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 Tuesday December 2, 2008
City of Napa Fire Explorer Post 220 will host a "Spirit of the Holiday" photo event benefitting the Veronica Zimmerman Trust Fund and the Napa Food Bank. The event will be held on Sunday December 7 from 11am to 6pm at Fire Station #1, 930 Seminary Street in Downtown Napa.
Attendees will have the opportunity to have a holiday photo taken with Santa Claus on an antique fire engine. Families, groups and individuasl are welcome. The cost is $5.00 for each photo, with a $2 discount per photo for each donation of two cans of food for the Napa Food Bank.
Veronica Zimmerman was a local youth who was killed in an auto crash this fall.
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UPDATED Tuesday December 2, 2008
The City of Napa’s
distribution of sandbags for winter weather preparedness will continue Saturday, December 6, 2008, at the City’s Corporation Yard at 770 Jackson Street, one block west of
Soscol. Sand and sandbags are provided at no charge to those who wish to keep
them on hand this winter in case of flooding.
This is a self-service program with sand and sandbags
provided by the City. Residents should bring a shovel and gloves and be prepared
to fill their own bags. The event will run from 9am to 1pm.
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Frday November 21, 2008
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has instituted a policy that
prohibits the use of a fireplace on Winter Spare the Air Days. This prohibition is in effect during the winter
season from November 1, 2008, through February 28, 2009. To know when fireplaces use is banned, sign up
for e-mail alerts and/or automatic telephone alerts at http://www.sparetheair.org/.
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Tuesday November 25, 2008
On Sunday November 9, 2008, the CBS program 60 Minutes aired a segment exposing how some of the millions of computer monitors, cell phones and other electronic refuse generated in the US is shipped illegally to China, impacting the environment and the people who salvage the components. The 60 Minutes broadcast may have been alarming to local residents who are concerned about the proper disposal of these materials and may wonder where Napa's e-waste ends up.
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Friday November 21, 2008
The City of Napa is proud to sponsor Heritage Napa, a historic
resources survey, funded in part by a grant from the California Office
of Historic Preservation, that will identify neighborhoods of historic
importance and explore themes, events, people, and places significant
to the history of Napa. Heritage Napa will begin with a general city-wide historic resource
survey, identifying neighborhoods and areas of historic importance and
prioritizing them for future recordation and evaluation. A historic
context statement will be produced.The first of two Heritage Napa community meetings will focus on the city-wide survey and context statement currently underway. Heritage Napa Community Meeting #1 will be held December 16, 2008 from5:30 pm to 7:00pm in the Community Room at the
Napa City-County Library, 580 Coombs Street.
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