South Lake Tahoe is beginning to schedule neighborhood meetings. The city wants to partner with local citizens to help increase communication with neighbors and businesses to help facilitate improvements in their neighborhoods.

The July 20 meeting is from 6:30-8pm for the neighborhoods of Al Tahoe, Bijou Pines and Pioneer Village at the Senior Center (3050 Lake Tahoe Blvd.)

The Aug. 23 meeting is from 6:30-8pm at Bijou Elementary School multipurpose room (3501 Spruce Ave.) The neighborhoods are Rancho Bijou and Bijou Acres.

More information is online.

This map shows how city the city has divided South Tahoe neighborhoods.

Lake Tahoe News has tickets to the July 12-17 annual American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament at Edgewood Tahoe in Stateline.

All Lake Tahoe News subscribers are eligible to win. If you aren’t a subscriber, it’s free. Just enter your email address at the bottom right of the home page.

The winner of the pair of tickets must answer the question below correctly and then the winner will be picked randomly from those who respond:

How much money has Aaron Rodgers won to date at the Lake Tahoe celeb golf tournament?

• Northstar-at-Tahoe is enlisting its friends on Facebook to help name the lift being installed this summer.

• South Lake Tahoe Green Thumb Gardening presentations are Wednesdays throughout the summer at the Demonstration Garden at Lake Tahoe Community College from 5:30-6:45pm. Contact Jen Cressy, jcressy@tahoercd.org or (530) 543.1501, ext. 107 for additional details.

• North Tahoe (Incline Village) Green Thumb Gardening North Tahoe Green Thumb Gardening presentations are Thursdays throughout the summer at the North Tahoe Demonstration Garden at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village from 5:30-6:30pm. Contact Gretchen Huie, (775) 586.1610, ext. 25, ghuie@ntcd.org.

• Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce is conducting a survey to find out what people have to say about signs in South Lake Tahoe. The survey will close July 20 so there is time to give the city the info before the July 26 meeting. A Lake Tahoe News “Question of the Week” also asked what the rules should be.

• “Monster Fish” TV host and Reno research scientist Zeb Hogan is one of 15 people in the world to be chosen as a National Geographic Fellow.

• Carson City Airport has been awarded a $1.3 million federal grant to continue work on a parallel taxiway so airplanes won’t need to backtrack on the runway.

Lake Tahoe News subscribers Connor Yingling and Judi Allen are going the American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament next week.

First, they knew Neil Lomax, who has played in the previous five tournaments, is not coming back this year. Second, they were randomly selected from the people with correct answers to the trivia question to win the pair of tickets to one day of the tournament.

More opportunities to win tickets to the 22nd annual event at Edgewood Tahoe in Stateline will be coming soon. Keep reading Lake Tahoe News.

Thank you to everyone who participated in the first round of the giveaway.

The El Dorado County Health Services Department, Mental Health Division invites the public to participate in the community planning process to review El Dorado County’s current Mental Health Service Act Programs and provide comment on the county’s 2011-12 annual update covering Community Services and Supports, Workforce Education and Training, Prevention and Early Intervention and Innovation Plans.

Meetings are July 13 from noon-1pm at 1900 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe and July 14 from noon-1 pm at 670 Placerville Drive, Placerville.

In addition to the community meetings, members of the public with comments and questions about the Innovation Plan may send them to:

El Dorado County Mental Health, MHSA Project Management, 670 Placerville Drive, Ste. 1B, Placerville, CA 95667 or email them to MHSA@edcgov.us.

ABC News will air the Diane Sawyer interview with Jaycee Lee Dugard on July 10 at 9pm.

Part of the interview involves Dugard’s book “A Stolen Life” that will be released this month.

The New York Times reported the network did not write a check for the rights to an interview, but it did pay a six-figure sum for the rights to Dugard’s home movies.

Lake Tahoe News has tickets to the July 12-17 annual American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament at Edgewood Tahoe in Stateline.

All Lake Tahoe News subscribers are eligible to win. If you aren’t a subscriber, it’s free. Just enter your email address at the bottom right of the home page.

The winner of the pair of tickets must answer the following question correctly and then the winner will be picked randomly from that group:

Of the five players who have played in the tournament every year, who is not playing this year?

A memorial service and dedication for Steve Blocher will be July 10 at 2pm at the Zephyr Point Presbyterian Conference Center.

Blocher was minister of the Presbyterian Church in South Lake Tahoe from 1996 until his death last fall.

• Join UC Davis, the Tahoe Resource Conservation District and Master Gardeners for a free Green Thumb Gardening class on July 10 from 2 to 5pm at the Tahoe City Field Station (Historic Hatchery) for backyard composting, vegetable gardening Tahoe style and free native plant drawing. Here is the Green Thumb schedule.

• Sample the Sierra needs restaurants to participate in the South Lake Tahoe event Labor Day weekend. Contact Emily@TahoeChamber.org or call (775) 588.1728, ext. 303 for info.

• Christina Erny is Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority’s PR/social media coordinator, which means she is responsible for social media planning and managing media relations to increase awareness of the Reno, Sparks and North Lake Tahoe areas.

• The parole hearing for Steve Wasserman has been moved to July 26.

• The Nevada Arts Council is honoring veteran cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell with the 2012 Nevada Heritage Award, which honors Nevada folk and traditional artists who embody the highest level of artistic achievement in their work.

The dog-friendly Annual Tail & Ale Festival is July 8 from 5-9pm at the Tahoe Biltmore in Crystal Bay.

Guests taste beer, get a commemorative glass and a sample platter of fish tacos, jambalaya and grilled salmon. Tickets are $30.

All proceeds benefit the local humane society.

For more information, go online.