The Local Lens – Community Clean-Up and Beautification

We don’t need a reason or a day to pick up litter and trash, but if you are one of those people who need a schedule, Saturday is the day. Why not take a purposeful walk by picking up a trash bag and litter grabber at the library first?  Your rewards for helping are mostly intrinsic, but there IS a reward at the end, a BBQ at the Incline Library Block Party. There will be plenty of things for kids to do with the nonprofit “meet and greet” tables, and it gives them a chance to sign up for the summer reading program. Thank you to all the participants, but especially to Waste Not and Incline Library.

While you are out there,  stop and smell the lilacs along the way!  It is the season for so many blooming flowers, our village truly is “Inclined to Bloom” this time of year. IVCBA has installed flowers in the Christmas Tree Village and in the Village Center(more coming).  A big shout-out goes to Jason Jurss with Happy Tiers for installing the brackets and flowers in Christmas Tree Village. 

When we first started this campaign, people wondered how we would pay for it. I said that businesses and the community would get behind it. The first businesses to do so are Happy
Tiers, Village Pet Foundation,  Sierra Verde, Pet Network Thrift Store,  the Fitness Loft, and the Rotary Clubs. Incline Tahoe Foundation is our partner. If you want to help, make a charitable donation at Inclinethahoe.org. Look for Main Street Beautification on the Projects tab of find the QR code of the graphic in SnapShot. 

The second thing people wondered about is how we will water these flowers. Not an easy task!  We are relying on merchants and property managers like IPM and Tano at Village Center. But we can use volunteers! If you help water these flowers, reach out to me at Linda@IVCBA.org.

Fire Adapted Communities and Defensible Space

North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District makes such a difference in our community. They work tirelessly to keep our community safe from fire in many ways. They provide free pickup for lawn waste. We take it for granted, but not every community does that.  Tom Milhoff and the Upper Tyner neighborhood have set a high bar and standard for other neighborhoods to become Fire Safe and become a Fire Adapted Community. Linda Kahrs is organizing the Lariat Circle neighbors; we hope to connect with other Lower Tyner neighborhoods too.

If you can’t tell, I am “ALL IN” on this clean-up and beautification thing. I hope you are, too.

If I have any energy left on Saturday, I will stop in at Cornerstone’s Community Market. It sounds like a yard sale AND a venue for anyone selling custom crafts. In the evening, there is a concert “Words to Water” at Bowl Incline to support Steve and Tracy Tomkovicz’s favorite charity, supplying water to needy communities in the world.

One more thing: IVCBA just filled Welcome Bags with goodies and literature from many of our businesses, nonprofits, and agencies. If you are new to town or know someone who is, reach out to Info@IVCBA.org to get one!

Have a great weekend!

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