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Committed to Doing the Right Thing
Leonard Bentz will tell you that he has always wanted to be involved in public service. He said, “It’s about helping people and just having the courage to do the right thing. There have been times when the right thing may not have been the most popular thing, but you have to stand up for [...]
25 Years and Still Loving It!
Donna Germany began working part-time for MS 811 in September 1986. According to Donna, at the time she joined the company staff, there were only two other full-time CSRs, a manager and a secretary/CSR. In December 1987 she began working full-time and became the Lead CSR. On her responsibilities, Donna said, “I did the training, [...]
Publisher’s Perspective
Recently while working with a group of stakeholders, I was reminded by one of the attitudes at the table of a valuable lesson I learned many years ago. I hadn’t been in class too long and one day our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a fairly good student, had studied my assignments [...]
The Doctor Is In
Is Your Company a Schoolhouse? Let’s begin our discussion by asking you to answer the following questions about your damage prevention team: 1. Do you want your team members to be mediocre? 2. Do you want your team members to be complacent? 3. Do you want your team members to be average? (Remember average is [...]
Master of Zing
Hop on the REA 44-10-10 Express! The news media’s announcement that the U. S. Postal Service is in trouble wasn’t a huge surprise to most of us. The world has shifted; we are using email so that business is down for the postal service. E-mail is immediate and doesn’t require postage. Perhaps it has the [...]
Me and Dillard
Strange as it may seem in today’s world of bicycle helmets and knee pads, by my seventh birthday I had been given a Stevens .410 shotgun. Of course, it wasn’t close to being a new gun, but to me it was the one that tamed the west. There was a little patch of timber across [...]
Shell Revs Up its Commitment to Damage Prevention in 2011
For the third consecutive season, Shell and the Common Ground Alliance teamed up to raise awareness of 811, the national ‘Call Before You Dig’ number. Shell leveraged its partnership with Penske Racing in an effort to protect America’s underground infrastructure. During National Safe Digging Month in April, the 811 logo could be seen running on [...]
Me and Dillard: Vol. 5, Issue 2
As I remember, the best part of going to school as a boy growing up in the backwoods of Arkansas was getting out for the summer. It wasn’t that I minded going to school so much. It was just that I really liked getting out. I could hardly wait to get home because this was [...]
The Commissioner’s Perspective
Lynn Posey is currently serving as Central District Public Service Commissioner and is also Chairman of the Commission. Commissioner Posey served in the Mississippi State Senate from 1988-2007. While in the Senate, Commissioner Posey served 16 years as Chairman of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks and was a member of the Public Utilities Committee for 16 [...]
Anatomy of the Underground Utility Damage Lawsuit Part 4 – “Discovery Strategies”
by “Sandy” Sanford III, Attorney Willoughby Law Group The prior installment of this series focused on issues related to damages. In short, we explored how the damaged utility maximizes damages under the law, and how the excavator minimizes or eliminates categories of damages. The vehicle for determining issues related to liability and damages is known [...]
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