Daybook
TODAY
— Volunteer Garden Work Days today through Oct. 16, Montana Veterans Home, Columbia Falls. Construction of raised bed, paved walk ways and corrals. Bring work gloves. Call 406-253-4369.
— Red Cross blood drive, 10:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., National Flood.
— ACT for America meets 6 p.m., FairBridge Inn & Suites, Kalispell. Program by the Rev. Shahram Hadian on “Chrislam Exposed: The Seductive Lie of a Common God Between Christianity and Islam.” Admission $20 (18 and under, free). Call 837-4525 or email 59911actforamerica@gmail.com
— Flathead Valley Genealogical Society meets, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1380 Whitefish Stage Road, Kalispell. Mini class on DAR records at 5:30 p.m. Business meeting 6:30 p.m. Christ Despain presents a program on “Zoning: Extracting Info from Newspaper Records” at 7 p.m. Free and open to public. Call Lynne Bradley, 756-9245.
— Flathead Valley Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) group meets 7 p.m., Bohemian Hall, 125 Blanchard Lake Road, Whitefish. New documentary “Vaxxed: The Movie,” about childhood vaccines and autism, will be shown www.ionsflathead.org
— Flathead Wildlife meets 7 p.m. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Building, Meridian Road, Kalispell. Wes and Jeremy Plummer of Lower Valley Meat Supply give a presentation of proper handling of big game animals for quality meat. Bruce Babcock talks about proper handling of trophy deer in preparation for wall mount. Raffle. Refreshments.
FRIDAY
— Red Cross blood drives: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center, 126 N. Meridian Road, Kalispell; 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. KRMC.
— Kalispell Public Schools Governance Committee meets 10 a.m., district office, 233 First Ave. E.
— Flathead Chapter of National Active and Retired Federal Employees meets at noon, Buffalo Hill Terrace, Kalispell. Social time, 11:30 a.m. Lunch available for $8. Call Doris Warrant, 752-8026.
— Glacier Pachyderm Club meets noon to 1 p.m., Red Lion Hotel Kalispell. Speakers are candidates Greg Gianforte, Corey Stapleton, Elsie Arntzen, Matt Rosendale, Tim Fox and Frank Garner. Lunch available. Public invited; www.gcpachy.org
— Gateway to Glacier Trail grand opening celebration, noon, Glacier Distillery patio, Coram. Refreshments. Call 387-5282.
— Western States Constitutional Rights LLC sponsors a program by Attorney Lawrence Kogan and author Elaine Willman on “Federal and Tribal Takeover of Private Land and Water Rights?” 7 p.m. Eagles, 37 First St. W., Kalispell. Admission $10 and includes dinner. Open to everyone.
SATURDAY
— Spartan Race Fitness Revolution Day, 10 a.m., The Wave, Whitefish. Join 100 gyms around the world and join a free work out. All fitness levels welcome. Need not be a gym member. Space limited; http://www.spartan.com/en/training/workout-tour/revolution-workout
— Glacier Woodturners meet 9 a.m., Hanson Trucking, Columbia Falls. Call 755-1795.
— Glacier Stamp Club annual stamp show, GLAPEX XXXIII, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today; 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday, Museum at Central School, 124 Second Ave. E., Kalispell.
— Ben Long, author of “Great Montana Bear Stories,” tells stories by campfire, 6:30-7:30 p.m., Lone Pine State Park picnic area, near Kalispell. Limited to 30 people; register at http://www.eventbrite.com/o/imagineif-libraries-6523451735
— Whitefish Review hosts author Jon Turk for a reading of his latest book “Crocodiles and Ice,” and slideshow, Casey’s, Whitefish. Doors open 7 p.m.; program 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation.
SUNDAY
— Glacier Stamp Club annual stamp show, GLAPEX XXXIII, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Museum at Central School, 124 Second Ave. E., Kalispell.
— Whitefish Fire Department annual open house, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Public invited. Call 871-5285.
Thought
“There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost.” — Franz Kafka, author (1883-1924).