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No Chamber This Week

The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will not be meeting this week due to the Vintners and Brewers event this weekend. The next scheduled meeting will be held Thursday, Dec. 10, at noon at the Coulee Dam Town Hall.

Okanogan County Democrats to Meet

Okanogan County Democrats will meet at the Breadline Café in Omak at noon Saturday, Dec. 5. There will be a no-host brunch or you can order off the menu.

Care and Share Food Bank

The food bank at the Church of the Nazarene is open Fridays. It is located at the Church of Nazarene, Hwy 174, Grand Coulee. The bank still can use clean, plastic grocery bags.

Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter to Meet

Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday, December 8, at the Wenatchee Valley Museum, 127 South Mission, Wenatchee. Why do volcanoes erupt? Why do some erupt explosively and others gush lavas? Guest speaker, Dr. Wendy Bohrson, CWU Distinguished Professor of Geology, will discuss “How Volcanoes Work and Volcanism in the Pacific Northwest.” Why are the Cascade volcanoes where they are, and what is the source of their magma along the Cascadia subduction zone? What happened at the Mt. Mazama eruption that later formed Crater Lake? Recent research may provide clues about conditions required to catalyze such a large, explosive eruption that blanketed the Pacific Northwest with pinkish-white ash. Don’t miss this talk, by an internationally revered research volcanologist!

The program is free and open to the public. For an overview of the Ice Age Floods and more information on the Ice Age Floods Institute, see http://www.iafi.org and http://www.hugefloods.com.

Local AA Meetings

Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held on Mondays and Fridays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group meetings are held Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center. These are open and non-smoking.

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

TOPS Meetings

TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) Chapter 1524 meets on Tuesdays at 9:15 a.m. at Grand Coulee Senior Center prior to the exercise group gathering at 10 a.m. Come and join for the health of it. The SAIL exercise class follows this meeting beginning at 10 a.m. There is no charge. Also, a SAIL exercise class is held Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., at the Coulee Dam Community Church.