Iconic Whale Exibit Restoration Project Begins

Submitted by Sara Cole on Tue, 2010-03-09 16:28

 


SANTA BARBARA - Bone by bone the iconic blue whale  skeleton at The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History is coming down. 
 
"We're hoping to repair a lot of the bones that are broken, that have been damaged," says Michele Berman, the museum's Associate Curator of Vertibrate Zoology.
 
Researchers will be dismantling and loading up the four thousand pound exhibit and transfering it to a studio in Northern California.
A team will restore the more than 20 year old bones and put them back together, but with a few adjustments from its original design.
 
"There's a lot of research that's gone on from 1983, so we have a lot of published data now that we can go back to," explains Paul Collins, the museum's Curator of Vertibrate Zoology.

Berman adds, "we have a lot more information now we have a lot more knowlege, and images to work with, to re-orient some of those bones into a more anatomically correct position."

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SOME CENTRAL COAST SCHOOLS DON'T MAKE THE GRADE

Submitted by Sara Cole on Mon, 2010-03-08 17:14

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MAN GUNNED DOWN IN HIS SANTA BARBARA HOME, POLICE SEARCH FOR SUSPECTS

Submitted by Sara Cole on Mon, 2010-03-01 16:47
SANTA BARBARA - A man is gunned down in his house in Santa Barbara, now police are searching for four people who may be involved.  Police believe the man walked up to a house on Gillepsie Street around 11 a.m. Monday morning and knocked on the door.


"According to witnesses that we talked to, the suspects came up to the front of the house, and confronted the victim, and shot him in the head." says Srgt. Mike McGrew of the Santa Barbara Police Department.   The victim was still concious when police showed up, he was rushed to Cottage Hospital.  The suspect apparently got away in an older model black 4-door Volvo.   "Its very alarming, to all the neighbors and the school, next door," says Srgt.

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SOME WORRY NEW FEES FOR ADULT ED COULD CUT DOWN ON CLASS ENROLLMENT

Submitted by Sara Cole on Fri, 2010-02-26 17:03

SANTA BARBARA -A cooking course can do more than teach students their way around the kitchen.

For people like Dori Friedberg, who moved to Santa Barbara from the East Coast, S.B.C.C.'S Adult Education Program has given her a way to connect.

"One of the reasons we chose to come here, is because it has a very lively adult education community.  The cooking classes have introduced me to a whole new group of people."

This Spring semester, Dori and her classmates will be forced to pay to learn new recipes.  The Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees voted Thurday to implement enrollment fees for 20 of the more than 2500 courses offered, including several art, literature and cooking classes.

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Hwy 101 Improvements between Milpas St. and Hot Springs Rd.

Submitted by John Zuchelli on Fri, 2010-02-26 11:03

Hwy 101 Improvements between Milpas St. and Hot Springs Rd.

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SANTA BARBARA CITY LEADERS GRAPPLE WITH MASSIVE BUDGET DEFECIT

Submitted by Sara Cole on Thu, 2010-02-25 17:03

SANTA BARBRA - A sea of red, Santa Barbara firefighters hoped to make waves at the City's special budget meeting Thursday.  The department is facing cuts as the City looks for ways to cover its $9 million budget gap.

 

"Out of 21 million dollar budget, 87 percent of my budget, or 19 million, is wages and benefits.  So to meet the budget goal of a 10 percent reduction of the fire department, I really have to begin looking at ways of reducing those wages and salaries," says Fire Chief Andrew DiMizio.

 

One option is temporarily closing Station 3, centrally located on Sola Street.  Although the city's other stations would absorb those calls, there is concern about the impact a closure would have on public safety.

 

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HORSE RESCUE GROUP LOOKING FOR HOMES FOR ABANDONED HORSES

Submitted by Sara Cole on Wed, 2010-02-24 16:58

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Door to Door Fraud in Santa Barbara

Submitted by Adrian on Sun, 2010-02-21 21:29

Goleta police officials are asking the public to contact them if anyone approaches their homes soliciting donations for the UC Santa Barbara orchestra or choir.

Paul Berkowitz, chair of UCSB's Department of Music, said he has been receiving numerous reports of people posing as students going door-to-door in Goleta and Santa Barbara and telling residents that they are seeking donations to finance a trip for the UCSB orchestra and choir.

"This is not true," Berkowitz said. "It's a complete fraud. There is no such tour and no fundraising or solicitations being organized by the UCSB Symphony Orchestra."

Anyone who is approached by people posing as students seeking donations for the UCSB orchestra is urged to contact the Goleta Police Department at

(805) 681-4133 or the Santa Barbara Police Department at (805) 897-2300.

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MEXICO'S FORMER PRESIDENT VICENTE FOX VISITS CENTRAL COAST

Submitted by Sara Cole on Fri, 2010-02-19 16:37

SANTA BARBARA - Students packed into Westmont's Gym to listen to former Mexican President Vicente Fox during a panel discussion at the College Friday. 

Student panelist, John Evancoe says, "it was a great privelege just to be able to talk to a man who's had a great influence on America."
 
Fox explains, he travels the world, speaking at different Universities to "learn what the future generation is thinking, to me its key."

During the discussion, President Fox answered questions about his plans for immigration reform.

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YOUNG GREY WHALE WASHES UP AT GOLETA BEACH

Submitted by Sara Cole on Thu, 2010-02-18 15:05

SANTA BARBARA - Experts are studying samples taken from the young grey whale that washed up along Goleta Beach Wednesday night.
They are not sure yet what caused it's death.

"About thirty percent of the grey whales don't make it through the first year," says Michelle Berman, the Associate Curator of Vertibrate Zoology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

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