Your snide comments about our President potentially removing the beautiful sidewalk art in downtown Santa Ynez pissed off every local I forwarded them to- thought you'd enjoy some factual and local info that isn't slanted or biased to a political cause, written by local Pat Murphy Apr 17, 2014
"Our Santa Ynez Valley horseshoe crosswalks have been in the news lately. An article about our unique walkways in the village of Santa Ynez appeared in The Chamber Executive Network, a publication that goes to Chambers of Commerce all over America. We had a call from Dick Hakes, one of the Chamber executives in Des Moines, Iowa, who had seen our crosswalks and wanted to know more about them.
Here is what they said about them in their newsletter: “Traffic stoppers — Something to make you want to stop and look around. The horseshoes of famous people like President Ronald Reagan, Bo Derek, and John Forsythe are embedded in the crosswalks in the heart of the little town of Santa Ynez, California, in a unique community project. A nearby kiosk lists all the shoes and their positions. This allows visitors to locate the world-class show horses and celebrity-linked steeds of their interest. It’s a perfect fit for this historic Wild West town which also boasts a large museum of horse carriages and coaches. All the horseshoes and other construction expenses were donated, proving that people in this area love their horses. Each shoe was welded with short pieces of rebar to anchor it in the cement, after which an exposed aggregate finish was applied to make sure that the historic artifacts stood out.”
We are so glad that visitors enjoy them. The horseshoe crosswalks were sponsored by the Santa Ynez Valley Equestrian Association. They are meant as a tribute to the many Valley people who love horses and they are in recognition of the 53 different breeds of horses here.
People who helped with this project are: Third District County Supervisor — Brooks Firestone, Construction Supervisor — Mark Hemming, County Road Department — Bobby Fernandez, Concrete — Dan Hemming, Excavation — Jon Stephen; other helpers — Bill Deputy, Ted Martinez, LAT Welding, G.A. Chapman, Kathy Hauenstein, Graphic Systems, M. Gallagher, Mike Monetti of Broken Bow, Joe Knowles, James Jamieson and originator Pat Murphy. Mitch Williams built the kiosk. Santa Ynez Feed was the site for horseshoe collection.
PS- hope you met the General Manager of The Genevieve- Kristopher- who is gay and a vocal Trump supporter.
Folio Press & Paperie
Not sure who took the picture of the Cambells crayon soup, but
I was wondering where you saw them at?
Thanks
Richard
At this point just go with The New Original Cafe (iykyk)
So happy that Game Seeker found a new space! The owners are lovely. Ingrid once told me that they will take the time to show someone how to play a game and then will open up the Amazon app and order it online right in front of them. Broke my heart.
Will be their first customer when they open- glad I can avoid State street altogether once it opens #urintationstation
Agree! (in very small print):
"Supplemental Santa Barbara liveable wage and benefits charge" ?!! How do we know staff ever gets it? That's deceptive at best.
Better yet, don't patronize places with add on charges. Reward places that price honestly to begin with. I'd much rather see a higher, but accurate price, on the menu, than a footnote.
Noe’s Cafe: Breakfast Favorite’s
Noooooooo make it stop
Re: Little Mountain
We are there last week. When you pay, check your bill, and note there is an extra 5% additional fee, so you may not want to give a 25% tip.
I had the carrots at Amasa last night, they are excellent, the whole meal and the cocktails were top notch!
Between the In and out, Starbucks, Fuel Depo and the Point Market and cas wash, the Calle Real/Turnpike intersection is at full capacity, and there is no need for a Chick-Filet to add more chaos to the intersection.
Your News Round Up link goes back to the holiday gift guide link. Maybe fix the link?
Satellite has great mulled wine!
Just call it ‘The Copper Kettle Café’ or ‘The Copper Cup & Kettle’ people will understand, and you won’t have to get into a whole thing with the Ventura place.
From Noozhawk: "Santa Barbara City College's former athletics building is being torn down to make way for the construction of a new facility, which is expected to be completed in 2028. " https://www.noozhawk.com/sbcc-students-coaches-adapt-amid-demolition-of-old-athletic-building/
Can you please update us on the SBCC building that is being taken down. They spent so much time/money sandblasting the exterior only to tear it down?
Sign on “The Crafter’s Library” store?
$40 mill for a paver driveway. Oof.
Thank you for all the work to provide all this great information on our local real estate. $40 million or close to the freeway would not be something I would choose. beautiful landscaping tho!
1969 house at 5513 Camino Ceralvo hideous landscaping, you think they would try harder :)
Interesting. Where are those two things different?
Sounds to me like we have a problem with the voters. How do you solve that?
From what I understand, the largest voting group are people over 60. My observation also tells me that this is the group that is most easily manipulated via misinformation since they rely on norms to govern behavior (rather than actual rules, laws, and accountability). They also seem to lack the ability to detect misinformation and outright fakes and lies in today’s media. This seems like a problem that’s unsolvable until these groups actually “age out”.
This obviously doesn’t apply to everyone but it appears to apply to a large enough population to make a difference.
Good!
Chinese Lantern Tree is so invasive and messy, its a bad street tree. Certainly be a beautiful tree in the landscaping, but it has its place.
As far as canceling the play or parade, just despicable, virtual, signaling from the city. They just had Halloween month ago.
There's been no ice activity on the east side. And anyone with half a brain can figure out that ice would never try to get a bunch of people at a huge event. It would not work out well.
This just concretes the cities fear campaign, but their policy of releasing prisoners back into immigrant communities where we live, making our neighborhoods more dangerous is a daily threat to all immigrants, making life of all immigrants more dangerous.
So canceling a parade based on 0% chance of risk is so offensive, to act like they care, when their daily actions shows more than anything that they don't care.
Canceling parades and allocating, emergency money for immigrants does not help immigrants.
Enforcing basic laws, not releasing criminals right back onto the street, and forcing illegal vending, for Latino owned businesses and restaurants…. is what helps immigrants.
And all these high-rises at their building, guess who has no parking. The immigrants.
My parents cut down their Chinese Lantern tree over 30 years ago, and I still marvel at all the shoots the old root system still sends out to this day.
