Daybook, May 4

| May 4, 2016 6:00 AM

Today

• FVCC Art Club Mother’s Day sale, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Arts and Technology Building. Variety of medium will be for sale. Public invited. Call David Regan, 756-3993.

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

• USMC Happy Hour for Marines and Navy who served with Marines, 5-7 p.m., Kalispell VFW, 330 First Ave. W. Cash bar. Spouses welcome. Call 406-249-2448.

• 27th annual Project Whitefish Wine and Food Fest, 6-9 p.m., Grouse Mountain Lodge, Whitefish. “Star Wars” theme. Food from area restaurants, wine and beer. Silent and live auction. Proceeds support children’s theater and sports. Tickets $70 per person. Call 862-5371.

• Kalispell Public Schools Facility Planning Committee meets 6 p.m., district office, 233 first Ave. E.

Thursday

• Carry the Future and Operation Refugee Child fundraiser and rummage sale, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., The Blank Space, 235 United Drive, Kalispell. Accepting clothing and rummage donations, bake goods. Silent auction, Raffles. Call Debbie Ingram, 885-7714.

• Red Cross blood drives: 10 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Plum Creek; noon to 5 p.m. Columbia Falls Community Room.

• Groundbreaking ceremony for Immanuel Lutheran Communities expansion project, 3 p.m., Buffalo Hill Terrace, 40 Claremont St., Kalispell. Barbecue, music. Call 752-9624.

• Kalispell Public Schools Curriculum Committee meets 3 p.m., district office, 233 first Ave. E.

• Swan River School board budget meeting 5 p.m., sixth grade room.

• “Big Event-Night to Change a Life” Big Brothers Big Sisters’ annual spring fundraiser, Kalispell’s Hilton Garden Inn. Doors open 5:30 p.m. Dinner, a bucket raffle, live auction, grand prize giveaway. Tickets, $750 for a table of eight, $200 per couple, $125 per individual; www.bbbsfc.org

• Flathead Area Secular Humanist Association’s National Day of Reason celebration, 5:30-8 p.m., Museum at Central School, 124 Second Ave. E., Kalispell. Free and open to public. Bring a potluck dish. Cash bar.

• Screening of “The Great Transmission,” a 2015 documentary about the efforts of a Tibetan refugee lama to preserve sacred Buddhist texts, 6 p.m., room139, Arts and Technology Building, FVCC.

• “Zumba de Mayo” dance party, Eagles, 37 First St. W., Kalispell. Learn zumba steps 6 p.m.; dance 6:30-8 p.m. Drawings Advance tickets $15; $20 at door, available at Music One Workshop in Kalispell. Benefit for Abbie Shelter.

• Holocaust survivor Peter Metzelaar from Seattle presents a program about his experiences, 7 p.m., Glacier High School auditorium, Kalispell. A candlelighting ceremony will begin the event. Free. Public invited.

• FVCC Theatre Department International 10-Minute Play Festival, 7 p.m. today through May 7. Arts and Technology Building. Free. Open to the public.

Friday

• Kila School board negotiation meeting 7:30 a.m.

• Flathead Spay & Neuter Task Force Cash for Critters annual indoor yard sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today; 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 7, Gateway Community Center (east side of mall), Kalispell. Call Mimi, 261-5175.

• Disabled American Veterans Mobile Service Office will be at Kalispell VA Medical Clinic, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. , 31 Three Mile Dr., Kalispell. No appointment needed. Call 752-2357.

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

• Seventh annual FVCC Student Research Conference, 12:15 p.m., Arts and Technology Building, FVCC. Opening addresses 12:15 p.m. Free and open to the public. Poster exhibitions from 10-2 p.m. Student presentations from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Awards ceremony, 3:45 p.m. in room 144.

• Columbia Falls High School Academic Endowment annual spring fundraiser at 6 p.m., Montana Veterans Home old chapel in Columbia Falls, to help fund academic and arts programs and projects at Columbia Falls High School. Live and silent auctions, food and beverages. Call George Scherman at 406-270-5210 for tickets or to donate auction items.

• Pie and dessert auction, 7 p.m., Swan River Community Hall, corner of Echo Lake and Swan River Road, Bigfork. Admission one pie or $5 per family. Pie for sale by the slice, with ice cream, coffee and lemonade. Proceeds support hall renovations.

Thought

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.” • Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, “father” of America’s nuclear navy (1900-1986).