Week In Pictures November 23-29
Richard Atkinson of Whitefish greets Julie Ferda of Whitefish on Tuesday as he celebrates day 50 of 151 days of walking in Whitefish. By Tuesday, Atkinson had completed the first 300 kilometers of his walk to raise the remaining $700,000 for the Whitefish Performing Arts Center.
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., listens to area business and community leaders, including Steve Thompson, left, of Semitool and Jerry Lamb of the Confederated Salish-Kootenai Tribes during an economic roundtable Monday morning in Kalispell.
Dwight Billeadeau discusses the properties of obsidian rock, a volcanic glass, during his demonstration on native ancestral tools on Tuesday at First People Day at Glacier High School. Billeadeau, 62, told the students he has been making arrowheads since he was 10 years old. First People Day featured presentations, song, dance, storytelling and native games led by American Indian educators and elders.
Flathead County Sheriff’s Deputy Nelson Grant, above, directs traffic from West Reserve Drive onto Whitefish Stage Road on Tuesday afternoon while West Reserve was closed for repair of a downed power line.
Jim Bob Pierce, owner of Red Eagle Aviation, looks out over Kalispell while flying on Wednesday. “The people of Kalispell should embrace that,” Pierce said of Kalispell City Airport. “They have a captive audience where it guarantees that people who are coming here are going to be in Kalispell for sure.”
Schizoid Johnny, stage persona of Swan River School music teacher John Steinhardt, plays a drum solo at the start of his concert for fifth- through eighth-graders at the school Tuesday morning. See more pictures and hear Johnny play in an audio slideshow at www.dailyinterlake.com
Participants in the class do a bear crawl with elastic ankle bands wrapped around their legs across the Astroturf surface.
English teacher Ted Keller and other staff members and volunteers dish out Thanksgiving fare at Laser School.
Brandee Reinsberg, 6, of Kalispell, takes the initiative with a knife while she is eating her Thanksgiving dinner with her family.
Robert Giles gets rolled into the hyperbaric chamber by nurse Sheryl Fraser at Kalispell Regional Medical Center. The chamber will help heal Giles’ radiation-damaged jaw.
The Shop ’til ya Drop women, a group of loyal Black Friday shoppers from Canada, visit with one another in front of one of their decorated vehicles Friday in Kalispell. The women took a break from their shop-a-thon for brunch at Sizzler before heading back into the busy stores.
Larry and Sharon Swift of Kalispell checking over the lights of the Glacier Harley Owners Group on Friday before the start of the Christmas City of the North parade.
