Local Lens – Engage to Build Community Where We LIVE.WORK.PLAY.
April 19, 2023 | Linda Offerdahl
Incline Village has a few community issues to address this month and your engagement is needed!
MOBILITY HUB
The location of an Incline Village Mobility Hub has generated mixed opinions. It is important for Incline Village to be a part of the regional solution for transportation and to support workforce transportation solutions from Reno and Carson. Additionally, reducing the number of vehicles on the road is a goal, and providing visitors with the opportunity to leave their cars behind is one way to encourage sustainable travel and tourism. To help direct the conversation about community needs, residents can participate in a survey about what the mobility hub should entail and/or attend a mobility hub workshop on April 20.
Public schools play a critical role in the Incline Village community, and the community is being asked for input on two issues. One is a policy revision of an Administration Regulation (7087) that removes local input from the process for school closures within the school district. The public comment period has been extended until April 27 to hear from educators, parents, and community members. Click here for more information and ways to submit your comment.
The other issue involves the Washoe County School District’s long-term plan to modernize all district school facilities, which could lead to the closure of Incline Middle School. The district is requesting community participation in an online survey in advance of a second community meeting on May 3 at Incline High School.
Earth Week is also being celebrated this month, with Earth Day falling on April 24. The Take Care Tahoe organization has a lot of ideas for celebrating at the Tahoe Earth Week Challenge, and visitors can also find ways to be a steward of North Lake Tahoe by visiting the Travel North Tahoe Nevada website or participating in Sustain Tahoe’s Incline Village Earth Walk, available year-round.
There are a number of community meetings that take place monthly at which you can learn more about community issues and how to get involved, including the Community Forum the 1st and 3rd Friday of each month at the Incline Library and the Washoe County Citizen Advisory Board (CAB) Meeting on May 1 at 5:30 at the Incline Library or on Zoom.
New Member Welcome – Corman Group | eXp Realty Luxury
April 19, 2023 | Grace Hubrig
Jeffrey Corman is the CEO of Corman Group eXp Realty, a real estate company based in Incline Village, Nevada. He founded the company in 2013, and under his leadership, it has become a leading player in the local real estate market.
Jeffrey has a wealth of experience in the industry, and is known for his expertise in both residential and commercial real estate. He has a reputation for being a skilled negotiator and has helped countless clients buy and sell properties in the Incline Village area.
Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation Welcomes Newest Board Members
April 19, 2023 | Member Submitted
Kendra Wong offers an extensive background in finance and accounting, as well as community involvement as our newest member of the Community Foundation Board. She is currently the Principal Accounting Officer at LENSAR, Inc and has served in a variety of consulting and advisory roles. She is a Certified Public Accountant and an Associate Professor Emeritus at University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe, formerly Sierra Nevada University. Kendra received a BS in Managerial Economics from the University of California, Davis and an MBA from Arizona State University. She and her family reside in Incline Village where they love being close to their favorite activities: golfing, hitting the slopes of Diamond Peak, or hanging at the pool or beach. Kendra supports the Community Foundation because of the immense support they provide to non-profits in the community. By investing in the Community Foundation, she feels her time and donations have a greater impact by benefiting several community needs.
Mark Holmlund brings his expertise in investments to the Board here at the Community Foundation. He and his wife are full-time residents in Glenbrook where together they own Alaethes Wealth, LLC, an SEC-Registered Investment Advisor. He previously worked for Merrill Lynch in Los Angeles and Daiwa Securities in San Diego selling fixed income securities to institutional investors. Subsequently he worked for Pacific Life Insurance Company in Newport Beach. Mark has earned his BA in Economics from Willamette University, his MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, and his MA in Historical Theology from Westminster Seminary. Like many, he and his wife arrived in Tahoe for the winter and stayed for the summer! They enjoy skiing, golfing, and the many cultural activities available in Tahoe and Northern Nevada including the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Classical Tahoe, and the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. Having previously served as chairman of the Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, Mark understands and believes in the value a Community Foundation brings to our local community.
April is National Poetry Month, an entire month geared toward celebrating all forms of poetry such as limericks, ballads, acrostic, sonnets, and free verse. It’s a beloved form of literature that allows for freedom of expression and emotion. What better way to take part in poetry month than visiting your local libraries and perusing their collections. Prim Library, UNR at Lake Tahoe, has its own unique collection of more than 3,000 volumes of poetry in its Poetry Center.
If diving into poetic literature isn’t enough to tickle your enthusiasm, then join the Incline Village Library and the Prim Library on April 25, 2023, 6-8 pm for their first Tahoe Poetry Night event! It’s a wonderful way to immerse yourself in the art form and the community. To register as a participant or an audience member visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tahoe-poetry-night-tickets-551601634337
It’s officially summer camp sign-up season! Here are some local summer camps to keep an eye on designed to engage, inspire, entertain, and educate your young ones while they’re out of school! Be sure to bookmark this page so you can visit it again, as we will update this page with updated details.
IVGID
The Incline Village General Improvement District’s recreation venues offer all kinds of fun entertainment for kids and teens, ranging from multi-day golf, tennis, basketball, and volleyball camps to skateboard, paddle, lifeguard, and leadership camps. Summer camp season at IVGID basically kicks off in the final weeks of June and many of the sessions run through August. There are different camps for different age groups appealing to kids and teenagers 5-19 years old.
Seven weeks of summer camp to choose from! Ages 5-14. 6/19-6/23 – Community Service Week 6/26-6/30 – Happenchance Sports Week 7/10-7/14 – Around the World Week 7/17-7/21 – Endurance Sports Week 7/24-7/28 – Individual Sports Week 7/31-8/4 – Team Sports Week 8/7-8/11 – Balance Sports Week
Multi sport – rock climbing, mountain biking, community service, outdoor education, Dance, martial arts, rugby, fencing, soccer, fitness, ultimate frisbee, volleyball, power boards & more!
Full week & or individual day registration available.
The Incline Village Library kicks off summer with its first ever Block Party and Summer Reading program on June 3rd. From 11am-2pm, sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge and claim a free book, play some cornhole, and enjoy hamburgers, hotdogs, and more with your friends, fellow librarians, and neighbors. In early June, Teen Movie Nights will also start to be held at the library every other Tuesday (June 6, June 20, July 11, and July 25) where they can watch a blockbuster movie at the library while snacking on free popcorn at 4pm. Be sure to check out the IVCBA Community Event Calendar for upcoming library events.
On June 20-22nd, kids can participate in the All Together Now Summer Cooking Camp. In this multi-day camp, kids ages 10 and up will learn how to follow a recipe, measuring out ingredients, basic knife skills, kitchen and food safety, and basic cooking techniques to create healthy and delicious meals. The All Together Now Summer Cooking Camp takes place from 1pm-2:30pm all three days; registration for this camp opens on Tuesday, May 23rd.
Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe (BGCNLT)
The Boys & Girls Club runs several daily and multi-day specialty camps at its locations throughout North Lake Tahoe, as well as manages the Duffield Youth Program summer camp in Incline Village that runs for seven weeks in the summer. It usually starts at the end of June or a week or two after school gets out. Get all the details here >
Tahoe Family Solutions Camp Explore
Tahoe Family Solutions also holds Camp Explore summer sessions for five weeks starting at the end of June and running through the beginning of August. In these 5-day/4-night camps, participants go out into the wilderness and learn valuable life skills. TFS admits kids in the 3rd-8th grade and 30 participants are accepted each week. Since these camps are free, they fill up extremely fast. Registration opens in late April or early May.
Lake Tahoe School Summer Camps
Lake Tahoe School offers a whole slew of summer camps that run June 19th through August. In Fairy Fest Camp, kids hear stories and make fairy-related crafts in the woods while the older kids in grades 4-6 make bath soaps and essential oils using natural materials that they can then take home to their families. Storybook and Bobcat Adventure camps incorporate all sorts of activities that are so much fun that the kids won’t even realize that they’re learning.
For the more active students, the Nike girls volleyball camp for ages 10-18 to be held June 26-29 help athletes practice skills and fundamentals allowing them to reach their full potential on the court, and the Nike Basketball Camp held July 10-13th is for both girls and boys where they will practice their footwork, shooting, defense, and offense skills. Tennis and sports camps held June 19-23 and August 7-11th are taught by Incline favorite LTS teachers and coaches Mr. Kris and Mr. Jon and attendees play soccer, lacrosse, basketball, capture the flag, tennis, and more.
Last month, Tahoe Tutoring (located on Southwood Boulevard in Incline Village) launched a survey asking parents with kids in grades K-5 what they’d like to see in its summer academic camps. You can take the survey here! Its summer program usually launches at the end of June and are held for the following eight weeks.
North Tahoe Arts
North Tahoe Arts, Kids Art Camp, is a summer day camp for kids ages 5-12, designed to expose campers to a variety of styles of art and different mediums. They lead hands-on fun in a supportive environment where campers get creative alongside their peers, lead by experienced, kind, and warm staff of art teachers. Campers will explore all kinds of art making, including ceramics, drawing and painting, sculpture, collage, and more!
Saturdays in Tahoe are made for adventure! We will meet at a trailhead each Saturday and have an awesome day filled with wonder and adventure. With the Lake Tahoe Basin as our classroom, we will learn and grow together. All classes will help us learn in some way, how to care for ourselves, our friends, and our environment. Ages 2-9, Saturday 9 am – 4:30 pm.
Tahoe Trail Blazers’ Saturday camps include snacks and enrichment classes such as yoga, tai chi, and local flora/fauna specialists.
Cornerstone Church is offering 2 exciting a fun summer camp this year!
Ambassadors Soccer Camp is back! Cornerstone Community Church is excited to partner with Ambassadors once again to bring this wholesome and unique camp to our community in Incline Village. International coaches will travel to Incline Village to bring a camp that will sharpen your soccer skills, promote good character, deepen your knowledge of the gospel, and spark new friendships.
Vacation Bible School is also back! Cornerstone Kids and Village Christian Church are bringing you 4 days of summer FUN solving the mysteries of the parables told in the Bible. Get ready to put your detective badges on and find clues as we play epic games, create beautiful art, munch on snacks, and make new friendships!
Snow Is Melting, Here Is What You Want To Know About BMPs
April 17, 2023 | Member Submitted
~ Sabrina Belleci | Inside Incline
Spring has arrived! As we watch water flowing down the streets and into the storm drains, it brings to mind the need for each homeowner to complete the BMPs on their property. The TRPA requires that every parcel in the Lake Tahoe basin install erosion control measures to help improve lake clarity.
According to the TRPA “Best Management Practices”, BMPs are methods to help developed properties function more like natural, undisturbed forest and meadowland. Water that is conveyed to a lake by an undisturbed watershed is usually quite pure, because the watershed’s soils and plants act as a natural water purification system. BMPs help developed properties mimic natural conditions, preventing sediment and nutrients from entering our surface waters and filtering runoff water through the soil. By implementing BMPs, property owners can help slow the loss of lake clarity.”
Depending on the location of your property, the type of slope, proximity to a stream zone, soil type, vegetation and other factors, the amount of work required to complete the BMPs on your property can vary dramatically. BMPs for residential properties will often require planting vegetation or distributing mulch on bare land and compacted dirt; directing the runoff from snow melt and storm water, especially from impervious surfaces such as driveways and sidewalks and doing work to stabilize steep slopes and loose soil.
Owners of single-family homes and free-standing PUDS/Condos are responsible for doing the BMP work on their property. If you are considering purchasing an attached condo, then the homeowners association may be responsible for the installation of BMPs. The cost might be paid out of reserves or there could be a special assessment, depending on the financial situation of the particular homeowners association. Freestanding condo owners will very often be responsible for installing BMPs around the footprint of their property with the homeowners association taking responsibility for doing the BMPs in the common areas.
Some of the more common requirements to complete your BMPs are distributing gravel or rock mulch under decks and roof drip lines, repaving deteriorating driveways and sidewalks, revegetating compacted dirt areas and installing slotted drains in places where water tends to run off pavement rapidly or collect in pools.
The Nevada Tahoe Conservation District is a nonprofit organization that will perform a BMP analysis at your property at no charge on an appointment basis. I recommend that any homeowner who has not yet installed their BMPs contact the NTCD at 775-586-1610 and talk with one of the staff members about having an evaluation performed at your property. Another great resource to see if there has been an evaluation completed on your property for your BMPs is the TRPA sponsored website TahoeBMP.org.
Once there is an evaluation completed on your property, you can contact a local landscaping company or contractor to receive a bid on the work needed or you can complete them yourself. Make sure to have the TRPA come out and issue you a certificate of completion so your property complies and you are protecting the clarity of our beautiful lake. All property owners have a responsibility for maintaining their parcels and keeping Lake Tahoe as clear as possible by reducing contamination from sediment and pollutants.
Insider Tip from Inside Incline: Don’t forget to look in your mail for your bright yellow envelope from IVGID. Yard waste stickers are here, and you will need them for spring (May 1 – July 28) and fall (October 1-29) yard clean up. GO GREEN – If you have a small trailer or truck, you can bring your pine needles un-bagged to the transfer station and they will gladly let you dump them in exchange for a few stickers.
If we are what we eat, well, today we can become a previously extinct prehistoric animal that nobody has seen for thousands of years. Yes the Aussies have created a humongous meatball made entirely of wooly mammoth meat grown in a laboratory. No one has yet dared to try a forkful of this delicacy, for fear he might start growing toenails a foot and a half long, then start scratching an itchy ear with that foot. Imagine having an itchy ear, and accidentally removing that ear with a 5,000-year-old foot. Or maybe growing a three-foot tail to get caught in the car door.
Without any takers, and not ready yet to replace the hotdog in Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest on July 4th, Australia’s mammoth meatball remains on display at a science museum.
When I was a kid, we would sometimes call a windy politician a, “meatball.” I don’t hear that epithet anymore, I suppose it’s too mild, but it might be coming back into vogue with the arrival of the Wooly Mammoth Meatball. I would not like to be called a Wooly Mammoth Meatball, but it could happen.
The ungetaroundable fact is, we are going to have to start engineering our food in a lab or starve. Cultured meat will not require land or water, and, will be resistant to pollution.
I confess to having always wanted to be in the Guinness Book of World Records, and I thought once I might make it, after I became the first clown diver in the world to miss the pool and land on his feet, but they didn’t believe me at Guinness, and I didn’t have the video. However, that door was opened again by the possibility of my becoming the first person in the world willing to subsist entirely on Wooly Mammoth Meatballs. Then that door was closed by a friend who reminded me that the Wooly Mammoths died from climate change.
But were I a chicken, and could write in chicken-scratch, (some say I do) I would be holding up a chicken-scratch sign today that would read, “Eat Engineered Chicken! Maybe McDonalds is already doing that and not telling us.
There is some good news that comes with the arrival of an engineered chicken. Now when we are asked, “Which came first the chicken or the engineered egg?” Well, we should know the answer. And it now occurs to me to ask AI’s Bard, “Which came first the chicken or the egg?” but I digress.
Why not treat plastic with a protein so it will taste good, then treat that plastic with pepsin and other powerful enzymes to make it digestible. That way, we could come home from the grocery store, unload the groceries, then sit down and eat the plastic bags. Well, I might make it into the Guinness Book of World Records yet if I can just pull that one off…onward & upward!
In the News: North Tahoe Preservation Alliance to host meeting discussing over development
April 16, 2023 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the Sierra Sun on 4/16/23. Submitted to the Sun.
CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. – Tahoe Preservation Alliance invites you to their first meeting in response to Placer County and TRPA’s proposed Tahoe Basin Area Plan code amendments.
We’ve heard the pitch from TRPA, the County, Developers, and special interests in plenty of forums. This is a unique opportunity for those concerned with the urbanization of the North Shore and those who may have unanswered questions. Do you have concerns about TRPA’s and Placer County’s proposed code changes and new attempts to tax residents/tourists?
The meeting will be held at the North Tahoe Event Center on Friday, April 21 at 5:30-7 p.m.
In the News: Local business leaders elected to North Tahoe Community Alliance board
April 16, 2023 | Member Submitted
Originally published in the Sierra Sun on 4/14/23. Submitted to the Sun.
NORTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Eight local business leaders representing West Shore lodging, food & beverage businesses at large, the Tahoe City Downtown Association, Northstar Business Association, Homewood Mountain Club, Northstar California Resort, Everline Resort & Spa and The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe were elected by the North Tahoe Community Alliance (NTCA)/Chamber of Commerce membership to join the volunteer board of directors for the NTCA.
The members seated will help make recommendations about how to leverage TBID and TOT funds generated in the community. Each will serve a three-year term.
