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TOLER
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Toler’s brother operates
Toler’s Body Shop, which
was opened by his father
when he left the Air Force.
Dr. William Toler has two
children, a son Brian, and a
daughter, Erin Minyard.
“We did a lot of traveling
while my father was in the
Air Force and I was in the
Army, but I always consid
ered Warner Robins home,”
Toler said in a recent inter
view.
Erin brings us around to
the reason why Toler decid
ed to build a new office.
“My daughter has applied
to dental school at Medical
College of Georgia and she
has expressed an interest in
returning here after gradua
tion and going into practice
with me,” said the proud
father. “I knew I would need
a bigger office when that
happened and interest rates
were right, so 1 went ahead
and built the new place.”
The new office has all of
the newest high-tech good
ies, but dearest to Toler’s
MARSHALL
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National Guard unit, which
is training the Afghani
army, and the reports he has
received are positive.
“The morale of the
Afghani army is great as is
the morale of our troops
who are training them,” he
said. “The Afghani people
have welcomed us with open
arms and that is reflected in
the morale of our troops
here. An awful lot of
progress is being made there
and that reflects well on our
TOLLESON
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grandchildren.”
The Senate Natural
Resources Committee
reviews all legislation per
taining to hunting and fish
ing, water pollution,
forestry, landfills and other
topics that pertain to nature
or the environment.
“Sen. Tolleson has been
tremendously dedicated to
his position as the Natural
Resources and Environment
chairman,” Johnson said.
“He had some mighty big
shoes to fill when he
replaced the esteemed Hugh
Gillis, who was the longest
HEAD
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Warner Robins Beautiful
1999-2002, and chairman of
the Middle Georgia
Technical College board in
2001. He was a board mem
ber of Middle Georgia
Technical College from
1994-2003, and at the
Hospital Authority of
Houston County from 1993-
2001.
He is currently an
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heart is the big open area
that is waiting to be filled
with patient chairs - or
operatories, as they are
known in the trade - when
his daughter arrives.
Toler currently has six
employees working with
him. He has two dental
hygienists, two dental assis
tants, and two office work
ers. His wife Elizabeth
serves as office manager.
The new office has five
patient operatories. The
operatories are built around
a new ADEC Central
Cabinet system that is state
of the art. Toler is the only
dentist south of Atlanta who
has the new system, which
uses central dividers instead
of walls to separate the oper
atories from one another.
The new office also uses a
new digital X-ray system,
which cuts down on the
amount of radiation patients
must endure to have their
teeth examined. The system
uses an electronic card
instead of film to capture
the X-ray. The card is then
country.”
Marshall admitted that
there is still a serious opium
problem in Afghanistan.
“The estimates I have
received are that 87 percent
of all opium grown in the
world is grown in
Afghanistan,” he said. “I am
told that there are 400 hero
in production sites here and
that half of the nation’s
economy comes from the
production of heroin.”
Marshall praised the
Afghan government for real-
-serving senator in Georgia’s
history. Ross hit the ground
running, and already has
done a tremendous amount
of work. He will be an asset
to this committee, and as
such, to the people of his dis
trict.”
Tolleson also will serve as
vice chairman of the Senate
Veterans and Military
Affairs Committee, and is a
member of the powerful
Senate Appropriations
Committee, where he will
lead the Natural Resources
subcommittee; the Senate
Public Safety and Homeland
Security Committee; and
Optimist Volunteer Mentor
at Pearl Stephens
Elementary School and a
board member in the
Houston County Certified
Literate Community
Program (CLCP) and
HODAC. He serves the
Salvation Army Advisory
Council, the Northside High
School Booster Club, and is
a coach in the Warner
Robins Recreation
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read by a computer and
placed in the patient’s file.
The computer can read the
X-ray just like it would a
regular X-ray but the digital
file can be enlarged and
manipulated like any other
electronic image.
“We are always trying to
find a better way of doing
things,” said Toler. “These
new X-rays can be emailed
to other dentists, and just
make things must easier to
handle.”
The new office also has an
ADEC sterilization and
hands-free drying system
that insures there is no
cross-contamination of
instruments. Toler is one of
the first dentists in the
United States to have this
new system.
The new office also boasts
a rest area for the employ
ees, which Toler said “was
the one thing they demand
ed I have in the new office.”
He said several of his
patients have toured the
new office and “their
response has been 100 per-
izing that opium production,
will eventually destroy the
nation if it continues
unchecked.
“They are committed to
stopping the problem,” he
said. “The Afghan govern
ment and the U.S. are work
ing on a system to provide
alternative livelihoods for
the farmers who grow the
opium. Pakistan was able to
eliminate their opium prob
lem in 15 years and if they
do it Afghanistan can as
the Senate Insurance and
Labor Committee.
Members of the Senate
Natural Resources and
Environment Committee
include: Sen. John Bulloch
(R-Ochlocknee), Sen. Ralph
Hudgens (R-Comer), Sen.
Casey Cagle (R-Gainesville),
Sen. Jack Hill (R-
Reidsville), Sen. Steve
Henson (D-Tucker), Sen.
George Hooks (D-
Americus), Sen. Michael
Meyer von Bremen (D-
Albany), Sen. Terrell Starr
(D-Jonesboro), Sen. Dan
Weber (R-Dunwoody) and
Sen. Jim Whitehead (R-
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As a part of his education,
Head attended Warner
Robins High School, and
Central Georgia Technical
College. He and his family
attend Little Bethel Baptist
Church where he is chair
man of the Deacon Board.
He will represent Area VII,
the municipality of Warner
Robins (one of three board
representatives).
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Dr. Wiliam Toler shows off the new instrument disinfectant and sterilization equipment
at his new office.
cent positive.”
With his new office ready
to open and a daughter to
join the practice in a few
well.”
Marshall, who was flying
in a C-130 aircraft, also said
he is working to ensure that
production of the aircraft,
vital to the economy of
Middle Georgia, will contin
ue.
“The C-130 is constructed
and maintained in Middle
Georgia and it has a sub
stantial economic impact on
the region,” he said. “It is a
great plane and we should
continue building them.
Evans). Eric Johnson serves
the Committee in an ex-offi
cio capacity.
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years, Toler said he has no
plans on leaving the dental
profession in the near
future.
“I have joined with other
Congressmen in sending a
letter to the secretary of
defense outlining the impor
tance of the C-130 to the
country. I have also talked to
representatives of
Lockheed-Martin and the
air base at Warner Robins.
The appropriation process
has not yet begun so it will
take from six to eight
months to see how this
process works out and what
the effects will be.”
Tolleson represents the
20th Senate District, which
includes Houston County.
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“I guess that I will keep
going until I collapse over
one of the chairs,” he said
with a grin.
Marshall said he would do
all he can to help the nation
al guardsmen deployed to
Iraq from Middle Georgia.
“Anything I or my office
can do to help them and
their family members we
will do,” he said. “The 48th
will serve admirably and I
will help all I can.”
Marshall flies to Iraq on
Sunday and will spend
Monday in Kuwait before
flying back to the United
States on Tuesday.
He may be reached at (404)
463-8056 or
rtolleso@legis.state.ga.us.
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