{"id":5261,"date":"2025-07-02T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2025-07-02T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:50:09","slug":"digger-ms-maria-georgia-power-and-city-of-lawrenceville-damage-prevention-department-attended-career-week-at-ferguson-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/?p=5261","title":{"rendered":"Digger, Ms. Maria, Georgia Power and City of Lawrenceville Damage Prevention Department attended Career Week at Ferguson Elementary School!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On April 2, 2025, Georgia 811\u2019s mascot, Digger Dog and Ms. Maria, attended Career Day at Ferguson Elementary School in Duluth, GA. They shared their career and told the 2nd and 3rd grade students; they travel all over the state of Georgia to elementary schools! Presenting The Digger Dog Utility Safety show.\u00a0 They encouraged students to \u201cknow what\u2019s below and contact 811 before they dig.\u201d Sharing safety information and having a bit of fun, Digger and Ms. Maria explained the importance of not damaging underground utility lines by digging safely, how to be safe near overhead power lines and what to do if the power lines are down. They also demonstrated the smell of natural gas and what students should do if they smell it. Digger and Ms. Maria also discusses what the colored flags and paint on the ground represent and that students should never move the flags. For more information about Digger Dog and his free presentation contact Georgia 811 Education Administrator Maria Copeland at mcopeland@Georgia811.com<\/a> or 770-476-6035.\u00a0 Georgia Power and City of Lawrenceville’s Damage Prevention Department attended with them.<\/p>\n

For more information about Georgia 811 or the Georgia Dig Law visit www.Georgia811.com<\/a>. The number to \u201cCall Before You Dig\u201d is 811. Do your part in keeping Georgia Safe and Connected, It\u2019s the Law.<\/p>\n

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Digger with City of Lawrenceville’s Damage Prevention Department’s Lisa McKnight ( also a Georgia811 Boardmember), Lynn Still, Georgia Power’s Harry Tuck and a few 3rd grade students.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Digger with City of Lawrenceville’s Damage Prevention Department’s Lisa McKnight ( also a Georgia811 Boardmember), Lynn Still, Georgia Power’s Harry Tuck and a few 2nd grade students.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Georgia Power’s Harry Tuck demonstrated to the 2nd and 3rd grade students how the Locate Technicians locate the underground utlitities!<\/p><\/div>\n

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On April 2, 2025, Georgia 811\u2019s mascot, Digger Dog and Ms. Maria, attended Career Day at Ferguson Elementary School in Duluth, GA. They shared their career and told the 2nd and 3rd grade students; they travel all over the state of Georgia to elementary schools! Presenting The Digger Dog Utility… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diggers-2024-to-2025-school-visits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5289,"href":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions\/5289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diggerdog811.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}