Community news
Dog show
The Flathead Kennel Club will sponsor an American Kennel Club-sanctioned B Match Dog Show at Marantette Park in Columbia Falls on Saturday, May 12, with registration at 9 a.m., sweeps beginning at 10 a.m. and conformation beginning at 11 a.m. For more information or to register, visit online at www.flatheadkennelclub.com or call 471-2328.
Candidates speak
Three Republican candidates for Senate District 2, Dee Brown, Suzanne Brooks and incumbent Bill Beck, will speak at the Friday, May 11, meeting of the Glacier Pachyderm Club at the Red Lion Hotel in Kalispell from noon to 1 p.m. Each will offer their thoughts regarding the issues facing the district and the state as a whole and take questions from the audience as time permits.
Cancer talk
Columbia Falls Women’s Connection will hold their luncheon at Teakettle Community Hall, on Nucleus Avenue, on Wednesday, May 16, at 11:30 a.m. Bonnie Stutsman will talk about surviving breast cancer and the annual Relay for Life fundraiser. The speaker will be Mary Todd. Cost $8 per person. Free child care is available by reservation. Women’s Connection is affiliated with Stonecroft Ministries. For more information, call Candy at 387-4119 or Janet at 892-3621.
IONS meet
The local Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) community group will present a talk on a process called “Viewpoints,” a dynamic process designed to raise consciousness and self awareness, at the Bohemian Grange, directly west of Montana Coffee Traders on U.S. 93, on Thursday, May 10, at 7 p.m. Rick Haptonstall, an assistant professor of theater at Flathead Valley Community College, has spent the last 20 years directing, designing, teaching and acting in various parts of the Flathead Valley. For more information, call 862-9591 or 862-7711.
Singers needed
The Flathead Valleyaires, a men’s barbershop chorus based in Kalispell, will hold a recruitment night in the basement of the Epworth United Methodist Church, 329 Second Avenue East, in Kalispell, on Tuesday, May 15, at 7 p.m.
Native landscaping
The Flathead Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society will present a talk by Laura Law on tips, tricks and inexpensive ways to add native plants to landscaping at Glacier Discovery Square on Wednesday, May 16, at 7 p.m. After a 30-minute presentation, participants may walk a short distance to Law’s house to view the work she has done incorporating native plants into her own small yard.
Habitat fundraiser
Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 401 Seventh Street West, in Columbia Falls, will sponsor its fifth annual pie and perennial plant sale and raffle to benefit Habitat for Humanity and Thrivent Builds from Saturday, May 12, from 8 a.m. to noon. Drop off times plants and pie donations are Friday from noon to 7 p.m. and Saturday starting at 6:30 a.m. For more information, call Elizabeth at 892-7789 or Our Savior’s Lutheran Church at 892-3784.
Family Forestry
The Family Forestry Expo will take place at Stoltze Land and Lumber Co.’s Trumbull Creek Educational Forest, north on Half Moon Road from U.S. 2 and Highway 40. On Saturday, May 12, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., there will be a free loggers lunch, a logging demonstrations, wildlife and forestry exhibits, a demonstration by the Flathead Valley Community College Logger Sports team and a forest walk with many different educational stops.
Motorcycle show
The second annual S.M.E.G. Motorcycle Show will be held at the Flathead County Fairgrounds Expo Building on Saturday, May 19, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. with fabulous custom motorcycles, cool classic bikes, brand new 2012 models from local retailers, a swap meet, riding apparel fashion show, live music, a biker bar, a bike rodeo, after-market goods and services vendors, barbecue and other food. Admission to the family-friendly event is $10 adults and free for children under-12. For more information, visit online at www.smeg406.com or www.facebook.com/seriousmotorcycleenthusiastgroup or call 406-857-3119 or e-mail smeg406@yahoo.com.
Summer music
The Columbia Falls Lions Club Summer Concert Series begins this year on June 21 Anyone or business interested in being a sponsor can call committee chairman Mark Johnson at 314-0200. The one-hour concerts will be held at the Don Lawrence Amphitheater in Marantette Park, in Columbia Falls, beginning at 7:30 p.m.