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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Kokins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 136 , NUMBER 204
Below the Fold: Local law enforcement agencies prepare for haunted house I Houston Healthcare to Day
Weekend
October 21,2006
The Home Journal's
FRONT
PORCH
IN SPORTS
■ In addition to lots of football,
look for golf results from the 21st
Annual Women's Championship,
a story on a former Houston
County resident who broke a
U.S. swim record and more.
- See 1B
IN BRIEF
Union Grove to hold
Health Day, brunch
The Union Grove Missionary
Baptist Church will host its Sixth
annual Health Day and brunch at
the Vision Center located at 1231
South Davis Drive in Warner Robins
Sunday. According to a release, phy
sicians will be on hand to speak. A
meal will be served and there will be
free testing for glucose, blood pres
sure, HIV and cholesterol. Flu shots
will be also be available.
Hospice volunteers will be also be
on hand and there will be vendors
with giveaways.
Sewage spills into
Gresham Creek
At approximately 2:45 p.m.,
Thursday, a Perimeter Road man
hole was found surcharging and an
estimated 500 gallons of sewage
entered Fanny Gresham Creek. The
cause of the blockage was deter
mined to be grease.
Measures were immediately taken
to jet the blocked lines, clean and
vacuum this section of main and
flush the area with chlorinated water.
According to Perry Public Works.
The incident was reported
to the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources and the state
Environmental Protection Division.
Correction
In the story: “State to double
GBI meth agents” the name of J.T.
Ricketson, GBI Special Agent in
Charge of the Macon Regional Drug
Enforcement Office, was misspelled.
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Operation: Glean Sweep
Police arrest 12 in
large-scale effort
By RA YLIGHTNER
Journal Sta ff Writer
Warner Robins Police
shut down Evergreen Street
Wednesday to clean it up.
“It was a department
wide effort to take back
the street,” said Lt. Todd
Edwards, operation super
visor for Operation: Clean
Sweep, “and we did. We took
it back.”
He said the operation to
identify and eliminate the
drug dealers on the street
was based on citizens' com
plaints of problems with
narcotics, loitering, disturb
ing the peace and underage
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The long arm of the law ...
Just may reach out and scare you
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Sta ff Writer
Local law enforcement
will be scaring up money for
charity again this year.
Law Enforcement United’s
Third Annual Haunted
House at the Warner Robins
Police Department Training
Center will be Thursday-
Oct. 28, Oct. 30-31.
The haunted house will be
open from 7:30-11:30 p.m.
the 26th, 30th and 31st. It
will be from 7:30 p.m.-mid
night Oct. 27-28. Admission
is $5.
The haunted house winds
a path through two houses,
a tunnel maze and haunted
forest.
“It is not recommended
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"We just mounted a large scale
operation. Shut the street down to
North Avenue and across Ignico Drive."
- SWAT Team Commander Caftt.John Clay
drinking. “There was quite
a bit of problems,” Edwards
said.
Edwards said about 50
officers participated with
elements of SWAT, Patrol,
Narcotics, Forensics, K-9 and
School Resource Officers.
“We had quite a bit of man
power.”
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What: Law Enforcement
Third Annual Haunted
House
When: Thursday-
Oct. 28, Oct. 30-31
Where: Warner
Robins Police
/9PK\ Department
'll’ Training Center
1 * Cost: $5
for children,” emphasized
Capt. John Clay, of the
WRPD Office of Community
Initiatives. “We try to scare
people. We do a pretty good
job, too.”
He wousually is the one
jumping out at you toward
the end of the tour. “We’ll let
it be a surprise,” Clay said.
Other participating agen
cies included the Georgia
State Patrol Aviation Unit,
and the U.S. Marshall’s Unit
Fugitive Task Force.
SWAT Team Commander
Capt. John Clay said police
had identified a couple
of houses dealing drugs
See EFFORT, page SB
Law Enforcement United
is a non-profit organization.
It is made up of a civilian and
military law enforcement
agencies of Houston County.
All the money raised goes to
local charities supported by
the participating agencies.
Last year each partici
pating agency was able to
donate $1,500 each, Clay
said. “We’d like to have
more this year (but) we’ll do
the best we can.”
“The more that come out,
the better chances we have
to so.”
Participating agencies and
their beneficiaries include
Warner Robins Police
Special Olympics; Houston
County Sheriff’s Office
See LAW, page SB
Two sections • 16 pages
The battle between
church, state (of mind)
Plaintiffs challenging
sex offender law
”lt'g not fair to me. I'm not the
problem, it's my husband, he's
disabled and I can't do anything
for him.”
- Plaintiff Mrs. John Doe VII
By RAYLIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
A Houston County man is one of nine
John Doe plaintiffs in another lawsuit
seeking to stop enforcement of a portion of
the state law which prevents registered sex
offWders Win living within 1,000 feet of
schools, parks, churches, school bus stops
and places where children congregate.
In this case the nine have asked for
an injunction on the church part of the
law. The nine are being represented by
the Southern Center for Human Rights
and the American Civil Liberties Union.
Counsel asked the court for anonymity for
the plaintiffs in order to protect their pri
vacy and that of their families, as they are
elderly, incapacitated or only have a short
time to live.
According to the brief filed in U.S. District
Court in Rome seeking a permanent injunc
tion, the church provision would require 61
people in Houston County alone to move
or be jailed. Those found in violation are
usually given 30-60 days to find another
See BA TI LE, page SB
Houston Healthcare
to hold Diabetes Day
Special to the Journal
Houston Healthcare
is sponsoring a Diabetes
Day Friday from 10 a.m.-
2 p.m. at Middle Georgia
Technical College in
Warner Robins. Designed
for all people affected by
diabetes, the free program
will consist of a variety of
educational and informa
tional seminars about dia
betes-related topics includ
ing how to get the very
best care for diabetes, pro
tecting the heart by choos
ing foods and fats wisely,
making the link between
diabetes, heart disease and
stroke, and more.
Registration begins at
9:30 a.m., and lunch will be
provided.
Diabetes is one of the
most serious health prob
lems facing Americans
today, and the statistics are
worsening.
According to the National
Center for Health Stat istics,
diabetes rates in the United
States have increased 27
percent between 1997 and
2002, as a result of the
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increasing rate of obesity
and decreasing exercise
among adults. Nearly 12
million adults have been
diagnosed with diabetes,
however, many people are
unaware they even have
the disease.
Because diabetes often
shows no symptoms, it is
essential that adults, espe
cially those at risk, have
their blood sugar level
checked on a regular basis.
According to Vicky
Alexander, RN, FNP,
Disease Management
Coordinator at Houston
Healthcare, Type II diabe
tes, or non-insulin depen
dent diabetes, is the type
which affects mainly adults
over the age of 40.
Adults who are over
weight, lead sedentary
lifestyles, have high blood
pressure and a fam
ily history of Type II dia
betes are most at risk.
If left untreated, diabe
tes can lead to blindness,
chronic kidney disease,
heart disease and even
See DIABETES , page SB