DAYBOOK, June 16

| June 16, 2016 6:00 AM

Today

• Whitefish Community Library launches its Summer Reading Challenge with bike rodeo, 10:30 a.m. to noon, library parking lot. Safety checks, skills course. Call 862-9914.

• Red Cross blood drive, 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Libby VFW.

• Two free workshops for nonprofits ImagineIF Library, Kalispell: “Before You Seek a Grant” 10:30 a.m. to noon; Overview of Foundation Directory Online, 1-2:30 p.m. RSVP to npdp.org/event or call 756-3618.

• Lake County Park board hosts a public meeting at 4 p.m., for input on Rainbow Drive Swan River Access Site. Off Montana 35, turn east on Montana 209 to flashing light on South Ferndale Drive and turn right to Community Center.

• Evergreen Chamber of Commerce Energizer, 5-6:30 p.m., Plant Land, 1008 U.S. 2 E. Food, beverages, door prizes. Call 885-1212.

• Polson Chamber of Commerce Splash, 5-7 p.m. Mission Valley Physical Therapy, Nunlist Enterprises and Caselli’s Therapeutic Massage, 51657 U.S. 93 S. Open to public. Call 883-5969.

• Shanti Yoga Studio celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a free yoga class, 6 p.m., Depot Park, downtown Whitefish, rain or shine. Cellist Lee Zimmerman performs. All welcome. Bring a mat or beach towel.

• Guided 1- to 2-mile wildflower walk, Whitefish Trail. Meet at 6 p.m. at Lion Mountain Trailhead. Hand lenses and field guides provided. Free.

• Cayuse Prairie School board special meeting, 6:30 p.m., clerk’s office.

• Cayuse Prairie School board Needs Assessment Committee meets at 7 p.m. school lunchroom.

• Artists and Craftsmen of the Flathead Valley meet at 7 p.m. lower level of Eagles building, 37 first St. W., Kalispell. Call 881-4288.

Friday

• Kalispell Senior Center is selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts for a fundraiser, 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., corner of U.S. 93 and U.S. 2. Glazed doughnuts $10/dozen.

• Flathead Basin Commission’s mussel sniffing dogs give a demonstration, 8:30 to 10 a.m. Captain’s Marine, Kalispell. Public invited.

• Red Cross blood drives: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center, 126 N. Meridian Road, Kalispell; 11 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. KRMC.

• The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center brown bag luncheon presentation by watercolor Artist-in-Resident Suze Woolf, noon to 1 p.m., Glacier Park Community Building, West Glacier. Free. Open to the public.

Saturday

• Ride 4 Life bike ride/fundraiser, 8 a.m., in honor of Richard Thomas in support of Nate Chute Foundation for youth suicide prevention. Collect pledges and meet at Bojangles Restaurant, U.S. 2 West, Kalispell. Ride all or part of 64-mile bike path route to Somers; pcmwccc@hotmail.com.

• Montana Wilderness Association sponsors a Lincoln County Archaeological Tour. Free, guided road tour with short hikes to a variety of historic sites, including a trading post, logging camps, pictographs and more. Meet at 9 a.m. at Kootenai National Forest Supervisors Office, 31374 U.S. 2 W., Libby. Tour concludes 3 p.m.

• Ice Cream Social at Mission Mountain Winery, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., U.S. 93 S., Dayton, on Flathead Lake. Free. Public invited.

• Ferndale Sewing Circle bake sale, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ferndale Community Center, South Ferndale Drive, across Montana 209 from the Ferndale Fire Hall. Call 837-7278.

Thought

“Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.” • Cyril Connolly, British critic (1903-1974).