St. Helena attorney and Napa Valley College Trustee Rafael Rios III and Yountville Mayor John Dunbar are the fifth and sixth people to announce they are running for Diane Dillonâs seat on the Napa County Board of Supervisors.
Rios and Dunbar join a growing field of contenders also made up of St. Helena City Councilmember Anna Chouteau, Napa County Planning Commissioner Anne Cottrell, grapegrower Cio Perez, and Napa Valley College Trustee Ines DeLuna.
Dillon announced in January that she would not run for a sixth term after representing the vast District 3 since 2002.
Rafael Rios
Rios came to the Napa Valley from Mexico in 1968 after his family was granted permanent residency based on a petition from his father, who was working in California under the Bracero Program. He graduated from St. Helena High School and earned a bachelorâs degree in landscape architecture at UC Davis, a law degree from Santa Clara University, and an MBA in wine business from Sonoma State Univers
But if youâre looking for all three in the same person, Cristian Maldonado fits the bill.
And by the way, heâs only 21.
Maldonado established Triniâs Catering in September 2019, inspired by the recipes his mother, Maria, mastered growing up in Jalisco as the oldest of six children.
She and her husband, Gilberto, immigrated to California and became naturalized U.S. citizens, but she never lost her knack for pumping out large quantities of authentic Mexican dishes.
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âVirtual or ghost restaurants are a super-popular phenomenon,â said Cristian Maldonado, who grew up in St. Helena and now lives in Calistoga. âI was able to start one a year prior to COVID hitting, and itâs been a good business model with low overhead.â
The Lewis and Clark City-County Board of Health on Thursday again loosened COVID-19 restrictions on local businesses as case numbers continue to drop and area hospitals return to more normal
East Helena school board selects principal Rispens as next superintendent
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Jonathon Ambarian
and last updated 2021-02-24 21:38:00-05
EAST HELENA â The East Helena school board has chosen their next superintendent â a longtime district administrator.
Trustees voted unanimously Wednesday to offer the superintendent job to Dan Rispens, the current principal of East Valley Middle School and East Helena High School. They will now begin negotiating a contract with him.
Board members said Rispens had all the needed qualifications for the job and that he would offer consistency and a strong commitment to the district and its students.
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