Week in Pictures December 21 - 27

Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 16 years, 8 months AGO

Eddy Fox puts up Christmas decorations at the Hensley house Monday afternoon in Kalispell. “She calls every year,” said Fox, who has helped decorate the family’s home for more than a decade. “I enjoy it.”

From left are the West children: Rhyan, 13, Joshua, 6, and Ashley, 7.

Maggie Gibson makes a copy of her award winning poem Dew Drops on Tuesday in her home in Kalispell.

Davin and Easton Wheeler were born Aug. 9 but couldn’t be held together for 12 days. Davin was taken to Missoula shortly after birth when he developed pulmonary hypertension in his lungs.

A group of students play in the snow during lunch recess at Russell Elementary School Wednesday afternoon. Kalispell’s elementary and high school districts face a potential budget shortfall of $889,000 to $1.1 million in 2010-11. School district administrators and school board trustees will decide over the next few months how to handle the shortfall, whether by cutting programs or personnel, asking voters to approve an extra tax levy or both.

Erin and Ryan Reichman of Tacoma, Wash., feed their daughter Adeline Anina on Dec. 11 at Kalispell Regional Medical Center.

Kim Lister and her granddaughter Emilee Lister, age 3, walk along Rose Crossing doing "quality control" on Thursday as they and other volunteers work to line the street with 1500 lights in celebration on Christmas Eve. The residents of Rose Crossing have been placing luminarias for more than 20 years. Lister said quality control is one of the most vital aspects of making the luminarias last. The bags must have a good amount of sand at their base, the sand must be spread out to the corners to keep the bag open so the candle can get enough air, and the candles need to be cenered with …

Coby Johnson removes a crucible of molten bronze from the oven as he prepares to pour four sculptures on Thursday in Kalispell.

Donna Lawson has owned The Jug Tree liquor store in Bigfork for 13 years. Her father, Sam Stephens, opened the business in 1949 as Stephens Jewelry and Gift Shop with a small inventory of liquor, and later converted it to a liquor store.

Kalispell Mayor Pam Kennedy Carbonari gets a hug from media specialist Eric Bruer on Monday after her final Kalispell City Council meeting.

From left are the West children: Rhyan, 13, Joshua, 6, and Ashley, 7.

Maggie Gibson makes a copy of her award winning poem Dew Drops on Tuesday in her home in Kalispell.

Davin and Easton Wheeler were born Aug. 9 but couldnt be held together for 12 days. Davin was taken to Missoula shortly after birth when he developed pulmonary hypertension in his lungs.

A group of students play in the snow during lunch recess at Russell Elementary School Wednesday afternoon. Kalispells elementary and high school districts face a potential budget shortfall of $889,000 to $1.1 million in 2010-11. School district administrators and school board trustees will decide over the next few months how to handle the shortfall, whether by cutting programs or personnel, asking voters to approve an extra tax levy or both.