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Corps of Engineers helps Joplin recover after devastating tornado

Photo by Mark Haviland

Dr. Debra Fort, principal, Irving Elementary School, expresses her thanks to Maj. Gen. Merdith "Bo" Temple, acting commanding general and chief of engineers, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, for the hard work the Corps has been doing in Joplin, Mo., as they tour the school campus July 19, as Jon Gornick, debris mission manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers listens. Irving School was destroyed by the EF-5 tornado that tore through the city May 22, and is being rebuilt on the former site of Washington Elementary school with modular units that include classrooms, kitchen facilities, labs, restrooms and all the infrastructure needed to support the school. Irving School at Washington is 65 percent complete and progress is made every day so that it will be open when school begins Aug. 17.

Under the National Response Framework, the guidelines that govern the federal government’s response to a disaster, the Federal Emergency Management Agency assigns different missions to the federal agencies best equipped to carry them out. After the Joplin tornado, FEMA assigned the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers three missions: remove tornado debris from streets and home lots, build temporary replacements for critical public facilities like fire stations and schools, and build the sites for temporary housing communities to shelter more than 600 families whose homes were destroyed. Corps’ urban search and rescue staff also helped in the first days after the storm. In its first eight weeks, the Corps awarded more than $160 million in contracts – more than $150 million of it to local small businesses – for debris removal and construction work, built two temporary fire stations and started construction on two temporary housing sites and facilities for all eight public schools the tornado destroyed. All temporary school facilities are on schedule to open before school starts in Aug. 17. Families are expected to begin moving into the temporary communities by the end of July. These facilities consist of modular units, tent structures and storm shelters. Inside the modular facilities are classrooms, kitchens, labs and restrooms. This also includes all electrical and cables needed for today’s educational environment. Concrete is in place for gymnasium floors for those schools that don’t currently have such facilities.

PIZZA BARN GAME OF THE WEEK: La Verne Turns the Tables Just in Time

Taking the hill in the top of the sixth with his team clinging to a one-run lead, pitcher Noah Woodall struck out the side to give La Verne a hard-fought 8-7 victory over Temple City and send his team north for a Divisional playoff date this Saturday at 1 p.m. in Goleta, Calif.

It was an amazing performance by Woodall, who had to face the teeth of the Temple City line-up, including Yugi Secani, who just 24 hours earlier had hit a walk-off home run to give Temple City an improbable 13-12 comeback win after his team had trailed 12-2 in the bottom of the sixth.

After striking out the lead-off batter, Woodall had been instructed by manager Greg Peplin to intentionally walk Secani based on Secani’s offensive fireworks the night before and his single, triple and four RBIs in Wednesday’s nail biter. But after Secani intentionally flailed and missed out the first ball thrown wiide by Woodall, shocking his third base coach, Peplin and his coaches decided to roll the dice and go after Temple City’s big hitter. Secani scraped Woodall’s next pitch foul down the third base line, just missing a double, and then after wasting a pitch, Woodall challenged and whizzed a fast ball by the surprised slugger for strike three.

With two outs, Woodall caught the next batter, Mario Castro, looking at a called third strike, and La Verne’s victory celebration was on, heard from Juanita Street in San Dimas to every pizza parlor in La Verne.

 

 

“After he swung at that first pitch, we thought maybe we could get him to chase one,” said La Verne Manager Greg Peplin. “But I was convinced at the beginning of the inning we were going to intentionally walk him.”

La Verne never trailed in the game, thanks to a big four-run outburst in the first, led by RBI singles from Brock Johnson, also La Verne’s starting and winning pitcher, Woodall and Ryan McGlohon.

After Temple City scored one in the second and two in the third to trail by just a run, 4-3, La Verne rallied for a run in the bottom of the third on a triple by Andrew Castro, who later scooted home on a passed ball to put his team up, 5-3.

In the bottom of the fourth, La Verne scored three more runs to stretch its lead to 8-3. Woodall cracked an RBI double and McGlohon also had a one-run single in the frame.

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