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your loved one will not AUGUST 20 - AUGUST 27, 2020 VOL. 21 NO. 25 leave our care. he Wildling Museum recently embarked on its first public art initiative, inviting residents to put their own decorative twists on used hubcaps that would get hung Our on-site crematory enables us Tthroughout the Santa Ynez Valley. Rainbows, ladybugs, to care for your loved one with landscapes, and collages made their way to the Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden in Buellton, which hosted the first 2 dignity throughout the entire installation of the hubcaps. Arts Editor Caleb Wiseblood talks CREATIVE NATURE: Locals got creative to participants about upcycling, art therapy, and letting those with hubcaps now displayed in Buellton as funeral process. part of the Wildling Museum’s first public creative juices flow [17]. art initiative. This week, you can also read about why teachers are going Let us guide you into class while students stay home [7]; why advocates believe through your pre- farmworkers are still at an increased risk for COVID-19 [8]; how Gallery Los Olivos is bringing pastels to the public [16]; and Orcutt Union School District’s lunch lady, Chef B [19]. arranged burial Camillia Lanham or cremation plan editor

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BRIEFS FILE PHOTO BY STEVE E. MILLER Local oil industry faces Political Watch uncertainty after Phillips 66 • Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Aug. 14 the announces refi nery shutdown appointment of new executive team members at the Employment Development Department (EDD), as well Phillips 66, which operates a major Santa Maria 4 as a new senior advisor for the Labor and Workforce oil pipeline as well as the Santa Maria oil refi nery on the Nipomo Mesa, announced on Aug. 12 that Development Agency. These appointments come as a it plans to shut down the refi ning facility starting part of Newsom’s initiative to reform the EDD, especially in 2023. during the pandemic when more people are seeking The announcement came exactly one week after unemployment insurance than ever before. The need the Santa Barbara Planning Commission voted for reforms within the EDD system is something that to approve a one-year extension on TerraCore’s Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham (R-San Luis proposed Foxen pipeline, a 2.9-mile pipeline that Obispo) has been particularly vocal about. “Californians would connect the Cat Canyon oil fi eld to the [deserve] a government that works for them,” existing Santa Maria Phillips 66 pipeline. The Cunningham wrote in an Aug. 7 Facebook post. “EDD proposal would replace the current practice of must be completely overhauled.” At the end of July, the trucking crude oil from Cat Canyon. governor announced the formation of an EDD Strike Team Without the Phillips 66 pipeline to connect to “to create a blueprint to modernize information technology as proposed, it’s unclear what the Foxen project’s programs at the department and transform the customer future holds. experience,” a press release stated. “Work to address the “In association with the planned closure of the Santa Maria refi ning facility, our crude oil WHAT COMES NEXT? Phillips 66 announced the closure of its Santa Maria refi nery and pipelines on Aug. 12, throwing the future of backlog of unpaid claims to those that have experienced pipelines located in Santa Barbara County will jobs and oil operations into question. job loss during the pandemic and to streamline the call be taken out of service in 2023 while we consider center experience is underway, and EDD is collaborating potential alternate uses for them,” Phillips 66 said in an emailed statement. people feel that Chris is rude. He talks back to with legislators and staff to improve communication representative Joe Gannon said via email. A press release from the Environmental Defense people, and I thought, if you recall every ass that’s with claimants.” Newsom’s appointments include TerraCore didn’t respond to a request for Center called on ExxonMobil to withdraw the ever served in public offi ce there wouldn’t be a lot Maurice Emsellem as senior advisor at the California comment before press time. trucking project. of people in public offi ce,” Clarke said. Labor and Workforce Development Agency. Emsellem The other question that looms with the “ExxonMobil’s proposal was already ill- One of the petition’s claims is that if Djernaes was previously the program director at the National announcement is what will happen to those conceived from an environmental and climate continues on the council, taxes will go up and Employment Law Project. Newsom also appointed Nancy employed at the Santa Maria refi nery, which justice point of view, and now it is unsuitable in quality of life will be diminished. Farias, Kevin Matulich, Carole Vigne, and Carol D. according to Phillips 66’s website has 140 full-time light of Phillips’ plans to convert its refi nery to “I laughed for about a half an hour on that, Williams to EDD posts. employees. While Phillips 66 announced plans to renewable fuels,” center Chief Counsel Linda Krop because if there’s anybody that’s going to raise taxes, transition the company’s San Francisco refi nery said in the release. “There is even less reason now it’s going to be over Chris’ dead body,” Clarke said. • State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara) into a renewable fuel plant, it is unclear whether for ExxonMobil to put our coast and communities During the meeting, Djernaes said he felt he commended Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in an the company’s Santa Maria’s refi nery will see the at risk.” has stood up for the majority of people in the Aug. 17 Facebook post, writing, “Thank you to Speaker same outcome. —Malea Martin community—both for residents and businesses. Nancy Pelosi for today calling Congress back into session When asked if Phillips 66 had any concrete “This is a democratic process and you have to to address the transparent and unconstitutional effort to plans to supplement the loss of Santa Maria respect that, and it gives me another opportunity refi nery jobs with something similar to its plans Solvang City Council member block the Postal Service from collecting and distributing to go before the voters and to explain to them for San Francisco, Gannon’s answer referred to the ballots so critical to a fair election, especially during this recall goes to November ballot what, again, I can only speak for myself, but I can state’s energy market. refl ect I think on what many of us have said over Trump-perpetuated pandemic.” An Aug. 16 New York At the Aug. 18 Santa Barbara County Board of “California market conditions support an the last two years that we really do want a better Times article reported that Pelosi “would call the House Supervisors meeting, the board voted to approve a energy transition to renewable fuel production,” community,” Djernaes said. back from its annual summer recess for a vote this week certifi cate of suffi cient signatures for the petition Gannon wrote. “The current confi guration of the The council voted 3-1, with Councilmember on legislation to block changes at the Postal Service that refi nery is not economically viable to continue its to recall Solvang City Council Member Chris Djernaes abstaining from the vote, and voting advocates warn could disenfranchise Americans production of traditional fossil fuel products.” Djernaes. Supervisors also approved putting the councilmember Daniel Johnson voting against casting ballots by mail during the pandemic.” The Times Glenn Morris, president and CEO of the Santa recall vote on the Nov. 3 ballot. putting the recall on the ballot. article added that the House was not originally scheduled Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce, told the Sun The action came four weeks after the July 27 —Karen Garcia to return for votes until Sept. 14, “but is now expected to that he was concerned about potential job loss. Solvang City Council meeting where the City consider a Postal Service bill as soon as Saturday [Aug. “Any time that we lose a couple of hundred Council voted to receive the 1,334 unverifi ed NEWS continued page 6 22], according to a senior Democratic aide familiar with good paying jobs in the region, it’s a blow,” Morris signatures on the recall petition and the the plans.” said. “There will certainly be ripple effects as those county Elections Offi ce’s certifi cation of families either have to relocate or fi nd other ways 1,156 petition signatures. WeekendWeather • Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Aug. 14 that “every of making a living.” According to the report of registration eligible local educational agency in California has applied He added that fully transitioning those careers fi led with the Secretary of State, Solvang has 3,679 registered voters and the state requires for and is receiving a portion of the $5.3 billion in learning into renewable energy jobs may not be an easy feat. Microclimate Weather Forecast “While I think we all support a move to 25 percent of those voters (in jurisdictions loss mitigation funds secured through the state budget Dave Hovde renewable energy and cleaner sources of energy, I with fewer than 10,000 registered voters KSBY Chief Meteorologist he signed in June,” according to a statement from the think it’s diffi cult to envision a reality where those but more than 1,000) to sign a recall governor’s offi ce. Newsom also signed an executive order new sources come online at commercial scale, and petition in order to qualify it for the ballot. that directs state agencies “to bridge the digital divide” fast enough, to fully replace some of the traditional A Solvang staff report stated that 920 Thursday Friday by providing computing devices and hotspots to students sources,” Morris said. verifi ed signatures were required, and the across the state. “Schools may be physically closed, but ExxonMobil could also be affected by the City Council must accept the certifi cate of in California at least, class is still in session,” Newsom decision to close the Santa Maria refi nery. suffi ciency from the county Elections Offi ce. said in the statement. “While more work remains, The company’s Santa Ynez Unit consists of During public comment, resident Lammy districts across the state are in a far better position this three offshore oil drilling platforms, which have Johnstone—who led the effort—said she ➤ ➤ semester to provide meaningful distance instruction to been out of operation since the May 2015 Refugio was sorry that this was taking place. COASTAL High 86 Low 62 COASTAL High 81 Low 57 INLAND ➤ High 100 Low 63 INLAND ➤ High 95 Low 58 every child.” Newsom added that he is grateful for the oil spill. ExxonMobil hopes to resume operations “However let this be a lesson to any parents and teachers who are making sure that students’ with a proposal to temporarily transport oil using council member or mayor. If you do not needs are met. According to the release, based on tanker trucks. listen to we the people of Solvang, we will Saturday Sunday remove you. Your job, as I look at it, is to “current epidemiological data in communities,” more According to Santa Barbara County’s recently released environmental impact report on the represent us. If you do not, we will remove than 90 percent of students will begin the upcoming proposed project, the trucks would take crude oil you,” Johnstone said. school year with distance learning. New statewide from the company’s Las Flores Canyon facility and Mayor Pro Tem Robert Clarke said about requirements ensure that all students have access to then deliver to either the Phillips 66 Santa Maria 1,300 people signed the recall petition so devices and connectivity, daily live interaction with Pump Station or the Plains Pentland Terminal in the council had no choice but to put it on COASTAL ➤ High 82 Low 63 COASTAL ➤ High 81 Low 60 teachers and other students, challenging assignments Kern County. the ballot and that he supported the action INLAND ➤ High 94 Low 63 INLAND ➤ High 93 Low 60 equivalent to in-person classes , and adapted lessons “We are evaluating how [the Phillips 66 refi nery because the “correct number of residents” Temps back o a bit into the weekend with for English-language learners and special education closure] may affect our application for temporary want this to go on the ballot. high pressure weakening but humidity students, according to the governor’s offi ce. ❍ trucking,” ExxonMobil spokesperson Julie King “I think in reading the ballot it was about may increase due to sub-tropical  ow.

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NEWS from page 4 both county and state public health staff, who census began receiving in-person visits from U.S. district lines, so it’s important to have the correct determine whether to reopen schools based on the census workers to encourage completion. representation,” she said. “The census data is Local elementary schools applications and local transmission data. These workers, called census enumerators, are used when they’re determining how many funds eligible for in-person learning But in order for schools to even be eligible to hired locally, wear personal protective equipment, different programs get, such as child care programs, apply, their counties must have had fewer than 200 practice social distancing, and carry special education programs, emergency operations, public Portions of Santa Barbara County are seeing major cases per 100,000 people for at least 14 days in a row. census identification cards. But if you don’t want works, health care—all around the board.” declines in active cases of COVID-19, and that could While Santa Barbara County ended July a stranger knocking on your door during a global With the pandemic raging on, Maiden said have significant impacts on the county’s reopening with about 324 cases per 100,000, according pandemic, the easiest way to avoid the visit is to policies. In fact, it’s already freed local elementary to data presented by the county Public Health complete the census online or over the phone. keeping these programs funded is more important 6 schools to apply to open for in-person instruction. Department on Aug. 18, its transmission rate sat at “Some people are wary of someone from the than ever. At a Santa Barbara County Board of about 158 per 100,000 as of Aug. 17. government coming to their door, so we’ve been “These are the programs that are making a Supervisors meeting on Aug. 18, Public Health Public Health Director Van Do-Reynoso said trying to encourage them that, if you don’t want difference right now in the COVID event,” she Department staff announced that due to recent that as of Aug. 17, Santa Barbara County has seen to have a visit, do it online or over the phone,” Joni said. “We’re seeing how important it is to have the decreased transmission rates of COVID-19 cases, 7,454 total confirmed cases of COVID-19, and Maiden, co-chair of the Santa Barbara County proper health care services that we need, and the Santa Barbara County’s elementary schools are there are 278 active cases. Census 2020 Complete Count Committee, told availability of child care is becoming a big issue. eligible to apply for waivers that would allow Over a recent two-week period, Santa Maria the Sun. “It’s nine easy questions and doesn’t take We’re determining what’s going to happen in the them to reopen for face-to-face learning. Local saw a 41 percent decrease in new cases. Lompoc very long at all.” next 10 years.” applications will be available on the Public Health saw a 38 percent decrease and Santa Barbara had a The Complete Count Committee has been In the case of an undercount, Maiden added, ramping up over the last year to get the word Department’s website by the end of this week. 25 percent decrease. The majority of cases—about the county risks losing between $1,500 and $2,000 “Our significant decrease in the transmission 66 percent—are occurring in those aged 18 to 49, out about the once-a-decade population and per person, per year, in funding. rate in the county makes us eligible to allow for and very few are occurring in those under 18. demographics count, Maiden said. waivers for elementary schools,” Dr. Henning Still, Do-Reynoso said Goleta saw an 18 percent “It’s a group of local organizations that are “That means an undercount of just 5 percent Ansorg said at the Aug. 18 meeting. “We’re very increase in cases in the last two weeks, and Isla government, private entities, and nonprofits that equals a loss of $430 million over the next decade,” pleased to announce that this process will be Vista saw a 255 percent increase, likely due to are taking a grassroots approach to educating the county press release stated. available in the county for K-6 grade schools.” college students returning to the area. everyone in our community on the importance of The U.S. Census Bureau also announced on According to state guidelines, elementary There’s work to be done to get off of the state’s completing the census,” she said. Aug. 14: “In order to supplement our capabilities schools in counties that are still on the state’s watch list, Do-Reynoso said, but the county is According to a county press release, Santa to send census takers to households in person, the coronavirus watchlist—Santa Barbara County making progress. Maria and Guadalupe have the lowest completion Census Bureau is training census takers to follow is still on the state’s list—can apply for waivers “This has a significant impact on policy rates in the county as of Aug. 10. While Buellton, up with households by phone,” a press release on allowing them to provide in-person instruction. decisions in our county and what can be Carpinteria, Goleta, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, and the census website states. The bureau will now also The application process is extensive, Ansorg reopened,” she said at the Aug. 18 meeting. Solvang all hold more than 67 percent completion contact some low-responding areas via email. said, and requires schools to provide evidence rates, Santa Maria and Guadalupe both hover —Kasey Bubnash “We’re not just setting the scene for our next that they’ve consulted adequately with labor around 62 percent. organizations and parents, along with a detailed The census deadline was originally extended to 10 years, it’s for our children too,” Maiden said. reopening plan that outlines strategies for County wants everyone Oct. 31 due to COVID-19, but now the deadline is “California had a big undercount of children maintaining hygiene, distancing, testing of staff pushed back slightly to Sept. 30. under 5 during the last census, so we really want to and students, family education, and quick ways to counted in 2020 census Maiden explained why census completion is so make sure that everyone, including our children, switch back to remote learning if necessary. Starting mid-August, Santa Barbara County vital for the county. have the best possible services available.” m Those documents are then reviewed by households that had not yet responded to the 2020 “They use the population data to redraw —Malea Martin

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FILE PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM their classrooms regardless. From Paso classrooms this fall. That, according to Robles to Santa Maria and Orcutt, local Paso Superintendent Curt Dubost, will school districts are requiring instructors allow teachers to use all the resources report to their school sites to teach from available in their schools, including In class their classrooms for at least a portion of supplies, technology, and support Students will be each week, an attempt, administrators staff. Issues with technology, students, say, to bring some feeling of continuity parents, and staff can be handled more learning from home this and normalcy to the school year for efficiently when everyone is on campus. students and their families. Of course, challenges lie ahead. Paso’s fall, but some Central But that brings up multiple issues for current bandwidth technology can’t 7 all kinds of teachers—those with health handle having so many teachers online Coast teachers will have issues that put them at greater risk for all once, and, on July 23, the Paso board to be on campus severe illness or death due to COVID-19, of trustees approved about $121,000 those with young children of their worth of upgrades to the district’s BY KASEY BUBNASH own stuck at home, those living with bandwidth, firewall, and internet ennifer Dolan has been teaching vulnerable individuals, and so on. connection technology. English at Righetti High School In the Santa Maria Joint Union High But with so many districts in the Jin Santa Maria for more than two School District, teachers will be required same spot, Dubost said there’s a shortage decades, and, like anyone, she has good to report to their school sites each week. of necessary supplies and a backup in and bad days. But for Dolan, the bad Teachers with school-age children will be implementation services. Paso won’t get its days are worse than most. allowed to bring their kids onto campus, tech supplies until the end of this month, About 15 years ago, Dolan was and those who aren’t comfortable or Dubost said, and it should be installed by diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a disorder able to come in can apply to stay home the middle of next month, long after the that causes chronic muscular pain through the already existing interactive first day of school on Aug. 20. and can make it difficult to sleep and accommodation process. So teachers will have to come in on concentrate. In the spring of 2018, she Dolan plans to go to her classroom as a staggered schedule for the first few requested an accommodation that required by the district. Her youngest weeks of school, with some working on would allow her to teach her classes in child is 15 years old and she’s not too campus at the beginning of the week the morning and leave campus during worried about catching coronavirus and the rest coming to campus the her prep periods in the afternoons if not while alone in her classroom. But her latter half of the week. feeling well. husband, who also teaches in Santa Still, Dubost said he hopes having The Santa Maria Joint Union High Maria and has respiratory issues, teachers in their classrooms this MANDATORY: Some school districts— School District was more than willing needs to stay home. (Dolan said she semester will give parents and students including Santa Maria Joint Union and to help, but she was required to go plans to stay isolated in her classroom some peace of mind. Santa Maria-Bonita—are requiring through the interactive accommodation on campus and distanced from her “The main thing is to make it as that instructors teach from their empty process, during which she filled out an husband as much as possible at home.) normal as possible,” Dubost told the Sun. classrooms, at least partly. application, met with her employers The accommodation process will be According to an Aug. 5 survey to discuss her disorder, and handed expedited, but she wonders how many conducted by the Paso Robles Public over various medical records. It was a teachers will apply and how many of Educators union, most teachers in Paso meet in-person with colleagues in classrooms will provide some feeling of somewhat invasive and time-consuming them will actually get accepted before appear to be on board with the decision. small groups—on the condition that regularity and comfort to students and procedure, and, although Dolan said school starts. Of the 214 Paso Unified instructors appropriate safety measures are in their parents, he’s not convinced that’s there were some unusual circumstances “It might be 20 percent of our staff,” surveyed, about 83 percent said they’d place—and 64 percent said they’d meet the only reason district officials pushed in her case, it took more than three she said. “It might be half of our staff.” be comfortable teaching alone from one-on-one with students and parents. for this. months for her request to get accepted. To expect the district to get through their classrooms this fall. Roughly Still, the plan has its problems, “To be brutally honest,” he said, So when Dolan heard that all according to James Lynett, executive “I would say they have gotten some teachers in her school district would be director of the Paso Robles Public complaints from the community.” required to teach from their on-campus Teachers with school-age children will be Educators union. Complaints that teachers weren’t classrooms this fall, unless they go While individual classrooms are present enough in the spring when through the interactive accommodation allowed to bring their kids onto campus, secluded, Lynett said the bathrooms, schools first transitioned into distance process, she was concerned. workspaces, and hallways are shared. learning. Complaints that teachers “The problem is that the process is and those who aren’t comfortable or able And although district officials claim weren’t really working when they were kind of unwieldy,” Dolan told the Sun. they want teachers to be able to use the at home. That, Lynett said, is unfair. “It takes a lot of time.” resources available on campus, Paso’s “That spring experience was kind And there’s not much of that left to come in can apply to stay home ... . current bandwidth technology is too of like an emergency,” he said, adding before school in Santa Maria starts on weak. The staggered schedule will be that teachers and administrators had Aug. 17. all those requests in just a few days, she 40 percent of all those surveyed have fine for high school teachers, Lynett essentially a single weekend in mid- As the COVID-19 pandemic trudges said, “That’s insane.” school-age children, and of those, 56 said, but it could be problematic for March to transition entirely from in- on, students statewide will by and Like in Santa Maria, the Paso Robles percent said they’d be comfortable elementary teachers who will have to person to online education. “There was large be attending school from home Joint Unified School District will require bringing their children to school with lug loads of supplies back and forth no real way for that to go smoothly.” m this fall. But several school districts its instructors—exceptions will be them. from their houses to classrooms. on the Central Coast are hoping to get considered by human resources on a About 72 percent of all teachers While Lynett agrees that seeing Staff Writer Kasey Bubnash can be teachers out of their homes and into case-by-case basis—to teach from their surveyed said they’d be willing to teachers livestreaming from their reached at [email protected].

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FILE PHOTO BY JAYSON MELLOM Undocumented workers are unable to access unemployment The front line benefits if they are laid Farmworkers in Santa Barbara off or furloughed. A little more than and San Luis Obispo counties half (54 percent) reported costs, lack remain vulnerable as the of insurance, and/ 8 COVID-19 crisis continues or lack of sick leave as significant barriers that BY KAREN GARCIA would prevent them from accessing health care even if they fter five months of living with the pandemic, farmworker advocates were ill. say that agricultural employees, Nearly all workers (90 percent) A reported taking precautions to protect which the state considers to be essential workers, continue to be vulnerable to their families when they arrive home COVID-19 infection. from work and reported taking At the start of the pandemic, the precautionary measures outside of main concern was getting enough the workplace to reduce the spread of personal protective equipment for the virus among families and their farmworkers and getting local public communities. health information to Spanish and Farmworkers reported that only Indigenous-language speakers, but 54 percent of worksites provided face concerns have evolved with the coverings. About 43 percent of worksites extended length of the crisis. didn’t provide face coverings at all, and Preliminary findings from a 4 percent of worksites provided face recently released study show that the coverings on a short-term basis or the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated masks provided didn’t meet the needs existing vulnerabilities farmworker of the entire workforce. According to communities endure in their living, the study, survey respondents reported working, and health conditions. The receiving masks once over several weeks AT RISK: Essential workers in the fields are at continued risk of COVID-19 infection in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. study states that farmworkers face or only once at the beginning of the additional risks because they lack pandemic. The study notes that initial and education to its members on COVID-19. According to the National organization has gotten calls from critical social safety net support that findings may not reflect more recent federal, state, and local information. Center for Farmworker Health, even warehouse workers, for example, who other members of society have access to. efforts to provide face coverings. Association President Claire Wineman if clear guidance was available, OSHA have reached out to their workplaces’ The California Institute for Rural The study includes an anonymous said that in addition to ongoing cannot conduct inspections or enforce human resources departments asking Studies released the COVID-19 excerpt from an Indigenous-speaking outreach on workplace safety practices, health and safety standards on farms for more temperature checks. Davalos Farmworker Study (COFS) in July. farmworker in Santa Maria stating that the organization recently increased with 10 or fewer employees. said in that situation, the human A team of 60 surveyors managed by where he or she works, masks weren’t its outreach efforts related to the OSHA did, however, revise its resources departments reportedly six community-based organizations given to workers. importance of using face coverings, guidance requiring employers to record responded to the workers’ requests by with connections to farmworker “They tell us that everyone has to limiting nonessential gatherings COVID-19 illnesses that cause their saying, “If you don’t like it, you can communities surveyed more than 900 take their own. They tell us that if we outside of an immediate core group employees to seek medical care or miss leave. We’ll replace you.” farmworkers throughout the state— one or more days of work. She said CAUSE is focused on the including on the Central Coast— Hazel Davalos, agricultural industry’s inability to between May 19 and July 20. ‘ ... what this has shown more than anything is community organizing follow current safety regulations and is According to the study, California director for CAUSE calling for more government oversight. employs an estimated 800,000 education has its limits and without enforcement, (Central Coast Alliance “You can educate workers all day farmworkers, and a majority of those United for a Sustainable about their right to a safe workplace individuals work seasonal positions, Economy) said that but when ... an undocumented person rarely having a full-time position. The the laws in the books aren’t the laws in the fields.’ Santa Barbara County who doesn’t speak English—and in the average annual income earned is less —Hazel Davalos, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy formed the Latinx and case of H-2A workers, their landlords than $18,000 a year. Indigenous Migrant that provide their transportation and An estimated 90 percent of want to work, we have to have one or or household during nonwork hours, COVID-19 Task Force to get pandemic- food—tell their boss, ‘Hey can you California farmworkers were born in else there is no work. Out of necessity and exercising safety practices during related information out into the provide more protections,’ and their Mexico, and roughly 60 percent are to work, we buy them. Sometimes they carpooling. community, but it’s not enough. boss tells them, ‘No, I’ll fire you,’ what unauthorized to work in the United are not inexpensive or it’s hard to find The U.S. Occupational Safety and “For us, I think what this has shown does it even matter that they knew their States. The study found that of its 900 them,” the excerpt read. Health Administration (OSHA) hasn’t more than anything is education has right?” Davalos said. m interviews, nearly half of the survey The Grower-Shipper Association provided clear guidance on employers’ its limits and without enforcement, the respondents (46 percent) reported of Santa Barbara and San Luis responsibility to provide personal laws in the books aren’t the laws in the Staff Writer Karen Garcia, from the decreased work hours and subsequent Obispo Counties stated that it has protective equipment to employees fields,” Davalos said. Sun’s sister paper, can be reached at income losses during the pandemic. been working to provide outreach to protect them from exposure to Anecdotally, she said the [email protected].

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FINDING WHAT WORKS: Lompoc Valley Medical Center (pictured) General Surgeon Dr. Chris Taglia said that treating COVID-19 means keeping up with studies and a whole lot of collaboration.

who were quite ill,” Taglia said, so the hospital got the highest allotment among local hospitals. Positive change “It wasn’t a magic bullet,” Taglia said. “But there was a definite improvement.” Local doctors talk about how Another advancement came in June, when a U.K. study revealed the benefits of steroids, COVID-19 treatments have particularly dexamethasone, in treating critically ill patients. changed for the better “That’s something that was frowned upon when this all started,” Taglia said. “Then the BY MALEA MARTIN data came out from the U.K. study, and now hroughout the COVID-19 pandemic, everybody’s using steroids and they seem to make the word “change” has overwhelmingly a definite impact.” Tbecome laden with connotation of difficulty, For a small community hospital, Taglia said confusion, and hopelessness. From lost jobs to that most patients will be treated in accordance missed rents to curves that won’t flatten, many with the set guidelines coming from the larger of the changes happening around us are wrought medical community. But, he added, there are rare with pain and hardship. times when “you have to throw the kitchen sink But positive changes are happening, too, one at someone.” being an in-the-works vaccine, perhaps the fastest “Even before steroids were popular, before that ever developed. U.K. study came out, we had a few patients who And in the meantime, the medical community were not in a good way, and we used steroids and is making constant headway on how to treat saw benefit,” Taglia said. “Certainly that was off- the disease. Those treatments, Lompoc Valley label use, and that’s maybe one small example of Medical Center General Surgeon Dr. Chris Taglia when we didn’t follow the set guidelines that were said, look completely different today than they out there.” did five months ago. Luckily, knowing when to try something outside “When things hit this community in Lompoc the box is not a decision that doctors in Northern the hardest was probably at the end of March, Santa Barbara County have to make alone. beginning of April,” Taglia remembered. “That’s “There’s a bunch of pulmonary critical care when they were seeing the peak of the disease in specialists who are down in Santa Barbara. I New York, so we got a lot of our protocols from have a good relationship with all of them, and the hospitals in New York, which is where I did so we constantly have group emails back and my fellowship training. I had a bunch of buddies forth,” Taglia said. “If I had a difficult-to-treat back there who were willing to share their patient, I’d call one of them and say, ‘Hey, what treatment algorithms.” do you think about this?’ or, ‘I’m thinking about At the time, Taglia said, treatment was steroids, is that a good choice?’” heavily based on using hydroxychloroquine, Dr. Scott Robertson, chief medical officer at an immunosuppressant, and azithromycin, an Dignity Health Central Coast, believes there’s antibiotic used to treat infections. more positive advancements to come. “When all of that information came “We follow the science, which has evolved, about—the different journal articles that again allowing us to safely care for our patients were published showing the lack of benefit of and community,” Robertson wrote in an email. hydroxychloroquine—we immediately threw “The science will continue to evolve, and we will that out of the protocols,” Taglia said. “We started stay current alongside these advancements.” using convalescent plasma.” Convalescent plasma treatments, in which a Sponsored By recovered person’s antibodies are given to a sick Highlight patient, continue to be a strong part of treatment • The Santa Maria Kiwanis Aktion Club gave a today. Dr. Lynn Fitzgibbons, director of quality sheep named Aktion Jackson to Santa Maria’s Los and research and medical education at Cottage Flores Ranch Park, adding to the park’s existing Health, wrote about the benefits in an Aug. 13 array of farm animals, city officials recently email statement, and encouraged those who have announced. The sheep was purchased from recovered to donate their plasma. Andrew Tinoco, “an incoming senior at Pioneer “At Cottage Health, we are very interested in Valley High School and an active member of the potential of convalescent plasma as a tool for The Patch community pumpkin event held each fighting the virus in the most severe cases when October at Los Flores Ranch Park,” according to patients are hospitalized,” Fitzgibbons wrote. the city. After the Santa Barbara County Fair was Another positive change for Santa Barbara canceled, local students had to find creative ways County came with access to remdesivir, an to sell the animals they raised for the fair, and this antiviral medication. was Tinoco’s solution. The public can visit Aktion “We kind of always knew it was effective, we Jackson at Los Flores Ranch Park from 9 a.m. to 6 just didn’t have any,” Taglia said. Then in May, p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. m “Santa Barbara County got an allotment.” At that, time Lompoc Valley Medical Center Staff Writer Malea Martin wrote this week’s had “a ton of patients from the federal prison Spotlight. Send tips to [email protected].

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LETTERS maintained pipeline fi rst, to transport its product, as Maybe there are only three. “We’re all in this Keep oil trucks off our roads it agreed to do 35 years ago. Santa Barbara County together” is the third, and it is the most annoying. Online Poll Soon ExxonMobil may receive permission from citizens should not have to pay for the oil industry’s We are not all in this together. Santa Barbara County to truck oil from its Gaviota greedy malfeasance for the last three decades! Keep First we have the government that keeps shifting Should the Foxen oil pipeline facility, up highways 101 and 166 to refi neries in the spill-prone, polluting trucks off our roads! the objective. Originally it was so hospitals could project receive more Kern County—280,000 to 560,000 gallons of oil Larry Bishop prepare for the deluge of dying patients. That environmental review? per day in 70 trucks, 140 round trips, will pass Buellton objective has been met weeks ago. The models, through my town, Buellton, as well as Los Alamos, just like climate change, are wrong. The goal posts 11 40% Yes—the Foxen project should be Orcutt, Santa Maria, and Cuyama to feed a dying Test the answers have been moved further and further away to a reviewed on its own. oil industry. How is COVID-19 test data reported on the point where we’ll continue to mask up, lock down, 30% No. The existing report is enough. Why is this new polluting and accident-prone Santa Barbara County Public Health Department and destroy small businesses and leave hundreds scheme occurring? The 2015 Refugio Beach oil website; what does it represent? On July 24, the of thousands unemployed and in danger of utter 30% That project should have been killed spill revealed that Plains All American Pipeline, “total test” data was as follows: 70,350 tests were fi nancial ruin. years ago. including their partners ExxonMobil and others, administered; 5,576 were positive; and 64,856 were Then there’s the Fifth Estate, a term that goes 0% I don’t care; COVID-19 issues are more allowed a substandard pipeline to deteriorate for negative. The number grows every day. back to the ’60s. You remember the ’60s hippy, “red important to me. 30 years, causing 21,000 gallons of oil to spill onto Is this the number of individuals who were tested, diaper, doper” culture that wanted to overtake 10 Votes state park beaches and into the ocean. or the number of tests given? It stands to reason the country. Those folks are now in colleges and Vote online at www.santamariasun.com. 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TAKE FLIGHT Valley Art Gallery hosts a new group show at the Santa Maria Airport through the end of September. Described as a safe place to stay 6 feet away and enjoy contemporary art, the exhibit’s special featured artist is Glenda Stevens. More than 30 works from several local artists are on display as well. Visit valleygallery.org for more info. The airport is located at 3217 Terminal Drive, Santa Maria. —Caleb Wiseblood

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Kit includes everything to make Museum of Art and Nature will mark its 20th anniversary who are learning at home. Co-hosted by Allan Hancock exhibition/slam-2020/. San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, a gorgeous resin project; assortment of shells, colored with a special exhibition celebrating the Museum’s 20-year College and the Santa Maria-Bonita School District to 1010 Broad St., San Luis Obispo. beach glass, glitter, frame or two metal bezels for history in the Santa Ynez Valley. View the exhibit online. bring a love of stories and language to people right in DIGITAL EXHIBITION: TERMINALLY OPTIMISTIC- necklaces, plastic tablecloth, gloves, apron, resin, and a Mondays, Wednesdays-Sundays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through their homes. ongoing PCPA: The Pacifi c Conservatory -THE PRINTS OF RACHAEL WINN YON This how-to video. Kit pick-up is Aug. 29. 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Colony Square, Lompoc locals Michelle and Jeremy Ball, who aim to keep SOLVANG SCHOOL: INSPIRED BY NATURE View variety of subject matter, from portraits of loved ones 6909 El Camino Real, Atascadero. the community connected while staying home at the same the exhibit online. Features photography by 29 Solvang and animals to serene landscapes. Through time. Episodes are also available to watch on YouTube after School Yearbook and Media students. The students, Sept. 27 Free. 805-543-8562. sloma.org/ SUMMER MOVIES IN THE PARK: DRIVE-IN In order they’re streamed live. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 8:30 grades 7 – 8, were inspired by philosopher Henry exhibition/brushstrokes-2020/. San Luis to adhere to the COVID-19 guidelines, reservations are a.m. Facebook, Online, Inquire for Facebook address. David Thoreau’s quote: “All good things are wild Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo. required and spaces are available while supplies last. and free.” ongoing Free. Wildling Museum of Art Food is available for purchase from participating food and Nature, 1511-B Mission Dr., Solvang, 805- SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS 688-1082, wildlingmuseum.org. BIZ MASTERS TOASTMASTERS TUESDAYS: New Times and the Sun now share their ZOOM Learn more about Toastmasters, prepare SANTA MARIA VALLEY/LOS ALAMOS community listings for a complete Central INDEX for ‘Your Competitive Future’, and improve your CALL FOR ARTISTS (GRADES 4-12): NEW Coast calendar running from SLO County through communication and leadership skills. Zoom Meeting CHILDREN’S BOOK This art contest will give northern Santa Barbara County. Submit events online Arts ...... [13] ID: 317 198 472 (Password: 630). Tuesdays, 6:30-8 students an opportunity create illustrations for a bilingual by logging in with your Google, Facebook, or Twitter account p.m. through Dec. 15 Free. 805-570-0620. Santa Maria Airport, 3249 Terminal Dr., Santa Maria. children’s book that will depict local landmarks. Students at newtimesslo.com. You may also email calendar@ Culture & Lifestyle ...... [13] are to create their illustration on a paper template entry HUMAN BEING SUPPORT AND INSPIRATION form. All illustrations shall be created using colored pencils newtimesslo.com. Deadline is one week before the issue Food & Drink ...... [14] ONLINE GROUP An online group to listen and get only. Through Sept. 25 Abel Maldonado Community Youth date on Thursdays. Submissions are subject to editing support from others from the comfort of your own Center, 600 S. McClelland St., Santa Maria. and approval. Contact Calendar Editor Caleb Wiseblood home. Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m. $40 monthly subscription. PCPA: ACTORS TALKBACK Streams live on PCPA’s directly at [email protected]. Music ...... [14] CULTURE & LIFESTYLE continued page 14

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VIRTUAL GALLERY IMAGE COURTESY OF CAROL TALLEY Arts Briefs PCPA and Orcutt Community Pastel pairing Theater postpone reopening Gallery Los Olivos’ first 16 dates once again virtual exhibition showcases PHOTO COURTESY OF PCPA.ORG paintings by Carol Talley and Terri Taber BY CALEB WISEBLOOD ivid, colorful landscapes—once destined to adorn the walls of Gallery Los Olivos—are Vnow available for viewers to observe any time, anywhere, as long as there’s an internet connection. While the gallery produced an online coloring book during the course of the COVID-19 crisis, this new duo show marks the venue’s first Based on the resurgence of COVID-19 and the foray into digital exhibiting. unpredictability of public gatherings resuming, the Pacific “During this pandemic, we are searching for Conservatory Theatre (PCPA) has announced it will delay holding live performances in Santa Maria and Solvang until new ways to deliver visual art to the public,” June 2021. The company also announced the suspension of featured artist Carol Talley told the Sun. “This online exhibit is a first for Gallery Los Olivos.” NEW APPROACH: “I was able to achieve a more expressive way of approaching a subject I’ve painted before and keep the colors its two-year conservatory programs (for acting and technical fresh,” artist Carol Talley said of her painting, Winter Storm, one of the featured pieces in Gallery Los Olivos’ new online exhibit. theater) until August 2021. Talley’s paintings will remain on display, “In spite of our detailed plan for the resumption of on-site alongside fellow featured artist Terri IMAGE COURTESY OF TERRI TABER work and instruction, as we prioritize the health and safety Taber’s, at Gallery Los Olivos’ new website of each company member, the hypothetical risks of a COVID (gallerylosolivosonline.faso.com) through exposure creates too much risk and uncertainty,” Mark Booher, Monday, Aug. 31. Every painting—more than 20 PCPA’s artistic director, said in a statement. “We are planning pieces from each artist—is also available for sale. to shift our focus and conserve our resources to try to have “While our ourselves in the strongest position possible for production in gallery is not summer ’21.” currently open to On display now Orcutt Community Theater will also postpone its next the public, we think Gallery Los Olivos presents its new virtual duo show season, Alan Sutterfield, president of the group, told the Sun that this online through Monday, Aug. 31. via email. Although an official reopening date has not been show is the next best announced, the company plans to resume productions once it’s Check it out online for free at thing,” Talley said. gallerylosolivosonline.faso.com. safe for its primary venue, Klein Dance Arts (KDA) in Santa “Art is increasingly Maria, to host gatherings. being marketed “We will restart our season when conditions allow KDA to hold indoor live performances,” Sutterfield said in the email. online, even before the pandemic. A positive For more updates on PCPA or Orcutt Community Theater, result of the quarantine is that I’ve also found an visit pcpa.org or orcuttcommunitytheater.org, respectively. online community of artists that I might not have searched for otherwise.” LANDSCAPE ESCAPE: After the Rain is just one of several pastel landscapes by artist Terri Taber showcased through Gallery Los A virtual tour through Talley’s paintings in Olivos’ website. This new virtual exhibit will run through the end of August. Wilshire Health and Gallery Los Olivos’ new exhibit is a whirlpool of PHOTOS COURTESY OF GALLERY LOS OLIVOS weather and location, bouncing viewers between Community Services landscapes of Happy Canyon, Hendry’s Beach, and other county locales during varying times of presents an original podcast, year. As an artist, Talley described her greatest joy Wisdom from the Porch as “creating paintings that express the ineffable PHOTO COURTESY OF WILSHIRE HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES and transcendent.” While Talley hopes to retain a sense of both mystery and familiarity in her impressionistic works, Taber’s scenic paintings are more representational. The show is appropriately described as a combination of exquisite realism and expressive abstraction. “I love the composition and colors in Terri’s After the Rain,” Talley said, commenting on her favorite Wisdom from the Porch, an original podcast produced by of Taber’s countryside landscapes in the exhibit. Wilshire Health and Community Services, is available to listen to The two local artists also paired their works online for free at wisdomfromtheporch.org. The series features during Luminous Landscapes, their previous duo six episodes so far and focuses on the exploration of healthy show at Gallery Los Olivos in 2019. aging and lifestyle choices for senior adults and their families. “I can’t say I have one favorite of my own pieces, “As we age, choice is vital. Emotions and change can I like them all for different reasons,” Taber told the become overwhelming,” Ron Yukelson, host of the podcast, Sun. “But I must say that Carol’s Golden Light is a said in a press release. “Our goal is for each listener to feel favorite of mine from her collection.” comfortable, stay involved in life, and create their own new Although Taber is no stranger to painting en DYNAMIC DUO: Gallery Los Olivos’ featured artists Carol Talley (left) and Terri Taber (right) previously paired their paintings during reality.” plein air, venturing outdoors for artistic endeavors Luminous Landscapes in 2019. Yukelson is also Wilshire’s chief marketing and strategy has been especially valuable to her during recent officer, according to the release. Listeners of the podcast can times, she explained. expect to learn tips geared toward seniors seeking to maintain Santa Barbara Art Association, the Goleta Art critique each other’s works. Talley described these “I must say the pandemic is making me paint control of their future. Aside from on the official website, Association, and other regional groups. discussions as extremely beneficial and integral to Wisdom from the Porch is also available on Apple Podcasts, more. I’m painting more outside than I have in During the past few months of voluntary her most recent abstract paintings. Spotify, and Google Play. previous years,” Taber said. “Painting outside is quarantine, Taber said her drive to paint has “The feedback of my painting buddies has been To learn more about the podcast or Wilshire Health and one of the few things one can do alone or with shifted from day to day, like mood swings. critical in my experimenting with new ways to Community Services, a nonprofit that provides services friends and social distance at the same time.” “Though I have down days and good days, I interpret the landscape,” Talley said. “During the throughout Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, visit After graduating from UCSB with a bachelor’s think the pandemic is making me search deeper pandemic, I’ve really appreciated my family and wilshirehcs.org. m degree in fine art, Taber committed to a career in into my own creativity,” Taber said. friends and realized how lucky I am to be able to nursing over the following two decades, but she Taber, Talley, and a circle of their artist friends share my passion for painting with them.” m Arts Briefs is compiled by Arts Editor Caleb Wiseblood. Send reignited her passion for painting—specifically usually meet to paint somewhere outdoors—with information to [email protected]. pastels—in the 1990s. She later became a member ample room to social distance—once a week, Arts Editor Caleb Wiseblood is also feeling lucky at of the Pastel Society of the West Coast, the and they also hold monthly Zoom meetings to [email protected].

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PHOTO COURTESY OF STEPHEN SIEMSEN Watching the wheels Central Coast locals 17 transform used hubcaps into new public artworks during Nature Takes the Wheel BY CALEB WISEBLOOD hen Steve and Pam Kennington found out about the Wildling Museum’s first public art W SCENIC TRIBUTE: Ana Lisa Siemsen-McQuaide, one of the participants initiative—inviting locals to decorate of Nature Takes the Wheel, described her hubcap piece as “a love note to used hubcaps to be displayed throughout the Santa Ynez Valley,” which features a landscape-esque backdrop of NOW OPEN the Santa Ynez Valley—they jumped at seemingly infinite golden hills. the chance to contribute. The local couple THROUGH SEPTEMBER even recruited some of their loved ones PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVE KENNINGTON to join in. “We painted the hubcaps as an afternoon family project. Our daughter brought our three Walk through a beautiful grandsons, and we worked outside on the patio table,” Steve told the Sun. “Creativity is like a garden while nearly 1,000 live faucet, once you turn it on, it just starts flowing.” Fitting into the butterflies flutter freely around project’s theme of you. The exhibit features a celebrating nature, the Keeps on turning family collaborated To find out more about dazzling variety of butterflies, on plant and animal Nature Takes the Wheel, designs. Sunflowers, call (805) 688-1082 or from local favorites to exotic visit wildlingmuseum.org. ladybugs, and turtles are among the subjects tropical varieties. Learn about featured in their colorful hubcaps. Like the Kenningtons, Stephen and Lisa the life cycle and behavior of Siemsen also set out to make their Nature Takes FAMILY VALUES: “We painted the hubcaps as an afternoon these spectacular invertebrates the Wheel experience a family affair. family project. Our daughter brought our three grandsons, and “After sharing the idea with our daughter and we worked outside on the patio table,” Nature Takes the Wheel while observing them up close. granddaughter, we all decided to take on the participant Steve Kennington said. challenge,” said Stephen, who also enlisted artistic PHOTO COURTESY OF STEPHEN SIEMSEN support from his 25-year-old parrot, Gabriela. collecting, “We wanted to incorporate nature and cleaning, and recycling into our piece, so we eventually decided priming used to use our macaw’s cast-off feathers to create a hubcaps for colorful pattern on the wheel cover,” Stephen said. participants Meanwhile, the Siemsens’ granddaughter, to pick up and Scarlett Aurora McQuaide, 15, painted binary code return after across the front of her hubcap, which translates decorating. to “love.” Scarlett’s mother, Ana Lisa Siemsen- “Turning McQuaide, described her piece as “a love note to hubcaps into the Santa Ynez Valley,” which features a landscape- artworks esque backdrop of seemingly infinite golden hills. seemed like a Local art therapist Stacey Thompson, who the natural for us,” Wildling Museum enlisted to co-organize Nature Stacey Otte- THE APPLE DOESN’T FALL FAR: Takes the Wheel, also took part in creating some Demangate, Ana Lisa Siemsen-McQuaide and her hubcap artwork of her own with her children. executive daughter, Scarlett Aurora McQuaide, both took part in Nature Takes the “I made a few with my kids, using paint, hot director of Wheel, contributing their own painted glue, and natural materials,” Thompson said. the Wildling hubcaps to the public art project. “They were really excited to have their hubcaps Museum, displayed at the botanic garden.” told the Sun. Reservations required via sbnature.org/tickets. The Santa Ynez Valley Botanic Garden in “‘Upcycling’—or turning trash or disposable Buellton hosted the first public installation of items into something improved and useful—is a finished hubcaps and also serves as the location concept we really embrace and encourage here at for Thompson’s monthly Community Art Day the Wildling.” meeting. On the last Saturday of each month, Like Otte-Demangate, Thompson was also from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., garden attendees are excited to get involved with a public art project welcome to bring their own art supplies for a day that encouraged upcycling, while also being open of artwork creation (while observing social- to members of the community to participate, distancing protocols). “especially folks who don’t consider themselves “As an art therapist, I see art as a valuable tool artists,” she said. for supporting mental health,” Thompson said. “I see this project as a form of environmental “Making art is therapeutic. And we all need a activism,” Thompson said. “If we can broaden little therapy right now.” people’s idea of what qualifies as ‘art’ and get folks PRESENTED BY: Schipper Construction, Thanks to funding from the City of Buellton thinking creatively about how they can reuse Santa Barbara Independent, Voice Magazine, El Latino, Arts and Culture Committee, Thompson and her everyday items, it’s a win.” m Noozhawk, Santa Maria Sun, and Ventura County Reporter. teammates Kiana Beckmen and Carolyn Dorwin were able to implement the behind-the-scenes Arts Editor Caleb Wiseblood is popping wheelies at aspect of Nature Takes the Wheel, which included [email protected].

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SUN SCREEN PHOTO COURTESY OF A24 to the fi lm’s opening framing device set in present work beneath them, day, when a young woman and her dog, walking discussing how the Anti-Western by a river, come across a human skull. Quiet and number of lashes must moving, First Cow is an unexpected gem. be carefully weighed irector Kelly Reichart (Meek’s Cutoff, Wendy Anna: I can see why critics have scored this fi lm between correcting bad and Lucy) helms this story co-written for the higher than audiences; the pace is slow and the behavior and rendering Dscreen with Jonathan Raymond based on his storyline fairly quiet, but there’s a lot of meat on the culprit incapable 18 novel The Half-Life, about two men—skilled baker this bone. The two leads are much gentler and of further service, Otis “Cookie” Figowitz (John Magaro) and Chinese more introspective than their rough-and-tumble and how sometimes immigrant King-Lu (Orion Lee)—who form a neighbors, both in search of life outside the putting a man to death friendship and successful business partnership in fort and bigger and better things. Their means is better motivation for rough-and-tumble 1820 Oregon. However, their for getting there may be a bit dishonest, but it’s the remaining workers business of selling “oily cakes” is contingent on the easy to justify a bit of stolen milk to make their than mere corrective clandestine milking of wealthy landowner Chief dreams a reality. King-Lu is more of a risk taker, punishment. It’s the ugly Factor’s (Toby Jones) cow—the only one in the perhaps pushing the limits of their theft to an side of wealth and power region. (122-min.) unmanageable level. Cookie is gentle and guarded. laid bare, and in contrast, Watching his interaction with the cow as he milks Glen: Ostensibly a Western, Reichart’s newest fi lm Cookie and King-Lu’s her shows what a soft and caring person he is. doesn’t romanticize the Wild West but instead friendship is so much It’s not your typical Western where bullets are paints it as a hardscrabble and dangerous life. And more authentic than whizzing through the air and fi stfi ghts abound. Factor and Captain’s. rather than being the heroic protagonists of the Ling-Lu (Orion Lee) and Otis “Cookie” Figowitz (John Magaro) forge a Action is there, just not a whole lot of it, and it FRIENDS IN FLIGHT: story, our two leads are quiet, meek, and gentle, The fi lm keeps returning friendship in dangerous 1820 Oregon, as they try to make their fortune, in First Cow, available certainly isn’t what this story is about. trying to eke out a living in dangerous land built to its Blake quote about through various streaming services. on the fur trade. When they meet, Glen: Reichart paints her male characters in friendship, in this case Cookie is traveling with a group of interesting ways. The trappers are male friendship that help but try and one-up each other in every aspect. loutish trappers making their way FIRST COW brutes, while the more “highborn” offers nonmonetary riches. It’s a sweet, albeit Both are pompous and gross, the opposite of our to Fort Tillicum. He runs across a What’s it rated? PG-13 characters are downright cruel. tragic, story and maybe an underdog contender two main characters. When Cookie and King-Lu naked King-Lu in the forest, on the What’s it worth, Anna? Full price It’s clear that male ego drives for an Academy Award. are fi nally found out, they have to fl ee, and while run for killing a Russian. Cookie What’s it worth, Glen? Full price those who are seen as “successful.” Anna: The two men have a goal of making it to many men in that situation would fend only for helps King-Lu escape, and later Where’s it showing? Prime Video, The side story about Chief Factor San Francisco and opening a hotel and bakery, but themselves, these two have a bond that keeps them they meet again in Fort Tillicum, Vudu, Fandango Now, iTunes and Captain (Scott Shepherd), a without capital their dreams will never come to together, for better or worse. It’s a really lovely where they form their partnership. visiting friend of Factor’s, marks a fruition. Between oily cakes sold to the townsfolk fi lm, and if you have the patience for it, it’s well It’s an unhurried story about sharp contrast between men like and special requests from Chief Factor, the two are worth a watch. I’d love to see this one up for an friendship, set up by a William Blake quote that them and a man like Cookie. Factor is desperate well on their way to realizing their dream. There’s Academy Award. ❍ opens the fi lm: “The bird a nest, the spider a web, to prove to Captain how elevated his lifestyle something immensely satisfying about watching man friendship.” Humans make a home in their is, so he hires Cookie to bake a special cake for Factor drool over the baked goods secretly made New Times Senior Staff Writer Glen Starkey and friendship with others. Don’t expect a fast-paced Captain’s visit. As Cookie and King-Lu arrive with his cow’s milk—a cow he thinks can barely freelancer Anna Starkey write Sun Screen. Glen action fi lm; like most of Reichart’s fi lms, First Cow with the cake, Factor and Captain are having a produce milk at all. The relationship between him compiles streaming listings. Comment at gstarkey@ takes its time. Its end is pure poetry, calling back casual conversation about punishing men who and Captain is pretty amusing—the two can’t newtimesslo.com.

PHOTO COURTESY OF NETFLIX GENERATION KILL superb acting combine to make this one of the better war TV & Film Reviews What’s it rated? TV-MA miniseries on TV. (seven approximately 65-min. episodes) PHOTO COURTESY OF BOOM AND BLOWN DEADLINE PRODUCTIONS When? 2008 —Glen Where’s it showing? HBO, Amazon Prime HBO’s gritty overlooked gem, Generation Kill, offers a look inside the toxic masculinity, misogyny, and racism of a PROJECT POWER Marine recon battalion as it prepares and ultimately invades What’s it rated? R Iraq in 2003. It focuses on Sgt. Brad “Iceman” Colbert When? 2020 Where’s it showing? (Alexander Skarsgård), his obnoxious second Cpl. Ray Person Netflix Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman co-direct this sci-fi (James Ransone), and embedded Rolling Stone reporter action film about an experimental drug that when taken Evan “Scribe” Wright (Lee Tergesen), but its sweeping scope gives five minutes of a superpower, though each user is POWER UP: (Left to right) Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon- encompasses many more characters up and down the chain affected differently. One might become bulletproof while of command. another may acquire chameleon-like camouflage. Levitt, Dominique Fishback, and Kyanna Simpson star in the Like director Stanley Kubrick’s stunning 1987 film Full When the drug arrives on the streets of New Orleans, a new Netfl ix sci-fi action fi lm, Project Power. WARRIORS: Sgt. Brad “Iceman” Colbert (Alexander Metal Jacket or Joseph Heller’s brilliant 1953 satirical novel teenage drug dealer (Dominique Fishback), a cop (Joseph Skarsgård) and Sgt. Antonio Espera (Jon Huertas) keep Catch-22, the series depicts both the deep dysfunction of Gordon-Levitt), and an ex-soldier (Jamie Foxx) must team up but with theaters shuttered and first-run movies few and far the rank-and-fi le members of the First Recon Battalion the military as well as the effective training and bravery to find those behind the drug and take them down. between, I’ll take it! (113 min.) ❍ Marines focused on their mission as they invade Iraq of those who serve even though they often seem less than It’s a pretty silly premise, and the cast is a lot better —Glen honorable. It drives home that to be a warrior, you have to in 2003, in the HBO TV miniseries Generation Kill, also than the material they’re given to work with, but there are desensitize and ultimately dehumanize yourself to be a killer. some good action sequences, splatter-core gore, and some Sun film reviews are compiled by New Times Senior Staff Writer available on Amazon Prime. Excellent filmmaking, incredible attention to detail, and well-placed humor. Like The Old Guard, it’s not a great film, Glen Starkey. Contact him at [email protected].

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PREPPED FOR PICKUP: As the pandemic started—before masks were required but after schools went remote—Orcutt Union School District workers packed 1,900 lunches for families to pick up at four of the district’s 10 school sites.

said, so they would need to go to maybe However, Markee has an elementary school and a junior high stayed focused on trying to pick up food for their student. When to make sure the food the pandemic hit, Markee said, they they serve is as healthy as had families coming through to pick up possible. Markee works lunches that had never participated in with food vendors to fi nd LUNCH HERO: The Chef Ann Foundation and Danone North America recently featured Orcutt Union the free- and reduced-lunch program. the most healthy and safe School District Director of Child Nutrition Bethany Markee—”Chef B”—in a Hero Highlight for the work “They need it more than ever, and I pre-packaged foods she she’s done to ensure students are getting their meals during the pandemic. think people that never needed it have can in an attempt to keep been humbled and have needed it, it healthy and interesting and they’re just super kind and super for the students. At the grateful,” she said. moment, she said, there’s With 10 school sites in the Orcutt the potential of bringing in Union School District, Markee and some pre-packaged salads DRIVE-THROUGH READY: On Aug. 13, Orcutt Union School Lunch on the run her team served at four from March to and rice bowls. District set up at Alice Shaw Elementary for the fi rst day of June. She said serving more meals was “All of us are struggling school and the fi rst day of lunch pickups for students who Chef B from Orcutt schools talks healthy meals, qualify for the free- and reduced-meal program. defi nitely an adjustment, but everyone with the vegetable group. We pulled together to make it happen. make a few salads here and food education, and pandemic lunches french fry was, and he nodded. And the work they did gained there; we can get bagged carrots,” she of their eligibility for the free- and “Yes, well this is a potato, but it’s a BY CAMILLIA LANHAM recognition from the Chef Ann said of how school districts are trying reduced-lunch program. square,” she told him. rcutt Union School District served Foundation, a national organization to meet national and state nutrition While other local school districts, Then she ran to the kitchen and a little fewer than 100,000 meals focused on ensuring that schools serve guidelines. “But there isn’t a lot of pre- such as the Santa Maria-Bonita School grabbed a potato to show them. The Ofrom March to June and packed fresh, healthy food. On Aug. 5, she packaged vegetable stuff, so we’ve got a District, have so many students who students wondered why it was so dirty, between 1,600 to 1,900 meals a day. But received the spotlight in the foundation waiver on that.” qualify for the free- and reduced-meals Director of Child Nutrition Bethany and Danone North America’s Hero One of her primary goals, Markee Markee said. “Chef B” Markee thinks those numbers program that they offer it to all of their Highlights, a blog that tells uplifting said, is to teach students how to eat their “And I walked back to the kitchen will be much lower during this school students, Orcutt Union schools don’t. stories of school food workers and how vegetables and make them “yummy,” that day, and it was the longest walk of year, unless the state changes things. Markee said 80 percent of students they’re tackling food insecurity during but that effort is on temporary hold. my life,” she said. “And I thought, you “Yesterday was qualify for the program the COVID-19 pandemic. In the fi ve years that Markee has now know what these children don’t our fi rst day, and the at Olga Reed Elementary “I’ve just seen such kindness and been with the Orcutt schools, she has know, and it’s your job for the rest of numbers were much Heroes School in Los Alamos your life to teach them.” Find out more about the such teamwork, and you just kind of worked to couple food education with less, so there defi nitely and 20 percent qualify hunker down and you just kind of have the meals she serves students, she said. Markee took those thoughts to Chef Ann Foundation by visiting at Orcutt Academy High Orcutt with her. was a decline,” Markee chefannfoundation.org. To read each others’ back,” she said. “You come In addition to teaching an after-school School in Orcutt, with When students were on campus, said on Aug. 14. “And the Hero Highlight on Orcutt up with these kind of rogue out-of-the- culinary arts program, she tries to teach we’re waiting for the Union School District Director of the remaining eight box things to make things easier. I just students about whole produce and Markee said, she worked with Veggie waiver, and I don’t think Child Nutrition Bethany “Chef B” school sites coming in am very impressed with the teamwork where it comes from. Rescue in Santa Ynez—an organization it is going to come.” Markee, check out the website’s at 50 percent or less of in my department and legitimately with After working as a chef for 20-plus that collects fresh fruits, veggies, The waivers in COVID-19 resources page and students. But Markee the district administration.” years, she started working at Solvang and prepared food from local farms, question temporarily look for Hero Highlights under said those numbers She said administrators are super schools with a grant from the Orfalea farmers markets, backyards, and suspended some the Our Resources section. changed at the start of supportive of her goals for the kitchen Foundation. The goal was to make businesses and delivers it to nonprofi ts requirements for the the pandemic because and the push to try to put as much food healthier meals for students and serve and schools feeding community free- and reduced-lunch parents lost jobs. as possible into the hands of students more from-scratch food. Things really members in need. program, which serves low-income “Right now, they’re requiring families who need it. hit home for Markee one day when “Before the pandemic, we would get students. Although several waivers to go to the specifi c school site they’re Before the pandemic, the kitchen was she cooked up a lunch that included thousands of pounds of it for free that were issued by the federal and state enrolled in, and that’s what’s hard for focused on transitioning to more from- roasted potatoes, which none of the kids would just go right to the kids,” she said. government regarding school lunches, these families, because they’re not in the scratch meals to students—every school seemed to be eating. “You have these kids running across Markee thinks there are a couple that same fi nancial system they were before site had a salad bar, and they served She walked out into the cafeteria and the parking lot for carrots, and I’m like, made a huge difference. Those include the pandemic,” she said. “I have a lot of hot food for lunch. But with lunches asked them why. ‘OK, now we’re doing something.’” ❍ waiving a requirement that meals get parents who call, and it’s super heartfelt, switching to to-go, some of the food has “One little guy goes, ‘What is it?’ And picked up at the school site the student and they can’t get to the site. reverted back to pre-packaged prepared I go, ‘It’s a potato.’ He goes, ‘A potato?’” Editor Camillia Lanham will run toward attends and allowing schools to serve Many families have students enrolled foods, such as frozen burritos (with she said. fresh veggies. Send food tips to clanham@ meals for free to all students, regardless at two different school sites, Markee heating instructions) and sandwiches. She asked him if he knew what a santamariasun.com.

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