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VOLUME 136, NUMBER 145
Wednesday
July 26, 2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
INSIDE
■ The Tigers used the gameplan
of scoring quick and then held off
the Eagles to capture the Middle
Georgia Baseball League's cham
pionship Monday.
Also, two Warner Robins
American Little League teams con
tinue to roll and Perry High School
sets its Night of Champions.
Two more: Braves Notebook
and Georgia Tech head coach
Chan Gailey says he’s now a "big
picture" kind of guy.
- See 1 and 6B
■ What’s cooking in Sara's kitch-
en? Get
a sample
of what
Cottage
Living
magazine
is offer
ing for the
summer
harvest.
- See Food 1C
IN BRIEF
DOT contractor
shifting lanes
According to the Georgia
Department of Transportation, their
contractor has begun shifting north
and south bound traffic to the two
new outside lanes (one lane in each
direction) of Houston Lake Road at a
location between the south side of the
intersection with State Route 96 and
South Tammie Circle.
The purpose of this shift is to
coordinate with the construction of the
inside lanes.
They request that motorists
observe the signs, barrels, cones and
other markings that will alert and
direct them through this construction
area.
- Special to the Journal
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Warner Robins Women's Healthcare Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, from left, Kathy Grube,
Julie Conway and Debra Fingle take advantage of Senate Bill 480, which went into effect July 1
and allows them to write prescriptions.
New law provides prescription power
By Brian Shreve
Journal Intern
“It’s been a really long time coming,” said
Dr. Leslie Tidwell of Warner Robins’ Women’s
Healthcare.
After more than a decade of lobbying,
nurses in Houston County and around the
state are celebrating a new law giving them
prescriptive authority.
Senate Bill 480, signed into law by Gov.
Sonny Perdue in March, went into effect July
1 and applies to advanced practice registered
nurses, including nurse practitioners, certi
fied nurse midwives, nurse anesthetists and
psychiatric health nurses.
By giving APRNs the power to write pre-
lint violation leads to cash,
cocaine and two arrests
ByRAYUGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
It all began with a tint viola
tion.
A July 18 traffic stop in Perry
led to two arrests in two coun
ties and the seizure of 10 kilos of
cocaine and $189,920 in cash.
Perry Police Sgt. Ron
Brainard stopped a vehicle on
1-75 because the windows were
too dark around 2:10 a.m., July
18.
Brainard checked the vehicle
with his canine partner Rex,
and based upon Rex’s hit on the
vehicle, decided to search the
vehicle, explained Det. Drew
Dodson of the Perry Police.
Brainard and Field Training
22)oVe
Officer John Kessler searched
the vehicle and located cocaine
- about three grams - and a
bag that contained $189,920 in
cash, Dodson said.
The driver of the vehicle,
Ryan Cox, 28, 1853 Fernandina,
Fla., was arrested. He has been
charged with conspiracy to traf
fic in cocaine, with intent to
distribute, possession of cocaine
and the window tint violation.
Dodson said the follow-up
investigation led to the arrest
of Lawrence Kenneth Wathour,
28, 1916 Holmestown Road,
Midway, in Douglasville where
Douglas Sheriffs Department
seized about 10 kilos of cocaine.
See LEADS, page 6A
www.hhjnews.com
scriptions, the law is said to benefit patients
by saving them time spent seeking a doctor’s
signature, allowing them to get prescriptions
filled wherever they wish and by improving
medical efficiency in rural areas.
There are approximately 5,000 APRNs
working in Georgia, 40 of whom work in
Houston County.
“Now, prescriptions will have our names
at the bottom instead of the doctors,” said
Kathy Grube, an NP at Women’s Healthcare.
“So, we’re more accountable for what we do,
and it helps us see patients more efficiently.”
Before APRNs are allowed to write pre
scriptions, the law dictates there must be
See LAW, page 6A
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Below the fold
■ Tint violation leads Perry
police to cash, cocaine and two
arrests
■ District dignitaries attend
Perry Rotary Club meeting
Perry planners
apppove new
subdivision
Builders want to
annex, develop site
on Kings Chapel Rd.
By CHARLOTTE PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
More farm land is headed toward
housing development if the Perry
City Council approves a request
for rezoning and annexation of
44.14 acres not far from the inter
section of Kings Chapel Road and
Arena Road.
The request, made by Keith
Roughton of Kathleen for TCR
Builders, Inc., was approved
on Monday night by the Peny
Planning Commission, which
means a public hearing will be
held and the Perry City Council
will make the final decision.
The land has been zoned for
residential and agricultural (R-
Ag) use by Houston County, and
if the request is approved, would
become part of the City of Perry,
with a zoning (R2A) which allows
single family homes to be built op
lots of a minimum site of T2f,000
sq. ft.
Community Planner Mike
Beecham said that, if approved,
See SITE, page 6A
Dignitaries visit
Rotary meeting
By KRISTY WARREN
Journal Staff Writer
District Governor William
James Blankenship and Assistant
District Governor Les Arent were
at Perry’s Rotary Club meeting
Monday with a message from
International President William
B. Boyd.
The focus of the 2006/2007 year
will be on membership growth;
the local Rotary Foundation; striv
ing for literacy throughout the
world; and entertainment, which
mostly takes place with the fellow
ship at the weekly lunches.
Blankenship says that the Perry
Rotary Club has been “exemplary”
in its activeness and service.
“I always appreciate the stellar
clubs of Rotary of which Perry is
one,” he said.
The club concentrates on lit
eracy, with Blankenship saying
that “teaching a man to read and
See VISIT, page 6 A
Perry
Police Field
Training
Officer
John
Kessler
and Sgt.
Ron
Brainard
show the
$189,920 in
cash seized
following
a traffic
stop on the
interstate
for a tint
violation.
Photo courtesy
of PPD