Thu., Aug. 17
Fund for Santa Barbara: Hosts a free grant-writing workshop for the fall 2006 grant-making cycle that recently started. Fund for S.B. supports organizations working for social, economic, environmental, and political change in S.B. Noon-1:30pm. Faulkner Gallery. Call 9629164 or visit fundforsantabarbara.org.
After fewer than eight hours of deliberation, a jury found Malinda Jones guilty of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder with her husband Philip Jones, who pulled the trigger.
Pony Up: If you’ve never been to the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club, this Friday’s family-friendly Cinema Night provides a great excuse to check it out. Enjoy the evening’s entertainment-which includes a screening of Guatan, a Spanish documentary, but with English subtitles, about how a polo pony is trained, as well as the feature film The Legend of Zorro-while eating dinner on the polo field under the stars. Bring a blanket or chairs, and something to keep you warm once the marine layer rolls in. Movie food, candy, and soft drinks are included in the price of admission, and the SBPRC clubhouse will have a complete bar open for the grown-ups. Call 684-6683 for info.
The good news about Mission Creek is that the California Coastal Commission (CCC) finally approved a flood-control and creek-restoration plan for the lower 1.3 miles of Santa Barbara’s downtown channel. The bad news is that in the six years since the creek plan was last before the CCC, the Army Corps of Engineers-the federal agency whose approval and funding have been critical to the life of the project-has run out of money.
Environmentalists and county employees are pointing fingers at each other after a plan long in the works to build a new bridge at Gaviota State Park was denied by the California Coastal Commission.
A certain slant of light hints of fall today, the store aisles stocked with summer wares are giving way to school supplies, and the kids all know what’s coming. But I am a teacher no longer, and for the first time in 13 years, there will be no back to school for me. This is easily said, but it is a fact that I have not yet fully processed: Teaching has defined my routines and shaped my life for such a long time, I can barely imagine what I will be feeling when it all begins without me.
Two grants, totaling more than $1.5 million, were awarded to the Santa Barbara County Land Trust last week for the recovery of the endangered steelhead trout and other native species.
After an intense and double-barreled lobbying campaign led by neighborhood activists and Cottage Hospital critics Cheri Rae and her husband John McKinney, Cottage officials reluctantly agreed to postpone an August 17 hearing on their plans to build 115 new homes on the site of the former St. Francis Hospital.
An 84-year-old bicyclist who ran a red light was killed on August 12 by a driver turning right on a green light at the intersection of Fairview and Cathedral Oaks.
While I’d never turn down an invitation to a function taking place at the Doubletree’s Plaza del Sol on a perfectly beautiful, late-summer evening, I was especially excited about last Thursday’s affair. Put on by the Music Academy of the West, the event, Cabaret: A Sea of Shining Stars, marked my first Music Academy experience, and featured several Music Academy superstars performing Irving Berlin’s music, all in honor of the legendary Marilyn Horne. The invitation’s sartorial suggestion was “Cabaret Chic.” Fresh out of any duds that might qualify, I settled on a trusty LBD, and went on my way.
