“To be killed in war is not the worst. To be lost in war is not the worst. To be forgotten is the worst.” – Pierre Claeyssens The 21st annual Military Ball was held for more than 700 people – veterans, active-duty service members, their families, and friends at The Fess Parker, the biggest ever. […]
The United Nations Association (UNA) of Santa Barbara and Tri Counties has awarded its inaugural 2017 Santa Barbara Peace Prize to environmental leader Rinaldo Brutoco, founding president of the World Business Academy, now in its 30th year. Friends and nominees gathered at Moby Dick restaurant for a wine reception and dinner and to congratulate Rinaldo. […]
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Local Montecito mom Kristina McKean has launched The Elephant Project, an organization dedicated to supporting various nonprofits that help aid in fighting the elephant poaching crisis and also provide care to injured, abandoned, orphaned, and abused elephants around the world. An animal advocate for many years, McKean was prompted to get involved with saving the […]
A record 560 guests packed into the ballroom at Fess Parker’s Doubletree when Human Rights Watch held its 11th annual Voices for Justice dinner which raised a hefty $950,000 for the nearly 40-year-old nonprofit, which is a leading defender of fundamental freedoms, the activists who uphold them, and vulnerable people worldwide in 90 countries globally. […]
Social Skills America, a 7-year-old nonprofit that supports The Key Class and youth in our Eden by the Beach, hosted a lunch at the Ennisbrook club house that attracted 60 guests and raised around $65,000. The organization, which was launched by former events supremo John Daly in 2010, aims to teach youngsters the social skills […]
“Love begins at home and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put into that action.” – Mother Teresa CALM (Child Abuse Listening Mediation) knows all about that. They are there for abused children. Today was their sixth Fostering Love event. That is in addition to the CALM Authors luncheon […]
Tim Dougherty, a former journalist-turned-publicist for local classical music organizations and other area nonprofits, has been named director of marketing and communications at the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara. Tim, a graduate of UCSB, began his career as a reporter and editor at South Coast Community Newspapers, a now-defunct chain of local weeklies. Following editing […]
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Santa Barbara’s 99-year-old Community Arts Music Association (CAMA) launched its Masterseries at the Lobero with the esteemed Juilliard String Quartet, which, as usual, was in top form with new cellist Astrid Schween. The 71-year-old multi Grammy Award-winning Fab Four, including violinists Joseph Lin and former UCSB faculty member Ronald Copes, and Roger Tapping on viola, […]
The following came in special to the Journal (we were not there): Easter Moorman reports that Olivia Newton-John, Beth Nielsen Chapman, and Amy Sky shared an intimate evening of music from their CD, Liv On, as a fundraiser for the Visiting Nurse & Hospice Care recently. The event was hosted at the home of Thomas […]
This was a long-awaited occasion when the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) appeared on the Arlington Theatre stage. The orchestra was so large, there was barely room to get the conductor Zubin Mehta on stage and onto his platform. The theatre was filled as well. UCSB Miller McCune executive director Celesta M. Billeci had many sponsors […]
Montecito author Susan St. John was in celebratory mood when she hosted an intimate cocktail party at Lucky’s for 40 friends to mark her first novel, Mad Mischief, being chosen by Santa Barbara Magazine for its winter list of Hot Reads. “I’m really quite amazed,” said Susan. “The comments on Amazon have also been great […]
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