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Responding to a
tar spill Friday,
Forsyth County
Fire Capt. Jason
Shivers explains
how Hazmat
equipment works
to block tar from
retention leaking pond into in a
Champion Run
subdivision.
Photos/Emily
Saunders
Crews contain tar spill
Sticky o,- i substance i . t kept , out . of r south neighborhood ii i i pond j
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By Julie Arrington
Staff Writer
A Forsyth County Fire
Department Hazardous
Materials Team was called out
Friday afternoon after a ,resi
dent reported a tar spill in a
southern Forsyth County
neighborhood.
Fire Capt. Jason Shivers
said the source of the tar is
unclear and did not know
whether the spill was acciden¬
tal or intentional.
The sticky, black substance
ran southwest along the curb
from James Burgess Road into
the Champions Run subdivi¬
sion, where it traveled about a
block down Winning Colors
Court into a storm sewer.
No roads were closed
while officials worked to con¬
tain the spill.
Hazmat Technician Bob
Kaley explained that the tar is
the kind used to bind asphalt
to roads.
Shivers said that the tar
likely would not make it to the
subdivision’s retention pond.
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However precautions were
taken, Shivers said.
a The spill poses no irrnne
diate threat to the watershed,”
he said.
Hazmat booms made of
Pal w.
Tar runs down the side of
James Burgess Road in
south Forsyth County on
Friday before going into a
storm sewer.
materials used for absorbing
carbon-based substances were
placed along the tar’s prospec
tive route to catch it and sepa
rate it from water from the
sewer on its way to the pond.
“We don’t anticipate that
any of that existing tar will
make it through, even in a
rainstorm,” Shivers said.
He said it would take a few
days for the tar to dry and
harden.
E-mail Julie Arrington at
juliearrington @forsythnews
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Gearing up for science
New teaching
technology mixes
tools, software
By Lara Moore__
Staff Writer
Forsyth County educators
are getting schooled on all
sorts of new teaching tools
and toys.
The batch of technology
teachers tried out Friday is
part of a Statewide initiative
designed to liven-up science
in kindergarten through 12th
grade.
As early as kindergarten,
students are doing labs and
watching computer animated
glossaries of concepts such as
the cycle of a cocoon.
Nancy Pappas, a first-year
teacher at Cumming
Elementary, said her favorite
part of it all wqs “playing
with the materials.
She and a group of first
grade teachers experimented
with “powdered snow” and
“Mars sand,” or sand that’s
been waterproofed.
The Mars sand floated
at0 P water poured in a clear
CU P> an< f teachers could stick
j their fingers into the concoc
tion without getting them
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; New tools also include
software that gives students
the power to see what drastic
changes to the environment
might have on an animal, and
in turn, the rest of the food
chain.
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A group of teachers spent Friday in training at Shiloh
Point Elementary School, where they learned about
SO me of the new science teaching aids they will have
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work with online resources,
said Kelly Price, a teaching
and learning specialist,
“I think they’d also be sur
prised at the level of reason
ing our young students are
capable of,” she said, adding
that just “learning terms
won’t cut the mustard in sci
ence.
It’s not just about a book.
It’s about equipment. It’s
about online learning. It’s
about meeting them where
they’re at. "
Teachers will be working
p ase m
with old-school materials, as
well: Liquid thermometers;
empty metal cans; plant kits;
live hermit crabs, fish, cater¬
pillars and more.
Roberta Hanlon, a
Cumming Elementary School
teacher, liked the tools because
she said teachers often spend
their $100 state grants for
classroom materials.
With this new program, • *
she said, “they’re giving us all
the equipment that we need.
E-mail Lara Moore at
laramoore @forsythnews. com.