Thanksgiving is around the corner ... what are you thankful for?

It has been my pleasure for most of my life to ramble up and down the state of California.

I don’t think I would feel a need to justify my decision to forego the voting experience if I didn’t vote, but thought a quick review of possible reasons might provide some insight, or additional fodder, to the electoral process zealots who tirelessly badger the non-voters to please fill out the ballot.

Last night I attended a dinner for a local organization known as The Family Trust. The Family Trust is an informal group of local businessmen started up 17 years ago to help out families in need in Napa. It was organized by Tom Lowenstein, Gary Garaventa, Steve Silva and Jim Asbury, in response to a need from the county Human Services department, to provide quick assistance to those who need it in situations where the time to go through government bureaucracy would not work or simply not be available.

The Napa Pipe project is about to hit the headlines again in Napa, and I have been hearing rumblings in the background at big changes that are possible. Meetings have been going on behind closed doors for several months now and one of the strong possibilities emerging is that the city of Napa may take over the project in exchange for taking on the housing requirements of the county.

Five months after exhausted voters narrowly defeated a measure to block new development at the former Napa Pipe site, what remains the largest single residential proposal in county history is about to lurch back to center stage.

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

Dear editor,

Would you ever eat Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant? Or is this a holiday that must be celebrated at home?

Do you start your holiday shopping early?

The race is over, Barack Obama will be the next president, so now is the time for the next question.

Barack Obama is the your next President of the United States.