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Inspection st * Free Basic Maintenance for the 1 3 yrs. or 45K * Bring this coupon in to be valid • One per customer 485461 LaGrange Daily News STATE SATURDAY’S WEATHER SPORTS New SCAD muse- Today’s artist: Lauren Brooks, fourth grade, LaGrange, Troup boys um shares vision Rosemont Elementary School face off before a packed for college ....... 4 High: 70, Low: 49; 80 percent chance of rain .... 2 house ....... 1B Vol. 169 • No. 330 • 14 pages WEEKEND, JANUARY 21-22, 2012 50 cents daily/ $1.25 Weekend Hospital Kelley attends‘Red Tails’premiere in LaGrange receives honors From staff reports West Georgia Health is among the 2011 top per- forming hospitals in the Premier healthcare alliance’s national QUEST collaborative, a voluntary program in which partici- pating hospitals focus on making improvements in patient care reliability, effi- ciency and safety. For the third consecutive year, West Georgia Health has achieved top perform- ance status, making it one of three Georgia hospitals and one of 93 U.S hospitals to achieve this distinction for all three years of the program’s existence. Comprised of more than 270 hospitals across 38 states, QUEST was launched in 2009 and is the most comprehensive hospi- tal collaborative in the nation committed to meas- uring, comparing and scal- ing innovative solutions for Photos by Matt Chambers | Daily News the complex task of caring for patients. It is structured to help hospitals save lives by elim- inating avoidable hospital mortalities; safely reduce the cost of care by reducing ABOVE: The Legacy costs for each patient’s hos- pitalization; deliver the Museum on Main most reliable and effective erupted into care by ensuring that applause as Elijah patients receive all appro- Kelley entered priate evidence-based care; Friday night. Kelley improve patient safety by came to LaGrange preventing incidents of for the premiere of harm, including healthcare conditions and healthcare- an exhibit and acquired infections and movie honoring the birth injuries; improve Tuskegee Airmen. patient experience by Kelley stars in ʻRed improving the patient’s Tails,ʼ a movie about overall care and reinforcing the aviation men. loyalty to the care provid- ʻThey were modern- ing facility; and reduce readmissions by improving day superheroes,ʼ care coordination across he said. ʻThe only the continuum to avoid pre- thing that set them ventable readmissions. apart from Batman, As a charter member of Superman and the QUEST: High Spiderman is their Performing Hospitals col- mortality.ʼ laborative, West Georgia Health qualified for a mon- etary award that was divid- ed among the 93 hospitals that achieved top perform- ing status all three years of the program. Kelley shakes hands with Gregory Grant, a torchbearer of the Atlanta chapter of the Tuskegee “While our share of the Airmen Inc. Kelley said there were three airmen on set during the filming of ʻRed Tails,ʼ and he monetary award was nomi- was honored to speak and learn from the men. ʻThe Tuskegee Airmen are American heroes,ʼ he said. ʻMy goal is for no one to ever have to ask who are the Tuskegee Airmen.ʼ See HOSPITAL | 2 Retirement options uncorked love of unique art creations Matthew Strother thinking four years ago where yarn is used to make News Editor about his approaching a type of tapestry with retirement. Specifically, designs or patterns. He There are two questions what he would do with his started attending meetings people ask Robert Dunn time when he no longer has with a group from when he shows them his to work. Peachtree City, who called artwork: “Where did you The yard of his Lincoln themselves “hookers.” come up with the idea?” Street home, which he “I always interested in and “Did you drink all that takes great pride in, takes a creating something,” Dunn wine yourself?” lot of work. However, it’s said. “But hooking wasn’t The answer to the sec- not a year-round project it, either.” ond question is “no,” Dunn and he didn’t have many After turning to the insists. The hunt for wine other hobbies. Internet, Dunn discovered corks to make his unique “I don’t do the big three: some trivets people had art pieces is part of the fish, golf or hunt,” Dunn created using wine corks. appeal of his hobby. Plus, “I said. “I didn’t want retire- Using a simple method of drink the cheap stuff with a ment to be dull.” attaching the corks two by twist-off cap.” The first hobby Dunn two in alternating vertical The answer to the first tried was cross-stitching. and horizontal patterns to question is more intricate. However, trying his hand at a flat board, Dunn made his Dunn, 64, currently an a piece that turned out to first piece as a 12 by 12 instructor of accounting at be too complex and intri- inch trivet for a beach Columbus State University, cate, he quickly gave up the home. who also has worked for hobby. “People started to com- Matthew Strother | Daily News Auburn University and Next, he started getting Robert Dunn tweaks his latest piece of cork art ʻMusic Boxʼ at his home. Georgia Tech, started into rug hooking, a craft See UNCORKED | 10 Dunn has been using wine – and more recently champagne – corks to cre- ate works of art for the past few years. Local LaGrange Daily News 2 - Weekend, Jan. 21-22, 2012 I Public Safety I Obituaries On the road ... to New York City Information for obituaries is writ- ten and provided by funeral Woman charged homes and family members of the deceased. in theft from Lakes-Dunson Lakes- Robertson Dunson- Funeral Home Robertson 201 Hamilton Street her employer LaGrange, Georgia 30240 706 882-6411 Police arrested a woman Friday who was accused of stealing $600 from her former employer. Police said Antwinett Hutchinson, 19, whose address was unknown, stole at least $600 from JC Penney during the past several months. Store officials told police they had video footage of the woman stealing money from cash reg- isters on three occasions. Hutchinson was charged with felony theft. Man bangs on door, arrested for probation violation Police arrested a man after they saw him urgently bang- ing on a door Friday afternoon. Police said the man, who was later identified as Alan Lillie Mae Bonner Strozier, 20, immediately went up to the door of the resi- Lillie Mae Bonner passed dence in the 700 block of South Greenwood Street when he away on Saturday, January saw police about 1:04 p.m. 14, 2012 in Birmingham, Strozier was banging on the door shouting, “Just open Sue Vowell and Kay Bennett took the LaGrange Daily News on their recent trip to New York City to visit Alabama. the door,” according to a report. Sue's daughter, Jennifer Olson Walker. They are pictured in Central Park. While in New York they visited Mrs. Bonner, a retired Police stopped and asked Strozier if he lived there. He the Rockefeller Center, the Empire State Building, Times Square, the 911 Memorial Site and got to see educator with 40 years of told them he did not, but he knew the residents. However, the Rockettes Christmas show. experience, began her he could not name them when asked. ‘On the road’ features photos Here are a few guidelines: • Photos taken with cell career in Birmingham, but Police discovered Strozier was wanted for a felony pro- of residents with a copy of • Printed or typewritten phones should not be submit- moved to LaGrange, Georgia bation violation, and said he tried to flee when they went LaGrange Daily News at an out- notices are requested. ted. to take advantage of a good to place handcuffs on him. The resident came to the door of-county location. Send a pho- • Include full names and iden- • Photos may be retrieved at teaching opportunity. 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Church in Birmingham, AL. The services are being pro- Here Saturday vided by Chambers Funeral Home of Bessemer, AL. Singer Etta James dies This announcement cour- tesy of Lakes-Dunson-Robert- son Funeral Home. LOS ANGELES (AP) -- and roll, he simply told her: "I don't Etta James' performance r h y t h m remember everything. I of the enduring classic "At a n d wish I did, but I don't." Last" was the embodiment b l u e s , She was raised by Lula of refined soul: Angelic- pop, soul and Jesse Rogers, who sounding strings harkened and jazz owned the rooming house the arrival of her passion- a r t i s t s , where her mother once 1010 Mooty Bridge Road ate yet measured vocals as marking lived in.