Snippets about Lake Tahoe

•Lake Tahoe Unified School District is becoming an AVID district. Now all students in grades 4, 5, and 6 will have the opportunity to learn communication skills, educational self-advocacy, study skills, mental and physical organization within agenda/planner, organizational tools, time management, goal setting, note-taking strategies with an emphasis on writing to learn, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading to learn in all content areas.

• A tourism forum featuring the AMGEN bike event is scheduled at the Horizon Casino April 14 at 5:30pm. Topics to be discussed will be AMGEN, the Highway 50 closure and other events. The event is organized through the Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce.

• Local historian Carol Etten will discuss steam-powered marine transportation in Lake Tahoe for an Explore Tahoe free talk scheduled for April 7 at 6pm at the Heavenly Village, Stateline Transit Center.

• The comment period for the Homewood Mountain Resort draft environmental impact report was granted a 30-day extension by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, extending the document’s comment period to April 21.

• The California Board of Equalization would like to remind those who are filing their taxes by April 18 to report and pay the use tax, which is what is owed by the consumers on items purchased from out-of-state retailers that don’t collect sales tax. These include purchases on the Internet, mail order or via telephone.

• Pineapple Hospitality, which sells green hotel products to 968 Park Hotel in South Lake Tahoe, is the first company in the hospitality industry to ship exclusively using UPS’s carbon neutral program.

• Douglas County’s main jail in Minden, built in 1980, is getting a $3.9 million overhaul and expansion that should be finished later this spring.

• This video shows how easily houses burn in a wildfire and what homeowners can do.