April 16, 2025 | Kristin Derrin
We are pleased to share our 2024 Annual Report, featuring our community events, business member programs, community connection initiatives, member promotion, and more! We thank our members and community supporters for helping build sustainability for the cohesiveness of Incline Village and Crystal Bay! We are excited for another year of supporting our thriving community.
April 16, 2025 | Member Submitted
Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino, a spacious year-round resort nestled in the stunning natural beauty of North Lake Tahoe’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, announces its 2025 Easter “Egg-stravaganza” Carnival and signature Easter Dinner at Osteria Sierra. These festive holiday events will feature a schedule of activities to help guests get in the spring spirit.
“We are excited to host the 2025 ‘Egg-stravaganza’ Carnival in celebration of Easter weekend,” said Julie Orblych, director of spa & wellness at Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino. “The event will offer a fun-filled day of activities the entire family will love, with everything from themed carnival games to a special visit from the Easter Bunny.”
The Easter “Egg-stravaganza” Carnival will take place on Saturday, April 19, between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. in the Regency Ballroom and is available to guests of the resort only. Festivities will include a bouncy house, traditional carnival games, and Easter-inspired crafts. The Easter Bunny will be available for pictures from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. at a designated photo booth, offering families a memorable photo opportunity. In addition to these activities, attendees can enjoy a special DJ set from the popular DJ Joolz, known for her energetic performances. Food and drinks will also be available for purchase throughout the afternoon.
Reno Rabbit Rescue will be on hand, bringing in rabbits for a unique petting zoo experience. Guests will have the chance to meet and pet these adorable animals while learning about rabbit care and awareness, as part of Reno Rabbit Rescue’s ongoing mission to promote comprehensive rabbit welfare. Since 2019, Reno Rabbit Rescue has been dedicated to saving bunny lives across Northern Nevada, with a focus on educating the public about the care and well-being of rabbits.
To cap off the holiday weekend, Osteria Sierra will host an Easter dinner on Sunday, April 20 between 5:00 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. In addition to its full à la carte menu, the restaurant will offer exclusive Easter-inspired specials, including foie gras con fragole balsamiche, a rich dish featuring pan-seared foie gras with white polenta cake and macerated balsamic strawberries, as well as Spaghetti Puttanesca with roasted tiger shrimp and anchovy pearls. Guests can indulge in the pistachio encrusted Colorado lamb rack or finish the evening with torta di ricotta di pasqua, a citrus ricotta cheesecake with elderberry flower sorbet. A curated selection of Cakebread Cellars Wine will also be available to complement the meal.
Reservations for the Easter Dinner at Osteria Sierra are required and can be made by visiting: https://www.exploretock.com/osteria-sierra or by calling (775) 886-6673.
For more information or to book a getaway to Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, please visit HyattRegencyLakeTahoe.com, or call (775) 832-1234.
About Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino
Situated among the towering peaks of the Sierra Nevada mountains, the award-winning Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino offers a premier destination based in the nature-infused setting of North Lake Tahoe. The resort is home to an on-site Adventure program offering daily guided activities to help guests explore the Tahoe outdoors with everything from group hikes and archery classes to meditation sessions. Guests can enjoy premium amenities such as a year-round heated lagoon-style pool, two hot tubs, and a 25,000 square-foot Grand Lodge Casino. The resort also boasts the 20,000 square-foot Stillwater Spa featuring a variety of relaxing massages, facials and body treatments as well as state-of-the-art touchless therapies including the Cryobuilt Cryochamber, “Pearl” a revolutionary float orb, and the “Harmony” bioacoustic mat. The property showcases premier dining opportunities at the brand-new Osteria Sierra offering elevated Italian cuisine, pub-style fare at Cutthroat’s Saloon, and grab-and-go selections at Tahoe Provisions. Additional culinary delights include afternoon tea service on the weekends and a selection world-class pastries created by the resort’s renowned team of pastry chefs. Recognized for excellence, the resort has garnered numerous awards including Travel + Leisure’s 500 Best Hotels in the World, Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best, Condé Nast Traveler’s Readers’ Choice Awards, Smart Meetings Smart Stars Awards, and U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hotel Awards.
Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe Resort, Spa and Casino is located on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe, at 111 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, NV, 89451. For more information, visit HyattRegencyLakeTahoe.com or follow the resort on Facebook or Instagram.
About Hyatt Regency hotels
The Hyatt Regency brand is a global collection of hotels and resorts found in more than 200 locations in over 40 countries around the world. The depth and breadth of this diverse portfolio, from expansive resorts to urban city centers, is a testament to the brand’s evolutionary spirit. For more than 50 years, the Hyatt Regency brand has championed fresh perspectives and enriching experiences, while its forward-thinking philosophy provides guests with inviting spaces that bring people together and foster a spirit of community. As a hospitality original, Hyatt Regency hotels and resorts are founded on openness—our colleagues consistently serve with open minds and open hearts to deliver unforgettable celebrations, effortless relaxation and notable culinary experiences alongside expert meetings and technology-enabled collaboration. The brand prides itself on an everlasting reputation for insightful care—one that welcomes all people across all countries and cultures, generation after generation.
For more information, please visit hyatt.com
April 16, 2025 | Linda Offerdahl
Incline churches are active in our community in many ways, helping the needy and lending support to individuals and nonprofits. Many people have found a church home here. But, if you are one of those who only attend on the big religious holidays, this weekend is IT! Brave the cold for the traditional sunrise service at Burnt Cedar with Pastor Jeff Ogden and the Village Church. St. Francis has a sunrise service too, but in the sanctuary at 7 am. St. Patrick’s and Cornerstone also have Easter services. Most have an Easter egg hunt, or breakfast (St. Francis), and Village Church also has a traditional Easter brunch. And of course, check websites for other services during Easter week.
The Hyatt Easter dinner is a great reason to head over to Osteria Sierra after the Easter Egg Hunt at the Hyatt.
If you are looking for something special for a sweet gift, check out the Tandem chocolates (handcrafted and hand-painted!) at Tahoe Gifting Company.
PREPARING FOR WILD-FIRE SEASON
What can we do to protect our property against fires and help to keep our insurance? Attend the vegetation management and home hardening workshop at Prim Library on the UNR campus. It is one of a series of workshops throughout April.
YARD CLEAN-UP is important too. IVGID starts its yard waste pick-up on May 5. Look for the stickers (96 free!) in the mail; the yard waste bags must have the stickers in order to be picked up. NLTFPD starts its defensible space appointments and curbside chipping in mid-May as well.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Incline Star Follies at the high school, May 2-3
GREASE is the Word fundraiser for Lake Tahoe School on May 17. Check out the ICE, Incline Center for Events at Bowl Incline!
Wine on the Water Dinner Series – May 2, May 16, and June 25
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April 15, 2025 | Member Submitted
Submitted by Tia Rancourt, North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District
Incline Village, NV — With warmer weather on the horizon, it’s time to spring into action and prepare for wildfire season. The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District will soon begin offering Defensible Space Inspections and Curbside Chipping Services for residents of Incline Village and Crystal Bay.
Online registration starts on May 5, 2025, and services will begin the week of May 12, 2025.
Visit www.nltfpd.org/curbside-chipping for full details and to submit your request.
Here’s what to expect:
To help us continue offering these services at no cost, we ask that you fill out the online request form thoroughly and accurately.
Creating defensible space is one of the most important actions you can take to protect your home from wildfire. As part of this effort, NLTFPD can issue free tree removal permits for fire hazard trees—however, tree removal must be part of a complete defensible space treatment.
For Waste Management curbside yard debris collection information, including dates and guidelines, please click here.
Finally, don’t forget to sign up for emergency alert notifications to stay informed during the wildfire season. Washoe County utilizes the Rave Alert system—you can register here: Sign Up – Smart911, or by downloading the Smart911 app.
Let’s work together to keep our community safe and fire ready.
April 12, 2025 | McAvoy Lane
Some seek power, others seek fortune, others yet seek fame, but most folks just want to lead healthy, happy lives with their family, friends and neighbors. So how about a campaign to make America kind again, MAKA, a movement to encourage thinking with the heart ahead of algorithms and artificial intelligence.
We have a literary society in Carson City, “The Never Sweats,” and our common bond is, “Love of History and Love of Community.” We meet for lunch once a month to regale in conversation about books, essays, journalism and fanciful stories. One always comes away from these gatherings feeling smarter and better off. We can’t take on any new members at present, as we have filled the Mark Twain Room at the Fox to capacity.
Incline Village boasts a similar society, OLTAC, The Old Lake Tahoe Athletic Club, whose common bond is, “The older we get the better we were.” We gather together to watch sporting events on television or play poker while smoking cigars and sipping whiskey. Our motto is, “I don’t give a _____ what you think!” Yes we do swear on occasion, but our swearing is lighthearted, musical, and carries no guile. Not unlike the Never Sweats, OLTAC is camaraderie at its best.
Having friends in both of these first-rate societies, I feel I am a better person for the association, and yet I know little about any member’s political or religious beliefs. All I know about my pals for sure is that they are cultured, well-read, well-traveled, and kind.
So I think I’ll have some red baseball caps made up that say, MAKA and give one to each of our honorable Never Sweats and OLTAC members in good faith.
I have recently changed my voter registration to No Political Party, so I can better examine everybody else’s political and religious beliefs, and not try to push my political or religious beliefs onto anybody else. Just because someone has beliefs that are not congruous to our own, does not mean we have to dislike that person, or worse yet, consider them to be an enemy. We need to lighten up, show some compassion, and exhibit some kindness toward those who do not believe as we do.
On my journey toward making America kind again, I try to imbue my life with music, instrumentals mostly, though I do like Barbara Streisand’s words, “People who need people are the luckiest people in the world.” And too, friends who lend a little light-hearted humor and warmth to my day are always appreciated. A kind word, a smile, a wave, a tip of the hat, these are gestures that carry goodwill and benevolence. Our world, our country, our community is sorely in need of more of these heartfelt gestures.
So let us each be a living Statue of Liberty, in the spirit of that wonderful gift from France, and honor our American ideals, and liberty and democracy…
April 12, 2025 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the Lake Tahoe School – Bobcat Newsletter
Three years ago, we created the Lake Tahoe School Speaker Series to provide opportunities for parents, faculty, and students to hear in person from authors and educators worldwide on current topics common to PreK3 to Grade Eight education. Now known as The Doyle Family Speaker Series, we have also intended from its inception for the series to be open to the larger Tahoe Basin community – both to help share these visits with those interested outside our immediate school community and to further position Lake Tahoe School as a recognized center for educational excellence in our region.
With speakers and topics ranging from sleep to self-esteem, pre-teen and teen issues, bullying and anxiety to social media, our offerings three times per year have attempted to address all related matters to raising a child and being one. To this end, during their visit, each speaker addresses parents, appropriately aged students, and the faculty separately while on campus. Our speakers engage all three groups thoroughly with their talks and a usually lively question and answer period.
In that vein, we are excited to share our final speaker of the year and her relevance to current issues regarding children and their exposure to and use of social media. Devorah Heitner, PhD, author of Screenwise and Growing Up in Public, will be our guest on Tuesday, April 15. Dr. Heitner will discuss the critical topic of children and their digital world with special emphasis on digital citizenship, bullying in digital spaces, and our children’s use of screen time.
Dr. Heitner’s schedule for Tuesday, April 15, is as follows:
9:00 am- 10:15 am – All parents and guests in the Bobcat Treehouse
10:30 am – 11:30 am – 3rd-5th grades
1:30 pm – 2:30 pm – Middle School students
3:15 pm- 4:00 pm – Faculty and staff
While it seems these days that all issues are critical with children, it is essential that we, as parents, better understand what those issues are and how we might deal with them. With social media engulfing all of us at any age, nothing is more important than helping our children understand and navigate their role and how they and we might best protect them from its excesses. Please join us this coming Tuesday and bring a guest as well. Hope to see you there.
Welcome back to another great week ahead!
Bob
April 11, 2025 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 4/11/2025, Written by Katelyn Welsh
The bill goes by Senate Bill 83 this legislative session, but it’s not the first time a bill of this kind has seen Nevada legislative chambers. This bill, and those prior like it, are important for maintaining Lake Tahoe’s clarity, environmental health, and accessibility.
The reason—the bill is the mechanism that funds Nevada’s portion of the Environmental Improvement Program, which is a project-based multi-agency collaboration across both California and Nevada to improve Lake Tahoe’s environmental health.
“What we do is so critical to the environment of Lake Tahoe and restoring the lake and the basin,” Kevin Fromherz says with the Nevada Division of State Lands, which is the agency sponsoring the bill. “The success of this funding will be success of these projects.”
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April 8, 2025 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 04/08/2025, Staff Report
Classical Tahoe returns for its 14th season from July 12 to Aug. 10, bringing four weeks of world-class orchestral, jazz and chamber music performances to North Lake Tahoe. The festival features 16 captivating concerts with an exceptional lineup of over 60 elite musicians, conductors, dancers and artists. Set against the breathtaking backdrop of Lake Tahoe, Classical Tahoe offers an intimate and immersive concert experience where music and nature harmonize to create unique performances. Events will be held at the Ricardi Pavilion at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe and various venues throughout Incline Village. Tickets are available for purchase online here.
“Our open-air venues create a deep connection between music and nature. Over four immersive weeks, audiences can experience a diverse lineup, from jazz to ballet, symphony orchestra to chamber music,” said Laura Hamilton, Classical Tahoe artistic director. “Each performance is designed to be a ‘WOW’ moment that lingers long after the final note.”
April 5, 2025 | McAvoy Lane
I remember that first taste…Dear Old Dad was working on the Chevy in the garage, and asked if I would bring him a beer from the refrigerator in the kitchen. I was maybe thirteen. So I grabbed a beer out of the box, opened it for Dad, carried it into the garage and presented it to him. He took a sip, looked at me real hard, and asked, “Where’s the rest of it?”
Yes, at thirteen years old I knew two things for certain, I hated the taste of brussel sprouts and loved the taste of the Land of Sky Blue Waters…
Then at sixteen, when I got my driver’s license, Sneaky Legs Calhoun and I would drive out to the Golden Gate Bridge on a Sunday, climb along the beams and trusses below the deck floor, and dive into the safety nets they hung for the painters. This was our church on Sunday, where we could smoke cigars in the aroma of the Folgers Coffee plant and brewery of the Land of Sky Blue Waters. Yes, on those Sky Blue Water Sundays all was right with the world…
While returning from spring break to the University of Oregon three of us SAE’s stopped into the Swallows Tavern and loaded the trunk with a couple cases of Sky Blue Waters. As I was in charge of quality control and not driving, I suggested we stop at Shasta Lake for a leap off the Shasta bridge, which we did, and as each of us was composed of bones made entirely of Indian rubber, not one of us got hurt. Were we to replicate that stunt today, well, onlookers would merely cross themselves and call the coroner.
Fast forwarding, I spent my thirties on the Island of Maui, hosting the morning radio show. My barber, Barbara, had a shop in Wailuku next to a flower shop, and the ladies in that flower shop were nice enough to let me keep a six pack of Sky Blue Waters in one of their refrigerators so I could enjoy a beer while getting my hair cut…
A few years later, while portraying Mark Twain in Carson City I got together after hours with Snowshoe Thompson, One Eyed Charley Parkhurst and Julia Bulette for a couple Sky Blue Waters, and darned if long about midnight, we didn’t own the Hot Springs the capitol, and the Mint!
Finally arriving in the comfortable confines of retirement I had to laugh when my grown son asked me, “Dad, how come you drink that crappy frat beer?”
“Hey, you can knock Dad’s beer, and you can drink Dad’s beer…not both! Why don’t you bring me one when you come back this way.”
My son grabbed a Land of Sky Blue Waters out of the box and delivered it to me out on the deck. I took a long cool draught, then looked at my son and asked, “Where’s the rest of it?”
For audio click and scroll: https://open.spotify.com/show/7Fhv4PrH1UuwlhbnTT23zO
April 1, 2025 | Member Submitted
Originally Published in the Tahoe Daily Tribune, 04/01/2025, Written by Katelyn Welsh
The Incline High School boys and girls swim team secured their first meet win of the season on Friday, March 28 against Fernley High School.
“Their training and experience in competition is paying off,” coach Ken Reese says.
The win came from a combination of the teams’ scores and finishes. Although this was the Highlanders’ first meet this season against Fernley and fourth meet overall, certain swimmers are already meeting the minimum qualifying time required to swim in regionals at the end of the season.
Photos by Ken Reese – IHS