Selected paragraphs from this hilarious article:
A job fair scheduled for next week by the prospective operators of the Hardin jail has been postponed, but 400 to 500 high school students are still scheduled to dine at the jail later this month.
Becky Shay, the spokeswoman for American Police Force in Hardin, said the two-day job fair has been postponed because contract talks with the city's economic development agency were derailed by the resignation of the agency's attorney.
"We want to make sure we have jobs to hire for," Shay said.
APF is hoping to reschedule that event, but a banquet for several hundred members of the Montana Association of Student Councils, meeting for their state convention in Hardin on Oct. 19-21, is still scheduled in the empty jail on Oct. 20...
Evans said organizers thought it would be instructive for students to dine there and to tour the empty jail as a way of reinforcing the idea that this is not where any of them would want to end up.
[Why would student council members end up in jail?]...
Because the only local hire has been Shay, whose office is in the jail,
[Why is that so funny to me?]"I don't see that happening now," Evans said. There is still a possibility that the kitchen will be used for the banquet, but the event is more likely to be catered, he said.
[And who pays for that?]
Two Rivers Authority signed a preliminary contract with APF last month, but when the Two Rivers board met Monday to talk about an updated contract, it voted to postpone further negotiations until it retained the services of a new lawyer.
Former Hardin City Attorney Becky Convery, who was hired by Two Rivers early in September to draw up the contract with APF, announced last week that she was quitting that job because it conflicted with work she was still doing for the city.
Al Peterson, vice president of the Two Rivers board, said the board already asked Billings attorney Harlan Krogh if he was interested in assisting the agency. Krogh declined,
[What's wrong with you Harlan, it's a lucrative business to be in]
Whoever is hired, Peterson said, would work "very part time" on a contract basis, as Convery did. Two Rivers is, however, looking for a full-time director, following the resignation of Greg Smith.
[Oh yeah, he left too]...
"I realize APF doesn't look good, and APF may never look good," Shay said,
[????????] but Cohen "has his own history."...
Cohen was working for the Secret Service, supervising the agency's Philadelphia fraud squad, when he was accused of stealing $2,800 in the course of seizing assets in two different Secret Service investigations...
On Wednesday, Shay released an e-mail from Cohen to Hilton, dated Sept. 21, 2009, in which Cohen disclosed his theft conviction, though not his prison term, and said he was still interested in "a position with your company."
Shay said the e-mail shows that Cohen, contrary to earlier statements he made to The Gazette, did not sever ties to APF and was still interested in a job.
"Frankly, my understanding was that he was hired and he was coming to town," Shay said....
Peterson confirmed that, saying Hilton came clean on his record about a week after Peterson and other Two Rivers representatives returned from a California meeting with Hilton in early September. Peterson said he thought Hilton was going to publicly disclose his criminal background when he made his first public appearance in Hardin in mid-September, but he failed to do so. Peterson said he didn't know why.
[HAHAHAHAHA]
Even without the job fair next week, Shay said, Hilton is planning to come back to Hardin soon and was still making travel arrangements on Wednesday. Among other things, she said, Hilton still has two real estate transactions to complete - the purchase of one house in Hardin for Shay and one for him.
[Isn't she special?]
http://www.billingsgazette.com/news...cle_3ace4be2-b39e-11de-a7f0-001cc4c002e0.html
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