Veterans of 1st Battalion, 5th Marines will recognize the 10th anniversary Reunion for the Battle of Ramadi on July 25.

This event will bring together combat veterans for the first time in 10 years that is not a funeral. It will be at Lake Tahoe Resort Hotel in South Lake Tahoe.

Although 32 veterans are planning attendance, organizers say others are deterred because of the costs of the trip. That is why a GoFundMe account has been set up. For more info, go online.

The 3rd annual Made In Tahoe Festival returns to Squaw Valley Memorial Day weekend, bringing two days of festivities that showcase local businesses, artisans, product designers, nonprofit organizations and performers all hailing from the Lake Tahoe Basin and Truckee region.

Festivalgoers can explore from more than 50 vendor booths throughout the village.

The event will be held from 11am-7pm May 23 and 11am-5pm May 24.

Made in Tahoe features live music from local bands and singer/songwriters throughout the day. The festival will have three performance stages.

Those interested in being a part of Made In Tahoe may submit an application through April 15. For more info, go online.

• Bread & Broth, an all-volunteer program feeding the hungry in the South Lake Tahoe area, is looking for a communications chairperson, treasurer and volunteer coordinator. More info is available online or email a letter of interest, including a brief description of your qualifications and the best way to contact you to Georgette at breadandbroth1@gmail.com.

• The Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species Coordination Committee is hosting a public forum on aquatic invasive species May 21 from 5:30-7:30pm at Lake Tahoe Golf Course in Meyers.

• Opening Aug. 22 at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno is Tahoe, A Visual History. There will be more 200 works of art, including a painting by Lake Tahoe Community College Professor Phyllis Shafer titled Above Cave Rock.

• Red Hawk Casino has installed free charging stations for electric vehicles.

• Tahoe Sierra Century and ride Miles for Music is Sept. 12. Cyclists may choose a 30-, 60-, or 100-mile route on the North Shore and through Truckee. Register online. All proceeds benefit music education in North Tahoe.

South Lake Tahoe Friends of the Library is putting on two diverse programs in May.

The first is May 5 at 6pm. Will Richardson with Tahoe Institute of Natural Sciences will present Tahoe’s Aquatic Mammals. It will be an evening of learning about beavers, river otters and more.

On May 12 at 6pm, South Lake Tahoe native and author Aaron Hussmann will discuss his book “500 Miles of South Lake Tahoe Hikes”. The book will be for sale and he will be signing them after the talk.

Both programs are free and at the library, 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd., South Lake Tahoe.

• Here is the El Dorado-Tahoe roadwork schedule from Caltrans for this week.

• There are now no Carrows restaurants in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The last South Lake Tahoe eatery closed last week. Reports are that it is becoming a chicken wings type food place.

• Tahoe Truckee Earth Day is April 18 from 11am-5pm at Squaw Valley.

• Wednesday’s from May 6-June 10, 7:30-9am Tahoe Institute for Natural Science will be leading bird walks at the Village Green, 960 Lakeshore Blvd., Incline Village.

• Incline Village’s Mountain Golf Course opens May 1 and the Championship Course opens May 8.

A drought in 1929 made shoreline construction in South Lake Tahoe easier. Photo/Lake Tahoe Historical Society

In 1929, during a record drought at Lake Tahoe, Frank Globin was able to build this dance pavilion and boat landing on the Lake Shore Park Pier which extended from the end of Sacramento Avenue in Al Tahoe.

The dance hall was popular for several decades. Photo/Lake Tahoe Historical Society

These facilities existed until the 1960s.

Looking toward the pavilion from El Dorado Beach. Photo/Bill Kingman

The pavilion and the very long pier extension are seen in the distance just beneath the tree in this 1963 view from El Dorado Beach.

While it would be easy to build again because of the drought, the pavilion would never be permitted in 2015. Photo/Bill Kingman

Here is the drought view today.

— Bill Kingman

Survivors and rescue workers from the 1978 tram car accident at Squaw Valley are going to relive that experience on April 12.

They are going to share their experiences of the accident that generated one of the most heroic rescues in ski industry history.

The 5-7pm talk will be at the PlumpJack Conference Center at Squaw.

The cost is $10/person at the door, free to Squaw Valley Property Owners Association members.

The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency in coordination with the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and Nevada Tahoe Conservation District are offering workshops for Lake Tahoe contractors, best management practices installers, and do-it-yourselfers to learn how to design and install BMPs for homes and small businesses.

Workshop topics will include how to use TRPA’s online resources, TRPA’s electronic approval process for small BMP retrofit designs, and commercial and multi-family residential BMP permits and maintenance. Due to limited grant funding, this is the last year the BMP workshops will be offered, and they are the last chance for businesses to qualify for the BMP Installation Service Providers List by having at least one supervisor per business attend.

A basic contractors BMP workshop is scheduled for April 24 from 8am-4:50pm at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences on the campus of Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village. Registration is $25 before April 8 and $45 after. The walk-in price is $55.

A half-day refresher BMP workshop is scheduled for April 29 from 8am-noon  at the TRPA offices in Stateline. To attend, you must have successfully completed the basic workshop or a refresher workshop within the past two years. Registration is $18 before April 8 and $35 after. The walk-in price is $45.

George Runner, state Board of Equalization vice chair and former state senator, along with state Board of Equalization staff will put on a seminar in May for small businesses in South Lake Tahoe.

The May 21 event is from 9am-2: 30pm at Lake Tahoe Airport. Check in is at 8:30am. The talk is free.

The workshop entitled Free South Lake Tahoe Small Business Tax Seminar is designed to help small business owners be successful. Topics include: common sales and use tax problems, employee or independent contractor, forms of ownership, and record keeping.

South Tahoe Chamber of Commerce invited Runner to town.

Register online or call 888.847.9652

Top experts will converge at Lake Tahoe in September for the annual meeting of the Western Regional Panel on Aquatic Nuisance Species.

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is hosting the Sept. 2-4 annual meeting. There will be lectures and discussions to foster coordination of aquatic invasive species management among Western states. This event is open to the public.

Panel members hail from state, federal, tribal agencies as well as many academic and nonprofit entities.

For additional information, contact Devin Middlebrook at 775.589.5230 or dmiddlebrook@trpa.org.