• Lake Tahoe Blue’s hockey season at the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena has started. For more info, go online.

• Longtime Placer County Supervisor Kirk Uhler has been named CEO of Sacramento Regional Technology Alliance.

• Two of Barton Health’s female doctors will talk for free about breast cancer and other common cancers that affect women. Female conditions, such as pelvic pain, will also be discussed Oct. 21 at 6pm in the board room at Lake Tahoe Community College.

• The charity for the Oct. 5 1-4pm Genoa’s Sweet Sippin’ Sundays is Kids and Horses. It is on Main Street. Cost is $12 for new sippers, $10 with glass.

• Tahoe City’s Oktoberfest is Oct. 4 from noon-4pm on the grounds of Gatekeeper’s Museum.