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VOLUME 137, NUMBER 37
BELOW THE FOLD:
Friday
February 23, 2007
The Home Journal’s
FRONT
PORCH
IN BRIEF
HC Board of Health
sets meeting date
The Houston County Board
of Health will meet at noon
Thursday in the conference room
at the Houston County Health
Department, which is located at
98 Cohen Walker Drive in Warner
Robins.
Red Cross to offer
free CPR classes
To celebrate “March is Red
Cross Month," the Houston-Middle
Georgia Chapter of the American
Red Cross is holding its annual
"CPR Saturday" March 24. This
day, according to a release, is set
aside to increase CPR awareness
in the community. The Houston-
Middle Georgia Chapter will be
offering two free infant/child CPR
classes to the public. Class times
are 8 a.m. and noon. Participants
must call the Red Cross office at
478-923-6332 to put their name
on the list to attend.
Linwood to hold
School Council meet
Linwood Elementary school will
hold a School Council meeting
April 10 at 6 p.m. in the Media
Center. The agenda includes: Call
to order, moment of reflection,
Pledge of Allegiance, approval
of agenda, approval of minutes
from January, recognition ot visi
tors, old business and new busi
ness. New business includes:
Progress on school improvement
plan and reports on school pro
grams/events. Call 478-929-6360
for more.
‘The 9 Body System’
class to be offered
Beginning the first Saturday
in April, Natural Therapies owner,
Rosemary Foster, will be conduct
ing “The 9 Body System" Class,
continuing for eight more months
- one Saturday of each month.
There is limited space. Call 922-
3316 for more information or to
sign up.
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LEGAL ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY,
city of Perry, city of Warner Robins and city of Centerville
State adds immunization requirements INSIDE: Houston Healthcare to host second annual 5K rhythm run
WR moves closer to new animal
Approves $4,500 for blueprint
By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
Warner Robins is one step
closer to a new animal shel
ter.
“We’ll take a giant
step toward that,” City
Councilman Steve Smith
said, making the motion
Tuesday to approve spend
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Al Tucker holds his little sister Elle Tucker during the cow milking experience/opportunity held at the Houston
County High School farm Feb. 14.
State DHR adds immunization requirements
Special to the Journal
In an effort to reduce childhood
preventable diseases in Georgia that
are preventable by requiring recom
mended immunizations, the Georgia
Department of Human Resources
Board, according to a release from the
organization, has approved additions
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Contributed/Gary Johnson
This large flock of Sandhill Cranes was spied in Perry Tuesday by Gary Johnson on his way home from work. “It
was a fantastic sight,” he said. “So I called my wife, told her to get the kids in the car ASAP, and I’d be home fm
two minutes. We all scrambled back to the intersection, praying they would still be there when we got there. There
they were, about 40 beautiful birds, walking about very slowly and methodically. ”
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ing $4,500 to pay for a work
ing set of construction docu
ments.
The money will go to
Jessica Albert, a student
from Savannah College of
Art and Design, who drew up
the initial plans presented to
council earlier this month.
She graduates in May, said
Animal Control Director
Farmer in the Elle
to these requirements for children
and adolescents.
Effective July 1, all children
attending childcare, Pre-K, Head
Start and school facilities must be
vaccinated according to the immu
nization schedules approved by the
Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices, the American Academy of
Brenda Parks-Mathern, and
will provide the blueprints
and working plans for the
much-needed new facility.
“There’s no question she
will be an engineer,” Mayor
Donald Walker said. “1
would pay five times what
she offered to get the plans
elsewhere.”
Walker said Albert can
work with the city’s engi
neer on the plans and the
city engineer can sign off
Pediatrics and the American Academy
of Family Physicians.
“The new immunization require
ments provide greater protection
of Georgia’s children against those
diseases that are proven to be pre
vented by vaccine and help parents
to protect their children’s health,”
/ See ADDS, page 6A
on them. Earlier this month
Parks-Mathern presented
the city council with the
plans for a new building in a
pod formation, which allows
for future expansion. The
overall cost is estimated at
$350,000 to $400,000.
The initial plans call for
80 pens. There are only 36
now and they are packed
all the time as the shelter
takes in animals from the
city, Robins Air Force Base,
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Centerville and the county.
“The new design,”
she said, “should assist
with prevention of parvo.
We don’t have those options
here.”
The current shelter was
quarantined 16 times last
year and once so far this
year, usually for parvo.
The reoccurring prob
lem, she said, is because of
the design of the shelter,
See SHELTER, page 6A
The Kohl hard facts
City clarifies
earlier action
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By RAY LIGHTNER
Journal Staff Writer
So as not to interfere with
the Kohl’s/Best Buy/Kroger
development, Warner Robins
City Council released the
city’s claims on any rights of
way or easements within the
30.593-acre tract.
“If I don’t give the deed
to Kohl’s broker the deal
won’t close,” Mayor Donald
Walker said. “It will go to
Centerville.”
Walker added: “Years of
work have been invested in
getting this done” - bringing
Kohl’s to Warner Robins.
“We need them (the devel
opment) for the franchise
fees, the utilities and the
jobs it will provide.”
The developers also want
the deal, Walker noted, pay
ing the same amount for
the adjacent retention pond
as they paid for the 30-acre
tract. The proposed develop
ment includes Kohl’s, Best
Buy and Kroger - which
would be moving from across
the street.
In December, the city
council abandoned the right
of way to a road proposed
for the site between Toys R
Us and Outback on Watson
Boulevard - a right of way
the city never owned, Walker
said.
“I’m sure the city never
owned it. The right of way
for the road was never con
veyed to the city,” Walker
said. “The road only ever
existed on the plat.”
Tuesday’s action also
included a quit-claim deed
for the city’s utility ease
ment for the gas line, which
has been relocated. “We’re
moving the utility easement,
we’re moving the city gas
line.”
Walker said the action
allows the sale to close,
See CLARIFIES, page 6A
HC commissioners
make appointments
By NANCY HA WK
Journal Staff Writer
The Houston County com
missioners meeting opened
with a bit of healthy debate
Tuesday.
Maurice Braswell speak
ing to the commission
ers concerning impact fees
versus the Special Purpose
Local Option Sales Tax plan
fund contended that it was
in the best interest of the
county for them to look into
using impact fees instead of
See APPOINTMENTS, page (A