Charles Hopper is the new president and CEO of the beloved Santa Barbara Zoo. Hopper served as COO at the Birch Aquarium at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and as senior business operations manager at the Seattle Aquarium. He also served in the U.S. Air Force and holds an MBA and BA from Seattle Pacific […]
Lea másI also mark the passing of banker Ken Walker, one of the founding members of the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club, at his Buena Park home at the age of 97. He took the helm of his family’s Farmers & Merchants Bank in Long Beach in 1979 having started at the age of 11 […]
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On a poignant personal note, I mark the move to more heavenly pastures of the delightful journalist, author and lecturer Erin Graffy, who succumbed to cancer after a valiant battle at the age of 69. Historian Erin, who became a good friend after I moved to our rarefied enclave from Hancock Park 17 years ago, […]
Lea másIt has been a tale of two cities for Riven Rock resident Prince Harry. His New Year started with Condé Nast, the giant publishing company in New York and owner of the celebrity glossy Vanity Fair, publishing an excoriating 8,000-word cover story about King Charles III’s youngest son and his former actress wife Meghan Markle. […]
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