Community briefs for April 10
Job Fair
Whitefish High School is looking for businesses to participate in its fifth annual Job Fair on Friday, April 26 from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at WHS. Local employers from around the Flathead Valley are invited to come and meet students who are looking for summer employment. Those interested in participating, can contact: Christian Bitterauf at bitteraufc@whitefishschools.org or call at 862-8600, extension 424. It’s asked that businesses commit by April 22.
Book presentation
The Whitefish Community Library will host Doug Ammons as he presents a program based on his High Plains Book Award book “A Darkness Lit by Heroes” on Monday, April 29, at 7 p.m. This is the story of the biggest hard rock mining accident in America — the Granite Mountain-Speculator Mine fire in Butte in 1917. The fire claimed the lives of 168 men. Ammons said a key element to the book was a huge collection of witness interviews that had been lost for 100 years.
AFS student
Would you like to broaden your horizons and bring the world to your family? Consider inviting another culture to your home by hosting an American Field Services high school exchange student for the next school year. AFS is now placing exchange students in the Flathead Valley. It is an opportunity for your family to experience another culture in your own home. If interested contact, Bruce Aronson at (406) 250-4248 or brucecraib@gmail.com or Kendra Hope at (406) 250-5532 or kendraehope@gmail.com
FVCC Library Holds Used Book Sale
Flathead Valley Community College will hold a used book sale Thursday, April 18 through Sunday, April 28 in the campus library, located inside the Learning Resource Center Building. Hours of the sale will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday and 12 to 4:30 p.m. on weekends. Books will be priced at $1 each until Thursday, April 25 and discounted to 25 cents thereafter. The FVCC Library is preparing to move to its new location inside the Broussard Family Library and Learning Commons later this spring.
Book group
The Whitefish Community Library Book Group’s monthly meeting will be on Wednesday, April 24 at 6 p.m. in the community room. This month’s book is “The Water is Wide: a Memoir” by Pat Conroy. In this book, Conroy decided to try teaching on a barrier island off the coast of South Carolina. He knew the students were illiterate, but he accepted the challenge. Not one student knew what country they lived in, or who the president of the U.S. was. Newcomers are always welcome. For more information, call Whitefish Community Library at 862-9914.
Audubon trip
Flathead Audubon will host a field trip to the West Valley Ponds in Kalispell on, Saturday April 20, from 9 a.m. to noon. The group will visit several ponds in the West Valley area including the new public bird viewing area. Expect to see lots of migrating waterfowl and look for shorebirds, raptors, and early passerines. Roads will be both paved and gravel. This trip will be primarily driving. For details and to sign-up, contact Cory Davis (406) 471-3314 or piranga99@gmail.com. Trip is limited to 25 participants and is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit the Flathead Audubon website: www.flatheadaudubon.org
Women’s Luncheon
Columbia Falls Women’s Connection will have a luncheon on Wednesday, April 17 at 11:30 a.m. at the North Valley Hospital Community Room in Columbia Falls. Guest speakers will be Cindy Hooker from Boys and Girls Club and Sarah Picklesimer who is new to the valley will share her many passions including home schooling. Donations of nonperishable food items such as granola and cereal bars will be collected for the Boys and Girls Club summer program. Cost is $8 and all women are welcome to attend. For reservations call Candy at 387-4119 or Janet at 892-3621 by 5 p.m. Monday, April 15. Affiliated with Stonecroft Ministries.
Food for fines
To celebrate National Library Week the Whitefish Community Library will be accepting one item of non-perishable food in lieu of monetary payment for overdue fines. Payment for lost items not eligible. For every item brought in this week through April 13, $1 will be removed from accounts. All food will be donated to the North Valley Food Bank.
Deadline for using Shopko gift cards
It was recently announced that the Wisconsin-headquartered department store Shopko will be closing all of its remaining Montana stores and well over 100 stores nationwide after filing for bankruptcy protection in January of this year. Attorney General Tim Fox encourages Montanans who possess Shopko gift cards to use them as soon as possible. The Attorney General’s Office of Consumer Protection has been communicating with bankruptcy counsel for Shopko and has been informed that Shopko will be accepting those gift cards up to and until April 20. Shopko has 11 locations in Montana: Billings, Dillon, Glasgow, Helena, Kalispell, Libby, Livingston, Lewistown, Missoula, Sidney and Shelby.
Bingo
The Whitefish Community Center will hold Bingo on Monday, April 8 at 1 p.m. Cost is $1 entry and 10 cents per card. Cash and door prizes. Complimentary coffee and treats.
Book talk
The Whitefish Community Center on Wednesday, April 17 at 1 p.m. will host an author’s talk and book signing by Sanford Horowitz, who will give his thoughts on aging well, as expressed in his book, “Life at 70, Pedal to the Metal.”
4-H fundraiser
The Grandview Supreme 4-H Spring Fling and Dessert Auction is Saturday, April 13 at 7 p.m. at the Whitefish Moose Lodge, 230 W. 10th St. Music will be by the Ashley Creek Ramblers. Drawings include a one night stay at Lodge at Whitefish Lake, a half of a hog processed, one night stay at the Firebrand Hotel, and 25 pounds of ground Wagyu beef. Entry fee with a chance at the drawings is $5, entry without a chance at the drawings is $3. The event is open to the public.