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Washoe County Tahoe Transportation Plan Survey *** SURVEY DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL JULY 15 - PLEASE PARTICIPATE!!! *** Washoe County is asking residents and visitors to participate in an online survey for the Washoe County Tahoe Transportation Plan. Using an interactive map and answering a few short questions, participants have the opportunity to provide input about their transportation concerns and priorities for the Incline Village/Crystal Bay areas.

“Incline Village and Crystal Bay are the communities that tie Washoe County to Lake Tahoe, a treasure in our backyard,” Commissioner Alexis Hill said. “I want to learn from the community about how we can improve public safety, traffic, parking, and aesthetics on the north shore to make the experience of visiting and living in Tahoe better for all.”

Input received through the website will be used to identify needs, priorities, and goals for the Incline Village/Crystal Bay areas.

The study is focused on identifying safety and mobility solutions for the Incline Village and Crystal Bay areas. It is focusing on:

*Envisioning the future of State Route 28
*Supporting transit improvements
*Exploring parking solutions
*Refining the snow plowing strategy for multiuse trails
*Expanding the use of trip reduction programs

The online survey and interactive map will be available for public comment through July 15. An in-person public meeting is being planned for this fall and the plan is expected to be completed by the end of 2022.

Pine Nuts: Make the Music and Dance
The first noticeably happy people to attract my undivided attention were San Diego roller-bladers, skating down the boardwalk with music in their ears. This was forty years ago or so, and these dancing athletes were clearly happy to the core. It made me smile and even laugh in the wake of their sheer joy.

Music makes everything better. I take Milt Jackson with me into the laundry room and his vibes turn that laundry room into Milt Jackson’s Avalon Ballroom, it’s magic really.

The happiest people in the world today, to one who has slipped on the ice and lived to tell about it, must be figure skaters. The ladies dress like they’re going to a cocktail party at the Royal Hawaiian, attired in three well-placed cocktail napkins. But then they put on their best poker faces and take to the ice like Joan of Arc took it to the Burgundians. I always watch the women’s competition with a frozen daiquiri in-hand, sometimes both hands. That way, when an ill-fated skater slips on the ice, and goes down like Raggedy-Ann, I can take a sip, open my third eye, and feel her pain.

The music leaves a little to be desired. I might like to throw in some Van Morrison, and really crank it up with, G-L-O-R-I-A! Also, a little LOUIE-LOUIE might help to liven things up a little bit.

I remember watching the Lady’s Olympic Figure Skating Competition on television where I worked, and arriving home to find my wife watching the same program, but an hour behind what I had just seen. Well, she already believed I was a genius in one thing and one thing only, women’s figure skating, and this was my chance to cement that belief.

I waited for just the right moment, and said, “Honey, watch this! She looks a little wobbly, I bet she’s going to fall on her…”

“Oh my gosh! Darling, you’re right! You really do know your figure skating! You should be announcing these Olympics.”

To this day, if she is going to say anything complimentary about her ex-husband, me, it might be, “He has his flaws, yes, but I’ll tell you what…he knows his figure skating! He can take one look at a skater and tell you where she will place in the standings. He will point his index-finger at the television set, go thumbs down, and that girl will trip, slip, and land on her keester, I’m not kidding.”

Well, it never hurts to have somebody think you are a genius when you are really just a lucky guy who happened to have been privy to a sneak preview. Do I feel a little taste of remorse? Yes. Will I ever tell her? Never. Come watch the next Winter Olympics with me. I’ll provide the popcorn, and heck, I might even provide the commentary…

Apres bike and vision for new owners of Tunnel Creek Cafe! After owning the Tunnel Creek Café (along with Flume Trail Bikes directly behind it) for nearly 11 years, husband and wife, Max Jones and Patti McMullan, knew that in order to grow the restaurant and really run it to its maximum potential, it needed some new energy in the kitchen — that meant taking the step and finding a chef to elevate the cuisine.

It's June! The rivers are roaring. Come join us for a trip down one.

Tahoe Symphony Orchestra helps you celebrate the Fourth of July with family and friends, close to home! Our 17th annual “BOPS” concert, conducted by Maestro James Rawie, is a delightful summer event that we perform in two venues at the Lake, in Truckee, Reno, and in the Carson Valley. Revel in full orchestra and chorus performances of patriotic favorites, be swept off your feet by great opera arias, join in a sing-along, and, if you’re the highest bidder, you’ll conduct the orchestra in “The Stars and Stripes Forever”!

One reason it took 36 years to make a 'Top Gun' sequel was waiting for the technology to be created to film the fighter jet flight scenes in real fighter jets. This is an interesting interview with camera jet pilot and aerial coordinator Kevin LaRosa about why it was important to make the movie as real as possible.
"[Director] Joseph Kosinski and Tom Cruise knew that this footage and the performances had to be practical, had to be real. There’s no way to act and show that kind of distortion in one’s face when you’re not feeling [g-force]...Most people will know the feeling of g-force from a roller coaster ... You might be feeling two g’s, but when you were in these F-18s, they were pulling up to 7.5 g’s."