Bob Zellar/Gazette staff Two of the Irish dancers who will kick up their heels during this weekend's Celtic celebration. Dancers Laurel Eaton Struck and Taryn Eaton, will be on hand during Saturday's street fair. Last year's parade participants included Scots pipers. A variety of activities unfolds for the wearing of the green, beginning with Friday night's pub tour. Bob Zellar/Gazette staff Carol Willis, left, and Bonnie Daniels pose with bird houses to be sold at the Rimrock Opera Masked Ball.
LARRY MAYER/Gazette staff McKinley Elementary gained about 125 students after three other elementary schools were closed.
Pictured are Rimrock Christian High School football coaches Casey Greeno, back left, Eric Johnson, back right, Mark Dahlberg, front left, and Gary McClurg, front right. Also pictured are Pastor Dwayne Senn, back middle, and Eric Johnson Jr., front middle. The West End private school plans to start a junior high and high school football program this fall.
JOHN WARNER/Gazette staff Angela Nelson and Paul Houghtaling play Papagena and Papageno in 'The Magic Flute,' which will be performed by the Rimrock Opera Company. JOHN WARNER/Gazette staff From left, Nancy Downing, Melissa Hamilton and Leslie Mauldin draw their spears on the Monster (Kevin Schweigert). JOHN WARNER/Gazette staff The challenging role of Queen of the Night is being sung by Lisa Lombardy, right, here with Kiel Klaphake as Tamino.
John Warner/Gazette Staff Above, opera boosters Bonnie Daniels and Brian Bross prepare to dance. Below, an array of masks awaits wearers at Rimrock Opera Company's "Phantom of the Opera Ball."
Larry Mayer/Gazette Staff Randolphe Locke and Deborah Longino are Tosca and her lover. Rimrock Opera Company's final dress performance is next Wednesday then "Tosca" plays the ABT next Friday and next Sunday. ROC artistic director Douglas Nagel plays Scarpia, pictured with Longino. Nagel rehearses the cast.
Shawn Giesick, the coordinator of the White Birch treatment center, looks over a new patient's file at a nurses station at the Rimrock Foundation.
Music and dance from around the world will be featured when the BYU International Folk Ensemble performs at the Alberta Bair Theater at 7 p.m. Wednesday. Tickets are $22 and $25 for adults and $15 for students. Call 256-6052.
Rimrock Foundation patients hold hands during an early-morning group prayer in the foundation's chapel.
Ashley Curran is shown with her portrait, left, as the display is unveiled Saturday.
Adoptive children, friends and photogrpher Clark Marten, right, gather for a group photo with their portraits at Rimrock Mall on Saturday.
Kale Joyce leads an adolescent group therapy session in the Rimrock Foundation's New Choices residential treatment facility on Poly Drive.
Emergency crews carry a girl down from the Rimrocks Monday afternoon.
Micaela, portrayed by Carolyn Coefield, tries to win back her childhood love Don Jose (Jeff Kitto), but he has eyes only for Carmen. Coefield and Kitto are two of the performers in the upcoming Rimrock Opera production of "Carmen."
Photogrpher Clark Marten is shown with portraits of children awaiting adoption as the show is unveiled at Rimrock Mall on Saturday. Some of the kids in the images attended the unveiling.
Kids' shoes sit in a row at the Rimrock Foundation's New Choices residence during a group therapy session.
Roger Ogren leads an inpatient adult group therapy session at the Rimrock Foundation.
Rimrock Foundation headquarters 1231 N. 29th St. Full range of inpatient and outpatient treatment for addictive disorders. Capacity: 45 beds, plus eight detoxification beds and four "crisis stabilization" beds for people with sub-acute mental-health problems. New Choices Center 1220 Poly Drive Addiction treatment for adolescent boys, state-funded. Capacity: seven. Freedom House 2420 Ash St. Sober housing for women. Capacity: six. Silver Leaf Center 2125 Eighth Ave. N. Jail-based treatment program offering addiction counseling for Yellowstone County jail inmates, plus preparation for life after jail. Capacity: 16. Michel's House 18 Alderson Ave. Intensive residential program for addicted mothers. Capacity: Up to six mothers and up to three children per mother. White Birch 929 N. 19th St. Residential treatment for people with addictions, plus two sober-living residences. Capacity: eight in residential treatment program, 12 in separate sober-living houses. Cottonwood 1721 Eighth Ave. N. Sober-living house for men. Capacity: nine, which includes eight men in a duplex and one person in an apartment above the garage. Greenleaf 1020 and 1022 N. 23rd St. Sober-living houses for men. Capacity: six.
"Recovery Is Freedom," a sculpture by Gary Temple, stands in front of Rimrock Foundation headquarters, at 1231 N. 29th St.
The sensuous gypsy Carmen, portrayed by Heidi Rae, tempts her captor Don Jose, sung by Jeffrey Kitto, in Rimrock Opera's production of Bizet's "Carmen," which runs March 28 and 29 at the Alberta Bair Theater.
Mezzo-soprano and Montana native Heidi Rae performs the title role in the Rimrock Opera production of "Carmen," coming to the ABT.
A Rimrock Foundation patient makes her bed shortly after a 6:30 a.m. wake-up call.
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