MISCELLANY (Continued from page 6) All Saints parishioners gather for the new tower’s service of blessing
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endowment and mission denominated reserves, to $11,600,000. The project’s architect, Robert Easton, says the foundation, framing, and structural steel plan to achieve seismic strengthening of the historic structure represents the lion’s share of the cost. All Saints has filed an application for an amendment to its conditional use permit, which is expected to be approved shortly, to be followed by meetings and hearings before the Historical Landmark Advisory Committee, the Montecito Board of Architectural Review, the Montecito Association, and the planning commission. If all goes according to plan, the church, which was last upgraded in 1930, hopes to break ground for the phase two work in early fall 2017 and complete the project by Easter 2019, says Sheri Benninghoven, who is co-chairing the campaign with Ed Birch and Bitsy Bacon, former head of CAMA. Amen to that. Head of the Class Former Montecito film executive Susan St. John has completed a mission!
For the past 15 years, she has been financing the education of a Kenyan youngster, Dorothy, daughter of Meshack Nicko Orwa, who met Susan when he was concierge at the Nairobi Safari Club and lived in a rustic village some distance away, Luo “We immediately bonded,” recalls Susan. “She was only five at the time. It was then I made up my mind that Dorothy – with a mind like her – had to be educated. That also meant educating her sister, Susan Frances. “I spoke to Meshak about my decision and he was overcome with skeptical gratitude. Most foreigners do not deliver on their promises and Meshack, like others there, lived on small grains of hope. “A few months later, they both began their start in school, which meant not only school tuition, but books, lunch money, and transportation.” Time has passed and Dorothy, now 22, has just graduated with a degree in journalism after a three-year course from the Multimedia University of Kenya with a bright future ahead of her. “It was an extraordinary opportu-
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