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5-13-05
Pilot,
sense of humor
survive Monday crash
In the late afternoon
Monday, Paul Herr crashed his plane nose
first in the dense forest east of Kooskia,
climbed from the wreckage and walked a half-mile
to drink cold water flowing in a stream.
Then, as he told his wife Chris, he reached
exhaustion and looked for a place as shelter
against the night. The wait to be found
had begun – a wait that lasted until
Wednesday afternoon.
(Story, photo compliments of the
Lewiston Morning Tribune)
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Board
to consider enhancement proposals
The
Enhancement Advisory Committee recently
completed its review of applications and
will recommend a prioritized list to the
Idaho Transportation Board when it meets
next week at District 2 in Lewiston. Board
members will meet for a pre-board activity
Wednesday and conduct formal business
at the district office, 2600 Frontage
Road, beginning at 8:30 a.m. Thursday.
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First
Enterprise Architects in Training selected
Bill
Shaw, who was named manager of the new Enterprise
Architecture Group in December, recently selected
three individuals with varying backgrounds
and experiences to become the first Enterprise
Architects in Training (EAiT). Michael Bogart,
Brian Reed and Craig Schumacher began preparing
for their new assignments by researching present
business practices.
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New
financial system should be ready by end of
year
ITD’s
march to a new comprehensive financial management
system is making steady progress and should
culminate with full implementation before
the end of this year. Initially, the transition
team that is shepherding the complex process
expected testing to be complete this spring,
with a staged migration by the beginning of
the 2006 fiscal year, July 1.
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AMS
project update
The
AMS installation project continues and is
progressing well. There have been a couple
potholes and detours along the way but all-in-all
the journey so far has been rewarding and
we continue to be excited with the capabilities
the new system is going to provide to the
department.
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Ride your bike to work Friday (May
20)
With longer
commutes and surging fuel costs,
what better time to give bicycle
commuting a try? Friday (May 20)
is Bike to Work Day and is the largest
concurrent bicycle commute in America.
Bike to Work Week is May 16-20 and
is part of May’s National
Bike Month.
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August
bike tour of southwestern Idaho
planned
The
inaugural Ride Idaho event will
bring up to five hundred bicyclists
to Southwest Idaho from Aug. 14-20.
The route will start and end in
Boise with overnight stops in Payette,
Cambridge, McCall, Cascade, Garden
Valley and Idaho City.
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District
6 newsletter nets top award
Kathy Coon, public
affairs specialist for ITD’s District
6, recently received first place in the annual
communications contest sponsored by Idaho Press
Women. Koon, editor of the district’s
newsletter, took top honors in the four-color
newsletter category for the district’s
publication of Six Bits.
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Loop to head professional engineer's group
Stephen
Loop, QPL Program Administrator in ITD’s Materials
Section, was installed as President of the Idaho
Society of Professional Engineers (ISPE) at its
state convention in Pocatello in April. In his inaugural
speech, he addressed the need for greater involvement
of the membership in the society’s programs
as well as greater interaction of the state society
with the various engineering technical societies
in the state.
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Three-week
Click It! campaign begins Monday
Grant
Woodhead suffered a serious brain injury when he was
ejected from his pickup in a 1997 crash. He was not
wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, and
became one of the 1,000 people who suffer serious
brain injury in traffic crashes in Idaho every year.
Woodhead is featured in radio ads that are part of
the Idaho Transportation Department’s Click
It, Don’t Risk It! campaign to increase safety
belt use.
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