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An International Effort on Imperial Sugar’s Newsroom

It was a night to remember … Anticipation filled the control room situated above a tanker truck waiting to be loaded at Imperial Sugar Company’s Port Wentworth, Ga refinery.
The room was packed with employees the evening of July 24, ready for a switch to be thrown that would begin filling trucks with granulated sugar, the first produced at the plant in more than 18 months.
I was there to document the historic moment in photos, and called upon to use a little of my rusty reporting skills becuase my two partners at The News Group Net were in Florida and Switzerland.

At 10:25 p.m., loading operator Dwayne Frasier, surrounded by Elliot Gibbs and Marvin Knight, hit the start button that began loading the first truck. Two hours later, 48,000 lbs of sugar was successfully loaded, and  the truck cleared the 
refinery gates at 1:20 am.   The story needed to be posted ASAP, and due to the late hour,  my partner David Henderson stepped up to the plate from the mountains of Switzerland.   David mananged to write the story from my notes of the evening activities, while I did an edit on the photos.  The result  were story and photos were posted on the Imperial Sugar online newsroom (www.iscnewsroom.com) by the time people were starting to wake in the eastern U.S.

As a result of the quick posting, local and national media were able to pick up the story, and easily download photos of the event.  For a complete look at my work that evening visit the ISC Newsroom.