DAYBOOK, Aug. 14

| August 14, 2016 6:00 AM

Today

• 27th annual Huckleberry Days Arts Festival, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Depot Park, Whitefish. More than 100 vendors of fine art, food, entertainment. 406-862-3501; www.whitefishchamber.org

Monday

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

• 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.

• Northwest Montana Posse of Westerners presents a program by American history professor, author and Smithsonian battlefield tour guide Gregg S. Clemmer of Hunt Valley, Maryland, titled, “Why the Civil War Still Lives,” Red Lion Hotel Kalispell. Greeting time 5:30 p.m.; dinner 6:15 p.m. Cost $19 includes presentation. Program starts at 7 p.m., free for posse members and youth under 16; $5 for nondinner walk-in nonmembers. For dinner reservations, call 755-7339.

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

• Somers School District Trustees Negotiation Committee meets at 5:30 p.m.; followed by regular board meeting 6 p.m., Somers Middle School.

• Columbia Falls School board meets at 6 p.m., administration offices boardroom, 501 Sixth Ave. W.

• Death Cafe Flathead meets 7-9 p.m., Bohemian Hall, 125 Blanchard Lake Road, U.S. 93 behind Montana Coffee Traders. Open, respectful discussion on all aspects of death and dying. All welcome. Call Nancy Reece Jones, 257-1840.

• Flathead River Commission meets 7 p.m., Earl Bennett Building, 1035 First Ave. W., Kalispell. Contact Flathead Conservation District at 752-4220.

Tuesday

• Fair-Mont-Egan School board meets 9:30 a.m.

• Red Cross blood drive, noon to 4:15 p.m., Lakeside QRU.

• Lakeside County Water and Sewer District board meets 2 p.m., 253 Bierney Creek Road, Lakeside.”

• Swan River Bridge Feasability Study open house and informational presentation, 4:30 to 7:30 p.m., Bigfork Elementary School cafeteria. Open to public.

• CASA for Kids advocate information session, 5:30 p.m. United Way conference room, 1203 U.S. 2 W., Kalispell. Meet program staff and advocates. Light refreshments. All welcome. Call Jamie Campbell, 755-7208.

• Marion School board meets 6:30 p.m.

• Cayuse Prairie School board meets at 7 p.m., school library.

• Flathead County Democratic Party meets 7 p.m., Kalispell VFW Post 2252 meeting room. 330 first Ave. W. Bring a nonperishable food item or donation for Northwest Montana Veterans food Pantry. Call Lynne Stanley, 471-8317.

Wednesday

• Evergreen Water and Sewer District board meets at 7 a.m. at the district office, 130 Nicholson Dr.

• Whitefish Community Center bus trip to Whitefish Mountain Resort. Round-trip gondola ride to top of Big Mountain. Cost $15. Bring a brown bag lunch and jacket. Bus loads at 10:15 a.m. Preregister by calling 862-4923.

• Red Cross blood drive, noon to 5 p.m., Troy Baptist Church.

• Premier screening of documentary, “The Country Side of Care” about care farms that help people with disabilities, 7:30 p.m., Arts and Technology Building, FVCC. Free. Open to public.

Thought

“The aims of life are the best defense against death.” • Primo Levi, Italian chemist and writer (1919-1987).