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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

Segment 1: Santa Barbara 21, Dos Pueblos 10; Nipomo 31, Santa Ynez 14; Lompoc 38, Cabrillo 2; Lancaster 50, Bishop Diego 34

Segment 2: Newbury Park 31, Arroyo Grande 14; Righetti 28, Pioneer Valley 6

Segment 3: San Marcos 35, Channel Islands 0

Segment 4: Heritage Christian 35, Carpinteria 0

Segment 5: Laguna Blanca 48, Cuyama Valley 12, Agoura 33, Thousand Oaks 0

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St. Joseph 49, Paso Robles 13

St. Bonaventure 51, Trabuco Hills 14

Pacifica 39, Hart 20

Ventura 26, Lakewood 24

Fillmore 34, Buena 24

Santa Paula 39, Del Sol 31

Nordhoff 35, Mira Monte 7

Oxnard 28, Hueneme 26

Saugus 38, Camarillo 35

Moorpark 33, Birmingham 20

Grace 35, El Camino Real 10

Simi Valley 56, Bishop Montgomery 6

Liberty 20, Oaks Christian 17

Oak Park 28, Brentwood 7

Calabasas 47, Burbank 7

Westlake 49, Chatsworth 14

Royal 46, Contreras 7

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Jarrod Zinn

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – The Central Coast Labor Council is kicking off the long holiday weekend with its annual Labor Day Picnic.

The event has grown over the years into a significant community networking hub bringing workers, representatives, educators, and their families together for a large barbecue.

“We have been doing this Labor Day picnic with the unions that participate in Santa Maria Valley for, I’m guessing like 15, 16 years at this point,” says Jeremy Goldberg, Central Coast Labor Council spokesperson. “We are here in Pioneer Park. It has grown every single year we’ve done it.”

Family entertainment included bounce houses and games for kids, and live performances.

“It’s a reminder as to what people that came before them went through,” says Courtney Cazenave, Recording Secretary for District 5 of United Domestic Workers. “You know, there were horrible working conditions, and people fought and marched and, rallied for better hours, better working conditions. It didn’t just automatically happen.”

Elected leaders and candidates running for local offices showed up as well.

“Especially in an election year, we talk about democracy a lot, right?” says Goldberg. “Candidates are out. The signs are about to pop up in neighborhoods, on sidewalks and front yards. And unions are democracy in action every day.”

This weekend is the 142nd National Labor Day holiday, celebrating the adoption of the 40 hour workweek we now consider standard.

“Now we’re in a time where we can look around and see how expensive everything is,” says Goldberg. “It is a time and a moment where we have to fight to raise wages for everybody.”

The Labor Day Picnic at Pioneer Park serves as a gathering for all 75 affiliate unions comprising the Central Coast Labor Council across San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties.

“Better working conditions, happier families, keeping everything together, getting the right people in office. You know, we’re all striving for the same thing,” says Cazenave. “So it’s good that we all can get together casually.”

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Patricia Martellotti

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Families at Vieja Valley School are taking a closer look at children’s screen time.

A parent-teacher committee is leading efforts to encourage more intentional and age-appropriate technology habits.

The group is expanding screen-free programs and providing classroom resources for students and families.

Students are also becoming part of the effort through activities designed to build healthier relationships with technology.

Organizers hope the work will help families create stronger boundaries around screens while keeping technology useful and balanced.

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Mike Klan

UC SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

Women’s Volleyball: Iowa State 3, UCSB 1: Gauchos suffered their first loss on the year as they drop their home opener 25-18, 24-26, 20-25, 21-25. This was also the first game of the Gauchos Invitational. UCSB (3-1) faces Utah State on Saturday 6 p.m.

Women’s Soccer: UCSB 2, North Dakota 2: Delliah Vega Aguliar scored the lone goal in the first half but the Fighting Hawks scored two early second half goals to grab a 2-1 lead. But UCSB got the equalizer in the 64th minute on a goal by Chayse Yu. The Gauchos are 3-1-2 on the year. They host North Dakota State on Sunday at noon.

Men’s Water Polo: #13 UCSB 17, Biola 9: Luigi Canepa and Finn Geng each scored three goals for the Gauchos.

#9 Pepperdine 13, #13 UCSB 9: Luigi Canepa scored 5 more goals in the loss. The Gauchos are 5-3 on the year.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Bishop Diego had almost ten players not suited up due to injury and the Cardinals were certainly not dressed for success.

Aidan Howell and Terrance Harper carved up the injury-riddled Cardinals defense as Lancaster won 50-34.

Howell threw all four of his touchdown passes in the first half as the Eagles led 36-21 at the break.

After a scoreless third quarter Lancaster scored two more touchdowns in the fourth quarter as they totaled close to 500 yards of offense.

Harper ended up with seven catches for 164 yards and four touchdowns as Lancaster improved to 2-1.

After trailing 14-0 at the end of the first quarter, Bishop Diego got their offense humming in the second quarter with three touchdowns.

Sophomore quarterback Kaleo Satele hooked up with senior Remi Boykin on a 37-yard score to trim the deficit to 14-7,

Following two more touchdowns by Lancaster that extended the lead to 28-7, the Cardinals got another big offensive play.

Senior Nate Hernandez carried the ball 44-yards untouched for a touchdown.

He also scored on a short touchdown run just before the half to pull the Cardinals within 15 points.

(Nate Hernandez scores with under a minute left in the first half. Entenza Design).

But the Cardinals would get no closer as they fall to 2-1 on the year.

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

Santa Barbara 13, San Marcos 6: The Santa Barbara Dons staged a second half rally to finally beat San Marcos again in flag football.

Laila Hernandez threw a pair of touchdown passes after halftime to give the Dons their first win over San Marcos since 2023 when flag football became a high school sport.

The Royals scored the lone touchdown of the first half when Victoria Aldana fired a strike downfield to freshman Bella Bazylewicz who got behind the defense for a 57-yard touchdown. The point after was no good and San Marcos was up 6-0 at half.

The Dons grabbed a 7-6 lead midway through the third quarter when Hernandez found fellow senior Shea Gannon for a touchdown on 4th down. Sophia Olmedo caught the one-point conversion for the lead.

Santa Barbara extended their advantage to seven points early in the fourth quarter when Alexander Arnold caught a tipped pass in the end zone for an 18-yard touchdown.

(Alexander Arnold celebrates her 4th quarter touchdown catch. Entenza Design).

Santa Barbara improves to 6-1 on the season while the Royals drop to 8-3.

Dos Pueblos 46, Pacifica 0: After playing their first 11 games away from Goleta, the Chargers finally had their home opener. It was home sweet home for DP who recorded their second shutout of the week.

Ruby Streatfeild and Ava Taiji each threw two touchdown passes in the lopsided win. Senior Brooklyn Hedricks had 3 interceptions including a pick-6. Hazel Burgess started the scoring with a long punt return for a touchdown in the first quarter.

Dos Pueblos is now 10-2 on the season.

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John Palminteri

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – Claiming social media sites can harm children by their outreach process in certain areas, the Santa Barbara Unified School District has joined a lawsuit against several of the major sites including Meta (Facebook & Instagram), Tik Tok, YouTube and Snapchat.

The district says more than 1,500 school districts nationwide are involved.

The lawsuit alleges that these companies are knowingly causing emotional harm to children through their platforms by intentionally marketing and designing their systems for users who are minors.

Santa Barbara Unified School District – Filed Complaint

The country’s youth mental health crisis has seen a sharp increase due to excessive use of social media, according to the lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in San Francisco by the Frantz Law Group. Santa Barbara Unified will be represented by this firm.

There is no state action at this time on this case, it is entirely on a federal level.

The district says the negative issues that have come from social media content includes anxiety, depression, thoughts of self-harm, disordered eating behaviors, and low self-esteem among children and students. Many are subjected to harmful, exploitative and addictive content that encourages disorderly behavior, unhealthy social comparison, and cyberbullying.

The district announced the lawsuit inside a wellness center space at La Cumbre Junior High School. It is an area where kids can come to if they need “space” or to get away from a specific situation that is affecting them in a negative way.

“Our teachers experience the daily impact of predatory social media features that rob our students’ attention, and its impact on student mental health, sleep, and focus. As Generative AI expands rapidly and seeps into our students’ tools for learning, tech companies must share the responsibility of creating safe and responsible technology that protects our youth, empowers parents and teachers, and helps us protect human intelligence over artificial intelligence, humanity first,” said Superintendent Hilda Maldonado.

She said, this litigation is a necessary, non-negotiable step to hold these companies accountable and protect the well-being of all students in Santa Barbara Unified.

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The district says one case in Kentucky has settled for $27 million.

The district is also seeking a financial settlement and changes by each of the companies involved.

Cyber companies are limiting their responses for now but deny the allegations.   However some have noted parental control policies,  launched independent investigations, tightened product features,  and looked in to social media policy shifts.

(More details, video and photos will be added here later today.)

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Patricia Martellotti

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) – For participants in ArtLabbé Academy’s music therapy program, the weekly gathering offers more than a chance to sing.

“It’s special to me because it makes me feel relaxed,” participant Lynnette Fryklund shared.

“Everybody gets together and sings and has a fun time,” participant Matthew Torp added.

Leading the group is Meghan Downing, a music therapist who is legally blind.

Downing was nine years old when she was diagnosed with Stargardt disease, a progressive retinal condition that eventually took much of her sight.

“I’ve been blind for about fifteen years,” Downing recalled. “At nine years old it’s hard to process that you’re going to be blind for the rest of your life.”

Music became a way forward.

Downing began playing violin at four and later learned piano, guitar and voice before attending Berklee College of Music.

“It’s really amazing to see how music can kind of transcend words, transcend disability,” Downing shared. “It’s really special to be able to see how music can make someone come alive.”

Her own experience with blindness now shapes the way she works with people who have developmental disabilities.

“I think it allows me to connect with people on a different level,” Downing explained. “Not rely on my eyes, but rely on the music.”

ArtLabbé founder Nathaniel Grotenhuis created the academy around the belief that everyone deserves opportunities to create and connect.

“Everyone has inherent worth, not because of your intellect, not because of your physical body, because you’re a spiritual being,” Grotenhuis shared.

The organization has expanded rapidly. In less than a year, ArtLabbé has grown to more than 140 weekly participants across 12 classrooms and organizations.

A recent art competition also gave participants another opportunity to put their creativity in the spotlight.

“We are hustling right now because we’re trying to offer as many classes as we can because we really believe this is a big mission,” Grotenhuis explained.

For Downing, that mission is closely connected to the challenges she has faced herself.

“Rise above the challenges, acknowledge the challenges, but at the end of the day, don’t let them bring you down.”

For this Santa Barbara group, music is creating a place where everyone can participate, and every voice can be heard.

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Dave Alley

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – The City of Santa Maria has scheduled a series of town hall meetings to help inform the public about a proposed sales tax increase that will appear on the upcoming November General Election.

Measure C is a half-cent local sales tax initiative that will help fund a variety of services.

If Measure C is approved by Santa Maria voters, the local sales tax rate would increase from 8.75% to 9.25%.

According to the City, the additional sales tax revenue will help repair and maintain roads, streets, and sidewalks, including pothole repairs, maintain and improve parks and community facilities, maintain public access and operating hours at the library and community facilities, including the Paul Nelson Aquatic Center, and fund recreational and educational programs for youth, adults, and seniors.

“We are faced with a budget deficit, a structural deficit,” Santa Maria City Manager David Rowlands said in an earlier interview with News Channel 3-12. “The City Council made a phenomenal job reducing our structural deficit from $25 million down to $13 million so far. So we’re doing our part right now. So right now we’re really hoping to work together with our residents to get this sales tax approved.”

To help voters better understand the measure, a series of four town hall meetings are now set over the next month.

During the one-hour gatherings, residents will have an opportunity to hear from City representatives and also participate in a question-and-answer session.

All meetings will take place from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the following community locations:

Monday, Sept. 14 — Grogan Community Center Monday, Sept. 21 — Edwards Community Center Monday, Sept. 28 — Minami Community Center Monday, Oct. 5 — Shepard Hall, Santa Maria Public Library

Spanish interpretation services will be available during these meetings.

For more information about Measure C, click here to visit the City of Santa Maria website.

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Jarrod Zinn

A new app is getting the attention of local caregivers for patients of neurodegenerative diseases, which can help lead “from care to cure.”

The Peter Cohen Foundation introduced an app recently called EverythingALS.

“Named after Peter, my husband,” says Indu Navar, EverythingALS founder and app developer. “We have over 24 pharma companies who have partnered with us, about 15 clinics and institutions have partnered with us, and I work with about 7000 ALS families from 60 countries.”

It facilitates a combination of real-time research, partnerships, and AI-assisted pathfinding for caregivers of patients with qualifying disorders.

“We have different brands, which is EverythingALS, we have EverythingALZ now, focused on Alzheimer’s,” says Navar. “What I see is that people have a continuum. A lot of people who have had ALS also have dementia.”

Patients with conditions like dementia and ALS lose capacity for basic functions and require caregivers.

Those caregivers are sometimes family members without medical training.

“I got involved in this literally because in ’98, when I came back home to assist my aging parents,” says Deneice Tell, a retired psychiatric technician and IHSS caregiver. “So I did that until they passed away. And that was probably a 15 year journey with my parents.”

For new caregivers, it can be difficult to know where to start, let alone how to get everyone from the doctors to the pharmacists and everyone in between, all on the same page.

“People want to know, how do you get somewhere?” says Tell. “That’s life, communication and information. You can’t put a price tag on that.”

Bay area researcher and developer Indu Navar had to care for her husband who passed away in 2019 from ALS.

That experience led her to develop the app.

“We’re kind of the transformers in between taking the data, converting into insights,” says Navar. “You can do a lot more, faster, because we’re all in this flywheel.”

Navar says the app has the potential to expand to other conditions.

“What a wonderful tool,” says Tell. “Instead of me basically biting my fingernails, trying to ride around or figure it out myself, when it’s already there. So we can make wise decisions.”

For more information, clicking this link leads to the EverythingALS home page.

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