Rich Haptonstall is directing"The Art of Dining" at Flathead Valley Community College. The play opens Thursday. Allison Money/Daily Inter Lake

Flathead County Weed, Parks, Building and Recreation workers Bill Weseman, center, and Evan Carter spread dirt Monday afternoon around a new gazebo at Campus Park near the Earl Bennett Building in Kalispell. The new park will have four picnic tables and a bike rack. A sidewalk will be built next spring.

Lee the Horselogger pets his horse Baby alongside his wagon Monday afternoon. Lee, who took his hand-hewn covered wagon cross-country to Boston in 2006, is heading next for the redwoods of Northern California before heading north with his wagon and four Suffolk Punch draft horses. Nate Chute/Daily Inter Lake

Missoula Sentinel midfielder Madison Small (4) reaches for the ball along with Flathead High School sophomore Marti Penrod (3) during Tuesday’s Western AA match at Kidsports Complex in Kalispell.

Creston School Principal Judi Hewitt flips through pictues that were held in the time capsule. Hewitt came to the school in 1989 as a music teacher, the same year the capsule was filled with ad clippings, sports cards, and editorials put together by students.

Columbia Falls' Kayla DeWit goes up for a spike against Ronan's Katie Andrews Saturday evening.

Flames roar from the home of Chris King in Bigfork on Friday morning.

Glacier QB Shay Smithwick-Hann throws a screen pass to senior runningback Taylor Hart as Great Falls Bison linebacker Kevin O’Connor puts the pressure on during the second quarter of the Wolfpack homecoming game at Legends Stadium Friday night.

Elaine Poser and Maunda Hagen look up while measuring the crown spread of a tree.

Kathy Saucier works on a colorful purse.

Wayne Tikka uses a broom to wipe snow off of the top of his van in Kalispell on Friday morning. A blast of snow and Arctic air roared into the Flathead Valley late Thursday, and residents woke up to snow and icy roads on Friday. Cold weather will continue through the weekend, with high temperatures barely at the freezing mark and lows of around 4 degrees.

Terri Fehlhaber, Flathead City-County Health Department immunization nurse, administers a seasonal flu shot Wednesday to Kalispell resident Jan Bailey during the health department’s seventh annual flu shot clinic at the Flathead County Fairgrounds.

Greg Barkus, left, looks across the courtroom Wednesday at Flathead Deputy County Attorney Alison Howard during his initial Justice Court appearance in Kalispell. Barkus has been charged with three felonies for an Aug. 27 boating accident. On the right is Barkus' attorney Todd Glazier. Barkus is in a wheelchair recovering from a broken pelvis he suffered in the boat crash.

Great Northern Brewing Company head brewer Joe Barberis works out a kink with the labeler while bottling 22-ounce Frog Hop Fresh Hopped Pale Ale at the brewery in Whitefish on Thursday. A single batch of the seasonal beer is brewed in September with fresh hops locally handpicked at Purple Frog Gardens near Whitefish within 24 hours of the brew.

Elrod School Principal Jeff Hornby reads “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to a first-grade class Thursday morning. Kalispell schools joined hundreds of others across the nation as part of Jumpstart’s Read for the Record program, a national campaign to support literacy, in an effort to break the world record for the largest number of children participating in a read-aloud of the same book on the same day.

Glacier High School senior Brian Hoffman enjoys his sandwich and the company of his friends during lunch Thursday afternoon. Thursday was Cowboy Day at Glacier as part of the school’s first-ever homecoming week. The homecoming parade is at 6 p.m. today followed by homecoming football against Great Falls at 7 p.m.

Glacier’s Ian Cavigli (9) connects with a header off a corner kick next to Missoula Big Sky’s Damien Bourdon Higbee during Thursday afternoon’s match. Cavigili did not score on the play, but later scored the tying goal in the 69th minute.

Flathead’s Anika Thorderson (25) and Danika Johnson block a shot by Libby outside hitter Logan Best during the second game Thursday night at Flathead High School.