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October 2, 2015
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Big decisions on county agendas
n County votes will
impact Calistoga
By Amanda Rhodes
Tribune Staff Writer
Several big decisions that will
affect Calistoga could be made
by Napa County in the coming
months.
Here’s an update on projects
happening around town.
Reverie Winery: The Napa
County Board of Supervisors will
have the Reverie Winery appeal
hearing on the Oct. 6 agenda, but
will postpone the public hearing
until Oct. 13, according to the
commission’s clerk.
Melissa Frost, Napa County
planning commission clerk, said
that because the appeal was set for
Oct. 6 it will be on the agenda but
only for supervisors to continue it
to the next week in order to give
all involved more time.
In July, George Caloyannidis,
a neighbor to Reverie on Diamond
Mountain Road, submitted the
necessary paperwork and paid the
nearly $1,400 in fees to appeal the
decision made by the Napa County Planning Commission to grant
Reverie owner Norman Kiken
most of the permit modifications
requested.
In June, the commission voted
3-1, standing by the county’s policy that does not punish property
owners for code violations if they
come forth voluntarily, and approved nearly doubling Reverie’s
wine production, increasing visitation to 10,800 over four years and
approving all work done without
proper permits, including the wine
cave and second floor of a building, pending a creek restoration
process.
Many proponents of Reverie,
including Caloyannidis, believe
though not confirmed, that if Reverie is granted its permit modifications it will be sold at a higher
price to the owners of the nearby
Calistoga Hills Resort.
At the Oct. 13 hearing, propoSee DECISIONS page 11
VALLEY FIRE
Students learn what it takes to volunteer
“I felt really sorry for them
and I pray that nothing that
terrible would ever happen
to my family.” ‑ Luke Aguilar
By Claudia Aceves
Tribune Cub Reporter
Students from Palisades High School
spent two days volunteering for the Valley Fire Evacuation Center at the Napa
County Fairgrounds and discovered the
satisfaction of volunteering.
The small high school of 16 students
spent the first Monday and Thursday
at the fairgrounds for about four hours
each day.
Some of their tasks included working
in the Calistoga Wildcats Athletic Boosters kitchen shucking corn and chopping
vegetables, walking around the tents
offering evacuees water and unpacking
and organizing donations.
At first, the teens were hesitant to approach evacuees and ask if they needed
help.
“Once they felt needed, they were reSee TEENS page 7
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Luke Aguilar and Jesse Duarte stack cases of bottled water, helping as volunteers.
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Pipeline
threatened
by eroding
embankment
n City approves $93,000
fix to avoid catastrophe
By Pat Hampton
Tribune Publisher
An eroding embankment that
has exposed cement support columns on a road to the city’s Feige
Water Tank will be fixed and a
possible collapse of the city’s water system avoided.
During it’s Sept. 15 regular
meeting, the city council approved
a $79,440 contract with Maggiora
& Ghilotti, Inc. to fix the bank of
Cyrus Creek on a stretch of a private street that leads to the 1 million gallon holding tank for Calistoga’s drinking water sitting at the
end of the narrow road.
The emergency repair will address the erosion that has exposed
the cement caissons that hold up
the 14-inch water line that runs
under the asphalt road from Feige
Tank to Petrified Road where it
connects to a pipeline that hooks
into the city’s water delivery system. If the embankment is not repaired, public works director Mike
Kirn said, the water main “will
collapse and result in catastrophic
failure.”
Kirn said that if the water main
fails, it could potentially drain all
of the city’s stored domestic drinking water not only from the Feige
Tank, but also from the 1.5 million
tank buried at the top of Mt. Washington. “It would depend on how
quickly staff is able to isolate and
close off valves,” Kirn wrote in
his report. “In order to protect this
main the river bank repair needs to
be completed prior to this winter
season.”
Total construction cost is
See PIPELINE page 6
Chamber researching
shuttle for bringing
employees to town
n Program would help
reach qualified workers
By Amanda Rhodes
Tribune Staff Writer
Is a shuttle that travels out of
town to pick up employees the
answer to building a larger more
stable work force in town?
The Calistoga Chamber of
Commerce is currently collecting
data in order to test the feasibility of a shuttle program, specific
to Calistoga, that would travel
See SHUTTLE page 6
Changes for long-standing bazaar
n Christmas Bazaar gets
new name, new director
FOR THE TRIBUNE
The Calistoga Community
Christmas Bazaar and the Napa
County Fair have teamed up to
create the 46th Annual Calistoga’s
Christmas Faire.
Kelly Coudert, who was the director last year and co-director for
several years prior, will be working
with the staff of the Napa County
Fairgrounds in hosting what she
says “will be a holiday event that’s
not to be missed.”
“We invite everyone to partake
in being an artisan, crafter, performer, player, or volunteer to enhance this newly energized event,”
Coudert said.
With Christmas as the theme,
the historical first Saturday of December and location will continue
to bring the community together
at the Tubbs Building, brimming
with the sights, scents and offerings of the holiday season.
This long standing event has
served as a platform to support
many local non-profit organizations and has also grown to support
the local artisans and crafters. We
hope to progressively change and
evolve to continue to make this a
cornerstone of Christmastime in
Calistoga.
This is also the day that the Calistoga Chamber kicks off a month
of activities with The Holiday Village and the 20th Annual Lighted
Tractor Parade following the
See FAIRE page 7