Events

David Thomas, a Rotarian and President of the Inglewood, CA Rotary Club is a recently retired police officer from Ingelwood California.  He will be sharing his personal life experiences as a black man and a law enforcement officer and how it relates to the "Black Lives Movement".

Please RSVP if you will be attending Monday's Meeting in person by Friday afternoon.  

Dr. Kristen McNeill is a native Nevadan who moved to the Reno-Sparks area in 1996. She has worked for more than two decades in public education. She taught grades 2 through 6 before becoming a principal at Lois Allen Elementary School and Marvin Moss Elementary School.

Dr. McNeill became the WCSD Director of State and Federal Programs/K-16 Initiatives in 2008, then was named Chief Strategies Officer in 2010. She assumed the duties of Chief of Staff for the Washoe County School District in 2012, and also served as Interim Superintendent in the summer of 2012.

In September of 2015, Dr. McNeill was appointed the Deputy Superintendent position for WCSD. In that role, she oversaw the areas of Office of School Leadership, Office of Academics, and the Strategies Office. In July of 2019, Dr. McNeill was appointed by the Board of Trustees as the Interim Superintendent, essentially serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the Washoe County School District.  She was appointed to the position of Superintendent of Schools for the Washoe County School District in April 2020.

Dr. McNeill will be giving an update on the challenges WCSD has faced in launching the school year under the threats and restrictions of COVID-19 and also some of the successes. 

After a summer of heat, smoke, and no rain - many of us are eagerly looking forward to storms returning this fall and winter. I will update you on the latest winter outlook for the Sierra and Northern Nevada and go a little into the predictability of winter weather hazards in our region. We'll also have time for "Ask a Meteorologist Almost Anything" so bring your weather questions!

Chris Smallcomb is the Public Information Officer at the National Weather Service forecast office in Reno. He works with emergency management, public safety, and media partners in eastern California, the Sierra, and western Nevada to help them make good weather based decisions for the community. He's been in the NWS for 20 years and holds M.S. and B.S. degrees in Atmospheric and Oceanic Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Outside of work, you’ll probably see Chris running along our many amazing mountain and desert trails, or perhaps run commuting into work during a snowstorm.

Welcome to Frey Ranch, where the know-how of 165 years of farming and custom state-of-the-art distilling methods blend into every bottle of our sustainable Nevada born bourbon. In our lush farm oasis nestled in the Lake Tahoe watershed, each of our slow grown grains are an heirloom and a point of pride, specifically grown for our non-chill filtered 90 proof Bourbon. Grown, distilled, matured and bottled on site, this is a new generation of Frey that is more than a ranch, but a true farm distillery in this 36th state of the U.S.A., raising a whiskey of the land.