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Two seasons ago Liberty senior Shannon Henretty was a contributing member of the varsity cross country team, but then something happened.
Toward the end of her sophomore season, breathing an exercise usually taken for granted became harder and harder for the diminutive Henretty. So did being able to run competitively.As she progressed through outdoor track and field, the problem grew worse and it reached its worst stage during the beginning of the 2007 cross country season. After being one of the Lions' best runners the previous year, Henretty was barely able to move one speed above walking.'I was very frustrated because I couldn't figure out what it was and I just wanted to know,' she said. 'The doctors kept telling me it was asthma and I tried using different inhalers, but they didn't really help.'Henretty was still running for the Lions' JV squad, but it took her almost 40 minutes to finish races she had been completing 15 minutes faster the year before. Often times the runners near the back of the pack would be forgotten by teammates, but the Lions weren't going to quit on Henretty.It started when former varsity runner Sam Black would run alongside Henretty as she finished the course and it grew from there. No matter who was running next to her, the cheers from the Liberty team were unmistakable as Henretty crossed the finish line each and every race.'I started running with Shannon after Sam hurt her ankle and I made it a point to go with her every time,' said Lions junior Michele Lambert. 'We always cheered for her and made sure we included her in practice because when you are the last runner you can get left out, but we made sure that didn't happen.'All the while, Henretty was seeing doctors that didn't seem to have any answers for her condition and Liberty coach Dan Jones knew it would be difficult to keep Henretty's confidence up as she battled her mysterious ailment.'I just let her know that she has talent and we just have to figure out what it is that's holding her back,' said Jones. 'I told her just to stay mentally prepared until we get to that point.'

At least that is the outcome of a recent emergency planning exercise involving the scenario of choking ash from an eruption at Mt Ruapehu.
Members of the Thames Valley Emergency Operating Centre participated this week in the Waikato region civil defence exercise designed around a volcanic eruption of Mount Ruapehu. The eruption resulted in 10mm of ash falling on the Coromandel Peninsula exacerbated by a period of showers and light rain. A team made up of representatives from the Ministry of Social Development, Hauraki District Council, Thames-Coromandel District Council and Civil Defence worked together to successfully deal with falling roofs, a petrol tanker accident and fire, school closures, loss of electricity, landline, email and cellphone coverage, issues around wastewater and storm water, agriculture, aquaculture and horticulture effects, evacuations and an asthma death 'We worked together as a team and had to show real innovation to get through but the Coromandel was in safe hands!' says TCDC Group Manager Support Services, Pam Howat.
Exercises are held throughout the year and have included a national exercise of a volcanic eruption in Auckland, the regional exercise just undertaken, and a local exercise of an earthquake in the Matamata-Piako District that involved the full evacuation of a school.

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