Join the Tahoe Rim Trail Association for its one-hour, free Speaker Series, every Monday night in April. All presentations will be held from 6 to 7 p.m. Mondays at the TRTA Incline Village office.  The TRTA is sponsoring this free lecture series to help you get ready for the upcoming hiking season.  All the speakers are well respected for their trail experience and knowledge and have very popular and well received presentations.

Free Event at The Rock, Saturday, April 11 beginning 12 p.m.

The Rock is putting a spin on the traditional Easter Egg Hunt with a prize-driven Rock Hunt, Saturday April 11 at the multi-use center on Brockway Rd. More than $1,000 in cash and prizes will be given at The Rock event, which follows the Truckee Donner Recreation and Parks District Easter Egg Hunt.

Just some of the prizes include a $200 cash prize, numerous gift certificates for dinners for four at The Rock dining establishments including Drunken Monkey, FiftyFifty Brewing Co., Peluso’s Apizza and Thai Delicacy as well as coupons for free slices of pizza, free appetizers and more. Tahoe Forest Church will also have several large bounce houses on hand for kids to enjoy at no cost. Families can’t afford not to come out for this fun, free event!

This event is sponsored by The Rock multi-use center, which is easily accessed off Highway 267 directly adjacent to the Ponderosa Golf Course next to the roundabout and across from Sierra Meadows at 11197 Brockway Road. For more event information, call 530.550.2252. For The Rock leasing information, contact Katie Morrison of North Tahoe Commercial at 530.582.4623.

A fireside chat with Andy Whyman is an evening to remember. Once you go to one fireside chat, you will keep coming back for more. However, the riveting and compelling conversations are not only with Mr. Whyman.

In fact, Whyman is not the individual whom is the compelling guest to draw a roomful of people to one of the monthly fireside chats at Sierra Nevada College. He is the primary interviewer and host of these interesting chats.

Each month, at center stage in the Tahoe Environmental Science’s Room 139 are two armchairs on a small platform, simulating a comfortable and casual setting for the interviewer (Andy Whyman) and the guest of the month. The chairs face out to an audience of visitors seated in a theater-style setting, minus an actual fire or fireplace. The evening’s format is a conversation between Whyman and the guest with the audience able to ask questions at the end of the evening’s chat.

Rotarian Thalia Routsis introduced the candidates during the Area Level Speech and Music contest Thursday afternoon, sponsored by both Incline Village Rotary Clubs and held at the Parasol building. Rotarians, guests and parents were in the audience and listened attentively to all of the contestants. Judges carefully tallied the scores after each individual performance.

Each of the five Rotary clubs in the Tahoe area of Incline, Tahoe City and Truckee sent their winners to this contest to compete to go on to the next level.