The Latest
The member toolkit now offers a template newsletter article or email alert for you to distribute to your customers when winter weather strikes your area. This template will provide information about the proper way take action during those dreaded ice and snow storms, along with other pertinent storm recovery messages. Click here to download this tool and other media relations documents.

Spotlight 811
The final race of the NASCAR season occurred Sunday, November 22, 2009 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway near Miami, Fla. Thanks to CGA Platinum Sponsor, Shell Pipeline, the 811 logo was featured on Kevin Harvick’s No. 29 Shell-Pennzoil deck lid. Kevin promoted the deck lid logo on his twitter page (@KevinHarvick) during the weekend as well. Here was the tweet:

@KevinHarvick: Cool deck lid on my Shell/Pennzoil car this week. Keep your community and environment safe call 811 before you dig. www.call811.com (http://twitter.com/KevinHarvick/status/5922173615)

As a result of his third place finish, Kevin Harvick was interviewed by ABC, ESPN and SPEED while wearing an 811 hat. Partnering with Kevin Harvick allowed CGA to increase the visibility and public awareness of 811 to an audience of more than 75 million race fans.

For more information about CGA’s partnership with Kevin Harvick, please click here.

411 on 811
The fifth annual CGA Excavation Safety Conference and Expo will be held March 2-4, 2010 at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif. The conference and expo is the largest and most widely attended show that deals with damage prevention and safe excavation in the underground utility industry. Click here to learn more about March’s conference.

Did You Know?
Under the new call-before-you-dig law, all utility owners must become members of Indiana 811 or face potential fines, starting in January 2010. If you know of utilities that have not become a member, please have them contact Chuck Muller to avoid potential fines in the future.

Holey Moley
Happy Holidays from Holey Moley! Holey Moley has gotten an early start on celebrating the holidays by participating in the Noblesville Holiday Parade on Nov. 29 and visiting with 400 fourth graders at the State House on Dec. 11.

Holey Moley’s friends can click here to view pictures of how much fun he has been having across the Hoosier State.

On The Calendar
Holey Moley will be making his way to the Indiana State Fair Grounds on December 17 to participate in the 9th Annual “Santa Comes to Town” event for the less fortunate Latino families in the Indianapolis area.

Click here for a complete events calendar. Contact Chuck Muller to volunteer for future events or invite Holey Moley to your event.

Toolkit
Since the first issue of this newsletter was distributed in early July, Indiana 811 has provided members with tools that help them communicate with their customers, employees and the media about the importance of calling Indiana 811.

Indiana 811 wants to your feedback on what tools have been useful, what tools you’d like to see offered and any additional feedback you can provide on our goal to better communicate with you, the members, this year.

Please click here to fill out a brief survey about “The Dirt” and the member tools that are posted at http://www.indiana811.org/toolkit.php. By completing the survey you will automatically be entered into a drawing for a $50 Gift Card!

In the News
Be sure to check out all of the media coverage Indiana 811 has secured across the state this year. Click here and click on the boxes labeled “other media” on the left-hand side of the One Call Maps site to view TV coverage and newspaper articles about Indiana 811.