Today's beautiful meeting was opened by President Shelly and Lydia's invocation focused on Charting a different course if needed. No one can go back and start their story over but we can all go forward working toward a new ending.

Don't underestimate your talent or efforts.

Guests included: None today

Sunshine goes out to: None....what a blessing.

Before we begin to tell you about our meeting.....THIS YEAR'S MAD HATTER TEA PARTY IS SOLD OUT!!!!

Our online AUCTION opens May 14th and closes May 24th at 5 PM. Go to www.SITS2024.com to:

• Get your Raffle tickets for 2 fabulous vacation locations. Winning tickets will be drawn on Friday, May 24th.
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• Register to bid in our amazing Auction.

All the money we make from the sale of these auction items goes right back into our community!

Remember, If you are going to buy it anyway, buy it from us and help your community's women and youth in the process.

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Today was our Member Fun and Focus meeting where we all get to laugh and get to know each other better. Today we made paper airplanes, wrote a question inside, and then sailed them across the room. We all picked up someone else's airplane and then went around the room answering the question we found within. What a great way to learn about our SITSters.

If you have large AUCTION items in your home, please mark them with their auction number and deliver them to Coldwell Banker for distribution. Please drop off between 9-5 at 188 Hwy 50 in Zephyr Cove .

If you have Raffle baskets for the Mad Hatter, please bring to Shelly to hold until the day of the Tea party.

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We have agreed to provide a dessert bar for the Mt. Tallac Prom again this year. More details to follow.

SITS Member Items & Our Projects

Dream It Be It career support for girls to be held on May 13, 2024 at Valhalla Grand Hall.

Please email or call Shelly Martinez for more information or to register. shellymartinez@sitahoesierra.org or 530-208-8870

Our Mad Hatter Tea Party is just around the corner and it takes a village to put on such an affair! Thank you to the members of STHS S Club, Art Club, Friday Night Lights as well as members from newly formed LTCC SITSter Club who joined some of our club members to create giant poppies for Mad Hatter.

There's a New Club at LTCC

President Shelly met with with eight young women at Lake Tahoe Community College to form a new service club--SITSters. They will be affiliated with SI Tahoe Sierra. More information to follow.

MEMBER Weekly Contribution or Quarterly Contribution can be paid online here! It's fast and easy! It can go through your Paypal or Credit Card. Get er dun!

Our Dream it Be it committee met this morning at President Shelly's house to discuss plans for this year's DIBI event. It will be held on May 13th, at Valhalla from 4-8 pm. The program will include time to make a vision board as well as a panel discussion with questions, dinner and a historical walk around the property.

From our TECH Committee!

If you need tech help, contact: techhelp@sitahoesierra.org

OUR Fundraising Efforts!

• RAFFLE Opportunity! We have two fabulous raffles for properties that you can vaca to! Go here for all the details and secure your tickets now. Only 200 will be sold for the condo stay on Maui and only 200 will be sold for a timeshare anywhere in the world! Each are for one week of bliss!
• REGISTER to bid on our auction! Our auction opens on May 14 and closes promptly at 5 PM on May 24! Ladies will get the items to their owners following our event closeout.

• Online Auction! Thanks to our Sponsors/Donors and community who purchase our items, we are able to do a lot to enhance the lives of others here and around the world. We are a hands-on club but we also provide financial support throughout. How does this happen? WE secure items and support for our ONLINE Auction. Please add your name to the listing and Lisa H will create individualized letters that you can print out at home. Secure those donations ASAP to ensure that those generous people get all the recognition they deserve on the auction site, on Facebook and on Instagram! Send any auction paperwork to Laurie Flesher so that she has time to upload the items on our auction site. laurieflesher@sitahoesierra.org
• Direct all your friends to our fundraiser site www.Sits2024.com . Donation letters are also available here. on our club website.

Once again NASCAR is ready to help us raise money! Standby for more information.

SITS COMMITTEE Signup Portal!

This is how we get things done.

Our SITS club and all that we do are driven by the committees that we maintain. All members are asked to join at least ONE Service Committee and ONE Technical Committee. Service is what we do and Technical is how we roll! Please signup for your committees here. And remember, you are not limited to participating in any of the fun. YOU can attend any committee meeting or event!

NON-SITS Fun and Opportunities in Tahoe

There's actually so much going on so you're going to want to check out the EVENTS tab on www.southtahoenow.com, but here's a few to get you started!

Do you live or own in Tahoe? Then you're going to want to put your two-cents in about our new Multigenerational Recreation and Swim Complex! The survey has to be completed by May 13th so check it out here!

Want to get ride of those sensitive documents? Saint Theresa's church is holding their annual document shred day. Bring your stuff and let them take care of it. For more information click here.

Marcella Foundation Partners with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to Offer FREE books to Local Children

Marcella Foundation is thrilled to announce the launch of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in El Dorado County. Each month, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library will provide an age-appropriate book for each registered child, absolutely free to the family. All 8,000 children ages 0 to their 5th birthday living in El Dorado County can enroll now to receive a free monthly book. Any child in the home can register, and books are available in both English and Spanish. In a show of support for early literacy for all children in our region, First 5 El Dorado, El Dorado County Library, Friends of the Library, El Dorado Community Foundation partnered with Marcella Foundation to help launch Imagination Library. Additionally, United Way of Northern Nevada and the Sierra is providing the initial funding to bring Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to each of the communities surrounding Lake Tahoe. 

Committed to FEED, READ, and LEAD

Click here for details on how to enroll your child

Greg Felton newsletter - a great run down of the month's activities around Tahoe. Email him directly to be added to his list to receive his monthly emails click here for April newsletter

ALL YEAR LONG!

LTCC Basic Needs Center is looking for food donations. A variety of foods and basic need items are on the list. Click here for full list and drop off details

If you'd like to donate through our club, please bring your donations to the monthly business meeting and Lisa C. or Andie will make sure they are delivered to the college. Please include an estimate on the value as LTCC needs to keep records of that information.

Important information for your family from TASK (Tahoe Alliance for Safe Kids)

A Guide to Healthy and Responsible Practices for Families During the Holidays.

This month TASK www.tahoesafekids.com has collaborated with our partners at Barton Health to share a guide for responsible holiday practices around substances. Aislynn Soave, the Substance Use Navigator at Barton, has put together some tips for parents and children to remember during this holiday season.

Click here for the full article

South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue has a quarterly newsletter to keep us all updated on fire safety info. Their goal is to help people learn about the fuels reduction products they are working on, seasonal fire safety info and other fire dept related news. Click here to sign up for the newsletter

Saint Joseph Community Land Trust has changed their Motel to Home (MTH) program from a loan program to a grant program and we're hoping this will attract families living in substandard housing, who would like to live in a more permanent and adequate home. Please click here for more details

Tahoe Learning Haven - Click here for all their information and a link to each month's newsletter.

League to Save Lake Tahoe's Keep Tahoe Blue Volunteer Portal!

For all of those who want to help keep our Lake Tahoe prestene, here's a portal which you can now see the events and programs which are available to volunteer for! SHARE this with your family and friends! Portal here!

Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless seeks community support in keeping people cared for.

Our South Shore community has been able to sleep better knowing that our homeless population has an indoor option. This winter season marked the seventh anniversary of the Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless (TCH) providing warm beds to the most vulnerable in our community.

They are also in great need for warm clothing items and will accept donations at their office

The office hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 12-4 at the Red Lodge, 1137 Emerald Bay Rd.

More details here

Bread and Broth needs volunteers for Mondays and Fridays:

 Thank you so much for your current or past involvement with the Bread & Broth organization. Without you, our food outreach services which help ease hunger for hundreds of our community neighbors would not be possible.

Currently, Bread & Broth needs individuals who would be interested in assuming leadership roles in the organization.

Bread & Broth’s Advisory Board is seeking an individual for the position of board Secretary. B&B’s Advisory Board meets quarterly, and the Secretary is responsible for recording the meeting minutes and ensuring that all documentation from the meeting is compiled and filed with the meeting minutes. 

Bread & Broth’s Second Serving (weekly Friday meals served at the LT Community Presbyterian Church) serves a simple entrée and a hot soup which are provided by various local community restaurants. Currently B&B is seeking 2 to 3 individuals to coordinate and pickup soups from restaurants and deliver them to the Presbyterian Church on Fridays. The soup coordinator is responsible for interfacing with the existing list of restaurant soup providers to schedule soup donations and drivers are needed to go on Fridays and pick up soup from the week’s designated soup provider. 

Second Serving is also looking for assistant cooks to support the Lead Cooks at their Friday meals from approximately 2 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. once a month. The meals are simple entrées like meatloaf, pasta dishes, and sloppy Joes.

For those of you with leadership skills, B&B is looking for individuals to train as Lead Assistants for the Monday Meal dinner (2:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m.) and the B&B 4 Kids program (Thursdays from 1:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m.) Training is provided and you will be assisting the Team Leads in overseeing and managing the duties of the team volunteers. Lead Assistants are assigned to a Team that volunteers once per month.

If you are interested any of the volunteer positions mentioned above, please contact Carol Gerard at 310-256-1019 or carolsgerard@aol.com

Blood Donations are Needed!

Our Nation continues to have a blood shortage everywhere. Giving blood is giving life. So GIVE!

Vitalant Blood Donations. Click here to find a blood draw near you!

Wed - Mon Carson City Vitalent Donation Center

256 Winnie Lane, Carson City, NV.

Click here to find more dates and locations in other areas

Between Horses and Humans continues to grow! If you're a lover of youth and a lover of horses, this is a program for you! You can keep up on their information by reading their newsletters here! Volunteers and donations are always needed. BHH Update-they are soon relocating to the Amacker Ranch!

Food Assistance Guide for So. Lake Tahoe. If you know of anyone in need, please share this information. Click and print!