Snippets about Lake Tahoe

bike• The Bicycle Advisory Committee of the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority will meet March 7 from 9-11am in the room adjacent to the City Council Chambers at Lake Tahoe Airport.

• Alpine County is turning 150. The Board of Supervisors will have a proclamation celebration March 18 at 9am at Turtle Rock Park in Markleeville.

• Switchback PR + Marketing Inc. has hired longtime Tahoe-Truckee marketing specialist Anna Koenig as an account manager.

• CrossFit Avalanche and CrossFit Blizzard had a daylong workout fundraiser in honor of former Truckee resident and fallen Naval officer Brian Collins. Money raised will be donated to the Humane Society of Truckee Tahoe. Collins’ name will join others on the HSTT’s animal shelter lobby Heroes wall, signifying his love of animals and a generous contribution donated in his name.

• Q&D Construction Inc. and Placer County Department of Public Works are having an open house March 12 from 4-7pm at the North Tahoe Events Center to hear about the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project’s construction schedule.