I happened to drive by the Dowda Farm Equipment place in Bill Arp this afternoon and noticed a zoning sign by the entrance. I know the business is planning to move into the empty field across the street. Just wondering what the zoning notice was for–I drove past it too quickly to read it.
1:56pm 10-28
1:58pm 10-28
2:00pm Residential alarm.
2:00pm 10-28 (out of state)
2:00pm An officer wants to meet with another officer.
2:01pm Disregard residential alarm.
2:02pm One by name and DOB (in state)
2:03pm Larceny behind a sandwich shop.
2:03pm Two by name & DOB and 10-28.
2:10pm 10-59 at a bank.
2:10pm Someone locked their keys in their car on Fairburn Road.
2:13pm Reckless on I-20 last seen passing Liberty Road. Poss. intoxicated.
2:16pm 10-28
2:19pm Someone trespassed on private property.
2:21pm A person thinks another person is doing drugs.
2:21pm One by number (in state)
2:26pm Someone stole credit cards from Wal-Mart on Concourse. Two suspects, one still in Wal-Mart.
2:26pm Someone is in a person’s house.
2:29pm One or two officers around Wal-Mart area.
2:34pm Solicitors.
2:38pm 10-28
2:38pm Dispute in Game Stop. Officer asked if Game Stop was in the Kohl’s shopping center.
2:43pm 10-28
2:44pm 10-28
2:44pm Officer looking in Wal-Mart parking lot for suspect vehicle.
2:44pm concern for welfare at a residence.
2:45pm One by number (out of state)
2:45pm 10-28 on I-20 (out of state)
2:47pm 10-28 at jail.
2:47pm Someone yelling at customers at a gas station.
2:48pm BOLO reckless I-20 near Lee Road. Cut off at least one vehicle.
2:51pm 10-28
2:53pm One by number and one by name and DOB.
2:53pm Trouble with phone lines in Arbor Station—someone’s cutting trees down.
2:55pm Two people stopped have suspended licenses.
2:57pm 10-28 on I-20
2:57pm Prisoner ready for pickup in another county.
2:58pm One by name and DOB.
3:03pm Someone is parked in front of a vacant house stealing electricity.
3:03pm Dehydrated dog in road in Anneewakee subdivision. Officer requesting Animal Control.
9:17pm Someone who called police thinks two people standing on a corner are selling drugs.
9:18pm 10-28
9:20pm 10-28 (2) (one in state, one out of state)
9:24pm Domestic problem reported. Involving runaway minor.
9:26pm Bank alarm.
9:31pm Money stolen out of a car at a restaurant on Hwy 5.
9:31pm Name and DOB (out of state)
9:34pm 10-29 (out of state)
9:37pm 10-27 (one in state, one out of state)
9:42pm 911 hangup from an apartment complex.
9:43pm Runaway minor may have been found.
9:45pm Name and DOB (of runaway minor)
9:46pm One by number.
9:50pm Residential alarm. Someone pushed panic button.
9:53pm One by name and DOB. (out of state)
9:55pm One by name and DOB.
9:59pm 10-28 (in state) on I-20.
10:00pm Hit & Run at Wal-Mart on Thornton Road.
10:00pm People making noise on Beaver Street.
10:03pm 10-27
10:04pm 10-27
10:05pm 10-28
I found this on Craigslist. John Weiss was previously the general manager, I think.
The Douglas County Sentinel, a 6-day a week daily newspaper, is looking for a general manager to join our organization. The right candidate will possess a bachelor’s degree and a strong newspaper marketing background with a minimum of 5 years experience in newspaper / media management and sales. Additionally, this opportunity will provide the right individual to expand and develop their skills in interactive publishing. Position will supervise editorial, circulation and marketing. Douglas County is conveniently located 35-minutes west of downtown Atlanta, GA and home to a strong retail base as well as an attractive housing market. Furthermore, Douglas County is one of Georgia’s fastest growing communities. Benefits include paid vacation, 401K, health, and a very competitive compensation plan.
The Douglas County Sentinel is a member of The Newspapers of WestGEORGIA and Paxton Media Group.
For consideration, please email your resume to: publisher@times-georgian.com
The Douglas County Sentinel is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, national origin or disability.
I went to bed before the search for the second carjacking suspect was found but two different message boards are saying officers caught him.
Fox 5 is reporting live from Kroger. They say gravel from the roof flew through the air “like shrapnal.” They’re showing cars crushed by an air-conditioning unit that fell from the roof. One employee was injured with a broken arm. They say everyone in the store was evacuated because of a gas leak. The store will be closed because there are unstable walls. Wes Tallon, who works as a communications director for Douglas County, was credited onscreen as working for the fire department. He was at the Kroger talking to Fox5.
11Alive News on myAtl tv was showing eyewitness reports. They say the roof collapsed. A man who was interviewed said the air-conditioning unit flew over his car and landed in the parking lot.
Park security is bringing a boat to the lake and they’ll try to apprehend suspect.
Don’t know much more than that. This must have been why there was damage to cars. An officer said all the lights in Kroger are out and there are a lot of people in the parking lot.
4:34pm Domestic problem reported.
4:38pm 10-28
4:39pm 10-28
4:39pm Domestic dispute at Family Dollar on Bankhead Hwy.
4:41pm 911 hangup
4:41pm 10-28
4:46pm Domestic problem reported.
4:50pm 10-28
4:54pm Residence alarm at Tributary.
4:58pm 10-28
4:59pm Dispatcher is holding a recovered property.
5:00pm 10-28—has no tag.
5:00pm 10-28
5:01pm Domestic problem reported.
5:18pm 911 hangup.
5:19pm Three by name and DOB. One’s license is suspended.
5:25pm Three vehicle accident near a Mobil gas station—I think that was what the officer said. One person is injured. I think it’s on Skyview.
From the AJC:
Hospital cited in patient suicide
ER fell short in monitoring a homeless man who hanged himself in Douglasville, according to a federal report.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/25/08 A Douglasville hospital failed to meet patient safety standards when a homeless man committed suicide in its emergency department, federal regulators have found.
The patient, evaluated as a suicide risk by WellStar Douglas Hospital staff, was not properly monitored for two hours and was then found hanging in his seclusion room, said a federal investigative report. The death occurred Oct. 31.
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The report was obtained this month by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution under the Freedom of Information Act.
Douglas Wayne Brown, 45, was in a seclusion room — typically used to manage a very agitated patient — a total of 22 hours, waiting for a transfer to another facility for treatment of alcohol and psychiatric problems, according to the report from the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The report, based on an inspection by state surveyors in mid-November, does not describe whether the WellStar Douglas emergency room was crowded when the patient died.
A suicide in a hospital emergency department is extremely rare, health care officials said. Brown’s death also renews questions about the capacity of general hospitals and psychiatric facilities in Georgia to handle the rising demand for mental health services.
Acute-care hospitals recently have complained that overcrowding in the state-run psychiatric hospitals have caused an increase in ER waiting times for mental health patients before a transfer.
That overcrowding was documented in a series of articles last year in the Journal-Constitution, which also described persistent problems and errors in medical care at the seven state mental hospitals.
More than 90 percent of hospitals have run into difficulty in transferring patients to a state hospital, according to a new Georgia Hospital Association survey. The average wait time: 20 hours.
WellStar Douglas Hospital tried to have Brown transferred for mental health treatment, but two facilities refused to accept him, according to the federal report.
The report said ”only two non-hospital facilities” were contacted, but did not say how many should have been called.
WellStar Health System officials, citing patient privacy rules, declined to identify the other hospitals contacted. They also declined to comment on the suicide itself, or on a police report that Brown ”was waiting for a bed” at WellStar Cobb, an Austell hospital that has a behavioral health unit.
After Brown’s death, the Douglasville hospital changed its policies on monitoring mental health patients and repaired its seclusion rooms, and is now in compliance with federal Medicare rules.
An executive with the five-hospital WellStar group said the system gets 500 to 600 mental health patient visits a month in its emergency rooms. But it’s difficult to transfer them because there are not enough private or public psychiatric beds in Georgia, said Nancy Craney, executive director of behavioral health for the WellStar system.
Nationally, emergency rooms are increasingly having backups of all patients, including those with mental health problems, said Dr. Sandra Schneider, a Rochester, N.Y., emergency medicine physician. A suicide, though very rare, can happen when nurses get overwhelmed with a heavy patient load, said Schneider, a board member of the American College of Emergency Physicians.
Brown, described in the police report as homeless, was judged a moderate risk of suicide after arriving at the Douglasville hospital Oct. 30. He was also intoxicated, and had a history of alcohol abuse, the report said. An ER physician filled out a form to have Brown evaluated in a mental health facility.
Hospital policy required that there be continuous observation of patients in seclusion via camera, with in-person checks at least every 15 minutes.
After more than 18 hours in seclusion, Brown showed signs of anxiety in the afternoon of Oct. 31, and was given a medication used for alcohol detox. The federal report said ”there was no evidence that the patient was assessed and/or observed” from 3 p.m. till after 5 p.m., when he was discovered hanging from a ceiling grate, a sheet around his neck.
Attempts to reach Brown’s relatives were unsuccessful.
The Medicare report added that a week after Brown’s death, a second suicide-risk patient in the same hospital remained in seclusion for two days and three hours before being transferred. ”The patient remained in seclusion although the behavior was calm,” the report said.
The Medicare agency, in a Dec. 5 letter to WellStar Douglas’ administrator, said deficiencies found in its inspection ”have been determined to be of such serious nature as to substantially limit your hospital’s capacity to render adequate care.” The hospital was also cited for fire safety violations.
The ruling that the hospital had not met Medicare’s ”Conditions for Participation” was lifted later in December after WellStar Douglas launched a policy of stricter monitoring of mental health patients, made their seclusion rooms safer, and educated staff on risk factors for suicides.
