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45 Columbine Court Asking $779,500

This home features high ceilings and lots of natural light. The four bedrooms are up-stairs, with the large primary bedroom and bath facing the open space. Located in the gated community of the Na-pa Yacht Club offering a private park, with recreational activities, boat dock, walking trails and more.

9 Regatta Way Price Improvement $1,275,000

Single story, with gourmet kitchen, Whyter built in wine cooler, quartz counter tops and more. The yard had been transformed to a true sanctuary.

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CREATIVE DIRECTOR Alicen Curtis ACCOUNTING MANAGER Kelly Hurst CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Kathleen Reynolds Craig Smith NAPA VALLEY MARKETPLACE MAGAZINE 1053 Round Hill Circle, Napa, CA 94558 info@napavalleymarketplace.com napavalleymarketplace.com The Marketplace Magazine© is a division of Napa Marketplace Publishing, Inc. Copyright© October 2025. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No part of this publication may be reproduced without written permission from the publisher.

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suscolcouncil.org 707.253.3672 Charlie Toledo re-organized the Suscol Intertribal Council as its Executive Director in 1992. In her early days of contact with local tribes she asked Native American elders what the most important need was for California tribes.

Many had the same response, “Find a safe place where we can have ceremony and gather to share our indigenous culture.”

Charlie imagined such an undertaking would take at least ten years. It’s been closer to forty.

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water supply and low impact development plan. It’s taken a million dollars to get to this point. The interior construction of main building is all that remains for completion. “We still need to raise about $250,000,” said Charlie. Please donate to the effort by visiting suscolcouncil. org. “This allows us to continue the preservation of Native American Culture for future generations.” The Suskol House has become a permanent land base for Native people to safely gather. It’s the first such place in centuries. Napa Valley is one site of the euro-invasions and subsequent genocides.

Charlie, originally from New Mexico and a descendant of the Towa tribe, moved to Napa in 1972. One of the first questions

she asked when she got here was, “Where are the tribes?”

The answer, often accompanied by a shoulder shrug, was “they moved north.” “’Where North?’ was always my question.”

Charlie continued to ask questions. She finally met Jim Big Bear King, local Native American Crow elder whose family made a voluntary migration from Montana. He started the original Suscol Indian Council in 1972. In 1986, she made her first visit to the Four Corners (the area where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah come together) to visit the Dine’ (Navajo) People. She learned about the history of Native Americans, and how to become an effective advocate. During the following years, she traveled

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to the remote, marginalized tribes of California with a local Wappo medicine woman. She organized and mentored many young Native leaders, all over California. “I really consider that experience to be where I got my leadership training,” Charlie said.

The four tribes of Napa; the Patwin, Onasatis Wappo, Coast Miwok and Pomo, where largely killed and forced out by Spanish and then English invaders in the 1870s. When the invasions began, the tribes had never experienced such brutal warfare.

They were compassionate people who knew nothing of warfare. No treaties were ever made with the tribes in California.

Governor Gavin Newsom became the first U.S. politician to acknowledge this. He made a formal public apology “for the genocides of California. This was funded by the state of California and the US government to kill Indians,” he stated.

What Charlie learned about compassionate leadership had a profound and healing impact on her. “During a circle near the

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end of our time on the road, I expressed that I didn’t want to leave. I wanted to stay in ceremony with these people for the rest of my life. Other people in the circle agreed.” The respected Elder just smiled, after a few moments said, “You can’t.

You all must go home and help the people in the places you live.

That is where you are needed.”

Charlie returned to Napa, and within a few years, reorganized the Suscol Intertribal Council.

of time. Why wouldn’t we let the Divine be expressed through us?”

Support the Suskol House land project with a donation to help people build a better future for all by learning from the past.

Over the decades, Charlie has worked and served on multiple State, Regional and local boards advocating for Human Rights for Native people, women and children. During her years of leadership, she’s often heard, “No,” which she sees as the message needing to be modified or directed to different people. She has often been confronted with outright hostility from people who are unsympathetic to Native American history.

She never shouts back, just quietly listens.

Charlie is an open, intuitive, deeply spiritual woman. “We’re here for such a short period

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Quake Mosaic

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“There’s something satisfying about taking broken things and putting them in some sort of order after a disaster,” says Kristina Young, artist and designer of the Napa Quake Mosaic, an ambitious, community-driven mosaic.

“After the 2014 earthquake, I was working at the fine craft Grand Hand Gallery on Main Street. Everything was smashed and as we were cleaning it up, I realized that this was people’s art, and I didn’t feel comfortable just throwing it away. I’m also a mosaic artist, so I would save broken pieces all the time. I had a group of five friends and other artists, and we talked about how we could use the broken objects that people had saved.”

She had a community-build concept to use the pieces to create a mosaic and organized a drop-off point. Even when volunteers were simply sorting the broken objects by color, Kristina says it was therapeutic.

were quite a few points over the last decade that I couldn’t find a home for it, or have funding, couldn’t manage doing this and my own work at the same time.

There was a lot of effort and stamina required to keep it going. I felt the burden of responsibility to all the original donors that I had their memories in my care.”

At the time, Kristina volunteered with the Vine Trail Art Committee, which became the Rail Arts District (RAD). The Wine Train wanted to partner with her and RAD and donated a box car to display the final product. The approximate weight of the finished mosaic, including the frame, is 6,000 pounds and it measures 10’ wide and 40’ long. The box car weighs 80,000 pounds and is sturdy enough to hold such a piece.

Through RAD Director Shelly Willis, Kristina got in touch with artist Amanda Larson and her father Bill who designed and built the framework for the mosaic.

“It gave them a sense of purpose.

There’s something about calm repetitive activity that has a soothing effect on people. They would always say, “You don’t understand, but this is helping me right now. It’s not even about the earthquake; it’s about something else; health or a divorce or family stuff.” It’s what propelled it all of these years, it’s all the people involved from the beginning.”

“We raised the money, because I was determined to pay the artists and the technical expertise that we needed,” says Kristina. “But, basically, it’s been a volunteer effort. Shelly estimated that it is a $350,000 project that we did for $150,000. That’s to give you an idea of how much time people put into this: their hours, their expertise and in-kind support. It’s just amazing to see how many people stepped up.”

The mosaic took 11 years and over 2000 volunteers to create.“Not to say that I didn’t almost give up many times. There

“As for the design, I tend to work in response to a site. I think about what the site needs and how the people who will

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be interacting with it would respond. I knew I wanted to do something that was simple in design, because I wanted the community to be able to be involved. I was waiting for the site to tell me what it wanted. Once the box car was officially donated by the Wine Train, I saw the design in my mind. It’s a core sample of the earth, sitting on the earth. It’s as if you took a section of the earth and you’re looking at it. It’s layers of dirt and rock and water. All the things under the ground, minerals and metals and all the things that are there.”

Pieces of broken mirrors represent the earthquake itself with waves of impact radiating from the center. The mirrors sparkle and stand out.

“I wanted volunteers to keep pieces as whole as possible, because I wanted people to be able to find their objects again. I wanted to honor the objects’ integrity. My friend Evy Warshaski gave us tubs of her broken ceramic collection that contained a lot of clay flowers. I kept those intact, so it became more of a three-dimensional object instead of a flat mosaic. It made the grouting process very challenging.”

The mosaic was unveiled to the public in August of this year. What did Kristina get out of the project?

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most of the people who worked on it wouldn’t consider themselves artists and I love that I could facilitate that kind of experience. After the two fires we had, people also donated burned, melted or broken objects. I liked the idea of taking those experiences and allowing people to be part of something that helped them heal. The fact that it helped people in so many other ways was something I hadn’t anticipated.”

The boxcar is placed in the Wine Train yard near Soscol Avenue for now. It is visible, and accessible to people.

“Eventually, we want it to be permanently installed in the RAD, off the tracks, and we’re working on a couple of possibilities with the city. Ultimately, I want it to be owned by the city, so it’s maintained by the public. As wonderful as the Wine Train is, I don’t want anyone to have that (maintenance) burden. I can’t wait for people to see and enjoy it and try to find the thing they gave.”

Kristina says the project opened up professional opportunities for her that she hadn’t imagined.

community build projects.

I hadn’t seen that as a career path at the beginning.”

What does Kristina want the public to understand?

“So many times, art is thought of as a nice but unnecessary extra or just for rich people.

It’s not. To me, it’s how I function every day; I don’t see it as a separate activity at all. A working creative sector is a very important part of a heathy community. I want artists to have that respect and that place here in Napa. Not just as an extra nice thing to have.”

How did the volunteers and community benefit?

“Public art is a democratic experience that people get for free,” says Kristina.

“It can become a landmark, it can become a touchstone, it can become a place for people to sit, relax and process or enjoy something unusual in their day that might give them a sense of joy, wonder or curiosity.”

“If someone had told me 11 years ago that I’d still be working on this, I would have laughed. At that point, I still had another job. I have my own company now doing public art and mosaic with a lot of

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YOUR HEALTH. YOUR JOURNEY. OUR SUPPORT. “This project is not about the earthquake. I want them to think about what we did afterwards. I want them to think about how amazing this community is. They’re part of it. It’s about placing our community in time. We are only here on this earth for a certain amount of time, what do we do with that time and how can we support each other? How can we support creativity and collaboration and what’s possible when you work together? It’s not about me or any individual. It’s about this collective statement of resilience and community and allowing creative people to have the time and space to make those projects together.”

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Sarah Anne Risk

had an idyllic childhood near Greensboro, North Carolina. She had an older brother and younger sister, and the family lived across the street from her grandparents, aunts and uncles. Summers were spent at her grandparents’ swimming pool with the whole clan gathering for Saturday night cookouts. “I got to be a kid without any worries,” she said.

Sarah loved her high school chemistry teacher and decided to follow that career path. After graduation, she taught for a couple of years, but didn’t enjoy it. “I was barely older than the students and they treated me like a peer,” she said.

Plus, she had to be at work at 7:00 AM, and quickly discovered that she is not a morning person.

Mike Risk, the man she had been dating, moved to Napa to work on a vineyard property, which began a long-distance relationship for the couple. They married in 2013, and Sarah moved here. “Professionally, I was kind of lost,” she admitted.

She did some substitute teaching, but still did not want to teach. “I applied to be a Chick-fil-a owner, but that fell through.” She got a winery job as a Hospitality Assistant,

but left after a few months to join the Napa Valley Grape Growers, doing special events. That’s when everything began to change.

“I worked with photographers at events, and it really opened my eyes.” She bought a DSLR camera and learned how to use it from You Tube videos.

She and Mike had different days off and it gave her the time to explore the Valley with her camera. Someone asked her for a family photo, then someone else asked her to take events at their private event. “I never thought of photography as a ‘thing,’ it was just fun.” She was asked to do photos at the first Fork to Table event at the Oxbow Market, and got lots of compliments for her work. “I was kind of surprised. It’s so beautiful here, I figured how could anyone mess up pictures.”

In 2014, Sarah started doing photography jobs, more as a side hustle. She was more and more in demand, and in 2018, quit her job to make photography her full-time gig. “It was scary to give up a steady income.

At first, I would wake up in the morning and think, ’Well, what am I going to do today?’”

Sarah and Mike added Talley, an Airedale Terrier, to their family in 2020. “She is the best dog in the world.” Daughter Libby was born in November of 2023, and Sarah has been able to spend lots of time with her. She also realized that Talley wouldn’t be with them forever, and decided to memorialize her dog in short stories based on her Napa Valley adventures. She thought about turning those stories into a children’s book, and

bounced the idea off Naomi Chamblin, owner of Napa Bookmine. “She said, ‘Everybody wants to write a children’s book about their dog,’ but when I explained how I wanted to do it, she encouraged me,” said Sarah. She selfpublished “The ABC’s of Napa Talley,” which has done surprisingly well.

Sarah is quite happy being a wife, mom and photographer in the Napa Valley. As for future books? “I hope so. I want to write about Talley’s adventures outside of Napa, ‘The One, Two, Threes of Talley.’”

Derek Moore

was 16 when his family moved to Napa from Oklahoma so that his stepfather could take a job in the wine industry. It was a difficult adjustment for the teen.

“I didn’t know anything about Napa,” Derek recalled recently. “I thought California was all beaches.”

As a junior at Vintage High School, Derek began to make friends and settle into his new home. He also took an English class taught by Sushanna Ellington, who was the first to unlock Derek’s potential as a writer. “Her class completely changed me as a person,” he said.

At Sacramento State University, Derek sought out the school newspaper while earning credits toward a journalism degree. For his first assignment, he wrote about a fellow

student who had contacted the newsroom to complain about a rat infestation in her off-campus apartment. After the article ran, the landlord cleared up the infestation, and Derek discovered the power of journalism. “I’ve been writing about rats ever since,” he quipped.

After graduating from college, Derek accepted a full-time job with the Napa Valley Register, which was then expanding coverage of Upvalley cities and the city of American Canyon. He went on to report on a diverse range of topics – everything from Robert Mondavi’s 80th birthday party at Opus One Winery (an event that required Derek to rent a tuxedo) to murder trials, numerous floods and the occasional parade. The Register also sent Derek to Oklahoma City to cover the aftermath of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building after he wrote a personal perspective essay that caught the attention of the paper’s managers.

On a much lighter note, Derek likes to joke that he met his future wife, December, while he was on the crime beat. She was a court reporter working on a high-profile case Derek was assigned to cover. The pair began dating and later were married in Las Vegas.

A few years into his career, Derek was awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship sponsored by the Napa Sunrise Rotary Club. He selected South Africa for his all-expenses paid year abroad out of fascination for that country’s transition from Apartheid to democratic rule. He earned a postgraduate diploma in African Studies from the University of Cape Town and traveled across southern Africa to speak to Rotary clubs. One of his more meaningful experiences was visiting the island prison where Nelson Mandela was confined for 27 years.

Returning to Napa, Derek parlayed a one-month freelance assignment into an 18-year stint with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. He wrote stories spanning a wide range of subjects, notably natural disasters, the environment and adolescent health. Tiring of the commute, he stepped away from daily news for an eventual return to freelance work, mostly for his former employer. In 2018, he shared in the Press Democrat’s Pulitzer

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At that time, Napa High School was looking for a cross country coach.

Never mind Derek hadn’t competed on a running team since the eighth grade and came to the interview with no formal coaching experience. He landed the job. Derek is now entering his eighth season as the Grizzlies coach.

He’s also an assistant track coach and substitute teacher.

Derek and December – who is a third generation Napan – have two children, Jack and Claire, both of whom attend Napa High and run for the Grizzlies.

“My love for Napa was hard won, but this is my home now. I love this community and the people in it,” Derek said. “I feel connected in a way I could have never imagined as a 16-year-old fresh off the plane from Oklahoma.”

Amy Pyles

Equal parts fashion, fitness, and a healthy gem obsession inspire the creative pursuits of designer Amy Pyles. Treasure hunting, rock hoarding, coin collecting, dress-up – her childhood pastimes would eventually pave the way to a self-made career in jewelry.

Independent Napa-based designer Amy creates bold, contemporary pieces that have earned her a growing fanbase – and national attention. Her work has been featured in top industry publications like INSTORE and JCK; the latter being, in her words, “what Vogue is to fashion.” Her work can be found across retailers in NY, FL, PA, GA, and throughout the Bay Area.

Amy’s path to jewelry design wasn’t linear. Raised in small towns across Ohio, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, she eventually moved to Philadelphia for college. The city’s energy ignited something creative in her. While pursuing a degree in advertising, she began crafting beaded jewelry.

Her creative outlet quickly snowballed.

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launched a website, and earned credentials from the Gemological Institute of America. When she landed a gig on Philadelphia’s famed Jeweler’s Row, she was exposed to the ‘finer side’ of jewelry and its covert manufacturing. “I felt like a kid in Wonka’s chocolate factory.

To glimpse behind the scenes was a dream come true,”

she admits. From there, her passion only intensified.

After twelve years in Philly, Amy craved a lifestyle shift. A trip to Napa struck the perfect chord – offering the charm of small-town living with just enough social energy to feel connected. She moved in 2016.

“I fell in love with the Valley,” she says. “This is the first place I’ve felt a real sense of community.”

After stints at TORC and Makers Market, Amy opened her namesake LLC in 2017 and hasn’t looked back. Since landing in Napa, Amy has deepened her craft through metalworking. She is a multi-award winner at shows in Beverly Hills and New York, recognized for her unique design perspective.

She draws inspiration from “the

extravagance of high fashion, and the geological fairytales of natural gemstones.”

With a new studio on the horizon, Amy plans to offer private shopping experiences, design consultations, and collaborate more closely with the community. “My heart is here,” she says. “I have incredible friends, strong support from local businesses, and the Napa Hot Yoga studio is like family.”

Amy’s bold, sculptural pieces aren’t for everyone. She designs statement pieces for unique personalities. In a valley full of world-class makers, Amy hopes to blend a little ‘East Coast cool’ into the local fabric.

If you haven’t seen her work yet, keep an eye out – you’ll know it when you do. She showcased this summer at Auberge du Soleil, Blue Note Jazz Festival, the Smithsonian Craft Show, SF Yacht Club, and the Beverly Hills Art Show, to name a few.

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