COMMUNITY CALENDAR

TODAY Free hypnosis relaxation session with Bob Kittle, CH.t, South Main Drop In Centre, 11:45 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. call 250-4882723 for details. Discovery House presents Lent Lunch Soup fundraiser at St. John Vianney Hall, 361 Wade Ave. W. in Penticton every Friday in March from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Okanagan College professor Frances Greenslade presents a workshop on slow writing at the Penticton library auditorium, noon Medici’s Friday Night Live open mic night in Oliver, 7 p.m. New local band Who Knew performs at the Eagles Hall, 7 p.m. SATURDAY Passport to the World, Travel Movie Series at Landmark Cinemas, Utah: Natural Contrasts, 11 a.m. Family toboggan party at Mount Baldy, hot chocolate and lots of fun, free, 3:30-5 p.m. Fresh BC Talent Coffeehouse, Elite Restaurant, 1:30-3:30 p.m. Artist Bill Blair presents a workshop at the Shatford Centre on how to use a variety of materials to build two- or three-dimensional shrines Rockabilly Brunch at The Dream Cafe with Southern-style food and music, no cover charge, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. SUNDAY Passport to the World, Travel Movie Series at Landmark Cinemas, Utah: Natural Contrasts, 11 a.m. Legion Branch No. 40 Ladies Auxiliary catering sports Sunday at the hall The Bolshoi Ballet, on the big screen at Landmark Cinemas 7, 9:55 a.m., The Flames of Paris (Alexei Ratmanshy), live Fraternal Order of the Eagles has hot appetizers, followed by weekly meat draw, with proceeds to the Penticton schools breakfast program, noon-4 p.m. MONDAY B.C. author Bruce Fraser visits the Penticton library auditorium to read from “Noah’s Raven,” his third novel exploring the mysteries of the Chilcotin region, 2-3 p.m. Legion Branch No. 40 Ladies Auxiliary hosts its annual general meeting at the hall, 2 p.m. PSBC Parkinson’s Support Group monthly meeting for peers and caregivers/partners, Concorde Assisted Living Residence, 1:30 p.m. Social dinner for Baby Boomers in the South Okanagan, call 250-488-5382 for details or join the Boomers Social GroupPenticton page on Facebook TUESDAY Brown Bag Lecture Series continues at Penticton Museum Auditorium with Cuyler Page presenting, An English Matriarch Visits the Similkameen in the 1890s, noon. Suggested donation $2 Penticton city council meets. Sessions begin at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. To view agenda and information package visit: penticton.ca (links: City Hall; Mayor and Council Tuesday Night Movies continues at the Penticton library with “Arrival,” adults only, no cost, bring a bowl for popcorn, 6 p.m. Okanagan Basin Water Board executive director Anna Warwick Sears is the guest speaker at the Penticton-Okanagan Rotary Club meeting, Sandman Hotel, breakfast available for purchase, 7 a.m. Volunteer income tax preparation event, St. Saviour’s Anglican Church, Penticton, 1-3 p.m. WEDNESDAY Fraternal Order of the Eagles has soup and sandwiches, plus hot appetizers, with proceeds to the Penticton schools breakfast program, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Town hall meeting with South OkanaganWest Kootenay MP Richard Cannings, Penticton library auditorium, 7-9 p.m. Friends of the Gardens Society holds its annual general meeting at the Summerland Research and Development Centre. New members welcome. Guest speaker is Rick Sauder, 7 p.m. Volunteer income tax preparation event, Salvation Army Church, Penticton, 9 a.m. to noon Single seniors 65-plus meet for coffee at the PGCC, 10-11 a.m., call 250-492-7078 for more information THURSDAY Stick N Puck drop-in hockey, 55-plus, McLaren Park arena, noon to 1 p.m., CSAapproved helmet required, full gear optional, $5 Friendship Force of Penticton-Okanagan hosts its monthly meeting at The Patio (formerly Debbie’s Diner) at 1690 Barnes Avenue, all welcome, 12:30 p.m. FRIDAY, MARCH 9 South Okanagan Concert Society presents Joe Trio, $25 (at the door), $23 for one show, purchase at venablestheatre.ca Free hypnosis relaxation session with Bob Kittle, CH.t, South Main Drop In Centre, 11:45 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. call 250-4882723 for details Discovery House presents Lent Lunch Soup fundraiser at St. John Vianney Hall, 361 Wade Ave. W. in Penticton every Friday in March from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. SATURDAY, MARCH 10 Metropolitan Opera on the big screen at Landmark Cinemas 7, 9:55 a.m., Semiramide, Gioachinio Rossini Family toboggan party at Mount Baldy, hot chocolate and lots of fun, free, 3:30-5 p.m. Okanagan Similkameen Healthy Living Fair at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. 2018 Winter Program Series by the Osoyoos Desert Society continues with a showing of the film, An Inconvenient Truth, followed by a talk about taking action and giveaways. Admission by donation, Watermark Beach Resort, 2-4 p.m. Summerland Friends of the Ornamental Gardens hosts a volunteer recruitment and orientation workshop, IOOF Hall, 9563 Main St., Summerland, 10 a.m. Grandmothers for Africa presents Books, Bangles, Bandanas and Borscht at the Penticton United Church, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Spring flea market, Okanagan Falls Seniors’ Centre, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Twelve-year-old piano prodigy Kevin Chen performs with the Okanagan Symphony Orchestra at the Cleland Theatre in Penticton, 7:30 p.m. SUNDAY, MARCH 11 Fraternal Order of the Eagles has hot appetizers, followed by weekly meat draw, with proceeds to the Penticton schools breakfast program, noon-4 p.m. Legion Branch No. 40 Ladies Auxiliary hosting a pancake breakfast, 8:30-11:30 a.m.