Employees at CDP in Anniston return to work

At least 100 federal workers at Annistons Center for Domestic Preparedness, returned to their jobs Thursday.  Lisa Hunter, director of external affairs at the center, said the rest of its approximately 800 workers are employees of contractors, and CDP administrators were sorting out how to get them back to work today.  They were among the roughly 800,000 federal workers nationwide sent home at the height of the shutdown, which ended when President Barack Obama signed a deal pushed through Congress on Wednesday, just ahead of a deadline to raise the government’s borrowing limit before threatening the ability to pay its bills. The CDP in Anniston, at the former Fort McClellan, provides disaster preparedness training courses to first-responders from agencies around the country — courses that were cancelled throughout the government shutdown.