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The Red and Black • Wednesday, November 28, 1990 • 3
Edwards valuable firefighting resource
By SELENA PARKER
Contributing Writer
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Safety Officer Prank Edwards
pulled a person from a burning
building, he didn’t realize the im
pact of that event would shape his
whole life. He decided right then he
wanted to be a firefighter.
“I have been interested in fire
fighting since I was 12 years old,"
said Edwards, now 44.
Although this incident is not the
only thing that shaped Edwards’
interest in firefighting, it sparked a
strong interest in public safety that
has been one of the main goals and
dedications of his life.
“It is something that has given
me a lot of satisfaction,” he said.
Edwards has served the Univer
sity for 21 years. As Fire Safety Of
ficer, he performs duties including
fire inspections and education.
After a recent change in his job
description, though, Edwards is no
longer involved in fire inspection.
“I had too much to do, he said.
“I was involved in too many inspec
tions instead of fire education.”
When Edwards first came to the
University, he began work in the
engineering section of the Physical
Plant. In 1971, as an architectural
draftsman, Edwards said he “up
graded all the campus maps and
the completed form is the present
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campus map that you see today."
“His knowledge of the campus
and strong effort to his work have
been an invaluable resource to
me,” said Mary Mellein, director of
Environmental Safety Services.
Edwards is also involved in the
Hazardous Materials Emergency
Response Team, which responds to
emergency situations such as the
explosion in the Chemistry
Building this quarter.
Edwards does extensive training
in residence halls and has estab
lished a pre-fire planning program
in buildings on campus.
“In the pre-fire planning pro
gram, we make decisions about any
type of problems the fire depart
ment might run into, the best way
occupants can get out, disabled ac
cessibility, and we locate all the
utility shutdown areas,” Edwards
said.
Although he is quite modest
about the issue, Edwards’ pro
grams and services have won him a
number of awards.
“No firefighter is in it for the
R raise,” Edwards said. “If he was
e wouldn’t be involved in fire
fighting to begin with."
Edwards’ most recent awards
come from Athens radio station
WGAU and the National Safety
Council for a video he produced ti
tled “How Fast it Burns.”
Edwards said he is proudest of
an award he received from the Hull
Volunteer Fire Department for
extra effort and work he put in at
the station.
While working with the Hull de
partment, Edwards saved another
firefighter’s life by pulling him out
of a burning building.
“If you do your job as a fire
fighter, things happen and you do
what you have to do," he said.
Edwards’ son, Patrick, is in basic
training for the U.S. Navy. Pat
rick’s career choice was influenced
by his father’s example, according
to Edwards’ wife of 25 years, Gail.
Edwards’ “dedication and care
for people made Patrick realize a
need to serve his country,” Mrs.
Edwards said.
“Frank has always been a ded
icated person to most anything he’s
interested in,” she said. “When
Frank was in firefighting, it used
to scare me because not many
people are as dedicated as he is.”
Pinpoints Theater stress black contribution
By BILL DAVIS
Contributing Writer
If the calypso, the gospel, the
jazz or the cabaret didn’t hold the
audience’s attention then it was
the message that did. If the mes
sage didn’t stick, then they were
just plain dead.
An enthusiastic throng clapped,
cheered and laughed through the
Pinpoints Theater presentation of
“1,001 Black Inventions" Monday
night. The skits, sketches and mu
sical numbers highlighted contri
butions given society by blacks.
The contributions range from
disc brakes and jazz to gas masks
and the propeller, according to the
presentation.
Taqqee Khaliq, one of the
founding members of the Wash
ington, D.C.-based troupe, said
Pinpoint’s goal is "to let people
know that the Afro-American’s
foremost contribution to society is
that of the intellect."
The Committee for Black Cul
tural Programs, a branch of Uni
versity Union, brought the
international touring troupe to the
Tate Student Center.
David Mendoza, program ad
viser for the Univerity Union, said,
“On what it accomplishes, the pro-
PINPOINTS,
a nationally
acclaimed
theater
group.
gramming to inform the student
body concerning Afro-American
heritage.”
Of having the Pinpoints troupe
visit the University, Darrington
said, “It raises awareness that
blacks, mo.'.cly Africans, contrib
uted a great deal to what we take
for granted today,” she said.
Khaaliq said, “These days kids
grow up without role models.
Lynn’s Visions a
dream come true
By TENA NIELSEN
Contributing Writer
Many people dream about
having their own business.
Some want to open their own
restaurant, while others would
be ecstatic to have their own
hardware store.
For many this is just a dream.
But then there are those who
make it a reality. Lynn Harris is
one of those of people.
In August the recent Univer
sity graduate opened Lynn's Vi
sions, a store that sells a variety
of items including silk and rayon
scarfs, dresses, tie-dye outfits,
boxers, canvas tennis shoes, and
jewelry.
Harris’s shop is hard to miss; it
is the only purple and turquoise
building on Lexington, Ga.’s
Main Street.
Upon entering the shop there
are many displays and racks
filled with clothes. The second
half of the shop is actually the
studio where all of the designs
are created. In this section tables
are covered with paints, brushes,
designs and strips of fabric.
“Each shirt is hand-made with
a brush and a pallet, and all of
the tie-dye items are hand-dyed,"
Harris said.
Tie-dye is done in a back room.
The idea became a reality in
June when Harris bought an old,
run-down building in the small
town east of Athens. She spent
two months renovating the place
before she could open for Dusi-
ness in August.
“All of the upper windows were
completely boarded-up and had
been for over fifty years," Harris
said. “I had to tear down the pan
eling on the walls and the wal
lpaper behind that before finally
going back and replastering.”
When she finished, some of her
friends from Athens who are local
artists painted murals on the
walls. This work-of-art building
replaces working out of her home
in Atlanta.
Lynn’s Visions is a unique
store because the styles of clothes
aren’t bought from a manufac
turer. Harris and her staff take
their own ideas, put them in art
form and express them through
clothes.
Barbra Bauer, who owns six
buildings along the strip in
cluding Harris’s, is thrilled with
the new shop.
“People used to think that Lex
ington was decayed and burned-
out, that there was no commerce
and no industry," Bauer said.
“But Lexington is making a
comeback. There are a lot of
small cottage industries and
many small personal busi
nesses.”
Bauer thinks that Harris’s
store is wonderful and that it
adds a livelihood to the whole
block, Bhe said.
Bauer recently bought a few
items from Harris’s shop, in
cluding two rayon suits with
matching tie-dye tanks.
Harris is the first to admit that
having your own business is hard
work, but it is a great experience,
she said. She does everything
from the accounting to the actual
selling.
Harris will open a second loca
tion in five points soon, but for
right now she and the store
owners around her are trying to
invigorate Lexington and all it
has to offer.
gram provides multicultural edu
cation needed for the campus. It is
important that, as the demogra
phics change, that the students of
today are exposed to this type of
programming.”
Courtney Darrington, a senior
speech communications major and
vice president of Public Relations
for CBCP, said, “As a branch of the
University Union, we try to make
sure that the black community has
a voice, and to try to answer some
of the needs of the black commu
nity in terms of entertainment."
Mendoza said, *The CBCFs
focus is to bring entertaining, in
formative and educational pro-
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