Snippets about Lake Tahoe

·       El Dorado County Fair’s theme this year is Cowboys & Carousels. The fair is June 16-19 in Placerville.

·       Guests at Squaw Valley-Alpine Meadows donated a little more than $48,000 in Green Bucks to the Tahoe Fund and the Truckee River Watershed Council.  The donation came from dollar donations added to lift tickets, season passes and food and beverage sales during the 2015-16 season.

·       El Dorado County Sheriff John D’Agostini has scheduled five town hall style meetings about the proposed sheriff’s headquarters, however not one is in the basin.

·       Animal Coalition of Tahoe’s Bowling Night is May 18 in South Lake Tahoe. For more info, call 530.307.3638.

·       Since its inception in 2009, the Gene Upshaw Memorial Fund has raised more than $1 million for cancer research, patient care and mild traumatic brain injury research and innovation. Since 2009, $463,544 has been directed specifically for traumatic brain injury research with the Tahoe Institute for Rural Health Research. Most of the money is raised through the Gene Upshaw Memorial Golf Classic in July. Funds have also supported the Gene Upshaw Memorial Tahoe Forest Cancer Center, pancreatic cancer research, Tahoe Forest Hospital Innovations Fund and Hospice programs.