DAYBOOK, Aug. 7

Today

• 38th annual Bigfork Festival of the Arts, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Electric Avenue. More than 160 artisans, food vendors, live music. Bus shuttles to/from Potoczny Field and Bethany Lutheran Church; 406-837-5888; www.bigforkfestivalofthearts.com

• Annual Big Sky Antique and Classic Boat Show, today and Sunday, Marina Cay, Bigfork. Remote control sailboat raffle. Free admission. Hours: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Call Alex Berry, 406-471-2293.

• Woodland Water Park Community Day, noon to 4 p.m. Kalispell. Admission $3 per person with a canned human or pet food donation for food pantry.

Monday

• Daughters of the American Revolution, Chief Ignace Chapter, meet for lunch at noon at the home of Cathy Walston. Meeting and planning session follows at 1 p.m. For information, call regent Cathy Lane, 755-6048.

• Columbia Falls Historical Society work day 1-5 p.m. former Ol’ River Bridge Inn, Columbia Falls, where the group hopes to establish a museum. All interested are welcome. Call Clarence Taber, 892-3722.

• Pleasant Valley School board budget meeting 4:30 p.m., followed by regular business meeting.

• Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group field trip to Bibler Gardens. Meet at 5 p.m. at The Summit parking lot off of Sunnyview Lane in Kalispell to carpool. Survivors, family, friends are welcome; free will donation of $5 per person suggested. Refreshments. Call Theresa, 756-4725.

• The Flathead Conservation District 310 Stream Permit meeting, 7 p.m., 133 Interstate Lane, in Evergreen. Call 752-4220.

Tuesday

• Montana Land Reliance sponsors a free workshop on biological control of spotted knapweed, 9 a.m., Arts and Technology Building, FVCC. Classroom instruction followed by trip to field site to identify and gather insects. Public invited. Call Mark Schiltz, 837-2178.

• Red Cross blood drive, 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Whitefish Credit Union Forum Building.

• National Allliance on Mental Illness/ Local Advisory Council annual picnic, noon to 2:30 p.m., Lone Pine State Park, near Kalsipell. Bring a potluck side dish or dessert. Hamburgers provided. Call 733-2880.

• Flathead Area Secular Humanist Association hosts Kalispell Skeptics in the Club, 5:30 p.m., Scotty’s Bar, 2205 U.S. 93. S., Kalispell. Open to everyone.

• Swan River School board meets at 5:30 p.m.

• Cayuse Prairie School board conducts architect interviews, 6 p.m. school library.

• Smith Valley School board meets 6 p.m., school library.

• Kalispell Public Schools district board meets 6 p.m., Kalispell Middle School Library.

• Somers Rural Fire District board meets 6 p.m., Lakeside Fire Station, 125 Bills Road.

• Sunset hike, 8-10 p.m., Lone Pine State Park, near Kalispell. Learn about nocturnal animals on a 1-mile guided hike then watch the sunset from overlook. Bring flashlights or headlamp. No dogs. Not wheelchair accessible. Call Joan West or Elisse Buhmann, 755-2706, ext. 4.

Wednesday

• Montana spectrUM Science Experience (MosSE) visits ImagineIF library in Kalispell from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. ImagineIF Columbia Falls from 3 to 5 p.m. Physics and engineering experiments geared or children ages 3 to 10 and families.

• Red Cross blood drives: 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Elks Lodge; 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at the center, 126 N. Meridian Road, Kalispell. Sponsored by International Baccalaureate Program.

Thought

“Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.” • Arnold Toynbee, English historian (1889-1975).