Actor and former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger‘s 29-year-old author daughter, Katherine, tied the knot with actor Chris Pratt, 39, at the San Ysidro Ranch, where her great uncle John Kennedy and wife, Jackie, honeymooned in 1953, over the weekend. Beanie Baby billionaire Ty Warner‘s hostelry was under heavy security for the event, with a large […]
Direct Relief Women held a Mother’s Day celebration in the new mammoth facility. Direct Relief Women has enabled over 60,000 safe births since its inception. Every $25 makes one safe delivery possible. Shockingly there are 303,000 women who die each year from preventable complications occurring during pregnancy and childbirth – 830 per day. We know […]
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Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care (VNHC) focused this year at their annual Mother’s Day luncheon not on fashion but on “Music & Moms” at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort. The honored mother was Sharol Siemens and the remembered moms were Faviola Belnitz Calderon, Josie Gower, Alice Mitchell, Marilyn Ramos Benitez, and Rebecca Riskin, all […]
The Foodbank of Santa Barbara County has launched a new logo to reflect its focus on community and education in addition to its mission of providing healthy food for all who need it. As part of a three-year strategic planning process that has been underway with full-staff and board of trustees’ participation since last summer, […]
Santa Barbara’s second annual hospitality summer games at the Hilton boasted 14 teams, double the number of participants at the first event at the Hotel Californian. The fun-filled event, which included a recycling race, a bed making contest, a server obstacle course, pastry cake wars, a toilet paper toss, and a talent and bike building […]
Hillside House, now rebranded Hillside given the expansion plans for its 280-acre property which has 59 residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities, raised around $100,000 from its 16th annual Sunset Soirée, held for the first time at the Rockwood Woman’s Club, given the death of Tita Lanning, chatelaine of the historic El Mirador estate, where […]
The 23-year-old Gaviota Coast Conservancy went paddling at the El Encanto with its third annual premier benefactors’ reception for 60 supporters of the organization dedicated to preserving the 76 miles of pristine coastline, the longest stretch of undeveloped coastal land remaining in Southern California. The sunset soirée, co-chaired by Joyce Macias and Donna Senaur, also […]
The Pacific Pride Foundation (PPF) turned the Rosewood Miramar Beach Resort Chandelier Room into a Platinum Palace, literally. As designer Merryl Brown said, “There will be elements of muted gold and ivory floral and masses of silver.” The Royal Ball is so over the top, they only hold it every two years. Guests arrived with […]
Lindsay Cortina is the new president of The Junior League of Santa Barbara replacing Kielle Horton after a one-year term. Cortina joined the league six years ago and has served in numerous leadership roles. She is also director of organizational initiatives at Sansum Clinic, where she oversees the implementation of strategic projects and programs aimed […]
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Everyone was having a ball at the Rosewood Miramar when the tony beachside hostelry launched its bocce club and summer league organized by Jimmy Dunne, which is being held every Thursday through the end of July. Bocce, which is similar to British bowls and French pétanque, derives from games played in the early days of […]
The Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, which since its founding in 1962 has awarded in excess of $115 million to more than 50,000 students, marked its annual gift giving with a dinner for 290 guests at the SB Museum of Natural History. This year, almost $8 million in scholarships was awarded to 2,445 students in […]
Emily Falke, director of education at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum, was definitely seeing red when she hoisted the trophy winning the 36th annual strawberry festival Berry Blast Off in deepest Oxnard. Emily was one of four semi-finalists selected from a pool of 72 recipe submissions and had just one hour to prepare her dish […]
TV hostess Gail Kvistad, whose show Living Local Santa Barbara has been airing on the Cox network for nine years, is going global! Bubbly Gail tells me the show will be airing on YouTube starting next month (June), increasing its viewership massively from 57,000 local subscribers to a hefty international viewership. Benefitting from one of […]
Social gridlock reigned at restaurateur Ali Ahlstrand‘s new State Street eatery, Alito’s, when John Thyne and Kevin Goodwin celebrated the 15th anniversary of their real estate company, Goodwin & Thyne Properties. More than 270 guests turned out for the boffo bash, with 1,138 properties sold in the last decade and a half. “It is amazing […]
