Good morning, Santa Barbara.

Organic Soup Kitchen is running the Fill the Bowls campaign to raise $14,400 a month to remove 50 neighbors from its medically tailored meal waitlist, asking donations now so it can deliver nutrient-dense soups to seriously ill residents across Santa Barbara (weekly progress will show bowls filled).

A ribbon-cutting will mark completion of Phase 3 of the Carina Dee Velazquez Memorial Path today at 11 a.m. in front of Santa Ynez Valley Christian School (891 N.

Refugio Road), adding the new segment from Mission Drive to Homestead Lane as part of the Refugio Road trail restoration between Los Olivos and the Santa Ynez River.

Covering 40 Years… of SBIFF, an exhibit of 50+ large Independent cover prints and film interviews, will be on view through Nov.

25 at the Naomi & Ben Bollag Gallery at the Film Center with free daily admission 2-8 p.m.; staff will greet visitors on 1st Thursday, Nov. 5, 5-7 p.m. (916 State Street).

The Santa Barbara Maritime Museum will launch Unscripted Voyages, an after-hours show mixing live improv, ocean science, and audience storytelling, on Saturday, Nov.

7 at 7 p.m. at 113 Harbor Way (tickets $8 to $15) to highlight Protecting Blue Whales and Blue Skies.

Righetti High's Latinos Unidos Club will host a Día de los Muertos rally from 11:20-11:45 a.m. Friday, Oct.

30 at the school, featuring Ballet Folklórico and a Marimba Band while students sell skull-inspired face-painting to raise funds and honor loved ones.

Man at Sea: A Kayaker’s Journey, a photo and text exhibit by Chuck Graham, will be on view Dec.

10 through March 28 at the Santa Barbara Maritime Museum (113 Harbor Way, Ste. 190); admission is included with museum entry and SBMM members enter free.

Akram Khan's Thikra played at the Granada (UCSB Arts and Lectures) and used ritual movement and amplified, haunting music to evoke AlUla's ancestral landscapes, featuring an intense (all-female cast) that left some audience members using ear plugs.

UC Santa Barbara’s Institute for Energy Efficiency announced Tuesday, Oct.

27 that it awarded seed grants (five projects) to fund early-stage work making AI, data-center cooling, probabilistic hardware, and quantum light sources more energy efficient.

Goleta's Planning Commission voted 2-1 to recommend the City Council defer action on the Greenbark 30 battery storage project, citing fire risks and neighborhood incompatibility; the proposed 2.1-acre (Viajero Drive) site would host 36 Tesla Megapack units to store up to 30 megawatts and will go to council for review.

Preliminary reports say Tuesday's high tide reached a record 8.01 feet at about 10:13 a.m. at Santa Barbara Harbor, flooding dock pilings and raising gangways to parking-lot level.

NOAA predicts more high tides after midnight and around 10:53 a.m. Wednesday, driven by an El Nino Kelvin wave and the full moon.

Bella Vista, a $51.3 million, 48-unit income-restricted apartment complex at 200 North La Cumbre Road, opened Monday and the Housing Authority expects it to be fully leased starting Nov.

1, with all units subsidized by Section 8 and tenants paying 30% of their income for rent.

Santa Barbara swept Hemet 3-0 in CIF-SS Division 4 quarterfinals as seniors Lola Heckman (19 kills) and Blake Saunders (11) led the Dons, who improved to 26-10 and will play at Glendora on Saturday in the semifinals.