Historian Jarrell Jackman reveals the intriguing details behind the creation of the Santa Barbara Presidio, and the controversial effort to restore it in
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Fiesta 2021’s St. Barbara unveiled in front of Old Mission Santa Barbara
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The person chosen to portray Saint Barbara in this year s Old Spanish Days Fiesta was unveiled on the steps of the Old Mission Thursday evening.
Each year of Fiesta since 1926, Reina del Mar Parlor No. 126, Native Daughters of the Golden West, has chosen one of its members to represent Santa Barbara’s patron saint. The parlor was founded in April 1901, 120 years ago.
This year s woman of honor: Patricia Oreña.
Patricia Oreña, 2021 Patron Saint of Santa Barbara
Oreña was born and raised in Santa Barbara and is the daughter of Thomas Charles Oreña and Jennie Rangel Colome. She attended Wilson Elementary School, La Cumbre Junior High School, and Santa Barbara High School, and she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCSB and a Bilingual Credential from the University of California Teaching Credential Program.
I’ve also tried to explain the unique situation of the SBTHP drawing from both public and private sources. Through an operating agreement with the California State Parks Department, for instance, SBTHP was allowed to keep rental income from El Presidio de Santa Bárbara State Historic Park to operate and develop the park.
This public-private partnership also enabled SBTHP to receive funds from a special joint powers agreement with the City of Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara County set up by civic leader and conservation and preservation pioneer Pearl Chase. Although the county dropped out after the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, the city continued to earmark money for the presidio in its annual budget, not to mention grants that were to come from the city’s since disbanded Redevelopment Agency.