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Fair in full swing, Silverado Parade on Sunday
Friday, July 2, 2010
q A Night of Terror
Man spends three hours in
abandoned well before rescue
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u The Class of 2023
Calistoga Preschool kids are
are ready for kindergarten!
Happy July 4th!
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u Celebrating the Elements Two Calistoga artists attempt
to capture water and wind
50¢
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Budget balanced
without job cuts
Chamber gets full allocation for marketing
By Pat Hampton
Tribune Publisher
Photo by Chick Harrity/09
Napa County
Photo by Pat Hampton
Photo by Chick Harrity/09
Tribune Staff Writer
The Napa County
Fair started with a bang
yesterday, and three
more fun-filled days lie
ahead, including concerts, exhibits, the
Silverado Parade, and,
Tribune Staff Writer
of course, the annual
fireworks show.
“Memories, Music &
Magic” is the theme,
and there’s plenty for
everyone to do.
Today is Seniors’
See FAIR page 3
Photo by Chick Harrity/09
Scarlett Dwyer, longtime
owner of Scarlett’s Country Inn,
was killed in a vehicle accident on
Silverado Trail on June 23.
According to Officer Ryan
O’Day of the California Highway
Patrol, the 72-year-old Dwyer was
pulling out of a private driveway
south of Crystal Springs onto the
Trail at 9:54 a.m. that Wednesday,
and failed to yield to an oncoming
vehicle.
O’Day said Dwyer’s SUV, a
2005 Lexus EX350, was broadsided by driver Fredy Alvado-
Man rescued after falling into abandoned well
By Pat Hampton
Tribune Publisher
“I was not going to die in that
thing 20 feet from my own bed,”
said Will Burge, 45, recalling his
thoughts as he desperately treaded
water and called for help for 90
minutes after falling 38 feet down
an abandoned well at midnight at
his hillside home.
Burge, who rents a small cabin
in the 1300 block of Foothill
Boulevard, was outside working
on a small fireplace in a flat area
just steps from his front porch
around midnight Monday. He
often stays up late, he said, because
of the weeks he spent at the bedside of his mom, who recently
died from breast cancer. He was
looking for rocks to outline his
handiwork, and spotted a collection of small boulders a few feet
down the path from where he was
working.
Picking up a rock, Burge
stepped back and suddenly, “It
was like someone opened a trap
door.” He dropped 38-feet straight
down an abandoned 100-year-old
hand-dug well that was concealed
by forest duff and old wood. He
plunged into fresh spring water
that was over his head, and when
his body broke the surface the first
thing that came over him was
absolute panic.
“My chest was pounding so
See RESCUE page 6
See BUDGET page 10
B&B owner dies
in accident on
Silverado Trail
By Michelle Wing
FAIR!
By Michelle Wing
In a 5-0 vote that took less than
45 minutes for PowerPoint presentations and public comment,
the City Council passed a balanced budget Tuesday without
cutting positions or the Chamber
of Commerce’s visitor destination
marketing budget.
The $6.7 million balanced budget includes a $1.25 million
reserve used for one-time expenditures or emergencies.
The meeting followed a more
intense study session held last
Thursday that drew a large group
of city employees worried about
job cuts and union concessions as
well as business owners protesting a proposed cut in visitor marketing funding.
Bill Mushallo, administrative
services director, told councilmembers that the budget had
been reduced $1.25 million with
employee concessions and line
item deletions. The budget adopted Monday included employee
concessions still being negotiated
with respective unions.
Meet and confer provisions
Mushallo and interim city manager Bill Norton are negotiating
Garcia, 27, of Napa. He was traveling at about 55 miles per hour.
Police had to do an extrication to
remove Dwyer from the Lexus.
She was transported to St. Helena
Hospital, but succumbed to her
injuries and passed away at 11
a.m., according to O’Day.
Alvado-Garcia, who was driving a 1996 Ford F-350, had two
passengers, Jose Mera, 43, and
Elmer Marques, 22, both of Napa.
All three men were treated at
Queen of the Valley for minor
injuries.
See FATALITY page 9
Final election
results confirm
Dillon, Parady
run-off in Nov.
By Michelle Wing
Tribune Staff Writer
Photo by Art Collins
Rescuers talk to William Burge, 45, trapped in an abandoned well on
Foothill Boulevard for over three hours early Tuesday morning.
The election results are official
– Diane Dillon and Jeff Parady
will face each other in a run-off
on Nov. 2 for the District 3 supervisor seat.
Final results released by Napa
County registrar of voters John
Tuteur on June 23 give the incumbent Dillon 3,103 votes to
Parady’s 2,312. That puts Dillon
at 48.9 percent, just short of the
50 percent she needed to win the
See ELECTION on page 8