Snippets about Lake Tahoe

• September is National Library Card Sign-up Month. Show your card or sign-up for one at any El Dorado County library for a chance to win a frosty treat.

• The Three Feet for Safety Act takes effect Sept. 16 in California. Drivers must give bicyclists traveling in the same direction 3 feet of clearance when passing.

• Rick Brower will demonstrate flint knapping, the making of obsidian arrow points and the workings of carbide lamps (the invention that replaced miners’ candles on their hats) on Sept. 20 at 11am. The free event will be outside the Lake Tahoe Museum in South Lake Tahoe. For more info, call 530.541.5458.

• There is a standup paddleboard fundraiser today for the South Tahoe Cancer League. It is from 8:30am-3pm at Lakeview Commons in South Lake Tahoe. Cost is $45. Board rentals are an additional $15. The fee includes lunch.

• The O’Neill Tahoe Cup Series’ Tahoe Fall Classic 2014, a 22-mile paddleboard race and the longest inland distance paddle race in the world, is Sept. 14. Paddlers will go from El Dorado Beach in South Lake Tahoe to Kings Beach.