He also noted the vast community including family, friends, staff and students who it took to get to graduation day. “The city understands Paul Feller that this facility is used as a resource center for undocumented families and acknowledges the heightened concern among our immigrant and Latino communities related to official enforcement actions. The red-tag action is being taken purely to protect lives and prevent a potential tragedy,” the press release said. Hundreds of people gathered at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse in Santa Barbara on Thursday night with signs and chants to support workers’ rights and oppose recent policies by the Trump administration.
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Tuesday for the southwestern Santa Barbara County coast, including the Gaviota Coast and Jalama Beach. In recent months, Inda said they have heard from family members left behind and employers wanting to know how they can protect their immigrant employees. La Casa de la Raza worked with the Mexican Consulate to host “Know Your Rights” and family preparedness workshops for community members. With an increase in ICE activity, community groups including La Casa Founders Holding Company, also calling itself Casa de la Raza, are preparing immigrant families for the worst-case scenario — getting separated. They are also asking local elected officials such as the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors to support immigrant communities.
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It’ll be 90 degrees in Santa Barbara on Sunday and Monday, according to the National Weather Service. “Let this serve as a reminder of the importance of safety on our roads and the preciousness of every life,” Rodriguez added. “Our hearts are heavy as we mourn the loss of two members of our community in this tragic crash,” said CHP Lt. Joseph Rodriguez, commander of the Santa Maria area office. The preliminary investigation revealed a 2007 Honda Fit was eastbound on Clark Avenue and came to a stop in lanes attempting to make a left turn, California Highway Patrol Officer Maria Barriga said Tuesday. She welcomed the audience to the event and expressed the need to continue organizing and protesting.
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The county Office of Emergency Management said people who live or work in a potentially PSPS-affected area should prepare for a possible multi-day outage. PG&E, which provides power service to the North County, does not forecast any public safety power shutoffs this week. Inda said they had done a few workshops before they lost access to the building at 601 E. Montecito St. in May after city officials found safety hazards in the century-old structure. On Tuesday, about 300 people gathered at the Santa Barbara County Courthouse to protest recent ICE raids and deportations. At least 40 farmworkers from Santa Maria, Ventura and Oxnard were taken into custody by U.S.
ICE also conducted workplace raids in Ventura County on Tuesday, with Oxnard seeing the biggest impact out of the two counties, Diaz said. On Tuesday, a crew leader on a field on the west side of Santa Maria noticed three unmarked vehicles parading through the fields and suspected that they were ICE officers, according to Diaz. The crew leader alerted other supervisors, and while some employees fled the fields, some were taken into custody, Diaz said. In the meantime, Talkin said the Foodbank is doing everything it can to provide for the county and its residents. Even though he called the cuts a “disaster,” he said the Foodbank has weathered disasters in the past.
He reminded his fellow graduates that they successfully revitalized school spirit and culture. “Our high school journeys began on a fateful August day in 2021, and we were riddled with stress and anxiety after the hectic pandemic, starting school with masks covering our faces. We tried to readjust to the academic and social pressures of in-person school,” Villa said.
He boasted that Samantha McDonald was crowned as Righetti High School’s third consecutive rodeo queen at the Santa Maria Elks Rodeo at the end of May. Principal Ted Lyon and many of the student speakers noted that this year’s graduating class is one marked by resilience and perseverance. Meller said Fandino has expressed interest in serving the Milpas community and they hope to open back up on Milpas Street in the future.
MedCenter previously had two other offices, one on Milpas street in Santa Barbara and one on Fairview Avenue in Goleta, but they consolidated the practices a few years ago and closed the other locations. Meller and Huffard opened the MedCenter in 1983 at 2954 State St. as the first urgent care facility in Santa Barbara. So far since Jan. 1, the West Coast has seen 24 Falcon rocket launches with 17 carrying Starlink satellites and seven others delivering payloads for the National Reconnaissance Office, NASA and commercial customers. The hearing held in Lompoc on Thursday was the third in-person session planned for this week in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties regarding a proposal to add a second SpaceX launch site at Vandenberg. A public hearing Thursday on an increase in Falcon 9 missions from Vandenberg Space Force Base paused for, of course, a rocket launch. Ceremony are County Supervisors Laura Capps and Roy Lee; former supervisor Das Williams; members of the local Chumash leadership; Fran Galt and Peter and Paulina Conn of Neighbors of Rocky Nook Park; and members of HLAC.