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Vine Village in the News, December 23, 2009

1990

• Guide Dogs For the Blind donates Sharon, a golden retriever

• Gasser Foundation donates new pickup truck
  

• Guild Luncheon, Vine Village Open, Family Club raffle continue as usual

• Somewhere around this time we added Cold-Pressed Extra Virgin Olive Oil to our products line. When???

• Resa Shore donates design for new vinegar & olive oil labels and giftpak
  

• Haas Family donates remodel for food storage building

• Vine Village Foundation Fund started with George Kerson memorial donations

• Guild, Golf, Raffle continue

• Norman Kessler Memorial Fountain installed

• Gasser Foundation buys donates 12-passenger van
  

• "Sweatin’ to the Oldies" exercise program for residents & staff

• Glen Ellen Winery donates $2000

• Associated Surplus Dealers donates $1500

• Sophia Freeman’s Family Club Raffle nets $6000

• Haas Family donates funds to remodel greenhouse

• September 27 - Dante Bagnani, co-founder, dies
  

• Anchors Aweigh! at Fashion Show

• Napa Elks donate $600

• Associated Surplus Dealers donate $1500

• Joyce Holm, longtime house counselor, dies
  

• Family Club Raffle nets $8000

• Vine Village returns to Renaissance Faire - run by Kathy Novelli

• Family Club volunteers + $15,000 remodel Women’s House for increased personal privacy for each resident

• Camping trip to Santa Cruz

	20th Anniversary not celebrated much due to recent death of co-founder, poor general morale, financial difficulties, funding cutbacks, etc.
	This was probably our lowest low. It was either fizzle or regenerate. So we regenerated - it was Upward from here!
	Late summer - Jane Meyers pays a visit of enormous significance in helping us re-focus and re-generate
	Peter Haas donates $23,000 to stave off phyloxera disaster in vineyard, and plant new acreage
	Napa Valley Support Services hired for limited janitorial services as cooperative effort
	Theta Delta Xi Sorority donates $1000 for copy machine
	Oddfellows donate $1500 at annual picnic
	Chris Sholders hired as Client Care Co-ordinator
	Resa Shore donates new brochure
	Lef Foundation donates printing of brochures

• Cheyenne the quarter horse dies of old age

• Bottling Shop begins renaissance 

• Ciatti Gazebo built

• Raffle, Golf, & Guild continue as usual

• Josephine Haas donates solar heating system for pool

• Justin Siena "Just-In Service" helps out in vineyard

• 3-bottle gift pack added - Gasser Foundation donates $ for printing

• Executive Service Corps with Sol Luria begin consulting service

1995

• January 9 - flash flood hits shop, office, & barn; pond accumulates much sediment

• Pathfinder Lions donate $1800 for flood repairs & clean-up

• January - March - New "Upscale" hand-made-look Products developed for bottling shop
  

• March 9 - repeat flashflood completely fills pond with sediment

• March - Larry the Llama dies

• April - Codorniu benefits Vine Village at "April in Carneros"

• May 24 - Guild’s fashion show & luncheon features TV News & Weather personalities
  Leslie Griffith & Gloria Lipschultz

• May - $6100 grant from Emergency Soil Erosion Fund of the Consolidated State Farm Agency

• June - visits by Pueblo Vista Alternative School 4th grade, and Pueblo Vista Special Education Summer School

• August 25 - Golf Tournament & Auction

• Gasser Foundation donates $6100 for Gift Pack Program

• September: Family Club Raffle nets $8100

• October: Vine Village Alliance Founded by Jane Meyers

• October: Major Gift Program launched with Peter Drake, thanks to grant by Maryanne Hogan

• October 29 Grapes Harvested

• November 4 Vine Village Alliance Harvest Festival

• December 17 Christmas/Yearend Party and Family Club Meeting

• November Wines and Vines article published

• November 14 Major Gift Program meeting at Joe Ciatti’s

• November 18-19 Info & Sales table at Codorniu Winery

• December 8 Carneros Quality Alliance Barrel Tasting at Codorniu

• December Vine Village Vintner’s Society brochures printed with grant from Maryanne Hogan & the Edward Meade Smith Trust
  

• December 16 Winter Dance for residents & Napa Special Olympics

• December 17 Vine Village Christmas Party & Family Club Meeting
  
  Lois Harlocker, Grace Kerson, and Chris Kolaites

1996

• January 5 New resident, Amy Lee, arrived

• January Peter & Vernice Gasser Foundation donate $12,000 for forklift & bottling equipment

• January 21-23 San Francisco International Fancy Food Show 
  

• January 27-28 Seattle Gift Show

• January 30 Staff Christmas party and Retirement Luncheon for Joetta
  

• February 3-5 SF International Gift Show - Moscone Center

• February 7 Barrel tasting at Krug Winery - Vine Village Chardonnay wine for Glen Ellen Carneros "Expressions’ line

• February 10-12 Calistoga’s International Mustard Celebration - booth

• February 16 Special Olympics "Sweetheart" Dance

• February 24 Special Olympics Bowling Tournament

• March 16/17 Napa Mustard Festival - booth

• March 23-24 "A Taste of Yountville" - booth

• April 21-22 "April In Carneros" - booth at Codorniu Winery

• May 21 Alliance/Guild Spring Luncheon 
  

• August 23 18th Annual Vine Village Open Golf Tournament & Auction

1997

• VINE VILLAGE ARTS opens

1998

1999

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