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Breaking from the past, an effort to create a new Elburgon

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Customers enjoy a meal at the Classiq Cafe in Elburgon. Food: Excellent Decor: Great Ambience: Good Service: Good Nothing is as good as having a tasty meal served with the best and courteous of services. While many hotels may have good food, the party is often spoilt by dirty and non-caring attendants or even dirty environments. No so for the Cafe Classiq in Elburgon Town, situated on the Molo Nakuru road and about 180 kilometres west of Kenya capital Nairobi. Amid the hustle and bustle of log carrying tractors and lorries criss-crossing the town and farmers going on with their activities, the hotel offers a fairly quiet ambience where one can eat and at the same time hold a coffee chat. The hotel represents the new Elburgon, a break from the past in which investment never seemed to be in a hurry for change. Perhaps meant to taunt the old town, the hotel sits directly opposite the low lying; dark asbestos roofed Model Butchery which for years on end was the face

Giving new meaning to eyewitness accounts, the digital way

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In John Grisham's " The Testament ," there is a character in the legal drama novel named Snead who is identified as the driver and assistant to the main protagonist billionaire Troy Phelan. He is reported to have witnessed and knew everything about Phelan. He knew his philandering ways and even witnessed when he committed suicide. However, when Snead discovered that his master had died without leaving anything for having worked for him for many years and as he had on various dates promised, he decides to yarn an account that would suit him to inflict revenge and earn from lawyers who were seeking to challenge Troy’s holographic will. Snead's account reminds me of journalism and eyewitness accounts. More often than not, the media is not a first-hand witness to events and mainly rely on eyewitnesses to tell the story. It is assumed that the eyewitnesses will tell the story as they saw and the journalists can only use their skills to document and attribute the h