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Park safety heightened after alumna murder
MERCEDES PARHAM
Issue date: 1/13/09 Section: News
"Our hiking traffic increased this year to the highest," Foot said.
Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services encompass 17 local recreational parks.
According to their Web site, department goals for the past year included a fund for park safety initiatives.
This program included adding 911 emergency call boxes and additional security staff. They also installed a security monitoring/alarm system. Calls to ACC Leisure Services were not returned as of Tuesday night.
To preserve Emerson's story, a group of friends formed Right to Hike, a non-profit organization that promotes hiker safety, awareness and education. Right to Hike began their initiatives in April 2008.
"We wanted a way to continue her memory," said Julia Karrenbauer, a University alumna and Emerson's former roommate. "Someone else had the last word on her life, but we wanted someone else to have the last word on her memory."
The group hosted a 5K run in Emerson's honor in October 2008.
Donations to the group fund GPS transmitters, devices that allow hikers to communicate with emergency personnel. The transmitters are lent out to hikers. "Cell phones don't always work on the trails," said Karrenbauer. "The first GPS locators we donated were in the Blairsville area where she was taken."
She also said that she and Emerson often visited Athens parks and trails as University students.
"We have future plans to expand safety devices in the Athens area and all of North Georgia," Karrenbauer said.
They also fund the Meredith Hope Emerson Memorial Award for Study Abroad - created by the romance languages department - a scholarship that affords one University student annually with a study abroad experience in a French-speaking country.
"We donated $5,000 to her scholarship in November," Karrenbauer said.
Campus organizations such as Safe Campuses Now feature Meredith Emerson's story on their Web site.
The site features opportunities for free self-defense classes as well as a host of programs and events about safety and awareness. As of Tuesday, attempts to reach Safe Campuses Now were unsuccessful.
To the University students, Karrenbauer said she leaves advice.
"Learn from the experience. Have a second thought about going out alone. University students should take that away from their own," she said. "Be cautious."
Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services encompass 17 local recreational parks.
According to their Web site, department goals for the past year included a fund for park safety initiatives.
This program included adding 911 emergency call boxes and additional security staff. They also installed a security monitoring/alarm system. Calls to ACC Leisure Services were not returned as of Tuesday night.
To preserve Emerson's story, a group of friends formed Right to Hike, a non-profit organization that promotes hiker safety, awareness and education. Right to Hike began their initiatives in April 2008.
"We wanted a way to continue her memory," said Julia Karrenbauer, a University alumna and Emerson's former roommate. "Someone else had the last word on her life, but we wanted someone else to have the last word on her memory."
The group hosted a 5K run in Emerson's honor in October 2008.
Donations to the group fund GPS transmitters, devices that allow hikers to communicate with emergency personnel. The transmitters are lent out to hikers. "Cell phones don't always work on the trails," said Karrenbauer. "The first GPS locators we donated were in the Blairsville area where she was taken."
She also said that she and Emerson often visited Athens parks and trails as University students.
"We have future plans to expand safety devices in the Athens area and all of North Georgia," Karrenbauer said.
They also fund the Meredith Hope Emerson Memorial Award for Study Abroad - created by the romance languages department - a scholarship that affords one University student annually with a study abroad experience in a French-speaking country.
"We donated $5,000 to her scholarship in November," Karrenbauer said.
Campus organizations such as Safe Campuses Now feature Meredith Emerson's story on their Web site.
The site features opportunities for free self-defense classes as well as a host of programs and events about safety and awareness. As of Tuesday, attempts to reach Safe Campuses Now were unsuccessful.
To the University students, Karrenbauer said she leaves advice.
"Learn from the experience. Have a second thought about going out alone. University students should take that away from their own," she said. "Be cautious."
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Wow
posted 1/13/09 @ 9:21 AM EST
I plead with you-- "plead" is not the past tense of anything! You have two choices there and the R&B keeps picking a third that doesn't work. Stop doing this!
just for reference
posted 1/13/09 @ 6:32 PM EST
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage provides the following information on the past tense forms of plead:
Plead belongs to the same class of verbs as bleed, lead, speed, read, and feed, and like them it has a past and past participle with a short vowel spelled pled or sometimes plead. (Continued…)
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