May 2 from 6-7pm is a talk about options for people who suffer from reflux.

Scott Welker, a doctor with Barton Health, will give the lecture at Kahle Community Center, 236 Kingsbury Grade, Stateline.

April 4 from 6-7pm is the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Sports Medicine lecture by Jonathan Finnoff at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe.

Ronald Gemberling will be talking about all things skin cancer related on April 2 from 6-7pm.

The doctor will focus on diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

The talk is at Kahle Community Center, 236 Kingsbury Grade, Stateline.

Robert Rupp and Rene Hoogendijk will give two lectures in March about hips.

The Barton Health officials will talk about alternative treatments for people with hip pain.

The first meeting is March 7 from 6-7pm at Lake Tahoe Community College in South Lake Tahoe.

The second is March 21 from 6-7pm at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village.

South Tahoe High Performing Arts Department presents “The Royal Family” by George S. Kaufman & Edna Ferber on March 23, 24, 30, 31 at 7pm and March 25 and April 1 at 2pm.

Ticket information will be posted online one week prior to opening night.

The North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce and the Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce in partnership with the Sierra Human Resources Association are offering “The Manager as Coach” Feb. 14 from 8:30am to noon at Cedar House Sport Hotel, 10918 Brockway Road, Truckee.

This workshop is designed to bolster leadership effectiveness, including how to juggle your priorities, deliver feedback, and handle concerns and difficult situations, as well as correct behavior and conduct an effective performance review.

Registration is $59/person for chamber and SHRA members and $69/person for non-members. To register and for more information about the workshop, call Laura Moriarty of SHRA at (530) 573. 0224 or North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce Manager Kym Fabel at (530) 581.8764.

Bona Fide Books is hosting Lake Tahoe’s first local fantasy writers social Feb. 16 at 6:30pm at Bona Fide HQ, 1069 Magua St., No. 4 in Meyers.

Writers of all ages and levels of experience are welcome. Discuss your latest work or ideas for new projects with others who work in this genre.

For more information, call (530) 573.1513 or go online.

Dressed to the nines, with leash in hand. That is what Feb. 18 is all about at the Ritz Carlton in Lake Tahoe.

A Champagne celebration to people’s best friends wouldn’t be the same without them present, which is why the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe invites pooches and their people to the fourth annual gala.

Support the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe while enjoying a black-tie evening of dinner and dancing. Tickets are $150 for one person and one dog. Call (530) 587.5948 to purchase tickets. The event starts at 5:30pm.

Lake Tahoe Community College is hosting a reading, conversation, and book signing with environmental novelist Li Miao Lovett at 7pm Feb. 9 in the college’s Aspen Room.

Lovett is a San Francisco-based author of “In the Lap of the Gods”, a novel about the displacement of millions along China’s Yangtze River.

The event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.

This event was made possible by Poets and Writers Inc. through a grant it has received from The James Irvine Foundation.

Business Expo Training Workshop is March 10 from 10am-noon at the Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce office at 169 Highway 50 in Stateline.

Membership Director Shannon McIsaac will go over the basics in trade show etiquette. This interactive workshop will go over the best ways to engage visitors at your booth, how to get the most out of your booth and how to capitalize on this year’s Expo theme “Get Connected!”

This workshop is free to businesses that have signed up to exhibit at the 2012 Business Expo by March 1. The workshop is $15 thereafter and $20 for non-members.

Contact Emily Abernathy at Emily@TahoeChamber.org or (775) 588.1728, ext. 303.