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Week in Pictures: May 12-18

<p>Fifteen-month-old Hattie DeVries-Treat wears her mother's graduation cap Friday evening during the 2014 Flathead Valley Community College commencement ceremony in the Trade Center at the Flathead Valley Fairgrounds in Kalispell. Kimberly DeVries is graduating with an associate of science degree with a focus in pre-nursing. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Cole Schneider inspects a sample of the wort Thursday evening at Kalispell Brewing Co. “This is about the color the completed beer will be,” he said.</p>

<p>Betty Powell laughs with friends as she places a nurse's hat on her head at the luncheon celebrating the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing, on Monday, May 12, at Buffalo Hill Terrace in Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>A pair of mallards take off from their temporary pond in a parking lot in Evergreen on Saturday, May 10. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Amos Chon steps up for his first performance as the principle cellist for the Glacier Symphony and Chorale at the final concert of the season with on Sunday, May 11, in Kalispell. Chon sat next to Amy Zoltek during the concert, she had been his first music teacher when he was six years old. The "Ecstatic Sea!" concert featured Symphony No. 1 "A Sea Symphony" by Vaughan Williams with guest soloists Gina Lapka, soprano, and Stephen Kalm, baritone. The next performance for the Glacier Symphony will be the Summer Symphony Pops performance at Rebecca Farm on Saturday, …

<p>Whitewater waves crest on the Flathead River near the Pressentine Bar Fishing Access on Monday, May 12, north of Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Senior Claire Watts will be the first Whitefish High School student to study abroad in Morocco through the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study program. (Hilary Matheson/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p class="p1"><span style="font-size: 12px;">West Valley and Smith Valley fire departments were among four departments to respond to a structure fire near West Valley Drive and Martin Creek Lane on Monday evening, south of Whitefish. </span></p>

<p>Only charred remains were left Tuesday morning at the pole vault pit at Glacier High School in Kalispell.</p>

<p>Sunrise lights up several of the bridges that create the walking path through Bibler Gardens on Tuesday, May 13, in Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Bigfork's Ryder Trent hits out of a bunker on the second hole on the Osprey Nine course Tuesday during the Class B divisional golf tournament at Eagle Bend Golf Club in Bigfork. May 13, 2014 in Kalispell, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Skyleigh Thompson strikes her pose as Coco Chanel at the annual fifth-grade wax museum at Peterson Elementary School on Wednesday in Kalispell. Students were instructed to stand in a pose appropriate for their characters until visitors push the button that brings them to life. At this point the students recited several paragraphs relating to the life, history, and accomplishments of the characters they portrayed.</p>

<p>Former kitchen workers look at an old mixing machine, one of the few pieces of equipment that was brought from the old kitchen. May 13, 2014 in Kalispell, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Glacier catcher Dakota Birdwell (right) tags out a Kootenai Valley runner at the plate Wednesday night during the Glacier Twins victory over Kootenai Valley at Memorial Field in Whitefish. May 14, 2014 in Whitefish, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>The front bumper was left behind after a Jeep tore through this fence at Ron Crone’s home on River Road in Evergreen. The Jeep was being pursued by law enforcement officers during a chase Thursday morning.</p>

<p>View of the bar as preparations are made for the lunch crowd on Thursday, May 15, at the new MacKenzie River Pizza in north Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Construction is begun at the site of the new Glacier Zip Line Adventures on Tuesday, May 13, east of Columbia Heights. The attraction just north of the House of Mystery and Montana Vortex should be open by July. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>April Webster, Expressions Director, welcomes guest to the open house including Michele Glazier of Kalispell, on Wednesday, May 14, in Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Construction is underway at Three Rivers Bank on Idaho Street in Kalispell. Crews are working on a new parking lot north of the Idaho Street bank; work on a building addition will begin June 1. The $2.8 million expansion is expected to be complete in January 2015.</p>

<p>Richard Ebert of Cutbank washes his 1958 Pontiac Bonneville on Thursday evening, May 15, in Whitefish. On Friday he drove to Sand Point, Idaho to take part in the Lost in the 50s car show. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Dylan McCrumb of Polson playing in the boy's doubles semi-finals at the Northwester A Divisional Tennis tournament on Friday, May 16, in Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Paul Charbonneau of the Flathead County Sheriff's Office at Woodland Park on Friday, May 16, at Woodland Park in Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Cole uses a hydrometer to check the original gravity of the liquid mash of grains, called the wort. Original and final gravity measures the density of the liquid before the yeast is added and after fermentation is complete and is used to determine the alcohol by volume of the final product. the May 15, 2014 in Kalispell, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Maggie and Cole laugh while waiting to add hops to the mash Thursday evening at Kalispell Brewing Company. Hops are added at three different stages in boiling process for the dunkel style beer being brewed. "This is the first beer brewed in dowtown [Kalispell] since 1955. I think it's pretty cool," Maggie said. May 15, 2014 in Kalispell, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Marissa Hiza runs the 100-meter hurdles Saturday morning during a track meet at Bigfork High School. May 17, 2014 in Bigfork, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Flathead lacrosse players celebrate a goal Saturday afternoon during their victory over 10 Sticks of Polson at Smith Fields in Whitefish. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p>

<p>Keith Kratzer of Montana Wild Wings Recovery Center holds a red-tailed hawk during an open house for the center Saturday afternoon at the Fish, Wildlife and Parks headquarters in Kalispell. The event had educational raptor presentations as well as a silent auction to help raise money for the volunteer-run organization. The birds shown by Montana Wild Wings were recovered with injuries too severe to survive in the wild after rehabilitation.</p>

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&lt;p&gt;Cole Schneider inspects a sample of the wort Thursday evening at Kalispell Brewing Co. &#147;This is about the color the completed beer will be,&#148; he said.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Betty Powell laughs with friends as she places a nurse's hat on her head at the luncheon celebrating the birthday of Florence Nightingale, founder of modern nursing, on Monday, May 12, at Buffalo Hill Terrace in Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;A pair of mallards take off from their temporary pond in a parking lot in Evergreen on Saturday, May 10. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Amos Chon steps up for his first performance as the principle cellist for the Glacier Symphony and Chorale at the final concert of the season with on Sunday, May 11, in Kalispell. Chon sat next to Amy Zoltek during the concert, she had been his first music teacher when he was six years old. The &quot;Ecstatic Sea!&quot; concert featured Symphony No. 1 &quot;A Sea Symphony&quot; by Vaughan Williams with guest soloists Gina Lapka, soprano, and Stephen Kalm, baritone. The next performance for the Glacier Symphony will be the Summer Symphony Pops performance at Rebecca Farm on Saturday, June 28. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Whitewater waves crest on the Flathead River near the Pressentine Bar Fishing Access on Monday, May 12, north of Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Senior Claire Watts will be the first Whitefish High School student to study abroad in Morocco through the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study program. (Hilary Matheson/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p class=&quot;p1&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: 12px;&quot;&gt;West Valley and Smith Valley fire departments were among four departments to respond to a structure fire near West Valley Drive and Martin Creek Lane on Monday evening, south of Whitefish.&#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Only charred remains were left Tuesday morning at the pole vault pit at Glacier High School in Kalispell.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Sunrise lights up several of the bridges that create the walking path through Bibler Gardens on Tuesday, May 13, in Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Bigfork's Ryder Trent hits out of a bunker on the second hole on the Osprey Nine course Tuesday during the Class B divisional golf tournament at Eagle Bend Golf Club in Bigfork. May 13, 2014 in Kalispell, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Skyleigh Thompson strikes her pose as Coco Chanel at the annual fifth-grade wax museum at Peterson Elementary School on Wednesday in Kalispell. Students were instructed to stand in a pose appropriate for their characters until visitors push the button that brings them to life. At this point the students recited several paragraphs relating to the life, history, and accomplishments of the characters they portrayed.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Former kitchen workers look at an old mixing machine, one of the few pieces of equipment that was brought from the old kitchen. May 13, 2014 in Kalispell, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Glacier catcher Dakota Birdwell (right) tags out a Kootenai Valley runner at the plate Wednesday night during the Glacier Twins victory over Kootenai Valley at Memorial Field in Whitefish. May 14, 2014 in Whitefish, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;The front bumper was left behind after a Jeep tore through this fence at Ron Crone&#146;s home on River Road in Evergreen. The Jeep was being pursued by law enforcement officers during a chase Thursday morning.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;View of the bar as preparations are made for the lunch crowd on Thursday, May 15, at the new MacKenzie River Pizza in north Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Construction is begun at the site of the new Glacier Zip Line Adventures on Tuesday, May 13, east of Columbia Heights. The attraction just north of the House of Mystery and Montana Vortex should be open by July. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;April Webster, Expressions Director, welcomes guest to the open house including Michele Glazier of Kalispell, on Wednesday, May 14, in Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Construction is underway at Three Rivers Bank on Idaho Street in Kalispell. Crews are working on a new parking lot north of the Idaho Street bank; work on a building addition will begin June 1. The $2.8 million expansion is expected to be complete in January 2015.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Richard Ebert of Cutbank washes his 1958 Pontiac Bonneville on Thursday evening, May 15, in Whitefish. On Friday he drove to Sand Point, Idaho to take part in the Lost in the 50s car show. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Dylan McCrumb of Polson playing in the boy's doubles semi-finals at the Northwester A Divisional Tennis tournament on Friday, May 16, in Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Paul Charbonneau of the Flathead County Sheriff's Office at Woodland Park on Friday, May 16, at Woodland Park in Kalispell. (Brenda Ahearn/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Cole uses a hydrometer to check the original gravity of the liquid mash of grains, called the wort. Original and final gravity measures the density of the liquid before the yeast is added and after fermentation is complete and is used to determine the alcohol by volume of the final product. the May 15, 2014 in Kalispell, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Maggie and Cole laugh while waiting to add hops to the mash Thursday evening at Kalispell Brewing Company. Hops are added at three different stages in boiling process for the dunkel style beer being brewed. &quot;This is the first beer brewed in dowtown [Kalispell] since 1955. I think it's pretty cool,&quot; Maggie said. May 15, 2014 in Kalispell, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Marissa Hiza runs the 100-meter hurdles Saturday morning during a track meet at Bigfork High School. May 17, 2014 in Bigfork, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Flathead lacrosse players celebrate a goal Saturday afternoon during their victory over 10 Sticks of Polson at Smith Fields in Whitefish. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;Keith Kratzer of Montana Wild Wings Recovery Center holds a red-tailed hawk during an open house for the center Saturday afternoon at the Fish, Wildlife and Parks headquarters in Kalispell. The event had educational raptor presentations as well as a silent auction to help raise money for the volunteer-run organization. The birds shown by Montana Wild Wings were recovered with injuries too severe to survive in the wild after rehabilitation.&lt;/p&gt;