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Jarrod Zinn

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – A Santa Maria hardware store destroyed by a fire is setting up a temporary location to stay in business.

Santa Maria Supply serves a lot of local customers specializing in manual labor.

The store’s long-standing building on Blosser Road experienced what the fire marshal declared an accidental electrical fire about a week ago in the early hours of a Saturday morning.

The extensive damage caused by the fire led officials to declare the building a total loss.

“It’s really hard seeing something that you and your family have worked so hard for, just basically turning to dust,” says Johnny Maravilla, a Santa Maria Supply co-owner.

The family who owns and operates Santa Maria Supply, as well as their local customers, say it would be difficult to find other nearby stores that sell the same products.

“We have customers that come down all the way from Paso,” says Maravilla. “We have customers as far as Lompoc, Santa Barbara area that come down because they still farm in those areas, but it’s not as big. And they know that we have a lot of different supplies that they need.”

The store serves the needs of industrial laborers, construction and farm workers, landscapers, welders and more, who rely on its unique inventory.

Some of their primary items are branded and industrial grade work attire like heavy duty rain boots, safety vests, and nitrile gloves bought by the case (extra thick for berry harvesters).

“We sell a lot of just different tools like sod cutters, buckets for harvesting blackberries, raspberries, a lot of industrial Igloos, canopies,” says Maravilla. “We sell a full line of portable sanitation supplies.”

The owners worked with their insurance company and the City Of Santa Maria to open a temporary location here at 111 West Chapel Street, just off Broadway.

“I would say we’re about maybe 75% open at this point,” says Maravilla.

The store’s owners expressed gratitude for local firefighters, city leaders, and community members who acted quickly so customers can experience as little impact from the loss of the Blosser building as possible.

“Hopefully by the end of this week, we’ll be back up to 100%,” says Maravilla. “In the long term, I think we’re going to look back at it and be like it was a speed bump.”

As they stock the temporary location, the store’s owners are doing as much business as they can through their online services, which can best be accessed through their Instagram page by clicking here.

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John Palminteri

ISLA VISTA, Calif. (KEYT) – The Isla Vista economy, quiet for the last two months, is waking up again.

Thousands of students have arrived for the new school year at UC Santa Barbara nearby, which starts later this week.

Over the weekend, the new and returning residents on and off campus were busy bringing their belongings in and getting their living areas organized. That includes dorms, apartments and shared homes.

The businesses in the area, in a summer slump are now ramping up with more customers and say they calculate their business on a 12-month cycle but also know the weeks when the students are not around will be significantly slower.

Off campus there will also be a boost in sales in Goleta at Target on Hollister Ave. and across the street at stores such as Costco, Home Depot and Ross Dress for Less with the student population stocking up.

To manage all of this on Saturday and Sunday, extra staff was on hand to help shuttle large carts full of belonging to the dorm rooms and assist students and their families.

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

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

NCAA Men’s Soccer: Oregon State 3, UCSB 1: Peleg Brown scored in the 25th minute for the Gauchos to tie the game at 1 but the Beavers regained the lead for good on a Tim Hoffman goal in the 32nd minute. Michael Nesci extended the lead in the 54th minute for Oregon State.

UCSB is 4-2-2 on the year. Close to 4,000 fans were at the game as the students returned to campus for the fall quarter.

NCAA Women’s Volleyball: USC 3, UCSB 0: The Gauchos fell to the Trojans (11-25, 27-29, 23-25) in LA. Auburn Tomkinson had 11 kills for UCSB who dropped to 4-7 on the season.

NCAA Men’s Water Polo: #11 Pepperdine 15, #14 UCSB 10: Luigi Canepa, Tyler Roller and Charlie Johnson each scored two goals for the Gauchos on the final day of the MPSF Invitational at Stanford.

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Caleb Nguyen

SANTA MARIA, Calif. (KEYT) – The Santa Maria Police Department is investigating a shooting that happened just after 8:00 p.m. Saturday at the 700 block of South Western.

SMPD officers found a 40-year-old man suffering from a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and helped him to Marian Regional Medical Center for treatment.

SMPD officers heard gunshots but could not locate a suspect. The investigation remains ongoing and those with more information are asked to contact the SMPD.

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Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) The 52d Mary McCord Planned Parenthood Book Sale wrapped up its 11- day run at the Earl Warren Showgrounds in Santa Barbara.

Book lovers flocked to the final day when everything is always half off.

Some readers said they attended the sale on multiple days.

Nonprofits also had a chance to take books for free in the final hour.

The event is named in memory of a longtime volunteer.

Event Co-Chair Amy Zak Urban described her feelings in the now empty book storage area.

“Thrilled, exhausted, thrilled, people have been amazing this community has come out in droves, they are having a great time, we couldn’t ask for more,” said Zak Urban.

It is one of Planned Parenthood’s most successful fundraisers.

Donations are welcome all year at 5726 Thornwood Drive in Goleta.

For more information visit https://booksale.ppcentralcoast.org

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Tracy Lehr

GOLETA, Calif. (KEYT) Animal lovers had a chance to meet shelter dogs, a 3-legged cat and rabbits available for adoption.

It happened at the 2nd Annual Tails of Hope.

The Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation hosted Tails of Hope at Rancho La Patera Stow House in Goleta.

The space included a silent and live auction, food and wine, including La Leiff wines, and more.

Nick Koonce brought Lola, who lost a leg in a car accident.

This dog wouldn’t be here today without County Animal Services intervention and saving her from her traumatic injury, she has allowed me to train her to be a service dog, I couldn’t be happier,” said Koonce who works with the Accessibility Coalition for Transformation.

Lee Heller helped coordinate Tails of Hope.

“Animal services is the most important animal welfare agency in the county, it does all animal welfare, it is a government agency, and it always needs more financial support,” said Heller.

People and pets also seemed to enjoy the SB Bubble Guy and his crew.

They shared the magic of giant soap bubbles near a number of nonprofit information tables.

Supporters of the tails of hope include a who’s who of locals including celebrity emcees Bo Derek and John Corbett.

For more information visit https://www.sbcanimalcare.org

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Mike Klan

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) –

San Diego 38, Cal Poly 35: It was not a happy homecoming for the Mustangs as Emiliano Salazar drilled a 38-yard field goal with 2 seconds left to give the non-scholarship San Diego Toreros a 38-35 win in front of 10,259 at Spanos Stadium.

Tayvion McCoy and Fide Pitts caught touchdown passes in the second half as Cal Poly erased a 14-point deficit to tie the score at 35.

Quarterback Anthony Grigsby Jr. threw for 211 yards and 3 touchdowns for the Mustangs and Jaden Green finished with a Cal Poly-best 126 rushing yards on 17 carries.

Former Bishop Diego High School star Misa Paiau tied the game at 14 in the second quarter with a 26-yard touchdown run but he hobbled into the end zone with an injury and did not return.

Cal Poly returns to Big Sky action when visiting Eastern Washington on Saturday, Sept. 26. Kickoff on ESPN+ from Roos Field is 4 p.m. for Cal Poly (2-2, 1-0), which defeated Idaho in its Aug. 28 Big Sky opener, 38-34.

Junior College: Long Beach 30, Santa Barbara 0: In a matchup of winless teams SBCC was dominated on the road as they were outgained 461 to 134 in total yards. The Vaqueros (0-4) were held to 2 rushing yards. SBCC hosts Ventura on Saturday, Sept 26.

Moorpark 28, Ventura 27 (OT): The Raiders snapped 17-game losing skid in the Citrus Cup by stopping a 2-point conversion try in overtime.

Sirwan Evans connected with Anthony Garcia on a 11-yard touchdown pass in overtime for Moorpark (1-3).

Braden Graham answered the overtime score with a 22-yard touchdown strike to Jude Walker but the Pirates (2-2) came up short.

Hancock 21, Santa Ana 14: Nuhsi Valenti rushed for 2 touchdowns and Cruz Palabucki added another score on the ground for the winning Bulldogs (2-2). Both teams played a scoreless first half.

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Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) Bombay Station’s chef and owner Ninder Josan welcomed guests to enjoy hosted a ribbon cutting and meal in Santa Barbara on Saturday morning.

“Today we’re hosting our grand opening, and a ribbon cutting ceremony, and we’re doing this with our multi faith coalition,” said Josan.

The President of the Multi Faith Harmony Coalition, Mohamed Khan invited California’s State Treasurer to the table.

“To break bread, prayer, breakfast and just share what we love and serving others in respect of their race, religion, culture, lifestyle. One of the things that we pioneered and our, our amazing state treasurer is the Cal Kids program bringing, scholarship to children who may never get a chance in life,” said Khan. 

“Work with the different communities that need, extra funding, capital lines of credit, small businesses, is really, what makes my job, a happy, a happy place,” said Ma.

“We will phase our menu out every month. We’ll change stuff around. So the idea is a train going through India, every little area. So the food will change. So it’ll land in Punjab. It’ll land in the south, the east, west,” said Josan.

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Tracy Lehr

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (KEYT) Santa Barbara High School’s Class of 1976 held its 50th reunion.

Recognition went to classmates who helped track people down for the occasion .

The reunion celebration filled El Paseo restaurant in Santa Barbara.

Classmates wore their high school yearbook pictures on lanyards.

A wall was also filled with photos from their senior year.

Grads are known to say “Once a Don, Always a Don” and they seemed to enjoy each other’s company.

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Tracy Lehr

VENTURA, Calif. (KEYT) Patagonia hosted “Out The Back “surf events in Ventura.

Pro surfer Dave Rastovich told his story about getting sick from runoff in the documentary “Sensing Home.”

People packed Patagonia’s back patio in Ventura on Friday night to watch the film that shows surfers sailing to areas where river run off enters the ocean in Australia.

Rastovich said surfers are like canaries in the coal mine, if the water is sickm, surfers get sick, too.

“We’ve come here to share a film about river health and river side communities and a host of people looking after country in Australia and it just feel great to come here because there are so many great people in this Ventura community,” said Rastovich.

Proceeds of the even benefited the Surfrider Foundation that is working to protect the coast.

Organizers shared the progress being made along the beaches in Bentura 

But there is still work to be done.

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