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The City of American Canyon and the Napa County Regional Park and Open Space District would like to invite you to the Napa River and Bay Trail Grand Opening Ceremony on Saturday, June 2. The ceremony will be held at the Wetlands View Area located at the corner of Eucalyptus Drive and Wetlands Edge Road at 10:00 a.m. Congressman Mike Thompson as well as other local dignitaries are scheduled to speak at the event. There will also be fun activities, refreshments, and more. Please join us. For more information, please contact staff @ 707-648-7275.

Gulio Brovelli enlisted in the Army in July 1917, declaring that despite having immigrated to the U.S. from Italy only 11 years prior, “If it is good enough to live in, it is good enough to fight for.”

Brovelli died Oct. 8, 1918, just a month before World War I ended. On Monday, Brovelli and 27 other fallen veterans who hailed from the St. Helena area finally got their due.

As many as 500 people gathered at the St. Helena Cemetery on Monday to dedicate a new war memorial honoring 28 St.

I am glad to see that throughout our district, American flags are proudly displayed on homes, businesses and in town squares. Wherever a flag is flown, it is a symbol of the freedoms men and women throughout our history have marched, fought and died to secure.

It was flown on the beach in Normandy. It was raised over Iwo Jima. Through the haze of tear gas and the smack of billy clubs, it was carried over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. It has draped the coffins of countless heroes who have fallen overseas.

Congress has passed a bill by Rep. Mike Thompson, which aims to improve treatment for veterans suffering from traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), Thompson's office announced.

The measure heads now to the Senate.

Thompson, D-Napa, co-chairs the bipartisan Military Veterans Caucus. He secured the passage of his bipartisan amendment with Texas Republican Rep. Pete Sessions, he said in a statement. The treatment expansion initiative was adopted as a House amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, he said.

U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson presented Community Health Clinic Ole with a $175,000 check Monday, with the money going toward updating the clinic's Calistoga facility.

The grant money, which was made available through the federal Affordable Care Act, will help upgrade the clinic's phones and computers as well as its heating and air conditioning system.

“When we opened (the Calistoga clinic), it was all hand-me-downs,” said Maria Criscione Stel, Clinic Ole's director of communications.

Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1), co-chair of the bipartisan Military Veterans Caucus, on Friday secured the passage of his bipartisan amendment with Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-32) to expedite new and innovative treatments to our nations' veterans and active duty soldiers suffering from Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).

The TBI treatment expansion initiative was adopted as a House amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2013 (H.R. 4310).