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GHSA Softball Sectionals - 1B $d (SstuQ Jkwtml 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. BIRTHDAYS Today ■ Dalton Crowe ■ Eric Crowe ■ Henry Dawkins Sunday ■ Rachel Wooden ■ Ricky Kerr ■ Crystal McCullum ANNIVERSARY Oct. 18 ■ George and Shirley Cyphers Monday ■ Joan and Ralph Dorset! DEARLY DEPARTED ■ Carol Gavin Dyer, 56 PERIODICAL 500 8 (>s l oe"o oooi Award-Winning Belter Newspaper Contest NgciATy 90£ noia-s ZQQQ-ZQ9QZ VD SN3HIY VIOHO3D 30 AiNn Ajßjqn uieiAl \jadWtfiswaftt * J-000 ir"iri ii ,,, ir ,, iiiT ,,,, inr ,,, irir , i October 21, 2006 Simma musfm Cowry Si\cL 1870 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 i ■■ mm '* | |f H a*j| y * Wl It gg|| f SNA * ■ ,'V'T , • ENI/Gary Harmon Perry quarterback Casey Hayward tries to outrun Peach County pressure Friday in Perry. For more, see 18. , 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 www.hhjnews.com "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.” Im ed Finger boo-d 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 AW EvAm Family Newspaper^ 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