Community news

Park talk

The Glacier National Park Fund will host a talk by Glacier National Park superintendent Chas Cartwright at Grouse Mountain Lodge on Thursday, Feb. 23, at 7 p.m. Cartwright plans to have an informal, open conversation with the audience about current issues facing the Park. Cartwright began his career with the National Park Service in 1987. Prior to joining the NPS, he worked for the Bureau of Land Management as an archeologist and for the United States Forest Service as a fire lookout, river ranger and firefighter. Since 1989, he has held a number of national park superintendent positions at several parks. For more information, call 892-3250 or visit online at www.glaciernationalparkfund.org.

Theater

auditions

The Columbia Mountain Theatre Company, a newly established non-profit community theater group, will hold additional auditions for its first production at Glacier Discover Square on Thursday, Feb. 23, from 7-9 p.m. Auditions are open to adults with or without acting experience. Volunteer positions are available for production work. The season will open with two one-act plays: "Sham: A Social Satire," by Frank G. Tompkins, and "Wurzel-Flummery," a political satire by A. A. Milne. Performances will be at Glacier Discover Square Center on March 9, 10, 16 and 17 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $8 available at the door. For more information, visit online at www.columbiamountaintheaterco.org or contact Jeremias Johnson, director, at 471-0014 or info@columbiamountaintheaterco.org.

Board

openings

Letters of interest are being accepted through Feb. 24 for one vacancy with a one-year term on the Columbia Falls City-County Planning Board, five vacancies with three-year terms on Flathead County's Agency on Aging and four vacancies with three-year terms on the county's Transportation Advisory Board. Letters can be sent to Flathead County Commissioners, 800 South Main, Room 302, Kalispell MT 59901-5420. For more information, call 758-5537.

Democrat Zac Perry to talk

The Flathead County Democratic Party will meet in the Back Room at the Nite Owl on Tuesday, Feb. 21, beginning at 6 p.m. Zac Perry, Democratic candidate for House District 3, will talk about "Bringing reason and responsibility back to the legislature."

Republican candidates

Republican gubernatorial candidates will speak at the next Flathead County Republican Women's luncheon at the Red Lion Inn, in Kalispell, on Monday, Feb. 20, at noon. For more information, call Jane Bennett at 250-5316.