Snippets about Lake Tahoe
• Rep. Eliot Engle, D-N.Y., will be the commencement speaker June 24 at Lake Tahoe Community College.
• Edible Communities and its 70 magazines, including Edible Reno-Tahoe, won the first James Beard Foundation Publication of the Year Award.
• Lake Tahoe Unified School District board give Superintendent Jim Tarwater a glowing review this month. But finances such as they are, it comes with a gold star, not cash – and a one-year extension.
• “Question of the Week” has replaced “Tahoe Facts” on Lake Tahoe News. Chime in with our opinion and send question ideas to info@LakeTahoeNews.net.
• Walsworth Publishing representative Natasha McGlinn presented a Gallery of Excellence Award to South Tahoe High School yearbook students Torrie Zaccor, Sarah Benedict, Zaida Landeros, Jan Wirtz, and Kailey Killeen for their consistency and dedication in producing a yearbook that will be used as an example nationwide.
What about gas prices? Remember when the roadrunner vowed to keep prices 10 cents above Calif. state avg? Why is his price one of the highest around? Many stations are at $3.99 or lower and yet roadrunner is at $4.19!! Must be expensive to cool the “beer cave” !!
I wonder how much airfare and speaker fees were to get a New York Congressman to speak at the LTCC commencement?
Mr Runnels is right! Why not just get one of the past or present council members, who could tell all the graduates how to screw a city!!