• Olympian Julia Mancuso of Squaw Valley is opening a gym in Truckee in April.

• Barton Family Health Day is April 30 from 11am-3pm at South Tahoe Middle School. For more information, go online or call (530) 543.5615.

• Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board is accepting comments on its proposal to amend the regionwide pesticide water quality objective, which effectively prohibits pesticide application to water, with a regionwide waste discharge prohibition with exemption criteria for aquatic pesticide application to water. This document has more information.

• Ashtrays aren’t just for putting out butts. Some people collect them. A little bit more info about that is on About.com.

• Richard Moreno, journalism professor and director of student publications at Western Illinois University, has authored his 10th Nevada-related book — “A Short History of Carson City.” Moreno is a former publisher of Nevada magazine.