Snippets about Lake Tahoe

• David Kelly of South Lake Tahoe, the ultimate advocate for people with disabilities, is celebrating that his bladder cancer is in remission.

David Kelly

• The California Department of Education selected the El Dorado County Office of Education’s School Attendance Review Board as a model program for its dropout prevention efforts. This is the first year a county office of education was recognized by the board for its dropout prevention efforts.

• Two hundred forty acres on a ridge above Donner Lake near Interstate 80 may be preserved if the town of Truckee, Truckee Donner Land Trust and Tahoe Donner Association can come to an agreement.

• Lake Tahoe students came away with several awards during the 43rd annual Western Nevada Regional Science and Engineering Fair at UNR. Mata Rodolfo, grade seven at Whittell High in Zephyr Cove, placed third for “Soil”. Zephyr Cove Elementary’s Samantha Forvilly and Gigi Stetler earned a fourth in the fifth-grade team category for “The Bacteria Among Us,” while Skye Kidd, Kate Krolicki and Kenya Maltase received fourth place in the sixth-grade team category for “Ski and Snowboard Speed”. Lake Tahoe School second-grader Ingrid Altunin took third place with her exhibit “Tanning of Leaves,” while the Incline Village school’s Thyra Altunin won first place for fifth-graders with “Playing Dice with Mozart”.

• Tahoe Grizzlies will compete in the junior hockey California Championships April 9-11 in San Jose. The skaters are age 10 and younger.