ANTI-CONDO VIGIL:
A couple of dozen church members and community activists gathered for a song and prayer vigil Monday outside apartments slated to be replaced by condos.
Year: 2006
CREEK PLANS CRAWL FORWARD:
After many years of talk and delay, an eco-friendly, natural-bottomed, scaled-back flood control plan for lower Mission Creek is finally going back to the California Coastal Commission for review and approval.
SHLENSKY SUSPECT ARRESTED:
Heather Lea Hulsey, 20, was arrested last Thursday for the fatal hit-and-run of Dr. Ronald Shlensky on July 27.
Bayard Stockton 1930-2006
I first met Bayard Stockton in 1985 when he invited me to be on his KMGQ radio show called Santa Barbara’s Good Companions. He was intrigued by the role of television news anchors, and I was awed because I felt like I was being interviewed by Edward R. Murrow. Foreign correspondents like Bayard were gods to all upstart journalists and I wasn’t disappointed. But I do remember that when
I told him the well-written word wasn’t as necessary in my business as his, thunder roared.
Creative Juices
Then Again: New and Very New Dance from Southern California Choreographers
At Center Stage Theater, Sunday, July 30.
Just when the excitement of Summerdance had me itching to bust this joint for New York, Santa Barbara’s Iridian Arts reminded me why this town is where I want to be. Then Again was the final show in Iridian Arts’ successful first season of bringing contemporary music and multi-media performances to Center Stage.
Always Leave ’em Weeping
Academy Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Julian Wachner, with Yu Xiong, concertmasterÂ-; Sara Mueske, harpsichord; Paul Merkelo, Brandon Eubank, and Christopher Coletti, trumpets. At Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, Saturday, August 5.
Here was an event as extraordinary as the annual rebirth of the Festival Orchestra, and without precedent. There was no Academy Chamber Orchestra last year, and here it was, a contender, inviting favorable comparison with the greatest ensembles of its size in the world.
COTTON STILL MISSING:
The search continues for Victoria Cotton, the former Raytheon physicist last seen disembarking a bus near a 7-11 store in Goleta on July 15.
ELEMENTARY CASH:
Faced with dwindling enrollment and a projected 2006-07 budget with little to no wiggle room, the Santa Barbara School Board began the arduous task this week of looking at possible cuts.
MENTAL-HEALTH HOUSING BOOST:
The Santa Barbara City Council unanimously approved a $500,000 increase in its loan to a proposed mental-health housing project located at 617 Garden Street. Developers of the 51-unit project cited escalating construction costs as the basis of their request.
On the Beat
The Story on Kate: The reason why KEYT’s long-limbed “weather babe” (as Craig Smith’s blog calls her) Kate WentÂ-zel left the station comes down to the familiar expression: creative differences, Smith said. Newscast ratings were down and the weather was seen as a weak spot, Smith reported on his blog.
