Daybook, April 9

| April 9, 2016 7:30 AM

Today

• 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.

• American Association of University Women annual used book sale at the Kalispell Center Mall. Hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday — bag day, all books $5 per bag. Proceeds support FVCC scholarships.

• Great Northern Rail Trail spring clean up 10 a.m. to noon. Meet at trailhead just east of Dern Road, west of Kalispell. Safety vests and garbage sacks provided. Public welcome. Bring weather appropriate clothing and water.

• Family Fun Day, 1-5 p.m., Bigfork Art and Cultural Center, 525 Electric Ave. Face painting, kids’ crafts, sidewalk art, bubbles and more. Public invited. Call 837-6927.

• Lighthouse Christian Home annual fundraising dance and auction, 7 p.m., Grand Ballroom, Red Lion Hotel, Kalispell. Live music by Swingin’ on High Band. Live and silent auctions. Cash raffle. Ticket $50 per person or $350 for table of eight. Call 857-3276.

• Ninth annual Cowboy Up Auction for Samaritan House Homeless Shelter, Gardner’s Auction Barn, U.S. 93 south of Kalispell. Doors open 5 p.m. Pulled pork dinner at 6 p.m.; beer and wine available. Live dance music by Smart Alex. Raffle, live and silent auctions. Tickets $35 each; tables of eight $245. Call 257-5801.

Sunday

• American Association of University Women annual used book sale, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Kalispell Center Mall. Today is bag day, all books $5 per bag. Proceeds will go toward FVCC scholarships.

• Flathead Lutherans for Life annual all-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner and silent auction, noon to 1:30 p.m., Trinity Lutheran Church, 400 W. California St., Kalispell. Update on Hope Pregnancy Center. Free will offering accepted.

• Free movie, “A Chorus in Miracles,” a musical adventure with James Twyman about “A Course in Miracles,” 2 p.m., Deep Bay Center, Earth House, 100 Deep Bay, Lakeside. Space limited; call 844-2611.

• Kalispell Compline Choir presents “Nightcap for the Soul,” 9-9:45 p.m., Christ Church Episcopal, 215 Third Ave. E., Kalispell. Medieval chant, a cappella choral music, meditative readings by candlelight. All welcome.

Monday

• AARP Smart Driver Course, 8 a.m. to noon, Troy United Methodist Church, Troy. $20 fee ($15 for AARP card-holding members.) Call 406-293-0100.

• Daughters of the American Revolution, Chief Ignace Chapter, meet for lunch at noon at Kathlyn Zundell’s home. Planning session of Montana State DAR Convention in Kalispell April 21-23 follows. for information, call Jan Olson at 837-4732.

• Red Cross blood drive, 1:30-5:30 p.m., at the center, 126 N. Meridian Road, Kalispell.

• West Valley School board meets 5 p.m. in room B12.

• Somers School District board special meeting 5:30 p.m., Lakeside Elementary School.

• Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group meets 6-8 p.m., The Summit, Kalispell. Survivors, family, friends are welcome. Refreshments. Call Theresa, 756-4725.

• NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Family Support Group meets 6 p.m., Gateway Community Center, north conference room, Kalispell. Call 854-2323.

• Marion School board meets 6:30 p.m.

• Columbia Falls School board meets at 7 p.m., administration offices boardroom, 501 Sixth Ave. W.

• Flathead Audubon meets at 7 p.m., in the United Way conference room, Gateway Community Center, U.S. 2 West, Kalispell. Beverly Skinner, U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist, gives a program on Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge. Enter from west side of building. Free. All welcome.

• The Flathead Conservation District meets at 7 p.m., 133 Interstate Lane, in Evergreen. Call 752-4220.

Thought

“Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves.” • Josiah Royce, American philosopher (1855-1916).