Goleta Valley Voice Roundup - 3/23

Front Page:
A Call To Put On The Brakes
Goleta City Council members got an earful from the community Monday as locals, many incensed by proposed changes to the planning process, sounded off.

News Briefs:
Old Town Fire Destroys Businesses
A major fire visible throughout the Goleta Valley destroyed two businesses, Moore Machining and Legend Eyewear, in Goleta’s Old Town.

Goleta Valley Cottage Offering Research Help
A new medical and health information resource is available at Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital: Sharon Lezotte, director of Reeves Medical Library at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, is keeping regular office hours at the Goleta location. Lezotte will be available to help members of the public perform literature searches and to train users in the use of powerful medical and health resources available through the Internet.

Sheriff's Blotter

• Lame alibis of the week
• Special delivery
• Sitting ducks
• Just the essentials
• A piece of Santa Barbara
• Inside job?
• Copper wire stolen, again
• Grumpy green thumb
• A rig for the brig
• Decorative vase stolen from frat house

Community:
Goleta's Finest Winners Announced
Patricia Weeks and Denny Franks have been announced as Woman and Man of the Year in the 2007 Goleta’s Finest Awards, which honor exceptional people in the Goleta Valley.

State Sends Back City's Housing Plan For Revisions
The Housing Element of the city’s General Plan was once again returned to Goleta by the state department of Housing and Community Development for revision, perhaps putting another wrinkle in the city’s efforts to roll out its General Plan.

Putting Her Best Foot Forward
Nicolette Iribarne isn’t waiting for graduation to make her mark on the world. As the force behind her own humanitarian organization, Futbol for Refugees, the work of the UCSB freshman has already reached out to less fortunate children all over the globe.

Goleta Scrapbook: Kellogg Creamery - As The World Churned
A good chunk of Goleta’s products from its agrarian past can be recited by most any bright third-grader: lemons, walnuts, pampas plumes, lima beans, olives. But one obvious industry has more or less disappeared into the June Gloom of the past: the creamery.

Your House: The Garage As A Hot Zone
If you have a garage, chances are a car is not the only thing you put in there (if that). In the home inspection field, the garage is what we call a “target rich” environment. Rarely do we get through a home inspection without something to say about the garage.

Other articles at at the Goleta Valley Voice website.