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Grocery Restaurant The Guys' Rules (A little bit sexist, a little bit fun.) Store TheThe LakeLake BerryessaBerryessa NewsNews Breakfast Men are not mind readers. Ice www.LakeBerryessaNews.com Beer Prime Rib Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. 1515 Headlands Drive, Napa, CA 94558 We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us complaining about Soda Friday & Your Best Source for News of Lake Berryessa and our Napa Back Roads! you leaving it down. 25¢ Snacks Saturday Donation Dairy Sunday sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. French Dip Let it be. January 2012 - Happy New Year! Bar Deli The Crossroads Shopping is NOT a sport. Lake Berryessa - The Map - Page 6 Sandwiches 8 Draft And no, we are never going to think of it that way. Beers at Lake Berryessa Goodbye 2011: Another Year of Process Without Progress at Lake Berryessa! Burgers Crying is blackmail. Happy Hour Grocery Store: Mon - Thurs: 10 AM - 8 PM Will 2012 Be Any Better? Maybe 2015? Fri: 10 AM - 9 PM, Sat: 8 AM - 9 PM Pasta Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not By Peter Kilkus On April 2, 2008, Mike Finnegan, Pensus Group Planning Process Stymied NBRID Water & Sewer System 4 HD TVs Sun: 8 AM - 8 PM work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Although I’d like to put on my happy face Reclamation Area Manager stated, Almost a year ago, I wrote an article Improvement Process Moves Forward Pizza for 2012, unfortunately 2011 has not been "Reclamation intends for recreation at Lake titled, “They’re Off Like a Herd of Turtles”. Weekly Restaurant: Mon - Thurs: 4 PM - 8 PM After a decade of floundering, the Just say it! kind to the Lake Berryessa community. It Berryessa to continue essentially uninter- Recent history shows that I was actually Promotions Fri: 11:30 AM - 9 PM, Sat: 8 AM - 9 PM Board of the Napa Berryessa Resort Sun: 8 AM - 8 PM felt like an instant replay of the preceding rupted, other than occasional temporary being unrealistically optimistic. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question. Improvement District (NBRID) approved a several years. The most visible change was closures in various locations for develop- Local businesses and property owners Bar: Mon - Fri: 2 PM to Last Call, Sat - Sun: 12 PM to Last Call contract with a team led by Western Water Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's the appearance of tacky plywood signs in mental activities.” who had been severely hurt by the Bureau Breakfast Sat. & Sun. from 8 AM to 11:30 AM Constructors for the design of improve- front of some of the Pensus resorts. More Several substantial proposals were of Reclamation’s destruction of five resorts Pizza served daily from 4 PM to Closing what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for. ments to the Berryessa Highlands water professional blue and white signs finally submitted and the Bid for five of the resorts had hoped that the redevelopment of those and sewer system. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. replaced those and are now at the entrances was awarded to the Pensus Group. resorts would be fast-tracked by govern- At the Crossroads of of Hwy 121, Hwy 128, and Steele Canyon Road Unfortunately the Cease and Desist In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days. of all the Pensus resorts. But a new sign Unfortunately, a silly legal opinion by a ment agencies so the desperately-needed Phone: 707-255-5455 Order preventing new hook-ups remains in does not a recreation destination make. functionary within the Department of the recovery could begin. Again we were all Email: [email protected] place, as well as the threat of a new If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't ask us. Interior bureaucracy being unrealistically optimistic. Facebook: The Crossroads at Lake Berryessa $300,000 fine from the State. led to the original Rather, Pensus has been faced with a If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one of the ways The agreement with Western Water decision process being series of planning stumbling blocks, the Constructors is for privatized operations makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one. rescinded and the con- most egregious of which is Reclamation’s Perception Correction - The Crossroads at Lake Berryessa is Not For Sale! and management at a not to exceed cost of tracts rebid. requirement that Pensus complete a A friend told me the other day that she was saddened to see that the Crossroads You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. $517,500 for the Preliminary Design Phase Although no one, detailed “Environmental Assessment”, or was up for sale. She mistook the big For Sale sign out in front of the building as Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself. (PDP) professional engineering and finan- including the local EA, before beginning resort construction - evidence that the Winchell family was closing their business. This is not true. The cial services to address facilities needed to Reclamation manage- something Reclamation was not required to Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say comply with the CDO, replacement of the sign is for the property itself, not the Crossroads Grocery Store, Restaurant, and ment, wanted it to do before its resort destruction. during commercials. water treatment plant and the wastewater Bar. The property is for sale by Jim Keller who bought it several years ago. happen, the whole Pensus is simply replacing the old treatment plant including provisions for Christopher Columbus did not need directions and neither do we. selection process was facilities with new environmentally-friend- So don’t worry. The Crossroads has become an important part of the Lake private financing. This does not include any rebooted by ly construction. And as part of the bid Berryessa community. See their ad above. Eat, drink, and be merry there when- repair or construction work. All men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, Department of Interior process, Pensus has already provided a ever you can. Completion of the PDP is scheduled for example, is a fruit, not a color. Pumpkin is also not a color. senior management detailed ISO14000 Environmental What do you think the new American Dream should be? for 150 days after contract signing. A feel- with a slightly modi- Management Plan plan for each of its We have no idea what mauve is. ing of cautious optimism is in order. Congress debated a number of new American Dreams. Which do you think it should be? fied Prospectus which resorts. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," We will act like noth- was re-issued in May 2009. Per NEPA rgulations, an EA is a con- Lake Berryessa Visitor Information To own a tricked out motorcycle Bureau of Reclamation Process Stumbles ing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle. What was ridiculous about this deci- cise document, which should not contain Process Succeeds To star in a viral video It has now been more than eleven years sion, ostensibly made to be “fair” to the long descriptions or detailed data. Rather, it To have your own skin care line since the Bureau of Reclamation initiated On a positive note, several years of If you ask a question you don't want an answer to, original bidders, was that most of the origi- should contain a brief discussion of the To be the fattest person on the bus the process that destroyed a recreational effort by the Lake Berryessa News and the expect an answer you don't want to hear. nal bidders were either in bankruptcy or need for the proposal, alternatives to the culture at Lake Berryessa with the collater- Lake Berryessa Chamber of Commerce had dissolved their bidding partnerships by proposal, the environmental impacts of the al effect of severely damaging the local culminated in a strong partnership with the BROWN'S AUTOMATIC GATE SERVICE When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is then. With more than a year of effort wast- proposed action and alternatives... business and residential community. The Napa Valley Destination Council (NVDC). fine...Really. ed, Reclamation received few viable bids But when Reclamation requires Pensus Dependable, Resourceful, Reasonable first nail in the coffin was hammered in by Lake Berryessa has a prominent place the second time around. to dig a grid of holes to look for non-exis- Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless you are prepared to dis- Reclamation with a Notice of Intent in the on the NVDC web site (www.legendaryna- Bonded/Insured ~ License# 955286 In January 2010, the Pensus Group tent Native Amerian artifacts before putting Federal Register on November 7, 2000 pavalley.com) highlighting all of our local Manufacturer-Trained with 10+ Years of Experience cuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or golf. won the second round, picking up Markley in a new PG&E power pole in previously (Volume 65, Number 216). businesses and recreation destinations Cove Resort which had actually won its bulldozed dirt, something is amiss. 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