By Kathryn Reed

Christmas is coming late to a number of charities on the South Shore – and they are fine with that.

Carol Chaplin, executive director of Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority, has been making calls to let organizations know they are going to share $77,000.

The money is from last summer’s celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe in Stateline. American Century, the title sponsor of the annual event, and the Lance Armstrong Foundation are providing the funds. This is in addition to the $90,000 that was given shortly after the tournament’s conclusion.

“They have a strong relationship with this community,” Chaplin said of the golf tournament organizers.

The initial cash was divvied up between the South Lake Tahoe Boys & Girls Club, Tahoe Youth & Family Services and Bread & Broth.

The latest checks will be written to a slew of entities. With the Armstrong Foundation’s focus on cancer, the initial directive was for the cash to go to cancer related programs on the South Shore.

Barton Health’s mammogram screening, Relay for Life, the community clinic’s pap smear program, and the Cancer League will share $28,000.

The remaining $49,000 will be divided among CASA, South Lake Tahoe Women’s Center, Family Resource Center, Tahoe Arts Project, Christmas Cheer, South Tahoe and Whittell high schools, and Lake Tahoe and Douglas County education foundations.