JANUARY
1/9: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange
monthly business meeting*
1/10: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
1/12: 10:00 AM BASIC Meeting
1/12: 12:00 PM New Year’s Luncheon by donation
1/14: 10-2 PM BAG (Blanchard Arts Guild) Live
Model Session
1/17: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
1/18: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve: Sensible Cuisine for the New Year
1/18: 6:00 PM West Bonner School Board Meeting
1/21: 10:00 AM Blanchard Cooperative Water
Association Meeting
1/22: 2:00 PM Annual Pie Auction at Grange*
1/23: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly community
potluck*
1/24: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
1/28: 10-4 PM BAG Clay Workshop
FEBRUARY
2/9: 10:00 AM BASIC Meeting
2/11: 10-2 BAG Live model session
2/13: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
2/14: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
2/19: 1-4 PM Sarah Jones Memorial Scholarship
Spaghetti Dinner
2/21: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
2/22: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve:
From Russia with Love- Cuisine of Russia
2/25: 9-2 BAG Art Acrylic Painting/ Acrylic
Painting on Canvas Bags
2/27: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly community
potluck*
2/28: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
MARCH
3/6: 6:00 PM Republican Caucus
3/8: 6:00 PM BASIC Meeting
3/8: 7:00 PM Town Hall Meeting
3/10: 10-2 PM BAG Clay Workshop, part 2
3/12: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast (first of 2012
season)
3/12: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
3/13: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
3/13: 6:00 PM Family Bingo Night
3/19: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
3/20: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
3/21: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve:
Danish
Cuisine in all of its Glory
3/24: 9:00
B 4:00 PM Spring
Things Bazaar
3/25: 11:00 B 4:00 PM Spring Things Bazaar
continues
3/26: NO COUNTRY BREAKFAST
3/26: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly community
potluck*
3/27: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
3/31: 10-2 BAG Portrait Painting
APRIL
4/2: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
4/7: 11:00 AM Easter Egg Hunt at the Grange*
4/9: NO COUNTRY BREAKFAST (Easter)
4/9: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
4/10: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
4/12: 6:00 PM BASIC Meeting
4/12: 7:00 PM Senator Joyce Broadsword program
4/14: 6:00 PM Creative Spirits Art Auction/ Wine
& Microbrew Tasting
4/16: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
4/17: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
4/18: 10:30 – 1:30 pm Cooking with Master Chef
Steve:
Greek Cookery from Athens and the Islands
4/20: Maintenance Week at Stoneridge Resort
begins
4/21: 10-2 PM BAG Art class
4/23: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
4/23: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly community
potluck*
4/24: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
4/27: Stoneridge Resort maintenance week ends
4/30: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
MAY
5/5: 11-3 PM Blanchard
Stitcher's Annual Quilter's Tea and Luncheon
5/7: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
5/8: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
5/10: 6:00 PM BASIC Meeting
5/10: 7:00 PM POPA (Pend Oreille Players)
program
5/12: 10-4 PM BAG Acrylic Painted Furniture
Workshop
5/14: NO COUNTRY BREAKFAST (Mother’s Day)
5/14: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
5/15: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
5/19: 11:00 AM Meet Local Authors and Luncheon
5/21: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
5/22: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
5/23: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve: Memorial Day Exquisite Brunch Party
5/25 - 5/28: Memorial Day Weekend Community
Plant & Yard Sale at 26299 Hwy 41*
5/26: 10-2 PM BAG Landscape Painting
5/28: NO COUNTRY BREAKFAST on Memorial Day
holiday
5/28: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly community
potluck*
JUNE
6/4: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
6/9: 10-2 PM BAG Art class
6/11: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
6/11: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
6/12: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
6/14: 10:00 AM BASIC Meeting
6/16: 11:00 AM Annual Blanchard Community Center
Auction
6/17: 6:00 PM Father’s Day Cake Auction at the
Grange*
6/18: NO COUNTRY BREAKFAST (Father’s Day)
6/19: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
6/20: 9-12 PM Children
's
Arts Camp
6/21: 9-12 PM Children's
Arts Camp
6/22: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve: Italian Nouveau Culinary Triumphs
6/23: 10-2 PM BAG Plein Air Painting Workshop
6/25: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
6/25: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly community
potluck*
6/26: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
6/27: 9-12 PM Children's Arts Camp
6/28: 9-12 PM Children's Arts Camp
6/30: 560th Air Force Band Concert at
Stoneridge Resort/ time TBA*
JULY
7/2: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
7/4-7/5: NO Children= s Arts Camp over holidays
7/9: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
7/9: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
7/10: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
7/11: 9-12 PM Children's Arts Camp
7/12: 9-12 PM Children's Arts Camp
7/12: 6:00 PM BASIC Meeting
7/12: 7:00 PM Blanchard Personal History Night
7/14: 6:00 PM “Mojo" @ Summer Concert & Ice Cream
Social
7/16: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
7/17: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
7/18: 9-12 PM Children's Arts Camp
7/19: 9-12 PM Children's Arts Camp
7/20: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve: Barbecue from Around the World
7/21: 10-2 PM BAG Art class
7/23: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
7/23: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly community
potluck*
7/24: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
7/25: 9-12 PM Children' s Arts Camp
7/26: 9-12 PM Children' s Arts Camp Recital
7/26: 1214 PM Kids Fun Day (immediately
following recital)
7/28: 2:00 PM Fire Department program/ Chili
Cook Off
7/28: Summer Concert on the Green at StoneRidge
(evening TBA)
7/30: NO COUNTRY BREAKFAST
AUGUST
8/1: 6:00 PM BASIC Meeting**
8/1: 7:00 PM Idaho Fish & Game program:
Nocturnal Animals with Beth Paragamian
8/6: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
8/9: NO BASIC MEETING
8/12: 2:00 PM Screening for Crystals with Dean
Yongue
8/13: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
8/13: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
8/14: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
8/18: 10-2 PM BAG Art class
8/20: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
8/21: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
8/22: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve:
American Bounty- Best of the Season
8/25: Grange Old Timer’s Day at Blanchard
Grange*
8/27: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
8/27: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly community
potluck*
8/28: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
SEPTEMBER
9/3: NO COUNTRY BREAKFAST on
Labor Day holiday
9/10: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
9/10: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
9/11: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
9/13: 10:00 AM BASIC Meeting
9/15: 7:00 PM Cort Conley, author of “Idaho for
the curious” program: “Idaho River History”
9/17: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
9/18: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
9/19: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve: The Culinary Delights of Cuba
9/22: 10-2 PM BAG Art class
9/24: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
9/24: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly community
potluck*
9/25: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
9/29: 5-8 PM Annual Sportsman
'
s Dinner and Silent Auction
OCTOBER
10/1: NO COUNTRY BREAKFAST
10/8: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast
10/8: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
10/9: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
10/11: 10:00 AM BASIC Meeting
10/13: 10-2 PM BAG Art class
10/15: 7-11 AM Country Breakfast (LAST BREAKFAST
of 2012 season)
10/16: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
10/20: 11:00 AM Annual Doll & Teddy Bear Tea and
Auction
10/22: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly
community potluck*
10/23: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
10/24: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve: Magical Mexico, the Cuisine of the People
NOVEMBER
11/3: 9-4 PM Holiday Bazaar
11/4: 11-4 Holiday Bazaar continues
11/8: 10:00 AM BASIC Meeting/ election &
installation of officers
11/9: Maintenance Week at Stoneridge Resort
begins
11/12: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
11/13: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
11/16: Maintenance Week at Stoneridge Resort
ends
11/20: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
11/21: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve: Hearty Soups from the American Heartland
11/26: 6:30 PM Blanchard Grange monthly
community potluck*
11/27: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
DECEMBER
12/2: 1-4 PM Annual Christmas
Party – Santa, photos, free chili and
refreshments
12/9: Blanchard Inn Annual Christmas Potluck/
Time TBA*
12/10: 7:00 PM Blanchard Grange monthly business
meeting*
12/11: 10:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers at Blanchard
Inn*
12/13: NO BASIC MEETING this month
12/18: 9:00 AM Blanchard Stitchers
12/19: 10:30 - 1:30 PM Cooking with Master Chef
Steve:
The Very Best of Wild Mushroom Cookery
BASIC MEETINGS
BASIC meetings
are the 2nd Thursday of the month
unless indicated with **
Board meetings are held in conjunction with the
10 AM meetings or at 6 PM just prior to the 7 PM
programs
10 AM meetings:
1/12 2/9 6/14 9/13 10/11 11/8
6 PM meetings: 3/8 4/12 5/10 7/12 8/1**
**August meeting
will be on Wednesday 8/1 at 6 PM/
There is NO
meeting in December
BLANCHARD ARTS GUILD
Blanchard Community Center Arts
Program
Call Clancie to sign-up or for adult classes/
workshops/ art sessions and for costs, class
times and additional information: 208 437-4072
Some of the materials are supplied in the
classes and workshops (call for
info)Scholarships are offered to seniors and
teens in need.
Children's Summer Arts Camp is FREE
Art Schedule for Adults
Most classes/ workshops and art sessions are
from 10-2, call for
details when you sign up.
1/14 1/28 2/11
2/25 3/10 3/31 4/21 5/12 5/26 6/9 6/23 7/21 8/18
9/22 10/13 4/14
at 6:00 PM: Creative Spirits Art Auction/ Wine &
Microbrew Tasting
Art Classes, Workshops and Live
Model Sessions
January – June
1/14: 10-2 Live
model session/ call 437-4072 for information
1/28: 10-4 Clay workshop with Virginia Carter
2/11: 10-2: Live model session
2/25: 9-1 Beginning & intermediate acrylic
painting with Chelsea Francis, simultaneously
with:
2/25: 10-2 Acrylic Painting on Canvas Bags
Workshop with Chelsea Francis
3/10: 10-2 Clay workshop with Virginia Carter,
part 2
3/31: 10-2 Portrait painting with Pat Parsons
4/21: 10-2 BAG Art day
5/12: 10-4 Acrylic painted furniture workshop
with Clancie Pleasants
5/26: 10-2 Landscape prep class with Pat Parson/
call 623-5194 for information
6/9: 10-2 BAG Art day
6/23: 10-4 Plein Air painting workshop with Pat
Parson/ call 623-5194 for information
ART SCHEDULE FOR CHILDREN
With Clancie
Pleasants and Dee Ann Boydston
Call for information on Home School Art & Drama
classes
CHILDREN'S ARTS CAMP
FREE Art/ Music/
Drama from 9-12:
6/20 6/21 6/27 6/28 7/11 7/12 7/18 7/19 7/25
7/26
(No Arts Camp on 7/4 or 7/5 due to holiday)
7/26 at Noon: KIDS FUN
DAY!
Immediately
following Children's Arts Camp Recital
Free lunch/ games and contests
COUNTRY BREAKFASTS
7-11 AM/
Donations Appreciated
Breakfast
schedule:
3/12 3/19 4/2
4/16 4/23 4/30 5/7 5/21 6/4 6/11 6/25 7/2 7/9
7/16 7/23
8/6 8/13 8/20 8/27 9/10 9/17 9/24 10/8 10/15
(The Community
Center will remain OPEN UNTIL 4 PM following
breakfasts)
There will be NO
BREAKFASTS on the following dates:
3/26 4/9 5/14 5/28 6/18 7/30 9/3 10/1
COOKING WITH THE MASTERS
COOKING CLASSES
Master Chef Steve Geving's Class
Schedule 10:30 – 1:30 PM
January 18: Sensible Cuisine for the New Year
February 22: From Russian with Love, Cuisine of
Russia
March 21: Danish Cuisine in all of its Glory
April 18: Greek Cookery from Athens and the
Islands
May 23: Memorial Day Exquisite Brunch Party
June 22: Italian Nouveau Culinary Triumphs
July 20: Barbecue from Around the World
August 22: American Bounty- Best of the Season
September 19: The Culinary Delights of Cuba
October 24: Magical Mexico, the Cuisine of the
People
November 21: Hearty Soups from the American
Heartland
December 19: the Very Best of Wild Mushroom
Cookery
Please note: all
classes take place on Wednesdays
EXCEPT June and July, when they take place on
Fridays
Call 208 437-0426
to reserve your space in class
BLANCHARD STITCHERS
Meets the 2nd
Tuesday each month at the Blanchard Inn*, 10 AM
And 3rd Tuesday AND 4th
Tuesday, 9 AM each month at the Blanchard
Community Center. Call Pat for info. (208)
437-0969
May 5: 11
AM-3 PM Blanchard Stitcher's Annual Quilter's
Tea & Luncheon,
2nd
Tuesday each month at the Blanchard Inn, 10 am*:
1/10 2/14 3/13
4/10 5/8 6/12 7/10 8/14 9/11 10/9 11/13 12/11
3rd &
4th Tuesday each month
Blanchard
Community Center, 9 am-2 pm:
1/17 1/24 2/21
2/28 3/20 3/27 4/17 4/24 5/15 5/22 6/19 6/26
7/17 7/24 8/21
8/28 9/18 9/25 10/16 10/23 11/20 11/27 12/18
SHIBA
Senior Health Insurance Benefit Advisors
If you have questions about
Medicare, call the SHIBA office in Coeur d
=
Alene
at 800 488-5725
or contact the SHIBA volunteers at the
Blanchard Community Center at 208 437-1037.
BLANCHARD GRANGE #440*
36 Mason Avenue
Grange Master, Chuck Hodge 208-437-4072
Monthly business
meetings are on SECOND Monday of month at 7:00
PM
Monthly Community
Potlucks are on FOURTH Monday of the month at
6:30 PM
2012 Schedule
Monthly business
meetings at 7:00 PM:
1/9 2/13 3/12 4/9
5/14 6/11 7/9 8/13 9/10 10/8 11/12 12/10
Monthly community
potlucks at 6:30 PM:
1/23 2/27 3/26
4/23 5/28 6/25 7/23 8/27 9/24 10/22 11/26
2012 Grange Events
1/22 at 2 PM: Annual Pie Auction
4/7 at 11 AM: Easter Egg Hunt
6/17 at 6 PM: Father's Day Cake Auction/ Ice
Cream Social/ Children's Cake Walk
8/25: Old Timer's Day
LIVING WELL IN IDAHO
If you are a
caregiver or have a chronic health condition
yourself,
learn from
trained volunteer leaders how to manage and take
charge of your life. Classes are offered at the
Blanchard Community Center.
Call to register:
Linda Meyer, 208 262-9471 after 10 AM
YOGA
Join Marjorie for Yoga at Your Level
Gentle stretches
- body
alignment - breath work - guided relaxation
Classes take place at the Blanchard Grange at 4
PM*
First series: 3/6 3/13 3/20 3/27 4/3 4/10 4/17
4/24
Call 208 437-3430 for information and to reserve
your space
BLANCHARD LIBRARY208 437-0801
Storytime on Wednesdays at 10:30 AM
Summer Reading at 11:00 AM on 6/20 6/27 7/11
7/18 7/24
Book Talks on 3rd Wednesday of month
at 5:30 PM
PATRIOTS UNITE TEA PARTY
meets the first
Monday of every month at 6:30 PM
at the Blanchard Community Center
Call 208 437-2191 for more information
TWO COOKS WITH LOVE
For catering your special event
call:
509-891-5980 or 437-0426
BLANCHARD GARDEN CLUB
Meets first
Wednesday of each month at various locations.
The first meeting of the season will be March 2
at 1 PM
at the Blanchard Library.
Call Laura for information at 208 437-5801
T.O.P.S.*
Take Off Pounds Sensibly
Meets every Friday,
8:30-10 AM
at the
Blanchard Community Church
Call Gloria at 263-8277
www.tops.org
PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE*
PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE* PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE*
PEND OREILLE PLAYHOUSE*
240 North Union, Newport, WA
99156 - Call: 509 671-3389
Pend Oreille
Players Association (POPA) is a non-profit
theater organization, which provides an
opportunity for the community to participate in
theatrical arts as audience, performers and/ or
supporters. Volunteers are needed! Tickets are
available at the door or online at
www.pendoriellepayers.org
2012 POPA
Schedule: January – July (July – December to be
announced at later date)
JANUARY
3rd Annual Servicemen’s Canteen
Variety Show Tribute to Veterans
Presented by POPIT’s
JAN 27 & 28 – 7 PM and JAN 29 – 3 PM
FEBRUARY
10th Annual Howard’s Follies
Written & produced by Howard Wildin/Yesteryear
Productions
FEB 11, 12, 18, 19, 15 & 16
SAT 7 PM & SUN 3 PM
MARCH
“Her Final Bow”
Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre Production
Written & Directed by Gail Cory-Betz
MAR 9, 10, 11, 16, 27 & 18
FRI/SAT 7 PM; SUN 6 PM
APRIL
“Anne of Green Gables”
Director: Donna Maki
APR 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28 & 29,
2012
FRI/SAT 7 PM & SUN 3 PM
JUNE
“A Rock & Roll Midsummer
Night’s Dream”
Director: Millie Brumbaugh
JUN 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, & 24, 2012
FRI/SAT 7 PM & SUN 3 PM
JULY
3rd Annual One Act Play Festival
SAT/SUN, JUL 14 & 15 – 7 PM
SPIRIT LAKE FIRE PROTECTION
DISTRICT*
Serves the Blanchard area
Fire Chief John DeBernardi
208 623-5800
