Today is the Rotary Social, a day of fellowship for the 5 Napa Valley clubs,the Napa Valley Rotary Association (NVRA), at the Oxbow Public Market in Napa. The idea of the social event is to revive in a different way an old tradition which started in 1941 by the Rotary Club of Calistoga when each year the Rotary Clubs of Napa Valley get together at the Rural Urban dinner.
The story: "Rotarian Ed Light went out and shot a buck deer and invited the Calistoga Rotary to dinner.
"The next year with more help, the St. Helena Club was invited to join Calistoga and the following year, the Napa Club was invited.
"It was also at that time that a Napa Rotarian Herman Baade, who was the county farm advisor, suggested that each Rotarian should take a farmer to the dinner meeting."
(source: The Napa Register Tuesday July 15, 1980)
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