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Leaders in the $53.8 million project celebrated its start with a groundbreaking ceremony Aug. 28. The event attracted local government and tourism figures along with state and congressional representatives who have spent more than 12 years bringing the project to fruition.
That will be good for the gateway communities, for ranchers and farmers who want to protect traditional uses, for those seeking access to prime outdoor recreation, for those seeking better management of public assets.
Max and his mother, Kathryn, were shot to death in January in Las Vegas by the boy's father, Hans Walters, who then killed himself.
Though she never met Max, and she has no children of her own, Gillham said that hearing about innocent lives lost to gun violence impassions her.
A project to restore the Napa Sonoma Salt Marsh, which sits on the edge of San Pablo Bay, will provide 10,000 acres toward meeting that need, and a newly completed recycled water pipeline to the area is a linchpin in reducing salinity in 640 acres, said Nadine Peterson, deputy executive officer of the California Coastal Conservancy.
“Is this a great day, huh?” County Supervisor Mike McGuire told a crowd gathered inside a cavernous hangar for the runway project's ceremonial groundbreaking.
Scheduled for completion in October 2014, the project will fulfill a plan hatched 15 years ago to make the county's only commercial airport safer â€" and potentially attract more air traffic.
U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, had no trouble dispatching clay targets with a shotgun in a shooting range east of Napa Friday afternoon as he engaged a local gun dealer in a friendly skeet shooting competition.
But Thompson acknowledged that getting a bill through Congress to expand background checks for firearm purchases nationwide has been more troublesome.
Just because his wife, former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was nearly killed in a mass shooting, doesn't mean Mark Kelly hates guns.
On the contrary.
The retired astronaut and Navy captain owns a small arsenal of pistols and rifles.
Kelly demonstrated his fondness for firearms at a gun range in Napa on Friday. He slipped two red shells into a double-barrel shotgun, raised it to his shoulder and yelled, “Pull!”
He fired once, shattering a bright orange disc as it sailed through the air.
Milton Tepeyac, who served eight years as a U.S. Marine, scrapes by on $3 an hour in this northern Mexican city, where he has lived since the U.S. government deported him in April.
His rented room floods when it rains. Scorpions skitter in. To kill them, he had to pay an exterminator $40 â€" a third of his weekly paycheck.
Once he served in Kuwaiti in a recon battalion, a highly trained grunt monitoring the movements of Saddam Hussein's military across the border in Iraq.