Chamber This Week

Chamber will meet this Thursday, January 31, at Siam Palace beginning at noon. Chay Heilman will be speaking about the Senior Center’s meals program.

Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of Ice Age Floods Institute to Meet

Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute will meet at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the Wenatchee Valley Museum, 127 South Mission, Wenatchee.

The speaker is Nick Zentner, the very animated and gifted teacher/geologist from CWU. His topic: Super volcanoes in the Pacific Northwest Why is there 30 feet of volcanic ash south of Vantage, Washington? For years, geologists thought the tephra must have come from a big eruption in the Cascades. New data from the ash bed confirms that a superv volcano in southern Idaho erupted 11.8 million years ago and sent ash to Washington and Nebraska simultaneously!

Check out Nick’s website, http://www.nickzentner.com, that has links to his lectures, his 2-Minutes Geology, Roadside Geology, and PBS videos. And now he has a podcast! “The Nick Zentner Geology Podcast.”

Senior Volunteers Offering Caregivers a Break

Senior Center volunteers will be offering free activities for those with mild to moderate dementia whose caregivers need time for other tasks. For more information call Cheryl at 509-431-1027, Char at 425-879-5835, or Betty at 509-631-2201.

Food Bank open Fridays

The food bank normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the Church of Nazarene, Hwy 174, Grand Coulee. Clients are encouraged to provide their own containers to carry groceries home in. Call Pastor Shawn for information: 633-2566.

AA Meetings for GCD and Nespelem Area

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 evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna at 634-4921 for more information.