Snippets about Lake Tahoe

• ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards were recently announced, with “Tahoe Beneath the Surface” by Scott Lankford and co-published in 2010 by Sierra College Press and Heyday Books receiving a bronze medal in the Nature category.

• Tahoe City’s Center for Spiritual Living is hosting the Relic Tour, a Tibetan Buddhist sponsored exhibit, July 8-10. More information is online.

• With July being National Parks Month, consider reading “Permanent Vacation” to find out what it’s like to live and work in a national park.

• Rabi Evon Yakar is leading the congregation at Temple Bat Yam in South Lake Tahoe.

• Full House Resorts has signed a five-year lease to run the Grand Lodge Casino at the Hyatt Regency in Incline Village.