MANDAN, N.D. — The Rev. Becky Fischer runs a children’s summer camp that isn’t about making crafts, roasting marshmallows or telling scary stories around the campfire.

For the second of its Community Spotlight Concert programs, Copia has invited the popular Napa musical group, Moonlight Dance Band, to perform in concert on Nov. 2, in the venue’s indoor theater.

The Napa Valley is known for its fine wine and cuisine, but one valley asset often overlooked is its art. This weekend and on Nov. 4 and 5, participating members of Arts Council of Napa Valley open their studios and homes for Open Studios, a free, self-guided event that involves 78 artists in 53 sites.

Mozart’s “Oboe Concerto in C major,”  is the featured work in the North Bay Philharmonic Orchestra fall concert Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Napa Valley College Theater. Oboe virtuoso Brenda Schuman-Post is the soloist.

Incorporating humor, intricate playing and a touch of history, the Dallas Brass will perform some of America’s greatest hits from the past 229 years at the Napa Valley Opera House on Friday at 8 p.m.

Saturday night at Dreamweavers Theatre, the last of Neil Simon’s autobiographical trilogy, “Broadway Bound,” played to a full house.

It was most fitting on the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birth that the concerts kicking off Chamber Music in Napa Valley’s 27th season last week were tributes to the Austrian genius.

Copia will help set the creepy mood for Halloween Friday with its annual Thrillville Revue featuring the 1958 British cult class, “The Crawling Eye.”

She had 20 No. 1 hits with the Judds and has sold millions of recordings, even after embarking on a solo career in 1992.

Acoustic Africa brought a sold-out audience to its feet — more than once — when it performed at the Opera House Saturday, and deservedly so.

The 53,000-square-foot Napa County Sheriff's headquarters may have a state-of-the-art coroner's facility and Emergency Command Center, but the facility embraces history, too.

Education

Redd restaurant in Yountville is heralded as one of this year’s best new restaurants by John Mariani in Esquire Magazine’s November 2006 issue.

Look for raw fish in dishes other than sushi to show up more and more on menus in coming months. “Crudo” — the Italian and Spanish name for raw seafood — is one of the rising trends pinpointed by Barbara Fairchild, editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit magazine, during a recent talk at the CIA in St. Helena.

Five years ago, Catherine Bergen’s Tulocay’s Made in Napa Valley brand was a fledgling company offering high-quality sauces and condiments that Bergen had created in her facility on the Napa River.

I’d initially planned to write up some zucchini-related recipes, but when the weather changed so quickly, I decided I’d better get busy and start preparing the beds for my winter vegetables instead.

To local residents, the Bounty Hunter in downtown Napa is a wine bar, a wine shop, a restaurant and a place to congregate in the evening.

Buoyed by a textbook harvest, area grapegrowers and vintners are predicting 2006 will be a banner year for Napa Valley wines.

From Register Staff

As every gardener -- and grape grower -- knows, it takes good dirt to grow tasty crops.

NEW MARKET, Va. -- October is the time of year when greenhouse gardeners get serious.

Mindfully organizing

Little house on the drawing board

John and Renee Walkenhorst celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary Sept. 29, with a dinner party in Santa Rosa. In attendance were their children and their children's spouses, Marsha and Hans Warner, Danny and Lyn Walkenhorst, Stewart and Shannon Walkenhorst and Margaret and Paul Willes. Also attending were some of their 24 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

On Saturday, Aug. 12, 2006, John and Jean Adamo celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at the McBride Senior Center in Vacaville. They were married on Aug. 11, 1956, at St. John's Catholic Church in Napa. John and Jean have lived in northern Vacaville for the past 25 years where, in their retirement, they grow jojoba on their five acre farm.

NOLAN-FRANZI -- Donald Paul Nolan, 42, Willis Drive, Napa, to Cindy Jean Franzi, 45, Willis Drive, Napa.

Natalia Lely and Ryan Lazarus, both of Napa, married on Saturday, Sept. 2 at 5 p.m. at the Lodge in Sonoma. The ceremony was officiated by Judge Steven Kroyer, uncle of the bride. The maid of honor was Cassandra Lely and the best man was E.J. Sondgroth. The reception was held at the Lodge in Sonoma. The couple honeymooned in Cabo San Lucas and will make their new home in Walnut Creek.