Week in Pictures April 19-25

Steve Kinniburgh watches and gives directions to the driver moving the Blacktail Mountain Ski Area office building to a new location in Lakeside on Tuesday.

Bruce Smith of Bigfork, left, and Greg Nelson of Kalispell, work on building doors for a barn on Monday east of Kalispell.

David Barr directs the Glacier Varsity Band on Friday at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center.

Two sandhill cranes forage in a marsh outside Bigfork on Saturday. The wading birds stand 4 feet tall and have a wingspan of up to 6 feet.

Janet Kigilyuk, left to right, Paulina Carbajal-Jepsen, and Lauryn Vornbrock, along with members of Barb Andersen's third grade class, wait anxiously outside Super 1 Foods on Tuesday in Kalispell. Students at Elrod Elementary borrowed 300 bags and decorated them with Earth Day themed art. The decorated bags will be given to customers starting at 8 a.m. on Thursday.

Nathan Hale, left, appeared in Flathead County Justice Court Tuesday afternoon with attorney Scott Hilderman and prosecutor Travis Ahner. Hale, 31, is charged with serving alcohol after hours to Travis Vandersloot at Pick’s Bowling Center near Bigfork last year. Vandersloot later crashed his vehicle into Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Michael Haynes’ patrol car on U.S. 93. Both men died.

Glacier freshman Anna Deleray heads for the turn during one of the laps in the 800 on Tuesday at Glacier High School in a dual meet with Whitefish. Deleray won the event with a time of 2.28.92. She also ran a leg on the winning 1,600 relay team.

Howard Jones is joined by other patrons of Club Dungeon, a underage nightclub in downtown Kalispell, while lighting candles Tuesday in memory of Wesley Collins, who was murdered in his home last week. The group of about 20 people walked and rode in cars to Collins’ home, where they held a vigil.

Pat Hanley, right, measures a two-ton section of a rare Indian-scarred ponderosa pine tree with Museum at Central School Director Gil Jordan. The tree was discovered by Plum Creek employee Vic Anderson on Plum Creek land west of Hubbart Reservoir and was delivered to the museum Wednesday.

Glacier’s Baylee Quay hits the ball during the first inning.

Work crews turn on lights as they align the center section of the new skybridge over Wisconsin Avenue on Wednesday night in Whitefish. Traffic was reduced to one lane and rerouted through the parking lot of the Whitefish Lake Lodge.

Pizza Hut Restaurant General Manager Raleigh Flint and his team are in the running to be the best Pizza Hut in the country. They have made the top three.

Amanda Von Trapp, of Kalispell, left to right, Thomas Klein, of Columbia Falls, and Carol Brannan of Kalispell, cheer along with students from Trinity Lutheran after they finish singing a rendition of Horton swallows a Who on Friday at the FVCC Seussville event.

Greg Morley works on building a canoe in his shop on Wednesday, April 14.

The crew from LHC, Inc. tears out the sidewalk along Hutton Ranch Road on Thursday evening in Kalispell. The road is being widened and by June there will be two lanes going into the new Walmart.

Dale Lauman, a Flathead County commissioner since 2007, was diagnosed with non-Hodgkins stage II lymphoma last October. He has since completed chemotherapy treatments.

Flathead’s Karlee Stacy runs over first base after Glacier’s Abby Connolly makes the catch to force her out in the sixth inning during the first game of Friday afternoon’s crosstown softball doubleheader at Kidsports Complex.

Glacier Knights Quarterback Phil Heimerl attempts to escape from a trio of Gallatin Valley Snow Devils, from left to right, Jonathan Garcia, Patrick Rice, and Larry Warner during a Rocky Mountain Football League game at Columbia Falls High School Saturday afternoon. The Knights won the game 15-0.

Flathead's Taylor Twichel sprints to third base despite having her helmet partially block her view of the basepath.

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