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JACK DURST: Welcome to Fabulous Lake Tahoe, your local's guide to the very best of Lake
Tahoe. I'm Jack Durst, and this is the Tahoe Business Expo 2012. Hashtag #ExpoConnect on
Twitter. I have been here at the Tahoe business expo most of the afternoon, and I have met
so many great people! I met Jane Rothman of Lake Tahoe's Alive...
JANE ROTHMAN: Hi, It's Jane from Lake Tahoe's Alive.com and we're here tonight from Harrah's
convention center for the 2012 business expo. A lot of the businesses here in this area
are exhibiting, and I'm here to tell you a little bit about my business. We are a local
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Let me show you how we can make your business better. Thank you.
JACK DURST: I also met a representative of the Tahoe Chamber of Commerce.
SHANNON McISSAC: Hi, I'm Shannon McIssac and I'm with tahoechamber.org We are here hosting
the business expo. We have this as an annual event. It's one of our largest events of the
year. Right now we have 96 member businesses that have signed up to exhibit and to introduce
themselves to 1200 community members. I'm very excited to be here today. You know, Tahoe
Chamber is a great way to invest in your community. We do a lot of environmental and governmental
advocacy, so if you're looking for a way to really help the economy in South Lake Tahoe
grow, become involved in Tahoe Chamber and you'll really get your money's worth out of
ALISON GREEN: Hi, my name is Alison Green, and I'm the marketing coordinator for the
Lake Tahoe Visitor's Authority. We've recently rebranded the south shore as "Tahoe South"
and we've launched an award winning website: tahoesouth.com What we're looking for is locals
who really enjoy living on the south shore of Lake Tahoe, and who are passionate about
outdoor recreation experiences. We would love for you to sign up as a blogger. That includes
words, videos, photographs... anything that you're passionate about and would like to
share with our destination traveler. It's an online resource guide for people who want
to experience Tahoe South the same way the locals do. Thank you so much.
ANNOUNCER: Barton Memorial, your local hospital, they have the da Vinci robot here. Well, not
the exact da Vinci robot but something just like it. Stop by the Barton health booth right
there in the front of the room and see what this thing is all about. It's gonna change
the field of medicine.
[Robot Music playing...]
DOCTOR: Well, here we are at Harton Hospital's new da Vinci robotic surgical system. This
system is going to enable us to do more and more proceedures in a minimally invasive way.
Using the NASA technology we are able to, with small incisions, do almost all of the
surgical proceedures we used to do in an open fashion. Thanks to the board of Barton Hospital
who have been generous enough to provide the funding for this, Barton is now a state-of-the
art surgical hospital.
JACK DURST: I met a representative from the City of South Lake Tahoe.
TRACY FRANKLIN: Hi, Tracy Franklin with the city of South Lake Tahoe. Thanks for sharing
with us today, I just wanted to show you a couple of the programs that I've been working
on. We have a lead safe Tahoe program, which is a federally funded free grant program for
houses built before 1978. Call our offices. Again, it's a free program to do the testing
and the rehabilitation. We also have a voulenteer program. We're always looking for folks to
donate their time, whether it's in one of our city offices or one of our special events.
Speaking of special events, we have the 23rd Annual Lake In The Sky air show coming up
on August 25th, 2012. So, join us for that, and please visit our website for daily updates
at cityofslt.us
JACK DURST: I met somebody from Beach Hut Deli, which was cool because I've been following
@BeachHutSLT on twitter for about as long as they've been on twitter, and it was really
nice to finally meet them in person.
KEVIN TREADER: My Name's Keven Treader and I'm the managing partner at Beach Hut Deli.
We're down at the "Y" in the Rayley's shopping center. We have a variety of over 45 different
sandwiches. Very unique. We use a lot of cream cheese, avocado, and bacon, and are have been
named Best of Tahoe the last two years in a row.
GUIDE SEAN: Hi, my name's Guide Sean, and I'm from Lake Tahoe Adventures and Nevada
Adventure company. Established in 1972, we specialize in ATVs, buggys, and snowmobile
backcountry scenic adventures. Come on out and give us a try.
JACK DURST: I got to talk to Tony Lyle, the guy who runs the Tahoe Queen and M.S. Dixie
II...
TONY LYLE: Hi, My name's Tony. I'm from the Tahoe Queen and the M. S. Dixie II. We're
here at the business expo at Harrah's. It's great to be here at this community event and
network with our neighbors and coworkers.
JACK DURST: It is an amazing crowd out here today! There are so many people out. I've
been getting to know our great local businesses here at Lake Tahoe, and I'm going to introduce
you to some of the coolest ones right here.
JOHANNES NEMSTER: My name is Johannes Nemster and I'm with Discover Lake Tahoe tours bus
charters, and we offer scheduled tours to various destinations around Lake Tahoe and
beyond. We also do shuttle bus service and group transfers. Private bus service, we do
that.
JOE DALTON: I'm with Zephyr Point Presbyterian conference center. We're the only non-profit
conference center like this on the lake. We have 102 hotel rooms, we have 42 private divisible
cabins, we have a couple of dorms and lots of conference meeting space. We're starting
to get into youth programing and childeren's programs, adult programs... All sorts of things.
Anything you'd like to come out and do for your holiday at Zephyr Point at Lake Tahoe,
this is the place to be.
ANNOUNCER: We want to thank Harrah's and Harvey's, for being our host for the evening.
KIMBERLY KUNTZ: I'm Kimberly Kuntz with the Tahoe Daily Tribune. I'mn excited to be here,
as you cna hear there's a lot of high energy going on. We're here with the Tribune and
we have today's paper as well as some visitor publications that we work on and we're also
showcasing some of the social media services that we do like @TahoeDailyTrib on twitter.
So, we're happy to be here and excited for all the energy.
RICH HEFFELFINGER: Hi there. This is Rich from Sunny Day Guide. We're the longest running
guidebook to Lake Tahoe. We've been around for 40+ years now. We do everything from maps
to guides to cupons to all your favorite activities in and around the Lake Tahoe area. Restaurants,
cruises, you name it, hotels, motels, McDonald's... you can find us everywhere. Online at www.sunnydayguide.com.
JACK DURST: I met a representative of the Tahoe-Douglas Fire protection district.
FIREMAN: Hi, I'm Eric Gavon with Tahoe-Douglas fire protection district, and I'm the fire
marshall here for the district, and we're at the expo, business expo, to talk a little
bit about what we do here at Tahoe-Douglas fire. Obviously, we're the day-to-day fire
protection here in the community, but we also provide water rescue, we provide fire extinguisher
training. We have an explosive disposal team - a bomb team. So, we've got a lot of things
to offer, including CPR. Come check us out on our website and come step into the fire
station and say "Hi."
TIM TREAT: Hi, I'm Tim Treat, president of Winters Electric and South Shore Gutters.
We have two contracting businesses here in South Lake Tahoe, and we do electrical contracting.
The typical residential and commercial work: new houses and repair work, but we also do
quite a bit of LED lighting, home automation systems that you see here in our booth, in
our mini-house. So, we automate houses so that you can control your heat, your light,
and all your devices in your house from the internet or from an iPhone. We also do a lot
of heat tape with our gutter company so we automate your heat tape and your driveway
heat so that if you don't live here and you have a second home in Tahoe you can control
all the aspects of your house from Florida or Las Vegas or wherever you live. It's a
real neat system, so we're a little different from your typical contractor here in Tahoe.
We do a lot of green, innovative ideas.
ANNOUNCER: Hashtag #ExpoConnect for your chance to win some great prizes! Stop by the Tahoe
Chamber booth and they'll teach you how to tweet, that's what they do.
ALEXIS ROBIN: Alright, quickly: I'm Alexis Robin with Nourish life and business coaching,
and I do communication, leadership and sales training. My tagline is: "I listen louder."
because I think a lot of businesses could benefit from a good listener.
SHARON KERRIGAN: Hi, My name is Sharon Kerrigan and I'm with the South Tahoe Association of
Realtors, and we're thrilled to be here for the second year with the Lake Tahoe south
shore chamber of commerce business expo. We're pleased to be able to promote what realtors
are doing in the community and for homeowners.
WHITTELL: Hi I'm Kate (inaudible) and I'm here representing the Whitell High School
booster club. We do all sorts of things in this community. Our kids do blood drives,
our kids do a booster golf tournement that's coming up at Edgewood in May. We've got a
great auction, a spring auction in April that's coming up that's a lot of fun. It's a pirate
JACK DURST: I saw so many great people here! And, the most exciting thing of all is that
almost all of the people recognized me from my YouTube channel. I really didn't think
that I was going to get recognized for my YouTube channel here, but I am really gratified
that a lot of these videos are getting seen by you guys out there. So check out my video
of the Tahoe Summit which has all of the most important area politicians including: Harry
Reid, Dianne Feinstein is in the video, Senator Dean Heller is in the video, Governor Jerry
Brown and Governow Brian Sandoval are all in the video. It's an hour long but it's worth
watching all the way through. Check it out. So, Thank you. Stay tuned to Fabulous Lake
Tahoe. Subscribe if you havn't already. Thumbs up if you enjoyed this video. Thank you, and
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