In only one week our members will be going back to school. Although we still have lots of fun and activity to pack into this final week, we are also prepped and ready for the return to our after-school program. As before we will be open at Al Tahoe and Bijou Elementary Monday through Friday. Al Tahoe closes at 6.30pm and Bijou at 6pm. The [...]
What an amazing summer we have had here at the Club. Not only have we had more families join our BGCLT family than ever before but we’ve had more activities, more fun and more events than any other summer program in the basin. Here are just some of the summer highlights: · 2 adventure camps · 1 art camp · 1 week long FREE teen [...]
The not for profit landscape is not unlike the Sierra Nevada; lots of uphill climbing; some great viewpoints but also the constant threat of falling off a cliff. Since the economic crash of 2007 funding for charities has decreased dramatically and competition for what meager grants remain has increased. It is a sad equation that often need goes up as funding goes down. South Lake [...]
A number of years ago a friend of mine bought a group of kids up from Reno to Lake Tahoe and was shocked when one of the children asked if there were sharks in the Lake. The child though he was looking at the sea. His whole life he had rarely been outside of Reno and never before to Tahoe, despite the close proximity to [...]