Volunteers from the Truckee Tahoe Chapter of the Experimental Aircraft Association, EAA No. 1073, will fly kids for free at Lake Tahoe Airport on Sept. 4 starting at 8am.

Children between the ages of 8-17 are welcome, but must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

The mission of this event is to provide young aviators with a free flight experience. As a result of last week’s high winds, this event was postponed. Saturday is the rescheduled date.

Free airplane rides are subject to weather, in addition to pilot and aircraft availability. Children should arrive at the terminal building at Lake Tahoe Airport accompanied by their parents, proceed downstairs to the lower level entrance where registration will take place.

For additional information, email Charlie White eagles@eaa1073.org.

Fine sediment particles and nutrient pollutants are impacting Lake Tahoe’s famed clarity. The Tahoe Total Maximum Daily Load was a science-based effort designed to determine pollutant reductions needed to restore historic clarity within the lake and craft a cost-effective, workable strategy to reduce them.

This video describes the TMDL analysis and provides information on what people can do to help.

The Lahontan Water Quality Control Board will meet Sept. 8 at 9am at Lake Tahoe Community College. There will be a public hearing about the proposed amendments to the Water Quality Control Plan to incorporate the TMDL into the overall plan.

The board expects to certify the revised plan at the November meeting.

Enjoy helping out? Like office work? Like kids? Like arts and crafts? Like to teach a subject or activity? Have two hours or more to spare each month? If so, the Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe wants you.

The Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe is seeking volunteers for a multitude of areas: Sports, Teen Enterprise, the Environment, Arts and Crafts, Book Club, Cooking, Writing, Photography, Computer Lab and Gardening.

This isn’t just for adults as Junior Volunteers are needed too. One can be a Junior Volunteer if they are in grades 9-12.

For more information, contact Paula Peterson at (530) 542.0838 or email ppeterson@bgclt.org.

In September, a two week S.T.A.R. Academy will train candidates wishing to volunteer a few hours each month with the Sheriff’s Team of Active Retirees.

You must be at least 55 years old, in good health and interested in becoming the “eyes and ears” on El Dorado County’s Sheriff’s team. This is an opportunity to serve the community by volunteering during special events and patrolling in the local county areas.

The academy will be Sept. 13-17 and Sept. 20-23 from 9am-noon.

Graduation will be Sept. 24.

Pick up an application to become a S.T.A.R. at the sheriff’s department (1360 Johnson Blvd., Ste. 100, South Lake Tahoe) or call Dick Young at (530) 577.7415 or Deputy Mike Yarbrough at (530) 957.3534 or the sheriff’s office at (530) 573.3005.

Clint Schue, owner of Brothers Bar on Emerald Bay Road, has pulled out of the South Lake Tahoe City Council race.

However, because of the timing his name will remain on the ballot.

This leaves 10 people vying for three seats. No incumbents are running.

Join Tahoe Area Coordinating Council for the Disabled at

Coyote Grill in the Round Hill Mall at Elks Point Road on Sept. 2 from 5pm-closing for a fundraiser.

Proceeds from the all you can eat chili will help TACCD.

For more information, contact David Kelly at (530) 577.8012.

Barton Memorial Hospital’s Auxiliary is looking for people who have had something to do with the volunteers in the past 50 years.

The auxiliary is having a fund-raising, celebration lunch on Sept. 20 at Edgewood Tahoe. Cocktails are at 11am, with a sit-down lunch at 1pm. Cost is $100.

Patty Olson, 85, who is helping with the lunch and was one of the pioneers to get the hospital built, is also the person collecting memorabilia regarding the hospital and the auxiliary. The plan is to have it all displayed at the lunch.

The auxiliary is continually raising money to pay for “extras”.

“We just gave $300,000 to the free clinic. They have raised millions over the years,” Olson said of the auxiliary. “The auxiliary paid for the first payroll of the doctors.”

For more information about the auxiliary anniversary lunch in Stateline, contact Olson at (530) 544.2449.

— Compiled by Kathryn Reed

By Northern Nevada Business Weekly

Z Loan and Investment Inc., a private equity fund led by three residents of Zephyr Cove, raised $375,000 in a private debt offering.

The company disclosed the financing arrangement last week in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company is licensed as a mortgage lender in Nevada.

The filing listed Wayne Snyder and Michael Sigala of Zephyr Cove as the company’s executive officers and promoters. John Schopf Jr. of Zephyr Cove was listed as a director.

Z Loan and Investment is headquartered in South Lake Tahoe.

• Bhinder Shivdeep opened Speed Trac gas station on Highway 50 in South Tahoe this month. It’s about a block from U.S. Gasoline, the other station he owns.

• The September/October issue of Via magazine delves into trains in the West, with the V&T Railroad in Nevada noted as rails worth riding.

• Kris Vogt is now president of Tahoe-Sacramento region for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.

• Click here to hear Charles Goldman’s poem about Lake Tahoe.

• South Tahoe City Manager Tony O’Rourke has changed a simple policy at city offices. Department heads not working on the premise are now allowed a card to get into the main offices. Under the last regime they weren’t allowed the same access as their colleagues.

• Cynthia Knight and Dave Klecker on Labor Day weekend are opening The Rural Squirrel in the old Insty Prints building on Highway 50 in South Tahoe. They will be selling furniture, antiques and cabin-esque home décor.

• The League to Save Lake Tahoe this week presented what would be a fifth alternative to the Regional Plan — the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s bible that was supposed to come out in 2007.

High fire danger is the weather forecast for Thursday and Friday in the Tahoe-Reno area as a high-pressure system sits over the region.

Wind gusts of 35-45mph are expected. With the dry air combined with wind, it is a threat to move the slightest fire faster and farther.

But don’t get too comfortable with the hot weather. Saturday through Monday it is expected to be unseasonably cool, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. Today’s highs could drop 30 degrees in the next few days.

A hard freeze is possible in the Sierra. That means cover veggies, herbs and other heat-loving plants or bring them indoors.

— Compiled by Kathryn Reed