El Dorado County Teen Court program in Placerville will conduct training for new student volunteers, and for all student attorneys currently in the program, on Jan. 18 from 6-7:30pm at the El Dorado Superior Court House located at 495 Main St. in Placerville.

Teen Court is a local program for El Dorado County students in grades 8-12 who want to take an active role in the juvenile justice system. Upon completion of the mandatory training, teens will serve as court personnel for real cases in which an offense has been committed by a minor, the minor has admitted to the offense, and has chosen to be judged by his/her peers.

The Teen Court program began in 1992 in El Dorado County and is funded through the Alcohol and Drug Programs of the El Dorado County Public Health Division, Health and Human Services Agency. Cases are referred and managed by the El Dorado County Probation Department. Superior Court judges and sheriff’s office also are program partners.

The Teen Court program generally runs from October through May of each year; court hearings are generally on the first and third Wednesday of each month at Superior Court on Main Street in Placerville at 6pm.

For more information about Teen Court, call (530) 621.6130.

The Father Daughter Sweetheart Dance is Feb. 10 from 7-9:30pm at Harveys in Stateline.

This is an evening for fathers and daughters to dance and visit with friends.

Refreshments will be served and a photo keepsake is available for an additional fee.

Tickets are $20 a couple and $8 for each additional daughter.

Tickets are on sale now and this event sells out every year.

Stop by Kahle Community Center to get your tickets or call (775) 586.7271 for more information.

• Five time Winter X Games medalist Jaime Anderson is providing sponsorships for South Tahoe Middle School students Rosa Rosas and Jesus Vazquez-Macias to ski at her hometown resort Sierra-at-Tahoe.

• Read what Rusty Gregory, CEO of Mammoth Mountain, wrote to employees about this ski season.

• Après Wine Co. in South Lake Tahoe is having a Pray for Snow Party on Friday the 13th from 4-10pm.

• Winter farmers’ markets are on the rise, increasing 38 percent in 2010 to 1,225 markets, according the federal government. New York has the most at 180, with California No. 2 with 153 winter markets.

• It should cost less to get gas at the corner of Ski Run Boulevard and Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe because the Chevron is becoming a Valero.

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office and the Nevada Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol will be increasing law enforcement presence in Incline Village through April 1.

Working in partnership with the community, and with the assistance from NHP, the goal is overall deterrence of traffic violations which include vehicle and pedestrian accidents, reducing criminal activity and improving the overall quality of life.

By providing high visibility law enforcement for a sustained period of time, the idea is deputies can actively enforce and educate violators on the importance of traffic and pedestrian safety.

The program integrates location-based crime and traffic crash data to determine the most effective methods for deploying law enforcement and other resources. Incline Village has been identified as a site for deployment based on historical crime and motor vehicle accident data compiled by the sheriff’s office.

U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews are scheduled to begin prescribed fire operations in Placer County Tuesday. Operations will take place at the end of Silver Tip Drive near Sunnyside.

The operation is small, approximately one-half an acre and will last one day.

Residents and visitors can expect to see smoke from this prescribed fire project area. The Forest Service strives to minimize the impacts of smoke on local communities. Smoke-sensitive residents should consider staying indoors and keeping doors, windows and outside vents closed. To directly receive prescribed fire updates, send an email to pa_ltbmu@fs.fed.us.

The South Lake Tahoe Branch library is hosting free individual training sessions for many popular digital devices including laptops, tablets, iPads, Kindles and Nooks.

Each sessions is 30 minutes and are available from 10am to 4pm on Jan. 21, Jan. 28 and Feb. 4.

Call (530) 573.3185 for more information or to register for an appointment.

The library is located at 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd. in South Lake Tahoe.

El Dorado County Early Care and Education Planning Council is accepting applications for board membership to fill a vacancy. The vacancy is for a provider representative, which is defined as someone who provides care and education services for children.

The 15-member council is a legislatively mandated body advising the county Board of Supervisors and county superintendent of schools on early care and education program and policy issues. The council provides input on research and analysis, makes recommendations to the California Department of Education on funding priorities for subsidized child care and development programs, and coordinates countywide early care and education projects.

Applicants must submit cover sheet, application, and supplemental application to Elizabeth Blakemore, 6767 Green Valley Road, Placerville, CA 95667. Prospective candidates can call (530) 295.2312 or email eblakemore@edcoe.org for an application packet and additional information.

The deadline for applications is Feb. 10 at 5pm.

The U.S. Forest Service is planning to take advantage of the unusually dry winter conditions to resume prescribed burning in several locations in the Eldorado National Forest.

Between Jan. 10-18 fire management crews are preparing to burn three miles of National Forest Lands located off the Mormon Emigrant Trail. Approximately, 1,100 acres may be burned with a low intensity fire in the vicinity of Brown Rock and Meiss Road.

Fire crews may also manage prescribed fires near Georgetown in the vicinity of Darling Ridge on Jan. 17 or Jan. 18, if weather and air conditions are right.

Smoke from the Mormon Emigrant Trail burn should be visible for quite a distance from the fire.

• Using a plane to get to a ski destination? Read this story to find out what people have to say about different airports – including Tahoe-Reno.

• George Alm walked out of KRLT in Stateline with a day’s notice and landed at KTHO radio in South Lake Tahoe as sales manager.

• The Mark Twain Cultural Center in Incline closed at the end of last year.

• Savings found on GetSkiTickets.com for Kirkwood Mountain Resort start at 35 percent off the ticket window rate.

• Here is Caltrans’ Sierra roadwork schedule for this week.

The Weekly magazine is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2012 with an exhibit of 30 years of Weekly covers at North Tahoe Arts Center in Tahoe City through Feb. 27.

An Opening Reception is Jan. 13 from 5 to 7pm at the Arts Center, and everyone is invited to attend.

The exhibit will feature 30 years of covers, with one cover picked from every year of publication from its inception in 1982. Covers feature winter and summer recreation, local faces, local events and a great look at Tahoe and Truckee for the past 30 years.

The highlight of the exhibit is the first edition, which published on Feb. 18, 1982, as North Tahoe Week. The first edition was 12 pages and featured a photograph by Vance Fox of a skier cliff jumping near the horse trails in Squaw Valley.

The Weekly is celebrating its 30th year with a redesign of the magazine, debuting on Jan. 12, along with a special 30th anniversary edition on Feb. 9. There will be a 30th anniversary party on Feb. 11, location TBD, in which everyone will be invited to help celebrate the 30th anniversary.

For details, email editor@tahoethisweek.com.