Canyon bike trail soup

The Gateway to Glacier Trail is aiming to connect Columbia Falls to West Glacier with a bike path. The nonprofit group will begin holding its meetings in the basement of Freedom Bank on the first Monday of each month starting at 6 p.m. Montana Coffee Traders will host a donation soup night for the group on Friday, Feb. 21, from 6 to 8 p.m. with 20 different types of soup as well as homemade cookies and coffee. Whitefish artist Colt Idol will be on hand to show gicles of his painting Discover Freedom (shown here). The 36-by-24-inch numbered prints of a bald eagle soaring over beargrass in Glacier National Park are available for $350, with $100 going to the G2GT bike path project. For more information, visit online at http://www.gatewaytoglaciertrail.com or http://www.facebook.com/GatewayToGlacierTrail.

Free meals

The Columbia Falls Community Kitchen will offer free meals in the basement of St. Richards Catholic Church, in Columbia Falls, on Tuesday through Friday, Feb. 25-28, beginning at 6 p.m.

Health movie

Imagine Health and the local IONS group will host a free showing of the movie, The importance of being extraordinary, with Dr. Wayne Dyer and Eckhart Tolle, at Imagine Health, 305 First Avenue West, in Columbia Falls, on Thursday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. A $5 donation is requested. For more information, call 892-4406 or visit online at http://www.imaginehealth.net.

Free tax help

The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program provides free tax services for those who make less than $52,000. A volunteer with Internal Revenue Service training is currently taking appointments at Park Side Federal Credit Union in Columbia Falls. The service there will be open to the public. Call 862-2652 for more information. To find other free tax help locations, visit online at http://www.montanafreefile.org. For those interested in completing their own tax form, visit online at http://www.myfreetaxes.com/montanacus.

History talk

The sons of three former Flathead County sheriffs will speak in a panel moderated by current Flathead County sheriff, Chuck Curry during the 12th annual John White Speaker Series at the Museum at Central School, 124 Second Avenue East in Kalispell, on Sunday, Feb. 23, at 2:30 p.m. Sons of Sheriffs will feature retired attorney Ty Robinson, 96, whose father, Cal Robinson, Sr., was Flathead Co. Sheriff in the 1930s and 1940s; Pat Walsh, son of Dick Walsh, who followed Cal Robinson as sheriff, serving from 1947 to 1963; and Larry Wilson, son of Ross Wilson, who followed Dick Walsh, serving as sheriff in the 1960s. Tickets are $9 general public, $6 museum members, available at the museum. Call 756-8381 for more information.

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