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• Spring Italian Feast Presented by The Kopper Kitchen

  • When
    March 14, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    3472 US Hwy 2 West, Kalispell, MT

  From creamy burrata to tender lamb and classic tiramisu, our Spring Italian Feast is a culinary experience you won't want to miss. Seats are limited—come hungry and claim your spot before they're gone! Tickets available on Website

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• 4th Annual Cloverfest in Columbia Falls

  • When
    March 15, 2025
  •  
    11:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Big Tent at 2100 9th Street West, Columbia Falls, MT

  
  

  Wear your green and celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Columbia Falls at our annual Cloverfest put on by the Columbia Falls Area Chamber of Commerce. This family-friendly event includes live music performances by local musicians, bagpipes, a 5k, 1 mile fun run, food trucks, beer and garden, themed competitions, kid's carnival and shenanigans.

  Event details:

  Cost for Event (not including 5k or fun run):

  $10.00/person. For a family of four or more, the price is $30. Kids 5 and under are free.

  All proceeds support your local Columbia Falls Area Chamber of Commerce. A non-profit organization in Columbia Falls whose mission is to Support Local Businesses and Connect Our Community.

  Included in $10.00 Entry Fee: One Punch Card/Kid with 20 Games Included at Kids Carnival
  Prizes at every game!
  Live Music
  Irish Dancing
  St Patrick’s Day Competitions and Yard Games
  Photo booth props and photo area

  Not Included in Entry Fee: Food and Beverage from Food Trucks
  Bar Sales (I.D. check required)
  5k and/or Fun Run (Those are separate fees listed below. your registration for either of these events, gets you into the main event)

  Purchase Admission Tickets to the Big Tent

  5k and Fun Run Registration

  Schedule of Events:

  11:00am: Cloverfest 5k
  11:00pm-3:30pm: Kids Carnival, Live Music, Live Dancing, and St Patrick’s Day Activities and Games
  11:30-12:30: Live Music - Ol' Grey Cats
  12:00pm: Cloverfest Fun Run
  12:30: Official Race Awards Ceremony
  12:45-1:45: Live Music - Ol' Grey Cats
  1:45-2;15: Competitions
  2:15-3:00: Live Irish Dancing
  3:30: End of Event

  2025 Pot of Gold Sponsors

  SHAINE R REECE

  2025 5k and Swag Sponsors

  2025 Leprechaun Sponsors
  

  2025 Clover Sponsors 

  • Columbia Falls Estate Planning
  • Fidelity National Title
  • First Interstate Bank
  • Flathead Electric Coop
  • Freedom Bank
  • Nite Owl Back Room Restaurants
  • Park Side Credit Union
  • True North Chiropractic Center 

  
  

  
  

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• Its's a Trap! Leprechaun Trap Contest

  • When
    March 16, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    The Hub Downtown, 533 1st Ave E Columbia Falls

  Throw on your best green and head over to The Hub to put your trap building creativity to the test! We will have snacks, drinks, and plenty of supplies and goodies to work with while your mini humans craft up the best leprechaun trap this side of the magic rainbow. Be sure to show it off to us before you leave, so we can enter a photo of it in our facebook "It's a Trap!" contest! The photo with the most likes by 8:00pm on March 17th wins the POT OF GOLD prize!!!
  

  Tickets are $15/ea or 2 for $25 and parents/helpers get in FREE!

  This event is open house style wrapping up about 3:00.

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• Columbia Falls Public Job and Career Fair

  • When
    March 18, 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Columbia Falls High School Gymnasium, 610 13th Street West, Columbia Falls

  Join us for our 7th Annual Columbia Falls Job and Career Fair. Open to the public from 12-1pm. On the spot interviews. Bring your resumes and be prepared to chat with many local, businesses!

  Date: Tuesday, March 18th, 2025

  8:00-9:00am: Business booth set-up
  9:00-10:00am: Student Job Fair
  10:00-12:00pm. Student Career Exploration
  12:00-1:00pm: Public Job Fair

  Location: Columbia Falls High School Gym

  Reminder: The public is only allowed to attend from 12:00 - 1:00pm. Please enter through the back gymnasium doors at Columbia Falls High School.

  Great job and career opportunities.

  Job fair put on by the Columbia Falls Area Chamber, Columbia Falls High School, and Job Service Kalispell

  Business Sign Up: https://columbiafallschamber.org/columbia-falls-job-fair

  Note: Businesses must attend for the entire job and career fair time.

  
  

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• Glacier Book Club: A Woman Among Wolves

  • When
    March 19, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

  Join Executive Director Doug Mitchell on Zoom and have a discussion with author Diane Boyd about her book, A Woman Among Wolves.

  Register for free here. 

  About the Book: In A Woman Among Wolves, wildlife biologist Diane Boyd recounts her four-decade journey studying wolves near Glacier National Park. As the only female biologist in the U.S. to research and collar wild wolves in the 1970s, Boyd faced harsh conditions, including isolated winters and rugged terrain. She tracked wolves through grizzly bears, mountain lions, and other dangers, developing innovative methods to monitor their population. Boyd shares her passion for wolves, chronicling their journey from a few in Montana to over 3,000 in the West, and explores the complex relationship between humans and this apex predator.

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• March Economic Development Meeting

  • When
    March 20, 2025
  •  
    7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
  • Location
    Nite Owl/Back Room Restaurants, 522 9th Street West, Columbia Falls
  • Registered
    1 registrant

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  Join us for our monthly economic development meeting put on by the Columbia Falls Area Chamber on Thursday, March 20th from 7-8am at the Nite Owl Back Room Restaurants. 

  This month Mark Shrives, interim city manager, will provide an update from the City of Columbia Falls. 

  Open to the public and Chamber members.  Coffee is included and breakfast is available for purchase. 

  
  

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• DREAM Adaptive Shred Fest 2025

  • When
    March 22, 2025
  •  
    8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
  • Location
    Whitefish Mountain Resort-Spruce Lot

  The SHRED-FEST is a full day 9:00 am-4:00 pm vertical or adventure challenge for all abilities at Whitefish Mountain Resort. Prizes will be awarded for most funds raised, vertical feet shredded, or for completing the most challenges. The vert competition is to hike, ski, or ride as many vertical feet in one day as possible. Challenges could be anything from finding "Freddie the Yeti", to consuming a giant plate of Hellroaring nachos!

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• Alton Brown Live: Last Bite

  • When
    March 25, 2025
  •  
    7:30 PM
  • Location
    Walchholz College Center, 795 Grandview Drive, Kalispell, MT

   Wachholz College Center is excited to announce that television personality, author and famed food expert Alton Brown will bring his final national theater tour, “Alton Brown Live: Last Bite,” to the Wachholz College Center in Kalispell on March 25, 2025. This special performance is part of Brown's 60 city farewell tour which promises an unforgettable evening of fun and entertainment.

  Brown, who has more than eight million followers on social media, has a history of creating successful, interactive culinary variety shows. His “Edible Inevitable,” “Eat Your Science,” and “Beyond the Eats” tours performed in more than 200 cities with more than 550,000 fans in attendance. Now, Brown has cooked up a buffet of surprises for this new tour, which he has declared will be his last. “Last Bite will be my farewell tour and my last culinary variety show, as it’s time for me to make my full-time return to male modeling,” jokes Brown.

  Brown’s tenth book, a collection of essays and ruminations, Food for Thought, will be published by Gallery Books in February 2025, just in time for the tour launch. Before performing to sell-out crowds around the country, Brown started his career directing TV commercials when he decided to go to culinary school and reinvent the cooking show. The result was “Good Eats,” an irreverent, science-forward program with Brown as its star. The result was 256 episodes which aired across 16 seasons. He also hosted the iconic programs “Iron Chef America,” “Food Network Star,” and “Cutthroat Kitchen.” He is the recipient of a pair of James Beard awards and a Peabody. He lives in Atlanta with his wife, the designer Elizabeth Ingram, and a trio of nefarious canines. 

  Tickets for this event go on sale Friday, October 11. For more information and ticket details, visit here. Or call the ticket office at 406-756-4100.

  
  

  
  

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• Coffee with the Chamber at Thrive Chiropractic

  • When
    April 01, 2025
  •  
    8:30 AM - 9:30 AM
  • Location
    Columbia Falls Estate Planning, 139 6th Street West , Columbia Falls, MT 59912
  • Registered
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  Our April 2025 Coffee with the Chamber event is on Tuesday, April 1st from 8:30-9:30 am at Thrive Chiropractic in Columbia Falls. Come meet Dr. Keltie, her staff and tour her business. 

  Schedule: 

  Build business connections from 8:30-9:00 am followed by introductions of all attendees from 9:00-9:30am. Bring your business cards to share with others.  

  Coffee, pastries and water provided!

  Coffee with the Chamber is a monthly networking event hosted by a different Chamber member business.  Interested in hosting? Contact Andrea, [email protected] for more information. 

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• April Chamber Membership Luncheon

  • When
    April 08, 2025
  •  
    11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Cedar Creek Lodge and Conference Center
  • Registered
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  Join the Columbia Falls Area Chamber of Commerce at Cedar Creek Lodge on Tuesday, April 8th, 2025 from 11:30 - 1:00pm for our Chamber membership luncheon.  Registration fee includes the featured presentation and a catered lunch from The House of S&M.

  Featured Presentation:

  
  

  Cory J. Dziowgo

  Champion for Education

  Superintendent of Columbia Falls School District 6

  
  

  Meet our new to district teachers and hear an update on elections, bonds and school projects. 

  
  

  Luncheon Cost:

  • Chamber Members: $15.00/person
  • Non-Chamber Members: $20.00/person

  Register by noon on Monday, April 7th, 2025 to be guaranteed lunch.

  
  

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• LEAN 101 Training

  • When
    April 15, 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    MWED, 44 2nd Ave W, Kalispell, MT 59901

  Discover how LEAN principles can help any organization improve, and learn how to apply these principles through hands-on experiences in a fun, engaging and eye-opening workshop.

  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN? Participants leave this workshop with the knowledge and ability to implement basic LEAN at their organization. √ Organizations will strengthen their competitive advantage, provide opportunities for higher workforce engagement and retention, accelerate growth, and improve profits. √ Employees will gain new skills valuable to their employer.

  Skills and tools learned lead to: • Cost reduction • On-time delivery improvement • Inventory/WIP reduction • Quality improvement • Culture of continuous improvement

  WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? Owners, Managers, Supervisors, Contributors Production Shipping and Logistics Office/Administration Operations and Maintenance Engineering R&D All Company/Organization Sizes (Small to Large) All Industries (Not Just Manufacturing)

  This training is available at no cost but space is very limited. Register ASAP to confirm your spot. Deadline to register Friday, April 11th at 5PM.

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  Event hosted by Montana West Economic Development.

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• Glacier Conservations: Saving Sperry

  • When
    April 16, 2025
  •  
    6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

  Join GNPC Executive Director Doug Mitchell on Zoom, and have a discussion with key players from the heroic effort to save Sperry Chalet.

  Register here soon, space is limited: https://glacier.org/glacier-conversations/

  Saving Sperry is the dramatic story of the resilience of a beloved place high in the mountains of Glacier. GNPC Executive Director Doug Mitchell takes you behind the scenes to discover how determined people and dedicated donors rallied to save the historic Sperry Chalet (deep in Glacier’s wilderness) after it was nearly totally lost in the 2017 Sprague Fire. Featuring stunning aerial photography from Adele Scholl of Gravity Shots and compelling accounts from those who tackled the challenging work of stabilizing and rebuilding the chalet, you won’t want to miss this special Glacier Conversation!

  Event put on by Glacier National Park Conservancy.

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• April Economic Development Meeting

  • When
    April 17, 2025
  •  
    7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
  • Location
    Nite Owl/Back Room Restaurants, 522 9th Street West, Columbia Falls
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  Join us for our monthly economic development meeting put on by the Columbia Falls Area Chamber on Thursday, April 17th from 7-8am at the Nite Owl Back Room Restaurants. 

  This month Mark Shrives, interim city manager, will provide an update from the City of Columbia Falls. 

  Open to the public and Chamber members.  Coffee is included and breakfast is available for purchase. 

  
  

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• April Business After Hours Bash at WFCU

  • When
    April 22, 2025
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    5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
  • Location
    Whitefish Credit Union, 405 9th St, West, Columbia Falls, MT
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   Our April Business After Hours bash is going to be a blast as our hosts, Whitefish Credit Union In Columbia Falls, always knows how to throw a good time!  Our featured nonprofit for this event is our member, Abundant Montana. 

  Split the pot, drawings, business connections, and refreshments. Bring your business cards and a coworker.  This event is the perfect way to connect with other business professionals, find your next customer, and chat with Chamber representatives.  

  Event is free to attend and open to the public.  We do recommend bringing a donation for our featured nonprofit.

  Meet Our April Host: Whitefish Credit Union

  
  

  The best place to save. The best place to borrow.

  Chartered in 1934, Whitefish Credit Union is the largest credit union in Montana with over $2 billion in assets. As a not-for-profit cooperative, our full-service financial institution offers checking and savings accounts, car loans, personal loans, credit cards, mortgages, home equity loans, construction loans, small business loans and more with a personal touch. Bank online or visit one of our conveniently located branches in Columbia Falls, Eureka, Kalispell, Polson, South Kalispell, Thompson Falls or Whitefish, MT. Coming soon to Missoula!

  April Featured Nonprofit: Abundant Montana

  Abundant  Montana is a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization with a core focus of growing a resilient and reliable Montana food system for all Montanans. We invest our efforts in building demand for MT-grown food, amplifying Montana market channel connections for local producers, and supporting communities building resources for thriving local food economies

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• HACCP TRAINING

  • When
    May 05, 2025
  •  
    8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    MWED, 44 2nd Ave. W, Kalispell, MT

  Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) Training May 7, 8:30AM – 5PM & May 8, 8:30AM – 12:30PM Join us for a Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) Training for Meat Processors and Food and Beverage Manufacturers in the Flathead this May. We’re excited to offer this live, instructor-led class, which will explain the requirements of the Preventive Controls for Human Food regulation of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and how your company may benefit from creating or updating a HACCP Plan. Participants will work in small groups to practice HACCP concepts such as creating Hazard Analysis, and Critical Limit definition, and Process Flow charts needed to develop a HACCP Plans.

  WHAT WILL YOU LEARN? • An overview of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) • How HACCP works in coordination with GMPs and other Prerequisite programs • Why customers and distributors want you to have a HACCP Plan • Critical elements of the HACCP Plan, including the 12 steps of the Codex Alimentarius, SOPs, Hazard Identification, Critical Control Points, and more.

  WHO SHOULD PARTICIPATE? Safety Managers Training Supervisors Lead Technicians Packaging Supervisors & Managers Regulatory Personnel Director/VP Food Safety Maintenance Managers Production Supervisors & Leads Sanitation Supervisors Plant Managers Quality Assurance Coordinators & Managers.

  The value of this course is $600, but it is available at no cost to you. Limit 3 people per organization. Space is limited so register ASAP to confirm your spot.

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• 5th Annual Pin Up Pageant Fundraiser

  • When
    May 10, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
  • Location
    Triple B Ranch, 1187 Hodgson Rd, Columbia Falls, MT

  Join us for our 5th annual pinup pageant where ladies walk the stage and are judged on their authenticity to the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s eras to determine who will be the next Miss PRG Pinup 2025!

  When: Saturday May 10th - doors open at 6:00pm

  Where: Triple B Ranch 1187 Hodgson Rd, Columbia Falls, MT 59912

  Enjoy an evening with dinner and drinks and watch our pinups in action. Live auction, raffles, entertainment, and classic cars. You don't want to miss this event! All proceeds go to support Postpartum Resource Group. A local nonprofit that supports women and families in the Flathead Valley as they navigate the postpartum season.

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  Event put on by Postpartum Resource Group

  
  

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