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(Blank) Valley Changes Its Name Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows is proposing a name change and others are following suit (check out p. 9 for the details), but what do the boots on the ground think about removing the word “squaw” from the titles of businesses, agencies, 12177 Business Park Drive | Suite 9 | Truckee and organizations around Olympic Valley? And that name — Olympic Valley, Monday - Friday | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM might that be an option? Friends of Moonshine shared their thoughts:

BRIAN SILVERMAN, Kings Beach Retired from Apple, lifetime keyboard player I know there’s a lot of locals that are upset about this. I am not one of them. You can’t have a double standard because you have grown up with an offensive name. I find the name especially offensive now and I refer to this as the post office always has. Olympic Valley.

JULIE STANLEY, Carnelian Bay Sales rep with tahoe.com Olympic Valley Resort

AARON KINSMAN, South Lake Tahoe Casino industry Bring Stella Developers knob

Fresh Baked Breads home. Soups & Salads Hummus & Falafel Desserts & More PETER WILEY, Sonoma Owner, San Francisco Arts & Crafts What next? Truckee? Named after a Paiute Indian Chief. What will the new name be?

MARK SMITH, Incline Village COVID-19 Co-founder, Nevada Wildlife Alliance COMPLIANT I support this move. I also appreciate that it’s bringing a lot of closet racists out into the light. Order online. Pick up at Stella on Thursday, Friday and Saturday 3pm -5pm

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4 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 MOONSHINEINK.COM TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER GO ONLINE MOONSHINEINK.COM Life continues in Tahoe/Truckee, and we’re covering it! Our latest online- TAHOE TALKS exclusive content looks at what’s top of mind: wildfire, crowds, and school. Lake Tahoe’s clarity, too, is being monitored — especially in light of local Loved to Death: Tourism 2020 agencies looking to combat invasive weeds and excessive algae blooms. On July 23, the Town of Truckee and Placer IN NEWS County shared a message strongly discouraging visitors on weekends to the Truckee/North Lake Tahoe region through Aug. 17. The missive came Ready. Set. Go. with growing concerns over trash, traffic, and general congestion, amid crucial questions about Published June 2019 by Juliana Demarest: Your bags COVID-19, as positive cases spiked. are packed. The car is loaded up and you’re ready ROUNDABOUT RALLY to hit the open road. Daydreams of floating the Did this announcement make a difference? How Photo by Wade Snider/Moonshine Ink river, jumping into the chilly lake, and making do we gauge visitorship levels? What were the issues our community faced s’mores by the campfire drift through your mind. during this heavy summer tourist season? What are our lessons for the future? The last thing you’d consider is that the very campfire by which you’re toasting your toes and Moonshine Ink’s next Tahoe Talks (virtual community conversations encourag- marshmallows could turn into something far ing vibrant civil discourse) visits this highly charged topic, with the hope that more ominous. But the possibility is very real. we can synchronize our efforts for a sustainable future.

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Published Sept. 2 by Tobi Tyler, Sierra Club: Tahoe’s largest wetland was dredged in the ’60s to build the housing development Tahoe Keys, which caused invasive weeds and excess algae to bloom. Now, with local agencies poised to use herbicides to combat the issue, the Sierra Club is taking a stand to restore the area to its original wetland glory in this My Shot by the local chapter’s vice chair.

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READ. DISCUSS. CONTRIBUTE. MOONSHINEINK.COM 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 5 Hello, Neighbor! Brunch on the Deck theme park or a stadium, only transplants who moved here for Sat.-Sun. 11 to 2 to find that the condition is a better quality of life. Perfectly unsanitary to say the least? understandable. (I’m much hap- Urine all over the seats, toilets pier locking my car at night to unflushed, used toilet paper keep bears out than to prevent it on the floor. You find yourself from being stolen.) But a sudden Historic Hilltop wondering, How do these people influx of people descending Overlooking live? Do they trash their own homes upon our quiet mountain hamlet Downtown Truckee like this? Well, that’s how it feels EDITOR’S NOTE scares us. Not because we think By Juliana Demarest when thousands of people come we’re elite or better than anyone; into the Tahoe/Truckee area and we’ve just seen what happens thoughtlessly toss their garbage when the crowds come and we’re RESERVE NOW ON With the current housing boom atop an overflowing trash can or afraid of the long-term effects COTTONWOODRESTAURANT.COM indicating an influx of new drop it on the ground, leave dirty residents to the Truckee/Tahoe diapers and human waste in the of them never leaving. What is Dinner Service 5 pm to Close region, I’d like to extend a warm woods, exhibit flagrant disregard the logic behind going to visit welcome to all our newcomers. a pristine mountain area for its Brunch on the Deck Sat – Sun from 11 to 2 for the peace and tranquility But even more so, I’d like to get mountain life offers, or — my clean, unadulterated beauty but Live music at brunch from 11:30 to 2:30 a few things straight and perhaps personal favorite — trespass. then literally trashing it with litter clear the air on the sordid and graffiti? Reservations and Masks Required relationship between “locals” and My house is tucked back in Takeout Still Available – Order Online “visitors.” the woods along a dirt road. I What it comes down to is that we cannot count how many times want to welcome you with open The relationship between “us” I have had people come up my arms, whether you’re here for a Voted Best Outdoor Dining by and “them” has long been quarter-mile hill of a driveway visit or moving here permanently. Readers of Tahoe Quarterly fraught with tension. We have by foot, bike, or car for a hike But if you’re here for a better our little pet names and phrases or ride, disregarding a dozen quality of life than you had in for outsiders from the Bay Area: private property/no trespassing the concrete jungle, you have to CottonwoodRestaurant.com Go Back to the Bay, Gaper! And signs. Just because you’re in the leave the city mentality behind visitors have shared on local woods, folks, doesn’t mean you (530) 587-5711 and adapt to mountain living. Facebook pages their terms of can go anywhere you please. It truly is a different way of life 10142 Rue Hilltop Rd., Truckee, CA 96161 Respect is a two-way street; endearment for us like Tahoe and it is important to educate please observe the signs — like elitists. For an uber-liberal state yourself about living here. In the ones that say no camping that preaches peace and love and doing so, you’ll learn why we’re tolerance, I’m not really feeling and campfires prohibited. There all so protective of this gift of a the love. tive Vetare very valid reasons why these ra er place we call home. eg thingsin may not be permitted, SUMMER PET FITNESS The situationt here has nothing a n especially rcampfires. Our vast You’ve heard of Tahoe Time? to do withI wealth or skin color. y e forested landsC become a massive Slow down. Enjoy the scenery. IS HOT RIGHT NOW The contempt is the product of a o tinderbox just waitinga to go Smile, wave, say hello to perceivedh lack of respect — and up in flames withr one ember a e someone walking by — don’t maybe there’s an element of fear in a treetop, one cigarette butt T look down at your phone. You’ll thrown in too for good measure. tossed on the ground. It’s a Ask about exercises and see that Tahoe folks really are matter of safety. techniques to prevent injury Answer this: How many times very welcoming because at one before it happens! have you gone to use a public It’s safe to say a good number point or another, most of us were restroom somewhere like a of people around these parts are the new kid on the block.

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8 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 MOONSHINEINK.COM TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER NEWS The Journey to Remove ‘Squaw’ From Tahoe’s Washoe Lands Squaw Valley ski resort’s name change is having a trickle-down effect

BY ALEX HOEFT | Moonshine Ink

hen Tom Mooers, executive tribe carried on the dream of removing ball rolls on this thing … everybody’s he was 2 years old and whose family Wdirector of Sierra Watch, called the word from Washoe lands. going to fall in line,” said Mike helped found the ski resort, explained the Squaw Valley Public Service Willette, local resident as well as past that the word represents what the District the morning of Aug. 26, he Smokey avoided actual use of the president and current board member landscape shows: “a beautiful young got a pleasant surprise: “Hello,” said word squaw in his conversation with of the Squaw Valley Property Owners woman lying on her back gazing at the the automated voice. “Thank you for Moonshine, though he did describe its Association. “Nobody’s going to sky, gazing at the eternal blue sky.” calling the Olympic Valley Public offense to Native American people. maintain the name Squaw Valley if we There’s a manifestation of such a visual Service District.” Military folk, he said, as late as the change the name of the community.” in the ridgeline overlooking the valley. Civil War time period adopted terms Not even 24 hours before, the to dehumanize the enemy. The community is already recognized “The images which become attached public service district’s board had as Olympic Valley by the U.S. Postal to the name have more to do with the unanimously voted to change its name “This word was one of the original Service because a census-designated people, with each individual person from Squaw Valley to Olympic Valley, ones that was used,” he continued. “It community in Fresno County already who thinks about, who uses the term in the latest in what would be a line of made it easier to not view someone was known officially as Squaw Valley, that way than it does about the actual local organizations, corporations, and as a human being and not view them but utilizing the word ‘Olympic’ in mountain itself,” he furthered. “The businesses vying to remove “squaw” as a woman. They were property; you business or agency titles brings into mountain exists as it is. The mountain from their titles. Even the “Keep could do whatever you want, push Squaw True” movement, which is a them out, abuse them.” Sierra Watch campaign, is seeking a The touch-and-go efforts of deleting the new name. word from names and places reached Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows helped a climax locally with nationwide social spark the change when it publicized a justice protests in recent months. decision to move away from the word “We’ve really come a long way in a in mid-June, citing it as a derogatory really short amount of time. Even as a and offensive term toward Native nation as a whole, not just the tribe,” American women. Resort staff had Smokey said. “… With these protests already been discussing such a change and all the things that are happening, I internally, explained president and think it gave us a really good foothold chief operating officer Ron Cohen, to push these things forward.” but when a Sacramento Bee reporter reached out to see if the word would Though the new ski resort name won’t be pulled, things sped up. PREP AHEAD OF THE GAME: Lake Tahoe Preparatory School changed its be announced until after the 2020/21 name from Squaw Valley Academy on July 1 of this year. The process to start winter season is over, the publicity It’s an action the Washoe Tribe of that name change began summer 2019. Bill Grant, head of the school, told has had a trickling down effect on the California and Nevada has been Moonshine Ink the school also adopted a new color scheme and is in the process resort’s neighbors. advocating off and on for about 15 of updating its marketing materials. Photo by Wade Snider/Moonshine Ink years, says Chairman Serrell Smokey. The Resort at Squaw Creek, Squaw Different leaders would bring it up, Alpine Transit Company, and Squaw then the idea would fall dormant with Valley Lodge all plan to look into a play legal questions, as it’s trademarked is there, the mountain’s a God-given their departures. Yet elders within the name change, though some are waiting by the United States Olympic & place. That is what squaw is. That’s the to see what Squaw Paralympic Committee. The public squaw. That’s the mountain. They’re Valley Alpine service district informed Moonshine it’s interchangeable.” Meadows decides confirming whether the adoption of on before they make Olympic Valley in its title is legal. He’s not arguing one way or another for their own decisions. any name, Poulsen continued. Rather, Cohen said his team at the resort isn’t he says he’s against changing a name Squaw Valley going to pick the easiest option. Rather, without understanding the history and Academy got the “we’re going to do it deliberately and “especially without taking responsibility jump on the resort carefully and we’re going to find a name for your own feeling about Washoe by a year, begin- that really reflects who we are and women, Washoe people.” ning work in the who our people are and what they love summer of 2019 about this place.” Once a new name is selected, then to come up with a comes the domino effect of updating new name. On July The resort hosted a community meeting tangibles. The public service district 1 of this year, the on July 23 to hear from homeowners in released a list of everything that needs academy officially the valley and worked closely with the to change to reflect its new title, includ- became Lake Tahoe public service district in that name- ing signage, fire department equipment NEW STICKER, SAME MESSAGE: The Keep Squaw True movement, Preparatory School. change decision. (the Squaw Valley Fire Department housed under Sierra Watch, already mocked up a draft sticker as falls under the umbrella of the PSD), businesses and organizations throughout Olympic Valley look at alternative titles. Photo courtesy Abigail Mooers “I think once the Wayne Poulsen, who moved with his family to Squaw Valley in 1946 when See NAME CHANGE p. 10

READ. DISCUSS. CONTRIBUTE. MOONSHINEINK.COM 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 9 NEWS to generation. That’s what it changes was released by the represents and that’s why it BGN on July 10 of this year; it needs to be changed but also did not include any California recognized. We can’t fix a features with squaw in its problem if we don’t recognize current title. that there is one.” Placer County will lead the The name change isn’t changing of public road, limited to businesses and park, and directional map organizations — roads and names in the local valley. landscape features are being Cindy Gustafson, district five considered, too, which has supervisor for Placer, said been happening across the staff has heard from the tribe continent for decades. and others on such matters, but movement to change out Successful removal of “squaw” signage won’t take place until from other titles around North after the resort has made its America extend at least as far decision so that efforts are back as 1988 when Squaw complementary rather than Rapids Dam in Canada was confusing. Squaw Creek Road, renamed to E.B. Campbell an offshoot of the public street Dam. Closer to home, in Squaw Valley Road, is a private April 2018, the U.S. Board of road leading to the Resort at Geographic Names (BGN) Squaw Creek and any deci- approved the renaming of sions to change that name Squaw Ridge in Amador and would take place separately. Alpine counties to Hungalelti Ridge, a word proposed by the Smokey told Moonshine anything that can have squaw PUBLISHED IN 1867 by Warren Holt, this map of California and Nevada shows the landscape features Washoe Tribe. as understood and designated at that time. The pop-out portion shows the name Squaw Val. on the removed from its title, the northwest part of Lake Tahoe. Map courtesy Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division According to the BGN, there tribe is all for it. He knows it are nine defined features in won’t happen overnight and NAME CHANGE from p. 9 millions of dollars to change matter and everyone is Placer County that utilize he’s happy it’s starting, but he’s and social media platforms, that.” judged by the standards of squaw (including Squaw also not going to walk away but there’s no official estimate the moment. Maybe one day Creek, Squaw Gulch, and until every ‘t’ is crossed. Despite the potential hefty yet for what the cost means philandering and plagiarism Squaw Peak), seven in price tag, Cohen said the for taxpayers. The majority of will become the cause of Washoe County, two in El “Just because they said they company is committed to the expenses will be for staff time, the day. Will we then erase Dorado County, and zero were going to change the cause. the district says. [Martin Luther King, Jr.] and in Nevada County. Across name doesn’t mean the name’s disregard his contributions? the U.S., a total of 1,178 changed yet,” he finished. “We’re doing this,” he said. “The only other notable One could even be offended features use the word. “They can’t just leave this “It’s going to cost what it expense is the cost to replace by using the proposed moni- dormant as if we won. It’s not costs. We accepted that cost Any person or organization the lettering on the outside ker Olympic by asserting that over ‘til it’s over. when we made the decision, can request that the BGN of the building,” explained this celebrates ancient Greek as part of making the decision issues a formal decision on Until those letters are actually Jessica Asher, board secretary traditions, and someone will … When you’re dealing with a a proposed name change, taken down and something and executive assistant with be quick to point out that question of ethics and moral- regardless of public or private else is up there, then we can the service district. “Logo they practiced slavery.” ity, to just weigh it against a wear and uniforms will be affiliation. The most recent celebrate.” commercial balance is not the updated on their regular Lucia isn’t the only one who’s quarterly review list of name right approach.” replacement schedules and pointed to an erasure of are not expected to result in history with the name change The Village at Squaw Valley, significant expense. Other — another homeowner in the with its restaurants and retail changes, such as vehicle valley wrote in to the public shops, will also reflect the decals, website, and emails, service district to oppose the decision made, though Cohen are also not expected to be decision; Cohen said he’s seen said those occupying the too expensive.” many social media comments leased commercial spaces will expressing dislike; and several be able to choose whether to The resort, on the other hand, Moonshine readers shared their change the word out or not. has a considerably larger list dismay online, but Washoe (He hopes they do.) though it, too, won’t have Chairman Smokey said he a hard estimate ready until Some people, meanwhile, are doesn’t see removing the word the name change is officially resistant to the change. Sal as erasing the area’s history. revealed. Lucia, a resident in the valley “It’s recognizing what it was who submitted in writing his “Our name’s all over every- and getting people to know opposition to the public ser- thing and there’s literally we don’t want that part of vice district, told Moonshine millions of pieces of Squaw history lost even though it was TRIBAL LANDS: Members of the Washoe Tribe of California and Nevada in an email: “Given the cancel Valley collateral around the a bad time,” he explained. “… gathered for an archaeological excavation at the mouth of Olympic Valley in culture thinking of the day, 2006. “The whole place is special for all of our people,” said Serrell Smokey, world because we’ve been It’s historical trauma that’s everyone is so quick to be chairman of the tribe. “It’s the center of our being, really. The heart of our selling it for 70 years,” Cohen passed down from generation people is Lake Tahoe.” Photo courtesy Washoe Tribe offended. History doesn’t said. “… It’s going to be

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ELECTION McClintock and Kennedy Go Head to Head 2020 Exclusive virtual debate

TOM MCCLINTOCK (R) has BRYNNE KENNEDY is an served in the U.S. House of entrepreneur, author, and business Representatives since 2009, leader with a bachelor’s degree before which he served 22 years from Yale University and an MBA from the London Business School. in the California state legislature. According to her website, Kennedy McClintock married his wife, is “running for Congress because Lori, in 1987 and they have two she knows that politicians have failed children. Courtesy photo to stand up for middle class families struggling to make it in today’s economy.” Courtesy photo

TOM MCCLINTOCK BRYNNE KENNEDY

BY BECCA LOUX | Moonshine Ink

n a rare opportunity to have the two can- Politically, as of 2018 the district was categorized his own in general elections. In 2018, Democrat didates of a race being closely watched by BallotPedia as Republican +10, meaning that in I Jessica Morse lost to McClintock, but with the nar- throughout the region, we present a virtual the previous two presidential elections, the results rowest margin since he was first elected. This year’s debate between Republican Tom McClintock were 10 percentage points more Republican than challenger, Brynne Kennedy, secured more votes in and Democrat Brynne Kennedy. the national average. the primaries than Morse did in 2018. The two candidates are vying for the 4th The district has been represented by Republican Their fundraising has been neck and neck. Congressional District seat and below publicly dis- Tom McClintock since he first won his seat in 2008 According to the Center for Responsive Politics, cuss their viewpoints on issues of great importance in a narrow victory over Democrat Charlie Brown. Kennedy has raised $1,456,882 and spent to our community: the economy in a still-raging While in office, McClintock has been the primary $1,100,342 so far in her race; McClintock has pandemic, wildfire, and housing solutions. sponsor of six bills that were enacted. He sits on raised $1,353,687 and spent $932,359 so far. the House Committee on Natural Resources and While recent polling data is sparse, a late-July Zooming out, the geographically large and the House Committee on the Judiciary, as well as Lake Research Partners-conducted survey of 650 geologically diverse district four stretches from subcommittees on terrorism and homeland security, district four residents (weighted toward Placer Roseville to the Nevada border down to south immigration and citizenship; water, oceans, and and El Dorado counties) found the candidates of Yosemite and the Sierra National Forest. It wildlife; and national parks, forests, and public lands. nearly even, but with McClintock leading: 45% also encompasses the Eldorado National Forest, His voting record has earned him a score of 3% in were for McClintock while 42% went to Kennedy. the California side of Tahoe, and Kings Canyon 2019 from the League of Conservation Voters; a National Park. It is mostly rural and notably sce- 99% lifetime grade from Americans for Prosperity; For this written debate, McClintock and nic; its natural resources are vital to the rest of the and a current score of 21% from the ACLU. Kennedy answered the same three questions, state. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, it had 711,815 then each was given a chance to read the other’s residents, 86% White, 4.3% Asian, 1.7% Native Since his inaugural election, McClintock has handily perspective and provide a rebuttal. American, 1.1% Black, and 12.6% Hispanic. defeated challengers from other parties and within The Issues Tahoe is a decidedly tourism-based economy, and shut-downs of nonessential off employees to avoid this liability, needlessly costing millions of workers 1businesses and discouragement of travel has hit the region hard. Additionally, their jobs. we have seen local spikes in cases during peak visitor weekends, and Placer County spent weeks on the state’s pandemic watch list. The forced lockdowns have been the most self-destructive folly in our history. The government must allow businesses to reopen, protect them from frivolous Rep. McClintock, you voted against parts of the initial COVID relief package in lawsuits, maximize regulatory relief, and guarantee low-interest loans for March. Can you explain that vote, and how you propose we combat the economic employers whose liquidity has been devastated. effects of the virus in this region? Brynne Kennedy, you have outlined pandemic response as a priority in your Tom McClintock: I supported the CARES Act, the principle campaign. How would you have voted on the March bill? And what’s your plan for COVID relief package that established the Paycheck Protection combating the economic effects of this virus in Truckee/Tahoe? Plan, to keep small businesses afloat and provided the $1,200 direct cash payments to families. But I warned at the time that Brynne Kennedy: Containing the virus makes safe and the forced lockdown was doing more harm than good and that sustained economic recovery possible. That’s why I supported there was no substitute for immediately reopening the economy. the March Families First bill to scale up testing, tracing, and treatment, and took action to personally source PPE for local I opposed the so-called Families First Act. It required small businesses to hospitals while providing neighbors with vital health informa- front up to three months paid leave to employees at a time when those busi- tion and other relief resources. nesses had already lost their cash flow. Within days, businesses began laying See DEBATE p. 14

READ. DISCUSS. CONTRIBUTE. MOONSHINEINK.COM 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 13 NEWS DEBATE from p. 13 It’s also why I supported bipartisan relief for local businesses, schools, and workers, and called on politicians to fix flaws in program design that produced a fragmented response and left too many without the help they needed.

COVID-19 exposed structural issues that have deepened their economic effects, like a lack of reliable broadband infrastructure and inadequate incentives for investment away from densely populated cities. As the only candidate in this race to build a business or meet a payroll, I see these issues through the lens of firsthand experience, not politics. And I won’t let partisanship stand in the way of delivering real solutions.

We are squarely in the middle of fire season and at the moment, multiple fires 2rage largely uncontained. Describe your plan to address the increased threat of wildfire and outline your specific abilities to get support in Washington for your proposals.

BK: My plan embraces science and supports aggressive forest management, infrastructure modernization, and tax and regulatory reform. I’ll build support by focusing on public safety and creating good paying jobs — not playing partisan politics.

Our new state/federal partnership with the private sector will dramatically expand forest thinning efforts and the bipartisan Great American Outdoors Act — which will support these efforts while strengthening our $15 billion outdoor recreation economy — are important first steps.

But more must be done. Ken Aronson Leigh Golden Our power delivery system sparks many fires because it has outlived its design life. I’ll work to ensure maintenance of these systems, while expanding incentives that increase access to cleaner and safer energy alternatives. I’ll work to streamline environmental regulations so they prioritize safety — particularly in high growth areas. And I’ll work to update our tax code to promote additional job-creating incentives for solutions we need in our local communities around vegetation management and home hardening.

TM: For four years I chaired the Federal Lands Subcommittee Advocating an Airport for All of the House natural resources committee and focused that committee’s work on addressing the forest crisis. We produced landmark legislation to restore scientific management to our forests and restore a proper balance between tree density and Aronson & Golden the ability of the land to support it. Support: My legislation, signed into law as part of the WIIN ACT, expedited the removal of excess timber for fuels reduction and increased federal funding for forest management in the Tahoe Basin by $150 million. This has dramati- Inspiring youth to be innovative thinkers cally reduced the time and expense required for permitting fuel reduction projects and made possible the Lake Tahoe West project that will treat more through STEM-focused programs. than 60,000 acres — more than ever before — including nearly 20,000 acres of mechanical thinning under this new authority, reducing wildfire risk and restoring forest resiliency.

Creating a Community Airport Hangar I have since introduced legislation to expand this reform throughout the for all to use. federal lands.

Along with much of California, the Tahoe region faces, and has faced for years, Investing in our Airport to better serve 3a housing crisis, with increased anxiety and insecurity during the pandemic. What solutions to the regional housing issue do you believe show the most promise? our youth, community, and partners. TM: California’s expensive and restrictive housing regulations have forced median home prices to twice the national average. The rate of new construction permits is about half the national AronsonGoldenforTruckeeTahoeAirportBoard.com average and a fraction of what population growth requires. The result is a chronic shortage of housing, causing unafford- able prices, rising homelessness, and middle-class flight. Yet Paid for by the Committee to Elect Aronson & Golden California continues to add new regulatory requirements, while local govern- FPPC #1428476 ments continue to constrain new housing permits. Zoning is strictly a local

14 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 MOONSHINEINK.COM TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER NEWS prerogative, but undue restrictions come with a steep price. There is only one BK: To get our economy and communities back on track, we long-term solution: Reduce the regulatory requirements and allow the supply need to contain COVID-19. Yet Rep. McClintock was the only of new housing to meet demand. California representative in either party to oppose the Families First Act to help our communities do just that. He opposed BK: Several solutions have shown promise in addressing oversight of relief funds to make sure CARES Act funds weren’t both the cost and supply issues at the heart of the housing squandered by political cronies, while advocating a bailout for crisis — including modular building, cohousing, cap and trade special interests that fund his campaign. He’s refused to wear a mask to protect financing, expansion of ADUs, and the streamlining of local others, openly attacked public health measures to help safely reopen schools and zoning and permitting regulations. businesses, and opposed two subsequent bipartisan COVID relief measures — even as nearly 200,000 Americans have died and tens of millions have lost their To facilitate responsive policy making, we need a new representative in jobs. Worst of all, he voted to leave our nation and our most medically vulnerable Congress that’s willing to engage in close collaboration with state and local unprotected from coronavirus — voting to slash the [Centers for Disease Control’s] leaders in our community. We can use our tax code to attract more afford- budget for controlling pandemics, voting dozens of times to take healthcare away able and workforce housing investment to underserved regions. Low Income from 20 million Americans, and repeatedly voting to slash the Social Security and Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC) — a Reagan Administration initiative that’s Medicare benefits our seniors have earned through a lifetime of work. helped finance millions of new units — can be modernized to encourage more supply where the affordability gap is most acute. Tom McClintock offers nothing but blame on housing or wildfires because he refuses to live here, stand up to special interests, or work with anyone During this pandemic, I support bipartisan efforts to extend the eviction with different ideas than him. He has taken tens of thousands of dollars moratorium and rental assistance programs — tied to clear public health from PG&E and failed to hold them accountable for proper maintenance benchmarks that can expedite a safe and sustained re-opening of our economy of our power system. He denies the scientific consensus on climate change, while promoting re-employment. has opposed efforts to fund the forest service, and even opposed The Great American Outdoors Act, a bill signed by President Trump that will create Rebuttal jobs and address the maintenance backlog that threatens our public lands and surrounding communities. He’s abandoned our first responders, opposing We asked each candidate to read the other’s responses to the three questions above healthcare for the heroes of 9/11 three times, and stood silent as federal fire and consider how their campaign platform differs. Here are their rebuttals: prevention funds for California were illegally diverted to unrelated programs.

TM: Our differences come down to a choice between free- Tom McClintock is rated the fifth most partisan member of the U.S. Congress, dom and central planning; between individual choice and and former California GOP Gov. Pete Wilson called him “the first to criticize command-and-control bureaucracy. and last to help the team.” Instead of working across the aisle on solutions, he’s spent 40 years trying to sow chaos, division, and gridlock at taxpayer expense. To The answer to our neglected forests is not more bureaucracy get our country back on track, we need leaders who will work with any party or imposing ever more expensive restrictions on removing timber president to put our community first. Tom McClintock won’t. I will. overgrowth. It is to streamline the process, as we have in the Tahoe Basin, assuring both a thriving economy and healthy forests. The federal government should not be acquiring new lands until it can take care of the land it already holds.

The answer to our housing crisis is not more government programs that override local zoning and force subsidized high-density projects into our communities. Rather, we need to reduce the restrictions that have made housing so needlessly expensive.

The answer to our electricity shortages is not more expensive and unreliable alternative energy mandates, but rather the freedom to harness the most affordable and reliable forms of electricity available to us: hydroelectric, nuclear, and natural gas generation.

The answer to the security and safety of our communities and our nation is not to release felons and criminal suspects onto our streets while stripping In case you love your law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment right to self-defense, and it is not “open borders.” It is to secure our borders, defend our rights as jet ski More than Americans, and restore the rule of law. your better half. Most importantly, the answer to this dysfunctional and dystopian era of lockdowns and school closures is not more of the same! The forced home detention of an entire population for months on end will be looked back upon as the most self-destructive folly in our history. Those nations and We protect all your loved ones. states that stayed open have generally suffered lower mortality rates from COVID-19, with far less damage to their economies.

I have supported the research and development of therapeutics and vaccines and the lifeline support programs to preserve jobs, but I have vigorously opposed the damage that lockdowns have done not just to livelihoods but to lives. The lockdowns have set in motion a terrible toll of deaths due to suicides, drug and alcohol abuse, deferred health screenings, and increased poverty. In short, freedom works. It’s time we put it back to work. AegisInsuranceMarkets.com

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BY BY BECCA LOUX Moonshine Ink

When it comes to local government, trust is key. But for the governing body of Incline Village/Crystal Bay, transparency hasn’t always been a clear path forward.

A self-described “quasi-public” special district, Incline Village General Improvement District INCLINE VILLAGE General Improvement District is a quasi-public agency formed formed in 1961 initially as a in 1961 as a waste treatment entity, but has since purchased land and grown to waste treatment entity and maintain utilities, golf courses, and the local ski resort. Photo by Sara Schmitz slowly took on more tasks that Washoe County was struggling to provide to a growing Incline funds and one incumbent not already provides a resource deepening the role of IVGID’s Knaack is all on board with Village/Crystal Bay popula- running for reelection, have for financial transparency with financial committee and estab- the audit and greater push for tion. Today, IVGID owns and ramped up conversations about opengov.com. I propose the lishing an independent, external financial transparency — she operates about 1,500 acres improving IVGID’s financial creation of quarterly infograph- audit of the former board’s would in fact potentially want and manages the town’s public transparency and efficiency and ics and short webinars for move to switch account types to be a part of the financial utilities along with for-profit driven a fresh wave of candi- the community to have easy, and provide financial oversight. committee if elected — but she enterprises like golf courses dates running in November. straightforward information While the former committee doesn’t see that as a necessary and Diamond Peak ski resort. to understand where money is comprised of three trustees precursor to other projects That’s the IVGID’s history in (See Complications in IVGID’s being spent and investments would meet “for 15 minutes” and proposals. Rather, she a nutshell, but as they say, the Quasi-Public Finances, IVGID is making.” once a year, Schmitz said, to is running to advocate that devil is in the details. published in 2018, on moon- approve a Comprehensive IVGID immediately tackle shineink.com for more about The election’s momentum on Annual Financial Report, the long-standing environmental This expanding role has made the move to a governmental financial transparency comes new committee meets more issues first and foremost. financial accountability and account.) on the heels of a shift in recent regularly and in-depth, with transparency a complicated months to focus on financial attendees including two trust- “My whole platform is that task for the elected members of “I see a lack of trust between oversight spearheaded by ees and three at-large appointed we need to fix the long-term the board of directors over the the board, the community, as current treasurer Sara Schmitz, community members. problems instead of looking at years, and in 2016 there was well as IVGID staff, regard- who is vying for reelection all the [other] wonderful things a historic change in the type ing budgets and financial along with fellow incumbent Schmitz sees the energy we can do,” she said, citing the of account (from enterprise to statements,” wrote Michaela Matthew Dent, who originally around financial transparency Beach House concession stand governmental) IVGID uses. Tonking, challenging IVGID won his seat by appointment. and accountability as an at Incline Beach and other That, along with questions board candidate, in an email opportunity for IVGID to make infrastructure improvement about misuse of earmarked to Moonshine Ink. “IVGID “I think we are in the process of progress on public priorities projects as ones that should be making some that haven’t been addressed for put on the backburner. “There’s real changes, years. “If you can get a handle a lot of things we can do but Life insurance and changes on the finances and the internal first we’ve got to take care of happen slowly controls,” she said, “all of the the environment.” can be life - changing and they need other things just become that to happen a bit much easier.” As a trustee, Knaack would methodically,” consider those project propos- Life won’t always go as planned. That’s why Schmitz told All told, IVGID’s contested als only after addressing there’s life insurance. 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In fact, issues of financial transparency and the effluent pipeline leak are connected: Both Knaack and Wright described an incident with IVGID that eroded public vitamin drip therapy and trust involving a pond liner that was never purchased. rehydration infusions “We have a bunch of money wellbeingivlounge.com that was spent to build a pond liner to catch the effluent - group rates available - waste and I looked and they already spent the money but there’s no pond liner,” Wright explained. “So where did the ketamine treatments money go? Well, [the IVGID board at the time] gave me a and psychological support bunch of Costco receipts and then they tried to cover it up, for chronic pain and but I don’t know where the money went. Nobody does.” mental health SCAN ME Wright is a supporter of both wellbeingketamine.com Schmitz’s and Dent’s reelection bid and the financial audit, and says he hopes to fill the third 10075 W. River St., Ste B, Truckee spot as someone who is “in the loop” with the transparency issues and need to focus on the 530 214 8992 BALANCE, independent audit and reform.

Schmitz wants the public to IDEAS, ACTION reelect her, along with Dent, to one of the available seats so they can finish what they “David is a superb choice started. “If you get to the point of consistency, you can for Airport Board.” achieve things,” she said. “If there’s just constant changing — Kathleen Eagan and constant turmoil, it can be redirecting the boat one F O R way and then another way and DINING “David’s ideas will benefit then another way as opposed all Tahoe Truckee residents, to just keeping it aiming on the future, full speed ahead with a SCHOOLS not just airport users.” vision of where are we going.” — Ron Parson Exiting trustee Morris chose Cards on Hold for 2020 not to run again in part because he didn’t see movement on the ENDORSED BY : Kathleen Eagan, Lisa Wallace, priorities he ran on such as We are pausing the program for the year in Rick Stephens, Mary Hetherington, Judy Friedman, opening Diamond Peak for the support of our local dining establishments. summer season and improving Jeff Bender, Ernie Grossman, Pam Hobday, Ron facilities like the Beach House. But You Can Still Help! Parson, Theresa May Duggan, Paco Lindsey, Haakon “It gets harder and harder • Donate the cost of the card to Excellence in Lang-Ree, Stefanie Olivieri, Kathryn Rolf, Sven Klovstad, to push the water uphill, to Education Foundation. Courtney Henderson, Lindsay Romack, Greg Scileppi, quote an overused expres- • Frequent our partner restaurants! Kevin Sloane, Phyllis McConn, Kevin Quinn, Sean O’Toole, sion,” Morris said. When the Tal Fletcher Jr., Tom and Laurel Lippert, Matt Hillock new guard comes in January Visit ExinEd.org to learn more. 2021, Morris is advocated and 150+ more who want to make our airport a better for new, younger voices on community partner. — SEE THE COMPLETE LIST AT: the board and is particularly supportive of Tonking’s run as a younger candidate who grew up in Incline. Diamond2020.com Paid for by Diamond for Airport Board 2020 FPPC #1428353

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How does the county manage trash now, and BY BECCA LOUX | Moonshine Ink what are plans for the future of litter solutions on the North Shore? I oversee a few different divisions that get involved You Asked. with trash up in North Lake Tahoe: our parks divi- They Answered. sion [and] our environmental utilities division that manages the franchise agreement with the Tahoe 530-582-8304 Truckee Sierra Disposal Company, where all of our trash in the North Lake Tahoe SALES / SERVICE / INSTALLATIONS / RADIANT FLOOR HEAT / FORCED AIR HEAT area goes. We, as Placer County and the public works department, we interface with SNOW & ICE MELT SYSTEMS / INTERNET & PHONE-UP THERMOSTATS a lot of agencies up at North Lake Tahoe for trash management across the lands that they manage, including state parks, the North Tahoe Public Utility District, the Tahoe Don Leslie Alex Leslie City Public Utility District, and then … we built the Kings Beach Commercial Core [email protected] [email protected] Improvement Project a few years ago. We formed what’s called the Kings Beach Benefit Assessment District, an area within downtown Kings Beach where the property owners CA License #549948 agree to pay for things like snow removal on their sidewalks … landscape maintenance, and trash removal.

We have county beaches that we have long-term contracts with; for instance, the [NTPUD] in the Kings Beach and Tahoe Vista area. We have Commons Beach, which is also a long-term contract between Placer County and the [TCPUD], and all of those public lands, as you probably know, have public trash receptacles that need to be Grateful Gardens serviced. LANDSCAPE & SNOW SERVICES CONTRACTOR This summer … because of the COVID shutdown and the restaurant businesses, where most of them have a lot of to-go orders, [we’ve seen] in town centers an uptick in trash Create | Install | Maintain volume and we’re doing our best to keep up with that in terms of talking to our partner Commercial | Residential agencies about increasing the frequency of trash pick-up. To give a quick example, in Kings Beach … we’ve increased from once or twice a week pick-up … to now three gratefulgardens.biz times a week and going from just during the week to now on a Saturday. 530/550-9372 Voted #1 Best Of Tahoe/Truckee 2017 We are exploring our existing trash bin infrastructure. It’s a double-edged sword: We have to have those bins protected from wildlife like bears and because of that, some of You dream it. We make it happen. the bins that are out there today clog easily. So we are exploring different types of cans that are still wildlife-protectant but [make it] easier to dispose of your trash.

~ Peter Kraatz, assistant director, Placer County public works department (North Lake Tahoe)

So it sounds like the decision to increase the frequency of pick-up in Kings Beach was made based on trash volume rather than community feedback? It was both … The increased volume is not the same throughout North Lake Tahoe; it varies by area. I’d say that Kings Beach … has had some larger, more significant issues around trash for a variety of reasons and so we placed additional dumpsters in that community. But even doing that wasn’t enough and so that’s why we pushed working with TTSD for a weekend pick-up. It’s at least twice as expensive, if not more, than the other days during the week combined, but we pushed for it and decided to do it particularly because of the issue in Kings Beach. We don’t have that weekend pick-up in Tahoe City because we haven’t seen the same need for it.

So, a lot of that has been monitoring, but yes, also community feedback. A lot of the photos that we’ve been seeing that people are posting online showing trash surrounding

18 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 MOONSHINEINK.COM TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER NEWS hand out masks and hand sanitizer, hand out trash bags, and pick up litter. There’s a good amount of interest … and we’re going to be coordinating more with the League to Save Lake Tahoe because the league has an existing program and they have a lot of volunteers on the North Shore which we didn’t realize … While we are hopeful that residents will be interested in participating, we also are looking for ways to engage visitors in this program and so that includes really promoting this program to our business community and lodging operators to make sure that their guests are aware that this option is available to them. A lot of people, when they go on vacation, are open to volunteering, so we want to get our visitors involved in solving the problem.

We’re [also] putting additional signage on our public trashcans through our downtown corridors that ask people to put the trash inside the bin, and if it’s full, take it to a different bin or pack it out … It’s kind of a how to dispose of your trash 101.

… Our short-term rental ordinance does require trash services for those households and bear boxes, and earlier this summer/spring the county went ahead and looked at all of our houses that had collected TOT and went ahead and reinstated TTSD services if they were not currently getting service. So we are enforcing that short-term rental KEEPIN’ IT CLASSY: Placer County officials posited that during pandemic time ordinance. would-be trash receptacle users might be more shy to touch the bins, leaving trash outside even if they’re not full. Photo by Kara Fox ~ Emily Setzer, senior management analyst, Placer County executive office (North Lake receptacles, not actually in receptacles — I think there are a Tahoe) few reasons for that. One is that, in some cases, the receptacles have been full. I think, in others, people will assume it’s full and so they don’t put anything in there because there are times where we will open up a bin and there’s trash surrounding it but there’s not much inside it.

And the third is I don’t think people are as comfortable touching trash cans right now … in light of COVID. To Peter’s point, also the increased trash from takeout has been huge. Really significant. So there’s a variety of things that are contributing.

~ Erin Casey, principal management analyst, Placer County executive office (North Lake Tahoe)

We have been monitoring community feedback closely, social media, things we’re hearing from our business associations and the chamber, things we’re hearing directly from community members. We are also in the area; I live in Kings Beach, so as we’re going through, we do keep a check on what’s going on and see how we can make improvements.

So to summarize, some of the main improvements we’ve made this year were three additional dumpsters in Kings Beach, two of those are at the state recreation area, one at Secline Beach. We changed the dates of service in Kings Beach so there’s that Saturday pick-up, which is almost Landscaping is an essential business twice the cost of what we were previously paying. Our team is working, while adhering to the CDC guidelines. Tahoe City does not have a benefit assessment district set up yet. Tahoe City has a more complicated solutions history; TTSD was donating service for a while for the Tahoe We are in this together. City downtown trash cans. They notified us and the PUD [two years ago] that they were no longer going to do that, so the PUD took the interim service. In 2019, the TCPUD • Landscaping paid for it and then billed the property owners directly, and then beginning 2020 there was a message sent out that the • Yard Clean-Up property owners needed to take on that service directly themselves through TTSD. • Maintenance That was not proving effective this year with the additional visitors for COVID (among other reasons, probably) and the county went ahead and paid for the downtown trash • Housecleaning service of those Tahoe City downtown bins temporarily. [email protected]

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ordering Northstar to repay Grossman the entire cost of P 1 Candidates Lined Up for Town Council Spots 6 Tahoe T his ski pass as well as court costs. Northstar appealed the A TRUCKEE case to Placer County Superior Court in Roseville. On Ambassador H O The town is governed by five council members, elected Aug. 12, Judge Steven Howell issued his decision, ruling Program at-large for four-year terms. Elections are held every other E in favor of Grossman and ordering Northstar to refund the NORTH SHORE S year, and terms are staggered. Each year, in December, M cost of the pass plus court expenses. North Lake Tahoe is A R the council chooses which council members will serve as Read Emergency Motion Filed Against Northstar seeking ambassa- T mayor and vice mayor the following year. and Northstar Appeals Court-Ordered Pass Refund on dors to help expand The Town of Truckee is scheduled to conduct its next moonshineink.com for more information. education on destination stewardship and community general municipal election on Nov. 3 to elect two council ~ Lake Tahoe TV News press release, Northstar safety. Local business organizations and Placer County members for four-year terms; based on the seat vacated Facebook post officials have launched an ambassador program to assist by Morgan Goodwin, there will be one council member with trash clean-up, distribution of personal protection seat for a two-year term. equipment, and peer-to-peer communication in an effort Candidates qualified for the election in the order they 4 Coexisting/Not Coexisting with Tahoe Bears to establish long-term solutions among North Lake Tahoe will appear on the ballot: NORTH TAHOE communities. 2-year term: For the second time in just over a week, a bear has The North Lake Tahoe Ambassador Program will sup- • Carla Embertson entered the Safeway in Kings Beach to feast on food. port existing community clean-up days while also focusing • Jan Zabriskie Both incidents (one on Aug. 18, the other on Aug. 27) on safety messaging to help keep businesses open. 4-year term: were captured on video, and it has not been confirmed For more information on the ambassador program, • Frank Bernhard whether it’s the same bear both times. visit the blog on nltra.org. Volunteers will be asked to • Courtney Henderson Incline Village is seeing its own interactions with bears, fill out a form and review a short training video. They • Nicholas Sielchan and residents are highly engaged in how they can be will be provided with proper PPE and education materi- • Marcy Dolan more responsible about preventing bear break-ins, and als. Ambassadors select hours and days they want to • Jack Forbes what happens with a bear once he or she is trapped. In volunteer and will be asked to log their time each week. • Dow Costa Nevada, the Department of Wildlife will set a humane The program will run year-round and is open to full and • Lindsay Romack trap to catch the bear and then release it at or near the part-time residents and visitors. ~ Town of Truckee press release capture point and use aversive conditioning tactics to ~ North Lake Tahoe Resort Association press release discourage the bear from returning (rubber bullets or 2 Voting Locations Announced Karelian bear dogs). If the bear increasingly follows its ini- 7 Hospital Continues to Seek Parking Expansion tial behavior patterns and seeks homes to enter, NDOW WASHOE COUNTY TRUCKEE officials will euthanize a bear. The California Department The Washoe County Registrar of Voters released polling The Town of Truckee planning commission asked on Aug. of Fish and Wildlife has a similar policy, noting that “bears locations and voting hours for the 2020 General Election. 18 for the Tahoe Forest Hospital District to rework its that are threats to public safety, as determined by a public For this year’s election, all registered voters will be sent proposed plan to expand its parking lot. safety officer or Department employee, may be killed at a ballot in the mail, and voters will have the choice to The application as presented in August sought to any time without a permit.” These bears are known as complete them and mail them back, drop them off at a construct three new surface parking lots on the north side “habituated” or “depredation” bears. secure location, or vote in person. of Donner Pass Road (across from the hospital) with a ~ AH Early voting is available 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Oct. 17 to 30, total of 97 spaces, which would develop on slopes with a and there will be 15 locations in Washoe County where 20%-plus grade, merge a vacant parcel with a developed voters can vote in person or drop off their completed 5 Ordinance to Address STR, Noise Concerns parcel, and adjust parcel lines. ballot. There will be an additional 15 locations for ballot TRUCKEE The planning commissioners offered to either make a drop-off only. The town is in the process of developing an ordinance decision at the meeting or allow hospital staff to continue Election day is Nov. 3, and as with early voting, voters to regulate short-term rental operations and establish planning efforts to a later date; the hospital chose to can mail their ballot, vote in person, or drop off their community-wide noise restrictions. The purpose of this continue to a later date. A main concern expressed by the ballots. Election day polling sites are open from 7 a.m. ordinance is to address community nuisance and safety commission was that the parking lots were counter to the to 7 p.m. and there will be 29 locations to either vote in- impacts and specific issues associated with such rentals, town’s general plan policy. person or drop off your ballot, and 15 locations reserved such as trash, occupancy limits, parking, and fire safety. There is no date yet for the hospital to return to the only for ballot drop-off. The public comment period closed Sept. 8, and the planning commission with updates to its proposal. Precautions will be taken at every location to ensure next step is for staff to collect and review the comments, ~ AH proper social distancing. Masks and temperature scans consider updates as necessary, and present a draft will be required for poll workers and voters, and surfaces ordinance at the Sept. 22 town council meeting. To 8 Efforts to Keep Pollutants Out of Lake will be routinely sanitized. Early-voting locations and learn more about what led up to the development of Surpass Targets Election Day locations can be found at washoecounty.us/ this ordinance, read Truckee Accelerates STR Ordinance voters/elections/polling_location.php. Process at moonshineink.com. LAKE TAHOE ~ Washoe County press release ~ Town of Truckee press release According to the latest data, local government and state transportation agencies have successfully surpassed 2019 pollution prevention targets established Free Parking Returns to Northstar 3 to reduce urban stormwater pollution TRUCKEE and restore Lake Tahoe’s famous, crystal- After one season of charging visitors to clear water. park in all resort-adjacent lots, Northstar Stormwater from roads and urban California Resort announced a return to areas is the primary source of fine free parking in its Village View lots. sediment particles, which scatter and The announcement came after multiple reduce light, diminishing the distance legal battles on the topic of the paid park- people can see into Tahoe’s depths. The ing polciy implemented during the 2019/20 Lake Tahoe Total Maximum Daily Load season. In one, Truckee resident Robert (TMDL) Program’s 2020 performance Grossman took Northstar to Placer County report, compiled by the Nevada Division small claims court in Tahoe City, seeking a of Environmental Protection and the refund of the cost of his 2019/20 season California Regional Water Board, ski pass. Grossman claimed he was unable 6 Lahontan Region (Lahontan Water to use his ski pass as intended because Board), details the ongoing accomplish- of Northstar’s new paid parking policy. ments of this bi-state program to restore Commissioner John Ross heard the case TEAMWORK: An ambassador program to assist with the trash pickup and information distribution has been established in North Lake Tahoe. Photo courtesy the North Lake Tahoe Resort Lake Tahoe’s famed clarity. and ultimately decided in Grossman’s favor, Association The report found that in 2019, urban

20 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 MOONSHINEINK.COM TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER NEWS implementing partners collectively reduced fine sedi- begin a trail improvement project that will reconstruct ments by 477,000 pounds; this equates to 853 drums sections of the upper Tyrolian Trail in Incline Village. (55-gallon) of fine sediment no longer washing into the The project, designed to enhance the user experience, 9 lake, surpassing targets for the program. Reductions of make critical trail connections in the Incline Village nitrogen and phosphorus — which spur algae growth — area and rehabilitate and restore old logging roads to also surpassed program targets. The report is available reduce erosion and improve lake clarity, is expected to online at clarity.laketahoeinfo.org. be completed by the end of October 2020. ~ California Water Boards press release A new upper section of the trail will provide an official start trailhead with improved signage, and 9 Peregrine Falcons Thriving reduce mountain bike traffic on the Tahoe Rim Trail. The current Tyrolian downhill trail will not be closed TAHOE CITY during construction, but to avoid slowing progress, Lake Tahoe organizations working to harmonize wildlife TAMBA asks that riders stay off the new trail until it has protection and responsible recreation have reported a been completed. successful effort to protect fledgling peregrine falcons The trail project is still in need of $15,000 to be while still allowing access to popular hiking and climbing completed this year. Donors interested in supporting routes near the birds’ nesting sites. For the second year the project can contribute at tahoefund.org or TAMBA. in a row, young peregrine falcons successfully left their org. nest at Castle Rock. ~ TAMBA, Tahoe Fund The USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, BIRD OF PREY: For the second year in a row, young peregrine Nevada Department of Wildlife, California Tahoe 12 Inspirational Song, Video Helps falcons (triplets for the first time) have left their nest at Castle Conservancy, Tahoe Institute for Natural Science, and Fund Artists Rock. Here, a juvenile falcon consumes prey. Photo courtesy Sierra Ecotone Solutions have monitored peregrine RENO Tahoe Institute for Natural Science falcons as a special interest species dating back to Inspired by a friendly challenge from Louisville Mayor • Recorded by Tom Gordon, Eric Henry Andersen 2009. Over the years of monitoring, falcon populations Greg Fischer, Reno Mayor Hillary Schieve and several and Tyler Stafford, at Imirage Sound Lab, Moon increased and expanded to new areas of the Basin like Reno arts and culture partners are proud to present Room, Angel’s Share Studio, and remotely Castle Rock. Located in the southeast region of Lake “Heartbeat to Heartbeat, Eye to Eye (From Reno with around Reno Tahoe near Kingsbury Grade, the granite outcrop is Love),” a new song and video inspired by Fischer’s “Lift All proceeds from the song will benefit Artown’s an ideal nesting spot for the special bird. However, Up Lou” movement, launched in early March to keep “From Reno with Love Artist Fund,” created to assist with excellent views of the lake, its popularity among residents’ spirits up during the fight against COVID-19 performing artists adversely affected economically by climbers and hikers presented a new challenge for the and maintain a sense of connectedness, even at a time COVID-19. raptors. of necessary social distancing. ~ Artown press release This spring and summer, as COVID-19 stay-at-home The Reno song represents a collaborative effort by orders drove people to spend more time outdoors, the City of Reno, Artown, Reno Philharmonic, Eric Henry 13 Grant to Assist Restaurants, Bars TINS noticed an immediate impact on the falcons when Andersen, and Bryon Evans Films: AUBURN hikers returned to where they were nesting. The group • Written by Eric Henry Andersen, Tyler Stafford, The Placer County Board of Supervisors approved a $1.2 was alerted and the partners sprang into action. The Dave Berry, Kate Cotter, Khalilah Smith Cage, million grant program Aug. 8 to assist restaurants and TRPA printed signs and installed them on the trail, and Shaughn Richardson, Tristan Selzler, Jeff Depaoli, bars impacted by COVID-19 in the county. the nonprofit Tahoe Fund jumped in to help pay for the and Zachary Teran Eligible restaurants and bars may apply for $1,000 in continuation of the monitoring by TINS. Normally, each • Audio produced by Eric Henry Andersen and grant funding via the newly established Placer Shares: partner contributes several monitoring visits per season Tom Gordon Eats & Drinks Program. Applications are accepted online to this unique site, but with COVID most of the partners • Video directed, filmed, and edited by Bryon at placer.ca.gov/eatsdrinks and must be received by were not able to get into the field during the critical Evans Sept. 30. spring months. With the support of the Tahoe Fund, • Featuring: Khalilah Smith Cage, Cliff Porter, Kyle The Board of Supervisors voted to offer fee relief for TINS was able to keep the monitoring schedule on track Rea, Tim Snider, Reno Jazz Syndicate, and nearly restaurants and bars who had paid their annual county and remove the signs as soon as the young fledged. 50 other musicians and artists from the Reno area inspection fees but were ordered to close by the state ~ TINS, Tahoe Fund press release • Mixed and mastered by Tom Gordon for Inspired due to COVID-19. Amateur Productions and Imirage Sound Lab in ~ Placer County press release 10 Federal Funding Will Address Microplastics Sparks LAKE TAHOE The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $97,000 in grants for projects to address microplastic pollution in Lake Tahoe. The projects include a study led by the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center to gather more data on the movement and types of plastics in Lake Tahoe, as well as a public education- focused source reduction pilot project led by the Incline Village General Improvement District, in partnership with the Tahoe Water Suppliers Association and others. Both projects are managed by the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection with the aim of reducing sources of plastic pollution. Ongoing EPA funded projects to address microplastics in Lake Tahoe include: • A snapshot study on the fate and type of plastics in Lake Tahoe, EPA Grant of $35,000 • A source plastic pollution reduction pilot program for Tahoe, EPA Grant of $62,000 For more information about EPA efforts related to Lake Tahoe, visit epa.gov/lake-tahoe. 11 ~ EPA press release

11 Reconstruction of Tyrolian Trail INCLINE VILLAGE TRAIL TRASHED: Upgrades to the Tyrolian Trail in Incline Village include a single track trail with rollovers, tabletops, step- A $45,000 grant from the Tahoe Fund has allowed the ups, and more; a realignment of existing trail; and the decommission of eroded logging roads in the area. Illustration courtesy nonprofit Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association to Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association

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Efforts to grant women the right to vote entire western half of the United THE AWAKENING: In this 1915 illustration that ran centerfold in a suffrage issue of Puck magazine, may have started back East, but the wave States allowed full women’s artist Henry Mayer portrayed Lady Liberty heading eastward across the United States, stemming from for the 19th Amendment’s ratification suffrage. states that put into law voting rights for women before the federal government. Illustration courtesy actually swept in from the West, with our Library of Congress Early women’s suffrage efforts had a region playing a direct tie to the central slope of the Sierra Nevada County. Locally, however, Sargent served as president of Nevada BY ALEX HOEFT significant role. Moonshine Ink Nevada in the form of a longtime instru- Sargent was focused on educating women County’s Women’s Suffrage Organization, State-by-state, mental player in the suffrage movement. about their rights and worked to provide a group she founded in 1869 and which western states approved women’s right Ellen Clark Sargent, who arrived during resources for women and children in eventually merged into the League of to vote before the federal government. the Gold Rush in the early 1850s with need. Women Voters. She also held such titles The territory of Wyoming was the first her husband and settled in Nevada City, as treasurer of the National Woman “She was more a behind-the-scenes to put women voting into law, in 1869. became a critical link between suffragists Suffrage Association, president of the worker,” Cole said. “She wasn’t necessarily California approved their participation in in California and Washington D.C. California branch of the suffrage asso- interested in public speaking or really 1911 and Nevada in 1914. Come Aug. 26, ciation, co-founder of the Century Club Sargent’s well-known political accom- promoting herself, but she was dedicated 1920, when the 19th Amendment granted (San Francisco’s first women’s club), and plishments were in San Francisco, to community service, to family, to educat- the right to all (noting that in practice, honorary president of the California Equal explained Fran Cole, a member of the ing women. I think if we plopped her in many barriers remained in place blocking Suffrage Association. League of Women Voters of Western our world today, she would be very timely.” women of color from voting), almost the See RIGHT TO VOTE p. 24 POLITICAL MILESTONES FOR WOMEN IN CALIFORNIA & NEVADA 1925 The first woman elected to chair a congressional 2008 2016 committee is Rep. Mae Ella Nolan (R-CA), who oversaw the When selected as speaker of the Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) is the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department California State Assembly, Karen Bass first Latina voted into the U.S. Senate. during the 68th Congress. (D) is the first woman of color to serve Kamala Harris (D-CA) becomes the first in the position, as well as the first South Asian woman and second Black 1973 Black woman to head either house of woman elected into the U.S. Senate. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, a Democrat congresswoman any U.S. state legislature. from California, is the first to give birth while serving in Congress. 2007 2019 The first woman to ever serve as The state of Nevada is the first to see 1975 speaker of the House is Nancy Pelosi women hold a majority of state legislative March Fong Eu (D) is elected as California’s first Asian Pacific (D-CA). Islander to hold a statewide elected executive office. seats, 50.8%. Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) is one of six (D-CA) joins two other Democrat 1980 women to announce her candidacy for representatives to become the first The first Asian American female to serve as mayor for any the Democratic presidential nominee. congresswomen of color to chair major city in the United States is Eunice Sato, who filled the Previously, two women were the most to congressional committees. role for Long Beach, California from 1980 to 1982. ever announced their candidacy for the 2001 2002 same major party in a presidential race. Ann Veneman (R) is the first female Secretary of Agriculture. Nancy Pelosi is elected by her Prior to the position, Veneman was the first woman to serve colleagues as House Democratic 2020 Democratic presidential nominee Joe as Secretary of the California Department of Food and Leader, the first female to head her Biden selects Kamala Harris as his running Agriculture. party in Congress. mate for vice president. Harris is the first The highest-ranking woman ever to serve in U.S. Congress Sisters Linda Sanchez (D-CA) and woman of color to be selected on a major- is Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), elected as the House Democratic Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) serve party ticket, the third woman picked as Whip in 2001. together in the U.S. House of the potential veep, and the first multi- Representatives. Linda is elected in Heather Fargo becomes the first Latina elected mayor of racial woman, first South Asian woman, 2002 to join Loretta, who was elected the U.S.’s 100 largest cities, serving in Sacramento. and first Black woman. in 1996.

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RIGHT TO VOTE from p. 22 was originally founded in 1965 by Joyce Her husband, Aaron Sargent, a U.S. Anderson Bock, who “recognized there senator for California, introduced the was already a [Republican] group for men first draft of what would become the [in Incline Village], but there wasn’t really 19th Amendment to Congress in January for those of us who were women who 1878. were very civic-minded.” Wrote Sargent in the July 4, 1909 issue of On Aug. 26, South Lake Tahoe’s The San Francisco Call, “[Women] must American Association of University step out into the open and make ourselves Women gathered over video conference so well acquainted with government in to celebrate Women’s Equality Day, which all its bearings that we will be considered commemorates the adoption of the 19th authority upon the points we shall have Amendment. The association, explained investigated and thus command the membership vice president and treasurer respect of the most intelligent people, Barb DeGraff, supports “women and girls, men and women. Our watchword should equity in education, in public life, in work be duty — not what we individually want, life, etc.” but what will be for the general good.” At the celebration, where the women Advocacy efforts for women continue spent the first few minutes playing today in several organizations around catch-up on one another’s lives, the small the region. Looking back on Sargent group popcorned its way through the and other women who paved the way for efforts of key suffragists like Elizabeth Love political rights, Linda Smith, president of Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, Moonshine? the Incline Village Crystal Bay Republican and Sojourner Truth, referring to them Women (IVCBRW) club, says her group’s as the country’s “Founding Mothers” Like us on appreciation for the steps taken in years and commending their free thinking in a Learn More at past imbues their work today. “We respect time more conservative than now. Yet the LindsayRomack.com and understand that we stand on the convening wasn’t just to discuss the past. shoulders of our sisters who were really quite brave in Ad paid for by Lindsay Romack for going against Town Council 2020, ID#1427691 the status quo,” she said. While women of all colors now are able to vote as citizens of the United States (voting ExpandWorking from Your home? Horizons rights for people of color were Why not live in a place you love. Enjoy a beautiful laid fully established SARGE: Ellen Clark Sargent was a pioneer suffragist who lived for a period back lifestyle in a new Lake Tahoe or Truckee home. through the 1965 of her life in Nevada City, promoting local efforts for women’s equality and education. Photo courtesy League of Women Voters of Western Nevada County Voting Rights Call me to help you find yours. Act), efforts for continued equality still trudge forward. Jeanne Benin, vice president of programs Women began combatting the shackles for the South Tahoe branch, told attend- of what historians call “true womanhood” ees that talking about women’s suffrage Trinkie Watson (the idea that women were to possess is “not a celebration of antiquity, but a 530 582 0722 TrinkieWatson.com the virtues of piety, purity, domesticity, celebration of something current.” and submissiveness) in the 19th century. In addition to advocacy for political Each woman shared her current outlook representation, the suffrage movement about the political scene, frustrations with also pointed out a lack of educational and voting shortcomings, and the difference economic opportunities. female politicians have made on the national stage. “Education, I think that’s where we’ve been the most successful in terms of With the types of bills being introduced opening up and allowing women to today (mentioning improved social justice participate in both lower education and efforts and more rules on the protection high education opportunities,” Smith of children) and the increasing ratio of said. But she believes there’s room for female representatives, Benin told her improvement in other areas, such as equal fellow members and friends that the compensation, family leave, and gender government functions better when women blindness in political candidates. are present. At the end of the day, she said, “my voice is my vote.” The IVCBRW — Nevada’s second-oldest female Republican club — is celebrating It might not have been so before August its 55th year as a 100% volunteer organi- 1920, but it is the case today. zation. Smith told Moonshine Ink the club

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MOVING IN, MOVING UP, the father of two boys and husband to his wife of seven A Return to Placer County MOVING ON years. AUBURN ~ Tahoe Donner press releases Placer County will soon have a familiar face as its new Sheriff’s Office Hired, Assigned Two Deputies director of Health and Human Services: Dr. Rob Oldham. Editor Departs Sierra Sun and The Union INCLINE VILLAGE Oldham previously served as Placer’s health officer NORTH TAHOE As of Sept. 1, two additional motor unit deputies with and director of public health from 2014 to 2019, and is In an opinion piece titled One and Inseparable, Indeed the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office have been assigned returning to the county after serving for the last year as and shared on Aug. 31, Brian Hamilton, editor at the to Incline Village. The appointments will be established chief medical executive for Sutter Center for Psychiatry Sierra Sun and The Union, announced his departure for three years, thanks to a seven-figure grant from Dave in Sacramento, and as medical director of acute from the newspaper industry to support his wife in her and Cheryl Duffield. psychiatric services across the Sutter Health system in career endeavors. The Duffields’ grant funds the motorcycle deputies’ California and Hawaii. Hamilton wrote in the op-ed for both newspapers, salaries and benefits from Sept. 1, 2020 to Aug. 31, Following an extensive recruitment process, Oldham “No doubt it’s bittersweet to leave something you’ve 2023. The grant also purchases new fully equipped law was appointed to his new post by Placer County loved for so long, but each day I pick up The Union enforcement Harley Davidson motorcycles, as well as Executive Officer Todd Leopold in consultation with the or the Sierra Sun, I’ll do so with an immense sense of a winter vehicle. The grant amount is not to exceed board of supervisors, and will officially begin Sept. 14. pride and satisfaction for all the work $1,089,090.44. Oldham will also serve in the role of we’ve done, and all that my colleagues This first-of-its-kind grant for the WCSO is a trial, chief psychiatrist, directing and manag- continue to do. They will have no better which may be renewed if found to be successful. It does ing psychiatric medical activities under advocate nor bigger fan than yours truly require the office to create two new full-time employee the county’s mental health program. for all the thankless hard work that goes positions. ~ Placer County press release into each day’s edition.” ~ WCSO press release ~ Sierra Sun, The Union New President Takes the Helm at Tahoe Donner Welcomes Director of HR, Sierra Nevada University Resignation From Airport Board Financial Controller INCLINE VILLAGE TRUCKEE TRUCKEE After an extensive search, Sierra Jim Morrison of the Truckee Tahoe Tahoe Donner Association recently announced the Nevada University has secured a new Airport District submitted a hire of Erika Stohl as director of human resources, president for the institution as of Aug. resignation letter on Aug. 26 after the and Tom O’Neil as financial controller. Stohl joins the 31. Dr. Robert M. Valli, an alumnus of UC conclusion of the board of directors Tahoe Donner team with 25 years of experience in Berkeley, Stanford, and Cambridge, has meeting, creating a vacancy. To pro- human resources and operational leadership to the accepted the position at SNU Tahoe, ceed, the board can appoint someone organization. O’Neil brings over 20 years of finance replacing current interim president, Dr. to fill the vacancy or call a special and accounting experience, having worked with various TAKING THE HELM: As new Ed Zschau. Valli comes to SNU Tahoe election to do so. The appointee would homeowner associations, hotels and ski resorts. president of Sierra Nevada from his most recent role as dean of serve the remainder of Morrison’s term, University, Dr. Robert Valli said in a Stohl has lived in the Truckee area for nearly seven Long Island University Post’s College of until 2022. press release that interdisciplinarity, years and currently resides in Tahoe Donner with her Management. ~ TTAD board meeting agenda teamwork, and collaboration are husband, Jeff. O’Neil is a resident of Tahoe City, and is central to his vision for education. ~ SNU press release packet Photo courtesy SNU

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be met at the facility, citing day I could hear her losing the As the end neared, compassion never forget these genuine acts concern for the safety of will to live as through tears came in the simplest, most of compassion. individuals on site. she relayed stories about not genuine gestures. Many times, being changed for 14 hours, I waited outside the door and It takes a special person to I’m not here to weigh in on waiting an hour and a half after heard how they treated her do this job; to go through the this particular situation. I just pushing her call button just as they tended to her. Night experience of death and dying know that people will read a for it to be acknowledged, and nurses did computer work in day in and day out, only to just single headline and make an being treated roughly during her room to help her feel at go back to work and carry on MY SHOT instant judgment without even physical therapy. ease as she faced awful effects with their day. I’ve seen first- By Juliana Demarest reading the story. The article of morphine like hallucinations hand the mistreatment workers makes it clear the Bordens’ Six weeks later, I was noti- and feeling like her skin was I knew it wouldn’t take long sometimes endure from situation stems from the higher fied there was a bed for her crawling. On Christmas Eve, for the Facebook comments residents, yet they keep doing administrative levels, not from at TFH. We moved her to a nurse offered to help wrap to come: Shame on you, TFH! their job because they truly the employees who care for Truckee on March 24, 2018 gifts, cook, and clean because Treat elders with respect, TFH. care about them. Though my residents on a daily basis, but I and I was blessed to have her I had nothing done. One aide, With a headline that pulls at heart breaks for the Bordens want to reiterate that by shar- with me here for nearly two despite working and going to your heartstrings, and I pray their situation is Dementia ing the depths of compassion I years. nursing school, turned several resolved, I still know that there Discharge: Tahoe Forest Hospital experienced at the ECC. poems my mom wrote into truly is selfless compassion to continues to separate couple Early last November, my songs and sang them for my be found within the walls of married for 55 years despite state As a Moonshine editor, I mother took a turn for the mom and family. The night rulings that they be reunited, recused myself from this worse and for seven weeks before my mom’s passing, the ECC. you’d have to be cold-hearted story. Aside from the fact lived only on small sips of another nurse — after working ~ Before marrying a farmer and to not be moved by the story of that I couldn’t read through it water. No one expected her 12 hours and with a baby at giving up farm life for a better Bill and Beverly Borden. without bawling my eyes out, to last more than three weeks home — went to get my sister quality of life in Tahoe, Juliana my mother was a resident of with no food. All along, at the airport so I didn’t have Demarest spent seven years as The Bordens have been the ECC for nearly two years. everyone at the ECC — the to leave my mom’s side. As my a founding editor of a weekly separated from one another I lost her on Jan. 21. administrator, nurses, aides, mother took her final breaths, since April, when Bill, who food service, cleaning, and the nursing head spoke softly newspaper in North Jersey. has dementia, had physical My mother had advanced mul- maintenance people — treated to her, gently brushing back She didn’t realize how much altercations with two separate tiple sclerosis and in January her with the utmost respect her hair, and telling her it was she missed journalism until she individuals at the facility 2018 entered a nursing facility and dignity. Former employees okay to let go, while others joined Moonshine Ink two years and it was declared Borden’s in New Jersey. We got her into came from an hour away to say stood close by and held her ago as a copy editor. She is now welfare and needs couldn’t a “top-rated” facility, but every goodbye. hand or rubbed her leg. I’ll the culture editor.

READERS REFLECT quilts on top. Bill is a proud so kind to come.” We enjoyed I was astounded and very ER is pathetic. I applaud the Submit letters to editors@ veteran of the Marine Corps. meeting their son Jon and his distressed to read the article state of California for issuing moonshineink.com They appeared very children briefly one day when Dementia Discharge. To think a citation to TFH for this devoted to each other and he came to pick his parents that this couple, married for egregious, illegal eviction. In response to Dementia were always welcoming to up for an outing. They 55 years, has been separated The manner in which Todd Discharge Rufus and me. Bill often said appeared to be a very happy for four months, while living Johnson, TFH risk manager, Bill Borden’s Corgi Friend goodbye by saying, “You are and close family. a few hundred feet apart at addressed the situation with For the past two and a Tahoe Forest the Bordens’ son is unforgiv- half years it has been my Hospital is a able. Threatening to release pleasure to visit Tahoe disgrace. If Mr. Borden to a homeless Forest Hospital’s long-term Bill’s behavior shelter is disgraceful and a care facility as a member of had become pathetic attempt to intimidate Alliance of Therapy Dogs a problem, this family. and the Humane Society of surely steps Nursing home residents Truckee Tahoe’s Pet Assisted could have and our elderly population Therapy groups. My 3-year- been taken to should always be held in old Corgi, Rufus, and I visited find solu- high regard and treated with residents weekly until the tions. To deny respect and dignity. I am COVID-19 pandemic closed re-admittance appalled at the treatment this the facility to visitors. to Bill loving couple has received. Beverly and Bill Borden’s without some It is my understanding that room was a favorite place effort to Bill’s belongings have been to stop for a brief chat and mitigate the removed from the room they some welcome pats for situation is shared for the past two-and- Rufus. The walls of the room inexcusable. a-half years and that Beverly are covered with favorite And the fact has been assigned a new photos and mementos. The that Bill now roommate. It is my hope that beds, always neatly made, lives in the skilled care and a new home have handsome, colorful Tahoe Forest can be found for this loving

28 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 MOONSHINEINK.COM TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER OPINION How Pickleball Helped Diane and Jim Fisher Beat COVID-19 several hours of pickleball. According to the USA They inspire me to stay active points and frequently play They do this daily, on practi- Pickleball Association, it is a and are a great testimonial of with new partners by simply cally the same schedule every fast-growing, family-friendly, living life to the fullest.” asking to a partner play with day. Temperature be damned. fun sport played on tennis you and challenging two other Last August, USAPA hosted court-like surfaces and is a players. an ambassador retreat at They take on all comers, no combination of badminton, Granlibakken Resort with So, whether you are 10 or 85, matter the age or skill level. tennis, and ping-pong. In fact, hundreds of ambassadors a daughter of a golf champion four pickleball courts fit on The last game I saw Jim sharing best practices and or a retired COVID-19 MY SHOT one tennis court. They say that playing, he was partnered learning new ways to promote survivor, if you want to stay By Dan Beeman the sport has grown by more with the 10-year-old the sport. healthy and have fun, check than 650% in the past five Just before 9 a.m. in late daughter of golf legend, out this fast-growing sport. years and is among the fastest Here at the Incline Village May on a clear, crisp Lake Annika Sorenstam. They But watch out for Jim and growing sports in the country. Tennis Center, most people Tahoe morning, a tall, slender were battling some other Diane; they may be friendly, USAPA has a unique way of purchase a membership ($110 85-year-old man dressed in players as her mom played but they will beat you just like encouraging new participants. per year) and play doubles. full leggings, a long-sleeve on the next court. Laughter, they beat COVID-19! The organization has 1,900- Nobody reserves courts. shirt, and a French foreign encouragement, and hustle was displayed by the team- plus ambassadors across They just show up, warm up, ~ Dan Beeman is a writer, legion-style sun protection mates despite 75 years in age the U.S. and, locally, Incline and find people of the same entrepreneur, and pickleball hat, with zinc oxide glistening Village resident and pickleball difference. ability and play. The casual fanatic. He embraces travel, from his prominent probos- ambassador Paul Steinberg social nature of the sport is adventure, and fun. He is cis; Jim strides confidently Recently, both Jim and can be found on the courts conducive for drop-in play for single. You can learn more onto the pickleball courts. He Diane were hospitalized with most mornings encouraging people of all ages and abilities. about him at danbman.com. greets a few people already COVID-19. Now, they are new players, giving pointers, This is opposed to tennis, a Jim and Diane Fisher moved warming up and begins what back in action and attribute and helping lead activities. sport in which it is customary to Incline in 1976 with their will be three hours or so of their health to a lifetime of Regarding Jim and Diane, for people to make reserva- children. Jim was starting a exercise, laughter, and fun. exercise including their new- Paul says, “They set the tone tions to play with the same business in Reno and Diane est favorite sport, pickleball. Shortly thereafter, his other here. They are competitive, people for an hour. In one was getting her real estate (some say better) half, Diane, Pickleball? What the heck is friendly, and helpful to play- hour of pickleball, you can broker’s license. “We were enters the courts for her pickleball? ers of all ages and abilities. play four to five games to 11 starting over,” she says. couple in a facility where they priate involuntary discharge can remain together and will of Bill Borden to the Tahoe be treated with the kindness Forest emergency room. and dignity they deserve. … I have witnessed conduct ~ Tara Christison, Truckee, lacking in integrity, compas- via letter sion, and accountability. It is completely void of logic. Friend of the Family Further, I was disappointed My aunt was a resident of to learn that the community- Tahoe Forest Extended Care elected board appears to (now known as Tahoe Forest be in agreement with and Skilled Nursing) for six years. supportive of the actions of During her residency, she administration and their deci- received quality and compassion to disregard CDPH and sionate care. I am also a former DHSC directives to readmit employee of Tahoe Forest Bill Borden and allow him to Hospital District and have a be reunited with his wife of high level of respect for those 55 years. with whom I worked closely. Over the last couple of Based on my knowledge and months, the visible physical experience with Tahoe Forest, and cognitive decline being I strongly encouraged my experienced by Bill Borden friend of over 25 years, Jon due to his not having access Borden, to consider relocat- to the appropriate interven- ing his parents Bill and Bev tions available in a skilled Truckee is a strong com- although I will forgo going mitment to, a community I so Borden to Tahoe Forest with nursing facility, as well as the munity that has a history of into details of my perception fondly remember being the the belief it would improve stress and emotional anguish their quality of life and care. being experienced by all in taking care of its own; start- of those representing Tahoe foundation of what it meant Instead I have been the Borden family, is unten- ing with the establishment Forest in these matters, I to be from Truckee and the supporting the Borden family able and the cause for which of Tahoe Forest through the will share that they do not surrounding communities. through the unnecessary is the responsibility of Tahoe philanthropy of the Joseph present to have the same ordeal related to the inappro- Forest. and McIver families. And understanding of, nor com- See READERS REFLECT p. 30

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READERS REFLECT from p. 29 summer was water usage was an equivalent I will conclude with this call busier, more of 7,000 fewer people per of action for the community. crowded with day. In a normal year, day What is happening to Bill tourists, than visitors might comprise Borden could happen to your a normal sum- around 40% of total visitors family, your friend … to you. mer. Tahoe to North Lake Tahoe (NLT Don’t stand for it. Reach appeared to Tourism Master Plan, 2015). out to your district’s elected be bursting This summer, it was clear that officials and implore them to at the seams the number and percentage of do the right thing, to do as — from the day visitors shifted upwards they have been directed by elbow-to- as people from nearby cities CDPH and DHSC. Lastly, elbow packed tried to escape the heat and watch out for your elder beaches, get outdoors during the community members that too long lines of pandemic … easily fall victim to those with traffic, over- Put simply, people com- ulterior motives, as not all will flowing trash ing here for the day to use have family able to take up receptacles, beaches, trails, and parks the fight on their behalf. litter and aren’t necessarily flushing toilets. So, to say that a decrease ~ Patricia Barrett, Truckee, graffiti, to the increase in water usage means less via letter in late night people is incorrect … Similar noise coming to the STRs data, including Diamond is My Choice from nearby March and April [traffic data] David Diamond is my choice is running for a position on the An Exceptional Individual STRs. is misleading; the entire state for the airport board. Chair Truckee Tahoe Airport board of I was on the airport board Like many, I was surprised was under a stay-at-home of the Airport Community directors. Not only is Ken my from 2004 to 2012. During to read Moonshine Ink’s article order so naturally traffic Advisory Team, David has friend, he is eminently qualified that time we were able to … because the conclusion counts were down. … had to deal with difficult to be on the board. turn the eyes of the airport that “the data tracking how Finally, the article looked issues before passing them Ken is a member of toward the community and many people are here points at trash and while totals were on to the board. A number of the Experimental Aircraft began significant efforts to to a decrease overall, as down slightly, I agree with board members recognize his Association (EAA) Truckee reduce the growing noise compared to last year” didn’t the Tahoe Truckee Sierra astute contributions, similarly Chapter 1073, a Civil Air and annoyance. We made align with what so many of us Disposal that the slight endorsing him. You may have Patrol mission pilot and former progress, yet the volume were seeing. decrease is “likely due to met David recently when, as a squadron commander of the of flights has continued to I decided to dig a little many commercial businesses volunteer, he was on the front Tahoe-Truckee Composite increase. There is more that deeper and I found that the either closed or on limited lines dispensing PPE to our Squadron, which has a very can be done to help the com- data was not sufficient to draw service.” Campground trash, community active youth cadet program. munity if the commitment is the overall conclusion of the however, doubled compared Of special note, though, Ken has also developed and has there. Three seats are up for article; in fact, drawing the to last year! This says more is David’s commitment to instructed the airport’s Mission election on Nov. 3. Do all conclusion that there were about the number of people homeless pets. He volunteers to Mars Space Camp each you can to inform yourselves less people here this year than visiting Lake Tahoe than his time, aircraft, and personal summer at the airport for our about the candidates. One last year was incorrect and overall trash collection during resources for Pilots N Paws, local youth for many years. It is of those candidates is misleading for general readers a pandemic when so many ferrying homeless pets to places so popular, his three one-week David Diamond. He is an and policy makers. businesses are closed. of shelter. He has also balanced classes are all full the first day exceptional individual who First, the article looked Based on all of the above, I a successful business career of registration. Ken is also a fully understands the detail at Placer County’s reported am not saying that we know with a brilliant music career. pilot who built his own airplane of the issues, has outstand- Transient Occupancy Tax there were definitely more For over 20 years, he served as in his garage in Glenshire and ing ideas, and is a person (TOT) data April to June. people here. But I am saying the marketing director for two has given over 100 local youths of action, not just talk. He The reason for this was clear: that until we can disaggregate international software compa- free rides in his aircraft for the has proven that in his role TOT is not reported until the data and understand nies while co-founding Berlin, EAA-sponsored Young Eagles as president of the Airport the quarter ends, so this what is causing some of the a new wave band whose music program. Community Advisory Team. was the most recent data trends, we simply don’t know. appeared in Top Gun, and Ken is an active role Please go to his website, available. However, looking Perhaps a better focus of David is still its lead guitarist. model for our community’s diamond2020.com. Read all at these months says nothing the article would have been Locally, he has offered to share youth, promoting STEM and he has to say and you’ll see about the number of people to look at how to get real his talents as a mentor for Lake aerospace education. He will what I mean. occupying short-term rentals time data on visitation so Tahoe Music Festival’s emerg- represent both our community He has my vote. And tell in July and August, the heart that policy makers can make ing young musician’s program. and the pilots’ interests in the your friends about him. of the summer. Also … until important decisions when David Diamond, who is operation of the airport. Ken Above all, please vote. mid-April there was still a faced with real health and insightful, community engaged, believes that the Tahoe Truckee ~ Kathleen Eagan, Placer County-wide ban on safety risks — like a pan- and fiscally responsible, can Airport can be a tremendous Truckee, via letter STRs due to the state’s ban demic and/or wildfires within only make a very good airport asset to educate and inspire on nonessential travel; so “ember-range” of hitting the board even better. our local youth in engineering In response to Is Tahoe naturally we’d expect to see Truckee area. ~ Ernest Grossman, and aerodynamics, while at Actually More Crowded a decrease in that quarter’s We need to have more and Truckee, via letter the same time he will use new Than Summers Past? overall figures. better tools so we know when technology and common sense Secondly, the article looked it’s time to tell the tourists to Aronson Will Take Off to mitigate aircraft noise. Data Doesn’t Line Up at the amount of water stay or go home … for their You can’t go wrong by casting With What We’re Seeing In the upcoming election, I “flushed and gushed” from safety and ours. a vote for Ken Aronson. would like to ask your support As a 17-year full-time “toilets and showers” and the ~ Cheri Sugal, Kings Beach, to vote for Ken Aronson, who ~ Pat McDonough, Truckee, resident of Kings Beach, article notes that decreased via letter via letter it was obvious that this

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planners and developers, scale. Governments can also has seen and shaped, which applications and compare including most notoriously regulate use and effects. They staff and commissioners can the proposed project against Robert Moses (though can define negative impacts apply fairly and legally when the elements and guiding California certainly has our and acceptable thresholds evaluating development principles of the general plan. own examples) have lever- and say, “you can do whatever proposals. What do the principles say aged opaque processes to you want, as long as it does/ about this impact? Does this shut out disagreement and doesn’t do X, Y, Z.” That’s Truckee already has a general application advance toward inflict their vision on the what planners have to work plan, which is meant to see the vision of these elements? MY SHOT built environment. General with. us through 2025. The plan Can we, in good faith, say By Ruth Miller plans were created precisely has several “elements” — land that this proposal upholds the in response to unbridled and For many years, every munic- use, community character, wishes of the residents that Transportation and land-use haphazard development. ipality in California has been circulation, housing, created this general plan? planning have not historically The general plan itself is not legally required to adopt and economic development, been the most transparent synonymous with growth, but periodically revise a general conservation and open space, It’s not economically, legally, or welcoming processes to with transparent, community- plan (other states have their noise, and safety — each with or practically feasible to engage, but a few comments led review. Engaging the versions, too). According several “guiding principles,” encase Truckee in amber. in Martha Janer’s My Shot plan update, rather than to the governor’s office, a a few examples of which Rather than fighting the in the August – September trying to obliterate it, would general plan encompasses are listed here beside their general plan update, passion- edition of Moonshine Ink more closely achieve the “each local government’s elements: ate residents need to step up, titled I Saw the Signs … outcomes for which Ms. Janer blueprint for meeting the participate, and help staff Become Stoplights merit gentle Community Character: advocates. community’s long-term vision define what about Truckee correction. Maintain Truckee’s unique for the future.” we should protect and how. qualities and sense of place to Like everything, COVID has Ms. Janer wrote, “I propose preserve the town’s estab- complicated the traditional we/you save what little is lished historic and scenic IT’S NOT ECONOMICALLY, LEGALLY, hands-on workshop format, left of this small, quaint OR PRACTICALLY FEASIBLE TO mountain town character. mountain town. I propose but sign up for updates ENCASE TRUCKEE IN AMBER. no more growth, no more Land Use: Prevent the nega- and see what staff have in construction, obliterate the tive visual impact of mass store next at truckee2040. general plan for 2040, and parking lots and large single com/register. Community Private property is insepa- Municipalities vary in their look toward an exemplary building forms. preservation and planning rable from the potential for processes, but the expecta- town that is already thriving don’t happen by accident development. The standards present day, and be satisfied tion is that in creating these Conservation and Open or avoidance; they happen … I propose a mandate that a government must pass to documents, the community Space: Increase the amount through our passion, thought, Truckee be a no-growth outright seize and repurpose brings their desires up and of permanently protected, and discussion. The general community.” property (eminent domain) out into the daylight. Hashing connected, and publicly plan needs us, just like we are incredibly high, and these desires out can be slow accessible open space in and need a general plan. Any reader could empathize with good reason given the and frustrating, but it creates around Truckee for the use with Ms. Janer’s desire. obvious potential for abuse. useful friction as people share and enjoyment of all Truckee ~ Ruth Miller is a planning Truckee is charming because Nonprofits and land trusts their ideas, hear others’, and residents. commissioner for the Town of its historic and natural can acquire land and decide find compromise. In the end, of Truckee and an alternate environments, and these are not to develop it, but that’s the municipality has a guiding Planning staff and commis- appointee to the General Plan worth preserving. Urban expensive to do at any document that everyone sioners review development Advisory Committee.

CORRECTIONS SOLUTIONS TO In our August edition’s PUZZLE PAGE, P. 50 Guide to the Tahoe/Truckee SUDOKU General Election, November 2020 piece, we inaccurately christyhill.com printed that candidates James Costalupes, Susan Herron, and Greg McKay are incumbents running for the North Tahoe Fire Protection District Board. Rather, these candidates represent the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District. Michael CROSSWORD Baffone and Dennis Correa are EARTH TO TABLE running for the NTFPD. BE KIND | BE CALM | BE HELPFUL In A Tale of the River Streets, also from our August edition, we incorrectly reported the date of the Star Hotel’s destruction by fire. The fire occurred in May of 1885, and the building was quickly re- built later that same year. 115 Grove St., Tahoe City CA 530-583-8551

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the concept of the “20-Minute mobile. The statistics are destinations. Where neighbors Communities around the globe Neighborhood.” staggering. Americans take meet and mingle and social have embraced the idea of the 1.1 billion vehicle trips a day, activities occur spontaneously. “20-Minute Neighborhood.” Pioneered by some of the most or about four vehicle trips a It’s time that Truckee embraces thoughtful minds in urban day for every single person in Soaring Ranch is a big step the idea as well. Soaring Ranch planning, the idea is actually the country, according to the forward in reconnecting a presents this opportunity — a return to a time when the U.S. Bureau of Transportation neighborhood with everyday the opportunity to get out of car did not dominate everyday statistics. That equals 411 life. And it helps Truckee the car, enjoy neighborhood MY SHOT life. Soaring Ranch envisions billion vehicle trips in a given address some of the most living, and discover the plea- By Art Chapman a vibrant neighborhood where year. pressing issues the town sures of a community where locals can live, work, eat, shop, everything is a few footsteps or Editor’s note: Art Chapman is faces; namely, achievable local and recreate without ever Nearly half — 45% — of those pedal strokes away. the founder of JMA Ventures, housing, climate action, and getting into a vehicle. vehicle trips are for errands economic sustainability. the company that developed the and shopping. Americans ~ Art Chapman is the founder Soaring Ranch project. The result of this seemingly of JMA Ventures, developer of spend 55 minutes each day in With critically needed housing, simple idea can be dramatic. their cars and drive approxi- the Soaring Ranch project. He Somewhere along the way, essential community services, Neighborhoods are healthier mately 29 miles every day of is also a founder of the Tahoe neighborhoods became elegant pedestrian and bike and more active. Community the year. Fund, serving as board chairman trail connections, our vision of separated from the rest of daily bonds grow stronger. from 2016 to 2018. He served Soaring Ranch is a community life. Cars became indispens- Greenhouse gas emissions Now imagine a neighborhood on the California/Nevada gov- that is good for Truckee able, and neighborhoods lost decline. Local businesses like Soaring Ranch, where ernors’ committee that consulted the vibrancy of the corner thrive. shopping, work, errands, and residents, Truckee businesses, with Tahoe Regional Planning store, the down-the-street even exercise awaits outside of and Truckee’s character as a Agency on the new regional plan daycare, the busy bike trail. Just look at Americans’ your door. Where bike connec- mountain town dedicated to update. He resides in Truckee Soaring Ranch has embraced dependence on the auto- tions offer easy access to local reimagining mountain living. with his wife, Colleen. Community Empowerment Through Beach Clean-Ups watched our community had lost my job for the summer small community and we have We could help them to under- change. I watched restaurants and I had not much going on. truly answered the call. This is stand this land is precious and struggle to serve the influx of I felt this was a great time to why I love this place and the we must be good stewards of people. I watched single-use give back to my community. people who live here. our environment. plastics and plastic foam boxes Each Monday morning, I wake become the norm. up at 6:30 (way too early for Moving forward, we should In closing, I would like to me — did I mention I work strive to solve our challenges express that I understand and Disposable culture also became in entertainment?), I go to through stewardship, educa- have empathy for the frustra- MY SHOT the norm. After years of Safeway and get a pot of coffee tion, and embracing change. If tions of this community. I think attempting to limit our single we all take a little bit of time By Sean O’Brien and two dozen donuts. A large many of us feel our tourism use items, they were suddenly to act upon our challenges, I could and should have been group of Kings Beach locals everywhere. With these dispos- believe it would be impactful to regulated better this summer. A 2020 sure has presented some meets at Ferrari’s playground able items came a tidal wave our visitors. We cannot allow lot of us felt the anxiety of the interesting challenges, hasn’t it? at 8 a.m. and get to cleaning of trash problems. Single-use ourselves to become exclusive influx of so many people to our It wasn’t enough that we had up Kings Beach. I feel great to quarantine and teach our plastics and disposable condi- or we will lose the soul of this region in these troubling times. each Monday after spending children at home. Then came ment containers ended up on amazing community. These are all valid feelings. I some time with my community, the summer and an influx of our streets, in our forests, and hope you can go out and do doing something great for our tourism the likes of which we on our beaches. I do not believe I implore all of our community something for our community environment. have rarely seen in these parts. we were ready for this change. members to take the reins of that offsets this anxiety, get our challenges and face them With the tourists came a shot in It presented unique challenges Which brings me to my point: involved in your community, head on. Donating your time the arm to our local economy, for our communities. What is community? Why is it and feel empowered again. and energy can change more which we desperately needed, more important now than ever? In July, I decided to organize a things than pointing a finger at We are Tahoe Strong and we and a whole bunch of new One of the reasons I have lived community clean-up of Kings someone. will all rise above our problems, challenges for our area. in this area for nearly three Beach State Recreation Area. if we work together. decades is because of how deep For me, the challenges of this This action helped me to get Be the change you wish to the roots of our community go. new era came with a feeling of beyond the conversation of see in this community. Get ~ Sean O’Brien is a longtime resi- powerlessness. It felt as if I was what we were supposed to do Time and time again, I see our involved. Every little bit counts. dent of Kings Beach. He moved not in charge of my own destiny about the litter problems our community bonding over the When you lead by example, to the area from Massachusetts and I was watching life happen. area has been facing. It helped tough issues that we face. I see it creates a lasting impression in 1993 and is a sound engineer This is a feeling that was new to me to feel empowered again. ordinary people doing extraor- upon the people you lead. One and DJ. In his free time, he enjoys me in some ways, yet familiar in dinary things. Not because they by one, we can help lead people spending time with his family, other ways. After the initial clean-up, a few have to but because they truly to making better decisions snowboarding, playing music, people suggested we should want to. This global pandemic about the way they carry and volunteering within the Like many others, I sat and organize one every Monday. I has created challenges for our themselves in our community. community.

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In all micro-regions, single-family home sales in August were down from the month of July Brought to you by but have increased over last year. In the Tahoe Sierra MLS, year-over-year single-family home sales increased by 75% and median price increased 20%, while number of active listings decreased by 65% and pending sales increased by 88%, highlighting the significant activity we continue to see in the market. In August 2019, 25 single-family lakefronts between Incline Village and Rubicon Bay were listed for sale, versus nine homes that were active listings in August 2020. The decreased supply will grow demand, typically driving up prices. TLUXP.COM ~Bill Dietz, principal broker of Tahoe Luxury Properties

Single-family homes sold UNITS SOLD August 2020 HOMES FOR SALE HOMES PENDING Single-family homes for sale as of Sept. 1 OR CONTINGENT Single-family homes for sale as of Sept. 1 Truckee* 131 North and 40 West Shores** 70 77 Incline Village/ 95 Crystal Bay 42 Tahoe 103 172 Lakefronts 5 113

9 5

Single-family homes sold Including 9 Tahoe Lakefronts Including 5 Tahoe Lakefronts MEDIAN PRICE August 2020 5 $1.5M $3.350M REGIONAL MEDIAN HOME PRICE = $949K

9 $ Tahoe * ** 0K $50K Lakefronts Truckee North & West Shores Incline Village/Crystal Bay = $M *Includes Northstar **Includes Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows

* ~ Data taken from the Tahoe Sierra MLS and Incline Village MLS. Truckee North and Incline Village/ West Shores** Crystal Bay

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BY BECCA LOUX | Moonshine Ink THINKING SMALL

I moved into my first tiny home in May and haven’t looked back, though I’ve surprisingly made much progress forward in a small space. Living small has allowed me to take stock of the material possessions I actually value. By downsizing your footprint and focusing on what matters, you may, like me, find greater connection to nature and balance in life. Even if you’re not quite ready to go full trailer or tiny home (hey, maybe it’s not the year to get rid of that fifth armchair), here’s a variety of fun-sized options on sale now in the region.

Lean and Green Little House on the Lake This compact two-bedroom home in Kings Beach actually used to be even smaller — divided in half as a duplex — and could be converted back to that format, so it’s the perfect starting point for small living Photo courtesy Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty for one or two groups. As is, it’s even better: With a spacious open floor plan and sunny, modern, tiled kitchen and living space complete with center island, downsizing will be an upgrade.

Info: $400,000, 2 bed, 2 bath, 688 square feet, 8686 Steelhead Ave., Kings Beach, Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty Photo courtesy Century 21 Tahoe North Realtors The best part about efficient living spaces are the unique and creative techniques for maximizing space. This cute little cottage right by Tahoe makes the most of its square footage with an added loft bedroom over the living area. A bold paint scheme and wrap-around porch shine a light on this little number. Not to mention you can easily walk to the regional park, the beach, and the boat launch.

Info: $499,000, 2 bed, 1 bath, 640 square feet, 416 Wawasee Ave., Tahoe Vista, Century 21 Tahoe North Realtors

Solitary Refinement

Photo courtesy Tiny House Listings Ready to go for the full solo tiny home experience? There are many compa- nies and services that build custom tiny homes and unique solutions to living small. Want an Airstream trailer converted into your perfect custom mobile home? Try Tahoe Tiny Houses and Trailers. Tinyhouselistings.com offers retailers and buyers a platform to connect. Here’s one simple tiny home for sale now in Reno but available to travel Tahoe, Truckee, the Sierra, and the world. (Find this listing on tinyhouselistings.com.)

Info: $29,730, 1 bed, 1 bath, 152 square feet, mobile, Reno, independent vendor (tinyhouselistings.com)

34 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 MOONSHINEINK.COM TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER HOME FRONT Lakefront Surge Quest for open space sees booming luxury sales

Waterfront home sales at quarters, and Lake Tahoe tripled this horse stables, summer over what they had the property been the year before. was unique in its class. Sales price: More than $270 million $38 million. worth of lakefront property changed hands this A little north summer, including some of there in HOW’S THE MARKET? record-breaking estate By Jackie Ginley Glenbrook, sales on the turquoise The Pines waters of Lake Tahoe’s East Shore. Estate also sold this summer for $27.5 Fueled by a strong buyer penchant million. With a stunning for clean air and open space, Tahoe/ remodel by 24 Hour Truckee sales were up across the Fitness founder Mark board, but the surge in lakefront sales Mastrov, the property offers a curious statement about the featured an expansive preferences of today’s wealthy buyers. lakefront home, a If open space is the new luxury, then charming guest house, Tahoe, the largest alpine lake in North and a swimming pool America, represents the pinnacle and spa in a park-like of luxury living in a post-COVID setting on more than 13 landscape. acres. SMALL HOME, BIG VIEWS: This remodeled 1960s cabin on Donner Lake sold this summer for $1.825 million cash. Photo by Jamie Blair, Realtor Big Blue wasn’t the only lake in high Incline Village saw a demand this summer. A new record similar trend, with eight a two-bedroom cabin in Meeks Bay phenomenon. In the Hamptons, early was set at Donner Lake, where a lakefront homes changing hands this that sold for slightly more than its $2 summer sales were up 50% over what six-bedroom with a dock on the South summer for a total sales volume of million asking price, to $8.75 million had been the year before. Other hot Shore sold for $4.75 million in just five $84.6 million (up from $28.7 million for a Rubicon Bay Estate featuring spots include the Palm Beaches in days on the market. That was one of last summer). The home that tops the double guest houses, and 100 feet of Florida, Hawaii, and remote areas like four lakefront homes to change hands charts there this summer is a brand- white sand beach with a private pier Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, which has seen at Donner Lake this summer, with new contemporary home with walls and boat house. It was on the market an unprecedented influx of wealthy the most affordable being a remod- of windows overlooking Crystal Bay, only 10 days. buyers from Oregon and California. eled 1960s cabin that sold for $1.825 and a funicular that carries you down As we move into fall, it remains to be “One trend is clear,” the Institute million cash after just a few days on the to a 110-foot sheltered cove with a seen whether the trend will continue. concluded. Affluent homeowners are market. pier to be shared by the neighboring As more people can work successfully “more than willing to move away from new home. It sold for $24.85 million Some of the estates fetching the high- from home, and students are able to the metropolis and urban living to cash, and the similarly designed home est price tags this summer had sat on attend class remotely, buyers are begin- embrace what has traditionally been next door is on the market for $23.95 the market for years. ning to view second home markets like designated as second home communi- million. Tahoe as more of a primary residence. ties and to enjoy a more ‘country style’ Sierra Sunset, a 24-acre estate on With low inventory, the west side of of living.” the shores of Zephyr Cove, sold in In its August report, The Institute for lake was a little more quiet than usual August after more than four years on Luxury Home Marketing identified ~ Jackie Ginley is a broker associate with this summer. Five lakefront properties the market. With an eight-bedroom Tahoe as one of five U.S. markets that Chase International Real Estate. You can sold on the West Shore, ranging from main house, guest house, caretaker are experiencing this post-COVID see her listings at tahoeishome.com.

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SPACE IT UP Furniture Freegans Unite By Becca Loux

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but Thing is, I didn’t in the Tahoe/Truckee region during pandemic even set out to fully lockdown, we have the right to free furniture. furnish my home for That’s because all the mandated time at free. Much of what I home has been the perfect excuse for commandeered were a lot of people to finally sort through literal windfalls, chance excess possessions. And sure, there’s a encounters while out lot of great places to donate or sell your running errands or en old furniture (see Out with the Old online) route to adventure. As … However, there’s a healthy more great items fell market for saving money since into my lap, I began we’re in month seven of COVID-19, to search more inten- and many people are getting rid of tionally, eventually unwanted household items simply trolling Facebook and by kicking them to the curb. Craigslist free listings. The bar stools were a CURBSIDE PICKUP: My front porch needed a freegan makeover, too. Luckily, my mom spotted these In fact, as I sit in my living room planned arrangement chairs on a visit and knew what my answer would be when she asked if we should come back by and typing these words, I look around between me and the pick them up. Photos by Kerry Loux and see a fully furnished living room owner via social media. out front. People tend to make a sign that says and kitchen area, eclectic but suited I live in Truckee but didn’t mind a drive out to the ‘Free’ or with other instructions if they mean an to my taste and all within a reasonably logical lake for something I’d been looking to buy before. item to be taken. Use your best judgment whether color scheme — and there’s not a single item I or not the item is clearly out far from the house paid for. A black table and display case I found I’m now proud to say I don’t need much more and set up to donate to a lucky stranger. while not looking in Glenshire houses some of my for this place, but I’ll pass on a few tips from my most cherished possessions and art; two funky bar experience as a furniture freegan this summer. 4) Of course, the most direct and tried and stools obtained in Tahoe City and gladly parted true method of matching with free furniture or from their owner serve as my main dining locale 1) Be a good neighbor. People move around a household items is social media and online tools at the counter; I sit in a chair that was put out for lot in this area and are often downsizing. That’s to connect people who want to get and give free free right next door that I picked up while walk- where you come in. Being a friendly co-habitant stuff. Craigslist is always a good place to scan ing my dog. Even the rug and lamps were happily of a street is always a good idea, but the bonus for free or super cheap furniture, but in this area donated by a neighbor who was moving out. reason to do so is to become the first person they I’d recommend good old-fashioned Facebook, may think of if they’re looking to pass something because many people in the community are active on in a convenient there and you can go straight to Marketplace/ fashion. Free. I always see good stuff on there in this area, and if you’re looking for something specific that’s 2) Tahoe Donner and not there, I would recommend searching and/or Glenshire are great posting in some of the popular groups like Tahoe neighborhoods if you Truckee People. Nextdoor is also very popular, want to go fishing but not used for this purpose as much. completely blind for household attire. Plus, There’s just something about getting something there are frequent yard for free, isn’t there? I can tell you that I feel that sales in Glenshire where extra bit of satisfaction with everything in my you might be able to house knowing that I helped someone out by pick up some additional hauling away what they didn’t need, assisting my goodies on the cheap. bank account and saving time in the process. Win, People tend to do house win, win. projects on weekends, so Saturday and Sunday mornings are great times to sniff around before other interested parties might swing by.

3) Make sure you’re taking something someone actually put out for free! We live in a beautiful area, so don’t go stealing Grandma’s nice COMFY COUCH FOR SALE, $0: Glenshire is one of the prime locations to snoop out treasures that may’ve been another one’s trash. Photo by Juliana sunny bench Demarest/Moonshine Ink

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BY JULIANA DEMAREST | Moonshine Ink

y now, practice fields September for kids in grades temporarily on hold, while Baround the area are K-5. In addition to physical Tahoe Timbers Gym Time and usually buzzing with kids of activity, there will be craft Youth Dance are scheduled to all ages getting warmed up time and homework assis- resume sometime in the fall. for the fall season of soccer, tance. Students are grouped Visit yourtahoeplace.com for football, and baseball. With by the grade they are attend- full information. the continued COVID ing for the 2020/21 school craziness, however, most year. Camper to staff ratio is The Truckee-Donner student athletes have found 8:1 and the program features Recreation and Park the start of their sport season a kinder/first grade group; District recently released its delayed at best. Just as it is second/third grade groups; 2020 fall activity guide which includes a wide variety of with in-person learning, it is and fourth/fifth grade groups. STICKIN’ IT: Kids will learn the principles and fundamentals of martial arts in the equally important for kids The program runs Monday activities to get your student Karate Kids program at Tahoe Mountain Fitness. Photo by Cynthia Cendreda to have ways to keep active through Friday, 2 to 6 p.m., up and moving. Although guided program runs from 2 Circus Camp immerses and burn off energy during through Oct. 2 and is $20 per the climbing wall is not open to 6 p.m. Monday through your child in the many distance learning. day. Find full details at tcpud. for public sessions, climbing Thursday this fall, starting flow arts including aerial org or by phone at (530) 583- classes are open for kids ages Sept. 28. Book one week or fabrics, hula hoop, dance, Local recreation programs 3440 or email at recreation@ 5 to 17. Also find golf camps, book multiple weeks, with acrobatics, yoga, and and other entities are offering tcpud.org. basketball clinics, and dance a number of low-risk pos- classes, and as winter arrives, eight total available weeks to more. Learning these sibilities, both indoors and Incline Village Parks and add hockey skills clinics and choose from. Learn more at skills will instill creativ- outdoors. These programs Recreation has a number Buddy Werner Development rideboreal.com. ity, self-expression, and are following COVID-19 of options available this fall. skiing (pending what happens focus. Spots are limited, so Truckee Dance Factory has health and safety protocols Choose from Invasion Soccer with ski season) to the mix. don’t wait to sign-up. An a wide variety of classes to while also giving kids an on Tuesdays and Thursdays, New this fall is P.E. & Play, afterschool session will run get your kids up and moving. opportunity to channel Outdoor Grass Volleyball on designed to provide kids the from Sept. 21 to 25 from From traditional styles like pent-up energy following four Mondays and Wednesdays, benefits of exercising in a 3 to 5 p.m. and a weekend ballet, tap, and jazz to modern hours of screen time that Saturday Night Lights Flag group setting. Find the full camp will be held Oct. 2 to genres like acrobatic arts, comes with online classes. Football on Friday and guide and details at tdrpd.org. 4 starting Friday from 3 to hip hop, and turns and leaps, Saturday afternoons and 5 p.m., and from 9:30 to there’s something to entertain Tahoe City Public Utilities evenings, and Village Skate Although American Youth 3:30 Saturday and Sunday. every skill and energy level. District’s Recreation School with Cedar Gately. Soccer Organization has Both camps are open to Classes are back in session for Afterschool Program Pricing available for full canceled its season, your kids ages 8 to 13. Sign up fall and are limited in size to (R.A.P.) is an outdoor-based session or for drop-ins. Other kiddos can still get their soc- at tahoeflow.com. follow strict COVID guide- activity program at Skylandia options like Brazilian jiu-jitsu, cer fix with Truckee Sports lines. Find class descriptions Introduce your child to Park. Open to Tahoe Truckee Youth Indoor Soccer League, Camp non-competitive soccer and registration information martial arts with the Karate Unified School District and Shotokan karate are camps, held after school students, R.A.P. started in on Mondays, Wednesdays, at truckeedancefactory.com. Kids program at Tahoe and Fridays from 4 to 6 Mountain Fitness in Truckee. Cheer Preschool is open for p.m. TSC is also running a Although classes are look- your energetic little one to fall ice hockey program at ing a little different these learn chants, cheers, stunts, South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena, days due to COVID-19 and dance routines in a fun- teaching kids all aspects of ice guidelines, your child will filled session of cheer. Make hockey. Transportation and learn the basic principles of new friends, learn about the gear are included. Find more this freestyle karate program. sport and create amazing information at Using the fundamentals of cheer routines. Registration truckeesportscamp.com. self-defense, emphasis is is now open to residents placed on the elements of Woodward Tahoe is holding and non-residents of the form and structure, stance, after-school multi-sport ses- Truckee-Donner Recreation and alignment, which create sions as part of its Woodward and Park District. Camp the building blocks crucial to Mountain Kids program. is for children ages 3 to 5. a successful and disciplined Participants will be grouped Go to tdrpd.org for more martial arts practice. Open by grade and ability level in information. to ages 5 and older, Mondays a sport-learning curriculum, and Wednesdays from 4:30 Tahoe Flow Arts & Fitness allowing them to start fresh to 5:30 p.m. Learn more at is offering two Circus or focus on their favorites tahoemountainfit.com. Camps this fall. Held UP IN THE AIR: Tahoe Flow Arts is offering two sessions of Circus Camp to if they’re already into take your little ones to new heights. Courtesy photo in the outdoor garden, action sports. This coach- See ACTIVE p.38

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ACTIVE from p. 37 BACKSTREET Truckee Gymnastics, located on Deerfield Drive, FRAMERS & GALLERY The Truckee Bike Park is open year-round, weather reopened in June and ran camps over the summer. Classes permitting. Located at Riverview Sports Park on will run this fall following strict COVID-19 health and Joerger Drive, there is something for every age and safety protocols and with reduced class sizes. There are ability level with five different tracks: a traditional various levels of programming available, ranging from pump track, a pump park, dirt jumps, flow lines, parent/child classes for toddlers up through more advanced a drop zone, and dual slalom. The Truckee Skate levels in the teen years. Find a full schedule online at Park is located at Truckee River Regional Park on truckeegymnastics.com. Brockway Road and is open year-round, depending on weather conditions. Find information about group and private lessons for each at truckeebikepark.org and tdrpd.org.

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Comfort in Continuity

THE LITTLE THINGS: While students are faced with uncertainty going back into the school year, there is comfort to be found in the continuity that remains in a simple human moment. Photo by Juliana Demarest

The return And then it’s the first day. The epic answer was, “I don’t know what I’m My father is from a very rural part to school is KIDS CONNECT By Natalie LaPorte highs and lows of school ensue. It’s doing.” of Michigan, so it wasn’t really what usually seen all about structure, routine. But he said that struck me. It was this: as a return not this year. This year, students When Truckee High announced Nobody told my brother and I to to normalcy. of Truckee High School and other distance learning, it meant the loss balance on the sides of the bridges Many may dread it, some may look schools within the district weren’t of the structure and familiarity that or on the logs. Nobody told my forward to it — but all acknowledge even aware of what we may be doing comes around every August. But it father it would be fun to balance that it’s a time when one can more come fall — at least not until about gets just a little bit worse before it on the railroad tracks for a mile, in or less expect the same procedure. a month ago. gets better: Truckee High faculty a completely different time. Across have stated they’ll be re-evaluating generations, it was almost instinctual. First, students who are able to do so As a student in Link Crew (upper- every month, so maybe we’ll be buy new school supplies — notebooks classmen who volunteer to help back at school in October — maybe Dorothy L. Sayers once said, “How and binders, folders and pencils. with adjusting incoming freshmen) not. The uncertainty will continue fleeting are all human passions com- Then, schedules are parsed out and we didn’t know whether we would beyond registration day. pared with the continuity of ducks.” counselors’ offices are flooded with even be continuing our program or students trying to make changes. not. One could not even conduct It’s hard to feel comforted at all, While the statement may make one Snapchat stories display photos of studies on how everyone felt about given the state of the world at the laugh out loud, it really is true. A schedules, captioned invariably with, returning to school in the midst of moment. I didn’t know how I was human teleported here from 1904 “Do we have any classes together?” a pandemic, because the only real going to frame this article without would be positively terrified, a duck sounding like I was whining about would probably not even notice. As the lack of certainty we all feel. But long as we have ponds, trees, and PLACE YOUR AD then I was reminded of something. sky, our feathered friends are set. While out for a walk around There’s a lot of uncertainty right In the next Think Local Series Glenshire pond with my younger now, but we still have some little

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BY WADE SNIDER Moonshine Ink

When I asked the community of Truckee Tahoe People Uncensored to post photos of their “COVID Summer Vacation,” I received an awesome amount of responses, and one:

I AM NOT GOING ON VACATION WE ARE IN A PANDEMIC

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Of course, my question was tongue-in-cheek and I’m very proud that my community had a sense of humor about it.

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42 10 SEPTEMBER – 7 OCTOBER 2020 MOONSHINEINK.COM TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ARTS & CULTURE Artistically Challenged Tahoe art scene takes a hit from COVID

BY JULIANA DEMAREST | Moonshine Ink

he arts and culture scene is as Truckee studio’s Elizabeth Archer For Archer, knowing she has played a “Our intention for InnerRhythms is Tmuch a part of summer in the wrote in an email to Moonshine Ink. part in some of her students going on to continue as a not-for-profit arts Tahoe/Truckee region as the lakes, riv- “As a not-for-profit organization, we to become professional dancers over advocate in our community,” she said. ers, and trails that countless thousands have been able to procure grant fund- the years is a “magical” feeling, and she “Our focus will continue to be to sup- of visitors come to enjoy. As the onset ing and host tax-deductible fundraising has stayed in touch with the studio’s port young performing artists through of COVID-19 essentially brought life events that support the youth of our alumni dancers over the years. scholarships, programs, and projects. as we knew it to a screeching halt in community. Our intention has always We intend to hold fundraisers and mid-March, the outlook for a season been to give back.” “It is an honor and a privilege to productions once it becomes safe full of art and music was grim. Now, have walked the path beside them and comfortable for us all to get six months into the pandemic, things As COVID closures began to go into for a time,” she said. “It is also back together as a community.” aren’t looking much better. effect, InnerRhythms found itself emotional completely shut down on March 16, because For nearly two decades, with several theatrical/dance produc- I feel like InnerRhythms Performing Arts tions slated for April, May, and each of Center has introduced the world of June also canceled. With continued them are dance to students young and old, expenses but no tuition coming in, part of some of whom went on to become the future did not bode well for the me.” professional dancers. As a 501(c) dance studio. Most devastating, said (3) nonprofit, the studio was able to Archer, was the cancellation of their As found- introduce to the performing arts stu- annual signature fundraiser, Dancing ing artistic dents who otherwise might not have With Our Sierra Stars, in May. director been able to afford classes disciplines and a clas- ranging from ballet and jazz to hip “By June, we knew we could no longer sical ballet hop and theater. The studio recently continue to put the organization into teacher for announced, however, that it has gone further debt,” Archer explained. “We nearly two dark, another victim of the pandemic. could not pay rent or our amazing decades, instructors (this was the hardest of Archer “When I founded InnerRhythms along- all). As a not-for-profit, we could is proud side co-founder Sheri Woodsgreen, not receive PPE and did not want to of the MONSTER MASH: Truckee Community Theater summer campers take a lunch break during practice for their performance of Little Monsters. our vision was to serve the community jeopardize the organization further foundation, Courtesy photo through the performing arts,” the by taking out an SBA loan with no longevity, means of paying that back.” and reputa- tion that On another performance front, The studio did receive a was laid for the performing arts center. Truckee Community Theater is funded mini grant through the primarily through ticket sales. TCT Nevada County Relief “I believe that grace has guided us puts on four main stage produc- Fund, Archer said, not- through every step of the journey,” tions, including a teen musical, the ing that the funds went she said. “In a literal sense, we have 10-Minute Play Festival, an adult or directly to InnerRhythms’ honored the definition daily: beauty of family musical, and a play. The theater instructors to help honor a form; movement; or manner. In a spiri- typically produces a holiday play or commitment to their con- tual sense, I believe we have followed musical as well. Without productions, tracts through part of April. a divine path. I have been inspired by however, there are no ticket sales and our young dancers, our gifted teachers the show won’t go on. “It was sad and emotional for and choreographers, our parents and our entire board of directors,” family members that have graced “When the [stay-at-home] order Archer said of the decision to our beloved studio and our stage. I was issued for California, TCT was close InnerRhythms, which in am filled with pride for our returning just a week from opening our winter July had just celebrated its 19th alumni. It is through this grace that I production of Steel Magnolias,” theater anniversary and was going strong offer my profound gratitude to all that director Carrie Haines told Moonshine prior to COVID. “We are beyond have embarked on this journey with Ink. “The only production that opened proud of what we have been able me by providing their time, talent, and in 2020 was our teen musical in to offer the youth and adults of immeasurable treasures.” January. All other productions have our community by helping them LIGHTS OUT: After 19 years, InnerRhythms Dance been shut down. In addition, we had to Center became a victim of the COVID-19 pandemic. express themselves through Although InnerRhythms closed cancel all spring classes and our spring When Gov. Gavin Newsom mandated business closures movement in a safe, inclusive, its doors, Archer looks forward to back in March, the financial burden became too much break camp. Summer camps were to bear and the studio was forced to close its doors for family-oriented environment for some reincarnation of the nonprofit good. Courtesy photos nearly two decades.” in the future. See CHALLENGED p. 44

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CHALLENGED from p. 43 Big Project was born. costs. They also rent the stage for performances. allowed to run, but with less “My dream for Truckee than half the normal atten- Community Theater is to “Sadly, the effects of this dance and outdoors to allow grow our annual budget from pandemic on the arts will be for a safer environment.” $60,000 to $500,000 in the catastrophic. Many compa- next five years,” Haines said nies will close for good. Many At this point, Haines said of the project. “… TCT would are out of work,” Haines said. TCT still has no indication have its own studio space and She described the challenge of when it might be able eventually its own theater for social distancing, saying to resume live on-stage space … My personal mis- theater is “bigger than the performances. sion is to create and grow a actors on the stage or in front “It could look very different school of performing arts that of the camera. There are stage for a very long time,” she offers classes and workshops workers, lighting crew, sound explained. “Normally, TCT to children and adults of all technicians, costume design- main stage performances ages. In addition, we would ers, set designers, stagehands, house an audience at the offer a four-year college-prep and camera crew to consider Community Arts Center of curriculum for high school … There is no word on when up to 220. Right now, we students who plan to pursue things will return to ‘normal.’” can’t have more than 10 in a dramatic arts in college. For students around the room.” Currently, our high schools do not offer anything like this.” region, this schoolyear will Fundraising efforts were also look anything but normal. totally halted as a result of the TCT presently has a partner- Every September, over 500 DREAM ON: Trails and Vistas’ The Dreaming Tree field trip, presented ship with the Truckee-Donner third grade students from annually for third grade students from throughout the region, won’t be pandemic. Most of the local happening this year due to COVID-19 restrictions that remain in place. service groups and grant pro- Recreation and Park District California and Nevada are Photo by Juliana Demarest/Moonshine Ink viders that help TCT annually and uses classroom space delighted with a field trip declared that performing arts at the CAC for its school of to Sand Harbor for The postponed, focus shifted org. Supporters will receive were not consider “essential” performing arts. TDRPD Dreaming Tree, presented by and Trails & Vistas founder a link via email to view the and therefore there would be takes 30% of all registration Trails and Vistas. Following a Nancy Lopez created Adopt film at home on or after Sept. no funding for TCT in 2020, fees they collect. TCT gets mission of celebrating the arts an Artist Fund to help 18. Tickets for students are Haines said. Forced to think 70%, which is used to pay and nature, Trails and Vistas support independent artists. $15, family/adult tickets are on a grander scale, the Dream instructors as well as cover presents these interactive Donations from $10 to $20. If 500 people purchase a art hikes that include music, $1,000 soon came in from $20 film ticket, the nonprofit poetry, storytelling, environ- folks close to home and as would raise $10,000. THE COBBLESTONE CENTER mental studies, and visual art. far as Los Angeles and even Shiner, Texas. By the end Trails and Vistas plans to shift With COVID-19 protocols of May, over $3,000 was back to an in-person experi- still in place, however, The donated, with funds going to ence in 2021 for all events. Dreaming Tree won’t happen. Trails and Vistas independent Neither will the Truckee “I believe the social function artists to keep creating for the Historical Haunted Tour, a of art is an important element art in nature events. performance art tour that of the art hikes, taking the blends history and fiction, In June, Lopez again shifted artist as art object maker to leading guests to a number focus and went to work guide to enhance a sense of locations along Truckee’s producing and filming a of connection to place and Commercial Row. It’s the virtual art hike movie. She people,” Lopez said. “Our biggest annual fundraiser for collaborated with about a art and culture events offer Trails and Vistas, which also dozen artists to create the experiences about life, nature, holds art hikes at various film, showcasing visual and and being a member of a locations throughout the year. performance art at four art group. The experience is hike trail locations. created when you can feel the “Our nonprofit organization boulder, smell the pines, and OPEN-AIR MOVIES! survived this year financially “Truckee is a designated be a few steps away from the OUR POP-UP DRIVE-IN RUNS because we received a grant California Arts and Culture musician. Out in nature is THURSDAYS-SUNDAYS THROUGH OCTOBER from the California Arts District and local artists and where the magic happens, and Council to support our art organizations need our we look forward to exploring Rolling Stones: The Dark Divide art and cultural programs support right now,” Lopez the arts in nature when it is Havana Moon OCT. -4 for our community and SEPT. 0- said. “Arts are essential. safe to do so.” Stevie Nicks: visitors,” explained Trails and Purchasing a ticket to view The Lumineers: 24k Gold Vistas board president Jean Trails and Vistas’ virtual Live from the Artists Den OCT. 2 25 Fournier. “We lost all of our SEPT. -20 art hike film, Full Circle, is MORE ONLINE earned ticket revenue for a parallel to buying a take-out Read how the MSP’s Huck Yeah’ full year, which is over 50% of meal to help a local restaurant cancellation of SEPT. 2-2 so many events our annual budget.” remain in business.” is affecting other local nonprofits 475 NORTH LAKE BLVD., TAHOE CITY, CA | 530-584-2431 As soon as this year’s Tickets for the film are avail- isit tahoearthauscinema.com for schedule, upcoming events tickets. in-person art events were able online at trailsandvistas.

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ONGOING EDUCATION | Writing Workshop COMMUNITY | Honoring the immigrants had in the construction of Every second and fourth Wednesday Pioneer Spirit the first transcontinental railroad. The COMMUNITY | Tahoe City Farmers of the month, Word After Word Books Sept. 14 talk will be held virtually on the Sierra Market helps writers gain practice through Sierra State Parks Foundation, Califor- State Parks Foundation’s Facebook Locally grown fresh fruits and veg- prompts, exercises, and shared read- nia State Parks, and the Native Sons of page starting at 5 p.m. There is etables are back for the summer season. ings on varying themes. Each session the Golden West will co-host a virtual a suggested $5 donation to the Tahoe City Farmers Market is open with includes the option to participate in a ribbon cutting to celebrate the award- foundation. Blackwill is president of nine vendors at Commons Beach. The voluntary critique. Occasionally, special ing of the contract for the Pioneer the Truckee Donner Railroad Society market is adhering to COVID-19 restric- guest authors and writers lead the Monument restoration. The California and acting chair of the new Museum session. Registration is $15 and classes of Truckee History. He is passionate tions and asks everyone to wear gloves State Park Rangers Association will take place on Zoom at 6:30 p.m. Info: about sharing the history of our local and a mask, and is now open every present the Honorary Ranger Award wordafterwordbooks.com railroads with all. Info: (530) 583- Thursday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. to Dave Allen for his leadership with 9911; sierrastateparks.org The Donner Project. The event will COMMUNITY | Truckee Farmers EDUCATION | Virtual 4-H Course take place at Donner Memorial State Market To help youth and teens continue learning Sept. 27 during these times of COVID, 4-H is offer- Park; the public is welcome to virtu- The Truckee Certified Farmers Market SPORTS | Golf Classic ing a series of seven virtual 4-H project. ally view the event on the Sierra State is still on. Head over to Truckee River The Town of Genoa and Genoa Lakes The first was held in August but six oppor- Parks Foundation’s Facebook page on Regional Park every Tuesday for local Golf Club present This Ain’t the Last tunities remain through October: Begin- Monday at 11 a.m. Info: 11 a.m.; sier- vendors and fresh food. COVID-19 pro- Dance Golf Classic, a tournament- ning 4-H, Cooking 101, Food Preservation, rastateparks.org style play taking place at Genoa tocols are in effect so please observe Mindful Health, Experiencing Mindfulness, guidelines. Open weekly from 8 a.m. to Lakes Golf Club’s Lakes Course. Money Talks, and Outdoor Adventures. Enjoy an 18-hole scramble, lunch, 1 p.m. through Oct. 20. Sept. 18 There is a one-time fee required for enroll- and prize packages for the top three

ment in unlimited projects during the July ARTS & CULTURE | Gala Goes Virtual foursomes. Due to social distancing EDUCATION | Homework Help 2020 to June 2021 program year. Find The Center for the Arts presents protocols, the tournament will take Washoe County Library System provides dates and full details online. the Gin & Jazz Virtual Gala, a place by registering for selected tee access to resources that can help with Info: ucanr.edu/csvirtualprojects benefit celebrating the center’s 20th times. Tee times will be scheduled schoolwork, no matter what the grade anniversary. Musical performances on a first-come, first-served basis, so level. Besides research databases cover- Sept. 10 to 20 by Pop Rocks and Le Jazz Hot. early registration is encouraged. Info: ing most school subjects, we also offer Live auction with auctioneer Greg FOOD & DRINK | Virtual Food Fest contact town manager JT Chevallier, access to test preparation resources Quiroga. Broadcasting live from This year’s Sample the Sierra Virtual (775) 782-8696 or jchevallier@ and live online tutoring. For most of the center. Watch online or join the Festival will celebrate the Sierra Nevada douglasnv.us the resources, there are video lessons party on Zoom. VIP tickets are $150 region safely with online events, available that explain what the resource per person, $300 per couple, and restaurant features, shopping promotions, Oct. 14 is and how to use it; click the “watch include dinner and gift bags available and cooking demonstrations. Sample EDUCATION | Monthly Webinar tutorial” button to view. Also, the library for curbside pick-up at the center the Sierra Farm-to-Fork Restaurant Week The Sierra Nevada Alliance’s monthly is a great place for group or individual from noon to 4 p.m. Community will feature unique menus created with webinar will be presented by Katrina study sessions. Several libraries have tickets available to enjoy just the locally farmed ingredients for guests to Jessoe of UC Davis. She will be study rooms available, and all have free broadcast are available on a pay- dine in or takeout. The annual Sierra Chef speaking about managing agricultural Wi-Fi. Info: washoecountylibrary.us what-you-can donation basis. Info: Challenge will go live for fans to view groundwater, focusing in on the water thecenterforthearts.org Sept. 12. Shop the Sample the Sierra markets and water pricing as tools to FOOD & DRINK | Trivia Night Makers Market featuring the region’s top manage groundwater under SGMA Joe Lew serves up some knowledge Sept. 19 artists, artisans, and crafters. Find recipes, and internalize groundwater pollution in the Alibi Ale Works Truckee Public ARTS & CULTURE | Chinese tricks of the trade, and more online. Join externalities. Info: 10 to 11 a.m.; House beer garden! Enjoy socially Immigrants and the Railroad in on contests and giveaways on the sierranevadaalliance.org distanced, outdoor trivia. There will be The Sierra State Parks Foundation prizes and beer! Info: Wednesdays, 7 Sample the Sierra Facebook page. Info: samplethesierra.com presents Jerry Blackwill, who will p.m.; alibialeworks.com highlight the pivotal impact Chinese

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ark Wellman’s wheelchair glided nominated you because this was the Mbetween the grill and a serving spirit of this whole home giveaway … table filled with a feast fit for a bunch to help people. It was a needs-based of hard-working guys. A short time program [to] help people that are in later, about a dozen such guys filed need and can use a little helping hand.” into Wellman’s meticulously manicured Tahoe Donner backyard, bringing their “Or helping legs!” one of the guys on appetites with them. the crew shouted from the sideline, met with a good round of laughter. Once they were all refueled, it was time to head back to work — but not Wellman, a former Yosemite park without a quick photo-op and a few ranger and lifelong climber, was words from their hosts, Wellman and paralyzed in 1982 from the waist down his partner, Carole Praxmayer. in a John Muir Wilderness climbing accident that he described in his “From the bottom of our hearts, you memoir as “bouncing like a pinball guys were awesome. It was a huge down the rocky chute.” thing for Carole and I to have this home makeover,” said Wellman, winner The drive that led him to rock climbing SMILING EYES: Mark Wellman, Carole Praxmayer, and their dog, Ranger, hosted the crew of Elements Mountain Company’s sec- in the first place played a key part from Elements Mountain Company as a thank you for all their hard work after winning the second annual home makeover giveaway. Photos by Wade Snider/Moonshine Ink ond annual contest. “Our business was in overcoming the adversity of the really affected by the whole COVID accident, and Wellman went on to paraplegic to sit-ski across the Sierra So winning the home makeover was thing … We’re so excited about the become the first paraplegic to climb Nevada, using his tremendous arm and a bright spot in these continued dark work and how the house looks.” Yosemite’s famed El Capitan and Half Dome. His list of athletic achievements upper body strength to power 50 miles. times. Nominated by a neighbor, Wellman puts to shame those of most people Wellman now travels the country “We just really appreciate it,” said and Praxmayer’s home was not in great with two working legs, illustrating his as a motivational speaker, inspiring Praxmayer, who went all out in creat- disrepair but more in need of a little ambition to break barriers and conquer disabled athletes to continue to chase ing quite a spread to feed the hungry TLC. Over the course of two weeks, any limits in his path. after their dreams. He’s also a noted workers as a show of appreciation. various Elements crews sanded decks, Also known for his extreme downhill author and filmmaker and brings split four cords of firewood, sealed the Wellman noted his gratitude for win- skiing and whitewater adventures, as his portable climbing wall to disable driveway, power-washed and repainted ning the makeover and for the crew’s a member of the U.S. Disabled Ski events around the nation through his the house, and even spruced up their hard work. “It’s awesome what you Team, Wellman twice competed in the company, No Limits. Like so many dog Ranger’s abode, painting it to guys do … It feels like you guys have Paralympics. He even stunned attend- others, however, his business has match their own house. this whole family kind of atmosphere ees when he ascended a 120-foot rope taken a hit from COVID-19. and it’s just really great,” he said. “We were so honored to be able to do (while bearing a flaming torch) and lit “This pandemic killed our business,” “This is the least we can do for what this for you,” Elements co-owner Matt the cauldron at the opening ceremony he said. “Killed it. Everything got you guys did for us.” Warren told Wellman and Praxmayer. of the 1996 Paralympics in Atlanta, canceled.” “I was so excited that your neighbor Georgia. In 1993, he became the first

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A self-portrait during one of the harder months to chase the “earn your turn all year long” badge. There is a dedicated crew around Tahoe that skis or snowboards at least once a month year-round. Photo by Riley Bathurst on Carson Pass with a DJI Mavic Pro.

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