Tahoe Lodging for Cyclists is a program for developing a network of lodging properties around Lake Tahoe to serve the needs of visiting cyclists.
TLC properties must meet minimum bicycle-friendly standards to become a member of the network and receive benefits in return.
Interested lodging properties may email BikeTahoe@aol.com to receive an information packet.
• Stop and remember 9/11 is a call to action for a moment of silence Sept. 11 at 10am.
• Standard & Poor’s raised its rating of the debt of Carson Tahoe Regional Healthcare from BBB-positive to BBB-positive stable.
• A benefit for Tahoe Arts Project is planned for Sept. 15 from 6-8pm aboard the Safari Rose. The sunset wine cruise costs $55/person. For tickets, call (530) 542.3632 or email tahoearts@aol.com.
• BlueGo, the South Shore bus system, is upping its fares Oct. 1. Here is the rate schedule
• The first Saturday of each month – Oct. 1, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 – there is an informal gathering of knitters and crocheters at the South Lake Tahoe branch library (1000 Rufus Allen Blvd.) from 1-3pm.
Tickets for the 28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering go on sale Sept. 6 to members of the Western Folklife Center, which produces the event. Non-members can purchase tickets one month later, on Oct. 6.
The 28th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering — the celebration of the American West, its people, culture and traditions — is Jan. 30-Feb. 4 in Elko.
Every winter for the last 27 years, cowboys, ranchers, rural and urban people have traveled en masse to this small high desert community, to join with friends, family and others who care about the rural West. Together, they listen to poetry and music, learn about cowboy culture in the U.S. and around the world, experience great art, watch western films, learn a craft, and gather to eat, drink and swap stories.
• Time to toast – September is California Wine Month.
• Cold and Trout Creek Community Forum is Sept. 13 from 5:30-7:30pm at Sierra House Elementary School in South Lake Tahoe. It’s an opportunity to learn about water quality and defensible space projects going on in the neighborhood.
• South Lake Tahoe planning commissioners on Sept. 8 at 3pm at Lake Tahoe Airport will discuss the car wash-convenience store-gas station that wants to go in at the corner at the Y near Raley’s.
• South Lake Tahoe is looking for volunteers of all ages – including youths – to help with the Sept. 10 Bijou Bash. Email tfranklin@cityofslt.us for more information.
• Resort at Squaw Creek recently completed a $53 million renovation.
• Caltrans has released its El Dorado-Tahoe schedule for roadwork for next week as well as the Sierra roadwork schedule.
Project Safe Place is a communitywide effort to provide youth in the South Lake Tahoe area with safe haven and crisis intervention services.
All the fire departments in our community are Safe Place locations. This means that kids are able to walk into any fire station, ask for a Safe Place and be connected with an on-call counselor from Tahoe Youth & Family Services.
Safe Place locations are marked by a yellow and black diamond reading “Safe Place”.
For more information on services or to become a Safe Place location please call Tahoe Youth & Family Services at (530) 541.2445.
— Sallie Ross-Filgo, SLTFD
On Sept. 24 at 9am the South Lake Tahoe Police Canine Association will host the 2011 K9 Trials at Babe Ruth Little League Field, 1100 Lyons Ave., South Lake Tahoe.
This event is sanctioned through the Western States Police Canine Association. It will feature K9 Teams from throughout California and Nevada.
Competition will include: agility, obedience, and suspect locating and apprehension.
The event is free.
The newest member of El Dorado County sheriff’s fleet is a Jet Ranger helicopter with the call sign Eagle One.
The helicopter owners, pilots Ed Rincon and Richard Moorehouse, have agreed to volunteer their services as reserve deputy sheriff’s, as well as the use of their helicopter for community service efforts. With volunteer pilots using their own aircraft, there is no cost to the taxpayers or the county. The fuel will be paid for through federal asset forfeiture funds.
The helicopter will allow deputies faster call response times. The helicopter can easily transport a few people in just minute’s time. Criminal marijuana gardens can also be easily detected from the air—making narcotics patrol easier, safer, more effective and more efficient, officials said.
• Reno’s PBS affiliate has a special about the Thunderbird Lodge at Lake Tahoe.
• Tahoe Forest Health System appointed Dr. Ellen Cooper, specializing in general surgery, and Dr. Joshua Scholnick, cardiologist and internal medicine specialist, to its team of MultiSpecialty Clinic physicians.
• Regulate Marijuana Like Wine Act supporters launched their campaign Sept. 1. The group’s website is live, too.
• Hien Larson, who was previously splitting her time as assistant principal for both Glenshire and Truckee Elementary schools, will now move to the assistant principal position for Alder Creek Middle School that was recently vacated.
• Nevada Forester and Firewarden Pete Anderson has issued a warning about fire danger for Labor Day weekend. He said there has been a 50 percent increase in human caused fires from a year ago.
• South Lake Tahoe is finally moving forward with improving Harrison Avenue. The bid process for design work has begun.
Fall is here and so is the large accumulation of leaves and pine needles. It’s best to clear your roof and gutters now before the snow renders them inaccessible.
Heat tape under a buildup of leaves or needles can start a roof fire.
South Tahoe Refuse will pick up all bagged leaves and pine needles left at the curbside on nor-mal trash pick up days.
— Sallie Ross-Filgo, SLTFD
South Tahoe High School student Cody Higgins is seriously ill and his family is in need of financial support to assist with medical expenses.
His family’s friends and co-workers at State Farm Insurance, Jazzercise, and the Women of the Moose are having a fund raiser Sept. 8 from 5-7pm to help. The event will be at the South Lake Tahoe Moose Lodge, 961 Eloise Ave., South Lake Tahoe and will include a spaghetti dinner, raffles, 50/50, silent auctions, no host bar, free lemonade and bottled water for sale.
Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under.
Donations may be made at U.S. Bank, Account No.: Cody Higgins, at State Farm, 3351 Lake Tahoe Blvd., No. 3, or Lake Front Wedding Chapel. For more information, call Tina Roybal at (530) 318.4135 or Barbara Prado at (530) 541.4100.