Daybook for Monday, Nov. 21, 2016
Today
• Summit Life Church will serve a Thanksgiving meal at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Whitefish Community Center. Reservations needed by noon today. Call 406-314-9251
• Red Cross blood drives: 1:30-5:30 p.m. at the center, 126 N. Meridian Road, Kalispell; 2-6 p.m. Trinity Lutheran Church.
• Fair-Mont-Egan School board meets 5 p.m.
• Northwest Montana Posse of Westerners presents a program by a•thor and historian John Fraley titled, “Sheriff Big Joe Gangner and the Shootout at McCarthyville,” 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.
• Columbia Falls Historical Society meets 7 p.m., Ol’ River Bridge building, Columbia Heights. Public invited. Call Clarence Taber, 892-3722; or Dorothy Downen, 892-5894.
• Flathead River Commission meets 7 p.m., Earl Bennett Building, 1035 first Ave. W., Kalispell. Call 752-4220.
Tuesday
• TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Support Group meets at 9 a.m. (every Tuesday). Call 212-3199 or 261-7453.
• Red Cross blood drive, noon to 5 p.m., Immaculate Conception Church, Polson.
• Flathead County Solid Waste District board meets 3 p.m., landfill office.
• “Light Up Evergreen” tree lighting, pie auction and Evergreen Lion’s Club “Go for the Green” Drawing for $1,500 shopping spree, 5 to 7 p.m., The Hardware Store, 2148 U.S. 2 E., Evergreen. Cookies and beverages served. Bring pies for pie auction by 5 p.m. Contact 885-1212.
Wednesday
• Red Cross blood drive, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the center, 126 N. Meridian Road, Kalispell.
Thursday
• Sykes’ annual free community Thanksgiving dinner, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at 202 Second Ave. W. Dine in or carry out. Delivery available for those who can’t get out; call 257-4304 by 5 p.m. Tuesday to arrange.
• Pocketstone Cafe annual free community Thanksgiving dinner, 444 Electric Ave. Bigfork. Three seatings will be available: 11 a.m., 12:15 p.m,1:30 p.m. Reservations requested by calling 837-7223. If space is available, walk-ins will be accommodated.
• City of Kalispell Solid Waste Division will not be picking up roll-out containers today, Thanksgiving. Today’s service will be picked up Friday, Nov. 25. Have containers out by 7 a.m.
• Evergreen Disposal will not be running today. Today’s routes will be picked up Friday. Friday routes will be picked up Saturday.
Friday
• Red Cross blood drive, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the center, 126 N. Meridian Road, Kalispell.
• Christmas at the Fairgrounds, Nov. today through Nov. 27, Flathead County Fairgrounds, Kalispell. Local arts and crafts, unique gifts and decor. Food and beverages available. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Free admission and parking.
• Mission Mountain Winery free program to learn about food and wine pairings, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Nov. 26, 82420 U.S. 93 S., Dayton. All welcome.
A look ahead
• Christmas at the Fairgrounds, Nov. 26-27, Flathead County Fairgrounds, Kalispell. Local arts and crafts, unique gifts and decor. Food and beverages available. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Free admission and parking.
• Mission Mountain Winery free program to learn about food and wine pairings, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Nov. 26, 82420 U.S. 93 S., Dayton. All welcome.
• Deep Bay Center presents a free screening of the movie, “The Power of Forgiveness, 2 p.m. Nov. 27, 100 Deep Bay Drive, Lakeside. A discussion will follow. To reserve a seat, call 844-2611.
Thought
Thought for Today: “Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.” u Charlotte P. Gilman, American lecturer and author (1860-1935).