Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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HAPPENINGS: Rare carnivore presentation, community firewood day, Chess Club & LEGOs

| October 2, 2024 12:00 AM

WEDNESDAY, October 2

Lunch at Bigfork Senior Center, 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. 

Rare carnivore monitoring presentation at Swan Valley Community Hall, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Swan Valley Connection’s quarterly community potluck, featuring a presentation by Luke Lamar and Mike Mayernik, who will both be discussing the results from 10 years of wolverine and Canada lynx monitoring in the Southwest Crown of the Continent. Presentation begins at 6:30 p.m.  

Free community dinner at Bethany Lutheran Church, 6 p.m.    

Owl Research Institute Saw-whet owl banding at Flathead Lake Biological Station, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Researchers will do a short presentation to explain the process, then check the mist nets. If an owl is captured, it will be banded. Sign up is required. Please contact Darcy Thomas at (406) 407-8263 or darcy@flatheadaudubon.org or Margaret Parodi at (406) 837-1371 or mrparodi@charter.net.  Phone contact and email address required in case of having to reschedule due to inclement weather. 


THURSDAY, October 3 

Community Firewood Day, meet at Swan Valley Connections office at 9 a.m. for mandatory safety meeting. We’ll be splitting, delivering, and stacking for a full list of people in need in the community. BYO lunch/snacks, ear and eye protection, and gloves. Volunteer BBQ to follow sponsored by Mannix Family Grass-Finished Beef! If you’d like to donate wood, or if you have a splitter to lend for the day, please contact Mike Mayernik at 406-754-3137 or mike@svconnections.org.  


FRIDAY, October 4 

Lunch at Bigfork Senior Center, 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. 

Teen Switch Days at ImagineIf Bigfork 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Nintendo Switch games. 


SATURDAY, October 5 

Teen Switch Days at ImagineIf Bigfork 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Nintendo Switch games. 


MONDAY, October 7 

Lunch at Bigfork Senior Center, 11:30 to 12:30 p.m.  


TUESDAY,  October 8 

Chess club and LEGOs at Bigfork Community United Methodist Church, 4 p.m.   


WEDNESDAY, October 9

Lunch at Bigfork Senior Center, 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. 

Bigfork Water and Sewer District board meeting at district office, 1 p.m.  

School board meeting at Bigfork High School library, 5 p.m.  

Free community dinner at Bethany Lutheran Church, 6 p.m.