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FRIDAY May 26, 2006 KR T =R OUR T T CTr INSIDE Sign on the line M Northside High School's Brittany Sampson added to the strength of the Middle Georgia College soccer program. She signed a scholarship with the school Wednesday. - Page 1B That's a wrap M Houston County’s football team wrapped up its spring training session May 18. Read all about how they feel they size up so far. ~ Page 1B COMING SATURDAY Interesting mix B The latest graduates of the Warrnier Robins Citizen Police Academy included a council man, three wives of police men, a husband and wife, a mother and daughter, seniors and some graduates of other WRPD classes. IN BRIEF Helping out B Warner Robins Police will be offering a free, two-hour program, Georgia Teens Ride with PRIDE, June 10, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Warner Robins campus of Macon State College, 100 University Drive. PRIDE - Parents Reducing Incidents of Driver Error - was created by the Georgia Traffic Injury Prevention Institute in an effort to reduce the high number of crashes, injuries and fatalities involving teen drivers in the state. The course is designed to help parents and their new teen drivers, ages 14-16, and their parents léarn what they need to do during the 40 hours of supervised practice driving time. The program addresses driver's attitude, knowledge and behavior, rather than technical hands on driver skills. To register, contact Grace Hodges at 929-7253. - Ray Lightner Meeting W Health board to meet The Houston County Board of Health will meet at noon Thursday in the conference room at the Houston County Health Department on 98 Cohen Walker Drive. 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It will be a part of the “expand ing horizon of Project Safe Neighborhoods.” Project Safe Neighborhoods was initially the number one priority of the Bush administration, before Sept. 11. Wood said there is a “directive for all of HHJ/Mike George TOP: Glenn Parker, an avid collector of Memphis Belle memorabilia, holds up a fold-out from the April 1941 issue of Esquire magazine inside the CONUS/Majestic Frames shop on Watson Boulevard in Warner Robins. The fold-out served as the inspiration for the plane’s famous nose art. LEFT: A piece of the Memphis Belle. Memphis Belle collector forged friendship with famous plane’s pilot us (U.S. District Attorneys) to address gang problems.” While the specific details are still being worked out, the gang task force is designed to bring the area agencies together as one unit against gangs. The various agencies will combine intel ligence gathering to provide the officers on the street a complete picture of what’s happening. Prosecutors will work together to determine the best way to try the defen dants to get the most jail time, whether it’s local, state or federal, Wood said. See GANGS, page 6A Survey shows patients satisfied with care received at hospital Perry Hospital rates high in number of categories covered by the poll By CHARLOTTE PERKINS HHJ staff writer A patient satisfaction sur vey taken between January and March of this year indicated that 87.8 percent Houston Healthcare inpa tiestls rated their overall quality of care as good or excellent, while 78 percent of those served by Houston Healthcare emergency departments gave good or excellent ratings. Mary Jane Kinnas, A . Wit A il e e ! 11 ’ 3 s . ‘i 5 ¥ sahio b i 3 B ?"“_ - L Y 3y z 4 - 13 e A ::‘ A BB PRoBR B o i e : =, el 5 IS T ; g & POLIGE SV NS i e i & | e @ “‘f‘é&fi s v S L T Y‘i""‘w ; ‘ u ,;,-.s‘-;‘ o b, ? AT e v ° | et - ' L . i L - HHJ/Ray Lightner Macon Regional Crimestoppers have a new tool to fight crime. The truck is actually a vintage paddy wagon, which was parked outside the U.S. Attomey’s office in Macon dur ing a presentation by Project Safe Neighborhood recently By MIKE GEORGE HHJ Staff Writer Glenn Parker may know more about the Memphis Belle than any military historian in Georgia. A 54-year-old retired mainte nance superintendent with the Georgia Air National Guard, he spent decades building a trea- Director of Marketing for the county hospital system, said that the telephone survey was done by a firm called SatisQuest. Calls were made through random selection to over 600 people who had been hospitalized at Houston Medlcaf Center in Warner Robins or Perry Hospital. Those who were surveyed were asked to rate different aspects of care on a 1 to 5 scale, and some who gave sure trove of rare collectibles from the famous B-17 Flying Fortress, and his love for the plane’s history helped him forge a lasting friendship with the Memphis Belle’s pilot, the late Col. Robert K. Morgan. One of the most recognizable planes in the world, the See PLANE, page 5A less than “excellent” ratings will be contacted and invited to serve on focus groups to discuss how their care could have been improved. In a number of areas, Perry Hospital scored higher with patients than the overall system did. Ninety-four per cent of those who had been patients at Perry Hospital rated their quality of care as good or excellent. Almost 99 percent of patients also gave Perry Hospital high marks for “respect and dignity” with the hospital system getting that ranking from 95.9 percent. See SURVEY, page 6A AN Evans Fawviry ansmm«:k] 855108|000011114