State 7-10
Signed into law by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on 7/8, State Senate Bill 1137 aims to offer relief to families who may lose their homes due to foreclosure.
Month: July 2008
Lee Rosenberg’s Vineyard Valley Theatre Company Gets Amorous with The Voices of Romance
Something about the Santa Ynez Valley gets people like Lee Rosenberg thinking big.
Firefighting Lingo
Firefighters who battle blazes throughout America speak in a technical language entirely their own.
Firefighter Profiles
On the Fourth of July, S.B. County Fire Captain Patrick Byde of Engine Company 30 in Solvang was awaiting the flames on Farren Road in west Goleta.
Law and Disorder 7-10
Los Angeles resident David Bautista, 30, drowned on 7/4 after diving into the shallow Santa Ynez River at Paradise Road. According County Sheriff’s spokesperson Sgt. Alex Tipolt, it’s unknown how long Bautista was in the water before being pulled to shore.
Showing ’em How It’s Done
This fascinating city is the birthplace of such luminaries as beloved kitsch captain William Shatner, the late visionary “space music” composer Henry Brant (a longtime Santa Barbaran who passed recently, aged 94), and, most famously, poet sage Leonard Cohen, whose humor and melancholic wisdom seem to capture some central essence of this city.
Give a Little
Anyone with a sweet tooth knows that the only thing better than baked goods are baked goods for a cause.
Environment 7-10
Congressmember Lois Capps was among those in the House of Representatives who applauded passage of the Marine Pollution Prevention Act of 2007 (H.R. 802), which passed the House of Representatives on 7/8, after passing the Senate on 6/26.
Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Any parent who’s been dragged to an American Girl Place by a daughter eager to shop for historical dolls and their matching clothes and furniture will appreciate the irony of a movie based on one of those characters that preaches a message of thrift and self-sufficiency.
Chapala One Opens
Proponents of Chapala One-a large mixed-use building that combines 7,700 square feet of commercial space, 1,200 square feet of office space, and 46 housing units into one structure located at 401 Chapala Street-celebrated its completion with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on July 9.
