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Arrest made in sexual assault case
BY TAT! AN A RODRIGUEZ
Managing Editor
An arrest has been made in
the male-on-male sexual assault
case that took place on Aug. 15,
2010 around the southwest part
of Sweetwater. Aubrey Phillip
Childers, 23, of Sweetwater, was
arrested on Monday, Dec. 27, as he
was being processed out of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice.
According to Lt. Randy Hanes with
the Sweetwater Police Department,
DNA evidence was obtained at the
scene of the crime and evidence was
gathered for a warrant to obtain
DNA from the suspect. A DNA sam-
ple was taken from Childers after
he was arrested for a parole viola-
tion. The DNA was then sent to
the Lubbock Department of Public
Safety Laboratory for testing.
"We sent the DNA sample to the
lab by the end of August and asked
• See ARREST page 3
Abilenians Against Tenaska, Multi-County
Coalition donate to Gaylord's Pantry
ylord's Pantry
.
Cheerios
Members of the Multi-County Coalition and Abilenians Against Tenaska are shown delivering food donations
to Gaylord's Pantry, the food pantry located at First United Methodist Chu rch. Pictured from left to right are
Elaine Starkey, Elsie Pierce, Whitney Root, Sarah Kiesthniek, Dr. Jeff Haseltine and Ben Martinez.
BY JOE STARKEY
Abilene and Sweetwater residents
nnited to gather several hundred
dollars of non-perishable food items
as part of their annual giving to the
communities where they live.
Multi-County Coalition represen-
tative Whitney Root asked members
to make donations over the course
of about a week and a half result-
ing in 10 boxes crammed with food
delivered to the Gaylord's Pantry of
Sweetwater's First United Methodist
Church on Monday, Dec. 20.
The members of Abilenians
Against Tenaska and the Multi-
County Coalition normally do their
giving as individuals, but this year
they wanted to come together as a
group to make their donations. They
are farmers, ranchers, teachers,
nurses and other citizens who want
their community to remain clean
and healthy. Both organizations
hope to make community donations
an ongoing endeavor.
The Multi-County Coalition and
Abilenians Against Tenaska have
been working together to pre-
vent construction of the proposed
Tenaska coal plant just outside
Sweetwater.
Many attend dance to contribute to WTCAC
Shown are children and adults who attended a Christmas party and dance hosted by Thoze Guyz, Steve Lujan
and Chapo Cerda. Admittance was a donation of toys that will be donated to the West Texas Children's Advocacy
Center. Santa Claus attended as an honored guest.
Aubrey Childers
Hospital
updating
equipment
BY BELINDA
SERRANO
Staff Writer
The Nolan County
District Board of Directors
met for its final regular
session meeting in 2010 on
Monday evening, Dec. 27,
at Rolling Plains Memorial
Hospital (RPMH).
With a new year only a
few days away, the board
sought approval to pur-
chase four new items.
The new Core Measure
Software would assist in
gathering information for
the quality reports that are
presented to the board.
This time-saving tool pulls
information directly from
the database and would
be needed for the new
year. Another purchase,
the Nuclear Medicine
Equipment would replace
the current equipment,
which is several years
old. The new equipment
comes with added capa-
bilities and will be able to
perform more tasks than
what is already in place.
The Vascular Ultrasound
Equipment, which comes
with an almost 50% price
discount, would replace
the current system which
is a number of years old.
Along with its current
tasks, the new equipment
can perform various tasks
simultaneously. The final
purchase would be for
the B. Braun IV Pumps.
Because the current
pumps are up to 10 years
old, they can no longer be
serviced. The new pumps
would also come with a
software that promises to
be of great assistance to
the staff as well as other
hospitals who use the same
pumps, such as Hendrick
in Abilene, when transfers
take place. All four pur-
chases were approved by
the board.
Also approved were the
finances from November
2010, including the
accounts payable and pay-
roll, and the bad debt write-
off list for the month. The
financial statement from
November was approved
and was concluded to be
a "great financial state-
ment". The overall revenue
came in over budget, with
a very good outpatient rev-
enue and a busy month
in the ER. Only a few fac-
ets of the budget came in
under expectations. The
revenue reductions looked
very good for the month;
the operating expenses
came in with no surprises,
with a few over budget
and a few under budget.
The tax collections for the
month were at $227,508,
also over expectations.
November proved to be
the biggest revenue month
in the past 12 months — a
great improvement from
last year, and overall the
finances did better than
budgeted. The board was
pleased to discover that
the budget for the year is
only a mere $21 off of pro-
jections, which was con-
• See RPMH page 3
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Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 113, No. 038, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 29, 2010, newspaper, December 29, 2010; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth229355/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.