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WEDNESDAY
January 12, 2005
Volume 135, Number 263
Award-Winning
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2004
Belter Newspaper
Contest
Inside TODAY
Mushrooms aren't just
a gourmet treat. They'
re the dieter's friend
With only three grams
of carbohydrates and 20
calories per serving,
mushrooms are one of the
gourmet dieter’s best
friends.
And, as Chef George
Stella puts it, “They’re a
great \vay to round out a
dish without rounding
out your figure.”
Stella, who is the star of
the Food Network’s new
series, “Low Carb and
Lovin’ It,” even recom
mends using mushrooms
instead of beans in chili
For everything you ever
wanted to know about
mushrooms, plus more
mushroom recipes, visit
www.mushroominfo.com.
And in the meantime,
try some of these creative
recipes.
HEARTH&HOME, page 6A
CORRECTION
The Harry Potter trivia
contest at the Nola
Brantley Library was
held on Tuesday night,
and is not scheduled for
tonight as reported. The
HHJ regrets the error.
Happy BIRTHDAY?
Heather Buck
Justin Hardy
Laßue Irwin
Shirley Spencer
Eugene E. Willis Sr.
Area DEATHS
Hazel H. Moore
Debra Stewart
Carlton Wayne Wallace
Obits, page 2A
INDEX
CLASSIFIED 5B
COMICS 4B
CROSSWORD 4B
HEARTH&HOME . .6A
OBITUARIES 2A
OPINION 4A
SCHOOL NEWS .. .8A
TV LISTINGS 4B
WEATHER 2A
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WR rep. named committee chair
Also, GOP’s Ehrhart will chair powerful House Rules Committee
By DICK PETTYS
AP Political Writer
ATLANTA - Rep. Larry O’Neal, R-
Warner Robins will chair the tax-writ
ing House Ways and Means
Committee.
O’Neal has served as the governor’s
House floor leader for the past two
years.
The Warner Robins attorney was one
of many Republican leaders assigned
Monday night to chair Georgia House
committees.
Cobb County Rep. Earl Ehrhart
drew the plum assignment: He will
head a beefed-up House Rules
The flu
shots
are
here
By RAY LIGHTNER
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - The
Houston County Health
Department has 9,000 flu
shots available for adults,
but people are asked to call
and make an appointment
to get the shot.
The Health Department is
using Centers For Disease
Control guidelines as to who
gets the shots - those 50 and
older, those with diminished
immune systems and
healthcare providers.
See FLU, page 3A
Where are all the school custodians?
Houston'County School System shifts to streamlined ‘team cleaning’ strategy
By TERESA D. SOUTHERN
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS - Notice
something different around area
schools? Perhaps it’s the absence of
many school custodians, but cleaner
buildings. How?
Cecil Parker, director of mainte
nance for the Houston County
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Committee which will overshadow all
other House committees.
Rep. Ben Harbin of Evans got anoth
er key post - chairman 01 the House
Appropriations Committee, advancing
over Rep. Don Parsons of Marietta,
who had been the senior Republican on
the budget-writing panel when
Democrats ran the show.
Parsons was made one of six vice
chairmen of the committee.
The decisions were announced just
before midnight Monday by Speaker
Glenn Richardson.
Ehrhart, 45, has served in the
Legislature since 1988. A single father
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The driver of a CCC truck hauling 50,000 pounds of cement powder cut his turn short and ended up in the ditch
about 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. The accident required southbound traffic be rerouted at Booth Road and had northbound
traffic down to one lane.
Board of Education, answered this
question in the board’s work session
Monday night.
He has implemented a “team
cleaning” strategy. Instead of custo
dians being assigned one wing or
area of a school to clean, now one
custodian does all floor mainte
nance, while another does all bath
rooms and another does all class
room maintenance.
While drafting this policy it was
also realized that more cleaning can
be done while students are not at
school.
As a result, about half of all custo
dial staff has been moved to night
shift.
No stopping Hazel
Friends, coworkers celebrate nurse’s 60'year career
By TIMOTHY GRAHAM
HHJ Staff Writer
WARNER ROBINS -
Hazel Colson was honored
this week for 60 years in the
nursing profession by her
compatriots at Hospice of
Houston County.
It was a celebration, not a
retirement party, because
Colson has no plans of ever
retiring from being a nurse.
“Why would I want to
retire from something I
love?” said Colson.
One of those honoring
Colson was the Rev. Sidney
Odom, who shared some of
his memories with a large
group of people on hand to
wish her well. ,
“She was always positive
and had good things to say
about people,” Odom said.
“Hazel is a nurse among
nurses. I appreciate all nurs
es because they are the ones
of two, he has used his position in the
Legislature, among other things, to
fight for father’s rights. When
Republicans were in the minority, he
used a sharp tongue to frequently rail
against alleged Democratic abuses.
He has pushed a “defense of
Scouting” bill to prevent governments
from discriminating against Scouting
groups for refusing membership to
gays, and he has vowed legislation to
prevent what he called the “liberal pol
icy makers” of Atlanta from enforcing
a fine against a private country club
for excluding gays.
See COMMITTEES, page 3A
who train doctors.
The minister recalled how
he met Colson in 1985 when
he became the chaplain for
Hospice.
“We laughed, cried, and
prayed together,” Odom
said.
Colson was born in
Wilkinson County and
became a certified nurse in
1945, when she was only 17
years old. She moved to
Macon in 1950 and worked
at Mercy Hospital, and then
moved to Warner Robins in
1952. Colson joined Hospice
in 1985.
“I always knew I would be
a nurse,” Colson said. “I saw
my first nurse in first grade
and I thought she was the
prettiest thing there ever
was.”
Colson had the healing
spirit at an early age.
“When I was 5 years old
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LARRY O'NEAL
Custodians will now begin a stag
gered schedule beginning with the
first one reporting at 11 a.m. and
shifts continuing to come in
throughout the rest of the evening.
This will allow less work to be done
more efficiently and will require less
cleaning equipment to be purchased
See BOE, page 3A
my dad ran over my dog Jip
in his wagon and broke his
leg,” Colson said. “I used
two pieces of wood to splint
it. It grew out crooked, but
the break was healed.”
Colson said that nursing
has changed a lot in the past
60 years.
“When I started out there
were no disposable gloves or
syringes,” she said. “You
just washed and boiled the
syringes after each use, and
we only used gloves when
we were performing sur
gery.”
One thing that hasn’t
changed is the people.
“People are people, and in
this profession you meet all
kinds,” Colson said. “In my
line of work they know why
I am there and they are
more open with me than
they would ordinarily be.”
See HAZEL, page 3A
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