Community briefs

| June 11, 2023 12:00 AM

Agency on Aging holds dementia simulations

Flathead County Agency on Aging in partnership with Heart to Heart Home Care is hosting free Dementia Live simulations on June 28 and June 29.

One-hour sessions are available between 9 a.m.-6 p.m. each day and will take place in the South Campus Conference Room at 40 11th Street West in Kalispell.

This is a “high-impact immersion experience that brings inside-out understanding of cognitive impairment and sensory changes.” This simulation is beneficial for anyone — whether they work with people who have dementia, or have family members or friends who have dementia.

Participants are encouraged to sign-up individually or with a team or family members by calling 406-314-6955. Each session is limited to 10 people and contact information for each participant is requested. Registration deadline is June 23.

Boy Scouts seek sailors

The Montana council of the Boy Scouts of America Montana Council has as one of their summer camps, Melita Island on Flathead lake.

Every summer the island is host to hundreds of Scouts from all over the United States for a period of five weeks of camp. The camp provides training in scouting skills as merit badges or rank advancement. Many offers are related to aquatics and the water. All about sailing, canoeing, motorboating, fishing, water skiing, and others. For the adults, the island has three large sailboats over 20 ft long and offers leisure and educational cruises to keep them occupied while the Scouts are busy learning their skills.

In order to fulfill the adult sailing cruises, the council needs competent sailing captains. Experience in sailing and handling a boat of 20 to 25 feet is necessary. Boat captains may use their own boat for this providing it is over 20 feet. Slips and moorings are available.

Volunteers spend a week at camp and are compensated with a tent to sleep in, meals every day, and a good time helping the Scouting program. Their job is to take one of the boats with two to four adults on board out on the lake for approximately two and a half hours in the morning, and again in the afternoon.

If a captain would rather not stay on the island, a shuttle back to the mainland is available morning and night. The camp has space available for RV parking should the sailors prefer that option.

Summer camp begins July 8 and continues for six days a week until Aug. 12.

Any sailor or sailboat captain is interested in this opportunity, call 406-250-7004.

Summer camps

Framing for the Future Academy at the Montana Veterans Home Garden in Columbia Falls has announced its summer camps.

The camps are free and open to all ages and abilities, but open to 25 participants per camp.

On June 12, there will be a solar work camp, where kids can learn how solar panels work and do a basic solar car project.

On June 13-16, there will be a hovercraft wheelbarrow camp, where kids will make their own hovercraft. Kids must attend the June 12 solar camp to participate in this camp.

On June 18-21 is the wilderness Merino wool fiber arts camp, kids will make their own survival vests from merino wool from sheep that live at the garden.

On June 22-23 is the charcuterie board/mozzarella cheese making camp. Kids will make their own board and the cheese to go on it.

Code Girls United hosting summer camps

Code Girls United will be hosting summer camps for girls in grades 4-8 this summer.

Coding Groovy Unicorns summer camps are designed to be fun and engaging while students learn coding, teamwork, cooperation and gain self-confidence. This class is for girls who are creative and want to learn about computer science in a team setting. In just 12 hours of class, students will learn coding basics, build a binary bracelet and create a game using MIT App Inventor.

Coding Groovy Unicorn Camps will be held in Kalispell on July 17-20 from 9 a.m. to noon or 1-4 p.m. Registration for Kalispell’s Coding Groovy Unicorns can be completed through Kalispell Parks and Recreation. Dates, times and registration for other camp sites can be accessed through Code Girls United’s website: www.codegirlsunited.org.