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No Chamber Meeting

The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will not meet this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Meetings will resume next Thursday at noon at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille.

Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter to Meet

Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will meet at 7:00 P.M., Tuesday, December 9 at the Wenatchee Valley Museum, 127 South Mission, Wenatchee. Central Washington University Geology lecturer and TV host Nick Zentner will discuss “Smart People Studying Washington Earthquakes.” Since the mid-1980s, major scientific breakthroughs have changed our view of Washington’s surprisingly active earthquake past and its seismic future. Zentner will highlight important research done in our region by talented geologists, such as USGS geologist Brian Atwater, Oregon State University geologist Chris Goldfinger, and others. Atwater found tsunami deposits along the coasts of Oregon and Washington, and tsunami evidence in Puget Sound during a Seattle Fault earthquake. Goldfinger located underwater landslide deposits off the Northwest Coast. Zentner is a dynamic and gifted teacher. Check out his “2-minute Geology” website: http://tinyurl.com/lxoruwk

The program is free & open to the public.

Order of Eastern Star Meets

Order of Eastern Star will hold a Friendship Dinner provided by Worthy Matron/Worthy patron on Thursday, DeC. 11. It will be Short Form, Christmas Finery. There will be a Christmas stocking auction. Refreshments and birthday cake will be provided by Lynette Zierden.

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Family History Center Available

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints invites all who desire to utilize the Family History Center in the Coulee Dam Chapel, located at 806 Spruce Street in Coulee Dam. The center is now open each Wednesday from 6 to 8 p.m. The family history centers are free and open the public and staffed by knowledgeable volunteers. Each facility offers both novices and experienced family historians the tools and resources to learn about their ancestors.

Free Pinochle at the Seniors

Free pinochle is offered at the Grand Coulee Senior Center Monday, Wednesday and Friday beginning at 1 p.m.

Open Sewing at Senior Art Room

Tuesdays from 1-5 p.m. there will be open sewing at the senior center art room. There is no charge. For more information contact Marlene Oddiee of KISSed Quilts, 509.386.5715.

Care and Share Food Bank

The food bank at the Church of the Nazarene normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the Church of Nazarene, hwy 174, Grand Coulee. The bank still can use clean plastic grocery bags

Local AA Meetings

Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held on Mondays at 7 p.m., Friday at 6 p.m. and Sunday at 9 a.m.. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group meetings are held Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Vets Center. For more information call John 633-2448. These are open and non-smoking.

In Nespelem the group Bound and Determined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna 634-4921 for more information there.

American Legion Post 157 Meets

The American Legion Post 157 holds legion meetings on the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Vets’ Center in Electric. All veterans are welcome. The next meeting will be held Tuesday, November 11. For more information contact Jerry at 633-2579.

Seniors Have Wheelchairs, Crutches Available

Through the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center a program is available to members and other persons who for a short time need a wheel chair, walkers, crutches, canes, bath stools and other items of this type.

For those who have any of the above items that are from the center and no longer used please return. If you have any of the above items in good condition and would like to donate them to the center, it would be extremely appreciated. For those who cannot deliver, pickup is available. Call 633-2321 for more information.