If you’re concerned about an older person, it’s important to know that help is available. The Gatekeeper Program, which aims to assist the vulnerable elderly before a crisis occurs, helps to make people aware of the various community services available. Trained community members, called gatekeepers, open the gates between the isolated elderly and these sources of assistance.
Starting this fall, SBCC will offer a new Creative Writing Certificate program. For info, call 965-0581 or visit sbcc.edu. Coordinator and English professor David Starkey tells all.
The Santa Barbara City Council unanimously voted in favor of a policy statement declaring that commuter rail must be part of any future South Coast transit options.
Boats in the Santa Barbara Channel have reported unusually high numbers of blue whales in recent weeks.
At a cool 87 years old, Dave Brubeck endures and his musical passion continues to inspire. Having recently released an intimate new CD, Indian Summer, he returns to the Lobero on Monday, August 27, at 8 p.m. Brubeck’s remarkably cohesive new album contains both classic standards as well as elegant new material, all done as solo piano work. Boldly, Brubeck recorded most of the material in one take, yet the music nevertheless achieves a beautiful timelessness, even as it evokes decades of images and memories.
Soon after the dawn of the new millennium, a new Wilco arrived on the music scene, ready for a bit of all-American reinvention. The band that Chicagoan Jeff Tweedy built had outgrown its alt-country stylistic wardrobe and was led into more experimental terrain by avant pop guru Jim O’Rourke, and the landmark album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot brought us a newer, rougher, brainier Wilco. Their record label was befuddled, as were diehard fans.
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital hired Dr. Alois Zauner to help develop a new neurovascular center at the hospital.
It’s down to the wire for our Indy-sponsored triathletes. D-Day is this Sunday, August 26, and, after months of training and two dry runs, they’re ready to get this show on the road. In addition to the grueling physical training, Danny Brire and Cynthia Stewart have come up against all sorts of unexpected obstacles and picked up a couple top-secret tricks of the trade, too-you know, critical stuff, like how to get the sand off their feet in record time, and the anti-chafing benefits of baby powder.
Despite our county’s wealth, Santa Barbara has one of the highest rates of food insecurity-a condition in which people lack the basic food intake to provide them with the energy and nutrients for fully productive lives-in the state. Luckily, we have numerous agencies trying to alleviate that problem, and everyone can help.
“I felt like it couldn’t happen to me.” Kelly*, the woman seated across the table from me, is young, attractive, and articulate. She speaks confidently and openly, looks me straight in the eye as she talks, her hands resting in her lap. Nothing on the surface suggests a problem, and that’s exactly what she’s trying to explain. She didn’t think it could happen to her.
