Snippets about Lake Tahoe

• No mural is going to be erected in front of the would-be convention center in South Tahoe. Caltrans wanted a separate encroachment permit.

• There will be an artist reception for photographer Patty Gilbertson on May 7 from 6:30-8:30pm at Bona Fide Books, 1069 Magua St., No. 4, Meyers.

• South Tahoe Middle School’s Symphonic Band was awarded a gold medal at the Forum Music Festival in Anaheim.

• With the reorg at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, Jerry Wells and Lyn Barnett are taking their two decades of knowledge to open a consulting firm focusing on planning and landscaping in the basin.

• South Tahoe High School’s class of 2011 will graduate at the football field. Construction was looking like that wouldn’t be possible. As student board rep Nick Pillsbury told the board April 26, academics should be placed before athletic needs.

• Ted Long, a member of the South Lake Tahoe Latino Affairs Commission, spoke to the Lake Tahoe Community College board April 26 asking officials to contribute to the Spanish-language paper his group is putting together.

• About a dozen people from Mongolia were on the South Shore on May 2 to learn how Tahoe handles environmental issues and tourism. They met for an hour with South Lake Tahoe officials, then the head of Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority, and then went to the California Tahoe Conservancy.