You can view more photos of Juliana at her very own website http://www.JulianaDiane.com

Juliana was born at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara. Her family (that’s me!) would love very much to have the support of the Santa Barbara Community — Please vote for Juliana!

Here’s a small gallery of Juliana to help convince you to vote for her:

]]> http://www.sblocal.com/v1/2009/10/help-make-me-a-gap-celebrity/feed/ 0 http://www.sblocal.com/v1/2009/10/take-action-tell-the-u-s-its-time-to-act-on-climate-change/ http://www.sblocal.com/v1/2009/10/take-action-tell-the-u-s-its-time-to-act-on-climate-change/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:24:24 +0000 Jued Martinez http://www.sblocal.com/v1/?p=1140 This post is in the hopes that things can change on this planet earth! Not really having specific things about Santa Barbara California. But let’s get real people…. Working together, it is possible to create a more sustianable human existance — wouldn’t you agree?

The situation with Climate changes are becoming more and more pronounces — and hopefully people on this planet will start to deal with the great proverty lines that are existing between all of our various countries.

Here in the US we spoil ourselves, we discard foods and items that in other countries people might kill for!

Somehow, this situation needs to change!

Okay, so it’s Blog Action Day — So Blog About It Today!!

Here’s a quotation from the Blog Action Day Dot Org site:

“More than any other country, action taken by the United States to limit greenhouse gases and build a clean energy economy is needed to achieve a sustainable solution to our global climate crisis.

This December world leaders will gather in Copenhagen to negotiate a global response to climate change. As a world leader in greenhouse gas pollution as well as clean energy technology, the United States needs to take bold action by implementing comprehensive clean energy policies to curb emissions.

Nobel Peace Prize Winner and President Barack Obama has said that climate change is an urgent threat, and now is the time for him to lead the United States in confronting the climate crisis.

This is a chance for people around the world and in the United States to join together in telling President Obama that we want him to lead the United States in taking bold and significant action to reduce greenhouse gasses.

Time is running out, and our planet can’t afford to wait. ”

Take Action: Tell the U.S. it’s Time to Act on Climate Change.

In the crowd were a handful of ex-News-Press employees including Barney Brantingham, Melinda Burns, John Zant, Starshine Roshell, Sarah Sinclair, Barry Punzal, Andrea Huebner, Bob Klinger and yours truly.

Also in attendance were a few current News-Pressers Scott Steepleton, Don Katich, Marilyn McMahon and Karna Hughes. No revelent story on the News-Press website today though, don’t know if there was even a Brief in the paper – one would have to read it to be sure.  Hmmm, perhaps they were just looking. But, knowing the News-Press – it just may be in Mondays’ Edition. let me know if you Read it.

It was a capacity crowd for the evening, close to about 200 people .  After the Discussion Scott Steepleton of the S.B. News-Press walked out, foregoing the public question session. Missing the statement of David Pritchett who said that even though he refused to do a face-to-face interview with the News-Press, they incorrectly quoted material from his website and stated that the information was from his site. [ http://www.davidpritchett.org/ ]

Here is Susan Paternos’ (director of the journalism program at Chapman University) talk in its entirety.

She speaks of her News-Press Lawsuit and about the future of Newspapres in general along with other things of interest regarding journalism.

Atttended by: Jerry Roberts, former San Francisco Chronicle managing editor and former Santa Barbara News-Press editor and publisher; Nick Welsh, editor and reporter for the Santa Barbara Independent; James Rainey, media columnist for the Los Angeles Times; and Dick Flacks, UC Santa Barbara professor emeritus of sociology, radio host and community activist.

I Took a few Photographs as well just to show the size of the crowd. Additional Pphotographs provided by Robert Klinger, are available at reproduction sizes: Contact here using the comment form or the Contact page if interested. (edit: 06-20-2009 8:36p.m. -jm).

At Casa Esperanza in Santa Barbara their Goal is to provide Street Outreach workers comb the streets of Santa Barbara every day, building relationships that allow the homeless to seek shelter for the first time.

Through the Day center provide Food, clothing, medical care, job development, social services, life coaching, substance abuse recovery, and other vital services are offered to assist our members/clients into permanent housing.

There’s also the Transitional Shelter program where Opportunities are provided for those who are willing and capable of achieving self-sufficiency.

Also the Winter shelter where Two hundred beds are available from December 1 to March 31; includes breakfast, dinner, hygiene services (showers, laundry) and medical support.

Here’s a video from Casa Esperanza:

The Community Kitchen at Casa Esperanza Homeless Shelter

Being a community kitchen means having a Wish List of items to help them out in their daily volunteering, here’s a list of those items:

• Serving Spoons, Tongs, Ladels, Pie Servers
• Knives – Chef Knives – all sizes and types
• Spatulas
• Small pans
• Floor Mats
• Hotel pans – “Size 400”
• Blenders
• Microwave
• Utility Cart
• Towels-we will take used ones
• Pretty trays for catering events
• Salt & Pepper Shakers and Sugar Shakers
• Tires for our Van
• Oatmeal
• Peanut Butter & Jelly
• Cereal
• Paper Plates& bowls, plastic forks & spoons
• Coffee
• Napkins, Paper Towels & Latex Gloves
• Can Goods
• Pancake Mix
• Fruit (all kinds)
• Juice (all kinds)

Thank you for your support and generousity – Susan M. Krisher, Kitchen Program Director

Volunteers – We need people who can help us prep and serve the meals that are offered. You don’t need to have a lot of skill or be a gourmet chef – what is required is a big heart and love for your fellow human beings. Volunteers are urgently needed to help prep and serve food on Saturday’s and Sundays from 10:00 AM to 12:30 PM and 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM. If you would like to help – please call Susan at: (805) 884.8481.

You can also Donate Goods – It takes a lot of food to feed so many. We can always use donations of food from suppliers, restaurants, and others in the food industry. To make a donation of goods, please call: (804) 884.8481. View our current “Wish List” of items we need. Click Here.

Or you can Make A Contribution – Your dollars enable Casa Esperanza to buy the items needed to keep the Community Kitchen open. Please make a gift today to support these efforts.

Grabbed some Photos for Photos of the Day, sorry no photos of Jesse himself. You can read the AP story here.

According to my source the actual Trial is taking place in the Jury building across the street from the County Courthouse.