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This Week in Pictures September 19-25

<p>Flathead's victory over Sentinel Friday night.</p>

<p>Flathead's Michael Lavin chips onto the first green during the second round of the Glacier/Whitefish/Flathead Invitational golf tournament at Buffalo Hill Golf Club Saturday morning.</p>

<p>Paige Birky celebrates with Joey Thiel (1) after Flathead's first goal during Saturday's Western AA soccer match with the Missoula BIg Sky Eagles at Kidsports complex.</p>

<p>Julie Wulf works on a silk painting of the view from her studio, a piece she has titled “Spring on Peaceful Bay,” Thursday afternoon in Lakeside. She is one of 17 local artists and artisans working in diverse media — from glass to leather to painting to pottery — taking part in the Hockaday Museum of Art’s Local Color Studio Tour. According to Brian Ekland, communications director, the goal is to celebrate local artists and to get people out to see them so people can experience live demonstrations of how the work is made, ask about the artists’ inspirati…

<p>Pam Richmond of Edenton, N.C., learns to fly fish on Friday afternoon along the lower Swan River east of Bigfork. Richmond, who just turned fifty, said fly fishing had been on her bugket list. So, on this visit to Montana, she and her husband and friends purchased a fishing license and went out to watch as she learned. Acccording to Richard Dixon, the family friend who helped teach her they didn't catch any fish, but the goal of the day was more the learning process. He said she looked like she had been casting much longer than one would expect from a first-timer.</p>

<p>Amy Joy writes names on the plates of the 2 to 3 year old students in her Early Learning Center class on Friday morning at Saint Matthew's.</p>

<p>Glacier sophomore Hannah Atlee, 28, goes up the net against Flathead junior Cassie Krueger, 19, during game one of their match up on Thursday night at Glacier.</p>

<p>Lee Proctor works on a crushed glass landscape on Tuesday morning at his studio in Bigfork. His most recent series of landscapes were done on site at the Teton Mountains in Wyoming. Proctor will be demonstrating how he blows glass and then rolls over these plates to create his lamps and vases.</p>

<p>Federal Housing Administrator Tammye Trevino aligns a two-by-four at a Mutual Self-Help Housing Project project site in Spring Creek Estates Thursday afternoon.</p>

<p>A helicopter lowers the pole for Tower Six of the new Bad Rock lift at Whitefish Mountain Resort on Thursday morning. The helicopter made three trips from the staging area in the Willow parking lot to bring all the parts up to the new tower. Three other towers still need to be installed.</p>

<p>Hanna Reese, a senior at Flathead High School, places a pinwheel outside the Flathead County Courthouse on Wednesday morning. Students planted the pinwheels as part of The Pinwheels for Peace Project.</p><p></p>

<p>Cassie Krueger spikes the ball during the first set of Flathead's victory over Hellgate Tuesday evening.</p>

<p>Aaron Hadley, left, and other crew members from NCC Neumann Construction work on replacing the storm sewer system on Wednesday in Bigfork. Work began on Tuesday and is expected to wrap up early to mid-October.</p>

<p>Conner Masur, left, and Robert McCarvel, both students at Saint Matthew's, remove flags from the memorial outside the Kalispell Fire Department. On Friday, September 9th, staff and students from Saint Matt's along with law enforcement and emergency responders marched 343 flags to the fire departmetn in honor of the first responders who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. According to Dominick Kovacevic the flags were to be taken down last week but the fire department asked if they could keep the memorial up a while longer as people were still stopping by on a regular basis.</p>

<p>Alice, one of the 17 members of the African Children’s Choir, enjoys swinging at the Whitefish Church of the Nazarene playground Tuesday afternoon. The choir will perform a free concert tonight at Christ Lutheran Church in Whitefish.</p>

<p>Sunflowers stand out starkly against a stormy sky on Monday morning west of Kalispell.</p>

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| September 26, 2011 10:35 AM

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&lt;p&gt;Flathead's Michael Lavin chips onto the first green during the second round of the Glacier/Whitefish/Flathead Invitational golf tournament at Buffalo Hill Golf Club Saturday morning.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Paige Birky celebrates with Joey Thiel (1) after Flathead's first goal during Saturday's Western AA soccer match with the Missoula BIg Sky Eagles at Kidsports complex.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Julie Wulf works on a silk painting of the view from her studio, a piece she has titled &#147;Spring on Peaceful Bay,&#148; Thursday afternoon in Lakeside. She is one of 17 local artists and artisans working in diverse media &#151; from glass to leather to painting to pottery &#151; taking part in the Hockaday Museum of Art&#146;s Local Color Studio Tour. According to Brian Ekland, communications director, the goal is to celebrate local artists and to get people out to see them so people can experience live demonstrations of how the work is made, ask about the artists&#146; inspirations and learn about the skills and talent that go into the creation of these works of art. The tour takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and Sunday throughout the Flathead Valley. For artist information and a map, visit www.hockadaymuseum.org.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Pam Richmond of Edenton, N.C., learns to fly fish on Friday afternoon along the lower Swan River east of Bigfork. Richmond, who just turned fifty, said fly fishing had been on her bugket list. So, on this visit to Montana, she and her husband and friends purchased a fishing license and went out to watch as she learned. Acccording to Richard Dixon, the family friend who helped teach her they didn't catch any fish, but the goal of the day was more the learning process. He said she looked like she had been casting much longer than one would expect from a first-timer.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Amy Joy writes names on the plates of the 2 to 3 year old students in her Early Learning Center class on Friday morning at Saint Matthew's.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Glacier sophomore Hannah Atlee, 28, goes up the net against Flathead junior Cassie Krueger, 19, during game one of their match up on Thursday night at Glacier.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Lee Proctor works on a crushed glass landscape on Tuesday morning at his studio in Bigfork. His most recent series of landscapes were done on site at the Teton Mountains in Wyoming. Proctor will be demonstrating how he blows glass and then rolls over these plates to create his lamps and vases.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Federal Housing Administrator Tammye Trevino aligns a two-by-four at a Mutual Self-Help Housing Project project site in Spring Creek Estates Thursday afternoon.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;A helicopter lowers the pole for Tower Six of the new Bad Rock lift at Whitefish Mountain Resort on Thursday morning. The helicopter made three trips from the staging area in the Willow parking lot to bring all the parts up to the new tower. Three other towers still need to be installed.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Hanna Reese, a senior at Flathead High School, places a pinwheel outside the Flathead County Courthouse on Wednesday morning. Students planted the pinwheels as part of The Pinwheels for Peace Project.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Cassie Krueger spikes the ball during the first set of Flathead's victory over Hellgate Tuesday evening.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Aaron Hadley, left, and other crew members from NCC Neumann Construction work on replacing the storm sewer system on Wednesday in Bigfork. Work began on Tuesday and is expected to wrap up early to mid-October.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Conner Masur, left, and Robert McCarvel, both students at Saint Matthew's, remove flags from the memorial outside the Kalispell Fire Department. On Friday, September 9th, staff and students from Saint Matt's along with law enforcement and emergency responders marched 343 flags to the fire departmetn in honor of the first responders who died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. According to Dominick Kovacevic the flags were to be taken down last week but the fire department asked if they could keep the memorial up a while longer as people were still stopping by on a regular basis.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Alice, one of the 17 members of the African Children&#146;s Choir, enjoys swinging at the Whitefish Church of the Nazarene playground Tuesday afternoon. The choir will perform a free concert tonight at Christ Lutheran Church in Whitefish.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Sunflowers stand out starkly against a stormy sky on Monday morning west of Kalispell.&lt;/p&gt;