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.