Community news
FVCC meeting
Flathead Valley Community College president Jane Karas will meet the public for a “community conversation” and breakfast at the Nite Owl restaurant in Columbia Falls on Tuesday, June 25, from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m.
Vacation
Bible school
A vacation Bible school will be offered for children entering grades 1-6 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 519 Seventh Street West, in Columbia Falls on June 24-28 from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Bring a sack lunch. Camp counselors from Flathead Lutheran Bible Camp will lead the program. The school is hosted by the Columbia Falls United Methodist, St. Richard’s Catholic and Our Savior’s Lutheran churches. For more information, call 892-3784.
West Glacier trustee
Residents of the West Glacier School District interested in serving on the school district’s board of trustees to fill a single one-year position can call school clerk Tracy Click at 888-5312 or mail a letter of interest to West Glacier Elementary, P.O. Box 309, West Glacier MT 59936 or e-mail tracyc@wge.k12.mt.us or wgeboard@wge.k12.mt.us.
Democrat Convention
The Flathead County Democratic Women will host the Montana Democratic Women’s Convention June 21-22 at the Hilton Garden Inn in Kalispell. A host of speakers are planned. For more information and to register for the convention, visit online at www.FCDemocraticWomen.com.
Park alumni
The annual Glacier National Park Alumni Picnic will be held at the Park Headquarters Community Building, in West Glacier, on Sunday, Aug. 18, from noon to 4 p.m. Past and current employees will gather to visit and share a picnic lunch. There will be door prizes, a Park update and a special program of interest to former employees.
Climate change talk
University of Montana-Missoula professor Steven Running will present a free talk about climate change at Glacier National Park’s Community Building, in the Park Headquarters area in West Glacier, on Monday, June 24, from noon to 1 p.m. Running shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 as a chapter lead author for the fourth assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He received a Ph.D. in forest ecology from Colorado State University in 1979 and has been with the University of Montana since then. The talk is part of the brown bag lunch talks hosted by the Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center and the Glacier Institute. For more information, visit online at www.nps.gov/glac/naturescience/ccrlc-brown-bag-lectures.htm.