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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Bread and Broth 4 Kids (BB4K) just wrapped up their first summer food program for the children of South Lake Tahoe, and it was a very successful one.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Halloween is a fun time for children in our community to get out of the house, dress-up, and collect a bag full of yummy candy. Once again, the Beach Retreat and Lodge in South Lake Tahoe has partnered with The Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe and Dreu Murin Productions to provide a safe place for children and families to spend Halloween on Tuesday, October 31, 2017.

Over 700 bags of food have been distributed to the youth of South Lake Tahoe so far this summer thanks to a partnership between Bread & Broth 4 Kids (B&B4K) and Vail Resorts/Heavenly Mountain Resort.

Vail CEO Rob Katz and his wife Elana Amsterdam donated $125,000 to get a summer food program for youth up to the age of 18 started on the South Shore, and Bread & Broth and Family Resource Center worked together with Heavenly to make it happen.

South Lake Tahoe’s first ever Brewfest last month was such a huge success that it ran out of beer and raised over $20,000 for the Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe.

Community support is needed to help the girls participating in "The Girl's Project," an empowerment group focusing on the needs of young women in the South Lake Tahoe area.

Tahoe Youth and Family Services started “The Girl’s Project” in 2010 with the vision to empower high risk young girls in our community to become more confident and influential women later in life. The Girl’s Project originally began in three of our local elementary schools, Tahoe Valley Elementary, Sierra House Elementary and Bijou Elementary and has now expanded and includes the South Tahoe Middle School.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The Tahoe Madrid girls soccer team took their talents to the international stage as they hosted a team who traveled to the South Shore from Germany.

"What an amazing game," said Tahoe parent Jeanna Rangel. "Great sportsmanship. No shoving or pushing. Just straight fun. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity for both teams!"

The match ended in a 1-1 tie.

Rangel said Tahoe player Ava Campbell had a few opportunities to score, but the ball just didn't make it into the goal.

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Throughout the month of May 2017 Choices for Children's Healthy Bottom Line Diaper Distribution program hosted the third annual Mother's Day Diaper Drive. We received generous donations from community businesses, child care providers, and agencies. All donations will go directly to helping our community's youngest and most vulnerable residents stay clean, dry and healthy by ensuring they have the diapering supplies that they need.

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Two sisters were honored during Tuesday night's Lake Tahoe Unified School District meeting for years of perfect attendance. Ryann Canfield, a freshman at South Tahoe High School, has had perfect attendance since the 1st grade at Tahoe Valley Elementary. She missed only one day of school in Kindergarten. That is nine consecutive school years with perfect attendance. Her sister, Morgan Canfield, 6th grader at South Tahoe Middle School, has had perfect attendance since Transitional Kindergarten. Morgan has not missed one day of school in seven consecutive years.

Free sports physicals for boys and girls are being offered by Barton Health at South Tahoe High School on June 5.

All high school, middle school, and Pop Warner athletes from South Tahoe area are eligible to attend the June 5 event at South Tahoe High School. Physicals are scheduled at 5:30 p.m. for South Tahoe athletes, 6:00 p.m. for Pop Warner football players, and 6:30 p.m. for Whittell athletes.

Another year of swimming for high school is over, and South Tahoe Vikings girls and boys teams are returning from the NIAA State Finals with some medals. Overall, the girls team are seventh in the state, and the boys are sixth. Boulder City High School had huge wins for both teams, coming in first for both boys and girls.

Here are the results for South Tahoe High:

Girls 200 IM
Hannah Lucas - 7th

Boys 200 IM
Temugen Enkhbayer - 5th

Girls 50 yard freestyle
Alexandra Otomo - 4th

Girls 100 yard butterfly
Sophie Stewart - 6th

Boys 100 yard freestyle
Louis Marin - 5th

The South Tahoe Vikings Swim Team has had a successful year and eleven of the school's swimmers will head to the Nevada State swim competition on May 20 at the Carson Aquatic Swim Center.

During the 3-A Northern Regionals on May 12-13, 24 Viking swimmers qualified to compete, and both the boys and girls teams came in second overall out of eight teams in the region.

Results for STHS in finals during Northern Regionals for 3A schools:

During Tuesday's South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting, the City's financial forecast over the next five years will be presented. Included in that will be a review of how the City prepared to meet anticipated increases for South Lake Tahoe programs and services by budgeting conservatively. What could not be budgeted for though was a 100% increase by the California Public Employee Retirement Systems (CalPERS).

Tyler and Cheryl Cannon, owners of Sprouts Cafe in South Lake Tahoe, opened their doors Tuesday to two of the cycling teams in town for two stages of the Amgen Breakaway from Heart DiseaseTM Women's Race empowered with SRAM on May 11-12.

DROPS and United Healthcare (UHC) were there not only to enjoy the food Sprouts is known for, but to spend time with media and sharing their stories two days before race time.

Choices for Children is hosting a Mother’s Day Diaper drive during the month of May. Please donate any size of diapers at the following locations between May 1-31, 2017:

• The South Lake Tahoe Library
• Jubilee Kids Academy
• Under the Magic Pine Tree
• The South Tahoe Association of REALTORS
• South Lake Tahoe Senior Center
• Bright Beginnings, Inc.
• The Tahoe Tot Spot
• SLT Recreation Center/Pool Complex
• The Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe
• Lake Tahoe Preschool
• LTCC Child Development Center
• Pequeños Rascals Learning Center
• Appleseeds Academy

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Therapist Jennifer Golick has one piece of advice for young people who want to try marijuana: “Just wait.”

The teen brain isn’t just an adult brain with fewer miles on it, doctors and scientists say. It’s a beta version, still under construction.

So external influences — say, daily bong hits — can have a much greater long-term impact on a teen brain than they would on the brain of a 25-year-old grad student, 45-year-old professional or 65-year-old retiree.

The annual Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe is holding their annual Spirit of Spring fundraiser on Tuesday, April 11 from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m at Edgewood Tahoe.

This popular event is one you really don't want to miss. Enjoy wine and spirits from across the country, as well as appetizers and food provided by Edgewood Tahoe.

Be sure to join Club 25.26 to be entered into their special raffle. Join today to be added to the raffle list http://bgclt.org/club-25-26/

The South Lake Tahoe community came together early in 2016 to raise money for a new Strength and Conditioning room at South Tahoe High, and the investment is already paying huge dividends.

"This room is changing the culture of our school," said STHS Football Coach Louis Franklin. "Having a room like this allows each kid to reach their genetic potential."

Student athletes are getting stronger, injuries are down and they are able to maximize their potential on the court, the field, the pool, or whatever the venue is for their sport. Cheerleaders and dancers also utilize the facility.

Two South Lake Tahoe hockey teams went to San Jose to compete in the 2017 California Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) State Championships, and both came home with a division title.

The Lake Tahoe Grizzlies Pee Wee A and Bantam B hockey teams won their respective divisions during the tournament at Sharks Ice March 31 to April 2.

This is the first time in CAHA history where two teams from one hockey club took home the gold in the same year.

Just as it had during most of the 2017 high school ski season, the Tahoe Basin State Championships held in South Lake Tahoe happened in the midst of a major snow storm.

Both days of events were switched to Sierra-at-Tahoe who kept the lifts running long enough for the student athletes to finish the slalom (SL) and grand slalom (GS) races.

South Tahoe High's girls team came in first in the slalom and third in the grand slalom, and the boys team took third in both races.

One by one they lined up. Boys and girls, men and women, families, fire fighters, ski patrol, students and dozens of others all lined up at Heavenly Mountain Resort Friday night to have their heads shaved, all in the name of children's cancer research. 110 people in total stopped by to "Brave the Shave" and raise funds to support research of childhood cancer.

Shoppers at the South Lake Tahoe Ross store raised $4,922 for the Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe during their three-week long fundraiser.

"The Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe (BGCLT) has been overwhelmed by the generosity and support of the community during the recent ‘Ross Cause Campaign’ that benefited the Club," said Jude Wood, Executive Director of BGCLT.

"Women's soccer has arrived," said Lake Tahoe Community College (LTCC) Women's Soccer Coach Jeremy Evans as he introduced the six South Tahoe High School (STHS) athletes that will be playing for him in the fall.

"I think we will finally be there," Evans said of a team that is primed for post-season play. Not only did he recruit the six young ladies from STHS, he also is adding a Truckee player, one from Reno, a Las Vegas player who was on state championship team for four years and has 14 returnees from his 2016 team.

A 13-year-old girl who became stuck up to her waist in a mud bog along a hiking trail near Combs Canyon was plucked to safety Friday afternoon by a Carson City sheriff’s deputy.

Kaitlin Schultz said she was “very cold” but “very happy” to be found safe after she had stepped into a four-foot deep mud hole and was unable to free herself along a hiking trail near Ormsby and Combs Canyon Road in northwest Carson City.

A year can pass very quickly. Just ask Samantha Byassee and Karrina Ferris, who were crowned Miss Carson City and Miss Carson City Outstanding Teen, respectively, in 2016.

One year later, the two reigning local titleholders in the Miss America organization turned their crowns over to the 2017 winners Saturday night on stage in the Bob Boldrick Theater at the Carson City Community Center, 851 E. William Street in Carson City.

"Savor every moment, because a year will go by so fast," Ferris said in her farewell speech to the waiting contestants.