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Four tiny babies — together, they weighed less than a mid-sized bowling ball — were born to the Potters in November 2000. The quadruplets spent their first three months fighting off infection in the neonatal intensive care unit at Pitt County Memorial Hospital, according to their mother, Laura Lee Potter. Machines helped them breathe, and tubes delivered food until they were well enough to go home. .
NEW ROCHELLE - For almost nine years, the Adult Learning Center taught hundreds of people from other countries basic English and the things they need to know to pass citizenship tests. But the end of its lease and the cost of taxes - which Sister Eileen Fane had not anticipated when she started the school - sent her looking for a new home. She found an office around the corner at 138 Centre Ave. that still has the wood paneling and sliding glass partitions from its days as an insurance office. Since late September, it has been the new home of a center that over the years has taken on more students than Sister Fane had expected. "When I designed the place, I never knew that it would grow to this size," said Sister Fane, an Ursuline nun. Volunteer teachers work with some 140 adults.
Bhisho - The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) has approved R54 million for the construction of salt crystallization plant at the Coega Industrial Development Zone (IDZ).
The construction of a purpose-built pure vacuum-dried (PVD) salt crystallization facility for the salt company Cerebos, will start in February 2007 within the IDZ near Port Elizabeth.
The IDZ is one of the government's high priority projects to bring about significant economic benefits to the Eastern Cape region, create employment, energise industrial development and promote international trade.
DBSA investment officer for this project, Simon Vincent pointed out that the Eastern Cape was one of the bank's designated "hot spots" in dire need of infrastructure development and job creation.
INNOVATIVE exporter Northern Project Management will continue to call Townsville home because of continued demands for development in regional Queensland.
NPM has won the Townsville Region Exporter of the Year Award and Services Award announced by Premier Peter Beattie. NPM managing director Tom Cummins said he was excited to win the awards and expected an increase in the company's growth next year. "Business in the local area is strong and is expected to stay strong for a while because of the resources boom," he said. "We employ 160 people in Townsville, 31 expatriates in Fiji and 950 Fijian locals for our operations in Fiji." NPM manufactures modular housing for North Queensland, the Northern Territory and northern Western Australia.
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