Week in Pictures January 11-17
West Valley Fire Chief Rodney Dresbach joins Michelle Shaffer as she speaks with a group of firefighters outside her home on Monday in Kalispell. The Shaffer home was extensively damaged in Sunday’s blaze.
Nina Robart accompanies the Flathead High School varsity women’s choir during class on Thursday morning. After a career as a lawyer, Robart is the accompanist for choirs at both Flathead and Glacier high schools.
Norma Buck, right, and Shirley Harryman share a laugh on Wednesday as they visit in Buck’s home in Kalispell. Harryman, a volunteer with the Friends of the Library, brings books to Buck.
A white-tailed doe pauses to survey her surroundings before making her way through deep snow on Sunday near Olney.
Duane Peterson of Whitefish shovels snow from his roof on Monday. Peterson said he was anticipating rain and did not want to have too much weight on the roof.
Flathead sophomore George Sherwood (32) drives around a Missoula Sentinel defender during Tuesday’s game at Flathead.
Pat Freebury is shown with a child at an orphanage in Pignon, Haiti, during her November 2008 trip. Freebury, 71, left Jan. 6 for her second stint of volunteering at the facilities operated by Haiti Mercy Mission.
A 30-year-old Columbia Falls woman was airlifted to Kalispell Regional Medical Center by the ALERT helicopter after hitting a northbound log truck on Montana 35 as she was turning left into Creston Center. The accident occurred in foggy conditions Wednesday shortly before noon.
Carol and Dick Nelson stand outside their home on Thursday in rural Olney. The Nelsons have put 301 acres of their land under a conservation easement.
Keith Lisle rides in a bucket at Legends Field to add lights to the back of the press box Thursday afternoon.
Glacier’s Shay Smithwick-Hann pulls down a defensive rebound while surronded by a trio of Missoula Big Sky Eagles on Thursday at Glacier.
Flathead Distillery owners David and Nancy Lehenky look on as a glass of their Flathead Vodka is poured at the Great Northern Bar in Whitefish.
Flathead High School Junior Tierney Strandberg hugs fellow Flathead Abolitionist Movement club member Ashley Judd as the crowd moves into the auditorium for a viewing of the documentary “Call + Response.” About 200 people attended the showing.
Kalispell Middle School seventh-grader Sylas Schutt blows air into a dummy during a CPR training session in health class Thursday morning. Proponents of consolidation say consolidating rural schools would give middle-school students a wider variety of educational and extracurricular options.
Mike Wagner, left, and George Baumbach put up a new Applied Materials sign over Semitool’s sign on Reserve Drive Thursday evening. Applied Materials acquired the Kalispell-based company Dec. 21. The company will continue to produce products for the semiconductor industry as a part of Applied Materials’ Silicon Systems Group.
Flathead’s Taylor Keltner drives around Missoula Big Sky’s Danielle Sheridan (31) and Tali Hart in the second half of Friday evening’s Western AA basketball game in Kalispell.
Columbia Falls' Jacob Calderwood stretches his arms up as he goes for a rebound against Whitefish's Connor Silliker in the final minutes of Saturday's game in Columbia Falls.
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