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The Loma Fire on Santa Barbara’s TV Hill was declared fully contained on May 24, four days after it allegedly was started by an arsonist. (Brooke Holland / Noozhawk photo)
May 28, 2021
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COVID-19’s disproportionate and deadly impacts on senior citizens and skilled nursing facilities have been well-documented over the last 15 months. In line with the national trends, Santa Barbara County has had to confront many of the same disturbing circumstances.
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“One of his main callings in life was to develop people, which he did in politics, on boards, in the church, and just one on one,” Hurley-Bates said. “He would reach out to young leaders to ask if they wanted help, and he was always available to those who wanted to be mentored by him.
“No matter who they were or what kind of work they did, he would make time. He understood that transformation and learning happen best in the context of relationship, and he wanted to be used by God in that way.”
She said that Conklin “loved encouraging others. He would regularly come out of church telling me how impactful the sermon was and, in COVID, would text me. He was a champion of women in ministry and helped me find my voice. In our tradition, lay and clergy are able to work side by side, which means the church helps shape the hearts and minds of pastors, just as much as the other way around. Hal loved being part of coming alongside young people
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As a now former supporter of President Donald Trump I was totally disgusted by the outrageous actions he took Jan. 6. Anyone with any common sense knows that when you call for thousands of your supporters to show up and protest something, it only takes a small number of hooligans to create a riot.
That’s exactly what happened; of the tens of thousands of people who were there in Washington, D.C., probably less than 100 began storming the capitol building, smashing windows, assaulting an overwhelmed U.S Capitol Police and trying to take charge of congressional hearings.