This Week in Pictures August 22-28
<p>Stillwater Christian School's Joshua Bray (3) goes up for a header as teammate Travis Kauffman (4) and Columbia Falls's Kevin Shea (18) look on during Saturday's nonconference soccer match in Columbia Falls.</p>
<p>GLACIER wide receiver Anthony Gugliuzza (85) tries to shake off a tackle by Billings Skyview’s Alex Zacher during Friday night’s Class AA season-opening football game at Legends Stadium.</p>
<p>Jeff Sipe, director of sales and marketing for the Montana Firearms Group, holds the American Standard Rifle named ÒBest of the BestÓ new rifle on the market by Field and Stream Magazine.</p>
<p>Whitefish sophomore Kayla Simmes (7) shares in a moment of jubilation after teammate Madison Grady (3) scores a goal during the first half of their soccer match against Stevensville on Friday in Whitefish.</p>
<p>West Glacier Elementary School Principal Cory Pierce uses the quiet early hours of Thursday to work on a paperwork related to a Montana Office of Public Instruction grant. Students at West Glacier will start back to school on September 1st.</p>
<p>Rochelle Hartman, a teacher from Eureka, settles into the shade of the porch on the north side of the Conrad Mansion as she works on a sketch of the interlacing vines and ivy on Tuesday at Paint the Mansion in Kalispell.</p>
<p>A bighorn sheep makes its way through the parking lot at Logan Pass on Thursday morning in Glacier National Park.</p>
<p>Nathan Sommers, center, uses the shoulder of Gauge Anderson to hop over a rope without touching it during team building exercises at Kila School on Thursday morning. The students had to get over the rope without losing contact with their team members.</p>
<p>Kevin Grosswiler catches the ball during wide receiver drills at Flathead High School football practice on Wednesday afternoon.</p>
<p>Jim Dyk, center, hangs limp to simulate an unconscious person in need of help during a ropes training exercise at the Kalispell Fire Department North Station on Wednesday afternoon.</p>
<p>Becky Sturdevant stands with a photo of her son, Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Evan Schneider, who was killed when an oncoming pickup truck crossed the center line and struck the trooper’s car head-on in 2008.</p>
<p>Anthony Gugliuzza returns a kick during practice on Wednesday at Glacier High School.</p>
<p>Jeannie Sattler of Whitefish works in her kitchen on Wednesday afternoon preparing vegetables and making salsa to sale on Saturday at the US Troop Fund Bake Sale at Army/Navy of Whitefish. The sale is scheduled to run from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Proceeds will be used to purchase and ship supplies to troops and schools in Afghanistan. Also at the bake sale people can view and buy raffle tickets for a quilt that will be raffled at noon on September 11 at the Whitefish VFW. Sattler has volunteered for the bake sale for four years. Later this week she'll be working on bananna nut bread and ch…
<p>Construction crews begin milling US Highway 93 southbound on Wednesday afternoon near Happy Valley. Traffic was reduced to one lane headed both directions. The project is expected to take two weeks.</p>
<p>Kurt Weber, left, demonstrates how to strum to his introductory guitar class during the first day of school at Evergreen Junior High on Wednesday morning.</p>
<p>View of the Ferris Wheel and Northwest Montana Fair sign.</p>
<p>Dana Cordell fills bottles of wine during the first major bottling at Glacier Sun Winery Tuesday afternoon. Ninety cases of the winery's cab-sauv, merlot, cab-franc blend, Triple Arches, were bottled. Glacier Sun Winery is owned by Cordell and her husband David.</p>
<p>Kathy Warmoth of Agape Home Care plays Scrabble with Linda Powell on Friday morning in Evergreen.</p>
<p>Bryan Olson, left, and Christopher Smith from the Murphy Lake Ranger Station stand near a portable water tank as they watch the Fitzsimmons Creek Fire burn Tuesday afternoon east of Stryker.</p>
<p>Accused double murderer Tyler Michael Miller sits with his attorneys as they argued that Montana’s death penalty statutes are unconstitutional on Tuesday.</p>
<p>A shopper makes her way through the Kalispell Center Mall on Monday afternoon.</p>
<p>Bryson Connolly in Justice Court on Monday afternoon in Kalispell. Connolly was charged with attempted deliberate homicide, assault on peace officer and two counts of assault with a weapon.</p>
<p>Firefighters Joe Brenneman, River Mallery, John Klippel and Carl Strand head into deep brush in the Lake Blaine area Monday morning as they look for a fire that had been spotted from the sky. The smoke was the result of a slash pile burn.</p>