Jake,s Peak sPeaks

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Jake,s Peak sPeaks

8 June – 12 July 2012
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Do we want the
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volviera a serlo? ...28
Tahoe Forest
Cancer Center ...24
What Moves You ...10
Truckee
Pump Track ...35
The Art of
Aerial Silks ...42
,
Jake s Peak
s p e a k s
...13
¡Cuéntalo!
Entrevistas por melissa siig
fotos por Emily dettling
Utensilios de Cocina Muy Útiles
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David Sinclair, Grass Valley
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Amo mi procesadora de
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ginger, chocolate, lemon peel,
Parmesan cheese. It’s the best.
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splatter everywhere.
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Mi Vitamix, por su diversidad.
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quieras. Todo lo que necesites
preparar, puedes prepararlo
con una Vitamix.
My Vitamix, because of its
diversity. You can make anything you want. Anything that
needs to get done you can get
done with a Vitamix.
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Mi espátula. La necesito
para preparar quesadillas o
panqueques o huevos.
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quesadillas or pancakes or
eggs, I need it.
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Todos Somos Gapers en Algún Lugar
m o o n s h i n e s ta f f
Jake’s Peak speaks to us this month, p. 13.
We share other places that speak to us.
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A donde sea que vayan los humanos, la
relación entre un local y un turista puede
tornarse absolutamente ácida. Recuerdo
haberme reído incómodamente cuando
oí por primera vez el sentimiento cruel
“¿Por qué se le
dice temporada
de turistas si no
podemos cazarlos?” Se sabe que
cuando los locales
de Tahoe pasan
zumbando por al
lado de los turistas
nota de la
boquiabiertos que
directora
están en una tabla
Por Mayumi Elegado
de snowboard,
bicicleta o coche,
suelen decir: “¡Sal del camino, gaper!
[Gaper: término utilizado para referirse
a los turistas esquiadores o snowboarders
que no saben ni dónde están parados]”*
(edettling@moonshineink.com)
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Quizá sea xenofobia, un miedo irracional
que se le tiene a los extranjeros. O la frustración de que uno esté llegando tarde al
trabajo y el muchacho que conduce a 10
millas por minuto, virando mientras mira
Lake Tahoe, dificulta enormente nuestro
avance. Básicamente, creo que se trata de
una necesidad de sentir que uno pertenece
a un cierto grupo, al que otras personas no
pertenecen o no pueden pertenecer.
On
Vean como lo vean, tiene poco sentido
más que el de generar tensión y maldad.
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Fiorella “Tahoe City Pier” Felici
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Glenn “Villager Nursery” Polochko
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Cover
suspended grace
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By Mayumi Elegado
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Recientemente, fui a Kaua’i, Hawai’i, por
primera vez. A menos de dos horas de
haber bajado del avión, estaba en la Bahía
Hanalei, jugando en el agua templada,
mirando las montañas esculpidas. Si bien
era definitivamente una turista, sentí una
inmediata e indiscutible conexión.
Era el antídoto a la xenofobia: topofilia,
un término griego que literalmente significa “amor por el lugar”.
Durante mi estadía en la isla, cumplí mi
sueño de toda la vida de dejarme llevar
por las olas sobre una tabla de surf. Un
local bronceado llamado David que en
parte parecía nativo, en parte chino, y en
parte Dios sabe de dónde, fue mi primer
instructor. Su metodología principal de enseñanza fue: “Es fácil.
Solo respira.”
Anywhere humans tread, the relationship between local and visitor can get
downright acidic. I remember chuckling uncomfortably when I first heard
the unkind sentiment, “Why is it called
tourist season if we can’t shoot ‘em?”
Tahoe locals are known to call out as
they zoom by wide-eyed tourists on
a snowboard, mountain bike, or car,
“Outta the way, gaper!”*
Perhaps it’s xenophobia, an irrational
fear of people who are different. Or
frustration that one’s late to work and
the guy driving 10 miles-per-hour,
swerving as he gazes at Lake Tahoe, is
severely hampering one’s progress. At
its base, I think it’s a need to feel one
belongs to a certain group, to which
other people can’t or don’t.
Any way you look at it, it serves little
purpose other than to generate tension
and nastiness. To see a visitor as an
respecto de los turistas. “He conocido a
personas que han estado aquí dos semanas y que han pertenecido más a aquí
que una persona cuya familia es la tercera
generación en el lugar,” dijo.
El término “gaper” es casi un halago.
Significa que alguien se está tomando el
tiempo de detenerse, mirar a su alrededor, totalmente admirado por tan
hermoso lugar.
Este mes, un nuevo escritor de Moonshine
explora lo que diría una montaña, en caso
de que una montaña pudiera escribir
y decirnos a todos que aminoremos la
marcha. Ver pág. 13.
* Aquellos que han vivido en Tahoe
durante mucho tiempo recordarán el
término “turkeys [pavos].” Ver la columna
de Tim Hauserman, Crecer en Tahoe,
pág. 28.
Comentó que Tahoe probablemente sea bastante parecido a
Kaua’i, repleto de turistas que llegan al lugar para visitar un paisaje
increíble. Asentí y pregunté qué
mentalidad tienen los locales
Everyone’s a Gaper
Somewhere Else
Publisher’s Note
About the photo | Ashley Holz
has been studying aerial silks at
Tahoe Players, as well as Dragonfly
Aerials, for about three months.
Meg Cooper teaches small classes
of no more than six at Tahoe Players
in Incline Village, Nev. For more
information contact Meg Cooper at
(530) 386-5516.
Considerar que alguien de afuera es un
intruso niega el impulso biológico de
explorar nuevos lugares. Imaginen a un
montañista en un pantano de cipreses,
con instrucciones imprecisas de cómo
evitar crocodilos y serpientes mocasín de
agua. ¿Quién es el gaper ahora?
Local por primera vez.
outsider negates the biological drive to
explore new places. Imagine plopping
a mountaineer into a cypress swamp,
with the vague direction to avoid the
crocs and water moccasins. Who’s the
gaper now?
I just visited Kaua’i, Hawai’i, for the
first time. Less than two hours after
stepping off the plane, I was in Hanalei
Bay, frolicking in the warm water,
gazing up at sculpted mountains.
Although I was definitely a gaper, I
felt an immediate and indisputable
connection.
It was xenophobia’s antidote: topophilia, a Greek term which literally means
“love of place.”
While on the island, I realized a lifelong
dream of riding waves on a surfboard.
A tanned local named David, who
looked part native, part Chinese, and
part lord-knows-what-else, was my first
teacher. His main teaching methodology was, “It’s easy. Just breathe.”
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First-time local. Photo by
José Marie Cremer
He commented that Tahoe is probably
a lot like Kaua’i, full of tourists coming to visit an incredible landscape. I
agreed and asked about the local versus
visitor mentality. “I’ve known people
for two weeks that belonged here more
than a person whose family is third
generation,” he said.
The term “‘gaper” is nearly a compliment. It means someone is taking the
time to stand still, gaping about, awash
in awe of such a beautiful place.
This month, a new Moonshine writer
explores what a mountain would say, if
a mountain could write and tell us all to
slow down. See p. 13.
* Longtime Tahoe locals will remember the term “turkeys.” See Tim
Hauserman’s column, “Growing Up in
Tahoe,” p. 28.
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The Spout | Opinion Page
Tahoe’s in Trouble
There’s a serious problem at
Lake Tahoe. It is so serious
that it has prompted all eight
of Tahoe’s
My Shot
leading
By Roger Patching
environmental nonprofit
organizations to jointly write
a “sign-on” letter of warning
(the Friends of Lake Tahoe, the
League to Save Lake Tahoe,
Friends of the West Shore,
the North Tahoe Preservation
Alliance, both chapters of the
Sierra Club at Tahoe, the North
Tahoe Citizen Action Alliance,
and the Nevada Conservation
League):
To the Governing Board of
the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency:
Lake Tahoe, the jewel of the Sierra, is the largest and purest subalpine lake in North America. Its
clarity has impressed visitors since
the 1800s, and it is imperative
that we protect and restore this
unique, international treasure so
the tranquility and serenity of this
natural resource can be enjoyed
by generations to come.
The multiple impacts of the Comstock era of logging and deforesta-
tion, the rapacious devastation
wrought by the gold fever of the
mining era, and the pressures that
accompanied the 1960 Olympics
combined over time to degrade
the lake and region. As early as
the 1950s, scientific studies were
showing a decline in lake clarity.
It was apparent that the area
needed regional planning. With
the establishment of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency in 1969,
the previously unrestricted urbanization of the region was slowed
and environmental standards to
preserve the lake were enacted.
Those environmental standards
are now threatened. It appears
to us that the agency is reversing
many of the crucial regulations
mandated by the Tahoe Regional
Compact. We urge the TRPA
Board to exercise prudence and
do everything in its power to
uphold, achieve, and maintain
the environmental thresholds it is
charged to enforce.
It is our belief and concern that
the proposed Regional Plan
will neither restore nor protect
the lake. Instead, it will open
the floodgates one more time to
rampant growth and high-density
It is our belief and concern that the proposed Regional
Plan will neither restore nor protect the lake. Instead,
it will open the floodgates one more time to rampant
growth and high-density urbanization, thereby making
more thresholds impossible to attain.
urbanization, thereby making
more thresholds impossible to
attain. These consequences would
not be consistent with a proud
legacy we know the members of
TRPA’s board desire.
As current and former elected
officials, concerned residents,
business owners, and local
interests groups, we understand
the economic pressures facing the
region, but also understand that
whatever positive outcomes we
may wish for the region are dependent on the health of the lake and
its surrounding watersheds. As one
of the few areas congressionally
designated by the Clean Water
Act as an Outstanding National
Resource Water, it is essential that
we ensure that the Regional Plan
Update protects Lake Tahoe.
We therefore urge you to join us in
actively pursuing a Regional Plan
that protects Lake Tahoe.
To sign-on to this letter, simply
send your name(s), title/affiliation (if applicable), and city
of residence to protecttahoe@
gmail.com.
The Regional Plan will shape
Tahoe for decades and has
recently been made public for
a 60-day review. Tahoe’s nonprofits are furiously plowing
through thousands of pages.
Pleas for more time have been
ignored.
The Plan promises sustainability, but will result in the
urban sprawl and environmental damage that TRPA
was created to halt. As stated
by Senator Darrell Steinberg,
California’s President Pro
Tempore of the Senate, in a
February 15 letter chastising
Nevada State Senator John
Lee, “It is both surprising
and disappointing to see a
national treasure as important as Lake Tahoe become a
political hostage to the agenda
of special interest groups. . .”
Lee authored Nevada’s SB271
which calls for its withdrawal
from TRPA’s Bi-State Compact unless California complies with Nevada’s demands
regarding Tahoe. Steinberg’s
letter correctly refers to SB271
as “both unnecessarily inflammatory and deeply counterproductive. . .”
As it currently stands, there
is little reason for optimism
regarding the protection of
Lake Tahoe from runaway
high-density development.
~ Roger Patching, a retired
political science professor, is
president/CEO of Friends of
Lake Tahoe. He can be reached
at roger@friendsoflaketahoe.org.
What Money Can’t Buy
We need to have a fundamental debate about the role of the
market and the environment at
Lake Tahoe. I’ve been reading about “What
Money Can’t Buy:
The Moral Limits
of Markets” by Michael Sandel in an
article by Marco
Visscher in Ode
Magazine. It struck
me that the Tahoe
My Shot
Regional Planning
By Ann Nichols
Agency in the new
Regional Plan
Update is shifting more and
more of its regulatory task of
achieving and maintaining the
environmental thresholds to
the market.
TRPA has concocted an elaborate scheme of monetizing
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developer entitlements such as:
buying or trading land coverage all around the lake, selling
tourist accommodation units
(TAUS), trading current requirements for
storm water treatment
(BMPS) for future additive height and density,
allowing single family
residential and TAUS in
recreation zoned lands,
and asking property
owners to tear down
their homes in return
for development rights
in town centers (Incline, Kings
Beach, Tahoe City). TRPA
claims they are incentivizing
redevelopment. The justification is simply that they can’t
get property owners to do their
BMPS and that no developer
would come to Lake Tahoe
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unless there were financial
benefits.
On the ground many of us see
insiders making a bundle selling TAUS, property becoming
even more expensive due to
entitlements and rezoning,
wealthy developers getting
all the goodies by delaying
required BMPS, and the little
guy fined and charged exorbitant mitigation fees. We’ve
never had a debate about
where markets serve the public
good and where they don’t
belong, especially in the aftermath of the recent economic
crisis. Will this reliance on the
market even work given the
current lack of financing and
demand for real estate? What
is the proper role of the market
as it relates to the environment
at Lake Tahoe? Faith in the
market is one thing and, says
Sandel, “Markets are valuable
and effective tools for organizing the production of goods
and services. The problem
arises when markets are no
longer regarded as tools,” but
come to define, as in our case
at Lake Tahoe, our relationship
to saving the environment.
Visscher concludes, “Market
values crowd out important
nonmarket values worth caring
about, especially when market
thinking reaches into spheres
of life that are traditionally governed by other values. That’s
when hard ethical questions
arise.”
If we rely too heavily on financial incentives to protect the
environment, we undermine or
ignore educating people about
respecting the environment
and taking responsibility for
it. “Market mechanisms have
entered the field of sustainability, and what is the impact
on the idea of environmental
protection?”
To date, $1.5 billion dollars
have been spent at Tahoe. The
TRPA claims we need another
$1.5 billion. TRPA, can money
buy a healthy environment?
~ Ann Nichols is a 42-year
Tahoe resident, a Nevada and
California real estate broker,
a member of the Lake Tahoe Federal Advisory Board, and president of North Tahoe Preservation
Alliance.
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Everyone’s a gaper somewhere else
Nota de la Directora
Todos somos Gapers en algún
lugar
12 | The Deep End
The importance of knowing someone
slightly
Rocking Stone | La Música, La Cultura
44 | High Sierra Music Festival
Interview with two artists: guitarist Ian
O’Neil of Deer Tick, and saxophonist
Skerik (Eric Walton)
Photo by Seth Lightcap
10 | What Moves You?
Announcing journalism contest winners
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Artown brings a full month of art to
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Summer solstice
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Voles, voles, voles!
13 | I Do Mountain Things
The art and beauty of aerial silks
Historias en Español / Spanish articles
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C o n t r i b u t o r s
Eve Quesnel has lived in Truckee for 25 years
Tim Hauserman wrote the official guidebook
with her husband Bill, once-upon-a-time daughter
Kim (now on her own), and three dogs (a true Tahoeite owns at least one dog). Her favorite pastimes are
fussing in the yard, walking in the nearby woods,
hiking in the high Sierra, and reading and writing.
Quesnel teaches part time at Sierra College and loves
getting a little moonshine energy on, to coax creative
words to spill onto the pages of the best worldrenowned newspaper in Tahoe, Moonshine Ink, of
course. In Nature’s Corner (p. 31), she delves into why
those pesky voles seem absent so far this summer.
to the Tahoe Rim Trail, a 3rd edition of which will be
available this summer. He also wrote “Monsters in
the Woods: Backpacking with Children” and “CrossCountry Skiing in the Sierra Nevada.” In the winter he
teaches cross-country skiing at Tahoe Cross-Country
Ski Area. He has lived in Tahoe City since he was a
little tyke and continues to be amazed with the beauty
of Lake Tahoe. His former English teachers, on the
other hand, are probably amazed that he became a
writer. Looking backward and forward, Hauserman
explores Tahoe’s history with the Olympics, p. 28.
Sometimes it takes awhile to commit to doing what
you love. It took Matt McDonald 29 years.
Now, as a writer/photographer, he rambles our mountains and cities looking for interesting stories. Currently a San Francisco resident, McDonald escapes
to the Sierra when he’s not feeling right. A recent
venture ended up in an extended conversation with
Jake’s Peak, p. 13.
Ryan Salm has spent the past 15 years of his life
wandering the world and capturing the essence of the
moment from portraiture to adventure. With camera in
hand and his life on his back, Salm has traversed more
than 30 countries on 6 continents. His work is featured
in Patagonia, Powder, ESPN, Backcountry, Wend and
Outside Magazine. Journeys on back roads with the
local people have created a common theme in Ryan’s
work, coming from extensive journeys throughout
Asia, Africa, the United States, South America and
Europe. This month, he ventures into the wild world
that is Quincy’s High Sierra Music Festival, p. 44.
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The Spout | Opinion Page
In the Moment | Let Go Drawn in Tahoe City
veggies that are not white in middle of
winter!
~ Dave
(In response to “Tahoe Pipe Club” published
in the May print edition)
Pipe Club is Right
Even after 25 years in Truckee, Pam
McAdoo sometimes misses the farmland
outside New York City where she was
raised. The arts are her passion, from
drawing, painting, printmaking, and
book arts to music, dance, and archi-
tecture. With In The Moment she pays
homage to Paul Madonna, whose artful
synthesis of text and reportage illustration has inspired McAdoo to add words
to her visual records of North Tahoe and
Truckee — conversations overheard or
Online
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(In response to the May online Tahoe Stories’
column “Erin Ellis”)
Making it Happen
I think this is an excellent idea for a
column, and look forward to reading
future accounts of how locals “make
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nitely been work making the transition, but we have had zero regrets
and consider it one of the smartest
decisions we’ve made over time. Reassuring to hear that others also “pay a
price,” but think the payoff of living
local in Tahoe is worth the relative
sacrifice.
~ Carol Halberstadt
(In response to “Save our Food, Save the
World!” published in the May print edition)
Inspirational
Wonderful and very inspirational article! Really gives me a sense of pride
in our community and the progressive
thinking that is happening within.
Thank you for printing this!
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thoughts that arise in the moment when
she’s drawing.
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I agree with Stephanie in that Susie
is such an inspiration and hope for a
positive impact to our food source.
It’s also great to see projects in town
that are bringing year-round fresh and
local produce to the mountains that
we so desperately need. I recently
read that Jackson Hole is attempting to build a huge green house for
local produce. There is still hope for
Great article. Glad to see the Pipe
Club getting the media attention it
deserves. Looking at the Pipe Club’s
point of view compared to Lahontan’s,
I can tell that the Pipe Club advocates
mentioned above are thinking clearly
about what is really going on: the industry in place has come to enforce many
overly complicated solutions that aren’t
proven to actually make a difference,
meanwhile easier solutions are in place.
Of course, they don’t see it as easy because it’s harder for them to collaborate
with the citizens and build partnerships
that work than to devise formulas for
control and enforce them strictly. We
all want to save this lake and spend our
lives happily here, and collaboration is
attainable within a short matter of time.
I think it’s time to put our resources and
energy back into saving Lake Tahoe’s
clarity, renovating the outdated urban
development to maximize infiltration on
site, which will create even more jobs,
beautify our communities in the short
term and long term, make them safer
and more accessible for walking and
biking, and open up new business space
and opportunities. There’s no doubt that
a few simple fixes can go a long way; it
just takes cooperation.
~ DJE2
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We went to the Follies on Saturday.
It was the most poorly produced,
badly written, Hispanic insensitive,
hackneyed show I have ever seen.
Even the food was pathetic.
The program was beyond tasteless. If the real “locals” of Truckee
would have seen the ads, I think they
would not patronize the shops and
services sponsoring them. The Town
of Truckee’s offering was particularly
egregious.
When we first moved to Truckee,
the Follies were a fresh, well written,
professionally produced, somewhat
risqué, irreverent look at Truckee and
its institutions. That has long gone by
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On the Spot | News
what moves you
Announcing journalism contest winners
In 2010, our community lost a good
friend in all-around Tahoe man Robert
‘Fro’ Frohlich. Fro was loyal to his
passions — journalism, skiing, friends,
and life. In his honor, the Tahoe Truckee
Unified School District, Switchback PR,
and Moonshine Ink presented a journalism contest, What Moves You?, open
to the district’s 11th and 12th graders.
Fro’s sister, Margaret Frohlich Pearcy,
generously offered up the award money.
Thank you to each student who shared
your passions — it was incredible to feel
the energy and honesty in your essays
and videos. It was hard to choose just
two winners.
Congratulations on your $500 scholarships to keep on moving forward!!
But choose we must, so here are the winners — Written Word: Carly Maurer
and Video: Amory Harris.
A contest for next year is in the works.
Keep in touch at whatmovesyou@
moonshineink.com.
carly
maurer
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inyou
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Writte
12th grade
Truckee High School
Journalism moves me.
To me journalism is more significant
than storytelling or simply relaying the
facts. Journalism embodies change,
continuously showing societies’ growth
in different forms and giving it context
and presence. By depicting the past
and present, journalists have the ability
to inspire and are significant factors in
shaping the future. We transform what
may currently appear undecipherable
into something fathomable, something
believable. Only through understanding
our history can we create the future.
A very significant aspect in the world of
journalism, and one that has impacted
me personally, is that of sports. While
sports journalism is centralized around
showcasing the strong points of teams
and players, it more importantly depicts
what the game means to the people involved and to the fans. Every day, sports
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continue to bring people together and
defy barriers. When you are depending
on a teammate, they become your family and an unbreakable bond is formed.
Race, sexuality, and social status are not
a factor. Through a single aspiration,
the determination to win, people discover commonalities, and stereotypes
begin to vanish.
This is significant in itself, but change
doesn’t have the opportunity to grow
when left in the dark. Inspiration is
sparked on the field, but who’s to say
it shines past the sidelines? My dream
as a journalist is to shed the needed
light on these stories in order to bring
hope to the fans. I strive to be a part of
delivering the message that anything is
possible with the determination and will
to make it happen, even equality. My
dreams move me.
Coaching moves me.
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Video
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moves
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inyou
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amory
kip harris
12th grade,
Truckee High School
Besides writing about sports, I also
enjoy playing and coaching them. I had
the honor of volunteering as assistant
coach for the Alder Creek Middle
School 8th grade girls’ basketball team
this year. I’ve been playing basketball
since I was in first grade. It is more
than a sport to me; it is somewhat of a
calling. I thrive when I’m around it, and
one could tell the young girls I coached
do as well. When you think about
coaching, ordering people around and
blowing whistles may come to mind,
but in reality you are not only teaching people skills on the court, you are
also giving them life skills. When they
have a figure to look up to and admire,
they begin to realize that they too can
achieve their goals by acquiring the
skills and knowledge to do so. Every day
at practice I strived to get to know the
girls better and be the role model they
needed. By the end of the season it felt
like they were all my sisters and we were
a big family. Disappointment struck
with the realization that the season had
to end, but the bonds we formed will
last a lifetime in our souls. Learning
through teaching moves me.
Volunteering moves me.
I believe that in order to truly value and
appreciate the wondrous beauty of the
world and the people in it, as well as
the opportunities one has been fortu-
Amory’s video focused on her passions for nature and protecting the
environment through her involvement
in Truckee High’s Envirolution Club.
The club is responsible for the wildly
popular “Trashion” shows that feature
high fashion made out of trash and
recycled materials. See the video online
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nate enough to take part in, one must
give back. I discovered how powerful
volunteering is through a life-altering
experience that truly changed how I
viewed certain people. I took part in a
trip to San Francisco where we helped
at an event and prepared Thanksgiving
dinners and handed them out to thousands of poverty-stricken individuals
and families in that area. The inspiration came during the delivering process.
We were doing more than providing
hot meals; we were talking with these
people and getting to know them as
individuals and how they came to be in
the unfortunate position they were in.
Most people stereotype these individuals and fear them. Because of this they
have little interaction with people and
greatly appreciated us for giving them
the time of day and interacting with
them, something that is vital to us
as human beings. After this trip I no
longer saw homeless individuals as haggard and untrustworthy; I saw them for
what they really are — humans, just like
anyone else. They have a heart and deserve just as much respect as the most
successful businessman. I never would
have evolved as a person if I had not
participated in this outreach opportunity. Connecting with people moves me.
My name is Carly Maurer and life
moves me. I only hope that one day I
can move life.
On the Spot | News
zoe
thompson
contained, which flickered like a worn
out candle light, in order to stand up for
myself and choose a future that took me
away from those I did not appreciate
and towards a life of new opportunities
and friendships...
11th grade,
North Tahoe High School
Excerpt:
“I hear it from my friends (myself included) all the time: ‘Imagine how amazing it
would have been to have grown up in a
big city. There would have been so many
more opportunities for us.’ In many aspects, this is true. Yet in our small town, I
find no lack of opportunities…
“…My life and future have been shaped
by everything I do, and whether that is
going to a big city to pursue an artistic dream or becoming an educator to
share my love for both ballet and music,
I know that this town has offered me
more than I could ever ask for. I am
moved every day by my achievements
as well as of those around me in the
community, small only in size and never
in spirit.”
Read the full essay at moonshineink.
com.
Screen shot from
Shawn Howe’s video.
“...At the end of my freshman year,
the day before the Fourth of July, my
mother and I left our home and moved
our lives to the breathtakingly beautiful
area of Lake Tahoe. I left behind my
anguish, and set forth a goal to create a
better future for myself.”
Read the full essay at moonshineink.
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honorary mentions shawn
howe
A few more What Moves You? entries
we had to share
danielle
palffy
11th grade,
North Tahoe High School
Excerpt:
12th grade,
Truckee High School
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However, there is no doubt that it took
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I didn’t even know his name. But he was
one of those people whom I saw almost
every day, someone who forms the background of your
daily experience,
like the grocery
store clerk or the
coffee barista. He
was always there
at the Tahoe City
Post Office in the
morning, mopping
the floors, holding
The Deep End
open the door
By Melissa Siig
for customers,
chitchatting with
people while they retrieved their mail
from their post office boxes. And then
one day, he was gone. Just like that.
If someone had told me that Tom
Heron had died, I wouldn’t have known
whom he or she was talking about. But
when I saw Tom’s photo in an article
about the horrible car accident that
occurred in Carnelian Bay last month,
I was shocked. I had just seen him the
previous morning, as usual, at the post
office. I think we smiled at each other in
silence, the casual hello of people who
recognize each other but know nothing
else about the other person.
I learned of the accident when I was
picking up my daughter from kindergarten. Over the school loud speakers came
a voice announcing that Highway 28 at
Carnelian Bay had been closed because
of a traffic accident, and that buses
and parents coming from that direction
would be unable to get to school. My
first thought was, “What a drag. Glad
I’m not stuck over there,” followed by a
more compassionate concern: “I hope I
don’t know anyone involved.”
I’ve known quite a few Tahoe people
who have died during the past 10 years,
most of them friends killed while doing
something extreme — climbing big
mountains, BASE jumping, skiing fast
down something steep. It’s always tragic
and sad and heartbreaking, and never
gets any easier. But there was something
different about this incident, about
the death of someone who was not a
friend yet not quite a stranger. It’s as if
something as familiar yet unknown to
you as the tall pine tree you drive by
each morning was suddenly not there
anymore. You are so used to seeing the
tree that, unconsciously, you count on it
being there every day. You take its very
essence for granted to such an extent
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Something Missing: What happens when a casual acquaintance dies, someone who is neither
friend nor stranger? It’s like a familiar landmark went missing from your life. Illustration by Emily
Dettling/Moonshine Ink
that to have it disappear is a sort of
shock to your world, a tear in the very
fabric of your existence.
Oddly enough, this had happened to me
before with another person who used
to work at the Tahoe City Post Office.
I didn’t know her name either until
I read the reports about her murder.
Victoria Rider was around my age with
curly brown hair and a British accent. I
would see her at the post office helping
behind the counter or stuffing mail in
the boxes. But unlike with Heron, I had
actually shared a conversation with her.
I was pregnant with my second child
and she was on her lunch break, and
we started talking about childbirth and
babies. I can’t recall the details, but I
remember it was a somber discussion.
Rider’s decomposing body was found
in a Tahoe Vista field eight weeks after
she was reported missing. She had been
bludgeoned to death, and her teenage daughter and older boyfriend had
fled to Mexico. Her 2006 murder, and
her daughter’s disappearance, remains
unsolved to this day.
It’s amazing what you learn about a person after they die that you never discovered in life. Although I had spoken with
Rider, it wasn’t until I read the article
about her death that I found out she
had four other children, three of whom
lived in England. I learned from Heron’s
obituary that he wasn’t employed by the
post office as I had thought, but ran a
cleaning business, and he had three kids
and five grandchildren.
Trying to make sense of these random deaths, of two people who were
connected by their place of work and
their role in my world as nameless
but everyday fixtures, I asked a postal
worker what he made of it all. He said
the only way they’ve come to explain
Heron and Rider’s premature deaths
was by speculating that the Tahoe City
Post Office must have been built on an
ancient Indian burial ground, a sort of
“plague on your house,” to paraphrase
Shakespeare.
What I take away from these tragedies
is that life is full of surprises, both good
and bad. And that nothing, not even
that large, sturdy, powerful tree that
watches over you as you go about your
daily business, is forever.
moonshineink.com.
You are so used to seeing the tree that,
unconsciously, you count on it being there
every day. You take its very essence for
granted to such an extent that to have it
disappear is a sort of shock to your world,
a tear in the very fabric of your existence.
I Do Mountain
Things
,
Jake s Peak speaks
St o r y a n d P h o t o s B y M a tt M c D o n a l d
Looking southeast from midway up Jake’s Peak.
o, what do you do?”
It’s hard to explain,
but…I’m actually
a mountain; I do
mountain things.
What a life.
The maps left at my summit tell me I’m
Jake’s Peak. I was birthed into this world
three million years ago by a fault block,
a fracture in the earth’s crust causing
some blocks of land to move up and
others to move down.
Imagine this: break a brick in three, lift
the outer two pieces up, and push the
middle piece down. That’s how Tahoe
was formed. I uplifted and became a
tiny stitch in the grand Sierra Nevada,
while to the east, the Carson Range also
rose up. Between us, the Lake Tahoe
Basin dropped to form the largest alpine
lake in North America. After another
million years of glacial polishing, here
we are!
I rather like my view.
Some of you backcountry skiers and
boarders already know of me, and I
know of you. Your headlamp beams
rouse me like shots of espresso, and I
laugh as you scramble for first tracks.
Sometimes, I tame your aggression.
The sunglasses you left in the car as
you rushed to make an early morning
start — an absent-minded accident? No,
a gift from me forcing you to return for
them and slow down, for my enjoyment shouldn’t always be rushed. But
we know how to play, you and I — your
turns, those graceful, thigh-screaming
figure eights, swish youth into my
slopes. And when you’re done and you
look up with that sense of victory, of
leaving your mark, know that we’ve both
been used.
If we haven’t played together, surely
you’ve passed by? Presiding over Emerald Bay’s northern bank, I salute you few
hikers who scramble up my sandy faces
in the summer, and I hear you travelers
as you drive by. At 9,187 feet above sea
level, your questions waft up my 2,800foot face: “Wow, what mountain is that?”
I’m Jake’s! (Easily confused with my
westerly neighbor, Peak 9,195, and her
lovely Emerald Chutes.)
My other neighbors share names like
yours — Maggies, Dicks, Jacks. The
dry winter allowed me time to retrace
these origins. Maggies namesake (fitting because of her dual peaks) was a
well-endowed barmaid at the Tahoe
Tavern, circa 1800s; Dicks after Captain
Richard “Dick” Barter, an English sailor
called “the Hermit of Emerald Bay” who
drowned in a boating accident in 1873;
Jacks after a Placerville miner, Hardin
Green “Jacks.” Over time, these legendary names graduated to official names.
I’m different from the rest. I hold the
honor of preserving the name of Jeffery
James Smith, commonly known as Jake.
At the youthful age of 27, Jake died
in the tragic 1982 Alpine Meadows
See Jake’s p. 14
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Jake’s from p. 13
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avalanche. Because Jake and his
brother Dennis cherished the
solitude of my slopes, Dennis
worked for three years to name
me after Jake. In 1985, the U.S.
Board on Geographical Names
agreed, and I officially became
Jake’s Peak.
Naturally, I craved a deeper
understanding of Jake. In
2009, 24 years after the Alpine
avalanche, Jennifer Woodlief’s
book “Wall of White” provided that insight. Jake was an
inspired soul, not so different
from many of you — a curious,
resourceful, full-bearded mountain man who jammed out to
the Grateful Dead. He was a
lovable ski patroller at Alpine
Meadows, as well as a fisherman, hiker, and climber. With
vigor in his heart and a playful
soul, he cherished the long
Sierra winters and skied the
longest, fastest skis possible.
At 3:45 p.m. on March 31,
1982, Jake was snowmobiling
down Alpine Meadows Road.
His job – to ensure no one was
caught in the avalanches soonto-be triggered by his patrol
friends above. But before he
arrived at his post, a massive,
natural avalanche released
and barreled down the Buttress, Pond, and Poma Rocks
slide paths. Jake didn’t have
a chance. Yet, as the monster
sprinted toward him, he used
his only self-preserving seconds
to call in a warning, radioing
“Avalanche!” seconds before his
burial. Jake wanted the others
to have a chance.
One hundred inches of
new snow plus a few feet of
early-season snow slid that
day, demolishing the Summit
Terminal Building and killing
seven people. That day, which
observed its 30th anniversary
this year, causes me great pain
to summarize. The events and
people deserve many pages
more, and that’s why we are so
fortunate to have Woodlief’s
highly researched, captivating
240 pages, an essential history
for both of us.
History is what we have, you
and I, and it’s complicated.
Our bond seemingly intertwined with fate, we share the
greatest triumphs, the greatest
learnings, and we wait … we
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and we will cry with them. Eventually,
we will move on — our hope that love
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I celebrate Jake’s life with Woodlief’s
words: “The peak [Jake’s] lies in a
wilderness location overlooking Lake
Tahoe, the perfect location and ideal
tribute to a true mountain man.”
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You may see me referred to as Jakes or
Jake’s. But to me, I am Jake’s. Only on
maps and official documents am I Jakes.
The U.S. Board on Geographic Names
is careful with possessives. Apparently,
apostrophes look like rocks in water
when printed on a map, and indicating possession of natural features is
generally discouraged, as if we’d have a
problem with it. They never asked us.
Jake’s silhouette at sunset, looking west from Highway 89.
But the other peaks
often ask me: what’s it
like to take a stranger’s
name? I tell them it’s
wonderful. Until 1985,
I spent countless years
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A shaded relief map shows the designation
(grey) for what is generally considered to be the
Jake’s Peak footprint. Courtesy image
as a block of rocks 9,187 feet tall. That
was it — no association, no greater purpose. I was lonely. Jake’s name brought
a renewal of spirit, for I saw in him what
I wanted in myself.
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Today, Jake and I bring new mountain
men and women into the world, and we
sharpen the accomplished. Jake’s Peak
is challenging, yet playful and forgiving.
Come romp our snow-covered slopes,
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No matter your journey, we’re ready.
Wildly explore us all, but stay mindful,
my new friend. I’ve spoken with them
— the unnamed — and despite their
eternal loneliness, they’d rather stay
that way.
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Paddlers can help keep Tahoe
blue by becoming a Tahoe Keeper.
Photo by Peter Spain
Tahoe Keepers Target Unwanted Species
Do you kayak or canoe on Lake Tahoe? Then help stop the spread of aquatic
invasive species by becoming a Tahoe Keeper, a person who inspects and decontaminates their boat and gear every time it is hauled out and moved between
new water bodies. Non-native species such as quagga and zebra mussels, the
New Zealand mudsnail, and the spiny waterflea could irreparably damage the
Lake Tahoe watershed, and their transport is illegal. These invasive species are
spread through water and debris that can collect in cockpits and hatches, cling
to outer hulls, rudders, and paddles, and even hide out on footwear and gear
long after paddling.
Those who successfully complete the free, 10-minute online training program
will become members of the Tahoe Keepers stewardship community, and will
receive “proof of training credentials” and a membership sticker.
Watercraft inspectors from Tahoe Resource Conservation District, easily identified by their red shirts and large straw hats, will visit popular paddling launch
sites around Lake Tahoe and Fallen Leaf Lake throughout the summer to educate paddlers about aquatic invasive species and how to self-inspect watercraft
and gear.
If you’ve visited a high-risk water body, or want to play it safe, take advantage
of free non-motorized watercraft inspections and decontaminations at roadside
watercraft inspection stations located at Meyers, Spooner Summit, Homewood
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Pain McShlonkey Raises
$37,000 for Nonprofits
In its second year, the Shane McConkey
Foundation’s signature event, the Pain
McShlonkey Classic, celebrated the
life of pro skier Shane McConkey and
raised big bucks for local causes.
With support from Squaw Valley, Redbull, GoPro, Oakley, K2, Santa Cruz,
Marker, and countless other donors,
volunteers, and athletes, the Shane
McConkey Foundation will donate over
$37,000 to local nonprofits, including
$20,000 to the Tahoe Truckee Unified
School District’s environmental sustainability programs for the second year in
a row. The foundation will also donate
$15,000 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, a cause close to Shane McConkey’s heart. Other foundation donations include $2,000 to the Humane
Society of Truckee-Tahoe and $500 to
the Truckee Pump Track Project. Info:
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Joerger Ranch to Get
Environmental Review
Joerger Ranch will be undergoing environmental review, but first the Town of
Truckee is seeking public input on the
scope of the project’s environmental
analysis.
Pain McShlonkey athletes gather at Squaw to celebrate the life of skiing legend Shane McConkey and
raise money for local causes. Courtesy photo
Joerger Ranch is 67 acres of land surrounding the intersection of Highway
267 and Brockway Road in Truckee.
The owners of the property are proposing to divide the land into separately
zoned sections of housing, retail, commercial, and manufacturing. Comments on the project are due by June
25. Info: townoftruckee.com/index.
aspx?page=468
The annual fee would be up to $150
per structure for lands within the SRA
and could affect some 800,000 property
owners and 31 million acres throughout
the state, including rural SRA land in
Placer County. The fee originated in a
state budget trailer bill for fiscal year
2011-2012 and imposed the fee on all
inhabitable structures within the SRA.
The fee could raise as much as $85 million annually.
Martis Valley Trail Plan
Moves Ahead
The fee has been controversial since it
was first enacted, and many of those
opposed say the
fees are unfair
because residents
already pay local
taxes for fire protection, on top of
services provided
by CAL FIRE.
The board’s temporary implementation of the fee
Placer Supervisor
Jim Holmes is against
is set to expire in
the new $150 fire fee set
late July, and the
up by the state. Courtesy
photo
board may start
a new 45-day
comment period next month on making
the fee permanent. In addition, there is
pending legislation in the State Assembly that would repeal the fee entirely.
The comment period is closing on
the environmental review of plans to
construct a paved trail through Martis
Valley. The nine-mile trail would connect
Truckee to Northstar and the Fibreboard Freeway. The trail is a major step
in the linkage between Truckee trails
and the North Shore. Two alignments
are being considered — one that follows
Highway 267, and one that is farther
into the valley on the Northstar side.
The comment period on the draft
environmental impact report closes on
June 11. Environmental documents,
descriptions, and background material
are available on the Martis Valley Trail
website. Info: martisvalleytrail.com
Supervisor Holmes Fights
Renewal of Fire Fee
Placer County’s Third District Supervisor Jim Holmes testified in May at a
regulatory hearing before the California
Board of Forestry in Redding. The hearing was held to receive public comment
on the implementation of a “fire fee” on
structures located in State Responsibility Areas (SRA), where the state has
firefighting responsibilities.
“The state is setting itself up for longterm liability by assuming a greater role
in fire prevention,” Holmes said. “CAL
FIRE needs a healthy and strong local
fire protection infrastructure to achieve
its mission and protect California from
the effects of wildfires. SRA fees weaken
the state’s mutual aid system by unraveling the ‘respond-first-we’ll-figure-outthe-cost-later’ understanding.”
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Carmel, along with her husband Olof, owns
and operates the Carmel Gallery in downtown Truckee. Info:thecarmelgallery.com
Placer County Offices
Move to Tahoe City
At the end of May, Placer County’s
Community Development Resource
Agency, Environmental Health Services,
and the County Executive Office’s
North Lake Tahoe offices moved into
the Customs House building at 775 N.
Lake Blvd., which the county bought in
2010. The move is part of the county’s
efforts to consolidate county services
and departments.
The county previously occupied a smaller space on the West Shore, which was
in need of renovations and did not have
enough room for the 18 employees. The
Customs House, at 10,600 square feet,
is double the size of the old space.
The new offices will have video teleconferencing capability so Tahoe area staff
can meet with west county staff without
incurring the time and costs of driving
from Lake Tahoe to Auburn. The building will be more customer-friendly and
have a larger waiting area.
Tahoe
Fund
Names
First CEO
After 18 months
as a volunteer
organization,
Amy Berry is the Tahoe
Fund’s first CEO. Courtesy Amy R. Berry
photo
has been named
as the first CEO
of the Tahoe Fund. A full-time CEO
means the Tahoe Fund will be able to
continue to do the important work of
raising funds for environmental improvement projects that will restore and
enhance Lake Tahoe.
Berry was the director of marketing and
communications for ACCIONA Energy
North America, one of the world’s largest renewable energy companies. She
is a seasoned business executive with a
successful career in building brands, developing corporate strategies, attracting
media attention to causes, and fostering
community relations. A resident of the
Reno/Tahoe area since 2003, she was
chosen from a pool of 60 candidates in
a five-month nationwide search that was
led by an independent search firm.
The Tahoe Fund is the organizing sponsor of the Lake Tahoe Summit hosted
this year by Sen. Dean Heller on Aug.
13 at Edgewood in South Lake Tahoe.
The fund is also hosting its second
annual dinner on Aug. 12 at the White
House at Edgewood. Info: aberry@
tahoefund.org, tahoefund.org
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Van Dyke Law Teams with
Mark Hardy
Truckee’s Van Dyke Law Group will work
with attorney Mark Hardy on special
projects.
Hardy is licensed in both California and
Nevada and is experienced in the areas
of construction defect, real property, contracts, and torts. He is also well versed in
the various forms of alternative dispute
resolution, having served as a neutral
party in varying capacities including:
judicial referee, special master, discovery
referee, and arbitrator.
Truckee Architect Nick Sonder
was featured by Google in a
promotional video that highlighted
Google’s SketchUp 3-D design application at a national conference in
Washington D.C. Courtesy photo
Google Taps Truckee Architect and Building
Industry Blokes for Marketing Piece
Google featured longtime Truckee architect Nicholas Sonder in a video promoting
an architecture software application at the recent American Institute of Architects’
national convention in Washington, D.C.
Sonder has been a devoted user of SketchUp, a three-dimensional application for
design professionals, since it was introduced by @Last Software in 2000. Google acquired @Last in 2006. Sonder recently replied to a question in an online user group
by posting an example of construction document images. Development teams at
Google noticed the post and contacted Sonder, hoping to use his examples to help
promote and feature SketchUp at the May convention.
“They ended up sending a development team member to interview me,” Sonder said.
“He spent two days in Truckee. I showed him around town, introduced him to local
contractors, and took him to some job sites. He went back with about nine hours of
footage.”
The interview, which includes footage of Truckee contractors and designers, primarily features Sonder discussing the usability and advantages of SketchUp. Sonder has
been designing homes and buildings in the Truckee area since 1995. His portfolio
mainly consists of custom homes in Martis Camp, Northstar, Lake Tahoe, Lahontan, and Gray’s Crossing. Publicly funded projects include the recent Glenshire fire
station. Info: NickSonder.com
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Carmel’s Photos Picked
for Donner Museum
Local award-winning Truckee photographer Elizabeth Carmel has been selected
to photograph images for the new Donner Memorial State Park Museum. She
will create a series of panoramic murals
that convey the beauty and power of the
Sierra Nevada, which will serve as backdrops for exhibits about the people and
events that have taken place near the site.
Carmel will employ aerial photography
with the use of a helicopter to acquire
optimum views of the mountain peaks
and landscapes during sunrise and early
morning.
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The new museum will showcase information about one of the earliest pioneer
wagon trains, the Donner Party, forced
by circumstances to camp at the east
end of Donner Lake in the winter of
1846-47, resulting in human suffering
and loss of life. Native American history
of the region, natural resource history
through time, the history of the railroad
development through Donner Pass, and
the construction of Interstate 80 and how
transportation played a role in the development of California will also be featured
at the museum.
Carmel is also the author of two photographic books: “Brilliant Waters” (with
a forward written by Robert Redford),
and “Changing Range of Light,” a book
describing the environmental threat of
global warming in the Sierra Nevada.
She pens a monthly column for Outdoor
Photography magazine.
The Van Dyke Law Group is a collection
of highly experienced lawyers and legal
professionals headquartered in Truckee
with associates in El Dorado Hills, Las
Vegas, and San Francisco. Info: vandykelawgroup.com
Moody’s Opens New
Private Dining Room
Bistro Bar and Beats has
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opened
The Parlor, bunker
a private dining room
that can seat up to 50 diners or host 70
for a cocktail reception. The room is
designed for rehearsal dinners, company
dinners, and award ceremonies. The Parlor customers can choose from a range
of breakfast, lunch, and multiple dinner
menus, as well as a full wine list, appetizer menu, and full bar. The Parlor is
located alongside Moody’s in the ground
floor of the historic Truckee Hotel. Info:
moodysbistro.com
Church of the Mountains
Preschool to Close
After 28 years of operation, the Church
of the Mountains Preschool is closing its
doors at the end of the 2011/2012 school
year. A farewell celebration carnival is
planned for Sunday June 10 from 4 –7
p.m. at the Northwoods Clubhouse. All
past students, parents and teachers are
invited to enjoy a bounce house, cotton
candy, story time and more.
Dianne Fix, who previously ran a summer
preschool program and an after-school
program for the Truckee Donner Recreation and Park District, founded the preschool in 1985. Fix started the preschool
with a $1,200 grant that helped purchase
licensing fees and toys. Fix worked
tirelessly over the years, often investing
both personally and financially, to build
a curriculum that nurtured psychological, spiritual and cognitive growth while
including multicultural studies, drama,
art, and active play.
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A Brewery for Tahoe City
the Tahoe City operation is a seven-barrel
system). The brewhouse is designed for
commercial operations, and handles bottling, kegging, and distribution to grocery
stores and restaurants. It can produce 600
gallons of beer a day, or 3,200 gallons a
week.
The brewhouse is the reason that Bigelow
had to change the name of his brewery,
which was originally called Mackinaw
Brewing Co. When he learned there was
a brewery of the same name in Michigan,
Bigelow was concerned it could hamper
his efforts to get his products into stores
across the country.
Some people say the space is cursed.
During the past decade, there have been
four different restaurants in the sidewalkfront room of Tahoe City’s Cobblestone
Center. One was even destroyed by a fire.
But Aaron Bigelow is not deterred by the
building’s history. He has spent the past
four months remodeling the space and
brewing as much beer as he can in preparation for the June 2 opening of the Tahoe
Mountain Brewing Company.
A vestige of the brewery’s original name
is the collection of mounted, stuffed fish
that lines the restaurant’s walls along with
200-year-old canoes and paddles that
Bigelow found in Vermont. Thanks to
Bigelow’s construction skills (his company
built the Cedar House Sport Hotel), the
restaurant has a new look that he hopes
will fix some of the things that possibly
jinxed former occupants, such as an awkward layout, dark colors, and heating that
didn’t warm the room. Bigelow completely
gutted the space and put in new floors,
bar, audio and video system (there are
seven flat-screen TVs), and redid the walls
with light reclaimed wood.
Bigelow, a general contractor and an avid
homebrewer for 20 years, believes his
brewery will fill a much-needed niche.
“I travel a lot, and all the other communities I go in, it’s odd not to see a craft
brewery, especially in a ski town,” he said.
“I’m not only doing it because I love brewing, but also because it’s a good business
to get into.”
Before Tahoe Mountain Brewing Co.
opened, there were no other craft breweries in the Basin. (South Lake’s Brewery
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which means the beer is mixed from a
concentrated malt, rather than brewed
from scratch on site). Mt. Tallac Brewing Company in South Shore closed this
winter, and the North Shore has seen a
couple breweries come and go — the Lake
Tahoe Brewing Company in Crystal Bay
and Blue Water Brewing in Tahoe City
both shuttered long ago. The closest craft
brewery to the North Shore is FiftyFifty
Brewing Co. in Truckee.
Bigelow also hopes that the menu is a
break from the past. The restaurant,
which is billed as a smokehouse and wood
grill, offers pub food that runs on average
$9 to $12, with a few entrees close to $20.
“I’m not worried,” Bigelow said about the
supposed curse. “Evergreen’s menu was
good, but its price point was a little bit
much.”
Cheers: Tahoe Mountain Brewery owner Aaron Bigelow, left, and assistant brewer Dan Keenan, right,
the toast the opening of the new brewery with pints
of Sugar Pine Porter and Paddleboard Pale Ale.
Photos by Emily Dettling/Moonshine Ink
Bigelow cites another statistic that
encouraged him to follow his dream of
opening up a brewery — craft beer is only
2 percent of the total beer market, but it’s
been growing by 15 percent over the past
10 years.
Destined for Cow Feed: Tahoe Mountain
Brewery uses high quality malted grains like this
barley. After the grains go through the brewing
process, the brewery recycles them for cattle feed.
“It’s getting big,” Bigelow said of craft
brewing.
Another of his creations is the Pepé
Pilsner, made with white and black peppercorn, that Bigelow says goes great
with salads and soups. He also makes
Belgian-style sour beers, which are aged
in Bordeaux wine barrels for one to two
years. He’s currently brewing a watermelon
saison, a traditional farmhouse ale.
Tahoe Mountain Brewing Co. has the
capacity to make 52 gallons of beer a day
on site, has about 15 styles of beer, and
offers eight beers on tap at one time, plus
one cask-conditioned beer straight out of
the barrel. Bigelow is currently brewing a
German-style Hefeweizen dubbed Wild
Hair Wheat, a low-alcohol session pale
ale he’s named Paddle Board Ale (“nice
and tasty, a drinking beer”), and a hoppy
Indian pale ale called Hop Song. His
special beer is the Hopped Up Monk,
a traditional-style Belgian ale but overly
hopped like a West Coast IPA. “No one
else has it,” Bigelow said of the recipe he
crafted himself.
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But the beer he can make at his Tahoe
City brewery is a drop in the bucket
compared to what he can brew at his new
20-barrel brewhouse in Truckee in the
Pioneer Commerce Center (by contrast,
The high-end Evergreen Restaurant closed
in January. Before that was Rock’s Rotisserie, Café Echo, and Café Cobblestone.
The Cobblestone was consumed by a
kitchen fire in 2002.
Tahoe Mountain Brewing Co. is focusing
on local and seasonal food as much as
possible, and Chef Nate Alder, who was
the executive chef at Alpine Meadows,
shops at the Tahoe City farmers market
once a week. Smokehouse offerings include ribs, brisket, and pulled pork sliders.
The menu also includes flatbread pizza,
burgers, and salads.
Bigelow is confident that despite the building’s history of four restaurants in 10 years,
Tahoe Mountain is here for the long haul.
“I am hoping we are the one that stays,”
he said.
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Small Town Gets
Big Cancer Center
On the Spot | News
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New Tahoe Forest
Hospital building
opens in July
Story by David Bunker | Photos by Emily Dettling
veryone who drives
Donner Pass Road
has seen it go up
piece by piece — the two-storied, 34,000 square-foot, $32.6
million Tahoe Forest Cancer
Center. After nearly two years
of construction, the cancer
center and its millions of dollars in cutting-edge radiation
oncology technology will open
to the public in July.
The Tahoe Forest Cancer Center building— funded mostly
by the taxpayer-supported,
$98.5 million Measure C bond
passed in September 2007 —
will bring cutting-edge radiation oncology services to the
Tahoe Forest Hospital, according to hospital officials. The
Tahoe Forest Cancer Center
has operated across the street
from the main hospital building since 2006, and has been
diagnosing and treating cancer
cases for the past six years,
although it has been limited by
its lack of radiation equipment.
Cancer patients have had to
travel to hospitals in Reno or
the Sacramento area to get
radiation treatment.
The Technology
The move into radiation oncology came with a significant
investment. Between the Varian
True Beam linear accelerator
and the PET CT machine, the
district invested millions of dollars into radiation and diagnostic technology.
“When we made a decision
to buy radiation oncology
equipment, we wanted to buy
tomorrow’s machine, not yesterday’s machine,” said Tahoe
Forest Cancer Center Medical
Director Dr. Larry Heifetz.
The radiation machine’s
precision allows it to target
malignant tumors without
affecting surrounding tissue.
That pinpoint accuracy enables doctors to treat tumors
with radiation rather than
surgery, and the True Beam’s
efficiency shortens treatments
substantially.
“This technology is truly state
of the art,” said Heifetz
The Tahoe Forest Cancer
Center medical staff will
diagnose and treat all types of
the disease expect for pediatric
cancer cases.
“Currently there are no malignancies that we don’t take care
of,” said Heifetz.
But, just like national averages, 80 percent of the cancer
cases the center sees are the
four most prevalent cancers
— breast, lung, prostate, and
colorectal.
The Tahoe Forest Cancer
Center is part of the UC
Davis Cancer Care Network,
and doctors have developed a
secure conference room with
teleconferencing technology
that allows specialists and
oncologists throughout the
UC Davis network to discuss
difficult cases. The Virtual Tumor Board, as the conference
is called, allows a patient’s case
to be reviewed by several of
the region’s leading oncologists.
The Building
While the Tahoe Forest Cancer
Center building is two stories
and 34,000 square feet, only
20,000 square feet will be
occupied immediately. The
second floor and its 14,000
square feet of space will remain
unfinished and available for
future cancer center expansion.
“When we planned the building
it did not make sense, because
of the limited land we have for
hospital expansion, to build a
one-story building,” said Rick
McConn, the hospital’s chief of
facilities development.
McConn said the building
was designed “from the inside
out.” The function and flow of
the oncology services in the
interior of the structure determined the building’s layout.
A lot of care was taken to
create a certain look and feel
in the interior of the building. The building is filled with
art, flat screen TVs, massage
chairs, fireplaces — items you
don’t typically associate with a
hospital.
“A lot of the hospitals today,
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The Circle of Life: In the center of the floor of the entry is a large circular collage
of multi-colored stone with names of community donors etched into each piece.
the primary design feature is
to not make them feel like a
hospital,” said McConn. “If
you can make the patients feel
better, they are going to get
better.”
The Money
The cancer center was built
with $28.6 million in Measure C funding, almost onethird of the $95 million bond
money slated for hospital facilities. The bond measure is
also funding upgrades to the
emergency department and
long-term care, and seismic
upgrades to hospital facilities and women and family
medicine.
The new cancer center is
projected to bring significant
revenue into the hospital district. Net revenue for the new
center’s first year of operation is projected to be $8.6
million while its operating
expenses will be around $6.5
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On the Spot | News
cancer center from p. 24
million, meaning the center
will make the hospital district
an estimated $2.1 million in
its first year.
The construction of the
Tahoe Forest Cancer Center
and the projected revenue
both mirror national trends.
There has been a boom in
cancer center construction
across the nation as hospitals
and for-profit cancer centers
build new facilities to meet
the growing need for cancer
care. That need is driven
in part by the aging Baby
Boomer generation — the
75 million people born post
World War II between 1946
and 1964. In a 2011 study
published in the Journal of
the National Cancer Institute,
upper-end projections say
U.S. cancer care costs could
skyrocket by 66 percent by
2020, going from the $125
billion spent on U.S. cancer
care in 2010 to $207 billion in 2020, because of the
increased incidence of cancer
and the increase in cancer
care costs.
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The economics of cancer
care are also fueling the
cancer center growth. Cancer care, unlike other parts
of hospital operations like
emergency care, is highly
profitable. Cancer patients
are generally older, and
therefore have a higher probability of having their cancer
treatment reimbursed by
Medicare or by health insurance plans. And unlike other
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involves repeated and recurrent treatments. Patients
undergoing chemotherapy
or radiation treatments are
often admitted to a hospital
daily, and even after active
treatment, cancer patients
return regularly for checkups
or follow-up treatment.
The growing need for cancer
care and its profitability has
led to an increase in both
hospital-based cancer centers
and for-profit cancer centers
across the nation. According
to a February 2011 article in
Healthcare Construction and
Operations “most healthcare
systems are scrambling to add
cancer care services to their
repertoire, either by building
new cancer centers on existing
hospital campuses or expanding treatment facilities.”
The Patients
When the hospital district
opened the cancer center
in its temporary location in
2006, they expected 100
new patients per year, said
Heifetz. That number quickly
grew beyond projections to
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300 new patients per year.
The hospital district, in
projecting who would use the
Tahoe Forest Cancer Center, developed a service area
that included Truckee, North
Tahoe, Sierra County, and
even Plumas County, an area
where the drive to Reno’s Renown Regional Medical Center is nearly equal, depending
on weather conditions.
The district estimates that
2,100 people within the cancer center’s service area have
cancer, and 300 new cancer
patients will be diagnosed
each year. By 2018, Tahoe
Forest Hospital expects 1,995
cancer patients to be using
the services of Tahoe Forest
Cancer Center each year.
But along with the Truckee,
North Tahoe, and Sierra
County patients, the center
currently sees patients from
as far away as South Lake
Tahoe, Carson City, and
Reno, said Dr. Heifetz.
Heifetz said Tahoe Forest
Cancer Center’s affiliation
Peaceful setting: (above
left) The entire center is designed to evoke calmness and
healing in patients. In the waiting area of the Radiation Wing,
a life-size tree created by Troy
Corliss fills the room with handblown glass leaves. Many other
pieces of art are featured around
the building including a sleek,
bird-like metal sculpture created
by Milt Heifetz, father of Medical
Director, Dr. Larry Heifetz.
The Varian Truebeam
(above right) is state-of-the-art
radiation therapy designed to
target and treat cancer with pinpoint accuracy. The device is a
radically new solution that is said
to be faster and more powerful
than former treatment.
Places to focus: (right)
Puzzles are available on a table
of one of the patient waiting areas. The intention is to help patients put their focus elsewhere
while awaiting treatment.
with the UC Davis Cancer
Center — one of only 41
cancer centers in the nation
to receive a prestigious
“comprehensive” designation from the National
Cancer Institute — and the
Virtual Tumor Board that
connects UC Davis experts
to Tahoe Forest doctors, is
one of the reasons people
from out of the area are
choosing to receive care in
Truckee.
The cancer center will
celebrate the new building’s
completion on July 17 with
a grand opening for donors.
A community open house
and grand opening celebration will follow on July 21.
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MOUNTAIN LIFE
Tonka Time
other Lab friends who have
I’m so excited to get my first
been known to jump out of
writing assignment. I will start
moving cars when heading to a
off by sharing a little about
trailhead, although I have been
myself. I’m a 6-year-old black
known to jump over
lab mix who learned
a baby in a car seat
everything from her
if I need to get out
brother Flip, at least
in a hurry.
everything I know.
Flip was a great big
I was in a hurry to
brother, tolerating
visit the shelter this
me from the time I
month, but I waited
was a little puppy.
patiently and didn’t
He never seemed
get out of the car
Flip’s
Friends
to mind when I
By Olive Brown
until
we were at a
would get excited
complete
stop. In
and bark in his face
the
side
yard
there
were
three
and bite his ears before we
pit
bull
mixes
and
my
person
went on a walk. My folks never
went right in to check them
understood why he didn’t just
out. I watched in horror as
bite me. At times they even
they bounced up and down
encouraged it. I think it was
and licked his face. That’s
because he loved me. Flip tried
supposed to be my job! Out of
to teach me patience, improve
the bunch we chose Tonka to
my writing skills, and get me
take for a stroll by the Truckee
focused on something other
River. Tonka is about 2 years
than food. All that work just
old and sure is handsome.
ended up making me hungry.
Tonka walks well on a leash
and has pretty good manners.
I admit I missed a few lessons
He’s a nice, medium-sized dog
from my big bro, but I often
weighing about 50 pounds. He
find it hard to concentrate. I
even takes his treats nicely. I,
am, however, well read. My
on the other hand, will take off
second favorite publication
a finger if you are not careful.
after Moonshine Ink is The
Tonka can’t live in a house with
Economist. They use some
cats so he can’t move in with
pretty big words. The only
Tobias and me.
problem is that once I really
start to understand something
Down at the river Tonka was
like the Euro crisis and the
a great companion. He loves
importance of Greece to the
to chase sticks and also enjoys
European Union, a squirrel
swimming. Tonka took a few
will run past the window,
dips in the river after some
and I completely lose focus,
sticks we tossed him. When he
kind of like that dog in the
headed for the rapids we got
movie “Up.” I don’t always
a little concerned, but it turns
come when I am called unless
out that he likes swimming.
you bring treats. It may even
Tonka would have headed for
seem at times like I am deaf,
Pyramid Lake if we had let
but somehow I can hear the
him. Tonka’s other hobbies
sound of an egg cracking from
include digging, getting belly
across the house while I’m in
rubs, and snuggling on the
a deep sleep. I love eggs and
couch. I like lying on the
the people who feed them to
couch; I just don’t like to
me. There is nothing better
snuggle so much. I may even
in the morning than a raw
growl if you try to squeeze me.
egg yolk. I could also eat eggs
Tonka does have some trouble
for lunch, dinner, and snack
with his knees. It doesn’t stop
time. I think this is important
him from getting around or
information to share. I love car
from whitewater rafting, but he
rides and walks and will bark
will need to be kept slim and
incessantly if it seems like you
would like a little glucosamine
might be putting your shoes on
with his food. In the short time
and heading somewhere fun.
we met Tonka, we found him
I’m not as bad as some of my
Tonka is ready to hit some
Class V rapids by day and snuggle
on the couch by night. Photo by Olive
Brown/Moonshine Ink
to be fun, friendly, and loyal.
What more could you want in
a companion?
In other shelter news, our cat
friends Sprocket and Ralph
from our last two columns
have both been adopted. We
still have plenty of great cats
looking for homes, and I have
been told that kitten season
is in full swing. Every year
when it warms up the kitties
start getting frisky, and lo
and behold, nine weeks later
we have kitten season. The
humane society has many
kittens and cats for you to
choose from. My current
favorite is Matt. For more
information on Matt, Tonka, or
any of the other great animals
with the Humane Society of
Truckee-Tahoe, visit hstt.org.
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La Vida de las Montañas
Hazaña Olímpica
An Olympic Feat
Tahoe una vez fue la sede de los
Juegos Olímpicos. ¿Nos gustaría
que volviera a serlo?
Tahoe hosted the Olympics once.
Do we want the
Games here again?
U
started the western ski industry.” Along
with the completion of I-80 in 1963,
which was spurred by the Olympics,
our sleepy little summer tourist town
morphed into a world-renowned, allseason resort. With the London 2012
Summer Olympics a little over a month
away, I thought I would look back on
what it was like growing up just after
the Olympics were held, and then look
forward to what it might be like if the
Olympics were to return to Tahoe again.
no de los
primeros
recuerdos de mi niñez se
remonta a cuando tenía 4 años.
Crecer en Tahoe
Viajaba mareado en Por Tim Hauserman
el asiento trasero
del coche familiar por un camino sinuoso
detrás de un oloroso camión en la angosta
Carretera 40 en Donner Summit. La
Interestatal 80 aún no existía, por lo que
avanzábamos a ritmo lento mientras mis
molestas hermanas mayores y mi hermano
sádico mayor me atormentaban durante
lo que parecía ser una eternidad en los
frecuentes viajes que hacíamos al Área de
la Bahía. Fue a comienzos de la década de
1960, unos pocos años después de que la
transmisión en vivo por televisión de los
Juegos Olímpicos en Squaw Valley diera a
conocer al mundo que Lake Tahoe es un
lugar hermoso, y justo antes de que todas
aquellas personas que vieron esas transmisiones decidieran venir a Tahoe.
Dave Antonucci, quien escribió “A Snowballs Chance: The story of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games,” dice que los Juegos
Olímpicos en Squaw Valley “fueron sin
duda los que iniciaron la industria del esquí
en el Oeste.” Junto con la finalización de
la construcción de la I-80 en 1963, que fue
impulsada por los Juegos, nuestro pequeño
y adormecido pueblo para turistas durante
el verano se convirtió en un centro turístico
de renombre internacional durante todo
el año. Ahora que falta un poco más de
un mes para que comiencen los Juegos
Olímpicos de Verano 2012 en Londres,
pensé en mirar hacia atrás y recordar cómo
era crecer justo después de que terminaran
los Juegos, y luego mirar hacia delante
hacia cómo sería si los Juegos se realizaran
nuevamente en Tahoe.
De niño, en la década de 1960 y 1970,
estaba demasiado ocupado pretendiendo ser un lanzador de alguna liga muy
importante arrojando curvas contra el
muro de contención de la entrada como
para preocuparme por los condominios y
los desarrollos inmobiliarios que emergían
como flores silvestres por todos lados. Sin
embargo, sí recuerdo que cuando nos mudamos a Dollar Point en 1966 la mayoría
de los terrenos estaban vacíos, y nosotros
los convertimos en nuestros patios de
juego. A nuestro pesar, al término de 10
años, nuestro excelente terreno en el que
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Los espectadores miran la final de la
carrera alpina de mujeres en la base de
Papoose Peak. En los últimos Juegos Olímpicos en
Vancouver, hubo el quíntuple de atletas y más del triple
de eventos en comparación con los Juegos Olímpicos
realizados en Squaw. Fotos por Bill Briner extraídas
del libro “Snowball’s Chance: The Story of the 1960
Olympic Winter Games” de David C. Antonucci
jugábamos a las escondidas estaba repleto
de un montón de casas viejas aburridas.
A comienzos de la década de 1970, todos
aquellos propietarios, turistas, y residentes
permanentes que venían aquí a esquiar
comenzaron a ganarse la vida dirigiendo
restaurantes, casas de regalos, y locales comerciales. Las hijas y los hijos de los dueños de negocios y contratistas colmaron las
escuelas, lo cual llevó a la construcción de
North Tahoe Middle School y High School
en 1974. A los niños de North Tahoe les
encantaba nuestra nueva escuela. Redujo
por lo menos una hora diaria de viaje en
coche u ómnibus, y evitó una serie de accidentes de tránsito trágicos a la mañana
temprano que involucraban a niños que
viajaban de Tahoe a Truckee.
Desafortunadamente, el rápido crecimiento llevó a una ferviente actitud de
anti-turismo por parte de los locales. Aún
See Juegos p. 30
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Spectators watch the finish of the
women’s alpine race at the foot of
Papoose Peak. The last winter Olympics in Vancouver had five times as many athletes and more
than three times as many events as the Squaw
Valley Games. Photos by Bill Briner from the
book “Snowball’s Chance: The Story of the 1960
Olympic Winter Games” by David C. Antonucci
Growing Up In Tahoe
By Tim Hauserman
O
ne of my earliest childhood
memories is of being four years
old and carsick in the back of
the family car as we slowly wound our
way behind some smelly truck on narrow Highway 40 over Donner Summit.
Interstate 80 hadn’t yet been built, so I
was stuck being tormented by my pesky
older sisters and sadistic older brother
for what seemed like an eternity on our
frequent trips to the Bay Area. It was
in the early 1960s, just a few years after
the live television broadcasts of the
Squaw Valley Olympics let the world
know that Lake Tahoe was a beautiful
place, and just before all those people
who saw those broadcasts decided to
come to Tahoe.
Dave Antonucci, who wrote “A Snowballs Chance: The story of the 1960
Olympic Winter Games,” says that the
Squaw Valley Olympics “clearly quick
As a kid growing up in the ’60s and
’70s, I was too busy pretending to be
a major league pitcher throwing curve
balls against the driveway retaining wall
to worry about the condo and housing
developments that were popping up like
wildflowers everywhere you looked. I
do remember, however, that when we
moved to Dollar Point in 1966 the majority of the lots in the area were vacant.
We turned them into our playgrounds.
Sadly for us, in the next 10 years our
prime terrain for hide-and-seek was
covered up with a bunch of boring old
houses.
By the early 1970s, all those second
homeowners, tourists, and permanent
residents coming here to ski made it feasible to make a living operating restaurants, gift shops, and commercial buildings. The daughters and sons of those
busy contractors and business owners
filled up the schools, leading to the
construction of the North Tahoe Middle
and High schools in 1974. North Tahoe
kids loved our new school. It eliminated
at least an extra hour a day of driving or
sitting on a bus, and put the kibosh on
a series of tragic early-morning car accidents involving high school kids headed
from Tahoe to Truckee.
Unfortunately, rapid growth led to a
fervent anti-tourist attitude among the
locals. I still remember the irony of
receiving a Christmas card from one
local motel owner proudly showing a
member of his family wearing a “No
Turkeys” T-shirt. For those of you who
moved to Tahoe after 1980, “turkeys”
was the affectionate term for tourists
back then, much the same as “gaper” is
today. Those departing Tahoe from the
West Shore were even greeted with a
large hand-painted “Good-Bye Turkeys”
sign on Labor Day.
>>>
MOUNTAIN LIFE
>>> Eventually, the Tahoe
Regional Planning
Agency showed up and put
the hammer on development,
the economy took a nosedive
because of a global political
and economic crisis, and local
attitudes changed when folks
remembered that tourists
provided the money that put
food on our plates. Then we
looked around and wondered
how our little Lake Tahoe had
become a place that people
named cars and cookies after.
So what would happen if the
Olympics came back to Tahoe?
According to the Reno Tahoe
Winter Games Coalition
(RTWGC), which is organizing
a bid for the 2022 Olympics,
the Squaw Valley games held
27 competitive events. By
La Tribuna de Honor fue donde
estaba ubicada la Llama Olímpica, la
Torre de las Naciones, y las ceremonias de las entregas de medallas a los
atletas ganadores. Las estatuas en el
escenario fueron diseñadas y construidas por artistas de Walt Disney Co.
contrast, Vancouver in 2010
had 87 events, and in 2014
Sochi, Russia, is scheduled to
have 99 events. There will be
about 3,000 athletes in 2014,
compared to the some 600 who
came to Squaw Valley. The days
of having a quaint, little Winter
Olympics at one ski resort are
long past. “There is not a single
resort on the planet that could
do it all today,” says RTWGC
Director Jon Killoran.
A Reno-Tahoe Games would
probably hold most of the
indoor events in Reno, with the
outdoor competitions spread
all over the region. With several
billion people seeing the Tahoe
Basin on TV, it would certainly
be a marketing bonanza. It
would also be an economic
boon for those involved in the
construction of the Olympic facilities. The actual event could
be a well-organized example
of how to smoothly transport
thousands of people to dozens
of different venues, or it could
just be a major mess of a
traffic jam. Either way, while
the event would only last two
weeks, construction and road
improvements would certainly
have an impact on the community in the years leading up to
the Winter Games.
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The Tribune of Honor was the location of the Olympic flame, Tower of
Nations, and ceremonies for medals
presentations to winning athletes.
Statues flanking the stage were
designed and constructed by Walt
Disney Co. artists.
What the Olympics would
mean to the community after
the event is probably more
important, yet more difficult
to determine. Would there be
new facilities built that would
draw people to the area and
provide for a better quality of
life for locals? Would a new
public transportation system be
developed? Would the impacts
be felt more in Reno than in
Tahoe? Salt Lake City talks
See Games p. 30
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La Vida de las Montañas
Juegos from p. 28
Games from p. 29
recuerdo la ironía de recibir una tarjeta de
navidad de un dueño de algún motel local
que con orgullo mostraba a algún miembro de su familia vistiendo una remera que
decía “No Turkeys [No a los Pavos].” Para
aquellos que se mudaron a Tahoe después
de 1980, en aquel entonces se utilizaba el
afectuoso término “turkeys” para referirse
a los turistas, del mismo modo que hoy en
inglés se emplea el término “gapers”. Incluso, a aquellos que se iban de Tahoe por
la Costa Oeste en el Día del Trabajador se
los saludaba con un gran cartel pintado a
mano que decía “Adiós, Pavos”.
proudly of the economic benefits that
accrued to the State of Utah because of
the 2002 Olympics, but would we see
the same here?
Con el tiempo, apareció el Tahoe Regional Planning Agency que detuvo el
desarrollo, la economía cayó en picada
debido a la crisis política y económica
a nivel mundial, y hubo un cambio de
actitud por parte de los locales cuando
recordaron que son los turistas quienes
traen el dinero que nos da de comer.
Luego, miramos hacia nuestro alrededor
y nos preguntamos cómo podía ser que la
gente le pusiera a sus coches y galletas el
nombre de nuestro pequeño Lake Tahoe.
Entonces, ¿qué sucedería si Tahoe
volviera a ser la sede de los Juegos
Olímpicos? De acuerdo con Reno Tahoe
Winter Games Coalition, que está
preparando una oferta para los Juegos
Olímpicos 2022, en los Juegos Olímpicos
de Squaw Valley se realizaron 27 pruebas
competitivas. En comparación, en Vancouver 2010 se realizaron 87 pruebas,
y para 2014, Sochi, Rusia, tiene planificado realizar 99 pruebas. Habrá unos
3.000 atletas en 2014, comparados con
los 600 aproximadamente que vinieron
a Squaw Valley. Atrás quedaron los días
de tener unos Juegos Olímpicos pequeños, pintorescos, en un centro turístico.
“No hay ni un solo centro turístico en el
mundo que pueda cubrir todo hoy,” dice
el Director de RTWGC Jon Killoran.
Si se realizaran los Juegos Olímpicos en
Reno-Tahoe, quizá sería Reno la sede de
la mayoría de las pruebas bajo techo, y
las competiciones al aire libre estarían
diseminadas por toda la región. Como
habría varios miles de millones de personas
mirando la cuenca de Tahoe por televisión,
sin duda sería una mina de oro para el
marketing. También sería un beneficio
a nivel económico para las personas
que trabajasen en la construcción de las
instalaciones para los Juegos Olímpicos. El
evento en sí mismo podría ser un ejemplo
bien organizado de cómo transportar a
miles de personas a decenas de lugares
diferentes sin complicaciones o, por el contrario, podría significar otro lío importante
de tránsito. Sea como sea, si bien el evento
duraría solo dos semanas, las mejoras en la
construcción y las rutas sin duda impactarían en la comunidad los años previos a
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The long quest to bring another Winter
Games to Reno-Tahoe begins in 2013
with the selection of a host city by the
United States Olympic Committee,
followed two years later by the International Olympic Committee picking the
winner from dozens of applications from
all over the world. Just like in 1960,
trying to become an Olympic host city
is a fierce competition, and it might just
take another smooth talker like Alex
Cushing to miraculously convince the
IOC to bring it to our little corner of the
world again. That is, if we want it.
La montaña para saltos en Squaw
Valley fue la más larga montaña para saltos
de los Juegos Olímpicos de ese momento y fue
considerada una de las mejores del mundo.
The Squaw Valley jumping hill was the
largest of the Olympic jumping hills of its time
and was considered one of the best in the world.
~ Tim Hauserman is the author of “The
Tahoe Rim Trail: The Official Guide for
Hikers, Mountain Bikers and Equestrians.”
While his parents were having a blast at the
1960 Olympics, he was a toddler left at
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los Juegos de Invierno.
Probablemente sea más importante el
significado que tienen los Juegos Olímpicos para la comunidad después del evento,
pero también es más difícil de determinarlo. ¿Se construirían nuevas instalaciones
que captarían más personas en el área y
proporcionarían una mejor calidad de vida
para los locales? ¿Se desarrollaría un nuevo
sistema de transporte público? ¿Repercutiría más en Reno que en Tahoe? Salt
Lake Tahoe con orgullo habla sobre cómo
el Estado de Utah se vio beneficiado por
los Juegos Olímpicos de 2002 pero, ¿acaso
sucedería lo mismo aquí?
La larga búsqueda de traer otros Juegos de
Invierno a Reno-Tahoe comienza en 2013
cuando United Status Olympic Committee escoja la ciudad anfitriona. Luego, dos
años más tarde, el Internacional Olympic
Committee escogerá al ganador de entre
decenas de solicitudes de todo el mundo.
Al igual que en 1960, intentar convertirnos
en una ciudad anfitriona es una competencia feroz, y podría requerir una persona
que sea tranquila al hablar, como es el caso
de Alex Cushing, para que convenza milagrosamente al IOC para realizar los Juegos
Olímpicos en nuestro pequeño lugar en
el mundo una vez más. En caso de que lo
queramos, claro.
~ Tim Hauserman es el autor de “The Tahoe
Rim Trail: The Official Guide for Hikers,
Mountain Bikers and Equestrians.” En 1960,
mientras sus padres disfrutaban de los Juegos
Olímpicos, el era un niño pequeño a quien
habían dejado en el hogar.
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La Llama Olímpica permanece encendida
mientras la Banda del Cuerpo de Infantería toca
antes de una ceremonia de entrega de medallas
en la Tribuna de Honor.
The Olympic flame burns as the Marine
Corps Band plays before a medal award
ceremony at the Tribune of Honor.
MOUNTAIN LIFE
Voles, Voles, Voles: Yep, it’s spring!
It’s spring, almost
summer, so you
know what that
means for our
lawns — aboveground tunnels
wind around
the surface like toy-train tracks.
We curse the little tunnelers that
create these visual impediments,
but this year the usual handiwork
is nowhere to be seen; at least my
lawn is clear. Why in some years do
we find long, snakelike mazes, while
other years our lawns are trackless?
And who are these critters that
make these passageways in our
grass?
and partially hidden
ears. They eat fruits,
seeds, fungi, bark,
and sometimes leaves.
Some of the most
common voles in our
area are mountain
voles (Microtus montanus), longtailed voles (Microtus longicaudus),
and sagebrush voles (Lemmiscus
curtatus). According to Larusson,
the role of a vole in the ecosystem
is to convert plant material into
food for our forests’ carnivores.
Predators such as owls, hawks,
ravens, eagles, snakes, bobcats,
mountain lions, and coyotes love
to munch on the nutritious, and
abundant, voles.
Nature’s
Corner
Eric Larusson, an arborist at the
Villager Nursery in Truckee as
well as a plant and animal expert,
lent his expertise in sharing some
elementary facts. First, three
common mammals invade our
lawns and scurry in meadows: voles,
moles, and gophers. Voles construct
subterranean tunnels (and also take
advantage of already-made tunnels
crafted by gophers, ground squirrels,
and moles) and in winter live
underground. In summer, much of
their activity occurs above ground in
meadow “runways” they cut through
vegetation close to the surface. Most
of all, Larusson says, they love the
condominium-like dwellings created
in man-made rock walls.
Voles, who are also known as
meadow mice, look like small
hamsters, with compact, heavy
bodies, short legs, small eyes,
Just how prolific is the vole?
According to the UC Agriculture
and Natural Resources website,
females mature in 35 to 40 days
and have five to 10 litters per year.
However, because of their sheer
numbers, voles seldom live
longer than 12 months since
they provide ample bait for
predators. The “Sierra Nevada
Natural History” guide confirms
the animal’s fecundity: “Voles
can breed within three weeks
of birth, giving them about the
highest reproductive potential
of any mammal.”
In the Sierra, voles thrive in the
subnivean (the world under the
snow) environment. Larusson
once wrote in a column: “The
longer the snow cover, the more
they eat. We always say that
God Is Mongoloid
Bronze (copper+tin is hard metal) speaks of judgement (1Kings8:64).
Jesus and God are judges on throne with bronze skin i.e. reddish
black color (Ezekiel40:3, Dan10:6,Rev1:15) Adam, ruler of Eden also
judged and subdued the animals must be bronze skin in the likeness
of God. Jesus being ‘lion’ and lion’s DNA is indigenous African, Jesus
is eternally Negroid. Lion’s more powerful cousin is ‘tiger’ represents
God. Tiger’s DNA is indigenous to South China with forward-facing
eyes and shortened cranium. Genetics showed Kalahari Desert’s
squinty eyed Chinese face Negroes as progenitors of dark skinned
indigenous Chinese of South China whose descendants became
Polynesians who possessed volcanic(consuming fire) paradise
Hawaii = picture of heaven where saints and God’s image is
Polynesian. God’s message to ‘Chinese face’ tribes they carry his
true image and DNA and redeemed from ‘Kalahari Desert’ i.e. hell to
inherit ‘Hawaii’ i.e. heaven. Resurrected saints in meek Polynesian
image+bronze skin will judge proud+comely caucasoid angels/
sinners. In Siberia big bears often bully tigers for food kills. Tigers
engage these eternal enemies in mortal combat. Caucasoid angels
like Lucifer mirror bear’s DNA indigenous to Europe’s origin as
they rebelled God. But Lucifer knew caucasoid are beauty genes
with inferior spiritual potential. Whereas Kalahari’s ‘oven’ negro’s
gene was refined in Siberia ‘freezer’ to Mongoloid gene of God’s
meekness+spirituality before migrating to China. In response Lucifer
cloned his seed from Negroid to make Caucasoids to war God’s
Mongoloids in Americas and Asia. Famous ‘falling bear’ smashed by
cars in U.S.36 highway in Colorado city ‘Boulder’ means Jesus the
‘rock’ has smashed Caucasoids(Bear) us being ‘sum 1 to 36’=666
A long-tailed vole, the cute but pesky critter that is digging up your lawn. Photo courtesy
http://redbuttecanyon.net/mammalian/m_longicaudus.html
Do you have a question about
our region’s natural world? Email
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when ice skating is good, voles
suffer.” Aha! The reason vole traffic
is less or nonexistent this year!
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MOUNTAIN LIFE
It’s never too late
to step consciously onto
a spiritual path. Photos
by Kira Catanzaro/
Moonshine Ink
My Journey to God
decidedly cuter than they had
I was christened in a Lutheran
been in the Midwest. My best
church when I was a baby. I had
friend and I had siblings in the
no choice in the matter. I went
senior high youth group, and
to Sunday school where I sang
they had toga parties with alsongs about letting my light
cohol. We were invited into the
shine and colored in pictures of
cool group, and things
Jesus surrounded by
started to look up.
little children. One
day, the girl sitting
When it came time for
next to me scratched
me to be confirmed,
me, so I bit her and
I had to put my foot
got a fierce spankdown. I was 14, and
ing after church.
had spent enough
I haven’t bitten
time in my parents’
anybody since then,
Spiritual
churches
to know I
so I guess I learned
Place
could
not
continue
By Kira Catanzaro
something that day.
down that path. I felt
nothing, didn’t believe
I went to Bible camp
the stories I’d been told, and
on a lake in Wisconsin for a
did not believe that Jesus was
week during the summer and
the only way to God. It just
felt severely ripped off since my
didn’t feel right. I refused to be
friends went to camps where
confirmed, and closed the door
they rode horses, climbed
on God.
mountains, and played tennis.
We said prayers, sang more
When I was 16, I read a book
songs, and made posters of
that spoke to me on a deeply
Bible lessons. What I remember
spiritual level — “The Mists
most about that camp was my
“I found god in myself / and I loved
her / I loved her fiercely” ~ Ntozake
Shange
counselor allowing Rob and me
alone time on the bench of the
boathouse for our first kiss. I’d
be hard pressed to tell you one
verse I memorized.
Wednesday nights I went to
church school — basketball and
Bible verses. I couldn’t honestly
tell you which I disliked more.
Finally, my family moved to
Southern California, where
the boys in church school were
of Avalon” by Marion Zimmer
Bradley. Originally, I was drawn
to it because it was about the
legends of King Arthur, but
I soon found that the stories
of the pre-Christian Great
Goddess and the priestesses of
the mystical island of Avalon
hit me at a soul level. I felt as
if I had been reintroduced to
things I knew, but had forgotten. It awakened a longing, but
I ignored it.
8 June – 12 July 2012
When I was 27, desperate and
yearning for something more, I
discovered that the black hole
inside of me was actually a
God-sized hole. I put down the
spirits and picked up Spirit. I
read “The Celestine Prophecy”
and began meditating at the
labyrinth in San Francisco’s
Grace Cathedral, taking the
first steps on my conscious
spiritual path. I went back to
where I started and tried attending various churches. The
love, joy, and community I felt
in those churches made sense,
but the feelings I had at 14
still held true for me. Eventually, I joined the Unitarian
Universalist Church, which
is theologically diverse and
encourages people to seek their
own spiritual paths, and found
that the principles of love and
service brought me great peace
and a feeling of purpose.
A move to Truckee seven years
ago brought on another spiritual crisis. I felt abandoned by
God. I felt alone and betrayed,
but the truth was that I was
brought here to work on my
shit. It was time to go deeper.
I was brought to this spiritual
Listen to your inner guidance.
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For the next 11 years I was
caught up in the clamor of life
and had no interest in spiritual
exploration other than with
the spirits found in a bar or
liquor store. There were forays
into mood and mind-altering
substances I called spiritual.
The few prayers I said during
that time were usually along the
lines of, “Oh, God, please get
me out of this mess.”
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When I see sunbeams, I see God.
place in order to strengthen my
connection and to help others
find theirs. I’ve been blessed
with wonderful teachers and
have discovered parts of myself
I never knew existed before. I
was a city girl, but I found myself in nature. I found God in
nature. I found God in myself. I
began enthusiastically studying myriad spiritual beliefs and
practices: goddesses, mysticism,
metaphysics, energy work, shamanism, the tarot, Buddhism,
the kabbalah, yoga, astrology,
the Ascended Masters, paganism, and the Great Shift in
Consciousness. I found my own
relationship with Jesus. I began
to meditate more regularly and
do deep inner healing through
diverse spiritual modalities.
For Goodness Sake opened its
doors just after I moved here,
and I can’t begin to tell you how
grateful I am for all that they
have done for me and for this
community. The prospects for
spiritual growth they offer are
seemingly limitless. For four
years, I have been blessed with
the opportunity to facilitate a
creativity program there, and
seeing how the simple act of
sharing spiritual experiences in
a group of open souls can alter
lives for the better has shown
me what giving and receiving
true love is.
It’s clear to me that my intuition
was right on when I picked up
“The Mists of Avalon” at 16.
The Goddess was calling me.
I am about to embark on the
next part of my spiritual path
— graduate school in Palo Alto
at the Institute of Transpersonal
Psychology (Sofia University as
of July 1) for women’s spirituality and spiritual guidance.
Earnest searching and practice
have brought peace and meaning into my life, and helping
others to find their personal
spiritual connection has given
me the greatest joy and sense of
success.
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along with the P51 D Man O’ War, static displays and
fly-by demonstrations. Plan on a full day of family fun
to benefit area nonprofits. Photo by John Ward
Tuskegee Airmen featured in the
2012 Lucas Films “Red Tails” are
coming to the Truckee Tahoe
Airport July 7 as part of the 2012
Inaugural Truckee Tahoe AirFair &
Family Festival.
A fundraising event for youth
programs in Truckee/North Tahoe,
the festival combines flying demonstrations, skydiving acts, airplane
rides, and an aircraft exhibit. Children’s activities include a participatory bike rodeo with ramps and an
obstacle course, giant bubbles,
face painting, arts and crafts, and
stilt walkers. There will also be live
music by SambaDa, and a food
court, and beer garden.
The Tuskegee Airmen, Les Williams, and Le Roy F. Gillead, both
Grand Marshals for the event, will
be available to meet with children
and adults. The Tuskegee Airmen
were the first African-American
military aviators in the United
States armed forces. They played
an important role in World War II.
Videos and interviews are available
on the AirFair & Family Festival
Facebook page.
“The participation of the Tuskegee Airmen is a true honor,” said
AirFair & Family Festival Chairman
Tim LoDolce. “They will also be
honored on Friday, July 6 at a PreAirFair dinner in Hangar One.”
Entry to the AirFair is free,
although various activities require
a fee. The opening ceremony, set
for 11 a.m., will feature special
performances by the “Just-InTime Skydivers” and the Red Star
Formation Flying Group.
“Don’t miss the opening ceremony,” LoDolce said. “It will truly
wow spectators. Smoke, a flag, and
cheers will explode. The Red Star
formation flying team, soaring in
YAK 52s, and the ‘Just-in-Time Sky
Diving Team’ are going to make
the Truckee sky come alive.”
From 8 a.m. to noon, youth ages
8 to 17 can fly free as an Experimental Aircraft Association “Young
Eagle.” The Young Eagle rides are
subject to weather conditions, and
parents must accompany their children at time of sign-up. Prior notice of those children interested in
a free flight is highly recommended
in order to assist AirFair planners
with organizing planes and pilots.
Interested parents should call EAA
Young Eagle Coordinator Michael
Golden at 530.587.8017 for more
information.
of
The AirFair will feature a wide
variety of aircraft on the ramp and
in the air, including the World War
II era B25 Old Glory and the P51
Man O’ War. Rides on the Man O’
War will be available, with profits
going to the Commemorative
Air Force (CAF). The CAF is the
premier Warbird organization, now
operating 156 vintage aircraft in
Honor of American Military Aviation. Ride fares are tax deductable.
The AirFair & Family Festival is
being produced by the Truckee
Tahoe Airport District, along
with the cooperation of several
Truckee local non-profit organizations including the Experimental
Aircraft Association Chapter 1073,
KidZone Museum, and the Truckee
Optimist Club. This fundraising
event replaces the annual KidZone
Family Festival and the Truckee
Optimist Club’s Cannibal Cruise.
The Truckee Tahoe Airport
District is the “Golden Wings”
sponsor of this event, meaning that
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Wellness Center to Open
Trails Within, a yoga and wellness
center, is set to open in Graeagle,
Calif. early June. Trails Within
will offer a regular schedule and
a variety of yoga and meditation
classes, for both the experienced
student and the new beginner.
Starting in June, Trails Within will
also host a four week beginner
series on Wednesdays at 11
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Tahoe Truckee Plan to Improve Third Grade Reading
Selected as Finalist for National Award
A plan to ensure that more Tahoe
Truckee children are reading at
grade level by the end of third
grade has been chosen as a
finalist for the All-America City
Award, sponsored each year
by the National Civic League.
The plan was submitted by a
community coalition that includes
the Tahoe Truckee Excellence
in Education Foundation, Tahoe
Truckee Community Foundation,
Community Collaborative of Tahoe
Truckee, First Five Nevada County,
and the Tahoe Truckee Unified
School District. This group of
community organizations started a
local effort, Tahoe Truckee Reads,
to improve third grade reading
levels. Tahoe Truckee is one of 32
finalists selected through a peer
review process from a field of more
than 100 entries across the country.
Winners will be announced July
2 in Denver, Colo. Students who
have mastered reading by third
grade are more likely to continue
their academic success and stay in
school. Laura Brown, Excellence in
Education Foundation Executive
Director said, “We are ecstatic
that our plan was selected as
a finalist for the award. More
than anything this validates the
passion and creative ideas our
community has for supporting
our students.” The Tahoe Truckee
Reads plan offers a framework for
the Tahoe Truckee community to
enhance current programs and
relationships as well as try new and
targeted intervention strategies
for increasing third grade reading
levels. As a charter member of
the Campaign for Grade-Level
Reading Community Network,
Tahoe Truckee will have access to a
Promising Practices Clearinghouse,
an online help desk, peer-learning
opportunities, meetings with
national experts and policymakers,
and a foundation registry designed
to expand and replicate successful
programs. Info: Phyllis Jordan,
pjordan@thehatchergroup.
com or Stacey Mink, stacey@
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Join Alpenglow Sports and Tahoe
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seminar on heart rate training
and sport nutrition. This is a free
community event, and athletes of
all ages and types are encouraged
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to attend. Part of Adventure Sports
Week Tahoe, the seminar will cover
everything you need to know
about heart rate training and how
to keep you fueled, healthy, and
recovered for your next adventure.
Whether you are an ultra-runner,
triathlete, cyclist, or backpacker,
come enjoy food and drink while
learning from some of Lake Tahoe’s
finest athletic resources. The part
one seminar features Training to
the Beat of your Own Heart with
Colleen Conners-Pace. Part two
seminar features, How to Fuel
for your Exercise Regime with Jill
Whisler. Colleen is certified as an
exercise physiologist, level 1 USA
triathlon coach, a certified ACSM
health fitness instructor, an EMT,
and member of the Tahoe Nordic
Search and Rescue Team. Jill is a
registered dietitian, a certified health
fitness specialist, certified adult
and pediatric weight management,
and presents nationwide for many
corporate wellness programs. Info:
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Got ‘Er Done!
Truckee Pump Track Park
celebrates grand opening
stately pine trees
When I first laid eyes
— an immaculately
on the new pump
crafted sculpture
track park at the
garden built out
Riverview Sports Park
of rich dirt to burn
in Truckee, I was in
the legs and blow
disbelief. My mind
the minds of eager
had a hard time comcyclists. The fantasy
prehending how this
Sports
of a local pump track
vast and spectacular
Spotlight
was now a reality, and
mountain bike playBy Seth Lightcap
in record time.
ground could have
sprung from muThe reason a new public
nicipal land that fast. Hadn’t it
pump track is such an exciting
been less than one year since
development for local mounthe first rumors circulated
tain bikers has everything to
about the mere possibility of
do with the thrill ride itself. A
such a public cycling facility?
pump track is an undulating
Surely the hoops of approvals
dirt course built to loop around
and fundraising should have
without pedaling. It’s remitripped up the dream someniscent of a BMX track, only
where within the course of a
the features are packed closer
short winter?
together. The rounded, tightly
spaced terrain features allow
A long blink and a couple
you to “pump” the down transiecstatic expletives under my
tions and keep up your speed
breath cleared any confusion.
as you fly around the bermed
There it was, basking under the
corners, wheelie through the
soft afternoon shade of a dozen
The new pump track park at the Riverview Sports Park In Truckee is dirt playground for mountain bikers that’s meant to
be ridden without pedaling. The facility was constructed thanks to the success of a $45,000 community sponsored fundraising
campaign. The park opens June 10. Photos by Seth Lightcap/Moonshine Ink
whoops, and boost the jumps.
Trail intersections that can
be ridden both ways allow for
endless loop variations and, accordingly, infinite fun in a finite
area like a skate park.
All that pumping and jumping
requires practiced strength and
provides a solid workout, plus a
hearty dose of adrenaline when
you rail corners without touching the brakes. The facility was
designed to welcome all skill
levels and includes a beginner
track perfect for push bikes, an
intermediate loop track, and a
pump park built for advanced
skill progression. Toddlers,
teenagers, bros, pros, moms,
and dads will all be able to ride
around the park together.
At the top of the list of whom
we have to thank for the
overnight success of the pump
track project sits Truckee
residents Brooks McMullin
and Mark Featherstone.
These two avid local cyclists
earned the project’s approval
from the Truckee Recreation
and Park District and the
Truckee Sanitary District
before organizing a $45,000
fundraising effort to get the
track designed and constructed
by a crew of professional trail
builders affiliated with the
International Mountain Bike
Association. This IMBA “Trail
Solutions” crew, led by veteran
MTB pro rider Randy Spangler,
built the track during the
month of May.
McMullin is more thrilled than
anyone about the new park,
but he was quick to pass off
the recognition when I caught
up with him between his first
laps around the track.
“Mark and I may have organized the idea but it was a runaway snowball from the start,”
said McMullin. “The support
from the community has been
unbelievable. We want to
Pump track park designer, lead builder and former pro mountain biker Randy
Spangler floats a casual tabletop air over one of the hip-ed corners of the ‘pump park’. The relatively
small terrain features of the pump park are the perfect place to work on bike handling skills.
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The grand opening celebration for the
Truckee Pump Track Park will be held
on Sunday, June 10 from 12 to 5 p.m.
at the Riverview Sports Park. The event
will begin with a ribbon cutting followed
by a free barbecue, refreshments, and
live music. After the party, the track will
be open seven days a week sunrise to
sunset. The park is irrigated to keep the
dust down, which will mandate temporary closures in the early morning and
late afternoon post-watering. Riding a
wet track creates dangerous and damaging ruts, so riders are also asked to stay
off the track after rain storms until it has
dried out.
Pump track riders will be required to
wear a helmet and protective pads and
obey the park rules regarding the types
of bicycles allowed on the track. The
ideal bike for a pump track is a hard
tail or dirt jumper style mountain bike
equipped with tires that have a nonaggressive tread pattern. Cross-country
full-suspension bikes with the proper
tires will also work, but burly downhill
full-suspension bikes with knobby tires
are not allowed as the aggressive tires
and heavy bikes will damage the contours of the track.
There’s little doubt that the new pump
track park is destined to become one
of the most popular recreation facilities in Truckee. Between the thrills, the
exercise, and the social potential, the
pump track will be a fun magnet for
mountain bikers of every generation.
Here’s hoping the facility is treated with
the respect it deserves and it’s popularity
can be a springboard for future community supported parks and rec projects.
The overnight success of the pump track
showed how our collective power can
make real change when we get the right
snowballs rolling.
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BOCADO
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Los Utensilios de
Cocina Más Utilizados
El Cuchillo Shun es el utensilio favorito de dos de
nuestros chefs, Douglas Dale de Wolfdale’s y Julia Walter
de River Ranch.
L
a calidad de una receta puede verse afectada no solo
por la calidad de la comida sino
que también por los utensilios
que se utilizan para prepararla.
Le preguntamos a algunos de
nuestros chefs favoritos cuál es
su utensilio de cocina qué más
utilizan en sus hogares.
Douglas Dale de Wolfdale’s Cuisine Unique tiene
“Es de metal con una
agarradera de madera; causa
una agradable sensación al
tomarla,” dijo. “Si no sabes
dónde está, te sientes perdido.”
La mayoría de los que cocinan
en sus hogares se pondrán
contentos al saber cuál es el
utensilio del que Charlie
Soule depende en la cocina de
su hogar. El chef y dueño del
restaurante de lujo de Cristal
Bay, Soule Domain, dice que
los artículos que no pueden
faltar son dos que todos los
cocineros ya poseen: un horno
eléctrico y una
parrilla. Soule
utiliza su horno
eléctrico todas
las mañanas para
preparar su desayuno que incluye
queso grillado, con
tomates secados
al sol, nabos, finas
rebanadas de
calabaza, y alioli
con albahaca.
un utensilio de cocina favorito,
pero no está disponible para
los consumidores… por ahora.
El Oil-on, inventado por Dale,
es un aplicador con
cepillo que limpia
la suciedad de la
parrilla y aplica
una nueva capa de
aceite. Lo patentó
hace seis años y
en la actualidad
está en tratativas
con una empresa
en San Francisco
para venderlo en un
comercio próximo
a tu hogar. Mientras esperas a que
el Oil-on salga a la
venta, puedes comprar otro utensilio
que Dale también
La licuadora
utiliza mucho: el
Cuchillo Shun.
The Shun Knife is a favorite of two of our chefs,
Douglas Dale of Wolfdale’s and River Ranch’s Julia Walter.
File photo
Vitamix es otro
aparato de cocina
popular entre los chefs.
“Lo pones allí y
en diez minutos
está listo, por lo
que no tienes que
esperar a que el
queso se cocine en
el grill,”dijo.
“Es uno de esos
The Vitamix
cuchillos chinos
Pero en el verano,
blender is another
utilitarios,”
Soule cocina todo
home kitchen gadget
that is popular with
dice Dave. “Lo
en la parrilla. Los
chefs. File photo
utilizamos para
utensilios básicos
el pescado, los
de su patio trasero incluyen
vegetales, la carne, lo que
pinzas, espátula, cepillo
quieras. Es siempre útil al
para la parrilla, cepillo
momento de utilizar la tabla
para untar, y fósforos
de picar.”
de confiar. Le gusta hacer
Dale agrega: “Para comenzar,
necesitas una buena tabla de
picar.”
bacalao de Alaska a la parrilla
marinado con salsa de soja
acompañado con verduras de
primavera.
Dale tampoco puede vivir sin
su espátula de metal.
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“En esta época del año,
cuando no trabajo por la noche,
intento cocinar casi todo en
la parrilla,” dijo.
John Weatherson, dueño
de Trokay Café en Truckee,
no cocina demasiado en su
casa, pero dice que algunos de
sus utensilios de cocina más
preciados en el restaurante
están disponibles para los
chefs caseros. Uno es el
circulador de inmersión
termal, disponible en
Williams-Sonoma, que hace
circular y calentar el agua que
se mantiene a una temperatura
precisa y estable.
“Es básicamente un Jacuzzi,” dijo
Weatherson, que lo utiliza para
preparar pescado y verduras.
Al igual que Dale, Weatherson
también confía en un buen
cuchillo japonés, en su caso los
cuchillos Korin. Además,
Weatherson dice que un buen
juego de cacerolas marca
una gran diferencia. Utiliza
cacerolas All-Clad,
preferentemente de cobre para
lograr un calor parejo.
“Mi juego de cacerolas de cobre es mi utensilio preferido en
casa,” dijo. “La mitad del juego
está en el restaurante.”
El Cuchillo Shun tiene otro
adepto. La Chef Ejecutiva
de River Ranch Julia
Walter dice que su cuchillo
de 10 pulgadas “es el utensilio
para chefs más importante que
tiene.” Cuando está en su casa,
también utiliza su Rallador
Manual Microplane para
rallar zanahorias, queso, y
huevos duros. Otro de sus
aparatos de cocina favoritos es
la licuadora Vitamix para
uso industrial.
“La utilizo para preparar todo
tipo de vinagretas, salsas, y
licuados por la mañana,” dijo
Walter. “Es lo que más utilizo.”
QUICK
BITES
Go-To Kitchen
Gadgets
Melissa Siig
Moonshine Ink
I
t’s not only the quality of the
food that affects a recipe but
also the utensils used to make
it. So we asked some of our
favorite chefs what their most
trusty kitchen tool is for cooking at home.
Wolfdale’s Cuisine
Unique’s Douglas Dale has
a favorite home kitchen tool,
but it’s not available to consumers — yet. The Oil-on, which
Dale invented, is a brush applicator that cleans dirt off grills
and lays down a new coat of
oil. He patented it six years ago
and is now working with a San
Francisco company to bring
it to a store near you. While
you’re waiting for the Oil-on to
hit the market, you can buy another utensil that Dale swears
by — his Shun Knife.
“It’s one of those utilitarian
Japanese knives,” Dale said.
“We use it for fish, veggies,
meat, you name it. It’s always
on our cutting board.”
Adds Dale: “You need a good
cutting board, then you’re
in business.”
Dale also can’t live without his
metal spatula.
“It’s metal with a wooden
handle; it feels good
in your hands,” he
said. “If you don’t
know where it
is, you feel
lost.”
No puede faltar un buen juego de cacerolas de cobre, dice el dueño
de Trokay Cafe John Weatherson, como
estas cacerolas All-clad.
A good set of copper pans
are a must, says Trokay Cafe
owner John Weatherson, like
these All-clad pans. File photo
Most home cooks will be
pleased to discover what
Charlie Soule depends on in
his home kitchen. The chef and
owner of upscale Crystal Bay
restaurant Soule Domain says
his go-to items are two things
every cook already has — a
toaster oven and barbecue. Soule uses his toaster
oven every morning to make
his breakfast of grilled cheese,
adding extras like sundried
tomatoes, baby turnips, thinly
sliced squash, and basil aioli.
tools from the restaurant are
available to home chefs. One
is his thermal immersion
circulator, available at
Williams-Sonoma, which
circulates and heats water
that is kept at an accurate and
stable temperature.
“You can just put it in there
and in 10 minutes it’s ready,
so you are not standing there
watching the grilled cheese,”
he said.
But in the summer, it’s all about
the barbecue for Soule. His
backyard essentials include
tongs, spatula, grill
brush, basting brush, and
trusty matches. He likes to
grill up Alaskan cod marinated
in soy sauce with spring veggies.
“On my nights off this time of
year, I try to cook almost everything on the barbecue,” he said.
John Weatherson,
owner of Trokay Café
Rallar se vuelve
fácil con el rallador
a mano Microplane.
Grating is made easy with
the Microplane handheld
grater. File photo
in Truckee, doesn’t do
much cooking at
home, but he says
some of his
most-loved
kitchen
“It’s basically a Jacuzzi,” said
Weatherson, who use it to
make fish and vegetables.
Like Dale, Weatherson also
relies on a good Japanese knife,
in his case Korin knives.
Additionally, Weatherson says a
good set of pans makes a huge
difference. He uses All-Clad
pans, preferably copper for
providing even heat.
“My set of copper pans are my
favorite home utensil,” he said.
“Half of my collection is at the
restaurant.”
The Shun Knife wins again.
River Ranch Executive
Chef Julia Walter says
her 10-inch knife “is the most
important chef tool that there
is.” When at home, she also
turns to her Microplane
handheld grater for grating
carrots, cheese, and hard-boiled
eggs. Another of her favorite
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Too Hot for Wine?
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Poppy’s alcoholic sorbets
Melissa Siig
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(According to legend), in the first
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John Holster, owner of Poppy’s
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Tahoe City, doesn’t go to quite
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Holster and his wife, Sarah,
Poppy’s waffle chef, came up
with the idea of an alcoholic
sorbet in April when they were
Would you like some strawberries with your
searching for a grown-up alterchampagne? Poppy’s mimosa sorbet is a great way to
cool down in the summer heat. Photo by Emily Dettling/
native to frozen yogurt. Their
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first experiment was a cabernet
sauvignon sorbet. It got a good reSo far, the mimosa sorbet has proved to
sponse from customers, so Holster went
be the most popular.
on to try a mimosa sorbet made with
“The mimosa is the most appealing to
champagne and orange juice, as well as
people because it has a summertime
rose champagne and merlot sorbets.
ring to it,” Holster said.
“People want a treat, but adults want
Customers have started customizing their
a little extra kick,” Sarah said. “It’s the
sorbets, mixing them with frozen yogurt
same as having a glass of wine but more
or other alcoholic flavors. A favorite is to
refreshing and more of a treat.”
blend the mimosa sorbet with peach froThe sorbets are the real deal — they are
yo, creating a Bellini — an Italian cocktail
made with actual wine or champagne
made with sparkling wine and peach puand not much else, and contain almost
rée. The Holsters even had one customer
the same percentage of alcohol as the
ask them to make a half cabernet, half
liquid form. It’s as if a wine cooler fell
mimosa sorbet for the 250 guests at her
into your ice cream cone.
wedding. They hope to serve their sorbets
at more parties and events such as the
“A small cup is similar to having a glass
Autumn Food & Wine Festival.
of wine,” said Holster, a former bartender at the Resort at Squaw Creek’s
The next on Holster’s list to try — a
Bullwhackers (now Sandy’s Pub) and
sauvignon blanc sorbet.
former wine seller at the now defunct
Holster said that in the short time they
Time for Wine. “It’s not cut very much.”
have been selling the alcoholic sorbets
For that reason, customers must conat Poppy’s, word has spread. Why does
sume the sorbets on site, but Holster
he think the desserts have caught on?
is hoping to get his off-premise sales
“It’s more refreshing than red wine
permit in six months, which would allow
would sound to drink in the sun.”
him to sell sorbets to go. People could
then enjoy their frozen cocktails at the
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ROCKING STONE | arts & culture
Hanging
from the
Rafters
The art
and beauty
of aerial silks
TI feel a pain in my fingers I have
he moment I let go of the silks,
Aerial Gymnastics: Ashley Holz perfects the art of mid-air splits. Photos by Emily Dettling/Moonshine Ink
If I couldn’t get myself up the rope in
gym class in middle school, how am I
going to climb this bolt of fabric now?
never felt before. They throb
with a paralyzing ache that
For teacher Meg Cooper and
By Melissa Siig
I imagine arthritis sufferers
Moonshine
Ink
student Ashley Holz, scaling
must experience. I shake my
the silks is no problem. Like
hands to release the pain and
spiders climbing a web, they
stare at the 20-foot high piece of long,
effortlessly
ascend the silks, twisting the
blue material that hangs from the ceiling.
material around their feet and bodies to
contort themselves into various graceful
positions. They wrap and rewrap the
silk, hang, suspend, fall, and pose, all
while being suspended five to 15 feet off
the ground, with no safety lines except
for their own training and the support of
the stretchy fabric.
While other aerial arts such as trapeze
have been around for more than a
century, aerial silks is a new art form
that was introduced to the world by the
popular traveling circus show Cirque du
Soleil in the 1990s. Part acrobatics, part
dance, aerial silks is known by many
other names — aerial tissue, chiffon,
ribbon, curtain, and dance, to name a
few. It takes strength, flexibility, and
endurance, and, as I am discovering,
powerful fingers.
Cooper has been dancing her whole life.
Trained in jazz and urban dance styles in
her hometown near Travis City, Mich.,
she started teaching break dancing and
hip hop at Tahoe Players in Incline Village in 2010. She was first introduced to
aerial silks five years ago, when she saw
a Cirque du Soleil show in Chicago.
“I had no idea what it was,” said Cooper,
29. “But I have always been interested
in the circus arts.”
Cooper started taking classes with
Dragonfly Aerials, a troupe of aerial silk
dancers, at High Sierra Gymnastics in
Reno.
“It’s definitely one of the most creative, motivating, and physical and
mental activities I’ve ever done,” said
Cooper, who lives in Kings Beach.
“It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done
besides break dancing. But it leaves
everyone wanting more.”
Last summer, after more than two years
of studying with Dragonfly, Cooper felt
Jenna Minnes prepares to do a forward lean on the silks.
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>>>
>>> she was ready to start teaching
aerial silks classes at Tahoe Players. She installed two silks, one magenta
and the other blue, each about 20 yards
long. The ones that Dragonfly uses, by
contrast, are about 30 yards. Cooper
says there are pros and cons to having
more material. A disadvantage is that
if you don’t get off the ground, there
is more fabric to get tangled up in; on
the other hand, once you improve and
progress, you can climb higher, do bigger tricks, and do more wrapping.
The silks at Tahoe Players are springy,
made out of a polyester-nylon blend.
(They actually don’t contain any silk.)
There are pros and cons to that, too.
“The high stretch silk is more difficult
for beginners; it takes a lot of strength,”
Cooper said, “but it’s more forgiving for
bigger moves.”
Each silk is actually two long bolts of
fabric that can be held together as one
piece for certain moves, or separated
to enable performers to get into other
positions like the splits.
Fly Like A Butterfly: Ashley Holz spreads her wings.
Cooper. “You get in shape like you never
have before.”
Jenna Minnes, who was taking her third
class with Cooper.
But it’s not all about muscle power.
Cooper says breath is also very important.
“I’ve always wanted to be in the circus,”
she said. “The silks are a good balance
of strength and femininity.”
“You can’t get away with just strong
arms,” she said. “You don’t just muscle
through moves, you have to breathe
through it — equal inhalation, equal
exhalation.”
Cooper is currently attending the
Iyengar Yoga Institute of San
Francisco to help bring aspects
of yoga, especially breath work
and Iyengar’s focus on proper
alignment, to her personal aerial
practice and teaching.
Anna Vinitsky, who was taking her third aerial silks class, is happy with some hang time.
Cooper, who teaches both adult and
children’s classes (ages 10 and up),
limits her class size to six so she can
focus on safety. Her hour-and-a-half
classes start out with 35 minutes of
warm-up, followed by 10 minutes of
conditioning, before the silks come out.
“Once you get on the silks you don’t last
very long,” she said.
On the day I attend Cooper’s class,
Holz spends more than an hour on the
silks, although she has to take regular
rest and water breaks. The 27-year old
from Kings Beach only started taking
Cooper’s class three months ago, and
has also taken classes at Dragonfly,
but already she is doing moves that
seem impossible to me. Nevertheless,
Cooper explains that because there
are such huge gaps in ability levels
between novices and experts, Holz is
still regarded as a beginner.
“I consider myself barely intermediate,”
Cooper said. “I probably won’t be calling myself advanced for some years.”
Because of its intensity, the silks also
require a lot of mental determination
and fortitude.
“People who like it are those who like to
push themselves and challenge themselves and go to their boundaries,” said
Now where’s my BenGay®?
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Cooper’s goal is to perform alongside her boyfriend, Shane Suffriti,
who is a DJ and producer for the
group Bass Heavy. The tricky part
is figuring out the rigging for the
silks at places like the Cal Neva
and at outdoor concerts.
Aerial silks may not be quite a
household name, but it has become more mainstream with the
help of performances by big stars
like Pink, who incorporated aerial
silks into her 2009 tour and act at
the 2010 Grammy Awards.
Although aerial silks is hard on the
finger joints and can be frustrating
your first time, its growing appeal
can perhaps be best explained by
Just Hanging Around: Aerial silks teacher Meg Cooper
demonstrates a move for her students.
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Ian O’Neil
MOONSHINE INK: How would you
describe your sound? Who are your influences?
IAN O’NEIL: We pull our sound from
music that has influenced rock ‘n’
roll. We aren’t necessarily a hard rock
or alternative rock act, but more like
pure rock ‘n’ roll through and through.
That’s not to say that we don’t have
different dynamics and sounds for our
different songs. We love vaudeville music and original songwriters like Hoagy
Carmichael, Hank Williams, and the
Replacements. Basically everything
that went into the blender that made
American rock ‘n’ roll.
MI: From what I have heard, it sounds
like you mix it up between country roots
and Americana styles on your older
records, “Born on Flag Day” and “War
Elephant,” with a more punk feel on your
newer record, “Divine Providence.” What
inspires each sound?
IO: It’s the natural evolution of our
music. Usually the older you get, the
quieter you get, but we like to do
both. We were following what our
five-piece band was doing live before
we went into the studio. We were in
our comfort zone and we
wanted to go for that on
our latest record. That
was the natural direction
we were moving in. Also,
playing the same music
over and over again gets
old, especially when it’s
in a marginal genre like
Americana. It’s easy for a
band to get pigeonholed,
and we want to be able to
stretch out and do what
we want in the future. This
record offers us a clean
slate.
MI: What do you get from
playing a ballad versus a
punk tune?
IO: There’s a big element
of fun with some of our
punk tunes. We will literally have smiles on our
Deer Tick, (Left to Right) Ian O’Neil, Dennis Ryan, John McCauley, Chris Ryan, and Rob Crowell. Photo by Scott Alario
faces with a punk tune.
The ballad-type songs are
MI: What gets you fired up?
IO: We will definitely be playing some
more introverted and personal. The
IO: We like to have some drinks, but
louder music then most of the bands
crowd sings along with the punk songs.
usually it’s during the first song. I
there. We will be drinking a lot of beer.
That’s the biggest difference.
can be bored out of my mind sitting
Expect the unexpected. We have been
around a venue. But just getting on
known to pull out all sorts of covers
MI: What should festival goers expect
stage and playing that first tune will set
and have some fun.
from you guys this summer?
the tone for the night.
appealing. I like festivals that are near
big cities or in places that are beautiful. Quincy is really nice. There’s always interesting music at High Sierra.
I would like to see a bit more punk, hip
hop, and edgy music there, but they
seem to have a good balance. It’s a
great festival for the social aspect and
hanging out …. [and] to play at.
MI: How would you describe your role at
High Sierra as the Artist-At-Large?
S: It’s a lot harder than playing with just
your band. I have to play all day and all
night. I look at the schedule and try to
figure out which bands I can contribute
to. Not to mention which bands have
the mercy and sympathy to have me
play with them. Luckily, I know a lot of
bands, but every year there’s someone
new that I end up playing with. Last
year I played with Ween, and it was
amazing. I played with Jacob Fred Jazz
Odyssey, Charlie Hunter, and Danny
Barnes. It’s a great time playing with
different friends out there.
MI: What gets you fired up?
S: Whatever enzymes were put into me
at birth. I love playing music. I have
no idea what it is, but it happens every
time.
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mostly be playing with them but I will
be the Artist-At-Large too.
MOONSHINE INK: Who are you playing
with these days?
SKERIK: I am playing with the Dead
Kenny Gs and my new, Seattle-based
group, Bandalabra. It’s kind of my version of a funk band. It’s rhythmically
oriented with a West African influence.
It’s really fun and has a lot of potential. I
get to experiment with using the sax as a
rhythm instrument as opposed to just a
lead melodic instrument. We have a new
self-titled record. At High Sierra, I will
MI: You have been a High Sierra staple
over the last few years, playing with
almost everyone who takes the stage.
What makes High Sierra unique and
what keeps you coming back year after
year?
S: Well, you have to be invited. It’s
not like it’s my choice. I feel very
fortunate to be invited. It’s a beautiful location. There are other great
festivals that are in terrible locations
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Introducing the new Rocking Stone associate editor, Lindsay Ray Curtis, “DJ Lucky.” Photos by Theresa Smith/sirrisdesign.com
In an electronic music scene
dominated by male disc jockeys,
the sexy house sound of Lindsay
Ray Curtis, DJ Lucky, is a sweet
release. As a Lake Tahoe resident
for the past eight years, Lucky has
contributed significantly to the
music community in Tahoe, and
now we are thrilled to have her
as Moonshine Ink’s new associate
editor for Rocking Stone. Lucky
can be found sharing her bootyshaking beats in the greater Lake
Tahoe area, Reno, San Francisco,
and Black Rock City.
Moonshine Ink: How did
you get your start as a DJ?
Lucky: I started DJing on vinyl
records seven years ago. My
boyfriend at the time, who is now
my husband, DJJD, taught me
so much of what I know. Learning
to play on vinyl really showed
me how to beat match and gave
me a deep appreciation for the
fundamentals of DJing. It was an
easy transition for me to move to
the new CDJ technology because
of my time spent on vinyl. I’ve
always loved music and played
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love of music was contagious.
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name?
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Irish and truly lucky at times; I
tend to win raffles and contests.
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music including electro, tech, and
minimal. My ultimate goal is to
get the crowd grooving. I always
include a mix of vocals and bass
to get everyone out on the dance
floor. I think dancing is a way to
move the soul and spirit, and
when I see that I can create that
in others, I feel at one with the
crowd.
MI: What has been your most
inspiring gig?
L: Playing on the Neuroweapon
Mutant Vehicle at LoveFest 2009
in San Francisco is definitely near
the top of my list. I played to an
audience of over 10,000 people
in front of the gold dome of City
Hall. When the bass dropped, the
crowd all jumped, and it looked
like an ocean wave. Seeing that
really moved me. My collaborator,
DJ Bacy, and I also opened up for
legendary house music producer
Mark Farina in 2011. And, of
MI: You’ve played with some
really great names over the
years. Who are you excited to
play with in the future?
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Latin heat with DJ A-Kran, DJ Fredy G,
and DJ Hektor S, doors 10pm, show
11pm, Cargo at CommRow, Reno, (775)
398-5400, commrow.com
Lake Tahoe Reggae Festival
L: The Tahoe electronic music
family has really shaped who I
am, both as a musician and as
a person. Without the amazing
support of fellow DJs and friends
like micah j, Bim Tim, Chango,
and the whole Bounce crew, I
would not be where I am today. I
look forward to performing at the
Bounce Festival in June, and the
other times that I can play with
family on the decks. ~Karyn Stanley/Moonshine Ink contributor
Info: Saturday June 16, the Bounce Festival, Belden, Calif., thebouncefestival.com; facebook.com/djlucky.free, listen to DJ Lucky on
Soundcloud at soundcloud.com/djlucky-free
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Sexy Movimiento
course, there is nothing better
than playing gigs at Burning Man.
Featuring Pepper, Katchafire, J Boog, Hot
Rain, Keyser Soze, and the Mark Seton
Band, doors 1:30pm, show at 2pm, tickets
$39/general admission, Montbleu Resort
Casino & Spa, South Lake Tahoe, (775)
588-3515, montbleuresort.com
Thursday July 5
Red, White & Tahoe Blue
and Crystal Bay Club present
Tainted Love
80s cover band, 7:30pm, all ages,
tickets $25, Village Green wide open
space next to the Hyatt Regency Lake
Tahoe, Incline Village, (775) 833-6333,
Tuesday July 10
“Please” a play written by
Bruce Lindsay, Directed by Pan
Pantoja
Comedy, 6pm, tickets $15, the
Underground, Reno, (775) 786-2582,
renounderground.com
Artown
GET
OUT GO July 1 to 31, Reno
&
ART
CARS IN
ARTOWN:
Next month
Reno
welcomes
a caravan
of Art Cars
(such as
the Radio
Flyer vehicle
pictured) to
its monthlong festival
of arts and
culture.
Photo by
Harrod
Blank.
INFO: $3/donation at select festival events, ticketed events range in price, Reno, Nev.,
(775) 322-1538, renoisartown.com
TOWN OF TRUCKEE
Artown 2012 signature look by local artist Montana Albitre. Courtesy photos
Too early for Burning Man, in
mid-July a caravan of strangely
morphed and decorated vehicles
will stream over Donner Pass
headed for one of the largest
festivals of the nation, Reno’s
Artown. The procession will be
the 2012 edition of the annual
ArtCar Fest, a showcase of the
creatively adorned vehicles that
troll the avenues of Burning Man
every year. This year, the ArtCar
Fest joins Artown on Friday,
June 20 for the closing party
of the 10-month Mutant Rides
exhibit at the Reno National
Automobile Museum. The next
day the cars will assemble at
the Nevada Museum of Art for
the presentation of the awardwinning documentary about Art
Cars, “Automorphosis.”
It’s all a continuance of the
creative pulse of Artown, Reno’s
one-month annual celebration
of art, culture, community, and
family. The festival presents
nearly 500 performances and
workshops, more than 60
percent of which are offered
for free.
Founded in 1996, the 16-yearold festival brings a kaleidoscope of music, dance, theater,
literary and family events to the
streets and performance venues
of Reno. On July 1 at opening
night in Wingfield Park, the
Mickey Hart Band will perform
a free concert. July 31 is closing
night, also free, featuring Maceo
Parker and his funk band.
Free concert series are
scheduled almost every day.
The Monday Night Music Series
includes the Reno Philharmonic
performing patriotic music for
the Fourth of July, the Reno
Youth Philharmonic and Youth
Jazz Orchestra with classical
and jazz music, the University of
Nevada School of Arts with an
ensemble of vibrant music, the
Reno Pops Orchestra, and finally,
jazz vocalist Carmen Lundy.
The World Music Series on
Wednesday nights features four
free performances, including
the Patriotic Music Ensemble
on the Fourth of July. Every
weekday, the Discover the Art
Series introduces children to
new creative endeavors. Every
Monday night, the Family Series
of free events presents theatre,
a life-sized dinosaur display, and
a wacky science show, among
many other exciting activities
and shows for young people.
Ticketed events run the gamut
from theatrical performances to
music. The Missoula Children’s
Theatre will collaborate with a
cast of local children to perform
the classic adventure of the
“Wizard of Oz.” Other ticketed
events include Michael Feinstein,
a Preservation Hall Jazz Band
50 Anniversary Celebration with
special guests Del McCoury
Band and Trey McIntyre Project,
the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra
and its “Cowboy Up” Season
Opener of the Phil Up!, and the
world-renowned all-male vocal
ensemble Chanticleer.
A smartphone mobile app that
allows festival fans to view the
event schedule is available;
search for “Artown” on your
App store. ~Lindsay Ray Curtis/
Moonshine Ink
FREE! YARD WASTE
DROP-OFF DAYS
{ June 1st–16th}
Drop-off: up to 6 yards (40 bags)
of vegetative yard waste material free
Proof of residence required.
You must live within the Town limits
to participate. Show a photo ID with
physical address in Truckee or an
out-of-town photo ID with utility bill.
Be prepared to unload your
own yard waste. If yard waste is
transported in bags, you will be required
to empty the bags to take advantage of
free disposal.
Multiple trips are permitted! (Limit 6 yards per household.)
NOTE: There will be no in-Town (Pine Needle) drop-off days this year.
Drop off your yard waste at:
Accepted Items:
Pine Needles
Garden Waste
Pine Cones
Wood Chips & Bark
Brush
Lawn Trimmings
Twigs, Limbs, & Branches
NO: Food Waste; Pet Waste; Rocks/Dirt.
In addition, Green Bags for curbside yard waste collection continues year round.
(Limited to four tied green bags per week.) Green bags are available at Mountain
Hardware, Tahoe Supply Company and the Tahoe Donner HOA Clubhouse.
KEEP TRUCKEE
KeepTruckeeGreen.org (530)582-2909
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Summer Solstice
Astrological Alchemy®
By Robert Ayres
The Sun enters into Cancer zero degrees
on June 20. This marks the beginning of
the summer season and the shifting of
energies from spring. Summer solstice
is the longest day and the shortest night
of the year. The Sun has reached its
farthest point of Northern Hemisphere,
which puts it at the highest point in the
sky for us. The angles of the Sun during
the summer results in the greatest heat
of the year. This results in the stimulation
of the passionate nature of humanity and
nature. From summer solstice the days
begin to become shorter and the nights
longer as the Sun begins to move southward again. Summer is that time of year
when humanity’s consciousness is drawn
out into nature and the enchantment of
this realm is strongest. It is the best time
of year to connect with nature. We live
in nature’s paradise, and we want to be
sure to take advantage of it.
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Wanderlust Sage Passes
4 Days of Yoga & Music ($950 value)
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Times
Two
Photo by Shone J.
TAHOE YOGIS IMPRESSED THE PANTS
OFF US in last year’s Strike a Pose. This year we
double the stakes. Get a photo of you and a friend
doing yoga in Tahoe/Truckee. Share it and enter to
win TWO full access passes to Wanderlust.
T h e
Prize
UPLOAD A PHOTO OF YOGA FOR
TWO in Tahoe or Truckee on Moonshine
Ink’s Facebook contest page, then get
your friends and family to vote.
Deadline to submit is June 25.
Sage Pass to Wanderlust
The yoga and music festival in Squaw Valley
J U LY 2 6 T O 2 9 , 2 0 1 2
The Sage Passes are 4-day, all-access passes that get you four days of yoga (3 classes/day),
access to all music including headliner Ziggy Marley, and access to the cable car Friday to Sunday.
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active and restless this month
and feel the need to break
out of old ruts and habits. This change of
attitude wants to result in self-improvement and development. You feel that you
are capable of so much more. Inner and
outer resistance and conflict can be irritating but also motivation for change.
Taurus (April 20–
May 20) The focus this
se
st
r
Win
Aries (March 21–
April 19) You are very
month is on love and money.
Your ruling planet Venus is retrograde and involved in an eclipse of the
sun so there is intensity to this time. It is
time to take care of old unfinished business concerning love and money; now is
the time to take care and deal with these
situations. Establish clarity within yourself
before you address these issues.
Gemini (May 21–
June 21) There is an
expansion of the heart that
you are experiencing that
has the potential to increase your capacity for love and wisdom. Thought and
feeling may appear to be conflicted and
confused but this is the part of the process that needs to be worked through in
order to achieve greater clarity. It is the
path of cleansing and purification. The
result will be a more enhanced state of
wellbeing.
Cancer (June
22–July 22) This
is your time to shine so
be sure to take advantage of it and
enjoy it. Your awareness is pulled in a
powerful way to connect more deeply
with your soul. Your psychic abilities are
enhanced and significant wisdom can
be achieved during this time. Ideas will
be received that need to be shared and
communicated to others.
Leo (July 23–
Aug. 22) Career and
profession are emphasized
now. Renewed strength and
stability allow you to step forward to
embrace more responsibility and authority. Simultaneously there is an enlivenment of your spirituality and idealism
that can add beneficial energies to your
personal and professional situation. Be
patient with yourself and others for the
best results.
Virgo (Aug. 23–
Sept. 22) Now is a
good time for socializing!
Make a point of getting together with
friends and get involved with group
activities. Speak your truth. People need
to hear what you have to say. You are
connected with a great deal of wisdom
and understanding now that other
people can use it.
Libra (Sept. 23–
Oct. 23) There are
some relationship situations that need to
be addressed. They are deeply karmic
and are holding you back from moving
ahead with your life. There has been a
mutual conflict of heart and mind. This
has blocked this communication and the
ability to resolve this situation. Take the
initiative and engage in the dialogue. It
will resolve the situation.
Scorpio (Oct.
24–Nov. 21) It is a
time of new beginnings
and rebirth for you. You feel deep within
your soul that a new chapter in your life
is in the process of unfolding. Step into
this new energy and flow with it. It will
require your resourcefulness in order to
let go of the old blocks and move into
the new opportunities presented to you.
Sagittarius
(Nov. 22–Dec.
21) Money issues need
to be addressed now. You have felt
good and have been doing well but you
have been spending too much money.
There is a need for more organization
and self-discipline where it comes to
finances. Financial planning for the future
is necessary now! You have this ability
to be genuinely creative in addressing
these issues.
Capricorn (Dec.
22–Jan. 19) It can
feel as if you are riding on
an emotional roller coaster right now!
There is an abundance of uncertainty
and change going on. Your usual stability
and groundedness are somewhat
compromised. It is time to get organized
and with your inner discipline to focus on
these situations. It is difficult but you can
deal with it.
Aquarius (Jan.
20–Feb. 18) Nature is
calling you. Inspiration is awaiting you to
the degree that you can connect with the
deepest inner aspects of nature. Hiking,
kayaking, and other outdoor activities
can be uplifting. You can also gain
insight by sitting alone on a mountain
top or under a tree, or next to a stream.
Just sink in and be.
Pisces (Feb.
19–March 20)
Your innate spirituality and
idealism is ready to shine now. There can
be a tendency to overindulge and do
things that can put you out of balance
but if you take the time to merge with
nature everything will come back into the
right perspective. There is a strong sense
of moving forward with your life now.
~ Robert Ayres is a Truckee resident
and internationally known astrologer
with over 40 years of experience. This
month’s horoscope is cast specifically
for the Truckee/Tahoe area. Contact
him for personal consultations at
astrologicalalchemy.com. Comment on this
column online, visit moonshineink.com.
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interactive design and print. After envisioning her
designs on a snowboard when she was young, Theresa
pursued her dreams of creating art, and graduated
in 2000 from Rochester Institute of Technology in
New York with a degree in graphic design. Theresa
moved to the West Coast after graduating and has
worked for several high-end design agencies in San
Francisco. Since 2001, she has been living the dream
and holds residency in both North Tahoe and San
Francisco. While in Tahoe she follows her passion of
snowboarding and finds solace in trail running deep
in the woods. She also enjoys the electronica music
scenes of both the Tahoe and Bay area. Her dream
as a teenager came true, and some of her art can be
found on the Siren collection of Glissade Snowboards.
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Yoga workshops with Laura
Christensen
Tuesdays
Yoga for You!
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