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Community Market
The Columbia Falls Community Market is 5 p.m. Thursday, June 14 at the Coop. Featured music is Jameson & The Sordid Seeds. Sponsor is Three Rivers Bank of Montana with Flathead Lake Brewing Company and Spotted Bear Spirits.
Basketball Camp
The Columbia Falls boys and girls basketball camps will be at the high school June 18-21 for players entering grades 3-8 and July 9-12 for players in high school. The cost is $50 for an individual with a family discount of $5 off each additional child. Grades 3-5 will be from 10 a.m. until noon and grades 6-8 will be from 1-3 p.m. Grades 9-12 will have their camp from 6-9 p.m. For more information, contact Chris Finberg at 406-250-1994 or c_finberg@cfmtschools.net
Lions concert
The Columbia Falls Lions Club concert series starts up June 21 with the big band sounds of the Don Lawrence Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. at Marantette Park. Admission is $3 per adult or $5 per family. Bring a lawn chair or blanket and a picnic dinner, and enjoy an evening of wonderful music.
Fire and plants tour
The Flathead Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society invites you to learn about post-fire revegetation from Steve Wirt June 21 from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. Wirt continues to fascinate listeners with his knowledge of native plant life after a burn. See the history of fire in this area written on the face of the landscape as participants trek up the North Fork Road toward Polebridge. Meet at the Columbia Heights Park and Ride, junction of Highways 206 and 2. Contact: Steve Wirt 406.261.2542, wirtland@yahoo.com.
Institute classes
The Glacier Institute has a host of interesting classes this month. On Friday, June 15, Rich Sheremeta will help the intermediate level photographer improve his or her skills with nature photography in “Nature Photography in Glacier National Park”. In this course, you will learn “How to make a photograph” versus just taking a snapshot.
The Glacier Institute also invites birders to flock to Field Camp. On June 15-16, expert birder Denny Olson, who possesses an intimate knowledge of Glacier’s unending hideaways, is instructing “Birding by Ear” and on June 23-24, instructor Dave Shea will give students an in depth look into the life histories, habits, physical characteristics, distribution, and management policies of Glacier’s full suite of birds of prey in the “Birds of Prey” course. This course will focus, in particular, on the bald eagle population in the Park, and why it has risen and fallen dramatically in recent years.
The Glacier Institute is now enrolling for these courses and many others throughout the summer. Previous experience is not necessary for any Glacier Institute courses. More information can be found online at www.glacierinstitute.org or by emailing register@glacierinstitute.org.