MONTECITO, Calif. (KEYT) Montecito Community Connect on social media helped return something special to a Montecito mudslide survivor and author .
“Just the other day I happened to be on Facebook and I was scanning through and I saw a post from Montecito Connect, and that was set up after the mudslide for people to post things that they found in the mud so they could get returned to their rightful owner, and It is 8 years later and I happened to be in my own Facebook and somehow someway that link came up to my feed and I saw that a nice woman in Carpinteria was posting that she had found, after the heavy rains on the beach, a piece of a ceramic Christmas tree and she thought it could have come from the heavy rains that unearthed things from the debris flow and that very well could be the case,” said Kim Cantin.
The January 9, 2018 debris flow following the Thomas Fire swept away Kim Cantin’s beloved husband Dave and their 17-year-old son Jack…