Daybook, May 7

| May 7, 2016 6:00 AM

Today

• Plant and pie sale, 8 a.m. to noon, Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 401 Seventh St. W., Columbia Falls. Hot breakfast dishes for sale and whole pies or by the slice. Call 892-3784.

• AKC sanctioned B-OB Match Marantette Park, Columbia Falls. Registration 8-9:30 a.m., Judging and conformation 10 a.m.; www.flatheadkennelclubofmontana.com or Peggy Atchley, 837-5105.

• Stillwater Lutheran Church clothing giveaway 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 241 Stillwater Road, Kalispell. Call Diane, 270-7016 or Mary, 752-7579.

• Family Forestry Expo, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Trumbull Creek Educational Forest, two miles north of the junction of U.S. 2 and Montana 40, just west of Columbia Falls. Educational stations, demonstrations. Grandstand show on logging at 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Free camp lunch. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Free. All welcome. Call 758-5218.

• Spartan races Saturday and Sunday Averill’s Quarter Circle Ranch, Bigfork. Spartan Beast Saturday; Spartan Sprint Sunday. Parking $10, at corner of Montana 35 and 82; Free shuttles run all day from race site to parking; spartan.com/montana

• Wildflower Walk 10 to 11 a.m. Lone Pine State Park, near Kalispell. Botanist and AmeriCorps volunteer Dr. Joan West discusses wildflower identification. Cost is $4. Good shoes are recommended. Call 755-2706.

• Montana Health Journal’s fifth annual spring Health Expo, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Red Lion Hotel Kalispell. Guest speakers are Montana farmer Jim Barngrover and Dr. Chip Halverson. Vendors, music. Free. All ages welcome. Call 406-250-3309.

• North Valley Hospital presents “Postpartum Tales,” storytelling workshop with Melissa Bangs, 1 to 5:30 p.m., North Valley Professional Office Building, 713 13th St. E., Whitefish. $100 per person; pre-registration required. Call 863-3632.

• Flathead County Animal Shelter volunteer orientation, 1-2 p.m., 225 Cemetery Road, south of Kalispell. All welcome; children under 18 must be with an adult. Call 752-1310.

• Whitefish Legacy Partners guided wild mushroom hike. Meet at Swift Creek Trailhead at 2 p.m. or at Depot Park by the Whitefish Library at 1:30 p.m. Bring a basket and collect mushrooms with Dale Johnson. Call 862-3880.

• Sean Gaskell gives a musical performance on a West African kora 21-stringed harp, 3 p.m., ImagineIF, Kalispell. Free. Public invited.

• “Go Red for Kira,” fundraiser for local 10-year-old needing heart surgery, 5 to 8 p.m., Epworth United Methodist Church, 329 Second Ave. E., Kalispell. Free will spaghetti dinner, silent auction, raffle baskets, photo booth, face painting, rock climbing wall, family-friendly activities. Call Meghan, 406-261-1205.

• Valley Voices presents “An American Tribute” free concert, 7 p.m., Flathead High School auditorium. All welcome.

• Bibler Home and Garden Spring Tours, 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Tickets $15; $5 for children. Mother’s Day brunch, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Tickets $60 per person or $110 per couple. Advance purchase required. Call FVCC Foundation office, 756-3632.

Sunday

• Internationally acclaimed African Children’s Choir gives two performances: at 9:45 a.m. Whitefish Church of the Nazarene, 600 E. Second St.; and 7 p.m. Whitefish Performing Arts Center. Free will offering. Call 862-2433.

• Bibler Home and Garden Mother’s Day brunch, 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Tickets $60 per person or $110 per couple. Call FVCC Foundation office, 756-3632.

• Spartan Sprint race, Averill’s Quarter Circle Ranch, Bigfork. Parking $10, at corner of Montana 35 and 82; Free shuttles run all day from race site to parking; spartan.com/montana

• Kalispell Compline Choir presents “Nightcap for the Soul,” 9-9:45 p.m., Christ Church Episcopal, 215 Third Ave. E., Kalispell. Medieval chant, a cappella choral music, meditative readings by candlelight. All welcome.

Monday

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

• Somers School District Trustees Negotiation Committee Somers Education Association Committee meet 4 p.m.,Somers Middle School on May 9, 2016 at 4:00 p.m.

Thought

“There are those who believe something, and therefore will tolerate nothing; and on the other hand, those who tolerate everything, because they believe nothing.” • Robert Browning, English poet (born this date in 1812; died in 1889).