Goleta Valley Voice Roundup - 5/11

Front Page:
A sea change in global warming
The ocean, one of our biggest protectors against the greenhouse effect, might not be as efficient or predictable in mitigating global warming as previously believed.

Correction
In last week’s article on Cabrillo Business park, the total number of jobs estimated tobe brought in as a result of the business park should have been 1400.
Also, access roads will be built to the park from Hollister and Los Carneros.

News Briefs:
Sheriff's Blotter

• Premature evacuation
• Ham on wry
• Brilliant
• Caring for her injury
• Family dog missing!
• Can't we all just get along?
• Singin' in the rain
• Lame excuse of the week

Housing project tops council agenda

• Village at Los Carneros
• No-parking zone
• Adjusting the books

Aceves retiring, not calling it quits
After 32 years solving crimes and bringing wrongdoers to justice, Goleta City Council member Roger Aceves is retiring from law enforcement. But he’ll still be fighting crime.

In Brief

• Teacher lay offs
• Goleta Valley Beautiful banquet on tap
• Two youth basketball teams take titles at tourney

City awards grants to social service groups
Court Appointed Special Advocates, AIDS Housing Santa Barbara, People’s Self-Help Housing and Transition House are the new social services recipients of funds from the Goleta’s Community Block Development Grants for fiscal year 2006-07. The city expects $276,874 in grants from the state department of Housing and Urban Development this fiscal year, $41,531 of which may be used to fund social services.

Viewpoint:
Letter to the Editor
This past weekend we had an experience that the community should know about. Last Sunday we awoke to find the privacy walls on both sides of Patterson Avenue between Calle Real and Parejo Drive adorned with gang-style graffiti — not something that had occurred in the past.

Sierra Club: Keep an eye on Venoco
Get ready for lots of oil action as Venoco Inc. proposes to move forward with three separate projects in the Goleta area.

Community:
A home away from home
We all know about the neighborhood bar where everyone knows your name and makes you feel at home, but there’s something to be said for the neighborhood bar that doesn’t know your name and still makes you feel at home.

Goleta Scrapbook: Good timing in the Good Land
New Englander German Senter found the Good Land via Panama, Northern California, New York and Illinois, where his first wife died of cholera. Following her death, Senter married his sister-in-law, but it was not a long partnership, according to Walker Tompkins in his book “Goleta the Good Land.” His second wife died not long after they were married.

Business:
It's finally pouring at Hollister Brewing Co.
Hollister Brewing Co., Goleta’s newest restaurant, boasts its own micro-brewery, double-deck pizza oven, a variety of appetizers and other dishes, and comfortable, sleek surroundings indoors and out. In the Camino Real Marketplace, the establishment is in the space formerly occupied by the Camino Real Café, around the bend from Borders Books and Music.

Other articles at at the Goleta Valley Voice website.