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The Courier Herald

The Courier Herald
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Twiggs coach resigns, GBI investigating
YOUR NEWSPAPER
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Drawer B, Court Square Station, Dublin, Georgia 31040 • 272-5522
Baker spent several years at Dublin City Schools
By JAMES TIDWELL
JEFFERSONVILLE — The Georgia
Bureau of Investigations has been
brought in to investigate allegations surrounding Twiggs County High School's
head basketball coach and former Dublin
coach Fred Baker.
Baker submitted his resignation which
was approved by the Twiggs County
Board of Education during their regular
meeting Tuesday.
Twiggs County Sheriff Darren
Mitchum said he referred the investigation to the GBI when he was contacted by
school system officials.
“The school police contacted me and I
got in touch with the GBI so we can get
the investigation started,” Mitchum said.
According to Georgia Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge J.T.
Ricketson, the GBI was requested to assist in the investigation involving a Twiggs County High School teacher and coach.
“We were asked by the Twiggs County
Sheriff's Department to assist them with
a criminal investigation concerning a
teacher,” said Ricketson of the Perry office, who added he could not comment on
an ongoing investigation and was not at
liberty to provide any details.
Baker, who according to the Twiggs
County School System website, is a graduate of Vanderbilt University with a degree in Human and Organizational Development. He has served as the Credit
Recovery Specialist at Twiggs County
High School and also coached football
and was the varsity boys’ basketball
coach. Baker is also the president of the
Kaolin Middle School League, which consists of Twiggs, Wilkinson, Oak Hill, T. J.
Elder and Hancock.
Baker spent several years in the
Dublin City Schools’ system as a teacher
and coach at Dublin Middle School before
taking the Twiggs County basketball
post.
“He has resigned voluntarily and is no
longer an employee of the Twiggs County
school system,” Twiggs County Superintendent Elgin Dixon said. “Any alleged
allegations have been referred to the appropriate agency and we cannot comment
on an ongoing investigation.”
Knight bags record gobbler
By RODNEY
MANLEY
Hunter Knight says he
"was in the right place at
the right time" when he
bagged a trophy turkey
that has scored as a new
state-record
and
the
ninth-ranked in the world.
Not only did Knight
bag the pending-record
turkey, he filmed the
hunt.
"I was just sitting there
on the ground, with the
camera on a tripod between my legs. He just
came over to the decoys,
and I just drew back and
waited," said Knight.
The turkey has been officially scored, and the
score of 119.5 submitted to
the National Wild Turkey
Federation. The record
would be in the "atypical
bow-kill gobbler."
"Atypical" birds have
multiple beards. They are
scored just as one-bearded
turkeys but recorded in
their own category.
Knight was hunting in
Johnson County and used
an Obsession bow with a
Bi-polar Broadhead arrow. Asked how long he's
been hunting, Knight
joked "as soon as I came
out of my mama."
Eddie Bozeman, a former turkey federation official, and Jason Whittington, area chapter president with National Wild
Turkey Federation, assisted in the official scoring,
said Knight's father, taxidermist Tim Knight.
Karen Cavender with
the turkey federation also
is assisting in the process,
Tim Knight said. The bird
was bagged on hunting
land provided by Ben Attaway at Cedar Creek Timber Co., he said.
Volume 101, No. 84, Pub. No 161860
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No court
date yet in
Hooks case
BAKER
Prosecuting Attorney's
Council looking into case
Knight shows off the world record-setting bird.
Special photo
By PAYTON TOWNS III
An official with the Prosecuting Attorney's Council of
Georgia confirmed that they
are currently investigating
the shooting death of David
Hooks by deputies from the
Laurens County Sheriff's Office.
The official said they had
received the case from the Attorney General's Office and
are still investigating the
case. No court date has been
set yet, the official said.
Chuck Spahos, executive
director for the Prosecuting
Attorney's Council of Georgia, who is leading the investigation, was not available
for comment.
In early February, Dublin
District Attorney Craig Fraser reviewed the case and referred it to the Attorney General of Georgia to determine
what action would be taken.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation was called in to
investigate the shooting
death of Hooks, 59, of 1184
Highway 319 North, on Sept.
24.
Hooks’ family attorney
Mitch Shook, with SalterShook-Tippett Attorney at
Law from Vidalia, said they
were glad the case was
turned over to the Attorney
General.
"We felt like that was the
right thing to do," Shook said.
"From what I understand,
(Fraser) is close to the Hooks'
family. And obviously, any
DA's office is going to be close
to the sheriff's department in
the counties that they serve.
I think he made a decision
that other DAs around the
country probably should have
made as well."
Shook hopes Spahos will
convene a Laurens County
Grand Jury.
"We hope he'll present it to
the grand jury and they will
consider all of the evidence,"
Shook said. "And it will be
presented in a fair matter
and not one sided."
Shook said they know the
direction they want to go in
after Spahos and the grand
jury has made their decisions.
"Once all of that is complete, and we get everything
we need, we are prepared to
move fairly quickly," Shook
said.
Spahos has met with the
family, Shook said.
"He came down and met
See HOOKS page 3a
Recruiting process:
GMC Dublin director busy drawing students to Skyscraper
By PAYTON
TOWNS III
Sitting in her office in the
Fred Roberts Hotel, Priscilla
Smith couldn't help but have
a smile on her face.
Just down the road Garbutt Construction workers
were busy with the renovation of the Downtown Skyscraper. Three of those floors
will end up being Georgia
Military College's satellite
campus later this fall.
"It's exciting," said Smith
who will be the director of
the GMC's Dublin Extension
Campus. "So far (the renovation) is on target and on
schedule."
Smith was the GMC's
campus director in Sandersville before moving over to
her temporary office in the
Fred Roberts Hotel on Feb.
17 in Suite 106 and 108. She
can walk out of the building
and down to Madison Street
and see how things are going at the Skyscraper.
"Anywhere you go in
Dublin you can see the
building," she said.
While that work is being
done, Smith has been busy
recruiting students to attend the college this fall.
"It's been exciting and
See GMC page 3a
This one’s for the
girls...on two wheels
Index
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . 2a
Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . 4a
Weather. . . . . . . . . . . . 5a
Hometown . . . . . . . . . . 8a
Sports. . . . . . . . . . . 1b,2b
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . 3b
Fun Page . . . . . . . . . . 4b
Girl riders traveled from Wisconsin, Florida,
Kentucky and even Canada to attend Elena Myers' girls only riding class last weekend at Herrin Compound in Laurens County. Attendees
ranged in ages from 10 years old to 60s. Pictured is Elena Myers with Alexis Olivera from
North Port, Fla. To see more pictures from the
event, see 6a. (Special photo)
Playing the waiting game...
A train came to a halt in Downtown Dublin Wednesday afternoon,
causing vehicles to find alternate routes through the downtown area.
(Photo by Payton Towns III)
The Courier Herald
Thursday, April 9, 2015/Dublin, Ga/Page 2a
Obituaries
Regina Gail
Haywood
A memorial service for
Mrs. Regina Gail Haywood,
age 63, will be held at 11 a.m.
Thursday, April 9, 2015 at the
Chan
Stanley
Memorial
Chapel with Dr. Al Haywood
officiating.
Mrs. Haywood was born
Oct. 27, 1951 in Dublin, but
has made Gainesville her
home for the past 20 years.
She was preceded in death by
her parents, the late Albert
Earl Haywood, Sr. and Jimmie Lee Harrison Haywood.
She was employed by Chlors
Restaurant. Mrs. Haywood
passed away Monday, April 6,
2015.
She is survived by her children, Robbie Bland of Dublin,
Kimberly Johnson, Charlie
Scarbrough and Chad Scarbrough all of East Dublin,
brothers, Al E. Haywood,
Mike Haywood and Ken Haywood all of Dublin, sisters,
Wanda Haywood Smith of
Dublin and Sandra Haywood
Head of Macon and four
grandchildren.
Stanley Funeral Home and
Crematory/Dublin Chapel has
charge of funeral arrangements. To sign the Online
Register Book please visit
www.stanleyfuneralhome.com
or call the 24 Hour Obituary
Line at (478) 272-0106 to hear
the latest updates.
CARTER
Glynda Hersey
Carter
Glynda Hersey Carter, 71,
of Chattanooga, Tenn. and
Waycross passed April 6, 2015
in Erlanger Hospital.
Preceded in death by her
son, Gary Morgan Carter.
She was survived by her
husband of 52 years, Carl
Morgan Carter; daughter
April (Adam) Royer; granddaughter, Morgan Royer.
Funeral services will be
held at 4 p.m., Friday in the
Valley View Chapel of Chattanooga
Funeral
Home.
Graveside services will be
held at 2 p.m., Saturday at
Northview
Cemetery
in
Dublin.
The family will receive
friends from 2 to 4 p.m., Friday at the funeral home.
Please share your thoughts
and memories online at
www.chattanoogavalleyviewc
hapel.com
Funeral arrangements by
Chattanooga Funeral Home
Valley View Chapel, 7414 Old
Lee Highway Chattanooga
TN 37421.
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Cleo Shivers
Valentine
Funeral services for Mrs.
Cleo Shivers Valentine, age
75 of Soperton, who died Saturday, April 4, 2015 at Serenity Place in Dublin, will be
held Friday at 1 p.m. in the
First Church of God in Christ.
The burial will follow in Baker Cemetery. Elder John L.
Toler will officiate.
Mrs. Valentine was born in
Laurens County-Dublin on
March 18, 1940 to the late
Willie E. Shivers and Lizzie
Mae Davis-Shivers. Cleo attended school in Aiken County, S.C. She relocated to Soperton and was a member of
Holy Temple COGIC. She was
employed by Sweat’s and
Coleman’s BBQ for a period of
36 years. Mrs. Valentine was
preceded in death by five
brothers: Robert
Willie,
Samuel, Charles and Robert
Lee two sisters: Mabel King
and Betty Jean Smith.
Survivors include four
daughters: Sarah
(Milton)
King, Gloria Smith, Gracie
Richards
and
Delores
Worthen of Soperton; five sisters: Willie Mae Williams,
Betty Jo (Herman) King of
Soperton; Juanita Mosley,
Linda (Eugene) Johnson and
Lizzie Bell Lewis of Aiken,
S.C.; one aunt, Evelyn Davis
of Dublin, twelve grandchildren and thirteen great
grandchildren; a host of
nieces, nephews, cousins and
friends.
MORRIS
Dr. Larry Allen
Morris
Dr. Larry Allen Morris, age
80, passed away Tuesday,
April 7, 2015, after an extended illness.
He was born in Macon, but
spent his formative years in
his beloved Dublin. This is
where his love of sports was
nurtured as quarterback for
four years and also starring
as a basketball and baseball
player.
Larry is survived by his
wife,
Marjorie
(Mardi)
Roberts Morris; his daughter,
Leslie Louise Morris; his sister Camelia O’Neal and her
husband Del; stepdaughter,
Amy Roberts Kuhnel, her
husband Brian and their
three children – Brent, Adam
and Elaine; and his stepson,
Scott Roberts, his wife Dawn
and their children – Chase
Price and Ford. He was pre-
ceded in death by his wife
Linda Burnside Morris and
his daughter JoAnna Morris
Anastos; his mother, Lillian
Huff Morris and father Henry
Grady Morris.
He was a Phi Beta Kappa
honor graduate from Emory.
After serving in the army, he
then went to the Medical College of Georgia where he was
an AOA honor graduate in
1961. Next came an internship at Duvall County Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla, followed by a pediatric residency
in the Emory program in Atlanta. His pediatric practice
in Gainesville began in 1968
with Dr. Ben Gilbert. In 1984
he served as Chief of Staff of
NEGA Medical Center. He –
with his partners Dr. Harvey
Newman,
Dr.
Buddy
Langston, and Dr. Everett
Roseberry – was a founding
member of the Longstreet
Clinic in 1995. Dr. Langston
describes Larry’s practice:
“Larry was an exceptional
pediatrician who was highly
respected by his peers. The
loving care given with respect
and patience to the children
and families who came to him
earned him their loyalty and
devotion. He was never too
busy to answer a question or
too tired to get out of bed
when needed. His obvious intelligence and pleasant demeanor (except when the
Braves or Tech lost) and willingness to do more than his
share made him a perfect
partner and an asset to the
medical community. He made
our part of GA a better place
to raise a family or practice
medicine.”
Larry’s mother, a florist,
conveyed her love of flowers to
him, and he was a dedicated
and talented gardener. His
parents were strong believers,
and he always loved his Lord
and his church communities.
And he was a truly joyful giver of all he possessed.
A memorial service will be
held at First Presbyterian,
800 S. Enota Drive, NE,
Gainesville, GA 30501 on
Sunday, April 12, at 3 p.m.,
followed by a family reception
in Swetenburg Fellowship
Hall. Nursery will be provided.
In lieu of flowers, donations to his memory may be
made to the First Presbyterian mission fund.
To express condolences,
please sign our online guest
book
at
www.flaniganfuneralhome.co
m. Arrangements by: Junior
E. Flanigan of Flanigan Funeral Home and Crematory,
Buford, 770-932-1133.
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Funeral services for Mrs.
Minnie Lee Jones, of Rentz,
will be Saturday, April 11,
2015, at 1 p.m. at the New
Providence Baptist Church,
3127 Fountain Road in Cadwell. Pastor Edward Northcutt will officiate. Interment
will follow in the church
cemetery.
Mrs. Jones who passed on
April 3, 2015, was born on
January 20, 1918, to Elous
and Mary Coley. She was
married to the late Frank
Jones, Sr. She was educated
in Dexter in the public school
system. She was a faithful
member of New Providence
Baptist Church where she
was a dedicated member of
the choir and was active in
many auxiliaries until illness
prevented her attendance.
Her hobbies were gardening,
cooking and sewing. She was
a resident of Dublinair Health
Care and Rehabilitation Center until her passing.
Mrs. Jones was preceded in
death by her parents; six
brothers, Roosevelt, Flem,
Lester, Moses, Elisha and
Henry Coley; two sisters, Carrie and Eva. She was also preceded in death by her sons,
Ralph, Tarron, Leon, Lynn
and Clifton and by a son-inlaw, Dozier Council.
She is survived by her children, Jerman (Joan) Dixon of
Atlanta, Lois Council of Cadwell, Frank (Wanda) Jones,
Jr., of Douglasville, Freddie
(Gloria Jean) Jones of Rentz,
Marilynn (Gerald) Hobbs of
Acworth, Sandra Jones of
Rentz, Angela Blue of Macon,
Clayton Jones, Sr. of New Orleans, Louisiana; daughter-inlaw, Helen Jones of Dublin.
She also leaves to cherish her
memories, her sisters; Pinkie
Lee Dixon of Jacksonville,
Fla., Annie Maude Edmond of
Rentz, and Birdie Mae Taylor
of Jacksonville, Fla. and a
host of grandchildren, greatgreat grandchildren, nieces,
nephews, cousins and friends.
friends at 3287 Fountain
Road in Cadwell.
Services By Dudley Funeral Home of Dublin.
Please post condolences at
www.servicesbydudley.com
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Robinson
Funeral services for Mr.
Jaquel Octavius Robinson, of
Tennille, Georgia, will be held
on Sunday, April 12, 2015, at
11 a.m. at the Dixon Grove
Church of God In Christ, 2515
Dixon Grove Road in Tennille.
Reverend Jeremiah Wooden
will officiate. Interment will
follow in the church cemetery.
Mr. Brown, who passed
away on April 5, 2015, was
born on January 31, 1996. He
was an honor student at
Washington County High
School, and had planned to
enter the United States Army
after graduation.
He is survived by his mother and father, Chadrick Walker and Jacqueline Lawanda
Roberson of Tennille; significant other, Shanita Allen;
brothers, Chadrick Dewon
(Tyla
J.S.)
Walker
of
Gainesville, Quintavious Isiaih Walker of Tennille; grandparents, Linda Jean Merrell
and Leon Merrell of Tennille,
Bobby Lee Walker of Oconee;
aunt and uncles, Sharika L.
(John) Wright of Douglasville,
Johnathon K. Walker of Tennille, Bobby Jermaine (Yolanda Evette) Walker, Jr. of Tennille, Rodrick Tristan Walker
and Robert T. Hicks, Jr. of
Roberta; great grandparents,
Thelma Lee May and Lenard
May, Venita Robinson of
Oconee and a host of aunts,
uncles, cousins, relatives and
friends.
friends at the family residence, 537 Tennille-Oconee
Road in Tennille, and at the
Dudley Funeral Home on Saturday, 6-7 p.m.
Services By Dudley Funeral Home of Dublin.
www.servicesbydudley.com.
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will follow in the Laurens
Memorial Gardens, Buckeye
Road, East Dublin.
Mrs. Macklin, youngest
daughter of the late Arthur
Wright and Lavader Rozier
Wright was born September 8,
1936. Her early childhood
was spent in Dublin. She attended Oconee High School
and joined the Williams
Chapel Baptist Church at an
early age. She moved to Detroit, Michigan in 1955 in
search of employment. She
retired from the Transportation Industry after fifteen
years of service.
Sarah loved visiting the
sick and preparing her annual
neighborhood soup. She also
loved gardening, fishing, and
playing with her golden retriever, “Sandy” before he
passed away. She joined the
New St. Paul Tabernacle
Church of God in Christ in
1971. After serving faithful in
the ministry and being saved
for forty (40) years, Mother
Macklin chose to celebrate
this victory by serving dinner
(which she both purchased
and prepared) to the New St.
Paul Tabernacle Church family. She also helped organize a
very successful “Family and
Friends Day” in October 2014.
In earlier years, Mother
Macklin sung in the New St.
Paul Tabernacle choir and
was President of the Nurses
Guild.
After a brief illness Mother
Macklin was summoned home
to be with the Lord. She
made her transition on Good
Friday Morning, April 3,
2015. She peacefully and quietly transitioned to her new
home, one not made by mortal
hands.
Mother Macklin was preceded in death by her loving
husband, Curtis Macklin; parents; and grandparents, Jim
and Everline Rozier and
Charlie and Mary Wright.
Mother Macklin leaves to
cherish her fond memories: a
sister, Arthurlean (Howard)
Ware of Detroit, Michigan;
three uncles, Billy Rozier, Eddie (Ruth) Rozier and Norman
Rozier of Grand Rapids,
Michigan; a devoted aunt,
Christine Rozier of Dublin; a
faithful god-daughter, Felicia
A. Jackson of Southfield,
Michigan; god-grandchildren,
Lauren and Lynn of Southfield, Michigan; a loyal goddaughter, Ashley McClinton
and special god-grandson,
Jayron Jernigan both of Detroit, Michigan; a host of relatives, friends, and her New St.
Paul Tabernacle Church family.
friends at 512 Railroad Avenue, East Dublin.
Services by Dudley Funeral Home of Dublin.
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Continued from 2a
Obituaries
Favorite uncle
reveals himself
with a shocking
sext message
DEAR ABBY: I am heartbroken. I have an uncle "Tony" I'm
close to, who is like my best
friend. I was sending him pictures of a football game and he
sent me back a very inappropriate picture of himself. He says it
was a "mistake," that it was
supposed to go to his wife, but
the text message he sent with it
showed different.
I don't want to be around
him. I'm disgusted and hurt
over this. I need advice. What
do I do? -- HEARTBROKEN IN
GEORGIA
DEAR HEARTBROKEN:
Share the photo and texts with
your parents and ask what they
think about them. Then ask if
they think you should forward
the picture and text message to
your aunt with a note explaining Uncle Tony said they were
meant for her, and you didn't
want her to miss them.
Because he makes you uncomfortable, listen to your intuition and keep your distance because what he did was appalling.
DEAR ABBY: I'm a female
working full-time in an office
with all men. Yesterday afternoon, I ate a salad that contained several varieties of
beans. I was standing outside
my boss's office, laughing at a
joke one of the salesmen was
telling when the beans got the
best of me and I passed gas.
I was mortified and wanted
to sink through the floor! I patted the salesman on the arm
and said, "I guess that's what I
think of the joke," and walked
back into my office. I didn't
know what else to say or do. Today I can't look either of them in
the face.
Since this seems to be something that happens to older people (I'm 69), and it's something
we often don't have total control
over -- please tell me how to "recover." If this should happen
again, what on earth does one
say or do? -- BEANS, THE MUSICAL FRUIT
DEAR B.T.M.F.: Stop beating
yourself up over this. Expelling
gas is normal. According to the
National Institutes of Health,
the average person passes gas
about 14 times a day -- although
probably not as spectacularly as
you did.
If it happens again, don't try
to be funny. Just say, "Excuse
me," and if the "toot" is a fragrant one, distance yourself. I'm
positive that would be appreciated.
DEAR ABBY: We are planning to give a joint baby shower
next month for two sisters-inlaw who are expecting their babies three weeks apart. The
joint shower is a necessity because some of the relatives will
need to travel quite a distance
to attend.
Most of the guests know both
girls, but some will know only
one of them. Is there a way we
can word the invitation so these
guests won't feel obligated to
"gift" both babies? Any suggestions will be gratefully appreciated because we are stumped. -STUMPED IN OHIO
DEAR STUMPED: Put nothing on the invitations themselves mentioning gifts. However, it is acceptable to include an
INSERT along with the invitation that states gifts for both babies are not expected. If the
shower is going to be a large
one, you could email the guests
to relay the information. However, if it will be relatively
small, pick up the phone and
call.
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SOLOMON
Joe Louis Solomon
Funeral Services for Mr.
Joe Louis Solomon, 76, of
Dublin, will be held on Saturday, April 11, 2015, at 12 p.m.
at the Green Grove Baptist
Church, 2418 US Highway
441 South, Dublin. Reverend
Milton Hughes will officiate.
Burial will follow in the
Moore Station Cemetery,
Dublin.
Mr. Solomon was presented
by God on February 24, 1939,
to his parents, Louis and Annie McTear Solomon, both of
whom preceded him in death.
Affectionately
known
as
“Brother or Bro", he began his
early education in Dublin and
was baptized and received his
early christian experience at
the Green Grove Baptist
Church.
In 1956, Mr. Soloman
moved to Miami, Fla., where
he continued his christian experience at the New Mount
Calvary and eventually at the
Greater New Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church under
the leadership of Reverend
Roscoe Jackson, where he
served faithfully on the Ushers Ministry. He was married
twice, and to those unions, 3
children were born.
Mr. Solomon was a very
hard worker. He worked for
various companies in Miami,
Florida: Dixie Bedding and
Ryder Trucking Company. It
was at Ryder Trucking where
he gained most of his experience as a truck driver to one
of the best tire mechanic repairmen and as a lead worker.
He retired after 20 years of
service in 1997. Following his
retirement, in 1998 he moved
back to Dublin to “Solomon’s
Lane” where he continued
farming, and raising/caring
for live stock. He also had
many hobbies repairing cars,
where he was perfected to be
one of the best shade tree mechanics and fishing whiz, until he purchased a boat and
named it “Lil Shirley,” after
his daughter. He also had a
love for communication broadcasting (CB Radio). With the
handle name: “Tire Hammer”
he communicated with travelers and truckers on the road.
He also had a passion for fast
moving hot rods.
He later rejoined the Green
Grove Baptist Church, under
the leadership of Reverend
Milton Hughes, where he was
a faithful member of the Ushers Ministry until his health
began to fail. On Saturday,
April 4, 2015, at 11:13 p.m.,
the Lord saw a need to call
him to a new home, where
there is no more pain and suffering.
Mr. Solomon was preceded
in death by one daughter,
Jolinda Solomon Assaf; granddaughter, Tydesha Harrell;
siblings, Mary Lee Payne,
Willie Solomon, Johnnie
Solomon, Annie L. Green,
Randolph Solomon and Mary
Lou Smith (twin sister).
He leaves to mourn two
daughters, Brenda Solomon of
Miami, Fla., and Shirley
Solomon of Ashburn, V.A.; two
sons, Larry Whirl and Donald
(Elaine) Carswell both of
Dublin; one aunt, Tressie
Solomon of Oxford, Maryland;
six grandchildren, Paris
Solomon, Abdul-Kareem and
Jihad Assaf of Miami, Fla.,
Jamal Solomon Pryor of Ashburn, V.A., Montu and Tevin
Carswell, both of Dublin;
three great-grandchildren; a
host of nephews, nieces, great
nephews,
great
nieces,
cousins, other sorrowing relatives and friends.
friends at the Dudley Funeral
Home on Friday, April 10,
2015, 5-6 p.m.
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with the family and saw the
scene," Shook said. "He indicated to us then that he had a
lot of responsibilities with the
General Assembly which was
convened at the time. Once
that was over, this was going
to become his No. 1 priority
and he would dive into it head
first. Since the legislature is
out of session, the hope is it
will get moving."
Law enforcement and
Hooks’ family have two different versions on what happened the night on Sept. 24,
2014.
According to a press release
from GBI Atlanta Headquarters, the sheriff's office requested the GBI Eastman Office to investigate the case.
Preliminary information
was that the deputies were executing a search warrant at
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HIGHTOWER
Swan Hightower
Funeral Services for Mr.
Swan Hightower, 89, of
Wrightsville, will be held on
Friday, April 10, 2015 at 1
p.m. at the Antioch Baptist
Church, 133 East Trilby
Street in Wrightsville. Reverend Norman Roberts will officiate. Burial will follow in
the
Westview
Cemetery,
Wrightsville.
Mr. Hightower was born in
Johnson County, Wrightsville
on October 10, 1925, to the
late Arthur Curry and Mattie
Hightower. He departed this
life on Easter Sunday, April 5,
2015, after a brief illness.
On March 10, 1959, he
married Lillie M. Hightower
and to this union a daughter
was born. Swan was a lifelong
resident of Johnson County
and worked many jobs, to include Tennille Cotton Mill and
Crowntex, up until his retirement. He was a wonderful
husband and father with such
a great sense of humor. Mr.
Hightower
was
lovingly
known as “Pa-Pa” to his many
grandchildren and great
grandchildren. When they
came to visit, and it was time
to leave, he would always give
each one of them two dollars.
This continued into their
adulthood without them ever
receiving a raise.
Mr. Hightower was preceded in death by two brothers,
Willie James Hightower and
Cleveland Hightower; and by
two sisters, Carrie Patterson
and
Rebbie
Hightower
Wright.
Mr. Hightower was a caring and kind person who will
be missed by many. He leaves
to cherish his memory his devoted wife, Lillie M. Hightower; three daughters, Carolyn
(Mark) Mitchell of Atlanta,
Joann H. (Oliver) Sueing of
Sharpsburg, and Thelma Outlaw of Fort Pierce, Fla.; four
sons, Jimmie Coleman of
Wrightsville, John Coleman of
Philadelphia, P.A., Frankie
Coleman of Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, and Leon Butler of
Wrightsville; one sister, Annie
Pearl Sellers of Tampa, Fla.;
two devoted nieces, Robbie
(Lee) Fails of East Dublin and
Dessie Wright of Wrightsville;
several grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, and a host of
relatives and friends.
Mr. Hightower will be
placed in the church, and
available for viewing, from 11
a.m. until the funeral hour.
friends at 119 Martin Luther
King Drive, Wrightsville.
fun," she said. "I've been to
East Laurens, West Laurens,
Dublin, Trinity and Moore
Street School and the Diamond Academy. It's special to
see the student's eyes when
they hear there is going to be
another college here in
Dublin. Some didn't realize
there was another college
coming to Dublin. It's exciting to bring that awareness
to the students as well as recruiting them at the same
time, letting them know that
they have another higher education option here."
Smith is also trying to
reach out to the surrounding
counties.
"I'm reaching out to them
as well to let them know that
we have something 30 minutes closer," she said. "For
the most part, they'll only be
coming this way two days a
week, either on Monday and
Wednesday or Tuesday and
Thursday. That's how our
class schedules will be set up.
It's a win-win situation. It really is."
Before the new campus
opens, GMC students from
this area had to travel to
Milledgeville or Warner
Robins. Now they can make a
shorter commute to the
Dublin Campus.
"Now it's in your own
backyard,"
Smith
said.
"That's a big contrast from
having to travel 45 miles to
Milledgeville or Warner
Robins. Now people can stay
closer to home."
A few weeks ago, Smith
joined other recruiters at a
Youth Rally for juniors in
Hooks’ house between 10:45
and 10:50 p.m. that Wednesday.
When the deputies went to
the house, an uniformed
deputy went to the door,
knocked on the door and announced "sheriff's department,
search warrant" three to four
times.
Hooks came to the door
with a shotgun pointed at the
deputies, who told him to put
the shotgun down. Hooks then
pointed the shotgun at the
deputies in a more aggressive
manner, causing the deputies
to fire at him.
A week later, Shook told the
media that a few days before
the shooting, a Lincoln Aviator
was stolen from Hooks' house.
It was later learned that Rodney Garrett stole the vehicle.
Meth was found on Garrett
and a digital scale was found
in the car along with two
firearms. Garrett said the
drugs belong to Hooks.
The LCSO got a search warrant which Shook said was "invalid." He said the LCSO arrived at the house without
emergency lights or sirens on.
Because their house had been
burglarized two nights before,
the attorney said David and
Teresa thought the burglars
were back and a home invasion was about to happen.
Shook said Hooks was trying to protect his wife and
house.
"There was a lot of evidence
and individuals involved that
had to be interview and a lot of
scientific evidence that had to
be gone through," Shook said
about the GBI's investigation.
"The GBI had other things
that were going on too. It took
them a little longer than usual
to complete their investigation."
high school. When it came
time for her to make her
pitch about GMC, Smith
said, "No SAT, No ACT scores
required. All you need is a
high school diploma or a GED
and come and see me. The
students were excited. They
can't believe that they cam
get into college without a
SAT or ACT scores. So much
emphasis has been placed on
those scores, that they think
that's the only way they are
going to be able to get into
college. GMC is offering other
alternatives."
Smith said students have
to take a Compass Placement
Test.
"We meet the students
where they are," Smith said.
"If they place in regular college Algebra, that's where we
place them. If they test in
what we call our learning
support classes, that's what
classes we put them in."
GMC will offer the same
type of professors students
could find at other colleges or
universities. Typically in a
year, GMC will have five
terms: Fall one, Fall, Winter,
Spring and Summer. The Fall
one term begins on Aug. 1
and goes to the end of September.
"Because the Skyscraper
won't be ready until the first
week of September, that
would fall into the the middle
of our term," Smith said. "We
won't be able to start offering
classes until the Fall term
which will begin on Oct. 10."
However, dual enrollment
classes fir high school students will begin in August.
"Because I have recruited
and spoke with the councilors, some of the principals
and the superintendents from
our local school system, they
have agreed to allow us to
teach dual enrollment classes
at their schools beginning
Aug. 1," Smith said. "I will
hire the adjunct (teachers) to
teach the classes. Typically
dual enrollment is math and
English. I will have a math
and English instructor sent to
East Laurens West Laurens,
Trinity and Dublin to teach
the dual enrollment classes.
All they need is a minimal of
seven students to have those.
We weren't expecting that at
first."
Besides recruiting for students, Smith is actively accepting
applications
for
teachers, especially in math
and English.
"I'd like to have all of my
adjuncts in place by July,"
Smith said. "Therefore I know
who to send and when they'll
be going to the high schools."
Smith is excited for that
first day of class in the Skyscraper this October.
"I can't wait," she said.
"When they had the lights on
inside the building, my face
just lit up. It was something
to see those lights on while
riding through downtown
Dublin. I can only imagine
what it's going to be like to
see those lights on this fall
and see the students in the
class with the professors in
there lecturing. It's really, really happening. I'm excited
about this and the community
is excited. There is a tremendous buzz in the community
about GMC."
Barnes, who did not immediately return phone messages. The U.S. attorney's
office in Atlanta, which is
prosecuting the case, also
declined to comment.
Prosecutors have said
Brooks
misappropriated
funds meant for charity and
used the money to pay personal and family expenses.
Brooks has pleaded not
guilty. Barnes said at the
time that Brooks may not be
good at bookkeeping but
didn't commit a crime.
GMC
State Rep. Brooks to enter plea in federal court
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia state Rep. Tyrone
Brooks is set to enter a plea
on federal charges.
Court records show the
Atlanta Democrat, who was
indicted in May 2013 on
charges of mail fraud, wire
fraud and filing false tax returns has a plea hearing
Thursday afternoon in federal court in Atlanta.
Reached
by
phone
Wednesday evening, Brooks
referred questions to his
lawyer, former Gov. Roy
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Our Take:
There are 390 reasons we
can improve as a community
At the corner lawn of the Carl
Vinson VA Medical Center, pinwheels shaped to form “390” are
clearly visible from one of our
busiest intersections.
They represent the number of child
abuse reports filed in Laurens
County in 2014.
To say that is “too many” like
Brooke Wood, Stepping Stone executive directory, is a true understatement.
One is too many.
To know that nearly 400 children
were potentially abused is unacceptable.
How do we reduce that number?
For one thing, make it clear to
abusers that our community is ready
to advocate for children.
Second, don’t hesitate to contact
the authorities if you suspect a case
of child abuse.
Finally, be vigilant.
Victims and potential victims of
child abuse only remain silent if we
fail to empower them to speak out
and against this heinous crime.
Give a voice to the voiceless by
shouting from the rooftops that
Laurens County will not accept child
abuse in any form.
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In Our Opinion
Insight and viewpoints from our editorial board and our readers
Seven state contitutions:
‘The acknowledgement of God
Email us at [email protected] to share your opinions
By DR. JACK E. BROWN
America’s Christian/religious heritage is addressed in the contitutions of
all 13 original states (formerly English
colonies) that comprised the young
United States of America. Thus, from
the very beginning of our nation, God
has been acknowledged. It was politicaly correct to do then, and it is politically correct to do so today. It is hard to
argue with the very words of our state
constitutions. Her are those initial
statements from seven of our original
13 states with the dates their constitutions were approved:
Pennsylvania (1776): “We, the people
of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty
God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His
guidance, do ordain and establish this
Constitution...”
Connecticut (1776): “The People of
this State...by the Providence of
God...that the sole and exclusive right
of governing themselves as a free, sovereign, and independent State...and
forasmuch as the free fruition of such
liberties and privileges as humanity,
civility, and Christianity call for, as is
due to every man in his place and proportion...hath ever been, and will be the
tranquility and stability of Churches
and Commonwealth: and the denial
thereof, the disturbances, if not the
ruin of both.”
Virginia (1776): “Article XVI,
Virginia Bill of Rights: That Religion,
or the Duty which we owe our Creator,
and the Manner of discharging it, can
be directed only by Reason and
Convictions, not by Force of Violence;
and therefore all Men are equally entitled to the free exercise of Religion,
according to the Dictates of Conscience;
and that it is the mutual Duty of all to
practice Christian Forbearance, Love
and Charity towards each other.”
Maryland (1776): “We, the people of
the state of Maryland, grateful to
Almighty God for our civil and religious
liberty...”
Georgia (1777): “We, the people of
Editorial Roundup...
April 7
Anniston (Alabama) Star on the
Iran deal:
The reality-based mainstream of U.S.
diplomacy rides again.
We see it in the recently agreed-upon
framework to keep Iran's nuclear ambitions in check ... a pragmatic document,
a clear-eyed view of the situation as it
stands, not how we might wish it to be.
This is part of a long bipartisan tradition
of U.S. presidential administrations that
carefully untangled global threats slowly
over time without resorting to full-scale
warfare.
When the United States deviates from
this mindset, it's usually disastrous. See
the Bush administration's reckless rush
to war with Iraq. The puffed-up neocons
tied to President George W. Bush even
dismissed dissenters as members of the
"reality-based community." Sadly, the
reality of pre-emptive war with Iraq
squandered Americans' lives and treasure, and the region is still paying the
price.
The Iran nuke framework as promoted by the Obama administration is anything but the cowboy way. It's more in
line with the realists in the first Bush
administration who resisted the calls to
topple Saddam Hussein in the early
1990s. They knew that the tearing down
and toppling would be easy, and the
rebuilding would be extremely costly.
The realism of the Iran deal is similar
to the path chosen by U.S. presidents
during the Cold War who managed to
avoid direct war with the Soviet Union.
Instead, they slowly wore down the
Soviets over time until the communists
collapsed over their own failed ideology.
Will this same strategy work with
Iran and its national dream to join the
nuclear-weapons club? No one can say
for certain, but it's worth a try and far
better than all-out war.
The recently announced framework is
merely a first step in working out a deal
to put Iran's nuclear program on hold in
exchange for lifting of economic sanctions. There's a long way to go. An agreement is worthless without credible
inspections to ensure Iran is sticking to
its side of the bargain. Also, there must
be a procedure to reinstall sanctions
should the Iranians backslide.
The world has plenty of reasons to distrust Iran, a disruptive force in its region
and a supporter of terrorists and brutal
dictators. However, if a deal can be properly structured, the world would be better off with an Iran that paused its
nuclear program for at least a decade.
Americans can be assured that we've
faced down bigger threats in a similar
way.
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April 8
Decatur (Alabama) Daily on legislature needing to separate church
and state:
State legislators are busy imposing
their view of Christianity when they
need to be grappling with Alabama's critical problems. It's not new for governments to embrace a religion, or even particularly unusual. But do we really want
to go there?
One law at a time, the Alabama
Legislature is imposing its own gloss of
Christianity on a state in which 84 percent of the population is Christian.
Rather than try to convince people of
their views of morality, they are using
the power of the state to mandate those
views.
Theocracies are not all bad. Vatican
City seems to function well enough. If its
state-run media is to be believed, the
people of Iran are generally content with
their Supreme Leader and Sharia-based
legal system.
And state religions are downright
common. Most such governments have
Georgia, relying upon protection and
guidance of Almighty God, do ordain
and establish this Constitution.”
South Carolina (1778): “We, the people of the State of South Carolina,
grateful to God for our liberties, do
ordain and establish this Constitution.”
Massachusetts (1780): “We, therefore, the people of Massachusetts,
acknowledging, with greateful hearts,
the goodness of the great Legislator of
the universe, in affording us, in the
course of His providence (an opportunity to form a compact)...and devoutly
imploring His direction in so interesting
a
design...(establish
this
Constitution).”
This, then, is our American heritage,
our Christian/religious heritage. God
has blessed America from her very
beginning, and His blessings are clearly acknowledged in the constitutions of
America’s first 13 states represented by
seven of those states. Praise be unto
God! Peace!
embraced Sunni Islam.
Some U.S. states have had state religions, but it was a practice that petered
out quickly with the adoption of a First
Amendment that prohibited Congress
from making any "law respecting an
establishment of religion."
Indeed, one of the last to give up on a
state religion was Connecticut. ThenPresident Thomas Jefferson famously
encouraged the state to disestablish
itself from the Congregationalist Church
by noting the First Amendment demonstrated America's desire to build "a wall
of separation between church and state."
Jefferson's comments resonated,
because America was populated with
many who left England because of their
frustration with its state religion, the
Church of England.
In Alabama, legislators are brandishing their Bibles as they condemn homosexuality, and condone those who would
discriminate against gay couples. They
can't resist laws making abortion an
option only for the very wealthy. They
ensured that children can say "Merry
Christmas," have prayer meetings and
give religious presentations at school.
Embarrassed that Indiana is getting
all the attention for its law giving businesses the "religious freedom" to turn
away gays and lesbians, legislators are
seeking to amend Alabama's similar law
to make sure it is just as blatant.
Alabama has severe problems the
Legislature needs to address. It has an
archaic tax system that brings in too little revenue and places an excessive burden on the poor. Its corrections system is
overwhelmed,
its
population
is
unhealthy and it has a broken health
care system.
Rather than using the power of the
state to impose religious views of morality, it is time for the Legislature to tackle
the difficult task of running a state.
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Friday
•Dublin Serenity Al-Anon Family Group, 1515 Rice Ave.
Dublin (use back entrance) Friday 6:30 p.m.
•Dublin/Laurens Commission on Children, Youth and
Families (Laurens County Family Connection) Board of Directors. Call (478) 296-9141.
•AA I Am Responsible Group contact 272-5244 or 2758259, 1515 Rice Ave., 8 p.m.
•NA We Surrender, Contact 275-9531, noon, 629 Broad
Street, East Dublin.
Saturday
•Teen Talk 1-4 p.m. at Turning Point Church of God in
Christ, 511 McKinley St.
•Wrightsville Serenity Group AA meeting at 8 p.m. Located across from Dairy Queen in Wrightsville.
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Today is Thursday, April 9,
the 99th day of 2015. There are
266 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Lt.
Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
On this date:
In 1413, the coronation of
England's King Henry V took
place in Westminster Abbey.
In 1682, French explorer
Robert de La Salle claimed the
Mississippi River Basin for
France.
In 1913, the first game was
played at Ebbets Field, the
newly built home of the Brooklyn Dodgers, who lost to the
Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0.
In 1914, the Tampico Incident took place as eight U.S.
sailors were arrested by Mexican authorities for allegedly
entering a restricted area and
held for a short time before being released.
In 1939, singer Marian Anderson performed a concert at
the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. after being denied
the use of Constitution Hall by
the Daughters of the American
Revolution.
In 1940, during World War
II, Germany invaded Denmark
and Norway.
In 1942, American and
Philippine
defenders
on
Bataan capitulated to Japanese forces; the surrender was
followed by the notorious
Bataan Death March.
In 1945, German pastor and
theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
39, was executed by the Nazis
at the Flossenburg concentration camp.
In 1959, NASA presented its
first seven astronauts: Scott
Carpenter, Gordon Cooper,
John Glenn, Gus Grissom,
Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard
and Donald Slayton. Architect
Frank Lloyd Wright, 91, died
ALMANAC
in Phoenix, Ariz.
In 1965, the newly built Astrodome in Houston featured
its first baseball game, an exhibition between the Astros and
the New York Yankees, with
President Lyndon B. Johnson
in attendance. (The Astros
won, 2-1, in 12 innings.)
In 1983, the space shuttle
Challenger ended its first mission with a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
In 1996, in a dramatic shift
of purse-string power, President Bill Clinton signed a lineitem veto bill into law. (However, the U.S. Supreme Court
struck down the veto in 1998.)
Ten years ago: Britain's
Prince Charles married longtime love Camilla Parker
Bowles, who took the title
Duchess of Cornwall. Tens of
thousands of supporters of a
militant Shiite (SHEE'-eyet)
cleric filled central Baghdad's
streets, demanding that American soldiers go home. A day after the funeral for Pope John
Paul II, cardinals began an intense period of silence and
prayer before their conclave to
choose the next pope. Feminist
author Andrea Dworkin died in
Washington, D.C. at age 58.
Five years ago: Supreme
Court Justice John Paul
Stevens announced his retirement. (His vacancy was filled
by Elena Kagan.) Wisconsin
forward Blake Geoffrion, the
grandson of Hockey Hall of
Famer Bernie "Boom Boom"
Geoffrion, received the Hobey
Baker Memorial Award as college hockey's top player. Meinhardt Raabe, who'd played the
Munchkin coroner in "The Wizard of Oz," died in Orange
Park, Florida, at age 94.
One year ago: A 16-year-old
boy armed with two knives
went on a rampage at Franklin
Regional High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, stabbing 20 students and a security
guard (all of whom survived).
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The Braves went into
South Beach and swept
those Marlins. They are 3-0
and it is still possible to go
162-0. Of course they can also go 3-159.
I have no problem with
what the teacher said because it’s her opinion. I do
not believe she should have
said it in a sixth grade classroom though.
Stuff in Gordon is better
than some reality TV shows.
Instead of filming that Honey Boo Boo show, they
should send a crew to the
meetings.
I’m ready for the Masters
in Augusta. This is really
the only time each year that
I pay attention to golf.
Not only was the teacher
wrong but her husband,
the board member, knows
he was wrong being involved in the parent teacher
conference. He should appologize to his fellow board
members and she should appologize to her class for
bringing this on the school
system.
We all make mistakes.
Let’s remember that Jesus
taught us to forgive one another no matter what they
did.
I did the Teen Maze two
years ago. It was a wake up
call.
Bring on the weekend.
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President Barack Obama and
his wife, Michelle, visited Fort
Hood, Texas, the scene of a
shooting a week earlier in
which three U.S. Army soldiers
were killed by a fellow soldier
who then took his own life.
Today's Birthdays: Playboy
magazine founder Hugh Hefner is 89. Satirical songwriter
and
mathematician
Tom
Lehrer is 87. Naturalist Jim
Fowler is 85. Actor Jean-Paul
Belmondo is 82. Actress
Michael Learned is 76. Country singer Margo Smith is 73.
Country singer Hal Ketchum is
62. Actor Dennis Quaid is 61.
Comedian Jimmy Tingle is 60.
Country musician Dave Innis
(Restless Heart) is 56. Actresssports reporter Lisa Guerrero
is 51. Actor Mark Pellegrino is
50. Actress-model Paulina
Porizkova is 50. Actress Cynthia Nixon is 49. Rock singer
Kevin Martin (Candlebox) is
46. Rock singer Gerard Way
(My Chemical Romance) is 38.
Actress Keshia Knight Pulliam
is 36. Rock musician Albert
Hammond Jr. (The Strokes) is
35. Actor Charlie Hunnam is
35. Actor Ryan Northcott is 35.
Actor Arlen Escarpeta is 34.
Actor Jay Baruchel is 33. Actress Leighton Meester is 29.
Actor-singer Jesse McCartney
is 28. Rhythm-and-blues singer
Jazmine Sullivan is 28. Actress
Kristen Stewart is 25. Actress
Elle Fanning is 17. Actor Isaac
Hempstead Wright is 16.
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D e p a r tm e n t
An officer responded to an
entering
automobile
on
Stonewall Street on March 25.
The owner of a 2011 Cadillac said someone took an older
style Ipod from her unlocked
vehicle.
- Derrick Wright, 39, of
Dublin, was charged with
pedestrian under the influence of alcohol or drugs, criminal interference with government property and obstructing or hindering law enforcement officers at the intersection of Prince Street and Roosevelt Street on March 20.
- A white Hot Point refrigerator was stolen from an
apartment at Johnson Homes
between Feb. 25 and March
25.
- A Dublin teenager was hit
by three people and lost his
necklace and cell phone on
Dewey Street on March 23.
La u r e n s C o u n ty
S h e r i f f ’s O f f i c e
- A tag and decal were
stolen from a 1991 trailer on
Blackshear Ferry Road in
West Dublin between March
20 and 24.
- A Cadwell woman told a
deputy about her son receiving a phone call from a possible scam artist on March 24.
- A shotgun, revolver, black
gun case and BB gun were
stolen from a location on Ashland Court on March 24.
- A 300 gallon propane tank
was stolen from Baker Church
Road in Rentz on March 24.
- A lawn mower battery
S.C. officer who shot man had
prior excessive force complaint
NORTH CHARLESTON,
S.C. (AP) — The white South
Carolina
police
officer
charged with murder for
shooting an unarmed black
man in the back was allowed
to stay on the force despite a
2013 complaint that he used
excessive force against another unarmed black man.
In an exclusive interview
with The Associated Press,
Mario
Givens
recounted
Wednesday how he was awakened before dawn one morning by loud banging on the
front door of his family's
North Charleston home.
On the porch was Patrolman Michael Thomas Slager,
the officer now charged in the
shooting death of Walter
Lamer Scott, which was captured in dramatic cellphone
footage by a bystander Saturday.
Givens, who was clad only
in a T-shirt and boxer shorts,
cracked open his door and
asked what the officer wanted.
"He said he wanted to come
in but didn't say why," said
Givens, now 33. "He never
said who he was looking for."
Then, without warning,
Slager pushed in the door, he
said.
"Come outside or I'll tase
you," he quoted the officer as
saying, adding: "I didn't want
that to happen to me, so I
raised my arms over my head,
and when I did, he tased me
in my stomach anyway."
Givens said the pain from
the stun gun was so intense
that he dropped to the floor
and began calling for his
mother, who also was in the
home. At that point, he said
another police officer came into the house and they dragged
him outside and threw him to
the ground. He was handcuffed and put in a squad car.
Though initially accused of
resisting the officers, Givens
was later released without
charge.
Asked about the 2013 incident on Wednesday, North
Charleston police spokesman
Spencer Pryor said the department plans to review the
case to see whether its decision to exonerate Slager was
correct. Pryor said he had no
timetable for the review.
Givens' relatives remember the encounter vividly.
"It was very devastating,"
said Bessie Givens, 57, who
was awaked by her son's
piercing screams. "You watch
your son like that, he's so vulnerable. You don't know
what's going to happen. I was
so scared."
It turned out that Givens'
arrest was a case of mistaken
identity. Officers had been
looking for his brother,
Matthew Givens, whose exgirlfriend had reported that
he came into her bedroom uninvited, then left when she
screamed and called 911.
The woman, Maleah Kiara
Brown, told The AP on
Wednesday that she and a
friend had gone to the Givens
home with the officers and
were sitting outside when
Slager knocked on the door.
The second officer had gone
around to the back of the
house.
She had provided the officers with a detailed description of her ex-boyfriend,
Matthew Givens, who is about
5 feet, 5 inches tall. Mario
Givens stands well over 6 feet.
"He looked nothing like the
description I gave the officers," Brown said. "He asked
the officer why he was at the
house. He did it nicely. The
police officer said he wanted
him to step outside. Then he
asked, 'Why, why do you want
me to step outside?' Then the
officer barged inside and
grabbed him."
Moments later, she saw the
police officers drag Mario
Givens out of the house and
throw him in the dirt. Brown
said she kept yelling to the officers that they had the wrong
man, but they wouldn't listen.
Though Givens was offering
no resistance, she said, she
saw Slager use the stun gun
on him again.
"He was screaming, in
pain," she said. "He said, 'You
tased me. You tased me.
Why?' It was awful. Terrible. I
asked the officer why he tased
him and he told me to get
back."
"He was cocky," she said of
Slager. "It looked like he
wanted to hurt him. There
was no need to tase him. No
reason. He was no threat —
and we told him he had the
wrong man."
She said she later told a female police supervisor what
she had seen.
The next day, an angry
Mario Givens went downtown
to police headquarters and
filed a formal complaint. He
and his mother say several
neighbors who witnessed
what happened on the family's front lawn also contacted
the police, though they say officers refused to take their
statements.
The incident report filed by
Slager and the other officer,
Maurice Huggins, provides a
very different version of
events. In the report, obtained
by The AP through a public-
records request, Slager wrote
that he could not see one of
Givens' hands and feared he
might be holding a weapon.
He wrote that he observed
sweat on Givens' shirt, which
he perceived as evidence that
he could have run from
Brown's home, and then ordered him to exit several
times.
When Givens didn't comply, Slager said he entered the
home to prevent him from
fleeing and was then forced to
use his stun gun when Givens
struggled with him. The officers' report describes the
Givens brothers as looking
"just alike."
After Mario Givens filed
his complaint, the department
opened an internal investigation. A brief report in Slager's
personnel file says a senior officer was assigned to investigate. After a couple of weeks,
the case was closed with a notation that Slager was "exonerated."
Brown is listed as a witness in the investigative report, but her purported statement included none of the details she said she provided
about Slager shocking Givens
while he was on the ground.
She said she was never contacted as part of the police investigation and had not spoken with anyone about that
night until she was contacted
by an AP reporter Wednesday.
The report includes statements from Givens and from
another woman who was
there that night, Yolonda
Whitaker, who said she saw
Slager stun Givens "for no
reason." Efforts to reach
Whitaker by phone and the
addresses listed for her in the
police report were unsuccessful.
Givens said he was never
contacted as part of the internal investigation and learned
the case had been closed only
after he went to the station
about six weeks later and
asked what happened.
"They never told me how
they reached the conclusion.
Never. They never contacted
anyone from that night. No
one from the neighborhood,"
Givens said.
Givens shook his head
Wednesday when asked about
his reaction to learning Slager
had been charged with murder. Slager is being held without bail.
"It could have been prevented," Givens said of Scott's
death. "If they had just listened to me and investigated
what happened that night,
this man might be alive today."
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Together with their families, Ms. Katie Eubanks and
Mr. Dustin Little would like to
announce their engagement.
The bride is the daughter of
David and Judy Eubanks of
Rentz; granddaughter of
Louise Allen, the late Billy
Wood, Bonnie Eubanks and
the late John Eubanks.
Katie is a graduate of West
Laurens High School and is a
CSR at Allgood Pest Solutions.
The groom is the son of Gloria Little and the late
Woodrow Little Jr., the grandson of the late Woodrow Little
Sr., Ruth Little, Nell Tanner
and the late Troutman Tanner.
Dustin is a graduate of
Twiggs Academy and is owner/operator of Little Timber
Harvesting.
The couple plans to wed
May 2, 2015.
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Fairview Park Hospital makes donation
to American Heart Association
Fairview Park Hospital celebrated American Heart Month in a
fashionable way – virtually, that
is. On Feb. 25, 2015 physicians
and staff members gathered in
the hospital classrooms to cast
their vote on the most creative
pose/theme from 12 entries in
the fourth annual Go Red Virtual Fashion Show. Earlier in the
month Mike Jones, a local photographer captured images of
staff members dressed in red.
Those images were crafted into
display boards and a digital
slide show shown during a four
hour voting period. Physicians
and employees were encouraged to “stuff the ballots” with
money on which entry was the best. $673.40 later a winner was declared
– the American Heart Association. While the competition is great fun, ultimately the cause is to raise awareness to fight heart disease in our
community. Fairview Park will round the donation off to present the
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This week I’ve been helping
a couple choose the right paint
colors for their entire house.
We’ve had some interesting
discussions: she wants to go
bold, he wants to play it safe.
But what came out of these
lively debates were some common misconceptions about
how to liven up a dark space
with paint.
Considering the source and
quality of light in a space is
important when picking paint
colors for it. Natural light affects colors differently than
artificial light. Incandescent
bulbs present colors differently than fluorescent and LED
ones.
The absence of light requires the same level of consideration as a brighter room.
Insufficient natural light is
common in powder rooms,
hallways, basements, rooms
without windows, and rooms
that face north. These spaces
present unique challenges
when it comes to choosing colors that won’t get lost in the
shadows. The solutions are
fairly simple, even if they may
seem counterintuitive.
I found a discussion between two color experts, Ellen
Divers and Donna Frasca. The
best solution to lighting and
lightening up a room? Simple:
Add more light, they both say.
Here are a few other questions
that my readers may be curious about when tackling a
dark, shadowy room.
What do you think is the
biggest mistake homeowners
make when choosing colors for
rooms with no or insufficient
natural light?
The biggest mistake is to
follow the notion that you
must paint the room a light
color because light colors reflect more light. Yes, light colors do reflect more light, but if
there is limited light in the
room in the first place, then
there’s not much that’s going
to be reflected, and light colors
can end up looking sad and
gray.
Some homeowners think
they need to forgo color altogether in a dark room. There’s
this common myth that painting a small, dark space white
will make it appear larger.
That may work to a certain extent, but it can also result in
making an already uninteresting room that much more uninteresting.
Overall, what types of paint
colors work best to enhance
dark rooms?
Generally, a dimly lit room
means more shadows. Shadows will subdue any color you
put on the walls. So you may
need to compensate and
choose a more saturated
(brighter, more pigmented)
color than you might for a better-illuminated space.
Of course the saturated
hues work best in any dark
area. The cleaner the color
(meaning the less black it contains) the lighter and brighter
the paint color is. One hue
that will brighten a dark room
is gold, but you have to choose
a “clean” gold such as one with
more white in it.
What colors would you suggest for a powder room without windows?
Powder rooms are great opportunities to do something
fun and out-of-the-box. Usually, people aren’t spending
much time in these spaces, so
we’re not as concerned about
the impact of color on their
mood. Pick a color that pops,
that makes you say “Wow!”
While it depends on the
bathroom, a fun choice is a
dark or unexpected color,
which you’d think would be
the last thing to do, but it
makes an otherwise humdrum room stunning.
What colors do you recommend for hallways?
Paint them any color you
like, keeping in mind what we
discussed about how colors behave in the dark. An interesting idea is to paint one wall
darker than the other to create the illusion of a wider hallway. Since hallways are often
narrow spaces, I would use
caution with very bright, very
pure colors because they have
a way of “jumping off the wall”
and making the space feel
more enclosed than it really is.
Medium values (not light, not
dark) might be a good choice
here.
A light neutral for the hallway is always good because
these areas are often dark. Also, and more importantly, because they’re often the main
area of the home where many
other rooms connect. There
will be colors in those other
rooms and if you choose a “color” for the hallway, there is no
separation; the home can start
looking like a bag of jelly
beans.
Hope these thoughts about
paint color will help decide on
the right paint color for that
dark space. Next week, I’ll
give even more tips for picking
the perfect paint colors for
your rooms.
Claire Livingston is an interior designer, public speaker,
and workshop facilitator. Send
your ideas and comments to
her at The Courier Herald,
Drawer B, Dublin, Georgia
31040, or contact her at [email protected].
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VA makes little headway in fight to shorten waits for care
FAYETTEVILLE,
N.C.
(AP)
—
A year after Americans recoiled at new revelations
that sick veterans were getting sicker while languishing
on waiting lists — and
months after the Department of Veterans Affairs instituted major reforms costing billions of dollars — government data shows that the
number of patients facing
long waits at VA facilities
has not dropped at all.
No one expected that the
VA mess could be fixed
overnight. But The Associated Press has found that since
the summer, the number of
vets waiting more than 30 or
60 days for non-emergency
care has largely stayed flat.
The number of medical appointments that take longer
than 90 days to complete has
nearly doubled.
Nearly 894,000 appointments completed at VA medical facilities from Aug. 1 to
Feb. 28 failed to meet the
health system's timeliness
goal, which calls for patients
to be seen within 30 days.
That means roughly one
in 36 patient visits to a caregiver involved a delay of at
least a month. Nearly
232,000 of those appointments involved a delay of
longer than 60 days — a figure that doesn't include cancellations, patient no-shows,
or instances where veterans
gave up and sought care elsewhere.
A closer look reveals deep
geographic disparities.
Many delay-prone facilities are clustered within a
few hours' drive of each other in a handful of Southern
states, often in areas with a
strong military presence, a
partly rural population and
patient growth that has outpaced the VA's sluggish planning process.
Of the 75 clinics and hospitals with the highest percentage of patients waiting
more than 30 days for care,
12 are in Tennessee or Kentucky, 11 are in eastern
North Carolina and the
Hampton Roads area of Virginia, 11 more are in Georgia
and southern Alabama, and
six are in north Florida.
Seven more were clustered in the region between
Albuquerque, New Mexico,
and Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Those 47 clinics and hospitals represent just a fraction of the more than 1,000
VA facilities nationwide, but
they were responsible for
more than one in five of the
appointments that took
longer than 60 days to complete, even though they accounted for less than 6 percent of patient visits.
That has meant big
headaches for veterans like
Rosie Noel, a retired Marine
gunnery sergeant who was
awarded the Purple Heart in
Iraq after rocket shrapnel
slashed open her cheek and
broke her jaw.
Noel, 47, said it took 10
months for the VA to successfully schedule her for a follow-up exam and biopsy after an abnormal cervical cancer screening test in June
2013.
First, she said, her physician failed to mention she
needed the exam at all.
Then, her first scheduled appointment in February 2014
was postponed due to another medical provider's "family
emergency." She said her
make-up appointment at the
VA hospital in Fayetteville,
one of the most backed-up facilities in the country, was
abruptly canceled when she
was nearly two hours into
the drive from her home in
Sneads Ferry on the coast.
Noel said she was so enraged, she warned the caller
that she had post-traumatic
stress disorder, she wasn't
going to turn around — and
they better have security
meet her in the lobby.
"I served my country. I'm
combat wounded. And to be
treated like I'm nothing is
unconscionable," she said.
The AP examined wait
times at 940 individual VA
facilities from Sept. 1
through Feb 28 to gauge any
changes since a scandal over
delays and attempts to cover
them up led to the resignation of VA Secretary Eric
Still waiting...
The Veterans Affairs system operates more
than 1,000 facilities. Here is a look at some regions where waits were longest over a sixmonth period beginning on Sept. 1 and ending
Feb. 28:
———
Northern Florida:
It's a long drive from the tip of Florida's panhandle to
Jacksonville, on the Atlantic coast, but with some detours
you can hit four of the most delay-prone VA outpatient
clinics in the country. The VA clinics in Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Panama City and Pensacola collectively completed 250,000 appointments during the six-month period.
Nearly 13 percent of those visits involved a wait of longer
than 30 days, well above the national average of 2.8 percent. In Jacksonville, 7,117 appointments involved a wait
of more than 60 days — more than in the entire states of
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut combined.
———
Central Alabama:
When the U.S. government built a veterans hospital in
Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1923, the idea was to create a
haven for black servicemen excluded from "whites only"
medical facilities. From September to February, that facility
and its sister medical center in nearby Montgomery, Alabama, struggled more than any other VA hospitals to
meet the department's goals for timely access to care.
About 9 percent of patient visits involved a wait of longer
than 30 days.
———
Georgia:
Of the 100 VA hospitals and clinics with the most patients
waiting more than 30 days for care, 10 are in Georgia. A
small VA clinic near Fort Benning, in Columbus, Georgia,
has been among the worst performers. About 13 percent
of patient visits involved a wait of more than 30 days. It
has close to the longest average wait for mental health
care in the country. At the VA hospital in Dublin, one in
36 appointments involved a wait longer than 60 days.
———
Shinseki in May and prompted lawmakers to pass the
Veterans Access, Choice and
Accountability Act in August.
The analysis included all VA
hospitals and outpatient
clinics for which consistent
wait time data was available. It excluded residential
treatment centers, homeless
dormitories and disability
evaluation centers. Data for
individual facilities were not
available for August.¬†
It is difficult to quantify
exactly how things have
changed because the VA introduced a new method for
measuring wait times at the
end of the summer. VA officials say the new methodology is more accurate, but its
adoption also meant that
about half of all patient appointments previously considered delayed are now being classified as meeting VA
timeliness standards. That
means published wait times
now can't be directly compared with data the VA released last spring.
The trend, however, is
clear: Under the VA's old
method for calculating delays, the percentage of appointments that took longer
than 30 days to complete had
been steadily ticking up,
from 4.2 percent in May to
nearly 5 percent in September. Under the new method
— the one that counts half as
many appointments as delayed — the percentage went
from 2.4 percent in August to
2.9 percent in February.
The number of appointments delayed by more than
90 days abruptly jumped to
nearly 13,000 in January
and more than 10,000 in
February, compared to an average of around 5,900 the
previous five months. That's
not a change that can simply
be blamed on bad winter
weather; many of the places
reporting the largest gains
are warm year-round.
VA officials say they are
aware of the trouble spots in
the system. They cite numerous efforts to ramp up capacity by building new health
centers and hiring more
staff. And they say that in at
least one statistical category,
the VA has improved: The
number of appointments
handled by VA facilities between May and February
was up about 4.5 percent
compared to the same period
a year earlier.
But they also readily acknowledge that in some
parts of the country, the VA
is perpetually a step behind
rising demand.
"I think what we are seeing is that as we improve access, more veterans are coming," Deputy Secretary of
Veterans Affairs Sloan Gibson told the AP.
He also acknowledged
that the VA has historically
been "not very adroit as a bureaucracy" in responding to
those changes. It takes too
long to plan and build new
clinics when they are needed, he said, and the VA isn't
flexible in its ability to reallocate resources to places
that need them most.
"We are doing a whole series of things — the right
things, I believe — to deal
with the immediate issue,"
Gibson said. "But we need an
intermediate term plan that
moves us ahead a quantum
leap, so that we don't continue over the next three or four
years just trying to stay up.
We've got to get ahead of demand."
He also asked for patience. President Barack
Obama signed legislation in
August giving the VA an additional $16.3 billion to hire
doctors, open more clinics
and build the new Choice
program that allows vets facing long delays or long drives
to get care from a privatesector doctor.
It will take time to get
some of those initiatives expanded to the point where
they "move the needle," Gibson said.
Between Nov. 5 and
March 17, according to VA officials, only about 46,000 patients had made appointments for private-sector care
through Choice — a drop in
the bucket for a system that
averages about 4.7 million
appointments per month.
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Eastern North Carolina:
North Carolina is home to the Army's Fort Bragg, the Marines' Camp Lejeune, and nine of the 50 VA medical facilities with the most patients waiting more than 30 days for
care. Around 16 percent of the vets getting treatment at
the clinic in Jacksonville, North Carolina, had to wait
longer than 30 days for an appointment. Close to 1 in 9
patients there had to wait longer than 60 days to see a
caregiver. The VA has opened several new clinics in the
state in recent years to deal with long waits, but those new
and expanded sites haven't met expanding demand.
———
Hampton Roads, Virginia:
A home to U.S. naval power, and a popular spot for military retirees, the Hampton Roads region of southeastern
Virginia also ranks among the worst places for a vet to get
a timely appointment at the VA. About 7.3 percent of the
appointments completed at the VA hospital in Hampton
failed to meet the department's timeliness standards. At
the outpatient clinic in Virginia Beach, 18 percent of patient visits involved a wait of longer than 30 days — although things have been improving. The clinic completed
nearly 89 percent of its visits in a timely fashion in February, compared to 76 percent six months earlier.
———
Tennessee and Kentucky:
The VA has opened a host of small medical clinics in rural
Tennessee and southern Kentucky, and while they treat a
modest number of patients, those that do come are
among the most likely to face a long wait for care. Thirteen of the 100 VA sites with the highest percentage of
patients waiting more than 30 days are in the two states.
The outpatient clinic in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, has the
highest percentage of delayed appointments of any VA
clinic in the country. Nearly 20 percent of the 5,377 appointments completed at that facility involved a wait of
longer than 30 days, and things have been getting steadily worse since the summer.
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few VA facilities in the
Northeast, Midwest and Pacific Coast states reported
having significant numbers
of patients waiting extended
periods for care.
Of the 940 hospitals and
outpatient centers included
in the AP analysis, 376 met
the VA's timeliness standard
better than 99 percent of the
time. A little less than half of
all VA hospitals and clinics
reported averaging fewer
than two appointments per
month that involved a wait
of more than 60 days.
The difference between
the haves and have-nots can
be stark.
The Minneapolis VA, one
of the system's busiest medical
centers,
completed
276,094 medical appointments between Sept. 1 and
Feb. 28. Only 424 of them involved a wait of more than
60 days.
At the VA's outpatient
clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, a facility handling a third
of the volume, 7,117 appointments involved a wait of
more than 60 days.
That means there were
more vets experiencing extended delays at that one
clinic than in the entire
states of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut combined.
Equally surprising: The
Jacksonville clinic is practically brand new. It opened in
2013 with the express intent
of improving access to care in
a fast-growing city with a lot
of military retirees and a
close relationship with three
U.S. Navy bases: Naval Air
Station Jacksonville, Naval
Station Mayport and the
Kings Bay Naval Base.
But like other VA facilities
built recently in spots now
struggling with long waits,
the clinic took so long to plan
and build — 12 years — that
it was too small the day it
opened, despite late design
changes that added significantly more space.
"Even our best demographic models didn't anticipate the rate at which the
growth would occur," said
Nick Ross, the assistant director for outpatient clinics
at the VA's North Florida/South Georgia Veterans
Health System.
In recent months, the clinic has been enrolling another
25 new patients per day — a
growth rate that would require the VA to hire another
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weeks to keep up with demand, said Thomas Wisnieski, the health system's director.
Officials are hoping to
lease 20,000 square feet of
additional clinic space while
they begin the planning
process for yet another new
building.
Clinic construction is also
underway in an attempt to
ease chronic delays in care on
the Florida panhandle. A new
outpatient VA clinic is scheduled to open in Tallahassee in
2016, and a groundbreaking
ceremony was held in August
for a new clinic in Panama
City.
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A SLOW PACE OF
CHANGE
The Fayetteville VA hopes
to celebrate its 75th anniversary this fall with the opening of a huge new outpatient
health care center that could
ease the types of chronic delays that caused Rosie Noel
so much anxiety. (After her
canceled exam, the VA paid
for Noel to get care at a private-sector clinic; she doesn't
have cervical cancer.)
With 250,000 square feet
of usable space, the center
will be almost as large as the
main hospital building itself.
The new campus will have
1,800 parking spots, a
women's clinic and scores of
new treatment rooms. It is
sorely needed for a region
that is home to two of America's largest military bases,
the Army's Fort Bragg and
the Marines' Camp Lejeune,
and one of the highest concentrations of vets in the
country. In two core counties,
one in five adults is a veteran.
Yet the new building is also emblematic of the slow
pace of change at the VA.
Planning for the facility
began in 2008, and Congress
approved funding the next
year. Construction hadn't
even begun when the first
target completion date came
and went in June 2012. The
VA's Office of Inspector General said in a 2013 report that
the VA's management of the
"timeliness and costs" of seven planned health care centers, including the one in
Fayetteville, had "not been
effective."
The hospital's director
since 2010, Elizabeth Goolsby, cited the VA's failure to
expand quickly as a primary
reason for why eastern North
Carolina now has some of the
longest waits for care in the
country.
"The
contracting
and
building time in the Department of Veterans Affairs is a
lengthy process," she said.
During her tenure in
Fayetteville, Goolsby has
opened new outpatient clinics
in Wilmington, Goldsboro,
Pembroke and Hamlet. All
now rank among the VA locations with the highest percentage of appointments that
fail to meet timeliness standards.
At the VA's clinic in Jacksonville— a small medical office built in a shopping plaza
near Camp Lejeune's main
gate in 2008 — nearly one in
nine appointments completed
between Sept. 1 and Feb. 28
involved a wait of longer than
60 days.
"It's not big enough to accommodate the number of
veterans we are seeing or the
number of providers we
need," Goolsby acknowledged.
One solution, she said, has
been to keep building.
A new 15,000-square-foot
clinic is under construction to
serve the area around Camp
Lejeune. The VA also is trying
to develop a clinic in Sanford,
north of Fort Bragg. And
there have been stopgap measures, like the construction of
modular buildings at the
Fayetteville hospital this
winter to host mental health
clinics, and an emergency
lease for a temporary medical
office that allowed it to bolster staff in Jacksonville.
VA
An explanation of AP's
analysis of VA wait time data
By The Associated Press
Everyone agrees on the problem: Many patients at Veterans Affairs hospitals and clinics
are waiting too long to see the doctor. But
what's the best way to measure that problem?
In setting out to evaluate the performance of
940 hospitals and clinics in the VA system, The
Associated Press chose to focus on the number
of appointments that failed to meet the VA's
own timeliness goal, which calls for patients to
receive non-emergency care within 30 days.
In some ways, that number — 30 days — is
arbitrary. A one-month wait for a routine annual physical is hardly a burden. For someone in
physical or mental pain, 30 days could be an
eternity.
The standard, though, is a significant one in
the VA bureaucracy. Under a law passed in August, VA patients who have to wait longer than
30 days for an appointment are supposed to be
offered a chance to switch to a private-sector
doctor, at the VA's expense.
And, despite its clinical insignificance, the
30-day standard is a useful barometer for identifying VA sites that have a problem providing
Some vets whose doctors
were moved over to the new
Jacksonville
space
said
things improved immediately,
even if that has not yet been
reflected in the statistics.
"It used to take me six
months to a year to get a doctor's
appointment,"
Jim
Davis, a retired Marine who
fought in the first Gulf War
and now has Lou Gehrig's
Disease. Since he transferred
to the temporary clinic, he
said, "I've called, and within
three or four days I can get in
to see the doctor."
He called the change a relief, because he preferred to
stay within the VA system for
care if he could.
"There's not a pharmacist
at Wal-Mart calling me at
home and asking me if the
latest change in medicine
made me feel sick. But that is
happening in the VA," Davis
said. "They are so much more
respectful, because they know
you served."
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RURAL RECRUITING
CHALLENGES
After years of planning, a
large, new outpatient center
also is scheduled to open this
fall to expand care offered at
the VA medical center in
Montgomery, Alabama.
That expansion also is long
overdue. Among the VA's fullservice medical centers, the
Montgomery VA had the highest percentage of appointments that took longer than
30 days to complete. More
than one in 11 appointments
completed between September and February failed to
meet timeliness standards. A
sister hospital, a short drive
to the east in Tuskegee, was
No. 2.
There's no guarantee,
though, that a new building
will help the Central Alabama Veterans Health Care
System solve one of its other
longstanding problems — a
difficulty recruiting enough
doctors and specialists needed to handle demand.
Both hospitals are surrounded by largely poor, rural
counties designated by the
government as having severe
physician shortages.
"They are on the frontier of
some of the most medically
underserved areas of the
country," said Dr. William
Curry, associate dean for primary care and rural health at
University of Alabama School
of Medicine.
That could mean that veterans who might otherwise
get care in the private sector
are more reliant on the VA. It
also has historically meant
big challenges recruiting
physicians, who can make
more money in metropolitan
areas.
"Not a lot of medical students want to go work for the
VA in a rural community
medical clinic," said Dr.
Kevin Dellsperger, chief medical officer at the Georgia Regents Medical Center and former chief of staff at the VA
medical center in Iowa City,
Iowa.
timely care.
Ideally, any analysis of patient waits at the
VA would include a look back of at least a year,
if not much longer, but here that was not possible.
The VA has made some adjustments in the
way it calculates its statistics on delays, including doing away with a system of measuring
delays from the time an appointment is entered
into the VA's scheduling software, rather than
from the date when the patient actually wanted or needed to receive care.
Those changes, made in late summer, had
the effect of roughly halving the number of appointments that failed to meet the VA's 30-day
timeliness standard and radically changing the
average wait times reported by facilities. For
that reason, the data the VA releases now cannot be compared directly to numbers it generated in the spring.
The AP analysis includes a look at systemwide VA data from Aug. 1 to Feb. 28, and statistics on individual VA facilities from Sept. 1 to
Feb. 28. A detailed breakdown of facility performance in August was not available.
Dr. Srinivas Ginjupalli,
acting chief of staff for the
Central Alabama Veterans
Health Care System, confirmed that recruiting is a
challenge, but he said the VA
has been boosting salaries
since the summer in an attempt to be more competitive
in attracting staff.
Goolsby cited similar rural
recruiting problems in her
enterprise, which serves a
sprawling region of hog farms
and tobacco fields. Other VA
officials said difficulty attracting health care providers
to remote or poor parts of the
country
was
an
issue
throughout the system.
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NO EASY FIX
A few places struggling the
most with long waits did report improvements.
At the VA in Montgomery,
Alabama, the percentage of
appointments
that
take
longer than 30 days to complete has fallen from 12.6 percent in September to 6.4 percent in February. That's still
a bad number compared to
other VA hospitals but, looking at performance only in
February, it would be enough
improvement to take the hospital from worst to third in
terms of the percentage of delays.
The VA's most chronically
delayed outpatient clinic
throughout the summer and
fall, located in Virginia
Beach, Virginia, reported improvement, too. In September, 24 percent of its patient
visits were delayed by at
least 30 days. By February,
that had fallen to 11 percent
— still terrible, but much better.
The VA site that had the
most trouble meeting the VA's
timeliness standard during
the whole six-month period
reviewed by the AP was a
small clinic near Fort Campbell in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. One in five appointments took longer than 30
days to complete, and the rate
has gotten steadily worse over
time.
The centerpiece of the legislation signed over the summer was a plan to expand the
number of veterans who are
approved to get care outside
of VA facilities. Yet the Choice
program has barely gotten off
the ground.
ID cards for the program
were mailed starting in November, but many vets still
don't understand how it
works. It theoretically is open
to patients who can't been
seen within 30 days, or who
have to drive longer distances
for care, but enrollees still
have to get VA approval to see
a private-sector doctor and
only some physicians participate in the payment system.
"It's not working the way it
needs to work," said Gibson,
the deputy VA secretary,
though he added that he was
enthusiastic about its potential. He said some consultants
advising the VA said it might
take 18 months to build the
program.
In a meeting with congressional aides and state veterans service officials in March,
Goolsby gave some figures to
illustrate how the program
was working in southeastern
North Carolina: Of the 640
patients offered an opportunity for outside care through
mid-March, only four were ultimately seen a private-sector
doctor.
"We're finding that a lot
don't want an outside appointment," she said.
Reasons vary, she said, but
one factor is that switching to
a new doctor can be disruptive
for someone with an ongoing
medical issue.
In March, officials loosened
the eligibility rules for the
program slightly so it would
cover more vets who have to
drive longer distances for
care.
The VA also has been trying to tackle long wait times
in other ways.
The Central Alabama Veterans Health Care System,
Ginjupalli said, has been promoting the use of "telehealth"
systems that allow patients in
rural or backed-up areas to
see doctors elsewhere via
video conferencing.
It also has reached an
agreement with the Defense
Department to help reduce
long delays for care at its clinic in Columbus, Georgia, by
moving some staff to a 19,000square-foot building at the
military's medical center at
Fort Benning.
Dr. Daniel Dahl, psychiatrist and associate chief of
staff for mental health at the
Central Alabama VA, said the
new space will triple the VA's
capacity for mental health
care in the area. In February,
the average delay for a mental health appointment at the
Columbus clinic was 25 days
— seven times the national
average.
Obama's secretary of Veterans Affairs, Robert McDonald, has cautioned that it will
take time for reforms to make
a difference.
He also warned in recent
testimony to Congress that
the system may still be
decades away from seeing
peak usage by the generation
of servicemen and servicewomen who fought in Iraq
and Afghanistan.
Total enrollees in the VA
system have ballooned from
6.8 million in 2002 to 8.9 million in 2013. During that
same period, outpatient visits
have soared from 46.5 million
to 86.4 million annually; patient spending has grown
from $19.9 billion to $44.8 billion; the number of patients
served annually has grown
from 4.5 million to 6 million.
McDonald told Congress
the number of mental health
outpatient visits alone is up
72 percent from 2005.
"Today, we serve a population that is older, with more
chronic conditions, and less
able to afford private sector
care," McDonald said.
That could mean that without further change, waits will
only grow.
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stop comes as China
expands influence
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — Opening a three-day trip to
the Caribbean and Central America, President Barack Obama
hopes to capitalize on mutual needs in the face of expanding
Chinese influence and weakening power by Venezuela, once
the energy juggernaut of the Americas.
Obama's arrival Wednesday evening in Kingston, Jamaica,
was low-key compared to the excitement he stirred in the
Caribbean upon his election in 2008. Greeted at the airport
tarmac by dignitaries including Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller, Obama slipped into a motorcade that ran through
mostly quiet, empty streets.
The visit comes amid a perception that Obama's interest in
the region has failed to materialize. Yet his travels — first to
Jamaica, then to the Summit of the Americas in Panama —
follow a year of increased attention to the region by the U.S.
president. His immigration executive orders, his efforts to
slow the influx of Central American minors to the U.S. border,
and his diplomatic outreach to Cuba have put a foreign policy
spotlight on U.S. neighbors to the south.
Obama on Thursday will meet with Simpson Miller and
with other leaders in the 15-member Caribbean Community.
He also plans to speak to young regional leaders in a town-hall
setting, continuing a tradition of engaging new generations in
foreign political and civil society institutions.
The president promptly paid tribute to the island's cultural hero, the late reggae star Bob Marley, making an unscheduled visit Wednesday night to the legendary singer's museum.
He toured Marley's former home as Marley's hit "One Love"
played through the building's sound system.
In the Caribbean, energy security tops Obama's agenda as
the U.S. seeks to fill a potential void left by Venezuela's scaledback oil diplomacy. Earlier this year, Vice President Joe Biden
hosted prime ministers and other top officials from all
Caribbean countries except Cuba at the first Caribbean Energy Security Summit in Washington.
"We, in looking at the region, saw that a number of the
(Caribbean) countries had significant energy needs," said Benjamin Rhodes, a White House deputy national security adviser. "At the same time, the United States has significant resources, not just in terms of our own energy production, but also in our energy infrastructure, in our ability to work with
countries that have formed cooperative solutions to promote
energy security."
Meanwhile, China has steadily expanded its economic alliances in the Caribbean, providing much of the financing for
new roads, bridges and other infrastructure projects.
"China is running away with the gold in the view of many
region watchers. Its footprint is visible and obvious through
its 'checkbook' diplomacy in the Caribbean," said Anthony
Bryan, an international relations professor at Trinidad's campus of the University of the West Indies. The public university system serves 18 English-speaking countries and territories.
Obama's visit to Jamaica is the first by a U.S. president
since President Ronald Reagan in 1982. Obama was last in the
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Falcons jump out early, fight off Irish for 6-5 win
Win knocks Dublin out of first,
moves EL closer to playoff spot
By RODNEY MANLEY
Sports Editor
Both playing their third game
in three days, East Laurens and
Dublin showed no wear
Wednesday as the region and
crosstown rivals hooked up in a
three-hour thriller.
The Falcons jumped on the
Irish right away, sending 10 batters to plate in the top of the first
inning and scoring five runs. East
Laurens never surrendered the
lead, but the Fighting Irish made
it a nailbiter late, scoring four in
the fourth to pull to 6-5, then
loading the bases in the fifth.
Falcons
reliever
Jimbo
Johnson, who also had four hits,
pitched in and out of that jam
with no runs, ending the threat
with a strikeout. He slammed the
door from there, striking out five
of the next six Dublin batters to
save the one-run win for starter
Blake Toney.
The win knocks Dublin out of
first place in Region 3-AA while
keeping alive the Falcons’ late
push for a playoff spot. The top
four teams make the postseason,
and East Laurens is now fifth at
4-5 in region play.
“It puts us one step closer to
four,” East Laurens head coach
Gene Mulkey said after the game.
“We played three games on
spring break — Monday,
Tuesday and Wednesday — back
to back to back, and won them
all. That’s never happened to me
since I’ve been in the coaching
business.”
With one out in the first, the
Falcons loaded the bases when
Johnson and Austin Scott hit
back-to-back singles and Toney
was hit by a pitch. Cavin
Rotramel then cleared the bases
with a three-run double.
Freshman Gavin Donaldson
drove Rotramel home with
another double, then scored on a
two-out single by first baseman
Chris Lampp to give East Laurens
the 5-0 lead.
“East Laurens played better
than we did today, and they
deserved to win,” said Dublin
head coach Ricky Watters.
“Coach Mulkey had his guys
ready to play. I’m proud of our
guys. They fought to the end. We
had guys get on, just couldn’t get
that last hit that we needed.”
The Irish got one run back in
the bottom of the first, even
though Falcons starter Toney
struck out four Dublin batters in
the inning. K.J. Kinsey led off with
a single and took second on a
balk. Baisden Holden walked,
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All eyes on Mcilroy, Woods
as Masters gets underway
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Three
of golf's greatest players began
the Masters with ceremonial tee
shots.
Then the focus quickly shifted to a pair of players who'll be
keeping score, Rory McIlroy and
Tiger Woods.
Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer
and Gary Player — with 13
green jackets between them —
came out on a warm, sunny
Thursday morning to give the
tournament its traditional
opening.
"Don't fan it," the 85-yearold Palmer jokingly told himself.
"I don't think he's kidding,"
the 75-year-old Nicklaus added
with a chuckle. "He said exactly
the same thing to me"
No problem there. All three
champions launched drives that
carried well down the fairway,
with the longest shot delivered
by the 79-year-old Player.
Nicklaus and Player are
among five players to complete
the career Grand Slam.
McIlroy is in position to join
them, having already won, at
age 25, the other three majors.
Woods, on the other hand, is
looking to play 72 holes in a regular PGA Tour event for only the
second time in the past year.
While McIlroy and Woods
dominated the headlines coming into the Masters, let's not
forget the other potential contenders, a lengthy list led by
defending champion Bubba
Watson.
"I feel like I have a shot
around here," said Watson, who
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nichlaus hits honorary tee shot to open
the 79th Masters.
has won two of the past three
Masters and can become only
the fourth player to win backto-back titles. "It doesn't mean
I'm going to do it. But I'm going
to try to compete at a high level,
and hopefully on Sunday we
have that chance on the back
nine."
McIlroy was the clear
favorite, having won the last
two majors of 2014 (the British
Open
and
the
PGA
Championship) to leave the
Masters as the only big title
missing from his resume.
Woods, Ben Hogan and Gene
Sarazen are the only other
members of the exclusive club.
"Golf is a very fickle game,"
McIlroy said. "You don't take
anything for granted."
If he needs proof of that, all
McIlroy has to do is remember
what happened at this very
place four years ago. He had a
four-shot lead in the Masters,
ready to be crowned the next
big thing in golf, when he shot
80 in the final round.
McIlroy handled the collapse
with remarkable poise, insisting
AlMost tee tiMe
scorekeeper richard Muns sits under a leaderboard before the first round.
he would learn from his mistakes. Two months later, he set
scoring records while winning
the U.S. Open at Congressional
for his first major title.
"A lot of that win has to do
with what happened at
Augusta," he said.
While the expectations are
higher than ever for McIlroy,
they've never been lower for
Woods. He is competing for the
first time since Feb. 5, when he
walked off the course at Torrey
Pines to work on a game that
made him look more like a
weekend duffer than a 14-time
major champion.
Woods has shown much
improvement in three days of
practice, including nine holes he
played Wednesday with Ben
Crenshaw and Jordan Spieth.
Then again, no one — not
even Woods — is sure how he'll
play when the shots actually
count.
"I'm excited to be back, to be
back playing at this level," he
said. "I feel like my game is
finally ready to compete at this
level, the highest level."
Watson is trying to join
Nicklaus, Woods and Nick Faldo
as the only Masters champions
to defend their titles. Then
there's Jordan Spieth, who had a
shot at becoming the youngest
Masters champion in his debut a
year ago. Now 21, he might be
the hottest player on the PGA
Tour, having won, finished second, and lost in a playoff in his
past three starts.
"Last year," Spieth said, "I
had no expectations, didn't
know what it was going to be
like, had never played the tournament before. This year, I
come in maybe expecting to
play well on a course I feel very
comfortable on. I feel like it
suits my game nicely, and I also
feel like I've been playing well."
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Streelman wins Masters Par 3 in sudden-death playoff
AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Kevin
Streelman beat Camilo Villegas
on the third hole of a suddendeath playoff Wednesday to win
the Par 3 tournament on the last
day to relax at Augusta National.
Streelman and Villegas finished
the nine holes tied at 5 under.
They each opened with a par
then a birdie before Streelman
topped Villegas, who had not
one, but two holes-in-one
through his first eight holes.
Americans Ben Martin and
Cameron Tringale tied last year's
Par 3 champ Ryan Moore at 4
under.
Streelman, who played at Duke,
tied for 42nd last year in his best
finish in three appearances at
the Masters.
Winning the Par 3 contest has
been considered a bad omen
since no one has won both that
title and the Masters in the same
week. Streelman called it a fun
day where his focus was on helping Ethan from the Make-a-Wish
Foundation have a great day.
"Done all I can do," Streelman
said. "Now I've just got to go out
and have fun and play."
Villegas got his first ace on
No. 4 along with Jack Nicklaus
and Matias Dominguez of Chile.
The Colombian followed that
with his second hole-in-one of
the day on the 120-yard No. 8,
taking him to 5-under 22 and
tying Streelman.
Holes-in-one are nothing new
for Villegas who had the 14th of
his career last week at home
with a 5-iron. He said his pitching wedge on his first hole-inone Wednesday kept trickling
back and went in the hole. He
used a 54-degree wedge on his
second ace.
"The second one, we were a
little more emotional there,"
Villegas said. "We just kind of
jumped. Enjoying it man."
Tiger Woods had company
playing the Par 3 for the first
time since 2004. His 6-year-old
son, Charlie, and 7-year-old
daughter, Sam, caddied for him
with girlfriend, Olympic skiing
champion Lindsey Vonn, joining
them. Woods even let his daughter handle his putting, and she
showed a deft touch on the
green.
"I'll always have memories of
my pop at Augusta and now Sam
& Charlie," Woods wrote on
Twitter. "An amazing day."
Family time is the best part of
this event.
Ernie Els let his daughter
Samantha putt. Caleb Watson
looked adorable in his caddie
suit and green hat following his
daddy, two-time Masters champ
Bubba from hole to hole.
Brendan Todd had his hands full
carrying son Oliver when not
swinging a club.
"Definitely the best part was
carrying my son, six-month-boy,
all over showing him off to the
crowd," Todd said.
Nicklaus, the six-time Masters
AP photo
Having Fun
Ernie Ells reacts to daughter Samantha’s putt
champ, looked like he just might
win his first Par 3 title at the age
of 75 after a hole-in-one on No. 4.
His iron shot bounced twice
before taking a little hop spinning back into the hole.
Braves finish off three-game
sweep of Marlins with shutout
Special photos
golFing and BBQing For a good cauSE
green acres hosted a benefit golf tournament for ricky Maddox, whose business burned recently. a Baker Baptist church missions team prepared and
donated barbecue plates, and between plate sales, golf entries and donations,
the tournament raised $9,000. The Morris State Bank team won first place. The
teams from green acres and Bradley Steel tied for second.
Golf benefit tournament a mission, ‘a great day’
Special to The Courier Herald
By Keith Carr
Thursday, April 2, there was a benefit held for
Ricky Maddox of Rentz at the Green Acres Golf
and Recreation Club in Dexter.
Ricky’s taxidermy business burned to the
ground a few weeks ago, along with his livelihood and many memories in the form of trophies of various kinds. It was at this time that a
friend of his, Kenny Stewart, phoned me and
asked if my mission team at Baker would help
cook some Boston Butts and sell plates. I said
I'm sure we could, but why don’t we combine it
with a golf tournament and do barbecue at the
course.
Thus began a very arduous task of coordinating, what was to become, a major undertaking.
So it began with a bunch of “men” trying to
organize something that was bigger than all of
TodaY
auTo racing
2 a.m.
NBCSN — Formula One,
practice for Chinese Grand
Prix, at Shanghai
golF
3 p.m.
ESPN — The Masters, first
round, at Augusta, Ga.
MaJor lEaguE BaSEBall
1 p.m.
MLB — Regional coverage,
N.Y. Mets at Washington or
Minnesota at Detroit
7 p.m.
MLB — Regional coverage,
San Francisco at San Diego or
Boston at Philadelphia
MEn'S collEgE HocKEY
5 p.m.
ESPN2 — Division I, playoffs,
semifinal, Providence vs.
Neb.-Omaha, at Boston
8:30 p.m.
ESPN2 — Division I, playoffs,
semifinal, Boston U. vs. North
Dakota, at Boston
nBa BaSKETBall
8 p.m.
TNT — Chicago at Miami
10:30 p.m.
TNT — Portland at Golden
State
nHl HocKEY
8 p.m.
NBCSN — Chicago at St.
Louis
TEnniS
1 p.m.
us. We had very little time and "selling" plates
seemed too hard, so we just trusted God to bless
it and we just took donations.
God proved his word about giving in Malachi
3:10:
“Test me in this, says the LORD Almighty, and
see if I will not throw open the floodgates of
heaven and pour out so much blessing that there
will not be room enough to store it.”
That’s just what HE did. Between the golf
tournament and the barbecue plates that were
strictly donation, the benefit raised a total of
about $9,000. It was a great day for our community. Home missions is just as important as foreign missions.
Thanks to all the businesses, schools, Green
Acres staff and individuals who made this a success. It was one of the best days I can remember
in a long time.
ESPN2 — WTA, Family Circle
Cup, round of 16, at
Charleston, S.C.
FridaY
auTo racing
11:30 a.m.
FS1 — NASCAR, Sprint Cup,
practice for Duck Commander
500, at Fort Worth, Texas
2 p.m.
"Happy Hour Series," final
practice for Duck Commander
4:30 p.m.
FS1 — NASCAR, XFINITY
Series, pole qualifying for
O'Reilly Auto Parts 300, at
Fort Worth, Texas
6:30 p.m.
pole qualifying for Duck
Commander 500, at Fort
Worth, Texas
8:30 p.m.
FS1 — NASCAR, XFINITY
Series, O'Reilly Auto Parts
3 a.m.
NBCSN — Formula One, qualifying for Chinese Grand Prix,
at Shanghai
BoXing
9 p.m.
ESPN2 — Boxcino, semifinals,
heavyweights, Lenroy Thomas
(19-3-0) vs. Andrey Fedosov
(26-3-0), at Bethlehem, Pa.
10 p.m.
SHO — Middleweights, Sergiy
Derevyanchenko (4-0-0) vs.
Alan Campa (13-1-0); middleweights, Ievgen Khytrov (90-0) vs. Aaron Coley (9-0-1);
super welterweights, Frank
Galarza (15-0-2) vs. Sheldon
Moore (13-2-1), at Westbury,
N.Y.
golF
3 p.m.
ESPN — The Masters, second
round, at Augusta, Ga.
MlB
naTional lEaguE
East division
W
l
Pct gB
Atlanta
3
0 1.000
—
New York
1
1 .500
1½
Philadelphia 1
1 .500
1½
Washington
1
1 .500
1½
Miami
0
3 .000
3
central division
W
l
Pct gB
Cincinnati
2
0 1.000
—
Chicago
1
1 .500
1
St. Louis
1
1 .500
1
Pittsburgh
0
2 .000
2
Milwaukee
0
3 .000
2½
West division
W
l
Pct gB
Colorado
3
0 1.000
—
Los Angeles 2
1 .667
1
San Francisco 2
1 .667
1
Arizona
1
2 .333
2
San Diego
1
2 .333
2
Wednesday
Chicago Cubs 2, St. Louis 0
Philadelphia 4, Boston 2
Washington 2, N.Y. Mets 1
Atlanta 2, Miami 0
Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 4, 11 innings
Colorado 5, Milwaukee 4, 10 innings
San Francisco 5, Arizona 2
L.A. Dodgers 7, San Diego 4
Today
Pittsburgh (Burnett 0-0) at Cincinnati
(DeSclafani 0-0), 12:35 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Harvey 0-0) at Washington
(Strasburg 0-0), 1:05 p.m.
San Francisco (T.Hudson 0-0) at San
Diego (Kennedy 0-0), 6:40 p.m.
Boston (Masterson 0-0) at Philadelphia
(Buchanan 0-0), 7:05 p.m.
Friday
Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 0-0) at Colorado
(Matzek 0-0), 4:10 p.m.
Washington (G.Gonzalez 0-0) at
Philadelphia (Williams 0-0), 7:05 p.m.
St. Louis (Lackey 0-0) at Cincinnati
(Marquis 0-0), 7:10 p.m.
Tampa Bay (Andriese 0-0) at Miami
(Haren 0-0), 7:10 p.m.
N.Y. Mets (Niese 0-0) at Atlanta (Stults
0-0), 7:35 p.m.
Pittsburgh (Locke 0-0) at Milwaukee
(Fiers 0-0), 8:10 p.m.
L.A. Dodgers (Anderson 0-0) at Arizona
(Anderson 0-0), 9:40 p.m.
San Francisco (Lincecum 0-0) at San
Diego (Morrow 0-0), 10:10 p.m.
MIAMI (AP) — Basking in the
roar of the crowd, Giancarlo
Stanton grinned and waved. The
$325 million right fielder's first
memorable moment of the season was a catch.
For Stanton and the rest of
the Miami Marlins, the offense is
yet to come.
Stanton turned a dazzling
double play, one of several
defensive gems Wednesday by
the Marlins, but they again sputtered at the plate and lost 2-0 to
the Atlanta Braves, who completed a three-game sweep.
The Braves are supposedly
rebuilding, while the Marlins
have playoff hopes, but Atlanta
outscored Miami 16-3 in the
series. The season-opening
sweep was the first for the
Braves since 2007.
A.J. Pierzynski hit a two-run
homer and five pitchers combined on a six-hitter for Atlanta.
The 38-year-old Pierzynski,
playing in his first game with his
newest team, broke up a scoreless tie in the seventh inning.
Shelby Miller made his first
start with the Braves and
allowed four hits in five
innings.
Rivals
Continued from 1a
then he and Kinsey moved into
scoring position with a double
steal.
Toney struck out the next
three hitters, but the final strike
to Dublin pitcher Jackson Tipton
on what would have been the
third out skipped in the dirt and
to the backstop. Tipton ran to
first, and Kinsey ran home. The
home umpire initially made no
call on Tipton’s check swing but
ruled everyone safe.
Toney retired the side with
another strikeout, then struck out
the first two hitters in the second
inning as he held the Irish hitless
from there until the four-run
fourth.
Meanwhile, Dublin starter
Tipton also settled down after the
first, holding the Falcons scoreless until the fourth inning when
Donaldson’s sacrifice fly drove in
Johnson, who had led off with a
single.
Now down 6-1, the Irish
fought back into the game with
their four-spot in the fourth. Cory
Mallette walked to lead off the
inning, and catcher Cole Mullis
followed with a double. Still with
no outs, Dublin DH Josh Price
delivered a two-run single and
took second on the throw to the
infield.
Kinsey knocked in another run
with a one-out double, then
scored on a Baisden single to pull
aMErican lEaguE
East division
W
l
Pct
Baltimore
2
1 .667
Boston
1
1 .500
New York
1
1 .500
Toronto
1
1 .500
Tampa Bay
1
2 .333
central division
W
l
Pct
Detroit
2
0 1.000
Kansas City
2
0 1.000
Cleveland
1
1 .500
Chicago
0
2 .000
Minnesota
0
2 .000
West division
W
l
Pct
Los Angeles 2
1 .667
Oakland
2
1 .667
Houston
1
1 .500
Seattle
1
2 .333
Texas
1
2 .333
gB
—
½
½
½
1
gB
—
—
1
2
2
gB
—
—
½
1
1
Wednesday
Detroit 11, Minnesota 0
Philadelphia 4, Boston 2
N.Y. Yankees 4, Toronto 3
Tampa Bay 2, Baltimore 0
Kansas City 7, Chicago White Sox 5
Cleveland 2, Houston 0
Oakland 10, Texas 0
L.A. Angels 5, Seattle 3
Today
Minnesota (Gibson 0-0) at Detroit
(Greene 0-0), 1:08 p.m.
Chicago White Sox (Danks 0-0) at
Kansas City (Volquez 0-0), 2:10 p.m.
Cleveland (Bauer 0-0) at Houston
(Wojciechowski 0-0), 2:10 p.m.
Texas (N.Martinez 0-0) at Oakland
(Graveman 0-0), 3:35 p.m.
Boston (Masterson 0-0) at Philadelphia
(Buchanan 0-0), 7:05 p.m.
Toronto (Da.Norris 0-0) at N.Y. Yankees
(Sabathia 0-0), 7:05 p.m.
nBa
EaSTErn conFErEncE
atlantic division
W
l
Pct
gB
y-Toronto
46 32
.590
—
Boston
36 42
.462
10
Brooklyn
36 42
.462
10
Philadelphia 18 61
.228
28½
New York
15 63
.192
31
Southeast division
W
l
Pct
gB
z-Atlanta
59 19
.756
—
the Irish to within a run at 6-5.
Mallette came on in relief for
Dublin and held the Falcons
scoreless over the final three
frames, allowing just one hit and
two walks. The Irish, however,
could get no closer.
Johnson made sure of that for
the Falcons. The shortstop/pitcher walked the bases loaded after
coming on to pitch in the fifth, but
he held the Irish hitless and off
the board the last three innings.
He struck out seven.
Toney was equally as overpowering early for East Laurens.
He also struck out seven. He
allowed five hits, and four of
those came in Dublin’s big fourth
inning.
“Blake Toney did a good job,’
said Mullkey. “He threw over 100
pitches, so he was going to have
to come out whether he was tired
or not. Jimbo Johnson did a great
job coming in to close it out.”
Johnson’s four singles paced
the Falcon 11-hit attack. Scott,
Donaldson and Lampp all had
two hits each.
Kinsey led the Irish with a single and a double, and he scored
two runs.
The Irish, now 7-3 in the
region and a game behind
Screven County, control their
own destiny. They already hold a
win over the Gamecocks, and victories over Screven
and
Swainsboro next week will earn
Dublin the regular season crown.
x-Washington45 33
.577
Miami
35 43
.449
Charlotte
33 45
.423
Orlando
25 53
.321
central division
W
l
Pct
y-Cleveland 51 27
.654
x-Chicago
46 32
.590
Milwaukee 38 40
.487
Indiana
35 43
.449
Detroit
30 48
.385
WESTErn conFErEncE
Southwest division
W
l
Pct
x-Houston 53 25
.679
x-Memphis 53 25
.679
x-San Antonio53 26
.671
x-Dallas
47 31
.603
New Orleans 42 36
.538
northwest division
W
l
Pct
y-Portland 51 27
.654
Oklahoma City42 36
.538
Utah
36 42
.462
Denver
29 49
.372
Minnesota 16 62
.205
Pacific division
W
l
Pct
z-Golden State63 15
.808
x-L.A. Clippers53 26
.671
Phoenix
39 40
.494
Sacramento 27 51
.346
L.A. Lakers 20 58
.256
x-clinched playoff spot
y-clinched division
z-clinched conference
14
24
26
34
gB
—
5
13
16
21
gB
—
—
½
6
11
gB
—
9
15
22
35
gB
—
10½
24½
36
43
Wednesday
Washington 119, Philadelphia 90
Orlando 105, Chicago 103
Boston 113, Detroit 103
Toronto 92, Charlotte 74
Atlanta 114, Brooklyn 111
Indiana 102, New York 86
Memphis 110, New Orleans 74
Cleveland 104, Milwaukee 99
San Antonio 110, Houston 98
Denver 119, L.A. Lakers 101
Utah 103, Sacramento 91
Dallas 107, Phoenix 104
Portland 116, Minnesota 91
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5:30 p.m.
West Laurens at Bleckley
County, 6 p.m.
Soccer
Trinity at John Milledge,
4:30 p.m.
MondaY
Baseball
Treutlen County at Dublin,
5:30 p.m.
West Laurens at Jones County,
5:30 p.m.
TuESdaY
Baseball
Bulloch at Trinity, 4:30 p.m
Metter at East Laurens,
5:30 p.m.
Screven County at Dublin,
5:30 p.m.
Houston County at West
Laurens, 6 p.m.
Soccer
Trinity at Memorial Day,
5:30 p.m.
East Laurens at Harlem,
5:30 p.m.
golf
Bleckley County at West
Laurens, 4 p.m.
Moose lodge
tournament april 18
The Dublin Moose Lodge Golf
Tournament will be held Saturday,
April 18, at Green Acres Golf
Course. Entry fee for the four-man
scramble is $45 per player, with mullligans available at two for $5. Cash
prizes awarded for first-, secondand third-place finishers in each
flight. Also, longest drive and closest
to the pin prizes will be awarded. A
fish dinner will be served at the
Moose Lodge, where prizes will be
awarded. To register a team or sponsor hole, call the lodge at 272-1818
and leave a message or ask for
Daphine Alexander.
‘Swing Fore Hope’
Tourney May 2
Riverview Golf Course will host
the 15th annual “Swing Fore Hope”
Golf Tournament, with proceeds benefitting the non-profit Promise Of
Hope Inc. in Dudley. Format will be a
4-person scramble with flight winners receiving meat prizes including
ribeye loins, bone-in pork loins and
country hams. Entry fee is $200 per
team with shotgun starts available at
8 a.m. and 1 p.m. based on a full
tournament field of 36 teams. For
more information, contact Steve
Brown
at
277-1408,
e-mail:
[email protected] or contact the
Promise Of Hope, Inc. at 676-4673.
Free junior golf clinic
at riverview april 18
Riverview Golf Course will host a
free Junior Golf Clinic on Saturday,
April 18, beginning at 9:30 am in the
Emory Thomas Auditorium. A 30minute discussion on golf rules and
etiquette will be followed by two
hours of instruction on the range and
putting green.
The clinic is open to ages 10-16
and will be taught by PGA Class A
Professional Jack Dean. Stop by or
call the Riverview Golf Course Pro
Shop 275-4064 to sign up.
For more information, contact
Manager Of Golf Operations Steve
Brown at 277-1408 or e-mail:
[email protected].
Mda softball
tournament april 25
A
Muscular
Dystrophy
Association (MDA) Boot Drive co-ed
softball tournament will be held at
the Johnson County Recreation
Department April 25 at 9 a.m. Entry
fee is $150 per team. Deadline to
enter is April 23 at noon. For more
information, contact the Wrightsville
FireDepartment at 478-864-9759.
dublin Touchdown
club grid iron classic
The Dublin Touchdown Club will
again host the 2015 Grid Iron
Classic golf tournament Saturday,
May 23, at Dublin Country Club. The
tournament will be a four-person
scramble format. Tournament day
check-in begins at 8 a.m., and tee
time is at 9. For entry forms and
information, contact Steve Versprille
at (757) 777-2018.door prizes and
more.
Trinity to host
cornhole tournament
april 25
Trinity Christian School will host a
cornhole tournament April 25 to raise
money for basketball camp.
Two-person teams will compete
in the double-elimination tournament
under ACA official rules format. Entry
fee is $40 per team. First- and second-place teams will win cash prizes.
For more information, contact
boys basketball coach Robby
Foskey at [email protected]
or call (478) 279-3477.
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6 Temporary Farm Workers Needed. Jackson 1 Farms LLC – Cedar
Hill, TN. Perform all duties of Tobacco Production; including planting,
cultivating, irrigating, spraying, harvesting, & packaging; and other alternative work. Employment Dates:
06/15/2015 – 12/15/2015. $10.28/hr.
Piece rates may be offered. Worker
guaranteed 3/4 of contract hours.
Tools provided at no cost. Free
housing provided to non-commuting
workers. Transportation & subsistence reimbursed when 50% of contract is met. Random drug testing
may be done after hire at employer’s
expense. Apply for this job at the
nearest Georgia Department of Labor Career Center or call 478-2756525 and reference job order
TN364152.
80 temp diversified farm workers
needed 5/15/15 to 1/3/16. Workers
will perform various tasks involved in
planting, cultivating & harvesting
crops according to supervisor’s instructions. Workers may perform
hand cultivation, weeding & hoeing &
may aid in irrigation. Must have 3
months verifiable experience hand
harvesting produce and affirmative,
verifiable job references. Random
drug testing at employer's expense.
Guaranteed 3/4 of contract hours.
Tools, supplies, equip. provided at
no cost. Conditional housing provided for non-commuting workers.
Transportation & subsistence reimbursed to worker upon completion of
50% of contract, or earlier if appropriate. EOE. $10.00/hr. or applicable
piece rate. Worksites in Lexington &
Saluda Co., SC. Report or send a resume to nearest GA DOL office or
call 478-275-6525 & ref. #608466.
Walter P. Rawl & Sons, Inc. – Pelion,
SC
CDL Van Drivers Needed
SE Carrier/ 500 mile radius, no touch
freight, drop & hook, 24 hour delivery, home weekend, .44 p/mile & full
per diem pay. Call 912-375-3366, ext
311.
The annual Masters Golf
Tournament is played at the
Augusta National in Augusta
every first week of April.
FINANCING AVAILABLE
2273 Veterans Blvd. | (478) 275-0506 | 1-800-284-0506
310
GENERAL
HELP WANTED
FIREFIGHTER
The City of Dublin is accepting applications for team members with positive attitudes and initiative. A firefighter is needed for the Fire Department. Applicants must possess a
valid Georgia driver’s license and a
high school diploma or its equivalent.
All applicants will be required to pass
a drug test, physical examination
and an entry level firefighter’s test.
This is a shift position with Firefighters working 24-hour shifts every third
day. Prefer applicants with previous
public safety work experience.
Starting salary is $30,866 per year
plus an extensive fringe benefits
package. Applications will be taken
in the Human Resource Department
located at City Hall, 100 S. Church
St., Dublin, GA through Wednesday,
April 15, 2015. The City of Dublin is
an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Fork Lift Technician needed. Highschool Deploma or GED required.
Must be Georgia work ready certified. Must be able to pass drug and
background screen. Previous fork lift
repair experience is required. Apply
at Fred’s Distribution Center, 2815
Hwy 257,Dublin, Ga. 31021
HELP WANTED: Millwrights Welders-Pipe fitters. Must pass drug
screen. Apply in person at
GHW Industrial,
1201 Hillcrest Parkway, Dublin, Ga.
31021
478-277-9902
Independent Contractors
Delivery Drivers/Couriers
Seeking professional and quality
driven independent contractors/owner operators with reliable MINIVAN,
LARGE SUV for same day deliveries
originating in the Hawkinsville area.
Contractors sujbect to background
checks, drug screen, and MVR
checks. Call 877-476-4555.
www..fleetgistics.com.
Secretarial position open, 4 days a
week, must have a working
knowledge of microsoft word. Send
resumes to :
The Courier Herald
Drawer B, CSS
Box B
Dublin, Ga. 31040
320
MEDICAL
HELP WANTED
CERTIFIED NURSING
ASSISTANTS NEEDED
7PM TO 7AM SHIFT
94 BED SKILLED NURSING
FACILITY SEEKS FULL TIME
CERTIFIED NURSING
ASSISTANTS. PLEASE APPLY IN
PERSON.
WRIGHTSVILLE MANOR
NURSING HOME
608 WEST COURT STREET
WRIGHTSVILLE, GA 31096
CNAs needed for America’s finest
veterans, PRN shifts and weekends
a must. Submit resume to:
[email protected]
LPN NEEDED
7PM TO 7AM
FULL TIME
Please apply for a rewarding job
that will offer you:
•Every other weekend off
•Shift plus weekend differential pay
•Overtime pay every pay period
•A 12 hour shift
•15 days off during the month
For all of these benefits,
please apply at:
Wrightsville Manor Nursing Home,
337 W. Court St.
Wrightsville, GA 31096
in the business office
320
MEDICAL
HELP WANTED
REGISTERED NURSE NEEDED
FULL TIME
DAY SHIFT
94 BED SKILLED NURSING
FACILITY SEEKS FULL-TIME DAY
SHIFT REGISTERED NURSE,
PLEASE APPLY IN PERSON.
WRIGHTSVILLE MANOR NURSING
HOME, 337 WEST COURT
STREET, WRIGHTSVILLE, GA.
31096
351
VEHICLES FOR SALE
505
USED CARS
AND MOTORS
Dublin-Laurens
Humane Society
“We speak for those who can’t speak for themselves.”
2001 Chevy Blazer Extreme, Black
w/ air, heat + cd player, good tires &
brakes, $3700.obo 478-275-2505
725
LAWN SERVICES
Tim’s Lawn Care & Pressure
Washing. Call 478-290-1632
478-272-5341
REAL ESTATE
ACREAGE
Hayfield for rent. 6.68 acres. Call:
850-866-5925.
355
FARMS
Keep your day job and hunt wild
hogs at night with bows. Fill up your
freezer with pork. 4 hunters max
$300 each for 1 week lease call:
478-988-9082
360
HOMES FOR SALE
ODDS OF A CHILD
BECOMING A POP SINGER:
1 in 58,000
ODDS OF A CHILD
BEING DIAGNOSED WITH
AUTISM: 1 in 166
316 N. Omega St. Dexter. Historical
charm, sits on 1.32 acre lot. new
plumbing. $59,900.
436 Valambrosia Rd, Dublin. 4BR,
21/2BA, Tri-level home in a country
setting. $135,000.
711 Pointe West LP, 4 BR, 2 1/2
BA, 2 story, on 1acre with nice
storage bldg. $105,000.
Tiffany Green
Xcel Realty Group, LLC
478-275-1110 Office
478-279-2009 Cell
www.xcelhomes.net
FOR SALE by owner Downtown
Condo (in Fred Robert’s Hotel) Call:
697-1678.
FOR SALE OR RENT 3BR, 21/2 BA,
108 Fox Fire Circle. $1,350/mth
478-272-7529 or 770-598-2661
405
RENTALS
STORAGE
Strange Mini Storage Best Prices!
Call 478-275-1592
425
APARTMENTS
BROOKINGTON APARTMENTS
Spacious 1 & 2 bedroom apartments
with fully furnished kitchen. Lake,
pool and clubhouse. Full maintenance with on site manager. 2726788.
440
HOMES FOR RENT
445
MOBILE HOMES
FOR RENT
House for Rent. 215 Brentwood Dr.
2400 sq ft. 4BR, 3BA $1,000/mth.
Call: 478-595-8314
RENTAL: 3BR/2BA DW Mobile
Home, 1ac, $550 478-213-7717
Cumberland Island National
Seashore contains the ruins
of Dungeness, the once
magnificent Carnegie estate.
In addition, wild horses graze
among wind swept dunes.
To learn the signs of autism,
visit autismspeaks.org
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Dependable, self motivated individual
needed to fill an opening in our ad
composition/pagination department.
Must be organized and able to meet
deadlines in a fast paced
environment.
Applicant must have computer
experience, Macintosh preferred, an
eye for attractive layout and detail.
Salary commensurate with experience
and benefits.
Send Resume to:
The Courier Herald
Drawer B, CSS, Box H
Dublin, GA 31040 or email to:
[email protected]
FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE
BY LYNN JOHNSTON
GARFIELD
The Courier Herald
BY JIM DAVIS
OVERBOARD
BY CHIP DUNHAM
ZITS
BY JERRY SCOTT AND JIM BORGMAN
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BY JEFF CORRIVEAU
CROSSWORD PUZZLER
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY:
Elle Fanning, 17; Kristen Stewart, 25;
Leighton Meester, 29; Dennis Quaid,
61.
Happy Birthday: This is a
year to take action. Sitting back will
only make you anxious and will lead
to regret. Step up and get started.
You are responsible for your own
happiness. Set your sights high and
don’t be afraid to make mistakes.
What you learn from your experiences will contribute to a prosperous
future. Express your thoughts and
don’t look back. Your numbers are 4,
11, 15, 27, 32, 39, 46.
ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Get involved in the events, activities
and networking functions that will allow you to use your skills and make
new contacts. Don’t be discouraged
by negative or critical individuals
when you should be putting your
thoughts and energy into exceling. 5
stars
TAURUS (April 20-May
20): You’ll be tempted to overspend
on items you don’t need. Think before you commit to any deal that requires monthly contributions or payments. Unexpected bills are likely to
leave you short of cash. Pace yourself in all aspects of your life. 3 stars
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Emotional deception will be present
when dealing with business partnerships. Focus on what’s in front of you
instead of wallowing in past regrets
or failures. There is much to gain if
you approach life in a vibrant and engaging manner. 3 stars
CANCER (June 21-July
22): Make career choices that will
lead to professional advancement
and more money. Educational pursuits will lead to contacts that will
play a part in helping you reach your
goals. Love and romance will have an
impact on your life. 3 stars
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Your energetic mood will attract attention and bring about an opportunity to get ahead. Attend conferences, seminars or networking
events that will allow you to meet potential clients. Don’t let an emotional
situation ruin your chances to advance. 5 stars
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Interacting with people who have
knowledge or expertise regarding
something that interests you will lead
to an unusual opportunity. Explore
your options and consider a partnership that can help you develop new
skills. Love is in the stars. 2 stars
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
Your ability to see all sides of an issue
will help bring order to a chaotic situation. Your talent will not go unnoticed, and greater personal and professional assistance will be offered. A
positive change regarding an important relationship is apparent. 4 stars
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov.
21): Draw from past experience in order to avoid being taken for granted.
Keep life simple and refrain from unnecessary spending. Concentrate on
home, developing innovative ideas
and mastering what you enjoy doing
the most. Make romance a priority. 3
stars
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22Dec. 21): Put honesty and integrity
first. Don’t evade issues that need to
be addressed. The purpose of clearing the air is to allow you the right to
move forward without guilt. Do what
needs to be done and don’t look
back. 3 stars
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22Jan. 19): Size up whatever situation
you face without getting into a dispute with someone who is disagreeable. Work alone in order to avoid interference. Put more into home, family and self-improvement, and you
will make gains and avoid disruptions. 3 stars
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.
18): Surround yourself with people
who are aiming to get the same re-
sults as you. Focus on work, partnerships and getting ahead. Don’t get
into senseless arguments over petty
matters. Do your own thing and try to
make monetary gains. 4 stars
PISCES (Feb. 19-March
20): Keep a low profile. Now is not
the time to confront a situation. Instead, put your time and effort into
your dreams and ideas. Once you
have an ironclad plan in place, you
can make your move with confidence. 2 stars
Birthday Baby: You are entrepreneurial and powerful. You are
charismatic and appealing.
Eugenia’s websites - eugenialast.com for confidential consultations, eugenialast.com/blog/ for
Eugenia’s blog and join Eugenia on
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Theatre Dublin
Presents
K E E P C H E C K I NG H E R E
F O R MO R E D E TA IL S
FOR THEATRE BOOKING AND INFORMATION, CALL MAIN STREET DUBLIN AT
478-277-5074 OR VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.THEATREDUBLINGA.COM

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