Nevada Division of State Parks has approximately $1.2 million in grant funds from the Recreational Trails Program of the Federal Highway Administration to hand out.

Applications are due March 7 by 5pm. Federal, state, city and county governments, special governmental districts, trail organizations and private individuals are potentially eligible for the grants.

The 2014 Grants Manual and application packages are available online.

For further information or questions, contact Jenny Scanland at (775) 684.2787 or jscanland@parks.state.nv.gov.

David Foster, international artist and sculptor will share via slide show his life in the little Tuscan town of Pietrasanta, Italy.

This is where he selects his marble directly from the quarry for his carvings.

Foster taught at Lake Tahoe Community College for 32 years.

The Jan. 12 5pm event is free at Hope Lutheran Church, 930 Julie Lane, South Lake Tahoe.

• Après Wine Co. in South Lake Tahoe celebrated its fifth anniversary on New Year’s Eve.

• The Bay Area is one of the top 10 metro areas in the U.S. for Burton. That’s why the sporting good company just opened flagship stores in Berkeley and San Francisco. It proves why Lake Tahoe depends on that drive-up market.

• Wells Fargo inside Raley’s at Y in South Lake Tahoe is planning to move to the old Sports Ltd. spot in the same center.

• Royal Gorge will temporarily close its cross country ski trails beginning on Jan. 8 due to a lack of snow.

• Lake Tahoe’s California Assemblyman Frank Bigelow, R-O’Neals, was named vice chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee.

Lake of the Sky Outfitters is hosting a ladies night on Jan. 17 from 6-9pm.

For the first hour it’s about shopping. All apparel and footwear in stock is 40 percent off. Then at 7pm the movie “Climb Against the Odds, Mt. McKinley”, the story of the 1998 all women’s expedition for Breast Cancer, will be shown.

The movie is free.

Lake of the Sky Outfitters is at 1023 Emerald Bay Road, South Lake Tahoe.

The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will putting on a webinar to explain the final Land Management Plan.

The webinar will be Jan. 14 from 2-3pm.

The webinar will explain the plan, highlight changes from the draft, and outline the remainder of the plan revision process and include a brief presentation, followed by a question and answer period. The webinar will be archived on the LTBMU website for later viewing.

Participants must have Microsoft Office Live Meeting installed on their computer to access the webinar.

To access the webinar via Microsoft Office Live Meeting, go online. Use the 888.844.9904 to connect to the audio portion of the webinar; participant code is 4849484.

Submissions are being sought for the inaugural White House Student Film Festival.

It’s a video contest created for K-12 students. Finalists will have their short films shown at the White House. Finalist videos may also be featured on the White House website, YouTube, and social media pages.

Films should address at least one of the following themes:

How you currently use technology in your classroom or school, or the role technology will play in education in the future.

More information is available online.

• Truckee is recycling Christmas trees at the Tahoe Donner Clubhouse through Jan. 27 and curbside Jan. 13-17. Trees must not be decorated. And those placed at the curb must be cut into 3-foot segments.

• Here are the El Dorado-Tahoe and Sierra roadwork schedules from Caltrans for next week.

• As a fundraiser, Thunderbird Lake Tahoe is offering monthly culinary classes with chef Anne Wiles. For more info, call (775) 832.8752.

• Barton Health’s Occupational Health Services has moved to the Stateline Medical Center at 155 Highway 50, Ste. 203, Stateline.

Ski Run Marina was once known as the Harbor at Bijou Park. Photo/Frasher Foto Collection, Pomona Public Library

The 1947 postcard is labeled “The Harbor at Bijou Park”, which was established in 1939.

This is the marina today. Photo/Bill Kingman

For comparison, to the left is the 2014 view of the marina.

For fun, below are two unidentified young ladies circa 1950s. At left, you can see the footbridge across the waterway which existed until about 1997.

The marina was well used in the 1950s. Photo/Mansoor Alyeshmerni, owner of Ski Run Marina

— Bill Kingman

• Zephyr Cove Tennis Club Friends is hosting a Five at Five Social on Jan. 18. For $5 starting at 5pm people may eat all the chili they can at Coyote Grill in Zephyr Cove.

• The first public electric vehicle charging station in the Carson Valley has been installed on Eddy Street next to the Historian Inn in Gardnerville.

• For the third year in a row, Sugar Bowl Resort has received the Best of Weddings award by the Knot, the nation’s most visited wedding planning website.

• January is National Learn to Ride and Snowboard Month. Many Lake Tahoe resorts are offering special deals.

• Tahoe Youth & Family Services is not accepting clothing donations at this time because of limited need and storage space.

Applications for the 2014-15 California Senate Fellows Program and Assembly Fellowship Program are available for interested college graduates.

The programs provide college graduates an opportunity to become full-time Senate or Assembly staff members at the Capitol for 11 months beginning next fall.

Fellows are assigned to the personal or committee staff of a Senator or Assembly member, and also participate in academic seminars with legislators, senior staff, journalists, lobbyists, and state government officials.

Fellows are paid a monthly stipend plus health, vision, and dental benefits. They enroll as graduate students at Sacramento State University. The enrollment fees are paid by the programs.

Anyone who will be at least 20 years of age and a graduate of a four-year college or university by Sept. 1, 2014, is eligible to apply. There is no preferred major. Individuals with advanced degrees and those in mid-career are also encouraged to apply.

For detailed information about the fellowships and applications, go online. The application deadline is Feb. 10.