Fiesta 2022 E-Letter

In this E-Letter:

VIVA LA FIESTA!! (GREAT FUN, BUT LET’S BE COOL ABOUT IT)
DANCING ON WAVES…FIRST PUBLIC REVIEW!

VIVA LA FIESTA & LET'S BE COOL ABOUT IT

**HTO Office Dog, Bodie (“Paco Bell”), at HTO Fiesta Lunch**

Happy Fiesta! Santa Barbara is celebrating the traditions of our City’s founders, and we are all out in the streets with mariachi music and friends. Heal the Ocean reminds everybody, during Fiesta celebrations, to please make sure to “Skip the Confetti.” Plastic, mylar, glitter, and sequin confetti does not biodegrade. Instead, it goes down the storm drains and eventually into the ocean, where sea animals mistake it for food. Please be Cool, and see if you can celebrate without throwing confetti this fiesta – thank you!

In the interest of protecting the ocean, Heal the Ocean has again collaborated with the City on its project of covering storm drains during Fiesta. This year, HTO Operations Manager Jasmin Tupy went with Erik Krueger of SB Downtown Organization on a survey of storm drains in Fiesta Celebration hot spots. Together they mapped out the locations of the storm drains to be covered, which will help keep confetti and trash from making their way to our ocean.

Adding to this, Andrew Velikanje and his Earthcomb team has been engaged by HTO for additional confetti and trash clean up to make sure the streets and storm drain covers stay tidy.

Together we can all help make a difference this Fiesta! Please share this information and encourage others to “Skip the Confetti” in honor of the Ocean! Thank you!!

**HTO celebrating Fiesta, L to R: Jasmin Tupy, Lucy Lefkowitz, Hillary Hauser, Sydni Trigueiro and Bodie, Heather Hudson**

FIRST PUBLIC REVIEW OF "DANCING ON WAVES" IS IN!

**Hillary with Newest Book at HTO Office**

HTO Executive Director Hillary Hauser’s new book, “Dancing on Waves, is starting to receive public notice. Below is an excerpt from a review published on Miroirs, California’s Cultural Music Journal website:

Dancing on Waves: A True Story of Finding Love & Redemption in the Ocean

“…Throughout Hauser’s vividly written story, (Dancing on Waves), the sea remains her inspirational and regenerative life force and from this analogy we symbiotically relive a cascade of land and water situations that describe treatment for breast cancer, signing divorce papers on Good Friday, losing urchin diver friends to horrific accidents off San Miguel Island and finding ‘gunk’ on the water in Shark’s Cove at Fernald Point which initiated her environmental mission. Don’t be surprised if you find yourself not only reading about, but bonding with an assortment of characters that include abalone and urchin divers, classical musicians, surfers, scuba divers, Jean-Michel Cousteau, three schipperkes, doctors, regional water quality control health officers and scientists at University of California, Santa Barbara.

“Hauser’s book is much more than a reminiscence about the sea; it also serves as a self-help guide and sounding board for those in all walks of life dealing with earth-shattering issues she has encountered. She openly shares thoughts, self-doubts, joys, emotions and insights with refreshing candor and includes Matthew Arnolds’s poem Self-Dependence as an eloquent example. It’s like, wow, this high-profile author is having a bad hair day, a breakthrough, and has the courage to tell, all in words we can relate to…”

Dancing on Waves will be released, this week, August 5, and is available Here.