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HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL
VA outreach clinic opens in Perry
By KRYSTAL RINER
Journal Staff Writer
Veterans will no long have
to travel to Dublin for medi
cal services. The Carl Vinson
VA Medical Center in Dublin
opened a VA outreach clinic
in Perry on Monday.
The clinic offers primary
care, mental health, and
diabetic care to patients.
According to Janine
Cameron, PAO of the Dublin
Clinic, upcoming services in
Perry are optometry and
podiatry.
About 200 veterans have
come through the doors of
the new Perry clinic this
week. Visits varied from flu
shots to check-ups. Around
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402nd Maintenance Wing
on base, the 330th Aircraft
Sustainment Wing, 78th Air
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Global Logistics Support
Center.
Breakout sessions included
a host of items/issues: Robins
AFB Energy Programs,
High Velocity Maintenance,
Bonded Repair Technologies,
Market Research ad Vendor
Tips, Technology Insertion
and on and on (52 in all with
some repeated).
Warner Robins ALC
Commander Maj. Gen. Polly
Peyer also helped get the
event started.
She first gave a history les
son on the name of Warner
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13,000 veterans were sent
letters about the Perry VA
Outreach clinic, as they are
enrolled for VA care in the
Houston and surrounding
counties.
The VA outreach clinic
is located at 2370 Houston
Lake Road in Kathleen. VA
Outreach Clinics offer the
same services as an outpa
tient clinic, but they operate
on less than 40 hours a week
and are normally located in
a more rural environment.
There are several eligibil
ity requirements for vet
erans to be served at the
clinic. The scale of eligibility
goes from one to eight. The
requirements extend from
the type of care you need
Robins, in particular how
the city voted to change its
name to Warner Robins so
that they could name the
base after the city. (At the
time there was a law a base
had to be named after the
city and the city at that time
was the familiar “Wellston”.
The base commander at the
time, 1942, wanted it named
after a mentor he felt really
under what logistics, the
base’s heritage as you know,
really meant.)
“That really truly shows
the commitment the com
munity has toward this
base,” she said.
She also talked about the
base’s structure/organiza
tion - its units and missions
- and other things like sus
tainability and the impor
tance of the G-RAMP proj
For an application,
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based on your service to, if
other insurance is obtained.
“We serve veterans of
all ages,” Cameron said.
“Currently we are seeing
around 20 -25 vets from the
war in Iraq each week.”
In addition to opening
the Perry Outreach Clinic,
plans are in progress to open
a VA outpatient center in
Brunswick and Milledgeville
by October 2009.
“The new clinics will fur
ther enhance the VA’s abil
ity to provide outstanding
service to Georgia veterans.
Our top priority is to ensure
we take care of the veterans
who have dedicated their
lives to serving our country,”
said Cameron.
ect. She also talked about
Robins Air Force Base’s
future.
“The Air Force has new
leadership,” she said. “So
we have been very cogni
zant of how the Air Force is
reshaping its force and its
mission.
“It’s not a dramatic
change. It certainly is very
similar to what our mis
sion has always been: To
fly, fight and win in airspace
and now cyberspace. That
hasn’t changed much. But
our new chief has developed
five focus areas and all five
of those focus areas ... I’ll
not go into those ... But rest
assured as Robins Air Force
Base goes into the future,
we are linked very tightly
to where the Air Force is
going.”
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organizations such as
FOPAS, and donations from
animal lovers.
On Tuesday, the Perry City
Council voted to approve
Phase I of the project, which
will be the $90,000 dog
adoption center, and will be
funded by state grants and
private donations.
Cosey said that they also
expect to have in-kind work
donations, and that advo
cacy groups will be raising
more funds for the project in
the months ahead.
Because the adoption
center is likely to be built
before work is done on the
long-awaited Ball Street
Extension, it will initially
have a gravel temporary
entry road.
In other business, the
Council voted on two
requests for special excep
tions that faced some objec
tion and argument before
being passed.
Councilman Joe Kusar was
the holdout on a request by
Carden Summers of Prime
Locations to move a bill
board currently located in
front of Utility Services on
Courtney Hodges Blvd. 100
ft. south to a location owned
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by Clarence Little. Summers
has been turned down for
this request before and the
Perry Planning Commission
had recommended denial of
the request.
The moving of the bill
board has been a bone of
contention because of the
fact the city has voted
not to have billboards on
Courtney Hodges, but this
one, already in place, was
“grandfathered” in.
Summers said, “I’m try
ing to be a good guy and
move it 100 feet to allow
Utility Services to expand
its facility. All I’m trying to
do is relocate the sign.”
Summers noted that he
has contributed space on
the sign to United Way,
Goodwill and the Georgia
National Fairgrounds, and
said that the moving of the
sign to Little’s property
would not change the looks
of the sign.
Councilman Kusar said,
“I’d really be in favor of
your moving it to Unadilla.”
He essentially argued as
he has in the past, that no
accommodations be made in
the hope that the billboard
will be removed entirely at
some pojnt.
Kusar made a motion to
deny the request, which
Councilman James Moore
1509 Sam Nunn Blvd
Next to Raceway @ 1-75
seconded, as he put it, so
that it could be discussed.
After some discussion, the
vote was called and Kusar
was the only one voting for
it. A motion was then made
to grant Summers’ request
and was voted through, with
Kusar casting the opposing
vote.
Also causing some argu
ment was a request by
Danielle and Ed Bodony to
allow a residential business
- a photography studio - in
a home at 1207 Swift Street.
The Planning Commission
had approved this request
with the provision that
parking be limited to the
backyard and that the busi
ness sign be no larger than
two square feet in size.
Melissa Baker, a Swift
Street resident objected
on the basis that Danielle
Bodony was not living in the
house, which is the speci
fication for that historic
neighborhood. Bodony said
that she IS living in the
house, which she is renting
from Edward and Katherine
Blount, but did not plan to
move her family into the
house from her other resi
dence until the exception
had been approved. The
council voted to approve the
exception.
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