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www.dnl.com THE DAILY NEWS JOURNAL Sunday, March 23, 2008 1 A5 STATE FBI investigates noose hung at manufacturing plant by employee Worker who put up rope was fired Dan Kubera, a spokesman for the manufacturer's parent company Brunswick says a maintenance employee admitted hanging the noose, which offended a black co-worker. Other Sea Ray employees removed the noose and the employee who hung it was fired. Kubera says the employee claimed the noose was meant as a prank and not directed at the black co-worker. The FBI has declined to comment, but Kubera says the company was contacted by the agency about the inci dent and will be cooperating ith the investigation. Kubera also says a complaint has been filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

Associated frets employee at Knoxville's Sea Ray boat manufacturing plant hung a noose in his work area. KNOXVILLE The FBI is investigating after a white JTiie New Faceof Christian We have a staff of well trained counselors that offer fW individual, couples, and family counseling on a sliding scale that is affordable for everyone, pi We offer a series of weekly support groups as well such as: A Growing Out Of Depression Havertys will be closed on Easter Sunday. Promotions in our HAVE a garden party insert will start 324od. utromc raon 4 Love Sc Respect for Couples 4 1 Body Image: Teenage Eating Disorders i Branches Recovery Center Call for information or to schedule an appointment 2316 Armorv Drive 1-877-424-0203 4 MunrecsDoro. VOID; HVMbrancht'irewervcenter com AP photo Sara Cross, a junior at Maryville Christian Academy, holds up a 5.5 centimeter spotted dusky salamander weighing 2.5 grams found in the creek In the Spice-woods Branch area of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park March 10.

Citizen Science turns students on to wonders of Smoldes research -x P'KO It Mr 1 zen Science umbrella, which features other programs such as bird banding and a study of pond-breeding amphibians. Lindsay and her classmates were charged with examining mesh traps salamander hotels that were placed in the shallow stream a month ago. The students extracted the salamanders from the traps, took measurements, weighed the creatures and then released them. Some 2,500 salamanders have already been evaluated in the program. One of Lindsay's first catches was tiny and quickly named "Sam It checked in at 3.1 centimeters and weighed a quarter of a gram.

students, along with three volunteers, landed seven salamanders in the first eight of 20 traps. "That's pretty good," said Josh Davis, the senior teacher and naturalist for the Citizen Science program. "What we're looking for is trends over time that will likely tell us if something is going on or if there's a change in the population. Here in the park we have 31 species of salamanders. We're the salamander capital of the world and we're proud of it.

Davis said the contributions from the students and volunteers who monitor the changes in the park's ecosystem are ft. AsstKiated Press TOWNSEND Lindsay Connatser didn't know that a dusky salamander is often brownish all over, has rear legs larger and longer than the front legs and has a light line from its eyes to the back of the corner of its mouth. Now she does. After a recent outing with the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont's Citizen Science group, Lindsay and her Maryville Christian School classmates got an up-close-and-personal account of the salamanders that call the sliver of a creek in Spicewoods Branch home. I'm not a very outdoorsy person, but this is fun said Lindsay, a junior.

"I want to be a teacher, so maybe one day I could bring my students up here." Lindsay and her classmates from Christy Breedlove's life sciences class made the three-mile trek from the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont to the national park's Spicewoods Branch area to monitor the creek's salamander population under the Citizen Science program. The program, which started in 1999, gives students hands-on experience with real research projects. In 2007, volunteers logged about 500 hours in the 21 ongoing projects under theJTiti- WISE JtL -if" KTje I a i '-r tlevsard Checking tliat pays! FREE SHIPPING) 11 llVillEAl 11 Fnr hininwi iolutinm. fall: ffilS) 495-6700 577 Snrth Thfirw I anr. Sir f) 61(1 Mw rmpiipl 8MJ tr RMiloShexk.

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