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Local nonprofit Los Padres Council, BSA invites Santa Barbara community members to attend the Salute to Scouting event, which takes place from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 28, in the Santa Barbara Club courtyard, 1105 Chapala St., Santa Barbara.

The fundraiser is designed to support Scouting on the Central Coast and recognize two local leaders — John Brinker and Lani Meanley Collins — who have helped build character and leadership in Santa Barbara County youth.

Brinker will be honored with the National Eagle Scout Association’s Outstanding Eagle Scout Award. Collins, a Santa Barbara attorney, will receive Los Padres Council’s Legacy Award. The honorees have been selected for their work to promote the values of Scouting in their lives and in the community and for their support and service to Boy Scouts, Outdoor School at Camp Rancho Alegre, and other causes.

Registration is $150 per ticket and all proceeds raised at this event will go toward supporting local Scouting. To register or to donate online, visit www.lpcbsa.org. Sponsorship and advertisement opportunities are also available.

Los Padres Council, Boy Scouts of America, serves boys and girls ages 5-20 and their families in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. The council was first chartered in 1919 and has promoted youth leadership and family-based programs on the Central Coast for more than 100 years.

The council has a variety of programs including the Outdoor School, Cub Scouts, Scouts BSA, Venturing and Exploring.

All guests must wear a mask. Requirements are subject to change prior to event date. All sponsors and ticket holders will be notified of any changes prior to the event.

For more information, contact Erica at Erica.Neumann@Scouting.org.

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Lifelong Buellton resident Aidan Tesdahl recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout after completing his Community Service Project benefitting the Safety Town program at the Santa Ynez Valley Presbyterian Church. The annual week-long event has been held at the Santa Ynez Valley Presbyterian Church for more than 25 years. 

Local Boy Scout Aidan Tesdahl working on his Eagle Scout project for the SYV Presbyterian Church.
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Safety Town is a national safety program for kindergarten-aged children, but the event at the church is the only one in the Santa Ynez Valley. Throughout the week, children rotate through different stations learning about the basics of safety, such as memorizing their phone numbers and addresses, and learning how and when they should call 911. Daily presenters include firefighters, ambulance paramedics, California Highway Patrol officers and county Sheriff’s deputies. They reinforce the message that first responders are their friends and are there to help us. Each day, the children also practice road safety by driving pedal cars around a miniature version of the Santa Ynez Valley.

“This miniature town was the focus of Tesdahl project,” said Lis Wilson, Children’s Ministries Director for the Santa Ynez Valley Presbyterian Church. “The wooden buildings that make up the town are as old as the program at the Presbyterian Church and in need of major repairs. When Aidan was in Kindergarten he participated in the Safety Town program, as did his sister several years later. When he was old enough, Aidan began volunteering for the event, helping the adult leaders for many years and in many ways.”

“But one of his favorite ways to help was by directing traffic and keeping order in the miniature town,” continued Wilson. “When the time came to think about the community service project that he would design, plan, and execute as part of his Eagle Scout rank requirements, it did not take long for his church and their Safety Town program to come to mind. He chose to replace all of the wooden buildings that make up Safety Town.”

Working closely with church member and mentor, Bob Fikes, he came up with an improved design that considered ease of assembly and storage, creating several prototypes along the way.

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Part of the Eagle Scout project requirements is that the Scout demonstrates project management and leadership skills. With help from other Scouts and family members, Tesdahl built eight new buildings for the church’s program. 

Completion of this project was one final way that Tesdahl could be involved with the event before graduating from high school and heading off to college, where he will earn his degree while working through the Army ROTC program, in hopes of continuing to serve his larger community as an officer in the United States Army.

“Safety Town would not be possible without the support of our local National Charity League,” said Wilson. “They volunteer their time all that week, leading the children through the different stations, including the miniature town. Unfortunately, due to the situation this year with COVID-19, the church has sadly had to postpone this year’s Safety Town event until next summer. However, the National Charity League girls and their mothers are still planning on supporting the program by painting all the new buildings to resemble local landmarks and businesses. If you would like the kids to drive by a miniature version of your business, sponsorships are still available.”

“Kerry Morgantini and I would like to thank Aidan for his hard work and dedication in this valuable community program,” said Wilson in conclusion.

For more information, contact Lis Wilson at 805-688-6323 or Morgantini at 805-689-3782.

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For Scouting, this is not a time of crisis, but rather a time of purpose. These are the days for which their training and values have prepared members of Scouting. With the country now confronted with two monumental challenges — disease and economic shock — Scouting has a role to play in the community response.

On May 15, scouts from Boy Scouts of America Los Padres Council will deliver home-made face shields to organizations, medical workers and others in need. Scouts and leaders, regardless of program or age, are stepping forward and leaning in to support community members including doctors, nurses, medical workers, first responders, seniors, the ill, and the immunocompromised.

“Yes, we have need. We will take as many as you can afford us,” said a staff member at Marian Regional Medical Center in Santa Maria.

“Many in our community have benefited from scouts providing hundreds of thousands of service hours to a variation of local organizations that include food drives for local pantries, updating/upgrading local/national park and church facilities, clothes and school material for local children in need, and much more,” said Carlos Cortez, council CEO/scout executive.

“Boy Scouts from Los Padres Council have done this for over 100 years quietly and without rewards as we see it as our duty, and we want you to know that we are in this together and are taking action to support our local community,” he said.

Los Padres Council Boy Scouts of America is a youth leadership development organization that has served families for more than 100 years in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties by providing scout programs and The Outdoor School science camp at Rancho Alegre.

For more information visit www.lpcbsa.org, email Erica.mundell-mcgilvray@scouting.org, or call 805-967-0105.

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Even though there are no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Santa Barbara County as of Friday afternoon, several upcoming events in the Santa Ynez Valley have been postponed as a precaution. The NatureTrack Film Festival was supposed to be held from March 20 – 22 in Los Olivos, and organizers decided to postpone to October. 

“Our primary concern is the health, safety and welfare of our guests, filmmakers and volunteers. Recent federal, state and county public health advisories have stressed the critical importance of avoiding crowd contact (“social distancing”) during the global Covid-19 crisis. We take these advisories very seriously and want to do our part to reduce risk for all parties connected with the NatureTrack Film Festival. We greatly regret any inconvenience and disappointment this causes for everyone … This was a very hard call and we did not make it lightly,” NatureTrack officials said. 

Also postponed is the Buellton Wine and Chili Festival that would have taken place Sunday, March 15 is now rescheduled for Sunday, August 30. 

“We had an emergency meeting how to handle this and postponed to Sunday, August 30. For the safety of the community and visitors it was the right thing to do,” said Kathy Vreeland, executive director of the Buellton Chamber of Commerce and Visitor’s Bureau. 

The Boy Scouts of America also decided to postpone their annual pancake breakfast that was to take place Sunday, March 15, along with the Career Fair at Santa Ynez Valley Union High School that was supposed to take place March 20.

Organizers for the Solvang Century bike ride could not be reached, however a post on their Facebook page said their permit was revoked by County Public Health. If people had purchased merchandise it will be mailed, and they will update on their next steps.  

Officials from the City of Solvang said they are working on a response and will put out information shortly. 

“I expect to be reaching out to media later today (most likely) or tomorrow morning at latest with City direction to address Coronavirus,” said Xenia Bradford, City Manager. 

“As we feel the affects of tourism being down we are pushing for people to shop local. The people who need support the most is our local businesses,” said Tracy Beard, executive director of the Solvang Chamber of Commerce. 

Beard, along with several Santa Barbara County chambers of commerce gathered Wednesday to discuss issues affecting local business communities including how this virus will affect business. The event aimed to encourage fellow board members to think more regionally, and focus on common goals and strengths. Assessing the coronavirus’ business impacts and implications were the most pressing topics discussed, and how it’s rapidly changing day-to-day life as COVID-19 cases grow.

Schools in the Santa Ynez Valley are still in session until Wednesday, March 18 – and will reopen Tuesday, April 14. Solvang Elementary School Superintendent Steve Seaford said teachers are already preparing materials to distribute to students online via Google Classroom and ParentSquare. The school will provide computers and options for internet access should the school be closed. 

“We have applied to the state to be able to continue to provide lunches for students in the National School Lunch Program,” Seaford said. 

Local churches have also suspended regular services, however several said they will be assisting the community in several capacities. Bethania Lutheran Church Pastor Chris Brown started a Facebook group called the SYV Coronavirus Community Advocacy. They will be implementing volunteer opportunities and live streaming services at https://bethanialutheran.net/media/live-stream/. 

Pastor Sam Kiser of Crossroads Church said they will provide lunches to students in need. They will also be hosting a collective learning spaces available for families and students who want to gather to study together. There might be recreation as well. 

In county-wide events the Santa Barbara International Orchid Show set for this weekend also had to cancel, and the Santa Barbara Earth Day event decided to postpone until July. 

PCPA canceled the remaining shows of Julius Cesar, and said they will contact each of the ticket holders directly. 

“PCPA’s plans remain in place for our upcoming production of The Sound of Music, scheduled to begin performances on April 23, 2020. Please continue to visit pcpa.org or contact the PCPA Box Office for the most up to date information,” said Mark Booher, Artistic Director/Associate Dean of PCPA. 

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History and Sea Center are closed from March 14 – 31.

The Santa Barbara Zoo remains open however they are limiting access, visit www.santabarbarazoo.org for details. 

The annual St. Patrick’s Day parade set for this weekend in Ventura also canceled. 

The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department released a new information portal to augment its current website in response to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19).

The new user-friendly communication portal uses accessible icons to organize information as a one-stop -shop information source for the community. The site is easy to navigate for the most current updates and trusted information from public health officials, as well as a section intended for the Public Health Department’s critical community health care partners.

The new COVID-19 website is located at http://PublicHealthSBC.org with information available in English and Spanish.

The site features daily status reports, general information about coronavirus, prevention tips, frequently asked questions, and links to information released by the California Department of Public Health Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

To date there are 1,215 cases in the United States with 988 of those still under investigation, and a total of 36 reported deaths, according to the CDC. 

Brooke Holland of Noozhawk contributed to this report. She can be reached at bholland@noozhawk.com.

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In 2017, the Whittier Fire ripped through the Santa Ynez Mountains near Highway 154, scorching more than 18,000 acres, destroying 16 homes, and burning 47 of the 50 structures at Camp Rancho Alegre, which has been a camping destination used by the Boy Scouts of America and schoolchildren at The Outdoor School for more than 50 years.

Los Padres Council of the Boy Scouts of America has established a capital campaign to rebuild and reframe Rancho Alegre, and, as a way of contributing to the worthy cause, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians has announced that the Council will be the main beneficiary of its annual Chumash Charity Golf Classic.

“One of the amazing traits of this community is our instinct to pull together, pitch in and provide help when tragedy strikes,” said Tribal Chairman Kenneth Kahn of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians.

“During the Whittier Fire, many brave citizens had an opportunity to rise to the occasion and shine in an emergency situation. When the tribe was asked if we could provide transportation for 80 children and staff who needed to evacuate Circle V Ranch, we sent buses to help our brave first responders complete a dramatic rescue,” he added. “We were ready to help in the moment, and we’re pleased to help Los Padres Council, Boy Scouts of America in the aftermath.”

The two-day Chumash Charity Golf Classic, which will be held Aug. 21-22 at the Alisal River Course in Solvang, will raise money for Los Padres Council and help fund the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians’ Technology in Schools Program, which is aimed at fulfilling high-tech needs in Santa Barbara County classrooms.

It will require an estimated $15.5 million to rebuild, modernize and improve Camp Rancho Alegre. While insurance claims are anticipated to cover $9 million of the total cost, Los Padres Council has launched a $6.5 million capital campaign to complete the project. With the camp closed, young scouts are currently forced to attend scout camps farther away, and The Outdoor School has been relocated to the smaller Camp Whittier.

“We are honored and thankful that the Phoenix Campaign to rebuild Rancho Alegre is the beneficiary of the Chumash Charity Golf Classic for 2019,” said Carlos Cortez, Scout Executive and CEO of Los Padres Council. “Rancho Alegre’s 215 acres provided a unique outdoor education experience to over 4,000 fifth- and sixth-graders annually through The Outdoor School plus hundreds of Scouting adventures. Thank you Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians for supporting our efforts to not only rise from the ashes of the fire but to build a unique community resource available to all families.”

Since its inaugural event in 2005, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians’ annual golf tournament has raised more than $1.4 million for local charities and nonprofits. Past beneficiaries include the Teddy Bear Cancer Foundation, Dream Foundation, Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) of Santa Barbara County, Lompoc Family YMCA, Unity Shoppe, and local schools and museums, among others.

To find out more about the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians Foundation and its giving programs, visit www.santaynezchumash.org.

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Four Boy Scouts from Troop 42 recently earned the rank of Eagle Scout, the highest honor in Boy Scouting.

Darian Hall, Desi Valle, Zachary Seaman and Zachary Gundrey were honored Jan. 26 at an Eagle Court of Honor held at St Mark’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church in Los Olivos. The event was attended by many family members, friends, fellow scouts and scout leaders.

After completing a community project of their choosing and an Eagle application, each went before a review board to receive the final approval to become an Eagle Scout. The application includes the scout’s involvement in the troop over the years and a statement on their life ambitions and goals.

To earn the honor, each scout is required to give back to the community by planning, executing and reporting on an Eagle project. To complete this project, each had to use the skills, tools, and communication and leadership skills learned through their scouting years to complete the project.

Darian helped renovate the playground at the Crossroads Church in Buellton. He led a group of scouts to restore a treehouse deck, the treehouse itself and the playground. This project made it safer and cleaner for the young children who played there. When asked what he got out of doing his project, Darian said, “a chance to apply all that I had learned prior about leadership and organization.”

Darian has been in scouting for 4 ½ years, first in Bizbee, Ariz., and then in Troop 42 of Buellton. His memorable scouting activities include completing two 50-mile backpacking trips. He has earned 26 merit badges, the Eagle Bronze Palm and served as the troop scribe.

Desi helped to clean out and organize the storage building at the Crossroads Church in Buellton. The scouts, led by Desi, emptied the storage building and went thought the contents with advice from church members. Then they cleaned the building out, secured the shelving and organized the church items as they put them back into the building. When asked about his project, he said, “It took a lot of people to move everything out and clean inside but the results turned out better than predicted. I learned how to handle the stress of leading a group of people to do a job effectively.”

Desi has been in scouting for 12 years in Buellton. He started in Pack 42 as a Tiger Cub Scout and has been in scouting ever since. He is a senior at Santa Ynez Valley High school.

His most memorable activity was attending the National Scout Jamboree in the summer of 2017. He has earned 36 merit badges, the Eagle Bronze, Silver and Gold palms, and served as troop quartermaster and patrol leader.

Zachary Seaman led fellow scouts to build library boxes for the city of Buellton. These boxes will be placed around town to encourage people to read more and interact at the boxes. His project taught him “better leadership skills and … how to help lead people on a building project.”

He has been in scouting since first grade. He joined as a Tiger Cub in Pack 42, crossed over to Troop 42 and earned the Arrow of Light. He is a senior at Santa Ynez Valley High School.

During the summers as a scout, he enjoyed going to camp with his friends and fellow scouts. He has earned 27 merit badges, the Bronze Eagle palm and served as a patrol leader and senior patrol leader.

Zachary Gundrey chose as his project to build a storage shed for the Santa Ynez Valley High School Baseball team. This shed houses the tractor used to care for the field as well as other equipment. He completed this project and became an Eagle Scout in June 2016. Since then he has been studying geology at Santa Barbara City College.

He officially received his rank at this Eagle Court of Honor. At the Court of Honor he talked about how he has “had some experience to use this in my life.” He said that scouting has been “learning a new form of lifestyle that I think is admirable.”

He also joined scouting as a Tiger Cub with Pack 42 in Buellton. He also crossed over to Troop 42 and earned the Arrow of Light. He went on many hikes, camp outs and attended summer camp annually during his 12 years of scouting. He was active in the troop as a Patrol Leader and Senior Patrol Leader. He has earned 25 Merit Badges.

Senior Patrol Leader Christopher Gundrey welcomed the guests to the Eagle Court of Honor and led the Troop 42 Color Guard. Sean Harris sang the National Anthem a cappella.

The Master of Ceremonies was Troop 42 Scoutmaster John DeLeon, an Eagle Scout. Vickie Sorensen, the District Advancement Chair, officially opened and closed the Court of Honor. The benediction was given by the Rev. Randall C.K. Day, also an Eagle Scout.

For more information about scouting, go to BeAScout.org or email locally to Santaynezvalleyscouting@gmail.com.

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The Los Padres Council hosted a lunch and groundbreaking ceremony on June 23 at Rancho Alegre Boy Scout Camp to celebrate the reconstruction of what the Whittier Fire left in ruins nearly a year ago.

The area usually filled with green foliage and wildlife is now a forest of black and leafless trees on charred and blackened soil. The sheen of Lake Cachuma and small pieces of blue sky can be seen through the tangle of burned-up trunks and branches.

Eagle Scout Alex Mahajan and a color guard opened the groundbreaking ceremony on June 23.

However, the rebuilding of what the wildfire destroyed will be “something the rest of the people will try and replicate; children will be able to have an experience like no other,” said CEO Carlos P. Cortez of the scouting council.

The aftermath of the fire, the destruction and dead animals Cortez saw on the days after the turmoil, he said at the groundbreaking, “was an extremely sad sight to see; it brought me to tears; it looked like a war zone.”

At the groundbreaking, Scouts and their guests celebrated the plans for a new camp with a layout that includes new dorms, a health lodge, an observatory, a chapel and much more.

People sat at round tables, under a high gabled ceiling, and ate carnitas and chicken tacos with Spanish rice and beans in one of the camp’s three surviving structures: an air-conditioned cafeteria, known as the Frank Lodge. The cafeteria stands next to the one surviving dorm, and between the two buildings two enormous oak trees still swaddle the roofs and shade the pathway.

The Scout leaders and council members wore beige and green uniforms decorated with various patches for achievements and Scout ranks. The younger Cub Scouts wore a yellow or blue neckerchief with a dark blue or beige uniform.

After lunch, the ceremony moved outside, below the cafeteria and dorm, and away from the two oak trees. The event’s emcee, Council President John Brinker, introduced Alex Mahajan, an Eagle Scout and a member of the Scouting honor society Order of the Arrow.

And in a loud, robust voice, Alex ordered four young members of a color guard to march the American flag to the spot of the ceremonial dig.

The Whittier Fire destroyed most of the buildings at Rancho Alegre, which will now be rebuilt.

They posted the flag, then Alex led the audience in the pledge of allegiance and a prayer.

“I’m impressed with this Eagle Scout,” Brinker said.

Alex also talked about the camp being a significant part of his childhood.

“When I saw the camp, it really struck a chord with me; part of my childhood went up in smoke,” he said.

He and other Scouts were in a meeting at Rancho Alegre the day the fire broke out, “and two hours after the meeting the camp was one big pile of ash,” he said.

To close the event, Alex led the ceremonial first turning of dirt.

Holding shovels were Council CEO Cortez, major donor and fundraiser Bill Wright, council vice president Laurie Tamura and Scout leader Tre Pinner.

On Alex’s cadence, each participant stabbed the earth with a shovel and pulled out a chunk of dirt, marking the start of reconstruction.

As for the area’s natural progression, Cortez said, he recently saw a deer and a flock of wild turkeys amble through the camp. He also saw the carcass of a deer that appeared to have become food for a triumphant mountain lion.

“Nature is diligent,” he said. “It’s the circle of life.”

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Benjamin Watkins, an eighth-grader at Solvang School, earned his Eagle rank in February after completing his Eagle project to create emergency “shelter in place” kits at Ballard School.

Ben attended Ballard School from kindergarten through sixth grade.

A member of Troop 41 chartered to the Santa Ynez Presbyterian Church, Ben has been a particularly active Scout to achieve the top rank at such a young age.

Compiling the kits was a learning experience in project management, including fundraising and budgeting. Members of his troop helped him pack and deliver the kits over Christmas break in 2017, when schools were closed due to the smoke hazard caused by the Thomas Fire.

“It was weird that we were packing air masks for the Ballard kids to use in an emergency, while we were having to wear air masks. It made us all realize how important these kits are,” he said.

The scoutmaster for Troop 41, who is also Ben’s dad, David Watkins, said that Ben has been focused on Scouting since joining as a Cub Scout in second grade. Last summer he attended the National Scout Jamboree in West Virginia after touring Washington, D.C., and historic sites on the East Coast with a contingent from the Central Coast.

Ben was elected a patrol leader for the trip, even though he was one of the youngest attending. He is also a member of the Order of the Arrow, an honor society among Scouts.

He has earned 38 merit badges, learning skills from archery to welding. They also include one of the rarer badges, for bugling. Ben has been the bugler for Troop 41 since joining.

Ben’s Eagle Court of Honor took place May 12 at the Santa Ynez Valley Presbyterian Church. For more information, call David Watkins at 805-886-7580.

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Isaac Beifuss Swolgaard, a 14-year-old member of the Cachuma District’s Boy Scout Troop 46, recently joined his older brother, father, four uncles, six cousins and his grandfather in earning the rank of Eagle Scout.

For his Eagle project, the eighth-grader at Los Olivos Elementary School organized the replacement of the ball wall on his school’s playground.

To receive the Eagle award, scouts must plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project that is helpful to any religious institution, school or community.

To plan his project, Isaac approached Los Olivos Principal Bridget Baublits for a wish list of projects that school officials wanted to have accomplished.

“I chose the ball wall because the old one was falling apart, and a lot of kids use the wall,” Isaac said.

He raised more than $700 to complete the project by approaching local businesses, the Rotary Club of Los Olivos, and other individuals for donations.

With the help of friends, family and fellow Troop 46 scouts, Isaac had to dismantle the wall.

“At first, I thought that all I had to do was replace the plywood on the surface, but then I took the plywood off and discovered that all of the frame was rotted, so I had to replace all of that. After that, I put new plywood on and gave the wall a nice new coat of paint,” he added.

Isaac said his favorite parts of the project were working alongside friends and family to improve his school and the sense of accomplishment he felt after the wall was ready for use.

He joins more than 2.25 million Boy Scouts who have earned the Eagle rank since 1912. For more information about Boy Scouts in the area, visit www.lpcbsa.org.

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Cub Scouts brought a little love to Atterdag Village Senior Living Center in February when they brought cards, chocolate and entertainment to the residents in celebration of Valentine’s Day.

The scouts from Cub Scout Wolf Den No. 1 from Pack 42 performed a song, “We are the Cub Scouts,” for residents before handing out boxes of chocolates, paper flowers made by some of their older sisters, and handmade Valentine’s Day cards under the supervision of Den Leaders Scott Miller and Sharon Parker.

More than 100 other Valentine’s Day cards were presented to Atterdag employees to be passed out to residents who could not attend the event.

“We wanted to perform an act of kindness as well as service to our community,” Parker said. “It was a wonderful evening.”

Cub Scouting is a program of the Boy Scouts of America, whose overall mission is to help young people build character, learn citizenship, and develop personal fitness. Cub Scouting focuses on grades kindergarten through fourth grade or age 11.

For more information, email pack42cachuma@gmail.com.

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