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4 itmiraArm 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 PERIODICAL 500 ililllll 8 , 55108 00001 1 4 Award-Winning Newspaper (pm |pssj\ 2004 (■Ul&li)-) Better Newspaper Contest N’bcurtJJ' lull liiiiiiiliiliitiitlillliiflliiilliiiiilillinll COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DIGIT 306 December 29, 2006 SERma llo( sn>\ Coryn S/a, / MO 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. i' --.v.... " ' * ~ ' "" ' -41 •. JournaLßay Lightner 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- WWW.HHJNEWS.COM 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. Two SECTIONS • 12 PAGES 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 jSSwifr 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 Mi-Eya/vs Family Newspaper - - 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 I ' • if®® | WALKER