system.
"Our
air will stay on our side," Van Sambeek said. "It won't go into
the classrooms on the other side of the building."
Students are less
than thrilled to attend class in the building, because of the smell from
many of the services performed at the lab, including autopsies, tissue samples
and cultures for bacteria
and viruses
and food safety testing for bacteria.
"It doesn't bother us," Van
Sambeek said. "I think the students will appreciate it."
Morrison
said the work will make the building more efficient and conservation friendly.
"That
building was built about 10 years ago," Morrison said. "Energy costs
so much there. This will help tremendously."
Wallace State President Vicki
Hawsey thanked everyone who helped secure money for the project.
"There
are a number of individuals who helped make this project possible," she
said. "Gov. Bob Riley has been steadfast in his support of this college
and for that we are extremely grateful. We appreciate ADECADirector John
Harrison and Terri Adams, head of ADECA's Science, Technology and Energy
Division, for recognizing the merit of our application and for their assistance
in seeing it through. I also must thank our legislative delegation, Rep.
Jeremy Oden, Rep. Ron Grantland, Sen. Zeb Little, and especially Rep. Neal
Morrison, for their continued assistance in supporting our college's efforts
to bring opportunities into this area."

Hanceville — A
grant to make the poultry diagnostic lab building more energy efficient also
will make it more pleasant for students to attend class.
A $117,425 grant from the Alabama Department
of Economic and Community Affairs will allow Wallace State Community College
to retrofit and improve the building, said Rep. Neal Morrison, who is in charge
of facilities.
Laboratory Director Francene Van Sambeek said
the major project on the building will be to re-configure the air
Tyson
Foods at Blountsville put its own twist on raising money to help feed 13
million hungry children across the country.
The promotion was dubbed "The Great American
Bake Sale," but
Tyson team members and managers chose to sell not baked goods but—what
else?—smoked
chicken. The project raised more than $2,000 for the worthy cause.
Not only that. Tyson Foods, Inc. is committed
to donating a pound of chicken, beef, or pork for every Tyson product bought
between May 1 and July 31, up to 3 million pounds nationally, through its
Share Our Strength. That's 15 million meals to help fight childhood hunger.
And now the fun part. Team members and managers
could buy pies to plaster on faces of managers of their choice. Jan Casey,
plant human relations manager, said team members are asking when the plant
will have another pie-in-the-face fundrais-er. She tells them to be saving
up money for it.