Month: March 2025

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In The News – UNR ski team gains momentum at NCAA Championships

March 17, 2025 | Member Submitted

Originally Published in the Sierra Sun, 03/17/2025, Written by Zoe Meyer

The University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) ski team continues its upward trajectory under head coach Cameron Smith, who recently completed his second season leading the program. With a more experienced roster and a structured training approach, the Wolf Pack demonstrated significant progress at the 2025 NCAA Skiing Championships at Dartmouth Skiway in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Smith, who has emphasized a holistic and disciplined approach to training, believes the team’s development is beginning to show tangible results. “I think that having a more holistic approach to the whole season can usually display better results,” he said. “A lot of the athletes are now used to my coaching style.”

The team’s growing experience has also contributed to its success….

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Incline High School News & Sports

March 17, 2025 | Mary Danahey

From Incline High School Principal Cahill: 3/17/2025

? Ski Team Success! This past week, we celebrated our Boys and Girls Ski teams at their banquet, and we’re still in awe—our Boys team brought home THREE State titles, while our Girls team earned the runner-up spot! ?? Congratulations, Highlanders!

? A Huge Thank You to Our Boosters! The Crab Feed was a smashing success, and for the first time, Incline Bowl was transformed into an incredible event space! With the overwhelming generosity of our community, we hit the $125,000 matching donation goal from the Dave and Cheryl Duffield Foundation! Their continued support elevates our school in ways beyond words, and we couldn’t be more grateful. ?

?‍♀️ History in the Making! Our inaugural Incline Gymnastics Team recently competed at the Grand Sierra Resort for a state title! Their strength, skill, and determination are nothing short of inspiring, and we are so proud of their first season!

⚾? Spring Team Athletics Update:

  • Baseball & Softball teams notched key victories this week—way to go!
  • Boys Golf hit the course for their first tournament of the season, placing 3rd overall! Sam Lager shot an 80 and Lucas MacDonald an 82—a great start as the team gets into full swing! ⛳
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LTS Bobcat News – Bobcat Pride

March 16, 2025 | Member Submitted

Originally Published in Lake Tahoe School Email Newsletter

As members of the Lake Tahoe School community – every one of us a Bobcat – we have much to be proud of. From our outstanding academic program and recent activities like last Friday’s Pi Day celebration, to enrichment classes for all grades in music, art, Makerspace, and PE—including Spanish and Science in the Lower School—and after-school programs that seem to grow in scope and offerings each year, the opportunities abound. While each of these areas serves as a significant and positive marker of what we do best, there are at least three other areas of impressive student offerings and achievement that often fly under the radar.

The first of these is our Chess Club and Team. Composed of Lower School students with occasional Middle School invitees, the number of members for both often totals over 50 for various meetings and competitions. Coach Eric Ostertag has put together a formidable group of chess competitors. So competitive, in fact, that our girls captured the Nevada State Girls Championship last year. Recently, a large contingent of our students “invaded” Texas to enter the Texas Online State Scholastic Chess Championship. “Invaded” may be a tame word, considering we walked away with numerous individual and team champions. We are thrilled to host the upcoming Northern Nevada Scholastic Chess Championships (Open and Girls’) in Duffield Hall the last two weekends in March. We are incredibly proud of our Bobcat Chess Team!

Another low-flying program, unless you are a Middle School student or parent, is our Middle School Winterim Program. Winterim serves as a wonderful capstone to our all-school outdoor program that begins with the second-grade sleepover on our backfield, and other Lower School overnight programs in South Lake, California Gold Country, and the Bay Area coast. Middle School overnights include Mt. Rose, Project Discovery, and our annual year-ending Adventure Week. Winterim is often our students’ most memorable experience of all these opportunities. This year, with trips to a working farm for the sixth grade, Washington, D.C. for the seventh, and our eighth graders now returning from a working coffee plantation in Costa Rica, our Winterim program remains a focal point of engagement and excitement for our Middle School students. 

Hardly buried under the radar, but worthy of as much recognition as we can provide, is our Drama Program under the marvelous direction of Ms. Amory and her able crew. Beyond her annual Middle School drama elective and performance, Ms. Amory engages LTS students from 2nd to 8th grade in an after-school program where their annual performances and musicals are the year’s highlight for both students and parents alike. If there is an unrecognized aspect of our productions, it is the hard work and effort Ms. Amory and her students put in with tryouts, rehearsals, and the final act of pulling it all together for the onstage performances. Overcoming their tears and fears, practicing for hours – at school and home – and memorizing innumerable lines, placements, and songs, our students shine every time they are on stage. Please join us at our Winnie the Pooh Kids production on Friday, March 28, in Duffield Hall and witness the magic and joy of our students on stage.

To be a Bobcat means many things, but most of all, it means experiencing innumerable opportunities to try new things, find your strengths, and be supported and encouraged throughout that process. We are proud of all of our students and are proudest when we see their growth as students and young people right before our eyes. Bobcat Pride!

Have a great week ahead!
Bob
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In The News – Tahoe Forest Hospital honored with 3 Women’s Choice awards

March 15, 2025 | Member Submitted

Originally Published in the Sierra Sun, 03/15/2025, Submitted

Tahoe Forest Health System has been recognized with three prestigious Women’s Choice Awards for 2025, reflecting its unwavering commitment to exceptional patient care and clinical excellence. The hospital has been honored in the following categories:

  • America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Patient Experience: Out of 957 hospitals in the small hospital size category, Tahoe Forest Hospital ranks #39, placing it in the top 100 hospitals nationwide for patient experience, a testament to its dedication to providing outstanding care and ensuring patient satisfaction.
  • Top 1% in Obstetrics: The hospital’s obstetric services have been recognized for excellence, placing it in the top 1% of hospitals offering obstetrics nationwide out of 4,675 hospitals. This accolade underscores the hospital’s commitment to providing high-quality care for mothers and newborns.
  • Top 3% in Emergency Care: Tahoe Forest Hospital’s emergency department has been acknowledged for its exceptional performance, ranking in the top 3 percent of hospitals offering emergency care services nationwide out of 4,675 hospitals. This award highlights the hospital’s dedication to delivering timely and effective emergency medical services.

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PINE NUTS – Waging War

March 13, 2025 | McAvoy Lane

How can it be possible that we continue to forget that declaring war, waging war, and glorifying war is a foolhardy game. Warfare is the most monstrous of all deceptions ever devised by man. Waging war is counterproductive, and a stain upon our humanity. As one who has once been deceived by the notion that war is noble, I am ardent about its treachery.

Judging from my own experience, I have to believe that every Russian fighting in Ukraine has been told that his warring will benefit Mother Russia, and in the long run, benefit Ukraine. It follows that the values the Russian soldier places on warring supplants the values he might hold in his heart for another living human being.

We find ourselves today hooked on military steroids while sleepwalking toward war. Militarily, everybody is on full alert while the fine line between deterring war and provoking war is razor thin. Preemptive actions are sometimes perceived as interdiction, so oftentimes preemptive action begets escalation. Slipping on just one rung on the escalation ladder can deliver an accidental war, and before we know what we are about, the world’s expanding nuclear deterrents could bequeath an unconscionable World War.

So, what to do? Start drawing down weapons of mass destruction now. The United Nations can pilot a de-escalation and disarmament program, and do it now. Let us start a careful climb down the escalation ladder, bomb by bomb, day by day. Monday it’s our responsibility, Tuesday it’s Russia, Wednesday China. On Thursday the rest will follow. It’s a survival instinct, an instinct the lions in the jungles and the birds in the trees know more about than we do…

Oftentimes we hear the words, “blood and treasure.” Those two words should never be used in the same sentence, for all too often, “treasure” is on the minds of those who declare the war, and “blood’ is on the minds of those who fight that war.

While staring World War Two in the face back in October of 1939, Winston Churchill characterized the times thusly: “It’s a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Thank you, Winston, still is…

I remember reading in third grade that one of the early gods of war was “Thor,” who was a real badass, which led me to folk literature of badassery and false heroes like Jesse James. By fourth grade I was ready to enlist in the Marine Corps and take our fight to Korea, a thing I would actually do later, in taking our fight to Vietnam.

The American generation born during and immediately after WWII might go down in history as that short-lived interval of peaceful civilization that existed between barbarism and political degeneration.

So where will it all end? Much abler pens than mine have addressed this question to no avail. I suppose warfare will become outmoded only when testosterone levels moderate in men, and the mothers of the world get their hands on the levers of civil discourse worldwide…that’s my dream anyways, and I’m sticking with it…thanks for being here.

For audio click and scroll: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Fhv4PrH1UuwlhbnTT23zO

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The Local Lens – Incline Boosters & Upcoming St. Patrick’s Day Events

March 12, 2025 | Linda Offerdahl

The Incline Boosters Crab Feed has been an annual event for longer than we have lived here.  I remember the early years when the parents cooked the crab and pasta. Greg and Lisa Flanders and John Paganelli were the chefs for many years. It has always been a popular community event that sells out with all of the locals gladly supporting Incline High School. When the event moved to the Hyatt, the fundraising was taken to a new level. Under the leadership of Booster President Tara Cannon, the event is moving to the newest events center in town, ICE, aka Incline Center for Events at  Bowl Incline. Owners Steve and Tracy Tomkovicz are transforming it by covering the bowling lanes with flooring to allow an oversold crowd of 300 to eat crab and spaghetti and bid wildly on auction items and “fund a need”.

The Boosters is not just for athletics. Indeed, academics, music, and art are alive and well at Incline High School. The Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation has invested greatly in our local youth, the latest commitment being to the transformation of the building and to its academics. The Duffield Theater is truly a community resource and holds sellout crowds of close to 300 for the annual Incline Star Follies, scheduled this year for May 2-3.  I attended the Rotary Speech and Music Contest last week in the Duffield Theater. Tonight, I plan to attend the high school music concert in the Duffield Youth Theater at 6:30.

A big shout out to John Crockett, who has been running our public library and giving people of all ages a reason to visit. It’s not just for books anymore. Activities, including art for adults are offered several times a week. Check out the IVCBA.org calendar to see all of them for the week. John is moving on to a different job as a Data Analyst for Washoe County. Best of luck, John!

ST. PATRICK’S DAY can be celebrated at nearly every bar and restaurant in Incline, but for a really special treat, celebrate with St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church. I just attended a wonderful service with Reverent Clare Novak last Sunday and learned about their potluck St. Pat’s lunch next Sunday right after the service.  Kudos to them for housing the Incline Village Nursery School, Tahoe Connection for Families, and the weekly food distribution by Sierra Community House. 

Village Center is celebrating St. Pat’s too!  “Eat Drink and be Irish” and shop the blowout sale at Sierra Verde this Friday. Saturday has a St. Paddy’s Day vibe at Glasses Wine Bar, complete with entertainment. I’m guessing they are not serving green wine, but enjoy their elevated wine selections!

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School Updates – Incline High School News

March 12, 2025 | Mary Danahey

Written and submitted by Mary Danahey, Incline Education Fund

There are three upcoming events, two in the Duffield Theater:

The Concert Band is performing tonight,  3/12 from 6:30-8pm

It’s Freshman Parent Night tomorrow, 3/13 from 5-7pm

And, of course, the Crab Feed is this Saturday, 3/15 at Incline Bowl.

Tickets are sold out, but you can still participate by making a donation or bidding in the online auction, which will be open until 3/17/25.  For more information, contact: tara.cannon347@gmail.com.

The IHS Crab Feed has a generous $125K match from the Dave & Cheryl Duffield Foundation. 

Donations, Silent Auction bids (online), and Live and FAN proxies are available on the website link below. 

You can bid on Flights over Lake Tahoe, amazing buy-in parties and an incredible Napa trip – a private flight for up to 8 people and two exclusive wineries and chef catered lunch.

https://inclineboosters.ejoinme.org/crabfeed2025

Follies practice has begun!

We will let you know when the tickets go on sale, but mark your calendar now for the performances!

May 2nd and 3rd, 2025

Duffield Theater

Ad and Sponsorship packages are available now!  Reach out to maryd@inclineeducationfund.org for more information.

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Thank You, John Crockett, for 19 Years of Service

March 11, 2025 | Member Submitted

After nearly 19 years of dedicated service to our community with Washoe County Library System, we are bidding a heartfelt farewell to John Crockett, who has served as the Branch Manager of the Incline Village Library since 2018. Throughout his time with the library system, John has been a tireless advocate for the library’s mission and a strong, steady presence in our daily operations. His leadership, unwavering commitment to our patrons, and passion for promoting literacy and learning have made an indelible impact on both our staff and the community we serve.

As John transitions to an exciting new role with Washoe County, we are grateful for all the contributions he has made to the library. While we will certainly miss his guidance and warmth, we are excited for what the future holds for him in his new position. 

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“SWEET AS HONEY” Production Takes The Stage!

March 11, 2025 | Member Submitted

Disney’s WINNIE THE POOH KIDS – Playing at Lake Tahoe School in Incline Village – Allie Sacci

Disney’s Winnie the Pooh KIDS is playing at Lake Tahoe School on Friday, March 28, 2025, at 5:30 pm. The 30-minute musical, designed for elementary school-aged performers, is based on the 2011 animated feature film. The Lake Tahoe School Drama Club cast includes 37 students ranging from 2nd to 8th grade, led by Ms. Amory Bundy. 

“We are beyond proud of our multi-age production of Winnie the Pooh Kids,” Ms. Amory shares. “Students have given their all to make this short musical one not to be missed.”

Disney’s Winnie the Pooh KIDS is a timeless story about friendship and adventure based on the beloved characters of A.A. Milne and the 2011 Disney animated feature film. Welcome to the Hundred Acre Wood, where Winnie the Pooh is once again in search of honey. Along the way, he meets his pals Tigger, Piglet, Rabbit, and Owl, but soon discovers that Christopher Robin has been captured by the mysterious Backson! As they prepare for a rescue operation, the animals learn about teamwork, friendship, and of course… sharing snacks. Featuring classic songs by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, plus new hits by Academy Award-winning songwriters Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen), this honey-filled delight is as sweet as it is fun.

Admission is free and open to the community.

Disney’s Winnie the Pooh KIDS is presented through special arrangement with and all materials provided by Music Theatre International. For more information about licensing Winnie the Pooh KIDS or other Disney shows, please visit www.DisneyMusicals.com.

Lake Tahoe School (LTS) is an independent preschool through eighth grade in Incline Village, Nevada, founded in 1997. Our mission at Lake Tahoe School is to create a joyful and academically challenging environment that echoes the wonder of Lake Tahoe, cultivates community, and sparks personal discovery that leads to an extraordinary future for every student.

Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form.

MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists, and bookwriters of these musicals to provide official scripts, musical materials, and dynamic theatrical resources to over 70,000 professional, community, and school theatres in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide.

MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theatre and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway Junior® shows are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by elementary and middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s School Editions are musicals annotated for performance by high school students.

allie.sacci@laketahoeschool.org

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In The News – Family and community rally to launch Tahoe Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus

March 8, 2025 | Member Submitted

Originally Published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 3/8/2025, Staff Report

When faced with challenges, family and community provide the foundation for resilience. This was evident when James and Nancy Rawie embarked on creating the Tahoe Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus. With unwavering support, a majority of the orchestra and chorus members followed Rawie into this new endeavor, collectively donating over 50% of the necessary $75K funds to ensure the continuation of 40 annual classical concerts in the Reno-Tahoe region.

Maestro James Rawie founded and led a Classical Music organization for the past 19 years, conducting over 100 classical music performances. Annual favorites included The Messiah, Saint Matthew’s Passion, and Violin Concertos.

In the summer of 2024, a difficult decision led to the separation from his founding orchestra worrying his devoted musicians and singers who had performed with him for nearly two decades. However, Rawie’s characteristic energy and persistence led to the formation of a new organization: Tahoe Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus.

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