• It’s time to comment on the initial phase of the proposed Stateline-to-Stateline bike path.

• 2011 is being hailed as World Veterinary Year because the world’s first veterinary school was founded in 1761 in Lyon, France.

• Heather Allison Smith, director of sales and marketing at the Ritz-Carlton at Northstar, is on the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International’s eighth annual “who’s who” list of the Top 25 Most Extraordinary Minds in Hospitality and Travel Sales and Marketing.

• This from the Sacramento Bee about how Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget may affect the average person.

• January is national mentoring month.