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BIG SKY (AP) - An all-terrain vehicle went off the road and rolled down an embankment Monday near here, killing the driver, the Montana Highway Patrol said.The victim, a 19-year-old Ennis man, was a construction worker at Moonlight Basin ski resort, the company said in a news release.The accident happened on Mountain Loop Road between the Moonlight Lodge and the intersection of Mountain Loop Road and Diamond Hitch Road.The man apparently was driving around a corner, went off the road and rolled down an embankment, the patrol said. He was found dead at the scene at about 1 p.m. with the ATV on top of him. The patrol is investigating.The victim was employed by Mountain Top Construction, a subsidiary of Moonlight Basin Ranch. His name was withheld pending notification of family.Moonlight Basin has arranged counseling services for employees who feel they need it, and has offered its staff personal time off.
KUANTAN, Oct 16 (Bernama) -- More help is on the way for the orphans in Pahang with the latest project being the construction of Rumah Penyayang Anak-Anak Yatim Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah at Bandar Indera Mahkota here. The brainchild of Sultan Pahang Sultan Ahmad Shah, the construction of the complex sprawled on a 0.92-hectare (2.38 acre) site took off with a ground breaking ceremony officiated by the Sultan himself, Monday. Scheduled for completion in early 2008, the complex will be equipped with 56 rooms in two blocks which can accommodate about 200 orphans. It will have an administration office, library, surau, dining hall and four warden quarters. The Project Coordinator, Datuk Hashim Abdul Wahab said the orphans housed at the complex would be brought up in an upright atmosphere through formal education, religious study and physical education as well as emphasising on good personal conduct.
State officials are appealing a judge's order to pay $1.2 million that they have withheld from a construction contractor who gave a consulting contract to former Gov. John G. Rowland in 2004 and then resisted a legislative investigation into it.
Superior Court Judge Joseph M. Shortall ruled last month that officials weren't justified in withholding the money from C.R. Klewin Northeast LLC on the basis of its resistance to a legislative committee's probe of the $5,000-a-month consulting job it gave Rowland after his 2004 resignation.
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LAST WEEKS COLUMN PROVOKED SOME feedback from readers who affirmed my observations on the puzzles, contradictions and ironies in our current economic performance. The common message was how they find it hard to identify with the seemingly good news on economic growth, given the way their businessesand those of their other friends in businessare actually faring. Theres nothing more valuable for an academe-based economist like me than to hear first-hand accounts from people who are immersed in the real economy, whether as consumers or as producers/sellers of the goods and services we all consume. I thank my responsive readers for that. While anecdotal, their stories are very real and practical, and can be more useful than aggregative statistics for identifying proper responses from those who chart our economys directions.
Contractor General Greg Christie will on Tuesday appear before the Audley Shaw-chaired Public Accounts Committee of Parliament (PAC) to clarify and answer questions in relation to his report on the Sandals Whitehouse project. In the wake of Mr. Christie's report, which accused the Urban Development Corporation, of gross mismanagement of the project, its former chairman, Dr. Vin Lawrence, resigned from the board. He also stepped down as chairman for a number of state agencies. At its first sitting, the committee voted against an earlier recommendation by Mr. Shaw that all partners involved in the project should be the first to be summoned. Government member K.D. Knight had proposed that the Contractor General and members of the forensic audit team be allowed to clarify reports tabled recently in Parliament before the other parties are called.
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