• Fire+Ice restaurant in the Heavenly Village will donate all October proceeds from its Strawberry Shortcake to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

• There is a blood drive in Incline Village on Oct. 14 from 10am-5pm. Click on flyer for details.

• The Concrete Masonry Association of California and Nevada has given South Tahoe High awards for Education Design for the Construction, Arts, and Transportation Academy and Sustainable Design for the Stadium View building.

• Sierra-at-Tahoe is offering free passes to 270 students in Lake Tahoe Unified who got straight A’s or had a 4.0 gpa last school year.

• The National Rural Health Association named Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee one of the top 100 Critical Access Hospitals in the United States.

• Here is Caltrans’ Sierra roadwork schedule for this coming week, as well as the El Dorado-Tahoe schedule.