Tahoe Backcountry Women is a recently organized group of regional women who love to backcountry ski. The next gathering will be March 14 from 6:30-8:30pm at Alpenglow Sports in Tahoe City.
This event will be centered on informal avalanche beacon practice. Women of all ages and abilities are welcome to do some practice searches.
Bring a beacon, headlamp, and warm clothes.
For more information, call Alpenglow Sports at (530) 583.6917 or email whitney@alpenglowsports.com.
Tahoe Writers Works will host a reading from the fifth volume of the annual literary journal “EDGE” at 88 Cups Coffee in Minden on March 10 at 1pm.
Select contributors will be on hand to sign the journal.
“EDGE” is an award-winning literary journal published each year by Tahoe Writers Works. It features provocative fiction, poetry, essays, and art, from artists both local and global.
Tahoe Writers Works is a nonprofit organization based. Each year, the group organizes events to create a stronger
literary and arts community, including Bare Bones Open Mic and Murder Mystery Theater at Valhalla.
A benefit to raise money to protect Washoe Meadows State Park will be March 12 from 4-9pm at Lake Tahoe Pizza Company.
Fifteen percent of sale will go to the Save the Park Fund.
Tahoe Cool Water will provide the music. There will also be a cash-only silent auction.
Lake Tahoe Pizza Company is at 1168 Highway 50, South Lake Tahoe.
For more information, email washoemeadowsinfo@yahoo.com.
Will Richardson of the Tahoe Institute for Natural Science will speak about Winter Wildlife Survival: Strategies for the Tahoe Basin on March 8.
The 7pm event at Emerald Bay Physical Therapy is sponsored by the Tahoe Area Sierra Club.
Have you ever wondered what Tahoe’s animals do for the winter? Do Tahoe’s bears really hibernate? Exactly what is hibernation, anyway? Where do the frogs go? What about the birds, squirrels, and insects?
This talk will present an overview of the strategies used by Tahoe wildlife for enduring long Sierra Nevada winters, and highlight many fascinating examples of how these strategies are employed.
Emerald Bay Physical Therapy is at 812 Emerald Bay Road, South Lake Tahoe.
Placer County has proposed developing a biomass power generation facility near the Eastern Regional Material Recovery Facility at Cabin Creek. The proposed biomass power generation facility would be located on county-owned land off Highway 89 between Squaw Valley and Truckee.
A meeting to discuss the project is set for March 13 from 9am-1pm at 305 Squaw Valley Road, Olympic Valley, First Floor Community Room.
For more information, call (530) 745.3011 or email bstorey@placer.ca.gov.
J.S. Bach’s “Passion According to St. Matthew” will be presented by TOCCATA — Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus — from March 31 through April 6.
Many consider this to be Bach’s greatest masterpiece.
Performances are March 31 at 4pm at Sierra Bible Church in Truckee; April 2 at 7pm at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church in Reno; April 4 at 7pm at St. Theresa Catholic Church in South Lake Tahoe; and April 6 at 7pm at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church in Incline Village.
Tickets are available at the door with cash or check or online with a credit card.
For more information, call (775) 313.9697, or email ToccataTahoe@gmail.com.
Tahoe Regional Young Professionals’ development and education speaker series kicks off March 15 with Alfred Knotts, principal planner-project manager for the Tahoe Transportation District.
Knotts will present plans associated with the Highway 50 South Shore Community Revitalization Project, a proposed plan that would wipe-out a long-established neighborhood in South Lake Tahoe and in its place put a state highway.
This is locally known as the loop road project.
The idea is to make the Stateline area more pedestrian friendly for tourists, turning the current highway into a city street and the city streets locals use to bypass the casino corridor into the highway, with highway going behind Harrah’s and MontBleu.
Knotts will explain how proponents believe the project will provide safety and environmental improvements, economic vitality, and enhance the community and visitor experience with reduced congestion.
The meeting is from 6-9pm at the Lake Tahoe Airport’s Flight Deck Restaurant and Bar.
For more information, email TahoeTRYP@gmail.com.
Strap on your cross country skis and get ready to live the thrill of Olympic competition.
The West Shore Business Association and Turning Point Tahoe are sponsoring a Citizens Against the Clock event which puts skiers of all ages and abilities on a short cross country ski course followed by an electronic rifle shooting range. The idea is to provide a safe and family friendly way to experience this Olympic sport.
State Park volunteers will be on hand for March 11 10am-1pm event at Sugar Pine Point State Park on the West Shore.
Turning Point Tahoe will be providing adaptive skiing options.
Each skier will be electronically timed and the results posted. The event is free. There is an $8 per vehicle parking fee.
For more information, call (530) 583.3074.
Lake Tahoe Unified School District’s “March Madness” bands in concert is March 7 at 7pm.
The free event is at South Tahoe Middle School.
The concert features 170 middle school and elementary advanced fifth-graders performing for one hour.
The North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce and the Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Sierra Human Resources Association are offering “Time Management for Busy People: Getting Things Done in 2012” on March 13 from 9am to noon.
Registration begins at 8:30am at Cedar House Sport Hotel, 10918 Brockway Road in Truckee.
Attendees will learn how to identify timewasters and the reasons why they procrastinate, explore the reality of the demands of their jobs, discover if they are addicted to urgency, get perspective on what matters most in their lives, prioritize what is important and what is urgent, uncover their prime real estate, as well as become skillful in the 50 high-impact tips to beat the clock and time management tools.
The workshop will be lead by Laura Moriarty, president of the SHRA and co-founder of Tahoe Training Partners, which is a human resources and management-training solutions consulting firm located near Lake Tahoe, California.
Registration is $49 for chamber of commerce and SHRA members and $59 for non-members if registered before March 12. Last-minute registration runs $59 for chamber and SHRA members and $69 for non-members. Seating is limited.
To register and for more information, call Moriarty at (530) 573.0224.