Lake Tahoe Posts - Incline Village & Crystal Bay

PINE NUTS: Army Ants and Us ~ Army Ants know all about aggression. They think they invented aggression, and they will do it all day long for the queen. Sound familiar? Here’s how they wage their wars; first they bivouac, that is to say, they build a living nest with their bodies within a tree trunk or hole in the ground. Don’t ask me how they do that. Once they are organized into a big ball, the soldier ants, those with the big mandibles, patrol the surface of the bivouac and fight off aggressors.

We have an exciting speaker lined up for this Saturday at 2 pm. Her name is Janet McHenry and the topic is You are Loved. She’s an award-winning speaker & author of 24 books. We’d love to see your smiling faces in person or on zoom. Right now, we have a very low response and we think it’s because of the weather. If you are concerned about the snow on Friday, please contact Anne to get the zoom link to watch from the comforts of your home. Come join us!
Please contact Anne today to register at 775-831-0784 or apayne@thevillagechurchnv.org.

We are proud to host VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance), a national program sponsored by the IRS that provides free preparation of federal and state tax returns for households with income under $57,000. The goal is to make quality tax preparation services available to low to moderate-income households so that they claim all of the tax credits they are entitled to and receive the largest refund or lowest tax bill they are legally entitled to, without having to spend limited financial resources on tax preparation fees.

APPOINTMENT REQUIRED. For more information or to make an appointment please call Tahoe Family Solutions at (775) 413-5145 or visit our office at 774 Mays Blvd. Suite 13, Incline Village.

VITA Information (English) - https://tahoefamily.org/vita-information-english/
VITA Information (Spanish) - https://tahoefamily.org/vita-information-spanish/

ATTENTION: VITA is hosted at the TFS Main Office (located in the lower level of Village Center between Perception Salon and Czyz’s Appliances), NOT the TFS Thrift Store!

Human Whisperers Radio is the broadcast arm of The Community School for Human Arts and the MAPPS Program. We think of our work as a social enterprise that strives toward a more equitable distribution of educational tools normally reserved for corporate human resources departments or personalized career coaches.

We are dedicated to lifting up diverse populations through our programs, not just in the United States but around the world. And we are guided by the fundamental belief that nurturing individual competence and resilience is key to our collective well-being, resulting in a healthier and more self-sustaining global community.

Our broadcasts are intended to create and promote a facilitative and inclusive dialog that we hope in return will encourage people to listen, learn and then seek action from a place of truthful shared awareness from which solutions can emerge. Our programs deliver a unique form of social and emotional education based on personal and professional development and through a process that promotes human well-being by expanding people’s capabilities to be and to flourish and gives them the power to generate employment + income.

We motivate individuals from diverse backgrounds to unearth their hidden talents for a harmonious path forward. In this process, they can discover their unique contribution to the world.

The Diamond Peak Ski Education Foundation (DPSEF) is a unique non-profit that provides area athletes with an exceptional opportunity to build strong character through our skiing programs.

Did you know... only 60% of our operating budget comes from tuition; the remainder is raised via donations, events, and hosting races for the Far West and Tahoe Race Series ski racers in the basin.

Our Vision is to be an internationally recognized alpine ski team renowned for cultivating a culture of excellence and developing world-class athletes of outstanding character. Our values include athletic excellence, character, growth mindset, sportsmanship, integrity, teamwork, independence, sustainability, and improvement. We are proud to award significant need-based scholarships to Incline Village/Crystal Bay youth to give them access to our ski programs through scholarships.

Our annual online auction is our single largest fundraising effort and we invite you to participate. The auction will open at 3pm on March 5th with a launch party hosted at Diamond Peak Ski Resort's Loft Bar, and live on youtube. Bidding will be open until March 12th.

A partial list of items for auction include:
Exclusive Party on Lakeshore Drive
Reserved VIP Parking Diamond Peak Ski Area
Reserved VIP Parking Diamond Peak Ski Area
Exclusive Thunderbird Lake Tahoe Wine and Cheese Tour
Hawaii Vacation Home on Big Island, Kona
VIP Shakespeare Festival Dinner Package for Four
Hyatt Cottage and $500 F&B
Weekend at Edgewood Resort
Two roundtrip tickets on Aha!
Fishing Trip on Tahoe

PINE NUTS: She Cleaned City Hall Until She Became Mayor
In Russia’s managed democracy of this 21st century, sometimes, though not often, an underdog candidate will actually win an election. It’s rare as hens’ teeth, but it happened a couple years ago in the tiny village of Povalikhino. The incombent mayor was in desperate need of an opponent to fill out his official looking ballot, but everybody knew the odds, and nobody would step-up. So the mayor asked city hall janitor, Marina Udgodskaya, if she might be willing to place her good name on the ballot as his opponent. Marina must have rolled her eyes and thought, “Oh well, what the hell!” Because she acceded, and amazingly, she won.

Marina suddenly found herself to be the honorable mayor of Povalikhino, and of course her first order of business was to hire a reliable replacement to clean city hall, then the good mayor took to procuring streetlights for the village. Such an anomaly can happen in a small Russian village, but in cities or national elections…Nyet.

Have you experienced the TART Connect Shuttle? Ridership is up and the program is running through the winter.
TART Connect offers a FREE and easy way to leave the car behind. TART connect offers curb-to-curb service and connections to TART’s bus service. Reserve your trip via the app or phone and you will be picked up in as little as 15 minutes.
When does TART Connect Operate?
Service within the three lakeside zones will operate daily between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 a.m. (midnight). The Olympic Valley/Tahoe City and Northstar/Kings Beach zones will operate Friday and Saturday between 5:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. To use TART Connect, download the TART Connect app. No app? Just call 530-214-5811.
How will TART Connect Work?
Download the APP, choose a destination in your zone, and you will be picked up in as little as 20 minutes.
No app? Just call: 530-214-5811.

The Crab Feed needs your support! We are less than 30 days away from our 40th celebration, Incline.
Sponsors and auction item donations are needed to ensure a successful fundraiser.
Being a sponsor or item donor gets your business into the event program while showing your support for education in Incline Village.
Donating an item is easy - you can do it online: https://one.bidpal.net/crabfeed22/donate-item

Tahoe Weekly celebrates our 40th anniversary! Feb. 18 marked Tahoe Weekly’s 40th anniversary. Tahoe Weekly's first edition in 1982 featured a photograph by Vance Fox of a skier cliff jumping near the horse trails in Olympic Valley. The cover for this 40th anniversary edition out on stands until March 8 is a nod to that first cover featuring Chuck Patterson in the Tahoe back country photographed by Matt Bansak. The magazine is still locally owned and operated.

Take a look back at some favorite Tahoe Weekly covers through the decades in each print edition in 2022, @TheTahoeWeekly on Facebook and Instagram and in the monthly newsletter (different covers are featured on each platform).

Read about Tahoe Weekly's history and some exciting news for our readers in the current edition or at TheTahoeWeekly.com.

Stay informed - these are the top headlines from the February 22 BCC Meeting. Click the link below to read behind the headlines.
1. Registrar of Voters presents overview of upcoming elections
2. Board approves contract to provide temporary site services at Nevada Cares Campus
3. Chair Hartung allocates District Special Fund to support Spanish Springs High School JROTC

Incline Education Fund is thrilled to announce that the recent Incline Elementary School (IES) Makerspace Drive is a success. With the generous assistance of local businesses including Tahoe Lending-Cardinal Financial, State Farm Insurance Agent Britney Bladel and Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa & Casino along with local service/advocacy groups Rotary Tahoe-Incline, Rotary Club of Incline Village and AAUW Tahoe-Nevada and also joined by the Incline Elementary School PTA and additional charitable donor support, Incline Elementary students will now have a fully equipped makerspace.

Thanks to the outpouring of local philanthropy during the makerspace drive, the Incline Education Fund was also able to successfully apply for the recent Nevada Office of Science and Technology (OSIT) Northwestern Nevada Regional STEM grant. Community support for the IES makerspace was a leading factor in acquiring the recently announced $17,873.00 award.

With initial seed funding from the Incline Education Fund, the IES makerspace opened this fall. With a semester of makerspace classes complete, Incline Elementary School Principal Dan Zimmerman noted that the school has already noticed a positive improvement in students across the board. "The students are showing a greater degree of individual problem solving capability and ability to work successfully within a group dynamic." After the documented learning loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this is excellent news indeed.

New tour offering! 2022 Tahoe City Snowfest Parade and Polar Bear SwimFebruary 26 10am - 4pm (ish): Limited seating (6 available as of 2/22/22). The day includes pre-parade party, riding in the parade in the Around Tahoe Tour, and deck reservations at Garwoods for the 33rd Annual Polar Bear Swim with Wet Woodies. Call Chris at 775 345 5966 to secure your VIP Tahoe City Snowfest experience.

Envision Tahoe - Community Survey Results - The Community Survey results are in and reflect the importance of diversifying the regional economy, the need for more local worker housing, and that outdoor beauty and recreation opportunities are the reason we’re all living in Lake Tahoe. 1,799 of you contributed your time to this important community survey, completed in English and Spanish, in January. A few highlights of the survey:
* 63% of the community feels that things in Lake Tahoe are on the wrong track (which, sadly is similar to the national polling sentiment completed in January.)
* 73% feels that the lack of stable housing options is the biggest threat to locals’ quality of life, followed by traffic congestion/lack of transportation (61%), wildfires/smoke (58%), and too many vacation rentals/second homes (54%)
* And, no surprise, 79% of you felt that the highest or very highest priority for a solution should be to expand and promote economical housing opportunities for the local workforce.

Fortunately, this is a critical need in our community and one that relates directly to economic and community development moving forward. We recognize that economic diversification and supporting our core industry of Tourism can’t happen without housing for local workers.

To learn more about the Tahoe Prosperity Center Housing work: https://tahoeprosperity.org/housing-study/
To learn more about the Envision Tahoe Project: https://tahoeprosperity.org/envision-tahoe/

We're excited to announce registration is open for the next "ReWILD Your Impact" masterclass starting in April.
This is for you if you’re...
- mid-career and fed up with the “same old…”
- wondering what your “why” is and how to live it
- unwilling to be someone you’re not
- walking on eggshells or holding yourself back
- convinced there is a better way (there is!)
- someone who respects the wisdom & rhythm of nature
- ready to have the impact you know is possible
- willing to lead by example with your unique impact
- longing to unleash inner leadership
We double-dog dare you to join us!?

INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. – Sierra Nevada University (SNU) opened its doors in 1969 with just 23 students enrolled. Over 50 years later, administration is preparing for the final steps before the complete acquisition of the school by University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) in July of 2022. ... “Our primary focus for the next three and half years is to teach out the SNU students that are still here,” said Dr. Heaton. “We do acknowledge that as time progresses, you get fewer and fewer students, so we do have a plan to bring students to this campus.”