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Representing the people of the historic Donner Summit community for the preservation of the area’s rugged mountain character and natural resources by providing active coordination for community development issues.
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May 2006

Donner Trail School Meeting

On Tuesday, May 23, at 5:30pm in the Donner Trail School gym, the school district will be holding an “Education Matters” meeting. The Education Matters program is a parent community focus group that is held at each school. Attendees break out into small groups to address the current educational curriculum. Donner Trail is not currently [...]

LAFCo Approves Fire Department Annexation

Nevada County LAFCo has voted to accept the proposed Donner Summit Fire Department annexation with the Truckee Fire Protection district. The vote was unanimous. A final hearing on the matter will take place on June 19th. Unless there is significant protest, the annexation will be effective July 1, 2006. The DSAA spoke in favor of [...]

Summit Cleanup Day

The 14th annual Summit Cleanup Day will be held on Saturday, June 17th. Volunteers meet at the General Store in Soda Springs at 10am. Coordinators will hand out garbage bags and assign road segments to each group. Bags of garbage are left along the sides of the road and collected at the end of the [...]

DSAA Working Meeting Minutes

The latest working meeting minutes are now available for your enjoyment. We had a great meeting on May 2 with a number of notable guests including members of the DSPUD (Tom Skjelstad , Julie Davies) and the SLCWD (Blake Tresan), Peter Mayfield who is consulting for Foster Enterprises, as well as organizers for the Summit [...]

Royal Gorge Removes Some Trail Berms

The new owners of Royal Gorge have decided to remove the berms from the trails surrounding Serene Lakes. In addition, a number of the “Private Property” signs around the Ice Lakes Lodge have recently been removed. Here’s the message we received from Joann Hamick a few days ago: Royal Gorge Removes Some Trail Berms Royal [...]