Related Suzanne Shriner remembers the moment she heard the news that coffee leaf rust had been spotted on the island of Maui, just around 100 miles from her farm on the Kona Coast of the island of Hawaii. It was a Friday afternoon in October seven months into the pandemic and Hawaii had just re-opened to tourists.
“I got the text and my stomach dropped,” recalls Shriner, who farms with her extended family and serves as president of the Kona Coffee Farmers Association. Like most of her peers, Shriner had been trying to mentally prepare for the moment for a long time. “We’d hoped we would have a few more years,” she says. “But when I learned it was here, I knew we had a massive challenge ahead of us.”
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NAPA, Calif., March 15, 2021 /PRNewswire/ A Napa County judge has ruled that Celeste K. White acted entirely properly handling the estate of her father, which had been the subject of a long-running wine country lawsuit.
In a final court order in the case, signed by Superior Court Judge Monique Langhorne, the court ruled that all of the accountings (by Celeste White).are settled, allowed, approved and all acts and transactions…are ratified, confirmed and approved. The order, entered last August 20, 2020 exonerated White and ended the litigation.
Celeste Keith White had been named co-trustee of the estate of her late father, Ed Keith, after his death in 2006. Mr. Keith had long been a fixture in Napa, with many investments in commercial and residential real estate and a winery property. He left a fortune valued at $92 million, and gave White the responsibility for managing a large portion of a very complex estate, including establishing a