Calling All Bikes
Bicycle Coalition leads drive to give bikes to junior highschoolers for free.
Year: 2011
Mayor Releases List of City’s Accomplishments this Year
The City of Santa Barbara expanded its restorative policing program, budgeted $75,000 to hire a homeless prevention czar, kept the budget ax from falling on the Rental Housing Mediation Task Force, re-striped Cliff Drive to make it safer for pedestrians, finally adopted a new general plan, opened a new $60 million airline terminal, finished building a new bridge by Haley and De la Vina streets, opened the new Artisan Court affordable housing complex on Cota Street, and participated in a major count of the number of homeless people countywide.
Secret Service Helps Nab S.B. Woman with Fake Checks from Nigeria
Santa Barbara detectives aided by Secret Service agents arrested 47-year-old Passion Moore on 12/12 for possessing $437,485 in fake money orders shipped from Nigeria.
Lobster Fisherman Rescued near San Miguel Island
A Sunday outing for lobster fishermen turned a bit perilous this week when a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter was called out to rescue the trio as their 33-foot boat drifted toward the rocky shore of San Miguel Island.
New Voter Districts for SBCC Trustee Elections
The SBCC Board of Trustees has approved new voter districts for future trustee elections.
SBCC Trustees Elect Board Officers
Santa Barbara City College’s Board of Trustees elected board officers last week at its annual organizational meeting. In a somewhat heated discussion that fell along the same old line of division between the four most recently elected trustees (Peter Haslund, Marty Blum, Lisa Macker, and Marcia Croninger) and the three longer-serving ones (Joan Livingstone, Morris Jurkowitz, Luis Villegas), the board reelected Haslund as president and instated Macker as the new vice president, both of whom first won their seats at the trustee table in 2010.
Vintners’ Festival Relocated from Camp 4
The annual Vintners’ Festival won’t be held at the Chumash-owned property known as Camp 4, as originally planned, but will now instead be at The Carranza on the outskirts of Los Olivos.
Paul Chappell
The former Army Captain and West Point grad lectures internationally on how to wage world peace.
Wine That’s Banned in ’Bama
The coffee shop gang got to talking about Alabama’s weird ban on a risqué wine label called Cycles Gladiator.
Sister Consuelo Morales
The small, vivacious 63-year-old Roman Catholic nun was honored with an Alison Des Forge Award by Human Rights Watch.