Daybook, May 9

| May 8, 2016 8:27 PM

TODay

• 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.

• Flathead Audubon meets at Whitefish Community Center, 121 Second St. Marco Restani gives a presentation on migration ecology of saw-whet owls. Enter from west side of building. Doors open 5 p.m.; potluck dinner 6 p.m. Program begins 7 p.m. Silent auction. Bring your own table service. All welcome.

• West Valley School board meets 5 p.m., room B12.

• Traumatic Brain Injury Support Group potluck 6 p.m., Earl Colbry’s house, Bitterroot Lake. Those whose last name begins with A-M bring pasta salad or chips and salsa; N-Z, bring desserts, fruit. Meet at 5:15 p.m. at Summit parking lot to carpool. Survivors, family, friends are welcome. Refreshments. Call Sue, 756-4725.

• Somers School District community presentation for District 5 School plans/survey questions, 6 p.m.

• Columbia Falls School board meets at 7 p.m., administration offices boardroom, 501 Sixth Ave. W.

• The Flathead Conservation District meets at 7 p.m., 133 Interstate Lane, in Evergreen. Call 752-4220.

Tuesday

• Creston School District Board of Trustees will hold a reorganization/regular meeting at 7:30 a.m.

• Red Cross blood drive, 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Immanuel Lutheran Communities, Kalispell.

• National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)/Local Advisory Council meets 1 p.m., Gateway Community Center, Kalispell. Call 253-7880

• Grand opening for Cancer Support Community, 4-7 p.m., 37 W. Washington St., Kalispell. Hors d’oeuvres, refreshments. Public invited. Call 752-0130.

• 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.

• Veterinarian Becky Jessup of Ashley Creek Animal Clinic gives a free presentation on canine first aid and CPR, 6-7:30 p.m., Walk Your Dog Club, 111 W. Idaho St., Kalispell. Call 406-890-2220.

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

• Suicide prevention training, 6-8:30 p.m., today, Whitefish United Methodist Church, 1150 Wisconsin Ave; or 5:30-7:30 p.m. May 12, City-County Health Department, 1035 First Ave. W., Kalispell. To register, call Joan Schmidt, 871-1008.

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

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

• Somers Rural Fire District Board meets 6 p.m., Lakeside Fire Department. 125 Bills Road.

• Deer Park School board reorganization meeting 6:30 p.m., followed by regular meeting.

• FVCC Music Department student concert, 7 p.m., Arts and Technology Building. Free. Open to public. Call Nicole Sanford, 756-4813.

Wednesday

• Youth Mental Health First Aid course, 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 540 S. Main St., Kalispell. To register, call Joan Schmidt, 871-1008.

• Red Cross blood drives: 11 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Lakeview Healthcare Communities; 12:30-6 p.m. Proof Research.

• Parkinson’s disease support group meets 3-4:30 p.m., The Summit, Kalispell. Dr. Cameron Gardner presents “How PD and other Health Issues Interact.” All welcome. Call Lois, 871-3767 or Inga, 756-5514.

• Flathead Beekeepers meet 6:30 p.m., North Valley Hospital Community Center, 235 Nucleus Ave., Columbia Falls. Open to anyone with an interest. Call Kathy, 752-9642.

• Evergreen School board meets 6:30 p.m., administration boardroom.

• Bigfork County Water and Sewer District meets 7 p.m., 108 Harbor Heights Blvd., Bigfork. Public welcome.

• Bad Rock Rural Fire District board meets 7:30 p.m., north firehall, 23 Columbia Pines Court. Call 892-0438.

Thursday

• Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center hosts a series of one-day citizen science training workshop and field trip on common loons, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., May 12, Park Headquarters, West Glacier. Call 888-7986.

Thought

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”

• Jose Ortega y Gasset, Spanish philosopher (born this date in 1883, died in 1955).