2011 Holy Ghost Festa The Rio Vista Isleton Club will host its 112th Holy Ghost Festa Saturday, August 6 and Sunday August 7. This long time Portuguese tradition is a celebration honoring Queen Isabel of Portugal. The Festa is a testament to the generosity and love Queen Isabel showed the poor and hungry. Portuguese communities [...]

The Parade is coming back to Town! The 2011 Rio Vista Bass Derby and Festival committee is pleased to announce that there will be a parade. After a one year hiatus, the public has spoken and they want a parade. Denise Rubiaco, Michelle Davis and Jeanne Anne Landi have agreed to chair the event which [...]
August 03, 2011 Rio Vista Can Become Competitive Again! I had hoped to write about our new City budget for the current year; but the scheduled budget meeting for July 26 wasn’t agendized in time and it was rescheduled for this Tuesday, August 2. I would like to talk about it in the future. What [...]
Rantings Of The Mind; Patrick Murphy Chain Letters This week, I thought I would touch on another thing that has totally evolved into something almost unrecognizable; Chain Letters and Faxlore(As you might have guessed, I have a fascination for old mundane things.) You might be saying “A chain letter? Your writing about a Chain Letter?!?” [...]

Delta Doo Dah Sailboat Rally Visits the Delta On July 30, a fleet of 50 sailboats will begin the week-long Delta Doo Dah, a rally from foggy San Francisco Bay to the balmy California Delta. Created and run by the West Coast’s premier sailing magazine, Latitude 38, this low-cost rally was established three years ago, [...]
Mayor’s Corner Rio Vista Business Alliance On July 27th, the City Council met with the newly formed Business Alliance to discuss and begin to resolve some issues that will help the city better serve the business community. It was a very productive meeting, and we will meet again on August 24th. A big part of [...]