·       Tahoe Donner Cross Country Ski Area will debut its new building, the Alder Creek Adventure Center, on Nov. 27 from 5-7pm. This free event includes live music, appetizers, family entertainment and activities, and a no-host bar.

·       Author Laura McBride will be speaking at the Douglas County Library in Minden at 10am Nov. 21. Copies of “We Are Called to Rise” are available for loan from the Minden and Zephyr Cove libraries. They will remain on the New Arrivals shelves through February.

·       Bill Landon, safety and training coordinator and flight paramedic with Care Flight, has been awarded the 2015 Air and Surface Transport Nurses Association Lynn Stevens Excellence in Safety award.

·       The Rev Tour and Hole Shot Tour will work together, giving snowboardcross and skicross athletes an opportunity to train and compete at Squaw Valley on March 18.

·      Mammoth Mountain, home of the award-winning Unbound terrain parks and pipes, is set to host a freestyle trifecta Jan. 26-31. Freeskiers and snowboarders will compete in Mammoth’s 22-foot halfpipe, award-winning slopestyle course and the only big air on the Rev Tour.