Expect to see a ton of bicyclists on the roads Sept. 7 for the annual Tour de Tahoe.

Cyclists will leave MontBleu in Stateline beginning at 6:30am Sunday, travel through South Lake Tahoe, head north up Highway 89 through Emerald Bay, the West Shore and into Tahoe City, then take Highway 28 back to Highway 50 and finish back at MontBleu.

The highways won’t be closed during the event. Caltrans urges motorists to leave at least 3 feet of space between their vehicles and riders when passing.

For more information on the Tour de Tahoe, go online.

• Starting Sept. 7 the South Lake Tahoe Recreation and Swim Complex will be open 8am-noon on Sundays. Monday through Saturday hours remain the same.

• The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is offering a free fishing day Sept. 6 — as in no license required. All fishing regulations, such as bag and size limits, gear restrictions, report card requirements and fishing hours and stream closures remain in effect.

• Truckee Police Department is recognizing various employees on Sept. 9 at 5pm at the town hall.

• Team Tahoe is asking people to take this survey about bicycle wayfinding signs that have recently been installed in South Lake Tahoe.

• Izzy’s in South Lake Tahoe is closed for one month during the construction next door of Auto Zone. During that time the parking lot will be paved and striping done for spaces.

Sections of Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe will be repaired with overnight work beginning Sept. 9.

The work will take place on sections between the Trout Creek Bridge and the Y, and also in spots from Wildwood Avenue to Stateline.

These are in areas of the highway that haven’t yet been repaved during Caltrans water-quality improvement projects.

The work is scheduled from Tuesday to Friday, from 6pm-6am, and will require alternating eastbound and westbound lane closures. Weather delays or other unforeseen factors could extend the work into the following week.

Unity at the Lake will celebrate the 21st annual World Day of Prayer on Sept. 11.

The theme this year is We Are the Light of the World: Let Your Light Shine.

The Rev. Hillary Bittman said in a press release, “World Day of Prayer gives us an opportunity to come together in celebration of our oneness with God, each other, and our world. Through prayer we foster peace and wholeness in our community and in our individual lives.”

The seven-hour prayer vigil will be from 9am-4pm at 1195 Rufus Allen Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. Come any time and stay as long or as short as you like.

For more info, call 530.544.2266.

There will be a free slideshow at Lake Tahoe Community College on Sept. 12 from 7-8pm by wildflower enthusiast Lisa Berry.

Berry is an adjunct faculty member in the English Department and a fan of photography and flowers.

The slideshow will feature photos of the best specimens of the season. The talk will be in the board room at the college.

This free event is sponsored by the LTCC Library and the California Native Plant Society. For more information, contact Lisa Berry at Berry@ltcc.edu.

Paving will begin Sept. 5 on an upper segment of the Mt. Rose Highway as part of a Nevada Department of Transportation project to repave and enhance the highway.

Roadway grinding and paving work from Timberline Drive in the Montreux area to the Mt. Rose summit is scheduled Sunday evenings through Friday afternoons. It is scheduled to wrap up in early October, weather permitting. Expect single lane closures with pilot cars and delays of up to 30 minutes.

Paving was completed on the lower section of the highway in July.

• Lake Tahoe Historical Society is having a wine tasting fundraiser at Cork & More in South Lake Tahoe on Sept. 18 from 7-9pm. Call 530.544.5253 for a reservation. Cost is $15.

• Ken Spielvogel with Barton Women’s Health on Oct. 1 will give a lecture titled Your Prenatal Roadmap – Facts Revealed, Myths Dispelled. The free talk is from 6-7pm at Lake Tahoe Community College.

• Amarik Singh, 42, of Placerville has been reappointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the Board of Parole Hearings, where she has served since 2012.

• The Pacific Fine Arts & Crafts Festival is Sept. 6-7 from 10am-5pm in downtown Truckee at the corner of Bridge Street and Donner Pass Road.

• Comments from the Aug. 12 Regan Beach meeting in South Lake Tahoe are available online.

Barton Hospital has adopted a state-of-the-art procedure to make medication use safer.

Before a patient receives a medication, a unique bar code on the patient’s wrist band is scanned and the patient’s information loads on the computer. Then the medication is scanned and verified with the patient’s information. If the bar code on the prescription and the patient information do not match, an alert pops up and stops the nurse from administering the medication.

Medicare encourages bar code scanning with a goal that hospitals adopt this new procedure for 10 percent of all medications in the first three months of use.

Barton Hospital has worked diligently to install this program and within the first month, more than 80 percent of medications are now scanned by a bar code.

Author and Sierra Nevada native Gary D. Noy will be talking about his new book “Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues” on Sept. 23.

This collection highlights unusual or lesser-known stories of the Sierra Nevada experience. The focus of this presentation will be the Yosemite Valley Grant Act of 1864, which brought the valley under government control. The legislation was introduced by an El Dorado County resident John Conness.

Noy will also look at six painters and photographers who popularized Yosemite during the 19th century and influenced the establishment of the state parks and national park system.

The book will be available for sale and signing after the free 6pm talk South Lake Tahoe Library, 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd.

Fire Fest is Sept. 27 from 10am-3pm at Lake Tahoe Airport.

Fire Fest is a free annual event that highlights fire and life safety for children and families. Helicopters will star at Fire Fest as they land at the South Lake Tahoe airport.

People can get inside a fire truck, escape from the smoke house, wear firefighting equipment, squirt fire hoses, play in a bounce house, meet Smokey Bear and Sparky, watch fire departments compete, and learn about fire resistant construction.

For more information, contact Jeanne Lear 530.542.8366 or Leona Allen at 530.577.3737.