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COUNTY APPROVES NEW SITE Moulton, who was the passenger in and joyful sch
FOR INTERMOUNTAIN HOME
the Jeep Powell was driving, was taken
Flathead County has approved a new to Kalispell Regional Medical Center af- learning.
site for the proposed Intermountain ter the crash, but later died at the hospi- 755-3824
therapeutic children’s home, moving it tal.
further from a nearby protected wild- Powell initially pleaded not guilty to
www.mtmont.com
fowl area and agreeing to request federal the two homicide charges in November
funds to help pay for the project.
2013.
Member School
The county commission unanimous- At the May 13 sentencing hearing, Montessori school AccreditAtion council Accredited
ly approved the new proposed project the prosecution had multiple witnesses Not all Montessori schools are the same. Accreditation afirms
last week. As part of that approval, the speak, including family members of the that a school meets a standard of excellence recognized by
county agreed to ask the state Depart- two victims. Powell testiied on his own educators and Montessorians world-wide.
ment of Commerce to release $450,000 behalf as well.
in Community Development Block District Court Judge Ted O. Lympus School for the

Grant funding to help pay for the design sentenced Powell to the maximum 30- Early Childhood Years
and construction of the Intermountain year prison terms for both vehicular ho-
Providence Home.
micide charges, but the prison terms will preschool-kindergarten
By moving the building 325 feet away run concurrently.
from the neighboring Wildfowl Protec- Lympus also mandated that Powell (ages 2-6)
tion Area in Somers, the project will pay $5,473 in restitution, and attend the
have no “signiicant impact on the envi- KNIGHTS program at Warm Springs, a Summer Program

ronment,” the commission decided.
program for ofenders convicted of ve- available
The original plans had the building hicular homicide under the inluence.
about 150 feet from the border of the Now
protected land, which caused some con- POLSON JURY: HYUNDAI OWES
sternation in public comment.
$240M IN PUNITIVE DAMAGES
ENrolliNg
By approving the project, Flathead A Montana jury has ordered Hyun-
County has started a public comment dai to pay $240 million in punitive dam-
period that will end on June 9. All inter- ages after inding that a manufacturing for 2014-15

ested agencies, groups and persons dis- defect in a Hyundai vehicle caused a
agreeing with this decision are invited crash that killed two Missoula cousins
to submit written comments for consid- in July 2011.
eration by the Flathead County Board of The award handed down last week
Commissioners, 800 South Main Street, was on top of $8.6 million in actual dam-
Room 302, Kalispell, 59901.
ages and lost earnings the jury awarded
The commission will not take fur- to the families of 19-year-old Trevor Ol-
ther action on the project before June 16.
son and 14-year-old Tanner Olson. The
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admitted to driving drunk and causing The Montana Highway Patrol says
the crash that killed Brian Delaney, 43, two women died in a one-vehicle crash

of Kalispell, and Patrick Moulton, 43, of northeast of Ronan.
Kalispell on Oct. 17, 2013.
Lake County oicials say a passer-
Powell did not have a plea agreement by spotted a vehicle on its top in a canal
when he changed his plea to guilty in along Canyon Mill Road, between Pablo
March.
and Ronan, just after 6 a.m. on May 19.
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dispatched to the scene of a crash on U.S. Trooper Brian Casey says the car
Highway 93, south of Kalispell at mile swerved for an unknown reason, struck
marker 107, at about 11 p.m.
a guardrail and lipped onto its top, land-
Three troopers investigating the ing in the canal. The crash killed the
scene determined that Powell had been driver, 45-year-old Iva Skelton and her
driving northbound in the southbound
passenger, 56-year-old Karen Jore.

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