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DAYBOOK, April 23

| April 23, 2016 6:00 AM

Today

• Columbia Falls Lions Club annual pancake breakfast, 7 a.m. to noon, Columbia Falls Senior Citizens Center, 205 Nucleus Ave. Adults, $7; seniors $6; children 12 and under, $4; families, $20.

• Flathead Audubon birding field trip on FVCC campus. Meet at 7:30 a.m. at tents south of Early Childhood Center; return by 9 a.m. for Bioblitz

• “Clean Your “Fork” clean up of Bigfork area roadways. Continental breakfast 8 a.m. Flathead Bank, followed by clean up. To sign up, call Bigfork Chamber, 837-5888.

• Columbia Falls Women’s Connection is having an indoor yard sale fundraiser, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., Community Room, Nucleus Avenue, Columbia Falls. Household items, nice clothing and more.

• Whitefish celebrates Earth Day. Depot Park. Festival —10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Activities, live music, guest speakers, food. Potluck — 5 to 9 p.m., Whitefish Moose Lodge. Bring a dish to share, then dance to Tropical Montana Marimba Ensemble; www.flatheadcitizens.org or call 756-8993. “

• Clean the ‘Fish” — Meet at 8:30 a.m. for breakfast at Glacier Bank, 319 E. Second St. Trash pick up 9:30 .m. Barbecue 11 a.m.

• Sixth annual Ladies Luncheon, noon, Museum at Central School, Kalispell. Program on vintage aprons and stories. Tickets $20 nonmembers; $17 members. For reservations, call 756-7381.

• Stillwater Christian High School presents the play “The Heart of Robin Hood,” 4 p.m., Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets available at Stillwater Christian School and at the door.

• Flathead Valley Community College BioBlitz, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., on campus in Kalispell. Activities for children and adults in as many identifying plants, birds, insects, fish, fungi and mammals in a given time. Dress for the weather, bring snacks and water. Call Ruth Wrightsman, 756-3878.

• Glacier Woodturners meet 9 a.m., Western Building Center, Columbia Falls. Call 755-1795.

• Whitefish Community Garden opening day, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. behind Whitefish United Methodist Church off Wisconsin Avenue. Plots available. Call Sandie Carpenter, 862-0411.

• Flathead Area Secular Humanist Association presents the Richard Dawkins documentary “The Enemies of Reason,” a skeptical look at psychics, alternative medicine, water witching and similar practices, at 10 a.m., at the ImagineIF Library,  Kalispell. Free and open to the public.

• CASA of Lake and Sanders Counties 10th annual 18-hole four person Golf Scramble fundraiser, Polson Bay Golf Course. Shot-gun start 11 a.m. Call Cameron, 406-883-8230.

• Team Trump 2016 Montana Rally and March, noon. Main street corner by Depot Park. Please bring your own signs.


Sunday

• Whitefish Theatre Company spring cleaning day, 10 a.m. to noon, O’Shaughnessy Center. Volunteer lunch at noon. Call 862-5371

• Taste of Bigfork, 2-5:30 p.m., on the streets of downtown. Raffle follows at Garden Bar. Call 837-5888.

• “Where Eagles Soar—Happy Rhythms Drumming and Talking Circle,” 2 p.m., Earth House, Deep Bay Center, 100 Deep Bay Drive, Lakeside. Free; bring your own drum if you have one. Call 844-2611.

• Share Your Voice Foundation hosts an interactive scavenger hunt, 2-6 p.m., beginning and ending at The Flat, 419 E. Second St., Whitefish. Participants will use clues to find secret locations and create tiny acts of art. Party follows. Cost $50; wwwshareyourvoice.org.


Monday

• AARP Smart Driver Course, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Libby Christian Church. $20 fee ($15 for AARP card-holding members.) Call 406-283-7000.

• Flathead County Democratic Women meet, Hilton Garden Inn, Kalispell. Social at 11:30 a.m. followed by noon buffet lunch for $13. Ina Albert speaks on “Radical Aging.” for reservations, call Lynne Bradley, 756-9245; Judy Cox, 755-1507.

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

• Fair-Mont-Egan School board meets 5 p.m.

• Fundraiser for Flathead Valley LIVE on Stage, 5-7 p.m. Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Home Deport/Target complex.

• Community Night, 5 p.m. Wasabi Sushi Bar and Grill, Whitefish. Portion of all proceeds benefits Whitefish Theatre Co. Call for reservations, 863-9283.

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

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


Thought

“For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,/ When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,/ Must give us pause.” • From “Hamlet.”