Snippets about Lake Tahoe

edc• El Dorado County Board of Supervisors is having a public hearing Feb. 1 regarding the proposed South Tahoe Refuse 1.9 percent rate increase. The meeting is in Placerville at 9am. It would raise rates 50 cents per month and be effective starting that day.

• Sierra-at-Tahoe’s superpipe is open – the only one on the South Shore. To showcase the superpipe and terrain parks the resort will host the Gatorade Free Flow Tour on Feb. 5, Far West Slopestyle Competition Feb. 12, and USASA Superpipe Competition Feb. 27.

• A funny video to show you how not to get snow off your roof.

• A photo of the Thunderbird taken by Tahoe City’s Steve Lapkin is on the cover of the January issue of Yachting magazine.

• Robert M. Weygandt, in his fifth term on the Placer County Board of Supervisors, is now chairman of the board.

• Read this to find out what Carl Ribaudo of SMG thinks the tourism trends for 2011 will be.