• There will be an open house April 10 from 11:30am-1pm to say goodbye to Douglas County Manager Steve Mokrohisky and welcome interim manager, Larry Werner. It will be at the Minden Inn, 1594 Esmeralda Ave., Minden.

• Kiwanis is sponsoring a bingo night April 12 from 5-8pm at the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Center, 1180 Rufus Allen Blvd. Each winner will take home an Easter ham or children can select an Easter stuffed animal. Proceeds benefit the South Lake Tahoe Children’s Choral Society. Tahoe Kris Sweet Delights will be selling handmade chocolates jams with 100 percent of profits donated to the Lake Tahoe Aktion Club.

• The Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project has a new website.

• The Karma Ultra Lounge at Stateline is working on its gaming and liquor licenses. It’s going in at the old Bill’s Casino complex.

• University of Nevada Cooperative Extension has launched a Living with Drought website.

Tonight between 8:30 and 9:30, Harrah’s and Harveys Lake Tahoe will participate in Earth Hour to bring awareness to climate change.

This is the sixth consecutive year that the two Stateline casinos will encourage guests and employees to turn off all non-essential interior lighting, while the resorts’ lighted exteriors, electronic marquees and non-essential lighting are shut off for the hour.

Sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund, Earth Hour has grown to involve hundreds of millions of people across 7,000 cities and 154 countries in a collective statement of concern about climate change.

Zahi Hawass, a world-renowned archaeologist and the former minister of Antiquities in Egypt and the director of ongoing excavations at Giza, Saqqara, and the Valley of the Kings, will give a talk March 31 at Sierra Nevada College.

He is a distinguished scholar of residence at the Incline Village institution.

His presentation will be from 6-7:30pm on campus in room 139/141. Hawass will talk about Egypt past and present.

• North Tahoe Public Utility District is reinstating the Recreation and Parks Commission. For more info or to apply for a seat, contact Tracey Towner at 530.546.4212 or ttowner@ntpud.org.

• Dave Fromer Soccer Camp for boys and girls ages 5-12 will be Aug. 18-22 in Tahoe City. Go online for more info.

• Truckee High School’s Drama Club earned a gold medal with the one act play “The Real Problem” at the 58th Annual Lenaea Theater Festival.

• Zephyr Cove’s Guild Mortgage Co. if opening a new satellite branch in Carson City.

• Tahoe Donner’s inaugural Taste of Truckee gourmet food and wine event on March 23 raised $1,000 to be split between Tahoe Food Hub and Far West Nordic Ski Education Association.

Rep. Tom McClintock’s office is providing a forum for veterans’ service providers, American Legion and VFW representatives, and community program sponsors that assist active-duty military, wounded warriors, and military families.

To participate, call the congressman’s Granite Bay office at 916.786.5560.

The forum is designed to provide veterans with the information they need to access the benefits they have earned. Representatives from Nevada County and Placer County veterans service offices will join the congressman’s staff to provide information on filing claims with the Veterans Benefits Administration.

The event is April 17 from 11am-1pm at Truckee Airport, Experimental Aircraft Association Building.

• El Dorado County Fair entry forms are due May 21.

• Washoe County sheriff’s Capt. Heidi Howe was elected to serve on the American Jail Association’s board of directors.

• Sierra Sotheby’s International Realty is opening a Truckee office in the summer.

• The Academic Team at Truckee High School earned the state championship trophy in Winnemucca.

• Fifteen members of Lake Tahoe Boys and Girls Club will be planting sugar pines at Lake Tahoe Airport on April 10 from 1-4pm. Others are welcome to participate. Bring water and sunscreen. Gloves and shovels will be provided for all volunteers. Contact Maria for more info – 650.814.9565.

Lake Tahoe Historical Society’s second Do You Remember? program is April 15 at 7pm at the Lodge of Camp Richardson.

It will be a panel of longtime residents telling stories and answering questions about the past. Dave Borges will moderate.

Panelists include Carolyn Meiers, Jerry Johnson, Jack Martin, Del Laine, Steve James and Melba Rakow.

It is free to historical society members, otherwise it’s $3.

The Lake Tahoe Aquatic Invasive Species coordination committee is putting on a talk to highlight aquatic invasive species control and prevention efforts in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

The event is May 22 from 5:30-7:30pm.

It is at Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village.

• Moosejaw, the outdoor retailer, teamed up with Patagonia to offer $10,000 to the three environmental charities that raised the most money in the Moosejaw X Patagonia Charity Challenge Thing. In just two weeks the crowd-sourced funding raised over $110,000 for the 16 charitable groups. League to Save Lake Tahoe placed first by raising over $27,000, winning the $5,000 prize.

• El Dorado County has prepared a draft environmental impact report for the Targeted General Plan Amendment and Zoning Ordinance Update. It is available for public review until July 23 via the website.

• Assistance League of Sierra Foothills received the Outstanding Community Organization Award from the El Dorado County School Boards Association for Operation School Bell, which provides school clothing for disadvantaged and homeless children in elementary and middle school.

• Nevada Department of Public Safety /Nevada Highway Patrol along with the Nevada Department of Transportation and Regional Transportation Commission (RTC) are beginning the Share the Road campaign in Northern Nevada. Nevada is currently ranked 20 out of the 50 states as related to the five categories of bicycle safety – legislation and enforcement, policies and programs, infrastructure and funding, education and encouragement, and evaluation and planning.

• Carson Valley Job Opportunity Fair is April 4 from 10:30am-1:30 pm at the CVIC Hall, 1602 Esmeralda, Minden.

Incorporate Olympic Valley has launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign: Squaw Valley, Help Determine Its Future. The campaign will raise funds to incorporate Olympic Valley.

In 2013, local residents came together to form Incorporate Olympic Valley in order to promote local control of their future. Currently all decisions about municipal service delivery and tax dollars are decided by the Board of Supervisors based in Auburn.

To incorporate, a town must show it is financially viable, receive an approved application by the Placer Local Agency Formation Committee and be placed on a ballot for registered Olympic Valley voters. The residents of Olympic Valley have already raised more than half of the money needed, but to bridge the gap, IOV has launched an Indiegogo campaign to cast a broader fundraising net. All funds raised will be used for expenses such as legal, professional, and other fees associated with completing the state-required process for forming a town.

To learn more about the campaign or to donate, go online.