Nicholas Wigle began his career in beekeeping in 2009. He is viewed as an expert in the field — being called to remove feral honeybees from attics, walls, and landscapes.
Nicholas’s company, Super Bee Rescue, removes hundreds of feral hives per year. The team cares for over 500 colonies, performs 800 rescues per year, and maintains 80 bee apiaries. His team provides beekeeping consulting in Santa Barbara County, CA.
Nicholas graduated from Cal State Northridge with a degree in Business and Economics, and received his Master Beekeeping Certificate from the University of Montana.
We meet the 1st & 3rd Tuesdays of the month at 12:00 PM on the main patio of the Music Academy of the West 1070 Channel Drive
Free parking is available in both the upper and lower lots.
Let's Meet for an Evening at the Theatre!
Our October social is an event you won't want to miss! Social Chair Debbie Merlo is organizing an outing to the Garvin Theatre on the SBCC Campus.
On Saturday, Oct 9th. we'll attend a performance of the play Clue.
You’ve played the board game, now watch the action unfold live as Scarlet, Plum, White, Green, Peacock and Mustard race to find the murderer in Boddy Manor before he finds them.
We need a headcount ASAP to book tickets. The deadline to RVSP is Sept. 1st.
If you'd like to attend, please contact Debbie with your name and the number of people in your party. Her email is:
Debbie and her husband Bob have generously offered to host all attendees for dessert. We'll rendezvous immediately after the performance at their house in Santa Barbara.
For our September 1 meeting we’ll be back at our Rotary home, the Music Academy of the West. It’s a lovely place and its spaces work well for us. What’s more, the staff is terrific to work with, always accommodating. How fortunate we are!
If you want to attend one of our meetings, however, you have to know how to find us, as the Music Academy is well off of Montecito’s main roads. While that’s part of its charm, it does mean that we, members of this Rotary Club, need to go out of our way to invite guests and make them feel welcome. Who might this friend, neighbor, co-worker, random-person-in-the-checkout-line be?
This Tuesday’s meeting will be fun. Nick Wigle of Super Bee Rescue will bring us up to speed on these remarkable creatures—and he has stories to tell! (I have my own, which I’ll share briefly. Let’s just say that Super Bee Rescue likely kept me out of the ER.)
Do let me know if you’re bringing a guest so I have enough treats ready. Yum.
Peter
This year's SB Yacht Club Charity Regatta supports VNA Health, an organization who has generously lent us meeting space in the past. Now we have a chance to return the favor by providing volunteer support for their fundraising event.
VNA Health has requested assistance setting up before the event and tearing down after it ends, so there are opportunities on both a morning and evening shift. No heavy lifting required.
The Regatta will be held Saturday, September 12th. If you can volunteer, please contact Tony Morris at:
Cindy Velazquez, Community Programs Coordinator for the Santa Barbara County Food Bank explains their nutrition education program
On August 18th, we met in Goleta at the headquarters of the Santa Barbara County Food Bank. We were greeted by Alissa Millar, Community Engagement Coordinator, and Cindy Velazquez, North County Community Programs Coordinator, then taken on an extensive tour of the new facilities. Highlights included a model grocery store used to teach food nutrition, a portable kitchen that supports outreach to high school students, the huge food storage warehouse, and a gigantic composter.
Over lunch in the volunteer “hive” we learned about multiple opportunities for service. I suspect we will be returning to the center soon for a service project.
Mark Osiel and Susan Hersbereger tour through the garden where students learn how to grow their own food.
The entertainer and philanthropist Dolly Parton died 25 August 2026. This Q&A was originally published in the March 2010 issue of The Rotarian (now Rotary) magazine. Later that year, she spoke at the Rotary International Convention in Montreal, Canada.
This year's SB Yacht Club Charity Regatta supports VNA Health, an organization who has generously lent us meeting space in the past. Now we have a chance to return the favor by providing volunteer support for their fundraising event. 
