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¿Qué Happy Hour te Hace Feliz? Pronto comienza la temporada baja, una gran época para que los locales salgan al pueblo en búsqueda de happy hours. Entonces, un día a la hora del almuerzo, les preguntamos a las personas a dónde les gustaría ir si hubiese un happy hour, y qué comerían o tomarían.
What Happy Hour Makes You Happy? The slow season is upon us, which is a great time for locals to hit the town for some great happy hour deals. So at lunchtime one day, we asked folks where they’d rather be if it were happy hour, and what they’d be eating or drinking.
Do Tell! INTERVIEWS BY MELISSA SIIG PHOTOS BY EMILY DETTLING
SHAWNEE WOOD, Incline Village Outside services at Shaffer’s Mill • Servicios externos en Shaffer’s Mill
Dock hopping on the NEW North Lake Tahoe Water Shuttle will get you on the Lake and to your favorite restaurants, shopping, bike trails, museums, parks, activities and farmer’s markets. Carries 12 passengers and 8 bikes. ~ Dock Service ~ Homewood - West Shore Café Tahoe City - Tahoe City Marina Carnelian Bay - Gar Woods Tahoe Vista - Captain Jon’s
Hacienda Del Lago in Tahoe City. Definitely their margaritas, and they have a fajita salad that is unbelievable.
Hacienda Del Lago en Tahoe City. Definitivamente sus margaritas, y tienen una ensalada de fajitas que es increíble.
ADAM FREEMAN, Truckee
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Drunken Monkey por su G Sake frío.
The Drunken Monkey for their cold G Sake.
LISA MOHUN, Glenshire
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En el deck en mi casa frente a donde hago fogatas. Tengo mi mesa de ping-pong y vista a Mount Rose, y con una copa de chardonnay.
At home on my deck in front of my fire pit. I’ve got my ping-pong table and a view of Mount Rose, and a glass of chardonnay.
JESSE RICHARDSON, Glenshire
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FiftyFifty Brewery. Me gusta su cerveza que solo venden una vez al año. La denomino su cerveza de navidad. Y nachos.
FiftyFifty Brewery. I like their beer that only comes out once a year. I call it their Christmas beer. And nachos.
SHANNON DUCLOS, Tahoe City
Yoga studio owner • Dueño de un estudio de yoga Christy Hill o Wolfdale’s. Una copa de vino y uno de sus aperitivos vegetarianos o con pescado.
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After Sunny the bear was killed by a shotgun blast to the side, and left for dead on a Homewood beach in July, the local community and bear activists were up in arms. The Bear League, convinced it knew who the killer was, posted the name of its suspect on its Facebook page and is offering a $15,000 reward for information that leads to the killer’s conviction. But the California Department of Fish and Game, which must follow the letter of the law, does not have enough evidence to pursue the Bear League’s suspect, and worries the organization’s actions could jeopardize the investigation, or worse.
THE BEAR LEAGUE’S REWARD for Sunny’s killer jumped from $3,000 to $15,000 in one week after donations flooded in. Courtesy photo
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Jane’s Addiction played to a packed audience at Grand Sierra Resort on Sept. 5 with a few songs from their new “Great Escape Artist” album. The band’s emergence in the late ’80s defined what would come to be known as alternative rock. The Reno show included plenty of tunes to please die-hard fans, who sang along to faves like “Stop,” a radical song from the “Ritual de lo Habitual” album. RITUAL DE LO JANES ADDICTION Photo by Chapman Baehler
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Our posting of the Ollie Henrikson story, “The Key to the City,” on our Facebook page generated a lot of interest. We asked readers what they thought should be done with Henrikson’s Tahoe City property, half of which was built illegally and is all badly in need of redevelopment, if his heirs agree to sell. VIEW COMPLETE DISCUSSION ON MOONSHINE INK’S FACEBOOK PAGE HAROLD A. SLEAR: A hotel like the Cedar Sport Haus in Truckee could make it. THOM ORSI: Leveled and turn it into a park or plaza. Nothing commercial. ANDREW BROWNING: New urban development with mixed-use residential and commercial units. Pedestrian friendly walking space that would make Tahoe City more town-like rather than just a road passing through.
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OLLIE’S LEGACY stirs up discussion. Courtesy photo
LAURA STOLLORZ SCHROEDER: A nice hotellodge built with green materials, slow food restaurant, large center fireplace for people to have drinks, saline pool, and hot tub! Maybe historical design but modern architecture, with native drought tolerant plants. MIKE DAVISSON: Ollie was certainly one of an old breed of Tahoe business owners. Just as stubborn as Herb Obexer.
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A lot can happen in a decade. Within just 10 years, the U.S. might see three Presidents, clothing styles can morph from neon tube tops to plaid button-down shirts (and back to neon tube tops), and a child can grow from a tree-swinging youngster to a college adult. A decade is a considerable length of time, but as anybody older than 40 can tell you, it can whiz by unbelievably fast. On Oct. 31, Moonshine Ink celebrates a decade in existence. Born from a simple dream — to create a genuine community newspaper in Truckee/North Lake Tahoe — the venture has been 10 years on mach speed. Both a rich experience and a tiring adventure, the endeavor is worthwhile when we make a difference in readers’ lives. To mark our 10th birthday, Moonshine will be publishing an anniversary edition next month and we want to feature a crucial facet of the paper — our readers! We wanna see you with your Moonshine. In a special spread, we will feature photos of
you with a copy of Moonshine in hand. Feel free to do a group shot or get your canine or feline buddies into the fray. Submit to info@moonshineink.com by Oct. 2. Even after the October edition is published, we’d still love to see a photo of you and Moonshine, be it down in Yosemite, on the shores of Belize, or held aloft in the Himalaya. Along the same lines, we offer a reminder that we strongly encourage community discourse. As the newspaper industry redefines itself, one of the major shifts is a move from one-way, top-down reporting to a vibrant two-way street where knowledgeable citizens weigh in on community matters. Moonshine has a monthly Spout opinion section in print and an ongoing comments section online. Please continue submitting your letters and comments — keep community discourse alive. As Izaak Walton, a writer from the 1600s, wrote, “Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.” Photos by Laura Read/Moonshine Ink MOONSHINEINK.COM
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In the Past | The History of Boca Brewery No history of Tahoe is perhaps more curious than that of Boca, a town of 2,500 near the modern-day Boca Dam that once boasted its own hotel, school, library, and one of the best known California breweries of the 19th century.
(left) FAMOUS WORLDWIDE FOR ITS CALIFORNIA LAGER, Boca Brewing Co. employed as many as 80 men in the 19th century and even boasted its own rail cars. Photos courtesy of Truckee Donner Historical Society
Once known worldwide for its famous Boca lager, today little of the bustling town remains beyond its cemetery, an eerie reminder of those who built a brewery so famous it was celebrated at the 1883 World’s Fair in Paris.
(below) TWO LABELS FROM BOCA’S FAMOUS LAGER, which was shipped worldwide and sampled at the 1883 World’s Fair in Paris.
“I wondered why they built a brewery here,” said Tom Macaulay, a local historian best known as the “Iceman” for his meticulous research into the ice houses of the previous centuries. “But it takes a lot of cold and clear spring water to make a lager beer.” Odd as it might seem to find a world-famous brewery near the top of the Sierra, the heavy winters and cold temperatures provided the perfect climate for making lager, which must be fermented at temperatures near freezing. The Gold Rush brought its share of breweries to California, but lacking refrigeration, many chose instead to brew ales and porters. The town of Boca, which was built near the ice ponds of Prosser, was perfectly situated to brew lager. It had all the necessary ingredients: fresh, cold spring water, freezing temperatures, a plentiful supply of ice and, with the coming of the Trans-Continental Railroad, a means of shipping the beer to cities.
The brewery was incorporated in 1875. Within a few years, it employed as many as 80 men, who shipped out 25,000 barrels of lager worldwide. In 1896, a fire destroyed the brewery by the Truckee River, and it was never rebuilt. Refrigeration had arrived the decade before, and more breweries had gotten into the lager business. But the Boca imprimatur remains so alluring that Anchor Brewing of San Francisco created a tribute lager earlier this year — the Zymaster Series, a limited edition
that sold out on draught appearances throughout the city’s beer week celebration. No telling whether Anchor, the famed brewers of Anchor Steam, will do a repeat performance. But beer lovers can learn more about the experiment by searching “2ymaster series” on YouTube. ~ Jackie Ginley/Moonshine Ink
Measure J: No More Tax Burdens for Truckee After much discussion and after spending an obscene amount of our tax dollars (nearly $400,000) for studies, renderings, designs, more designs, surveys, and more surveys, the Truckee Donner Recreation and Park Board decided it was MY SHOT “necessary and ad- By Lynne Larson visable” to ask the voters in November for $8.5 million in addition to the $7 million it already has to build an aquatic center and a performing arts center. The district doesn’t mention it is paying $1.7 million a year to service the loans for the community center and River View Sports Park. The district fails to mention that the performing arts center and aquatic center together are estimated to lose in the neighborhood of $200,000 6
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a year in operation and maintenance costs, and there are already no less than 11 swimming pools within the district’s boundaries. The bond language promises jobs. There are rules that require public agencies to award contracts to the lowest bidder. Where are those local jobs? Much of the $400,00 spent for surveys, designs, consultants, and marketing activities has been awarded to businesses outside our local area. Based on yet another study, the proponents believe an aquatic facility will bring dollars to our local economy. The bond language disguises the fact that the aquatic facility is being driven by a handful of people who can afford up to $1,800 a year to have their children in a private swim program, and some don’t even live in the district. They desire to bring competitive swimming to Truckee and they want us to pay for the pool. MOONSHINEINK.COM
They want us to believe this activity will bring dollars to Truckee. There is no benefit to most of us who will have to pay for it. On the advice of a not-so-local consultant, the district was told that if it did not offer the voters something in addition to an aquatic facility, a bond for that facility alone would fail. Slick! Thus, enter from stage right the performing arts center. The latest plan is to build a performing arts center at the new community center. Much discussion and more of your money has been spent on a project that is not shovel ready and continues to generate controversy over the plan to build it away from downtown, the cost, and the design. This project still doesn’t pass the common sense test. This is a “settle for it” project instead of doing it right. Philosophically, I am not against either of these projects; however, practically, I think the board has demonstrated a
lack of sensitivity to our community and has been encouraged by those who are self- serving and have little concern for the additional burden they place on us. The district says it isn’t asking for a lot of money. It is one more tax for 30 years, plain and simple. To place another financial burden on this community for something that is a “want” and not a “need” shows a true lack of concern for our citizens. Members of the Rec and Park District Board have said, “Give up a latte or a bottle of wine.” What do those who don’t drink latte or wine give up — food for their children or lifesaving medications? The board thinks a few bucks will not matter. Well, I can tell you it does. The Truckee Donner Recreation and Park District needs to choose one of the proposed projects and use the money it already has. Do not give the district any more money. Just say NO! ~ Lynne Larson, Truckee Citizen, thespian, athlete TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT MEDIA SOURCE
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33 | Quick Bites There’s an app for that 34 | A New Look for Donner’s Old Corner Store Sticks Market
10 | Measure C: “The Unlimited Property Tax Pledge” Homeowners angry over proposed hospital tax hike
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22 | Nature’s Corner John Muir’s “Squirrel of Squirrels”
15 | Martis Camp: Life Support for Local Contractors A local luxury home project bucks the real estate slump
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C O N T R I B U T O R S LAURA READ is a freelance writer who has published essays, travel stories, and features in The San Francisco Chronicle, National Geographic Traveler, Sierra, VIA and Adventure Sports Journal. She teaches creative nonfiction writing at Sierra Nevada College and is the social media writer for Soundslides, an audio slideshow software company based in Truckee. When not copyediting for Moonshine Ink, she lives in Tahoe City with her husband, Doug, and dog, Wheeler.
RAINE HOWE is a mother of two, grandmother of one, and owner of Miss Cleo, the clairvoyant dog. She has always had an interest in people from all walks of life and a desire to capture the essence of those she photographs. For a taste of her captivating photography, see p. 36.
KIPPY SPILKER is an award-winning photographer whose work was chosen by National Geographic Magazine as photo of the day. She has lived in India and has traveled widely. Having grown up in the woods of northern Michigan, she is most at home in nature. She lives in the Carson Valley with her husband and two English labs. Her photo book, “Scenes From A Kayak,” is available on Amazon.com. See a portrait by Spilker, p. 25.
For the past 12 years photographer RYAN SALM has been traveling the far off reaches of the globe contacting distant tribal groups and contracting various illnesses. Journeys on back roads with the local people have created a common theme in Ryan’s work. When not behind the camera, he also pounds the keyboard, p. 43.
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In a photo caption in the story “The Key to the City” in the August print edition, we incorrectly identified Nora and Annie Henrikson. Nora is Oliver’s granddaughter-in-law and Annie is his great granddaughter.
(In response to the “Measure C Rate Balloons” published online on Aug. 24))
Hospital Rate Increase There are no printable words in the civilized world to describe my disgust with the hospital board. They voted for the unthinkable. To increase the amount we will now pay for Measure C by more than three times is criminal. Instead of scaring us into voting for Measure C, why didn’t they just pick our pockets then and now. The executive director should be fired and the board recalled. Incompetence and ignorant planning is just not acceptable. The board should be embarrassed and ashamed. And on top of all of this, the recreation and park district want more money from us in the form of Measure J to pay for a pool and performing arts center. If Measure J should pass, what is there to guarantee us that the recreation and park district won’t pull the same stunt down the road? My faith and trust in elected officials is zero. ~ Lynne Larson, Truckee
Ripoff This is no surprise from one of the most expensive hospitals in the nation. More goes into their pockets than back into the hospital. ~ John Baker
What Other Option Do They Have? What were the other options? Since the bonds are issued and the money is spent, how else could the hospital pay back bond holders? Did the board consider other options? I don’t know the answer. Now I am not happy about paying a lot more than I expected, but I did get what I voted for. We have a world-class hospital. The cancer center is going to be a blessing to many in our community. I will likely deliver my next baby in the new labor and delivery ward. I am so happy that I don’t have to drive to Reno for broken bones, middle-of-the-night fevers, and various surgeries. We are so blessed to have a full-service hospital in our small town. What is the value of having incredible medical care so close to home? Maybe it is $30 per $100,000 of assessed property value. I guess everyone has to determine that for themselves. Bottom line — the money is spent. We voted for it and the hospital spent the money we authorized. Maybe we should be more careful with the wording of ballot measures we 8
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picnic tables near a cliff. What do I know. But be careful, Henriksons, we know what they do when they don’t get their way — remember Lake Forest Water Company? ~ Ian Wesley HIS CONCRETE BABY: Although Oliver Henrikson’s Tahoe City building was controversial and partly illegal, to him it was his passion. He could be seen in all seasons puttering around the property, tinkering and fixing things, as in this undated photo. Courtesy photo
support in the future, but for now we need to pay for what we bought. ~ Mary Beth Collins
Measure C Debacle I appreciate Ms. Collins’s position on Tahoe Forest. However, I am confused. Did the hospital never deliver babies before measure C? The measure C campaign out and out misled the public. They claimed they needed money in addition to all the other nice stuff for earthquake upgrades. Oops, we are sorry that wasn’t true but we forgot to tell you. What they could have done, recently, but didn’t, was not vote to sell more of the bonds. Just one suggestion. ~ Lynne Larson (In response to “Who Shot Sunny?” published online on Aug. 24)
Evidence As much as I want this guy captured, I have to agree that you need SOLID EVIDENCE! Many serious killer cases are tried at a lower offense due to not having enough evidence to prosecute. Good luck in catching this jerk!! ~ Jason
Treating Bears Like Pets is the Problem Here is a thought. If the Bear League knew this bear was threatened by Mr. Smith, what did they do to deter the bear away from Homewood? I have read plenty of articles calling this bear a neighborhood pet that was allowed to live in the area. That was the problem from the start! I think the Bear League dropped the ball not getting this bear out of the area. But wait, let’s just educate people on how MOONSHINEINK.COM
innocent and harmless he was. The Bear League posting the man’s name before anyone was charged or an official investigation took place was flat stupid on their part. ~ John
Loss Regardless of everyone’s beliefs or thoughts, this family has sustained an incredible loss. Our prayers and thoughts should be with the family for reconciliation and healing amongst the family, not more division. My prayers and thoughts are with you all. ~ Julie Motamedi
(In response to the article “The Key to the City” in the August print edition)
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The Legacy of Ollie Henrikson
I think you’re all a bunch of money hungry people. The only thing you see is the ole mighty dollar. All at the cost of Lake Tahoe’s beauty. Greed is taking our wildlife, beauty, quaintness. More, more — that is all I hear from all of this. Find paradise, put in a parking lot, oh, and parking, buildings, and, and, and... progress my bleep bleep. ~ Leann
Melissa Siig has hit another home run with her piece on Ollie Henrikson. Most of us who live and work and raised our children in this community have wondered about The Poplar Trees Mall. How did it happen? Who was this person, and more importantly, what was he thinking? Melissa, you answered our questions and gave us so much more. Your choice of people who were interviewed and their comments were spot on — full of humor and to the point. We all know that this property is essential to the future of our town. It will be the centerpiece of whatever the vision is for downtown Tahoe City. The TCPUD has gotten us off to a great start with the recent acquisition of the golf course. We would hope that Ollie’s heirs can come to an agreement consistent with the long-term goals of the community that he obviously loved. Perhaps a statue and a plaque when the time is right. Maybe save his residence at Bristlecone as a historic building, because it ties right into public access to the lake. We know there is more history to be told. Moonshine Ink, keep up the good work. ~ Richard Tomlinson, Tahoe City
Henrikson I agree with Leann. Hold onto it, Henrikson family. Don’t let those money-grubbing “I can’t wait ‘til we get our hands on that building and do what we want to this town” progress-mongers get their hands on it. ~ Lorraine
Poplar Mall is a Historical Landmark Why would you make plans to displace half-a-dozen family owned businesses? If everyone could take a step back and remember that this man has just passed. Artists are always appreciated more after they go. Let’s talk retrofit for that pool. No good? Keep the greenhouse, enlarge? Rooftop yoga? Instead of spending money on more buildings, lets help everyone with what they have. You know, I like the old fire station, too. Don’t destroy because you can. I liked Heritage Plaza when it was dirt and flowers and
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Measure C: The “Unlimited Property Tax Pledge” BY JACKIE GINLEY Moonshine Ink
The recent decision to raise taxes to fund the Measure C bond debt of the Tahoe Forest Hospital District has left local homeowners confused, some saying they would not have voted to approve the $98.5 million expense if they had realized they were effectively giving the hospital board the unchecked ability to increase property taxes. “I was blown away. Did I not understand what I was voting for, or did our community lead us astray when we voted?” said Truckee homeowner Mimi Vadasz. “I am going to look into every measure now before I vote.” Vadasz is not alone. “Seismic improvements and keeping the maternity ward open was the thrust of the campaign,” said Leisa Peterson, admitting that she, too, did not fully understand that the tax rate could triple, as it has. The hospital board members raised the rate to $30.67 per $100,000 of assessed property value at their July 31 board meeting. Peterson supported the 2007 campaign to approve Measure C and later served on the Citizen’s Oversight Committee, which was charged with monitoring how the bond funds were spent. Like many voters, Peterson believed that without the funds Tahoe Forest Hospital would be forced to close its maternity ward. Ballot arguments said as much: “Without Measure C, maternity will likely close, and women will have to travel at least 45 minutes for maternity care.” In a town like Truckee, where snowstorms regularly close Interstate 80, that’s a scary proposition. Peterson said she resigned from the Citizen’s Oversight Committee after 18 months because she felt powerless and
rate issues, each of which would be repaid over 30 years. Hospital consultants projected that property values within the district would continue to appreciate at a rate of 8 percent per year, and that this ever-increas$28.6 MILLION OF MEASURE C FUNDS financed the construction of the Tahoe Forest Cancer Center. The Measure C tax rate was recently increased by a large ing tax base would margin by the hospital board. Photo by Emily Dettling/Moonshine Ink be more than adequate to meet sensed that her questioning of the board’s annual debt service, which is the interest financial decisions was not welcome. paid to bond holders. “When they got the estimate for an allocation of $33 million that was to go to the cancer center, I felt like it was a betrayal of what voters had approved,” she said. “Personally, I didn’t understand how a line item became such a huge part of the budget.” “Enlarging” the cancer center was one of the hospital’s goals in 2007. The ballot measure also promised to expand and upgrade the emergency room, make critical seismic improvements, and guarantee the continuance of maternity and women’s health services. The cancer center, which had not been the primary thrust of the campaign, was the most costly project funded by Measure C, ultimately costing $32.6 million, with the lion’s share funded by the bonds. Measure C, which was approved by 72 percent of district voters in both Nevada and Placer counties, was billed as a $98.5 million bond measure that would be financed by an estimated average tax rate of $9 per $100,000 of homeowners’ assessed property value over 30 years. General obligation bonds require at least a two-thirds majority vote. The bonds were to be sold in three sepa-
But that’s not what came to pass. Property assessments within the hospital district began to fall below projections starting in 2009. In the fiscal years 2010-11 and 2011-12, things dramatically worsened; total property value within the district actually decreased more than 4.6 percent and 1.9 percent, respectively. When that came to pass, the property taxes collected under Measure C were suddenly insufficient to meet debt service, which is projected to be just under $4.7 million for 2012-13, according to the board resolution approved in July. To make up for falling property values, the district subsidized its annual debt service by nearly $1 million over the last two years. But at the July 31 board meeting, the board members decided to stop subsidizing its debt to bond holders, and instead raised the tax rate to the amount needed to meet the Measure C obligations in full. “As you may know, debt service on bonds can only be estimated. The estimate was a conservative best estimate based on valuation history,” said Paige Thomason, director of marketing and communications for the hospital. “No one can predict how property values will fluctuate, just as no
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The tax hike is perfectly legal. In fact, it contributed to the respectable Aa3 rating Moody’s assigned to last summer’s $26 million bond issue, the last of the series. “The outlook incorporates our expectation that the district will continue to generate solid operating results and that the recent economic pressure on the tax base will not be sufficient enough to prompt a change in rating,” Moody’s reported in July. “The bonds are secured by the district’s unlimited property tax pledge.” Nothing in the ballot language prohibits the hospital board from raising the tax rate, but the current confusion stems from the fact that voters weren’t clearly aware of that fact in 2007. “Did I see it might go to a high of $17? Yes,” said Truckee resident Gaylan Larson. “I had no idea they could triple it. I never understood how bonds could do this.” A modest rise in Measure C tax rates was not unforeseen. The official impartial analysis by then-Nevada County Counsel Robert Shulman that was included in the ballot in 2007 estimated it would peak at a tax rate of $17.42 in 2014-15. The confusion is not atypical, said Jon Coupal, president of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer’s Association. “These general obligation bonds, the way bond counsel structures them, is to make sure they’re always paid, irrespective of what was promised to the voters,” he said. ~ David Bunker contributed to this article.
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CYCLISTS GAIN VIEWS OF DONNER LAKE as they climb Old Highway 40 on the Tahoe Sierra Century Ride. Courtesy photo
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hether it’s solving a vexing parenting issue or just figuring out dinner, Kathy Brown’s best ideas emerge while she’s pedaling her bike on the roads of Tahoe. So it stands to reason that this is just where Brown was a decade ago when a fundraising notion put her volunteer impulse into high gear. “I was riding my bike one day and I thought: ‘Why don’t we do one big event that would bring in a lot of money for the music programs, instead of putting on several smaller events?’” recalled Brown, the mother of three North Tahoe High School music program alums.
and North Tahoe High School music programs. The sheet music alone has a $7,000 annual price tag. “As a parent I was so grateful for the programs, which were and are an asset to the community and the shining stars of our schools,” said Brown. “But even back then our schools were facing funding challenges.” The music programs are funded by the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District general fund, Measure A, Excellence in Education, and the FAN club, a parent fundraising arm. But like many public school arts programs, there always seems to be a shortfall, and this is
the gap that Brown and fellow volunteers sought to fill with the Tahoe Sierra Century Ride. Brown, a frequent organized ride participant herself, knew that such an event in Tahoe could potentially draw in hundreds of people from outside the area. But first, Tahoe Sierra Century Ride organizers had to face numerous hurdles, including navigating the convoluted world of permitting with organizations like the U.S. Forest Service, CalTrans, and local counties. But Brown and her fellow volunteers persevered, and right out of the gate in 2003, the Tahoe Sierra Century Ride
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Current ride director Nancy Lancaster acknowledges the heavy lifting of her predecessors. “It took at least a year for me to fully realize the magnitude of this great project and the infinite hours already invested by Kathy Brown,” Lancaster said. “I see their hard work all year as I plan each year’s ride and am thankful to have been a part of this great local fundraiser.” Brown and the other volunteers’ hard work has paid off, as their efforts have helped keep the schools’ music programs alive, exposing a large number of students to the world of musical instruments, reading notes, and working together to create art.
Thus, the Tahoe Sierra Cenutry Ride was born. In the past nine years, the supported 100-mile road bicycle ride has raised $228,912 for the combined school music programs, and has provided an exciting tour of North Tahoe’s best riding roads for 5,500 cyclists. The ride, which begins and ends in Squaw Valley, offers participants 100, 60, and 30-mile options that take century riders all the way to the top of Donner Summit and to Cisco Grove. Musical mojo does not come cheap. It takes approximately $30,000 a year to run the muchesteemed North Tahoe School
netted $14,000. Last year, with 650 participants, the ride raised twice that amount. This year, the Tahoe Sierra Century Ride organizers hope to match last year’s net income.
“For entering middle schoolers it’s really not a question of if you are going to join the band, the question is what instrument will you be playing,” explained band parent Sue Rae Ireland.
THE NORTH TAHOE HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ BAND benefits from the Tahoe Sierra Century Ride, which raises money for all the schools’ music programs. Photo by Emily Dettling/Moonshine Ink
Roughly two-thirds of the middle school students play an instrument. North Tahoe School band director Lena Meyer teaches five band classes and runs two jazz bands.
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TAHOE SIERRA CENTURY RIDE DETAILS DATE: Saturday, Sept. 22; self-start at Squaw Valley ROUTE: All routes begin and conclude at Squaw Valley. The century route follows the north shore of Lake Tahoe, Brockway Summit, the Tahoe Donner area, Donner Lake, Donner Summit, and finishes back in Squaw Valley. The 60mile route passes Donner Lake and up Old Hwy 40 to Donner Summit. The 30-miler is a relatively easy ride to Donner Lake West End. PERKS: Mid-ride lunch, rest stops, water bottle, and a tote bag. Après ride party includes pizza and pasta, beer and wine, homemade brownies, and non-stop live music by North Tahoe’s student musicians. INFO: tahoesierracentury. com
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“It’s always been a very strong part of the community,” Nordby said. “When I was 17 years old I said I wanted to be a director at a small school like North Tahoe. Little did I know that it would actually be North Tahoe.” Like Meyer, Nordby also boasts impressive numbers. According to national studies, an outstanding band program involves 11 percent of a student body. At North Tahoe, 24 percent of the students are in the band program.
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The high school band program includes an award-winning jazz band, a jazz ensemble club (directed by local musician Todd Hollway), a wind ensemble, and a symphonic band. Dean Nordby, a North Tahoe grad, spent 11 years as director for the middle school and the past 12 at the high school.
Nordby, like so many people involved with the North Tahoe band program, is thankful for the Tahoe Sierra Century Ride financial support. “We were really hurting before the Tahoe Sierra Century Ride,” he said. “It’s crucial to our success.” ~ Writer Ann Lindemann is a parent of a North Tahoe High School band member. She is an unabashed supporter of North Tahoe’s tradition of musical excellence.
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Truckee’s Mountain Hardware was selected as one of three Ace Hardware stores out of more than 4,000 stores in the nation to receive the distinction of one of the “Coolest Hardware Stores on the Planet” by Ace Hardware in 2012. Stores were nominated and then chosen based on their abilities to localize their stores and provide a unique and diverse product selection that reflects their community. In addition to providing an unparalleled selection of products in the Tahoe/Truckee area, Mountain Hardware & Sports also takes pride in its employee ownership culture. The store, in business since 1977, has been employee-owned since 2001. Info: mountainhardwareandsports.com
Vail Adds to Epic Pass, Squaw/Alpine Launch ‘Mountain Collective’
North Tahoe’s two biggest ski companies announced ski pass news recently. First, KSL announced the Mountain Collective, a pass that gives holders two tickets to four of the nation’s most iconic resorts — Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows, Jackson Hole, Aspen/Snowmass, and Alta. The pass, priced at $349, also includes 50 percent off of ski tickets at these resorts and up to 25 percent discounts for lodging. Northstar’s parent company, Vail Resorts, announced that owners of the Epic Pass for 2012-13 will be able to ski three days for free in Verbier, Switzerland, including at Les 4 Vallées, the largest ski area in Switzerland. The Epic Pass already includes access to Northstar, Sierraat-Tahoe, Heavenly, and Kirkwood in the Tahoe area, as well as Vailowned ski resorts in Colorado.
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Northstar Starts Hiring 1,200 Winter Employees
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Life Through Local Lenses Local Husband and Wife Team Run A Day in Your Life Photography
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Despite being more than a decade and a half removed from shooting news photos for the Miami Herald, Donna Reid still approaches her work like a photojournalist. Reid is the founder of A Day in Your Life Photography, a Kings Beach-based company that specializes in weddings, fine art, portraits, and event photos. Reid founded the company 12 years ago, and in 2005 her husband and fellow photographer John Staab joined the business.
(above) WEDDING IMAGES, like this photo of Chris and Colette Ross, have been a specialty of A Day in Your Life Photography for more than a decade. (left) OSCAR THE PENGUIN: Donna Reid was on her honeymoon at a South American beach when she snapped this photo of a penguin with a lot of personality. The photo has become one of Reid’s best-selling prints. Photos by Donna Reid/A Day in Your Life Photography
in a niche that she says no other local photographers are offering — the first photos of infants after birth.
Today, the company’s photojournalism roots still shine through in the style, originality, and quality of the images that are caught each year by the duo’s lenses. “I get a high off of that moment that happens in front of my camera,” said Reid. “It is that moment that [my clients] always see but they have never captured on film.”
cause it keeps me interested,” said Reid.
Reid estimates she shoots 40,000 images a year. Her work ranges from infant portraits and family photos to fine art landscape shots. One of her best-selling shots is of a small, inquisitive penguin she calls “Oscar” looking up at the camera as he stands on a South American beach. That photo recently won an Eagle Award at the High Fives Foundation fundraiser 3,000 Words. Another black-and-white photo of Yosemite Falls recently received the highest number of votes in an online Ansel Adams Gallery contest.
Sherry McConkey has seen Reid work on a wide spectrum of photography. Reid photographed Sherry and Shane McConkey’s wedding, has taken photos of their daughter as she has grown up, and donated her time and photographs to the Shane McConkey Foundation.
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“The first thing [clients] say is, ‘There is no way we would have a photographer there,’ but when they see the photos they say, ‘How could I not have a photographer there?” said Reid. “It’s the first portrait of the baby.” McConkey said that the photograph that Reid took of her husband Shane, who died in 2009, holding their newborn daughter, Ayla, is one of her most valued photographs. Much of the success of A Day in Your Life Photography has to do not only with the quality of the photography that Reid and Staab produce, but also the way they go about their jobs. The couple’s friendliness
and unobtrusive method of working allows an event or wedding to go off without any distractions, while at the same time being documented in incredible detail. “There is never a moment when you think there is a photographer in your face,” said McConkey. “She is always in the background capturing the true essence of the moment.” McConkey has the photograph of “Oscar” the penguin hanging in her house. She bid on the photograph years ago at a fundraiser that Reid had donated to. The photograph, and the countless hours that Reid has donated to the Shane McConkey Foundation, are reminders of A Day in Your Life Photography’s generosity and community mindedness. “She is always donating everywhere. She is always giving,” said McConkey. Info: adayinyourlifephotography.com
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odas las tardes de los días de semana en verano llega una avalancha de camionetas desde la casa del guarda que vigila la ruta hacia uno de los domicilios de hogares de lujo más codiciados de la nación. Una caravana de camiones cubiertos de herramientas eléctricas y escaleras avanza por la esquina Sudoeste de Martis Valley, creando un tránsito diario secundario mientras los camiones esperan para doblar en la Carretera 267. La sabiduría convencional declaró muerta a la industria de la construcción cuando el mercado inmobiliario entró en una de sus depresiones más profundas de la historia de los últimos cinco años. Pero un desarrollo inmobiliario de lujo que lleva el nombre de Martis Camp ha sacudido la tendencia inmobiliaria de toda la nación, vendiendo cientos de millones de dólares en viviendas lujosas y casi resucitando por sí sola la industria de la construcción en Truckee/ Tahoe que recibía un apoyo vitalicio tras el colapso de las viviendas. Mientras otros proyectos de viviendas en Truckee y North Tahoe han permanecido latentes o están en quiebra, por día se estima que unos 1.300 trabajadores en el sector de la construcción, plomeros, electricistas, y albañiles entran a Martis Camp para edificar 110 viviendas que en la actualidad están siendo construidas en el enclave privado. Este año, se entregaron más de 4.000 permisos de construcción en Martis Camp para proyectos de construcción, y los oficiales de Martis Camp estiman que hay $150 millones destinados a la actividad de la construcción en el desarrollo de viviendas de lujo en las 2.177 acres. READ. DISCUSS. CONTRIBUTE.
“Si Martis Camp no existiese, Truckee estaría en serios problemas,” dijo Mitch Clarin, un contratista y agente inmobiliario de Truckee. “La mayoría de los contratistas que en la actualidad tienen trabajo, es porque están trabajando aquí.” Mark Tanner, cuya empresa constructora ha construido seis viviendas en Martis Camp y que en la actualidad construye otras cuatro, dijo que el proyecto de viviendas de lujo le dio trabajo cuando su empresa más lo necesitó. En la cresta del boom de la construcción en 2006, Mark Vea CONTRATISTAS p. 16
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very summer weekday afternoon a flood of pickup trucks disgorges from the towering gatehouse that guards the road into one of the most coveted luxury home addresses in the nation. A motorcade of trucks draped in power tools and ladders winds through the southwest corner of Martis Valley, creating a minor daily traffic jam as the trucks wait to turn onto Highway 267. Conventional wisdom declared the construction industry dead as the housing market slumped through one of its deepest recessions in history during the past
five years. But a luxury home development named Martis Camp has bucked the nation-wide real estate trend, selling hundreds of millions of dollars of luxury homesites and almost single-handedly resuscitating a Truckee/Tahoe construction industry that was on life support following the housing collapse. While other Truckee and North Tahoe housing projects have gone dormant or bankrupt, each day an estimated 1,300 construction workers, plumbers, electricians, and masons enter Martis Camp to build the 110 homes that are currently under construction in the private enclave. More than 4,000 Martis Camp contractor passes were given out this year for building projects, and Martis Camp officials estimate that $150 million worth of construction activity occurs at the 2,177acre luxury home development each year. “If there was no Martis Camp, Truckee would be in big trouble,” said Mitch Clarin, a Truckee contractor and Realtor. “Most of the contractors who are working are working there.”
UN CLUB DE CAMPO DE $40 MILLONES es solo una de las tantas razones por las que los dueños de viviendas han comprado en Martis Camp incluso cuando había caído el mercado inmobiliario del resto de la nación. Foto de cortesía de Martis Camp
A $40 MILLION CLUBHOUSE is just one of the many reasons homeowners have been buying at Martis Camp even while the rest of the nation’s real estate market has slumped. Photos courtesy of Martis Camp
Mark Tanner, whose construction company has built six homes in Martis Camp and is currently working on four more, said the luxury housing project supplied work when his company needed it most. At the height of the building boom in 2006, Mark Tanner Construction had 63 employees, but as the housing market slumped, he had to cut the majority of his staff, and ended up with fewer than 10 employees. See CONTRACTORS p. 17
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Mike Nethersole, dueño de MD Construction. “Es un mercado competitivo.”
Tanner Construction tenía 63 empleados, pero a medida que el mercado de la construcción fue cayendo en picada, tuvo que recortar a la mayoría de sus empleados, y terminó teniendo menos de 10.
Tanner dijo que los dueños de las viviendas “ahora solicitan dos o tres presupuestos, y que se debe prestar atención a cada dólar.”
“Ahora volvimos a donde estábamos, y en gran parte se debe a Martis Camp,” dijo Tanner.
“Definitivamente es un mercado ajustado, los márgenes son mucho más pequeños,” dijo Tanner.
La escala de Martis Camp, tanto en cuanto a las viviendas, como al tamaño y al detalle de construcción, hace que el proyecto sea un gran generador de trabajo para toda la región. Cuando esté terminado, el desarrollo contará con más de 650 viviendas. Y con el valor de las viviendas que arranca desde $500.000 y con la idea de precios tan altos como $2 millones, las viviendas que se están construyendo son diseñadas meticulosamente, con mucho trabajo, y con modelos multimillonarios en dólares.
Pero incluso si se han ajustado los márgenes, aún se considera a Martis Camp como la “estrella que brilla, la esperanza viva” del área, dijo Pat Davison, directora ejecutiva de la Asociación de Contratistas de Truckee Tahoe.
Una vivienda que salió publicada en el artículo de “Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Mountain Retreat” en CNBC.com totalizó 7.188 pies cuadrados, y fue tasada en $11,85 millones. La mansión cuenta con un loft para meditar con una ventana sobre toda una pared y una habitación para proyectar películas con tres pantallas con temática marroquí en la que hay representado un mural con la divisoria de las aguas del Río Truckee hecho con cuero azul de avestruz. Tanner dijo que los propietarios de las viviendas adjuntas a Martis Camp son un segmento del mercado inmobiliario lujoso que rara vez se ha visto previamente en Truckee y Tahoe. “En Martis Camp recibes una variedad de dinero totalmente diferente,” dijo Tanner. “No se trata de personas que están construyendo su segundo hogar, sino su tercero o cuarto.” Se ha hablado mucho en los medios nacionales sobre la conexión entre el éxito de Martis Camp y los millonarios y multimillonarios que acuñan por medio del boom
EL ESTABLO FAMILIAR es un ejemplo de las comodidades agradables para la familia en Martis Camp. Bowling, básquet, salas de arte y piletas de natación han atraído a las familias adineradas de Silicon Valley al desarrollo de Martis Valley.
THE FAMILY BARN is an example of Martis Camp’s family-friendly amenities. Bowling, basketball, art rooms and swimming pools have attracted wealthy Silicon Valley families to the Martis Valley development. Photo courtesy of Martis Camp
de la tecnología en Silicon Valley. Martis Camp fue presentado en un artículo de Barron’s con el título “Facebook´s Zillionaire Club [Club tropecientonario de Facebook]” en el que los oficiales de Martis Camp dijeron que algunas de las personas que compran viviendas son ejecutivos de Google y otros empleados del rubro tecnológico y capitalistas de riesgo.
Esa garantía de casi dos décadas de trabajo en la construcción no le ha dado trabajo solo a los principales contratistas locales como Mark Tanner Construction, Jim Morrison Construction, MD construction, entre otros, sino que también ha atraído a algunas empresas de construcción y a arquitectos de afuera del área.
Pero esa no es la única razón del éxito de Martis Camp. La cancha de golf de la comunidad, el club de campo de $40 millones, el área del establo para la familia, y la conexión privada a Northstar atraen a los turistas ultra ricos que quieren el lujo de una escapada exclusiva en la montaña, la variedad completa de actividades al aire libre, y una comunidad centrada en la familia. “Es su club de campo lejos del club de campo primario,” dijo Tanner. Los oficiales de Martis Camp estiman que la construcción continuará a paso fuerte durante los próximos 10 a 12 años. Les llevará aproximadamente 20 años terminar la construcción de todas las viviendas.
“Con tan buenas opciones aquí, la mayoría de las familias utiliza arquitectos y constructores de viviendas locales; sin embargo, debido al interés nacional por Martis Camp, hemos visto llegar más profesionales desde afuera de la región,” dijo Vangie Wightman, coordinadora de revisión arquitectural de Martis Camp, en un correo electrónico para Moonshine Ink. Al haber más contratistas que presupuestan y compiten entre ellos por el trabajo en Martis Camp, algunos contratistas locales dicen que sus ganancias han disminuido. “Hay gente de todo el Oeste de Estados Unidos que trabaja en Martis Camp,” dijo
“Se cree que si alguno comienza a trabajar en Martis Camp, es un buen trabajo,” dijo Davison. Y ese trabajo ha tenido efectos expansivos en la economía local, beneficiando los comercios de mobiliarios para el hogar, los almacenes de maderas, y a una serie de subcontratistas. Davison y los contratistas locales dicen que ven signos de que el resto del mercado inmobiliario se está recomponiendo de a poco. Desde un récord máximo de 385 permisos de viviendas unifamiliares emitidos en 2005, la cifra en Truckee cayó sorprendentemente a 29 permisos en 2009. Pero desde entonces, los permisos han comenzado poco a poco a repuntar, y los permisos de remodelación han subido sustancialmente, de acuerdo con los datos de permisos de los Condados de Truckee y Placer. Los contratistas y subcontratistas que han estado trabajando en Martis Camp dicen que el desarrollo de viviendas les ha hecho una gran diferencia a ellos durante las profundidades de la depresión de las viviendas. “Fácilmente, podría ser un tercio o una mitad de lo que somos hoy en términos de empleados y ventas brutas si no fuera por Martis Camp,” dijo Tanner. “Vivimos épocas difíciles, pero no fueron épocas tan difíciles como las que estaríamos viviendo si no fuera por Martis Camp.”
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“Now we’re back to where we were, and most of that has to do with Martis Camp,” said Tanner. The scale of Martis Camp, both in terms of the number of homes and the size and detail of the homes constructed, makes the project a huge job generator for the region. When completed, the development will have more than 650 homes. And with homesites starting at $500,000 and fetching prices as high as $2 million, the homes being built are meticulously designed, labor-intensive, multi-million-dollar showpieces. One home recently profiled in the article “Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Mountain Retreat” on CNBC.com totaled 7,188-square-feet, and was priced at $11.85 million. The mansion features a window-walled meditation loft and a Moroccan-themed three-screen movie room displaying a Truckee River watershed mural made of blue ostrich leather. Tanner said the homebuyers attracted to Martis Camp are a segment of the luxury real estate market that Truckee and Tahoe have rarely seen before. “At Martis Camp you are getting a whole different breed of money,” said Tanner. “These are not people who are building their second home, they are building their third or fourth home.” Much has been made in the national media about the connection between Martis Camp’s success and the millionaires and billionaires being minted through the technology boom in Silicon Valley. Martis Camp was featured in a Barron’s story titled “Facebook’s Zillionaire Club,” in which Martis Camp officials said that some of the people buying homesites are Google executives and other technology employees and venture capitalists. But that is not the only reason for Martis Camp’s success. The community’s golf course, $40-million clubhouse, familyfriendly barn area, and private ski connection to Northstar attract ultra-wealthy vacationers who want the luxuries of an exclusive mountain getaway, the full range of outdoor activities, and a familycentric community. “It’s their country club away from their primary country club,” said Tanner. Martis Camp officials estimate that construction will continue at a strong pace for the next 10 to 12 years. It will take approximately 20 years for all of the homesites to be built out. That guarantee of nearly two decades of construction work has not only given work to many local contractors like Mark Tanner Construction, Jim MorREAD. DISCUSS. CONTRIBUTE.
rison Construction, MD Construction, and others, it has also attracted some construction companies and architects from outside of the area. “With so many great options here, most families utilize local architects and homebuilders; however, because of the national interest in Martis Camp, we have been seeing more professionals coming in from outside the region,” said Vangie Wightman, architectural review coordinator for Martis Camp, in an email to Moonshine Ink. With more contractors bidding against each other for Martis Camp work, some local contractors say that their profits have shrunk. “There are people from the whole Western United States working at Martis Camp,” said Mike Nethersole, owner of MD Construction. “It is a competitive market out there.” Tanner said that homesite owners “now want two or three bids, and every dollar has to be watched.” “It is definitely a tighter market, the margins are much smaller,” said Tanner. But even if margins have tightened, Martis Camp is still considered “the shining star, the bright hope” of the area, said Pat Davison, executive director of the Contractors Association of Truckee Tahoe. “There is a feeling that if someone gets work at Martis Camp, it is a good job,” said Davison. And that work has had ripple effects on the local economy, benefiting home furnishing stores, lumber yards, and an array of subcontractors. Davison and local contractors say they see signs that the rest of the real estate market is slowly picking up. From a record high of 385 single-family home building permits issued in 2005, Truckee dropped to a staggering low of only 29 permits issued in 2009. But since then, permits have slowly begun to tick back up, and remodel permits have risen substantially, according to permit data from Truckee and Placer County.
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“I could very easily be at a third or half of what we are now in terms of employees and gross sales if it weren’t for Martis Camp,” said Tanner. “We saw the hard times, but we did not see it as hard as we would have if it hadn’t been for Martis Camp.”
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The Placer County Board of Supervisors reaffirmed its commitment to fully comply with the Brown Act despite a state decision to suspend parts of the act for the 2012-13 fiscal year. “Even though the state may waver in its commitment to the Brown Act, we won’t,” Placer County Chairwoman Jennifer
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To Track A Thief The headline read “iPhone Helps Crack Aspen Theft Case.” The story, which first appeared in the Aspen Daily News, had been picked up by the Associated Press and was running in media all over the country, from Denver’s Channel 7 News to SFgate.com to tech websites like i4u.com. The story received so much attention because, according to the THE DEEP END article, the police By Melissa Siig had used the ‘Find My iPhone’ app to trace a stolen cell phone and locate the thief, who had taken more than $30,000 worth of items. Except that’s not really what happened.
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I know this because I was there. This all went down at a yoga studio in Aspen, Colo., where I was on vacation with my extended family, probably one of the last places in the world I would expect to get robbed. For those of you who are not familiar with Aspen, it is a wealthy community that attracts celebrities like Goldie Hawn, Lance Armstrong, and anyone who enjoys wearing ankle-length fur coats. So I didn’t even think twice about leaving my purse, which was really no more than a canvas shopping bag, stuffed under a bench right outside the yoga studio while I was in class. My cousin Carey did the same. About 10 minutes into class, Carey got
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up and ran outside the studio to move her purse to where she could see it. Of course, I thought Carey was being paranoid. That was, until we got out of class to find a girl sobbing that her wedding ring had been stolen from her bag, which had also been stashed under the bench. To make matters worse, she told us that the next day was her oneyear anniversary. “My husband is going to kill me!” she cried. “Some husband,” I thought to myself. Then I heard Carey let out a gasp. “All my jewelry is gone!” she exclaimed after looking in her purse. I quickly glanced in my bag. There were my sweatshirt, sunglasses, room key, Clif Bar, and….Gosh darn it! My cell phone and wallet were gone! Looking up at the weeping bride and Carey, who appeared completely crestfallen after explaining that now missing from her purse were the pair of earrings her father had given her for her wedding last year (what’s up with the newlyweds leaving expensive jewelry in their satchels?), along with antique jewelry from her grandmother, I didn’t feel so bad about getting a cell phone and wallet stolen, all of which can be replaced. (Fortunately, I only had $7 cash in my wallet. Sometimes it pays never to make it to the ATM.)
As Carey and Lesley tried to describe the strange woman — early 30s, brown hair, white hoodie with blue stripes — the cop didn’t seem to hear. “Did she have grey hair?” he kept asking, apparently stuck on some well-known Aspen vagrant. We all looked at each other in disbelief, as if to say, “What’s up with this guy? Didn’t he hear us just describe the suspect?” While the cop stared into space, pondering the next move — he hadn’t even asked us yet what was stolen — a woman who had been in the same yoga class phoned in to say her iPhone was missing. That’s when Carey got the brilliant idea of using the app to track the phone, and the thief. With the iPhone owner’s permission, Carey and Lesley got her password and went online. Within seconds, we had the culprit’s exact location — Cooper and Mill streets, in the middle of Aspen. The thief was still in town, just minutes away! The cop, meanwhile, seemed at a loss for what to do, fumbling with his ripped up notebook that had no clean pages left in it. At one of the girl’s suggestion, he went back to his car to grab another one. With the police utterly useless, Carey looked at me: “Let’s go find her and get our stuff back.” A showdown! I was in.
The three of us ran to the front desk to tell the girls who worked at the studio that we had been robbed. After calling the police, one of the employees, Lesley, and Carey both remembered a strange woman who had been walking around the place before class, which is why Carey had moved her purse — she had gotten a weird vibe from her. That’s when the first policeman showed up.
Mr. Policeman finally decided to make himself useful and offered to drive Carey and Lesley to town, since they could identify the robber. I walked as fast as I could, my heart pounding not from the exercise but from the excitement of it all. I was living out my childhood dream — I was a Charlie’s Angel! (Jaclyn Smith, of course.) When >>> I reached the center of town, TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT MEDIA SOURCE
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I wasn’t happy to discover that the police had taken the credit for capturing the thief. But, besides getting my wallet and phone back, I got two other things out of that day: a great story to tell at the bar that night, and the knowledge that with a little help from technology and a few other fearless women, we can all be our own angels. ~ Comment on this column online, visit moonshineink.com. READ. DISCUSS. CONTRIBUTE.
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No thanks to the police, we had found the robber. So what do I take away from this incident? Two things. Even though I’m a journalist, and always strive for 100 percent accuracy in my stories, I know that you can’t take everything you read as the complete truth. In the case of the Aspen Daily News article that reported the piece, the inaccuracies weren’t the reporter’s fault — he was simply relaying the information the police had given him. (I emailed the reporter, who had this to say: “Nothing communicated to me indicated that the cops were lazy on this one [although that would not be shocking]).” The second thing I learned is, you can’t sit idly by and wait for the authorities to solve your problems. Sometimes, you have to take the initiative. Sometimes, you have to help yourself.
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The Douglas squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii), aka the chickaree, aka the animal that “Peterson Field Guide Mammals of North America” calls “the noisy little squirrel of the evergreen forests of the West,” is one of the ubiquitous creatures in Tahoe. We see them every day scurrying around our homes and yards, constantly climbing up and down the pines and firs. The busy squirrel is distinguished by its noisy calls, high rapid notes of “chick, chick, chick, chick,” short and often-repeated “quer-o,” and twitch of its tail while it hastily climbs or chatters madly at territorial offenders. Physically, the chickaree is most easily identified by the black line along its sides. Although the line fades in winter, it is easily spotted in the summer as it divides the upper, reddish-gray body from the pale yellow belly and the insides of the legs. Other physical characteristics are its black tail with silver edges and its
seemingly bulging black eyes outlined in white. The other common squirrel in our area, the Western gray squirrel (Sciurus griseus), is larger by four to five inches than the chickaree, and its signature bushy tail is twice as big. The squirrel is all gray except for its white belly.
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“THE DOUGLAS SQUIRREL IS BY FAR THE MOST INTERESTING AND INFLUENTIAL OF THE CALIFORNIA SCIURIDAE [SQUIRREL FAMILY], SURPASSING EVERY OTHER SPECIES IN FORCE OF CHARACTER, NUMBERS, AND EXTENT OF RANGE, AND IN THE AMOUNT OF INFLUENCE HE BRINGS TO BEAR UPON THE HEALTH AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE VAST FORESTS HE INHABITS.”
MASTER FORESTER: The Douglas Squirrel, also known as the chickaree, can be seen throughout Truckee/Tahoe scampering up and down trees and gnawing on pinecones. Photo by Robert Lewis/ wingbeats.org
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Chickarees dine on berries, mushrooms dried in the sun, flowers, and bird eggs, yet pinecone seeds are by far its favored food source. On the ground, the chickaree holds the pinecone in its hands, cuts off each scale one at a time, eats the seeds, and leaves the core behind. This small, un-intimidated creature will even approach the large sugar pine cone, which is the same length or bigger than its small body. Remnants of this feeding frenzy are easily seen by cone cores littering the forest floor or strewn across the tops of fallen trees. The cones that chickarees don’t immediately eat are stashed next to rocks or logs near their home trees in piles called middens, which can also include already eaten cones and scale leftovers. Since chickarees don’t hibernate, in winter their seeds stay preserved until ready to be eaten. Because eating and stashing pinecones spreads the seeds and therefore establishes tree seedlings, John Muir says of the chickaree, “Nature has made him master forester and committed most of her coniferous crops to his paws.” One might find it surprising to learn that chickarees nest in old woodpecker holes. They line the holes with grass, twigs, and lichen in preparation for litters of approximately five babies in early summer. If no tree cavities are available, chickarees will build globular nests called dreys high in the trees between two branches. In Muir’s book “The Mountains of California,” where he dedicates an entire chapter to the Douglas squirrel, who is named for Scottish explorer and botanist David Douglas, Muir
~ “THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA” BY JOHN MUIR, 1894 bestows his own titles on the animal: “the wildest creature I ever saw” and “the squirrel of squirrels.” He even raises the Douglas squirrel to royal status: “Banish all the humming insects and the birds and quadrupeds, leaving only Sir Douglas, and the most solitary of our so-called solitudes would still thrive with ardent life.” Have you been watching the squirrels vigorously collecting food, thinking it a sign of a big winter to come? Alas, that piece of local folklore is just an old wives’ tale, according to Kris Boatner, Truckee Ranger District wildlife biologist. With last year’s mild winter, it’s most likely the survival rate of the chickaree is higher, and therefore its procreation elevated. No wonder the squirrels seem particular abundant and busy this summer and fall. One squirrel in particular got a little too busy. According to Liberty Utilities, it was a squirrel that caused the North Shore power outage last month that stretched from Homewood to Alpine Meadows. Apparently, the little guy climbed on top of the Tahoe City Substation transformer, causing an arc flash and short circuit, which resulted in a loss of power. We don’t know if it was “Sir Douglas” that caused all of the ruckus, but wouldn’t Muir have been surprised to learn that his favorite small critter knocked out an entire power grid! ~ Do you have a question about our region’s natural world? Email mountainlife@ moonshineink.com. Comment on this column online, visit moonshineink.com.
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A+ Preschool: Al Servicio de Dios y de las Familias de Tahoe LUGAR ESPIRITUAL Por Kira Catanzaro
¿A qué padre no le preocupa la educación de su hijo? ¿Tratan al niño con amor y respeto en la escuela? ¿Le enseñan a ser un ciudadano cuidadoso del mundo que lo rodea? A los padres del A+ Preschool con los que hablé recientemente no les preocupa. En North Tahoe y Truckee, los padres tienen opciones educativas para sus hijos que incluyen escuelas autónomas subsidiadas por el gobierno, escuelas al aire libre, y escuelas religiosas. A+ Preschool proporciona un programa de estudios basado en las enseñanzas Bautistas. Este año, se han inscripto 50 alumnos de entre 3 y 4 años en la escuela ubicada en Tahoe City, registrando un aumento del 50 por ciento desde que abrió sus puertas en 2003. Decidí ahondar un poquito en la filosofía y los planes de estudio de la escuela a fin de averiguar los servicios que brinda a alumnos y padres de nuestra región. First Baptist Church of Tahoe City y su programa general, Tahoe Resort Ministries, le ofrecen a la comunidad del lago cuidado infantil cristiano, basado en valores, a bajo costo para personas de cualquier creencia. Incluye: A+ Preschool, programa escolar A+ para que los alumnos de la escuela primaria asistan antes y después de la escuela, y programas de verano. Si bien la mayoría de las familias no se inscribe en la religión de la iglesia ni asiste a las misas, sí aprecia la accesibilidad de la escuela y el cuidado amoroso que les brindan a los niños. Emily Fralick de Truckee, madre de un niño en A+ Preschool, se emocionó al compartir una experiencia que ilustró perfectamente sus seis años de experiencia en la escuela. Una mañana observó cómo una de las maestras de A+ abrazaba al subir al ómnibus a cada uno de los niños que asistían al programa A+ antes y después de la escuela primaria. “¿Cuántos niños reciben un abrazo todos los días? ¡Y de igual modo tratan a todos los niños!” dijo Fralick. “Creo que A+ y las personas que trabajan en el programa son un premio para la comunidad al ser tan cariñosos y afectuosos. Están formando a mis niños para que sean personas afectuosas y gentiles, sensibles con lo que sucede a su alrededor. Una de las razones por las que mis hijos son quienes son se debe a A+.” Su hijo de 10 años, quien participa en
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el programa escolar previo y posterior a la escuela primaria, ayuda manteniendo las puertas abiertas, cargando las compras del supermercado, y ayudando a los más pequeños con sus mochilas, contó Fralick. “Parece de otra era,” dijo. “Los maestros, los misioneros, son muy cariñosos, lo cual es la clave al momento de llevar a tu hijo de tres o cuatro años a un preescolar,” agregó Amy Blankenship, madre de dos niños y residente de Truckee que trabaja en Tahoe City. En el otoño de 1990, el director Nell Jackson creó un programa de edad escolar próspero como parte de su proyecto principal del Seminario Teológico Bautista Golden Gate. El sueño de la
DALES A ESTOS NIÑOS UN A+: “Rey empieza con R,” y las coronas en la cabeza coronan la lección.
codirectora Debbie Wohler era expandir el programa a los niños más pequeños. En 2003, se cumplió su sueño con la apertura del A+ Preschool. Tanto el personal directivo como el lidiar con las licencias estaduales, colaborar en las aulas, limpiar el desorden, hasta reunirse con padres por temas estudiantiles tanto difíciles como alegres, “Miss Nell” quiere que los padres sepan que ella toma muy en serio los intereses más importantes de los niños. “Yo estaré para ellos y les daré mi amor,” dijo, “y si algo sucede, podré estar en el lugar preciso para lo que me necesiten. El amor y el cuidado con el que se riega a los niños se extienden a las familias, dijo. La escuela no quiere que nadie quede apartado. “En especial los padres que crían a sus hijos sin pareja,” dijo Jackson. “Tienen a alguien que escuchará. Sea lo Vea PREESCOLAR p. 24
A+ Preschool: Serving God and Tahoe Families The First Baptist Church of Tahoe City and its umbrella program, Tahoe Resort Ministries, offer the lake community a host of low-cost, Christian, valuebased childcare to people of all faiths, including A+ Preschool, A+ before and SPIRITUAL PLACE after school program for In North Tahoe and Truckee, By Kira Catanzaro elementary students, and parents have education summer programs. Even choices for their children that include though most families whose children charter schools, outdoor schools, and attend the programs don’t subscribe religion-based schools. A+ Preschool to the church’s religion or attend provides a curriculum based on Baptist services, they appreciate the school’s teachings. The school, located in affordability and the loving care it Tahoe City, has 50 students ages 3 to 4 provides their children. enrolled this year, and has experienced Truckee’s Emily Fralick, mother of an A+ preschooler, choked up as she shared an experience that perfectly illustrated her six years of experience at the school. One morning she watched as one of the A+ teachers hugged each and every child as she put them on the bus to various schools from A+’s before and after school program. “How many kids get a hug every day? And that’s how they treat everyone!” Fralick said. “I think that A+ and the people who run it are a gift to the community, so loving and caring. My children are being shaped into caring and gracious individuals who are sensitive to what’s around them. Part of the reason my children are who they are is because GIVE THESE KIDS AN A+: “King starts with K,” of A+.” and the crowns on their heads top off the lesson. What parent doesn’t worry about his or her child’s education? That the child is being treated with love and respect at school? That the child is learning how to be a caring world citizen? The A+ Preschool parents I recently spoke with don’t.
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a 50 percent increase since it opened in 2003. I decided to dig a little into the school’s philosophy and curriculum to find out how it serves the students and parents of our region.
Her 10-year-old, who participates in the before and after school program, helps out by holding doors open, carrying groceries, and helping the younger kids with their backpacks, Fralick said. “It’s like something from a See PRESCHOOL p. 24
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entretejido en el día. Cantan canciones cristianas y leen historias de la Biblia, enfocándose en una por semana. Sin embargo, Jackson dijo que la escuela no se propone convertir a los niños a la religión Bautista. “Nuestra intención no es convertirlos en Bautistas Cristianos. Queremos que ellos sepan que este es un lugar bueno para ellos y que se sientan cómodos. Si eligen ser parte de la iglesia, genial. Todos son bienvenidos, sin prejuicios. Estamos aquí para celebrar.”
que sea que necesiten, cualquiera fuera el problema que tuviesen, pueden traerlo aquí. No saldrá de esta sala. No lo consideramos como un lugar de cuidado diurno, sino como una familia.” El personal de A+ entiende que vivir en Lake Tahoe es costoso, y que a menudo las personas que necesitan del cuidado diurno y de la asistencia son aquellas que trabajan mucho para poder llegar a fin de mes, por lo que hacen todo lo que está a su alcance para mantener los costos bajos. Una de las maneras en las que la escuela se mantiene tan accesible es con la ayuda de los misioneros Bautistas educados en la universidad que reúnen los requisitos educativos que exige el estado y que vienen de todo el país para brindar servicio a la comunidad de North Lake durante el verano, un semestre o, en ocasiones, por más tiempo. El misionario busca que el North American Mission Board le asigne una práctica apropiada. La First Baptist Church les proporciona alojamiento y dinero para su comida, pero es el consejo de la Misión quien paga sus salarios. En la página web de los estudiantes misionarios del consejo de la misión se lee lo siguiente: “…En pos de que se acerquen cuantas más personas sean posibles a la fe en Cristo, las siguientes son oportunidades para que los alumnos ayuden a los Bautistas del Sur a cumplir la Gran Misión por medio del evangelismo que conduce a nuevas iglesias — incluso algunas de las áreas de menor alcance y menos atendidas en América del Norte.”
different era,” she said.
One of the ways the school keeps itself so affordable is with the help of college-educated volunteer Baptist missionaries who meet state educational requirements and who come from across the country to be of service to the North Lake community for a summer, semester, or sometimes even longer. The First Baptist Church provides housing and grocery money, but the North American Mission Board pays their salaries. The mission board’s student missionary Web page reads: “…With a vision to see as many people as possible come to faith in Christ, the following are opportunities for students to help Southern Baptists accomplish the Great Commission through evangelism that leads to new churches — including some of the most under-reached and under-served areas in North America.”
Parent Amy Blankenship is grateful for the preschool teachers’ caring attitudes. “The teachers, missionaries, are very loving, which is a key thing when you’re bringing your three or four-yearold to a preschool,” said Blankenship, mother of two and a Truckee resident who works in Tahoe City.
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Julie Williams, quien ha sido misionera en A+ y ahora se retira para ser ministra de niños en el Temple Baptist Church en Fairfield, Calif., dijo: “Los niños están constantemente tomando decisiones durante el día y queremos guiarlos hacia las elecciones que sabemos que Dios quiere que tomemos. Tomamos cada oportunidad para inculcarles las virtudes, para ayudarlos a tomar buenas decisiones a diario.” Jackson dijo que solo el 20 por ciento de las familias A+ (tanto de edad preescolar como escolar) asisten a las misas en la iglesia. Fralick es parte del 80 por ciento que no va.
Cuando le pregunté a Jackson sobre la filosofía del preescolar, me dijo que el componente Cristiano está de hecho
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Esta afirmación me dio que pensar. En realidad, la primera vez que oí sobre la opción de A+ para mis hijos, la descarté porque temía inundarme por intentos ineptos para convertirme y bautizar a mis hijos.
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In the fall of 1990, Director Nell Jackson created the after school program as a part of her master’s project from Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. It was codirector Debbie Wohler’s dream to expand the program to younger kids, Jackson said. In 2003, her dream was realized with the opening of A+ Preschool. From managing staff and dealing with state licensing, assisting in the classroom, cleaning up messes, and meeting with parents over both difficult and joyful student matters, “Miss Nell” wants parents to know that she has the children’s best interest at heart. “That I will be there and that I will love them,” Jackson said, “and that if something happens, I can be right there in any way that I can.” The love and care showered on the children is extended to the families, she said. The school doesn’t want anyone to fall through the cracks. “Especially single parents,” Jackson said. “They have somebody who will listen. Whatever they need, whatever troubles they have, they can unpack here. It stays in this room. We don’t look at it as a daycare, but as a family.” The A+ staff understands that living in Lake Tahoe is expensive, and that often the people who need the childcare and assistance are the ones working hard just to make ends meet, so they do all
This statement gave me pause. In truth, the first time I heard about A+ as an option for my own children, I dismissed it because I was afraid I’d get inundated by heavy-handed attempts to convert me and to baptize my children. When I questioned Jackson about the preschool’s philosophy, she said that the Christian component is indeed woven into the day. They sing Christian songs and read Bible stories, focusing on one a week. Jackson said the school is not, however, trying to convert children to the Baptist religion. “We’re not trying to make them Christian Baptist. We want them to know this is a good place and to feel comfortable. If they choose to be a part of the church, great. Everyone is welcome, no judging. We’re here to celebrate.” Julie Williams, who has been a missionary at A+ and is leaving to serve as the children’s minister of the Temple Baptist Church in Fairfield, Calif., said, “Kids are making choices throughout the day and we want to guide them toward choices we know God wants us to make. We take every opportunity to instill the virtues to help them make good choices every day.” Jackson said that only about 20 percent of A+ families (both preschool and school age) attend services at the church. Fralick is part of the 80 percent who don’t. “Our faith is not Baptist, but I know they’re there if I need them,” she said. ~ Info: 390 Fairway Dr, Tahoe City, (530) 583-1534, tahoeministries.com. Comment on this column online, visit moonshineink.com.
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Friday, Sept. 21 | Winner of the National Book Award for fiction for his 1979 novel “Going After Cacciato,” and perhaps more famously known for “The Things They Carried,” his awardwinning novel of the Vietnam war anthologized in John Updike’s “Best American Short Stories of the Century,” author Tim O’Brien will be speaking at Sierra Nevada College at 7 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21 and hosting a craft lecture on writing about war the following morning at 10 a.m. The evening lecture is free, and the craft talk costs $50. Reservations required for either at: sierranevada.edu/read
Sunday, Sept. 23 | Bona Fide Books is hosting a unique workshop to benefit local youth literacy and the leadership program, Adventure Risk Challenge. “Three Ways to Look at a Landscape” will bring together three talented presenters from different disciplines to lead a workshop/walk through the woods at Sagehen Creek Field Station, just 8 miles north of Truckee. Learn how an artist, a biologist, and a poet all look at the same landscape, and how they translate that observation into their projects. Each of the day’s sessions begin with an introductory talk, followed by time in the woods and then an exercise or experiential piece to encourage engagement with nature and self. Draw, write, observe, take field notes — learn new ways to look at the landscape and translate it into your work. Info: $60 includes sack lunch and snacks, special rates for students, (530) 573-1513, bonafidebooks.com
Calling All Artists ARTS AND CULTURE Deadline: Friday, Sept. 21 | What makes your heart sing and your passions burn? The Truckee Donner Recreation and Park District is inviting all artists to submit their work for this upcoming “Burning Hearts” exhibit. The fall exhibit of the Truckee Public Arts Commission will feature the “passions that make our community thrive.” The show will open with a reception on Friday, Oct. 5 at 5 p.m. For guidelines and entry forms, go to the latest news at tdrp.com
International Peace Day COMMUNITY Friday, Sept. 21 | The Tahoe Truckee Peace Project has a day of fun and educational activities mapped out for celebrating Peace Day beginning at 5 a.m. with a Meditation Marathon. The all-day event at For Goodness Sake will feature a variety of practices including outdoor Tai Chi, Falun Gong, Deep Yoga, Tibetan singing bowl meditation, drumming meditation and meditative prayer. At 3 p.m., the celebration moves to Truckee Regional Park for raffles, children’s activities, and music by Emily Tessmer and her band, the SELS chorus, Glenshire Elementary, and Inner Rhythms Dance studio. Check out the labyrinth, hula hooping, and face painting. Organizers will also announce the winner of the Truckee Tahoe Peace Prize. Info: truckeetahoepeaceproject.org
Cyclists Pedal to the Pacific SPORTS Friday, Sept. 21 | Six cyclists plan to hop on their bikes in front of Truckee’s Coffeebar for a marathon ride to the ocean to benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters. The riders will start at 7 a.m., pedal 300 miles, and if all goes to plan, arrive in time for lunch the next day in Sausalito. For board member Hardy Bullock, who organizes the ride, it’s all about the kids: “I feel a deep connection to kids who need guidance and support. I feel that as a community we can affect their lives in a positive way now and create a better society in the long run. It is also important that my children understand the value of helping others. They inspire me in a profound way; I want to be their hero.” With $40,000 raised for the kids over the past three years, Bullock and his buddies already are. Info: (530) 273-2227, firstgiving. com/fundraiser/300miles
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Mystery Musical to Help Buy Royal Gorge COMMUNITY Sunday, Sept. 23 | Are you the kind of person who would sign up for a ride without knowing exactly where you’re going to end up? Love the outdoors? Dig on awesome music? Then this might be for you — a fundraiser at $50 a head to help buy 3,000 scenic acres atop Donner Summit, including the Royal Gorge Ski Area, for what will amount to hugely expanded public access. The event kicks off at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 23 in the parking lot of Donner Ski Ranch, one of the event sponsors. A concert follows at 2 p.m., after which the audience will be led to some spot around Lake Mary, where supporters will enjoy samplings from many local restaurants including Dragonfly, Moody’s, and The Pour House. The night will include music ranging from percussion to brass to the Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra. Bring your walking shoes! Minimum tax-deductible donation is $50, and reservations are required by Sept. 15. Info: (530) 426-7002, donnersummitareaassociation.org
Money for Nevada Trails COMMUNITY With $1 million in state funding, the Nevada Division of State Parks is soliciting pre-applications for its 2013 funding round. Trail organizations and private individuals are invited to join government agencies in applying. Past projects include the multi-use Jumbo Grade trailhead in Washoe Valley, Shoshone off-highway vehicle trail, Tahoe Pyramid Bikeway, and the Blue Tree trail system. Info: Jenny Scanland, (775) 6842787, jscanland@parks.state.nv.gov
Rebates for Eco-friendly Erosion Control COMMUNITY The Truckee River Watershed Council is offering a $400 rebate for property owners interested in working with a conservation specialist to implement eco-friendly erosion control measures. The River Friendly Landscape Program offers a free site evaluation for older and established neighborhoods along the Truckee River watershed.
ERIKA PRIMAN AND J.J. JOHNSTON at Peace Day 2011. Photo by Jen Drew
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Dining for Schools COMMUNITY Thanks to the Excellence in Education Fund, $50 gets you 50 percent off the cost of a meal at many of your favorite Tahoe eateries. The card works most Sundays through Thursdays at more than 40 participating restaurants, excluding ski season at many locations, through next spring. The card sales raise more than $35,000 a year for the foundation, which has given some $155,000 to the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District over the years. The cards are available at Porters Sports in Truckee, Save Mart (Truckee & Tahoe City), Safeway (Truckee & Kings Beach), Mountain Hardware, and at ExinEd.org. Info: (530) 550-7984
HERE ARE SOME HIGH LIGHTED ANNOUNCE MENTS AND EVENTS bro ught to you by Jackie Ginley, Rocking Ston e community e and ditor. See wh at else is happening in the compre hensive Tap calendar at moonshin eink. com/calendar . Submit you r own events online, or em ai l calendar@mo onshineink. com.
Baby & Me Classes FAMILY Fridays, Sept. 14 to Oct. 19 | The Family Resource Center of Tahoe Truckee is offering fun, educational classes for parents with infants under 12 months old. Cindy Bansen, a registered nurse and lactation consultant, will lead the See BULLETIN p. 26
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Basket Weavers Convene in Tahoe City for Festival
Safe Drug Disposal HEALTH & WELLNESS The Tahoe Truckee Future without Drug Dependence Coalition is looking for community volunteers who would like to help with an Rx Drug Take-back event scheduled for 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29 in Truckee and Tahoe City. The event is designed to provide the community with a safe, convenient, and free method to drop off unused, expired, or unwanted medications. At previous take-back events, Tahoe-Truckee has collected and disposed of over 500 pounds of prescription medications, helping to prevent youth drug abuse and the contamination of our waterways. Info: devin.bradley@co.nevada.ca.us, (530) 546-1924, www.ttfwdd.com
Where the Buffalo (Can’t) Roam COMMUNITY Wednesday, Oct. 3 | Montana activists are taking their cause on the road with an evening of song, storytelling, and video that highlights the struggle of the buffalo to survive around Yellowstone National Park. Organizers from Montana’s Buffalo Field Campaign are trying to raise public awareness in an effort to protect the buffalo’s habitat. Given the state’s deep snowfall, the buffalo migrate to lower elevations during winter, where they can be killed. Almost 7,000 have been killed outside the park boundaries over the past 25 years, according to the campaign. Info: free, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Sierra College, 11011 College Trail, Truckee, buffalofieldcampaign. org/aboutus/roadshow2010.html
Discounted Blood Tests HEALTH & WELLNESS Wednesday, Oct. 10 & Thursday, Oct. 11 | Tahoe Forest Hospital District is offering six more days of discounted blood tests this year. Starting at $11 for a complete blood panel and up to $79 for a prostate antigen tests, the community screenings cost less than half of the hospital’s regular rates. Patients must pay in full at the time of the test, and insurance is not accepted. Fasting required. Info: 10956 Donner Pass Rd (inside the medical building) in Truckee, and Incline Village at 880 Alder Dr. Additional dates in November and December at both locations. Call (530) 582-3277 or (775) 833-4100 for additional information and prices.
Bocce Ball Tournament SPORTS Sunday, Sept. 23 | Forty teams are invited to compete in the 4th Annual Bocce Ball Tournament to benefit the High Fives Foundation, a nonprofit supporting athletes injured in winter sports. For $100 entry fee, two-man teams will compete for prizes awarded to the top 10 such as season passes to Squaw Valley, $200 gift certificates to Truckee River Winery, and GoPro Hero 2 HD cameras, among others. Info: (530) 562-4270, www.highfivesfoundation.org
Fat Tire Festival at Squaw SPORTS Sept. 20 to 23 | Mountain bikers from all over will come to Squaw Valley for the return of the Tahoe Fat Tire Festival. Presented by New Belgium Brewing, Barefoot Wines, and the North Lake Tahoe Convention and Visitors Bureau, the festival will include five race events, a mountain bike stage race, group mountain bike rides, skill clinics, vendors, movies, trail work classes, and music. Squaw Valley will be opening its bike park and trail network for the four days of the festival. Info: tahoefattirefestival.org
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WASHOE ELDER FLORINE CONWAY, 83, joins other weavers for the annual Gatekeeper’s Museum Basketweavers’ Gathering. Photo by Kippy Spilker/ Moonshine Ink
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Imagine a Tahoe with no casinos, no houses, and no concrete. That’s the Tahoe Florine Conway’s ancestors knew. At 83, the Washoe elder carries on many of her tribal traditions, including seasonal treks to Lake Tahoe for basket-weaving materials. In the fall, she hikes the canyons picking elderberries, and for more than 40 years she has threaded the finely ripped branches of willows into baskets so intricate and so tightly woven, it is impossible for her to say precisely how much time goes into each one. But there is no reversing the changes that development has wrought on the lake in just the past two generations, and this pains the Washoe elder.
traditions of those who summered by its shores hundreds of years before is preserved by Native Americans like Conway, whose baskets are so closely woven you could use them to make soup.
learning more about this ancient art will have a unique opportunity to interact with other weavers on Sept. 22 and 23, when the museum brings together Native American artisans for live demonstrations of basket weaving and other traditional arts. “The Basketweavers’ Gathering presents a rare occasion to gather together with master weavers and artisans from multiple tribes,” said the museum’s executive director, Marguerite Sprague. “It’s an important opportunity to listen and learn about native history and culture.” Visitors will also enjoy “From Nuts to Soup,” a demonstration of processing acorns from raw nuts to soup using traditional, millennia-old methods.
Native weavers will be selling “I am a part of Lake Tahoe. I THIS HAND-WOVEN BASKET (left), the last made by Conway, was baskets as well as doing weavgrew up with the tall trees. It purchased by the Gatekeeper’s Museum for $700. Photo Courtesy of North ing demonstrations during just hurts me so bad to go up to Lake Tahoe Historical Society the weekend event. Basket Tahoe and see people destroy appraiser John Rauzy will our lake,” she says, choking up. “My The process begins with finding just the be onsite and, for a small donation to mother told me to pray for the lake.” right willow branch, which is laboriously the museum, will appraise the value of de-barked, coiled, dried, and ripped down The lake takes its name from the Washoe baskets brought in by visitors. by hand and mouth to a thread so fine it “Da ow a ga,” which means the edge Info: Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 22 and would fit through the eye of a needle. of the lake, that place where scattered 23, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Gatekeeper’s Musetribal members would gather in the sumArthritis has sadly gotten the best of um at the “Y” in Tahoe City, $10 suggested mer going back some 800 years. Conway, who recently sold her last basket donation (under 12 free), (530) 583-1762, to the Gatekeeper’s Museum in Tahoe The development ushered in by the Gold northtahoemuseums.org City for $700. But those interested in Rush changed Tahoe forever, but the MOONSHINEINK.COM
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First Thing Is, Stay In The Boat As I left school after afternoon, a glorious the first day of my day to be waterskisophomore year at ing. It seemed like we Tahoe-Truckee High were the only boat School, I certainly on the water, but we had no idea that I weren’t. A wave from GROWING UP wouldn’t return for another boat hit us, IN TAHOE By Tim Hauserman three months. Or and I went flying into that it would be two the lake. weeks before I spent a night in As Chris’s boat roared over my own bed. I was focused on me at 30 miles per hour, time keeping summer alive by going slowed to a crawl. I saw sunlight waterskiing with some friends. through clear water, then the A near death experience wasn’t dark shadow of the boat followed part of my afternoon plans. by bubbles, lots and lots of Waiting at the end of the Dollar bubbles, and then blue sky. My Point pier that calm and warm first thought as the boat sped September afternoon in 1973, I away was: “Did they see me fall kept wondering what was taking out?” My next thought, “Why is my friends so long. Just before I my leg floating around at a weird gave up and went home, I finally angle?” Then I saw the horrific gash. I felt no pain, but as my friends gently hauled me back into the boat I heard someone say, “Don’t let him see his leg.” My reply: “I already did.” Since my knee had put a nasty bend into one of the propeller blades, it took longer than it should have for the old Whaler to speed to Commons Beach. After we arrived, I was put into an ambulance and rushed to Tahoe Forest Hospital. A few years ago, I asked Steve Swigard, who had recently retired from a long stint with DON’T ROCK THE BOAT: The author still has the boat the North Tahoe propeller that almost cost him his leg. Photo by Emily Fire Department, if Dettling/Moonshine Ink. he remembers any special rescues he saw Chris’s boat heading my way. was involved in. He said, “Well, (My friends in the boat that day I do remember putting pressure were heroes to me, but I believe on your femoral artery on the they’d like to remain anonyway to the hospital to keep you mous.) It was my first time in from bleeding to death.” Since I his Boston Whaler, and I wasn’t had no idea he had done that, sure where to sit since there were or was even in the ambulance, four of us and the only seat was I finally had the opportunity to for the driver. After a while I got say, “Um…thanks.” sick of watching Chris skiing as I bounced around on the floor As my ambulance sped off, of the boat, so I moved to the my friend Glenn ran up to my front and sat my butt down on parents’ office in Tahoe City to the bow. I will admit to doing a inform them that I had been in lot of stupid things in my life, but a boating accident and that I this just might be the worst. The was on my way to the hospital. lake was like a sheet of glass that Now that I am a parent, I can 28
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AN ARTICLE FROM A 1973 TAHOE WORLD gives an account of the author’s near-fatal injury. Courtesy image
visualize the angst of their drive to Truckee, wondering whether their son was dead or just missing a leg. In Truckee, I was put in another ambulance and shuttled off to Reno. While I’m sure my parents were freaking out, I was living a more simple life. I was dazed enough to feel no pain, but still had enough of my wits about me to be flirting with the cute nurse in the ambulance.
time of need. Whether it is to assist the family of a child fighting cancer or to help an accident victim recover, our small town has always stepped up to the plate and provided support when it’s needed. It was wonderful to feel that support, and of course embarrassing, because apparently now everybody knew that I was that idiot who fell off a boat and nearly killed himself.
Once in Reno, I was dashed off to surgery and, the next thing I knew, I was beginning a twoweek stay at Washoe Medical Center with an IV in my arm, my leg in a cast, and the first vestiges of pain starting to arrive. At the time I thought I was pretty unlucky to have fallen off the boat, but a steady stream of Tahoe visitors set me straight by pointing out that I still had my leg (and my head).
After Christmas, I hobbled back to Tahoe-Truckee High. A few times a week after school was out, I would walk the mile from school to the hospital for physical therapy and then hitchhike back to Tahoe City. Just about the time I was feeling almost normal in the early spring, the doctors decided that I needed to go in for another surgery so they could loosen up all the scar tissue that was preventing my knee from bending properly. My parents, apparently feeling that no good anesthesia should go unused, thought they might as well remove a few pesky moles from my face as well while I was under. A few days later I was back on crutches with bandages on my face and folks snickering, “Geez, what the hell happened to him this time?”
A few days later, just about the time the joys of hospital hospitality were getting stale, a humongous card arrived from Tahoe Lake School, signed by all the students, then another enormous one arrived from Tahoe-Truckee High School. Once again, North Tahoe had reached out a hand of support and encouragement to somebody in a
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knee had been cut by a boat propeller. Thinking I could provide emotional support, I called the hospital in South Shore and left a message for her to give me a ring when she felt like she needed to talk to someone. A few days later she called and we were having a fine conversation until I said, “It took a while, but now I go on 15-mile hikes.” There was a lengthy pause and then she said. “Oh…you still have your leg?” Oops. Yes, I still have my leg. Thirty-nine years later it is covered in scars and aches with arthritis. A recent X-ray still shows the holes where the bolts had been screwed through to hold it together. But I have my leg, and it works just fine. It’s just my putting my foot in my mouth that’s the problem. ~ Tim Hauserman wrote the guidebook to The Tahoe Rim Trail, the third edition of which was just published. He still cringes when he sees anybody sitting on the front of a boat. Comment on this column online, visit moonshineink.com.
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Indiana Dog and the Escape from the Shelter Indy is about 6 Indy doesn’t floss. I years old and weighs don’t even think Indy about 45 pounds. owns a toothbrush. His name was not We came to this originally Indy, which conclusion shortly explains why he does after meeting our not respond when newest friend Indiana you call him. Unlike at the shelter. Indy, FLIP’S FRIENDS Indiana Jones, he a speckled Heeler By Olive Brown also does not appear mix of some kind, is to know much about from Lyon County, archeology, but he does love Nevada. He was picked up to dig. He may have been as a stray and never claimed. searching for the lost Ark of The shelter where he was the Covenant when we went living would most likely have for a walk, or maybe it was euthanized him if not for the just some gophers. Judging efforts of the Humane Society from the amount of digging of Truckee-Tahoe. Indy now he did, he could probably get has the chance, like me, to a job with one of the local live the Tahoe dream. All he excavating companies. Indy needs is a person smart enough has what we call in the dog to adopt him — and maybe a business a strong prey drive. breath mint. He loves to chase squirrels,
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SUCH A PRETTY BUTTERFLY: Indy loves to run in the meadow and chase critters like the butterfly flying above his head. Photos by Olive Brown/Moonshine Ink
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with the kids. Once we headed out to the meadow for our hike, Indy was great. He rides well in the car and, for a middle-aged fella, he has wheels. I still think I could beat him in a race but it would be close. He doesn’t
pull too much on a leash, and he met other dogs and people without incident. According to HSTT, he is a fast learner, is cuddly, and loves to chew on rawhides. I can vouch for the fast learner part, but we didn’t get too cuddly. I just don’t do that type of thing on a first date. Indy would make a great family dog. At 6 years old he still has tons of energy and loves to give, but doesn’t have all the issues a younger dog might have. After his visit, the 5-yearold person at my house asked if we could foster him. The folks said yes and now Indy will get a break from the shelter and will chill at my house. We might even cuddle sometime on the furniture, but for now we are taking it slow. Indy is still available for adoption and will still be on the HSTT website and should be at all the adoption events until he finds a permanent home — unless he already has. We’ll see how it goes. There are plenty of other fine hounds (that will not be living at my house) still at the shelter, including Doberman puppies, a Chesapeake Bay retriever named Pogo, and my favorite mutt Monty. There really is a great selection right now. Check them out at hstt.org. Have a great month. ~ Comment on this story online, visit moonshineink.com.
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Truckee snowboarder Jeremy Jones and other locals debut new shred flicks
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, so I think it’s too early to start talking about snow, too. Fretting about the what-ifs of winter with the sun this high in the sky is an insult to the joys of summer. While I’ll ignore the Farmer’s Almanac forecast discussions until at least Halloween, I can’t help but wax poetic about one tangentially related snow topic before the SPORTS leaves change color.
during the course of the next two months.
Despite the meager snowfall in the Sierra last winter, local athletes are still front and center in the latest crop of major ski films. In Matchstick Productions’ new release, “Superheroes Of Stoke,” you can expect to see the hard-charging ski exploits of Cody Townsend, Elyse SPOTLIGHT Saugstad, Michelle By Seth Lightcap Parker, and Ingrid There might not be Backstrom. Warren snow in the air in Miller’s new movie, “Flow State,” September, but it’s a different features Daron Rahlves, Jackie story on the silver screen. Like Paaso, Travis Ganong, and clockwork for the past 20 years, 11-year-old ski phenom Aspen September has marked the start Spora. Rahlves also appears of prime-time ski and snowboard in Teton Gravity Research’s film premiere season. This year is “Dream Factory” alongside local no exception, as many of Tahoe’s snowboarder Ralph Backstrom. most talented winter athletes Standard Films is still in the game and cinematographers will be as well and will be debuting their debuting their latest creative 21st snowboard movie, “2112,” offerings at movie premiere featuring Chas Guldemond. showings throughout the region READ. DISCUSS. CONTRIBUTE.
Rounding out the list of locally inspired new snow films is arguably the most highly anticipated of them all — Tahoe pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones’ new signature movie “Further.” Produced by Teton Gravity Research, “Further” is the second chapter of Jones’ backcountry snowboarding film trilogy, “Deeper,” “Further,” “Higher.” “Deeper” was released to critical acclaim in 2010. Though none of the footage in “Further” was filmed in the Sierra, the movie is very much the brainchild of Jones, a Truckee father of two. As an avid wilderness explorer and leading ski industry environmental advocate, Jones chose to film the movie without the use of helicopters or snowmobiles to gain the summits of mountains. The motorized travel seen in the movie is used strictly for setting up camp deep in the mountains. Jones and his fellow snowboarders hike up all the rugged mountain faces that they ride for the cameras.
Watching “Further,” you’re in for a spectacular international adventure, as the movie features snowboarding in the Arctic Circle, the Austrian Alps, the Japanese Alps, and the Wrangell-St. Elias range in Alaska. Moonshine Ink tracked down Jones to get the inside scoop about the highlights of these radical journeys, plus to hear more about his plans for filming and riding in the Sierra:
JJ: The exposure of the last line I climb and ride in the movie, the Space Needle in Alaska, definitely crossed my comfort level in the mountains. Then there was the moment in Austria where the two riders I was climbing with got caught in an avalanche. When I looked back and saw that they were no longer behind me, it was very scary. Thankfully, 30 seconds later I realized they were OK.
MOONSHINE INK: What is the pinnacle moment in “Further” for you? JEREMY JONES: The last line I ride in the section from Svalbard, Norway definitely stands out as a high point. I went on that trip with pretty low expectations and it took a lot to get where everything came together. I ended up riding that line, the Camp Ramp, in perfect snow at midnight. When I got to the bottom it was a really special moment for me.
MI: When will we see some High Sierra action in one of your movies? JJ: Well, the Sierra continues to elude me as far as getting enough footage to make the movie. We have some decent stuff, but who knows what’s going to happen with it. We might be four years into a six-year High Sierra film part. Or maybe it will never see the light of day.
MI: Where do we see you the most scared in the movie?
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spending time in the Sierra. I went into last winter with lots of stuff that I wanted to do in the Sierra, especially in the Eastern Sierra, but because of the poor winter I didn’t get my Eastside fix. I’m excited to get back down there and do a bunch of riding. ~ Comment on this column online, visit moonshineink.com.
REGIONAL SKI AND SNOWBOARD MOVIE PREMIERE DATES TETON GRAVITY RESEARCH: “The Dream Factory,” Sept. 19, Truckee Regional Park
Trail Crews Patch Hole in the Ground Volunteer work brings together local trails foundation and U.S. Forest Service
STANDARD FILMS: “2112,” Sept. 22, CommRow, Reno MATCHSTICK PRODUCTIONS: “Superheroes Of Stoke,” Sept. 27, Resort At Squaw Creek TETON GRAVITY RESEARCH: “Further,” Oct. 25, CommRow, Reno TETON GRAVITY RESEARCH: “Further,” Oct. 26, MontBleu, South Lake Tahoe WARREN MILLER: “Flow State,” –Nov. 9-10, Crest Theater, Sacramento A MOUNTAIN BIKER TOPS OUT ON ANDESITE RIDGE on the Hole in the Ground trail. Trail crews have been busy maintaining the popular Donner Summit trail. They have even bigger plans for lengthening and re-routing the singletrack in the future. Photo by David Bunker/Moonshine Ink
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One of the area’s most beloved mountain bike trails is getting some much-needed love this summer from trail volunteers. Hole in the Ground, a piece of popular singletrack on Donner Summit, was built approximately 15 years ago as a high-altitude mountain biking alternative to the Pacific Crest Trail, which prohibits mountain biking. But during the past six to eight years, the trail has received a lot of use and almost no maintenance, said Kevin Starr, stewardship coordinator for the Truckee Donner Land Trust and trail volunteer organizer for the Truckee Trails Foundation.
FOR THE SERENITY OF ALPINE MOMENTS LIKE THIS ONE DURING AN ALASKA SUNSET, local pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones chose to hike all the mountains he rides (instead of using helicopters) during the filming of his new movie, “Further.” Photo by Chris Figenshau
That changed this summer as the Truckee Trails Foundation and the U.S. Forest Service joined forces to puts on two days of trail work that drew dozens of volunteers to Hole in the Ground. As volunteers worked to re-route a steep turn on the climb up to Andesite Ridge, another crew of professional trail workers were rehabbing the back end of the trail near Lola Montez Lake. Starr said eventually the work will help update the trail to cater to the style and speed of today’s mountain biker.
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This summer’s renewed focus on the Hole in the Ground trail may be the beginning of big improvements for the trail. Starr said that the Forest Service has plans to re-route the trail into a “lollipop loop” that would allow mountain bikers to avoid the road riding or car shuttle that is needed to complete the
ride today. The trail currently connects into dirt roads and a rugged and notorious stair section before edging close to private property on the exit to the Soda Springs fire station. From Soda Springs, mountain bikers typically ride paved and dirt roads back to the trailhead near Boreal. If re-routed, Hole in the Ground would be longer and would feature more singletrack. The work on Hole in the Ground signals great things for Truckee and Donner Summit mountain biking in the future. Endurance mountain bikers are salivating at the trail connections that will emerge as the Truckee Donner Land Trust completes the Donner Rim Trail and begins planning potential trails for the Royal Gorge property. Along with Hole in the Ground, those two trails could create an almost endless interconnected network of trails wrapping from Tahoe Donner up to Donner Summit and down to Donner Lake. That network of trails would require a lot of trail work. But Starr said the budding relationship between the Forest Service, the Truckee Trails Foundation, and the Truckee Donner Land Trust are growing into a partnership that could maintain and continually improve a network like that. “Bit by bit we are working on this marriage between the two of us, and I see good things happening with it,” said Starr. ~ Comment on this story online, visit moonshineink.com. TAHOE/TRUCKEE INDEPENDENT MEDIA SOURCE
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ow that summer is over and the crowds are gone, it’s time for locals to enjoy Truckee/Tahoe all to themselves. One of the best ways to do that is to take advantage of the area’s many happy hour deals, which offer diners a way to sample some of our restaurants’ small dishes and drinks on the cheap. Moonshine Ink staff rounded up some of their favorite happy hour appetizers for your affordable dining pleasure. So saddle up to the bar and get happy.
With the same head chef for more than 15 years, COTTONWOOD consistently turns out quality happy hour food and drinks at reasonable prices. The deals aren’t bargain basement — $1 or $2 off drinks and $3 to $4 off food. But if you frequent restaurants to enjoy the kind of food and ambience you can’t readily replicate at home, Cottonwood is well worth the price.
the list of ingredients for their famous 16-oz. FRENCH MARGARITA ($6), a blend of Herradura Silver tequila, Cointreau, Gran Marnier, Rose’s Lime Juice, and sour mix. Happy hour runs daily from 4:30 to 6 p.m. and features free live music on Thursday and Friday nights. Every Thursday though the end of winter (excluding holidays), Cottonwood offers acoustic live music in the fireplace room and all-night happy hours. And, as owner Mike Blide points out, any winter storm warning is an occasion for allnight happy hours at Cottonwood. Info: 10142 Rue Hilltop Rd, Truckee, (530) 587-5711 ~ Jackie Ginley
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menu can seem out of reach for those with tight pockets, but the restaurant’s happy hour deals are a steal. Its HAWAIIAN AHI TUNA POKE CONES ($6) are served in a handmade pinched ceramic bowl filled with sesame seeds, the four petit cones standing upright like mini ice-cream cones. The wasabi cream gives it just the right kick. I frowned when my husband ordered the PORK BELLY SPOONS ($6), but they turned out to be my favorite appetizer of the night. The guacamole and the smoky meat together were reminiscent of a taco, minus the tortilla. None of these teaser plates on their own are enough to fill you up, but combine a few together and you CAESAR SALAD AND A GLASS OF WINE will make anyone happy at Cottonwood’s daily happy hour. Photo by Jackie Ginley/Moonshine Ink just might make a meal. The happy hour menu My favorite happy hour special is the also includes soups and salads ($5) and CAESAR SALAD ($10) — heaping small plates such as TRUFFLE FRIES hearts of romaine tossed to perfection ($6). Wash it all down with draft beer with just the right balance of citrus, ($3), wine on tap ($5), or well drinks freshly grated parmesan cheese, and ($4). Happy hour runs every day except garlic. And you don’t have to mix it yourSaturday from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Info: 640 self; you just pick up a leaf and enjoy. North Lake Blvd, Tahoe City, (530) 5835700 ~ Melissa Siig On one of those perfect Indian summer afternoons recently, a friend and If you’re seeking a fresh and delicious I noticed that five other patrons were enhappy hour menu, Drunken Monkey is joying the same finger salad on the deck a fantastic choice. MONKEY CUPS ($6) overlooking downtown Truckee. are one of the restaurant’s more popular The staff are super friendly, accommodating early birds and even offering us
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muddled green onions, chopped cilantro, caramelized shallots, red chili flakes, preserved black beans, fresh ahi, and of course, garlic, which is mixed with cabbage, carrots, bell peppers, and green onions. The ahi mixture is served in two crispy wonton bowls and topped with daikon sprouts. DRAGON BALLZ ($4), also quite popular, are a tempura fried unari pouch stuffed with crab, spicy tuna, avocado, and rice. The happy hour menu items range from $4 to $8, and beverages include hot sake and Sapporo draft ($3), house wine ($5), and a specialty SHOCHU COCKTAIL ($7). The happy hour menu is currently available Tuesday through Thursday, from 3 to 6 p.m., but is due to change shortly, allowing locals more opportunity to enjoy. Info: 11253 Brockway Rd, Ste 105, Truckee, (530) 582-9755, drunkenmonkeysushi.com ~ Emily Dettling
MONKEY CUPS, crispy wontons filled with muddy garlic ahi, are just one of the many delicious items on the Drunken Monkey happy hour menu. Photo by Emily Dettling/Moonshine Ink
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A New Look for Donner’s Old Corner Store Donner Lake’s Sticks Market BY MELISSA SIIG Moonshine Ink
odd Wright had his eye on the Donner Pines Market for a long time. Twelve years, to be exact, the amount of time his family has owned a cabin at Donner Lake. “A diamond in the rough” is what Wright called the old store. So when Wright learned the market was for sale, he made his move, buying it in May this year. After a complete remodel, he reopened the store on June 15 as Sticks Market.
TODD WRIGHT, WITH HIS WIFE, MICHELLE, and children, Carley and Kaden, recently opened Sticks Market at Donner Lake. Photos by Emily Dettling/Moonshine Ink
Sticks Market is not the same old Donner Pines Market with an updated look and new name. Wright, who worked for Albertsons for 20 years and Pay ‘N Save Grocery for four years, is striving to create a more upscale neighborhood store, a place where Donner Lake residents can buy everything from organic produce to quality dinner items to flip-flops, and all at a fair price. After purchasing Donner Pines, Wright closed the store for six weeks to remodel it. He gutted the interior, adding granite countertops, pine slabs, exposed ceilings, and corrugated steel for a modern mountain feel. “We are trying to keep it rustic and old, but new,” said Wright, who moved to Glenshire from Lincoln with his wife and two kids after buying the store. Wright named the store after his best friend, Ty McNamara, whose tall and lanky frame earned him the nickname “Stick Man.” McNamara died from a rare cancer two years agoin Hawaii, where he had lived for 16 years. The Sticks logo, which features a stick figure doing the “hang loose” sign, is a tribute to McNamara. An even bigger change from the old market is what’s on the shelves. While Donner Pines Market may have offered locals a service, “variety was poor,” said Wright. “It was a typical old-school lake market — a little rough around the edges.” There’s nothing rough about the items that Sticks carries. With its focus on healthy and high-end foods, you can find specialty cheeses, gourmet crackers, tri-tip, and organic dairy and produce. In fact, after customers asked for more
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organic fruits and vegetables, Wright responded. He says 90 percent of the store’s produce is now organic. “We are really putting our arms around organics,” he said. “We are like a little mini Whole Foods.” Wright is also focused on carrying local brands, including Truckee Bagel Company, Truckee Sourdough, Tahoe Teas, Treat Box Bakery, Tahoe Creamery, Dorinda’s Chocolates, and Tahoe Naturals Handcrafted Soaps. The new espresso bar uses Alpen Sierra Coffee, and the revamped deli offers sandwiches, salads, and sliced meats (including Boar’s Head meats) and cheeses. Sticks also has a large beer and wine selection, and is making a name for itself as the go-to place for craft beers, including FiftyFifty Brewing Co.’s hard-to-find Belgian strong dark ale, Concentrated Evil. The wines come in a range of prices, from a $23.99 bottle of DeLoach merlot to a $4.99 Sutter Home chardonnay. “People try to call me a liquor store, but no,” Wright said. “There is no store like this in Truckee.” But don’t think Sticks is just catering to the hoity-toity, organics-only set. You can still find everything you want in a corner store at Sticks, including Jell-O, Velveeta cheese, hot dogs, Tylenol, and fishing bait. “We’ve covered all the basic necessities and added extra stuff to it,” Wright said. “Our philosophy is to try to keep pricing in line with Safeway and Save Mart so locals don’t have to go to town.” Donner Lake resident Logan Knutzen has frequented Sticks Market about six times this summer. He likes the store’s boutique beer selection and organic produce. “The old place was very traditional Donner Lake; it was like a camp store. It was a get-some-PBR-and-chips kind of place,” he said. “The new one is more upper end, but not a rip off. They have really good quality stuff — the handmade corn tortillas are the best I’ve ever had.” Knutzen thinks other neighborhoods would benefit from a Sticks Market. “Every neighborhood should have a community market, in my opinion,” he
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TODD WRIGHT COMPLETELY REMODELED THE INTERIOR (above) and exterior of the old Donner Pines Market to create the more contemporary Sticks Market. Wright has heard from his customers that Sticks Market has one of the BEST SELECTIONS OF CRAFT BEER (right) in the area.
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na mujer sin techo parada con un oso de peluche extra grande en las manos frente a una pared de ladrillo bajo el caluroso sol de Nevada. Se había subido a un tren en Ohio para encontrarse con su novio en Reno, pero cuando llegó, no lo encontró por ningún lado, por lo que se aferró a todo lo que tenía: el oso de peluche y su radio de mano. Luego, tenemos al preso con pantalones rayados que está a cargo de los perros enjaulados. Y la muñeca de porcelana: la bebé con la cara pintada que cuelga precariamente del alambre de púas, con su pollera larga que vuela al viento. “Representa la naturaleza precaria que todos tenemos,” dice Raine Howe, la fotógrafa que tomó estas fotos. “Nunca se imaignó que terminaría allí. Creía que terminaría en una casa de muñecas.”
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homeless woman stands in front of a brick wall in the hot Nevada sun clutching an oversized stuffed bear. She’d hopped a train in Ohio to meet her boyfriend in Reno, but when she arrived, he was nowhere to be found, so she clung to all she had left — the stuffed bear and a hand-held radio.
La muñeca había sido tirada a la basura, uno de los tantos tesoros del depósito de basura que Raine capturó por estar de pie, con la cámara en mano, en el capot de su camioneta. Las enfadadas, las perdidas, las privadas del derecho a voto. Estas son las inquietantes imágenes de vida granuladas, negras y blancas, que capturaron la atención de Howe, una mujer de Truckee que cree en la naturaleza orgánica del arte y toma el ejemplo de su padre, Michael Howe, sociólogo y profesor en la University of San Francisco, quien decía que “la única manera en la que podía hacer que sus alumnos entendieran qué significaba para las personas vivir una vida marginal era vivirla con ellos.” “Aún cree en la total igualdad. Yo tenía cinco años cuando caminé con Cesar Chavez en Delano. Mi padre siempre creyó que ninguna
Then there is the prison inmate in the striped pants who is in charge of the caged dogs. And the china doll, the baby doll with the painted face perched precariously on a barbed wire fence, her long skirt blowing in the wind. “She represents the precarious nature of all of us,” says Raine Howe, the photographer who captured these images. “She didn’t think she would end
persona es mejor que otra y que tu situación financiera y tu color de tu piel no te definen,” dijo Howe sobre su inspiración. “Dormí en sótanos de iglesias, sobre mesas de billar, en establos. Siempre nos quedábamos en lugares en los que no había que pagar. Comíamos lo
que la gente comía. “ El arte de Howe es la capacidad de congelar el momento en el
tiempo y hacernos preguntar sobre la vida de las personas que de otra manera no tendrían el
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up there. She thought she would end up in a doll house.” The doll had been discarded, one of many treasures in the junkyard that Raine captured by standing, camera in hand, on the hood of her pickup truck. The angry, the lost, the disenfranchised. These are the haunting, black and white, grainy life images that capture the attention of Howe, a Truckee woman who believes in the organic nature of art and takes her lead from her father, Michael Howe, a sociologist and a professor at the University of San Francisco “who
felt that the only way he could get his students to understand what it was for people to live a
marginalized life was to live it with them,” she said.
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HE WAS STANDING WITH A HEAVY FUR-LINED COAT OVER HIS HEAD. HE PEEKED OUT TO LOOK AT ME. IT WAS ABOUT 90 DEGREES OUTSIDE, TOO HOT TO BE WEARING A HEAVY COAT. I ASKED THE BOY WHY HE HAD A JACKET OVER HIS HEAD AND HE SAID ‘CUZ I’M IN A TIMEOUT.” I ASKED HIM WHY, AND HE SAID, ‘CUZ I WAS BOTHERING MY SISTER.” I TURNED TO LOOK AT HIS SISTER, WHO GLARED AT ME, AND I HAD TO WONDER WHO HAD BEEN BOTHERING WHO. ~RAINE HOWE 36
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ROCKING STONE | ARTS & CULTURE ESTABA PARADO CON UN ABRIGO PESADO DE PIEL SOBRE LA CABEZA. SE ASOMÓ PARA MIRARME. HACÍAN UNOS 90 GRADOS AFUERA, DEMASIADO CALOR PARA ESTAR USANDO UN ABRIGO DE PIEL. LE PREGUNTÉ POR QUÉ TENÍA UNA CHAQUETA DE PIEL SOBRE LA CABEZA Y ME DIJO: “PORQUE ESTE ES MI MOMENTO PARA DESCANSAR.”LE PREGUNTÉ POR QUÉ Y ME CONTESTÓ: “PORQUE ESTABA MOLESTANDO A MI HERMANA. “ME VOLTEÉ PARA MIRAR A SU HERMANA, QUIEN ME MIRABA, Y NO TUVE OTRO OPCIÓN QUE PREGUNTARME QUIÉN HABÍA ESTADO MOLESTANDO A QUIÉN. ~RAINE HOWE >>> mérito de ser aprobadas en la calle. Al igual que el preso con el que se topó en la autopista rural de Nevada.
“Realmente creía que lo que tenía puesto eran pijamas,” dijo. Detuve mi camioneta y le pregunté: “¿Estás bien? ¿Qué te pasó que te paseas con pijamas? Desconcertado respondió: “¿Pijmas? ¡Soy un prisionero!” Sin que hubiera alguna prisión a la vista, el hombre explicó que era un prisionero de baja seguridad que cuidaba perros; el hombre detrás de las rejas invisibles que cuidaba los perros en una jaula. Demasiado irónico. Pero las irregularidades de la vida parecían despertar la creatividad de Howe.
todos los semestres en los campos para trabajadores extranjeros y meses en las reservas de Navajo Indian. Estas experiencias de humanidad parecían haberle abierto la mente, y quizá de manera más importante, su corazón a la esencia de lo que significa ser humano. Y esto es lo que ella ha capturado con tanta precisión en sus fotografías, un ojo que trasciende las barreras económicas y sociales que nos hacen seguir pensando que estamos separados unos de otros.
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was five when I walked with Cesar Chavez in Delano. My father always believed that nobody is better than anybody else, and your financial status and the color of your skin does not define you,” Howe said of her inspiration. “I slept in church basements, on pool tables, in barns. We always stayed in places that didn’t cost anything. We ate what they ate.” Howe’s art is the capacity to freeze a moment in time and make us wonder about the lives of people who might not otherwise merit a passing nod on the street. Like the inmate she met along a rural Nevada highway.
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“I really thought he was wearing pajamas,” she said. “I stopped my truck and said, ‘Are you OK? What’s up with the jammies?’ He looked baffled and said, “Jammies? I’m a prisoner!’”
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With no jail in sight, the guy explained he was a low security prisoner guarding the dogs, the man behind invisible bars guarding the dogs in a cage. Too ironic. But life’s irregularities seem to spark Howe’s creativity.
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Under her father’s tutelage, she would spend whole semesters in migrant camps and months on Navajo Indian reservations. These experiences of humanity seem to have opened her mind, and perhaps more importantly, her heart, to the essence of what it is to be human. And this is what she has so finely captured in her photographs, an eye for that which transcends the economic and social barriers that keep us feeling we are separate from one another.
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‘Almost Somewhere’ on the John Muir Trail In 1993, Suzanne Roberts was where” is its sheer candidness. at a crossroads. She was 22 Roberts shows her vulnerability with a degree in biology and at mile markers along the trail. no plan for the future. She She becomes tired, sore, huncould get a job or move back gry, and grumpy, and questions home with her parents, neither the purpose of the trip and her of which appealed to her. So ability to overcome her many when a friend suggested they fears. hike the John Muir Trail, the BOOK IT! With a strong-willed leader on By Eve Quesnel prospect of walking 200 miles one side and a friend battling from Mt. Whitney to the Yobulimia on the other, in the beginning semite Valley seemed spot on. That was of the story she focuses on the struggles nearly 20 years ago. Today, Roberts is of the three women and their strained celebrating the release of her memoir on interactions. A little farther down the that hike, “Almost Somewhere: Twentytrail, however, Roberts begins to reconEight Days on the John Muir Trail.” cile with her friends as she looks closer at “I didn’t go on the trip intending to write her surroundings and the small parts of a book. I always kept a journal and had nature that make up the whole. Recalling a vague notion that I might want to bepieces of natural history she had learned come a writer, but at 22, I had not done from biology, she relays interesting the work,” she said. “I think that in order facts about flora and fauna. Apart from to write a book, especially a memoir, a science, she confronts questions about certain degree of perspective is needed, nature: women in nature, men in nature, something that comes to us through a and culture in nature. She asks, “What more developed sense of self, which takes wildness is left? How do we fit in? How time. do I fit?” More broadly, Roberts looks at mankind’s good and bad traits and scruti“I began writing about that first trip of nizes her own. the John Muir in 1993, but didn’t see it as a book until about 10 years after that. I was quickly drawn into this memoir. I finished a draft of it, or thought I had, Roberts is honest in her self-examinain 2008, but then the real work had to tion, and she’s funny! I laughed out happen—the re-visioning, rewriting, and loud throughout the entire book. Who revising. So how long did the book take wouldn’t chuckle with chapter titles to write?” she asked. “Five years? Ten named “Hiking to Tent City in Men’s years? Nineteen years? As it turns out, all Underwear,” “The Commander Cuddles of the above is true.” Up to the Murderer?” and “Naked Man and a Water Ouzel.” Staying true to the The primary delight in “Almost Somename of the trail, Roberts takes her lead
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from John Muir. Each chapter begins with a quote from Muir, and Roberts often wonders on the page what he would think, from a 19th century perspective, about the current state of the wilderness. Roberts inspires the reader to consider Muir’s travels through the Sierra and his role in preserving national treasures such as Yosemite. Her grounding in poetry infuses the language of the memoir with alluring descriptions of scenery. A professor of English at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake, Roberts is the author of four books of poetry and numerous anthology essays. “Poetry relies on observation and the distillation of language, and my hope is that I can be what Baudelaire asks of us, to always be a poet even in prose,” she said. “In all good writing, it’s the language that should drive the narrative and not vice versa, and I hope I was able to do that in ‘Almost Somewhere.’” This book is one I didn’t want to end. I felt as if I were hiking with Roberts. When she finished, I would be finished, and like her, I would be sad to be done. Inspired by “Almost Somewhere,” I wanted to be somewhere, and that somewhere was in the mountains with a pack on my back. I wanted to follow in her footsteps, all 200-plus miles of them. Roberts has a new book of poetry out
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THE GHOST OF MRS. RICHARDSON (left, Jane Lufkin), saloon proprietor Miss Hadie (center, Heather Rose Ford) and Miss Prudence (right, Chelsea Walterscheid) in the parlor at The Richardson House. Photo courtesy of Scott Thompson at scottshotsphoto. com
LOCALS PLAY THE ROLE OF JIBBOOM STREET’S “LADIES OF THE NIGHT” during the 2010 Historical Haunted Tour. Left to right: Shelley Fadness, Christa Finn, Judith Vrooman, Stephanie Rogerson, Mary Higham. Photo by Susie Zweigle Studios
THE FORMER TRUCKEE HOSPITAL, which burned down, is today the site of MOBO Law, where a paranormal researcher has spotted the ghost of someone dressed like a surgeon peering out the window. Photo courtesy of the Truckee Donner Historical Society
Truckee is famous for its ghosts. From the Truckee Hotel, where paranormal researchers have recorded what they say is the voice of the murdered girl who haunts the fourthfloor scene of her death, to the spinechilling history of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Haunted Express Train Car #5, this Old West town is full of stories of the dead, and the not-so-dead. Some of those historic characters will spring to life October 18 and 19, when the Truckee Donner Historical Society presents its 4th Annual Historical Haunted Tour. Part theater, part oral history, the adult-only event kicks off with a prize-filled raffle, drinks, and appetizer specials at Moody’s Bistro both nights at 5 p.m. From there, participants will be led on a two-hour walking tour of
downtown Truckee haunts — spots like Richardson House, where the ghost of Maggie Richardson is apt to make an appearance, and MoBo Law, where a paranormal researcher has spotted the ghost of someone dressed like a surgeon peering out the window. Not surprisingly, the old building used to function as a hospital, said Christina Stoever-Young, who produces the event pro bono. New this year, she said, will be the story behind the Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Haunted Express Train Car #5. Train robberies and holdups were the order of the day before the turn of the century, and train personnel would routinely be assigned to rail cars to guard precious cargo. “It is a car that was haunted that used to come through here, and nobody wanted
to be assigned to that car,” she said.
Raffle prizes include a two-night stay at the Truckee Hotel, the Richardson House, Hampton Inn and the River Street Inn, a vintage English flask, a Pampered Pooch Package from Scraps, gift baskets from Squeeze In, an assortment of chocolates from Dorinda’s, tickets to Trails & Vistas, and a framed vintage photo of Truckee.
Why? That’s a secret, said Stoever-Young, one of the many mysteries to unfold in all its gory detail as volunteers in period costumes act out the drama of days gone by. The event is a fundraiser for the Historical Society and Trails & Vistas, and has sold out early in recent years, raising more than $15,000 for the two nonprofits.
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Wilco GET OUT GO Sunday, Sept. 23, Grand Sierra Resort
Wilco bassist JOHN STIRRATT (left). Photo by Zoran Orlic WILCO’S JEFF TWEEDY (right) serenades a crowd of thousands on a beautiful afternoon in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Photo by Ryan Salm/Moonshine Ink
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The festival season is long gone, the leaves are starting to change, and the nights are getting a touch cooler. You might find yourself thinking, “Man, the summer flew by fast.” There is an antidote, a way to bring back that feeling of summer. That antidote is outdoor live music, and you might well find it in Reno. With eight studio albums under its belt and music that ranges from rock and roll to folk to alternative to just plain beautiful, Wilco is bringing their delectable sound to the Grand Sierra Resort this month. Since 1994, this Chicago-based band has been touring the world and mesmerizing crowds with an ever-changing style and sound. In a band with a constantly changing cast, bassist John Stirratt is one of two original members of Wilco, along with lead singer/ songwriter Jeff Tweedy, to have contributed on all their albums. Stirratt and Tweedy have been making music together since the early ’90s with alt-country group Uncle Tupelo and the creation of Wilco. I caught up with Stirratt on the phone while he was taking a brief vacation with his family on an island off the coast of Maine. He goes out there every summer for a little R&R including kayaking, sailing, hiking, and
driving around on rainy days. As he put it, “I live in Chicago, so I have to pay the piper all winter long. We (Wilco) don’t have much nature, and the weather is horrible. The West is beautiful. The band is always in the city so it’s always nice to go to beautiful.”
MOONSHINE INK: Would you say the band is in a good place right now during this tour?
our earlier years it was difficult, as we didn’t have the same lineup consistently. Now the band is in a heavy and deep spot. We’ve been playing together for eight years. It really makes you think about other bands that have been in it for a long time. There are difficulties, and things do get static, but with these guys it’s pretty easy.
MI: What are the best and worst things about life on the road?
JOHN STIRRATT: Yeah. We just got off a European tour. It’s been steady and nuts since September. We are doing more in a year than usual considering we put out an album and have been all over the place. It has been an intense year. We are bit tired. This current break is a great chance to recharge. In terms of playing, we are getting better and better. Over time, things get fine-tuned. We are playing different songs and finding ways to make the music more interesting. We are definitely improving as the tour goes on. We are in a great spot.
MI: What kind of ride has it been playing with Wilco over all these years? JS: It’s been great. You get so much deeper with people over time. Everyone in the band is beyond proficient. We all listen to one another. There’s a musical empathy. In
JS: Being away from family and missing the important things is tough. The upside is you get to see the world, a couple days in Vienna for instance. Traveling is in my blood. I love seeing new places. If I stopped, it would take time to get over it. I like walking a new city every day.
MI: You must feel pretty lucky to have made a career out of playing music. How does it feel? JS: Absolutely, especially these days. In ’92 it may not have felt as special. It was easier then. It’s definitely tough out there. I have an appreciation for that. We have been working hard for a long time.
MI: How does your latest album, “The Whole Love,” differ from some of your other records?
JS: There’s a sprawling nature to it like only “Being There” has. It’s all over the place stylistically. There weren’t the same extremes on the other albums. There is a real transformational thing throughout. We were able to create a more engaging listen.
MI: With so many songs now in your catalogue, how do you guys choose what to play during any given show? JS: A lot depends on where we’ve been. If we are in a new place, we touch on songs that we think are more well known. We always rely on the newer material more. We will play the more recent record. It’s fresh and more recent. If we play in the Midwest, we can get a little deeper with the tracks. It’s the same with a theatre versus a festival. At a festival we tend to try and play the hits as the crowd may not be as familiar with the tunes. Jeff is very attentive to how it works. He writes good set lists and puts a lot of thought into it.
MI: Do you find there are major differences in playing a place like Reno versus a date in Europe? JS: European festival audiences are crazy, especially in Spain. American audiences are way more vocal and fun. ~Ryan Salm/Moonshine Ink
INFO: Sunday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m., $40, Grand Sierra Resort, Reno, (800) 501-2651, grandsierraresort.com/entertainment/calendar/wilco or Tickemtaster.com. Wilco will also be appearing at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Friday, Sept. 21 and Saturday, Sept. 22.
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Friday September 14 OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN Soft rock, 8pm, $65 to $85, Grand Exposition Hall, Silver Legacy Resort Casino, Reno, (775) 325-7401, silverlegacy.com
THE NORTHSTAR SESSION Neo-country meets rock, 7pm, free (reservations recommended), Cottonwood Restaurant, Truckee, (530) 587-5711, cottonwoodrestaurant.com
Friday September 14 to Sunday September 16 GUITARFISH MUSIC FESTIVAL Variety of music ranging from Eddie Roberts’ West Coast Sounds to MagicGravy and Sambadá, with music, art, and yoga to raise awareness of over fishing and pollution of the oceans. (415) 845-9773, guitarfishfestival.com
Saturday September 15 TAHOE RIM TRAIL GUIDEBOOK AUTHOR Slideshow/book signing, 4 to 6pm, free, avid adventurist Tim Hauserman, who has racked up countless miles along the Tahoe Rim Trail, offers a slideshow presentation featuring highlights from along the trail and around the lake, Tahoe Mountain Sports, 8331 North Lake Blvd, Kings Beach
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Thursday September 27 BIAS & DUNN Acoustic, 7pm, free, happy hour all-night in the bar/fireplace, Cottonwood Restaurant, Truckee, (530) 587-5711, cottonwoodrestaurant.com
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Tuesday September 18 FATHER JOHN MISTY Folk/indie rock, 8pm, $20, The Center for the Arts, 314 W. Main St, Grass Valley, (530) 2748384, ext. 14, thecenterforthearts.org
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Fall all Equino Equinox Equals Balance ASTROLOGICAL ALCHEMY® By Robert Ayres
The Sun enters into Libra on Sept. 22, marking the beginning of the fall season. Fall equinox is the day that light and darkness are of equal length — 12 hours each. The Sun is descending southward and moving from the northern hemisphere to the southern hemisphere. Our fall becomes their spring. Our days will get shorter and our nights longer. The natural heat and growth of summer will change to cooler temperatures and the turning of the deciduous plants to autumn colors. This is the balance point of the year and is represented as Libra, the Scales. Balance is the theme for the fall season.
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time to socialize and be with friends. Your natural charm and magnanimity are on display for everyone to enjoy. Inside of you there is a deep sense of well-being that others sense and want to connect with. There can be some conflicts over money and issues that arise with the opposite sex. Your current state of being can easily handle these situations.
GEMINI (MAY 21– JUNE 21) There is a
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to get practical and apply new approaches and ideas to your career. You will have new insights as to how things can be done better. There is a certain amount of conflict in the workplace and with co-workers. It can be distracting, but you can rise above the fray and move ahead. You have significant inner strength.
LEO (JULY 23– AUG. 22) You are
feeling good about yourself. Your popularity and sense of well-being is strong, but there is a part of you that needs some alone time. If you have the opportunity, try to take some time off. Travel and nature are beckoning. It will do your soul good.
VIRGO (AUG. 23–SEPT. 22) There
is a good deal of mental and emotional turmoil going on. You are very conflicted about what you should do. Situations are pulling you in different directions. Step back, look at the big picture, and put everything in perspective, and you will know what the right choice is. Allow your wisdom to come forth.
LIBRA (SEPT. 23–OCT. 23) This is
your month to shine. It is a good time for inner reflection and meditation on your life. Review what you have accomplished so far in your life and identify what you still want and need to do. It is important that you recognize your unique sense of self and find the expression and fulfillment of it.
SCORPIO (OCT. 24–NOV. 21) There
is a strong emphasis on improving your financial position. You have support for significant improvement. There are hidden factors that you don’t see that can aid you. Your creative genius is also very active in coming up with new ideas and better approaches to your work that are innovative.
SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22–DEC. 21) This is a good time
to make new plans for the future. Use your innate intelligence and your ability to see the big picture to move in a more fulfilling direction. Your current situation is not satisfying and needs to change. There is too much conflict and uncertainty for your liking.
CAPRICORN (DEC. 22–JAN. 19) This is
a very good time for you. There is a new sense of self unfolding that is very strong and self-assured. A newfound sense of soulfulness, spirituality, and idealism is making its presence felt. You should take some time for yourself and let some of your other responsibilities go.
AQUARIUS (JAN. 20–FEB. 18) You are
feeling rather impatient, impulsive, and rebellious. This state of mental and emotional turmoil is rather upsetting. Situations at work and with coworkers are driving you crazy. Arguments and conflicts of interest predominate. You need to develop patience and perseverance, and keep your cool.
PISCES (FEB. 19– MARCH 20) Life is
good for you now. It is time to reconnect with the joy of life. Play, have fun, and do what you love to do. Recreation and travel are appropriate activities for you. Foreign travel holds special opportunities for exotic breakthrough experiences. New wisdom and understanding can be the result. ~ Robert Ayres is a Truckee resident and internationally known astrologer with more than 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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