El Dorado County Habitat for Humanity and St. Joseph Community Land Trust’s annual Hike for Housing Fundraiser is Sept. 15 from 9am-3pm at Spooner Lake.

The event raises funds for local affordable housing.

Bring the family and enjoy a leisurely 2-mile stroll around Spooner Lake or hike all the way to Marlette Lake. Preregister by Sept. 10 for $15 or $25/per family. Day of the event registration is also available at $20 or $30/per family. Parking is extra.

For more info or to register, call (530) 541.2551 or eamil sltahoehabitat@gmail.com.

To commemorate bears who have been killed legally and illegally by human causes a team of cyclist will deliver a Bear Hug Around the Lake Sept 9.

The community is invited to gather at Beats For Bears, a community drum circle facilitated by Liz Broscoe. The event will be at the Sand Harbor amphitheater from 1-3pm.

Beats For Bears is free and open to the public. Sand Harbor parking fees apply.

For information, go online.

• South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority bike committee will meet Sept. 5, 9-11am at Lake Tahoe Airport.

• The annual Peaks and Paws fundraiser at Squaw raised $10,000 Truckee-Tahoe Humane Society.

• Enrollment at Lake Tahoe Unified School District after the first week is 3,813. The last school year ended with 3,740 students.

• On Sept. 7 at 5:30pm 968 Hotel in South Lake Tahoe will reveal its newest addition — 968 Coffee & Pub.

• This in from Northern Nevada Business Weekly, “Tri-State Water Operations of Zephyr Cove won a contract through the U.S. Marine Corps worth $33,600 to provide waste and potable water treatment oversight and management at the Marine Corp Mountain Warfare Training Center at Bridgeport, Calif. The contract began Sept. 1 and runs through Aug. 31, 2013.”

The Sugar Pine Foundation is putting on a tree climbing demonstration Sept. 15.

The free event is from 10am-noon at Sugar Pine Point State Park on the West Shore.

Experts will be climbing old-growth sugar pines to harvest their cones as part of the annual cone collection.

Bring a helmet and gloves to help out as ground crew.

On Oct. 13 at 7pm, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gretchen Morgenson who writes the Market Watch column for the Sunday Money & Business section of the New York Times will be the guest lecturer at the Squaw Valley Institute.

She is the co-author of “Reckless Endangerment,” published in 2011; author of “Forbes Great Minds Of Business,” published in 1997; and co-author of “The Woman’s Guide to the Stock Market,” published in 1981. She will give her perspective on the U.S. financial crisis and what Washington is doing – or not doing – to help.

For tickets and more information, go online.

Bona Fide Books and the Lake of the Sky Outfitters will host a Tahoe Rim Trail Association Trail Talk on Sept. 6 at 6pm.

The goal of the TRTA staff is to take people on a tour that will engage all their senses, share inspiring stories, and leave people feeling like they were on the Tahoe Rim Trail.

If you’re thinking about submitting to Bona Fide Books’ forthcoming Tahoe Rim Trail collection, this free event will be worth attending.

The event is at 1023 Emerald Bay Road, South Lake Tahoe.

If you live in the South Y Industrial, Bonanza, Barton, Winnemucca or Airport neighborhoods in South Lake Tahoe, there will be a meeting Sept. 5 at 6pm at Lake Tahoe Airport.

These meetings are informal.

Volunteer “captains” are being sought to be the main point of contact for their neighborhood area. A neighborhood “captain” would act as the liaison for their immediate neighbors.

Some examples of tasks that the neighborhood captain would perform include:

· Gather information for the neighborhood directory, current names, addresses, phone numbers, of those neighbors who want to be involved (this is voluntary).

· Make sure all neighbors receive the neighborhood newsletter or other informational flyers.

· Send any information you would like posted on your neighborhoods website page to your city contact for posting.

· Assist neighbors in identifying goals and activities within your neighborhood.

· Be the main contact person for you neighborhood group.

· Gather any concerns of potential code enforcement issues (on behalf of your neighbors), such as nuisances, garbage, and inform the code enforcement department.

For more information, contact Tracy Franklin at (530) 542.6093.

Several troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol, as well as other employees from the Department of Public Safety, will be volunteering their time to raise money for Special Olympics Nevada and California on Sept. 15 at Hard Rock Café at Harveys casino in Stateline.

Officers will be serving as volunteer waiters and waitresses as they assist the restaurant staff that day while they work for “special tips”.

All of the extra tips will stay in Northern Nevada and Northern California to pay for the sports training and competition activities for area athletes.

The special servers will be working that Saturday from noon-4pm and 5-9pm.

• Placer County planning commissioners in August approved Alpine Meadows’ application to replace the existing Hot Wheels triple chairlift with a detachable quad chairlift that would be about 1,000 feet longer to reach the Sherwood Bowl ridge.

• Genevieve Evans of Carnelian Bay won the XTERRA Lake Tahoe off-road triathlon in Incline Village in August.

• Lake Tahoe Unified School District is introducing Sprigeo, an online system where students at South Tahoe High and Middle schools can report bullying incidents and school safety threats.

• North Shore resident and six-time X Games medalist Nate Holland hopped on his skateboard and went for a 28-mile cruise for breast cancer in August as part of Boarding for Breast Cancer’s event in Tahoe City.

• The Sparks Tribune newspaper, which started in 1910, became a twice-weekly publication starting Sept. 1.

El Dorado County is accepting applications for its new Federal Coordination Advisory Committee.

Various provisions of federal law mandate federal agencies “coordinate” certain activities with local agencies before making decisions which may impact local government.

The primary purpose of the Coordination Advisory Committee is to help keep the Board of Supervisors informed about federal plans and actions. The committee will examine the appropriateness and necessity of coordination on identified federal issues, and advise the Board of Supervisors on actions the county should consider as a result.

Members of the 14-person Coordination Advisory Committee will serve without compensation for staggered four-year terms. Volunteers from the following specialties are encouraged to apply:

Residential home ownership within proximity of public lands;

Watershed management;

Wildlife biology;

The timber industry;

The hunting/fishing industry;

The farming industry;

The mineral industry (including rock hounding and mining);

The grazing industry:

Off-highway vehicle interests;

Equestrian interests;

Forestry;

County law enforcement;

Rafting industry;

Skiing industry.

All appointments are subject to the approval of the Board of Supervisors.

Additional information and applications are available online. Applications are due Sept. 21.