·       Visits to Nevada continue to climb, increasing by 2.6 percent in 2014 over the previous year. In 2014, Nevada saw 53.4 million visitors to the state.

·       The Village at Squaw Valley hosts the sixth annual Peaks and Paws, benefiting the ​Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe, on Aug. 22. For more info, go online.

·       Nando Parrado, who survived Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 when it crashed in the remote Andes Mountains on Oct. 13, 1972, will share his story on Aug. 10 at Sand Harbor State Park as part of the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival’s Monday Night Showcase. He wrote “Miracle in the Andes.”

·      The Food Bank of El Dorado County is in need of 10 volunteers on Aug. 26 from 9:30-11:30am to help with the mobile food pantry. For more info, call 530.621.9950 or email volunteer@foodbankedc.org.

·       The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking comments on 31 petitions to reclassify species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 by Aug. 31. For more info, go online.