California’s first ski resort, Yosemite's Badger Pass Ski Area, will open on Saturday, December 20 for downhill skiing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing. 

Striving to adopt environmentally-friendly lighting and native decor into the holiday spirit, The Ahwahnee®, Yosemite’s Four-Diamond, national historic landmark hotel, has replaced all incandescent bulbs on its holiday trees with energy efficient, light-emitting diode (LED) varieties, while honoring the hotel’s spectacular setting and heritage with ornamentation made from a variety of materials grown locally in California.

Southland held their 2nd Annual Twelve Tournaments of Christmas providing much needed toys and cash during tough economic times. Toys were raised by hosting video poker, handicapping, black jack and poker tournaments for the first twelve days of December.

Heineken USA, the nation’s premier beer importer, opened the Heineken Lounge, the company’ first branded luxury airport bar in the United States, today at Newark Liberty International Airport. The Heineken Lounge combines many of the desired attributes of a membership-only airline lounge and applies them to a bar open to all travelers during their visit to Newark Airport.