Alkar Human Resources announces it has received Workers’ Compensation Risk Certification.

Rossi Realty announces Nancye Peatman has joined the Rossi Realty Co., along with Marie Rossi as the broker, her daughter Christina Rossi Cato and Realtor Gordon Dempsey.

Scott Lamson, owner of the two McDonalds restaurants in Napa, rolled out the new McCafe espresso-based coffee drinks the second week in May.

At the Great Wine Capitals Global Network’s 2008 annual general meeting last November it was decided to request each region to propose trophy designs for the entire network’s award programs. The winning design will bring more than $12,000 into that region’s local economy and provide work to create the 108 trophies needed.

Michael Larry Cline of Napa, a certified irrigation auditor, is working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSenseSM program to promote water-efficient landscapes and help consumers save water outdoors.

Drs. Scarborough, Kirk and Gonzalez welcome Dr. Anthony King to Napa Valley Women’s Healthcare.

For the next four weeks, 10 Questions focuses on business people involved in local nonprofit agencies.

The current whispers of economic recovery may entice the small business owner, or an entrepreneur within a larger company, to rest their fate in the changing winds of the external world. Somehow, someone or something out there is going to bring success.

Call me late to the party or whatever, but I am just now discovering the Oxbow Public Market. I mean, I know it’s been there — I attended the opening night event and went a half dozen times after that — but I never appreciated it as a place to go without a specific agenda in mind.

Last week I visited a vineyard where chemical weed killer has been banned and replaced with a weed control method that dates back centuries.

Dear Len & Rosie, We have three grown children with children of their own and we have a trust. We want our children to be the beneficiaries but want to set it up so that, should they divorce, the spouse would not have a right to the inheritance.