Page 8 - Tennessee 811 Magazine 2018 Issue 1

Pipeline Public Awareness for Kids
by Ragucox
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the p|pL‘imL‘ tndttstry that reaeh the duldrcn." when we began ta reaeh oat ta .sehoals,
erttnrnttnteattng ptpeltne ~r1fcty tn shc mmmucd “rm pkmd that m we had teaehers eorne to as and say
the sehortls ts a erttteal eornponent ,BE Kid Sm" on P‘ Chm Sam’, bank that they were learntng new thtngs
of any eornplete pllbllc awareness ‘I (1 St D ‘T? _T h — tort "
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over the past twenty years of pleased wtth the p0~ll|vc fncdback ptpeltne eornpantes gtvtng eolortng
tnterytewtng ptpeltne pubilc awareness wc’vc reeented trom tuaclmn and the brtoles and erayotts tn a ntee paelrage to
personnel, we learned that tnternal k1d~ " sehrtols, but the prablem rnany ttmes
pmgram~ have been estabhshed Ex Em mu M ‘M mm ~ lmmd as was the brteles ntst sat there anrl get
and third-party erttnpantes haw: g M’ Y I ‘ d M5’ d A d *i rhtsty. Hatttng a eelat-tng book ts net
been ereated to achlcvc that goal :m"'m :m“~a;:"’Y ' “ " the sarne as hatttng a plan to reaeh

so now these eompantes are taeerl ' ’ 3‘ the ehtldren. ctye them a baok and a
wtth tneasttrtng the rest anrl the The qttesttrtn ts not, ”Do we need to thallnngc. send the cluldmn hrttne wtth
cff°wv=nc~~' of their Pmzram~- reaeh the th|ldren’” The mtestton ts, a rntsston, and that mtssten ts ta read
M‘ I I _ I "How rlrt we best reaeh the CiI|i(ix£'n7" the book to srttneone tn thetr ratntly.

mm’ mm Mm to be mm lmdwn extgelrtenee wtth totpehne satetty anrl aeeept the ehallettge.
wtth the program. Meet Danna Hyde, "1" 'fh“‘:“’°‘“_f°‘ "“’i§:“:"_‘l"h‘l ‘°‘““‘t“’ All vcry tnteresttng |niormauDn Donna,
ioundcr and ewner of Be l<td smart and 2°" “ PW‘ “"1” 1 El‘ ‘f:1“3 _ any elrtstng thonghtsv she replted, "I
the anther of ”Bn Ktrl srnart an Ptpeltne “°""‘: “"":;"‘°‘I‘, “‘1’“’“_hg° “L ‘ “ ‘ belteve that tn erder tn take all and
Safety” Donna is rettrerl from Enstaee gm” P“ ‘C’ ‘W ‘“°‘ “° “°‘“‘ pipeline safety tn a htgher level, and te

_ _ tnrtre abttnrlant Yet even wtth tnereaserl _ _
c.as Plr1n| wtth Enbrtrlge Ptpeltnes and I 1 M malre ealltng belore yon dtg neerls as
was passtonate abrtttl teaehtng ptpeltne ft“‘l’l';:‘:~";:‘fif:*:f1;’:faF’x:‘d ‘::v‘”Lfr““’:“)‘l“_:“ eemtnrtn as rastentng your seatbelt, we
satety to letrls even bniom she rettred ’amd;m~‘ mmmm Clmfl Y the must start tn rtttr sehonls 1 heat many
stnee rettrtng, she wanted to share ‘ d 1 _ Km f ‘ }l d tn the tndttstry say that we dun’l have
what she learned wtth ether plpcllnc ;"‘ "1"; ”_“"”’d I“ ft“ } ‘“‘“f“g Z“ ettrtrtgh peeple to get the message out
proresstonals about etnprtwertng ktds b‘:“’r‘xL:‘fu‘n:l°S ° ‘ “’ >°“"5“ “" I'm eenvtneerl anrl have seen eytrlenee
to be ptnt-stzed Damage Prcvcntlon * that there are iIia|uiW1il|ng people
Patrols on lrteatten, whether at honte or Donna was aslrerl, ‘'50 why were the ready to help the tnrhtstry prntnnte
at school ‘Bu Kld Sman’ resrtnrees Cmflludarr she pipeline safety and many of them ate tn
D . ,, _ satd, ”Tlm rnatertal was ereated rer the third at fourth grade at your loeal

enna satrl, ln my Dpmlon, neborly ts V 1 d Yh d d 1 l_ ,,

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teaeh lrtds abrntt p|pL‘imL‘ salety than fh‘:“;';a \‘:m‘:v:§; Ff}’1:‘;F:a~ ti/E Tu ream mere nlrlom‘ pulvlic nwlzrfrlcssfur
p|pL‘imc ernpleyees, but mast of tltetrt kids ya to ttttttttt lteh'dstmtrt.ettrt
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