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Victor Kulkosky
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Billy Powell
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SEPTEMBER 2007
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Kay Center gears up for world competitio
By Brian Shreve
News Editor
This morning, the folks at Kay Center loaded up for
yet another day of unflagging service in and around
Peach County.
Even earlier, they routinely gathered to make the
final preparations they’ll use to take on the world.
Living proof that hard work pays off, Kay Center
athletes will soon take the international stage via the
2007 Special Olympics World Games, which will take
place Oct. 2 - 11 in Shanghai, China.
As with the traditional Olympic World Games, this
version of the contests consists of both a winter and
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Hospital talks numbers, delay
By Brian Shreve
News Editor
Two weeks ago, personnel of Peach Regional Medical
Center gathered for a celebratory sign unveiling which
indicated the future home of a new, highly debated
hospital.
Construction of a facility to accompany that sign will
have to wait another six months, however, in order to
secure funds for the $25 million endeavor, hospital offi¬
cials announced during the authority’s regular meeting
last Thursday.
After winning the first round of the battle for a new
hospital earlier this year, PRMC now turns its attention
toward the acquisition of funding from the U.S. Dept,
of Housing and Urban Development, a process which
remains in limbo.
PRMC pre-applied for federal funding in January,
before the hospital was notified in May that its certificate
of need application had been approved by the Georgia
Dept, of Community Health. Hospital administrator
Nancy Peed said a Final application for funding could not
be submitted to HUD until the CON had been approved.
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summer games, each played once every four years.
And like their Olympic counterparts, Todd Youngblood
said these athletes have come a long way to get to the
global arena.
“This is the big time,” said Youngblood, executive
director of Kay Center. “This is the opportunity you
have once you’ve competed at the state and national
levels.”
From the state of Georgia, only five athletes will
compete at such an envious level; and yes, three of
those five are Peach County natives whose skills were
cultivated right here at Fort Valley s Kay Community
Service Center, a workshop for adults with develop
mental disabilities.
Basically we were waiting for our CON,” Peed said.
U And they [HUD] knew ours was being contested,
which made them doubly careful. »*
Now, hospital officials are planning a re-submitted
request for funding, another step in the push for a new
hospital located at Ga. 247 Connector and John E.
Sullivan Road, a facility the authority hopes to have
constructed by June of 2009.
41 It’s just going to take a little more time,” Peed
said. “Delays have been the name of the game for this
project, so a few more months is not going to hurt.”
Noticeably absent from Thursday’s meeting was
Kelsey Johnson, President of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference’s Fort Valley chapter. During
last month’s hospital authority meeting—his second
such appearance in as many months—the pastor
addressed with questions he said still worried many
Fort Valley residents, particularly those concerning
what sort of in-town healthcare facility would remain
once the hospital is moved.
The authority is expected to address those concerns
during a strategic planning session scheduled for
Wednesday, Sept. 19.
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Kay Center athlete
Sammy Lewis.
Photo: Brian Shrove
Competing in the pentathlon will be Sammy Lewis,
while Patrice Lockhart and Wanda Jones go for the
gold in bocce—an Italian game best described as a
cross between boiling and shuffleboard. Together,
these three consum
ers (as they are called see Games pg. 4B
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