A celebration of life for Jim Tilley will be March 12 from 2-5pm at the South Lake Tahoe Senior Center.

It will be an informal open house.

There will be light refreshments and memorabilia from Mr. Tilley’s life.

• The annual Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit will be Aug. 16, hosted by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., at Homewood Mountain Resort.

• Nevada legislators are contemplating taxing bottled water.

• Five Breakaway from Cancer champions will be given special access to this year’s Amgen Tour of California race. Nominations are open until March 22. Five people — one each from the Lake Tahoe, Sacramento, Modesto, Paso Robles and Thousands Oaks-Westlake Village-Agoura Hills areas – will be chosen.

• Receive a free Keep Tahoe Bomb sticker by sending an email to promotions@snowbomb.com.

• Environmental Design + Construction magazine featured the construction projects at South Tahoe High School in a February article.

Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the Federal Technology Center to host a workshop titled Responding to Requests for Proposals on March 10 from 9am-noon.

This is for owners or managers of a small business who would like to expand their sales or services to the government and need ideas.

This event is free and open to the public. It will be at the chamber office, 169 Highway 50, Stateline.

Pre-registration is required — go online or call 866.382.7822.

Alpine County is trying to improve radio communication in the Hope Valley area by installing infrastructure on Hawkins Peak.

In order to power the remote communications facility on the peak, the solar panel modules, power storage and electrical equipment will be put in about 1,800 feet away down slope.

Power is sent from the solar generation site to the communications site via two partially underground power cables.

Alpine County is accepting bids on the project until March 25.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report

Feeling stressed out and overwhelmed? Struggling with money, health, relationships or your career? Ready to make positive changes in your life and don’t know where to begin?

Learn how to use the elements of nature to become more balanced,clear blocks and release tension at a Guided Meditation Workshop on March 19 from 1-5pm.

Facilitators are Maxine Alper and Chris Alper.

The event is at Unity at the Lake, Star Tahoe Building, 2489 Lake Tahoe Blvd., Ste. 27, South Lake Tahoe.

Cost is $25.

For more information, email info@creatingwithintention.com.

Wells Fargo & Company invested $1 million in 120 Northern Nevada nonprofits and community organizations in 2010. In addition, Wells Fargo team members served 12,000 volunteer hours to help their neighborhoods and communities succeed.

Wells Fargo’s latest Corporate Social Responsibility Report “Working Together for the Common Good” is now available online. In this report, the company provides an update on its progress to integrate social and environmental responsibility into its business practices, operations and culture.

Nationwide, Wells Fargo invested a record $219 million in 19,000 nonprofits in 2010, up 9 percent over 2009. In addition, Wells Fargo team members contributed more than $55.3 million and 1.3 million volunteer hours to 25,000 nonprofits and schools.

• South Lake Tahoe officials are putting together a festival along the Amgen Tour of California route through town on May 15. Check out the flyer for more information about getting your business or nonprofit a booth during the cycling event.

• A 6-foot-tall, nearly1,000-pound copper kettle made in 1914 was stolen from outside the Washoe Valley Chocolate Nugget Candy Factory on Highway 395.

• Placer County has reduced costs for the use of cell phones and other mobile communication devices by 58 percent over the last three years. The county spent approximately $900,000 during the 2007-08 fiscal year on mobile communication devices compared to the budgeted $375,000 for 2010-11.

• Freelance artist Justin Majeczky shot this time lapse of the Milky Way over Lake Tahoe.

• Thunder Canyon, the private golf and country club in Washoe Valley, was a finalist for Golf Course of the Year Award by the National Golf Course Owners Association and was named by the group as Nevada’s top course for the year.

Mountaineer, climber, skier, and award-winning author Doug Robinson will speak in Reno on March 10 at a special benefit for the Reno-based advocacy group Snowlands Network.

The lecture and slideshow “Wild in the Sierra: Backcountry Skiing the Highest Sierra” will feature Robinson’s reflections about his 50 years of climbing and skiing throughout the Sierra.

Robinson, the recipient of the 2010 American Alpine Club Literary Award, has given voice to the thoughts and concerns of the climbing community ever since he articulated his ideas about “clean climbing” in the early 1970s arguing that rock climbers should climb in a way that left no trace of their ascents. Robinson’s writing has led some to call him the “bard of the climbing community;” he has been referred to as a “modern day John Muir” because of the poetic way in which he combines adventure and observations about the natural environment. His climbing video, “Moving Over Stone,” was a best seller, and has taught several of generations of climbers how to take to rock and mountains.

Robinson will speak at the Patagonia Service Center, 8550 White Fir St., Reno.

Tickets are available on the Snowlands website, and at the event if still available. Prices are $20 in advance for Snowlands Network members and $25 in advance for non-members, $30 at the door for everyone. Doors open and silent auction begin at 6:30pm.

The nonprofit Snowlands Network is the only organization in California and Nevada dedicated to representing the needs of backcountry skiers, snowshoers, snowboarders and other outdoors people who value the physical and spiritual joys of winter and winter travel using their own muscle power. The goal is to promote safety and serenity on every winter adventure.

Dolly Tillman, a registered nurse from South Lake Tahoe, will be recognized by the Nevada Highway Patrol on March 4 with the agency’s Life Saving Award.

Also receiving the award is Pierce Ackerman with the Folsom Fire Department.

“Mr. Ackerman and Ms. Tillman had stopped at the accident scene to render aid to the victim, Charles P. Murray, of Glendale, Calif. Mr. Murray sustained life-threatening injuries after rolling his vehicle several times adjacent to the two-lane highway and both first responders acted quickly and provided life saving medical attention until public safety personnel arrived on scene,” the NHP said in a press release. “The medical attention they were able to provide to Mr. Murray ultimately saved him from an untimely death.”

The ceremony will by at the NHP-Northern Command Headquarters, 357 Hammill Lane, Reno starting at 1pm.

Explore Tahoe Winter Speaker Series continues on March 10 at 6pm with a session on the impacts of water runoff and Lake Tahoe protection.

Kim Gorman joins Robert Erlich from South Lake Tahoe for a stormwater management program to present “Protecting the Watershed.”

Explore Tahoe Visitor Center is located in the Heavenly Village next to North Face retail store.

A special flat rate of $5 is offered in the parking garage after 4pm.

A $5 donation is requested for the program, and refreshments are provided. Information: (530) 542.4637.