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♦ SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2007
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Warner Robins animal shelter quarantined again
By RAYUGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
The Warner Robins
Animal Shelter was -quar
antined again last week for
parvo.
Animal Control Director
Capt. Brenda Parks-Mathern
said the quarantine was the
first this year. The shelter
was under quarantine 16
times in 2006, she said.
Parvo is a highly conta
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leadership have caused the
process to fail,” said Edward
Chapman, a student who
worked as a researcher for
the Democratic Party.
A three-panel legislative
review board on Wednesday
dismissed the case against
state Rep. Larry O'Neal, say
ing the SIOO,OOO tax break
he is accused of engineering
for the governor occurred
too long ago for them to
investigate.
Senate President pro tern
Eric Johnson said the ethics
panel members had simply
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grandmother, Denise Logue,
53, of 200 Second St.,
Bonaire, were both ejected
from the vehicle. “Nobody
in the vehicle was using the
seatbelts,” Alexander said.
The teenage mother, Erina
Logue, 16. and the car seat
remained in the vehicle.
Alexander said the driver
was on her cell phone at
the time of the crash. She
reportedly failed to yield the
right of way, pulled out in
front of a southbound 2001
Chrysler Concorde, which
tried to avoid the van but
hit the left front wheel of the
van and then struck a 1991
Nissan 240SX stopped in the
CROWNED
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Miss Junior 2007.
Senior Amber Drew was
named first runner-up.
Senior, Laurel Thompson
who was crowned Miss
Perry High School 2007 is
the daughter of Michael and
Jennifer Thompson.
She is an active member
of the Perry High School
Drama Department and she
will serve as the Assistant
Director for the upcom
ing Spring Musical in May.
Laurel plans to attend
Macon State College then
transfer to Georgia Southern
University..
Miss Perry High School
2006, Jennah White, crowned
her successor before the large
crowd. Scholarship money
will be awarded to the win
ners upon their graduation
from Perry High School.
The pageant was sponsored
by the Perry High School
Theater department.
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unremarried surviving
spouses of firefighters or
peace officers killed in the
line of duty. Kushinka said
this applies to the entire tax
bill, not just the state portion.
“If there are any out
there,” he said, “they need
to please come in to get the
tax breaks. It’s a lot more
for them.”
To find out if you qual
ify for the new exemp
tions, Kushinka invites
residents to visit his offices
in Perry or Warner Robins
to apply before March 1.
The Perry office is in the
County Courthouse on Perry
Parkway. The Warner Robins
office is at the County Annex
on Carl Vinson Parkway,
For more information,
call the Tax Commissioner’s
office at 218-4940 in Perry or
542-2110 in Warner Robins.
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gious disease characterized
by diarrhea that is often
bloody and is caused by a
pathogen called canine par
vovirus. It is known to sur
vive on inanimate objects
- such as clothing, food pans,
and cage floors - for five
months and longer in the
right conditions.
The reoccurring problem,
she said is because of the
design of the shelter, with
open pens and drains. If an
followed the law, which he
said bans them from consid
ering conduct that occurred
before Jan. 9, 2006 when the
committee was created. In a
phone interview, he added
the complaint was “noth
ing more than partisan poli
tics.”
Chapman said the com
mittee was “afraid” of the
consequences of an investi
gation.
“My hope is that by for
warding this request, law
enforcement will begin this
desperately needed investi
gation,” he said.
He said he is sending
the complaint to the state
Attorney General’s office
northbound left turn lane,
pushing it backwards.
The infant and grand
mother were ejected as the
van started to roll on the
driver’s side. The van slid
across the roadway, the tire
dug in and the van became
upright again, Alexander
said.
Denise and Erina Logue
as well the two occupants
of the Nissan were taken
to Houston Medical Center,
where they remain in stable
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animal comes in with parvo
the others contract it.
Parks-Mathern said a vet
erinarian, who is checking
out an animal adopted from
the shelter, usually notifies
her of the parvo infection.
“Once notified the shelter is
quarantined and closed for
three days and we notify the
state,” she said.
All animals in the shelter
have to be put down, she
said, “if they are past what
and U.S. Attorney David
Nahmias.
Russ Willard, a spokesman
for the Attorney General’s
Office, said the department
has yet to receive the com
plaint.
The U.S. Attorney’s office
could not immediately be
reached for comment.
House Speaker Glenn
Richardson, the target of
an earlier ethics complaint
tossed by the legislative
panel, said the Democratic
Party’s attitude is “whine,
whine, whine; lose, lose,
lose.”
“Go whine to someone
else,” he said in a statement.
“Mr. Chapman is obviously
condition, Alexander said.
The driver of the Chrysler
was not injured.
The Sheriff’s Office
received the call on the acci
dent at 11:47 a.m., Alexander
said.
Alexander said charges
are pending against Denise
Logue once the results of
blood alcohol tests come in.
She will be charged “at
least with vehicular homi
cide and the traffic charges,”
he said.
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we call the straight eights.”
While the shelter is closed,
no animals can be taken in
or let out. The only excep
tion is aggressive or injured
animals. All other callers
are told the shelter is under
quarantine.
She said Animal Control
officers can respond to talk
with complainants.
Earlier this month Parks-
Mathern presented the city
council with a floor plan for
the pawn of the Democratic
Party and willing to do their
bidding even after he’s lost
repeatedly.”
The complaint alleges that
state Rep. Larry O’Neal, a
Warner Robins Republican,
misused his elected office to
benefit Perdue, his client.
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The overall cost is estimated
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“The new design,” she
said, “should assist with pre
vention of parvo. We don’t
have those options here.”
A possible location for the
new shelter is on the Corder
Road extension, if a usable
tract can be located on the
old city landfill site. There is
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It centered on a sweeping
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The current site has 36
pens for dogs, which are
packed all the time as the
shelter takes in animals
from the city, Robins Air
Force Base, Centerville and
the county.
The initial plans call for 80
pens, “still not nearly what
we need,” Parks-Mathern
told city council. “We need
to look at the future, not just
build for today.”
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