Snippets about Lake Tahoe

• Live Violence Free is no longer providing food distribution at its South Lake Tahoe office. The agency is facilitating distribution of food, clothing, and other basic need items at the American Legion, at 2748 Lake Tahoe Blvd. Food distribution will take place every Wednesday from 10am-12:30pm.

• Rabbi Mordey Richler and his wife, Shaina, have opened Chabad of Lake Tahoe at 1898 Venice Drive in South Lake Tahoe. They offer Shabbat and holiday services, Torah study classes, women’s circle, kids’ club and teen program. They also offer a kosher takeout menu, preparing foods for Shabbat dinner and other holiday meals in their kitchen. For more info, go online or call (530) 314.7677.

• Peter Strand is now president of Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty.

• Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Michael Stainer, 50, of El Dorado Hills as director of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Division of Adult Institutions.

• El Dorado County will not be offering the free bus service through Apple Hill next year because it didn’t improve traffic. The bus was caught in all the traffic, too, and that didn’t make people happy.