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The Westmont Center for Dialogue and Deliberation takes on the hot button issue of e-bikes at its next conversation on Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Community Environmental Council’s (CEC) Environmental Hub, 1219 State Street. The event, “E-Bikes: Balancing Freedom, Safety, and the Spirit of Santa Barbara: A Community Conversation,” is free and open to the public though reservations are required at tinyurl.com/ebiketalk or by emailing [email protected].
“It’s incredibly relevant,” says Deborah Dunn, Westmont professor of communication studies and director of WCDD. “Social media, letters to the editors of our local publications, city council meetings, the Grand Jury of Santa Barbara — this is an issue on the minds of many Santa Barbara neighbors. There is a need for community members to come together to hear each other, to deliberate together about what kind of city we want to be.”…