Submitted by paula on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 11:37am
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - After Governor Newsom announced the state would be giving the Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless (TCH) almost $10 million, the local nonprofit quickly bought three motels to meet its goal of ending homelessness in South Lake Tahoe. The September announcement of the Project Homekey grant came with an end-of-the-year deadline so California communities would get the ball rolling on sheltering the chronic homeless.
TCH is using the three motels for different homeless programs they offer.
At the beginning of the pandemic when a Warm Room couldn t safely be offered, Project RoomKey started to put the more compromised population into motel rooms. Many stayed in a converted space at the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Center but seniors and the disabled were moved into the motel rooms. At this time, 24 housing compromised people are in this program which is functioning as the Warm Room this winter in South Lak
Photo provided of the stockings hung on the South Lake Tahoe Memorial Tree
The Elves did it again!! They visited the South Lake Tahoe Children s Memorial Tree in the park at Lake Tahoe Boulevard and Wildwood Avenue for the tenth straight year, leaving behind signs of Christmas with stockings and decorations.
There is a stocking at the tree for the over 240 children who are memorialized there.
The memorial was created 29 years ago when tragedy struct the local community when South Tahoe High students Rory Hrbacek, Sandy Haynes, and Casey Wells died in an vehicle accident on Pioneer Trail.
Out of this stunning loss came a bright light of remembrance and hope. Sue and Paul Hrbacek began a campaign to establish a place that would memorialize these young lives. The very tree that had been hit became the symbol for the three teenagers taken that night.