Thursday

Fish, Wildlife and Parks fisheries biologist Jim Vashro will join volunteers from Hooked on Fishing and Lone Pine State Park to present an introductory class on ice fishing for all ages. Space is limited. Classes will take place on Thursday, Jan. 7, from 6:30 to 9 p.m. at Lone Pine State Park, in Kalispell and on Saturday, Jan. 9, from 8 to 10 a.m. at Foys Lake in Kalispell. Cost is $10 per person. For more information, call 755-2706.

Friday

Bet Harim Jewish Community of the Flathead Valley will hold a “Welcoming the New Year Sabbath” at the Glacier Universalist Unitarian Fellowship, 1515 Trumble Creek Road, in Kalispell, on Friday, Jan. 8, at 6 p.m. The celebration will begin with the traditional candle-lighting ceremony followed by a potluck supper and Sabbath services. Members of the community are invited to join to pray for health, happiness and peace in the New Year. For more information about the service or Bet Harim, call 756-5159 or e-mail bet_harim@yahoo.com or visit online at www.betharim.com.

Saturday

Feat x Feet, Montana’s only tap-performing company, will present their 11th annual original tap show at the O’Shaughnessy on Jan. 9 at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., Jan. 10 at 4 p.m., Jan. 15 at 7:30 p.m. and Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. This year, Feat x Feet will present “Tap: Confidential,” their own version of an evening of mystery, with a line-up of dances with all new choreography. Pieces were choreographed by company director Ashley Wold, of Whitefish, as well as tap professionals Derick Grant and Carson Murphy, and the performance will include a body percussion piece by Nicholas Young. Tickets are $18 evenings and $15 matinees, all seats reserved, available by calling 471-0546. A portion of all ticket sales will go towards a scholarship fund for Feat x Feet member travel. The O’Shaughnessy box office will open one hour prior to each show and will sell tickets if available.

Flathead Valley Concerts Association will present a solo performance by tenor Daniel Rodriguez at the Flathead High School auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 9, at 7:30 p.m. The former New York policeman was the designated “National Anthem” singer for the city. He became well known for his rendition of “God Bless America” at memorial events following the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. His debut performance before a worldwide audience occurred at the opening ceremony of the 2002 Winter Olympics, in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has also sang on the Jay Leno television show. Tickets are $20.

Thirteen teams have already signed up to run in the third annual Flathead Sled Dog Days races in the Whitefish Range north of Whitefish. Dog mushers from Canada, Utah, Montana, Colorado, Washington, and Idaho are scheduled to leave the Olney Trailhead, at mile marker 145.5 across U.S. 93 from the Olney turn-off, on Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 9 and 10, starting at 9:30 a.m. The public is invited to cheer the mushers as they leave the starting chute and watch them return to the finish line which is the same spot. An awards ceremony will be held on the race site immediately after the last of the race teams finishes.

Flathead Contra Dancers and Kalispell Parks and Recreation will hold contra dancing at the Salvation Army Church gym, 110 Bountiful Drive, in Kalispell, on Saturday, Jan. 9, with dancing from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Music will be provided by Sassafras Stomp, and Roy Curet, of Missoula, will be the caller. Cost is $7 teens and adults or $15 families. For more information, call Joe at 752-7469 or Sherry at 752-8226.

The Bird Woman Falls Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at Glacer Discovery Center, in Columbia Falls, on Saturday, Jan. 9, at noon. Elaine Snyder, of Buckskin Clothers, will demonstrate styles worn by people such as Sacajawea. For more information, call Carol at 892-2952.

Sunday

The Flathead Abolitionist Movement will present a free showing of “Call+Response,” a documentary film on today’s global slave trade, at Flathead High School on Sunday, Jan. 10, at 3 p.m. The film features former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright and New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof and describes child brothels in Cambodia, slave brick kilns in rural India and other accounts of the modern-day slave trade. A panel discussion will take place at Glacier High School on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 3 p.m. For more information, call Diane Yarus 751-2175.

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