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Through its many subsidiaries, AGL Resources serves more than 2.2 million customers in nine states. We are proud to have been part of the fabric of our communities for more than 150 years.
We take seriously the safety and welfare of our employees, customers and neighbors in the communities we serve and believe that part of our corporate responsibility is to give back to our communities. Our philanthropic focus is designed to make a meaningful impact in the communities we serve.
Iberia Parish/Vermilion Parish Emergency Guide
Hurricane Rita underscored the need for a comprehensive emergency preparedness plan locally. AGL Resources, in partnership with the Iberia Parish and Vermilion Parish Offices of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, set about producing a guide that reaches a new level of local disaster preparedness, response and recovery in a hurricane event.
In April 2007, we released the 42 page Iberia Parish/Vermilion Parish Emergency Guide in which residents of the two parishes will find important information to help build stronger, safer and better prepared communities for future disasters. Other sections of the emergency guide that every family can use the minute they open a copy, include a checklist for gathering items for a “Hurricane Survival Kit,” and a guide to help create an “Emergency Preparedness Plan.”
Demand for the guide has been so great AGL Resources funded a second printing of 20,000 to meet the quantity needed for a special insertion in the Abbeville Meridional and to provide additional copies to the Vermilion and Iberia Offices of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. This brings the total number of guides printed to 44,000 copies.
The Iberia Parish/Vermilion Parish Emergency Guide is one of a number of major contributions of community support from AGL Resources during Hurricane Rita, in the aftermath and in support of Vermilion Parish recovery and planning for future emergencies.
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“It’s something you can keep with you and your family can keep with them, and they can use to respond to disasters and emergencies.”
Jim Anderson,
Director of the Iberia Parish Office of Homeland Security
and Emergency Preparedness
“Put this guide next to the family Bible, the insurance papers and anything else you want to keep. This guide could save your family’s life.”
Gen. Robert LeBlanc,
Director of the Vermilion Parish Office of Homeland Security
and Emergency Preparedness |
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The Iberia Parish/Vermilion Parish Emergency Guide receives ten awards
 The Iberia Parish/Vermilion Parish Emergency Guide, prepared in partnership with parish emergency response officials and agencies, has received ten awards in eight separate competitions since it was produced and distributed in April of last year.
John Somerhalder, chairman, president and CEO of AGL Resources, presented the awards at an event hosted by the Vermilion Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, Thursday, May 22, at the Vermilion Parish Courthouse.
The Iberia Parish/Vermilion Parish Emergency Guide has earned the highest honors awarded in regional, national and international competitions dealing with public health, crisis communication, creative excellence and public affairs.
A total of 44,000 Iberia Parish/Vermilion Parish Emergency Guides were printed by AGL Resources to support emergency agency efforts to help families better prepare for hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Pictured: As AGL Resources CEO John Somerhalder looks on, Ret. Gen. Robert LeBlanc speaks during a special award presentation in Vermilion Parish.
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 AGL Resources assists with recovery needs At the request of State Senator Nick Gautreaux, the company provided $60,000 to assist with recovery needs to Erath Public Schools. AGL Resources has also donated 10 computers to the Vermilion Parish Library and three trucks to the City of Erath. |
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Erath High School to receive music lab Beginning in August 2008, students at Erath High School will take piano classes with state-of-the-art equipment donated by AGL Resources. The equipment, valued at about $22,900, includes 12 Yamaha keyboards, a teacher-master station and a classroom management system. Erath High Principal Francis Touchet said the donation helps further his goal of teaching students skills they can use for a lifetime.
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Pictured: Claire Hebert, a junior at Erath High School, tries out one of the digital pianos being donated by AGL Resources to furnish the school's upcoming music lab. |
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Employees recognized for hurricane response efforts JISH employees Jason Mire and Bud LeBlanc were recognized by the American Gas Association in 2006 for assisting response personnel, following Hurricane Rita, in helping to rescue people stranded by flood waters from Vermilion Bay and for responding to a reported leak in the vast complex of nine interstate and four intrastate pipelines that connect at the Henry Hub. |
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