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May 08, 2015  •  By Jennifer Huffman Receiving an email a few weeks ago from someone who claimed to be writing from the White House, Napa nonprofit executive Terence Mulligan admitted that at first “I thought it was spam and ignored it.” It was only after the real White House called that Mulligan finally realized…

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March 5  •  By Jennifer Huffman No one expects to discover they live on top of an earthquake fault line, but that's exactly what happened to Napan Tim Whitlock this past summer when his home on Twin Oaks Drive in Browns Valley was severely damaged in the Aug. 24 quake. The temblor “literally ripped the…

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February 24  •  Christina Jamieson Please acknowledge my great appreciation for the support and assistance from Terrence Mulligan, president of the Napa Valley Community Foundation, plus Shannon Fitzgerald and Amanda Goldberg at E4E Relief, the Foundation's relief administrator for the Napa Valley Vintners' gracious emergency earthquake fund. Also please note my great gratitude to President…

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NAPA, Calif. (KTVU) - The Napa Valley Community Foundation has extended the deadline to apply to its Napa Valley Community Disaster Relief Fund to March 31, 2015. The fund provides grants to repair structural damage to homes and physical and economic losses to small businesses from the 6.0 Aug. 24 South Napa earthquake. The previous…

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January 15  •  Barry Eberling A $10.9 million disaster fund launched by the wine industry has spent $2.5 million doing such things as repairing Herb Caraway’s mobile home and restocking Joseph Sciambra’s store – and it’s just getting started. Napa Valley Vintners donated $10 million to the fund in the wake of the South Napa…

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December 30  •  Kevin Courtney At 3:19 a.m. on Aug. 24, most Napans were sleeping the sleep of angels. A minute later, all hell broke loose. At almost any other hour, the 6.0-magnitude quake would have produced vast numbers of injuries and likely deaths as buildings shook violently to the sound of locomotives roaring off…

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December 12, 2014  •  MARY CERVANTES If your business suffered physical damage or economic loss from the August earthquake, grants are available to help in your recovery. The Napa Valley Community Foundation and the Napa-Sonoma Small Business Development Center (SBDC) provide the assistance businesses need to access these disaster relief grants. If you are a…

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November 26  •  REGISTER STAFF Napa Valley Community Foundation has announced up to $8 million in the second phase of funding from the Napa Valley Community Disaster Relief Fund. This aid is aimed at repairing structural damage sustained by homeowners and mobile homeowners, as well as physical and economic losses sustained by small business owners…

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November 23, 2014 •  The Napa Valley Register Editorial Board While much of the region has moved on, the truth is that the Aug. 24 earthquake is still a daily fact of life for many residents and business owners in and around Napa (the Napa Valley Register among them). That is why it is important to…

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