Indulge all your senses at the Opportunity Shop’s April 20th Wine & Design event, which brings together some of the area’s top chefs, wineries, and interior designers to raise funds for Work Training Programs, which provides job training and assistance for those with disabilities or disadvantages.
When Rick Caruso stepped up to bat, the crowd was silent and drew a breath. They watched with anticipation, intrigue, and disbelief and, yes, there was some distrust. After all, a lot of these fans had been to the game before, and they’d seen some big league players strike out. With the score a dismal two-zip in the seventh, there were more than a few pessimists in the pack. Will he hit a home run?
In this double Montage for April 11, J’Amy reports on Supervisor Salud’s fast moves to fix transportation on San Ysidro Road and reviews a slew of appointments and returns to service by Montecitans, including the naming of Tony Harbour (pictured) to the Montecito Association’s board. And she bids us farewell for a couple weeks as she endures yet another jury duty summons. Say it ain’t so, J’Amy!
After 16 months in operation, the number of people using the city’s newest parking structure garage-the $26 million, five-story Granada garage-has yet to equal the number who used its predecessor, the one-story lot located behind the Granada Theater.
Members of a special committee charged with exploring how best to protect the City of Santa Barbara’s affordable housing stock shied away from taking any action at their meeting on Tuesday, April 4, citing the complexity of the proposals before them. On the table were plans to expand the city’s inclusionary housing rules.
Santa Barbara Police are opposing efforts by Mel’s, one of Santa Barbara’s more entrenched watering holes, to move from its current digs within the Paseo Nuevo Mall to the 400 block of State Street. Mel’s is hoping to move south because its landlords doubled the rent, but police are objecting that the presence of the bar will contribute to the general alcoholic din-and attendant enforcement issues-that now defines the three-block spread from the 400 to the 600 blocks of State Street.
Sheriff Bill Brown has been forced to abandon one of the solutions to jail overcrowding he frequently touted during his successful election campaign last year. On the campaign trail, Brown had suggested that transferring Santa Barbara county jail inmates to a vacant jail facility located in Tulare County could provide a temporary solution to the county’s long-term need for more jail space.
Jury selection began this week for the trial of Darren Thomas, who was convicted last year of raping and impregnating an autistic woman then under the care of the Devereux Foundation and is now facing perjury charges. While perjury charges are extremely rare, prosecuting attorney Joyce Dudley is claiming that Thomas knowingly lied on the witness stand when he charged that sheriffs deputies stole his coffee cup after meeting with him at a Goleta Starbucks.
Are you curious to learn more about your future? Do you know what it means to be living in a nuclear society? A forum being held on Monday, April 16 will address the growing tensions we face living in a world with weapons of mass destruction. Sponsored by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and the Institute of World Culture, the event will take place from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. in the Faulkner Gallery of the Santa Barbara Public Library.
From April 16-22, just in time for Earth Day, the American Automobile Association will conduct their fifth annual Great Battery Roundup. The campaign calls for Southern California residents to donate their used vehicle, motorcycle, boat, and airplane batteries to one of 39 designated recycling sites.
