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4th of July Tahoe Truckee Honor Flyover circling Lake Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Tue, 06/30/2020 - 7:11pm
Event Date:
July 4, 2020 - 11:00am
LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev. - There won't be fireworks shows around Lake Tahoe but there will be the 4th of July Truckee Tahoe Honor Flyover honoring our nation's independence and frontline healthcare workers. Warbirds will take to the sky, flying over Truckee and Lake Tahoe communities.
A contingent of historic plans will leave the Truckee airport at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday the 4th and fly counterclockwise around Lake Tahoe (schedule below), coming back into Truckee by 12:15 p.m. The planes will not be on display at any airport, just a great show in the air.
152nd Airlift Wing to fly over Lake Tahoe/Northern Nevada hospitals to recognize their COVID-19 battles
Submitted by paula on Sun, 04/26/2020 - 9:29am
Event Date:
April 28, 2020 - 12:00pm
The Nevada Air Guard High Rollers will be honoring the men and women in healthcare who are battling COVID-19 by doing a flyover of Lake Tahoe and Northern Nevada area hospitals with a C-130 on Tuesday, April 28, 2020.
152nd Airlift Wing will start from its base in Reno and pass over Renown South Medical Center at noon, and for an hour pass over the following hospitals.
Carson Tahoe Hospital, Carson City - 12:07 p.m.
Carson Valley Medical Center, Gardnerville - 12:10 p.m.
Barton Memorial Hospital, South Lake Tahoe - 12:14 p.m.
Giving Tuesday pet adoption and fundraising day for Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe
Submitted by paula on Fri, 04/24/2020 - 7:25am
LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe is having a special puppy adoption day on May 5 to coincide with the annual Giving Tuesday fundraising day.
"Little Rays of Sunshine" is bringing two litters with a total of 11 puppies, along with one of the moms, to the public for adoption.
Pictured here is the mom Sunshine with one her puppies, Hope.
Squaw Valley - Body of missing boarder found, avalanche injures 5
Submitted by paula on Fri, 03/02/2018 - 6:16pm
A snowboarder missing since yesterday afternoon was found deceased at Squaw Valley Ski Resort on Friday. Rocklin resident Wenyu Zhang, 42-years-old, was found deceased this morning by Squaw Valley Ski Patrol. A search area was narrowed through the use of a tracker program used by the resort.
North Lake Tahoe high school students participate in cadaver surgery
Submitted by paula on Thu, 05/25/2017 - 8:20am
It wasn't your typical high school class at Tahoe Forest Hospital Wednesday. Approximately 60 students enrolled in advanced placement biology and human body systems classes scrubbed in to witness a total knee replacement surgery on a cadaver in the University of Nevada's advanced surgical lab at their North Shore location.
Former Truckee High football coach dies in head-on collision
Submitted by paula on Sun, 04/02/2017 - 11:41am
Former Truckee High School head football coach Robert Shaffer was killed in a head-on collision outside of Sierraville at Saturday night according to the California Highway Patrol in Truckee.
Shaffer, his wife Lisa and 22-year-old son Patrick were in their Toyota Corolla on SR-89 in Sierra County just before 9:30 p.m. when a Ford F250 driven by 54-year-old David Slaughter of Sacramento drifted into Shaffer's lane.
J.T. Snow, Marcus Allen and others to golf in 8th annual Gene Upshaw Classic
Submitted by paula on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 11:23pm
NFL Hall of Famers, former Major League Baseball players and other sports celebrities will gather July 17-18 to once again pay tribute to the former Oakland Raider at the 8th annual Gene Upshaw Memorial Golf Classic at the Schaffer’s Mill Golf & Lake Club in Truckee, Calif.
Upshaw, who often played in the Celebrity Golf Tournament in South Lake Tahoe, died of pancreatic cancer in 2008 at Tahoe Forest Hospital.
Celebrities teeing up for Gene Upshaw Golf Tournament
Submitted by paula on Tue, 05/10/2016 - 9:08pm
NFL Hall of Famers, former Major League Baseball players and other sports celebrities will gather July 17-18 to once again pay tribute to the former Oakland Raider at the 8th annual Gene Upshaw Memorial Golf Classic at the Schaffer’s Mill Golf & Lake Club in Truckee, Calif.
Upshaw, who often played in the Celebrity Golf Tournament in South Lake Tahoe, died of pancreatic cancer in 2008 at Tahoe Forest Hospital.
Op/Ed: Improving Tahoe’s Regional Economy
Submitted by paula on Fri, 05/29/2015 - 7:37am
The Tahoe Prosperity Center mission is uniting Tahoe’s communities to strengthen regional prosperity. Prosperity is defined as “the condition of being successful or thriving, especially economic well-being.” The Tahoe Prosperity Center is the basin-wide organization focused on that goal for all who live and work in Lake Tahoe.
Weidinger Public Relations of Lake Tahoe wins top honors
Submitted by paula on Tue, 12/02/2014 - 10:30pm
Weidinger Public Relations was presented with four awards by the Public Relations Society of America, Sierra Nevada Chapter at the organization’s 28th annual Silver Spike Awards recently held in Reno. They won the prestigious “Judge’s Choice Award,” denoting Northern Nevada’s best overall campaign.
Gene Upshaw Classic moves to Schaffer's Mill for 2015 tournament
Submitted by paula on Tue, 11/11/2014 - 7:55pm
Event Date:
July 12, 2015 (All day)
The Gene Upshaw Memorial Golf Classic is moving to Truckee's Schaffer's Mill in 2015, the seventh year of the tournament.
Upshaw, who played often in South Lake Tahoe's American Century Celebrity Golf, withdrew from the 2008 tournament held July 11-13 that year. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in North Lake Tahoe just a month later. He had a home on the North Shore and was hospitalized at Tahoe Truckee Hospital where he died on August 20, 2008.
Gene Upshaw Fund Sends 16 Year Old Cancer Victim to Superbowl
Submitted by paula on Wed, 01/29/2014 - 12:32pm
The Super Bowl is later this week but there's already been multiple winners. Megan and Gary Kasden of Incline Village, NV, the winners of the Gene Upshaw Memorial Fund Super Bowl Raffle, are paying their good fortune forward.
Incline Village Resident Wins Trip to Super Bowl
Submitted by paula on Sun, 12/08/2013 - 8:26pm
Sometimes surprises come at the right time. Megan Kasden spoke through tears this week when she answered the phone and found out she had won the Gene Upshaw Memorial Fund Super Bowl raffle. The prize is an all-expense paid trip for two to Super Bowl XLVIII at the Met Life Stadium. The raffle raised $30,000 for traumatic brain injury research and programs and services for cancer patients and families at the Gene Upshaw Memorial Tahoe Forest Cancer Center. The same center where Kasden’s husband, Gary had just completed a long series of chemotherapy treatments.
Win an All Expenses Paid Trip to Super Bowl XLVIII
Submitted by paula on Sun, 11/03/2013 - 9:46pm
Just 300 tickets are being sold for a chance at winning an all-expenses paid trip for 2 to Superbowl XLVIII. Excellent odds to win this football lover's dream valued at over $7,500!
The top prize was donated by the National Football League. All funds raised for the raffle will go to support the Gene Upshaw Memorial Fund.Only 300 tickets at $100 each will be sold.
Nutrition and exercise is subject of lecture at Lake Tahoe Environmental Center
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 01/24/2013 - 9:32pmEvent Date:
March 5, 2013 - 6:00pm
How often do you stop and reflect about your eating regimes? Do they foster your athletic goals? Are you ready to mix up your routine in activity and nutrition?
Join Registered Dietitian Jill Whisler and Exercise Physiologist Wendy Buchanan for the top 10 nutrition and exercise tips for peak performance and health at 6 p.m. March 5 at the UC Davis Lake Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, Nev. The cost $5 donation suggested and a no-host bar is open at 5:30 p.m.
21st Annual Women's Wellness Week at Tahoe's Granlibakken
Submitted by admin on Thu, 10/13/2011 - 1:01pmAs part of Granlibakken’s commitment to health & wellness, the annual Lake Tahoe Women’s Wellness Weekend – a long standing community event previously coordinated by the Tahoe Forest Hospital - will now be hosted by Granlibakken, Nov. 12-13, 2011. The event fuses Eastern tradition with Western practices to offer a balanced weekend interactive clinics on skin screenings, body/muscle testing; inspirational and informative seminars on health, nutrition, aging; recreational activities along with food and wine.
Free gift for first time mammogram patients
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