·       The Beacon’s first snowshoe cocktail race of the season is Jan. 16 at 7pm. Signups are from 5-7pm at the Camp Rich restaurant. For more info, call 530.541.0630.

·       Eli Ilano, former deputy forest supervisor of Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, who left for the same job at the Tahoe National Forest in Tahoe City has been named acting forest supervisor for TNF.

·       Passaretti’s restaurant in South Lake Tahoe is changing hands. Longtime locals Dan and Ty Passaretti are selling to Jeff Sparrow.

·       The B4UFLY app has info from the feds about flying drones. For more info, go online.

·       Visit California, the state tourism agency, is building on its investment in China this week by bringing its China-based team to tour Northern California, including stops at Lake Tahoe, Eureka, Redwood National Park and San Francisco. Chinese travelers spent $2.24 billion in California in 2014.