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Today's Weather
Local 5-Day Forecast
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86/71
Showers and a few
thunderstorms likely.
High 86F. Winds
light and variable.
Sunrise Sunset
6:31 AM 8:46 PM
Georgia At A Glance
1 86/68 q J^^Augusta
Warner Robinsl
V 1* \ \ Savannah
y ( Petty \ 87/74
Valdosta
Area Cities
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Albany 88 73 t-storm
Athens 83 68 t-storm
Atlanta 86 68 t-storm
Augusta 84 72 t-storm
Bainbridge 88 74 t-storm
Brunswick 87 75 t-storm
Cartersville 88 68 t-storm
Chattanooga,TN 84 67 t-storm
Columbus 88 71 t-storm
Cordele 88 73 t-storm
National Cities
Boston 82 68 rain
Chicago 93 74 pt sunny
Dallas 101 80 sunny
Denver 84 56 t-storm
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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
(To submit your event for the
Community Calendar, fax the
details to (478) 988-1181, e-mail
to hhj@evansnewspapers.com
or mail to Houston Home
Journal, P.O. Box 1910, Perry,
GA 31069.)
Today
• Centerville Senior Care
meets 9 a.m. each Wednesday
at Centerville City Hall for exer
cise class featuring strength and
flexibility stretching led by a cer
tified instructor. All exercise par
ticipants must provide a signed
Physician Referral Form from
their doctor. 988-1813.
• Perry Senior Care meets
9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Rozar
Park for exercise class featuring
strength and flexibility stretch
ing. PVO Bingo immediately fol
lows exercise. All exercise par
ticipants must provide a signed
Physician Referral Form from
their doctor. 988-1813.
• The Warner Robins Area
Chamber of Commerce will host
a “Lunch and Learn” training
seminar on “The HIPAA
Hammer,” presented by the law
firm of Constangy, Brooks and
Smith LLC. The seminar, which
begins at 11 a.m. and will be
completed by 1 p.m., will be held
in the chamber boardroom at
1420 Watson Blvd. Admission is
limited to chamber members
and attendees are asked to
bring their own lunch.
• Robins Duplicate Bridge
Club meets every Wednesday at
1 p.m. at 151 Maple St. Ruth B.
Suggs, (478) 923-4574; or
Gerald Peavy, (478) 922-0943.
• The Department of
Community Affairs Home Buyers
workshop, sponsored by Middle
Georgia Community Action
Agency and Heart of Georgia,
will be held from 6-9 p.m. at the
Neighborhood Service Center,
1112 S. Davis Drive, Warner
Robins. Refreshments will be
served. Pre-register to Tamara
Jackson, (800) 422-9063.
• A free pre-Independence
Day karaoke/DJ event spon
sored by LaKaye Karaoke and
DJ Service will begin at 8 p.m. at
2515 Moody Road. Open to the
public. 396-6805.
Thursday, June 30
• Robins Duplicate Bridge
Club meets every Thursday at
7:15 p.m. at 151 Maple St. Ruth
B. Suggs, (478) 923-4574; or
Gerald Peavy, (478) 922-0943.
Fri
7/1
92/72
Scattered thunder
storms possible.
Sunrise Sunset
6:31 AM 8:46 PM
6730
93/72
Isolated thunder
storms. Highs in the
low 90s and lows in
the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
6:31 AM 8:46 PM
| City Hi Lo Cond. |
Dalton 88 69 t-storm
Dillard 80 62 t-storm
Dublin 87 70 t-storm
Duluth 85 67 t-storm
Gainesville 84 68 t-storm
Helen 84 65 t-storm
Lagrange 86 68 t-storm
Macon 86 70 t-storm
Marietta 85 67 t-storm
Milledgeville 84 69 t-storm
| City Hi Lo Cond. |
Los Angeles 78 61 mst sunny
Miami 89 79 t-storm
Minneapolis 88 67 t-storm
New York 83 73 rain
Friday, July 1
• Cochran Motor Speedway’s
Military Appreciation Shoot-Out
kicks off with open practice from
7-10 p.m. Gates open at 6 p.m.
(478) 934-4470 or
www. coch ranmotorspeedway. co
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• Robins Duplicate Bridge
Club offers “Introduction to
Duplicate Bridge” at 12:30 p.m.
every Friday except the second
Friday of each month at 151
Maple St. Ruth B. Suggs, (478)
923-4574; or Gerald Peavy,
(478) 922-0943.
Saturday, July 2
• The Perry Farmers Market is
open from 8 a.m. until noon at
the intersection of Commerce
and Washington streets.
• The annual BIG • BANG •
BOOM Independence Day cele
bration, featuring the largest fire
works display in the area and
one of the largest displays in the
Southeast, will be held at the
Georgia National Fairgrounds
and Agricenter. Admission is
free. Gates open at 6 p.m.
Fireworks will go off at approxi
mately 9:30 p.m. Attendees are
encouraged to bring blankets
and lawn chairs and to arrive
early. Coolers are permitted and
subject to search; pets, glass
containers and alcohol will not
be allowed. There will be food
for sale and some free local
entertainment including Ceylon
Bleu.
• Cochran Motor Speedway’s
Military Appreciation Shoot-Out
continues from 7-10 p.m. Gates
open at 6 p.m. (478) 934-4470
or www.cochranmotorspeed
way.com
Sunday, July 3
• Robins Duplicate Bridge
Club offers lessons every
Sunday from 3-5 p.m. at 151
Maple St. Ruth B. Suggs, (478)
923-4574; or Gerald Peavy,
(478) 922-0943.
• Cochran Motor Speedway’s
Military Appreciation Shoot-Out
continues. (478) 934-4470 or
www.cochranmotorspeedway.co
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Monday, July 4
• Take Off Pounds Sensibly
(T.0.P.5.) meets each Monday
at Centerville First United
Methodist Church, 101 Wilson
Drive, Centerville. Weigh-in at 9
a.m.; meeting 9:30 a.m. Day
care available. 987-9959 or 922-
0291.
LOCAL
Sat
7/2
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91/71
Scattered thunder
storms. Highs in the
low 90s and lows in
the low 70s.
Sunrise Sunset
6:32 AM 8:46 PM
Sun
■7/0
fro
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88/69
Partly cloudy,
chance of a thunder
storm.
Sunrise Sunset
6:32 AM 8:46 PM
Moon Phases
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Last New
Jun 28 Jul 6
First Full
Jul 14 Jul 21
UV Index
Wed 6/29 W\ High
Thu 6/30 H Extreme
Fri 7/1 H Extreme
Sat 7/2 m j Extreme
Sun 7/3 ■ Very High
The UV Index is measured on a 0-11
number scale, with a higher UV Index
showing the need for greater skin pro
tection. 0 ■■MMBII
[City Hi Lo Cond
Peachtree City 86 66 t-storm
Perry 86 71 t-storm
Rome 90 69 t-storm
Savannah 87 74 t-storm
St. Simons Islandß7 75 t-storm
Statesboro 86 74 t-storm
Thomasville 87 74 t-storm
Valdosta 85 73 t-storm
Warner Robins 84 70 t-storm
Waycross 88 72 t-storm
| City Hi Lo Cond
Phoenix 111 83 sunny
San Francisco 77 57 mst sunny
Seattle 75 58 pt sunny
St. Louis 99 79 sunny
Washington, DC 84 71 t-storm
• Centerville Senior Care
meets 9 a.m. each Monday at
Centerville City Hall for exercise
class featuring strength and flex
ibility stretching led by a certified
instructor. All exercise partici
pants must provide a signed
Physician Referral Form from
their doctor. 988-1813.
• Perry Senior Care meets 10
a.m. every Monday at Rozar
Park for exercise class featuring
strength and flexibility stretch
ing. All exercise participants
must provide a signed Physician
Referral Form from their doctor.
988-1813.
• Take Off Pounds Sensibly
(T.0.P.5.) meets each Monday
at the Bonaire First Baptist
Church, 142 W. Ga. 96, Bonaire.
Weigh-in from 6-6:30 p.m.;
meeting 6:30-7 p.m. Heather,
922- or Jeneal, 922-0384.
• Robins Duplicate Bridge
Club offers newcomers games
every Monday at 7 p.m. at 151
Maple St. Ruth B. Suggs, (478)
923- or Gerald Peavy,
(478) 922-0943.
Tuesday, July 5
• Warner Robins Senior Care
meets 9 a.m. each Tuesday at
the Houston County YMCA (cor
ner of Ga. 96 and Moody Road -
922-2566) for exercise class
featuring strength and flexibility
stretching led by a certified
instructor. All exercise partici
pants must provide a signed
Physician Referral Form from
their doctor. 988-1813.
• The Houston County Board
of Elections will meet at 5:30
p.m. at the Board of Elections
Office, 732 Main St., Perry.
• The Ocmulgee Chapter,
Sons of the American Revolution
(S.A.R.) meets at 6:30 p.m. the
first Tuesday of each month at
the Blue Plate Restaurant in
Macon. Visitors welcome.
Darrell Johnson, (706) 647-
3919.
• Robins Duplicate Bridge
Club meets every Tuesday at
7:15 p.m. at 151 Maple St. Ruth
B. Suggs, (478) 923-4574; or
Gerald Peavy, (478) 922-0943.
Saturday, July 9
• The Navy Seabee Veterans
of America will hold its monthly
meeting. All Seabee veterans
are invited to attend. Wives are
included. The Seabees’ meeting
is held the second Saturday of
each month. Jack McGreggor,
secretary, (478) 788-6639.
GUY WHELESS
WARNER ROBINS - Guy Wheless, 78,
passed away Sunday, June 26, 2005, in Macon.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m.
Wednesday (TODAY) in the Parkway
Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Visitation was
from 6 until 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Wheless was bom in Oglethorpe County to the late
Joseph David and Gladys Black Wheless. He began his
career at Robins Air Force Base when the base was started.
He helped form and build the runways that are there today.
He retired from the security division at Robins Air Force
Base after 34 years of employment. His real love was using
his hands to build and work in carpentry. He loved to help
people. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather and
great-grandfather. Wheless was a veteran of the Army Air
Corps.
Survivors include his wife, Nellie S. Wheless of Warner
Robins; daughter, Kay W. Barnes of Libum; son, David O.
Wheless of San Antonio, Texas; brothers, James Wheless of
Atlanta, Grady Wheless and Kline Wheless, both of
Crawford; sister, Mary W. Mathis of Watkinsville; seven
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Heritage Memorial Funeral Home is in charge of arrange
ments.
AMA chickens out
on banning frug ads
This past week, the
Associated Press reported
from the American Medical
Association’s annual meet
ing that the group was refus
ing to back a proposed ban
on prescription drug adver
tisements. I hope the AMA
will reconsider this position.
Regular readers of this col
umn are familiar with my
opposition to these obviously
very expensive ads (known
as direct-to-consumer or
DTC ads) that consumers
end up paying for with high
er prescription prices. But
for those of you who don’t
know, I’ll restate my posi
tion.
I think it’s just wrong for
drug companies to spend
large amounts (and it is very
large amounts) of money on
DTC television ads, radio
ads, print ads, etc., that treat
prescription products like
diet soda or snack foods.
Prescription drugs should
not be promoted like any
other consumer product;
that’s why they require a
prescription - and a prescrip
tion requires a doctor’s
examination.
What these ads really do is
encourage people to want to
be on the “cool, new pre
scription drug,” and I think
they are a detriment to the
doctor-patient relationship.
When a prescription product
is needed, the physician
should select the product
based on what is best for
their patient and not on
what the patient may want
because of a television ad.
Many doctors report feel
ing pressured by their
patients to prescribe certain
products, and this is just
wrong. The irony in this is
that prescription drug over
use/misuse and increased
frequency of doctor visits are
two of the things that can
contribute to the higher cost
of healthcare.
Think how much less
expensive some of these pre
scriptions might be if the
drug companies didn’t spend
so much on DTC advertising.
Pay close attention to televi
sion for a few days and note
how many ads there are for
prescription drugs. Watch
one sports event and you’ll
see plenty of these ads. There
are almost as many prescrip
tion drug ads as beer ads,
and we all know how much
these ads cost.
Of course, if the AMA had
decided to back the ban, the
ads wouldn’t just go away
and everybody’s prescription
prices wouldn’t go down.
There would still have to be a
law passed, and that takes
time.
I just think it would have
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been nice for a group as pow
erful and influential as the
AMA to speak out against
these ads and perhaps give
the drug companies some
pause before they spend all
that money on advertising.
The reason the AMA gave
for not backing the ban had
to do with concerns over the
drug companies’ First
Amendment rights to free
speech, which I understand.
However, there has been a
limited ban (no television or
radio ads) on the advertise
ment of tobacco products
(which are a type of drug) for
some time.
And it’s pretty much a con
sensus that the limited ban
on tobacco ads is a good
thing; public health concerns
outweighing the companies’
advertisement rights. And it
would be a good thing to
have a ban, limited or other
wise, on prescription drug
ads.
I should also mention that,
to the AMA’s credit, the AP
report also stated that group
did refer the measure for fur
ther study. So maybe there is
hope that the AMA will one
day back a ban on direct-to
consumer advertising of pre
scription medications.
In the meantime, there is
something we as consumers
can do. We need make it so
that these DTC ads don’t
work. Don’t take the bait;
don’t go to your physician
and ask to be prescribed
something that was adver
tised. Let your physician
decide what prescription
product is right, or better
yet, if one is even needed.
If you have any questions
regarding medications or
pharmacy practice in gener
al, or comments, or sugges
tions for topics you’d like to
read about in this column,
just write to me. I can receive
email via voltzrph@hot
mail.com or postal mail at
Pharmacy Q&A, c/o The
Houston Home Journal, P.O.
Box 1910, Perry, GA 31069.
All questions are confiden
tial, so you don’t have to give
your name.