Goleta Valley Voice Roundup - 8/10

Front Page:
Pipe Dreams
Venoco will, sooner or later, have to stop shipping its oil by barge and use a pipeline. When they do it is the sticky issue.

News Briefs:
Council pushes ahead on General Plan changes
Despite protests from council member Jonny Wallis and community members regarding what they saw as lack of public involvement, the Goleta City Council on Monday voted 4-1 to go through with plans to initiate changes to the General Plan.

Park conversion ban stays; owner vows suit
The City Council on Monday voted to extend its interim moratorium on approvals of conversion of mobile home rental parks to resident-owned units, prompting attorneys for local mobile home park owners the Guggenheim family to file another lawsuit against the city.

In Brief

• Rehab worker accused of sexual assualt
• Zaca Fire information
• Red Cross offers disaster relief classes

Cyclist killed in Old Town crash
A man was killed in Old Town Wednesday morning when he apparently rode his bike into an 80,000 pound truck hauling sand and was crushed to death.

Sheriff's Blotter

• Lesson 1: Fights at 4:30 a.m. are not spectator sports
• Picture-taking pervert
• Scary stuff
• Return to sender
• Trippin’
• Another criminal genius
• Would you leave $2,000 laying around in Isla Vista?
• Bad place to pass out
• Climbing the walls

Viewpoint:
Mayor's Report: Life in the time of wildfires
As I write this on Tuesday, the skies are blue, the sun is shining and those clouds rising from the Zaca Fire are still white. Wildfires of this kind are so frightening — everything depending on the wind and its shifts. Forty-three years ago my family had to evacuate in the middle of the night due to a change in direction of the Coyote Fire. Believe me, that is an experience that one never forgets.

Community:
She’s calling the tune at Ellwood
When students return to Ellwood Elementary School for the start of another school year in just a few weeks, they’ll find someone new in the principal’s office — veteran educator Liz Rocha.

Goleta Scrapbook: Opulence on the hill
A prominent landmark even today, the 200-foot high hill that rises just west of the intersection of Fairview Avenue and Cathedral Oaks Road was once home to Dr. Walter Scott Franklin and his wife, Laura.

Business:
Raytheon gets contract for radar receivers
Raytheon Co. has won a $24.4million to supply the Royal Australian Air Force a digital radar warning receiver produced at the company’s Goleta facility.

Other articles at at the Goleta Valley Voice website.