The Mooneys are about to take over Lake Tahoe Airport.

After a two-year hiatus, Mooney Aircraft owners and pilots are returning to South Lake Tahoe for their largest fly-inn in the nation. They will be in town June 21-23.

Mooney Aircraft Company has manufactured more than 11,000 aircraft. The Mooney line is renowned for high performance and efficiency, achieving 132 world speed records, the fastest trans-continental flight in a single engine piston powered aircraft, the fastest single engine civilian aircraft ever produced and the first aircraft produced to achieve 200-plus mph from a 200 horsepower engine.

At the last Gathering of Mooneys, aircraft owners, pilots and passengers set a record by having more Mooney Aircraft on the ramp at Lake Tahoe Airport than at any other time or place in history. Approximately 200 people were in attendance from around the country.

• Valhalla’s free concert series starts June 16 with the South Tahoe High School jazz band performing from noon-2pm. The Tallac Historic Site is located two miles past the intersection of highways 50 and 89, just past Camp Richardson, on the lake side of Highway 89.

• Lake Tahoe Community College’s graduation is June 28 at 6pm in the gym.

• AAA Carson City gave the Carson City fire and sheriff’s departments $2,500 each for public education materials and the K9 unit, respectively.

• Truckee is hosting a site walk for the Tahoe Donner to Downtown Trail on May 31 from 8:30 to 11:30am. Park at flat area on Euer Valley Road accessed from Bridge Street. For more info, call (530) 582.2938.

• Elizabeth Carmel, a former land use planner and adviser with extensive experience working in the Sierra, was appointment by Assembly Speaker John Perez, D-Los Angeles, to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Governing Board.

Lake Tahoe News has teamed up with the El Dorado County Fair to send eight people to the annual shindig in Placerville. We will be giving away four pairs of tickets.

The fair is June 13-16 and the tickets will be good any one of those days.

To win the first set of tickets, be the first person to correctly write as a comment what year fair officials have on record as being the first El Dorado County Fair.

The winner must agree to have their full name published. Winners must be part of LTN‘s NEWS Team or a paid subscriber. Here is a paid subscriber form for those who need one.

The second annual Virginia City Wine Walk is May 25 beginning at 10am.

It will be followed by the Celebration of Heroes Parade down C Street, the historic town’s main drive, honoring U.S. heroes. The parade begins at noon in front of Fourth Ward School.

Glasses for the wine walk are sold in Delta Saloon parking lot until 3:30pm. The walk lasts until 5pm, with 21 participating locations. Early bird tickets may be purchased online for $15 until May 23. Regular price is $20.

For more information, call(775) 847.7500.

BloodSource will have a South Lake Tahoe blood drive June 10 from noon-6pm to meet the community need for blood and blood products.

Walk-ins are welcome.

Blood drive participants will receive a parking validation for the Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel (formerly Embassy Suites) parking lot at the blood drive check in. Participates will receive a coupon for one personal size pizza from Round Table Pizza at the Y and earn MyBloodSource rewards.

The blood drive is sponsored by the Barton Memorial Hospital Auxiliary.

Donors must weigh at least 110 pounds, be at least 17 years old (16 with a signed BloodSource Parental consent form) and be generally healthy. There is no upper age limit for blood donations. Donors must bring a photo ID and should drink plenty of fluids before donating.

For more information, call Dan Kerr at (775) 781.5343.

• Here are two possibilities for hikes on June 1 – National Trails Day.

• South Lake Tahoe’s Planning Commission on May 23 at 3pm will discuss the Chateau project. Here is the agenda.

• Sugar Bowl plans to build the Crow’s Peak chairlift at the western end of the resort this summer.

• El Dorado County Board of Supervisors honored Mark Divittorio for helping to rescue a family last month when their car plunged into the South Fork of the American River.

• Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy’s graduation is June 29 at noon at Lake Tahoe Community College.

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office Citizen Corps is offering a free emergency preparedness and response training academy beginning June 6.

The Community Emergency Response Team Academy provides residents with the information they need to help save lives and reduce trauma in the event of an emergency. CERT Academy training includes disaster preparedness, emergency medical techniques, fire safety, search and rescue, disaster psychology, and terrorism awareness education.

Training is conducted by Citizen Corps staff and volunteers along with appropriate subject matter experts. The training is free and trainees are not required to become a Citizen Corps volunteer to participate.

The CERT Academy offers 24 hours of training during six sessions over two consecutive weekends. Training takes place at the Regional Public Safety Training Center located at 5190 Spectrum Blvd., Reno.

Children 12-15 may participate with parent’s supervision, teens 16-17 with parent’s permission. To sign up for training, call CERT Program Coordinator Derek Russell at (775) 325.6928 or email drussell@washoecounty.us

For more information about the Washoe County Citizen Corps, go online.

• Sunnyside in Tahoe City is having a deck opening party May 24. Mountain Grill opens at 11:30am, live music is from 3-9pm.

• On May 26 at 11am is the annual Patriotic Service honoring all veterans and troops at First Baptist Church, 1053 Wildwood Ave. in South Lake Tahoe. All veterans, current service members and family are welcome. Uniforms or memorabilia are encouraged. Potluck follows the service.

• Employees from the Sparks Galleria Branch of AAA Insurance Nevada presented a $5,000 check to the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office that will be used to purchase ballistic shields for patrol vehicles.

• Here is Caltrans’ El Dorado-Tahoe roadwork schedule for the coming week.

• Findings from the independent panel at this month’s Upper Truckee River workshop are online. Scroll down to about the middle of the webpage to find the links to the collective and individual findings on the right side of the project map.

Residents of the Al Tahoe neighborhood participated in a volunteer neighborhood clean-up day Saturday.

The clean-up day initiative was a result of the group’s most recent Neighborhood Service Team meeting. A second neighborhood clean-up day for this South Lake Tahoe neighborhood has been scheduled for June 1. Anyone is welcome to participate and the clean-up will begin at 9am at Regan Beach.

The NST program was formed in 2011 as part of the city’s Strategic Plan to help facilitate communications and activities within neighborhoods.

To learn more about the NST program, go online or call (530) 542.6093.

The Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe just wrapped up its fourth year conducting a successful Pet Pals Humane Education program, which is run almost completely by volunteers.

Funded by a grant from Vail Resorts Echo Program, Pet Pals serves to fulfill the critical education component of the HSTT’s mission.

Pet Pals incorporates guest animals and fun interaction to educate kids about important topics such as how to care for a pet and how to be safe around animals. The program also introduces kids to issues that affect the community such as the importance of spaying and neutering your pets, and teaches them about the role of working dogs.

This year’s program included a special guest appearance from Officer Pete Mann of the Truckee CHP who did an demonstration with his fellow human and canine officers.

More than 300 second-graders from Truckee and Glenshire elementary schools benefited from this year’s program.