Daybook, April 6

| April 5, 2016 6:26 PM

Today

• Red Cross blood drives: 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Bigfork High School; 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Flathead Electric.

• Polson Chamber of Commerce meets noon to 1 p.m., KwaTukNuk Resort. Speaker is Niki Graham, director of the Center for Prevention and Wellness for Salish Kootenai College. Lunch $11. Open to public. Call 883-5969.

• Pleasant Valley School board meets 4:30 p.m.

• Groundbreaking ceremony for 50th Habitat for Humanity of Flathead Valley, 340 Westland Dr., Kalispell. Short presentation followed by cake, refreshments and tours. Public invited.

• Somers School District Personnel Committee meets 5 p.m., Somers Middle School to conduct superintendent interviews.

• USMC Happy Hour for Marines and Navy who served with Marines, 5-7 p.m., Kalispell VFW, 330 First Ave. W. Cash bar. Spouses welcome. Call 406-249-2448.

• Flathead River Commission presents a free presentation on “The Deep Aquifer and Subsurface Geology of the Flathead Valley” with Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology scientists John Wheaton and James Rose from 6:30-8:30 p.m., Arts and Technology Building, FVCC. Call Flathead Conservation District, 752-4220.

• Climate Solutions Task Force meets at 7 p.m., Whitefish Library. Steering committees and work groups for special projects will be formed. All interested in renewable energy and conservation, water quality, local food production climate warming solutions welcome; http://glacierclimateaction.org/

Thursday

• Eagle Transit Advisory Committee meets 8:30 a.m., Heritage Place conference room, 171 Heritage Way, Kalispell. Public invited.

• Red Cross blood drives: 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Meadow Lake Resort; noon to 5 p.m. Applied Materials.

• American Association of University Women annual used book sale, noon to 7 p.m. today and Friday; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday — bag day, all books $5 per bag. Proceeds support FVCC scholarships.

• Opening reception for “New Artists 2016 High School Students Art” exhibit 5-7 p.m., Hockaday Museum of Art, 302 Second Ave. E., Kalispell. Free admission. Public welcome. Call 755-5268.

• Flathead County Republican Women sponsor a candidate “meet and greet,” with local house and senate candidates, clerk of court and county commission candidates, Hampton Inn, Kalispell. Reception with light refreshments 5:30 p.m. Moderated program at 6 p.m. Free. Public invited. Call Dee Kirk-Boon, 250-5098.

• Montana Wilderness Foundation presents the final Wilderness Speaker series program by author Rick and Susie Graetz of Missoula titled, “This is the Crown of the Continent, Our Home,” 7 p.m., Arts and Technology Building theater, FVCC. Free. Open to all ages.

Friday

• Columbia Falls Library Association Bookstore bag sale, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Saturday, 39 Sixth St. W., Columbia Falls. Fill a plastic grocery bag with books, CDs and videos, $4.

• Red Cross blood drive, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center, 126 N. Meridian Road, Kalispell.

• American Association of University Women annual used book sale, noon to 7 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday. 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday — bag day, all books $5 per bag. Proceeds support FVCC scholarships.

• Flathead Reservation Human Rights Coalition hosts two programs by Professor Samir Bitar of the University of Montana titled, “Perspectives on Islam,” 12:30 p.m. North Lake County Public Library, St. Ignatius; and 6 p.m. Mission Valley United Methodist Church, 70175 U.S. 93, St. Ignatius with potluck at 5:30 p.m. Free. Public invited.

• Ribbon cutting and re-opening celebration for Bigfork Art and Cultural Center, 5-8 p.m., 525 Electric Ave. Artists’ reception. Food, wine, music. Public invited. Call 837-6927.

Saturday

• 2016 Stumpjumper Days, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., FVCC Logger Sports Arena, accessible via first exit off Hutton Ranch Road roundabout. Competitions include axe throw, horizontal hart hit chops, obstacle pole buche and bonzaii logger. Free. Open to public.

• Eidsvold Lutheran Church community breakfast, 8-11 a.m., 5935 U.S. 93 S., Somers. Homemade biscuits and gravy, sausage, scrambled eggs, pancakes, fruit, beverages. $5 per person; $10 per family. Proceeds benefit church missions and ministries.

• Columbia Falls Library Association Bookstore bag sale, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 39 Sixth St. W., Columbia Falls. Fill a plastic grocery bag with books, CDs and videos for $4.

Thought

“Never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.” u Isaac Asimov (1920-1992).