Sheila

sweet little Sheila, you'll know her if you see her, blue eyes and a pony tail...

so I get an email from Mayor Lodge...Sheila Lodge....I do remember when Sheila was mayor, Santa Barbara had a different vibe...this was around 1981 - 1993 era, when you walked down State Street, people would smile and hand you flowers and lollipops instead of vomiting on you....the News-Press was owned by a community not by some bossy bitch tyrant named Wendy McCuckoo who just fired a long-time News-Press photographer, Mike Eliason (more on that later)...it's a time when city council members had a sense of humor...and a sense of purpose

 

back then, blue skies were really blue and I remember days that felt like.. it was raining daisies!!

anyway, I get an email from Mayor Lodge who now sits on the Planning Commission, geez Sheila, how about giving someone else a shot at city governance..and she's involved with preserving the Clark Estate...Huguette's big house..the place I adore...hmmmm



Hal Conklin and Mayor Lodge? no, of course not..that's the lovely Christina Pizarro
or so I'm told

 

but Mayor Lodge sends me a quote from a 2012 post in this very blog:
now the other thing that caught my eye was the Santa Barbara Planning Commission meeting...Sheila Lodge's hair made me choke on my fruit punch...I thought I was watching a National Geographic wild animal special! c'mom Sheila, the flip and frost thing has got to go!
　 Sheila says her hair is a gift from GOD:
"Coincidentally I had just watched a planning commission video and noted the rather odd white frame around my face. I mentioned it to a friend, and she said lots of women pay a lot to get that effect.

I don't pay a thing for it. It is just the way my hair grows. (About 25 years ago one of the city clerks asked if I had a piece of paper stuck in my hair after watching me on TV.)

And I'm not about to fork out a lot of money to have my hair dyed to hide the white hair. After all, I've lived long enough to earn it!

Cheers,
Sheila Lodge

Cheers? Sheila Lodge?

ok Sheila, I guess you have earned your stripes... but what's up with Hal Conklin?? and how about another run for Mayor?