BOISE, Idaho - A human-rights memorial will receive a sapling grafted from the chestnut tree that grew outside the secret annex in Amsterdam where Holocaust victim Anne Frank hid from the Nazis. The 3-foot sapling is to be quarantined at a Boise tree nursery for two years before it’s planted at the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial. The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Anne Frank Center USA in New York, took applications from dozens of U.S. institutions interested in getting a sapling from the 150-year-old chestnut tree.

Ninety-degree weather may not be optimal for skiing, snowboarding or tubing, but that didn’t stop the crowd gathered at Liberty University for its new Snowflex center’s first day of operation. Liberty hosted its first event for the newly formed alumni chapter, named the “245” chapter for the first three digits of Lynchburg-area ZIP codes.

August wouldn’t come to mind as the right time of year for skiing, unless you were headed to South America. But a year-round ski facility called the Liberty Mountain Snowflex Centre is scheduled to open at Liberty University on Aug. 29. Its slopes will be layered with a synthetic material that simulates snow for skiing, boarding and tubing.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP)—A 12-year-old Virginia girl has died as the result of a skiing accident. Family members say Virginia Beach resident Laila Serpe was injured at Snowshoe Mountain resort in West Virginia on Thursday. She later died at University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. Serpe was on a skiing vacation with her parents, Richard and Linda Serpe, and three brothers for spring vacation.

WINTER PARK, Colo. It’s still dark in this A-frame cabin at 9,000 feet. Friends slumber upstairs, but my mind races. I tiptoe down to the living room. There’s the fireplace where we sat last night—my wife and I and friends—catching up, enjoying the actual need for a fire.

Molly Brown snaps the last ski buckle into place, tucks her ginger-brown hair into a wool cap and takes off down the slope at Wintergreen Resort in Nelson County, cutting a smooth “S” curve into the snow. The 17-year-old from Amherst County is a six-season veteran of the Wintergreen Adaptive Sports Program, a nonprofit corporation that aims to make sports like skiing and snowboarding accessible to people with disabilities.

INNSBRUCK, Austria—Swiss skier Daniel Albrecht remained in stable condition but was still in an induced coma today, three days after injuring his brain and lungs in a crash during training for a World Cup downhill. Albrecht had a “quiet and very stable” third night at the Innsbruck University hospital, but doctors postponed the wake-up procedure after his multiple injuries, the clinic’s spokesman Johannes Schwamberger said Sunday.

When it comes to getting outdoors during the winter months, Larry Rohr, Terry Rea and their disc golf compatriots follow the mail carriers’ code. “Neither rain nor snow . . . nor gloom of night” shall keep them from their appointed rounds.