Classic rock superstars Chicago and The Doobie Brothers take the stage at the 2010 Lake Tahoe Summer Concert Series at Harveys Outdoor Arena on June 19.

Tickets go on sale via Ticketmaster at 10am March 29.

Chicago first burst on the American music scene as The Chicago Transit Authority in 1968 with a debut double album, which included the hits, “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?,” “Questions 67 and 68” and “Beginnings.” Second only to the Beach Boys in terms of singles and albums, Chicago is one of the longest running and most successful U.S. pop/rock groups.

Other hits include, “Saturday In The Park,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “Baby What a Big Surprise,” “Hard Habit to Break,” “25 or 6 to 4” and the prom night fave, “Colour My World.”

Modeled after the three-guitar, three-part vocal harmonies of the seminal San Francisco band Moby Grape, The Doobie Brothers were formed in San Jose in 1970. Their 1972 hit single, “Listen to The Music,” propelled the band into rock ‘n’ roll stardom. Hit after hit followed, including, “China Grove,” “Long Train Running,” “Black Water,” “You Just Can’t Stop It,” “Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me),” “It Keeps You Running,” “Takin’ It To The Streets” and many more.

Tickets are only through TicketMaster outlets; $49.50-$99.50.

By USSA

PARK CITY, Utah – Five-time Olympic medalist Bode Miller, who captured a historic full complement of medals in Vancouver, is auctioning his signed Olympic helmet on eBay to help raise money for Pam Warman, a former U.S. Ski Team technician, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Warman works for Sierra-at-Tahoe.

The helmet, which was worn by Miller in the Olympic slalom, can be found on eBay. The auction ends March 10 at 7:15pm.

Pam Warman works on a ski. Photo/Provided

Warman, originally from Portillo, Chile, tuned skis for the U.S. Ski Team from 2001-06, including Steven Nyman and Bryon Friedman. She now calls South Lake Tahoe. She spends her summers landscaping with Pete Lavin (aka Baby Huey), the long-time start house hype-man for the men’s World Cup team.

“I started with the Development Team then moved up to the Europa Cup program,” said Warman, who received her cancer diagnosis seven weeks ago following a routine mammogram. “I was working with Steven Nyman and Bryon Friedman when they got their first World Cup starts. I kind of became the mom for all these guys when they were younger.

“Bode has always been an extremely generous guy. I remember him buying U.S. Ski Team jackets for the Development Team a while ago,” she recounted. “No one knew where they came from. Bode didn’t want the credit, he just wanted to help out.”

Along with Miller, Warman struck a particular friendship with Jake Zamansky of Aspen, who began spearheading the auctions, which will also include items from Nyman, Friedman and three-time Olympic medalist Julia Mancuso of Olympic Valley.

“Pam is such a friend to so many members of our team,” said Zamansky, a 2010 Olympian along with Miller and Nyman. “It was really easy for us to get moving on this. We are putting together what we can, but Bode’s helmet was such a big item, we wanted to get that up right away. There will be more items that we’ll auction down the line.”

A separate fund raiser is planed for Warman at Sierra-at-Tahoe on April 13. The event will feature a dual giant slalom with current and former members of the U.S. Ski Team, plus an auction and live music by Friedman.

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More than 200 scientists, agency staff and managers, and stakeholders will meet over two days to present results aimed at measuring the success of ecosystem restoration in the Lake Tahoe Basin.

The 5th Biennial Tahoe Basin Science Conference “Measuring the Success of Ecosystem Restoration in the Lake Tahoe Basin,” is March 16-17 at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, Incline Village.

Results from more than two-thirds of the 45 science projects that have been supported by the $11.25 million allocated for the Tahoe Science Program over the past three years will be unveiled.

The conference program features more than 100 oral and poster presentations on topics such as:

* aquatic environments (invasive species, native fish species, and the lake’s water quality and ecology);

* forest vegetation, soils and fire effects (soil disturbance and erosion, effects of the Angora wildfire on land and water resources, and prescribed burning and forest fuels treatments); and

* watershed restoration and air quality (stream and habitat restoration, burning and road dust impacts on air quality, and estimating the impacts of climate change in the Tahoe Basin).

This biennial science conference provides a forum where individuals involved in the science and management of the Lake Tahoe Basin can learn about and discuss the latest scientific findings and their significance. This conference also provides the opportunity for networking, education, and the exchange of new ideas and information.

The conference will begin with a session for all participants focusing on ecological change in complex systems and the impacts of invasive species.

Invited speakers include Daniel Schindler, University of Washington; Carla D’Antonio, UC Santa Barbara; Jonathan Brossenbroek, University of Toledo; Michael Marchetti, CSU Chico; and Chris Dionigi, acting executive director of the National Invasive Species Council.

The conference is hosted by the Tahoe Science Consortium. The Consortium’s member organizations are UNR; Desert Research Institute; UC Davis; the U.S. Geological Survey; and the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station.

The Research Station administers the Tahoe Science Program with funds from the Bureau of Land Management as authorized in the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act to support environmental restoration of the Tahoe Basin under the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act.

For more information about the conference, click here.

High school students are invited to participate in the Congressional Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery, a nationwide high school art competition sponsored by the House of Representatives.

The contest is open to all high school students within the 4th Congressional District.

The deadline for entries to be received is April 30.

The winning entry for each vongressional district will be displayed for one year in the Cannon Tunnel, leading to the U.S. Capitol. Each winning student will be invited, along with one guest, to the unveiling of the exhibit and a reception for all winners in June. Two round-trip tickets will be provided to the winning student.

Congressional Art Competition guidelines and student information forms can be found on Rep. Tom McClintock’s website.

The U.S. Forest Service, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is accepting nominations through April 2 for individuals to serve on the 2010-12 Lake Tahoe Basin Federal Advisory Committee.

Individuals interested in taking an active role in Lake Tahoe issues are encouraged to apply. The committee provides a critical role in advising the secretary of Agriculture and Lake Tahoe’s Federal Interagency Partnership on programs and funds to achieve the goals of the Lake Tahoe Environmental Improvement Program.

Two representatives will be selected as members at-large, and one representative will be selected from each of the following sectors: 1) gaming, 2) environmental, 3) national environmental, 4) ski resorts, 5) North Shore Economic/Recreation, 6) South Shore Economic/Recreation, 7) resorts associations, 8) education, 9) property rights advocates, 10) science and research, 11) California local government, 12) Washoe Tribe, 13) state of California, 14) state of Nevada, 15) Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 16) labor, 17) transportation, and 18) Nevada local government.

Appointments will be made by the secretary of Agriculture to establish a diverse committee membership that reflects Tahoe communities.

Committee application forms and LTFAC Committee background information, as well as a LTFAC checklist, can be downloaded in PDF format on the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit’s website, by calling (530) 543.2773, or send an email request to: ashains@fs.fed.us.

The Douglas County Public Library has again joined with In-N-Out Burger for its “Cover to Cover Club” reading program from March 6 to April 17. Children ages 4-12 are eligible to receive a certificate for a free In-N-Out hamburger or cheeseburger by reading books. Both branches of the library are participating in the program.

Children must fill out a file card at the library to enroll in the program. Readers will earn an Achievement Award redeemable for an In-N-Out hamburger for every five books read at their reading level.

Each participating child may earn up to three award certificates. Children too young to read on their own may have a parent read to them.

The Douglas County Public Library is located at 1625 Library Lane in Minden and 233 Warrior Way in Zephyr Cove.

For more information call the library at (775) 782.9841 or visit douglas.lib.nv.us.

By Geralda Miller, Reno Gazette-Journal

It didn’t take long for a Reno nurse to decide to pack her stethoscope and scrubs and volunteer in Haiti after the devastating earthquake on Jan. 12.

When Burners Without Borders sent a request on Jan. 25, saying they needed doctors and nurses, Chelsea Chen, a labor and delivery nurse at Renown Health and 10-year participant in Burning Man, said she had to go.

“I felt this pull,” Chen said. “These people need help, and I can help them. There is no reason not to.”

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By ABC News

Jaycee Dugard, her mother Terry Probyn and her half sister, Shayna, are seen and heard for the first time on-camera, since Dugard was abducted 18 years ago near her home in South Lake Tahoe.

See exclusive home video of Dugard on “GMA” and “20/20.”

Dugard introduces herself to the world for the first time and her mother breaks her silence to plead for privacy and time to heal.

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By Amelia Richmond

On March 6, Squaw Valley celebrates the life of Jimmie Heuga.

His life, his accomplishments and the strength he showed in demonstrating to others how to live with MS are an inspiration to all who knew him. The celebration will begin at 4pm on the KT Sundeck.

Billy Kidd, left, and Jimmie Heuga on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1968.

The son of Pascal “Pete” Heuga, one of Squaw Valley’s first employees, Jimmie has always been a beloved member of Squaw Valley. His natural talent first captured the attention of Squaw Valley’s ski school director at age 8, and that was just the beginning. Jimmie went on to an amazing skiing career, winning the bronze medal in the Men’s slalom in the 1964 Olympics.

When Jimmie was diagnosed with MS in 1970, his doctors told him to live a sedentary lifestyle. Many years later, he rejected his doctors’ advice and found that swimming, biking and skiing made him feel better and helped him to regain his health. Jimmie founded The Heuga Center in 1984 to share what he had discovered with others struggling with the disease.

The Center’s CAN DO programs are based around this philosophy that people with MS are helped by exercise. This wellness approach to MS, which focuses on what people with MS can do rather than what they can’t do, is now widely embraced by the medical community. Jimmie will be sorely missed but his spirit lives on in the Center’s work and in all of us who have been inspired by him.

Squaw Valley will be celebrating Jimmie Heuga’s life this during the Vertical Express for MS.

Speakers at the event will include Nancy Cushing (Squaw Valley CEO), Tamara KcKinney, Robert Frohlich and Lily Kunczynski (childhood friend) and Art Domingue (pastor of the Squaw Valley Chapel). A reception will follow in the VTL for family and friends. In the event of weather, the entire event will be moved into VTL.

Amelia Richmond is an employee of Squaw Valley.

In summer 2007, Chad Wiles and Allison Ansley, both Sierra Nevada College graduates, began to plot a bicycle route across Eurasia. Armed with ambition, a couple of visas, and two stout bicycles they set off from the coast of China and started riding west.

Six months and two days later they rode onto the beaches of the Netherlands with more than 7,000 miles of Eurasian trans-cultural experiences.

From the images gathered on their small cameras they have compiled the delicious and disgusting, the ordinary and amazing, the lovely and repugnant, and plenty of stops in between as they lived out on the world road.

They are excited to share preparatory and logistical information as well as other practical tips so others might feel more prepared to explore a big planet at this nice bicycling pace. They will also discuss their upcoming tour to the Black Sea region and the former Yugoslav republics.

Date and time: March 4 from 5:30-7:30pm; lecture begins promptly at 6pm.

Cost: Free. No-Host Bar.

Location: Assembly Rooms 139 & 141, Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences, 291 Country Club Drive, Incline Village, on the campus of Sierra Nevada College.