Daybook

| February 24, 2010 2:00 AM

Today

vEvergreen School District board meets at 6:30 a.m., administration building boardroom.

vKalispell Public Schools Policy and Public Relations Committee meets 7:30 a.m., district administration building, 233 First Ave. E., Kalispell.

vHome School art classes for grades 1-8, 10:30 a.m. to noon every Wednesday, Hockaday Museum of Art, 302 Second Ave. E., Kalispell. $3 suggested donation for nonmembers.

vRed Cross blood drive, noon to 4 p.m., Kalispell Toyota, in the blood mobile.

vDr. Alex Bokor gives a presentation titled, “Meditate Your Stress Away,” noon to 1 p.m., The Summit, Kalispell. Cost $5 per person. No registration required.

vFair-Mont-Egan School board Facilities Committee meets 1 p.m., in the library.

vYouth 12-18 invited to open gaming on Guitar Hero, 2:30-4 p.m., Discovery Square, 540 Nucleus Ave., Columbia Falls; snacks, no registration required. Free. Call 892-5919.

vMark Holston gives a free lecture on how migration has influenced economic and social development in Latin America, 6-8 p.m., FVCC Arts and Technology Building, Room 144. Call 756-3945.

vDog owners and kennel owners invited to a free kennel management meeting with dinner included, 6:30 p.m., Jagz Restaurant, Kalispell. Topic is neo-natal care. RSVP Debi Buchholz, 270-5382.

vAvalanche specialist provides information on current snow and avalanche condition in Northwest Montana, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Flathead National Forest Service office, Kalispell. Call 758-5295.

vPublic invited to showing of the film, “Furious Love,” 7 p.m., Headwaters Church, 6500 U.S. 93 S., Whitefish. Doors open 6:45 p.m. Tickets $5 each or $15 per family; proceeds go to Haiti relief. Parental advisors for children under 10. Call 862-6843.

vGlacier Park museum manager Deirdre Shaw gives a Celebrate the Centennial series presentation, “A Glacier Scrapbook: People, Places and Memories,” 7-8:30 p.m., Grouse Mountain Lodge, Whitefish. Free. Refreshments. Call 892-3250.

vEssential Stuff Project (ESP) free presentation, 7 p.m., Clementine’s 265 Bridge St., Bigfork. Topic is raising small animals for meat and eggs. Donations accepted. Call Edd Blackler, 837-5196; or Catherine Haug, 837-4577.

vFree Falun Dafa Qigong class, 7 p.m., community room of Kalispell branch of Flathead County Library. A self-cultivation meditation with gentle, easy exercises. Call Katherine, 257-9798.

vFlathead Civil War Roundtable meets 7 p.m., The Summit, Kalispell. New members welcome. Call Ron Juno, 862-2239.

Thursday

vFlathead County Library board meets at 9 a.m. Whitefish branch Library, 9 Spokane Ave. Call Kim Crowley, 758-5826.

vRed Cross blood drive, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., First Interstate Bank, Hutton Ranch Plaza, in the bloodmobile.

vAARP Driver Safety class, noon to 4 p.m., Bigfork Area Senior Center. $14 fee ($12 for AARP card-holding members.) Call 837-4157.

vFlathead Suicide Prevention Coalition meets noon to 1 p.m., Flathead City-County Health Department conference room, 1035 First Ave. W., Kalispell. Call Joan Schmidt, 871-1008.

vFlathead County Spelling Bee, 1:30 p.m. Flathead High School.

vMontana State University Master Gardener horticultural seminar, 6-8 p.m., Flathead High School lecture room, Kalispell. A panel will discuss “Successes in the Flathead Valley. Cost $5. Public invited. Doors open 5:45 p.m.

vLincoln County Culinary School cooking class on “Fast Meals - Easy, Tasty, Healthy,” 6 p.m., Central School Libby. Free. Open to public. Call 406-293-8881.

vFree BodyTalk presentation, 6:30 p.m., Shining Mountain Center, 475 Eighth Ave. EN, Kalispell. Free clinic will follow; donations accepted to a local charity. Call Donnalee, 270-3231.

vGary Marbut, president of Montana Shooting Sports, talks about gun rights, 6:45-9 p.m., Flathead County Fairgrounds Country Kitchen. Potluck precedes talk. All welcome. Call 755-3141.

vFlathead Valley Community College 2010 Honors Symposium Series presents Gregg Davis, director of health care industry research, Bureau of Business and Economic Research-UM, 7 p.m., Arts and Technology Building, Kalispell. Free. Public welcome; 756-3822.

Thought

“I am content to define history as the past events of which we have knowledge and refrain from worrying about those of which we have none — until, that is, some archaeologist digs them up.” —Barbara W. Tuchman, American historian (1912-1989).