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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
VOLUME 136, NUMBER 246
Friday
December 29, 2006
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
New PY restaurant
temporarily closed
The restaurant at the New
Perry Hotel will be closed until
Jan. 22, 2007, at which time it will
re-open under new management.
According to hotel statt, Cox
Concessions will be in charge of
the restaurant, with Marcia Green
as manager
Workshops planned
for disabled
The University of Georgia
AgrAbility in Georgia project will
present a series of Lunch and
Learn workshops throughout the
state that will help attendees learn
to use everyday materials to solve
everyday challenges for farm fami
lies with disabilities. These hands
on workshops will demonstrate
more than 50 materials and tech
niques that can be quickly used
to create, fix or adapt solutions to
accommodate for physical, sen
sory or cognitive limitations when
performing essential tasks.
Each session is scheduled from
11 a.m-4 p.m. Following are
locations and dates for January
2007 workshops: 16 - Bibb
County,, Georgia State Farmers
Market; 17 - Dougherty County,
the Candy Room; 18- Tift County,
UGA Tifton Conference Center;
19- Lowndes County, location to
be announced.
There is no charge for the
program and lunch is provided;
however, space is limited and
early registration is encouraged.
To register, call 1-877-524-6264,
706-542-0304 or visit website
www.farmagain.com.
BIRTHDAYS
Today
■ Rodney Hair
■ Crystal Smith
E-mail your birthdays to:
hhj@evansnewspapers.com
or donm@evansnewspapers.
com or send them to: 1210
Washington St., Perry 31069
attn: Don Moncrief. You can
also call him at 987-1823,
Ext. 231.
ANNIVERSARY
Today
■ Cari and Bruce Patton (17
years)
DEARLY DEPARTED
■ Elizabeth A. Rawls, 92
■ Shirley Mills Webb, 63
■ Verlie Mae Hargrove, 71
■ Ruby Peavy, 81
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BELOW THE FOLD: Houston County Board of Education seeks public input on proposed rezonings
Crook gives new meaning to hitting lottery
Arrested when trying to cash in stolen tickets
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Jeremy Brandon Kizziah has been
charged with three local burglaries
in Warner Robins and unincorpo
rated Houston County after he tried
to cash in stolen lottery tickets.
He was arrested in Fort Valley Dec.
15 for a parole violation after trying
to cash the tickets in.
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Drs. Bill Wiley and Jeff Easom and technician Dexter Cornelius consult with a patient about a wrist injury at
Houston Orthopaedic Surgery & sports medicine.
Houston Orthopaedic to add two operating rooms
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Houston Orthopaedic
Surgery & Sports Medicine
will be adding two oper
ating rooms to its Watson
Boulevard office.
The $1.5 million renova
tion of 5,500 square feet of
its 24,000-square- foot office
will add an ambulatory sur
gery center to the practice.
The project is scheduled
to be done by June, said
Practice Administrator Clif
Pritchett.
Getting state approval
- letter of non-review or
LNR - took two years, as
there were objections to
the privately operated sur
gery center by the Alliance
for Community Hospitals,
Pritchett said. Houston
Medical Center and Perry
Hospital are members of
the alliance.
Dr. Scott Malone, one of
the founders of Houston
Board of Ed seeks public input on proposed rezonings
Special to the Journal
The Houston County Board of
Education would like to remind
everyone it will be seeking public
input on its proposed school zones
for the new Hilltop Elementary
School and Mossy Creek Middle
School.
To that end, a public forum is
scheduled for Jan. 4, 2007, at 6:30
p.m. in the Houston County High
School auditorium.
The schools will open during
Cpl. James Williams with
the Houston County Sheriffs
Department Criminal Investigation
Division said Kizziah cashed the
tickets at a “convenience store here
in town.”
Subsequently, he was identified
from store surveillance video with
the help of the Department of Parole.
Kizziah was located in Fort Valley
Surgery center
"'We do ail the physicals in Houston
County and in other counties. Over
3,000 physicals a year and the doctors
don’t receive a penny. The $lO lee goes
back to the school's athletic program.”
- Dr. Scott Malone
Orthopaedic, said the initial
application was filed in the
third quarter of 2004, but
was “withdrawn in 2005
since it was obvious it would
be denied.”
He explained the denial
was based on the practice
not being a single special
ty because of his training
physical medicine or physi
ciatry - a non-surgical mus
coskeltal treatment.
The application was
refilled in June of this year
without Malone as part of
the surgical request and it
What: Houston County Board of
Education public input forum
When: Jan. 4, 2007, 6:30 p.m.
Where: Houston County High School
auditorium
Purpose: To discuss proposed school
zones for the new Hilltop Elementary
School and Mossy Creek Middle School
August 2007, and the approved
zones would take affect for the 2007-
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was approved as a single
specialty use.
Houston Healthcare has
three surgery facilities of its
own - the two hospitals and
an ambulatory surgery cen
ter adjacent to the Warner
Robins hospital.
Houston Healthcare
opposed the privately owned
surgery center “because it
will take away patients with
the ability to pay, those
with commercial insur
ance,” explained Mary Jane
Kinnas, executive directive
of marketing for Houston
thanks to a phone
tip, Williams said,
and was arrested
without incident.
Kizziah, 25, of
653 Green Road in
Kilmichael, Miss.,
is being held in the
Houston County
Detention Center
on charges of bur-
glary (three counts), possession of
tools for the commission of a crime
Healthcare.
It leaves the hospital with
the uninsured, Medicaid
patients and those without
the ability to‘ pay, Kinnas
said. “The hospital uses the
revenue from these services
to pay for those we have to
provide that lose money like
the emergency room.”
Monty Veazey, CEO of
the Georgia Alliance for
Community Hospitals said
the Alliance objects to all
LNRs “because there are no
indigent care requirements
and in a lot of cases the doc
tors don’t take cases at the
ER any more because they
have their own surgery.”
Veazey also accused the
physician-owned centers
of just skimming the good
paying patients.
“We just want a level
playing field and it’s not
the case when they can
refer patients to their own
See ADD, page 6B
2008 school year.
The proposed zone maps are on
display in affected schools and at
the central office and posted to the
Board of Education website at http://
www.hcbe.net/.
The new Hilltop Elementary
School will draw from the cur
rent Bonaire Elementary and Matt
Arthur Elementary zones.
The new Mossy Creek Middle
School will draw from the current
Feagin Mill Middle School and Perry
Middle School zones.
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and theft by receiving stolen prop
erty. He also faces several local traf
fic related charges stemming from a
pursuit to Macon Dec. 14 and also
has pending Bibb County charges
from that pursuit. The spree start
ed Dec. 13 at North Davis Foods.
Officers with the Warner Robins
Police Department Patrol Division
were dispatched to 503 N. Davis Drive
at 5:30 a.m. in reference to an alarm.
Upon arrival, officers found a broken
See CROOK, page 6B
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KIZZIAH
The Lake Joy Elementary School
zone will not change with the open
ing of the new Lake Joy Elementary
and subsequent renaming of the
old as the new Lake Joy Primary
School.
No changes will be made to any
high school zones.
Other zoning adjustments are as
follows:
■ Kings Chapel Elementary is
proposed to change from grades
two through five to Pre-K through
See INPUT, page 6B
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Larry Walker
to run for
GDOT post
By CHARLOTTE
PERKINS
Journal Staff Writer
When Rep. Larry Walker
decided not to run for the
Georgia legislature two
years ago after more than
three decades in the halls
of power, he had a busy law
practice to return to and a
big family, with children and
grandchildren to spend his
new leisure hours with.
There had been a major
shift in the political winds,
with Republicans taking
charge, and it could have
looked to some as if Walker,
who had been Democratic
House Majority Leader for
years, and' a major player
under the gold dome, was
retiring from public life.
To others, however, it will
come as no surprise that
Walker is ready to roll up
his sleeves and get back to
being one of Georgia’s deci
sion-makers.
Walker has announced
that he’s making a bid for
the Eighth Congressional
District post on the
Board of Directors of the
Georgia Department of
Transportation.
“I feel very good about the
chances,” he said from his
Perry law office Thursday.
“And I think that in the next
five years, a lot of decisions
will be made (by the DOT)
that will mean a lot to this
area.”
The former legislator
See WALKER, page 6B
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