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Toilets for Truckee!!

Kappy Mann — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:00:04 +0000

The Truckee Donner PUD and Western Nevada Supply have joined together to offer a wonderful deal for those of us who live in Truckee and have older toilets. In the interest of conserving water, they have initiated a program where you can take your old, water guzzling toilet to Western Nevada Supply at 10990 Industrial Way, #1 in Truckee and exchange it for a new less water intensive model. The technology now allows for the toilets to work on only 1.6 gallons per flush as opposed to the older 3-7 gallon use per flush. Apparently, toilets are the largest users of water in a household or a businesses.

If you take advantage of this program you will not only be saving yourself some initial outlay but obviously you will save on the monthly metered water charge we will soon all be getting since Truckee is close to becoming a water metered community — Yeah!! Besides all of that money you will save, you will be saving the environment — water is a PRECIOUS resource.

Homeowners can receive credit for up to 3 toilets per household. Check out the PUD’s website for more information, or call 530 587-3896 for more information on the program.

Beautiful New Addition to Truckee’s Landscape

Kappy Mann — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:14:45 +0000

Check it out Truckee. Here is the latest in what I hope is a long line of artist donations to the beautification of Truckee. We have at least 5 roundabouts and this is the first one to be decorated by a local Truckee Artist. Thank you Troy Corliss for taking the initiative and getting the ball rolling. I hope that this will become a challenge to other Artists in our area. These roundabouts are such a wonderful place to showcase our talent. Thanks also to L + P Design who cooperated with Troy to help complete the sculpture. Lest we forget, thanks to the Town Councilmen and Women of Truckee who had for foresight to see that spending a little money to install this edifice was a wise decision. I can’t wait to see it with snow on the ground!!!

Bye Bye Vail’s Pharmacy

Kappy Mann — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:09:30 +0000

I drove by the Tahoe Forest Hospital inTruckee today and had to do a double take. The building that has served as the hospital’s business office for the past 5-6 years was suddenly just a pile of rubble. It is being taken down in order to make way for the new Cancer Center to be erected. This discovery was particularly nostalgic for me since I have lived in Truckee for 30 years, and have seen the building morph through several different phases.

When I first got here, this was the location of the only pharmacy in town (well it wasn’t really a town then but nevertheless): Vail’s Pharmacy. The town did have a Safeway but that was in the day when Safeway was just a grocery story. Well with the introduction of Longs over in the old Lucky center on Deerfield Drive, this little family owned pharmacy could not survive. They saw the writing on the wall and when offered the opportunity, they sold their property to the Hospital.

People bemoan the changing landscape in small town America. Well here in Truckee, as much as we try to prevent it, progress continues to march — forward (or backward?). So long Vail’s. . . .

Jogging in Truckee

Kappy Mann — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:00:38 +0000

One of my all time favorite places to jog is on the Truckee River Legacy Trail. The paved trail extends from the Truckee River Regional Park all the way downriver to the Riverview Park. The total distance of the current trail is about 4 miles but it will eventually extend all the way to the Glenshire/Devonshire subdivision making it completely unnecessary to drive your car into town if you are inclined to ride your bike instead. This past week I hit the trail at 7 am 3 mornings out of the 7. At that time of the day, the temperatures are in the high 40′s but it doesn’t take long to warm up in the wonderful sunshine. The other advantage of jogging at this early hour is the lack of fellow trail people. I love the solitude — so difficult to find these days, even in our little town. It’s just me and my tunes or my podcast. I hope you enjoy these pictures that I took to showcase the trail. Check it out . . .

10358 Donner Trail

Kappy Mann — Tue, 18 May 2010 22:28:36 +0000

A wonderful 4.5 acres centrally located within the Truckee Town limits. In a nice quiet neighborhood and off of a cul-de-sac means very little traffic yet easy access to the conveniences of town. Beautiful forested setting for seclusion with potential peek mountain views. Gentle up sloping terrain with level areas to give choice building opportunity. This perfect home site is very reasonably offered at $250,000

Truckee Gets Recreation Facility

Kappy Mann — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 18:43:49 +0000

What a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah winter gift Truckee is getting! Today is the long awaited ribbon cutting on the new $18 million Truckee Donner Parks and Recreation Department’s facility, located at the corner of Highway 267 and 89 north, accessed by one of Truckee’s newest round-a-bouts this property has climbing walls, basketball courts and exercise equipment. There are also meeting rooms and classrooms, dance studios, even an outside picnic area — all of this for local residents and visitors to enjoy. The icing on the cake is an elevated running track. Now we residents have options during the winter — not just treadmills. The cost for residents to use the equipment and facility will be $20 per month or there is a drop in fee of $3 per use (if you are 62 or over, it is only $15 per month). Sounds pretty reasonable, huh? Even more reasonable is the fact that you can use it for free until from now until December 23, 2009

This facility boasts 40,000 square feet. It will have the capacity to hold 1,000 people if you wanted to throw a big party this will be the place to go!! The really surprising thing is that according to a Sierra Sun article, the project came in about $6 million under budget. The plan is to have an aquatic center within the next 5 years.

The center has been a long time dream of long time General Manager Steve Randall who has been our go to man since 1985. I think it should be named the Steve Randall Center for Recreation.

I think you can see by the photos that it was COLD at the ribbon cutting — but definitely worth it. Go see it, you won’t be disappointed.