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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 WCDD@westmont.edu .
“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.”