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Tracy Lehr

GOLETA, Calif.-A fiesta-themed show raised money to help the Old Spanish Days Spirit and Junior Spirit pay for their dresses.

Drew Wakefield hosted a fundraiser again this year on his DrewWakefield 805 radio show.

It took place at the Glen Annie Golf Club, where the dancers performed.

Thanks to generous donations the program raised enough to give them $500 each as well as some gift cards.

Wakefield calls it a tremendous blessing and said the show sows a positive seed.

For more information visit https://wakefield805.com

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Tracy Lehr

OXNARD, Calif.-The McNish Classic Yacht Race set sail for the 48th time.

Relatives of the race’s namesake Dick McNish crewed on his yacht name Cheerio II.

The yacht was once owned by actor Errol Flynn.

More than half a dozen all-wooden yachts raced off the coast of the Channel Islands Harbor on final Saturday in July.

McNish, 98, used to sail and organize each race at the Pacific Corinthian Yacht Club. (PCYC)

“Oh, grandpa has been at it for awhile, years ago he wanted to race old wooden boats and there weren’t that many races for wooden boats so he decided to start the Pacific Corinthian Yacht Race,” said his son-in-law, Sugar Flanagan.

The club changed the name decades ago in his honor.

McNish created a Cheerio II wine to celebrate, but the winners will be toasting champagne.

The overall winner’s skipper wins their weight in champagne.

For more information visit https://pcyc.org

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Tracy Lehr

OXNARD, Calif.-Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders performed for fans on Fan Night.

Fan Night at The Collection in Oxnard started at 4 p.m.

Local staff, dj’s and the Dallas Cowboy’s mascot Rowdy threw t-shirts, quizzed folks on trivia, and line danced as fans waited patiently for the cheerleaders to arrive.

They filled the stage at 5 p.m.

It’s the third season for cheerleader Sophy Laufer from Simi Valley.

Some of the young cheerleaders in the crowd, including Harper Hunter of Camarillo, hope to become cheerleaders like Sophy, someday.

“I love how they are always so supportive, ” said Hunter.

Mark Petrasso of Port Hueneme came to the event with his wife and watched from lawn chairs.

“I’m here because my wife has been watching the show for years, ” said Petrasso, ” and I got sucked in and we come when they are here and we love it.”

The cheerleaders will be putting on a camp for up and coming cheerleaders at Channel Islands High School on Sunday starting at 2 p.m.

The cheerleaders don’t stay in town for the the training camp, but fans can watch their TV show about making the team on Netflix.

As for the players, they will be practicing at River Ridge playing fields off Vineyard Ave, for the next couple of weeks as the new season gets underway.

For more information visit https://visitoxnard.com

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Tracy Lehr

VENTURA, Calif.-The first Summer Dead Fest brought four days of music to Ventura.

Grahame Lesh, the son of the late Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh, performed with Cubensis.

The musicians headlined the show on Friday night in the Crown Plaza’s top floor ballroom.

The ballroom that had a floor that used to spin, was filled with spinning people taking in every tune,

Some of the fans remember the historic Grateful Dead shows at the nearby Ventura County fairgrounds.

“The Grateful Dead used to play at the Ventura fairgrounds in the 1980s, ’82, ’84, and ’87 and it was amazing,” said Dandy Productions co-founder Dan Stein, “They would have weekends at the fairgrounds and every night after the show all the heads, spinning kids would come over here, they would walk back to their hotels and their campsites, they’d come up to the Holiday Inn at the time, they would walk up, go up the elevator, Top of the Harbor, look at the menu, scoff at the prices, get back in the elevators, go back down in the lobby with their dogs, their tents and they would hang out and wait for the next show to start, waves crashing on the shore, it was a blessed time to be alive and we are just still spinning in that energy, still doing the same thing, honoring the Grateful Dead’s music here in Ventura, now it is the Crown Plaza and we are still connected to all of that and we are going to keep the music alive as long as we can.”

Stein, who joined on the final set on guitar, noticed plenty of young people getting into the music, too.

“This is the first annual Summer Dead Fest and this is going to be the first of many. We plan to do this every year. We also do New Year’s Eve up in the ballroom, we did that this past New Year’s Eve and that’s actually when, right before we opened the doors for that the hotel asked us if we wanted to do a summer music festival, ” said Stein.

The festival also included oceanfront sets, a  Shakedown Street and music workshops.

Some people who attended the Summer Dead Fest will be heading to San Francisco next weekend to see Dead & Company.

They can’t get enough of the music they love.

For more information visit https://summerdeadfest.com

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Caleb Nguyen

ORCUTT, Calif. – The Santa Barbara County Fire Department took two people to Marian Regional Medical Center after a rollover crash in Orcutt, just before 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

Both patients were the only people in their cars and suffered moderate injuries after one car landed on its roof, according to the SBCFD.

The crash happened on Clark at Orcutt Road and the rollover required extrication for one patient detailed the SBCFD.

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Christer Schmidt

SANTA MARIA, Calif. – Santa Maria Police Department arrested two juveniles in Santa Maria after responding to a possible firearm incident in the area of Pine Street and Cook Street.

Witnesses reported seeing what they believed to be a juvenile pulling a firearm from his waistband before concealing it again around 7:20 pm.

Officers arrived at the scene and began searching the area. Two juveniles were found who they say matched the description.

Both subjects fled on foot, prompting a brief pursuit.

Officers say both juveniles were apprehended without incident.

Santa Maria Police Department say that one was found in possession of a handgun and the other in possession of loaded magazines.

They were both booked into Santa Maria Juvenile Hall.

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Christer Schmidt

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – SpaceX is set to launch its Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East on Saturday night.

The launch is targeted at 8:55 pm, with additional opportunities available until 10:00 pm.

Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific Ocean.

People in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura County may hear one or more sonic booms during the launch.

You can view it on their website live.

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John Palminteri

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – With just a light breeze blowing the Santa Barbara to King Harbor race began in the waters off of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club Friday afternoon.

It is a tradition that is celebrating its 53rd year.

The impressive lineup of dozens of vessels caught the eye of many onlookers at noon when the race took off towards the Channel Islands.

Some of the boats will finish in Redondo Beach tonight. Some on Saturday.

The Yacht Club had events leading up to this race including a pre-party and concert Thursday night.

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John Palminteri

MONTECITO, Calif. – It was timed to get in and out at the lowest tide of the day, and that’s how a beached vessel was removed from a Montecito Beach Friday.

It started at 4:30 a.m. with a crew from Marborg Industries and the non-profit Heal the Ocean, which funded the removal.

The owner was not able to deal with the wreckage. It was on the beach for more than a week.

The heavy equipment and a roll off to collect the vessel came in from Santa Barbara’s East Beach around a tight point under the cemetery and made it to the western end of Butterfly Beach.

The vessel was a 30-foot sailboat.

It was crushed and scooped up in just a few minutes.

After that, the team of workers went thorough the debris location to collect the splinters by hand to make sure the beach was cleared of hazards when the project was done.

They made it out as the tide was beginning to rise again.

Marborg and Heal the Ocean have responded several times to rid the beaches of crashed boats that are left unattended.

This insures they are not a risk to the public or the environment.

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Andie Lopez Bornet

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.- A severed cable made it impossible to call 911 in Santa Barbara County and parts of San Luis obispo counties earlier this week.

Officials encouraged texting 911 as a workaround, and they want folks to know this is an option even when phone lines are working.

On Tuesday, emergency phone lines and air traffic control towers on the central coast were knocked offline when a fiber line was cut on De La Vina street in Santa Barbara

While lines were out of service, the option to text 911 was still available. an option some may not be aware of.

Officials say the service is essential for those in danger, or have other circumstances that make speaking difficult.

“A lot of community members that benefit from text to 911-if you’re hearing impaired or if you have a speech impairment that makes it difficult for you to communicate,” said Raquel Zick, Santa Barbara County spokeswoman. “If you’re in a situation where you can’t talk either because you don’t want to be heard because maybe you’re hiding, you can still communicate without being over heard.”

Your Newschannel went to the Santa Barbara county Sheriff’s Dispatch Center to see what the 911 text service looks like

“All of these outages affect services in different ways so this is just another opportunity for us to outline that when services are impacted in one way our communications dispatch center has many different ways that we can pivot to make sure we are available to answer calls for service,” said Zick.

“Call if you can, text if you can’t. So if you are unable to speak or talk text us, otherwise if you can call us, call us,” said Dispatch Supervisor, Ben Johnson.

Ben Johnson has been a dispatcher for 20 years.

He says including a precise location helps them work faster when receiving text messages, because text to 911 doesn’t automatically give a location the way a phone call does.

When texting 911, it’s best to stick to actual text and avoid other media like pictures and emojis.

After the recent outage it is a good reminder of the ongoing availability text to  911 option, made available in many different languages including Spanish.

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