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Laguna Blanca grad Ryan Emmons and friend Matt Meyer develop Waiakea Volcanic Water, “the greenest bottled water company The Voice of the Village S SINCE 1995 S in the world,” p. 6

THIS WEEK IN MONTECITO, P. 10 • CALENDAR OF EVENTS, P. 38 • MONTECITO EATERIES, P. 40 A STEP IN A NEW DIRECTION

Pierre Lafond’s Montecito Wine Bistro goes organic and local with innovative farm-to-table menu; former Wine Cask executive chef Jake Reimer oversees overhaul (story on page 32)

REAL ESTATE VIEW & 93108 OPEN HOUSE DIRECTORY P.42

Summer Sizzles Coming & Going Independence Day Former Met Opera director Fabrizio Melano returns Barbara Briggs-Anderson brings Salvador Dali’s Another absolutely wonderful Village Fourth, with to Music Academy of the West to help transform “Party of the Century” back to life via Surrealist pancake breakfast, parade, hot dogs, Dixieland 23 vocal fellows into “singing actors,” p. 11 Night in an Enchanted Forest eBook, p. 26 band, tug of war, pie-eating contests, and…, p. 34

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12 – 19 July 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 3 INSIDE THIS ISSUE 5 Editorial ANTIQUES Sansum Clinic teams up with Cancer Center of Santa Barbara 6 Montecito Miscellany Montecito’s Ryan Emmons starts new business; Frank Hotchkiss’ tape tale; Bill Tomicki heads to Oxford; mystery over Tom Cruise’s Montecito mansion; Oprah buys father’s barbershop; Fr nc Aiu Fr lac ts, Luis Estevez tribute; Katy Perry channels Madonna; Aaron McEmrys launches book; Gil Shaham and Jonathan Feldman impress on stage; Prince Charles’ toast auctioned; Ernest v r 30 tc, Frnc Borgnine passes away 8 Letters to the Editor Carole Lieff’s favorite things about Montana; Leslie Bhutani thanks Channelkeeper; Ronald Hays details Wholly Cow history 10 This Week in Montecito MERRAG meets; MAW Concert Series; juggler visits the library; AFSB lecture; MTF hike; Painters on the Porch; LotusFest; book sale; Bud Bottoms signs book; open house at Mediterranée; YMCA hosts Parents’ Night Out Tide Guide Handy guide to assist readers in determining when to take that walk or run on the beach 11 Music Academy of the West Fabrizio Melano returns to direct Opera Scenes at Lobero; this week’s Summer Festival events 12 Village Beat Braille Institute hosts “Chinese Chukkers,” the 29th annual Polo Invitational Match and benefit luncheon; Summerland sidewalk celebration 14 Seen Around Town B arnaby Conrad celebrates his ninetieth birthday; 40th annual Santa Barbara Writers Conference 20 State Street Spin Buddy Winston, Bob Burtness, and Selden Edwards publish new tomes; Fine Fabrics sale Seniority Patti welcomes an old friend back home 21 Your Westmont Montecito International Music Festival returns for fifth season; high school students complete Summer Scholars program 2500 Lillie Avenue, Summerland • (805) 695-0910 22 Trail Talk 11am to 4pm Tuesday through Saturday* Changing of the Queen’s Life Guard Ceremony in London 26 Coming & Going *Or by appointment at your convenience. Call (805) 637-2842. Barbara Briggs-Anderson’s A Surrealistic Night in an Enchanted Forest chronicles Salvador Dali’s “Party of the Century”; Mary Bono Mack expresses opinion on VP pick www.mediterraneeantiques.com 28 On Entertainment SBCC’s Theater Group presents Avenue Q; Bruce Goldish celebrates album release 32 A New Crew Montecito Wine Bistro announces new farm-to-table organic menu, daily specials and “The best Happy Hour in town,” according to manager Donald Hull 34 Village Fourth Diane Pannkuk organizes successful Independence Day in the Village 35 Our Town Biltmore chefs welcome My Home at Artisan Court members into kitchen 38 Calendar of Events Ongoing events; Johnny Cash tribute band; Happy Together tour; SBIFF’s Silver Screen Bash; Café Musique at Song Tree; Brawlin’ Betties roller derby match; French Festival returns; Arts Fund series; Fermentation Festival; Brian Bess solo exhibit at SBMA; Montecito Music Festival at Westmont 40 Guide to Montecito Eateries The most complete, up-to-date, comprehensive listing of all individually owned Montecito restaurants, coffee houses, bakeries, gelaterias, and hangouts; others in Santa Barbara, Summerland, and Carpinteria too 41 Coup de Grace Grace welcomes Jack Russell Terrier pups Nell and Tashie into family Movie Showtimes Latest films, times, theaters, and addresses: they’re all here, as they are every week 42 Real Estate View Heat Index for Montecito real estate market is currently 139, the highest score in memory 93108 Open House Directory Homes and condos currently for sale and open for inspection in and near Montecito 45 Legal Advertisements 46 Classified Advertising Our very own “Craigslist” of classified ads, in which sellers offer everything from summer rentals to estate sales 47 Local Business Directory Smart business owners place business cards here so readers know where to look when they need what those businesses offer

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4 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 12 – 19 July 2012 Editorial by Bob Hazard Mr. Hazard is an Associate Editor of this paper and a former president of Birnam Wood Golf Club Sansum Clinic and Cancer Center of Santa Barbara Join Forces The non-profit Sansum Clinic, under the leadership of its volunteer Board of Trustees and its affiliated medical group, provides more than 150 highly-skilled physicians, or a large percentage of the doctors in Santa Barbara. Clinic physicians work collaboratively to provide the full spectrum of healthcare services from primary care to more than 30 different specialty medical services. Sansum doctors care for over 150,000 patients at their 20 patient care facilities located between Carpinteria and Santa Maria. Serving patients for 91 years, Sansum Clinic has introduced many new procedures and programs, ranging from renal dialysis to digital mammography. In addition to serving its own patients, Sansum Clinic offers free colonosco- pies, free mammograms and other free cancer diagnostic and screening services to the Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics that treat those that otherwise cannot afford such services. The non-profit Cancer Center of Santa Barbara, under the leadership of Rick Scott, its president, has 10 affiliated physicians and a wide range of clinical and technical specialists who serve more than 5,000 patients each year. The Cancer Center specializes in outpatient cancer care in three areas: Radiation Oncology, Hematology-Medical Oncology and Nuclear Medicine, and has been serving local cancer patients and their families for 63 years. Why Affiliate? Most importantly, the two organizations share the same cultures and value sys- tems, including a commitment to improve access to world-class cancer care. Both non-profit organizations offer overlapping cancer diagnostics and chemotherapy programs. Sansum already refers patients to the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara for radiation therapies and nuclear medicine, and the Cancer Center has been sending patients to Sansum for cancer surgery and other services. Eliminating duplicate diagnostic equipment and services will free up more funding for investment in new cutting edge technology. The resulting integrated services should provide better cancer care for the patient and better care for the community. Cancer Center of Santa Barbara will have immediate access to Sansum’s highly sophisticated and patient-oriented electronic medical record system, called EPIC, which provides two-way confidential communication between doctors and “Summer Shimmer” patients, shortens communication response times and reduces the flow of duplicate records. When doctors have their patients’ entire medical histories at their fingertips, treatments can be managed more efficiently at a lower cost. The affiliation will result in no immediately visible changes in service for existing cancer patients of either Cancer Center of Santa Barbara or of Sansum Clinic. Patients will still go to their regular doctors in the same buildings they are accustomed to visiting. Local independent physicians who refer patients to the Cancer Center will still remain in control of their patients’ cancer care, including the selection of specialists in the community who become part of the patients’ multi-care team. Physician Recruitment The key to continued high-quality healthcare in Santa Barbara lies in this community’s ability to recruit the best and the brightest physicians while com- peting with Cedars-Sinai, Scripps, the Palo Alto Clinic and other renowned multi-specialty clinics. Recent residency and fellowship graduates of the world’s best medical schools are generally attracted to the “clinic experience” with its established base of patients, an opportunity to rub brains with a large number of professional colleagues, and the ability to treat a wider variety of diseases. The merger of Cancer Center of Santa Barbara and Sansum Clinic makes the choice of coming to the Santa Barbara area more attractive to new physicians, resulting in an improved flow of highly-qualified new doctors into Santa Barbara. As importantly, cancer research and treatments are fast evolving from specialties to sub-specialties. This merger will make the Santa Barbara area more attractive for highly trained cancer sub-specialists, who can offer more targeted care to cancer patients outside the norm of standard treatments. Outlook for the Future Increasingly, doctor organizations are seeking the strength of affiliations with like-minded groups to survive in a world of greater mandates and more Lana Marmé regulations. With that in mind, we welcome this enhanced connection between Fine Apparel & Footwear Sansum Clinic and the Cancer Center of Santa Barbara. 1485 EAST VALLEY ROAD Note: Mr. Hazard’s wife, Victoria, serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees of MONTECITO, CA 93108 • (805)969-6962 Sansum Clinic. •MJ Dress: Joseph Ribkoff Photographer: David Palermo Models: Lisa Aviani 12 – 19 July 2012 How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit – V.S. Pritchett MONTECITO JOURNAL 5 Building Monte ito Peace of Miscellany by Richard Mineards

Richard covered the Royal Family for Britain’s Daily Mirror and Daily Mail before moving to New York to write for Rupert Murdoch’s newly launched Star magazine in 1978; Richard later wrote for New York Mind magazine’s “Intelligencer”. He continues to make regular appearances on CBS, ABC, and CNN, and moved to Montecito five years ago. Young Entrepreneur Makes a Splash yan Emmons, the 22-year-old son of Montecito dynamic duo, Robert and Christine Emmons, isR erupting on to the business scene. The young entrepreneur has just launched his first company, Waiakea Volcanic Water, making it, what is claimed to be, the greenest bottled water company in the world. With the business’ co-founder, Matt Meyer, a former USC football player, they are the youngest executives in the history of the lucrative industry. Ryan says his journey started while he was a sophomore at Laguna Blanca GIFFIN & CRANE Visit Our Website six years ago and realized he wanted www.GiffinAndCrane.com to be an entrepreneur. GENERAL CONTRACTORS, INC Phone (805) 966-6401 License 611341 “I had been brought in to found Santa Barbaraopoly, a charity A ward W inning B uilders S ince 198 6 Monopoly-type board game, by two Montecito’s Ryan Emmons making a splash in friends and classmates, Justin Hsu the bottled water industry with Waiakea Volcanic and Troy Tamas. We raised around Water $20,000 from this. Ryan says he honed the initial con- gcr03785_MJ_2011_52weeks_FNL2.indd 2 2/22/11 3:17 PM “Developing and then marketing a cept into a fully functional company in physical product was extremely dif- his sophomore year, while Matt began ficult, but there is something to be a hydrology minor with a major in said about the tangibility of consumer sustainable policy and development. Harold products, for me anyway. “It was the perfect combo for our “This was an incredible project with concept.” regards to my personal entrepreneur- Waiakea Investments, the holding ial journey. I could see it was possible, company for the water business, was Plople and not only that, it was fun.” founded last year by the two partners After researching the top ten entre- and Ryan’s father. July 23-August 30 preneur programs in America for “With their help, in my first semes- undergraduates, Ryan chose the ter senior year we made Waiakea into Opening Reception July 22, 3 to 5 p.m. Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial a reality and I graduated early in Studies at USC. December to work on it full-time, “My admittance with a scholarship bringing in my cousin, Alex Preston, was one of the happiest moments of to be our veep of branding and design. my life. My father, mother and sister “It has been an unbelievable experi- are all USC Trojans, so you can imag- ence, especially us being only twenty- ine their excitement as well!” two in an industry dominated by men Ryan began to research industries in their forties and fifties. surrounding water, particularly the “We have been especially proud that bulk water business. we did it all without the requirement “The consumer side and bottled of ridiculous levels of capital, human water intrigued me. I found very few or otherwise, which is another indus- brands of companies were adapting try norm.” to consumer trends, especially those The product is sold in a square concerning environmentalism, health bottle, with a volcano featured inside and social responsibility. I also found the container, as well as volcanic tex- that I could not compete with high turization and a stream to the top. volume brands such as Poland Spring “Waiakea is essentially a better ver- Unique American Folk and Outsider Art and Arrowhead, but that the premium sion of Fiji water, as, on top of its icon- market was up for grabs. ic design, it boasts being the world’s Susan Baerwald and Marcy Carsey “So, with that niche in mind, greenest bottled water, the most chari- 2346 Lillie Avenue PO Box 578 Summerland, CA 93067 I began to develop my concept, table premium water, and the first (805) 969-7118 T www.justfolk.com (805) 969-1042 F Waiakea, which means Broad Waters volcanic water of its kind. It’s also one in Hawaiian. A few months later, Matt came on board.” MISCELLANY Page 184 6 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 12 – 19 July 2012 Magnificent tuscan Villa on 2 lush acres Marsha Kotlyar 805.565.4014 www.MontecitoFineestates.coM

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12 – 19 July 2012 MONTECITO JOURNAL 7 Beth Worked There LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Bozeman, Montana (Editor’s note: Carole Lieff challenged The Snack Shack was located at 1155 First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal Coast Village Road, in the exact spot If you have something you think Montecito should know about, or wish to respond to something during this year’s California primary but where Silverhorn Jewelers is today. you read in the Journal, we want to hear from you. Please send all such correspondence to: Montecito Journal, Letters to the Editor, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA. dropped out of the race before the voting The Wholly Cow was just down from 93108. You can also FAX such mail to: (805) 969-6654, or E-mail to [email protected] and moved to a recently purchased ranch it. A fun fact for all of those who in Montana – TLB) know her, Beth Goodman (now of Top Ten Reasons I Like Montana Summerland and a mother of four) Cleaner beaches worked at the Wholly Cow when she 1) Five different State Troopers was in high school! stopped me for speeding and none of thanks to Laura Garofono them gave me a ticket. I got stopped Montecito by the same one twice the same day. Channelkeeper 2) The meter maid stopped writing a I read with interest the letter by ticket when I approached my car and Janice Evans about the increase in the Best Burgers Ever said, “I’m here!” City of Santa Barbara’s sewer rates I just saw the little blurb about Holy 3) There’s no sales tax. Which leads and the response by Kira Redmond, Cow Burgers (Letters to the Editor # me to believe there’s a California Executive Director of Santa Barbara 18/26). Yes, we used to drive up from cash register lobby pushing to require Channelkeeper, and I have to say – Ventura just to lunch there. The build- weird fractional sales taxes so you Thank You to Channelkeeper for fight- ing was painted big red and white have to buy computerized registers in ing for cleaner water. Nobody likes vertical stripes, and it was spelled California. lawsuits, but sometimes they are the Wholly Cow. They used sourdough 4) Gas is $3.29/gallon. only tool environmental groups have bread and all the works; it was one of 5) Organic pistachios are $6/lb, and left to force government or corporate the best burgers I ever had. Always they don’t grow them here. entities do what the law requires. a bunch of working men there and 6) There’s no tax when you buy a car. People who live in Santa Barbara their pick-ups on their lunch break. Property tax on a $1 million house is value clean water and beaches, and we Since I was a humble Ventura county $1,600… a year. expect our government to maintain our native, I wondered why a place as fine 7) Everybody hates Republicans. New Montana resident Carole Lieff is proud of sewer system in a way that achieves as Montecito would have a joint like 8) Everybody hates Democrats. Montana’s ways (and its style of dress) that. Two extra dollars a month seems a that. And yes, it was back in the ‘60s 9) They find dead sexual predators in and political incorrectness the state very small price to pay for the improve- and ‘70s. I’m not sure when it started dumpsters. They don’t look for the religion; only a pariah goes on wel- ments in water quality that will result or ended. But it was a great memory, I perpetrator. fare; there are no ghettoes and no from the City fixing old sewer pipes wish there was a cheaper burger place 10)There’s no design review, no build- crime (except for killing sexual preda- that allow sewage to leak out and pol- along that road now. ing codes, no rules, and no laws. tors). lute our beaches. Some issues should By the way, I’m old enough to Ron Paul is the state’s patron saint Carole Lieff not be kicked down the road, and this remember when Old Coast Highway is one of them. Not only is it the right was the highway and all those defunct thing to do environmentally, but if our gas stations, now businesses, were beaches can’t be used, rest assured operating as gas stations. I moved to property values will go down by more Montecito in 1973 and have noticed than two dollars a month. many changes since. The best little paper in America Leslie Bhutani Letitia Harper Newlin (Covering the best little community anywhere!) Montecito Montecito Publisher Timothy Lennon Buckley Editor Kelly Mahan • Design/Production Trent Watanabe No Follow Through There Were Five Associate Editor Bob Hazard • Lily Buckley • Associate Publisher Robert Shafer Our President, Mr. Obama, visited Wholly Cows Advertising Manager/Sales Susan Brooks • Advertising Specialist Tanis Nelson • Office Manager / Ad Sales L’Aquila (Italy) after a major earth- I apologize in being a bit tardy Christine Merrick • Moral Support & Proofreading Helen Buckley • Arts/Entertainment/Calendar/Music quake in 2009. He promised the in responding as Nancy and I just Steven Libowitz • Books Shelly Lowenkopf • Business Flora Kontilis • Columns Ward Connerly, Erin Graffy, town’s mayor $4.5 million to rebuild returned from a month in Maui, Scott Craig • Food/Wine Judy Willis, Lilly Tam Cronin • Gossip Thedim Fiste, Richard Mineards • History the University. Today, July 3, 2012, the whereupon I discovered your article. Hattie Beresford • Humor Jim Alexander, Ernie Witham, Grace Rachow • Photography/Our Town Joanne mayor stated that not a single dime I have been retired for 12 years now A. Calitri • Society Lynda Millner • Travel Jerry Dunn • Sportsman Dr. John Burk • Trail Talk Lynn P. Kirst has arrived from Obama, and that it and own Goleta Valley Self-Storage Medical Advice Dr. Gary Bradley, Dr. Anthony Allina • Legal Advice Robert Ornstein had not been reported in Italy’s major on Overpass Road, which is run by Published by Montecito Journal Inc., James Buckley, President newspapers. The U.S.A. is the only my daughter Joanna Von Yurt and PRINTED BY NPCP INC., SANTA BARBARA, CA country not to keep its word. Shame her husband, Jan Marco (who do a on us! much better job than I ever did when Montecito Journal is compiled, compounded, calibrated, cogitated over, and coughed up every Wednesday The president should keep his mouth I started it in 1990). by an exacting agglomeration of excitable (and often exemplary) expert edifiers at 1206 Coast Village shut if he doesn’t think he can keep a Wholly Cow’s location was about Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA 93108. promise, but no, his motto seems to be: where the stairs are located that lead How to reach us: Editorial: (805) 565-1860; Sue Brooks: ext. 4; Christine Merrick: ext. 3; Classified: ext. 3; FAX: (805) 969-6654; Letters to Editor: Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, sound good at the moment and follow down to Wells Fargo Mortgage on the CA 93108; E-MAIL: [email protected] through be damned. Foul! right side of the 1157 retail strip on Fred Sidon Coast Village Road. Santa Barbara The Wholly Cow was a wonder- You can subscribe to the Journal!! (Editor’s note: Though we sympathize ful experience, dedicated to qual- Please fill out this simple form and mail it to us with your payment with you and the university support- ity fast food and desserts. The doors ers, the only thing a president is able to opened 1978 on a 10-year lease and My name is:______“promise” is to work to convince Congress closed when the lease expired and My address is:______ZIP______to set aside money to help L’Aquila rebuild the land was sold and developed to its University. It is not, after all, Mr. its current design. The location was Enclosed is ______$150 for the next 50 issues of Montecito Journal to be delivered via First Class Mail Obama’s money. It is ours. He needs our originally Turnbull’s Florists which P.S. Start my subscription with issue dated: – or at least our Congressional representa- was bought by Bob Gervasoni in the Please send your check or money order to: Montecito Journal, 1206 Coast Village Circle, Suite D, Montecito, CA 93108 tives’ – permission to give it away. – J.B.) early ‘70s. Bob went on to reestab- lish Gervasoni’s Florists at the corner 8 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 12 – 19 July 2012 #1382

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This Week Exhibit and Reception Head to Porch to view the exhibit, “Birds: Oil Paintings in and around by Amanda Grandfield,” and enjoy an opening reception ontecito When: Opening reception July 14, 3 to 5 pm; (IfM you have a Montecito event, or an event that concerns Montecito, exhibit featured July 3-August 9 please e-mail [email protected] or call (805) 565-1860) Where: 3823 Santa Claus Lane, Carpinteria Info: 684-0300 or www.porchsb.com FRIDAY JULY 13

Comedy Juggling at Montecito Library Comedy juggler David Cousin returns to our libraries Where: San Leandro Lane at white picket antique store owner is selling a huge with his hilarious and awe-inspiring comedy juggling. Can fence in front of green pump house portion of her vast collection, including first one juggle bowling balls? What other everyday items can Info: 568-0833 and signed editions of many books one juggle? How many items can one juggle at one time? When: 9 am to 3 pm Come see the answers to these and other questions as Painters on the Porch Where: Eagles Lodge, 923 Bath Street David amazes you with his entertaining, high energy and A summer series, Painters on the Porch graceful routines. When: 4 pm to 4:45 pm features local artists who set up shop on Where: Montecito Library, 1469 East Valley Road Info: 969-5063 the porch of Kathryne Designs. The first SUNDAY JULY 15 is Carol Simon, who from her Rose Cottage studio in Santa Barbara, creates Book Signing THURSDAY JULY 12 Dia de Las Comidas her impressionistic oils. She is a classically Local sculptor, author, and environmental Hospice of Santa Barbara will benefit trained musician and artist; her works have activist Bud Bottoms signs his new book MERRAG Meeting and Training from lunch and dinner proceeds from local been collected by Cottage Hospital, local titled, The Story of Santa Barbara’s Dolphin Network of trained volunteers that restaurants Carlitos and Cava. A portion of businesses, and are in private collections. Fountain work and/or live in the Montecito the proceeds will be donated to Hospice’s When: 11 am to 3 pm When: 2 pm to 4 pm area prepare to respond to community Hispanic Family Services. Where: Kathryne Designs, Where: Chaucer’s Books, disaster during critical first 72 hours When: all day 1225 Coast Village Road, Suite A 3321 State Street following an event. The mutual “self- Where: Carlitos, 1324 State Street, and Info: 565-4700 Info: 565-0525 help” organization serves Montecito’s Cava, 1212 Coast Village Road residents with the guidance and support Info: www.hospiceofsantabarbara.org LotusFest TUESDAY JULY 17 of the Montecito Fire, Water and LotusFest: an annual event that celebrates Sanitary Districts. This month: READY! FRIDAY JULY 13 the legendary flower that is Lotusland’s Montecito Water District Public SET! GO! Your personal Wildfire Action namesake. The afternoon will include Hearing Plan. AFSB Lecture wine tasting with some of Santa Barbara At this hearing, the Board will receive When: 10 am The Architectural Foundation of Santa County’s premier vintners, hors d’oeuvres, public input and any protests, objections or Where: Montecito Fire Station, Barbara hosts a lecture by art and entertainment by “The Undecided Trio,” requests for adjustment to any assessment. 595 San Ysidro Road architectural historian Allan Langdale, an Ikebana (the art of Japanese flower Such protests may also be provided in Info: Geri, 969-2537 Ph.D. He will present an illustrated talk arranging) workshop and lotus lore galore. writing o the District, but must be received on “Ancient Greek Architecture in Sicily.” July is peak lotus blooming season. LotusFest by the District prior to the close of the Music Academy of the West Concert This lecture will visit such sites as Syracusa, provides the perfect opportunity to view hearing on July 17. Series Agrigento, Segesta, and Selinunte, and these uniquely beautiful flowers while When: 2 pm An intimate 60-minute concert features examine Greek temple building and enjoying a relaxing afternoon at this casual, Where: Montecito Water District Board Music Academy of the West Fellows quarrying techniques as practiced by the fun event. There will be plenty of time to see Room, 583 San Ysidro Road performing at the Santa Barbara ancients. other areas of Lotusland, a spectacular 37- Info: 969-2271 Museum of Art. Tickets are required; When: 7 pm acre estate garden in Montecito. or www.montecitowater.com complimentary tickets will be distributed Where: 229 East Victoria Street When: 2 pm to 5 pm on a first-come, first-served basis Cost: $10 suggested donation Cost: $75 for members, $85 for non- THURSDAY JULY 19 beginning at 1:15 pm at SBMA’s Park Info: 965-6307 or www.afsb.org members Entrance. Registration: 969-9990; a confirmation Summerland Party When: Thursdays July 12, 19, 26, and SATURDAY JULY 14 and directions to Lotusland’s Visitor Mediterranee hosts open house to August 2 and 9, at 2 pm Entrance will be mailed upon receipt of celebrate summer and the opening of new Where: Mary Craig Auditorium MTF Hike your reservation Info: www.lotusland.org sidewalks in Summerland. The fest kicks off at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Montecito Trails Foundation 2-mile walk today, with a party on Saturday, July 21, 1130 State Street along San Ysidro Creek; an easy hike Book Sale from noon to 5 pm. 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10 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 12 – 19 July 2012 Music Academy take a stab at a second run through really concentrate on what the singers the “Largo al factotum” aria from are doing. I try to do that in my full of the West Rossini’s The Barber of Seville coming productions, too. I’d always rather from an angry, sarcastic and almost have simplicity.” by Steven Libowitz aggressive point of view of a dis- Fabrizio Melano serves as stage direc- dained garbage man rather than the tor alongside music directors John Opera Scenes at the Lobero boastfully jovial barber we normally Churchwell, Jonathan Kelly and see on stage. “I wouldn’t necessarily Carrie-Ann Matheson for MAW’s 2012 abrizio Melano, the opera stage try that in your next performance,” he Opera Scenes, performed Saturday at 2pm director with the mellifluous told Goble. “But it’s something you and Monday at 7:30pm at the Lobero. name and a massively impressive can keep in mind when you play the Tickets cost $40. Fresumé, arrived at the Music Academy character as a useful exercise.” of the West last summer via the same Goble excelled at the surprise This Week @ Music route so many other vocal faculty assignment, earning the high praise of, members have taken. Two words: “That’s what I call a ‘singing actor’,” Academy of the West Marilyn Horne. from Melano. Indeed, that’s what the Thursday, July 12: The instrumen- “You can’t say ‘No’ to her,” Melano stage director aims to get from all of tal fellows Downtown Community said last week. “It’s impossible.” his charges, from the biggest opera Concert series begins this afternoon at Not that he wanted to turn down stars to the MAW’s vocal fellows, and the intimate Mary Craig Auditorium the opportunity to work with the 23 he particularly enjoys working with at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, vocal fellows, the vastly talented sing- the younger singers. and there’s a new policy in place for ers culled from all over the country “They’re so open and you feel you the popular one-hour mini-versions through a highly selective process. might have a positive influence on of Picnic Concerts chamber music per- After all, he’s had a long associa- their future,” he explained. “They’re formances. Rather than rushing in on tion with the famous soprano, dat- very open to understanding that the a first-come, first-seated basis, tickets ing back to their days together at most important thing is to be expres- will now be distributed beginning at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, sive, much more so than how you 1:15 at the museum’s back entrance for where Melano served for more than 30 Former Metropolitan Opera director Fabrizio look.” the 2pm shows. So get there early… years beginning in 1969, directing 21 Melano returns to the Music Academy of the West That’s also why he cherishes the New faculty artist JoAnn Turovsky operas including seven new or revised to direct Opera Scenes for the second year in a opportunity to direct Opera Scenes at leads the one and only harp master row, this time at the Lobero on Saturday, July 14 productions for the prestigious com- and Monday, July 16 the summer festival for a second year. class of the summer, a new event pany, and doing great work right from “It’s really concentrating on the on campus (3:15pm; Lehmann Hall; the beginning of PBS’s highly influen- Melano said. “But it’s very well bal- singer and the relationships of the free)… And we’ll say very little about tial “Live from the Met” series, includ- anced.” characters. There are fewer distrac- Mosher Guest artist Kiri Te Kanawa’s ing staging La Bohème, which inaugu- The trick is to get the most out of tions. You can look at other things in rated the series in 1977. the singer-actors who are essential- a big opera production, but here you MUSIC ACADEMY Page 284 Now in the midst of his second ly rehearsing and performing half a summer at MAW, he’s already devel- dozen operas simultaneously, even if oped pride of ownership in the esti- the productions aren’t full scale. mable vocal programming, observ- “Exactly,” Melano said. “The singers ing, “It’s hard work, but it’s a great have to understand that. They’re each program.” In fact, Melano said, the only in two scenes at the most, but it is Music Academy singers comprise and six operas at the same time.” enjoy what he believes to be the finest This year, Opera Scenes steps up program around. to the Lobero, a hall twice the size of “I’ve been to a lot of them, and it its previous location back on campus, really is the best in the world. Marilyn which means for one thing means Horne listens to more than six hun- tickets are actually still available for dred singers to select twenty-one. So an event that usually sells out before everybody here has talent. In most the summer begins. And even though programs, there’s always one or two the singers will wear modern day that you wonder how they got in, but costumes and perform sans scenery, it not here. They all have something doesn’t hurt at all that the Lobero was special… And between her guidance once an actual opera house. and [vocal piano chair] Warren Jones, “It’s a real theater,” Melano they really ask the people to sing and enthused. “We’ll have more sophisti- FREE IN HOME CONSULTATION act correctly.” cated lighting, and lots of room and Once again, Melano is stage direct- a real stage. It gives the aura of real ing the popular “Opera Scenes” pro- performance.” gram, which will be performed on The audience will also be treated to Saturday afternoon and Monday something else that’s new: Act I of La www.MontecitoKitchens.com night. And just like last year, the Traviata will have an intimate twist. heavy focus is on French and Italian “We’re doing something of an exper- Don Gragg 805.453.0518 License #951784 repertory, mostly the latter, naturally. iment, performing it without a chorus, The program includes the entire first just the principal singers,” Melano act of Verdi’s La Traviata, Act I, Scene explained. “Now it’s an intimate party II of the same composer’s Falstaff, a rather than a lot of people at the big scene from Puccini’s Suor Angelica, house. That puts a greater burden on shorter excerpts from Donizetti’s all the singers. But it works well. I’m Lucrezia Borgia and Debussy’s Pelleas very pleased.” et Melisande plus the big finale from Melano has a penchant and a Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. knack for trying out new stuff on the “It’s a very demanding program vocal fellows. At last Friday’s master full of contrasting pieces and styles,” class, he had baritone Jeffrey Goble 12 – 19 July 2012 In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth – V.S. Pritchett MONTECITO JOURNAL 11 Village Beat by Kelly Mahan

Braille Institute’s Chinese Chukkers he Braille Institute Auxiliary of Santa Barbara hosts the 29th annual Polo Invitational Match andT benefit luncheon this year on August 4. The event, to be played in conjunction with the Piaget Silver Cup, raises funds for the Braille Institute Auxiliary. The theme this year is “Chinese Chukkers,” paying homage to China’s influence on polo. “China was one of the first places polo was played way Braille Institute Auxiliary Benefit assistant chair Charlene Nagel and chair Jo Thompson back in the fifteenth century,” says co-chair Jo Thompson. There will be access technology (computers). Other Asian-themed décor, food, and cock- services include counseling and sup- Timeless tails. port, youth and career services, and Elegant A raffle will feature such items as community outreach classes, and the Affordable hotel stays, jewelry, gift certificates, Institute’s library features thousands and goodie baskets, many donated of books-on-tape, available to those from Montecito vendors. “Tecolote, who cannot read standard print. Pierre LaFond, Casa del Herrero, “Life outside Braille Institute is also Scott Hogue Floral, Montecito Café, important, and many off-site classes Brostrom’s Montecito Country Club, and Giuliana are available, which include golf, yoga Haute Couture have all donated items. and bowling. So many of us, and our in monte cito We are so grateful,” Thompson says. families, will be touched personally The “men in black” selling raffle tick- by macular degeneration and other ets throughout the event are Don Seth visual problems. Our goal is to elimi- 539 San Ysidro Road • Montecito, CA • (805) 565-0039 (MJ columnist Lynda Millner’s hus- nate blindness and visual impairment band), and Jo Thompson’s husband, as barriers to a fulfilling life,” says Willard Thompson. Auxiliary member Pat Andersons. Since 1980, Braille Institute of Santa Speaking at the event will be Sarah Barbara has offered services to the Popke, who at 27 years old began los- visually impaired. The center on De ing her sight. La Vina Street in Santa Barbara is a Braille Institute of Santa Barbara gathering place where blind and visu- is funded by grants, gifts, and the ally impaired community members of once-yearly fundraiser held at the all ages can learn important skills that Polo grounds under the auspices of will help restore their dignity, confi- the Braille Institute Auxiliary. The dence and independence. Auxiliary was formed in 1981, with Braille Institute has provided the goal of combining fundraising “Solutions in Sight” to thousands of and volunteer talents to benefit the visually impaired people in the com- Institute. munity, so they can live satisfying, ful- A live auction featuring a single item filling lives, according to Thompson. will be held after lunch; a cooking les- The facility offers a variety of classes including cane travel, cooking, and VILLAGE BEAT Page 314

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first heard of Barnaby Conrad Ms Millner is the author when as a young bride we were of “The Magic Make attending bullfights in Tijuana and Over, Tricks for Looking, wantedI a book informing us of the Thinner, Younger, spectacle we were seeing. The book and More Confident – we chose was Gates of Fear by Conrad. Instantly!” If you have an event that belongs in this Years later when we were stationed in column, you are invited to Spain, we met an American bullfighter, call Lynda at 969-6164. John Fulton, who was a friend of Barnaby’s and his wife, Mary. Upon moving to Santa Barbara in 1976, we called to introduce ourselves. Barnaby and Mary had recently founded the Santa Barbara Writers Conference (SBWC), which became a focal point of our lives and continues to be. This year I was at Barnaby’s 90th m o n t e c i t oYOGA birthday party held at the Women’s a • sanctuary • for • soul • centered • evolution Club in Carpinteria, along with many writers, workshop leaders and friends. Barnaby qualifies as a true Renaissance man due to his many talents. He was a bullfighter (still has a limp from those days), a nightclub piano player, owner of the famous Matador bar in San Francisco, artist (I New owners of the Santa Barbara Writers We are happily OPEN! have a life-size wood cutout he did of Conference Monte Schulz and Nicole Starczak; my dog Mandy) who does portraits, Monte is the son of the late Charles Schulz of with a brand new Peanuts fame, who used to speak at the confer- trompe l’oeil and murals, not to men- ence beautiful tion the many books he has authored. Author Ray Bradbury sent birth- was usually attired in white tennis (moislture protected) day greetings to his friend of 40 shorts for his talk. He never failed years. Monte Schulz now owns the to inspire the attendees to go and floating bamboo floor Writers Conference along with his write. “What are you doing here? fiancée, Nicole Starczak, the director. You should be home writing. You’ve Monte spoke at the celebration say- got to jump off cliffs all the time and we look forward to ing, “Barney reminds me of my being build your wings on the way down.” young a long time ago. I reviewed the As Monte said, “I started reading Ray welcoming you for a class or visit! Conference because of him. My trib- at age twelve. He’s one of the greatest ute to him is the Writers Conference.” American writers.” Two of his many What a grand legacy! books are The Martian Chronicles and please check online for our Fahrenheit 451. The 40th SBWC This night at the Hyatt Hotel, Sid schedule of offerings gave a tribute to Ray who passed Ray Bradbury had been the open- away June 6, 2012. Ray was known for ing night keynote speaker for 38 of writing futuristic fiction that some- all levels welcome! the 40 conferences. I listened to him times came to life. After Sid talked, I www.montecitoyoga.com | tel • 805.845.1301 every year since 1977. Ray didn’t drive spoke with him and he told me he’d because he was so nearsighted so forgotten to tell the audience about 1187 coast village rd • suite 10C • montecito, ca • 93108 his life-long friend Sid Stebel would drive him up from Los Angeles. Ray SEEN Page 164 14 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 12 – 19 July 2012 Small enough to care. Substantial enough to deliver.

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this poem Ray had written in his you to do that?” If someone had to book, Somewhere a Band is Playing, in follow in Bradbury’s conference foot- 2007. “Somewhere a band is playing. steps, Dorothy Allison was the perfect Oh listen, oh listen, that tune! If you choice. learn it you’ll dance on forever, In Socializing is always part of June… And yet June… And more… the esprit de corps of the Writers June… And death will be dumb and Conference. Paul Larsen and Marla not clever. And death will be silent Miller (who teaches at the confer- forever, In June and June and more ence) donated their home to Monte June.” And so he died in June just a and Noel so the workshop leaders and few days before this year’s conference volunteers could have a happy hour began. It gives you goose bumps. and light supper before going to the next speaker’s talk. And there’s never a lack of chat among these communi- Write On cators. After all, words are their busi- The editor of the SBWC’s daily bulle- ness. Some of those attending were tin, “Write On,” Marianne Dougherty Montecito Journal’s Ernie Witham, introduced this year’s opening speak- Grace Rachow and Jim Alexander, er Dorothy Allison. She is the author along with Walter Halsey Davis, of Bastard Out of Carolina, which Dan Poynter, Duane Unkefer, Jerry took her ten years to write. Imagine Dunn Jr., Perie Longo, Susan Miles a comedic Baptist preacher with a Gulbransen and Fred Kline. southern accent who throws in a few Barnaby Conrad III (son of the cuss words just for good measure. I conference founder) introduced felt like the audience should have said Christopher Buckley (son of the late a few halleluiahs and amens. William Buckley Jr. and long time con- Dorothy was truly inspirational ference speaker). Barnaby told us they in a most unique and funny way. met as freshmen at Yale and have been She told, “I was twelve when I read friends these 40 years. Buckley was The Martian Chronicles. The man was editor of Esquire magazine at age 24 drunk on language.” She said that and greatly admired by Ray Bradbury. one of the hardest things writers have Conrad also said, “Christopher was to do is explain what they do. Her in the Merchant Marine, avoided the mother always asked, “Did they pay clap and got a tattoo before it was 16 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 12 – 19 July 2012 SBWC volunteer coordinator and MJ columnist Grace Rachow, better known as “Queen of the World,” with Melodie Johnson Howe, hostess Marla Miller and volunteer Lisa Angle

Barnaby Conrad III and good friend, author and guest speaker Christopher Buckley at the 40th annual Writers Conference

the vineyard the farm Montecito Dine with the Winemaker, Chef, & Farmer resident and In & n author of O Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe July 28, 2012 Fannie Flagg and SBWC Bernat Family Vineyard owner Monte Schulz Los Olivos, CA

Bernat Family Wines with Debby & Shu Takikawa’s produce cool.” They still tease each other. of view I could make spelling mis- Christopher sometimes calls Barnaby takes and no one would know.” She III, “Barnaby three sticks.” Buckley’s did and won first prize, which led Menu created and prepared by latest book is, They Eat Puppies, Don’t to Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Chef Chris Joslyn of the Los Olivos Cafe They? “It may not get translated into Stop Café and a movie. Her script was Chinese,” he friends. “I read The Death nominated for an Academy Award of Manolete when I was six.” That’s the and won others. When an agent first book that gave Barnaby Sr. fame and wanted her to write, she confessed her fortune. Christopher was the found- dyslexia. She was told, “No problem. $125 includes tax and gratuity ing editor of Forbes FYI magazine That’s what editors are for.” Before Contact Matthew Negrete at 805.688.7265 ext. 214 (now ForbesLife), where he is now becoming a writer Fannie had been a or [email protected] editor-at-large. He’s written 15 books well-known TV personality on such including Thank You For Smoking, shows as Candid Camera. which was made into a movie in 2005. He is a brilliant satirist. Many years back, local lady Fannie Finale SANTA YNEZ VALLEY Flagg came to the Writers Conference We should give a tribute to Noel Jewish Community only to hear Eudora Welty speak. and Monte who saved SBWC and “There was a short story contest but have made such a difference in so I was afraid to write because I am many lives. As Snoopy would say, “It Sponsored by the Santa Ynez Valley Jewish Community dyslexic and can’t spell. I thought was a dark and stormy night.” Write if I wrote it from a little girl’s point On! •MJ 12 – 19 July 2012 People think they know you; they know the things about you that you have forgotten – Mick Jagger MONTECITO JOURNAL 17 MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) hundred percent American.” LAST FEW WEEKS! The water, which is filtered through 14,000 feet of porous lava, is naturally enhanced with minerals, is high in electrolytes, has a 65 percent smaller MOVING SALE carbon footprint, and, for every bottle bought, Waiakea donates 650 liters of clean water to those in need through WE WOULD RATHER SELL IT TO YOU the charity, PumpAid.org Advertising slogans include FOR LESS THAN MOVE IT “Bottled With Mother Earth in Mind” and “Hope Springs Eternal.” “We are currently about to be offered at ten five-star resorts in Hawaii, as well as premium restaurants, hotels, yoga boutiques and country clubs in southern California,” adds Ryan. “We really want to transform the Frank Hotchkiss – the tale of the tape bottled water industry, beverage ago, was sitting in for the regular industry, and to a degree the con- show host, Lanny Ebenstein, inter- sumer products industry overall, by viewing police chief Cam Sanchez. showing that even though being envi- “We talked about a range of topics – ronmentally friendly and charitable crime rates, transients, gangs, taggers TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR costs quite a bit more, it still can breed – and he was very forthcoming, even success.” telling me about his early days in the LOWEST PRICES EVER! Liquid assets, indeed... LAPD,” he says. “But a week later I got a very apolo- Program Blunder getic e-mail from Les Carroll, the sta- It’s not quite Watergate, but Santa tion manager, saying that somehow Barbara city council member Frank an engineer had over-ridden the entire HOME Hotchkiss found himself the victim show with another recording. He said FURNISHINGS of a major technical error when an that, in his 17 years at the station, it 1117 STATE ST. l (805) 962-2166 l MON-SAT 10-6 hour-long show he hosted for the local had never happened before. radio station KZSB-AM was inadver- “Of course, I was ticked off, but WE ALSO OFFFER RUG CLEANING AND REPAIR tently erased. Les said he hoped to make up for the Frank, who was elected three years show being wiped with a nice dinner

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Mansion Mystery 16 years serving the Santa Barbara Montecito is front and center in the Santa Barbara community FOR VOTING US BEST multi-million divorce of mega movie PLACE TO SEE A PERFORMANCE star Tom Cruise and his wife of five Melissa M. Pierson, Owner 3 YEARS IN A ROW! years, Katie Holmes, which was set- 1211 Coast Village Road #4 tled earlier this week. Montecito, CA 93108 The actress is entitled to their $35 [email protected] million 10,286-sq-ft Beverly Hills man- www.coastalhideaways.com sion bought in April 2007, according 12 – 19 July 2012 Life: how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here but elsewhere – V.S. Pritchett MONTECITO JOURNAL 19 State Street Spin SENIORITY Medical Mischief? by Erin Graffy de Garcia An Old Friend Comes Home by Patti Teel was just doing some research on here is nothing like an old friend local medical history. The founder Local history and who has celebrated life’s joys aviation aficionado of the original Santa Barbara Robert Burtness’ and triumphs and mourned MedicalI Clinic was a Dr. Rexwald new tome, The Theartaches and catastrophes right Brown who sought ways to make Santa Barbara B-24 along with you. That’s why I was on health care accessible and affordable Disasters: A Chain cloud nine all day after my dear friend, to all people… which led him to of Tragedies across Lisa Wysel, called to tell me that after Air, Land, and Sea create this clinic. The “clinic” was a residing in Scottsdale for several years, very new and controversial concept she and her husband, Glen, are moving back a century ago. Brown was a firm back to Santa Barbara. I have missed believer that the shared overhead in my old friend. I have missed her Doting ‘aunties’ Patti Teel, Lisa Wysel, Jane Defnet a multi-specialty clinic would reduce thoughtful way of expressing herself and Mardee Tamas admire Lisa’s first grandchild, Allegra costs and therefore healthcare delivery and her mischievous sense of humor. I could reach more people. have even missed her teasing me about Ms Graffy is author of Patti Teel is the com- At any rate, the very day the Supreme the fact that I’m so much older than her munity representative for Court Decision was handed down, “Society Lady’s Guide on (three months to be exact), forcing me How to Santa Barbara,” Senior Helpers, providers I was reading this editorial of Dr. is a longtime Santa to retaliate by giving her birthday cards of care and comfort at a Brown published in California and Barbara resident and featuring women with gray hair. (I moment’s notice. She is Western Medicine: a regular attendee at couldn’t help myself; she gave me the also host of the Senior Helpers online video “Another shadow of the menace is many society affairs ammunition by mistakenly revealing and events; she can be show. www.santabar the insistence by groups of private reached at 687-6733 the fact that she colors her hair to cover baraseniors.com. E-mail: citizens and politicians that medicine the gray.) [email protected]. be socialized. Socialization means the Lisa is thrilled and excited to be com- subjection, by legislative control and remains of the second plane were dis- ing back to the town where she and ity, focusing on a mother’s love for her political manipulation, of the medical covered and a Coast Guard cutter was Glen raised their family. They feel as if children and the senselessness of war. profession in a system of state medi- racing out to the island with investi- they are finally coming back home. Life I am not the only one who will cine, which includes health insurance gators. The cutter rammed right into did not stop for Lisa and Glen while be celebrating Lisa’s homecoming. and compulsory professional atten- a yacht, slicing it in two and killing they were residing in Scottsdale. They Understandably, she has many friends dance. Carried to a logical end, the two people on board. (Old timers now have two darling grandchildren in Santa Barbara. I am fortunate to be a states and the nations would compel might well remember that accident; and one more on the way. They built part of a little sisterhood that includes physicians to practice on terms dic- the yacht belonged to the son of bank- a new business facility and a beauti- Jane Defnet, Mardee Tamas and Lisa. tated by lay people.” er Rudi Caspers.) ful home. And Lisa spearheaded the While Lisa was gone, we continued to How prescient... this was published The book was meticulously Open Wide Foundation, facilitating the get together without her, but it always in 1929! researched: Bob even tracked down efforts of dentists who volunteer their felt as if a member of our family was a crew member from the first plane services by working a week in clinics missing. Years ago, when we were up who was still alive at 90+ and could to provide dental care in impoverished in Solvang celebrating one of our birth- Books Books Books give him details about the disaster. areas where services were unavailable. days, the four of us found ourselves An Able-Buddied Man Great local history, interesting WWII The town of Peronia, Guatemala is walking behind a group of friends who Funny-man Buddy Winston just chronicle, and good read for Liberator home to their first clinic and they were quite a bit older than us. They completed the first draft of his first and aviation aficionados. plan to gradually spread the program were laughing and having a wonderful book. The former Santa Barbara resi- to other countries in need. I am not time together. Lisa smiled knowingly dent who wrote for Jay Leno and the Another “Little Book” surprised by Lisa’s activism. In Santa and said, “That will be us one day.” Tonight Show for six years, is living I first met Selden Edwards when Barbara, she served as the Montecito And she was right. in... Ecuador?! And his first book, due sitting next to him at a black tie din- Union School Board president, and on I emailed Lisa a preview of the article out at the end of summer, will pur- ner. Noting his name, I queried as to Mother’s Day in 2006, in an expression and she had the following to say: portedly be called, An Out Of Buddy whether he was related to the long- of her concern over the Iraq War, Lisa “Oh, Patti, what a sweet way to wel- Experience. time local conglomerate of Edwards- led a grass roots movement to gather come us home. Love the article. But Spaulding-Selden family line of bank- hundreds of men, women and children you are a whopping four months older Robert Burtness and the B-24s ers, headmasters, architects and writ- to Arlington West in an act of solidar- than me. Get your facts straight.” •MJ Long-time aviation and history afi- er-historians. Sure enough, he was cionado, Bob Burtness, managed to right in there, third or fourth genera- of the details of this momentous age Former head- wrap up both passions in a fascinating tion. And, he also had been a headmas- master of Crane makes this companion piece as much new book about a long ago WWII inci- ter at Crane school, and he was work- Country Day School fun as his debut.” dent and aviation accident in Santa ing on a book (which also had to do Selden Edwards Selden added, “I don’t need to tell Barbara. with history). But he demurred about has just released you what a thrill this is for a late The Santa Barbara B-24 Disasters: being an author, saying he had been his latest novel, bloomer author.” The Lost Prince A Chain of Tragedies across Air, Land, working on the novel for 30 years. and Sea concerns a B-24 Liberator on Well, within a year or two of this Santa Barbarans are maneuvers over the Pacific here in conversation, he sold the novel to 1943, when it ran out of fuel. The Dutton, and The Little Book became Buzzing About... crew bailed: two who jumped over the quite big. Though a couple decades in …The once-in-a-blue moon sale at ocean were killed, and the others over the making, it became an immediate for its meticulous research and Fine Fabrics. So you did not think land survived. A second B-24 sent out success, with a meteoric ascent to the detailed unveiling of life and mores in there was a fabric store in town? Now for search-and-rescue vanished in the New York Times bestsellers list. the nineteenth century. don’t go here if you are looking for fog over the islands. Eight months Now Dutton has released his sec- The new book is out August 16, quilting materials. This is a small bou- later parts of the plane and some ond manuscript, which Edwards says and Publisher’s Weekly (the Bible of the tique with – like the name says – fine remains of its 12 airmen were found has been “a long haul… but not thirty publishing industry) just published fabrics. I came in with my girlfriend on San Miguel. years!” The Lost Prince is a sequel to his a boxed review of his new novel and Diana who sews costumes for danc- Then, eleven years later, more bestselling The Little Book, acclaimed enthused, “Edwards’s bird’s-eye view ers. Watching Diana oohing and aahh- 20 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 12 – 19 July 2012 COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA Your Westmont PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT by Scott Craig Scott Craig is manager of media relations at Westmont College NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Music Fest Brings World-Class Talent On Wednesday, July 25, 2012, the Montecito Planning Commissions will hold to Montecito a public hearing at 123 East Anapamu Street, Room 17, Santa Barbara, CA, which will include the following items: 1. Case No. 12ORD-00000-00003. Hearing on the request of the Planning and Development Department that the Montecito Planning Commission consider and adopt a recommendation to the Board of Supervisors that they adopt an ordinance (Case No. 12ORD-00000- 00003) amending Division 35.4, Montecito Standards for Specific Land Uses and Division 35.10, Glossary, of Section 35-2, the Santa Barbara County Montecito Land Use and Development Code, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the County Code; and, 2. Case No. 12ORD-00000-00004. Hearing on the request of the Planning and Development Department that the Montecito Planning Commission consider and adopt a recommendation to the County Planning Commission that they recommend to the Board of Supervisors that they adopt an ordinance (Case No. 12ORD-00000- 00004) amending Division 2, Definitions and Division 7, General Regulations, of Article II, the Santa Barbara County Coastal Zoning Ordinance, of Chapter 35, Zoning, of the County Code. The purpose of the proposed ordinances is to clarify existing regulations and implement new regulations regarding the use of property for temporary uses (special events), and make other minor clarifications, corrections and revisions. The 2012 Summer Scholars with Westmont faculty and staff (photo by Brad Elliott) The Montecito Planning Commission meeting begins at 9:00 a.m. The order he Montecito International Meyers will also headline a perfor- of items listed on the agenda is subject to change by the Commission. Music Festival returns to mance Sunday, July 29, playing the Anyone interested in this matter is invited to appear and speak in support of Westmont for its fifth season Arensky Trio with Yi-Ju Lai and Ko or in opposition to the project. Written comments are also welcome. All withT a stellar lineup of visiting artists Iwasaki and the Mendelssohn Octet letters should be addressed to the Montecito Planning Commission, 123 East and talented faculty. About 140 with Sam Fischer, Rebekah Durham, Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101. Letters, with nine copies, should be filed with the secretary of the Montecito Planning Commissions students from around the world take Mai Ke, Bethany Pereboom, Yi Zhou, no later than 12:00 P.M. on the Friday before the Montecito Planning part in a three-week, music-intensive Xian Zhuo and Marek Szpakiewicz. Commission hearing. The decision to accept late materials will be at the program July 16 to August 3. “They Tickets, which are $15 for students/ discretion of the Montecito Planning Commission. are among the most talented young seniors and $30 general admission, musicians in the world, coming will be sold at the door. Maps and/or a staff analysis of the proposal may be reviewed at Planning together to learn from today’s masters and Development, 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, CA, 93101 a week prior to the public hearing. For further information, please contact and to share the joy of chamber music Summer Scholars Noel Langle at (805) 568-2067, by email to [email protected] or with their contemporaries,” says FAX to (805) 568-2030. Director Chan Ho Yun. Success Legendary violinist Ida Haendel About 30 high school students com- If you challenge these projects (Case No. 12ORD-00000-00003 & 12ORD- performs at a Jascha Heifetz tribute pleted three weeks of intensive classes 00000-00004) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you concert Thursday, July 26 at 7:30 pm in with Professors Alister Chapman, or someone else raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence to the Montecito Planning Commission prior to the Porter Theatre. Tickets, which are $15 Christian Hoeckley and Telford public hearing. for students/seniors and $30 general Work as part of the Westmont Summer admission, will be sold at the door. Scholars program. In its second year, In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special Premier concert violinist Anne the program nearly tripled in size, assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Hearing Support Akiko Meyers, a Southern California offering students the opportunity to Staff (805) 568-2058. Notification at least 48 hours prior to the meeting will native who played with the Santa experience life at Westmont while enable the Hearing Support Staff to make reasonable arrangements. Barbara Symphony earlier this year, earning college credits. The students performs in a master class Saturday, studied either Perspectives on World July 28, at 2:30 pm in Porter Theatre. History with Chapman, Philosophical J ARROTT & CO. DIVORCE Tickets, which are $10 for students/ Perspectives on Truth and Value with REAL EST A T E INVEST MENTS seniors and $20 general admission, Hoeckley or Introduction to Christian Thinking about divorce? 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22 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 12 – 19 July 2012 LETTERS (Continued from page 9) vative, charitable, self-reliant, honest, cessfully addressed, no system is going it’s been back-stabbing Republican he – Roberts – could be trusted with upright and moral! to be particularly fair or effective for appointees that have provided the their freedoms. And one more point... pundits say patients, doctors, or taxpayers. – J.B.) intellectual firepower and pivotal It will take some time to fully because of his wealth, he can’t relate swing votes to undermine the free- digest the degree of malfeasance to ordinary Americans. I guess that’s doms and privacy of American citi- and treachery that has taken place. A because he made that money all by A Taxing Moment zens. socialist Harvard law professor said himself... as opposed to marrying it I was amazed as everybody else There are now, thanks to Chief earlier this week (June 26, 2012) that (as in John Kerry) or inheriting it by Chief Justice Roberts’ decision Justice Roberts, no restraints on gov- John Roberts can rule for ObamaCare from Dad (as in Jack, Robert & Ted to call ObamaCare a tax. It was a ernment expansion into every niche and still be a conservative jurist. Kennedy). We didn’t understand that brilliant move. When I saw his photo of a citizen’s life. The commerce I say impossible. actually working at a job and earning surrounded by the ditzy liberal hens clause of the U.S. Constitution is This battle, of course, is not over; your own money made you unrelat- (including Breyer) voting in favor, now available to explain and support in fact, it’s just started. Yesterday able to Americans. I realized what a fox he is. John any effort by Congress to penetrate (June 27, 2012), my heart told me that Strange Roberts just handed over the election the private commercial lives of all we can’t rely on five robed justices In God We Trust to Mitt Romney. citizens. Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin to preserve the sanctity of our free- Obama was prepared to saturate and Leon Trotsky together could not doms and rights. That’s too much to Improved Medicare the airwaves with commercials of have dealt a graver blow to individ- expect. The people with their power heart-wrenching personal medi- ual liberty and personal responsibil- to vote can still move mountains on for All Needed cal horror stories of the downtrod- ity than did the profoundly traitor- election day. But make no mistake: Republican, Democrat, and den while portraying the greedy ous rulings of yet another Harvard what occurred on June 28, 2012 is decline-to-state physicians as well “Cayman Islands” Romney, with his Law School graduate. a seminal victory for socialism and as health care policy analysts and dressage horse prancing about at the And pundits wonder why there’s a unlimited government power, and it economists know that “free mar- Olympics, appearing to be uncaring Tea Party rumbling across the fruit- will require heroic and monumental ket” health insurance does not and totally detached from the disap- ed plain and why Republican pri- effort and resolve on the part of the work. It covers too little, costs too pearing Middle Class woes. mary voters are voting out 20-year people and their elected politicians much, leaves people in bankrupt- Instead, independents such as myself Republican incumbents? Those who to undo. cy, and causes excessive adminis- are now mobilized to do whatever claim they stand for liberty and then I will not live in a nation subject to trative costs. A single-payer system it takes to remove this inept big- use their position of trust backed by unlimited government power over such as an improved and expanded government crazy-spending liberal your vote to undermine the infra- everything I do. My bags are packed; Medicare-for-All is the answer. It who makes even Jimmy Carter look structure that buttresses that lib- the tags say “Lisbon, Portugal.” I has low administrative costs, cov- good from getting re-elected! erty are in the same class as Jerry have a one-way paid flight with can- ers everyone equally, pays the bills, Leslie Nelson Sandusky. He deprived and stripped cellation rights up until January 18, and stabilizes inflation. It is the most Montecito children of their hopes for an emo- 2013. We’ll see what happens! ethical and cost effective way of pro- (Editor’s note: Maybe so, but what tionally healthy childhood; John David McCalmont viding care to everyone. makes you think the Obama campaign Roberts used the peoples’ faith that Santa Barbara •MJ In an improved Medicare-for-All, won’t still “saturate the airwaves with everyone participates and receives commercials of heart-wrenching per- quality care by the private deliv- sonal medical horror stories of the down- ery system. Premiums (taxes) are trodden while portraying the greedy paid into a single government trust “Cayman Islands” Romney, with his fund instead of private insurance. dressage horse prancing about at the Businesses pay according to payroll Olympics?” – J.B.) and individuals and families pay according to income. Governments (we, the community) pay the share Bags Are Packed for the poor. Patients choose any I’m just now sifting through the doctor. Doctors stay in private prac- wreckage of Chief Justice John tice and choose to participate or not. Roberts’ traitorous decision on the Treatment is between doctor and Affordable Care Act. Along with the SANTA YNEZ VALLEY patient without outside interference. Court defeat on Arizona immigra- Payments are negotiated and are for tion earlier in the week, Americans the actual cost of care for all services. must now come to the opinion that The ObamaCare plan may be con- this Court is not a friend, advocate, POLO CLASSIC stitutional but like the RomneyCare defender, or supporter of freedom, plan in Massachusetts, it neither sta- individual liberty or Constitutional Saturday July 21, 2012 bilizes costs, covers everyone, stops government. With the elevation of medical bankruptcies, stops inequal- John Roberts to the position of Chief Gates open 11:30 AM - Match begins 1:30 PM ity in access, nor eases administra- Justice a few short years ago, advo- tive costs. cates of limited government were Let’s enact an Improved Medicare- cautiously optimistic that a leader for-All. It is morally right, fiscally had been put in place with the intel- VS. responsible, and fair to doctors and lectual gravitas to pull America back patients. from the abyss of runaway govern- Paulina Conn ment. Santa Barbara We have discovered to our dis- (Editor’s note: We’ve never taken an may that once again a Republican- Circle JB Polo Ranch editorial position on any of this, as we appointed Supreme Court justice has have yet to hear from a panel of doctors served as a Trojan horse for social- 560 McMurray Road Buellton, CA with their recommendations; until they ism and government takeover of get involved in the public discussion of American society. Democrat appoin- TickeTs AvAilAble AT: how to deliver cost-effective medical ser- tees have served as reliable infantry www syvphp org vices, we’re sitting this out. The guess- soldiers for advancing socialism at . . ing around here though is that until tort the highest judicial level with con- or cAll 805-686-0295 reform and catastrophic coverage is suc- sistent and predictable votes, but 12 – 19 July 2012 The secret of happiness is to find a congenial monotony – V.S. Pritchett MONTECITO JOURNAL 23 LAGUNA CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR CLASS OF 2012

THESE WERE THEIR COLLEGE OFFERS:

AMERICAN UNIVERSITY / BOSTON COLLEGE / BOSTON UNIVERSITY / BOWDOIN COLLEGE / CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC

STATE UNIVERSITY, SAN LUIS OBISPO / CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY / CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE / COLBY COLLEGE

COLORADO COLLEGE / CONNECTICUT COLLEGE / DARTMOUTH COLLEGE / DAVIDSON COLLEGE / DEPAUL UNIVERSITY NOW ENROLLING K-12 DUKE UNIVERSITY / EARLHAM COLLEGE / EMORY UNIVERSITY / GORDON COLLEGE / GOUCHER COLLEGE / HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES / JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY / LAKE FOREST COLLEGE / LEWIS AND CLARK

COLLEGE / LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY / MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE / NEW YORK UNIVERSITY / NORTHWESTERN

UNIVERSITY / OCCIDENTAL COLLEGE / POMONA COLLEGE / PRINCETON UNIVERSITY / ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY / SKIDMORE COLLEGE / SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY / SWARTHMORE COLLEGE

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY / TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY / THE COLLEGE OF WOOSTER / THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

TRINITY COLLEGE / TRINITY UNIVERSITY / TUFTS UNIVERSITY / UNION COLLEGE / UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY

UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

AT MERCED / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO / UNIVERSITY OF BLANCA CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA / UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA CRUZ / UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER UNIVERSITY OF DENVER / UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI / UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (ENGINEERING) / UNIVERSITY OF OREGON

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA / UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND / UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO / UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN

CALIFORNIA / UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS (SCOTLAND) / VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY / WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY

WELLESLEY COLLEGE / WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY / WESTMONT COLLEGE / WHITMAN COLLEGE / WILLIAMS COLLEGE

WHAT WILL YOURS BE? LAGUNABLANCASCHOOL.ORG NOW CHOOSE LAGUNA BLANCA 24 MONTECITO JOURNAL • The Voice of the Village • 12 – 19 July 2012 LAGUNA CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR CLASS OF 2012