Information Poster
Description: David Thompson Days ~ A Community Rendezvous features an Independence Day parade on Main Street, a living history camp at the Rose Garden that showcases the life and times of trapper and explorer David Thompson, vendors and community!
Parade Contact: Joanne Burk (406) 827-7000
General Info: Jennifer Fielder (406) 210-5944
or [email protected]
Rally Run and Show & Shine
Date: July 16-17
Location: Ainsworth Field, Thompson Falls
Website: www.rodsnclassics.com
Description: Rally Run on Friday and the Show & Shine car show on Saturday - bring your cool car or come check them out at Ainsworth Field.
Contact: Doug & Karen Grimm (406) 827-4720
Chicken Jamboree
Date: July 17
Time:11:00 am - 4:00 pm
Location: PPL Park, Maiden Lane, Thompson Falls
Fee: FREE-though donations are accepted
Description: Live music all day, free BBQ chicken, potato salad, baked beans, dinner rolls, ice tea, lemonade, coffee. Free to the community, donations accepted. Fundraiser for community projects and missions.
Sponsors:Men's Prayer Breakfast Group
Contact:Don Burrell (406) 827-4723 or cell 544-5160
Pet Fest-a special event of the Thompson Falls Market
Date: July 24
Time:9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Location: West Lot of the Falls Motel, Lincoln St. and Maiden Lane, Thompson Falls
Website: www.ThompsonFallsMarket.com
Description: A special event that celebrates our favorite furry friends! Have friends told you your dog looks like you? Do you dress your cat up in a cute costume? Do you love your pet and pamper it with special treats, clothing or toys? Then the Pet Fest is for you! Sign up to be in the pet parade. Show off your pet in the pet costume contest. Do you and your pet share an uncanny resemblance, then sign up for this unique look a like contest. Maybe you don�t have a pet, visit with TRACS about adopting one. See the amazing tricks local dogs can do in the agility demonstration. Bring your kids down to the petting zoo. Visit the vendors who are planning to sell pet toys and treats. Not to mention produce, baked goods, live music, arts & crafts and community.
Contact:Katrina Wright (406) 827-3559 or [email protected]
August
2010 Sanders COunty Relay for Life
Date: Friday, Aug. 6, starting at 7 pm until Saturday, Aug. 7, 10 am
Location: Thompson Fall High School Track, Thompson Falls
Website: www.relayforlife.org
Description: Relay for life is a community gathering where everyone can participate in the fight against cancer. Teams of people camp out at the local high school, park, or fairground and take turns walking or running around a track or path. Relays are an overnight event up to 24 hours in length.
Contact: : Kathy Velasquez, ACS Staff Partner, Missoula 406-728-1004 ext. 202 If you are a survivor or know someone who is, please call Judy at 827-4894 or Colleen at 529-4716 or 396-9078.
Ride Idaho Bicycle Tour-Night in Thompson Falls
Date: August 11
Time: evening
Location: Ainsworth Field and PPL Park, Thompson Falls
Fee: Free Music, Fee for Beer Garden and Dinner
Website: www.RideIdaho.org
Description: The community is invited to enjoy live music, beer garden, and meeting visitors from all over Idaho who our touring part of Montana on bicycles.
Contact: Earl Grief (208) 342-8787 or [email protected]
31st annual Huckleberry Festival
Date: August 13-15
Times: varies
Location: Trout Creek, MT
Website: www.HuckleberryFestival.com
Description: A Celebration of the Huckleberry! A free, family event, it includes live entertainment of many kinds, a huckleberry pancake breakfast, run/walk for fun, parade, carnival, children's games, arts and crafts booths, exhibits, huckleberry dessert contest, displays and a family dance under the stars. Come experience down home fun!
Contact: Liz Citrino (406) 827-5077 or (406) 827-3301
"The Big Blowup 1910 Fire Centennial" Celebration
Dates: August 20-21
Time: Varies by activities
Location: Thompson Falls & Trout Creek, Montana
Featured activities: Friday, August 20, Thompson Falls Public Library "Step Back in Time" 7 pm. An evening in another era with period music, readings, style revue and "A Tribute to Lilly, the Last 1910 Fires Survivor." Guests are encouraged to come in period dress. Refreshments
and door prizes. Admission is Free.
Saturday, August 21, Huckleberry Park - Trout Creek - Commemorative ATV Run sponsored by the Cabinet Ridge Riders, self-guided tours of Bull River Ranger Station and Sex Peak Lookout, a day of oral histories as descendants swap family stories, 9-mile Pack String Display, an authentic 1910 fire camp with old woodsman tools, speakers, presentations, historic photo displays, a monster tree cookie, and "Back to the Future" - how we can apply the fires' lessons today. Other highlights of the day include the Fiddling Foresters Concert, Stephen Pyne, likely the world's 1910 Fires expert, will speak "He Showed Thee His Great Fire: The meaning of the Big Blowup," followed by a barbequed beef dinner with all the fixins!
Location: Thompson Falls & Trout Creek, Montana
Sponsors & Supporters: Sanders County Historical Society, US Forest Service and SCHS
Contact: Sanders County Historical Society, PO Box 774, Thompson Falls, MT 59873 (406) 827-9851 or (406) 827-4002
September
Sanders County Fair, Rodeo & Demolition Derby
Date: September 1-6
Location: Sanders County Fairgrounds, Plains, MT
Website: www.sanderscountyfair.com
Description: Sanders County Fair & Rodeo, an old fashioned country fair featuring agricultural exhibits, PRCA-sanctioned rodeos and a Bull-A-Rama, arena cross motorcycle event, demolition derby, and of course carnival rides and more.
Contact: (406) 826-3202
Trout Creek Cool Summer Nights Car Show
Date: September 11
Time: 10:00am-2:00pm
Location: Lakeside Resort & Motel, Trout Creek, MT
Registration: Friday, Sept. 11 � evening, Saturday, Sept 12 8:00am-10:00am
Fee: $15 1st entry, $10 each additional entry
Description: Show off your cool car, truck or motorcycle and will door prizes, trophies and bragging rights. Dance to the �oldies� at the Naughty Pine Saloon on Saturday night.
Contact: Lakeside Motel & Resort (406) 827-4458 or [email protected]
October
Charlie Brown�s Pumpkin Patch
Date: October
Time: Doors open at 6:00pm
Location: Junior High School Gymnasium
Admission: Family of four $8, Individuals $3, 12 and younger $2
Description: Excitement and fun is to be had at the annual Halloween celebration where kids find tons of candy, activities, great costumes and prizes for special competitions. Enjoy such activates as apple on the stick, pop the balloon, hula-hooping, Simon says and musical chairs.
Sponsors: First Security Bank, Valley Bank
Contact: Cindy Bronner (406) 827-7006
November
Christmas Lighting Extravaganza
Dates: November 27 � January 1, 2010
Times: The lighting ceremony begins at 6:00 p.m. on November the 23rd. The Christmas Lighting Display will be available for viewing nightly from dusk to 9:00 p.m. through January 1.
Location: Sanders County Fairgrounds, Plains, MT
Description: The Sanders County Fairgrounds are bedecked with all types of Christmas lights, life-size figurines and a nativity scene. Come join the festivities and get into the Christmas spirit when we turn on the lights November 27. Free chilidogs and hot chocolate for those brave enough to face the evening�s chill, plus fireworks top off the evening.
Sponsors: Plains-Paradise Chamber of Commerce, Sanders County Fairgrounds
Website: www.SandersCountyFair.com
Contact: (406) 826-3202
Senior Center Craft Fair
Date: Saturday, November 27
Time: 10:00am-4:00pm
Location: Senior Center, Thompson Falls
Description: Breakfast at 8:00am, Craft Fair through the day featuring baked good door prizes, lunch and vendors selling just the perfect gift.
Sponsors: Thompson Falls Senor Center
Contact: Darlene Glover 406-241-0033
Friends of the Library Silent Auction
Dates: Monday, November 29- Saturday, December 4
Times: During regular library hours (11-5 Mon., 11-6 Tues., closed Wednesdays, 11-7 Thurs., 11-5 Fri., and 11-2 Sat.). Bidding closes at 6 p.m. on December 5.
Location: The Thompson Falls Public Library Annex, Main Street in downtown Thompson Falls
The Event: It is an auction like no other! Over 100 items to bid on including an array of gift baskets and gift items including framed artwork by local artists, works by skilled craftspeople, and local products and services, a children's auction, a handmade quilt raffle and a dinner raffle.
Description: View all auction items during library hours and write your bid on the bid sheet for the item you want. Check back often to make sure you have not been outbid! You can bid as many times as you want, on as many items as you desire. Sealed bids are also accepted any time, but only sealed bids are accepted in the last 15 minutes of bidding. Items are awarded to the highest bidder at the close of the auction on Saturday, December 6th. It's easy and fun, and the baskets and items are wonderful. The children's auction is affordable for kids (a child must be present to bid), and the quilt raffle ($10 per ticket) and turkey dinner raffle ($5 per ticket) offer something for everyone.
Sponsors: Friends of the Library, Thompson Falls Public Library
Info & How to Donate? Karen Harlan (406) 827-1997 or bring items to the library.
December
13th Annual Gingerbread Contest & Holiday Open House
Dates & Times: Saturday, December 4th from Noon - 6pm, and on Wednesday, Dec 8th from 4pm until after the Parade the winners will be displayed
Location: Old Jail Museum on the corner of Maiden Lane & Madison Street
Description: Come experience a "Merry Christmas at the Museum" in gingerbread. Whether you are an old hat at building gingerbread houses or a novice, this event is for you to simply have a little sweet fun. Winners are determined by popular vote. Competition categories include: The Auntie A Award, Individual/Family, Business and Student/Youth Group. The only rules of the event are 1. Everything on your creation must be edible 2) It must fit through the door. Winners of each category receive a $50 Savings Bond. Along with the Gingerbread contest display is an open house featuring refreshments and a chance to win a gift basket with membership.
Sponsors: Sanders County Historical Society, Valley Bank, First Security Bank
Contact: Chairman Penny Beckman 827-3733
33rd Annual Sanders County Christmas Bazaar
Date: Saturday, December 4
Time: 10:00AM-4:00PM
Location: Thompson Falls High School Gymnasium
Admission: FREE
Description: The focus of this holiday event has been to provide the wide array of local artists and craftsmen a showcase while raising money for a local charity. Now in its 30th year, that focus stays the same. Visitors to the Sanders County Craft Bazaar will be delighted to find one of a kind crafts by the areas highly skilled crafters. Though there are 54 booths at the bazaar, it hosts over 100 artists � working in different mediums from wood, metal, glass, crochet to paper and more. Their goal? To help you fill your stockings and complete your Christmas list.
Vendor Information: Ginny Dyer [email protected]
Contact: Ginny Dyer, Founder / Director, PO Box 835, Thompson Falls, MT 59873 or [email protected]
Christmas on Main Street
Date: Wednesday, December 8
Time: 5:00pm Dinner by the Men�s Prayer Group & Santa at Town Square
6:30pm Parade Begins
Location: Thompson Falls, Main Street/Highway 200
Description: Top off the holiday celebration with a chili dinner at Christmas Square, visit with Santa Claus and enjoy the Kissing Ball Auction. The Thompson Falls Chamber of Commerce presents a lighted holiday parade down Main Street starting at 6:30PM.
Sponsors: Thompson Falls Chamber of Commerce, Inland Empire Builders/Ace Hardware, Falls Motel, First Security Bank
Contact: Parade Entry call First Security Bank, Thompson Falls 827-7000
January 2011
New Year's Day Run/Walk 5K and 2K
Date: January 1, 2011
Time: 11:00 AM Start
Location: Race begins at Mighty Fine T's/Sherpa Cabins, east of town
Description: It�s time to launch into your New Year�s Resolution and hit the ground running. $15 entry fee includes long sleeved shirt, $10 no shirt, $18 race day entry fee. Proceeds benefit Clark Fork Valley Running Club and Scholarship Fund.
Sponsors: Clark Fork Valley Running Club
Contact: Sarah Naegeli, 827-4887 or [email protected]