• Barton Auxiliary is having a blood drive Dec. 1 from noon-6pm at Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel in South Lake Tahoe.

• Jeff Hamilton is Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty’s vice president of North Tahoe operations.

• Here are the El Dorado-Tahoe and Sierra roadwork schedules for the week from Caltrans.

• This year all sixth-grade students in Lake Tahoe Unified School District participated in planting sugar pines in the Angora burn area. They had presentations and activities on water quality and erosion, water conservation, defensible space and wildland fire safety.

• Smokey Bear and the Tallac Hotshots teamed up with South Lake Tahoe Cub Scout Pack 592 to teach them about campfire safety.