid prescriptions. In 2017, more Following these two murders, residents have arrived at an amount they found agreeable. than 47,000 people nationwide died from opioid begun looking for solutions to the violence “We’ve been waiting three years for that to overdose, according to the National Institute plaguing the city. After Brumfield was killed, happen,” Sell and Hutchison’s attorney Michael on Drug Abuse. But the number suffering from residents held a march through the city. Shortly Clayton said. opioid abuse was much greater, reaching 1.7 after Vargas was killed, a group of residents As soon as the settlement proceeds of $400,000 million with more than 650,000 heroine users, James gathered to discuss these problems facing the city. are paid, the appeals and the jury trial will be according to the national institute. How can you resist that —Zac Ezzone dismissed. Clayton said Sell and Hutchison are The problem affects Santa Barbara County residents as well. According to a county report, face! James is a handsome both waiting on this settlement money to have surgeries to repair injuries sustained in the crash. opioid addiction increased between 2010 and boy who loves to cuddle. Santa Maria settles with men “We’re trying to get them back to there they 2015 with more than 1,200 adults identified at He enjoys walks and hurt in police vehicle accident were,” Clayton said. admission to hospitals and clinics. —Zac Ezzone Treatment centers, however, remain hotly meeting new people. After battling the matter for more than two debated among communities like Vandenberg years in court, the city of Santa Maria is settling a Stop by any one of our three Village. Litten said residents expressed concerns lawsuit filed by two men who were in a vehicle hit Supervisor Hartmann about the clinic’s being located near a new park shelters to fi nd your furever friend: from behind by a police car in May 2016. and potentially lengthy wait times for people 548 W. Foster · Santa Maria City Attorney Thomas Watson announced the urges Aegis clinic to seeking treatment. 1501 W. Central · Lompoc settlement following a closed session period of “Our office worked really hard for a new the council’s Nov. 19 meeting. seek new location children’s playground, which would be right 5473 Overpass Rd · Santa Barbara “With respect to the conference with legal The proposal to locate a methadone treatment across the street,” Litten said. “The community Santa Barbara County Animal Shelter counsel regarding Sell and Hutchison v. City of center in Vandenberg Village appears to be dead has made it clear that it doesn’t want a 548 W. Foster Road, Santa Maria Santa Maria, it was unanimously determined by following sharp pressure from residents and methadone clinic here.” This ad is sponsored by the council to enter into a settlement agreement with local politicians. —William D’Urso
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FILE PHOTO BY JAYON MELLOM NEWS from page 5 already signed an agreement or indicated the residents and park owners will never fully Gutierrez the board about a program CHP that they will sign an agreement. But he agree on lease terms, so there was no sense started in October 2018, then ran through the acknowledged the terms in the model lease in delaying a vote. Additionally, she said it end of September, called Safe On All Roads. had to be ones that park owners would accept. seemed like what residents were requesting “It may not be the best lease, but the park This program, which was funded through a Settling a stalemate changed throughout this process. owners are willing to accept that as something “This is the best of what both parties came National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that is legally enforceable against them,” up with, and every time that something grant, enabled CHP to deploy additional officers Santa Maria moves forward with model lease Watson said. was done, the goal posts kept on being in parts of the county to patrol roadways for agreement despite residents’ concerns In addition to the terms of the model moved a little bit more and a little bit more,” impaired drivers on major highways and run lease, the city also included a paragraph in Waterfield said. educational outreach events on the dangers of BY ZAC EZZONE This enforceability was one of Hall’s 7 the enforcement agreement stating that the Hall disagreed with this characterization. driving while impaired. primary requests when he reached out to the ary Hall started his 20-slide PowerPoint city will not pursue a rent control ordinance He said residents may have offered different Gutierrez said that throughout the duration of city last year on behalf of the North Santa presentation during the Nov. 19 Santa for the duration of the model lease, which is methods of reaching their goals—such as this program, the number of victims injured and Barbara County Manufactured Homeowners GMaria City Council meeting with a joke. 10 years. an enforceable model lease or a rent control killed in DUI-involved collisions in the county Team. But this group of residents had a list He told the council, “Yes, you’re getting tired Lisa Toke, an attorney representing three ordinance—but their objectives have always was lower than in previous years. However, there of other terms they were seeking, and those of looking at me, and I’m getting tired of of the largest parks in Santa Maria, said this remained the same. was a sharp increase in late August and September, aren’t included in the model lease. looking at you, too.” item was necessary to include for her clients “I tried to re-emphasize the fact that we during which time 29 people were killed or injured, Residents at the meeting asked the City During a meeting one year ago, Hall argued to sign the agreement. She said her clients, haven’t changed anything; our goals have as funding for the program ran out. Council to make changes to some of these for the city to adopt some sort of mechanism who aren’t totally satisfied with the model remained the same from day one,” Hall told “As soon as we had no more hours and terms, including one that limits the rate that that limits the amount of annual increase in lease either, made concessions throughout the Sun. “It’s a lack of satisfaction of those we couldn’t put those extra patrols out, our rent can increase annually. Councilmember rent for residents living in mobile home parks. this process that they otherwise wouldn’t goals that causes us to take action.” numbers shot through the roof, unfortunately,” Michael Moats also inquired about the He’s attended almost every meeting since then have made without this protection from a While park owners and City Council are Gutierrez said. council’s ability to make changes to the to repeat this request. rent control ordinance. ready to move past this issue, Hall isn’t. But The CHP plans to apply for the grant funding Following his initial comments in 2018, terms in the model lease, but Watson said On top of her concerns about the he’s not sure what comes next. During a City again to continue the program during the Mayor Alice Patino directed City Manager the council was only there to vote on the document’s enforceability, Soto said she feels Council meeting in October, he presented agency’s next fiscal year, Gutierrez said. SETTLING: Santa Maria City Council unanimously agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by two men hurt in a car crash involving a city Jason Stilwell to prepare an item to add to the enforcement agreement. like the terms in the model lease don’t provide the city with a draft rent control ordinance —Zac Ezzone police officer in 2016. council’s agenda. This turned into a nearly Despite the residents who started this enough relief to residents who initiated this that he said residents would pursue if the yearlong process involving various meetings process being unhappy with the outcome, process last year. model lease failed to include the provision Teenager injured in Lompoc the plaintiffs and resolve the case,” Watson said. Santa Barbara County Third District between park owners and residents, with the City Council moved forward with the “I think that the residents came to us with they were seeking. City Public Information Manager Mark van de Supervisor Joan Hartmann, who has hosted city acting as a facilitator. enforceable agreement on a 3-2 vote, with a problem, asking us to help them with this “If we honor what we said, we need to press shooting Kamp told the Sun that the city has agreed to pay meetings to discuss a proposed location for Out of this process came what the city calls Councilmembers Gloria Soto and Mike problem, and in the end, we didn’t meet their on with the ordinance,” Hall said. “While at $400,000 to the people who filed the lawsuit and an Aegis Treatment Center, recently urged the an enforceable model lease that City Attorney Cordero voting against the measure. needs,” Soto said. the same time, I’m thinking, ‘Holy crap, do I Around 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 2, a teenager was their attorneys. company to look for another location. Thomas Watson said represents a compromise Soto told the Sun that she voted no for a few But other council members didn’t see it that really want to keep poking myself in the eye shot near the 500 block of North L and M streets Officer Michael Wheeler rear-ended a “Today, I met with representatives from Aegis, between park owners and residents. At its Nov. reasons—one being that she doesn’t see the way. Mayor Alice Patino said this satisfies the for another year trying to get something else in Lompoc. vehicle carrying Bob Sell and Joel Hutchison on the company that proposed the clinic site in 19 meeting, the City Council authorized the city move as enforceable because park owners have residents’ request for something enforceable, through that the council’s never going to agree Following the incident, a family member Broadway Street near Enos Drive after traffic Vandenberg Village,” Hartmann said in a Nov. 27 to enter into enforceable agreements with park to first agree to opt in and sign the contract. while still allowing people the opportunity to?’ But does that mean we shouldn’t try?” m transported the juvenile to the Lompoc Valley came to a sudden stop. Van de Kamp said press release. “In this meeting, as I have before, I owners who agree to sign a contract requiring At the meeting, Watson said that so far park to negotiate their own leases without Medical Center to get treatment for the gunshot Wheeler was responding to a call and looking raised the myriad of concerns that the community them to offer this model lease to residents if they owners representing more than 80 percent government interference. Reach Staff Writer Zac Ezzone at zezzone@ wound. The teenager was then transported to at suspect information displayed on a computer has described about the suitability of this site.” reach an impasse during their own negations. of the mobile homes in the city have either Councilmember Etta Waterfield said that santamariasun.com. a different hospital via helicopter, according inside his car when traffic ahead halted. The The company had submitted a conditional to a news release from the Lompoc Police officer slammed on his brakes before striking Sell use permit application for a location at 3769 Department. As of Dec. 2, the juvenile was in and Hutchison’s vehicle. Constellation Road, which, Hartmann’s office stable condition. According to court documents, Sell and said, has since been withdrawn. The department couldn’t be reached for Hutchison filed a complaint—seeking damages Hartmann’s chief of staff, Jefferson Litten, told We additional details prior to the Sun’s press time. for loss of wages, medical expenses, property the Sun that Hartmann had been in contact with This most recent shooting continues the trend damage, and general damage suffered as a result Aegis during the process and had expressed her of a violent year for the city of roughly 44,000 of the crash—in Santa Barbara County Superior concerns. The company had been searching for Have people. There have been seven homicides in the Court on April 3, 2017. In December 2018, a jury other options for weeks. city since January, in addition to an increase in found that the city should pay Sell and Hutchison In the release, Hartmann said methadone Everything violent crimes overall. $420,000 to cover these damages. clinics are effective resources for those suffering 155 163 On Oct. 12, Erik Villa Vargas was shot and Van de Kamp said the city appealed this from addiction, but the site under consideration Under Organizations Active Events killed near the 700 block of North F and G ruling, contesting the extent of personal injuries was not the right one. streets. Two other victims were injured in the both Sell and Hutchison suffered in the car crash. Aegis is the largest outpatient treatment center The shooting. Police arrested Raymond Ramon Vega, Although, he said, the city has always accepted in California, according to its website, treating who pleaded not guilty to murder, attempted responsibility for the accident itself and paid the more than 9,200 people for opioid addiction to Introducing Your Locally Owned Sun! murder, and other charges on Nov. 26. full amount for the vehicle damages. heroin and painkillers. It has 31 clinics in the A month prior to these shootings, Marlon In March 2019, a judge lowered the amount state, including one in Santa Maria, where it JDX PHARMACY Brumfield, a solider visiting home while on leave of damages to about $385,000, but this included held an open house in early November to help from Germany, was killed near the intersection other expenses bringing the total to close to educate the public on its treatment methods and Caring for you and about you of Ocean Avenue and A Street on Sept. 8. 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After Brumfield was killed, happen,” Sell and Hutchison’s attorney Michael on Drug Abuse. But the number suffering from residents held a march through the city. Shortly Clayton said. opioid abuse was much greater, reaching 1.7 after Vargas was killed, a group of residents As soon as the settlement proceeds of $400,000 million with more than 650,000 heroine users, Private parties: list your gathered to discuss these problems facing the city. are paid, the appeals and the jury trial will be according to the national institute. —Zac Ezzone dismissed. Clayton said Sell and Hutchison are The problem affects Santa Barbara County both waiting on this settlement money to have residents as well. 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Her 8 who’s always been invisible,” she said. vision is to have a sustainable community so BY KAREN GARCIA services that are available to you,” she said. “It Caity Casey, Operation WEBS’s the female residents can tend to a farm that communication and events director, said would supply them with produce. They’d also or 12 years, Sandy Blair served on active was a really desperate time because you realize that you’re losing everything, and not only female homeless individuals are the largest be safe to discuss hardships and potential past duty in the United States Air Force. In growing population in the U.S. traumas. Blair hopes that it will be a place 2005, her time with the Air Force was up, are you depressed and angry but you still have F your children to take care of.” She said the U.S. Department of Defense for women to successfully ease their way into but Blair describes that separation as abrupt. found that female veterans are three times civilian life. The transition from military to civilian life With all of these experiences she’d gone through, Blair said she was constantly more likely to become homeless than their Operation WEBS partnered with Operation was very hard for her, not to mention how male counterparts. They’re also more likely to Tiny Home—a national nonprofit that assists difficult it was to raise her children at the thinking about how she could help female veterans who were struggling with their commit suicide. individuals struggling with severe housing same time. “So we’re talking about readjustment and instability by creating custom tiny-house “I was not prepared to lose my home. transition to civilian life. She felt that most organizations that assisted veterans focused reintegration into the civilian sector, which developments and empowerment training No one would hire me. I was told I was most of them have never held an adult job programs—to hold an event that will support overqualified and that my military training on males. Eventually Blair moved to Orcutt, where before. It’s really hard to do that when you the tiny-home community. as a dental hygienist did not translate into don’t have a roof over your head,” Casey said. The national nonprofit hosted a three- becoming a licensed hygienist,” she said. her sister lived so that her oldest son could attend college in the state. By then, Blair had For Operation WEBS, the first step with day workshop from Nov. 7 through 9 where Her best friend took in Blair and her helping women veterans is finding them a veterans, active-duty military, and the children. She experienced become a licensed real estate agent and realized it was a place to rest their heads at night. community at large were invited to a basic other hardships such as Blair’s sister donated her home, for the time introduction to finish carpentry and custom moving from Florida to Building a community good time in her life to bring To learn more about Operation her idea to fruition. being, to the nonprofit as one of the first sites multifunctional furniture and storage design Georgia to assist her parents of safe housing for the women. The Orcutt for tiny-house living. after her father had a heart WEBS, donate, or how to participate In 2018, she obtained 501c3 in their tiny-house building workshop, Stability Home, as it’s called, currently has Participants had the chance to get hands- attack, and Veterans Affairs status for her nonprofit Operation visit operationwebs.org. WEBS (Women Empowered four bedrooms. Three of those rooms are on experience while learning about the delayed its decision to grant occupied, and Operation WEBS is looking different types of materials available. The Blair benefits or a pension Build Strong) that works to provide safe and affordable to use the master bedroom to house a single event required attendees to register, and the determination. Blair became a police officer, mother and her child. registration fee went toward Blair’s tiny-home but due to a prior military medical condition, housing for female veterans. Funds for Operation WEBS come from Blair and donations. Blair and her team then help the women to community effort. m that career was short-lived. get employment or any other type of assistance “Once you separate and return your ID According to the U.S. Department of Defense, of the 1.3 million active-duty service they may need. The team can do this because New Times Staff Writer Karen Garcia can be card, there is no going back. 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www.santamariasun.com • December 5 – December 12, 2019 • Sun • 9 PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM At first, the city earned PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM multiple generations of family PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM no sales tax, according to a ownership. Sept. 24, 2019, staff report. Guadalupe’s culinary The other two tax measures history stretches back to the brought in a little less than ’40s and southward to Mexico $260,000 when they were put where some owners of what Guadalupe digs in in place. But in fiscal year would become a bustling local 2018-19, the city pulled in restaurant scene were from. fter years of stalled growth, the city of Guadalupe is rapidly $824,000 with all three as local Of those restaurants in the businesses began to find a louder days of downtown, La adding homes and inching toward future commercial development footing. Simpatia remains. BY WI IA RS The other problem is “Everyone hopes the houses property taxes. Perrault said will bring more business,” 10 those taxes don’t pull in the owner Rosa Quiroga said. “But kind of money one might it hasn’t.” think. When property taxes Romero, in her time as were restructured in the local mayor, gauged the pulse of the California tax system in 1978, people in town, and she said it was 1 percent of the assessed she doesn’t see new business value of a house. plowing under the long-timers. “When you look at a house “The locals pick what with a value of $400,000, the they’re going to support,” value it’s contributing to the Romero said. “I gotta tell you, city is maybe $400 or $500, if there was a Starbucks on the and out of that, the city has corner, they’d have to offer to provide all the essential something special.” services—which includes Commercial development is police, fire, public works, still years away, but developer planning, administration— Smith said Pasadera has drawn and that begins to get hard to the interest of national brands. do. That leads to the need for The city has to hit the 10,000 more diverse revenue sources,” resident mark before it can Perrault said. “Business- draw serious interest. generated revenue sources.” “Everyone knows that For a town like Guadalupe, commercial is where you make MODEL FOR THE FUTURE: The interior of one model home at the Pasadera Homes that means, in part, sales LOCAL CHARM VS. GROWTH: Regional Manager of Pasadera Homes Craig Smith has your money,” Romero said. housing project in Guadalupe is designed to appeal to a range of buyers. The company taxes—and they’ve been slow been developing houses in Guadalupe since 2014. Next is commercial development, “Property taxes are fine, but markets to families or older couples who want a smaller home and less land to maintain. I ING IS RY Guadalupe’s historic downtown is home to a once bustling to accumulate. The quarter which some residents worry will drive off existing local businesses. property values change, and collection of restaurants and now shuttered bars. City politicians and business cent sales tax now earned the with more people you need so it’s really incumbent upon you to provide all It’s one small buyer’s incentive in a state that’s owners hope the new houses coming into town will revitali e the downtown economy. city only $137,000 in the last fiscal year. more services.” those basic services,” he said. “You can’t rely on so often a seller’s market. With his smiling “The city needs to ensure that it has ongoing And property taxes may not be enough. them to come from Santa Maria. So it’s really squint peering from underneath a Carhartt ball n the outer edges of a swath of homes— oney from building permits began trickling sequestered, coastal location, off the beaten path of dreamed-of developments begin bearing the revenue capable of delivering the services that a Perrault cautions against what another housing important that the city continue to develop cap, he pointed to master bathrooms or outside some fi nished, some nearly there, into the city, along with funds from three tax U.S. 101. A small city, it hasn’t drawn in business fruit of the city’s long-discussed potential. full-service city requires,” Perrault said. “That bust could do to the city. He estimates the one- reliable sources of income so it can continue to at fields and mountains. others meandering toward completion, measures the city passed to stop its spiral into from big-box stores or national franchises. is why I’m suggesting they take a strong look at time money from housing permits makes up 12 provide the services the city’s citizens needs.” He knows the kind of buyer who will like purchase, and the American dream— disaster. But housing and development—and Instead, it contains small-town businesses, where increasing their sales tax again.” percent of the city budget. That’s too much. For Craig Smith pointed at a hand-drawn the dollars such projects bring to a city—have waiters, cooks, and barbers are also the owners of oo ing down t e road That means developing the city’s his homes and the quiet town in which they’re Perrault wore a forest green paisley tie to a healthy city, he said the number ought to be built. Those buyers are steadily trickling in. home on transparent vellum paper. always been the key to Guadalupe’s sustained their restaurants and barbershops, and patrons In the fi nal days of his brief tenure as interim downtown, a long talked about vision that match his shirt the day before he left his interim about 5 or 6 percent of the city’s total budget. What’s next could be the commercial “Nobody draws them anymore, but I do,” he survival. For years, there have been rumblings know them by fi rst name. city manager, Bob Perrault was preparing to has slowly come into focus. The building job. He’d taken the posting while the city was If housing sales slow, or stall, the city needs to development of an 18-acre stretch of land on the said, pointing to his right middle fi nger. “ ou of commercial business moving into an Fortunes for Guadalupe are now changing, as leave his offi ce at City Hall, the pink former that once housed the Far Western Tavern is already on the mend. be ready. That’s why Perrault suggested the sales property his company owns. Some will be sold know when someone draws by this indent in undeveloped, 18-acre patch of Pasadera-owned defi cits to its budget slowly disappear, and once elementary school. At 8, Perrault is a veteran scheduled to eventually undergo a makeover their fi nger.” property. To get there, city “It has a great future,” Perrault said. “If it’s tax increase. and developed, and some of that building might PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM of the small-city experience, serving in city by its proprietor, the Dunes Center. And the His is a lost art in an old town now in mid- offi cials say the city will need stewarded right.” “I hope in the 2020 election they get it on the be done by Pasadera itself. Smith said it’s hard administration for 30 years. Upon retiring from main drag now has its own coffee shop, the pivot as houses begin to rise out of once-empty to be bigger than the roughly What “stewarded right” means still needs to ballot for the community to vote on,” Perrault to say when that will get going. Maybe after 400 his decade of managing Grover Beach, he began newly minted Guadalupe Café. lots. The drawing is an early step, an initial 7,000 people who currently a circuit of interim jobs at the cities of Willits, be planned out. Perrault has suggested a 2020 said. “I think a penny instead of a quarter cent houses are built, but he said it’s more likely to More housing is starting to take root near the imagining of what the residences in Guadalupe’s call Guadalupe home. Greenfi eld, and, most recently, Guadalupe. vote to raise the city’s sales tax to a full cent. is totally reasonable.” happen after 600. Pasadera Homes development would look like. That means more drawings, The town’s problems weren’t unknown to him. But no plans have yet been made to put that city’s old strip with affordable units entering Right now, he’s focused on the buyers. They’re a mash-up, in image and function, of more houses, and more people. He’s seen cities racked by shifts in the initiative on a future ballot. the market. Peoples’ Self-Help Housing is Echoing through the home, visitors’ other housing complexes Smith has designed. Smith said the city is on economy. He’s even managed some of them, like But for a vibrant business community to fully constructing 38 units of low-income housing, What’s next The long-stalled development has fi nally its way. Pasadera’s houses exclamations reached Smith’s ears. Cloverdale. Once reliant on lumber and home and the Escalante Housing Authority is building reached its stride with 200 houses built and have sold almost as soon as take hold, more would need to arrive to the As he strolled through the display models at “I love that sound,” he said, smiling, to just 5,000 residents, the Northern California 02 more on the way. Big steps forward in a they’ve been built, due to a city’s downtown, and Guadalupe isn’t the easiest another 80 apartments. Pasadera Homes, Smith pointed that indented repeating what he’d heard. “‘Wow, that’s town was hurting. As fewer trees were felled and project that looked like it might never start. combination of factors, Smith place to get to. The city is about 20 minutes But some local residents worry that new drawing finger of his at a granite countertop. awesome.’” ❍ processed, the job market waned. The housing plan has been in the making said. The nearby Trilogy’s from Santa Maria, which Perrault said is a bit business might take away from what’s already “Those come standard,” he said. “But they recognized what their assets were since 2004, Smith said, a few years before the million-dollar homes in too far to reliably draw customers. there, diminishing or destroying the locally Fifteen years ago, granite was at a premium. Staff Writer William D’Urso can be reached at and set a vision from there,” Perrault said. “If economic downturn. ust as Pasadera Homes Nipomo serve a different type “You’re here, kind of on an island by yourself, famous businesses sweated over and loved by Now, buyers expect it. [email protected]. you look at it now, it’s far different from what it was ready to break ground in about 2007, the of buyer. Owners of larger, PHOTOS COURTESY OF DOUG JENZEN bottom fell out of the housing market, and the more expensive homes in was in the ’90s, but it took 15 years to get there.” mortgage crisis terrifi ed fi nancial analysts and towns like San Luis Obispo The housing market characterized froze fresh construction. want a “move down” home. Guadalupe’s most recent fall, preventing Cities statewide collapsed into bankruptcy One like the 3 5,000 base new construction and development that under the pressures of the Great ecession as model in Guadalupe, Smith otherwise may have started in 2007 and 2008. the outlook was dim and development slowed. said, gives some couples an But its turnaround began in 2013, before And Pasadera Homes just waited. extra shot of cash and less to development restarted. With Guadalupe facing ears walked by. look after. disincorporation, the City Council deployed Smith bought a red Prius for the long drives It’s all going according to countermeasures to halt its utter failure as a city. up to a onterey County project, moved plan, Smith said, with the The defi cit to the general fund was more than through his 40s, 50s, halfway into his 0s, and Pasadera project likely to be 700,000 then, when Frances omero helmed went through two prescriptions on his glasses. done somewhere in the next the city as its mayor. The choice was to accept its The agricultural town lost business and jobs four to fi ve years. But an fate—and lose the fi rst-responder services of the and, nearly, the very thing that made it a city unforeseen dip in the housing city—or ask city residents for more money. Guadalupe’s services and much of its autonomy market could still undo The council chose the latter and began to were nearly absorbed back into the county. the city’s newly stabilized revive itself with a three-pronged tax strategy “It was in the paper; it was on TV,” Smith said. fi nances, just as the fi rst a quarter cent sales tax, a utility users tax, and “Everybody knew they were in dire straits.” housing crisis did. a business license tax. These measures allowed Finally, in 2014, the company was ready to Guadalupe is one of the state’s NEW B RB The project’s Regional Manager Craig Smith walks into one of the the city to keep services in town and maintain start converting Smith’s drawings into plywood oldest cities—it incorporated housing developments’ model homes, which will eventually number 02 homes that the response time of the fi re department at an and two-by-fours. in 1840—often forgotten in its city planners hope will boost local business and draw future commercial development. average of less than 10 minutes. PAST AND FUTURE: Guadalupe’s Palace Hotel stands today as the former home of the Far Western Tavern, which recently received historical designation and will continue its life as the Dunes Center’s new digs.
10 • Sun • December 5 – December 12, 2019 • www.santamariasun.com PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM At first, the city earned PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM multiple generations of family PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM no sales tax, according to a ownership. Sept. 24, 2019, staff report. Guadalupe’s culinary The other two tax measures history stretches back to the brought in a little less than ’40s and southward to Mexico $260,000 when they were put where some owners of what Guadalupe digs in in place. But in fiscal year would become a bustling local 2018-19, the city pulled in restaurant scene were from. fter years of stalled growth, the city of Guadalupe is rapidly $824,000 with all three as local Of those restaurants in the businesses began to find a louder days of downtown, La adding homes and inching toward future commercial development footing. Simpatia remains. BY WI IA RS The other problem is “Everyone hopes the houses property taxes. Perrault said will bring more business,” those taxes don’t pull in the owner Rosa Quiroga said. “But 11 kind of money one might it hasn’t.” think. When property taxes Romero, in her time as were restructured in the local mayor, gauged the pulse of the California tax system in 1978, people in town, and she said it was 1 percent of the assessed she doesn’t see new business value of a house. plowing under the long-timers. “When you look at a house “The locals pick what with a value of $400,000, the they’re going to support,” value it’s contributing to the Romero said. “I gotta tell you, city is maybe $400 or $500, if there was a Starbucks on the and out of that, the city has corner, they’d have to offer to provide all the essential something special.” services—which includes Commercial development is police, fire, public works, still years away, but developer planning, administration— Smith said Pasadera has drawn and that begins to get hard to the interest of national brands. do. That leads to the need for The city has to hit the 10,000 more diverse revenue sources,” resident mark before it can Perrault said. “Business- draw serious interest. generated revenue sources.” “Everyone knows that For a town like Guadalupe, commercial is where you make MODEL FOR THE FUTURE: The interior of one model home at the Pasadera Homes that means, in part, sales LOCAL CHARM VS. GROWTH: Regional Manager of Pasadera Homes Craig Smith has your money,” Romero said. housing project in Guadalupe is designed to appeal to a range of buyers. The company taxes—and they’ve been slow been developing houses in Guadalupe since 2014. Next is commercial development, “Property taxes are fine, but markets to families or older couples who want a smaller home and less land to maintain. I ING IS RY Guadalupe’s historic downtown is home to a once bustling to accumulate. The quarter which some residents worry will drive off existing local businesses. property values change, and collection of restaurants and now shuttered bars. City politicians and business cent sales tax now earned the with more people you need so it’s really incumbent upon you to provide all It’s one small buyer’s incentive in a state that’s owners hope the new houses coming into town will revitali e the downtown economy. city only $137,000 in the last fiscal year. more services.” those basic services,” he said. “You can’t rely on so often a seller’s market. With his smiling “The city needs to ensure that it has ongoing And property taxes may not be enough. them to come from Santa Maria. So it’s really squint peering from underneath a Carhartt ball n the outer edges of a swath of homes— oney from building permits began trickling sequestered, coastal location, off the beaten path of dreamed-of developments begin bearing the revenue capable of delivering the services that a Perrault cautions against what another housing important that the city continue to develop cap, he pointed to master bathrooms or outside some fi nished, some nearly there, into the city, along with funds from three tax U.S. 101. A small city, it hasn’t drawn in business fruit of the city’s long-discussed potential. full-service city requires,” Perrault said. “That bust could do to the city. He estimates the one- reliable sources of income so it can continue to at fields and mountains. others meandering toward completion, measures the city passed to stop its spiral into from big-box stores or national franchises. is why I’m suggesting they take a strong look at time money from housing permits makes up 12 provide the services the city’s citizens needs.” He knows the kind of buyer who will like purchase, and the American dream— disaster. But housing and development—and Instead, it contains small-town businesses, where increasing their sales tax again.” percent of the city budget. That’s too much. For Craig Smith pointed at a hand-drawn the dollars such projects bring to a city—have waiters, cooks, and barbers are also the owners of oo ing down t e road That means developing the city’s his homes and the quiet town in which they’re Perrault wore a forest green paisley tie to a healthy city, he said the number ought to be built. Those buyers are steadily trickling in. home on transparent vellum paper. always been the key to Guadalupe’s sustained their restaurants and barbershops, and patrons In the fi nal days of his brief tenure as interim downtown, a long talked about vision that match his shirt the day before he left his interim about 5 or 6 percent of the city’s total budget. What’s next could be the commercial “Nobody draws them anymore, but I do,” he survival. For years, there have been rumblings know them by fi rst name. city manager, Bob Perrault was preparing to has slowly come into focus. The building job. He’d taken the posting while the city was If housing sales slow, or stall, the city needs to development of an 18-acre stretch of land on the said, pointing to his right middle fi nger. “ ou of commercial business moving into an Fortunes for Guadalupe are now changing, as leave his offi ce at City Hall, the pink former that once housed the Far Western Tavern is already on the mend. be ready. That’s why Perrault suggested the sales property his company owns. Some will be sold know when someone draws by this indent in undeveloped, 18-acre patch of Pasadera-owned defi cits to its budget slowly disappear, and once elementary school. At 8, Perrault is a veteran scheduled to eventually undergo a makeover their fi nger.” property. To get there, city “It has a great future,” Perrault said. “If it’s tax increase. and developed, and some of that building might PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM of the small-city experience, serving in city by its proprietor, the Dunes Center. And the His is a lost art in an old town now in mid- offi cials say the city will need stewarded right.” “I hope in the 2020 election they get it on the be done by Pasadera itself. Smith said it’s hard administration for 30 years. Upon retiring from main drag now has its own coffee shop, the pivot as houses begin to rise out of once-empty to be bigger than the roughly What “stewarded right” means still needs to ballot for the community to vote on,” Perrault to say when that will get going. Maybe after 400 his decade of managing Grover Beach, he began newly minted Guadalupe Café. lots. The drawing is an early step, an initial 7,000 people who currently a circuit of interim jobs at the cities of Willits, be planned out. Perrault has suggested a 2020 said. “I think a penny instead of a quarter cent houses are built, but he said it’s more likely to More housing is starting to take root near the imagining of what the residences in Guadalupe’s call Guadalupe home. Greenfi eld, and, most recently, Guadalupe. vote to raise the city’s sales tax to a full cent. is totally reasonable.” happen after 600. Pasadera Homes development would look like. That means more drawings, The town’s problems weren’t unknown to him. But no plans have yet been made to put that city’s old strip with affordable units entering Right now, he’s focused on the buyers. They’re a mash-up, in image and function, of more houses, and more people. He’s seen cities racked by shifts in the initiative on a future ballot. the market. Peoples’ Self-Help Housing is Echoing through the home, visitors’ other housing complexes Smith has designed. Smith said the city is on economy. He’s even managed some of them, like But for a vibrant business community to fully constructing 38 units of low-income housing, What’s next The long-stalled development has fi nally its way. Pasadera’s houses exclamations reached Smith’s ears. Cloverdale. Once reliant on lumber and home and the Escalante Housing Authority is building reached its stride with 200 houses built and have sold almost as soon as take hold, more would need to arrive to the As he strolled through the display models at “I love that sound,” he said, smiling, to just 5,000 residents, the Northern California 02 more on the way. Big steps forward in a they’ve been built, due to a city’s downtown, and Guadalupe isn’t the easiest another 80 apartments. Pasadera Homes, Smith pointed that indented repeating what he’d heard. “‘Wow, that’s town was hurting. As fewer trees were felled and project that looked like it might never start. combination of factors, Smith place to get to. The city is about 20 minutes But some local residents worry that new drawing finger of his at a granite countertop. awesome.’” ❍ processed, the job market waned. The housing plan has been in the making said. The nearby Trilogy’s from Santa Maria, which Perrault said is a bit business might take away from what’s already “Those come standard,” he said. “But they recognized what their assets were since 2004, Smith said, a few years before the million-dollar homes in too far to reliably draw customers. there, diminishing or destroying the locally Fifteen years ago, granite was at a premium. Staff Writer William D’Urso can be reached at and set a vision from there,” Perrault said. “If economic downturn. ust as Pasadera Homes Nipomo serve a different type “You’re here, kind of on an island by yourself, famous businesses sweated over and loved by Now, buyers expect it. [email protected]. you look at it now, it’s far different from what it was ready to break ground in about 2007, the of buyer. Owners of larger, PHOTOS COURTESY OF DOUG JENZEN bottom fell out of the housing market, and the more expensive homes in was in the ’90s, but it took 15 years to get there.” mortgage crisis terrifi ed fi nancial analysts and towns like San Luis Obispo The housing market characterized froze fresh construction. want a “move down” home. Guadalupe’s most recent fall, preventing Cities statewide collapsed into bankruptcy One like the 3 5,000 base new construction and development that under the pressures of the Great ecession as model in Guadalupe, Smith otherwise may have started in 2007 and 2008. the outlook was dim and development slowed. said, gives some couples an But its turnaround began in 2013, before And Pasadera Homes just waited. extra shot of cash and less to development restarted. With Guadalupe facing ears walked by. look after. disincorporation, the City Council deployed Smith bought a red Prius for the long drives It’s all going according to countermeasures to halt its utter failure as a city. up to a onterey County project, moved plan, Smith said, with the The defi cit to the general fund was more than through his 40s, 50s, halfway into his 0s, and Pasadera project likely to be 700,000 then, when Frances omero helmed went through two prescriptions on his glasses. done somewhere in the next the city as its mayor. The choice was to accept its The agricultural town lost business and jobs four to fi ve years. But an fate—and lose the fi rst-responder services of the and, nearly, the very thing that made it a city unforeseen dip in the housing city—or ask city residents for more money. Guadalupe’s services and much of its autonomy market could still undo The council chose the latter and began to were nearly absorbed back into the county. the city’s newly stabilized revive itself with a three-pronged tax strategy “It was in the paper; it was on TV,” Smith said. fi nances, just as the fi rst a quarter cent sales tax, a utility users tax, and “Everybody knew they were in dire straits.” housing crisis did. a business license tax. These measures allowed Finally, in 2014, the company was ready to Guadalupe is one of the state’s NEW B RB The project’s Regional Manager Craig Smith walks into one of the the city to keep services in town and maintain start converting Smith’s drawings into plywood oldest cities—it incorporated housing developments’ model homes, which will eventually number 02 homes that the response time of the fi re department at an and two-by-fours. in 1840—often forgotten in its city planners hope will boost local business and draw future commercial development. average of less than 10 minutes. PAST AND FUTURE: Guadalupe’s Palace Hotel stands today as the former home of the Far Western Tavern, which recently received historical designation and will continue its life as the Dunes Center’s new digs.
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PHOTO BY WILLIAM D’URSO La Simpatia turns 75 After most of a century, the Guadalupe restaurant is still family owned and going strong 12 BY WILLIAM D’URSO ingredients are fresh and made in-house. Except orty-three years ago Rosa Quiroga was for the tortillas. wiping down countertops, cutting meat, “Our tortilla maker left in the ’90s,” she said. Fand taking orders at La Simpatia. And she’s Other restaurants folded, Quiroga said, when still doing that, only now she’s the owner, too. farmworkers were no longer taking up seasonal Quiroga, 61, bought the Guadalupe eatery in residence. 1991 from her uncle, Francisco Quiroga, known And the mariachis that once strolled the in town as “Pancho.” streets got more expensive. First $3 a song, then The restaurant—part diner, part dining $10. Then, they were gone. room, part bar—celebrated its 75th anniversary La Simpatia and its history remain, in dishes in November. on the menu like chicken mole, in the photos It’s off the city’s historic downtown strip of past anniversaries and long-gone local at 827 Cabrillo Highway, a stretch locals and restaurants. city politicians hope will be revitalized with But a scare shook the restaurant in 2010 when apartment developments downtown, and it had to close for retrofitting. It was state- more than 800 houses in a quickly growing sanctioned, she said, a response to the Paso THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY: La Simpatia, after undergoing a five-year retrofit in 2010, maintains much of its 75-year suburban sprawl. Robles earthquake. Her restaurant had to be history through photos, owner Rose Quiroga, and an unchanging menu. Quiroga said Guadalupe used to be the best gutted. What was supposed to be an 18-month food town around. Best steak, best Mexican project turned into five years, or what she called with it,” she said. toward a $17.5 million aquatics complex at food, and best Chinese food. a nightmare. Then, finally, the restaurant was The restaurant, like the menu, is the same. Santa Ynez High School, the Chumash said “To me all the restaurants in Guadalupe are ready to come back. “I haven’t altered it at all,” she said. in a Nov. 29 news release. The complex is the closest to homemade food,” she said. It made this last anniversary all the sweeter. expected to serve both student-athletes and That’s what La Simpatia is to her, an There was a DJ, even mariachis, and dancing the community. Project organizers are trying extension of home and the freshness and flavors befitting the old days. Highlight: to raise another $1.85 million to be eligible for that come with it. All of the meat for the burgers “My feet don’t hurt when I’m dancing and more than $6 million in other state funding. m comes just a few doors down from Masantani’s drinking tequila,” she said. • The Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Market. A poster of Elvira is still there, stapled to a contributed $250,000 to help the Santa Ynez Staff Writer William D’Urso wrote this “Because it’s the best,” she said. door behind the bar. Valley Community Aquatics Complex building week’s Spotlight. Send news tips to spotlight@ The beans have real lard in them, and all the “The regulars used to take it off and dance a new aquatics center. The money will go santamariasun.com.
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We want to know what Onlin P ll WRITE NOW you think about every What u thin th in thing. Send your 2 0 word letter to Sun Letters, 24 0 Br a ning h ri ns Skyway Drive, suite A, Santa Maria, CA 4 . You n rg pr t th unt can also fax it 4 or e mail it letters Planning C mmissi n appr With the proposed ailey A enue anne ation, could santamariasun.com . All letters must include a name, 14 address, and phone number for verification purposes ust s uth L mp e pansion of city limits actually e appro ed may be edited for space or clarity and will be posted to santamariasun.com. 7 t’s great. We need more renewable BY RON FIN limits, and the county would only allow the construction of the road because it sits on prime energy sources. xtending the boundaries of the city of agricultural land; it is part of the developer’s Lompoc west to Bailey Avenue has been a ’d rather the county focus on oil and current 2016 annexation request. The other parcel in 2007 the Lompoc Police Department had 51 dream of politicians, property owners, and gas projects. E is located between Olive Avenue and Ocean sworn offi cers; today there are 44 authorized but developers for several decades. ’m concerned about all of the birds Avenue on property that once was used by the only 37 of those positions are fi lled. The stated Going back over 50 years, we can see evidence Bodger Seed Company. general plan goal is a three-minute response that’ll die. on the extreme west side of town that all the In June of 2007, the city received a report titled time to calls for service; in 2007, the analysis isually it’s going to ruin a beautiful intersections are four-way and dead end in farm “Bailey Avenue corridor specifi c plan constraints concluded that it would take fi ve to six minutes fi elds; there are alleyways normally used for utility landscape. analysis” for a much larger project (2,700 homes for offi cers to arrive. I would imagine that easements and access between residences on otes and 200,000 square feet of commercial space). response capability has worsened. t nlin at santamariasun m different streets, which separate houses from farm Chief among the report’s concerns was the Fire service response is described this way in the fi elds; and a sewer line general plan: “The fi rst that the city built along fi re department response Northern Santa Barbara County’s Bailey Avenue, which is a C un ilman Dir Star u as a r r as na l u sti n: units capable of initiating News Entertainment Weekly county farm road. 2 40 Skyway Drive, suite A effective incident Santa Maria, CA 4 This indicates Wh an Santa Maria ann prim agri ultural lan an intervention shall arrive that developers, city at a priority emergency EDITORIAL AD ERTISING 5- 7- FA 5- 7- E-MAIL mail santamariasun m WEB santamariasun m planners, and politicians within six minutes 20 of the time believed that L mp an’t ’ N n in th r m ul ans r that u sti n seconds from receipt of FOUNDER Steve Moss 1 4 200 the city would expand west. fact that the area proposed for development is the call at the dispatch center, 90 percent of the time.” EDITORIAL The 2030 general plan states that, “The city shall Two fi re stations serve this area: on the south, ED TOR Camillia Lanham on Class I prime soils; the Local Area Formation ASSOC ATE ED TOR Andrea Rooks maintain a compact urban form by delineating Commission (LAFCO), which is the approval Station 1, and on the north, Station 2. In order to STAFF WR TERS Zac E one, William D’Urso an urban limit line [ULL], which establishes the authority for annexations, has consistently voted meet the response times required by the general ARTS ED TOR Caleb Wiseblood PROOFREADER Nick Gagala ultimate edge of urban development within the against any effort to annex this type of land and plan, Station 2 would have to be relocated to meet STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Jayson Mellom city.” The ULL was established at Bailey Avenue specifi cally against annexation of this land. this requirement. ART D RECTOR Alex Zuniga In 2016, the Lompoc City Council—despite ED TOR AL DES GNERS Leni Litonjua, Taylor Saugstad to the west, however the general plan refers to the LAFCO policies state, “The loss of any primary CONTR BUTORS Glen Starkey, Ross Mayfield, Anna Starkey “Bailey area specifi c plan,” which was not adopted agricultural soils should be balanced against the annexation concerns expressed in 2007 and at by the City Council. least two previous denials by LAFCO—directed AD ERTISING other LAFCO policies and a LAFCO goal of SEN OR ACCOUNT E ECUT E imberly Rosa The developer’s current 2016 annexation request conserving such lands,” and, “Annexation and the city manager to once again pursue the ACCOUN T E ECUT ES aty Gray, Jason Gann, Jennifer Herbaugh, proposes to build 624 dwellings and 125,000 annexation of the Bailey Avenue corridor. Lee Ann ermeulen, Jeff Manildi, Tim Smith, Claire Hartnell development of existing vacant non-open space MAR ET NG E ENTS Rachelle Ramire square feet of commercial space on two parcels. lands, and nonprime agricultural land within Let’s fast forward to November 2019. In To date only one project, currently known as an agency’s sphere of infl uence is encouraged to anticipation of legal challenges, the council PRODUCTION discussed transferring the effort from the Planning ASS STANT PRODUCT ON MANAGER Eva Lipson Briar Creek (approved in 2004) has been built on occur prior to development outside of an existing GRAPH C DES GNERS Eva Lipson, Ellen Fukumoto, key pekjian the north end of the Bailey Avenue corridor. To sphere of infl uence.” Department to the city attorney. The staff report chronicled the process so far, stating that during BUSINESS build it, the developer had to buy a 40-acre parcel I checked other counties’ LAFCO policies, and Cindy Rucker to the south of the project to accommodate the the language was the same. So it’s not uncommon a recent meeting Paul Hood, LAFCO executive C RCULAT ON D RECTOR Jim Parsons offi cer, “made a statement indicating he did not C RCULAT ON Michael Ferrell extension of North Avenue for an orderly fl ow of for LAFCO in most jurisdictions to object to PUBL SHERS Bob Rucker, Alex Zuniga traffi c and provide emergency access/egress from it. expansion into primary agricultural soils. think LAFCO would approve the annexation.” E ECUT E ASS STANTS Patricia Horton, arly Colombo This property is located outside the city Public safety services were also a concern; Councilman Dirk Starbuck asked a very reasonable question: “Why can Santa Maria SUBMITTING LETTERS WR TE Mail your letter to Sun Letters, 2 40 Skyway Drive, Suite A, annex prime agricultural land and Lompoc Santa Maria, CA 4 . nclude your name, address, and phone number. can’t?” No one in the room could answer that FA 0 4 E MA L mail santamariasun.com, letters santamariasun.com question, maybe it will be asked in the future during meetings with LAFCO. TO AD ERTISE D SPLAY ADS Rates and special discounts are available. The staff report also estimated a cost of Call our ad department at 0 4 1 . between $92,500 to $160,000 for the city attorney CLASS F EDS Call 0 4 20 , Ext. 211. Or fax your ad to 0 4 41. to continue the negotiations. So that left an isa and MasterCard accepted. important question: Who is going to pay for this? The city or the developer? ONLINE isit the Sun web site at www.santamariasun.com. The project developer agreed to pay the costs, Our site was developed and designed by Liftoff Digital, a Central Coast so that cleared up that matter. When asked if web site development company www.gainliftoff.com . there was a limit to what his client was willing to The Sun is published every Thursday for your enjoyment. One copy of each spend, he said this project has been in planning issue is available free to Northern Santa Barbara County residents and for more than a decade and “we are already in visitors. Subscriptions to the Sun are 1 per year. The entire contents of the Sun are copyrighted by the Sun and cannot be reproduced without it for about $500,000 over the last 18 months, specific written permission from the publisher. and hopefully we are nearing the end.” He also Because a product or service is advertised in the Sun does not mean said his client didn’t intend to stop until a fi nal that we endorse its use. We hope readers will use their own good decision is reached. judgement in choosing products most beneficial to their well being. After a lengthy hearing, the council voted 5-0 We welcome submissions. Please accompany them with a self addressed, to transfer the task to the city attorney, which also stamped envelope. All letters to the editor become the property of the Sun. included a requirement for the developer to pay 201 Sun all costs. Now we’ll see if LAFCO will agree to allow the annexation after objecting to it vigorously in the past. If it does, I will be surprised since they have repeatedly stated that the city should grow north, and this current expansion proposal appears to ❍ be contrary to their polices. on ink writes a out ompoc politics from ompoc. Send comments through the editor at [email protected] or write a response for pu lication and email it to letters@ santamariasun.com.
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A PARADE THAT BRINGS TO COMMUNITY Enemy of what? erfect is the enemy of good.” “ I had to rack my bird brain for where I’d Pheard that before. I know it wasn’t from my eagle-eyed copyediting professors back in the day. My one philosophy class? Oh yeah. It was Voltaire. Other philosophers 16 have expanded on the concept, Light saying absolute perfection is pretty much impossible, so don’t go to extremes. Here on the Central Coast, our local Congressman Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) uttered that phrase during an ag roundtable on Dec. 2 in San Luis Obispo. He said some other interesting philosophical things while highlighting changes he’s proposed to the national guest-worker program, aka H-2A. He said that the bipartisan bill he co-authored tries to find a middle ground, creating an earned legal status for the existing ag workforce and updating other aspects of the existing H-2A program. Farmers locally can’t get enough workers because there are too many hoops to jump through. This new bill could dedicate up to 40,000 green cards, allowing workers to obtain legal working status. It would also allow them to apply for permanent residence, aka Lawful Permanent Resident status. “Democrats usually pursue the ultimate, which is citizenship,” Carbajal said. “Republicans are always reluctant to go there.” So, voila, a middle ground. “Is it a perfect bill? No. Is it a good bill? Yes,” Carbajal said. Or as Voltaire might have uttered, middle ground is the friend of maybe some actual work getting accomplished. We’ll see if this works out—the bill still has to be heard on the House floor. Next year is an election year, so get your partisan ponchos out—I anticipate posturing and mudslinging ahead. Speaking of the election, Carbajal’s stated opponent—if not outright enemy of “not good enough”—Andy Caldwell basically said that the incumbent congressman is causing fellow Democrats to stumble. “The curse of the Salud endorsement...” reads the title of a Dec. 3 press release from Caldwell’s office, sent not long after short-time presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris dropped out of the race. (Not to preen my own feathers here, but I did wonder just last week whether such an endorsement would be good for anything, “For the birds,” Nov. 28.) But Caldwell’s office took things a step further, saying that “a month earlier Beto O’Rourke dropped out of the Democratic primary, just months after Salud endorsed him for president. That’s two for two. You have to ask, who’s next?” Do we, Andy? Do we? As Caldwell’s office says, Carbajal endorsed candidates that “don’t even have support of his WOULD YOU LIKE A SCHOOL WITH MORE FLEXIBILITY? own party.” OK, that does look weird, but let’s get back to the real issues. Andy is definitely the stated enemy of all things that smack of socialism, and therefore he’s been speaking out against Carbajal’s support of the Green New Deal and Medicare for all. Family Partnership Charter School provides multiple learning options, fl exible Caldwell’s office quoted former Carpinteria City Councilman Joe Armendariz (and brief scheduling and skilled teachers who encourage and support your success! Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors 4th District candidate): “Salud Carbajal is doing his Now Enrolling. Tuition Free! best, but his best just isn’t good enough.” Blended Learning & Independent Study A Robinson Crusoe of space Hmmm, interestingly enough, the literal Solvang Center: Grades 6-12 adventure written by H.W. Moss translation of Voltaire’s quote is, “The best is the Santa Maria Montessori: Grades K-5 Illustrated by Steve Moss enemy of the good.” Orcutt Learning Center: Grades 6-12 The best or the good? I think we voters will get to eventually decide. I can’t wait to see you SLO Center: Grades 6-12 at the polls. m Morro Bay Montessori: Grades K-5 Published by NetNovels.com The canary is the enemy of bad. Send comments to Bringing the best together for student success! | www.fpcharter.org | (805) 348-3333 [email protected].
16 • Sun • December 5 – December 12, 2019 • www.santamariasun.com OPINION Enemy of what? erfect is the enemy of good.” “ I had to rack my bird brain for where I’d Pheard that before. I know it wasn’t from my eagle-eyed copyediting professors back in the day. My one philosophy class? Oh yeah. It was Voltaire. Other philosophers have expanded on the concept, 17 saying absolute perfection is DEC. 5 – DEC. 12 pretty much impossible, so don’t go to extremes. 2019 Here on the Central Coast, our local Congressman Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara) uttered that phrase during an ag roundtable on Dec. 2 in San Luis Obispo. He said some other interesting philosophical things while highlighting changes he’s proposed to the national guest-worker program, aka H-2A. He said that the bipartisan bill he co-authored tries to find a middle ground, creating an earned legal status for the existing ag workforce and updating other aspects of the existing H-2A program. Farmers locally can’t get enough workers because there are too many hoops to jump through. This new bill could dedicate up to 40,000 green cards, allowing workers to obtain legal working status. It would also allow them CHEER UP The annual Old Town Orcutt Christmas Parade takes place on to apply for permanent residence, aka Lawful Saturday, Dec. 14, at noon. Guests will be treated to a variety of fl oats Permanent Resident status. and entertainment. Live music will be provided by local musicians “Democrats usually pursue the ultimate, and school bands. Spectators can feel free to dance along the sidelines. which is citizenship,” Carbajal said. “Republicans Visit orcuttchristmasparade.org to fi nd out more. are always reluctant to go there.” —Caleb Wiseblood So, voila, a middle ground. “Is it a perfect bill? No. Is it a good bill? Yes,” Carbajal said. F LE PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ORCUTT CHR STMAS PARADE Or as Voltaire might have uttered, middle from dawn to dusk, rain or shine. Followed with a potluck to Z. Friends of the Library gain early entrance at 9:30 fl agpole). Dec. 7, 6 p.m. losolivosca.com. Downtown ground is the friend of maybe some actual work SPECIAL EVENTS party at the SLO Botanical Garden. Dec. 14, 6:30 a.m.- a.m. Dec. 14, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Arroyo Grande Library, Los Olivos, Grand Ave., Los Olivos, 805-688-9049. getting accomplished. 8 p.m. Free. 805-772-1991. morrocoastaudubon.org. 800 W. Branch, Arroyo Grande, 473-7164, slolibrary.org. OLDE FASHIONED CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY We’ll see if this works out—the bill still has LOMPOC/VANDENBERG San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden, 3450 Dairy Creek MARKET Start the holiday season with warm and Rd., San Luis Obispo. SAN LUIS OBISPO friendly small-town fun of our free holiday event. Enjoy to be heard on the House floor. Next year is an FOUNDING DAY REMEMBRANCE A mass will be MULTI CULTURAL HOLIDAY CELEBRATION live holiday entertainment plus open houses all over town. election year, so get your partisan ponchos out—I held to celebrate the founding of the mission. The public NORTH SLO COUNTY AND SILENT AUCTION The NAACP San Luis Obispo Kids can enjoy the Christmas Train ride, a holiday petting is invited to attend. No reservations are required. Dec. 8, anticipate posturing and mudslinging ahead. County Branch presents our annual Holiday Celebration zoo, Gingerbread Wonderland, and a visit with Santa. noon La Purisima Mission, 2295 Purisima Mission, Lompoc. ADELAIDA LOCAL MARKET Local purveyors, Speaking of the election, Carbajal’s stated producers, and craftsmen gather at the Halter and Silent Auction. Dec. 7, 4-6 p.m. Free admission. Dec. 7, 12-7 p.m. Free. 805-688-9049. losolivosca.com. opponent—if not outright enemy of “not good LAS POSADAS Join costumed docents as they lead Ranch historic barn to create a festive sip and shop 805-619-5354. naacpslocty.org. Unitarian Universalist Downtown Los Olivos, Grand Ave., Los Olivos. the Las Posadas procession though the mission grounds enough”—Andy Caldwell basically said that experience. Dec. 8, 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. 805-226- Fellowship Hall, 2201 Lawton Ave., San Luis Obispo. SOLVANG CANDLELIGHT WALKING TOURS with songs in Spanish and English. Dec. 14, 2-4 p.m. La 2081. farmsteaded.com. Halter Ranch Vineyard, 8910 A costumed tour guide will provide guests with a the incumbent congressman is causing fellow Purisima Mission, 2295 Purisima Mission, Lompoc. Democrats to stumble. “The curse of the Salud Adelaida Road, Paso Robles. HOLIDAY EVENTS complimentary, souvenir battery-powered LED candle SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS and will then share Solvang’s history and fun facts while endorsement...” reads the title of a Dec. 3 press NORTH COAST SLO COUNTY SANTA YNEZ VALLEY strolling and caroling along village sidewalks. Saturdays, release from Caldwell’s office, sent not long after ARTS AND CRAFT FAIR AND BAKE SALE Come CAMBRIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS: HOME TOUR 5 p.m. through Dec. 28 solvangjulefest.org. Solvang short-time presidential hopeful U.S. Sen. Kamala and fi nd a beautiful gift for someone special for the 2019 SOLVANG JULEFEST Check website for full list 2019 Cambria Center for the Arts presents the 2019 Park, Mission Dr. and First St., Solvang. holidays. Fresh baked goods available. Features crafters, of Julefest events taking place throughout the holiday Harris dropped out of the race. (Not to preen my Christmas Home Tour. This includes six beautifully SOLVANG NATIVITY PAGEANT The Solvang Nativity artisans, vendors, and more. Dec. 7, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and season. Through Jan. 3, 2020 Varies. solvangjulefest. own feathers here, but I did wonder just last week decorated homes, wine, and refreshments. An artist will Pageant, also known as the “Christmas Story”, comes Dec. 8, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 805-709-7663. CovenTree: Books org. Downtown Solvang, Mission Dr., Solvang. whether such an endorsement would be good for be selling at each location. The event will have a raffl e at to life at the outdoor Solvang Festival Theater. Enjoy and Gifts, 722 E Main St., Santa Maria. anything, “For the birds,” Nov. 28.) the end. Dec. 7, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. $45. 805-927- BUELLTON WINTERFEST 2019 Features 20 tons special musical artists, a choir, actors in traditional But Caldwell’s office took things a step further, CASA GRANDE CRAFT FAIR AND BAKE SALE 8190. cambriacenterforthearts.org. Cambria Center for of snow, vendors, live music, beer, wines, spirits, and costumes, and live animals on stage in this premier Features crafts, gifts, home décor, and edible delights all more. Dec. 8 buellton.org. Buellton Recreation Center, saying that “a month earlier Beto O’Rourke the Arts, 1350 Main St., Cambria. Christmas event. Dec. 7, 5-6:30 & 7-8:30 p.m. $7.50. created by our residents. Baked goods will feature sugar- 301 2nd St., Buellton. 646-255-5600. SolvangNativityPageant.com. Solvang dropped out of the Democratic primary, just free, gluten-free and regular recipes. Proceeds from the HOLIDAY FAMILY DAY Visit the museum to meet our Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang. months after Salud endorsed him for president. bake sale table will benefi t our Food Pantry. Dec. 14, 9 FUNDRAISERS parade characters and enjoy an afternoon of special SOLVANG’S ANNUAL TREE LIGHTING Spectators a.m.-3 p.m. eventbrite.com. Casa Grande, 519 W Taylor That’s two for two. You have to ask, who’s next?” holiday activities. Dec. 7, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-688- can enjoy free festivities including live entertainment by St., Santa Maria, 805-868-2119. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS Do we, Andy? Do we? 1082. wildlingmuseum.org/news/holiday-family- local bands, choirs, caroling, a ballet routine by ballerinas As Caldwell’s office says, Carbajal endorsed FIELD OF LIGHT AT SENSORIO: ROUNDTRIP YOGA FOR A CAUSE: TOYS FOR TOTS Join Becky day-2019. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B from Fossemalle Dance Studio, and the arrival of Mr. and candidates that “don’t even have support of his FROM ORCUTT Created by internationally-acclaimed Hurst for a special Slow Flow yoga class benefi ting Toys Mission Dr., Solvang. Mrs. Claus. Dec. 6, 5-6:30 p.m. Free. solvangjulefest. own party.” OK, that does look weird, but let’s get artist, Bruno Munro. A mixture of art, technology, for Tots. Bring a new, unwrapped toy or a cash donation. JULEFEST PARADE With 400 participants and 50 org. Solvang Park, Mission Dr. and First St., Solvang. and nature. Dec. 12, 3:30-10:30 p.m. $60 for Oasis back to the real issues. All cash donations will go towards toys for kids. Dec. entries including dancers, musical groups, vintage members. 805-937-9750. Oasis Senior Center, 420 15, 9-10 a.m. Free. 805-266-6391. treetopyoga.net. vehicles, horses, carriages, and other live animals, with LOMPOC/VANDENBERG Andy is definitely the stated enemy of all things Soares Ave., Orcutt. Treetop Yoga, 2771-C Santa Maria Way, Santa Maria. Mr. and Mrs. Claus bringing up the rear of the holiday BREAKFAST WITH SANTA Join Santa and his that smack of socialism, and therefore he’s been procession. The parade originates at Solvang Veterans SAN LUIS OBISPO helpers to a pancake breakfast. Breakfast includes speaking out against Carbajal’s support of the SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY Hall. Dec. 7, 11 a.m. solvangjulefest.org. Downtown pancakes, sausage, juice, and hot cocoa. Space is Green New Deal and Medicare for all. AWAY: WHAT HAPPENS TO TRASH AG LIBRARY BOOK SALE Bimonthly Solvang, Mission Dr., Solvang. limited, so pre-registration is required. Dec. 7, 9-11 a.m. The Integrated Waste Caldwell’s office quoted former Carpinteria IN SLO COUNTY book sale to raise money for library LOS OLIVOS CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING The explorelompoc.com. Dick DeWees Community & Senior Management Authority (IWMA) will give a City Councilman Joe Armendariz (and brief programs and projects. Subjects from A offi cial lighting of the Los Olivos Christmas tree (at the Center, 1120 W. Ocean Ave., Lompoc. presentation on what happens to the stuff CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE The 1875 Victorian Home Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors 4th we throw away in SLO County. Dec. 9, 5-6 will be open for Holiday tours. Visit a piece of living District candidate): “Salud Carbajal is doing his p.m. Free. 805-321-0073. slo.surfrider.org/ New Times and the Sun now share their history; a lavishly decorated home all dressed up for the best, but his best just isn’t good enough.” away-what-happens-to-trash-in-slo-county/. community listings for a complete Central INDEX holidays. Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and Dec. 14, 10 a.m.-1 Hmmm, interestingly enough, the literal iFixit, 1330 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo. Coast calendar running from SLO County through Special Events ...... [17] p.m. explorelompoc.com. Fabing McKay Spanne House, translation of Voltaire’s quote is, “The best is the LIGHT UP A LIFE Wilshire Hospice invites the 207 N. L St., Lompoc, 805-735-4626. community to the 2019 Light Up A Life remembrance northern Santa Barbara County. Submit events online enemy of the good.” Arts ...... [20] Relax by the fi re and enjoy ceremonies. Offered during the holiday season as a by logging in with your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE The best or the good? I think we voters will beautiful carols sung by the Lompoc Valley Master place of gentle refl ection, support, and respite during at newtimesslo.com. You may also email calendar@ get to eventually decide. I can’t wait to see you Culture & Lifestyle ...... [22] Chorale. Get in the holiday spirit while sipping hot, spiced this time of year. Dec. 10, 6-7 p.m. Free. 805-547-7025. newtimesslo.com. Deadline is one week before the issue m cider or coffee and snacking on homemade Christmas at the polls. diadelosmuertosSLO.org. First Presbyterian Church of San date on Thursdays. Submissions are subject to editing Food & Drink ...... [22] cookies. , 2-4 p.m. explorelompoc.com. Longoria Luis Obispo, 981 Marsh St., San Luis Obispo. Dec. 8 and approval. Contact Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood Winery & Tasting Room, 415 E Chestnut Ave, Lompoc. 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HONKY TONK CHRISTMAS BENEFIT CONCERT Hosted by RadioKTNK as a benefit for the Lompoc Theatre Project. Admission includes a hot tri-tip lunch from Glaze’s Barbecue Truck. Dec. 8, 12-3 p.m. $45- $75. Lompoc Wine Factory, 321 N. D St., Lompoc, 805-243-8398, lompocwinefactory.com. LOMPOC VALLEY CHILDREN’S CHRISTMAS SEASON PARADE “Ringing in the Holidays” is the theme of this year’s parade. The parade starts at the Union Bank parking lot and proceeds south on H Street. Dec. 6, 6 p.m. explorelompoc.com. Old Town Lompoc, 100 South H St., Lompoc.
SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS ALWAYS AMAZING. Never routine. THE 58TH ANNUAL OLD TOWN ORCUTT 18 Features floats, live CHRISTMAS PARADE entertainment, and more. This Orcutt tradition is also seeking sponsors and participants. Dec. 14, noon FRIDAY 805-938-9954. Historic Old Town Orcutt, S. Broadway and Union Ave., Orcutt. DEC ANNUAL SANTA MARIA CHRISTMAS PARADE OF LIGHTS The parade is celebrating its 25th anniversary. 6 Enjoy decorated floats, live music, and more.Dec. 7, 5:20 p.m. smparadeoflights.org. Santa Maria Inn, 801 S. 8 PM Broadway, Santa Maria, 805-928-7777. CHRISTMAS GALA CONCERT: VINES BRASS QUINTET AND DEL GESU STRING QUARTET FRIDAY Features the Vines Brass Quintet and Del Gesu String Quartet. Reception to follow. Dec. 14, 5-8 p.m. Free. DEC 646-255-5600. DelGesuChamberMusicSociety.com. FELIPE ESPARZA Healing Rooms Apostolic Center, 3010 Skyway Dr., 98 DEGREES 20 Santa Maria. CHRISTMAS JAZZ CONCERT WITH CENTRAL 8 PM CITY SWING Central City Swing, a 17-piece jazz band, will perform a wide assortment of Christmas and holiday jazz and swing music. Dec. 10, 7:30-9:30 TUESDAY p.m. Free. 805-720-3840. CentralCitySwing.com. Unity Chapel of Light Church, 1165 Stubblefield Rd., Orcutt. DEC CHRISTMAS ON THE TRAIL 2019 Enjoy tastings from Andrew Murray Vineyards, Cambria Winery, 31 Cottonwood Canyon Winery, and more than 10 other wineries. Dec. 7-8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $35-$45. 9 PM my805tix.com. Foxen Canyon Wine Trail, Foxen Canyon Rd., Santa Maria. HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE AND ETHNIC FOOD FRIDAY FAIRE Features homade foods from Greece, Russia, Romania, Syria, and Ukraine such as Baklava, JAN Pierogies, Piroshki, Tabouli, Dolma, and cabbage rolls. WFC 120 Take home desserts for holiday gift giving. Dec. 7, 10 NEW YEAR’S EVE 10 a.m.-2 p.m. No entry fee. 805-264-2128. odox.org. Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, 877 Francine DANCE PARTY: 6 PM Ln., Santa Maria. The Boogie Knights ORCUTT STROLL AND CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING 2019 After the lighting, enjoy & The Spazmatics complimentary hot chocolate and cookies on the back patio of the Orcutt Lions Den Hosted by Orcutt Lion Jennifer Sheppard. Dec. 6, 5-8 p.m. Free. santamariavalley.com. Historic Old Town Orcutt, S. Broadway and Union Ave., Orcutt. SANTA’S DISCOVERY WORKSHOP Park your sled and join us at the Discovery Museum. Mrs. Claus will be having story time at 11 a.m and Santa visits at noon. Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $7 per person. 805-928- 8414. smvdiscoverymuseum.org/. Santa Maria Valley Discovery Museum, 705 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria.
SOUTH COAST SLO COUNTY 53RD ANNUAL SOUTH COUNTY HOLIDAY PARADE Celebrate the City of Grover Beach’s 60th Diamond Jubilee Anniversary with the theme Holiday 3400 E Highway 246, Santa Ynez · 800-248-6274 · ChumashCasino.com Sparkle. Applications available for parade entries online. Plan to watch the parade along Grand Avenue Must be 21 years of age or older to attend. Chumash Casino Resort reserves the right to change or cancel promotions and events. from 16th Street to 9th Street. Dec. 7, 10-11 a.m. Donation: one new, unwrapped toy. 805-473-4580. groverbeach.org. City of Grover Beach, 154 S 8th St., Grover Beach. 21308-1_CHU_EntAd_SMS_7-5x9-5.indd 1 11/21/19 8:29 AM ADVENT FESTIVAL OF LESSONS AND CAROLS Enjoy this 101-year-old tradition that weaves scripture JOB #: 21308-1_CHU_EntAd_SMS_7-5x9-5 · Client: Chumash · Agency: RIESTER readings with carols. Soup and salad reception to follow. Follow us on Dec. 15, 5 p.m. Free. 805-489-2990. St. Barnabas Trim: 7.5" w x 9.5" h · Bleed: N/A · Color: 4C · Pub: Santa Maria Sun Episcopal Church, 301 Trinity Way, Arroyo Grande. Due Date: 11/21/19 · Insertion Date: 11/28/19 and 12/05/19 · Contact: Bill Robbins · [email protected] AG ROTARY CLUB’S 12TH ANNUAL Christmas Services Twitter! CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY SING-ALONG Features great regional musical groups along with audience sing-alongs of favorite Christmas and holiday songs. Enjoy free holiday treats and Santa Claus in the lobby after the show. Dec. 15, 4-5:30 p.m. $6 child/ Sunday, December 22nd - 9am & 10:30am @SantaMariaSUN student; $12 adult; $35 family of 5. 805-489-9444. agrotary.org/. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, Christmas Eve - 4:30pm & 5:30pm 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande. BIG BAND CHRISTMAS: ALL THE CLASSICS Musical selection includes hits from Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Andy Williams, Rosemary Clooney, Nat King Cole, and the Andrew Sisters. Dec. 12, 7-9 p.m. $39- $49. 805-489-9444. clarkcenter.org. Clark Center for Grace Baptist Church the Performing Arts, 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande. HANDMADE HOLIDAY MARKET Features local food 605 E. McCoy Lane (corner of College & McCoy ) 805.347.1968 trucks serving up specialized Brunch menus, with the www.gracesantamaria.org · 805-925-2671 www.santamariasun.com SPECIAL EVENTS continued page 20
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www.santamariasun.com • December 5 – December 12, 2019 • Sun • 19 SPECIAL EVENTS from page 18 experience required. Mondays, 7 & 8 p.m. Free. 805-937- SANTA YNEZ VALLEY Shepard Hall Gallery, view the art and learn more about 1574. Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, CELEBRATING THE NATIONAL LANDS OF the artist. Through Dec. 5 Free. engagedpatrons.org. beach and local holiday shopping at your toes. Dec. 7, 10 mavericksaloon.org. Shepard Hall Art Gallery - Santa Maria Public Library, 421 a.m.-2 p.m. Free. 805-595-4000. avilabeachresort.com. CALIFORNIA A showcase of fine art inspired by national parks, monuments, preserves, and recreation South McClelland St., Santa Maria, 805-925-0994. Avila Beach Golf Resort, 6464 Ana Bay Rd., Avila Beach. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS areas located within the state of California. Mondays, FEATURED ARTIST: PATRICIA LIPSCOMB The HOLIDAY HARMONY This festive event is free to the BALLROOM, LATIN, AND SWING LESSONS Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through Jan. Santa Maria Public Library will be exhibiting the art of public and the evening will include snow play, cookie Marie King and Kings of Swing offer dance lessons for 20 $5. 805-686-8315. wildlingmuseum.org/news/ Central Coast artist, Patricia Lipscomb. Patrons and art decorating, bounce houses, crafts, and music. Children all ages and skill levels. Couples and singles welcome. celebrating-the-national-lands-of-california-art-exhibit. enthusiasts alike are encouraged to stop by the library’s will have the chance to visit and take a picture with Wednesdays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. $36 for 4-week session. Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Shepard Hall Gallery, view the art, and learn more about Santa. Dec. 6, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Free. 805-773-7063. 805-928-7799. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Solvang. the artist. Dec. 12-Jan. 30 Free. 805-925-0994. pismobeach.org/73/Recreation. Dinosaur Caves Park, Orcutt. 2701 Price St, Pismo Beach. GALLERY LOS OLIVOS: WINTER SALON The cityofsantamaria.org. Shepard Hall Art Gallery - Santa BASIC WATERCOLOR No experience required. gallery’s featured show for the month of December. Maria Public Library, 421 South McClelland St., Santa HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE Stop by to browse Patrice’s Tuesdays, 1-3 p.m. $8. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Through Jan. 1, 2020 Free admission. gallerylosolivos. Maria. one-of-a-kind handmade vintage jewelry pieces and pick up Ave., Orcutt, 805-937-9750. com. Gallery Los Olivos, 2920 Grand Ave., Los Olivos, some homemade toffee by Firehouse Toffee. Dec. 8, 11 LOCAL ART AND ARTISTS: CONTINUING SERIES BEADING WORKSHOP Thursdays, noon oasisorcutt. 805-688-7517. a.m.-3 p.m. 805-441-8847. PH Balance Handmade Vintage An ongoing series of shows, facilitated by advisor Terry org. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt, 805- Jewelry and Firehouse Toffee, 755 Ridge Rd., Nipomo. PAVLOV GALLERY: FEATURED ARTISTS Dworaczyk, to spotlight local art and artists. Each 20 937-9750. Showcasing new collections on a weekly basis. AN IRISH CHRISTMAS Award-winning cast of Irish show includes an artist reception. ongoing Ameriprise COUNTRY TWO STEP DANCE LESSONS From the Featured artists include Chris Pavlov, Iris Pavlov, Robert dancers led by Riverdance Principal Dancer Caterina Financial, 2605 S Miller St., suite 104, Santa Maria. basics to a variety of patterns. Dancers of all skill levels Hildebrand, Doug Picotte, and more. ongoing, 10 a.m.-5 Coyne, World Champion Dancer Tyler Schwartz, and welcome. Thursdays, 6:15-7 p.m. $8. 805-680-5695. p.m. Free. 805-686-1080. pavlovgallery.com. Pavlov Art SANTA BARBARA PRINTMAKERS JURIED Connor Reider. Joined by members of the Kerry Dance Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt. Gallery, 1608 Copenhagen Dr., Ste C, Solvang. EXHIBITION ongoing smartscouncil.org. Betteravia Troupe, The Kerry Voice Squad, and the Kerry Traditional Gallery, 511 E. Lakeside Parkway, Santa Maria. Orchestra. Dec. 11, 7-9 p.m. $36-$48. 805-489-9444. CREATIVE ART TUESDAYS Meet other artists and clarkcenter.org/. Clark Center for the Performing Arts, support and critique others’ works. Tuesdays, 1-4 p.m. FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF LARRY LYTLE 487 Fair Oaks Ave., Arroyo Grande. $1. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt, 805- 937-9750. OLDE TOWNE NIPOMO FAMILY CHRISTMAS Guests can enjoy viewing the 20 foot tree lighting EVERYBODY CAN DANCE Ballet workout classes for (14,000 lights), the snow slide (with 10 tons of snow), teens and adults. Tuesdays, 6 p.m. everybodycandance. and more. State Senator Shannon Groves will be in webs.com. Everybody Can Dance, 628 S. McClelland St., attendance. Dec. 8, 2-8 p.m. 805-896-8972. Olde Santa Maria, 805-937-6753. Towne Nipomo, Thompson and Tefft, Nipomo. FREE SALSA CLASSES No partner or experience PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WILDLING MUSEUM OF ART AND NATURE required. Tuesdays, 6:30 & 7:30 p.m. Free. 805-937- 1574. Cubanissimo Cuban Coffee House, 4869 S. Bradley Rd., Orcutt. FREE WEST COAST SWING CLASS No partner or experience required. Wednesdays, 6:30 & 7:30 p.m. 805-937-1574. Cubanissimo Cuban Coffee House, 4869 S. Bradley Rd., Orcutt. INDIVIDUAL PAINTERS No instructor. Fridays, 9 a.m.- noon $1. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt, 805-937-9750. INTRODUCTORY BALLET 1 Tuesdays, 5 p.m. everybodycandance.webs.com. Everybody Can Dance, 628 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria, 805-937-6753. INTRODUCTORY BALLET 2 Wednesdays, 6 p.m. and Fridays everybodycandance.webs.com. Everybody Can Dance, 628 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria, 805-937- 6753. INTRODUCTORY BALLET 3 Wednesdays, 6 p.m. everybodycandance.webs.com. Everybody Can Dance, 628 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria, 805-937-6753. RISE FROM THE ASHES MUSIC LESSONS Learn acoustic or electric guitar, Allan Hancock College hosts its Fine Arts Faculty Art Show in the Ann Foxworthy Gallery mandolin, ukulele, bass, piano, violin, drums, percussion, through Thursday, Dec. 12. Hancock instructor Amiko Matsuo, creator of the Platters and voice, mandolin, banjo, saxophone, and/or clarinet. The Ash series, is one of the exhibit’s featured artists. The gallery is located in building L of the academy offers private lessons by the hour or half hour college’s Academic Resource Center. Visit hancockcollege.edu/gallery for more info. THE COLD NEVER for all age groups and ability. ongoing 805-925-0464. — C.W. Coelho Academy of Music, 325 E. Betteravia Rd., Santa BOTHERED ME ANYWAY Maria. The Wildling Museum of Art and Nature hosts its Holiday Family Day on SANTA MARIA SEWING SUPERSTORE CLASSES SANTA BARBARA PRINTMAKERS: WILD PLACES Visit site for full list of classes and more details. Saturday, Dec. 7, from noon to 4 p.m. IN PRINT The Wildling Museum is pleased to announce CALLS FOR ARTISTS Mondays-Thursdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. santamariasewing. Santa Barbara Printmakers: Wild Places in Print, a new Guests can enjoy meeting some of their com. Santa Maria Sewing Superstore, 127 E. Main St., Barbara Goodall Education Center exhibition featuring SAN LUIS OBISPO favorite fairy tale characters and taking Santa Maria, 805-922-1784. nature and wildlife-inspired works. Through Jan. 1, 2020 part in various holiday activities. The SANTA’S DISCOVERY WORKSHOP Dec. 7, 10 a.m.- Free. 805-686-8315. wildlingmuseum.org. Wildling 2020 CALL FOR ARTISTS Taking submissions for museum is located at 1511 Mission Drive, 2 p.m. smvdiscoverymuseum.org. Santa Maria Valley Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang. artists all media for 2020 year, please submit by email. suite B, Solvang. Call (805) 688-1082 or Discovery Museum, 705 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria. 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San Luis Obispo, sloart.com. off the Christmas season and celebrate the holidays with Couples and singles welcome. Pre- THE SPIRIT OF SOLVANG: FROM friends and family. Dec. 7, 8-10 p.m. and Dec. 8, 8-10 p.m. registration recommended. Thursdays, DANISH ROOTS TO CALIFORNIA NORTH SLO COUNTY $10-$40. 805-541-6797. vocalarts.org/. The Monarch Club 7-8 p.m. $45. 805-928-7799. Adkins COLONY This exhibit tells the story HANDCRAFTED FOR THE HOLIDAYS Premier at Trilogy Monarch Dunes, 1645 Trilogy Parkway, Nipomo. Dance Center, 1110 E. Clark Ave., Santa of Solvang from its founding as a craftspeople from California and beyond are featured in this SANTA’S WORKSHOP FINE ART AND CRAFT Maria. Danish American colony through its DEC. 5 – DEC. 12 invitational exhibition and retail sale devoted to bringing FAIRE Features handmade artisan crafts ready for 2019 transformation to a tourist destination. The UKULELE CLASS Wednesdays, 11:30 wide public attention to the field of fine craft. Through Dec. holiday giving, live music by Critical Mass Band, a snowy a.m. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., history of Danish immigration to America 29, 12-4 p.m. Free. 805-238-9800. studiosonthepark.org. play area and slide, a craft and activity area for children, Orcutt, 805-937-9750. is detailed with displays that originated at the visits with Santa, food, drinks, a tree lighting, and more. National Museum of Immigration in Ellis Island, NY. Studios on the Park, 1130 Pine St., Paso Robles. Dec. 7, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Free to attend. 805-473-4580. Wednesdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. through Feb. 16 groverbeach.org. Ramona Garden Park Center, 993 SPECIAL ART EVENTS 805-686-1211. elverhoj.org. Elverhoj Museum of History STAGE Ramona Ave., Grover Beach. and Art, 1624 Elverhoy Way, Solvang. SANTA YNEZ VALLEY VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS OPEN HOUSE Explore WINTER SALON Gallery Los Olivos will exhibit more SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS the historical home of John Price, Founder of the City of WINE COUNTRY BOOK SIGNING WITH GEORGE than 50 gallery artists’ fine art hung salon style. The Pismo Beach. Tour the Price House lavishly decorated ROSE Local photojournalist George Rose has released town of Los Olivos will be hosting its annual “Olde ANNIE Presented by Orcutt Community Theater. as it might have been in the Victorian era. Guests are a new photography book titled “Wine Country, Santa Fashioned Christmas” the same day. Through Jan. 31, Through Dec. 22 KDA Studios, 3546 Skyway Dr., Orcutt, welcome to wear Victorian costumes. Dec. 8, 3-7 p.m. Barbara County” which he will be signing. Dec. 14, 2-3 2020, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Dec. 7, 12-7 p.m. Free. 805-268-2993, orcuttcommunitytheater.org. $25. my805tix.com. Price Anniversary House, 100 p.m. 805-688-6010. The Book Loft, 1680 Mission Dr., 805-688-7517. Gallery Los Olivos, 2920 Grand Ave., Los DINNER WITH FRIENDS Presented by SMCT. Dec. Rancho Pismo Dr., Pismo Beach, 805-773-4854. Solvang. Olivos, gallerylosolivos.com. 6-8 Santa Maria Civic Theatre, 1660 N. McClelland St., Santa Maria. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS THE LITTLE MERMAID Based on the Hans Christian FIRST FRIDAY ARTIST RECEPTIONS Valley Art ARTS ART EXHIBIT: MARGIE BOWKER A display of Andersen story of the Disney film. Presented by PCPA. Gallery features 12 artists each year. Enjoy art, wine, painting and art tiles. ongoing Santa Maria Country Club, Music by Alan Menken and lyrics by Howard Ashman and and food at these opening receptions. First Friday of 505 W. Waller Lane, Santa Maria. CLASSES & WORKSHOPS every month, 5-7 p.m. Free. 805-937-2278. valleygallery. Glenn Slater. Book by Doug Wright. Through Dec. 22 ART EXHIBITION: MUSIC SERIES BY LORI MOLE org. Valley Art Gallery, 125 W. 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McClelland St., Santa Maria. Library, 421 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria. FARMERS MARKET Farmers Market in SLO is the LECTURES & LEARNING CANDLELIGHT RESTORATIVE YOGA Release and CAMERA CLUB Learn how the camera works. Share largest Farmers Market in California. Thursdays, 6:10-9 open your body with breath, props, and meditation. experiences and make new friends. Second Tuesday p.m. Downtown SLO, Higuera Street, San Luis Obispo. LOMPOC/VANDENBERG Mondays, 7-8 p.m. yogaformankind.com. Yoga for of every month, 1-3:30 p.m. Free. 805-937-9750. COMMUNITY FOOD CENTER The center is a food Mankind, 130 N Broadway, suite B, Orcutt. SLO FARMERS MARKET Hosts over 60 vendors. oasisorcutt.org. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., pantry offering nutritional classes. Wednesdays, 3-5 p.m. Saturdays, 8-10:45 a.m. World Market Parking Lot, 325 Orcutt. FIT CLUB A club to energize both body and soul. Pre Madonna Rd., San Luis Obispo. Free. 805-967-5741, Ext. 107. El Camino Community and post workout drinks will be available. Mondays- Center, W. Laurel Avenue and N. I Street, Lompoc. COFFEE AND CONVERSATION Tuesdays, 1 p.m. Fridays, 9 a.m. Balance Nutrition, 1975 S. Broadway, SLO TUESDAY FARMERS’ MARKET Tuesdays, oasisorcutt.org. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., suite E, Santa Maria. 2:30-5:30 p.m. Free. Farm Supply, 224 Tank Farm Rd., 22 PHOTO COURTESY OF ALAN SUTTERFIELD Orcutt, 805-937-9750. San Luis Obispo. GENTLE YOGA Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8:30 a.m. HAM RADIO HAM Radio oasisorcutt.org. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., operators can show guests Orcutt, 805-937-9750. EVENTS how to build their own radio HUMAN BEING SUPPORT AND INSPIRATION and share information about ONLINE GROUP An online group to listen and get SANTA YNEZ VALLEY operating them. Mondays, support from others from the comfort of your own home. 8:30-10:30 a.m. Free. 805- ROBLAR WINE TASTINGS Potting Shed and Barrel Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. $40 monthly subscription. 805- 937-9750. oasisorcutt.org. Room available to members. ongoing, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 598-1509. divining.weebly.com. Divine Inspiration, 947 E Oasis Senior Center, 420 805-686-2603. roblarwinery.com. Roblar Winery, 3010 Orange St., Santa Maria. Roblar Ave., Santa Ynez. Soares Ave., Orcutt. MEDITATION GROUP Features a 20 minute meditation STANDING SUN: TASTING ROOM HOURS HI-WAY DRIVE-IN SWAP followed by a brief discussion. Meetings take place in MEET Come to the Hi-Way Visit site for Cellar Club details and more info. the sanctuary. All are welcome. Thursdays, 11 a.m.-noon Mondays-Thursdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 805-691-9413. Drive-In for the Sunday Swap Free. 805-937-3025. Unity Chapel of Light Church, 1165 standingsunwines.com. Standing Sun Wines, 92 2nd St., Meet. Sellers: $20; Produce Stubblefield Rd., Orcutt, unitysantamaria.net/. Unit D, Buellton, 805-691-9413. sellers: $25; Buyers: $2 car load. Sundays, 4:30 a.m.- WISDOM READINGS AnnKathleen is available every WINE TASTING AT KALYRA Offering varietals from all over day by appointment for Wisdom Readings with Tarot 12:30 p.m. 805-934-1582. the world. Mondays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturdays, and Oracle cards. Gift certificates available. ongoing Hi-Way Drive-In, 3170 Santa Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 805-693-8864. kalyrawinery.com. $95-$160. 805-598-1509. divining.weebly.com. Divine Maria Way, Santa Maria. Kalyra Winery, 343 N. Refugio Rd., Santa Ynez. Inspiration, 947 E Orange St., Santa Maria. RECREATION AND FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF ST. MARK’S-IN-THE-VALLEY EPISCOPAL CHURCH PARKS DEPARTMENT: MAH JONGG Wednesdays, KIDS & FAMILY 11:30 a.m.-4 p.m. 805-922- KTS ALL STAR GYMNASTICS: NINJA WARRIOR 2993. Elwin Mussell Senior CLASSES Bring out your inner warrior with kids parkour Center, 510 Park Ave., Santa classes in a safe setting. For ages 5 and up. Wednesdays, Maria. Fridays, 5:30 & 6:30 p.m. 805-349-7575. Santa Maria SANTA MARIA Town Center, 142 Town Center East, Santa Maria. TOASTMASTERS NEON NIGHTS AT ROCKIN’ JUMP Fridays, WEEKLY MEETING Saturdays, 8-10 p.m. 805-266-7080. Santa Maria Town Toastmasters International Center, 142 Town Center East, Santa Maria. is a worldwide nonprofit educational organization that empowers individuals SPIRITUAL to become more effective communicators and leaders. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. FREE WOMEN’S EXERCISE CLASS Open to all 805-264-6722. santamaria. women regardless of denomination. Class includes toastmastersclubs.org/. stretching, aerobics, and floor exercises while listening Toyota of Santa Maria, 700 E to uplifting, spiritual music. Free childcare offered on Beteravia Rd., Santa Maria. site. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 9-10 a.m. Free. ONLY A DAY AWAY TRI CITY SOUND 805-922-1919. cornerstonesm.org. Cornerstone Church, Orcutt Community Theater presents its production of Annie at CHORUS OF 1026 E Sierra Madre Ave., Santa Maria. Klein Dance Arts Studio through Sunday, Dec. 22. The cast SWEET ADELINES HOPE COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICES Join Hope includes Frida Vega as Annie and Todd Buranen as Oliver INTERNATIONAL Community Church for Sunday morning and Wednesday Warbucks. Performances are held every Friday and Saturday at 7 Welcomes all women who are night services. Children care provided for infants and interested in learning about p.m. and every Sunday at 1:30 p.m. The studio is located at 3564 children under 4. Sundays, 10:30 a.m. and Wednesdays, barbershop-style music Skyway Drive, Santa Maria. Visit orcuttcommunitytheater.org for 6:30 p.m. Free. 805-922-2043. hopesm.com. Hope singing and performing. Community Church, 3010 Skyway Dr. suite F, Santa Maria. more info. Thursdays, 6:45-9:30 p.m. HOUSE PARTY INTUITIVE GUIDANCE SESSIONS Certified St. Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church — C.W. 805-736-7572. Lutheran Intuitive and Evidential, Spiritual Medium, Julie Renee Church of Our Savior, 4725 hosts its seventh annual Gingerbread Medley offers 1/2 private readings. Please call to set S. Bradley Rd., Orcutt. Wonderland event on Saturday, Dec. 7, an appointment or for consultation. ongoing $60 per from 4 to 8 p.m. Dozens of handcrafted TRIVIA NIGHT Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Free. naughtyoak. 1/2 hour or sliding fee can be utilized. 937-271-5646. gingerbread houses will be on display in com. Naughty Oak Brewing Co., 165 S Broadway St. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS CovenTree: Books and Gifts, 722 E Main St., Santa Maria. suite 102, Orcutt, 805-287-9663. Stacy Hall. Guests can vote for and enter DEC. 5 – DEC. 12 BI-LINGO Informal conversation to practice Spanish to win their favorite gingerbread houses by 2019 language skills for anyone with basic Spanish-speaking VOLUNTEERS purchasing a raffle ticket ($1 each). The skills. Second Thursday of every month, 6-7 p.m. Free. SUPPORT GROUPS church is located at 2901 Nojoqui Ave., Santa Maria Public Library, 421 S. McClelland St., Santa LOMPOC/VANDENBERG Los Olivos. Visit smitv.org for more info. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS Maria, 805-925-0994. VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Attend a Volunteer — C.W. SIMPLE SPANISH Instructor based Spanish class for HELP4HD SUPPORT GROUPS Help4HD Support Orientation to learn about library volunteering. You must beginners. Tuesdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m. Free. 805-937- Groups is the Help 4 Huntington’s disease support group. attend an orientation to become a volunteer. Dec. 10, 9750. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt. Second Monday of every month, 12-1:30 p.m. Free. 805- 2-3 p.m. Free. 805-925-0994. Lompoc Public Library, 354-0708. help4hd-international.org. Bethel Lutheran 501 E. North Ave., Lompoc. SMKC MONTHLY MEMBERSHIP MEETING LOMPOC/VANDENBERG Church, 624 E. Camino Colegio, Santa Maria. Members and guests welcome. Connect with fellow dog LOMPOC WINE FACTORY TASTINGS This tasting lovers and learn more about all the different things you TRAUMA INFORMED PARENTING GROUP A foster room highlights community-based winemaking. Features and your dog can do together. All breeds and breed parent class presented by Calm. Tuesdays 805-965- FOOD & DRINK various member winemakers. Mondays, Wednesdays- combinations welcome. Different months have different 2376. calm4kids.org. Church For Life, 3130 Skyway Dr., Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. 805-243-8398. lompocwinefactory. learning programs. Second Wednesday of every month, suite 501, Santa Maria. com. Lompoc Wine Factory, 321 N. D St., Lompoc. 7-9 p.m. through April 8 Free. santamariakennelclub.org/. FARMERS MARKETS WINE TASTING AT FLYING GOAT CELLARS This Marian Extended Care Facility, 1530 Cypress Way, Santa LOMPOC/VANDENBERG winery specializes in Pinot Noir and sparkling wine. Maria, 805-739-3000. CREATE & LEARN Mondays, Thursdays-Sundays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 805-736- LOMPOC FARMERS MARKET Features fresh fruit STEM CELL AND REGENERATIVE MEDICINE 9032. flyinggoatcellars.com. Flying Goat Cellars, 1520 SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS and vegetables, flowers, entertainment, and activities CLASS Join us to learn about stem cell allograft Chestnut Court, Lompoc. for the whole family. Fridays, 2-6 p.m. Lompoc Farmers services as an option for knee, hip and shoulder pain. CARD MAKING Tuesdays, 9 a.m. oasisorcutt.org. Oasis Market, Ocean Avenue and I Street, Lompoc. Every other Thursday, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Free. 805-614- Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt, 805-937-9750. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS 7820. RestorativeSpineandJoint.com. Moxie Cafe, 1317 KNITTING AND CROCHETING Wednesdays, 9:30 SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS FOOD TRUCK FRIDAYS Features a food truck every W. McCoy Ln., Santa Maria. a.m. oasisorcutt.org. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Friday. Fridays, 5 p.m. Wine Stone Inn, 255 W. Clark Ave, GROWING GROUNDS FARM STAND Produce, Ave., Orcutt, 805-937-9750. Orcutt, 805-332-3532. flowers, and other plants from the nursery are available CLUBS & MEETINGS WINTER MAKERSPACE A chance to create, build, for purchase. Second Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.- PANCAKE BREAKFAST Enjoy pancakes, eggs, sausage, explore, and use your imagination at the Library Maker 3 p.m. 805-934-2182. Growing Grounds Farm, 820 W. coffee, and juice while you meet new and old friends. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS Events. Join us in the Learning Center. Dec. 7, 10 a.m.-3 Foster Rd., Santa Maria, t-mha.org. Proceeds support OASIS Community Center. Second p.m. 805-925-0994. Santa Maria Public Library, 421 S. Saturday of every month, 7:45-9:45 a.m. $5. 805-937- ANIME CLUB FOR TEENS For teens interested in ORCUTT FARMERS MARKET Presents local farmers McClelland St., Santa Maria. 9750. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt. m anime or manga. Hang out with other fans, eat Japanese and small businesses. Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Orcutt
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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE CHUMASH CASINO RESORT “The Hardest Thing,” “Revelation,” Live Music “Give Me Just One Night,” “My SANTA YNEZ VALLEY Everything,” and “The Way You Want Me To.” Tickets to the concert 98 DEGREES LIVE The resort is a 21-and-up venue. Dec. 6 Chumash Casino Resort, 3400 range from $49 and $79. For tickets E. Highway 246, Santa Ynez, 800-248-6274, and more information, call the chumashcasino.com/entertainment. casino at (805) 686-0855 or visit 23 ALICE BRADLEY, SIO TEPPER, AND FRIENDS chumashcasino.com. The resort is Food and drinks available for purchase. No outside located at 3400 CA-246, Santa Ynez. food or drinks allowed. Dec. 7, 1-4 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805- 967-0066, coldspringtavern.com/entertainment.html. Seasonal sounds CHEYENNE SKYE LIVE Food and drinks available The Santa Maria Philharmonic for purchase. No outside food or drinks allowed. Dec. 14, 5-8 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Society presents its December Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, showcase, Sounds of Jubilant coldspringtavern.com/entertainment.html. Holidays, at the First United CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD: SYV Methodist Church on Friday, Dec. CHORALE A purposefully eclectic program of 6, at 7:30 p.m. The concert will beloved and familiar carols, forgotten classics, and begin with some lively movements new fare performed by local singers and musicians. from Bach’s “Orchestral Suite No. Dec. 14, 7:30-9 p.m. and Dec. 15, 3-4:30 p.m. $15 adults; $10 seniors and youth; $2 fee for online. 1.” Sections of Bach’s Brandenburg syvchorale.org. Solvang Veterans Memorial Hall, Concerto No. 4 will also be 1745 Mission Drive, Solvang, NA. performed. Guests can expect to DAVID ALA MODE LIVE Food and drinks hear additional baroque music from available for purchase. No outside food or drinks Handel and Boyce as well. allowed. Dec. 6, 6-9 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Admission to the performance Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, ranges from $15 to $45 (with a coldspringtavern.com/entertainment.html. special $60 per family rate at the THE DYLAN ORTEGA BAND As part of KRAZy door). Call (805) 925-0412 or visit Country Honky-Tonk Thursday. Thursdays, 7 p.m. smphilharmonic.org to learn more Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, mavericksaloon.org. or reserve tickets. The First United CRANK THE AC: Pop and R&B band 98 Degrees will perform at the Chumash Casino Resort on Friday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m. Methodist Church is located at 311 FIRST FRIDAY ‘80S NIGHT Featuring the Molly Ringwald Project. First Friday of every month, S. Broadway, Santa Maria. 8:30-11:30 p.m. $10 after 8 p.m. Maverick Saloon, album, Let it Snow. The success of 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, the album led to a 36-city tour—98 mavericksaloon.org. Degrees at Christmas—in 2018. Going south FORT TAYLOR, CA LIVE Food and drinks This year, Santa Ynez is on the David à la Mode, a Santa available for purchase. No outside food or drinks Turn up the heat docket for the group’s current Barbara-based indie-pop rock band, allowed. Dec. 14, 1-4 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, Pop and R&B group 98 Degrees brings U.S. national tour, referred to as An performs at the Cold Spring Tavern 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967- Evening with 98 Degrees. Attendees 0066, coldspringtavern.com/entertainment.html. off of Highway 154 on Friday, tour to Santa Ynez can expect to hear some of the Dec. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. The group LEFT HAND LIONS LIVE Food and drinks group’s biggest hits from its heyday, available for purchase. No outside food or drinks BY CALEB WISEBLOOD their collective idols, Stevie Wonder, including “Because of You,” “I Do,” LOCAL NOTES continued page 24 allowed. Dec. 13, 6-9 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, on “True to Your Heart,” which they he rain might be coming down FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF THE SANTA MARIA PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967- recorded specifically for inclusion in 0066, coldspringtavern.com/entertainment.html. but the temperature is going up, at least in the Chumash Disney’s Mulan soundtrack in 1998. LIVE MUSIC ON THE PATIO Local acts perform T Between 2003 and 2012, however, every Saturday. Saturdays, 5-8 p.m. Maverick Casino Resort’s Samala Showroom the four musicians disbanded to Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 805-686- on Friday, Dec. 6, when 98 Degrees 4785, mavericksaloon.org. pursue respective solo careers. claims center stage at 8 p.m. From Cue the chirping crickets. The RANKIN’ FILE LIVE Food and drinks available 1997 and 2002, this quartet of for purchase. No outside food or drinks allowed. curse was lifted and the hiatus Dec. 15, 4:30-7:30 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Ohio natives—brothers Nick and was broken August of 2012 when Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, Drew Lachey, Justin Jeffre, and the band reunited for a one-time coldspringtavern.com/entertainment.html. Jeff Timmons—sold an estimated performance at the Mixtape Festival SUNDAY ROUND-UP Enjoy live music on the 10 million records, scoring their in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The patio and special menu offerings every Sunday chart-topping single, “Thank God morning. Sundays, 11 a.m. Free. Maverick Saloon, four regrouped on and off again 3687 Sagunto St., Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, I Found You,” in the process. It was throughout the following years, during this stretch that the popular collaborating most prominently BAROQUE SHOWCASE: Sounds of Jubilant Holidays, presented by the Santa Maria Philharmonic MUSIC LISTINGS continued page 24 boy band collaborated with one of in 2017 to release a new Christmas Society, takes place at the First United Methodist Church on Friday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m. Award-Winning community Journalism Right heRe on the central coAst Free. eveRy thursdaY.
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FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF SEAN LANDERS PHOTO COURTESY OF COLD SPRING TAVERN from 5 to 8 p.m. The tavern’s weekend lineup concludes with blues and rags duo Tom Ball and Kenny Sultan (from 1:15 to 4 p.m.) and rock trio Teresa Russell and Cocobilli (from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m.) on Sunday, Dec. 8. Admission to all concerts at the venue is free. Also in the Santa Ynez Valley, country band Tex Pistols performs at the Maverick Saloon on Friday, Dec. 6, from 8 to 11 p.m. The saloon also hosts the Jimi Nelson Band for two sets: Saturday, Dec. 7, from 8 to 11 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 8, from 1 to 24 5 p.m. Entry to all three shows is complimentary. More music Seventeen-piece jazz band Central City Swing presents its Christmas concert at the Unity Chapel of Light Church in Orcutt on Tuesday, Dec. 10, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Attendees can expect to hear a wide assortment of holiday jazz and swing tunes. This local ensemble is usually equipped with four to five saxophones, SULTANS OF SWING: Central City Swing presents its Christmas concert at the Unity trumpets, and trombones and a full rhythm section (piano, bass, Chapel of Light Church on Tuesday, Dec. 10, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. guitar, and drums). Admission to the performance is free. Visit centralcityswing.com for more details. THE GRASS IS ALWAYS BLUER: The Cold Spring Tavern off of Highway 154 presents The Naughty Oak Brewing Company in Orcutt presents singer- bluegrass band Sycamore Strings on Saturday, Dec. 7, from 5 to 8 p.m. LOCAL NOTES from page 23 songwriter David Segall on Friday, Dec. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m. This strives to switch things up during a single set, shifting from high- Santa Barbara-based artist specializes in rock, roots, and soul. performs at Vino et Amicis Wine Bar, with his Friday, Dec. 6, set energy crowd pleasers to relaxing folk tunes. The tavern presents Segall’s style is mainly inspired by the upbeat mood of artists like from 6 to 8 p.m. Admission to the show is complimentary. m Alice Bradley, Sio Tepper, and Friends the following afternoon, Jason Mraz, Bob Marley, and Paul Simon. Entry to the concert is Saturday, Dec. 7, from 1 to 4 p.m. This ensemble performs a variety free, but food from Lido’s will be available for guests of the brewery of genres, including bossa nova, classic rock, folk, and jazz. to purchase (from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.). Arts Editor Caleb Wiseblood wrote this week’s Local Notes. Contact Bluegrass band Sycamore Strings follows the group with a set Also in Orcutt on the same evening, solo artist Steve Shape him at [email protected].
MUSIC LISTINGS from page 23 $40. Lompoc Wine Factory, 321 N. D St., Lompoc, 805- SAN LUIS OBISPO and $12 students. 805-756-4849. music.calpoly.edu/ 243-8398, lompocwinefactory.com. calendar/. Performing Arts Center, 1 Grand Ave., San mavericksaloon.org. CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT Enjoy live music from Luis Obispo. the Cuesta College Chamber Choir. Dec. 11, 7:30 SYCAMORE STRINGS LIVE Food and drinks SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS p.m. $5. 805-546-3198. Cuesta College Cultural and available for purchase. No outside food or drinks ALL FOR REAL WITH SARAH JACKSON First Performing Arts Center, Highway 1, San Luis Obispo, allowed. Dec. 7, 5-8 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 DJ/DANCE Saturday of every month, 7:30-11:30 p.m. Anthony’s, cuesta.edu. Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, 859 Guadalupe St., Guadalupe, 805-219-0977. coldspringtavern.com/entertainment.html. CHRISTMAS BROWN BAG CONCERT Enjoy live SANTA YNEZ VALLEY DAVID SEGALL BAND LIVE Dec. 6, 6-9 p.m. Free. music from the In Time Trio. These lissome lasses of Food KRAZY COUNTRY HONKY-TONK THURSDAY TERESA RUSSELL AND COCOBILLI LIVE Naughty Oak Brewing Co., 165 S Broadway St. suite lyrics promise a Christmas concert for the Brown Bag and drinks available for purchase. No outside food or Thursdays, 6 p.m. Maverick Saloon, 3687 Sagunto St., 102, Orcutt, 805-287-9663, naughtyoak.com. ages at noon, in Wilson Hall. Dec. 6, 12-12:45 p.m. drinks allowed. Dec. 8, 4:30 p.m. Cold Spring Tavern, Santa Ynez, 805-686-4785, mavericksaloon.org. |3|FOXEN SECOND SUNDAYS: LIVE MUSIC AND Free. 805-543-5451. facebook.com/brownbagslo. First 5995 Stagecoach Rd., Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, Presbyterian Church of San Luis Obispo, 981 Marsh St., coldspringtavern.com/entertainment.html. FOOD TRUCK Every second Sunday of every month, LOMPOC/VANDENBERG Foxen will have live music and a food truck on property. San Luis Obispo. THIRSTY THURSDAYS WITH DJ VEGA Playing TOM BALL AND KENNY SULTAN LIVE Enjoy a Second Sunday of every month, 12:30-3:30 p.m. Free Prepare for a musically stylistic COMBOPALOOZA today’s and yesterday’s hits. No cover charge. Bring blend of guitar and harmonica blues, and rags, and good admission. 805-937-4251. foxenvineyard.com. Foxen roller coaster. Features a variety of live acts. Dec. 10, your dancing shoes. Thursdays, 9 p.m.-2:30 a.m. Free. time music. Food and drinks available for purchase. Winery & Vineyard, 7600 Foxen Canyon Rd., Santa Maria. 7:30 p.m. $6. 805-546-3198. Cuesta College Cultural 805-478-3980. DJ’s Saloon, 724 E Ocean Ave., Lompoc. No outside food or drinks allowed. Sundays, 1:15-4 and Performing Arts Center, Highway 1, San Luis p.m. Free. Cold Spring Tavern, 5995 Stagecoach Rd., GLORIA MANTOOTH AND SOUL FYAH Second Obispo, cuesta.edu. SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS Santa Barbara, 805-967-0066, coldspringtavern.com/ Saturday of every month, 6-8 p.m. Anthony’s, 859 CUESTA JAZZ ENSEMBLES Los Angeles based entertainment.html. Guadalupe St., Guadalupe, 805-219-0977. 805 NIGHTS For ages 21-and-over only. Come musician Wes Smith directs the Cuesta College Jazz HAVANA NIGHTS Enjoy live music acts, including Victor enjoy dancing to your favorite music videos. Fridays, Ensemble through a hard-swinging program of Jazz Big LOMPOC/VANDENBERG Valencia and others. Fridays, 7-9 p.m. Cubanissimo Cuban Saturdays, 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Free. 805-219-0977. Band music. Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m. $10-$15. 805-546-3198. Coffee House, 4869 S. Bradley Rd., Orcutt. Anthony’s, 859 Guadalupe St., Guadalupe. CHRISTMAS IS COMING Enjoy this holiday Cuesta College Cultural and Performing Arts Center, performance from the Lompoc Valley Master Chorale. LIVE MUSIC AT COSTA DE ORO Enjoy live music Highway 1, San Luis Obispo, cuesta.edu. DJ VEGA: OLD SCHOOL AND PARTY MIX Dec. 6, 7:30 p.m. and Dec. 7, 9:30 p.m. First United and complimentary appetizers every week. Thursdays, Saturdays, 9 p.m. Anthony’s, 859 Guadalupe St., CUESTA WIND ENSEMBLE AND CUESTA CHOIRS Methodist Church, 925 North F St., Lompoc. Fridays, 5-7 p.m. and Saturdays, 3-5 p.m. Free. Costa Guadalupe, 805-219-0977. The Cuesta College Choirs and Wind Ensemble join De Oro Winery, 1331 S. FILE PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN COPELAND forces for a musical extravaganza celebrating the winter HULA DANCING Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. 805-598-6772. Nicholson Ave., Santa Maria, season. Dec. 13, 7:30 p.m. $10-$15. 805-546-3198. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt. 805-922-1468, cdowinery. Cuesta College Cultural and Performing Arts Center, com. LINE DANCING Mondays, 6:30-9 p.m. $5. 805-310- Highway 1, San Luis Obispo, cuesta.edu. 1827. Oasis Senior Center, 420 Soares Ave., Orcutt. LIVE MUSIC AT MOXIE LUNA LIVE WITH JUSTIN PECOT Lead guitarist CAFE Enjoy live music NIGHTLIFE AT RANCHO BOWL Enjoy DJ’s 6 nights of touring band Young Doubliners. Dec. 12, 8-10 p.m. from local artists, food, a week in the Rancho Bar and Lounge. For ages 21-and- lunaredslo.com. Luna Red, 1023 Chorro St., San Luis and drinks. Thursdays- over. Tuesdays-Sundays, 9 p.m. Free. 805-925-2405. Obispo, 805-540-5243. Saturdays, 5-8 p.m. Free ranchobowl.com/nightlife. Rancho Bowl, 128 E Donovan admission. moxiecafe.com/ LUNA LOUNGE WITH ELIAS AND MADELINE Rd., Santa Maria. music/. Moxie Cafe, 1317 Join Luna Red Fridays for live performances in the Late RANDY LATIN PARTY MIX Fridays, 9:30 p.m. W. McCoy Ln., Santa Maria, Night Lounge, craft cocktails, and night bites. Elias and Anthony’s, 859 Guadalupe St., Guadalupe, 805-219-0977. 805-361-2900. Madeline perform their own flavor of Bolero and jazz with spanish style guitar and silky sweet vocals. Dec. 6, MIKE CRUZ LIVE Dec. 13, 10:30-11:59 p.m. Luna Red, 1023 Chorro St., San Luis KARAOKE/OPEN MIC 7-10 p.m. Free admission. Obispo, 805-540-5243. Vino et Amicis, 156 S. SANTA YNEZ VALLEY Broadway, Orcutt, 805-631- MOON HOOCH LIVE Moon Hooch will be live at SLO 0496, vinoetamicis.com. Brew Rock. Dec. 6, 7 p.m. $16- $19. 805-543-1843. KARAOKE AT SOLVANG BREW Thursdays Free. ticketweb.com. SLO Brew Rock, 855 Aerovista Pl., San Solvang Brewing Company, 1547 Mission Dr., Solvang, PICKSOUNDS OF Luis Obispo. 805 - 688 -2337. JUBILANT HOLIDAYS: SANTA MARIA OHGEESY LIVE Ohgeesy will be live in downtown SLO. OPEN MIC NIGHT AT SOLVANG BREW PHILHARMONIC Special guest, 1TakeJay, will open the show. Dec. 12, Wednesdays Free. Solvang Brewing Company, 1547 SINGING LOUD FOR ALL TO HEAR SOCIETY Enjoy an evening 8-11:59 p.m. $28. fremontslo.com. The Fremont Theater, Mission Dr., Solvang, 805-688-2337. The Santa Ynez Valley Chorale presents Christmas Around the of lively Baroque music 1035 Monterey St., San Luis Obispo, 805-546-8600. World at Solvang Veterans Memorial Hall on Saturday, Dec. 14, by Bach, Handel, and SLO BLUES SOCIETY PRESENTS THE IRENE SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS from 7:30 to 9 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 15, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. The Boyce, including Bach’s CATHAWAY RHYTHM AND BLUES BAND Join the KARAOKE WITH DJ RANDY Fridays, 6:30-8:30 p.m. program will feature performances of familiar holiday carols as Brandenburg Concerto San Luis Obispo Blues Society for a holiday celebration Anthony’s, 859 Guadalupe St., Guadalupe, 805-219-0977. No. 4 and Orchestral Suite featuring the Irene Cathaway Rhythm and Blues Band, well as a few rarely played gems. Tickets are $15 for adults and KARAOKE WITH DJ RICARDO Thursdays, 9-11:30 No.1, and Handel’s Concerto who will be playing two sets. Dec. 7, 7:30 p.m. $10 $10 for seniors and youth. Visit syvchorale.org to find out more. p.m. spotoneventservices.com. Blast 825 Brewery, 241 Grosso Op.6. Dec. 6, 7:30- members; $15 public. sloblues.org. SLO Guild Hall, —Caleb Wiseblood S Broadway St., Ste. 101, Orcutt, 805-934-3777. 9:30 p.m. $15-$45 family 2880 Broad St., San Luis Obispo, 805-543-0639. rate; $60 (available only at TEAMWORK WITH SAXOPHONIST DAVE BECKER KARAOKE WITH YSABEL Wednesdays, 6-8 p.m. the door). smphilharmonic. AND MORE Features “Charlie Parker with Strings” with Anthony’s, 859 Guadalupe St., Guadalupe, 805-219-0977. SIP MUSIC CLUB Pairing music and local wine with 4 org. First United Methodist Church, 311 Broadway, Dave Becker, video game music, collaborations with WEDNESDAY NIGHT KARAOKE Guests are seasonal releases each calendar year. Price includes 3 Santa Maria, 805-925-9573. LAES and Art and Design students, Prokofiev’s ballet, welcome to take the stage and sing. 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GALLERY IMAGE COURTESY OF SHERYL KNIGHT IMAGE COURTESY OF MARY KAY WEST Arts Briefs Cypress Gallery holds holiday exhibition 26 PHOTO COURTESY OF KATHY BADRAK
The Lompoc Valley Art Association presents Let’s do the Holidays, a new art exhibition, at Cypress Gallery through Sunday, Dec. 29. The exhibit showcases the works of three local artists: Joellen Chrones, Kathy Badrak, and Toni Zybell. Each of the three work in glass-related art. “I have three kilns that run quite frequently, to the consternation of my husband, who watches the electric meter go around,” Chrones said in a press release from the gallery. Working with glass for almost 20 years, Chrones enjoys depicting animals and plants in her creations. But the artist usually BIRD IS THE WORD: “Even the most commonplace species evoke a sense of possibility approaches a project with practicality in mind, she explained. symbolized by the magic of flight and of liberation from the prisons we create for ourselves,” “I try to make functional pieces that people can put to good Mary Kay West said while discussing birds, the most frequent subject of her paintings. use,” Chrones said in the release. After attending a series of workshops in 2009, fellow SNOWY SHOWCASE: Sheryl Knight’s Joy of Winter depicts a snowy landscape in Tenmile Creek, IMAGE COURTESY OF SHERYL KNIGHT featured artist Badrak discovered a passion for gourd art near Hume Lake in the Sequoia National Forest. (pictured above). “I love the earthy and natural appeal of gourds and often leave much of the beautiful gourd surface showing in my work,” Badrak said in the release. “My style continues to evolve as I learn and experiment with new techniques and materials.” ’Tis the season Let’s do the Holidays also features a collection of jewelry from Zybell, a local fused-glass artisan. Solvang Antiques Fine Art Gallery holds “I’ve always loved jewelry and have wanted to make it since I was a little girl,” said Zybell, who uses copper enamel, annual Holiday Art Show hammered metal, and silver to create her works. An artist’s reception to celebrate the exhibit will take place BY CALEB WISEBLOOD While the Holiday Art Show at Cypress on Sunday, Dec. 8, from 2 to 4 p.m. Refreshments ame of Thrones is allegedly over, features many timely pieces, such as the will be served during the event. The gallery is located at 119 but winter is still coming. And aforementioned Joy of Winter as well as E. Cypress Ave., Lompoc. Call the Lompoc Art Association at Gfor Solvang Antiques Fine Art Knight’s December Light, a beautifully (805) 737-1129 or visit lompocart.org for more info. Gallery, the season arrived earlier brisk landscape created in Lassen than its designated start date (Dec. National Forest, non-seasonal works 21). The gallery’s annual Holiday are on display in the exhibition as well. Elverhoj Museum presents Art Show opened on Nov. 29 and Knight’s Cypress at Sunset and After exhibits a diverse collection of pieces the Rain, for example, depict weather- The Spirit of Solvang from eight local artists. neutral landscapes without an ounce PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ELVERHOJ MUSEUM OF HISTORY AND ART One featured oil of snow in sight. Both pieces were painting, titled Joy painted during one WHO’LL STOP THE RAIN? After the Rain was painted on location during one of Sheryl Knight’s trips to of Winter, depicts Holiday road of Knight’s trips to the Point Lobos State Reserve, near Carmel. a snowy landscape The Holiday Art Show runs at the Point Lobos State I perceive, how I feel, and how that is foreign to any climate Solvang Antiques Fine Art Gallery Reserve, near Carmel. As an occasional respite from bird you’re likely to find through Tuesday, Dec. 31. The gallery Knight’s paintings paintings, West creates landscapes as recreated on the panel.” on the Central Coast is located at 1693 Copenhagen Drive, join the works of Joe well. One of the Holiday Art Show’s Similar to a visitor’s experience no matter what time Solvang. Call (805) 686-2322 or visit Barbieri, Howard featured paintings is View of Orcutt viewing the exhibit, West had not of year. Artist Sheryl solvangantiques.com to find out more. Carr, Bill Churchill, Hills, which West was inspired to seen any of the other featured artists’ Knight created the Dirk Foslien, Joe capture after the trail became a works before the show’s opening. scene while visiting Mancuso, Barron frequent dog-walking destination. “But I am very familiar with the Postmus, and Mary Kay West; the “I love the light there in the other artists’ work,” she said. “I’m The Spirit of Solvang: From Danish Roots to California Tenmile Creek, near Hume Lake in the afternoon, along the trails where I walk happy to be in the presence of such Colony, a historical photography exhibition, opened at the Sequoia National Forest. other seven artists featured in the talented artists and, of course, think Elverhoj Museum of History and Art on Saturday, Nov. 23, “Many of the pieces in the show Holiday Art Show, which runs at the my dog,” West said. “It’s an early fall and will remain on display through Sunday, Feb. 16. This were inspired by painting trips to gallery through Dec. 31. scene with the grass just turning gold very highly of their work.” exhibit celebrates Solvang’s early settlers with meticulously the Sierras,” said Knight, whose “I am familiar with many of and the trees still bright green.” Staying blind to other featured restored black-and-white photos that tell the story of the other featured paintings in the show the other artists in the gallery and Influenced by Johannes Vermeer, pieces in the show while submitting her town’s founding and transformation into a tourist destination. include Sierra Lake at Sunset and their work,” Knight said. “[All] very Ray Harris Ching, and other artists, own works wasn’t an unusual choice The show also details Danish immigration to the U.S., dating Sierra Sunrise. talented and do beautiful work.” West has found that no matter what for West, as the outcome of her own as far back as 1820, while incorporating personal accounts of Knight uses large brushes and Like Knight, fellow featured artist subject she’s tackling, her primary creations would have remained the Solvang residents as well as additional data and statistics. palette knives to paint her oil West uses oils to create her pieces, focus is consistent throughout her same either way, the artist explained. Regular hours for the Elverhoj Museum of History and Art landscapes, which she completes which are mostly still life and wildlife body of work, she explained. “It doesn’t matter to me what are Wednesday through Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Special either outdoors on location (en plein paintings. “The inspiration behind all my another artist is doing. I seek what is holiday hours begin Wednesday, Dec. 18: Sunday through air) or in her studio. Some of her “Birds have become my specialty,” work is the same, regardless of the within my own mind and heart, to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The museum is located at 1624 biggest influences include Richard West told the Sun. “They are, of subject, and that is the beauty of the successfully put it on panel and offer Elverhoy Way, Solvang. Call (805) 686-1211 or visit elverhoj. Schmid and Scott Christensen. course, beautiful. Even the most world and of nature; knowing that my it up,” she said. m org to find out more. m “I tend to have a lot of texture commonplace species evoke a sense experience of that beauty depends on and color in my paintings,” Knight of possibility symbolized by the magic my own inner state of consciousness,” Arts Editor Caleb Wiseblood supports Arts Briefs is compiled by Arts Editor Caleb Wiseblood. Send said. “And consider myself an of flight and of liberation from the West said. “So when I paint, I’m art with heart. Reach him at information to [email protected]. impressionistic painter.” prisons we create for ourselves.” going back and forth between what [email protected].
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SUN SCREEN PHOTO COURTESY OF LIONSGATE Film Reviews All theater listings are as of Friday, Dec. 6 Mystery’s afoot! A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD riter-director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, reared its ugly head, What’s it rated? PG Star Wars: Episode VIII—The Last Jedi) another twist in 28 What’s it worth? Full price helms this whodunit about Benoit Blanc the wicked tale Where’s it showing? Parks Plaza W (Daniel Craig), who’s investigating the death Marielle Heller (The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Can You emerges. Marta is PICK Ever Forgive Me?) directs this biopic drama that’s of renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey seemingly the only based on the real-life friendship between beloved children’s (Christopher Plummer). Did he commit suicide, one who doesn’t television host Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) and journalist Tom or was he murdered by one of his eccentric family have anything to Junod, named Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) in the film. members? (130 min.) gain from Harlan’s The film opens with award-winning Esquire writer Lloyd demise, though the getting in a fistfight with his dad, Jerry (Chris Cooper), at his sister’s wedding. The next day, Lloyd is assigned to Glen: Knives Out starts with a classic Agatha family promises interview Mr. Rogers for a story about heroes. Lloyd’s a Christie whodunit setup: Wealthy crime novelist to take care of her WHODUNIT? After the death of its patriarch, a dysfunctional extended family falls under the scrutiny cynic who thinks Rogers’ kind attitude is an act. Will his Harlan Thrombey invites his extended—and financially because of a gifted detective determined to find the truth. developing relationship with Rogers prove him wrong? deeply dysfunctional—family to his remote estate of her loving care for What follows is a sweet film about learning to forgive and to celebrate his 85th birthday, but he’s discovered the deceased—that his classic BMW and living in his stylish modernist discovering that kindness is a strength, not a weakness. I dead the next morning by his housekeeper, Fran is until the will reading doesn’t go as planned and house. Unlike the rest of his family, he’s not dare you not to be charmed! (108 min.) interested in putting on airs of morality. He likes —Glen Starkey (Edi Patterson). Da-dun-dun! Police Lt. Elliott suddenly the family is turning on each other, doing (LaKeith Stanfield) is summoned whatever they have to do to get money and doesn’t want to work for it. Speaking to investigate, along with dapper KNIVES OUT Harlan’s fortune. The molasses- of houses, Harlan’s gothic mansion is a character DARK WATERS and astute detective Benoit Blanc, mouthed sleuth Blanc names Marta in its own right, with its hidden entrances and odd What’s it rated? PG-13 who begins to question the various What’s it rated? PG-13 his “Watson” early on, and she furnishing—macabre sculptures, dark corners, and Where’s it showing? Parks Plaza family members and staff, all of What’s it worth, Anna? Full price has an easy tell when it comes to of course the signature throne backed by a semi- Todd Hayes (Velvet Goldmine, I’m Not There) whom have deep dark secrets and What’s it worth, Glen? Full price deceit—she vomits if she lies—and circle of knives. The film skirts abject campiness directs this historical legal thriller about corporate NEW hidden motives. Viewers quickly Where’s it showing? Movies she knows the ins and outs of both but keeps the proceedings just serious enough to defense attorney Robert Bilott (Mark Ruffalo), who takes Lompoc, Parks Plaza on an environmental lawsuit against his former employer, become armchair detectives as we the family and the household. He’s stop from falling into farce. It’s a heck of a lot of fun DuPont, which he links to a number of deaths and illnesses work alongside Blanc to discover also on the hunt to figure out who and proof that murder mysteries need not fall out caused by their pollution and practices. (126 min.) the culprit in our midst! Who could it be? Son exactly hired him—a wad of cash showed up at his of favor as outdated. Knives Out pays homage to its —Glen Walt Thrombey (Michael Shannon), who runs door to convince him to look into the case that local forebears while creating a fresh and contemporary his father’s lucrative publishing empire, or Walt’s cops are sure is suicide. This cast is amazing—talk take on an old genre. FORD V FERRARI Nazi son Jacob Thrombey (Jaeden Martell), or wife about some serious star power! I’d love to pick out Anna: That house is basically built for a murder What’s it rated? PG-13 Donna Thrombey (Riki Lindhome)? Or Harlan’s one or two to name as standouts, but I can’t choose. mystery—faces peering out from every painting What’s it worth? Full price daughter, Linda Drysdale (Jamie Lee Curtis), who All of the Thrombeys are deliciously wicked in their and banister, false windows, and creaky staircases. Where’s it showing? Movies Lompoc, Parks Plaza parlayed her father’s million-dollar loan into a own way, and everyone on the periphery of them I have to point out an obscure observation but one James Mangold (Logan, 3:10 to Yuma, Walk the house-of-cards real estate empire? Or maybe it’s deserves a medal for dealing with their crazy. This I know my fellow knitters will pick up on: The PICK Line) directs this biopic about car designer Linda’s husband, Richard Drysdale (Don Johnson), movie was so much fun; I love a good mystery! sweaters in this movie are amazing and totally Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and race car driver Ken Miles matched to the characters who wear them. The (Christian Bale), who in 1966 team up to try to beat a car who’s under his wife’s thumb? Or their lazy son, Glen: There’s a bit of commentary on designed by Enzo Ferrari (Remo Girone) in the famed 24 Ransom Drysdale (Chris Evans), who’s at risk of contemporary politics, some centered on Marta, attention to that sort of detail is what makes Knives Hours of Le Mans race. Tracy Letts stars as Henry Ford II, being cut off from his grandfather’s good graces? who the Thrombeys know comes from somewhere Out a fun romp that’s totally re-watchable, even and Jon Bernthal stars as Lee Iacocca. Or Harlan’s daughter-in-law, Joni Thrombey, (Toni south of the U.S. but where: Paraguay? Ecuador? if the whodunit mystery is no longer there on a What an amazing story! Even if you’re not a motorhead, Collette), the widow of his deceased son, or her Nicaragua? Honduras? They like to pretend they’re second viewing. There’s a lot to chew on, and it’s you’ll find this tale of determination wholly engaging, daughter, Meg Thrombey (Katherine Langford), high-minded, but it’s clear they think of Marta as all yummy. The setting is rich and gothic, the largely due to the larger-than-life characters and their complicated relationships. Shelby and Miles definitely whose tuition to an elite university is at risk? At the “the help.” When things grow more complicated, characters flawed but in a very human way, and the have a love/hate relationship, perhaps because they were center of it all is Marta Cabrera (Ana de Armas), Marta’s undocumented mother becomes a pawn pace is lively and intense. The only two people you competitors. In fact, the film opens with a reminder that Harlan’s nurse and friend. Despite the large in the family’s game to secure Harlan’s fortune. know you should side with are Blanc and Marta; Shelby—up to that point—was the only American to ever ensemble cast, keeping track of who’s who is never It’s also comical that they all consider themselves with everyone else, the claws come out in an ugly win at Le Mans in 1959. That’s why after a failed attempt a problem in Rian Johnson’s slick screenplay. He’s a “self-made,” though without Harlan’s largesse, way. Ransom seems like he’s on Marta’s side, but he by Ford to buy the cash-strapped Ferrari company, Henry terrific director, and his 2005 high school film noir they’d have nothing. Each actor delivers deft and also has the air of an entitled sleaze who may just II orders Lee Iacocca to encourage Shelby to take on the crime drama, Brick, remains a favorite, as does his engaging performances, but Craig and de Armas be out for himself. These characters are a lot of fun, FILM REVIEWS continued page 29 2012 sci-fi thriller, Looper. Knives Out is an excellent really stand out. Craig’s Southern drawl transcends and the mysterious web they get caught up in is addition to Johnson’s impressive oeuvre. We think affectation, and de Armas, a Cuban, is supremely an adventure mixed with mystery. Go see this one SCORING we know what’s going on, but as the story plays out, likable as the sweet-natured Marta. The interaction with the family this holiday season. It’ll give you a FULL PRICE ...It’s worth the full price of an evening showing we discover layer upon layer of intrigue. between them is devilishly fun, especially when great conversation piece for your next meal. m MATINEE ...... Save a few bucks, catch an afternoon showing Anna: There certainly are a lot of moving parts they trade barbs. They both have well-set moral RENT IT ...... It’s worth a rental and characters (aka suspects) to keep track of, compasses, which put them at odds with those Sun Screen is written by New Times Senior Staff STREAM IT .....Wait ’til Netflix has it around them. Evans is clearly having a lot of fun as NOTHING ...... Don’t waste your time but they’re all so uniquely devious that it’s easy Writer Glen Starkey and his wife, Anna. Comment at to follow. Just when you think the true story has the irreverent scion of the family, driving around in [email protected].
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DAVID VS. GOLIATH Mark Ruffalo stars as former corporate defense attorney Robert Bilott, who takes on an environmental WATERHORSE ... AMA ING! Eye-popping animation made the fi lm a visual delight. lawsuit against his former employer DuPont, in Dark Waters.
it’s scary, about friendship and protecting your friends from from page 28 have a happy ending. FILM REVIEWS danger, and about the power of love. YOU’VE GOT MAIL Nora Ephron (who wrote one of my When it begins, we’re in the past and young Elsa and Anna’s When? 1 challenge of designing a car for the famed 24-hour race— other all-time favorite holiday movies, money is no object! dad is telling them about how he became king and spoke about What’s it rated? PG BLAST When arry Met Sally) directed You’ve Iacocca likes Shelby, but he’s caught between loyalty to the enchanted forest to the north, and then it jumped to the Where? Blu-ray, Amazon Prime, FROM THE present. As they go on their adventure, it jumps back and forth Got Mail, which she co-wrote with her FROM THE his boss, the bombastic and insecure Henry II, and wanting YouTube to give Shelby the freedom he needs to win. Ford, Iacocca, into the past and back to the present. Despite the non-linear sister, Delia Ephron (the duo also co-wrote ne of my favorite holiday movies isn’t and another Ford executive, Leo Beebe (the film’s real villain chronology, kids should have no problem following along. several other screenplays, including Mi ed technically a Christmas movie, which dear. The trio are portrayed as decidedly played perfectly by Josh Lucas) are empty suits who know There are also themes of magic and mythology. The means I can watch it any time of the Nuts, anging , and Mi hael). money-grubbing, with very little concern nothing about winning, and none of them are fans of Miles, enchanted forest is protected by four elements—Earth, Water, O year without my family shunning me or The movie’s storyline is borrowed from about the impact they’ll have on the who’s something of a loose canon, but Shelby knows they’ll Wind, and Fire—but we learn there’s also a fifth element, one telling me I’m ruining whatever season it Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo’s that holds the secret of peace between the people of Arendelle neighborhood—even as Kathleen, and need a driver like Miles to win. The interpersonal dynamics actually is. arfumerie, by way of the Jimmy Stewart make for great drama. The film’s heart and soul are Miles’ and the people of the north. Part of the mystery is discovering her cadre of employees, and her Ne York movie The Sho round the Corner (1940). relationships with his wife, Mollie (Caitriona Balfe), and his what—or who!—the fifth element is. My criteria are pretty simple to be server columnist boyfriend mount a young son, Peter (Noah Jupe). Packed with hook-laden songs and positive messages, a Christmas movie, the fi lm must 1) at For the 1998 fi lm, Ephron used the protest against the superstore. The race se uences are exciting as hell. You really get a Fro en II is another family friendly adventure your kids will love least partially take place during winter, 2) 1940 movie title as the name of the In the meantime, NY152’s and feel for what a grueling feat it is to race for 24 hours, even as that you won’t find too painful to sit through. (10 min.) have at least one plot-point occur while adorable bookshop where Kathleen Shopgirl’s paths are getting closer to part of a team. As much as it’s a story of Shelby, I think it’s —Glen Christmas is celebrated, and ) it must Kelly (Meg Ryan) works. She inherited it crossing in the real world, but before their mostly Miles’ story. He’s the one we get to see interacting with PHOTO BY ANDREA ROOKS from her mother and has maintained its alter egos can connect in reality, Fox must his family, and he’s the one taking all the risk, putting his life status as a fi xture of its Upper West Side deal with himself and the antagonistic on the line to win. neighborhood. The fi rst few scenes of the This film clearly shows how racing is a sport—these KNIVES OUT relationship he and Kathleen have What’s it rated? PG-13 movie are all autumn joy and optimism drivers need to be fit, have endurance, and be incredibly cultivated. What’s it worth? Full price focused. They’re operating a machine that can break, with the Cranberries harmonizing on the The movie’s deepest moments happen Where’s it showing? Movies Lompoc, Parks Plaza overheat, or fall apart, so the drivers have to know when to soundtrack. Kathleen, aka Shopgirl, is during Christmastime, when Kathleen See Split Screen. push it, when to lay back, when to gamble and risk it all. As happy because she’s been connecting is grieving the loss of her mother and an examination of the sport, this depicts that balancing act. online, via AOL (so very 1998), with contemplating the fate of the bookstore I don’t think watching it made me into a race fan, but Ford v NY152, who that very morning said if he that still holds them together. The scene Ferrari reminded me of why I’m a movie fan. (152 min.) MALEFICENT MISTRESS OF EVIL knew who she really was, he’d give her a What’s it rated? PG when she’s decorating the shop’s tree, —Glen bou uet of sharpened pencils. What’s it worth? Matinee lovingly unwrapping and hanging her Where’s it showing? Hi-Way Drive-In But then (cue the record scratch), the nostalgic ornaments, brings tears to my Disney’s reimagined black-horned villainess, perky employees of the Shop Around the eyes every time. FRO EN II Corner see that a FoxBooks Superstore, What’s it rated? PG PICK potentially gone soft, has graced the big screens once The movie’s amusing banter, eclectic What’s it worth? Full price again with the direction of Joachim R nning (co-director of a Barnes and Noble-type big-box mega (though still late-’90s) soundtrack, the Where’s it showing? Hi-Way Drive-In, Movies Lompoc, Parks Plaza irates of the Cari ean: Dead Men Tell No Tales) to tell the story bookstore, is opening—you guessed ride and re udi e references, and the Co-directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee (Fro en, of how pending nuptials could tear not only Maleficent (Angelina YOU’VE GOT WHAT NOW? Meg it—just around the corner. eventual understanding of the need for PICK 201 ) return to helm this animated se uel about Jolie) and her goddaughter Aurora’s (Elle Fanning) life apart but Ryan and Tom Hanks, together By now we viewers are privy to NY152’s integrity between one’s online persona the human and magical world as well. (118 min.) ❍ Anna (Kristen Bell), Elsa (Idena Menzel), Kristoff (Jonathan for their third rom-com, navigate identity as the evil Joe Fox (Tom Hanks), and real-life behavior all come together in Groff), Olaf (Josh Gad), and Sven the reindeer as they leave — aren Gar ia Manhattan’s Upper West Side book who, along with his father and grandfather, this delightful, if slightly dated, Christmas Arendelle and travel to an enchanted forest, where they hope lovers and their own online vs. real- is opening the big bad chain store that’s out to discover the origins of Elsa’s power. This worthy se uel is a Sun movie revie s ere om iled y Ne Times Senior Staff movie. (119 mins.) ❍ life personas in You’ve Got Mail. to destroy everything the West Siders hold charmer filled with eye-popping animation, catchy songs, and a Writer Glen Starkey this eek Conta t him at gstarkey — ndrea ooks sweet story about how sometimes change is good even though ne timesslo om NEW TIMES IS HIRING A PART TIME GRAPHIC DESIGNER! Tuesday, and Friday. The schedule on Monday New Times Media Group is currently looking for a and Friday is somewhat exible. part-time advertising designer. If you’re interested, please send your You must be an e cient, motivated individual that wants to help us create e ective advertising for our résumé and examples of your work to: clients and readers of New Times and the Sun. If you are detailed-oriented, have a strong design sense, a good work ethic—and let’s not forget an easy-going personality—you may have what it takes to join NTMG Advertising Designer Job the New Times Media Group team. 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