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UGA crisis plan unfinished, but alerts set for testing
ATHENS (MNS)
University of Georgia stu
dents came back to cam
pus this month able to tap
their cell phones into a new
emergency alert system that
UGA officials plan to test
some time next month.
But while other universi
ties quickly evaluated and
updated their emergency
response systems in the
wake of spring shootings at
Virginia Tech, UGA students
and staff won’t know for a
couple more weeks whether
the university is prepared to
deal with that kind of emer
gency. Following the April 16
shootings, UGA and other
large universities across the
country started examining
their ability to prevent or
respond to violent threats
and emergencies on cam
pus.
Evaluation teams at some
universities responded more
quickly than UGA, where
two committees spent the
summer developing policy
recommendations in tan
dem with some equipment
changes that UGA public
safety officials have started
putting into place.
In May, UGA President
Michael Adams assigned
two committees to evaluate
UGA’s psychological servic
es and emergency response
and communications sys
tems and told them to sub
mit recommended changes
by Sept. 1.
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Virginia Tech leaders came
under fire for communica
tion failures that allowed
the shooter to continue his
rampage that left 32 dead,
including slow and uninfor
mative e-mail messages, fail
ure to use an outdoor public
address system and failure
to respond to a professor’s
warning about the student’s
mental state.
An emergency response
committee at the University
of Florida formed, met and
finished its work in a matter
of two weeks at the end of
the spring semester, before
the UGA committees had
the chance to discover any
needed changes at UGA.
“We started meeting very
quickly after Virginia Tech”
because Florida’s governor
asked for a report as soon
as possible, said University
of Florida spokesman Steve
Orlando.
Florida staff since have
adopted a mobile public
address system that mounts
on a police car and purchased
an armored rescue vehicle,
“(which may seem scary),
but it’s there when we need
it,” Orlando said.
Florida staff still are work
ing out the bugs in reverse
911 system that they hope
will reach enough students,
including those who don’t
follow rules and have their
cell phones on in class, to
take care of the rest, he
said.
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An emergency response
team at the University of
Tennessee had been working
on revising campus emer
gency response policies for
several months already, said
Tennessee spokesman Jay
Mayfield.
“The Virginia Tech shoot
ings gave us the impetus
to move forward quickly,”
Mayfield said.
The biggest change
Tennessee made was creat
ing “UT Alert,” an emergen
cy messaging system that
staff and students started
signing up for at the end of
the spring semester, he said.
“Now that school started,
we’re pushing to get every
one signed up,” Mayfield
said, adding that everyone
on the 29,000-student cam
pus can sign up to receive
emergency alerts by e-mail
or text message.
UGA officials launched
a similar system this sum
mer called UGA Alert and
plan to run a full test once
most users have registered
for it, likely some time next
month.
UGA police updated their
“active shooter” response
training and ordered new
equipment that will help
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them prepare for violent
threats like the one at
Virginia Tech, UGA police
Chief Jimmy Williamson
said.
UGA administrators also
set up a new system that
requires each building on
campus have a point person
to disseminate urgent infor
mation, said Opal Haley,
UGA’s emergency manage
ment director.
Some parents of UGA
students said they haven’t
worried about whether the
university is prepared to
respond to an emergency
like the Virginia Tech shoot
ings, especially when moth
ers worry about their 20-
something kids for so many
other reasons.
“My first response was
Surely this couldn’t hap
pen anywhere else,’ “ said
UGA parent Monica Jacobs,
adding that she figured the
communication breakdown
was a problem unique to
Virginia Tech.
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Obituary
MILDRED SLAPPEY HOWARD
PERRY - Mildred Slappey Howard, 88, died Saturday.
Funeral services were Monday at the Christ’s Sanctified
Holy Church with interment in the Church Cemetery. Mrs.
Howard, bom in Chattanooga, Tenn., and the daughter of
the late Thomas G. and Ella M (Chavin) Slappey, had lived
here since 1997 moving from Norfolk, Va. Survivors include
siblings, Ella Mae Thomas and Roy W. Slappey; step-daugh
ter, Georgia Henson. Please sign the online register at wat
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Residents tired of plant's smell
TALMO (MNS) - Billy
Crawford worked several
years in chemical plants and
oil refineries in Houston.
With solvents and process
ing crude oil in the air, it was
a smelly line of work.
Later in life, he made a liv
ing raising chickens, anoth
er job that’s not easy on the
nose. But after three years
living downstream from
Talmo’s Agri-Cycle plant,
Crawford realized there only
is so much a man can take.
Crawford and his wife,
Rhonda, recently moved off
the 22-acre farm where they
planned to retire and watch
their grandchildren grow.
Those plans changed,
according to Crawford, when
their new upstream neigh
bors arrived in 2004.
“It’s as bad of a stink
as you’ve ever smelled,”
Crawford said. “When it first
started, it wasn’t that bad,
but now the smell seems to
settle and travel down the
creek. I used to have chicken
houses on my farm. This
was a different odor.”
Agri-Cycle is a nursery and
private wastewater treat
ment plant. The company
uses bacteria to decompose
restaurant grease and other
food waste and then uses a
land-application waste treat
ment system to dispose of the
decomposed waste, according
to Dominique Weatherell,
who manages the Georgia
Environmental Protection
Division’s industrial waste
water department. Crawford
is one of 130 Talmo-area
residents who gathered ear
lier this month to tell war
stories about “the smell”
and discuss how to move
forward when the Georgia
Environmental Protection
Division allows the public to
comment on whether Agri-
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Cycle should be able to renew
its land-application, waste
water-treatment license.
The group - armed with pol
lution diaries of what they
saw or smelled, along with
pictures - is prepared.
Like Crawford, they’re
tired of living with the per
sistent smell, which they
describe as everything from
sewage to a rotting animal.
It’s worst downstream
from Agri-Cycle on Allen
Creek, said Omie Echols,
who’s home backs up to the
creek.
“At first it was only on
certain days - when it was
extremely humid or had just
rained,” Echols said. “We’d
say, "Oh it is bad today.’ It
was a nuisance. But now it’s
all the time - there’s just
some days so bad you can’t
go outside.”
The Echols didn’t even
open their swimming pool
this summer because they
knew they wouldn’t be able
to entertain outside or enjoy
the pool, she said.
“It’s embarrassing,”
Echols said. “You can’t have
people over. One of my big
gest fears is that I’m just
going to get used to it. My
sister came to visit this sum
mer. She got out of the car
and asked, "What is that?’
I could barely smell it. I
thought, "Oh no, I’m becom
ing accustomed to it.’”
Thomaston-based Agri-
Cycle came to Talmo in
2004 when owner Richard
Havrille purchased the
defunct Valley Fresh poul
try processing plant just
beyond the Talmo city limit
in northern Jackson County.
Valley Fresh’s operators had
used an existing land-appli
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dispose of poultry processing
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