ISJ calendar

Today

• There will be a ROW Standards workshop at 7:30 a.m. today in Council Chambers at Pocatello City Hall.

• The Pocatello-Chubbuck Chamber of Commerce Education Committee is reforming under the leadership of Courtney Fisher with School District 25 and Stuart Summers with ISU. The first meeting will be at 8 a.m. today at the Chamber Office, 324 S. Main St. in Pocatello.

• There will be a Housing Alliance & Community Partnerships meeting at 11 a.m. today at Christensen Court, 711 N. Sixth Ave. in Pocatello.

• Al-Anon, a group for friends and family members of alcoholics, meets Wednesdays at noon at Mental Health Specialists, 210 W. Burnside Ave., Suite A, in Chubbuck. For more information, call 208-232-2692

• There will be a Census Media Subcommittee meeting at 4 p.m. today in the Iwamizawa Conference Room at Pocatello City Hall.

• Fiction author Jonah Andrist will be the speaker at “From Both Sides of the Tracks,” a poetry and prose series, at 7 p.m. today at Gates Gallery, 315 W. Center St. in Pocatello. The format will include a featured writer followed by an open mic session. For more information, contact Will Peterson at the Walrus & Carpenter Book Store in Old Town at 208-233-0821.

• There will be a Japanese Sister Cities Subcommittee delegates meeting at 7 p.m. today in the Iwamizawa and Paradice conference rooms at Pocatello City Hall.

• 2Great4Hate will present the final episodes of “Belief” at regular intervals on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. at the Marshall Public Library. “Belief” tells of people on many types of personal spiritual journeys and explores traditional practices of religion and spirituality. The schedule of remaining presentations is: today, “The Practice,” and April 3, “A Good Life.”

• There will be an informative session about weather spotting, including the proper training needed to become an official NWS spotter, at 7 p.m. today in the Lincoln County Offices Probation Conference Room, 117 W. A St. in Shoshone. Training includes definitions and climatology of severe weather, cloud and storm recognition, storm hazards and safety tips, weather reporting procedures, and a review of past severe weather events.

Today-Saturday

• “On the Basis of Sex” will be shown from today through Saturday at 7 p.m. each night in the Bengal Theater, with additional shows at 9:45 p.m. Friday and Saturday. As a young lawyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg struggles for equal rights, and the movie follows her early cases in a historic career that led to her eventual nomination and confirmation as U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice. Admission is $3 for the public, $2 for ISU staff and free for ISU students with Bengal ID.

Thursday

• A free, four-part series Healthy Diabetes Plate class will be taking place on Thursdays beginning March 28 and running through April 18. Classes will be held from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Southeastern Idaho Public Health, 1901 Alvin Ricken Drive in Pocatello. For more information or to enroll in the Healthy Diabetes Plate Class Series, contact Traci Lambson at 478-6316 or visit www.siphidaho.org.

• The Pocatello/Chubbuck Chamber of Commerce will have Business After Hours hosted by Idaho Foodbank, 555 S. First Ave. in Pocatello, from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.

• The Volunteer Income Tax Assistance will run every Thursday from 5 to 9 through March 28. This program allows anyone with an annual income of $52,000 or less to have their taxes filed for free by accounting students. Participants will need to bring their tax documents, their social security card and a form of photo ID. For more information, contact Dawn Konicek at konidawn@isu.edu or visit isu.edu/cob.

• Al-Anon, a group for friends and family members of alcoholics, meets Thursdays at 6 p.m. at Hope and Recovery Resource Center, 210 E. Center St., Suite D, in Pocatello. For more information, call 208-232-2692

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