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Friday, March 28, 2014
q Celebrate Earth Day
City-wide yard sale, e-waste
collection planned
Below
u Anniversary bash
Boys and Girls Club will
celebrate 25th anniversary
t Softball squeaker
Girls softball team holds its
own against Mustangs
50¢
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Man dies in truck in parking lot
n May have been unnoticed for over 3 hours
By Pat Hampton
Tribune Publisher
A man who died from a possible heart attack in his grey pick-up
truck Saturday afternoon was
undiscovered by customers parking and going in and out of the
grocery store for over three hours.
Police Chief Mitch Celaya confirmed on Monday that Hideo I.
Sublett, 64, of Napa was found
dead at 5:40 p.m. March 22 in his
Nissan pick-up by officers who
responded to the Cal Mart parking
lot after a man drove to the police
station to report that “something
was wrong with a man in a truck.”
Celaya said Sgt. Tim Martin and
Officer Mike Perrault responded
to the store as did fire department
personnel Capt. Joe Russo and
firefighter Eric Payne.
Fire Chef Steve Campbell said
Russo and Payne found Sublett in
the front seat of his pickup with
the seat in a slight reclining position, his head against the headrest.
Both truck windows were rolled
down, and Sublett was obviously
dead. Campbell said there were
signs of rigor mortis and lividity,
two natural occurrences within the
human body after death. Campbell
said he would guess from the
water and antacids that Sublett
may have thought he was dealing
with heartburn but was instead
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suffering from myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack.
Celaya said officers reviewed
video camera tapes of the parking
lot on Saturday and discovered
that Sublett had driven into the
parking lot at 2:19 p.m. Tape
showed the 64-year-old going into
the market and buying a bottle of
water and some antacids, then
minutes later returning to his pickup truck which was parked on the
See DEATH page 3
conserving water focus of room service
Union, district
at impasse in
contract talks
n State mediator will be
brought in to negotiate
By Pat Hampton
Tribune Publisher
Contract negotiations have broken down between the school district and the teacher’s union and
the two sides have agreed to calling in state mediator to break the
impasse.
Teacher Ivan Miller, one of six
teachers on the union committee,
said on Tuesday after the negotiation meeting that the two sides
were in disagreement over prep
time, class size, salary and benefits
and were at an impasse.
The current three-year contract
between and the Calistoga
Association of Teachers (CAT)
and the Calistoga Joint Unified
School District (CJUSD) expired
June 30, 2013.
See IMPASSE page 3
City plans
Earth Day
celebration
n Citywide yard sale,
e-waste collection days
By Claudia Aceves
Tribune Cub Reporter
Photo by Pat Hampton
Calistoga Spa Hot Springs housekeeper Yolanda Fernandez places a new tent card on a bed at the resort that asks patrons to help
conserve water by re-using towels and not changing sheets every day. Some 50 hotels, spas and B&Bs are using the new placards
distributed by the chamber of commerce on Wednesday.
Hotels ask guests
to help by re-using
towels, bedding
By Pat Hampton
Tribune Publisher
In the middle of welcomed March rains this week, local spas
and resorts are asking their overnight guests to be mindful of the
state and local water crisis and not ask for daily fresh towels and
bedding unless it’s necessary.
Chamber of Commerce intern Laurel Oetker-Kast spent
Wednesday delivering newly printed tent cards to 22 businesses
that asks guests to leave towels on the rack to signal “I’ll use it
again” or drop it on the floor and to be replaced with a clean one.
See GUESTS page 6
Calistoga’s Recreation Services
is hosting its third annual Earth
Day events, including a city-wide
yard sale in April.
The yard sale will be held on
April 12 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.
throughout the entire city. The registration deadline to have a home
added to the map of sales is April
2. Participants should call recreation services coordinator Mary
Sherman at 942-2838 to sign up.
There is no cost.
Last year, the city had 23 houses included in the list of yard sales,
as well as additional individuals.
To date, the number of yards is up
to 10 for next month’s sales.
The purpose of the yard sales is
to promote the idea of reusing,
repurposing, redesigning, reselling, rethinking and repeating.
“We are all adding less to the
landfill, helping our Earth to have
more breathing space,” said
Sherman.
See EARTH DAY page 3