• Heavenly Mountain Resort will break ground Aug. 6 on its 14,980-square-foot restaurant at the top of the gondola. It should open in February 2011.

• Douglas Woods and Shawn Kearney are opening Tahoe Duck Tours Stateline. A Duck Tour allows people to experience the sites and sounds of a locale from land and water.

• Charter Cable is making channel changes this month affecting El Dorado County, Meyers, South Lake Tahoe, Zephyr Cove, Glenbrook and other parts of Douglas County.

• Charlie Brown out of Atlanta has taken over the emcee role at Carnival Cabaret at Horizon in Stateline. His act alone is reason to see the show.

• Big Blue Adventure brings the Lake Tahoe Open Water Swim on Aug. 8 with an 8am race start at West Shore’s Sugar Pine State Park, with half-mile, 1-mile and 2-mile courses set up just off the beach from Ehrman Mansion.