They say it takes a village to raise a child, but the reverse can also be true: Sometimes it takes a child to raise a village. When it comes to addressing the world’s gravest ills, young people often have a freshness of vision that is an invaluable tool for creative problem-solving.
Kenneth Rasmuson, the first officially designated sexually violent predator to be released in Santa Barbara County is now registered as “transient.”
You wouldn’t know it by looking at Santa Barbara’s disconcertingly sunny skies, but it’s time for nog and wassail and all those other antiquated words associated with the holidays. For me, this time of year brings a very particular source of stress: the office Secret Santa gift exchange.
Nikki Doner-Sherwood, licensed acupuncturist and former clinic director of the Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine’s intern clinic, will be opening the Community-Centered Oriental Medicine Clinic on January 7, 2008. One year ago, the Santa Barbara College of Oriental Medicine announced it would be closing after 25 years of business.
The California Assembly passed a healthcare reform bill on 12/7.
Bill LaVoie, a longtime veteran of Santa Barbara’s Historic Landmarks Commission, was denied another term because he failed to show up for his application interview with the City Council.
Dennis Apel was sitting in Santa Barbara’s federal courtroom last Thursday morning with two of his coconspirators in crime, quietly sweating some of the possible, if unlikely, outcomes confronting them. The matter before the federal magistrate was strictly procedural-a two-month delay in their arraignment, which by any reckoning would seem a slam dunk.
Goleta seeks a $259,000 state bicycle transportation grant for various bicycle-related traffic improvements.
Gimme something I can spend to: Kelly Scott, who did for Isla Vista fashionistas what S.O.S. did for I.V. drunks-excuse me, social drinkers-with the opening of her boutique Miss Behavin’ (6551 Trigo Rd.) earlier this year, is giving the virtual world a similar style injection.
My wife’s family isn’t Scandinavian, but Spritz cookies are supposed to be. Still, her grandmother passed down this recipe (it’s even in her handwriting, if since scanned and shipped about via email), and whether it came from the nearby settlement of Swedes in Kansas or a church cookbook, it’s still one fine way to celebrate the season.
